OpenAI is exploring collective decisions on AI, like Wikipedia entries
ChatGPT's creator OpenAI is testing how to gather broad input on decisions impacting its artificial intelligence.
Tue May 23 2023
The British physicist making women scientists visible online
Jessica Wade writes biographies on Wikipedia about women researchers like her who don't have an online presence.
Fri Apr 28 2023
Social media giants mishandled Trump: Wikipedia founder
Wales said Twitter and Facebook had consistently "struggled with misinformation, disinformation" peddled by the firebrand Donald Trump.
Fri Jan 15 2021
Turkey blocks access to Wikipedia website - monitoring group
A block on all language editions of the Wikipedia website was detected at 8:00 a.m. (0500 GMT) on Saturday, monitoring group Turkey Blocks said on its website.
Sat Apr 29 2017
Web needs rethink to stop "nasty" ideas spreading, says its creator
Berners-Lee says his intention in building it had been for the public to "do good stuff" and share ideas among each other, as was the case with websites such as Wikipedia.
Tue Apr 11 2017
Wikipedia just turned 15 years old. Will it survive 15 more?
Wikipedia which brought an end to Microsoft's Encarta encyclopedia and supplanted Britannica as the dominant reference work in English is 15-years-old now.
Mon Jan 18 2016
"1MDB Airlines Berhad" is fake, says 1MDB
Allegations of the setting up of a "1MDB Airlines Berhad" are untrue, said 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) in a statement today.
Fri Dec 18 2015
Wikipedia blocks accounts linked to paid edits
Wikipedia on Wednesday said that it has blocked more than 300 accounts being used by people being paid to create or tweak entries at the communally sourced online encyclopedia.
Thu Sep 03 2015
The lone wolf, self-styled sheikh who held a Sydney cafe hostage
Man Haron Monis, the Sydney hostage-taker killed in a 16-hour siege, was a self-styled sheikh with his own Wikipedia entry who was on bail when he emerged as a lone wolf gunman.
Mon Dec 15 2014
Russian government edited Wikipedia information on MH17
A Twitter bot that monitors edits on Wikipedia has identified the IP address (the unique serial number of a computer or network) of the Russian government that made the edit on MH17.
Sat Jul 19 2014
Wikipedia unreliable source for health info, study says
A recent study has found that the vast majority of health-related pages on the open online encyclopedia are laden with errors.
Mon Jun 02 2014
Website not hacked, says Google
Google denies its website has been hacked after a search for 'Sabah' resulted in a page calling the state as 'illegitimate'.
Mon Mar 04 2013
Wikipedia sees future and threat in cell phones
Cell phones could be Wikipedia's path to global domination, but may also pose a risk to the crowdsourcing culture the online encyclopedia relies on, chief executive Sue Gardner says.
Thu Dec 13 2012
'No one will win a trade war,' China says after Trump tariff threat
Donald Trump says he would impose the tariffs until China stops the flow of illegal drugs, particularly fentanyl, into the United States.
Tue Nov 26 2024
What has caused Pakistan's deadly clashes between police and supporters of Imran Khan?
Topping the demands of Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party is the release of all its leaders, including Khan, who has been jailed on a series of corruption charges since August 2023.
Tue Nov 26 2024
One woman or girl killed every 10 minutes by intimate partner or family member - UN
The report highlights that "60 per cent of all female homicides" are committed by "people closely related to them".
Tue Nov 26 2024
Sweden urges Chinese ship to return for undersea cable investigation
Two subsea cables, one linking Finland and Germany and the other connecting Sweden to Lithuania, were damaged in less than 24 hours.
Tue Nov 26 2024
[COLUMNIST] Building more highways won’t solve traffic congestion - reducing demand will
It is clear that adding more lanes and highways doesn't work, because we are still attempting the same approach to solve the issue.
Tue Nov 26 2024
Hyundai to invest RM2.16 bil in Malaysia through strategic partnership with INOKOM
This investment includes efforts to upgrade INOKOM's existing assembly capacity to meet Hyundai's automotive needs.
Tue Nov 26 2024
‘C4Cinta’ sets record as highest-grossing Malaysian Tamil film
'C4Cinta', directed by young filmmaker Karthik Shamalan, has set a new benchmark in Malaysian Tamil cinema.
Tue Nov 26 2024
Man charged with mother's murder, storing body in freezer
The court denied bail and scheduled case mention on Feb 7 for the submission of forensic, autopsy, and chemist reports.
Tue Nov 26 2024
Abolition of examination in schools to reduce pressure on pupils - Fadhlina
The classroom assessment approach offers a much more interesting learning ecosystem, says Fadhlina Sidek.
Tue Nov 26 2024
Google, Meta urge Australia to delay bill on social media ban for children
Google and Meta says the government should wait for the results of an age-verification trial before going ahead.
Tue Nov 26 2024