General News Thread

The Tesco’s in Kirkwall in the Orkney Islands over ordered bananas to the quantity of 38,000, only about 22,000 people live in the whole of the Orkney Islands.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3r384ye7reo

That's one huge banana skin

Someone could make a lot of smoothies

The government has refused permission for Kanya West to travel to the UK to appear at the Wireless Festival this summer.

Wireless Festival has now been cancelled

Apparently, Anthropic have created an AI model so powerful that it can break the cybersecurity of any individual or organisation that they have only released it to select organisations before a general release.

https://youtu.be/o0MggVfQo2Y?si=delR3KgjSHbKuSuR

2 men stabbed in Golders Green Terror attack.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cddp47gj07yo

Taken down by Police armed only with Tasers and size 10 boots. No doubt the usual bleeding hearts will moan about excessive force but it looks entirely appropriate to me.,

So, our stabby friend arrived from Somalia as a child, has a history of violence and the usual convenient "Mental Health" problems and was known to Prevent.

All so tediously predictable.

Nice to see the Army and Airforce parachute into tristan da cunha one of the remote islands on the planet to deliver medical aid after a case of suspected of hantavirus was on the island after an islander came back from that cruise ship and then a couple of weeks later had fell unwell

^Moronic interviewer on Sky News asked Brigadier Cartwright if the had a plan to get them back out as the Island has no Airstrip.

You could see from the look on his face he wanted to say "on a boat you fuckwit".

Sky News: MET Police touts success of live facial recognition trial

"During the six-month trial, the Met Police said 173 suspects were arrested for crimes including kidnapping, rape and serious sexual assault."

"During the trial, the force added that crime in the area reduced by 10.5% and there was a 21% reduction in violence against women and girls."

I love this story about emergence world.

They placed a group of AI agents in a virtual world for 15 days. Some were powered by Gemini, some by GPT, and others by Grok and Claude.

They all had the same starting conditions and in the first couple of days they all did more or less the same things. They set and followed rules, cooperated, formed democracies, etc.

But soon enough things descended into anarchy. The Grok agents committed hundreds of crimes, set buildings on fire, and basically ran amok. Gemini created a system that punished cooperation and rewarded chaos. GPT agents said all the right things, but did nothing, and were extinct before the simulation completed!

Only Claude appears to have behaved like a society — a constitutional democracy with zero crime.

Choose your AIs wisely my friends!