Since Reporters Without Borders started tracking their World Press Freedom Index 25 years ago, the global rating has never been lower than the 2026 score. From a summary of their analysis
The Neanderthal dentist: archaeologists found evidence of a decayed tooth being drilled out with a stone tools 59,000 years ago. “It’s now the oldest known evidence of dentistry — or any direct medical treatment.”
The disintegration of British democracy
How researchers identified over 400 people in the Epstein Files
Indicator: “Decoherence Media, a non-profit investigative outlet, recently published the Epstein Photo Network, which it described as “the highest-quality publicly available facial recognition interface to the Epstein Library, with the most verified names and the fewest false positives.”
Along with creating the freely-accessible site, Decoherence’s announcementincluded the methodology and code used to build the tool. The post also discussed about how they dealt with false positives and incorporated manual review to try and ensure data quality. It’s a nice case study of building a facial recognition pipeline using publicly-available images. I reached out to Decoherence cofounder Tristan Lee to talk about the process and what they learned. Here’s a quick Q&A…”
