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[Brian Cox @ProfBrianCox]

There are many things this ‘could’ be, one of which is a giant space turd shat, intentionally or otherwise, towards the solar system from what passes for the arse of a sentient molecular cloud. My money, however, is on a lump of ice and rock.

[RAF_Luton @RAF_Luton]

Fact of the Day: Vulcan bomber flying over The Angel of the North (Tyne & Wear). The Angel was completed on the 31st Feb 1926 and the open arms "gis us a hug man" gesture from the angel is to symbolise the Geordies love of Mackems

Photographed from a Canberra

[pauljcripps @pauljcripps]

@verekerrichard1 Spoken like a true IT professional 🤣

[pauljcripps @pauljcripps]

Someone over at Windows update HQ is having a very bad day today....

[pauljcripps @pauljcripps]

What is the point of Scheduled Ancient Monuments legislation then....?
BBC News - Ancient monument to be partially destroyed by HS2
https://t.co/jkGeB6yA2N

[pauljcripps @pauljcripps]

Possibly the greatest perspective on the rise and fall of civilisations ever put forward.

[Brian Cox @ProfBrianCox]

Honestly - a few of the replies to this little tribute to engineering excellence exhibit a level of stupidity that suggests to me that it won’t be long before our spacecraft are the only thing that remains of our increasingly dim-witted civilisation. Until recently my guess has been that the answer to the Fermi Paradox might be found in biology - complex biological systems are rare. I’m increasingly of the view that the reason for The Great Silence is that civilisations are inevitably crushed by the weight of nobheads shortly after inventing the internet.

[pauljcripps @pauljcripps]

Total Recall - love it!
Not loving having my screen scraped and stored at all, but storing it unencrypted is just plain dumb...

[Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu]

Turns out Microsoft’s AI Recall feature is not very secure. “The database is unencrypted. It’s all plain text.”

So homie built a tool to extract it all and called it ‘Total Recall’ 😂

[pauljcripps @pauljcripps]

The full story of the thefts from the BM. Truly shocking.

BBC News - British Museum gems for sale on eBay - how a theft was exposed - BBC News
https://t.co/dQe0jGHcLn

[Rowan Zellers @rown]

Excited to introduce GPT-4o.

Language, vision, and sound -- all together and all in real time.

This thing has been so much fun to work on. It's been even more fun to play with -- with moments of magic where things feel totally fluid and I forget I'm video chatting with an AI.

[Ely Museum @ElyMuseum]

Sadly, in the early hours of Tuesday 7 May, Ely Museum was broken into. Thieves stole the East Cambridgeshire gold torc and a gold bracelet, both dating from the Bronze Age.

The police are currently investigating the theft. We will be closed to the public on Wednesday 8 May.

[pauljcripps @pauljcripps]

Whilst the sale may not be strictly illegal, it's certainly not ethical or appropriate. Not only are such sales offensive to many, not least those who may have a connection with the remains, activities for commercial gain taint the legitimacy of all treatment of human remains.

[pauljcripps @pauljcripps]

Goodbye to another legend, way too soon. RIP MC Conrad. I was lucky to see you perform many times, inspirational sets every one.

https://t.co/LKL3PJaGuT

[pauljcripps @pauljcripps]

It's that time of year again when the automated adjustment of meeting times by calendar tools should not be trusted; just rocked up to a meeting almost an hour late rather then the five minutes early i thought i was - thanks google... #facepalm

[pauljcripps @pauljcripps]

A farewell to Daniel Kahneman...
https://t.co/0SreXn8KNn

[pauljcripps @pauljcripps]

I'm guessing all the flat earthers believe this to be all cgi etc, so I'd be keen to understand how in the real world, this animation correlates so well with what all the many thousands of observers on the ground saw with their actual eyes...
https://t.co/EYZQQedWhp

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Here's a fun AI story: a security researcher noticed that large companies' AI-authored source-code repeatedly referenced a nonexistent library (an AI "hallucination"), so he created a (defanged) malicious library with that name and uploaded it.

1/

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

Why and how the Generative AI bubble might pop within the next twelve months.

I lay out some analysis and scenarios at my newsletter, link below

[pauljcripps @pauljcripps]

Fun times on this day 9 years ago...
@Ceribin @Elsilrac @Keith_May

[pauljcripps @pauljcripps]

Beer O'Clock. With @Ceribin @Elsilrac @Keith_May at #caasiena :-)

[Spinscott @spinscott]

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