The Onion buys conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’

Satirical news outlet purchases media platform run by Alex Jones at a court-ordered auction

which showed a link to wicked.com, instead of wickedmovie.com. The address was printed on boxes for Glinda and Elphaba dolls, the main characters in Wicked, played in the film adaptation by Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo

Extreme weather cost $2tn globally over past decade, report finds

US suffered greatest economic losses, report commissioned by International Chamber of Commerce finds, followed by China and India

So the AI boom of the last 12 years was made possible by three visionaries:
One was Geoffrey Hinton, a University of Toronto computer scientist who spent decades promoting neural networks despite near-universal skepticism.
The second was Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, who recognized early that GPUs could be useful for more than just graphics.
The third was Fei-Fei Li. She created an image dataset that seemed ludicrously large to most of her colleagues. But it turned out to be essential for demonstrating the potential of neural networks trained on GPUs

Google is killing independent websites by burying them in the search results, even when we perfectly follow their guidelines.

Nobody" is sure what is going on, but their search engine started breaking down about 16 months ago

amateur historian has discovered a long-lost short story by Bram Stoker, published just seven years before his legendary gothic novel Dracula.

Brian Cleary stumbled upon the 134-year-old ghostly tale while browsing the archives of the National Library of Ireland

xD

Drug-free nasal spray prevents infection by trapping viruses in the nose

Global leaders are meeting to address the threat posed by antimicrobial resistance – millions will die unless solutions are found

Crazy.

serious??

Repairing the damage to children’s education caused by the pandemic lockdowns and closures will disrupt England’s schools until the mid-2030s, according to a new report

Ist das ein Joke?

word.

xD

Disinformation networks ‘flooded’ X before EU elections, report says

Analysis by Dutch researchers shows coordinated activity in France, Germany and Italy in run-up to ballot

Rainfall is down 40% since 2003 and experts predict a third of Sicily will be desert by 2030

Global spending on nuclear weapons is estimated to have increased by 13% to a record $91.4bn during 2023

Incredible. Was ich an Strom zahle für meine eigene Wohnung, zahlen die hierzulande alleine für Unterhaltung durch Streaming. WTF.

The climate cost of the first two years of Russia’s war on Ukraine was greater than the annual greenhouse gas emissions generated individually by 175 countries