Satoshi Trial (COPA v Wright): COPA had Craig Wright on the stand for 7 days—and did nothing with it
A typical Alasdair MacIntyre insight is simple, surprising and – when you come to think about it – completely true... more »
Can OpenAI create superintelligence before it runs out of cash? FT
Asking GPT for the Ordinary Meaning of Statutory Terms (PDF) University of Chicago Law School
Airbnb sees AI as its ticket to become a sprawling Big Tech giant The Register
Airbnb host sent guest’s wife image of him with another woman in scheme to extort him: lawsuitFOX
Alexander Smirnov falsely reported in June 2020 that executives associated with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma paid Hunter and Joe Biden $US5 million ($7.67 million) each in 2015 or 2016, prosecutors said. An executive claimed to have hired Hunter Biden to “protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems,” prosecutors said.
Smirnov in fact had only routine business dealings with the company in 2017 and made the bribery allegations after he “expressed bias” against Joe Biden, who was then a presidential candidate, prosecutors said in court documents.
FBI informant charged with lying about Joe and Hunter Biden's ties to Ukrainian energy company
The unsettling scourge of obituary spam
The Verge: “…“Obituary scraping” is a common practice that affects not just celebrities and public figures, but also average, private individuals. Funeral homes have been dealing with obituary aggregator sites for at least 15 years, says Courtney Gould Miller, chief strategy officer at MKJ Marketing, which specializes in marketing funeral services. The sites trawl news articles and local funeral home websites, looking for initial death announcements that have basic details like name, age, and where a service might be held. They then scrape and republish the content at scale, using templated formats or, increasingly, AI tools. Legacy.com is the biggest, most established version of aggregators — but countless smaller, sketchier websites pop up continuously. Some of these sites contain inaccurate information, like the date or location of a memorial service. Others collect orders for flowers or gifts that don’t arrive in time, frustrating family and friends and causing headaches for local funeral homes, Gould Miller says. Aggregation sites regularly outrank the actual funeral homes that have a relationship with grieving families…”
