Blade Runner 2099, the upcoming Amazon Prime Video television sequel to the 1982 and 2017 films of the same franchise, has started shooting in Prague

LLM evaluation is a minefield, and it turns out that agent evaluation has a bunch of additional pitfalls

The Argentinian’s afterlife – a horror story of allegations and legal wrangles – has taken another turn

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Conspiracy, monetisation and weirdness: this is why social media has become ungovernable

Those born after 1995, argues Jonathan Haidt in his new book, were the first people in history to go through puberty with a portal to an alternative universe in their pockets – and the toll this has taken on their wellbeing has been devastating

The number of people living with or dying from disorders of the nervous system has risen dramatically over the past three decades, with 43% of the world’s population – 3.4 billion people – affected in 2021

A big leak of data from a Chinese cybersecurity firm has revealed state security agents paying tens of thousands of pounds to harvest data on targets, including foreign governments, while hackers hoover up huge amounts of information on any person or institution who might be of interest to their prospective clients

"let it crash". The core idea behind it has to do with the fact that modern applications have a huge number of states that they can find themselves in. The more complex your application is, the more variables you need to keep track of everything. Eventually it becomes impossible for developers to predict all combinations of state that these variables will form. Once your app gets into an undesirable state, the best thing you can do is to reset it and start from a fresh, well known and correct state

The authors explored two mindsets that employees are likely to adopt when faced with challenges at work:

Humanistic mindset: an empathetic, person-centric approach that focuses on each coworker’s self-worth and dignity.

Mechanistic mindset: an efficient, task-focused approach that focuses on utilitarian cost-benefit comparisons.

“The mindset adopted by employees has implications on whether they interact with others in a civil or uncivil manner,”

Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find

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Traffic referrals to the top global news sites from Meta's Facebook and X, formerly Twitter, has collapsed over the past year, according to data from Similarweb

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China has been accused of masking the true impact of the pandemic and underreporting the number of fatalities

Ukraine war has stoked global food crisis that could last years, says UN

The vaccine empire has collapsed