av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 1, 2026 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser, Threads
Olympic gold medal winners from the U.S. men’s and women’s hockey teams crashed Connor Storrie‘s SNL monologue on Saturday, with the two on the women’s team taking a shot at Donald Trump for his dismissive comment about them.
Storrie, who stars in the hockey-themed Canadian television series Heated Rivalry, was talking about learning about how to at least look like he could play the sport.
“I am just so thankful for everything this job gives me the chance to do. Like, in two weeks I had the chance to learn how to speak Russian and look like I knew how to play hockey,” Storrie, 26, said. “And then I’m watching the Olympics, and I see these amazing players, and I’m like, ‘I don’t think I pulled it off.’”
Källa: Rollingstone
av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 1, 2026 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser, Threads
Forget stochastic parrots: how about periphrastic priests? Pope Leo XIV, in an address in Rome, warned Catholic clergy against using AI to pad out their sermons: ”To give a true homily is to share faith,” Leo said. ”[machines] will never be able to share faith.”
He asked clergy to resist ”the temptation to prepare homilies with Artificial Intelligence.” Adding, ”Like all the muscles in the body, if we do not use them, if we do not move them, they die. The brain needs to be used, so our intelligence must also be exercised a little so as not to lose this capacity,” Leo said in the closed-door meeting, later published by Vatican News.
Källa: Boingboing
av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 1, 2026 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser, Threads
You could say Jim Carrey’s heart grew three sizes at the 2026 Cesar Awards.
After all, the How the Grinch Stole Christmas star was joined by his loved ones at the French film award ceremony Feb. 26, including his ”companion” Min Ah, as well as his daughter Jane Erin Carrey and her teenage son Jackson.
“Thank you to my wonderful family, my daughter Jane, and my grandson Jackson,” Jim said in French as he accepted an award honoring his storied career, ”as I love you now and forever.”
The 64-year-old continued, ”Thank you to my sublime companion, Min Ah. I love you, Min Ah. And finally, thank you to the funniest man I have ever known: my father Percy Joseph Carrey, who taught me the value of love, generosity and laughter.”
Källa: Eonline
av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 1, 2026 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser, Threads
On 7 August, Kate Fox received a phone call that upended her life. A medical examiner said that her husband, Joe Ceccanti – who had been missing for several hours – had jumped from a railway overpass and died. He was 48.
Fox couldn’t believe it. Ceccanti had no history of depression, she said, nor was he suicidal – he was the “most hopeful person” she had ever known. In fact, according to the witness accounts shared with Fox later, just before Ceccanti jumped, he smiled and yelled: “I’m great!” to the rail yard attendants below when they asked him if he was OK.
But Ceccanti had been unravelling. In the days before his death, he was picked up from a stranger’s yard for acting erratically and taken to a crisis center. He had been telling anyone who would listen that he could hear and feel a painful “atmospheric electricity”.
Källa: Theguardian
av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 28, 2026 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser, Threads
The company said it has secured a $110 billion investment, with backing coming from Nvidia, Amazon, and SoftBank.
The new funding was at a $730 billion pre-money valuation, OpenAI said in a Friday announcement. The round included $30 billion from SoftBank, $50 billion from Amazon, and $30 billion from Nvidia. The company had a $500 billion valuation as of October after a secondary share sale.
Källa: Businessinsider
av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 28, 2026 | Bluesky, Mastodon, Notiser, Threads
Some users in the UK began seeing an age verification prompt after installing iOS 26.4 beta 2. Apple now says the message appeared in error. Here are the details.
’That message was displayed in error, and has been fixed’
A few days ago, my colleague Ben Lovejoy shared his experience with the age verification prompt that users in the UK started seeing after installing iOS 26.4 beta 2.
This age verification requirement is a result of the UK’s Online Safety Act, which will require platforms to confirm users are adults before granting unrestricted access to certain content.
Källa: 9to5mac
