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An Australian teenager has died after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos in what Australia’s prime minister on Thursday called every parent’s nightmare. An American and two Danish tourists also died, officials said, following reports that several people had been sickened in a Laotian town popular with backpackers.

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[...] While the widespread AI-driven “apocalypse” predicted by some experts was not actualized, there was still a significant amount of misinformation. The Biden robocall was the most notable deepfake example in this election cycle. But as Tim Harper, senior policy analyst and project lead for the Center for Democracy and Technology, explained, there were several instances of AI’s misuse. These included fake websites generated by foreign governments and deepfakes spreading misinformation about candidates.

In addition to that kind of misinformation, Harper emphasized a major concern was how AI tools could be used to target folks at more of a micro level than has previously been seen, which he said did occur during this election cycle. Examples include AI-generated texts to Wisconsin students that were deemed intimidating, and incidents of non-English misinformation campaigns targeting Spanish speaking voters, intended to create confusion. AI’s role in this election, Harper said, has impacted public trust and the perception of truth.

A positive trend seen this year, according to Jennifer Huddleston [senior fellow in technology policy at the Cato Institute], was that the existing information ecosystem helped combat AI-powered misinformation. For example, with the Biden robocall, there was a quick response, allowing voters to be more informed and discerning about what to believe.

Huddleston said she believes it is too soon to predict precisely how this technology will evolve and how AI’s public perception and adoption may look. But she said using education as a policy tool can help improve understanding of AI risks and reduce misinformation.

Internet literacy is still developing, Harper said; he expects to see a similarly slow increase in AI literacy and adoption: “I think public education around these sorts of threats is really important.”

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With U.N. talks coming to a close, some are accusing oil-producing states of weakening the world’s commitment to the green transition.

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This EP means a lot to me. Please buy or share it if you like it.

Soos is being judgy as she thinks this is Tortie erasure!

She's almost a void, just a couple of drops of not void paint.

New phone day for Android users should get a whole bunch easier.

Now, the rate of new mobile internet subscriber growth is slowing. From 2015 to 2021, the survey consistently found over 200 million coming online through mobile devices around the world each year. But in the last two years, that number has dropped to 160 million. Rest of World analysis of that data found that a number of developing countries are plateauing in the number of mobile internet subscribers. That suggests that in countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Mexico, the easiest populations to get online have already logged on, and getting the rest of the population on mobile internet will continue to be a challenge. GSMA collects data by surveying a nationally representative sample of people in each country, and then it correlates the results with similar studies.

Max Cuvellier Giacomelli, the head of the Mobile for Development program at GSMA, said that large swaths of the world’s population still don’t have access to mobile internet primarily because of affordability. Although the cost of data has dropped radically in recent years, the International Telecommunication Union, a UN agency focused on information and communications technologies, notes that huge disparities between regions persist. The cost of data in Africa, for example, is more than twice that of the Americas, the second most expensive region.

Title: The Unflinching Courage of Taylor Cadle

In this study, the scientists simulated the process of spaced learning by examining two types of non-brain human cells — one from nerve tissue and one from kidney tissue — in a laboratory setting.

These cells were exposed to varying patterns of chemical signals, akin to the exposure of brain cells to neurotransmitter patterns when we learn new information.

The intriguing part? These non-brain cells also switched on a “memory gene” – the same gene that brain cells activate when they detect information patterns and reorganize their connections to form memories.

I recently made a post on CommunityPromo, promoting my other three communities. Someone suggested that creating one unified community for discussing all the soulslikes there are might be a better fit for Lemmy given its relatively small community. So I did just that!

!soulslike@lemmy.zip

Be sure to check it out if you're interested in any of the FromSoft games (DS1-3, Demon's Souls, Bloodborne etc.), Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order, Nioh, Lies of P - what have you! The term soulslike is treated rather loosely here in the sense that games that incorporate mechanics from soulslikes may be discussed here too. The more the merrier :)

I'll try to populate the community with posts in the coming days as to provide some content. Feel free to pop by and post something.

News, memes, discussion, art - all forms of content are welcome.

Cheers!

Remember the Hitler Toaster? I'm bringing him back as a villain !!! (not that he was a hero before)

Call for feedback on the ISC’s interpretation of the right to participate in and benefit from science

@science

https://council.science/news/call-feedback-right-to-science/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=call-feedback-right-to-science

Google Phone app could soon let you add more context and information about a scam call when reporting them. Read on to learn more!

YouTube Music has updated its mobile app’s Now Playing screen, moving the buttons around in the process. Here’s what the new UI looks like.