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  • One million public Bluesky posts scraped for AI training

    Bluesky is already facing its first major AI scrape, despite the stance of its owners that it will never train generative AI on user data. Reported by 404Media on Nov. 26, one million public Bluesky posts — complete with identifying user information — were crawled and then uploaded to AI company Hugging Face. The dataset…

  • ElevenLabs’ new feature is a NotebookLM competitor for creating GenAI podcasts

    Voice AI startup ElevenLabs on Wednesday introduced a feature that lets you upload different types of content to create a multispeaker podcast for you, similar to Google’s NotebookLM. The feature, called GenFM, can be found on the company’s ElevenLabs Reader iOS app. Currently, GenFM supports 32 languages, including English, Hindi, Portuguese, Chinese, Spanish, French, German,…

  • Meta’s Threads is developing its own take on Bluesky’s ‘Starter Packs’

    Hoping to quell some of the momentum behind social network Bluesky, a competitor to X and Meta’s Threads, Meta is developing a feature that takes inspiration from one of Bluesky’s more popular additions: the concept of “Starter Packs,” or hand-curated lists of suggested users that help newcomers find people to follow. Meta’s version of these…

  • 'You can't wipe out Billingsgate Fish Market overnight'

    BBC Trader Tony Lyons would like to see another market like Billingsgate emerge “There will always be a place to buy fish from in London. It might not be here and it probably won’t be called Billingsgate but it will continue.” The news that London’s oldest fish market is facing permanent closure has shocked and…

  • Domestic abuse cases rarely convicted, data shows

    Getty Images Fewer than half of domestic abuse cases in England and Wales end up as police-recorded crimes, and most of these do not lead to a prosecution, government figures suggest. An estimated 2.3m people were victims of domestic abuse in the year to March 2024, according to the Crime Survey for England and Wales.…

  • Autistic abuse case must never happen again, No 10 says

    Watch: CCTV footage of children being abused at Whitefield School is shown to parents The abuse of autistic children that took place at the Whitefield School in north-east London was “horrendous” and “must never happen again”, the prime minister’s spokesperson has said. The BBC has obtained footage of children at the school being shoved into…

  • Protest arrests after six detained over links to Kurdish rebel group PKK

    Reuters Police officers stand near a Kurdish community centre in Haringey, north London Six people have been arrested by counter-terrorism police in London for suspected activity linked to the banned militant group, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The Metropolitan Police said two women, aged 59 and 31, and four men, aged 27, 62, 56 and…

  • Lions To Place WR Kalif Raymond On IR

    The Lions will be without their primary punt returner for an extended stretch as a result of a Week 12 injury. They are placing Kalif Raymond on IR, NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport notes. Sustaining a foot injury, Raymond is not expected to miss the rest of the season. The Lions, who have five injury activations remaining,…

  • Giants Likely To Start Drew Lock In Week 13

    Although Brian Daboll declared Tommy DeVito would remain the Giants’ starter for their Week 13 Thanksgiving matchup in Dallas, the popular New York passer has run into injury trouble. DeVito is not traveling with the Giants to Dallas today, the team announced. A forearm injury has required more testing, with NFL.com’s Mike Garafolo noting the…

  • Jets’ Tyron Smith Likely Heading To IR?

    Injuries continued to intervene during Tyron Smith‘s lengthy second Cowboys contract, playing a central role in why he remained attached to an eight-year deal over its duration. While the accomplished left tackle has been generally available for the Jets, that appears likely to change soon. Interim Jets HC Jeff Ulbrich said Smith’s neck injury is…