Climate crisis deepens with 2024 ‘certain’ to be hottest year on record

Average global temperature in November was 1.62C above preindustrial levels, bringing average for the year to 1.60C

McKinsey paid $1.6m to ‘guide’ Australian climate policy despite working for fossil fuel companies

“Brain rot” has been announced as the Oxford word of the year for 2024, amid concerns over endless social media scrolling and mind-numbing content

WTF.

Canada’s major news organizations have sued tech firm OpenAI for potentially billions of dollars, alleging the company is “strip-mining journalism” and unjustly enriching itself by using news articles to train its popular ChatGPT software

Merkel, who in her new memoir raises fears for the western democratic order with Donald Trump as US president, has also expressed deep concerns about the outsized role to be played in Trump’s administration by Elon Musk

Einer der besten Fußballer aller Zeiten und niemand will ihm helfen seit Jahren

Vor 20 Jahren noch ein Grund für's Krankenhaus, heute und spätestens seit der Pandemie plötzlich ein Teil des "Lifestyle"

FTX sues Binance and its former CEO for $1.8bn

Collapsed cryptocurrency company says $1.8bn was ‘fraudulently transferred’ to Binance and its executives

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

Let us start with how odd it is to be imposing bans on the most popular and effective aid for quitting smoking that we currently have

nstalling Stable Diffusion 3.5 Locally: Step-by-Step Guide for Creating Stunning AI Art on Your own Machine

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

Report finds ‘shocking and dispiriting’ fall in children reading for pleasure

National Literacy Trust finds only 35% of eight to 18-year-olds enjoy reading in their spare time

we’ve found that Kubernetes is not the right choice for building development environments

haha, heute Retro

What at McDonald's??

For almost 40 years the Joides Resolution drilled into the ocean floor to collect samples and data that helped scientists to study Earth’s history and structure

Reeves, who qualified 31st out of the 35 cars, ran as high as 21st and successfully avoided a first lap crash in turn 14. Reeves finished 25th

Frustration over lack of discounts for those with extra financial burden because they face living costs alone