Author Mia Ballard denies having used AI herself when writing the horror story Shy Girl. Source link
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UK finance firm Hargreaves Lansdown hit by IT failre
Another client of the firm, Gerardo Vece, from Buckinghamshire, told the BBC: “I have oil and gas investments which are leveraged and designed to be held for less than one day, so they are very volatile right now, and I can’t trade them online or over the phone or even access my account.” Source link
Continue readingFacebook offering TikTok and YouTube creators $3,000 to post content
Meta wants creators to “rediscover” Facebook, but a social media expert says viewers will not follow. Source link
Continue readingUS messageboard 4Chan mocks £520,000 fine for UK online safety breaches
The fine includes £450,000 for lack of age checks to prevent children from seeing pornography. Source link
Continue readingAmazon Alexa’s UK personality to change with Echo AI update
“It will be interesting to see how users react to this – we expect this could be polarising, with some enjoying the more relaxed, familiar interactions while others may find it disconcerting,” said Jessica Miller, head of data insights at FDM/CCS Insight. Source link
Continue readingChild seen in sex abuse videos identified after researcher spots school badge
An analyst tells the BBC how she tracked down a victim of child sexual abuse after years of searching. Source link
Continue readingPair win Turing Award for computer encryption breakthrough
It is hoped Charles H Bennett and Gilles Brassard’s work will make digital communications secure for decades ahead. Source link
Continue reading#209 – Simon Pollard on Navigating the New Normal for WordPress Community and Events – WP Tavern
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Continue readingGovernment backtracks on AI and copyright after outcry from major artists
However, the government’s position is now unclear, saying it “no longer has a preferred option” for what to do next. Source link
Continue readingI Don’t Have It All Figured Out. I Show Up Anyway.
Here is Indira reading her own story aloud. My background is in Quality Assurance: testing features, observing behaviour, and making sure things work as expected. For a long time, I believed open source contribution mostly meant writing code. Since I wasn’t a developer, I saw myself more as someone learning from the community than contributing […]
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