Extra: Israel carried out Lebanon pager assault… (Axios), A 9-Yr-Previous Lady Killed in Pager Assault Is Mourned in Lebanon (New York Instances), Did Israel break worldwide legislation? (Center East Eye)
23andMe
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The corporate that pioneered direct-to-consumer gene testing is sinking quick. Its inventory value goes towards zero, and a plan to create worthwhile medication is kaput after that crew obtained pink slips this November.
23andMe at all times had a celeb aura, bathing in good press. Now, although, the press is all dangerous. It’s a troubled firm within the grip of a controlling founder, Anne Wojcicki, after its unbiased administrators resigned en masse this September. Prospects are beginning to fear about what’s going to occur to their DNA knowledge if 23andMe goes below.
23andMe says it created “the world’s largest crowdsourced platform for genetic analysis.” That’s true. It simply by no means discovered how you can flip a revenue.
Extra: 23andMe’s fall from $6 billion to almost $0 (Wall Avenue Journal), Easy methods to…delete your 23andMe knowledge (MIT Know-how Assessment), 23andMe Monetary Report, November 2024 (23andMe)
AI slop
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Slop is the scraps and leftovers that pigs eat. “AI slop” is what you and I are more and more consuming on-line now that persons are flooding the web with computer-generated textual content and photos.
AI slop is “doubtful,” says the New York Instances, and “dadaist,” in accordance with Wired. It’s regularly bizarre, like Shrimp Jesus (don’t ask if you happen to don’t know), or misleading, like the image of a shivering woman in a rowboat, supposedly exhibiting the US authorities’s poor response to Hurricane Helene.
AI slop is usually entertaining. AI slop is often a waste of your time. AI slop shouldn’t be fact-checked. AI slop exists principally to get clicks. AI slop is that blue-check account on X posting 10-part threads on how nice AI is—threads that had been written by AI.