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Media industry
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 hours ago

Can Matt Brittin save the BBC and how should he do it? Our panel's advice for the new boss

The BBC needs a visionary leader to prioritize public service amidst increasing competition and financial challenges.
Media industry
fromTheregister
3 weeks ago

Ex-Google exec Matt Brittin now runs the BBC

Matt Brittin, the new Director-General of the BBC, faces challenges due to his lack of media experience and Google's controversial reputation.
Media industry
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 hours ago

Can Matt Brittin save the BBC and how should he do it? Our panel's advice for the new boss

The BBC needs a visionary leader to prioritize public service amidst increasing competition and financial challenges.
Media industry
fromTheregister
3 weeks ago

Ex-Google exec Matt Brittin now runs the BBC

Matt Brittin, the new Director-General of the BBC, faces challenges due to his lack of media experience and Google's controversial reputation.
UX design
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

To be human is to live with friction. That's something AI boosters will never understand | Alexander Hurst

Striking a match requires a specific speed to ignite, highlighting the importance of friction in both physical and metaphorical contexts.
#artificial-intelligence
Artificial intelligence
fromDigital Trends
5 days ago

AI is entering the Skynet debate moment in the social media hype circles

AI doom influencers are reshaping public and policymaker perceptions of artificial intelligence, emphasizing potential risks and worst-case scenarios.
fromOpen Culture
1 week ago
Books

How George Orwell Predicted the Rise of "AI Slop" in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

Artificial intelligence has become integral in creating various forms of media, reflecting a long-standing belief in machine capabilities.
fromIntelligencer
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

The Guy Who Wrote the Viral AI Post Wasn't Trying to Scare You

Enormous recent AI advances could reshape society and disrupt many jobs far faster than most people realize.
Independent films
fromVulture
1 day ago

The 25 Best Movies About AI Gone Wrong

Artificial intelligence has long been depicted in literature and film as both a potential threat and a reflection of societal fears.
Artificial intelligence
fromDigital Trends
5 days ago

AI is entering the Skynet debate moment in the social media hype circles

AI doom influencers are reshaping public and policymaker perceptions of artificial intelligence, emphasizing potential risks and worst-case scenarios.
Books
fromOpen Culture
1 week ago

How George Orwell Predicted the Rise of "AI Slop" in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

Artificial intelligence has become integral in creating various forms of media, reflecting a long-standing belief in machine capabilities.
Digital life
fromFast Company
1 day ago

AI sycophancy could be more insidious than social media filter bubbles

AI chatbots may use flattery to enhance user engagement, similar to social media algorithms, leading to potential distortions in judgment.
Boston Bruins
fromDefector
2 days ago

This Frickin' Guy | Defector

Brandon Hagel is a key player for the Tampa Bay Lightning, showcasing significant growth and performance despite past rejections from other teams.
Science
fromMail Online
4 years ago

This hi-tech invention looks just like a Doctor Who villain

Beomni 1.0, a versatile robot, will be unveiled at CES 2022, designed to assist in care homes and perform various tasks.
#social-media
fromTechCrunch
3 days ago
Social media marketing

Bond, a new social media platform, wants to use AI to help you kick your doomscrolling habit | TechCrunch

Social media marketing
fromTechCrunch
3 days ago

Bond, a new social media platform, wants to use AI to help you kick your doomscrolling habit | TechCrunch

Bond is a new social media platform designed to reduce screen addiction by encouraging real-world experiences through personalized recommendations.
Digital life
fromTheregister
2 weeks ago

Brits are falling out of love with the internet

British adults are less active on social media, with fewer believing benefits outweigh risks, leading to increased passivity online.
UK news
fromwww.bbc.com
1 month ago

Social media bans and digital curfews to be trialled on UK teenagers

The UK government is trialing social media restrictions for teenagers to assess their impact on online safety.
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Keir Starmer says UK will have to act' to curb addictive features of social media

Keir Starmer supports banning addictive social media features to protect young users from harmful algorithms.
Humor
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

I've had white knuckle moments': Michael Socha on This Is England, his patchy beard and seedy new casino thriller The Cage

