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1+ min ago (651+ words) A Manjimup fisherman says the State Government has ignored more than a decade of community warnings about declining fish stocks, amid fears the recent West Coast gillnet ban will create new pressures further south. On December 3, the State Government announced a full closure of all commercial demersal gillnetting in the West Coast bioregion. It includes a 50 per cent commercial catch reduction for zone two on the South Coast. The West Coast bioregion will become an exclusively recreational fishing zone for snapper and dhufish following a 21-month recovery closure for boat-based recreational fishing, remaining permanently closed to commercial fishing for demersal fish from January 1, with a compulsory buyback of commercial fishing licences. The reforms aim to protect demersal fish like pink snapper, red emperor and dhufish from extinction and to help stocks recover for future generations, with scientific stock assessments of…...

1+ min ago (163+ words) Alan Trefler once helped teach chess to computers. In turn, he learnt that you need to use the right type of artificial intelligence for the right purpose. Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Alan Trefler is the chief executive officer Pegasystems. He is 69 and lives in Boston, Massachusetts. Why did you start playing chess? Follow the topics, people and companies that matter to you. The billionaire tech founder who uses chess to understand AI This hike is on the front foot of luxury travel The CEO in a $610m race to replace the International Space Station AI talent war spreads to banking with $250k+ roles Want to be better at public speaking? NIDA's CEO shares her tips Why the Arnott's CEO's family had to keep a dark secret for years How this Australian brand won over the…...

1+ min ago (221+ words) I've built a browser extension that allows you to theme your visited websites just by prompting. It takes your request and uses openai's codex-mini to generate the JS and CSS needed to apply the change. It can do all sorts of things: stop autoplaying videos, replace links with archive.is on newspapers, dim sidebars, or add small QOL features like editing the responses in chatgpt so it's easier to copy/paste. Earlier today I asked it to add a "cost per 100 requests" column on OpenRouter's activity page'decimals makes it hard for my ADHD brain to process. Technically, you can do this with developer tools and user styles but i've been impressed with codex' ability to take my vague requests and turn it into working styles with just 10% of the source page for context. Building it i've alternated between codex and…...

1+ min ago (460+ words) Residents in parts of Oregon and Washington grappled with power outages, flooding and school closures, while drivers navigated debris slides and water that closed roads and submerged vehicles. Fire officials northeast of Seattle said crews conducted several rescues, using inflatable kayaks to pull people from stranded cars and carrying another person about a mile (1.6 km) to safety after they were trapped in a wooded area by rising water. Forecasters warned that the worst was still to come, with some major rivers expected to crest later in the week. "We're starting to see a lot of rivers begin to rise and move very rapidly with lots of runoff with the rain," said Harrison Rademacher, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Seattle office. Rademacher described the atmospheric river soaking the region as "a jet stream of moisture" stretching all the way…...

1+ min ago (509+ words) The first of a series of powerful storms hit the Pacific Northwest on Tuesday, dumping heavy rain, swelling rivers and prompting high water rescues, authorities said. Fire crews rescued two people who were trapped by floodwaters at a campsite in the Gold Bar area of Snohomish County north of Seattle on Monday night, KOMO-TV reported. Crews used drones and water rescue crafts to reach them and get them to safety, officials said. The Snohomish County Department of Emergency Management warned Tuesday morning that rivers in the county remained under flood warning with the Skykomish River hitting major flood status at Gold Bar overnight. Gold Bar police said in a social media post Monday evening that deputies were going door-to-door in the Moonlight Drive neighborhood to warn residents of imminent flooding. The Washington State Department of Transportation closed eastbound Interstate 90 at…...

4+ min ago (552+ words) Your guide to January's full Wolf Moon, from peak times to skywatching highlights. The January full moon will occur at 5:03 a.m. EST (1003 GMT) on Jan. 3, when the moon sits opposite the sun and appears completely illuminated from our perspective. This month's full moon will reach its full phase while close to perigee " the nearest point to Earth in its 27-day orbit "giving rise to a visually spectacular "supermoon", which can be 30% brighter and 14% larger than the smallest full moon of the year, according to NASA. January's's full moon is often called the "Wolf Moon", in reference to the packs of predators that are active around this time of year. Look east at sunset on Jan. 3 to see the fully-lit lunar disk climb over the eastern horizon. It will likely take on a yellowish hue in the period following moonrise, as a…...

9+ min ago (789+ words) Singulr AI has appointed former VMware and Dell Technologies executive Bask Iyer as Strategic Advisor, as the company targets rising demand for governance around artificial intelligence in large organisations. The Palo Alto-based firm focuses on AI security and governance for enterprise customers. It is positioning Iyer's appointment as a response to rapid adoption of AI systems and growing regulatory scrutiny. Iyer has spent more than 30 years in senior technology roles at global companies. He previously served as Chief Information Officer and Chief Digital Transformation Officer at both VMware and Dell Technologies. At those firms he oversaw IT and digital strategy during major shifts. These included the Dell-EMC merger and VMware's move towards cloud services. Iyer has also held CIO roles at Juniper Networks, Honeywell, and GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare. He currently sits on several boards and advises a number of AI…...

10+ min ago (66+ words) You're on Mastodon? Great! Do like how it looks? I don't. Why are the pictures so big? Ain't they heard of thumbnails? Okay, so maybe I can't change what I see in feeds (boo!), but is there any way I can prevent Mastodon from resizing images I post?I'm not the only one who wants this. Really, nobody else does? Reducing Mastodon feed image dimensions possible?...

10+ min ago (570+ words) Swann has introduced an artificial intelligence feature for its home security app that filters camera alerts based on user-defined scenarios, in a move aimed at reducing notification overload for customers. The Notify Me When feature is now available in the Swann Security App. It uses generative AI models from Amazon Web Services to analyse footage from Swann cameras and send alerts only when events match specific prompts created by users. The launch extends an existing system called Dynamic Notification. That system already sends alerts with thumbnail images and short descriptions of motion events. Swann said the combined tools have cut false positive alerts by up to 65 per cent in its testing. The company also reported a 25 per cent drop in overall alert volume and an 89 per cent increase in notification relevance. Swann is based in Melbourne and sells do-it-yourself home…...

11+ min ago (1794+ words) Storm Bram has brought strong winds and heavy rain across the UK - with amber wind warnings in place in north-west Scotland and Northern Ireland The warnings - which mean there is a possible "danger to life" - end in Northern Ireland at 20:00 tonight and in Scotland at 03:00 on Wednesday The storm has caused rail and flight cancellations across the UK, closed roads, and led to thousands of homes losing power - here's a round-up In Dartmoor in south-west England, nearly a month's worth of rain fell in 48 hours, while there were long delays when a Severn Bridge crossing closed There have also been unseasonably warm temperatures - BBC Weather's Helen Willetts explains why I worked at sea for 20 years - it's on days like this I'm glad I took a job ashore, one man from County Antrim tells us Watch: The latest weather forecast as…...