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Another day another study showing that "AI assistants" do not work reliably for cognitive tasks.
"Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/202…

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

🧲 We tested if a specialized magnetic powder could remove microplastics from drinking water: The answer is yes
https://theconversation.com/we-tested-if-a-specialised-magnetic-powder-could-remove-mi…

We tested if a specialised magnetic powder could remove microplastics from drinking water: the answer is yes
Researchers developed a new method to remove microplastics from water.

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Küchen-Mythos: Holzschneidbretter sind unhygienisch
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I post a lot here Maker Forums Discourse, and have kind of not gotten around to blogging for a while. But today I had time to reflect on my first full year of #HamRadio — this new hobby has surprised me in a lot of (good) ways.

»The research, based on a survey of 1,150 workers, is the latest analysis to suggest that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in some magic productivity boom and instead has just increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.”«
Read in the most recent @… newsletter. The researc…

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appears polished but lacks real substance, offloading cognitive labor onto coworkers. Research from BetterUp Labs and Stanford found that 41% of workers have encountered such AI-generated output, costing nearly two hours of rework per instance and creating downstream productivity, trust, and colla…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalMixtape
- Classical balm for the soul
Uplifting choral music opens and closes this evocative Classical Mixtape from BBC Radio 3.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mcrb

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Today, she fell inside our tent, and her foot got injured again – it’s swollen and bruised badly…

Help Bara'a and her elderly parents in Gaza
My name is Bara'a El-Mughraby. Me and my older brother are the sole breadwinners for my family of five in Al-Shati refugee camp in North Gaza. Me, my elderly parents, my sister and my brother. For months, we have endured the unimaginable and did everything we can to survive, but now our situation worsened a lot and has become a matter of life or death. The constant bombardment and the recent evacuation orders from the IDF mean we have to leave our home—but we don't have the capabilities nor t…

[OT] Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/new-ebu-research-ai-assistants-news-content "Gemini performed worst"

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalLive
- Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique
String quartet music specially recorded at the East Neuk Festival in Scotland plus violinist Augustin Hadelich playing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in Germany.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002kr5b

👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„#Holzschneidbretter sind unhygienisch“.
Schonmal gehört? Warum das ein Mythos ist und wieso

Küchen-Mythos: Holzschneidbretter sind unhygienisch
Holzschneidbretter sind hygienisch und frei von Mikroplastik. Tipps zur richtigen Reinigung und Lagerung.