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14 hours in The Queue to see Queen Elizabeth's coffin

from British GQ

It's Friday night, the Queen is dead, and I'm about to do something ludicrous for money. At least, I'm telling people it's for money, texting my friends explanations as I arrive at Southwark Park to join what is already being called the longest queue in history.

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Was King Arthur a Real Person?

from Smithsonian Magazine

A cold, wind-driven rain soaks through my parka as I walk across a narrow foot-bridge that links the Cornwall mainland in southwest England to a rocky promontory overlooking the Bristol Channel.

Breaking: Historic day for crypto as Ethereum Merge to proof-of-stake occurs

from Cointelegraph

The Ethereum proof-of-stake consensus mechanism will cut energy consumption by a massive 99.95% compared to the proof-of-work system. On Sept.

Quiet & mass resignations

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When we say there are a lot of questions around this, it’s because there are actually many questions.

What does GPT-3 “know” about me?

from MIT Technology Review

For a reporter who covers AI, one of the biggest stories this year has been the rise of large language models. These are AI models that produce text a human might have written—sometimes so convincingly they have tricked people into thinking they are sentient.