The Irish Times

Committee stops short of under-16 social media ban but wants end to ‘harmful’ algorithms

An Oireachtas Committee has stopped short of recommending a ban on social media for under-16s but has said “harmful” social media recommender algorithms should be turned off and there should be a ban ...
Irish Examiner

Oireachtas committee calls for limits on social media algorithms instead of under-16 ban

Committee urges stronger regulation of algorithms, AI, and online harms instead of an outright social media ban for teenagers The committee also called for a ban on 'infinite scroll' features on ...
Science Daily

New quantum algorithm solves “impossible” materials problem in seconds

A new quantum-inspired algorithm has cracked a problem so massive that conventional supercomputers struggle to even approach it. Researchers used the method to simulate extraordinarily complex quantum ...
The New York Times

Meet the new women’s sports magazine that wants you to step away from the algorithm

Illustration: Dan Goldfarb / The Athletic; photos courtesy of Jules Fennell, Rebecca Tauber, Sophia Mitropoulos for The Athletic NEW YORK — Most mornings, Sophia Mitropoulos, 30, sets off from her ...
NME

Lizzo hits out at “racist and fatphobic” algorithms for “destroying the music industry” and her album promo

On Tuesday (May 12), she posted a video to TikTok in which she outlined her problems with the way that changes in social media algorithms have made promoting the album more challenging. “The algorithm ...