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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:

• 🎨 UNESCO launches the Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects

• 🏆 Finalists announced for the 2025 Lovie Awards, the Best of the European Internet

• 📚 These six books are competing for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year 2025

• ⏭️ In brief

• 🤔 Express Quiz

• 💡Recommended by: Juan Andrés Muñoz

🎨 UNESCO launches the Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects

UNESCO has just launched the first Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects on a global scale.

It is a platform that uses advanced digital technologies, such as 3D modeling or virtual reality, to digitally reconstruct and display models of more than 230 stolen cultural objects that have been selected by the various member states.

With this platform, UNESCO aims to raise awareness about the illicit trafficking of cultural property, one of the greatest challenges facing cultural heritage worldwide.

The virtual museum was presented this past Monday, September 29, 2025, during the World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development – MONDIACULT 2025, held in Barcelona.

In addition to displaying the stolen objects, the museum also offers narratives, educational content, and testimonies from affected communities to highlight the cultural and historical value of the objects. One room in the museum is dedicated to successful return and restitution cases.

The project, designed in collaboration with Pritzker Prize winner Francis Kéré, has INTERPOL as a partner and the financial support of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

For each object, in addition to the 3D model, very detailed information is provided about its origin, date of creation, description, and essential characteristics, among other information. The museum can also be visited using a virtual reality headset or viewer.

Link:

• Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects

🏆Finalists announced for the 2025 Lovie Awards, the Best of the European Internet

This week, the finalists for the 15th edition of the Lovie Awards have been announced, the European awards that recognize digital excellence in the fields of culture, technology, and business.

These awards, organized by the European branch of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS), the organization that hosts the Webby Awards each year, aim to be an inspiration to help create a better internet for everyone.

Nearly 1,200 entries from 35 European countries were submitted for this year's edition.

Internet users can vote until October 16 to choose the People's Choice winners in each category.

The numerous categories of these awards, which allow us to discover projects specialized in very diverse fields, are organized in the following areas:

• Websites & Mobile Sites

• Marketing, Advertising & PR

• Film & Video

• Apps, Platforms & Software

• Podcasts

• Social

• AI & Immersive

• Beyond

Among this year's finalists are companies, agencies, and creatives such as Troye Sivan, Stephen Fry and Theo James, Dazed Studio, Sotheby's, Al Jazeera Media Network, Gucci, Christie's, Visit Greenland, Financial Times, 4creative, CNN, Nike, BBC Studios, and Bvlgari, among many others.

Links:

• Lovie Awards 

• Finalists and People's Choice Voting

📚These six books are competing for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year 2025

Since 2005, the Financial Times newspaper has organized the Business Book of the Year award, which recognizes the "most insightful and influential works of the genre" published during the past year.

The jury for this prestigious award aims to highlight authors of books that provide the best insights on critical economic issues such as management, technology, climate, finance, or economics in general.

The winner receives a prize of £30,000, and the finalists receive £10,000.

The rigorous book selection process is chaired by FT editor Roula Khalaf. Each August, a longlist of finalists is announced, which is narrowed down to six in September. The winner will be announced on December 3, 2025.

These are the six books competing for the award this year (affiliate link to Amazon provided):

• House of Huawei: Inside the Secret World of China's Most Powerful Company

  by Eva Dou

  Abacus (UK), Portfolio (US)

  Amazon

• Chokepoints: How the Global Economy Became a Weapon of War

  by Edward Fishman

  Elliott & Thompson (UK), Portfolio (US)

  Amazon

• How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations

  by Carl Benedikt Frey

  Princeton University Press (UK and US)

  Amazon

• Abundance:  How We Build a Better Future

  by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

  Profile Books (UK), Simon & Schuster (US)

  Amazon

• Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future 

  by Dan Wang

  Allen Lane (UK), W. W. Norton & Company (US)

  Amazon

• The Thinking Machine:  Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip

  by Stephen Witt

  The Bodley Head (UK), Viking (US)

  Amazon

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Links:

• Business Book of the Year 2025 – Financial Times

• The shortlist

⏭️ In brief

• Pew Research has studied how Americans view the impact of AI on their lives. Nearly half believe it will erode creative thinking. How Americans View AI and Its Impact on People and Society – Pew Research Center.

• The "New Economies" newsletter offers an extensive list of AI technologies and platforms that can be useful for startups: The Startup AI Tech Stack.

• The Wall Street Journal has published its annual ranking of the best Colleges in the United States in the economic field: 

  • The 2026 Best Colleges in America: Stanford, Babson and Yale Take Top Spots.

  • WSJ / COLLEGE PULSE RANKINGS.

• OpenAI has announced the introduction of parental controls for ChatGPT and other AI tools Introducing parental controls. 

• New tools and resources to support families, and notifications to keep teens safe. 

• OpenAI has also announced Sora 2, its latest AI video generation model Sora 2 is here. 

• Microsoft has also presented new developments related to AI in its products: Vibe working: Introducing Agent Mode and Office Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot.

• And we conclude today's section with a video that serves as a tribute to the renowned ethologist Jane Goodall, who passed away this past October 1st in California at the age of 91. This scientist and communicator, a key figure in the study of chimpanzees, became one of the great international references in conservation. This is the complete episode of "Jane Goodall: The Hope," a National Geographic special.

🤔 Express Quiz

In October 2006, Google made one of the most significant purchases in internet history: the video website YouTube. Last year, YouTube had revenues of over 50 billion dollars. Today's question is about what Google spent when it acquired YouTube: 

The correct answer to last week's quiz, when we asked about the meaning of the acronym https, was "HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure"

💡Recommended by: Juan Andrés Muñoz

• Recommended Resource: niklausgerber.com 

• Why? 

  Niklaus Gerber, Vice President of Digital at Vorwerk (the company behind the iconic Thermomix cooking machine), shares insights and resources on innovation and digital transformation that are essential for those of us following the evolution of media, artificial intelligence, and technology applied to everyday life. His posts combine clarity, strategic vision, and practical examples, as well as tools he considers indispensable. Reading him on his website or LinkedIn profile I always discover interesting things that are more or less applicable to journalism or the digital world. Moreover, as a foodie and someone curious about the cuisine of the future, I'm a fan of the new TM7 whose design he led alongside other teams at Vorwerk.

  

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