Michael Socha plays a troubled casino manager in The Cage, showcasing his acting range and personal struggles with self-criticism.
#ai
fromConsequence
3 days ago
Women in technology

Grimes Calls AI "Bigger Than Jesus" and "Most Dangerous Thing That's Ever Going to Happen"

Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

There's no shortage of terrifying technology': how AI became TV drama's new go-to villain

AI is portrayed as a powerful and dangerous tool in modern surveillance and military operations.
fromConsequence
3 days ago
Women in technology

Grimes Calls AI "Bigger Than Jesus" and "Most Dangerous Thing That's Ever Going to Happen"

Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

There's no shortage of terrifying technology': how AI became TV drama's new go-to villain

AI is portrayed as a powerful and dangerous tool in modern surveillance and military operations.
fromArtforum
3 days ago

Epic Fury: The Dark Art of Defense Tech

Today's prominent founders and investors communicate in a visual grammar that shares a great deal with the aesthetic languages of Italian Futurism, primarily, but also of 'return to order' neoclassicism, World War II-era propaganda, and modernist museum branding.
Right-wing politics
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

Reform's Richard Tice posts picture with telltale signs of AI manipulation, say experts

A photo posted by Richard Tice of Reform supporters was criticized for appearing manipulated by AI, raising questions about its authenticity.
Podcast
fromInsideHook
6 days ago

Bill Maher on AI: Useful Tools or "Psychopaths"?

The episode focused on technology, CEOs, and the elitism of their ventures, particularly in relation to longevity and health care.
fromKotaku
6 days ago

BAFTA Pulls Game From Showcase Due To Depiction Of Child Abuse

What has upset me so much is not just the decision, but how this happens to me over and over, doors close because the subject matter might upset people or make them uncomfortable.
Video games
Artificial intelligence
fromSilicon Canals
6 days ago

The AI backlash was always going to come - what nobody predicted was that it would come first from the generation born into the technology - Silicon Canals

Gen Z is increasingly skeptical of AI, with a significant drop in excitement and rising concerns about its impact on their work and creativity.
Social media marketing
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Social media was once a great global conversation. Now it's just individuals locked into their own private worlds | Tom Whyman

Twitter once felt like a global conversation platform that shaped personal relationships and values, but usage has significantly declined over time.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

The Guardian view on dystopias for our times: the American nightmare | Editorial

Dystopian fiction reflects current societal issues, as seen in adaptations of Atwood's works and films like One Battle After Another.
Television
fromFast Company
2 weeks ago

Satirizing Silicon Valley is pointless in 2026. This show proves it

The Audacity critiques Big Tech's ethics through a darkly comedic lens, but its timing may render it less impactful.
UK politics
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 weeks ago

Former Channel 4 chair Sir Ian Cheshire chosen to steer Ofcom

The Independent focuses on critical issues like reproductive rights and climate change, emphasizing the importance of accessible journalism.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

The Miniature Wife review Matthew Macfadyen is wasted in this pointless comedy

Matthew Macfadyen started his career in a 1998 TV film adaptation of Wuthering Heights as Hareton Earnshaw, Heathcliff's whipped dog, and has been giving us brilliant incarnations of beta cucks ever since.
Television
London politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago

Boom Box: Beats and Betrayal review the most astonishing British TV

HBO Max's UK launch features a British true-crime docudrama about a recording studio involved in gang activity and undercover police operations.
fromEngadget
3 weeks ago

An immersive 'Black Mirror Experience' is launching in Montreal

The Black Mirror Experience is an interactive virtual reality experience that blends physical space and VR, designed to blur the lines of fiction and reality in which you become the main character.
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Audiences told us we didn't show enough teacher sex': how we made Waterloo Road

Bad Girls creators Maureen Chadwick and Ann McManus had a fiery belief in social justice and did rigorous research. Those are often the foundations of successful serial drama.
Education
Film
fromConsequence
1 month ago

Stream On: Peaky Blinders, Is This Thing On, Pete Holmes

New streaming releases include 'Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man' on Netflix and 'Rooster' on HBO Max.
Arts
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

Six seasons and a sequel: 'Peaky Blinders' is easy to consume and impossible to forget

Tommy Shelby emerges from isolation in 1940 when his son's dangerous gang activities and Nazi threats force him to confront personal and historical crises threatening England and his family.
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Portobello: how can this TV show about the mafia and a mind-controlled parrot be so wildly dull?

