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Kerala’s reforms department recommends efficiency-based promotions, scientific redeployment of staff

Promotions based on efficiency, redeployment of personnel to prop up understaffed departments and the creation of an ‘institutional memory’ bank modelled on Wikipedia are among recommendations made by the Personnel and Administrative Reforms department for improving the operational efficiency of the government service in Kerala.

The Hindu

Russia's homegrown Wikipedia promises a 'different direction' from its inspiration: One where Yevgeny Prigozhin just happened to explode in mid-air

Launched in January, Ruwiki is another attempt by Russia to secure domestic "digital sovereignty."

PC Gamer

Exploring The Visionaries Of Internet Success

Explore the profiles of tech visionaries who revolutionized the internet and digital technology.

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“We weren’t even talking for a while. Creatively it was just a mess. I didn’t like the scene we were part of and I wanted away from it all”: Where Primus went in 2000 and how they came back

Les Claypool brought his main band to London ahead of Green Naugahyde’s launch and revealed the tribulations he’d undergone in the 14 years since his previous visit

Louder

Digital trail identifying Israeli spy chief has been online for years

IDF cyber-intelligence chief Yossi Sariel exposed online by social media activity and accidental government leak

The Guardian - UK

Jerry Jeudy exchanges jabs with Mark Schlereth on Twitter

USA Today Sports Media Group

Tulu Wikipedia more than doubles in size in seven years

A group of dedicated academics and language enthusiasts have kept the Tulu language Wikipedia pages alive for the last over seven years. But some institutional support would give it a big boost, they say.

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The Crunch: cherry tree blooms, the cost of booze and AI bias

We look at four of the best charts from the past fortnight, including why the number of preventive police searches has surged

The Guardian - AU

Wikipedia Pages That Sound Too Wild To Be True (38 Examples)

People online shared wild articles that can be found on Wikipedia. The post Wikipedia Pages That Sound Too Wild To Be True (38 Examples) first appeared on Bored Panda.

Bored Panda

The Guardian view on Wikipedia’s female volunteers: a hive heroism that changes history

Editorial: In the week of International Women’s Day, raise a glass to the unpaid contributors who are putting so many unsung lives on the map

The Guardian - UK

Ben Frost on working with Steve Albini: "As a recording engineer, he’s the equivalent of a war photographer – he’s not composing images and dictating proportions, he’s documenting what’s occurring in a space"

On Scope Neglect, Ben Frost extends his guitar obsession by re-engineering our perception of metal music

MusicRadar

UK academic’s Wikipedia project raises profile of women around the world

Lucy Moore has created a page for at least one woman from every country in the world for the online encyclopedia

The Guardian - UK

AI-generated articles have no place on the web: Wikipedia and Google consider complacent publications generally unreliable in seismic shift

CNET's ranking on Wikipedia has taken a major hit after the publication started publishing AI-generated articles in 2022. It has now been ranked as generally unreliable on the platforms.

Windows Central

Magic secrets on the moon: Q&A with David Copperfield (exclusive)

Famed illusionist David Copperfield discusses his involvement with Intuitive Machines' historic moon mission and his desire to help preserve humanity's knowledge on and away from Earth.

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International Business Times UK

Elon Musk Promotes xAI's Grok Amid Google Gemini Accuracy Concerns

Google has temporarily paused its Gemini image generator, citing reports of it generating inaccurate depictions of historical pictures.

International Business Times

Senior Czechs Refine Wikipedia As Retirement Hobby

A frail 80-year-old retiree does not fit everyone's idea of a tech-savvy Wikipedia writer, but Jirina Kadnerova is a devoted contributor to the online encyclopedia.

Crikey

Clearview AI is still collecting photos of Australians for its facial recognition database

Clearview AI said it can’t stop using Australians’ data for its facial recognition software because it can’t tell who’s Australian.

WEKU

NPR names tech executive Katherine Maher to lead in turbulent era

Incoming NPR CEO Katherine Maher has a background in tech and world affairs. She says the network's mission fits neatly with her advocacy of the free flow of information in expanding democracy.

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Salon

Ackman Harvard attack backfires on wife

"It certainly appears that the focus was never really about antisemitism and protecting students," scholar says

Tom’s Hardware

This Raspberry Pi 5 cyberdeck is ready for doomsday

Raspduino Uno is using a Raspberry Pi 5 to power their latest portable cyberdeck complete with a copy of Wikipedia’s database.

The Guardian - US

Media now in Bill Ackman’s sights after wife embroiled in plagiarism row

Billionaire vows to tackle ‘problems with how our media operates’ after Neri Oxman accused of plagiarism in PhD thesis

Reason

Hell Hath No Fury

Plus: Nuking the Hamptons, upcharging the autists, tearing down the statues, and more...

The Independent UK

Bill Ackman says lifting from Wikipedia is not plagiarism after his wife’s work questioned

‘Neri has yet to vet yesterday’s plagiarism allegations, but she will get to them when she has time to do so,’ Mr Ackman wrote

The Independent UK

Wife of investor who pushed for resignation of Harvard president faces plagiarism accusations

‘I regret and apologize for these errors,’ Neri Oxman wrote after she was made aware of some of the allegations

The Guardian - US

Wife of financier who called for Harvard head’s exit faces plagiarism allegations

After Claudine Gay was ousted amid accusations of plagiarism, Neri Oxman was accused of copying from Wikipedia in dissertation

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