This used to be a witty title but some pro-censorship arse complained so here we are (www.theguardian.com)
No more cordon blur: France prepares to ban vegetarian products from using meaty language
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No more cordon blur: France prepares to ban vegetarian products from using meaty language
Triumph Herald/Amateur Photographer.
I was watching an old episode of Have I Got News For You and a David Cameron promotional site was mentioned so I checked it out. His people must have let the domain name expire as it’s now a spam blog called David Cameron Journalism....
In this week’s episode of 'Allo 'Allo!, Thib explains all about bridges.
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Today marks the first day of the Report Stage of the Online Safety Bill. As this Bill progresses through the Houses of Parliament, we hope to (once again) raise the alarm around the risks to encryption posed by this Bill.
Russian moon landings, week long traffic jams, a workforce replaced by automation and above all, too much leisure time!...
I’ve just watched Yusuf/Cat Stevens at Glastonbury and impressed by how many people of all ages know the lyrics to songs he wrote half a century ago. Example: when he started singing Father and Son the crowd had joined in before he’d reached the end of the first word....
The James Webb Space Telescope has observed Saturn for the first time, completing a family portrait of the Solar System’s ringed planets nearly a year after the mission’s first jaw-dropping image release.
That moment when you are walking down the street and you accidentally tread in a steaming pile of irony.
The protest has never ended. We have been trying to communicate with Reddit admins, who seemed at first to be willing to talk to us, but we are only getting the silent treatment and threats to reopen the subreddit.
There is huge excitement about ChatGPT and other large generative language models that produce fluent and human-like texts in English and other human languages. But these models have one big drawback, which is that their texts can be factually incorrect (hallucination) and also leave out key information (omission)....
Apple has joined the rapidly growing chorus of tech organizations calling on British lawmakers to revise the nation’s Online Safety Bill – which for now is in the hands of the House of Lords – so that it safeguards strong end-to-end encryption.
We were already proud to announce that the national agency for the digitalisation of the healthcare system in Germany (gematik) had selected Matrix as the open standard on which to base all its interoperable instant messaging standard, back in 2021....
Dolly Parton, Britney Spears and Taylor Swift tribute acts were among protesters outside Meta’s London HQ after having Facebook and Instagram profiles deleted because of rules banning people from impersonating others.
The GSM Association (GSMA) and a dozen carriers have announced a plan to make a modest dent in the number of mobile phones that languish, unused, unloved, and unrecycled....
Vanilla, a 28-year-old chimpanzee, had never been outside of a cage or enclosure. She is one of the surviving chimps from the New York-based Laboratory for Experimental Medicine & Surgery in Primates (LEMSIP). Vanilla and her sister, Shake, have a new island home at Save the Chimps in Fort Pierce, Florida....
But it died :(
The literal judgement is in on using AI to write speeches
A complex system of dunes displays an array of patterns in the Rub’ al Khali sand sea in southeast Saudi Arabia.
I think I just reconnected with VW. Touch screens in cars are probably the worst automotive innovation....
From 2003-8, Gareth Williams was Dean of Medicine at the University of Bristol, where he still teaches on the Medical Humanities and Medical courses.