Many of the English language technologies you use every day (voice assistants, spell checkers, translation tools, search functions) share a common origin story. They're built using AI language models, and many of those models are trained on millions of Wikipedia…
An American has written and edited thousands of articles on Wikipedia's official Scots language page, according to Motherboard.AmaryllisGardener, a Scottish Wikipedia administrator, has been misspelling English words on the site to mimic a stereotypical Scottish accent since 2013.The incident has…
Image: ZDNet It has now become a common tactic for large ransomware groups to create what is called "leak sites"where they upload and disclose sensitive documents from companies that refuse to pay the costs of decryption of the ransomware.These "leak…
YouTube has banned controversial creator Calvin Lee Vail, better known as LeafyIsHere, for repeatedly violating the company policies on harassment. The ban follows sweeping changes to YouTube's harassment policy aimed at deterring behavior that in part helped commentator community creators…
Ripple is a cutting-edge Silicon Valley tech startup with ambitions to one day be “to payments what Amazon was to books.”Its state-of-the-art technology is said to enable financial institutions "to send money across borders, instantly, reliably, and for fractions of…
Key points to remember Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse's page has been edited several times to remove a section on controversies this month Both sides in the edit war have plausible conflicts of interest This is just one of hundreds of…
Buckle up, guys! We are here to talk about BoJack Rider. I binge BoJack Rider during college, and he quickly replaced Bob's Burgers like my favorite show to watch when I was stressed or had a lot of crazy work…
Elon Musk Elon Musk's Wikipedia page has been locked for editing after Tesla's multi-billionaire CEO encouraged people to 'push' him on the site. "History is written by the victors... except on Wikipedia," Musk tweeted on Sunday. In a follow-up tweet,…
Multi-billionaire tech tycoon Elon Musks' Wikipedia page has been locked for editing after Tesla's CEO encouraged people to "throw" him on the site. "History is written by the victors... except on Wikipedia," Musk tweeted on Sunday. …
Austin Slater came into Saturday's game against the Los Angeles Dodgers with two singles in nine at bats against Clayton Kershaw. Everything changed for the Giants right fielder in their 5-4 victory over their rival. Slater homered against Kershaw in…
After Google's acquisition of JotSpot, the launch of Google Sites in 2008 made it easy for many users to create wiki-style websites. Eight years later, a new google site was introduced to the general public to replace the withered shell…