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Martin Scorsese gets backlash after endorsing 'creatively freeing' AI

AI can help directors "move faster without sacrificing quality or craft" in pre-production. he says.

The Independent (World)

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This tiny Texas ranching town is now growing faster than anywhere in America

The South continues to dominate national growth patterns, claiming 10 of the country’s 15 fastest-growing cities and nearly all of the largest numeric population gains

The Guardian Culture

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My Only Boy by Rosa Rankin-Gee review – a darkly funny near-future dystopia

A surprising romance is set against a backdrop of climate crisis, political instability and corporate corruption in this bleak but witty novel Rosa Rankin-Gee follows her 2021 near-future climate-crisis dystopia, Dreamland, with a similar but more politically focused work. As I read My Only Boy, I kept having to remind myself that the nation it describes is not (yet) real, because, for a reader living abroad, the novel’s England seems unnervingly close to what might come next. Any political dystopia risks being overtaken by reality, but in this case the gap between truth and fiction feels claustrophobic. At the beginning of the novel, Elle is at a party held to mourn that day’s election of a far-right populist government. She’s the communications director for the almost too brilliantly named Gigr, a company connecting people seeking immediate shift work with businesses offering it. Elle is freshly upset by witnessing and immediately containing the reputational damage of a worker’s jump from a balcony. She knows how to do this, because “we’d had a death every four weeks, then every three weeks, then every two”: exhausted, starving people taking underpaid shifts from Gigr after finishing public sector jobs that no longer pay enough for survival. Almost everyone, in this slightly more desperate, divided and unfair nation, ends up doing some work for Gigr sooner or later, to buy faster access to emergency healthcare or food for crisis-stricken family, and Gigr has algorithms to ensure that each person is paid the least their particular circumstances oblige them to accept. Continue reading...

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Trans taxpayers 'are given access to a VIP hotline reserved for MPs and the Royal Family'

They are treated to a special tax service, known as Public Department 1 which sees their phone calls for queries relating to tax or National Insurance answered faster than the general public.

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Ed Miliband urged to drop his latest Net Zero push, amid warnings it could add another £1 billion to soaring energy bills

Speaking after the energy price cap was raised by £221, the energy secretary vowed to go 'further and faster' in his dash for wind and solar farms, which he claimed would one day bring down bills.

The Register

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Windows 11 update preview promises faster launches, puts Task Manager on NPU patrol

Just mind the known issue that can still send installs rolling back

The Guardian World

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Ebola and hantavirus outbreaks prompt raft of conspiracy theories in divided US

Ever-growing influence of social media and AI means such ideas spreading at faster rates than before, experts say Hantavirus and Ebola outbreaks carry with them familiar attendants in the US: extreme conspiracy theories about a planned pandemic, or “plandemic”, designed to upend midterms elections or push new vaccines or any one of a myriad of wild ideas. Ebola, which the World Health Organization warned Friday is spreading rapidly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and poses a “very high” risk at the national level. In the upside-down world of conspiracy theories it could be a bioweapon, a financial plot, or a scheme to extract national resources. Continue reading...