Voluntary self-regulation by companies developing frontier artificial intelligence (AI) is “nowhere near sufficient” to address existing harms and prevent advanced autonomous AI models from circumventing human safeguards, UN human rights…
Meta previously argued that uploading pirated books to other BitTorrent users was an unavoidable side effect of downloading them, and therefore fair use. Rightsholders suing Meta in three related cases…
Today’s links But do you use keyboard shortcuts?: AI people are WEIRD. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: “Changeling”; Sony Rootkit vs CD drives; Google’s scumbag lobbyists;…
Dr. Jonathan Howard was right. They really do want you—and your kids—infected, preferably with measles. One way they’ll accomplish this is by preventing schools from excluding unvaccinated children during outbreaks.
The…
According to Mark E Smith, the road of excess leads to the ‘palace of accidents’, and the Bard of Salford’s take on this hackneyed phrase resonated with me from first…
Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentresPfas companies are launching a “tidal wave” of forever chemicals production to meet demand from the…
Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ tops the chart, followed by ‘Coyote vs….
As the climate crisis reaches new catastrophic heights—fueled by endless extraction, livestock agriculture, and corporate greed—it seems that animal welfare would be natural territory for the left. So why is…
