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India's exit polls may be more noise than signal
News, Andy Mukherjee, Published on 04/06/2024
» Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set for a landslide victory in India's general election. Or so claims nearly every exit poll released since the end of voting on Saturday evening. Yet, these surveys have proved spectacularly wrong in the past, and they must be read even more cautiously this time around because of the Modi government's outsize sway on the television stations that commission them.
The rise of AI in political warfare
News, Published on 07/05/2024
» This year promises to be a whopper for elective government, with billions of people -- or more than 40% of the world's population -- able to vote in an election. But nearly five months into 2024, some government officials are quietly wondering why the looming risk of AI hasn't, apparently, played out. Even as voters in Indonesia and Pakistan have gone to the polls, they are seeing little evidence of viral deepfakes skewing an electoral outcome, according to a recent article in Politico, which cited "national security officials, tech company executives and outside watchdog groups". AI, they said, wasn't having the "mass impact" that they expected. That is a painfully shortsighted view. The reason? AI may be disrupting elections right now, and we just don't know it.
Sore loser; red-faced thief; prank backfires; abbot's boast
News, Mae Moo, Published on 28/01/2024
» No way to leave
77 test positive for drugs at Samut Sakhon pub
Online Reporters, Published on 27/01/2024
» Seventy-seven people have tested positive for drugs during a raid on a Samut Sakhon pub operating on the site of a nightspot that was ordered closed for five years after a drug raid in 2018.
More than maid abuse
News, Published on 04/09/2022
» The maid-abuse scandal has revealed many layers of bureaucratic malaise which are perpetuated by a patronage system that eats away at meritocracy.
83 city pubs closed as fire toll hits 15
News, Published on 07/08/2022
» City Hall has temporarily closed 83 out of 400 pubs in Bangkok found to have low safety standards in the wake of Friday's inferno at the Mountain B pub in Chon Buri's Sattahip that killed 15 people and injured 38.
Police storm rally site
News, Published on 29/03/2021
» A protest site set up near Government House was cleared and 99 demonstrators rounded up in two separate operations at dawn and dusk on Sunday by the Metropolitan Police Bureau (MPB).
As false info hits 'boiling point,' ads warn US voters
AFP, Published on 13/10/2020
» WASHINGTON - Verify before you share. Falsehoods spread faster than facts.
5,600 racers caught in 11 days
Online Reporters, Published on 02/07/2020
» Police arrested more than 5,600 street racers and seized over 17,700 bikes in 11 days after the night curfew was lifted.
Mazda CX-30 2.0 SP (2020) review
Richard Leu, Published on 29/03/2020
» Mazda’s all-new CX-30 would have been a worthy CX-3 replacement: more refined to drive and better to sit in.