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Scott Mills Sacked By BBC

Today at 20:54 PM, via BBC News

Scott Mills has been sacked by the BBC following allegations about his personal conduct.

Lifestyle

Is the Western Cape hoarding fuel?

Today at 20:59 PM, via The South African

Reports of petrol limits and empty pumps have raised questions about whether fuel is being withheld in parts of the Western Cape.

Science/Tech

Life With AI Causing Human Brain ‘Fry’

Today at 21:00 PM, via Slashdot

fjo3 shares a report from France 24: Too many lines of code to analyze, armies of AI assistants to wrangle, and lengthy prompts to draft are among the laments by hard-core AI adopters. Consultants at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) have dubbed the phenomenon “AI brain fry,” a state of mental exhaustion stemming “from the excessive use or supervision of artificial intelligence tools, pushed beyond...

Science/Tech

Judge Allows BitTorrent Seeding Claims Against Meta, Despite Lawyers ‘Lame Excuses’

Today at 20:18 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: In an effort to gather material for its LLM training, Meta used BitTorrent to download pirated books from Anna’s Archive and other shadow libraries. According to several authors, Meta facilitated the infringement of others by “seeding” these torrents. This week, the court granted the authors permission to add these claims to their...

Science/Tech

DrumBot AI Launches the First Drum Machine that Listens, Learns and Talks Back

Today at 19:45 PM, via Tech Financials

WINNIPEG – DrumBot AI has launched a new browser-based drum pattern generator that uses unique artificial intelligence to create a better experience for producers and musicians. Instead of clicking squares on a grid, producers describe the groove they want, upload a reference track, or simply talk to the AI to get a professional, exportable drum […]

Health

A Secret History of Psychosis

Yesterday at 11:00 AM, via New York Times

Cohen Miles-Rath heard voices telling him to kill his father. After they passed, he spent years retracing the path of his delusions.