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WordPress.com Education, is an initiative launched earlier week, designed to give school students across the world resources to setup and maintain their own blog: This isn't a stripped-down classroom version of WordPress.com. The Student Plan includes plu

I can't remember the last time I applied for a permanent full-time job, but it was in the years soon after I left school. I held a couple of these sorts of jobs, but have pretty much worked freelance since. Leads there have come through people I know, or

AI companies using rare books to train agents, while destroying them. Using books without the author's consent, nor paying royalties is bad enough, but destroying them?

Touch Grass, the debut novel of Sydney based Australian author Mary Colussi, was published in June this year. And a fraudulent publishing deal was not too far behind. In this instance though AI slop played a part in giving the scam away. An email sent to

A few years ago I did an online coffee quiz. Highly scientific no doubt. My taste in coffee was - because I'm primarily a cappuccino drinker - adjudged to be "entry level". Nice. I occasionally partake of other varieties, like short black or piccolo, but

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

It looks like AI scrapers have been using a surreptitious method of making their marauding presence appear legitimate, this time by appending a bogus query parameter, or tracking tag, to the URL of the webpage they are targeting. In the last month or so,

It does puzzles me why these scrapers only seem to be targeting the front page of my website. Only a small amount of the total content posted here is visible there. But theyre AI bots, no doubt they know what theyre doing.

Im still reading through Meta CEO Mark Zuckerbergs recently published vision of an AI future, but this paragraph jumped out at me :

Located one-point-one-five billion light years from Earth, the behemoth galaxy, at one-point-seven-million light in years in length, somewhat dwarfs our home, the Milky Way, which measures in at a mere one-hundred-thousand light years across. Using kilopa