Ex- consultant, manager, marketer, engineer. Interested in Complexity, Systems and Collective Intelligence. GSOH (Brit)
Pete Miles
As someone who is never knowingly overoptimistic, I am feeling quite positive about the latest news from Ukraine.
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Court holds Google liable for false claims in AI Overviews. Seems significant.
"A regular search engine just points to outside websites. But AI overviews generate 'independent, new, and substantive statements' by evaluating and combining content from various third-party sites" the-decoder
Reposting these disturbing and weirdly hilarious very short stories for the morning people:
You can then switch over to the BBC News channel for "A warning from the Present".
Commercial terms agreed in principle for a new data centre on the south bank of the River Tees show how the publicly funded regeneration of one of the UK’s most deprived regions has turned into a half-a-billion-pounds-plus enrichment scheme for a couple of local businessmen.
You have to conclude that the big social media platforms are happy to promote violence - gleefully in Musk’s case, complacently in Zuck’s. They are very dangerous people
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He also describes how current politicians are making things worse:
Design principles for fiscal devolution.
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Rather like this manifesto from @daveproudlove.bsky.social
HT @oldtrotter.bsky.social
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Has Russia missed its chance of victory in Ukraine?
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A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators don't apply to AI overviews. In this case, Google's AI had falsely linked two publishers to fraud and made claims that didn't appear in any of the linked sources. The ruling could set a precedent for AI-generated content liability worldwide.
It's now been a year since I started @adrianchills.bsky.social. Thanks to everyone who has read, reposted and liked the stories. And if you haven't already followed and you like the idea of flash fiction horror stories based on the headlines to Guardian columns by Adrian Chiles, feel free to dive in
From explicit calls for murder to sexual harassment, violent threats targeting US lawmakers on Facebook rocketed after tech giant Meta rolled back key content moderation policies last year.
Tonight (Wednesday) from 2115, BBC Four will show the 1997 series 'The Nazis: a Warning from History'.
The whole series is available now on BBC iPlayer. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074kmy
From explicit calls for murder to sexual harassment, violent threats targeting US lawmakers on Facebook rocketed after tech giant Meta rolled back key content moderation policies last year, a tech wat...
Fiscal devolution would be a genuinely dramatic shift. It would put firepower behind regional efforts to tackle the productivity puzzle, enabling places to go further in experimenting with approache...
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Mark Simpson
A paragraph that starts with JD Vance's attempt at spinning himself as an advocate of transparency (as least in regard to "nipple related documents) and concludes with an indication of his powerlessness in the White House hierarchy-- "the president would not, in fact, be OK with it."/3
