Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hard-pressed areas of the British state including councils and the police face a further squeeze in the spending review as the government prioritises the NHS and defence at the expense of other services. Chancellor Rachel…
Recordings of business meetings, interviews, and customer interactions have become essential for preserving important information. However, transcribing and summarizing these recordings manually is often time-consuming and labor-intensive. With the progress in generative AI and automatic speech recognition (ASR), automated solutions have emerged to make this process faster and more efficient. Protecting personally identifiable information (PII)…
Reform UK’s deputy leader Richard Tice has insisted the party knows “exactly what it is doing” following a 48 hours in which its chairman Zia Yusuf resigned, before returning in a different role. On Thursday, Yusuf dramatically quit, saying in a social media post that trying to get the party elected was not “a good…
Some TV manufacturers are now offering more models within their full TV lineup, with smaller gaps between them when it comes to features and price, and this can make things confusing for potential TV buyers. Naturally, if an entry-level TV has a similar feature list to a step-up model, it’s the better deal, right? Well,…
Latest Mental Health News By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, June 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Warning labels placed on e-cigarettes can effectively discourage vaping, but the warning now required in the U.S. could be better, a new evidence review concludes. Warnings that point out specific health risks of vaping are generally more…
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world National Guard troops were deployed on the streets of Los Angeles on Sunday as the Trump administration took a hard line to quell protests against raids on suspected illegal immigrants. The move, sanctioned…
I generally am uninterested in generative AI that’s too close to the real thing. But every once in a while there’s a modern AI thing that’s so glitchy and broken that it’s strangely compelling. There’s this generative AI knockoff of Minecraft that fails so hard at being Minecraft that it becomes something else. Trained on…
Inspired by Xavier’s diary entry “A PNG Image With an Embedded Gift“, I updated my pngdump.py program to enable the extraction of chunks and extra data (similar to my other analysis tools, like pngdump.py). Here is the analysis of the trojanized PNG file Xavier discussed: Notice that this PNG file has 11 “items”: 10 valid…
Eli Lederman Close Eli Lederman ESPN Staff Writer Eli Lederman covers college football and recruiting for ESPN.com. He joined ESPN in 2024 after covering the University of Oklahoma for Sellout Crowd and the Tulsa World. Jake Trotter Close Jake Trotter ESPN Senior Writer Jake Trotter is a senior writer at ESPN. Trotter covers college football….
A strange type of star could be powered by dark matter Artsiom P/Shutterstock Astronomers have found the strongest evidence yet for the existence of dark stars, a type of enormous star in the early universe that is partially powered by dark matter. If confirmed, these hypothesised stars could help explain why we see mysteriously large…
