AMOC collapse—what is it?

“We are moving closer (to the collapse), but we’re not sure how much closer, We are heading towards a tipping point.” – Rene van Westen, a climate scientist and oceanographer at Utrecht University in the Netherlands; phys.org The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Citculation, or AMOC is a crucial ocean temperature regulation system; much like the Gulf […]

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Sam Altman returns as OpenAI CEO

After some semi-terrifying leaks about Q-Star/Q* RLHF (Reinforcement Learning through Human Feedback) and greater-than-human intelligence capabilities for Q; Altman returns to the company after a tumultuous few days… http://www.perplexity.ai/search/4a587580-acfa-4574-83d5-b7e431cf809e Sam Altman has been reinstated as the CEO of OpenAI after a tumultuous series of events. Altman was initially fired by OpenAI’s board of directors, who […]

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* In iOS 16, a reimagined Lock Screen lets you personalise
your iPhone with a dazzling variety of fonts, colours and
widgets; Personal Focus helps define boundaries between
work and home; and in Messages, you can now edit – or
even unsend – messages after you’ve sent them.
– In macOS Ventura, Stage Manager beautifully organises
your apps and windows in a single view, Continuity Camera
enables you to use your iPhone as a powerful webcam and
Mail adds the ability to undo send, schedule send and add
rich links.
– In iPadOS 16, see multiple overlapping windows in a
single view with Stage Manager, use iPad Pro or iPad Air
with an external display and explore full-screen maps with
beautiful animations in the new Weather app.
– In watchOS 9, check out the Workout Views such as
Heart Rate Zones, the Medications app that helps you
remember to take your meds and the range of
customisable new Apple Watch faces.

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Thousands attend memorial for Al Jazeera journalist — Shireen Abu Akleh

A memorial service for Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh was held on
Thursday, a day after she was fatally shot while reporting on an Israeli military
raid on Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank. Thousands of mourners attended
the memorial at the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s residence,
where he said in a speech that he rejected Israel’s offer for a joint investigation
into the killing and vowed to take the case to the International Criminal Court.
Content warning: This timeline includes live-updating Tweets which may consist
of sensitive media from this developing news story.

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Drug “smugglers” grey market importers strapping contraband to ships’ hulls in bid to outsmart Australian P&D&C—that just makes our 🐊 and 🐬 even stronger tbqh

Drug “smugglers” grey market importers strapping contraband to ships’ hulls in bid to outsmart Australian P&D&C https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-11/drug-smugglers-stash-contraband-ships-hull-australian-ports/101053844 that just makes our 🐊 and 🐬 even stronger tbqh

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