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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 22, 2022

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Microsoft Edge Is Now More Bloated Than Google Chrome

=> ↺ Microsoft Edge Is Now More Bloated Than Google Chrome

People love to rag on Google Chrome for being a bloated browser that eats up your computer’s resources. Well, Microsoft Edge has become even worse.

Tony Blair was warned about Post Office IT deal

=> ↺ Tony Blair was warned about Post Office IT deal

Courts have heard allegations that Post Office bosses knew Horizon was flawed but still proceeded with prosecutions. Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom called for those responsible “to be held fully to account,” saying: “The fact that Horizon could not be relied upon was known to some people – including, we now learn, the then prime minister – from a very early stage.

“This makes it all the more dreadful that so many people in authority ignored the protestations of the sub-postmasters and humiliated, prosecuted, bankrupted and imprisoned them.”

More than one in eight Reddit users publish toxic posts

=> ↺ More than one in eight Reddit users publish toxic posts

The resulting data set was used to train a neural network to categorise the toxicity of the remaining posts.

The algorithm found 2 per cent of posts and 6 per cent of comments were highly toxic. A further 7 per cent of posts and 11.5 per cent of comments were slightly toxic, with the remainder of posts and comments classed as not toxic. Highly toxic posts included direct insults and swear words, slightly toxic posts included milder insults (such as “hideous”), while not toxic posts contained neither.

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