Wantaway Enzo Fernández left out of Carabao Cup tie
Villa sign Germany midfielder Leon Goretzka on free
Chelsea have agreed a £7.5m deal to sign the Aston Villa goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez and are expecting Manchester City to make an offer for Enzo Fernández in the next 48 hours.
Xabi Alonso identified the signing of a goalkeeper as a priority after Robert Sánchez struggled against Fulham last Monday and the deal for Martínez has gone through quickly. The Argentina international is out of favour at Villa after their acquisition of Zion Suzuki and is due to sign a two-year contract with the option of a further year.
‘Godzilla’ event currently brewing could push 50 million people into acute hunger before the end of next year
A series of strong El Niño climatic patterns in recent decades, such as the “Godzilla” event currently brewing that is set to warp weather around the world, have been supercharged by the broader overheating of the planet caused by the burning of fossil fuels, a major new study has found.
El Niño is a naturally occurring phenomenon, taking place every two to seven years, when the waters of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean heat up, causing a cascade of impacts around the world. The latest developing El Niño, set to peak later this year, is set to be the strongest in living memory and has been informally dubbed a “Godzilla” event.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Operation Bluebird, the Virginia-based startup trying to revive the allegedly abandoned "Twitter" name and logo, announced Monday that it has launched its new social media network: Twitter.now. "We are a small company, we have investors, and we have a product," Stephen Coates, one of Operation Bluebird's cofounders, told Ars. "And we have waited months and months to launch, and we are not going to wait anymore."
[...] Twitter.now, still in its nascent stage, only has hundreds of users for the time being. The social media network looks and feels much like the Twitter of old and many of its offshoots -- it has replies and retweets. A new and notable feature is the automated fact-checking tool, a Gemini-based "veracity engine for real-time analysis" ("Vera" for short), which runs on every tweet. Coates has been testing Vera in recent days by posting obviously false messages, like "George Washington was our second president."
"Our first goal is to see if we can truly bring back a town square that's safer and less harmful," he said. "We say freedom of speech and not freedom of reach. We want people to say what they want, but we also want to create a platform that's not financially locked into that viral content that's harmful or inaccurate." Operation Bluebird argues that Elon Musk effectively abandoned the Twitter brand and trademarks when he renamed the company X, opening the door for the startup to claim them. X Corp. sued to stop the effort, but a federal judge tentatively ruled in April that X appeared to have relinquished rights to "tweet," the bird logo, and possibly "Twitter" itself, though no written ruling has been issued.
Bluebird has taken that as enough of a green light to move forward while emphasizing that its new Twitter is not affiliated with X. "Operation Bluebird, Inc. picked up the name X Corp. walked away from and is rebuilding it on trust, in your browser at twitter.now," it states prominently on its website. "We are not X, and we are not affiliated with X Corp."
“Elena Vasquez and Marcus Chen have appeared as volcano experts, astronauts, thriller protagonists, podcast hosts, and academic co-authors across hundreds of independently produced AI-generated documents, never having lived,” a new preprint research paper from Samsung and the University of Warsaw said.
The paper identified a number of names that co-authored hundreds of AI-generated academic papers, articles, and books. The authors don’t actually exist, but are instead names that large language models repeatedly produce when tasked with generating experts in certain fields.
The researchers were able to show not only that LLMs often default to the same names, but that they produce “correlated character ensembles,” meaning some names were more likely to appear together. Other names that were consistently generated by AI models include Elena Amara Okafor from Claude, Aris Thorne and Lena Petrova from Gemini, and Elara Voss from ChatGPT.
Earlier this month, I reported a story about Research Gold, a company that offered what it claimed was human medical research, but that was in fact entirely AI generated. The founder and lead methodologist for that company was named Elena Vasquez. Research Gold removed Elena Vasquez from its site after I published the story.
Michał Brzozowskim, the lead author of the paper, told me that searching for these names on Google turned up other instances of AI generated personalties. For example, following the killing of Alex Pretti at the hands of U.S. Border Patrol agents in January, a rumor spread on Facebook that he was fired from his nursing job for misconduct allegations. Snopes reported that the false statement was attributed to “executive director Dr. Elena Vasquez,” who does not exist.
Brzozowskim was able to search databases of academic papers for the names they knew LLMs often generated.
“On Zenodo, a CERN operated repository that mints real DataCite DOIs, we identify 1,655 ghost-authored records claiming nonexistent journals with fabricated publication dates.” A DOI, or a Digital Object Identifier, is a string of characters and numbers used to identify academic papers. The researchers saw that many of the papers authored by these AI names were backdated, meaning their publication dates were different from the date they were uploaded to Zenodo.
Anyone with a free account can create a DOI on Zenodo, but the existence of AI generated papers with DOIs has impacts on other parts of the web and academic publishing.
