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On 9/11 Services Australia CEO Rebecca Skinner has issued an apology for data lake robodebt
Services Australia chief executive Rebecca Skinner to leave
Robodebt Royal Commission reference of note 📝
As reported from Como, Some data lakes are murkier than others
Dust: how the pursuit of power and profit has turned the world to powder Nature. The lone and level sands stretch far away….
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Wildlife and the inescapable impact of road noise High Country News
Some of the ways Big Tech companies are feeding your personal data to AI feels like a privacy violation — or even theft – It’s your Gmail. It’s also Google’s artificial intelligence factory. Unless you turn it off, Google uses your Gmail to train an AI to finish other people’s sentences. It does that by gobbling up your words so it can spot patterns in them. And if you use a new “experimental” Gmail function called Duet AI, Google uses what you type to make it a better writing coach, too. You can’t say no. Your email is just the start. Meta, owner of Facebook, took a billion Instagram posts from public accounts to train an AI, and didn’t ask permission. Microsoft uses your chats with Bing to coach the AI bot to better answer questions, and you can’t stop it. Increasingly, tech companies are taking your conversations, photos and documents to teach their AI how to write, paint and pretend to be human. You might be accustomed to them using your data to target you with ads. But now they’re using it to create lucrative new technologies that could upend the economy — and make Big Tech even bigger…”
Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, world’s youngest river basin, might be first one gone VN Express
Remembering Doug Lenat (1950–2023) and His Quest to Capture the World with Logic Stephan Wolfram
Company pulls spicy chip challenge with teen’s death under investigation The Hill
Smuggler or Rescuer? London Review of Books
STEERING WITH SOPHOCLES Antigone
The Subtlety of J.R.R. Tolkien New York Times Forgive all the NYT links, but they just had a good run of lighter fare
Stalin’s Gamble: The Search for Allies against Hitler, 1930–1936 The Postil. Anthony L: “For the history buffs and for a better understanding of today.”