Jeanne 'd Arc as imagined by early 20th century photographers:
The cool new shipping craze everybody's talking about
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...
Is AI killing the self-help book?
tim.blog/2026/06/12/h...
Details of how the shipping containers ended up on a giant iceberg have been revealed in one of the more unusual reports tabled at the annual meeting of Antarctic Treaty nations.
French astronaut Sophie Adenot (France’s first female helicopter test pilot) passed over Mt. Etna and then Vesuvius. Spectacular photos! 🌋 Photos via X (sorry): x.com/Soph_astro/s...
Ordinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracy #EUTech
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260522023127.htm
Fable: "write me a rhyming poem with six four line stanzas, each stanza removes another vowel. the first has no u, the second no u or i, etc."
What a headline
arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
I'm sure this is a huge problem, but as a former opinion editor, I can assure you that people have been submitting slop for a lot longer than AI has existed.
Wazzzzzuuuppp?!?!?
The war in Ukraine — which reached 1,569 days, or more than four years and three months — has now outlasted World War I.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...
Scientists in Germany have demonstrated a startling new form of surveillance: identifying people using nothing more than ordinary WiFi signals. By analyzing how radio waves bounce around a room, researchers can effectively “see” and recognize individuals — even if they are not carrying a device and even if their phone is turned off.
My head has been spinning after getting a spreadsheet roughly a week ago. Before we dive into my dirty laundry, let’s state the obvious: millions of people have a vague sense that AI is changing thing...
City AM issues broadside against flood of AI slop being submitted by writers for its pages: "if you can’t be bothered to write it, why should anyone be bothered to read it?" www.cityam.com/there-should...
Russell Shaw noticed that he texted the same phrase to his kids 133 times. In hindsight, he sees profound meaning in it, and a lesson for other parents. theatln.tc/oSPD3CJx
🎨: Derek Abella
City AM's inbox is drowning in AI pitches. Anna Moloney, who spends her days copy and pasting them into detection software, has had enough.
