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Read a book? Join a club? Stare at a wall? Social media alternatives for under-16s

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Amid UK government proposals for a ban, experts discuss what other activities might really serve children wellWhen a Lancashire schoolgirl was asked what she would do if the proposed social media ban for under-16s came into effect, her answer hit a national nerve: “Stare at a wall,” she deadpanned.The clip went viral, not least because

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‘It’s a scam’: Americans express unease over SpaceX’s influence on retirement savings

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Guardian readers in the US share concerns about how the SpaceX IPO and AI boom affect their retirement accountsElon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire last week after SpaceX debuted on the stock market with a valuation of $1.77tn.Millions of Americans could soon become indirect investors in SpaceX and other emerging AI-focused companies as US

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Liquid AI Introduces LFM2.5-Embedding-350M and LFM2.5-ColBERT-350M: Dense Bi-Encoder and Late-Interaction Models for Fast Multilingual Search Across 11 Languages

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This week, Liquid AI released two new retrieval models. They are LFM2.5-ColBERT-350M and LFM2.5-Embedding-350M. Both hold 350M parameters. Both are the first bidirectional members of the LFM family. They build on LFM2.5-350M-Base, released in March. The pair targets fast multilingual and cross-lingual search across 11 languages. Their footprint is small enough to run almost anywhere.

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Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s new film shines a light on the human cost of unregulated social media

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California first lady’s Miss Representation: Rise Up studies the backlash against women in the era of algorithms and deepfakesLife moves pretty fast. It is Monday lunchtime when Jennifer Siebel Newsom drops into the Guardian’s office in Washington, just a couple of blocks from the White House, for an interview to promote her new film. Less

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On the trail of the dotcom queen: how Julie Meyer left a pattern of unpaid bills, missing funds and broken dreams in her wake

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Investigation: The entrepreneur was once the toast of London’s tech scene, a ‘global leader of tomorrow’ who starred on Dragons’ Den and promised untold riches for the startups she championed. But people she worked with in the last decade, from Malta to Switzerland, describe a very different realityJulie Meyer is sitting in a starkly lit attic,

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Telegram questioned by Ofcom after arsonist who targeted Starmer-linked properties recruited on app

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Exclusive: Telegram urged to clarify how it detects illegal incitement after attacks were coordinated using appTelegram is facing questions from Ofcom over how it detects and prevents illegal incitement after a Ukrainian man was found guilty of carrying out arson attacks on a car and property associated with Keir Starmer.A spokesperson for the regulator said

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Salesforce CodeGen Tutorial: Generate, Validate, and Rerank Python Functions With Unit Tests and Safety Checks

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In this tutorial, we implement an end-to-end workflow for Salesforce CodeGen. We load a CodeGen model from Hugging Face, prepare it for code generation, and use it to generate Python functions from natural-language prompts. We then move beyond basic inference by adding function extraction, syntax checking, static safety checks, unit-test-based validation, best-of-N candidate reranking, multi-step

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Perplexity Launches Brain, a Self-Improving Memory System That Builds a Context Graph of an Agent’s Work and Learns Overnight

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Most AI memory remembers the user. It stores your preferences, your tastes, and your role. Perplexity is taking a different path. Today, Perplexity launched Brain, a self-improving memory system for its agent product, Computer. Brain does not focus on remembering you. It remembers what the agent did. That reframes what memory in AI is for.

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UK attorney general tells department to stop using X amid disinformation concerns

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Exclusive: Richard Hermer’s office understood to be first in government to restrict use after recent riotsThe attorney general has told his office to no longer post on X, making it the first UK government department to stop using the Elon Musk-owned platform amid increasing worries about its use to incite violence and racism.Richard Hermer’s office

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Don’t wait for Prime Day. We found the 31 best early deals from Amazon and its competitors

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Love or hate Amazon, its 23-26 June Prime Day event is a good time to snag discounts on tech, fashion and more, including much-loved brands such as Anyday and CarawaySign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying fewer, better thingsYou don’t have the wait until after Turkey Day: early summer is

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