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Boffins Build Automated Android Bug Hunting System
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Anthropic Agrees To Pay Record $1.5 Billion To Settle Authors' AI Lawsuit
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Scientists Tap 'Secret' Fresh Water Under the Ocean, Raising Hopes For a Thirsty World
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Microsoft 365 Personal is Now Free For US College Students For a Year
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Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris's Water-Based Building Cooling Network
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Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions
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Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms
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Public Strongly Backs Aim of 30% of Land and Sea Set Aside For Nature, Poll Finds
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Geoffrey Hinton: 'AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer'
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Google Hit With $3.45 Billion EU Antitrust Fine Over Adtech Practices
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Slashdot Asks: Can Panasonic Reinvent Itself?
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Google Deletes Net-Zero Pledge From Sustainability Website
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Uber India Starts Offering Drivers Gigs Collecting and Classifying Info For AI Models
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UK Government Trial of M365 Copilot Finds No Clear Productivity Boost
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Amazon's Project Kuiper Strikes Its First Satellite Internet Deal With an Airline
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Error'd: Superfluous U's
In today's Error'd episode, we flirt with European English to acknowledge the GDPR.
Modern Architect jeffphi shared an example of a hot software pattern from the early 21st. "As a bonus, these pickleball events appear to come with pickleball event listeners, too!"
Bob Loblaw highlighted that lawtech is typically SNAFU for reasons too complex to explore in this column, explaining: "It's unclear to me if Firefox 136.0 is later than Firefox undefined. Apparently not. This probably isn't as bad as the fact that the site listed in the logo for this technology organization leads to a misconfigured web server."
"It looks like I'm going to have to stay up all night to get best use of our solar panels," writes Stewart from the land of the midnight sun, which would appear to be... Australia? I guess it makes sense that since Oz has summer during winter, they must have high noon at 7 AM. Perfect sense.
Michael R. delivers from the near future. "Update on my parcel! I was not home and DHL will have dropped it off in 1h with the DHeLorean."
Finally,
Some Guy
wrote in with an ambiguous entry, wondering if it was suitable for inclusion.
"I'm not sure if this is Error'd material, since it is definitely
working as intended." It is indeed working as intended, but it is a matter of principle
that some intentions
are so egregious in and of themselves that we must consider them Error'doneous and
absolutely WTF-worthy. Is this an example? I think not, but let's let youse decide.
Mr. Guy explains:
"They chose a "toggle is active" color
closely resembling the "toggle is inactive" color on this
commonly used component for following cookie laws. Now
that's a dark pattern if I ever saw one." Perhaps this is an
accessibility fail, but the distinction between light and
dark grey is clearly visible to my comparatively unimpaired
colour vision. Which way does Hanlon's Razor cut here?
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Air Pollution Can Drive Devastating Forms of Dementia, Research Suggests
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First Brain-Wide Map of Decision-Making Charted In Mice
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Mark Zuckerberg Sues Mark Zuckerberg
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Warner Bros. Discovery Sues Midjourney For Copyright Infringement
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