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How Australia became the testing ground for a social media ban for young people

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From nascent policy idea in one state to passing federal parliament in just days, it’s been a whirlwind journey for the world-first legislation that will take effect from 10 DecemberIn late 2023, the South Australian premier’s wife put down a book she had been reading. It was Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation.“[She] said to me […]

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Don’t use ‘admin’: UK’s top 20 most-used passwords revealed as scams soar

Artificial Intelligence, Computing, Consumer affairs, Cybercrime, Internet, Money, Scams, Technology, UK news

Easy-to-guess words and figures still dominate, alarming cysbersecurity experts and delighting hackersIt is a hacker’s dream. Even in the face of repeated warnings to protect online accounts, a new study reveals that “admin” is the most commonly used password in the UK.The second most popular, “123456”, is also unlikely to keep hackers at bay. Continue

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Microsoft AI Releases VibeVoice-Realtime: A Lightweight Real‑Time Text-to-Speech Model Supporting Streaming Text Input and Robust Long-Form Speech Generation

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Microsoft has released VibeVoice-Realtime-0.5B, a real time text to speech model that works with streaming text input and long form speech output, aimed at agent style applications and live data narration. The model can start producing audible speech in about 300 ms, which is critical when a language model is still generating the rest of

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Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’

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AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’A single person claims to have authored 113 academic papers on artificial intelligence this year, 89 of which will be presented this week at one of the world’s leading conference on AI and machine learning,

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Harbadus attacks Andvaria: cyber war game tests Nato defences against Russia

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Power blackouts, public chaos and loss of communication with space were all thrown at troops in seven days Russia and China were barely mentioned, but they were the threats in everyone’s minds in Tallinn this week, where Nato hosted its largest ever cyber war game.The goal of the war game, conducted 130 miles from the

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Six greats reads: a train ride to the future; searching for the ‘sky boys’ and wallaby hunting in the English countryside

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Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days Continue reading…

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Kernel Principal Component Analysis (PCA): Explained with an Example

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Dimensionality reduction techniques like PCA work wonderfully when datasets are linearly separable—but they break down the moment nonlinear patterns appear. That’s exactly what happens with datasets such as two moons: PCA flattens the structure and mixes the classes together.  Kernel PCA fixes this limitation by mapping the data into a higher-dimensional feature space where nonlinear

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Apple Researchers Release CLaRa: A Continuous Latent Reasoning Framework for Compression‑Native RAG with 16x–128x Semantic Document Compression

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How do you keep RAG systems accurate and efficient when every query tries to stuff thousands of tokens into the context window and the retriever and generator are still optimized as 2 separate, disconnected systems? A team of researchers from Apple and University of Edinburgh released CLaRa, Continuous Latent Reasoning, (CLaRa-7B-Base, CLaRa-7B-Instruct and CLaRa-7B-E2E) a

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AI deepfakes of real doctors spreading health misinformation on social media

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Hundreds of videos on TikTok and elsewhere impersonate experts to sell supplements with unproven effectsTikTok and other social media platforms are hosting AI-generated deepfake videos of doctors whose words have been manipulated to help sell supplements and spread health misinformation.The factchecking organisation Full Fact has uncovered hundreds of such videos featuring impersonated versions of doctors

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‘Urgent clarity’ sought over racial bias in UK police facial recognition technology

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Testing showing racial bias against black and Asian people prompts watchdog to ask Home Office for explanationThe UK’s data protection watchdog has asked the Home Office for “urgent clarity” over racial bias in police facial recognition technology before considering its next steps.The Home Office has admitted that the technology was “more likely to incorrectly include

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