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Watching an ad would earn players another block of ad-free play time, called a "credit"

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..., the airport's centerpiece would be a display aircraft wrapped in Vice City logos, alongside a GTA 6-inspired baggage claim, customized baggage carousels or column wraps, themed luggage carts, limited-edition luggage tags, or coordinated airport signage. Arriving passengers would see "Welcome to Vice City" messages when disembarking their planes.

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The officer falsely claimed he contacted missing persons and prematurely closed their cases on the South Korean holiday island of Jeju.

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Alt.A Mr. Incredible Becoming Uncanny meme.

Smiling Mr. Incredible: Lazarus syndrome

Uncanny Mr. Incredible: Lazarus sign (CW: shows a thumbnail of a brain-dead person right when you open the article)

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Surge in proposals follows Labour’s lifting of de facto ban, with about 45 plans submitted in the year to March

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Kyoto Prefectural Police have arrested a man accused of uploading copyrighted TV programs to the torrent site Nyaa, following an investigation that began several years ago.

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Forensics revealed that the 'realistic' looking body was in fact not human.

[-] FTonsilStones@lemmy.ca 77 points 2 months ago

Per the article, yes:

Screen readers used by blind readers also work from the code, so they read the decoys aloud.

But:

ShieldFont ships with a beta feature that provides those readers with the real text instead.

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Most mass scrapers, on the other hand, simply grab the raw HTML underneath. ShieldFont exploits this difference through an automated process called OpenType glyph substitution.

That said, because the whole defense rests on scrapers reading code rather than screens, taking a screenshot of a shielded page and running OCR on the image can still recover the real words.

Screen readers used by blind readers also work from the code, so they read the decoys aloud. ShieldFont ships with a beta feature that provides those readers with the real text instead.

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Pioneering study linking noise pollution to Parkinson’s finds 3% increase in risk for every 11.5dB rise in noise levels

Existing research has found potential biological pathways that link noise exposure to Parkinson’s disease, largely due to stress responses and disrupted sleep.

The study, published in Jama Neurology, included 3.1 million Danish participants aged 40 and over, and followed them for 18 years.

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A crew in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Oakland spotted a pigeon ‘in distress’ after a vehicle fire

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Timing of Devon switchoff ‘could not be worse’, says board, as members face an estimated £2m in lost revenue

[-] FTonsilStones@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This woman in Aceh got 100 lashes:

The woman’s flogging was briefly paused because she could not bear the pain, according to an Agence France-Presse reporter in the field.

Apparently she survived it though.

[-] FTonsilStones@lemmy.ca 12 points 4 months ago

Per the article, they didn't remove the livers, only depleted the macrophages:

"We found that after macrophage depletion, pigeons flying under overcast conditions lacked their usual orientation capabilities," they said.

Also:

When the sun was visible, the birds' orientation was unimpaired, suggesting that visual and solar-based cues were another of the pigeons' navigation methods.

[-] FTonsilStones@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago

Still, the technology has its weaknesses. Kim said the system carries a hallucination rate of about 15 percent, including instances where it misidentifies an object as a person, which is why human judgment remains the final call.

Don't worry, they treat it as a tool, like how people treat doorbell cameras with motion detection.

[-] FTonsilStones@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago

Oops, my bad for didn't read the whole article.

Still, the technology has its weaknesses. Kim said the system carries a hallucination rate of about 15 percent, including instances where it misidentifies an object as a person, which is why human judgment remains the final call.

The AI only flagged the people (or the objects it misidentified as people), but the human still decides whether those people are worth checking on. I think it still the human's fault if a lot of innocent people get harrassed by the police.

[-] FTonsilStones@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

... triggers an alarm if an object identified as a person remains for more than 300 seconds in a bridge’s “loitering zones” ...

I don't know how the AI can hallucinates in such scenario, but it's better to harass some people to prevent some other people from committing suicide on those bridges.

[-] FTonsilStones@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago

Those bears are living in mountainous areas with forest cover. One of the causes of the bear population boom was the declining number of hunters in those areas. The Japanese government had allocated 3.4 billion yen (around 21 million US dollars) for "bear countermeasures" in 2025. They also had already deployed soldiers to put traps and allowed the police to shoot and kill bears when necessary.

[-] FTonsilStones@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 months ago

Plot twist, it was actually a Boston accent.

[-] FTonsilStones@lemmy.ca 36 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

An impact of such a drone to a building:

Credits: Reuters via SCMP

[-] FTonsilStones@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The World Institute of Kimchi is an affiliate institution of Korea Food Research Institute, which is government-funded. (per Wikipedia)

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