South Korean military is witnessing a significant transformation as its size has decreased by 20% over the past six years. This reduction is predominantly attributed to a continuing decline in the male population, raising concerns about national defense capabilities

A debate has erupted in Denmark over the fate of a mermaid statue that is to be removed from public view after being decried as “ugly and pornographic” and “a man’s hot dream of what a woman should look like”

Linux breaks a new record for US market share as people presumably flee Windows for its open-source rival

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The "Grandma Exploit"

images that correspond so well to the style of the films suggests that the AI model has been trained with the films from Studio Ghibli. The question now arises as to whether OpenAI was allowed to use the films for training

Japan releases 200,000 tonnes of emergency rice stockpile as prices soar

Agriculture minister says rising prices have ‘had a significant impact on people’s lives’ amid record heat, surges in demand and distribution problems

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl

It is in the financial interest of streaming services to discourage a critical audio culture among users, to continue eroding connections between artists and listeners, so as to more easily slip discounted stock music through the cracks, improving their profit margins in the process.

I feel this is slowly happening to all types of media., not just audio. The slow dumbification of culture

The concern is that these organisms would evade both the immune systems of all natural life forms, and any human defences such as antibiotics, thus posing an existential risk to life