Portobello tells the true story of Enzo Tortora, a TV host falsely accused of Camorra ties, exploring themes of celebrity, politics, and organized crime.
fromPinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news
1 month ago

HSTikkyTokky responds to Louis Theroux as Netflix doc exposes his true feelings

Call me racist, call me a misogynist, call me homophobic, call me a scammer - I'm all those things. I don't care. This is the general population of the UK right now, scattering to make comments online about me. They don't know me. They don't know my purpose.
SF LGBT
#peaky-blinders
Film
fromConsequence
1 month ago

Tim Roth, Steven Knight, and Tom Harper on Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man: Podcast

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man concludes the Shelby saga during World War II with escalated stakes, featuring Tim Roth as a grounded antagonist and Tommy Shelby facing his final reckoning.
fromKqed
1 month ago
Independent films

The 'Peaky Blinders' Movie Is Easy to Watch, Impossible to Forget

Television
fromVulture
1 month ago

Not Everyone Is Immortal in Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man revisits themes of violence and legacy, focusing on Tommy Shelby's struggles with his son Duke's ruthless leadership.
Film
fromConsequence
1 month ago

Tim Roth, Steven Knight, and Tom Harper on Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man: Podcast

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man concludes the Shelby saga during World War II with escalated stakes, featuring Tim Roth as a grounded antagonist and Tommy Shelby facing his final reckoning.
fromKqed
1 month ago
Independent films

The 'Peaky Blinders' Movie Is Easy to Watch, Impossible to Forget

Television
fromVulture
1 month ago

Not Everyone Is Immortal in Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man revisits themes of violence and legacy, focusing on Tommy Shelby's struggles with his son Duke's ruthless leadership.
Podcast
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Cillian Murphy opens up about Peaky Blinders: best podcasts of the week

Multiple new podcasts explore diverse topics including Peaky Blinders behind-the-scenes content, an unsolved attack on America's Stonehenge, creative fiction writing, family history archives, and a historical investigation into a proposed Palestinian resettlement plan.
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 month ago

WATCH: British Pundit Throws Newspapers at the Camera During Heated Rant Causing His Feed to Malfunction

Dolan lamented, 'There's nothing in the studio to throw around,' before grabbing a stack of tabloid newspapers and tossing them at the camera, saying, 'It's the Boris way.'
Media industry
fromWIRED
4 weeks ago

There's Something Very Dark About a Lot of Those Viral AI Fruit Videos

"I've spent a lot of time looking at the comment sections on these videos actually, and it does not seem like bots. I clicked on people's profiles, these are real profiles, thousands of followers, no signs of inorganic activity. People just like it."
Television
Television
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

Is Binge-Watching TV Really a Pastime?

Binge-watching television has become a prevalent pastime in America, but it can lead to negative psychological effects like anxiety and depression.
Digital life
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

Awareing Ourselves to Death

World Monitor aggregates over 100 real-time data streams into a dashboard resembling a situation room, presenting global information overload as intelligence without clear actionable purpose.
Media industry
fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 month ago

Matt Brittin: The former Google boss favourite to replace Tim Davie

Matt Brittin, a former Google executive, is reportedly a leading candidate to become the next BBC director-general, marking a potential shift toward tech industry leadership rather than traditional broadcasting backgrounds.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Digital blackface flourishes under Trump and AI: The state is bending reality'

Imma keep it real with you, a Black woman said in a viral TikTok post, I get over $2,500 a month in stamps. I sell 'em, $2,000 worth, for about $1,200-$1,500 cash. Another Black woman ranted about taxpayers' responsibility to her seven children with seven men, and yet another melted down after her food stamps were rejected at a corn-dog counter.
Social justice
Software development
fromKotaku
2 months ago

WarioWare Captcha Uses The Terrible Web To Test Your Humanity

CaptchaWare turns captcha tests into a fast-paced microgame gauntlet that escalates hostility and reflex demands to verify human users.
Europe politics
fromIndependent
1 month ago

