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Google greenhouse gas emissions grow as it powers AI
Google greenhouse gas emissions grow as it powers AI
by  AFP

Google, despite its goal of achieving net-zero emissions, is pumping out more greenhouse gas than before as it powers data centers needed to support artificial intelligence, the company said. Google is not alone in facing the challenge of feeding power-hungry AI data centers, while trying to curb creation of climate-changing greenhouse gas.

Lebanon says Israeli GPS jamming confounding ground, air traffic
Lebanon says Israeli GPS jamming confounding ground, air traffic
by  AFP

Uber driver Hussein Khalil was battling traffic in Beirut when he found himself in the Gaza Strip -- according to his online map, anyway -- as location jamming blamed on Israel disrupts life in Lebanon. Numerous residents have reported their online map location as appearing at Beirut airport while they were actually elsewhere in the capital.

'Google is broken': How an algorithm tweak cost livelihoods
'Google is broken': How an algorithm tweak cost livelihoods
by  AFP

Google made major changes to its search algorithm and spam filters earlier this year to get rid of low-quality content -- but the effects have proved devastating to some smaller websites. The US firm is notoriously secretive about its algorithms -- so much so that an entire industry known as "search engine optimisation" has grown up trying to game the algorithm to get more clicks.

Bot-like accounts spreading 'hate' during UK election: NGO
Bot-like accounts spreading 'hate' during UK election: NGO
by  AFP

Bot-like social media accounts have spread "disinformation and hate" in tens of thousands of posts viewed an estimated 150 million times during the UK general election campaign, a watchdog investigation revealed Tuesday. Ava Lee, campaign leader at Global Witness, urged X and other social media companies to "clean up their platforms and put our democracies before profit".