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• A new study reveals that 54% of people now use social media as a news source at least once a week, surpassing the 51% who rely on traditional media such as TV, radio, and news websites. • Despite the global trend, traditional outlets remain more popular in several European nations, including the UK, Germany, Sweden, Finland, and Ireland, as well as various Asian countries. • This shift highlights a significant change in global information consumption habits, suggesting a decline in the dominance of legacy media in favor of algorithmic feeds.

Success of far-right presidential candidate, Abelardo de la Espriella, suggests some voters are ‘fed up with politics’The far-right lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella and the leftwing senator Iván Cepeda have just under three weeks to compete for the roughly 3.6m votes that did not go to either of them in the first round of Colombia’s presidential election on Sunday.That is no insignificant margin, given that De la Espriella’s lead over Cepeda amounted to little more than 670,000 votes – 43.7% against 40.9%. Continue reading...

• Dimension Market Research reports that the Agentic AI security market is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 36.2%, reaching USD 888 billion by 2035. • This surge is driven by the proliferation of multi-agent systems and non-human identities, which are creating a new cybersecurity category as traditional security measures fail to keep pace. • The United States is expected to be a primary driver of this growth, with its domestic market alone forecasted to reach USD 247.5 billion by 2035.