Norway’s £10B UK frigate deal could delay Royal Navy ships
Norway’s £10B UK frigate deal could delay Royal Navy ships Summary Norway has contracted for at least five British-built Type 26 (City-class) frigates in a deal worth roughly £10 billion…
What Made Meta Suddenly Ban Tens of Thousands of Accounts?
What Made Meta Suddenly Ban Tens of Thousands of Accounts? Summary Meta has been accused of wrongly suspending large numbers of Facebook and Instagram accounts. The BBC and other outlets…
Rick Beato vs UMG: Fighting Copyright Claims Over Music Clips on YouTube
Rick Beato vs UMG: Fighting Copyright Claims Over Music Clips on YouTube Summary Music educator and YouTuber Rick Beato says Universal Music Group (UMG) has been issuing repeated Content ID…
‘Swatting’ Hits a Dozen US Universities. The FBI is Investigating
‘Swatting’ Hits a Dozen US Universities. The FBI is Investigating Summary A string of false active-shooter reports — known as “swatting” — targeted about a dozen US university campuses as…
Smelling This One Specific Scent Can Boost the Brain’s Gray Matter
Smelling This One Specific Scent Can Boost the Brain’s Gray Matter Summary Researchers from Kyoto University and the University of Tsukuba ran a small-month long study asking 28 women to…
What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust?
What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust? Summary Brian Kernighan, co-creator of Unix and longstanding educator, tried writing a single Rust programme and found the experience frustrating. In…
Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data?
Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data? Summary Steven J. Vaughan‑Nichols (via Slashdot) reports that modern AI web crawlers are aggressively harvesting web content for…
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit Summary The federal climate-science website climate.gov, whose production team was dismissed earlier in the summer and whose content has been effectively…
Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy
Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy Summary NBC News reports that a growing category of freelance work involves humans fixing poor or incomplete outputs produced…
OpenAI Is Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content To Police
OpenAI Is Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content To Police Summary OpenAI has confirmed it scans ChatGPT conversations for threats and routes suspicious chats to human reviewers. If reviewers…