‘The nation feels itself orphaned.’

Historian @Simon_Schama on the legacy of Queen Elizabeth II on.ft.com/3qtm6xq

The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon.

The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.

A statement from Buckingham Palace:
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The Queen is under medical supervision at Balmoral after doctors became concerned for her health, says Buckingham Palace bbc.in/3TTdvBJ

Melanie Mitchell: Seemingly ‘sentient’ AI needs a human in the loop on.ft.com/3TpGQnj

Facebook Agrees to Settle 4-Year Lawsuit Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal. Zuckerberg is 'desperate to avoid being questioned,' says the reporter who blew the scandal wide open. Sounds about right. And it's a shame that users will never get real answers gizmodo.com/facebook-cambr…

Meta was fined roughly $400 million for breaking EU data privacy laws for its treatment of children’s data on Instagram, the latest move by authorities in Europe and the U.S. related to child protection online.
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The merging of physical and digital for kids in the #metaverse is fraught with potential risks. The digital world was not designed for children.

#cybersafety tanyagoodin.com/2022/08/kids-i…

Mark Zuckerberg doesn't like your scrolling habits: Social media is for 'building relationships,' not just consuming content cnb.cx/3RyTLkN

I’ve been thinking about this piece for a year. There’s so much more I could say. The only thing that matters is that Martha should be alive today…

‘We had such trust, we feel such fools’: how shocking hospital mistakes led to our daughter’s death theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

'In an age of algorithms and AI we need to rethink what might have been previously talked about as ‘digital literacy’ as a form of ‘algorithmic literacy’': Neil Selwyn for DigiGen - Research on the Digital Generation & #P4DF Media@Lse

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Every time I hear about people with 70,000 unread emails it makes me break out in a cold sweat. Inbox zero or death. Thank you for being an ally in mailbox management Louis Staples inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyl…

The mere repetition of a behavior causes our nervous system to believe that the specific actions involved, and the context in which they are embedded are important, for better or for worse. Choose what you repeat wisely.

Undeclared pools in France uncovered by AI technology bbc.in/3CLmcYV