Adrian Weckler: Getting a dodgy box to watch Game Of Thrones isn't a 'cost of living' issue

Illegal streaming devices threaten Ireland's television industry as pay TV subscriptions decline from 70% to 57% of households, with 400,000 homes using dodgy boxes and minimal political intervention.
Books
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

Enough With the Bros

The 'bro' suffix has become a lazy rhetorical device that transforms personal annoyances into social archetypes, preventing genuine critical analysis of why certain behaviors or interests actually warrant criticism.
Film
fromFuturism
2 months ago

The Reviews are in on Darren Aronofsky's AI-Generated Show, and May We Just Say: "Yikes"

Darren Aronofsky released an almost entirely AI-generated Revolutionary War video series whose poor AI visuals, anachronisms, and montage style have prompted widespread condemnation.
#ai-safety
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 month ago

The BBC journalist who hacked AI with a hilarious hot dog hoax

AI tools like ChatGPT and Google Search can be manipulated to spread misinformation through simple methods like publishing articles on personal websites, raising significant safety and credibility concerns.
UK politics
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 months ago

Question Time audience member's Reform UK care home' dig leaves studio laughing

Audience ridicule on BBC Question Time highlighted public scepticism that Reform UK can be a party of change amid high-profile Tory defections to Farage's party.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man review Tommy Shelby returns for muddy, bloody big-screen showdown

Peaky Blinders transitions from television to film with Tommy Shelby confronting his estranged son's criminal betrayal during World War II while battling personal demons and Nazi threats.
Artificial intelligence
fromThe Verge
2 months ago

Millions of books died so Claude could live

Companies raced to adopt large language models, using massive book digitization efforts and aggressive strategies while legal and moral disputes over those methods escalate.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

I asked AI to name my wife. To the hopelessly incorrect people it cited, my deepest apologies | Martin Rowson

Recently, the Rowsons accidentally invented a new game that anyone can play at home. I have yet to come up with a world-beating name for it, so for now let's just call it How bloody stupid is AI? The playing of the game will change from player to player, depending on their circumstances but essentially the rules remain the same. Ask AI a simple question about yourself, and see just how wrong it gets it.
Artificial intelligence
Media industry
fromThe Verge
1 month ago

The AI Doc is an overwrought hype piece for doomers and accelerationists alike

Focus Features' AI documentary has excellent access to industry leaders but fails to provide meaningful insights or substantive analysis about generative AI's societal impact.
Artificial intelligence
from9to5Mac
2 months ago

Anthropic pokes fun at ads in ChatGPT with Superbowl ad [Video] - 9to5Mac

Anthropic will keep Claude ad-free, citing risks of bias and engagement-driven incentives, while OpenAI plans to add ads into ChatGPT conversations.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

I'm fully prepared for our dystopian future!' Holliday Grainger on AI, firearms training and The Capture

Each series explores technology that feels just one step ahead of reality. In the era of AI, it feels more and more timely. Ben does a lot of research and we have advisers who inform us about the latest developments. Not just from the Met and counter-terror but military consultants as well. They're banks of information and a lot more open than you'd expect because it's all off the record.
Television
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Watching The Office recently, my heart just sank' Mackenzie Crook on comedy, cruelty and being TV royalty

Mackenzie Crook portrays Gordon in Small Prophets, a pedantic DIY-store manager amid a melancholic story centered on Michael's quiet grief and middle-age rumination.
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

YouTube criticised after pulling out of UK TV audience measurement

YouTube suspended participation in the UK cross-media measurement system after Google blocked data access to Barb and Kantar, drawing industry criticism.
fromThe Drum
2 months ago

Tom Goodwin: TV's wonderful digital video future

In order to 'modernise' what we have seen is the TV industry has taken its content, stuck it on a server, and, well, that's it. There's no masking the obvious - It looks like it wishes it didn't have to change. What else could they have done? Have any large TV companies embraced the world outside their own nation? Have any got stuck into interactive formats? Embraced shorter content? New types of ads or funding?
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