iPhone ‘bug‘
Sky News, Apple fixing bug in iPhone speech-to-text glitch which interprets ‘racist’ as ‘Trump’, 26 Feb 2025 “The fault has been linked to people speaking “words with some phonetic...
AI Turkish Translation Replacement
Kaya Genç, Rest of World, Turkey’s translators are training the AI tools that will replace them, 20 Feb 2025. “Translation has become a job for a limited number of...
Sukatani Censored
Resty Woro Yuniar, SCMP, Indonesian punk band’s apology for anti-police song sparks outcry over perceived censorship, 27 Feb 2025. “Sukatani, a punk rock duo hailing from Purbalingga in Central Java,...
Gaza Film
This film was subsequently withdrawn from the BBC iPlayer (at the time of posting). The post below relates to its original release. BBC faces questions over Gaza film's Hamas...
AI v Conspiracy Theories
This is very interesting and worth a deeper dive: New research from Costello, Pennycook, and Rand. Can conversations with AI help reduce belief in conspiracy theories? Quite possibly. What’s...
Meta AI Arabic
“Moving forward, Meta AI will be available in Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Yemen. In tandem, Meta is also...
Anti-Muslim Statistics
“In its report the organisation (TellMama) said there had been a "surge in rhetoric that falsely portrays Muslims as terrorists or terrorist sympathisers" following the Israel-Gaza conflict and Southport...
Cola goes Pop
I thought this was a useful reflection on the impact of MENA consumer regional boycotts on certain products. I’m not a soft drinks fan, but I would try the...
Indonesia Social Media Limits
Aisyah Llewellyn, Al Jazeera, After Australia’s ban, Indonesia mulls minimum age for social media, 14 Feb 2025. #Indonesia is considering social media minimum user age: “Indonesia’s bid comes on...
Indonesia Chatbot
An (unnamed) #Indonesia chatbot is due to be announced. SCMP, Indonesia aims to create its version of DeepSeek in bid to become AI hub, 19 Feb 2025 “An ambitious...