
‘Pervert glasses’: Meta struggles with mockery and misgivings toward its star product
The launch of Meta’s new smart specs that feature an integrated camera has sparked a global campaign to discredit one of the company’s breakout consumer products

The launch of Meta’s new smart specs that feature an integrated camera has sparked a global campaign to discredit one of the company’s breakout consumer products
The platform marks two decades of existence with more users than in the blue-bird era, despite evidence of its contribution to global disinformation

A group of corporate power brokers is responsible for the democratic collapse we are witnessing on a global scale. Through their algorithms, they have managed to trap citizens in a mire of information overload and misinformation, while political leaders improvise in response to each new crisis. When business practices carry an unacceptable moral and human cost, they must be abolished. We did it with child labor. And with slavery

Hundreds of migrants and refugees are camping out on the streets of Durban, defenseless against the harassment. Thousands have begun returning to their countries of origin
The Silicon Valley congressman is leading the push to release the Epstein files and does not rule out a 2028 presidential bid. ‘They are not going to silence me,’ he warns

The enormous sums committed to developing artificial intelligence are making investors nervous
Offenders continue to use the former Twitter to peddle child pornography despite Elon Musk’s promise that he would eradicate this scourge when he bought the social media platform

The founder and world’s richest person alters the company’s essence to sustain its high valuation. Sometimes it is an electric carmaker, sometimes an energy giant or the vanguard of AI

Musk relies on a legion of fiercely loyal small investors while erecting ever higher barriers against potentially critical shareholders

The company’s valuation is approaching two trillion dollars. SpaceX is trying to ‘take the fiction out of science fiction’ and create an exciting future, said Elon Musk

Kyiv is intensifying its offensive in the occupied east to cut off the Moscow-annexed tongue of land north of the Sea of Azov

The US president calls state election officials ‘cheating dogs’ in the Democratic state where the Republican gubernatorial candidate finished second, signaling a strategy to undermine confidence ahead of the midterms

Flashpoints like the murder of Henry Nowak or the attempted beheading of Stephen Ogilvy in Belfast mobilize extremist groups

Groups of masked individuals set fire to homes believed to belong to foreigners and burned buses, cars, and dumpsters. The victim’s family has called for an end to the riots

EL PAÍS talked to Cory Doctorow, who coined the popular term. With Big Tech taking over the internet, the positive atmosphere and user-friendly features of social media platforms – which previously allowed us to connect with friends – are disappearing

The whistleblower who exposed social media’s dangers to teenagers says the next major legal battle will be against the AI friends that minors interact with

The US plans to launch three robotic missions to the Moon, run by private companies, starting with Blue Origin’s first lunar flight in fall 2026
OpenAI emerges on top thanks to a ‘calendar technicality,’ with the judge not addressing the substantive issue

After months of tensions, Beijing is expected to use the meeting to draw its red lines on Taiwan, while Washington stresses the economic focus of the talks and seeks support for negotiating peace with Iran
Wealth is becoming increasingly concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. The world’s wealthiest individuals are transforming their money into political influence to shape society and the democratic system to their liking

Elon Musk and Sam Altman may grab the headlines, but billionaires, theorists, and futurists are designing the most transformative technology of our era
The goal is to recreate the conditions of a future colony on the red planet in the place on Earth that most closely resembles it

The US economist and professor warns that there has never been an assault on democracy like the one unfolding now under the leadership of Donald Trump and the group of oligarchs who support him

The initiative seeks to correct biases and show the protagonists of history beyond their role as daughters or wives

We made the mistake of minimizing and caricaturing the rise of authoritarianism. This far-right populism took advantage of the distrust in democracies generated by the Great Recession to infiltrate the very core of society. If we want a democratic recovery to succeed, we cannot continue to uncritically defend a system that not only led to the 2008 crisis but also failed to pursue a just way out of it

The accelerationists of anarcho-capitalism want to bring their new conception of human nature to fruition. They have the means to do so, Carlos Fernández Liria explains in ‘Against the Dark Enlightenment’

EL PAÍS analyzes the most relevant profiles from the sex offender’s ultra-wealthy circle, at least 16 of whom have faced legal consequences, while 56 have felt an impact on their personal and professional lives