🔗 Articles: Saturday 23.Nov.2024


Globe: ‘Oh, we can do this?’: PWHL players adapt to bodychecking with martial arts and hitting clinics

The Professional Women’s Hockey League has drawn applause for its fast, physical style of play, prompting conversation about physicality in other levels of women’s and girls hockey.

Fans find it entertaining. The PWHL’s players enjoy the leeway for more bodychecking than had been allowed in international play. But there were growing pains during the debut season as teams and referees learned to discern what would be penalized in this new league. Players had varying levels of experience with bodychecking. Some had learned to deliver or absorb hits while playing on boys teams when they were young. Some, who came up in girls hockey, say they were learning on the fly.


TechCrunch: OpenAI accidentally deleted potential evidence in NY Times copyright lawsuit (updated)

Lawyers for The New York Times and Daily News, which are suingOpenAI for allegedly scraping their works to train its AI models without permission, say OpenAI engineers accidentally deleted data potentially relevant to the case.

Earlier this fall, OpenAI agreed to provide two virtual machines so that counsel for The Times and Daily News could perform searches for their copyrighted content in its AI training sets. (Virtual machines are software-based computers that exist within another computer’s operating system, often used for the purposes of testing, backing up data, and running apps.) In a letter, attorneys for the publishers say that they and experts they hired have spent over 150 hours since November 1 searching OpenAI’s training data.


Last Updated: 23.Nov.2024 18:39 EST

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