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Meta to Retire Its Iconic ‘Like’ and ‘Comment’ Plugins from Websites by February 2026

Meta will retire Facebook’s Like and Comment plugins on Feb. 10, 2026, citing a platform refresh as usage declines — ending a hallmark of the early social web.

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‘It’s notoriously hard to write about sex’: David Szalay on Flesh, his astounding Booker prize-winner

The novel’s protagonist is violent, libidinous and so inarticulate he says ‘OK’ some 500 times. So how did the author turn his story into a tragic masterpiece?

When we meet the morning after the announcement of this year’s Booker prize, David Szalay, the winner, seems an extremely genial and gentle author to have created one of the most morally ambiguous characters in recent contemporary fiction. His sixth novel, Flesh, about the rise and fall of a Hungarian immigrant to the UK, is unlike anything you have read before.

Szalay (pronounced “Sol-oy”) is often described as “Hungarian-British”, but that has offended Canadians this morning, he says. His mother was Canadian and he was born in that country, where his Hungarian father had moved a few years earlier. “I’m arguably more Canadian than Hungarian.” Now 51, he grew up in England, graduated from Oxford University, and lived in Hungary for 15 years. To make things more confusing, he is over from Vienna, where he now lives with his wife and young son Jonathan.

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Review: The Strength of the Few by James Islington – Summary Spoilers

The Strength of the Few by James Islington is a story of Vis getting synchronised (sort of multiverse), and now 3 bodies, 3 stories and 3 problems. But something is cooking..? Let’s find out.. “But with all that has happened—with what I fear is coming—I am not sure it matters anymore.I am no longer one. […]