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2 weeks agoExpression wildcard
Thank God for Science Fiction
How we’ve unknowingly spent our lives preparing for AI discourse
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1 month agoCurrent Event wildcard
NASA is looking for volunteers to live in its Mars simulation for a year
NASA put out an open call on Friday for volunteers to participate in its yearlong Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA 2) mission. The space agency will select four people for a crew that will be housed in its 1,700-square-foot 3D-printed habitat in Houston.
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1 month agoCurrent Event wildcard
NSW taskforce aims to return Indigenous children to their families
Minister says ‘shocking proportion’ of Aboriginal children in out-of-home care can be reduced by working with community-controlled organisations
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1 month agoExpression wildcard
Don’t let Big AI fool you: Piracy isn’t a business model
Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO, is basically saying that he can’t make his product unless he steals from others.
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2 months agoCurrent Event wildcard
Google DeepMind’s new AI system can solve complex geometry problems
Its performance matches the smartest high school mathematicians and is much stronger than the previous state-of-the-art system.
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2 months agoAnalysis wildcard
6 weird invasive species wreaking havoc in the US, from self-cloning ticks to 20-pound rodents with orange teeth
Nutria, hammerhead worms, and Asian longhorned ticks are among the strange invasive animal species damaging ecosystems in the US.
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4 months agoCurrent Event wildcard
‘The book took me about a decade’: the 2023 Booker prize shortlisted writers on the stories behind their novels
From the paintings of Paula Rego to a Jamaican American childhood, the six novelists up for the UK’s most prestigious fiction prize share the inspirations behind their nominated books – and how they got them onto the page
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4 months agoCurrent Event wildcard
Lost Doctor Who episodes found – but owner is reluctant to hand them to BBC
As sci-fi show’s 60th anniversary nears, a collector pleads for BBC to offer amnesty to those with recordings discarded by corporation
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6 months agoCurrent Event wildcard
Space drugs factory denied reentry to Earth
The Air Force and the FAA denied permission for Varda Space's capsule to return and land on Earth.
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6 months agoCurrent Event wildcard
OpenAI confirms that AI writing detectors don’t work
No detectors "reliably distinguish between AI-generated and human-generated content."
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6 months agoCurrent Event wildcard
Spain’s Top Soccer Official Resigns Over Unwanted World Cup Kiss
Pressure had been building on Luis Rubiales, with prosecutors opening an investigation, his soccer federation calling for him to step down and FIFA suspending him.
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6 months agoExpression wildcard
‘Tesla Syndrome’ Explains Why Tech Is Making Us Miserable
There’s a class war that’s leading to worse innovations—but it’s not between the sides you think it is.
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7 months agoUnspecified wildcard
Cellebrite asks cops to keep its phone hacking tech ‘hush hush’
For years, cops and other government authorities all over the world have been using phone hacking technology provided by Cellebrite to unlock phones and In a leaked video, a Cellebrite employee urges law enforcement customers to keep their use of its phone hacking technology secret.
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7 months agoUnspecified wildcard
Doctor Who missing episodes are "out there", says TV archive boss
Lost episodes of the BBC sci-fi series exist in the collections of private owners, says archivist.
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8 months agoCurrent Event wildcard
Disney Plus Takes Down $53 Million Original Movie 'Crater' Just 48 Days After Its Premiere
Looking to further trim EBITDA losses on video streaming in its current fiscal third quarter, Disney said in an SEC filing a month ago that it expects to write down as much as $400 million as it removes more original movies and TV shows from Disney Plus and Hulu. And making one of its more conspicuous trims to date, the conglomerate just took down a teen-targeted original movie from Disney Plus that cost a reported $53.4 million to produce and was only on the platform for 48 days.
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8 months agoCurrent Event wildcard
Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement
Comedian and author Sarah Silverman, as well as authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey — are suing OpenAI and Meta each in a US District Court over dual claims of copyright infringement. The suits alleges, among other things, that OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s LLaMA were trained on illegally-acquired datasets containing their works, which they say were acquired from “shadow library” websites like Bibliotik, Library Genesis, Z-Library, and others, noting the books are “available ...