Wikipedia is under threat from the AI boomChris Dorney / Alamy Wikipedia is one of the greatest knowledge resources ever assembled, containing crowdsourced contributions from millions of humans worldwide – and it faces a growing threat from artificial intelligence developers. The non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, says since January 2024 it has seen a 50 per cent increase in network traffic requesting image and video downloads from its catalogue. That surge mostly comes from automated data scraper programs, which developers use to collect training data for their AI models.… Source link
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President Trump’s self-proclaimed “liberation day,” in which he announced across-the-board tariffs on the United States’ trading partners, carries an echo of another moment when an advanced Western economy threw up walls around itself.Like Brexit, Britain’s fateful vote nearly nine years ago to leave the European Union, Mr. Trump’s tariffs struck a hammer blow at the established order. He is pulling the United States out of the global economy much as Britain withdrew from a continentwide trading bloc, in what its backers viewed as a comparable act of liberation.The shock of Mr. Trump’s move is reverberating even more widely, given the…
Soon after the new administration arrived, things began to go missing from the White House website.They weren’t just the partisan policy platforms that typically disappear during a presidential transition. Informational pages about the Constitution and past presidents, up in various forms since President George W. Bush was in office, all vanished.Thousands of other government web pages had also been taken down or modified, including content about vaccines, hate crimes, low-income children, opioid addiction and veterans, before a court order temporarily blocked part of the sweeping erasure. A Justice Department database tracking criminal charges and convictions linked to the Jan. 6,…
US companies are struggling to figure out how to respond to Donald Trump’s trade war, concerned about the impact of the president’s tariffs on the economy but wary of speaking out for fear of retaliation by the White House, according to executives and board members.Corporate leaders are unsure of how far to go in re-engineering their businesses in response to Wednesday’s tariffs, amid doubts over how long Trump will stick to his current course and hope that they can lobby him to ease some of the policies.Complicating matters is a climate of fear created by the White House’s recent targeting…
Credit: UPV/EHU. Press. via Wikimedia Commons Biological males can’t compete in girls’ sports under a new rule announced this week by the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association. NIAA’s rule says male student athletes can only compete in NIAA-sanctioned sports designated for boys or coeds. The NIAA, which oversees sports at secondary schools in Nevada, said the sport must align with the sex listed on the student’s original birth certificate. Female student athletes can only participate on a boys’ team if a corresponding team is unavailable for girls, and they must qualify for that team. Female players can participate on teams designated…
Gabby Windey didn’t hold back when recounting her awkward run-in with singer Michael Bublé during her time on “Dancing with the Stars.”The “Bachelorette” alum and the “Traitors” winner let her true feelings fly on the April 3 episode of “Las Culturistas,” the podcast hosted by Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers.And let’s just say, Gabby Windey’s opinion of Bublé is anything but bubbly.Article continues below advertisementGabby Windey Doubles Down On Michael Bublé ShadeImage Press Agency/MEGA”Michael Bublé is beyond dead to me,” Windey said bluntly. “Not the first, second, third, or fourth time” she’s publicly criticized the crooner, she added, and she’s…
LONDON: British police said they charged actor-comedian Russell Brand on Friday (Apr 4) with rape and multiple counts of assault in cases relating to four separate women between 1999 and 2005. The 50-year-old who was once one of Britain’s most high-profile broadcasters and is the former husband of US pop singer Katy Perry, denied the allegations when they first emerged in 2023 and said he had never had non-consensual sex. He could not immediately be reached for comment on Friday. Police said Brand, who lives in Oxfordshire, southern England, was charged with one count of rape, one count of indecent…
Mette Frederiksen visits the Arctic island as the US continues its threats of taking over the region.Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has called for increased Arctic defence collaboration with the United States during a visit to Greenland, and firmly dismissed Washington’s desire to annex the semi-autonomous Danish territory. Frederiksen’s visit follows months of tension between Washington and Copenhagen over US President Donald Trump’s repeated declarations that the Arctic island should become a part of the US. At a news conference with the outgoing and incoming Greenlandic prime ministers on Thursday, Frederiksen switched to English to address the US directly, inviting…
Arch Manning has yet to experience a full college season as a starting quarterback, but many are already calling him a lock to be the first overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft. ESPN NFL insider Adam Schefter says there is one big reason those predictions are a bit premature.With the 2025 NFL Draft viewed as being very weak at quarterback, there has been talk that some QB-needy teams might prefer to wait until next year to address the position. During an appearance on ESPN’s “Get Up” on Thursday morning, Schefter warned that teams should not automatically assume Manning will be…
I had a choice the other day in Shanghai: Which Tomorrowland to visit? Should I check out the fake, American-designed Tomorrowland at Shanghai Disneyland, or should I visit the real Tomorrowland — the massive new research center, roughly the size of 225 football fields, built by the Chinese technology giant Huawei? I went to Huawei’s.It was fascinating and impressive but ultimately deeply disturbing, a vivid confirmation of what a U.S. businessman who has worked in China for several decades told me in Beijing. “There was a time when people came to America to see the future,” he said. “Now they…