“These [AI generated papers] carry real DOIs harvestable by any scholarly aggregator; the infrastructure for large-scale scholarly record contamination is already in place. Ghost names additionally appear on ResearchGate, forming synthetic research groups with collaborators drawn from multiple model families, and are indexed without verification by Google Scholar and Semantic Scholar [...] The academic record is being quietly haunted.”
Research Gate and Google Scholar are both aggregators of academic publishing that are likely to come up in search results.
The researchers say that different LLMs and versions of those LLMs generate certain names so consistently, they think they can use them to determine the provenance of AI slop. For example, the name Elena Vasquez was particularly common in content generated by Claude Sonnet 4, so papers that list her as an author were likely generated by that LLM. However, Brzozowskim said that this level of accuracy might not hold for long now that AI generated content with these names is flooding the internet and feeding back into all AI models that are scraping the internet for training data.
The fact that AI academic publishing is struggling to deal with the load of AI generated content isn’t new. We’ve previously reported that scientific journals have published AI generated text, that AI is impacting the peer review process, and that the open-access repository for preprint academic research Arxiv will now ban authors for a year if they are caught submitting AI generated work. The potential upside of this research is that these names might allow us to detect this AI generated content more easily.
NEW YORK (ANP) - Tallon Griekspoor heeft het bij de loting van de US Open niet getroffen. De beste Nederlandse tennisser van dit moment is in de eerste ronde gekoppeld aan de Amerikaan Ben Shelton, de nummer 9 van de wereld. Griekspoor neemt zelf de 56e positie in. Het wordt de eerste ontmoeting op de ATP Tour tussen Griekspoor en Shelton.
Botic van de Zandschulp, die donderdag de kwartfinale speelt van het ATP-toernooi van Winston-Salem, speelt in de eerste ronde van de US Open tegen de Brit Jan Choinski. Van de Zandschulp staat op de wereldranglijst vier plaatsen hoger: 71e om 75e.
Jesper de Jong, de derde Nederlandse deelnemer in het mannenenkelspel, treft een tennisser uit het kwalificatietoernooi.
WASHINGTON (ANP/RTR/AFP) - Donald Trump hernoemt Lake Ontario (Ontariomeer), dat op de grens ligt van de VS en Canada, naar Lake Amerika. Hij heeft een decreet daartoe ondertekend. Volgens de Amerikaanse president is de naamswijziging direct van kracht.
Het meer grenst aan de Canadese provincie Ontario en de Amerikaanse staat New York. Het is een van de vijf grote meren in het grensgebied van de beide landen.
De VS en Canada zijn in een handelsconflict verwikkeld nadat handelsgesprekken tussen de beide landen vorige week vastliepen. Beide partijen beschuldigen elkaar van het mislukken van de onderhandelingen. "De Canadese ambtenaren hebben ons heel slecht behandeld", zei Trump tegen verslaggevers in het Witte Huis over de naamswijziging. "Het zijn nare mensen".
Bij zijn aantreden in januari 2025 nam Trump al een vergelijkbaar besluit. Hij tekende toen een decreet om de Golf van Mexico om te dopen naar Golf van Amerika.
Steeds vaker in onze tijdlijn, en alhier al eens op de website, filmpjes van een kennelijk 43-jarige Groninger die zich 'Eppo Tjuchem' noemt en laat zien hoe het er aan toegaat op de verschillende anti-Israëldemonstraties die ons vrije landje rijk is. Maar zo vrij is dat dus niet, want de burgemeester van Groningen besloot naar aanleiding van bovenstaand incident DE FILMER een gebiedsverbod op te leggen.
"Over wat daar precies gebeurde, lopen de lezingen uiteen. In een rapportage aan de burgemeester schrijft de politie dat Eppo vooraf had afgesproken afstand te houden van de demonstranten en dat hij zich daar ook aan hield.
Een gemeentelijke toezichthouder (boa) schetst echter een ander beeld en meldt dat Eppo demonstranten van zeer dichtbij filmde, soms op minder dan een halve meter afstand.
Op beelden die Eppo in één ononderbroken opname maakte, is te zien dat hij zich juist van de groep verwijdert. Ook is te zien dat meerdere demonstranten achter hem aan lopen. Eppo meent een steekwapen te hebben gezien en neemt de benen."
En dan krijg je dus van de burgemeester een gebiedsverbod, zodat je niet kunt filmen. Wat u noemt: de omgekeerde wereld. Eppo, die eigenlijk geen Eppo heet, is naar de rechter gestapt en heeft gelijk gekregen. Hup rechtsstaat! INSTANT UPDATE: Artikel op DVHN (met daarin bovenstaand citaat) opeens foetsie. Raarrrr
