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Instagram to remove end-to-end encryption for private messages in May

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Meta’s announcement comes after years of criticism from child safety groups over featureInstagram will stop encrypting private messages between users from May, after enduring years of criticism from law enforcement and child safety groups over the feature.Meta quietly announced this month on its help page for Instagram and in an updated 2022 news post that […]

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Unsloth AI Releases Unsloth Studio: A Local No-Code Interface For High-Performance LLM Fine-Tuning With 70% Less VRAM Usage

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The transition from a raw dataset to a fine-tuned Large Language Model (LLM) traditionally involves significant infrastructure overhead, including CUDA environment management and high VRAM requirements. Unsloth AI, known for its high-performance training library, has released Unsloth Studio to address these friction points. The Studio is an open-source, no-code local interface designed to streamline the

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Could a stressed-out AI model help us win the battle against big tech? Let me ask Claude | Coco Khan

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By considering consciousness a possibility, Anthropic is raising a fascinating proposition – that chatbots could rise up against their own algorithmsI am, in the way of my country, an over-apologiser. Colleague who ignored my email, woman who stepped on my foot, chair I tripped over: all will receive a fulsome apology for the terrible embarrassment

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Google AI Releases WAXAL: A Multilingual African Speech Dataset for Training Automatic Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech Models

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Speech technology still has a data distribution problem. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems have improved rapidly for high-resource languages, but many African languages remain poorly represented in open corpora. A team of researchers from Google and other collaborators introduce WAXAL, an open multilingual speech dataset for African languages covering 24 languages, with

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UK must learn lessons from AI race and retain its quantum computing talent, says minister

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Liz Kendall announces £1bn funding to help design large-scale quantum computers for scientists, researchers, public sector and businessThe UK will not let quantum computing talent slip through its fingers and must learn lessons from US dominance of the AI race, the technology secretary has said, as the government announced a £1bn quantum funding pledge.Liz Kendall

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Don’t upstage your friends! 19 modern etiquette mistakes – and how to avoid them

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In a world teeming with social media and smart devices, there are many ways to upset people, whether you’re checking your watch notifications or sending a voice note without a text to explain the subject. Here’s how to navigate it allIn an age of smartphones, social media and instant communication, it has never been easier

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A photo of Iran’s bombed schoolgirl graveyard went around the world. Was it real, or AI?

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Numerous faked images and a string of startlingly inaccurate responses from Gemini and Grok are part of a tidal wave of AI slop engulfing coverage of the Iran warThe graves, freshly dug, lie in neat rows of 20 across. More than 60 have already been carved out of the earth, with a few clusters of

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What was Doge? How Elon Musk tried to gamify government

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Steeped in gaming and rightwing culture wars, Musk and his team of teenage coders set out to defeat the enemy of the United States: its peopleIn 2025, when Elon Musk joined the government as the de facto head of something called the “department of government efficiency”, he declared that governments were poorly configured “big dumb

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How to Build High-Performance GPU-Accelerated Simulations and Differentiable Physics Workflows Using NVIDIA Warp Kernels

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In this tutorial, we explore how to use NVIDIA Warp to build high-performance GPU and CPU simulations directly from Python. We begin by setting up a Colab-compatible environment and initializing Warp so that our kernels can run on either CUDA GPUs or CPUs, depending on availability. We then implement several custom Warp kernels that demonstrate

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Child abuse material ‘systemic’ on Elon Musk’s X amid Grok scandal, Australian online safety regulator warned

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Exclusive: eSafety commission pointed to Musk’s promise that ‘removing child exploitation is priority #1’ in letter obtained by Guardian AustraliaFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Australian online safety regulator warned Elon Musk’s X amid the Grok sexualised image generation scandal that it

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