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Meta is taking Britain's communications regulator to court over a question that sounds almost philosophical — what counts as global revenue? Under the Online Safety Act, Ofcom can levy fines tied to a company's worldwide earnings, and Meta is arguing that calculation is fundamentally unfair. The outcome could reshape how big tech gets held to account across the UK.
Meanwhile, Google is pushing its Gemini assistant toward something far more ambitious than answering questions. The company wants Gemini operating as a round-the-clock agent — scheduling, planning, and making decisions on your behalf continuously. It raises a familiar tension: the more an AI manages your life, the less of it you're actually living yourself.
And in a story that touches every developer who's ever argued about code structure, a decade-old essay is making the rounds again, claiming there are exactly three programming paradigms — object-oriented, functional, and structured — and that nothing genuinely new has emerged since the nineteen sixties. Whether that's clarifying or quietly depressing probably depends on how long you've been writing software.
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