A private account narrows visibility; it does not erase you. Instagram and TikTok offer a single toggle, Facebook demands post-by-post audience management, and all three leave a public-facing core that anyone can see — even without logging in. Instagram and TikTok: one private-account switch; Facebook relies on per-post audiences and a bulk “Limit Past Posts” … Read more
Western Australia is seeking a partial refund of the A$166,000 it paid Deloitte for a 219-page cost-benefit analysis of a three-university merger. The report has misattributed references, repeats 55 times a Curtin name unused since 2010 and contains arithmetic gaps of A$260 million and A$311 million. Its strangest flaw: a compliance section claiming no AI … Read more
Just Eat has paused the rollout of an AI image generator that was filling in missing dish photography across its marketplace, after customers in the United Kingdom began flagging results that ranged from the baffling to the biologically alarming. The clearest example came from a café in Belfast: its bacon-and-egg soda bread was rendered as … Read more
Anyone publishing AI-generated text or imagery is relying on an ownership claim the law, in the United States and in Spain, is reluctant to grant. The rule is blunt: an author must be a person. What a machine produces from a bare instruction is rarely protected; what you select, arrange or rework can be. No … Read more
Google has launched Playground, an experimental platform that assembles complete video games — multiplayer modes, leaderboards and visual assets included — from plain-language text instructions, with no coding required. The service went live on October 7, 2026 at playground.google for users in the United States aged 18 and over, and Google One AI Premium subscribers … Read more
The Document Foundation has shipped LibreOffice 26.8 with a message that would have sounded like an apology three years ago and now lands as a deliberate market play: the suite contains no generative AI, and that omission is the pitch. Released on 26 August 2026, with the formal “no AI” policy statement following on 3 … Read more