Plus, good reads you might have missed in August 2026

Meta's camera-equipped "AI Glasses" are so divisive that some adopters are reportedly leaving their expensive smart glasses at home.

Energy commissioner says the oil crisis triggered by Iran war will bring lengthy upheaval, in a speech reminiscent of the Covid pandemic.

Industry warnings of disruption contrast with government calls for calm

In an ongoing lawsuit, Meta now argues that uploading pirated books to strangers via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use.

For a century, American wars were planned by think tankers drawn from the boards of Goldman Sachs and Chevron. It gave rise to horrors like Vietnam and Iraq. That era is over. What comes next is very likely worse.

Gambling markets have conveniently found a stance that allows them to continue to profit from death and war.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

Ibrahem Hanafi, dottorando palestinese in visita in Italia, racconta la sistematica demolizione, fisica, politica e culturale, delle università di Gaza e della Cisgiordania. E invita la ricerca europe...

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Il boom degli studentati privati e dei coliving come indice della finanziarizzazione dello spazio urbano e delle barriere economiche contro i più poveri

Friedrich Engels once wrote that he played “second fiddle” to Marx. On the 200th anniversary of his birth, we should remember the profound influence that Engels had on his friend and comrade, as well as his own theoretical contributions.

Home insurance rates are skyrocketing faster than home prices and overall inflation, draining homeowners of billions of dollars in premiums amid rising policy cancellations — driven in part by insurer...

Open letter criticises the Commission President for remarks earlier this year – when she anticipated AI would “approach human reasoning” in 2026