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AI can fuel biological weapons. We must harness its power for defense | Annie Jacobsen

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The offensive potential is no longer theoretical. We need to develop systems to strengthen public health as quickly as AI is accelerating biological designAs artificial intelligence rapidly transforms the biological sciences, it is pushing the future of biology in two opposing directions. AI can help bad actors generate recipes for biological weapons with just a […]

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What If We Got AI Right? by Eleanor Drage review – avoiding apocalypse

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The academic’s ambitious guide to the ethics of tech falls short of its promise to provide meaningful answersThe AI ethicist Eleanor Drage believes that to thrive alongside artificial intelligence, humans need to recognise AI’s “humanity”. She means that while we often speak of AI as though it were some mystical, formless thing, it is the

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For a few seconds, AusAlert blared around parks, libraries and cinemas – but some didn’t get the alert at all

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Federal government touts emergency warning alert test as a success and says no approach works 100% of the timeFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA blaring emergency warning alert Australians had been warned about was anti-climactic for some – and totally missed by

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I risk losing my livelihood because Nissan failed to repair my car

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I’m a self-employed driving instructor and I’m running out of cash to hire a replacement dual-control vehicleMy livelihood as a self-employed driving instructor is under threat owing to Nissan’s failure to repair my leased dual-control car.It has been off the road awaiting a spare part for three months, and I’ve now been told it will

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Honor Magic V6 review: sleek foldable phone lacking a bit of polish

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Super-premium Android has top performance, long battery life and good cameras, but is let down by softwareHonor’s svelte Android phone-tablet has been given a glow-up for its sixth version, offering a great alternative to Samsung for a fancy foldable with a red suede-like back framed in gold.The Magic V6 continues the Chinese challenger brand’s strategy

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Black Forest Labs Releases FLUX 3: A Multimodal Flow Model for Image, Video, Audio and Robot Action Prediction

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Black Forest Labs (BFL) has released FLUX 3, a multimodal foundation model that learns from images, videos and audio inside a single architecture. It is also the first FLUX model to ship video, audio and action prediction from one set of weights. The Black Forest Labs (BFL) research team argues that no single modality gives

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When the AI bubble bursts, what will Australia do with the tools it built? One man thinks he has the answer

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Journalist and author Cory Doctorow is coming to Australia to spread his message – humans will take their jobs backGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWhen the AI bubble bursts, executives who enthusiastically replaced their staff with AI tools will learn that it takes a “really long time” to replace those

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Why does everything feel so joyless? Welcome to the age of decadence without pleasure | Michèle Mendelssohn and Charlie Tyson

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Decadence in our era comes in technologically mediated forms, emptied of desire and obsessed with self-optimisationDo you want to have a good time? You know, really enjoy yourself? Click here, and tell us your desires. Maybe it’s a new outfit, or some exotic cuisine delivered anonymously and steaming hot to your door. Maybe it’s porn

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Corporate America may be using AI to cut jobs, but small businesses are using it to keep them

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Reports of wide-scale replacement of workers by AI are overblown. Small businesses use it to help workersI recently met the owner of a company that sells windows and doors. He told me he invested about $10,000 in an AI application that is used by his salespeople in his showroom. The application listens to the conversations

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KwaiKAT Team Releases KAT-Coder-V2.5: An Agentic Coding Model Trained on 100,000+ Verifiable Repository Environments

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The KwaiKAT Team at Kuaishou has introduced the KAT-Coder-V2.5. It is a coding model trained to operate inside real, executable repositories rather than emit single-turn code. The served model is available through StreamLake. An open-weight variant, KAT-Coder-V2.5-Dev, was released separately on Hugging Face under Apache-2.0. AutoBuilder: environments that actually run the intended tests The research

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