Read Short tempers and legal threats: UK teachers report rise in problem parents by Richard Adams

For me, this is the most damaging result of our short-sighted rush towards “productivity”:

More recently, heads said parents had been using AI to generate lengthy, legalistic complaints that required increasing amounts of time to administer.

This is a completely justified use of an LLM and it’s going to cost more time than an LLM will ever save. Unless you use an LLM to respond, in which case we’ll just have LLMs burning resources achieving nothing.

Read Paddy Power and Betfair to pay £2m settlement after failing to protect users by Rob Davies

Sorry, how many seconds of income does this “penalty” equate to? Oh, it actually says in the article:

The £2m settlement agreed between Flutter and the Gambling Commission is equivalent to slightly less than two hours worth of takings for the company

So, that’s like me getting a £50 fine. For more context, the (maximum) fines for littering in central London range from around £200 to £500…