Meta will stop using third-party fact checkers on Facebook, Threads and Instagram and instead rely on users to add notes to posts.

Cornell Tech

Arts and Sciences

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Expanding on the growing popularity of videogame music playlists, Nintendo's new videogame music streaming app has already been downloaded over 1 million times.

Arts & Humanities

Computing & Information Sciences

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Olúfémi Táíwò, professor of Africana studies at Cornell University, says it’s ironic that the same African leaders who decried colonialism, might now find common ground with the People’s Republic of China.   

International

Foreign Policy

Arts and Sciences

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Google is once again delaying its timeline for killing off third-party tracking cookies.

Computing & Information Sciences

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Michael Hoffmann, professor emeritus at Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and lead author of Our Changing menu: Climate change and the foods we love and need, comments on the climate stresses facing cacao and chocolate production.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

International

Economics and Business

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Chloe Ahmann, a historical and environmental anthropologist whose work focuses on Baltimore, industrialism and environmental justice, comments on Baltimore's role as a major coal exporter and argues that recovery from the Key Bridge collapse represents a time to listen to residents impacted by coal shipping.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Arts and Sciences

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Concerns about the Seine River’s cleanliness have caused delays in some Olympic swimming events in Paris despite a $1.5 billion cleanup effort. Brian Rahm, a biological and environmental engineering expert, says Paris’ ancient infrastructure and climate change will continue to muddy the waters. 

Agriculture and Life Sciences

International

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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Elon Musk's social media site X will start charging new users in New Zealand and the Philippines to use the platform. Musk claims the $1 yearly fee will fight bots.

Computing & Information Sciences

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Low-paid data workers who train AI models sent a letter to lawmakers ahead of a Senate meeting with AI leaders today urging Congress to protect their rights.

Computing & Information Sciences

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Amanda Rodewald, professor and senior director of the Center for Avian Population Studies at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, comments on the United Nation's first-ever report on the state of migratory species.

Energy, Environment & Sustainability

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