Can you trust climate information? How and why powerful players are misleading the public: Ten years ago, the world committed itself to keeping global warming well below 2°C (and preferably below 1.5°C) above the pre-industrial era. This would be done by reducing greenhouse gas emissions significantly by 2030 and ending all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions …
Trump’s attack on the BBC is part of an endless campaign to undermine public trust in information: The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, recently gave a press briefing about Palestinians killed close to an aid distribution centre in Gaza on June 1. A key question, she suggested, was whether the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) …
What does the law say about gambling on election dates with inside information?: People with connections to UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak are being investigated by the Gambling Commission, reportedly over allegations they placed bets on an election being called on July 4, shortly before it became public knowledge. Sunak’s former parliamentary private secretary and …
Election 2024: the stakes are higher than they appear, so quality information is essential: With the UK heading for an election on July 4, it can feel like the result is pre-ordained. Labour has maintained a decisive poll lead for over a year and nothing Rishi Sunak does appears to shift the dial. But below …
Google’s Gemini AI hints at the next great leap for the technology: analysing real-time information: Rafapress / Shutterstock Google has launched Gemini, a new artificial intelligence (AI) system that can seemingly understand and talk intelligently about almost any kind of prompt – pictures, text, speech, music, computer code and much more. This type of AI …
The power of pink: how Barbie’s popularity is pushing back against Kremlin control of information: Underground screenings of the summer’s Hollywood blockbuster Barbie are now being shown around Russia, despite the film being frowned on by government officials. The fantasy comedy film, starring Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie, is being shown at some Russian cinemas …
Chatbots for medical advice: three ways to avoid misleading information: We expect medical professionals to give us reliable information about ourselves and potential treatments so that we can make informed decisions about which (if any) medicine or other intervention we need. If your doctor instead “bullshits” you (yes – this term has been used in …
IYF Celebrates Women In Tech – Skills For Success Is Changing The Gender Landscape In Information Technology: Digital technologies have created new spaces for interaction and enabled new ways to connect, share experiences, work and build communities. It is estimated that by 2030 in Sub-Saharan Africa alone more than 230 million jobs will require digital …
Wastewater is a valuable source of information – Africa’s scientists need to use it to find drug-resistant bacteria: Sub-Saharan African countries don't have enough wastewater treatment plants. John Wessels/AFP via Getty Images People often think of wastewater as serving no purpose. But it can be a valuable source of information. Wastewater is increasingly recognised as …
AI can process more information than humans – so will it stop us repeating our mistakes?: Napoleon could have learned from the past. painting by Adolph Northen/wikipedia It is a cliche that not knowing history makes one repeat it. As many people have also pointed out, the only thing we learn from history is that …
China could be harvesting TikTok data, but much of the user information is already out in the open: Experts have been considering whether TikTok is worse in terms of privacy or security than other, US-based apps. Shutterstock / Primakov The social media app TikTok has been a focus for concerns that the Chinese government could …
How the GDB debugger and other tools use call frame information to determine the active function calls: How the GDB debugger and other tools use call frame information to determine the active function calls wcohen Fri, 03/10/2023 – 03:00 In my previous article, I showed how debuginfo is used to map between the current instruction …
Compiler optimization and its effect on debugger line information: Compiler optimization and its effect on debugger line information wcohen Thu, 03/09/2023 – 03:00 In my previous article, I described the DWARF information used to map regular and inlined functions between an executable binary and its source code. Functions can be dozens of lines, so you …
Use Tracee to solve for missing BTF information: Use Tracee to solve for missing BTF information Alessio Greggi Thu, 09/01/2022 – 03:00 Register or Login to like Register or Login to like Tracee is a project by Aqua Security for tracing processes at runtime. By tracing processes using Linux eBPF (Berkeley packet filter) technology, Tracee …
Is race an issue for Rishi Sunak? It’s a difficult question for pollsters to investigate but the information we do have is telling: A YouGov poll of party members completed on August 2 shows Rishi Sunak to be trailing Liz Truss 31% to 69% in the Conservative leadership contest. A similar poll completed on July …
Digital migration: court delay upholds information rights of poor South Africans: The government had many years to ensure a smooth transition from analogue to digital television but failed. Flickr South Africa’s Constitutional Court has decided to strike down the government’s plans to end old-style analogue television broadcasting at the end of June. The decision upholds …
Ukrainian propaganda: how Zelensky is winning the information war against Russia: As well as success on the battlefield, wars are often won or lost through information advantage. In the Russia-Ukraine conflict, we might have expected Russia -– an old hand at propaganda -– to have bested Ukraine early on. Russia’s deception operations have had a …
A cool South African City image: Heywood-Washington house information board Charleston Image by denisbin Heywood Washington House in Charleston South Carolina. South Carolina up to the War of Independence Continued. Apart from rice the other profitable crop grown in the lowlands and swamps of Sth Carolina was indigo. The blue flowering Indigofera tinctoria, a member …