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AI will make language barriers disappear – and diminish our understanding of other cultures

Machines may soon translate every conversation flawlessly. But language is more than information – it is curiosity, intimacy and cultural discoveryOne of my earliest assignments as a young interpreter was to provide simultaneous interpretation for the proceedings of an ecumenical council that brought together all Christian denominations. As my homework, I dutifully read scripture, the […]

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Meet GitHub Spec-Kit: An Open Source Toolkit for Spec-Driven Development with AI Coding Agents

If you have spent time using AI coding agents — GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Gemini CLI — you have probably run into this situation: you describe what you want, the agent generates a block of code that looks correct, compiles, and then subtly misses the actual intent. This “vibe-coding” approach can work for quick prototypes

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OpenAI Adds Chrome Extension to Codex, Letting Its AI Agent Access LinkedIn, Salesforce, Gmail, and Internal Tools via Signed-In Sessions

OpenAI has launched a Codex Chrome extension for Mac and PC to streamline browser-based workflows that were previously difficult to handle via APIs or plugins. This release follows a trend where most users preferred working in a browser after the launch of “Computer Use,” allowing Codex to operate more effectively across various web-based tasks. What

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How to Build a Single-Cell RNA-seq Analysis Pipeline with Scanpy for PBMC Clustering, Annotation, and Trajectory Discovery

In this tutorial, we perform an advanced single-cell RNA-seq analysis workflow using Scanpy on the PBMC-3k benchmark dataset. We start by loading the dataset, inspecting its structure, and applying quality control checks to evaluate gene counts, total counts, mitochondrial content, and ribosomal gene signals. We then filter low-quality cells and genes, detect potential doublets with

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AI-powered surveillance company Palantir created a chore coat. Great, now I have no choice but to burn mine | Van Badham

The gentle French garment is now as cursed as the infamous megacorp, which has accumulated $80m in government contracts in Australia alone It’s taken me years to find a chore coat with a cut that flatters my big tits but, now that I finally own one, I want to incinerate it.Such is the power of

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White House calls Mark Hamill ‘sick’ after his post with AI image of Trump in a grave

Star Wars actor later deleted post and apologized, saying president should live ‘long enough to be held accountable’US politics live – latest updatesThe White House has branded Star Wars actor Mark Hamill “a sick individual” after an AI-generated image showing Donald Trump in a shallow grave, with the words “If Only” as an overlay was

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The fight against AI data centers isn’t just about tech – it’s about democracy | Astra Taylor and Saul Levin

Claims of nimbyism are a misunderstanding: the movement is about whether regular people have a say in fundamental decisionsSince the surreal scene at the 2024 presidential inauguration, when a row of big tech titans took their VIP seats and signaled their new alliance with Maga, the Trump administration has rolled out the red carpet for

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How dangerous is Anthropic’s Mythos AI? | Bruce Schneier

The system’s power is comparable to others – but it still has frightening implications for the future of hackingLast month, Anthropic made a remarkable announcement about its new model, Claude Mythos Preview: it was so good at finding security vulnerabilities in software that the company would not release it to the general public. Instead, it

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Anthropic Introduces Natural Language Autoencoders That Convert Claude’s Internal Activations Directly into Human-Readable Text Explanations

When you type a message to Claude, something invisible happens in the middle. The words you send get converted into long lists of numbers called activations that the model uses to process context and generate a response. These activations are, in effect, where the model’s “thinking” lives. The problem is nobody can easily read them.

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Meta sues Ofcom over fines regime for breaches of Online Safety Act

Facebook and Instagram owner claims charges should not be calculated based on a company’s global revenueMeta has launched a legal challenge against the UK’s media regulator over the fees and fines regime it is enforcing under landmark digital safety legislation.The Facebook and Instagram owner is claiming that Ofcom’s methodology for calculating the charges is flawed

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