https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/cloudflare-outage-is-a-reminder-of-our-over-dependence-on-small-number-of-tech-giants The ownership of internet servers has become dangerously concentrated in the hands of a few hosting companies. Anything that takes one of them down causes a wide disaster.
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AI-Powered Teddy Bear Caught Talking About Sexual Fetishes and Instructing Kids How to Find Knives
OpenAI blocked access for the toymaker following the incidents.
Who Does That Server Really Serve? - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
 A teddy bear toy that provided a voice inerface to ChatGPT gave advice about sex and about finding knives. Clearly it did not think about the meaning and implications of its output for its likely audience. This reminds us that ChatGPT is not intelligent. The reaction to this by "Open" "AI"
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the Guardian
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George M...
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Once a global leader on climate action, the EU has given in to the right’s green-bashing | Nathalie Tocci
From deforestation to emissions trading, vital policies are being watered down in the name of ‘competitiveness’, says Guardian Europe columnist...
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Pushing airport expansion while rail travel languishes – so much for Labour’s green agenda | Polly Toynbee
The climate damage done by avoidable flying is huge, yet the government continues to see planes as the answer to its economic woes, says Guardian c...
 George Monbiot: *Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage.* *Once a global leader on climate action, the EU has given in to the right’s
the Guardian
Israel breaching international law by limiting Gaza aid, says Unrwa official
Natalie Boucly says supplies are ready but only about half of what is needed is getting into territory
 *Israel is breaching international law by continuing to impose restrictions on aid flows into Gaza, where the population remains critically short of food and life-saving goods as winter sets in,* according to UNRWA.
the Guardian
Icelandic is in danger of dying out because of AI and English-language media, says former PM
Katrín Jakobsdóttir and her co-author want the 350,000 people who speak the language to fight for its future
 A warning that Icelandic could be forgotten and lost in just one generation, because the unwise tendency to use bullshit generators is leading Icelanders to read English instead.