fact or fiction

Is it fact or merely fiction? Fact or Fiction explores the myths and beliefs we hold about cyber safety, artificial intelligence, dystopian futures and our everyday gadgets.

The AI Boom Has a Dirty Secret, and Your Town Is Paying for It
The Hum Behind the Revolt: How AI Data Centres Ignited a Transatlantic NIMBY Politics I On the outskirts of Hertfordshire, a large white box is growing. Around it are green fields, a river, and further off, housing estates. Inside the box are tens of thousands of chips performing trillions of calculations per second. The switching of the chips is silent, but every watt of power that feeds them ultimately escapes as heat. Thousands of fans spin day and night to keep the heat from destroying rows of server racks. Transformers in the substation emit a low hum. Security lights burn through the night, cutting the darkness into pieces.
By Jinabout 5 hours ago in 01
I Asked AI to Choose My Mother’s Burial Date. Then a Relative Was in a Car Crash. I Sued the Chatbot.
When AI says April 19 is fine: the legal ledger of the Doubao auspicious date case On April 17, Mr. Shi’s mother died. He asked Doubao, an AI assistant, which day would be suitable for the burial. Doubao said April 19. Mr. Shi believed it. He notified relatives and arranged the funeral. Later he asked Doubao what time on that day would be suitable. Doubao answered between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m., but this time the answer also contained a sentence: April 19 is not a suitable day. Mr. Shi was confused. He asked several more times. Doubao said April 19 was not suitable. The relatives had already been informed. It was too late to change the date. He went ahead with the funeral. Soon after, a relative was seriously injured in a car accident. The relative blamed Mr. Shi. Mr. Shi complained to Doubao’s company but received no reply. He decided to sue. The complaint was written by Doubao.
By Jinabout 15 hours ago in 01
Baidu Once Owned the Internet. Then the Search Box Died.
Why Baidu Search Lost Its Way I was born in 1991. My teens ran into the wildest years of the Chinese internet. Internet cafes were thick with smoke. QQ beeps came and went. Non-mainstream avatars flashed across screens. When I didn't know a question, a song, a character, I didn't ask a teacher. I didn't scroll short videos. I opened a clean homepage and typed a few words into a search box. "Baidu it, and you'll know."
By Jinabout 15 hours ago in 01
I Helped Build the AI That Will Replace Me
I have to bury my talent in yesterday At 1 a.m. on September 14, Liu Shengyu typed the last line on his computer and hit publish.
By Jina day ago in 01
AI Wants to Hit the Brakes. Trump Says Winning China Matters More.
One On September 12, 2026, Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic, issued a statement calling for a slower pace in artificial intelligence development to “reduce the risk of serious problems.”
By Jina day ago in 01
AI Leaders Admit You Have Every Right to Be Afraid. Then They Ask You to Trust Them Anyway.
Trust Us: AI Giants, Fear, and the Bet on Self-Regulation San Francisco, Salesforce annual conference. Hundreds of businesspeople in the audience. Sam Altman on stage. He said the world has a right to be afraid of artificial intelligence. A pause. Then he said the world should trust us.
By Jina day ago in 01
I’m an Android Reverse Engineer. AI Was Supposed to Replace Me. It Didn’t.
The Knife Hangs at Your Neck, But It Never Falls Notes from an Android Reverse Engineer At 2 a.m., Marcus turned his phone face down on the desk. The screen still glowed. Someone in the Slack channel had posted a screenshot: an AI had explained a chunk of OLLVM-obfuscated assembly in seconds and generated a Frida hook template. Replies underneath: “insane,” “we’re done,” “unemployed.”
By Jina day ago in 01
Huawei’s AI Plan Isn’t to Win the Model War. It’s to Own the Ground Under It.
Huawei's AI Niche: A Long Campaign for the Base Layer A Positioning That Is Repeatedly Misread The most easily misread part of Guo Ping's remarks in Xinsheng Community is the phrase "become Nvidia." Most people see chips. But Guo Ping said "enable any large model in the world to run efficiently on Huawei's Ascend, Kunpeng, SuperPoD, and clusters." Chips are the hardware premise. The emphasis falls on "any" and "efficiently."
By Jina day ago in 01
Huawei’s AI Master Plan Isn’t About Beating OpenAI. It’s About Becoming the Next Nvidia.
Huawei's AI Strategy: Sell the Base, Not the Strongest Model The headline "Huawei executive's internal 10,000-word memo exposed, ICT business target is to become Nvidia" grabs attention. It is inaccurate. Huawei's Xinsheng Community published a summary of a discussion between Guo Ping, chairman of Huawei's supervisory board, and new employees. No secret file leaked. No employee risked a job to smuggle it out. Huawei used the session to explain what it will do in AI, what it will not do, and how it plans to close gaps.
By Jina day ago in 01
Still Not Fixed - System Faults Since The Upgrade
Introduction Before you think I am complaining (well, I am, but just about the state of Vocal), Vocal is without doubt the best publishing platform for writers and creators, allowing a mix of words and media to be published and shared almost immediately.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 2 days ago in 01
A 96GB RTX 5090 for $3,888? The Listing Has Three Cracks.
The $3,888 96GB RTX 5090: three cracks between the listing, the chips, and the vBIOS 1. The listing says 96GB. The memory type says GDDR6X.
By Jin3 days ago in 01
Luo Yonghao Called the iPhone Duo a Copy Seven Times. He Missed the Harder Question.
After seven “copies”s: behind the iPhone Duo controversy, we need to rethink “innovation” In the early hours of September 10, 2026, at Apple’s fall event, new CEO John Ternus said: “The iPhone Duo is arguably the most disruptive iPhone since the original.”
By Jin4 days ago in 01