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Twitter Caved to Censorship Requests From Turkey's Authoritarian Government

Plus: Flight attendants report dad as human trafficker, the suburbs are thriving, and more...

Reason

Wikipedia founder blasts Elon Musk for caving to Turkey's censorship demands

Musk admitted he helped remove content from Twitter at the behest of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of Sunday's key elections.

Fortune

Why Does 4K Gaming Require so Much VRAM?

Many games are starting to push well beyond 8GB of VRAM use, particularly at 4K. We discuss what's going on behind the scenes that makes 4K much more demanding on your graphics card.

Tom’s Hardware

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Don't write off AI to solve our doctor shortage

No one wants a robot to tell them they have cancer. But while artificial intelligence shouldn't be trusted for medical advice right now, 2040 might be a different story, writes Nicholas Agar.

Newsroom.co.nz

This one, innocent-looking Google I/O screenshot gives a terrifying glimpse into the future of SEO and online publishing

"Help me write a blog post about fashion in a quirky tone"; is this the start of a new (bloody) revolution?

TechRadar

Delhi court summons BBC and two others in connection to PM Modi’s documentary

Delhi’s Rohini Court on May 3 issued summons to the BBC, Wikipedia and Internet Archives on a defamation suit filed by Bharatiya Janata Party leader Binay Kumar Singh, in relation to its recent documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The Hindu

Someone already changed the Guangdong Tigers’ Wikipedia page to include Dillon Brooks

NBA Twitter is relentless.

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UK readers may lose access to Wikipedia amid online safety bill requirements

Wikimedia UK says it will not carry out age verification if required to do so by the bill

The Guardian - UK

Wikipedia refuses to carry out Online Safety Bill age checks

The free encyclopedia has warned it could be shut down in the UK if it does not comply with the new legislation

Evening Standard

Russian court fines Wikipedia again for article about war in Ukraine

A Russian court on Thursday fined the Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, two million roubles ($24,510) for not deleting what it said was "banned content" related to the Russian military, Interfax reported.

Reuters

From rags and pads to the sanitary apron: a brief history of period products

Period blood: it’s not something many people want to talk about. Taboos around menstruation and menstrual blood have been around for centuries. Even today, despite menstrual blood being featured in contemporary art, this basic part of many women’s identities still isn’t something that can be easily mentioned in public.

The Conversation

Moscow fines Wikipedia owner $18,000 for Ukraine article - TASS

Wikipedia's owner has been fined 1.5 million roubles ($18,400) by a Russian court for failing to delete an article on the conflict in Ukraine, the TASS news agency said on Thursday.

Reuters

Russia not planning Wikipedia block for now, minister says

Russia is "not yet" planning to block Wikipedia, its minister of digital affairs said on Tuesday as a Moscow court handed the online encyclopaedia another fine for failing to remove content Russia deems illegal.

Reuters

Russian court fines Wikipedia for article about Ukraine war

A Moscow court has again fined Wikipedia for not removing a Russian-language article about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

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The Conversation

Venn: the man behind the famous diagrams – and why his work still matters today

April 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of the death of mathematician and philosopher John Venn. You may well be familiar with Venn diagrams – the ubiquitous pictures of typically two or three intersecting circles, illustrating the relationships between two or three collections of things.

The National (Scotland)

Tory MSP schooled after claiming her party is ‘snapping on heels’ of SNP MP

IT seems the Tories are so asleep at the wheel that they can’t even be bothered to do a quick Wikipedia search.

USA Today Sports Media Group

On this day: Lakers-Celtics rivalry born; Hondo’s last home game; Tatum for 53

On this day, the storied rivalry between the Celtics and Lakers was born; it's also the date of Boston legend John Havlicek's last home game, and Jayson Tatum scoring 53 points.

Reuters

Russia continues information crackdown with new Wikimedia fine

The Wikimedia Foundation, owner of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, was fined by a Russian court on Thursday for failing to delete content considered extremist as Moscow pursues a drive to crack down on independent sources of information.

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Evening Standard

OPINION - I am incandescent about plans to strip mine the precious ocean floor

What’s the weirdest thing you’ve stumbled across on the internet recently? Mine is the Wikipedia page about the time Australia declared war on emus. And lost.

Zenger

Jimmy Wales Wonders If AI Could Be Next Editor-In-Chief Of Wikipedia — He Has One Problem Though

It appears tech website CNET might not be the only platform experimenting with OpenAI's ChatGPT and its incredible writing skills

Daily Record

Rodri suffers brutal Wikipedia takedown as Scotland tantrum leaves Spaniard 'crying into his haggis bon bons'

The experienced midfielder has been hammered in the wake of the petulant interview comments.

MusicRadar

This is Wikipedia’s new audio logo, which is designed to be ‘The Sound of All Human Knowledge’

Sonic stamp was created by a competition winner and features book pages turning, keyboard clicks and a synth chime

Evening Standard

Will Wikipedia be written by AI? Founder Jimmy Wales is thinking about it

By now, even those of us who live under a rock have become familiar with ChatGPT, the AI-powered chatbot that can find us the answer to almost every question under the sun. It seems to be able to effortlessly write reports, compose letters or even poetry — for any subject…

Creative Bloq

Wikipedia's new sound logo had a seriously ambitious design brief

The 'sound of all human knowledge' is surprisingly chirpy.

The Conversation

'QBism': quantum mechanics is not a description of objective reality – it reveals a world of genuine free will

What does quantum mechanics, the most successful theory ever proposed by physics, teach us about reality? The starting point for most philosophers of physics is that quantum mechanics must somehow provide a description of the world as it is independently of us, the users of the theory.

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