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It’s already come for the crochet community, and researchers have tried to teach machines to knit. But lace-making—a craft that even Renaissance artists struggled to master, and in which there are a literal infinite number of patterns to be created—is now having its AI slop moment.

On Standby is a piece of sound art designed to be listened to while sleeping. It’s based on data collected by seven different people in Malmö, Sweden. Each of those people used a smart plug to collect data on the energy consumption of a device in their home over the course of a single night, the night of 25th August 2024.

In response, the Department of Premier and Cabinet’s State Planning Office said in the report that it had deemed the job numbers “reasonable” after using Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant.

Jesus fucking christ.

.io is the country code domain for the Chagos Islands — or the British Indian Ocean Territory — which the UK just agreed to relinquish control of.

I love how I’ve seen the term “A11y” for many years, yet I’ve only just realised it’s referring to Accessibility.

The music industry traded tape for hard drives and got a hard-earned lesson.