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You Finally Got a Wikipedia Page. Then It Vanished.

26 October 2026 at 18:32

If there’s a Wikipedia page about yourself, you must be famous—some kind of celebrity—or an expert in your field, or a figure who’s made a prominent contribution to human history or culture. But what happens when that page is nominated by Wikipedia editors for deletion? In a quirky tech story for Wired, Duncan Fyfe reports on the strange experience of being told you’re just not notable enough.

There is, when you look for it, a careless and cocky tone that can creep into the verdicts of Wikipedia editors who have been doing the job for a long time. “This guy is a nobody. Delete him.” “I’ve got more followers on Instagram than he does.” “All we have here are stand-up comedy, opinion columns, being a guest or collaborator on some non-notable podcasts … This is more or less every twentieth person who lives in NYC.”

Autoridades espanholas pedem fecho de chats após distúrbios

26 October 2026 at 17:44
Pedro Sánchez prometeu "tolerância zero" após pilhagens coordenadas pelo TikTok que mobilizaram 500 jovens. Novas ações estão marcadas para o próximo sábado.

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Cerca de 500 jovens responderam a este apelo e 130 foram detidos na sequência dos distúrbios, destruição de mobiliário urbano, confronto com a polícia e da pilhagem de perto de 30 lojas

Can Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s Former CEO, Help Fix A.I.’s Gender Problem? 

26 October 2026 at 17:01
She made her name as a pioneer at Google, then as chief executive at Yahoo. Now Mayer is entering the crowded marketplace for A.I. assistants — and hoping to draw in more women with a product that tackles the mental load.

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Marissa Mayer has reinvented herself as a start-up founder, with a team of 10 engineers — a fraction of the armies of programmers she once commanded at Yahoo and Google.

Meta prevê captar mais de 31.000 milhões de euros em ações

26 October 2026 at 16:11
Nvidia, AMD e Broadcom já manifestaram interesse em comprar ações. A Meta prevê gastar até 145 mil milhões de dólares em centros de dados só em 2026.

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Os montantes investidos acabaram por atingir níveis que exigem o recurso a fontes externas

Anthropic S-1 Reveals Rapid Growth Ahead of Blockbuster IPO

Ahead of what could be the largest public listing ever, Anthropic said revenue soared to $16.3 billion in the first half of the year, and it planned to spend $807 billion on A.I. infrastructure.

© Jason Henry for The New York Times

Anthropic, a powerhouse in A.I., is only five years old and seemingly came out of nowhere.

EANA pede à Meta retirada cláusula sobre recolha de notícias

26 October 2026 at 11:08
EANA pede à Meta, dona do Facebook e Instagram, que remova a cláusula que consta dos seus novos termos comerciais, substituindo-a por condições que respeitem os direitos de autor.

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A Aliança Europeia de Agência de Notícias considera que a nova cláusula teria "efeitos prejudiciais" em todo o ecossistema dos media

Miguel Thiré: "A pobreza no Brasil é um sistema endémico"

26 October 2026 at 10:39
Miguel Thiré aborda o impacto das redes na eleição de Lula da Silva e a manipulação política. Alerta para as graves desigualdades no seu país e apresenta a sua nova peça em Lisboa sem telemóveis.

Russian ministry recommends underground data centers following Ukrainian drone strikes

26 October 2026 at 09:13
Existing data centers should be protected by reducing their visibility from the air, and through layered defense systems including reinforced structures, electronic warfare measures, and drone defense systems.

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