More than 100 UK datacentres plan to burn gas to generate electricity | Gas
More than 100 new datacentres in the UK plan to burn gas to generate electricity, some potentially doing so permanently….
The Guardian view on policing the internet: Ofcom must push harder on illegal content | Editorial
The £950,000 fine imposed by Ofcom on a US-based suicide forum that is implicated in over 160 UK deaths marks…
Rowing through the fog: how to increase your tolerance for uncertainty | Well actually
Simone Stolzoff describes himself as “naturally an uncertain person” inclined to rumination and self-doubt. This tendency benefits him in his…
‘Nobody’s negotiating for the people here’: comedian Charlie Berens takes on AI datacenters | US news
Last summer, journalist turned comedian Charlie Berens started getting social media messages from concerned Wisconsin residents about plans for a…
Tech founders use AI-generated images to poke fun at Anthony Albanese in protest against tax changes | Tax
Tech entrepreneurs have mocked the government’s capital gains tax changes by posting AI-generated photos of Anthony Albanese as their “new…
John Lennon: The Last Interview review – Soderbergh imagines there’s no people with bland AI clipshow | Cannes film festival
Coming just after his superb feature The Christophers, Steven Soderbergh has now made a surprisingly moderate documentary, dominated and frankly…
What we learned from the cringey courtroom drama between Elon Musk and Sam Altman | California
A nine-person jury is set to decide whether Elon Musk’s allegations of “stealing a charity” against Sam Altman and OpenAI…
Pity the poor AI datacenters facing ‘discrimination’ | Arwa Mahdawi
Back in 2016, Marco Gutiérrez, the Mexican-born founder of Latinos for Trump, issued an ominous warning to the US. “My…
Richard Dawkins and the question of AI consciousness | AI (artificial intelligence)
I was delighted to read Dr Simon Nieder’s cogent rebuttal of Richard Dawkins’s attribution of consciousness to the responses engendered…
‘I didn’t want to be the guinea pig’: inside tech’s AI-fueled manager purge | AI (artificial intelligence)
As tech companies pour billions into artificial intelligence bets and slash their workforces, middle managers are squarely in the crosshairs….