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Google Photos' latest generative AI-powered feature, "Me Meme", lets users create memes from their own images, launching first in the US (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/google-photos-latest-feature-lets-you-meme-…

Google Photos' latest feature lets you meme yourself | TechCrunch
The new feature lets you insert yourself into a meme in Google Photos.

Apple Music partners with Ticketmaster for its Concert Discovery feature; every event listing on the app includes a link to Ticketmaster (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/apple-music-partners-with-…

Apple Music partners with Ticketmaster to power its concert discovery feature | TechCrunch
Apple Music teamed up with Ticketmaster to power its Concert Discovery feature, which recommends live music events based on users' listening habits.

🌱 Fast-growing trees are taking over the forests of the future and putting biodiversity, climate resilience under pressure
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-fast-trees-forests-future-biodiversity.html

Fast-growing trees are taking over the forests of the future and putting biodiversity, climate resilience under pressure
Trees play a central role in life on Earth. They store CO₂, provide habitats for animals, fungi, and insects, stabilize soils, regulate water cycles, and supply resources that humans rely on—from timber and food to recreation and shade on a hot day.

Marx unfrozen in the Future
(Original title: Marx is Unfrozen in the Future)
http://existentialcomics.com/comic/643

Marx is Unfrozen in the Future
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

Cameron Jordan: 'There could be a bright future' for Saints with Tyler Shough at QB https://www.nfl.com/news/cameron-jordan-there-could-be-a-bright-future-for-saints-with-tyler-shough-at-qb

All other (valid and invalid) arguments aside—the worst thing about "AI for coding" is that no one ever even mentions how this is better for the people who end up using the software produced.
(Spoiler: It isn't.)
No, what it's used for is product managers offloading product design decisions on programmers, because "with AI they can now just churn out features" and "we'll keep what sticks". (The first feature they're forced to churn out is to add useless LLM-based crap to applications. You know the feature: the one that all power-users of the software desperately go to Reddit for in an exercise of futility trying to find out how to permanently turn it off.)
It's a self-feeding feature creep and software bloat moloch—eating programmers and users.

Russia Put Its Future at Risk by Remaking Its Economy for War
About half of the country’s federal budget goes toward the fight in Ukraine
-- money that does little to support its long-term development
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/world/e

Russia Remade Its Economy for War, but It’s Come at a Huge Cost
About half of the country’s federal budget goes toward the fight in Ukraine, money that does little to support its long-term development.

How AI is helping geologists identify thousands of slopes around the world at high risk of slipping by analyzing data from satellites and ground-based sensors (Chris Baraniuk/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260323-the-ai-that-war…

Ground truth: When the Earth moves, AI can spot it
Sudden and unexpected, landslides and avalanches claim thousands of lives each year and cause billions of dollars in damage. What if we could see them coming?

Dolphins GM on Tua Tagovailoa's future: 'Everything is on the table' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7068002/2026/02/24/tua-tagovailoa-dolphins-future-nfl-combine/

A look at Clawdbot, an open-source personal AI agent that runs locally on the user's computer and integrates with multiple LLMs and messaging services (Federico Viticci/MacStories)
https://www.macstories.net/stories/clawdbot-sho…

Clawdbot Showed Me What the Future of Personal AI Assistants Looks Like
For the past week or so, I’ve been working with a digital assistant that knows my name, my preferences for my morning routine, how I like to use Notion and Todoist, but which also knows how to control Spotify and my Sonos speaker, my Philips Hue lights, as well as my Gmail. It runs on...