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Richard Hughes departs after investigation into how official forecaster accidentally published budget 40 minutes early

The rise of AI assistants is rewriting the rhythms of everyday life: People are feeding their blood test results into chatbots, turning to ChatGPT for advice on their love lives and leaning on AI for everything from planning trips to finishing homework assignments.

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Weird Context: it’s getting clear to me everyday how the American mind cannot think without involving Capitalism in their ideas.

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The Swiss privacy regulator Privatim has taken steps to ban Microsoft, Amazon, and Google’s American cloud services for government agencies. Data storage within Switzerland offers no protection against American laws, Privatim argues.

Kyodo News on Monday sent a letter of protest to Perplexity AI Inc., accusing the U.S. startup of using its articles without permission to provide online responses generated by artificial intelligence for its web search engine and infringing the Japanese news agency’s copyright.

Revenues from sales of arms and military services by the 100 largest arms-producing companies rose by 5.9 per cent in 2024, reaching a record $679 billion, according to new data released today by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

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At least 80 million (3.3%) of Wikipedia’s facts are inconsistent, LLMs may help finding them

At least 80 million (3.3%) of Wikipedia’s facts are inconsistent, LLMs may help finding them

For one month beginning on October 5, I ran an experiment: Every day, I asked ChatGPT 5 (more precisely, its “Extended Thinking” version) to find an error in “Today’s featured article”. In 28 of these 31 featured articles (90%), ChatGPT identified what I considered a valid error, often several. I have so far corrected 35 such errors.

For one month beginning on October 5, I ran an experiment: Every day, I asked ChatGPT 5 (more precisely, its “Extended Thinking” version) to find an error in “Today’s featured article”. In 28 of these 31 featured articles (90%), ChatGPT identified what I considered a valid error, often several. I have so far corrected 35 such errors.

Related: "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein …"

Related: "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein …"

The White House has launched a tracker designed to call out “media offenders” every week. The site labels every story the Trump administration objects to by classifying them into categories like “lie” or “bias.”

Dozens of masked federal agents were gathered inside a parking lot when a group of protesters got word of their presence. The NYPD helped clear a path for the agents to leave the area.

In my search for good keyboard that support AMOLED mode, I found out about FlorisBoard which looks perfect to me. It even supports Halmak Keyboard Layout, which I didn’t expect to find at any Android Keyboard.

I posted a related question before, about what will happen if people forget how to have conversations.

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Bridges are one of the reasons Matrix is called Matrix: let’s matrix all the networks together! They are key to onboard new users into the network. However, maintaining and operating bridges, in particular to closed, proprietary platforms, is expensive: they need to be kept up to date with any change made by the platform on a regular basis and they’re fiddly to keep up and running.

Can Dutch higher education part ways with Microsoft? The sector is trying to break free, and alternatives are being explored here and there. At the same time, more and more tasks are being completed by Microsoft tools.

Crimes Against Hugh’s Manatees for 11/23/2025.