US teachers union says it is leaving X over sexualized AI images of children

doesn't matter which year or which windoze, Linux is an answer to a decades old IT problem

iOS 26 is a massive flop

article argues that Elon Musk's social media platform X must be banned due to its enabling of AI-generated explicit images, including child pornography, and its promotion of far-right content. It criticizes the lack of swift action by regulators and politicians, despite the clear harm being caused to women and children

Lessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code

"TikTok is designed to remove every natural stopping point that once told your brain a moment had passed. There is no beginning, no middle, no end. Just a stream of novelty that never asks you to pause. When your brain cannot find edges, it cannot store memories properly"

‘The sight of it is still shocking’: 46 photos that tell the story of the century so far | Photography | The Guardian

A study from University College Cork reveals that AI-generated writing, despite being polished and fluent, displays distinct stylistic patterns that set it apart from human prose. Using literary stylometry, researchers found that AI systems like GPT-3.5, GPT-4, and Lama 70B produce uniform styles, while human authors show greater stylistic range and individuality

Three years on, ChatGPT still isn't what it was cracked up to be – and it probably never will be

Privacy activists say proposed changes to Europe's landmark privacy law, including making it easier for Big Tech to harvest Europeans' personal data for AI training, would flout EU case law and gut the legislation

Hobart woman Renee Woodleigh is selling a 1937 edition of JRR Tolkien's classic The Hobbit.

She says it is a first edition, which a rare book specialist says could "absolutely" be true

The 512KB Club is a collection of performance-focused web pages from across the Internet.

To qualify your website must satisfy both of the following requirements: It must be an actual site that contains a reasonable amount of information, not just a couple of links on a page; Your total UNCOMPRESSED web resources must not exceed 512KB

superfan has recreated Frodo’s exact journey from Bag End to Mount Doom in a 10-hour virtual trek through Lord of the Rings Online, an 18-year-old MMO.

Despite Boromir’s iconic warning, it turns out you can, in fact, simply walk into Mordor

xD

Everyone knows what the Internet is. But do you know how it actually works?

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the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, said it would invest as much as $2 billion in Polymarket at an $8 billion pre-money valuation

ja, krass.

The European Union was designed for peace – it is never going to be a war machine

The ‘knowledge economy’ promised cultural and social growth. Instead, we got worsening inequality and division. Artificial intelligence will supercharge it