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"Take down bird feeders this summer to cut spread of avian disease, says RSPB"
#Birds #Animals #BirdFeeders

National Today, a site that mimics news outlets and includes subdomains for dozens of US cities, appears to use AI to plagiarize articles from multiple sources (Maggie Harrison Dupré/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/national-today-ai-plagiari…

A Prominent PR Firm Is Running a Fake News Site That’s Plagiarizing Original Journalism at Incredible Scale
A PR firm is running a strange AI-fueled plagiarism mill that's ripping off — and mangling — a huge amount of local and national reporting.

Nvidia unveils DLSS 5, which uses a real-time neural rendering model to add photorealistic lighting to game frames, arriving this fall to RTX 50-series GPUs (Richard Leadbetter/Digital Foundry)
https://www.digitalfoundry.net/features/nv

Nvidia's new DLSS 5 Brings Photo-Realistic Lighting To RTX 50-Series
A massive technological leap for graphics - and we've been hands-on with four games.

EU Parliament blocks AI tools over cyber, privacy fears. Members should avoid exposing work emails, documents or internal information “to AI features that scan or analyze content,” be “cautious” with third-party AI apps and “avoid granting broad access to data”: https://www.politico.eu…

EU Parliament blocks AI tools over cyber, privacy fears
AI features on EU devices sent data to cloud, prompting the Parliament’s IT support to switch them off.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Future Islands:
🎵 Find Love
#FutureIslands
https://futureislands.bandcamp.com/track/find-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/6ZbcDWGCVngCgSV8v0Q9gz

8 Quick Actions to Take for Horses #AnimalRights

8 Quick Actions to Take for Horses - PETA UK
Right now, horses are being exploited all over the world for tourism, entertainment, drug manufacturing, and their flesh – here’s how you can help.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116083589029041168
Update: Microsoft has removed this abomination, yet the site it was on is still full of bullshit, inaccuracies and half-truths.
For example, they claim that commits and branches are GitHub features, not git features.

Sources: Microsoft sidelined some Copilot-branded AI features on Windows 11 after the Recall delay, and shipped some promised features without the Copilot name (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.

Microsoft pulls back on bringing Copilot to Windows 11 notifications
Microsoft's plan to integrate Copilot across the Windows 11 shell has been shelved as the company reevaluates its AI approach across the OS.

5 Actions of the Month to Help End Speciesism #AnimalRights

Canva unveils Canva AI 2.0, which can generate editable layered designs from conversational prompts using Canva's foundation model built specifically for design (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20