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Welcome to a new edition of “On the Net Today”, the newsletter where every Friday we share a selection of useful and interesting resources to help you get the most out of the internet and make the best use of your browsing time.
Here are the topics we’ve prepared for today:
US News & World Report releases ranking of the world's best universities
Illustrated NYT multimedia special marking the 250th anniversary of the US
FreeCodeCamp offers completely free coding training
⏭️ In brief
💡Recommended by: Cristina Aced
US News & World Report releases ranking of the world's best universities
Harvard University ranks first in the 2026/2027 ranking of the world's best universities published by US News & World Report, which is now available online.
Two other US universities occupy the next spots in the ranking: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is second, while Stanford University takes third place.
The ranking, which analyzes a total of 2,250 universities from more than 100 countries, takes into account 13 indicators that measure aspects such as academic research and reputation.
Here are the top 10:
Universities can be filtered by various criteria, such as country, field of study, or number of students.
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Illustrated NYT multimedia special marking the 250th anniversary of the US
"Visions of America" is a magnificent illustrated multimedia special published by The New York Times Magazine, the NYT's Sunday magazine, marking the 250th anniversary of the United States.
With the help of seven prominent historians, the special offers seven little-known stories of figures from the country's founding era.
Each story is told both visually, with illustrations by Tim McDonagh that unfold as you scroll down the page, and in text form.
Link:
Visions of America – The New York Times Magazine
FreeCodeCamp offers completely free coding training
FreeCodeCamp is a US nonprofit project that gives any user who wants it the chance to learn to code, completely free of charge.
On its website, FreeCodeCamp makes thousands of videos, articles, and interactive lessons on coding available to registered users, all of it free.
FreeCodeCamp's method for teaching users to code involves building "dozens of projects, step by step, directly in your browser, code editor, or mobile app." Verified certificates are also free.
The donations FreeCodeCamp receives go toward its educational initiatives and help pay for servers, services, and staff.
Regarding the skills students can acquire, FreeCodeCamp's team explains that they will learn "the skills that most developers use on the job: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, Linux, Git, and SQL, and more." Additionally, they will also learn "to use powerful libraries for web development, mobile app development, data science, and artificial intelligence."
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⏭️ In Brief
Iceland remains, for the 19th consecutive year, the most peaceful country in the world, followed by New Zealand, Switzerland, Slovenia, and Ireland, according to the Global Peace Index 2026, recently published. This index points out once again — for the 12th year running — that the world is a less safe place.
Which national teams will face off in the round of 32 and subsequent knockout rounds of the 2026 World Cup? The BBC keeps updating this information live, on an ongoing basis.
FIFA World Cup Schedule - BBC
💡 Recommended by: Cristina Aced
Name: Cristina Aced
Role: Communication consultant and founder of the online school #LasImperdibles
Recommended resource: One Useful Thing, by Ethan Mollick
Why?
I recommend One Useful Thing because it's one of the newsletters that best helps you understand the real-world implications of artificial intelligence on work, education, and everyday life. It's written by Ethan Mollick, a professor at Wharton and author of the book Co-Intelligence, and it offers a research-based yet very down-to-earth look at how AI is changing the way we work, learn, create, and make decisions.I'm especially interested in it because it doesn't just cover news or tools — it helps build judgment: which tasks make sense to do with AI, which ones are better left to human intelligence, how to collaborate better with these technologies, and what risks emerge when we adopt them without enough thought. For those of us working in communication, it's a very valuable read because it invites us to see AI not just as a productivity tool, but as a cultural and professional shift we need to truly understand.
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