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UK exposed to ‘serious harm’ by failure to tackle AI risks, MPs warn

Government, Bank of England and FCA criticised for taking ‘wait-and-see’ approach to AI use in financial sectorConsumers and the UK financial system are being exposed to “serious harm” by the failure of government and the Bank of England to get a grip on the risks posed by artificial intelligence, an influential parliamentary committee has warned.In

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Is this man the future of music – or its executioner? AI evangelist Mikey Shulman says he’s making pop, not slop

Worth a staggering $2.45bn, Suno is an AI music company that can create a track with just a few prompts. Why is its CEO happy to see it called ‘the Ozempic of the music industry’?‘The format of the future,” says Mikey Shulman, “is music you play with, not just play.” As the CEO and co-founder

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I tested the best US pizza makers costing $129 to $2,800. Here’s what was worth the price

I spent weeks testing popular at-home pizza tools. Here’s what I found was worth the money, no matter your budgetFar from ‘upcharged grape juice’: the 13 best nonalcoholic wines in the USSign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying fewer, better thingsIt’s never been easier to make pizza at home. And

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More than 60 Labour MPs urge Starmer to back under-16s social media ban

Exclusive: Letter signed by figures on right and left of party says UK should follow Australia’s example by enacting banMore than 60 Labour MPs have written to Keir Starmer urging him to back a social media ban for under-16s, with peers due to vote on the issue this week.The MPs, who include select committee chairs,

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Nous Research Releases NousCoder-14B: A Competitive Olympiad Programming Model Post-Trained on Qwen3-14B via Reinforcement Learning

Nous Research has introduced NousCoder-14B, a competitive olympiad programming model that is post trained on Qwen3-14B using reinforcement learning (RL) with verifiable rewards. On the LiveCodeBench v6 benchmark, which covers problems from 08/01/2024 to 05/01/2025, the model reaches a Pass@1 accuracy of 67.87 percent. This is 7.08 percentage points higher than the Qwen3-14B baseline of

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Ed Zitron on big tech, backlash, boom and bust: ‘AI has taught us that people are excited to replace human beings’

His blunt, brash scepticism has made the podcaster and writer something of a cult figure. But as concern over large language models builds, he’s no longer the outsider he once wasIf some time in an entirely possible future they come to make a movie about “how the AI bubble burst”, Ed Zitron will doubtless be

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A Coding Guide to Understanding How Retries Trigger Failure Cascades in RPC and Event-Driven Architectures

In this tutorial, we build a hands-on comparison between a synchronous RPC-based system and an asynchronous event-driven architecture to understand how real distributed systems behave under load and failure. We simulate downstream services with variable latency, overload conditions, and transient errors, and then drive both architectures using bursty traffic patterns. By observing metrics such as

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Deactivate your X account – you won’t miss it when it’s gone | Letter

Why prolific poster Sam Nair decided it was time to kick the doom-scrolling into touchAs a past follower of Marie Le Conte (AKA the Young Vulgarian) on X, I read her column on leaving the platform with interest, complete empathy and self-reflection (To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s

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Vercel Releases Agent Skills: A Package Manager For AI Coding Agents With 10 Years of React and Next.js Optimisation Rules

Vercel has released agent-skills, a collection of skills that turns best practice playbooks into reusable skills for AI coding agents. The project follows the Agent Skills specification and focuses first on React and Next.js performance, web design review, and claimable deployments on Vercel. Skills are installed with a command that feels similar to npm, and

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