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The competition for 'virality'

According to Ben Smith in his engrossing book, Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral, the team at BuzzFeed noticed something that changed media forev -

'The godfather of AI' quits Google to freely speak of risks ahead

'I console myself with the normal excuse: If I hadn't done it, somebody else would have'

Joe Biden gets a chance to mock 'Fox News', and gleefully takes it

In his annual appearance at the black-tie White House Correspondents' Association dinner, the one night a year that a president is expected to play a stand-up comic

A Silicon Valley flameout

Wonder Boy, written by the journalists Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans, tells it from start to finish. It is a gripping, uncomfortable read

Ageing Biden makes Kamala Harris matter much more in US prez polls 2024

If the 2024 race comes down to Biden vs. Trump again, we are going to need those independents and moderate Republicans to show up again

Harry Belafonte: The folk hero, who channeled his stardom into activism

Cool and charismatic, Belafonte channeled his stardom into activism. He was a true people person, who knew how to reach, teach and challenge us

January 6 violence: Tucker Carlson calls it quits with 'Fox News'

The network made the announcement less than a week after it agreed to pay $787.5 million in a defamation lawsuit in which Carlson's show

Hunting for the real Shakespeare

Durkee frames Stalking Shakespeare (his first book of nonfiction after two novels) in the guise of a whacked-out misery memoir

SCOTUS and the Trump effect

A quiet urgency ripples through this informative, briskly paced and gracefully written book

US banking goliaths report bumper profits amid turmoil, beat estimates

The banks' earnings were bolstered by higher interest rates, which allowed them to charge more for loans above what they pay out on deposits

Mass layoffs and absentee bosses create a morale crisis at Meta

"So many of the employees feel like they're in limbo right now," said Erin Sumner, a global director of human resources at DeleteMe, who was laid off from Facebook in November

War, peace and environmental devastation

In The Long Reckoning, Black unites his areas of expertise in international affairs and the environment to explore a landscape littered with the detritus of war

Work from the office, get laid off at home: Was that a good idea?

With offices open again, and remote work more common, companies now have options - and it's not necessarily clear what is best for workers

Meaner than the metaverse

If the internet is the fictional doctor and scientist Bruce Banner, furtive and a little troubled but basically benign, meganets are Incredible Hulks, snarling and uncontainable

Everything, everywhere in one big book

Historically, encyclopaedias have been thick tomes for a reason: They are made to encompass all knowledge, leaving nothing to guesswork

Down and out in paradise

The book examines the persistence of want in the wealthy United States, finding that keeping some citizens poor serves the interests of many

OpenAI's Artificial Intelligence language model GPT-4 is exciting, scary

Today, the new language model from OpenAI may not seem all that dangerous. But the worst risks are the ones we cannot anticipate

Betrayal and survival

In The Collaborators, some readers may find Buruma's permissiveness toward his subjects' conduct and moral barometers disturbing

Topol, star of 'Fiddler on the Roof' onscreen and onstage, dies at 87

Wide acclaim for his portrayal of Tevye helped make him, according to one newspaper, Israel's most famous export since the Jaffa orange

Many employers mislabelling workers as managers to avoid paying overtime

New evidence shows that many employers are mislabelling rank-and-file workers as managers to avoid paying them overtime