Sam Dickinson looks at Turnitin’s paused plan to put student essays to work on AI – and finds that neither anonymisation nor university regulations answer the copyright question

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Students are "scared" about proposals which could see their work used to train AI, their union says.

I've been interested in atproto (the protocol that Bluesky, Blacksky, and many other applications - including pckt, where this blog is hosted! - run on) for abo...

It’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within the text to suggest its provenance. The idea that anyth...

Ofcom has today set out the next steps in its investigation into X, and the limitations of the UK’s Online Safety Act in relation to AI chatbots.

Resignation of Black professor forces university to examine its approach to diversity, equality and inclusion

Solar railways could soon become commonplace in Europe, following a successful trial in Switzerland.

Thanks must go to zoesfeatherboa for this one. Over on Bluesky, ZBF pointed out that the solar weapon from the climax of The Man With The G...

The British rail operator South Western Railway has launched a crackdown on passengers who buy tickets only for the final leg of their journey, so that they can exit through the ticket gates at London stations.