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Adam Wolke aka SkylineTV: The German livestreamer is dead

Adam Wolke aka SkylineTV took his live audience to trade shows and theme parks. In the German creator scene he was popular and well connected. His death has now been announced.

19:47 Spiegel Negative

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wins dismissal of sister's lawsuit

A US district judge dismissed the case after Ann Altman had refused to attend an independent medical examination.

19:42 BBC News Neutral

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‘Too big to not fail’: Google outage exposes UK reliance on a handful of cloud providers

Our dependence on internet services of a few key tech companies leaves us vulnerable to cloud failures, bugs and more, experts sayIt happened again. A power outage hit a datacentre in London, and things cascaded from there: multiple banking services faltered, court hearings were put on hold and patients reported temporary glitches on the NHS app.The datacentre in question was in Google’s europe-west2-b zone, one of more than a dozen “zones” that the US search giant maintains in Europe to service its clients. Continue reading...

16:50 The Guardian Negative

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Could this be a Deep Blue moment for the cryptic crossword?

A computer program has finally oudone humans at solving cryptic crosswords. Plus, more from around the puzzleverse• Don’t get Cluesletter, our weekly puzzles newsletter, delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereWhen the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov at chess in 1997, it was an early victory for artificial intelligence over the human mind, and the culmination of decades of attempts. Almost 30 years later, a computer program has finally outdone humans at solving cryptic crosswords.Earlier this month, a model called Darmok solved the final puzzle of the Times’s annual cryp...

15:27 The Guardian Neutral