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Galaxy S26 review: Samsung’s still-compact flagship Android

Small top-tier Android is great to use, being fast, AI-loaded and with reasonable battery life, but falls short of rivals on cameraSamsung’s compact flagship phone hasn’t changed much in a year, but the S26 is still one of the best smaller handsets available as rivals grow larger and larger.The S26 is the cheapest and smallest […]

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Friendly AI chatbots more likely to support conspiracy theories, study finds

Chatbots programmed to respond warmly even cast doubts on Apollo moon landings and fate of Hitler, researchers sayThe rush to make AI chatbots more friendly has a troubling downside, researchers say. The warm personas make them prone to mistakes and sympathetic to crackpot beliefs.Chatbots trained to respond more warmly gave poorer answers, worse health advice

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I’m addicted to checking my phone. Could a blocking device stop me?

Physical phone blocking devices, powered by NFC wireless technology, are becoming a popular solution for doomscrolling. Brigid Delaney puts one to the testWake up, 100 messages from group chat overnight about something – what? another assassination attempt; a village destroyed in Lebanon; the football result in England; the weather in Iran being manipulated; the pesticides

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Meta found in breach of EU law for failing to keep children off platforms

Commission says tech company does not have effective measures to keep under-13s off Facebook and InstagramThe tech company Meta has been found to be in breach of EU law for failing to prevent children under 13 from using its Facebook and Instagram platforms.Issuing the preliminary findings of a nearly two-year investigation, the European Commission said

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Meet the AI jailbreakers: ‘I see the worst things humanity has produced’

To test the safety and security of AI, hackers have to trick large language models into breaking their own rules. It requires ingenuity and manipulation – and can come at a deep emotional costA few months ago, Valen Tagliabue sat in his hotel room watching his chatbot, and felt euphoric. He had just manipulated it

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Meta FAIR Releases NeuralSet: A Python Package for Neuro-AI That Supports fMRI, M/EEG, Spikes, and HuggingFace Embeddings

Researchers at Meta’s FAIR lab have released NeuralSet, a Python framework designed to eliminate one of the most persistent bottlenecks in Neuro-AI research: the painful, fragmented process of getting brain data into a deep learning pipeline. https://kingjr.github.io/files/neuralset.pdf The Problem: Neuroscience Data Is Stuck in the Pre-Deep-Learning Era Neuroscience already has excellent, battle-tested software. Tools like

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smol-audio: A Colab-Friendly Notebook Collection for Fine-Tuning Whisper, Parakeet, Voxtral, Granite Speech, and Audio Flamingo 3

Audio AI has had a breakout year. Automatic speech recognition has gotten dramatically better with models like OpenAI’s Whisper variants, NVIDIA’s Parakeet, and Mistral’s Voxtral. Audio understanding stepped forward with models like NVIDIA’s Audio Flamingo 3. Dialogue-grade text-to-speech arrived via Nari Labs’ Dia-1.6B. And Meta shipped the Perception Encoder Audiovisual (PE-AV), a multimodal encoder capable

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A Coding Implementation on Document Parsing Benchmarking with LlamaIndex ParseBench Using Python, Hugging Face, and Evaluation Metrics

In this tutorial, we explore how to use the ParseBench dataset to evaluate document parsing systems in a structured, practical way. We begin by loading the dataset directly from Hugging Face, inspecting its multiple dimensions, such as text, tables, charts, and layout, and transforming it into a unified dataframe for deeper analysis. As we progress,

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Poolside AI Introduces Laguna XS.2 and M.1: Agentic Coding Models Reaching 68.2% and 72.5% on SWE-bench Verified

Poolside AI released the first two models in its Laguna family: Laguna M.1 and Laguna XS.2. Alongside these, the company is releasing pool — a lightweight terminal-based coding agent and a dual Agent Client Protocol (ACP) client-server — the same environment Poolside uses internally for agent RL training and evaluation, now available as a research

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In the coming AI future, Britain must not end up at the mercy of US tech giants | Rafael Behr

Trump is volatile, capricious and unreasonable – but he belongs to the old world of analogue power. What comes next will be harder to manageDonald Trump is not impressed by soft power. He respects hard men with military muscle. But he can be moved by pageantry, which is the purpose of King Charles’s visit to

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