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The Three Kinds of Marks
Marks on a film set aren't all the same. Actor's marks protect focus and exposure, camera marks protect distance and framing, and furniture marks protect continuity. Miss any of them and something breaks.
The strange new reality of living in an AI world that nobody asked for
The ABC describes the reasons why Australians are the most sceptical about AI compared to other countries. It highlights that Australians are concerned about the risks of AI, such as its potential to replace humans in jobs and its potential to spread misinformation. The article also mentions that Australians are concerned about the lack of transparency in AI systems and the potential for bias in AI algorithms.
Stop shaming people for using AI. Start organizing to prevent our obsolescence | Garrison Lovely
The industry is engaged in a perverse quest to replace humans. We cannot cede the best tools available to the other side I don’t need to tell you that people hate AI. The list of grievances is long: slop, cheating, bias, enfeeblement, electricity bills, environmental destruction, exploitation, theft, cybercrime, doom. But resistance to the technology has often taken the form of shaming people for personally using it, with precious little organizing against the companies building the machines.
Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house
The new AI agent, Muse, was released last week and has been downloaded by 3 million users When Usman asked if a keyboard for sale on Facebook Marketplace was still available on Saturday, he received an enthusiastic and immediate response. “Yep still available!” wrote Matt Robb. Continue reading...
An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at from a brain scan
A new AI tool can guess what you’re looking at just by analyzing your brain scans—and re-create that image with remarkable precision. It can go the other way, too, and predict a person’s brain activity based on what they’re looking at. In the image above, for example, the left-hand image of each pair is what the user actually saw—and its right-hand counterpart is what the model reconstructed from the brain scan. Michal Irani, who developed the tool with her colleagues at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, hopes her “mind-reading” tool will ultimately reveal more about how...
'I failed so many times': How Gen Z are fighting back against their phones
Gen Z, including Oliver Breadmore, are resisting phone dependency through methods like app deletion and boredom. Dr Jo Orlando notes this generation’s awareness of digital intrusion, while a UK study found 29 per cent removed apps.
Why Movie Lighting Never Looks Flat
A cucoloris is a panel placed between a light and a surface so the light lands unevenly — pools and shadow instead of one flat field. Point a light straight at a wall and your eye reads it as a lit set. Real light almost never arrives clean; it comes through a window frame, past a doorway, down through leaves. A cucoloris puts that broken-up quality back into the lighting on purpose. Cinematographer Ted McCord used the trick on Private Property in 1960, shot for under $60,000: strips of cardboard in front of the key light stood in for a multi-paned window that didn't exist, and a basket weave softened the pattern falling on the lead actress in a different setup. The technique shows up just as often on modern productions — the BTS on Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl used a celo cucoloris, the screen-material version, to keep a shadow pattern soft instead of hard-edged.
Would Australians support a smart glasses ban?
As Australia considers barring the use of smart glasses in government offices, the BBC asks people in Sydney what they think.
US attacks Australia's 'opt-out' algorithm law in rare intervention
The Trump administration says that the law would be "extraterritorial censorship of protected speech" and that it would force US social media companies to comply with Australian law. The article also mentions that the US government is concerned about the potential impact of the law on the global tech industry.
Meta Is Using You To Build A Robot Empire
Over 7 million Ray-Ban Meta glasses were sold in 2025. That’s 7 million cameras recording your life. And conveniently, that footage is exactly what AI needs to learn how to walk, cook, and steal your job. The data collected by Ray-Ban Meta glasses is unprecedented. To understand Meta’s endgame, we analyzed the company’s organizational shifts, interviewed leading robotics experts, and conducted a 72-hour field test wearing the glasses to map exactly what data is being harvested for AI training. From “episodic memory” to “intuitive physics,” we explain how Meta can use your daily life to train an empire of bots.
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