A German court rules that Google is directly liable for what AI Overviews say after AI Overviews falsely tied two publishers to shady business practices (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/landmark-germa
A German court rules that Google is directly liable for what AI Overviews say after AI Overviews falsely tied two publishers to shady business practices (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/landmark-germa
Republicans in the Georgia State Legislature, facing mounting anger from Black leaders,
scuttled plans to take up redistricting on Wednesday during a special session that had been called expressly to erase U.S. House seats in majority-Black districts.
Gov. Brian Kemp called the session to draw legislative maps before the 2028 election with the aim of creating boundaries more favorable to Republicans.
Georgia was to be the latest Southern state to consider redistricting afte…
Die Öffnung der Straße von Hormuz (II) https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10405
"I took the German or Autistic diagnostic. Results: probably autistic. Wittgenstein would have gotten the same result."
Also I'm fucking angry that the test said it would take 2 minutes, when it took me 12!
https://german.millermanschool.com/
Reddit has an interesting new multilingual culture. People will post something in, say, German and folks will answer in English. Or you'll see a Portuguese answer to an English post. No one comments on this language swapping, for most users it seems entirely seamless? Not sure.
I assume they hooked up a machine translator and there's some automatic mode I don't have myself. What's neat is this all works without anyone really thinking about it. It's the first time I've seen a pan-linguistic social media system.
I expect this is the first of many such rulings across the globe...
https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answ…
Fox News claims it’s entertainment not news.
“Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers”
https://the-decoder.com/landmark-germa
Fossil fuel supply crisis?
Germany's Economy Minister Reiche, speaking at a US oil and gas conference, has the answer:
Keep using more fossil fuels longer!
https://www.politico.eu/article/german-energy-minister-kather…