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Can an AI-Generated Film Win an Oscar? The Academy Just Drew the Line

Can an AI-Generated Film Win an Oscar? The Academy Just Drew the Line

The 99th Oscars rules ban AI actors and AI-written scripts, but the definition of authorship they landed on is closer to how working indie AI filmmakers already operate than anyone in Hollywood seems to realize. In January, I filled out a…

Netflix edges past the BBC as UK viewers’ first choice

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Netflix edges past the BBC as UK viewers’ first choice

For the first time, a streaming service has overtaken the BBC as the place UK viewers say they turn to first. In Ofcom’s annual Media Nations report, published this week, Netflix was named first choice by 26% of viewers, just ahead of the…

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Philippine Daily Inquirer

Palace rejects Alan Cayetano's ‘political prisoners’ description

Philippine Daily Inquirer

Palace rejects Alan Cayetano's ‘political prisoners’ description

MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang on Wednesday rejected Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano’s description of jailed politicians Rodante Marcoleta, Jinggoy Estrada, and Mike Defensor as “political prisoners,” emphasizing the independence of the…

Stop Building AI Chatbots. Start Building AI Workers.

Stop Building AI Chatbots. Start Building AI Workers.

Take a look around any organisation today. There's probably a chatbot answering the same customer question "What's your return policy?" A hundred times a month. At the same time, somewhere else in the business, employees are still manually…

Fact Check: AI-Generated Image Falsely Shows Nepal Army Pointing Guns at Sunsari Protesters From Two Meters Away

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Fact Check: AI-Generated Image Falsely Shows Nepal Army Pointing Guns at Sunsari Protesters From Two Meters Away

Kathmandu. A photo claiming to show the Nepal Army pointing weapons at protesters from just two meters away during the recent protests in Sunsari has been widely shared on Facebook over the past few days. The image was also posted by…

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The Hidden Cost of Postgres Constraints at Scale

The Hidden Cost of Postgres Constraints at Scale

Your ingest workers are queuing. pg_stat_activity shows lock waits. The blocked query is not a slow SELECT. It's your bulk INSERT, waiting on the devices table. You added a FOREIGN KEY there months ago. You added a UNIQUE constraint on the…

China should lean into its defining AI advantage – accessibility

South China Morning Post

China should lean into its defining AI advantage – accessibility

China’s emerging advantage in artificial intelligence (AI) is not that it already has the world’s best chips or strongest frontier models. It is that Chinese companies are increasingly providing capable intelligence at a price the global…

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Live: Last medals in the pool to be won, Diamonds face tough match-up

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Live: Last medals in the pool to be won, Diamonds face tough match-up

The Diamonds have perhaps their toughest match-up of the group stage against South Africa and Sam Short completes his packed schedule with the men's 200m and 1,500m freestyle finals on the same night. Follow live.

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Valve says Steam Machine reservation-holders aren't being leapfrogged

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Valve says Steam Machine reservation-holders aren't being leapfrogged

Valve says that no one on its Steam Machine waitlist is leapfrogging over anyone currently holding a reservation.

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Drone footage shows Mount Etna cable car above volcanic landscape

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Drone footage shows Mount Etna cable car above volcanic landscape

Sicily's Etna cable car carries visitors up Europe's active volcano while engineers manage risks from eruptions, gases and harsh conditions.

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From Python Script Hell to a Modern Data Integration Framework

From Python Script Hell to a Modern Data Integration Framework

Every Data Team Eventually Ends Up with a Collection of Python Scripts Almost every enterprise data platform follows a similar evolution. At the beginning of a project, data ingestion requirements are usually straightforward. Business…

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