Aggregator

Ministers admitted just days before the new Prime Minister was installed that small-boat arrivals made up just 7 per cent of migrants booted out.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: As AI companies search for more training data to improve their models, one company is offering old, printed books as an ideal source because they are guaranteed to be free of the very AI slop AI companies are producing. "The world's best AI training data is sitting on a shelf," ISBNdb, a company that produces what it claims is "the world's largest book database," and that offers high-volume book acquisition services for AI companies, says on its site. "Books represent curated, peer-reviewed, domain-specific human knowledge, structured in a way no web crawl can replicate. Dense, edited, authoritative." In one article on its site, ISBNdb explains that printed books published before 2022 are ideal for AI training data because they don't include AI generated text. As the article correctly notes, much of the data that AI companies can scrape from the internet today is likely to include AI generated text, which could result in "model collapse," a process by which AI models that are trained on AI generated data results in worse models that are more prone to errors. The article also notes that book authors who object to their writing being scraped for training purposes can now easily poison AI models by producing writing designed to manipulate and sabotage the resulting AI models. "Print books from the pre-LLM era are structurally guaranteed to be free of this contamination. That alone is a significant advantage [...] "Physical books published before this date [pre-2022] are structurally clean of modern poisoning tools." [...] ISBNdb advertises that it can keep the identity of AI companies secret. "Strict NDA [non-disclosure agreement] on every engagement," ISBNdb's site says. "Every project begins with a legally binding non-disclosure agreement. Your identity, strategy, and acquisition targets are never disclosed." ISBNdb notes that AI companies may not want to be caught destroying printed books during the scanning process. "The optics problem is real," ISBNdb's site says. "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

In his previous stint as a Treasury minister John Healey was involved in the creation of Child Trust Funds, which put £250 in a savings account for every newborn that they could only access when they 18.

Cersei, one of the show's most ruthless power brokers, is introduced to viewers in the throes of an affair with her warrior brother Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau).

The couple married in a 'perfect' Lake District wedding in the grounds of The Country House Cumbria, and they have now shared snippets of the magical day.

Ms Rayner made a stunning return to Cabinet on Monday night when she was appointed to new Prime Minister Andy Burnham's top team.

Trust but verify doesn't work when verification is difficult

Police were called to Cedar House, a sheltered housing scheme for residents aged over 60, at 2.44am on Tuesday before the man was pronounced dead.

James Desborough, 40, said he had 'lost all grip on reality' when he tried to hide the bodies of Daniel Coleman, 43, and Claudio Aquilino, 57 - including chopping one up.

Don't worry - it can attack ground targets, too

Spanish World Cup hero Lamine Yamal has mocked Argentina brute Leandro Paredes with a hilarious sign at the celebration parade in Madrid.

Japan's Royal Family has relaxed its succession rules as it struggles with the lack of heirs - but the ban on female empresses remains.

BrianFagioli writes: Canonical has launched the Enterprise Store as part of Ubuntu Pro, giving organizations a way to manage Ubuntu software distribution in restricted networks, behind firewalls, and in air gapped environments. The on premises proxy sits between devices and Canonical software stores, allowing companies to cache downloads, control software revisions, and manage snaps and charms without requiring every system to connect directly to the internet. The Enterprise Store is designed for organizations with strict security requirements, including regulated industries and environments where predictable software updates and audit controls are important.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

People have been trying to visit the historic Mulberry Harbour

Showing signs of ageing is one of life's inevitabilities, but according to an expert, not everyone's skin matures in the same way.

For years, men have carved out 'dens' and 'caves' filled with Star Wars memorabilia, football posters and sophisticate beer coolers. And now, a new contender has emerged - the 'girl lair'.

AWS' me-south-1 region has been offline for months, so more like beating a dead cloud

The owners took a massive hit after paying £695,000 in June 2011 for the property, whose normal market value is listed at between £1.1 and £1.6million.

American troops deaths in the war have risen to 18 as nearly 100 US troops have been injured in Iranian strikes on bases across the Middle East over the past two weeks.

Ayub Ali, from San Diego, California , was visiting London when he was tricked into travelling to an Airbnb in Wembley on October 4 last year after being contacted by Bushra Ahmed, 20.