31 h. ago Doge wants to replace our institutions with a tech utopia. It won’t work | Mike Pepi

Silicon Valley’s final dream is a world without institutions. But what works for a startup doesn’t work for democracyElon Musk has stepped away from Doge with very little “efficiency” to show for it. While it may have been more of a showpiece than real policy, this brutal and short experiment in Silicon Valley governance reveals a long-simmering battle between digital utopians and the institutional infrastructures critical to functioning democracies.Doge’s website dubiously claims $190bn in savings. The receipts show that they are less about efficiency than they are aimed at effective dissolution, a fate met by USAID, the federal agency responsible for distributing foreign assistance. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Natural History Museum to display £450,000 dinosaur fossil after London gallery helps secure buyer

Natural History Museum to display £450,000 dinosaur fossil after London gallery helps secure buyer  The Art Newspaper

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3 d. ago London's most expensive boroughs to buy a parking space revealed

Islington was the most expensive place to buy a parking space over the last year, with an average price of £760,000

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6 d. ago London leaver: 'It's easy to almost forget there's life outside the M25'

On Friday evenings Tori Halman and her boyfriend Rob Overall would be cosy at home, cooking pasta and enjoying a glass of wine, while listening to the shrieks and shouts of twentysomething revellers beginning their big nights out.

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8 d. ago Silicon Valley Investor Cohler Buys £22 Million London Mansion

Silicon Valley Investor Cohler Buys £22 Million London Mansion  Bloomberg

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9 d. ago What's powering Jeff Bezos and the tech bros' thirst for nuclear energy?

AI uses an epic amount of electricity, and that’s why Silicon Valley is going nuclear, says Chris Blackhurst

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9 d. ago Frank Ocean's Homer Has a New Home in London's Historic Jewellery District. Here Are the Pieces to Buy

Frank Ocean's Homer Has a New Home in London's Historic Jewellery District. Here Are the Pieces to Buy  Esquire

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1 week ago Artists hail A.I. bot blocker that could finally stop Silicon Valley giants 'stealing' their work

The UK's world-leading creative industries have been given a fresh boost in their fight to stop Big Tech companies 'stealing' their work.

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1 week ago Peter Thiel joins tech billionaires backing new lender to rival Silicon Valley Bank

Start-up named after the dragon’s mountain in ‘Lord of the Rings’

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1 week ago Atlanta Falcons WR Drake London buys cleats for his alma mater Moorpark HS

Atlanta Falcons WR Drake London buys cleats for his alma mater Moorpark HS  High School Football America

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2 w. ago NFL'er Drake London buys California high school football team new cleats

NFL'er Drake London buys California high school football team new cleats  On3.com

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2 w. ago Mark Zuckerberg’s secret list of top AI talent to poach has tech world atwitter

Meta CEO reportedly to offer pay packages worth up to $100m, a gambit OpenAI’s Sam Altman calls ‘crazy’Mark Zuckerberg reportedly spent months putting together a list of the top AI engineers and researchers across the globe, preparing to offer potential recruits lucrative compensation packages in Meta’s attempt to poach AI talent from key competitors.Silicon Valley has been talking for weeks about the Meta CEO’s quest to attract top AI talent, including by offering pay packages worth up to $100m. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Smiths Group Executes Share Buyback on London Stock Exchange

Smiths Group Executes Share Buyback on London Stock Exchange  TipRanks

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2 w. ago Milliken Industrials Limited Pension Plan completes £44m buy

Milliken Industrials Limited Pension Plan completes £44m buy-in with Royal London  Pensions Age Magazine

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2 w. ago Buying an Old House in London? Expect a Long List of Repairs.

Buying an Old House in London? Expect a Long List of Repairs.  The New York Times

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2 w. ago 'I saved a deposit to buy in London by house sitting in 30 different homes over two years'

The London couple lived rent-free for two years and have built up enough savings to buy a home in south-east London

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2 w. ago Buy a couple of stops along the Tube line and save £25,000 off your house price per extra minute of commute

Buyers can make massive savings if they look a few stops down the Tube line

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2 w. ago College graduates face toughest job market in more than a decade as hiring slows

Young people graduating from college this spring and summer are facing one of the toughest job markets in more than a decade

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2 w. ago Top Meta exec joins US army’s ‘next generation’ tech team Detachment 201

Longtime Zuckerberg lieutenant Andrew Bosworth calls donning fatigues with Palantir and OpenAI brass ‘great honor’Meta’s chief technology officer has called it “the great honor of my life” to be enlisted in a new US army corps that defence chiefs set up to better integrate military and tech industry expertise, including senior figures from top tech firms that also include Palantir and OpenAI.Andrew Bosworth, a long-term lieutenant to Mark Zuckerberg known widely as “Boz”, is one of several senior Silicon Valley executives commissioned to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the corps, called Detachment 201, which the US army says will “fuse cutting-edge tech expertise with military innovation”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Meta boss praises new US army division enlisting tech execs as lieutenant colonels

Longtime Zuckerberg lieutenant Andrew Bosworth calls donning fatigues with Palantir and OpenAI brass ‘great honor’Meta’s chief technology officer has called it “the great honor of my life” to be enlisted in a new US army corps that defence chiefs set up to better integrate military and tech industry expertise, including senior figures from top tech firms that also include Palantir and OpenAI.Andrew Bosworth, a long-term lieutenant to Mark Zuckerberg known widely as “Boz”, is one of several senior Silicon Valley executives commissioned to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the corps, called Detachment 201, which the US army says will “fuse cutting-edge tech expertise with military innovation”. Continue reading...

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