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Today's topics:

Prediction markets pressure war reporting - A conflict reporter describes harassment tied to a Polymarket outcome, spotlighting how prediction markets can incentivize intimidation, misinformation, and narrative gaming.

Corruption erodes trust in democracies - A cross-national study using World Values Survey and V-Dem finds perceived corruption reduces generalized social trust everywhere—but the trust hit is much stronger in democracies, raising risks for civic cohesion.

Canada Bill C-22 lawful access - Canada’s Bill C-22 revives the lawful-access debate: narrower warrantless checks up front, but broader surveillance-capability mandates, secrecy, and potential metadata retention that worry privacy and security advocates.

AI agents: red-teaming and tooling - Hacker News discussions track a growing ecosystem around AI agents: public red-teaming to harden models, plus new integrations that let agents work inside real developer contexts like active browser sessions.

LLM workflows for better software - One developer argues LLMs are now reliable enough to shift effort from typing code to making higher-level decisions, using multi-model review to reduce defects while warning that weak human oversight compounds bad architecture.

Web bloat: ads versus readers - An audit of major news sites argues programmatic ads and tracking drive extreme page weight and “hostile” UX, linking performance drag to privacy loss and declining reader trust.

Markets: Nasdaq-100 rule tweaks - A critical essay warns proposed Nasdaq-100 methodology changes could reshape index inclusion for low-float mega-IPOs, potentially forcing passive funds into thin liquidity and amplifying market impact.

Science and engineering quick hits - From THC and Alzheimer’s lab results to robot actuator inertia tradeoffs and old computing quirks like Excel’s date bug, today’s stories mix research, real-world constraints, and long-lived compatibility decisions.

-Study Finds Corruption Undermines Social Trust More in Democracies Than Autocracies
-Bill C-22 Scales Back Warrantless Subscriber Access, but Expands Surveillance and Metadata Retention Risks
-ToI reporter says Polymarket bettors issued threats to force rewrite of Iran strike report
-Hacker News Roundup: Alzheimer’s Cannabinoid Findings, Nasdaq Index Fight, and Canada’s C-22 Surveillance Bill
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