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The head of Teleperformance SE says that Indian accents are “difficult to understand”. www.dailymotion.com/video/x7sr3t

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If you’re a fan of superheroes randomly getting new powers halfway through a movie: watch out for the scene in Captain America: BNW where Cap inexplicably gains the power to negotiate plea deals.

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A level of soft power that Britain has had for a long time: how many African independence leaders studied in Britain? Nyerere, Kenyatta, Nkrumah.. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Through necessity at work, been dealing with a travel agent all week; dear God, trying to explain what you want with words is so much harder than a well-designed website. Of course, if anything goes wrong, I’ll be glad to have someone at the end of the phone. But I want a human for that.

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This story on the impact of quantum computing on cryptography reads like Good News to me: a future problem was spotted; clever people came up with a solution in good time (except for maybe a handful of edge-cases). www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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As we see once-unstoppable franchises fizzle out, Bond was truly remarkable run of form. I don’t see that continuing under Amazon, to be honest. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...

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It’s unprecedented because so much of it MAKES NO GODDAMN SENSE.

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The world might be in a deeply pessimistic place, but there are people trying to make it better. How awesome would a norovirus vaccine be?

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I know things aren't great now, but wait until it's done by AI... www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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There’s a parallel universe when AI didn’t become big when it did, and so Meta was stuck talking about the metaverse. They’d be in serious trouble.

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On the plus side, the avatars now have legs! On the down side, I really wish they didn't.

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It’s a little on-the-beak.

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It is always said that you can't put a price on love, yet that is exactly what happens when people want to marry someone not born in the UK. This #ValentinesDay we are calling on this government to scrap the Minimum Income Requirement and let people be with their loved ones.

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A BBC news story is a clearly structured piece of writing; it will have a clarity, and won't contain any tricky things like irony or insinuation. So if an AI has trouble summarising a BBC news report, it's not going to be able to manage anything else.

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What gets me is how pointless this whole thing is. Best case scenario: the end result would be a similar number to now with government-issued ID (passports and driving licenses at the moment). Those without access to ID at the moment will be the people who have difficulty getting an ID card.

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Lord, we see what you’ve done for dinosaurs and we are ready to receive.

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They have top men working on it right now.

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I don’t think Gordon Brown gets enough credit for this political master stroke: he was famous for his Golden Rule (of not borrowing for day-to-day spending over the economic cycle). But when the financial crisis hit, how to justify that apparently flying out the window? 1

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Fascinating article on accountancy - wait! It really is! - and how it’s alleged “objectivity” played out in nationalisations in Tanzania, Chile. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

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It's also based on the idea that the only way that people contribute to this country is through earning a high salary. A brutal view of the world.

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Politicizing foreign intelligence is what ended us with the invasion of Iraq. This does not bode well.

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Meanwhile, I’m saddened by the death of Aga Khan, who I know little about except from the high-quality hospitals and schools he built. Musk has never appreciated the power (soft and otherwise) of philanthropy.

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At last, a Marvel villain able to throw a copper kettle over a pub.

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And anyone who thinks setting up surveillance, data and ID systems for Starmer is a good idea, remember you might be setting them up for Farage.

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A warning for digital government and DPI around the world: so much can be destroyed in a matter of days, with no democratic oversight.

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How he won three elections is now a mystery.

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If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.” The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out

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Sam Altman’s next job could be in cybersecurity

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It used to be such a simple formula: spend more, get more AI. But if AI is much cheaper than we thought, we move on to the far harder issues about AI, like “What is this actually for?”

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The advice from a nonprofit supporting Navajo people is: "As a precaution, your children should memorize your phone number and their (Social Security Number), and everyone should have current, valid documentation on them". They're scared their children could be kidnapped. Terrifying.

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If you spend $500 billion on a tulip bulb, you'd at least get a pretty flower at the end.

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Scammers! Can you please turn down that fake call-centre background noise? None of us are getting any younger and it makes it hard to hear how you’re looking to defraud us. Thanks.

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The test here is a political one. Pilots are not created to scale, they're created to test a hypothesis and generate learning. Stopping them when they fail is good, and good to see this discipline being applied outside of the new "digital centre". Three things though:

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I know that this seems just a worst, less useful and less reliable user interface for doing mundane tasks. But: you forget the frisson of danger of letting ChatGPT loose on the web with your credit card. You asked for a burrito, but who knows what will actually arrive? Exciting!

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So, what happens to all this infrastructure around the world when the AI bubble bursts? Are these giant data centres of any use for other computing tasks, or will they lie empty? What will be the impact on the market of all that extra electricity generation capacity?

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And yet the meaning behind Musk’s straight-armed salute remains a mystery.

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