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Border Guard: Bodies of 2 men pulled out of Tysa River: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/28/border-guard-bodies.html

BDG's SVP of marketing details changes amid referral traffic declines, including prioritizing quality, focusing on Instagram and TikTok, and staging events (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/bdg-publishe…

BDG publishes fewer stories amid referral traffic declines, focuses on events to grow and monetize audiences
BDG has streamlined its editorial strategy, publishing fewer articles and focusing on live events to grow and monetize an audience amid referral traffic declines.

ASBOs of the sea https://newatlas.com/biology/orcas-killer-whales-boats/
“The report reveals that a combination of free time, curiosity and natural playfulness has led to young orcas adopting this 'trend' of boat-bumping, which is not at all surprising f…

Orcas are still smashing up boats – and we've finally worked out why
For four years now, orcas have been ramming and sinking luxury yachts in European waters, and scientists have struggled to work out just why these smart, social animals had learnt this destructive new trick. But, sadly, it's not their anticapitalist 'eat the rich' agenda, nor is it to do with…

Analysis: in the past two years, Amazon committed to spending $148B over 15 years on data centers, including in Mississippi, Saudi Arabia, and Malaysia (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024…

Amazon Bets $150 Billion on Data Centers Required for AI Boom
Spending spree is a show of force as the company looks to retain cloud computing edge over Microsoft and Google.

Reddit versus OpenAI bodes well for content owners
Scraping web data is an easy way to train AI models, but content owners object to the practice. With no legislative end in sight, Reddit's deal with OpenAI marks a way forward, says Travers Smith's James Longster. (free reg)
(It may bode less well for the Reddit users who actually provided the content in the first place of course..)

Reddit versus OpenAI bodes well for content owners
Scraping web data is an easy way to train AI models, but content owners object to the practice. With no legislative end in sight, Reddit's deal with OpenAI marks a way forward, says Travers Smith's James Longster.

Discord Shuts Down ‘Spy Pet’ Bots That Scraped, Sold User Messages
https://www.404media.co/discord-shuts-down-spy-pet-bots-that-scraped-sold-user-messages/

PM: First batch of shells under Czech-led initiative may arrive in Ukraine 'in coming days': https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/28/pm-first-batch.html

2023 retro-link! https://without.boats/blog/the-registers-of-rust/ - The linguistic registers of Rust.