Brutalist Southbank Centre Listed
https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/brutalist-southbank-centre-finally-listed-after-35-years-of-refusals
https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/brutalist-southbank-centre-finally-listed-after-35-years-of-refusals
Grindr trials premium $500 per month plan to become 'AI-first' app
https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/09/grindr-trials-premium-500-per-month-plan-to-become-ai-first-app/
https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/09/grindr-trials-premium-500-per-month-plan-to-become-ai-first-app/
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Grindr trials premium $500 per month plan to become ‘AI-first’ app
Gay hook-up app Grindr is currently trialing a new ultra-premium subscription plan – that uses AI and costs members $500 per month.
Rice Theory: Why Eastern Cultures Are More Cooperative
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/05/08/310477497/rice-theory-why-eastern-cultures-are-more-cooperative
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/05/08/310477497/rice-theory-why-eastern-cultures-are-more-cooperative
NPR
Rice Theory: Why Eastern Cultures Are More Cooperative
Westerners tend to be more individualistic than Easterners. Did our ancestors plant these cultural differences hundreds of years ago when they chose which grains to grow?
Australian author's erotic novel is child sex abuse material, judge finds
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgzv529v5no
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgzv529v5no
Bbc
Australian author's erotic novel is child sex abuse material, judge finds
The author's erotic novel featured an 18-year-old protagonist who role-played as a toddler.
Simplifying Vulkan One Subsystem at a Time
https://www.khronos.org/blog/simplifying-vulkan-one-subsystem-at-a-time
https://www.khronos.org/blog/simplifying-vulkan-one-subsystem-at-a-time
The Khronos Group
Simplifying Vulkan One Subsystem at a Time
When those of us in the Vulkan® working group want to modify the API—whether it’s a new hardware feature to expose, a new use case we want to address, or even just a gap in the spec we want to address—we have one invaluable tool that we make heavy use of:…
The US Is Flirting with Its First-Ever Population Decline
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-30/trump-immigration-crackdown-could-shrink-us-population-for-first-time
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-30/trump-immigration-crackdown-could-shrink-us-population-for-first-time
Bloomberg.com
The US Is Flirting With Its First-Ever Population Decline
America’s population wasn’t expected to start falling until 2081. Trump’s immigration crackdown means it could happen as soon as this year.
Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents
https://entire.io/blog/hello-entire-world/
https://entire.io/blog/hello-entire-world/
entire.io
Hello Entire World · Entire Blog
Announcing Entire with $60 million seed round and shipping our first product, called Checkpoints.
Show HN: I made paperboat.website, a platform for friends and creativity
https://paperboat.website/home/
https://paperboat.website/home/
paperboat.website
Home - paperboat.website
Welcome to paperboat.website!
"Hate brings views": Confessions of a London fake news TikToker
https://www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tiktok-fake-news-creator-hate-immigrants
https://www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tiktok-fake-news-creator-hate-immigrants
www.londoncentric.media
"Hate brings views": Confessions of a London fake news TikToker
Who are the real people behind the accounts spreading fury about the capital online? And what motivates them?
Show HN: Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they've built
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/10/showboat-and-rodney/
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/10/showboat-and-rodney/
Simon Willison’s Weblog
Introducing Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they’ve built
A key challenge working with coding agents is having them both test what they’ve built and demonstrate that software to you, their overseer. This goes beyond automated tests—we need artifacts …
China's Data Center Boom: A View from Zhangjiakou (2025)
https://sinocities.substack.com/p/chinas-data-center-boom-a-view-from
https://sinocities.substack.com/p/chinas-data-center-boom-a-view-from
Substack
China’s Data Center Boom: a view from Zhangjiakou
After a quick 40 min high speed rail trip from Beijing North Station, I step off the platform in the sleepy station of Donghuayuan Bei in Hebei’s Zhangjiakou.