Rodri suffers brutal Wikipedia takedown as Scotland tantrum leaves Spaniard 'crying into his haggis bon bons' The experienced midfielder has been hammered in the wake of the petulant interview comments. Daily Record · Mar 30, 2023
This is Wikipedia’s new audio logo, which is designed to be ‘The Sound of All Human Knowledge’ Sonic stamp was created by a competition winner and features book pages turning, keyboard clicks and a synth chime MusicRadar · Mar 30, 2023
Will Wikipedia be written by AI? Founder Jimmy Wales is thinking about it By now, even those of us who live under a rock have become familiar with ChatGPT, the AI-powered chatbot that can find us the answer to almost every question under the sun. It seems to be able to effortlessly write reports, compose letters or even poetry — for any subject… Evening Standard · Mar 30, 2023
Wikipedia's new sound logo had a seriously ambitious design brief The 'sound of all human knowledge' is surprisingly chirpy. Creative Bloq · Mar 30, 2023
'QBism': quantum mechanics is not a description of objective reality – it reveals a world of genuine free will What does quantum mechanics, the most successful theory ever proposed by physics, teach us about reality? The starting point for most philosophers of physics is that quantum mechanics must somehow provide a description of the world as it is independently of us, the users of the theory. The Conversation · Mar 29, 2023
Man Arrested in St. Petersburg for Holding Up Sign of a Cartoon Character's Tag Line, "Let's All Get Along!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_sMeR8hBmw There's a lovely and popular Russian cartoon series called Kot Leopold, which means Leopold the Cat. To quote the accurate Wikipedia summary, Leopold the Cat (Russian: Кот Леопольд, Kot Leopold) is a Soviet/Russian animated short film series about a good-natured and prudent cat, Leopold. Leopold always wears a bow… Reason · Mar 23, 2023
Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’ The godfather of virtual reality has worked beside the web’s visionaries and power-brokers – but likes nothing more than to show the flaws of technology. He discusses how we can make AI work for us, how the internet takes away choice – and why he would ban TikTok The Guardian - UK · Mar 23, 2023
Shou Chew: How a Facebook intern became the boss of TikTok Despite his being head of the world’s most popular app, the enigmatic CEO’s Wikipedia page is just six sentences long The Independent UK · Mar 22, 2023
Is Wikipedia a good source? 2 college librarians explain when to use the online encyclopedia – and when to avoid it What comes to mind when you think of Wikipedia? The Conversation · Mar 20, 2023
GPT-4 shouldn’t worry anybody – we just need to be better Text generators have been around for years, but they’ve finally gotten good. Where previous iterations required a heavy edit, the latest version of ChatGPT from OpenAI writes with better grammar than I – sorry, me. But both chatbots and generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools like the newly launched GPT-4 also… IT Pro · Mar 18, 2023
Evolution not revolution: why GPT-4 is notable, but not groundbreaking OpenAI, the artificial intelligence (AI) research company behind ChatGPT and the DALL-E 2 art generator, has unveiled the highly anticipated GPT-4 model. Excitingly, the company also made it immediately available to the public through a paid service. The Conversation · Mar 16, 2023
Norena Shopland: The woman who has dedicated her life to uncovering Wales' LGBTQ+ history Norena Shopland is a leading historian specialising in LGBTQ+ history, but she said women were often forgotten in texts on the past Wales Online · Mar 8, 2023
Mary Wollstonecraft: an introduction to the mother of first-wave feminism Mary Wollstonecraft has had something of a revival in recent years. The Conversation · Mar 7, 2023
Majority of Wikipedia editors are still men - so how is the online encyclopaedia addressing the issue? The decade-long mission to broaden participation on the site has yielded results - but Alys Key examines why progress is still slow. Evening Standard · Mar 7, 2023
The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2023 ‘The internet’s sewer’: why Turkey blocked its most popular social site Chaotic free speech on Ekşi Sözlük finally proved too much after devastating earthquakes hit country
Glasgow Live · Feb 28, 2023 The humble Glasgow building that was named as Wikipedia's one millionth article We've always known Glasgow's a one-in-a-million kind of place, but it was nice to see this confirmed when Wikipedia announced its one millionth article way back in 2006.
The Times of India · Feb 21, 2023 'Sockpuppets' created puffery about Adani, says Wikipedia NEW DELHI: For more than a decade, sockpuppets - some of them being company employees - created 'puffery' around tycoon Gautam Adani, his family and the apples-to-airport group he helmed by adding non-neutral material and removing warnings from information on Wikipedia, the free internet-based encyclopedia has alleged.
The National (Scotland) · Feb 11, 2023 Matty Healy under fire for podcast mocking Scots language and Japanese people THE 1975 singer Matty Healy has provoked backlash from fans after a number of inflammatory remarks were made during a recent podcast.
Evening Standard · Feb 8, 2023 Seven times ChatGPT has been accidentally or genuinely funny From dissing Google, to being unsure if a man who died in 1956 is still alive — the AI bot has been unwittingly entertaining
Tribune News Service · Feb 7, 2023 Tyler Cowen: How should you talk to ChatGPT? A user’s guide About 100 million people used ChatGPT in the month of January, according to one estimate, which would be the fastest-growing user base ever. Yet I often speak to people who are less than impressed with ChatGPT, citing its mistakes and banalities, and they suggest it is a passing fad.
The Independent UK · Feb 6, 2023 Pakistan blocks Wikipedia, says it hurt Muslim sentiments A spokesperson for Pakistan’s media regulator says it has blocked Wikipedia for hurting Muslim sentiment by not removing allegedly blasphemous content
The Guardian - UK · Feb 4, 2023 It’s so easy to cheat with technology that even judges are doing it Everyone uses Wikipedia, but should it really be affecting what happens in court?
Bangkok Post · Feb 4, 2023 Pakistan blocks Wikipedia over ‘blasphemous content’ Wikipedia was blocked in Pakistan on Saturday after authorities censored the website for hosting “blasphemous content” in the latest blow to digital rights in the deeply conservative country.
Al Jazeera · Feb 4, 2023 Pakistan blocks Wikipedia citing ‘sacrilegious’ content Regulator says the website had until late Friday to heed its warning about ‘sacrilegious content’.
The Times of India · Feb 2, 2023 Wikipedia ordered to remove ‘blasphemous’ content in Pakistan ISLAMABAD: Wikipedia will be blocked in Muslim-majority Pakistan if the platform fails to take down content deemed to be sacrilegious within 48 hours, the country’s telecoms regulator said.