The United States expressed condolences following a helicopter crash in Iran that claimed the life of President Ebrahim Raisi. Despite Iran's request for assistance, logistical challenges prevented the US from providing aid, as confirmed by the State Department, emphasizing their willingness to help in such situations.
Gunmen on motorbikes launched a deadly attack on a mining community in northcentral Nigeria, killing approximately 40 people. The assailants opened fire on residents and set homes ablaze, according to the local government's statement on May 21st.
ICC is seeking an arrest warrant against Netanyahu and the defence minister of Israel. Finally, someone is taking a stand for Palestine and stopping the war!
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said May 20 he is seeking arrest warrants for leaders of Israel and Hamas, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, over actions taken during their seven-month war.
In a rare incident, severe turbulence on Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 from London to Singapore resulted in one passenger's death and 30 injuries. The flight, which departed Heathrow on Monday, was diverted to Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport, landing at 3:45 pm local time on Tuesday.
Israeli government is now curtailing the right to freedom of speech in the country to prevent the broadcasting of the reality of genocide. Not surprised now!
Israeli officials seized a camera and broadcasting equipment belonging to The Associated Press in southern Israel on May 21, accusing the news organization of violating a new media law by providing images to Al Jazeera.
CSK CEO Kasi Viswanathan addressed speculation about MS Dhoni's potential retirement after IPL 2024, a topic that has dominated headlines each season. With IPL 2024 rumored to be Dhoni's final run, fans filled stadiums in yellow to honor the cricket legend.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasized his dedication to India's future, declaring its citizens as his true legacy and successors, underscoring his commitment to their prosperity.
Even the eagles have changed their route to avoid the Ukraine war, when will people realize the futility of war and put an end to it?
Eagles changed their migration routes across Ukraine to avoid fighting and because their habitats were likely damaged or destroyed by war, say scientists.
A 17-year-old crashed his father's Porsche, killing two, and is facing charges under the Indian Penal Code for knowing the potential fatal outcome. His friends are currently witnesses as police build a strong case, said Pune Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar.
Strong action should be taken against such irrational driving especially by a teen. The government should impose strict laws to discourage it!
The Porsche car allegedly driven by the 17-year-old, who the police claim was drunk at the time, knocked down two IT professionals in Kalyani Nagar area of the city in the early hours of Sunday.
Delhi is facing severe heatwave during the voting day, which is impacting the health of the people. It is becoming a concerning issues now!
Our warnings show that temperatures are likely to be high in heat wave category but voting is important and as far as we understand, measures are being taken to prevent emergencies,” said a weather official.
Scientists have discovered a new earth sized planet with 17 hour year. It will be interesting to know what type of planet is it.
In an exciting development, scientists have discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet, SPECULOOS-3 b, orbiting an ultra-cool dwarf star approximately 55 light-years from Earth.
Granddaughter of Elvis Presley is fighting against the auction of the legend's famous Graceland property depicted in the movie 'Priscilla'.
Riley Keough, the granddaughter of Elvis Presley, is fighting plans to publicly auction his Graceland estate in Memphis after a company tried to sell the property based on claims that a loan using the king of rock ’n’ roll's former home as collateral was not repaid.
What jobs are we preparing students for by boosting their writing productivity with AI? After shedding 40% of its workforce, the gaming site Gamurs posted an ad last June for an editor to write 250 articles per week. That’s a new article every 10 minutes, at $4.25 per article.
As @novomancy has noted, AI is only the accomplice here. This clickbait nightmare is the logical conclusion of the ad-supported web.
#Wikileaks#Assange#PressFreedom#Media#Journalism#USA#UK: "To my mind, Julian Assange is in some ways recognizably a journalist. He’s also a publisher, an entrepreneur, an activist, a whistleblower, an information anarchist and a hacker. That’s true of many of this new breed of net warriors.
But in the work we did together when I was editor of The Guardian and he was editor of WikiLeaks we collaborated on a series of groundbreaking stories which were absolutely journalistic.
However, to many journalists Assange is not a proper “journalist,” and they can’t really see what his fate has to do with theirs. I think that’s a mistake.
This week Assange may learn his fate when judges in the UK High Court consider final representations from lawyers on both sides over the bid to extradite him to the US — where he could face a lengthy spell in a maximum security prison."
#Apple#AppleNews#Media#Journalism#News: "At the moment, Apple News is as good a partner in Big Tech as many media companies are going to find. Almost every publisher Semafor spoke to said that Apple paid well and directed eyeballs to their longer, more ambitious work. While some of the articles surfaced by the app are algorithmic and based on user behavior, the company also employs a team of journalists — led by editor-in-chief Lauren Kern, a well-regarded former New York Magazine editor — who seem to prioritize putting quality journalism front-and-center on the app. As a reader, it’s a nice product, and in many cases a better reading experience than publishers’ own homepages and apps.
But the partnership also raises some of the questions publishers avoided during the peak social media era. It incentivizes users to subscribe to Apple News+ rather than to publications directly, likely cannibalizing some potential revenue. It’s driving editorial decisions, meaning publishers are once again changing their content strategy to placate a platform. And of course the company could wake up one day and decide, like Facebook, that it no longer really wants to be in the news business, leaving news publishers stranded."
#AI#GenerativeAI#AIHype#Media#News#Journalism: "More broadly, across news media coverage of AI in general, reviewing 30 published studies, Saba Rebecca Brause and her coauthors find that, while there are of course exceptions, most research so far find not just a strong increase in the volume of reporting on AI, but also “largely positive evaluations and economic framing” of these technologies.
So, perhaps, as Timit Gebru, founder and executive director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR), has written on X: “The same news orgs hype stuff up during ‘AI summers’ without even looking into their archives to see what they wrote decades ago?”
There are some really good reporters doing important work to help people understand AI—as well as plenty of sensationalist coverage focused on killer robots and wild claims about possible future existential risks.
But, more than anything, research on how news media cover AI overall suggests that Gebru is largely right – the coverage tends to be led by industry sources, and often take claims about what the technology can and can’t do, and might be able to do in the future, at face value in ways that contributes to the hype cycle."