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In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country's deadliest Ebola outbreak is hitting its youngest hardest. Children account for more than one in four deaths, facing a fatality rate estimated at sixty percent from a strain that currently has no approved treatment. The human cost here is staggering.
Shifting to a story about data and trust, Meta has quietly granted itself the right to scrape content from its business customers to train its AI models. That means companies using Meta's platforms could find their proprietary content feeding the same systems they're paying to use — a trade-off many businesses may not have fully understood when they signed on.
And on a lighter note for the command line crowd, a developer has released sys2txt, a local tool for Linux that captures your system audio and transcribes it in real time using Whisper, the open-source speech recognition model from OpenAI. No cloud routing, no third-party servers — just live captions running entirely on your own machine. It's a small tool solving a real problem, and it respects your privacy while doing it.
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