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AI-generated Lego videos and Trump’s poo-bombing: welcome to the Iran-US slopaganda wars | Mark Alfano and Michał Klincewicz for the Conversation

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When it’s hard or impossible to identify trustworthy sources, you can choose to believe whatever you find comforting, invigorating or infuriatingIn early March, a week after the first US-Israeli strikes on Iran, the White House posted a video of real American attacks mixed with clips from popular movies, television series, video games and anime.Iran and

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How to Deploy Open WebUI with Secure OpenAI API Integration, Public Tunneling, and Browser-Based Chat Access

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In this tutorial, we build a complete Open WebUI setup in Colab, in a practical, hands-on way, using Python. We begin by installing the required dependencies, then securely provide our OpenAI API key through terminal-based secret input so that sensitive credentials are not exposed directly in the notebook. From there, we configure the environment variables

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Tell us: do you use AI chatbots to make decisions for you?

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Maybe you use them to decide what to eat or to help you write text messages. We’d like to hear from youAI chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are now a part of everyday life.More and more people are using them to help make decisions in their lives, like sending text messages, deciding what to

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Musk’s SpaceX courts retail investors as it aims for record-breaking stock market flotation

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Elon Musk’s aerospace to AI company will host summer event to try to convince buyers it is worth $2tnBusiness live – latest updatesSpaceX will kick off the marketing for its highly anticipated stock exchange debut by hosting an event in June for 1,500 retail investors, as executives set out to convince buyers that the aerospace-to-artificial-intelligence

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Children in UK report online sextortion attempts in record numbers

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Exclusive: Call for nudity-detection tech on phones as number of under-18s reporting blackmail attempts rises by 34%• ‘I felt ashamed and scared’: how an online friendship became a sextortion nightmareChildren are reporting online sextortion attempts in record numbers in the UK, as campaigners urge tech companies to do more to stamp out the crime.The Report

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Row over ‘virtual gated community’ AI surveillance plan in Toronto neighbourhood

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Rosedale residents considering car licence plate-scanning Flock system in bid to tackle property crimeA row has broken out in one of Canada’s wealthiest neighbourhoods over plans to use an AI-powered surveillance system to create the country’s first “virtual gated community” to combat surging property crime.Crime rates in Toronto as a whole are dropping, but residents

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Sluts, simps and body shaming: the rise of Africa’s manosphere

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Experts have been alarmed at the growth of deep misogyny dressed up as self-help on social media. We profile seven men from across the continent who are gaining tractionIt is not just Europe and the US that are grappling with a growing landscape of misogynistic influencers online. While Andrew Tate, Myron Gaines, Sneako and other

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Porn, dog poo and social media snaps: the ‘taskers’ scraping the internet for Meta-owned AI firm

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Scale AI gig workers describe desperation of using people’s personal profiles and copyrighted work to train AITens of thousands of people have been paid by a company part-owned by Meta to train AI by combing Instagram accounts, harvesting copyrighted work and transcribing pornographic soundtracks, the Guardian can reveal.Scale AI, 49%-controlled by Mark Zuckerberg’s social media

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‘There’s a lot of desperation’: skilled older workers turn to AI training to stay afloat

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They have degrees, expertise and years of experience – but can’t find work. For many Americans, AI training has become a last refuge in a brutal job marketWhen Patrick Ciriello lost his job and couldn’t find work for nearly a year, his family’s foundation crumbled.“You hear about people who hit rock bottom,” Ciriello told the

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Meta AI Releases EUPE: A Compact Vision Encoder Family Under 100M Parameters That Rivals Specialist Models Across Image Understanding, Dense Prediction, and VLM Tasks

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Running powerful AI on your smartphone isn’t just a hardware problem — it’s a model architecture problem. Most state-of-the-art vision encoders are enormous, and when you trim them down to fit on an edge device, they lose the capabilities that made them useful in the first place. Worse, specialized models tend to excel at one

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