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IBM Will Stop Hiring Humans For Jobs AI Can Do, Report Says
Technology giant IBM plans to stop hiring people to fill thousands of roles in the coming years that the company believes artificial intelligence can handle, CEO Arvind Krishna told Bloomberg, marking one of the most serious and tangible threats AI has posed to the workforce. Krishna said in an interview he believes around 30% of about 26,000 non-customer-facing positions, like human...
Women work harder than men – our anthropological study reveals why
For most people around the world, physical work takes up a great amount of time and energy every day. But what determines whether it is men or women who are working harder in households? In most hunter-gatherer societies, men are the hunters and women are the gatherers – with men seemingly walking the furthest. But what’s the labour breakdown in other...
Italian man crushed to death under falling cheese wheels
An Italian man has been crushed to death under thousands of wheels of a Parmesan-style cheese, authorities said. Giacomo Chiapparini, 74, was buried when a shelf broke in his warehouse in the Lombardy region on Sunday, firefighter Antonion Dusi told AFP. The collapse created a domino effect bringing down thousands of wheels, which weigh about 40kg (84lbs) each. It took 12 hours...
ChatGPT in trouble: OpenAI sued for stealing everything anyone’s ever written on the Internet
OpenAI's ChatGPT and Sam Altman are in massive trouble. OpenAI is getting sued in the US for illegally using content from the internet to train their LLM or large language models A class action lawsuit has been filed against OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, claiming that the company’s AI training methods violated the privacy and copyright of practically everyone who...
Cluster bombs: Unease grows over US sending cluster bombs to Ukraine
Several allies of the US have expressed unease at Washington's decision to supply Ukraine with cluster bombs. On Friday, the US confirmed it was sending the controversial weapons to Ukraine, with President Joe Biden calling it a "very difficult decision". In response, the UK, Canada, New Zealand and Spain all said they were opposed to the use of the weapons. Cluster bombs...
Mysterious giant 300,000-year-old hand axes were found at an Ice Age site in England.
The 300,000-year-old tools, slabs of flint chipped on both sides to create jagged edges, were found among than 800 artifacts buried on a hillside above the Medway Valley in Kent. "We describe these tools as 'giants' when they are over 22cm long and we have two in this size range," senior archaeologist Letty Ingrey of the UCL Institute of Archeology said...
Economic slowdown likely to force workers to accept lower quality jobs
Faltering global employment growth and the pressure on decent working conditions risk undermining social justice, according to the ILO’s World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2023 report. The current global economic slowdown is likely to force more workers to accept lower quality, poorly paid jobs which lack job security and social protection, so accentuating inequalities exacerbated by the COVID-19 crisis,...
Suspicious powder found at the White House when Biden was gone was cocaine
The White House was briefly evacuated Sunday evening while President Joe Biden was at Camp David after the Secret Service discovered suspicious powder in a common area of the West Wing, and a preliminary test showed the substance was cocaine, two law enforcement officials said Tuesday. Secret Service agents were doing routine rounds on Sunday when they found the white...
Busting the anti-work myth: Most people actually like their bosses
Do you work for a five-star boss? If quiet quitting — a demonstration of work-to-rule where employees do no more than the minimum work required by their contract — is really a thing, I’d expect more employees to be vocal about disliking their bosses. Some observers attribute this latest so-called work trend to the pervasiveness of bad bosses. But as a sociologist who studies trends...
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg agree to hold cage fight
Two of the world's most high-profile technology billionaires - Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg - have agreed to fight each other in a cage match. Mr Musk posted a message on his social media platform Twitter that he was "up for a cage fight" with Mr Zuckerberg. Mr Zuckerberg, the boss of Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta, then posted a...
The Minimum Wage for Delivery Drivers in NYC Is Now $17.96 an Hour
The city is raising the minimum wage for "deliveristas" to $17.96 per hour, making it the first city in the U.S. to implement such a law. New York City is raising the state minimum wage for app-based delivery workers to $17.96 per hour, according to an announcement by Mayor Eric Adams on Sunday. The raise will affect more than 60,000...
77% of Americans too fat, mentally ill, or drug-addicted for military, Pentagon says
The US military is falling far short of its recruitment targets with a majority of potential recruits unfit for service due to being overweight or suffering mental health problems. The US military is in the grip of a recruitment crisis as most young Americans are too overweight, habitual drug users, or suffering from mental health problems. The two fastest-growing barriers for army recruitment between 2013...