TRANSCRIPT · Modern Warfare 4: Activision nutzt Bilder von echter tödlicher Katastrophe

## Modern Warfare 4: Activision nutzt Bilder von echter tödlicher Katastrophe (ComputerBase)
https://www.computerbase.de/news/gaming/modern-warfare-4-activision-nutzt-bilder-von-echter-toedlicher-katastrophe.100102/
Lines left out: a serious story.

## Phagentherapie: Start-up gibt Patient von KI entworfene Viren (Golem.de)
https://www.golem.de/news/phagentherapie-start-up-gibt-patient-von-ki-entworfene-viren-2610-214711.html
GRETA FOOTNOTE: A start-up gave a patient AI-designed viruses. Lyle and Prue have views.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Welcome to Crossfire. A start-up has given a patient viruses designed by AI, as phage therapy. The open question: how much should we make of one headline?
KAI: Huge story. Golem.de reports a start-up gave a patient viruses that were designed by AI. That's the news: one start-up, one patient, designed viruses.
KAI: The details of the treatment aren't in what we have in front of us. So no outcome, no numbers. We won't guess.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Lyle, you open.
LYLE HOTCHKISS: A computer drafts a virus and it goes into a human. That is the moon landing, except the moon is a petri dish and has a lawyer.
PRUDENCE NUANCE: The patient is in the headline. The consent form, the trial and the results are not.
LYLE HOTCHKISS: Designed by AI, delivered by a start-up. Ask who designed the AI. Follow the viruses.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Kai, is the patient the story here, or the start-up?
KAI: Both, honestly. The headline names one patient and one start-up. Nothing more than that is on the page.
LYLE HOTCHKISS: Reckless, obviously. Frankly overdue, actually. Reckless again, I think.
PRUDENCE NUANCE: Reckless compared with what, Lyle? The patient's alternatives aren't in the headline either.
PRUDENCE NUANCE: A dull trial, a dull report, a long wait. Nobody applauds the dull part.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: What we know: a start-up, a patient, AI-designed viruses. What is still open: nearly everything else. That was Crossfire.

## THE FEED (PXL)
GRANT BRICKMAN: The Feed: what is trending on GitHub in Python right now.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Good afternoon. This is The Feed, and today we look at what is trending on GitHub in Python. Vera, the board.
DR. VERA VECTOR: Number one: HKUDS slash DeepTutor, 1,035 stars today. The description reads lifelong personalized tutoring. Created ten months ago, last release two days ago.
DR. VERA VECTOR: Number two: devops-exercises, 341 stars today, interview questions on Linux, Jenkins, AWS and more. Number three: agent-sprite-forge, 51 stars, sprite sheets and GIFs from prompts.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Sprite. Is that the soda? Because I would watch a repository about that.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Sprite sheets, Grant. Little animation frames for game characters. The soda is unrelated.
KAI: Fifty-one stars today and I love the idea. Meanwhile DeepTutor has 6,405 forks. Huge energy all round.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: That was The Feed. Stars come and go, the forks apparently stay.

## [AD · fictional product] Lintwell
GRETA FOOTNOTE: A public service announcement. Your downloads folder is not an archive. It is a drawer you never open.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Once a week, look inside. Delete what you do not recognise. Keep what you do. Ask the folder how it is feeling.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Tidy files start with one small click. Do it before the folder does it for you. Now you know.

## Weather
STORMY BYTES: Hype pressure is high over the tutoring belt, with repository stars falling in bands across the Python coast.
STORMY BYTES: A warm front of lab headlines is moving in from the east. Expect scattered excitement and a long wait for details.
STORMY BYTES: Outlook: clear skies for small sprite projects, patchy fog wherever a headline carries more questions than facts.

## Real or PXL?
GRANT BRICKMAN: Real! Sharp eyes. The other one came out of our writers room, and honestly, it was close.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Fooled! PXL invented the bakery. It sounded so believable that even I wanted a croissant.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Time is up! The vampires and the bakery both go home unclaimed.

AI-written satire. The text of the news items comes from the linked articles.