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Stop getting bad YouTube recommendations with 4 simple steps
YouTube’s recommendations rely on an algorithm that reads signals from your viewing habits, but it can easily go astray, filling your homepage, sidebar and end-of-video suggestions with irrelevant content. This happens when the system is misreading your interests or lacks enough data to work from, and Engadget outlines several practical adjustments users can make to…
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35 Years Later, ‘The Far Side’ Predicted One of Our Biggest Trends
Gary Larson’s 1982 Far Side cartoon “Cow Tools” is being reassessed as an unlikely forerunner of internet meme culture, decades after it baffled its original newspaper readers. The single-panel comic depicts a cow standing beside a workbench holding four crudely made, largely indecipherable objects, and its lack of a clear punchline provoked a furious response…
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Social media influencer pleads guilty after prank videos at Arizona Chipotle, other businesses
An Arizona social media influencer has pleaded guilty to criminal impersonation after leading disruptive “prank” takeovers of local businesses, including a Chipotle restaurant, that were filmed and posted online for millions of views. Heston James Cobb, who posts as “Heston James,” entered his plea on a Friday after Tempe police accused him of dressing as…
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Airlink jets sweep low over Cape Town before Springboks Test
Two Embraer E-Jets operated by South African carrier Airlink performed a strikingly low-altitude flyover above a Cape Town stadium ahead of a Test rugby match between South Africa’s Springboks and New Zealand’s All Blacks. The stunt formed part of the pre-match build-up to the “Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry” tour and has drawn considerable attention online, with…
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Ridley Scott’s Near-Perfect Sci-Fi Masterpiece is Officially Streaming on YouTube for Free
Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner: Final Cut” — the 2007 version that finally realised the director’s original vision after decades of studio interference — is currently streaming free on YouTube. The 1982 film became a landmark of cyberpunk cinema despite a troubled production and initial box-office failure, and its influence continues to shape science fiction, including…
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Footage of two planes stunning a rugby stadium with one of the wildest flyovers ever goes viral
A video of two passenger jets performing a strikingly low flyover above a rugby stadium in Cape Town, South Africa, has gone viral after footage from the event circulated online. The flyover took place ahead of a Test match between New Zealand’s All Blacks and South Africa’s Springboks, part of a global series billed as…
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Forest eye £40m Armstrong bid as Boulter slams US Open cannabis haze
Sport leads with Forest’s ambitious move for Everton’s Armstrong, Boulter’s cannabis complaints at the US Open and Ben Pritchard’s world title, alongside a Detroit pastor’s warning over Abdul El-Sayed, a Guernsey eel survey, Fear Factory’s comeback single and EA confirming its leaked Iron Man footage.
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Revealed: The TikTok safety loopholes exposing children to vile rape and torture cartoons
An investigation by The Mail on Sunday has found that TikTok’s “restricted mode”, a safety setting used by millions of parents to shield children from harmful content, is failing to block graphic AI-generated videos depicting rape, torture and violence. The footage exploits loopholes in TikTok’s rules, which prohibit “realistic violence” and “sexually suggestive content” but…
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Abdul El-Sayed plays down Hasan Piker ties after streamer’s viral antisemitism firestorm
Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed sought to downplay his association with streamer Hasan Piker after Piker’s comments about Jewish Americans and Israel prompted criticism. In an interview with MS NOW’s Katy Tur, El-Sayed condemned antisemitism but argued that his campaign should focus on Michigan voters’ concerns about affordability, healthcare and schools. Tur questioned whether…
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Beijing uses Great Firewall of China to stop its citizens seeing coverage of Nepal-Tibet floods
The article reports that Chinese authorities have tightly restricted coverage of severe flooding and mudslides affecting Nepal and Tibet, limiting what people inside China can see about the damage. It argues that this censorship matters because it obscures the scale of a disaster in Tibet, where access for journalists is already heavily controlled. It says…