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‘How is it possible?’: Berliners demand answers after sabotage causes blackout

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Arson attack that left parts of German capital in darkness for days stirs outrage over infrastructure insecurityEurope live – latest updatesWhen Silke Peters bought a crank radio and a camping stove just after the start of Russia’s full invasion of Ukraine, her husband thought she was “a little crazy”. “He put me down, only half-jokingly, […]

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Commons women and equalities committee to stop using X amid AI-altered images row

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Exclusive: Move follows outcry over use of Grok to digitally remove clothing from images of women and childrenUK politics live – latest updatesThe influential Commons women and equalities committee has decided to stop using X after the social media site’s AI tool began generating thousands of digitally-altered images of women and children with their clothes

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TII Abu-Dhabi Released Falcon H1R-7B: A New Reasoning Model Outperforming Others in Math and Coding with only 7B Params with 256k Context Window

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Technology Innovation Institute (TII), Abu Dhabi, has released Falcon-H1R-7B, a 7B parameter reasoning specialized model that matches or exceeds many 14B to 47B reasoning models in math, code and general benchmarks, while staying compact and efficient. It builds on Falcon H1 7B Base and is available on Hugging Face under the Falcon-H1R collection. Falcon-H1R-7B is

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‘A sign to change your technique’: how to make your toothbrush last longer – and keep it out of landfill

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They may be small, but toothbrushes can create mountains of waste. Experts reveal how to clean and care for them and extend their life• The best electric toothbrushes, testedIf toothbrushes were sentient, they’d complain about their lot in life. Their thankless existence involves repeatedly cleaning one of the grimmest parts of the body, then being

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Grok’s deepfake images which ‘digitally undress’ women investigated by Australia’s online safety watchdog

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eSafety Australia says it ‘has received several reports relating to the use of Grok to generate sexualised images without consent’ since late 2025Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia’s online safety watchdog is investigating sexualised deepfake images posted on X by its AI

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Implementing Softmax From Scratch: Avoiding the Numerical Stability Trap

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In deep learning, classification models don’t just need to make predictions—they need to express confidence. That’s where the Softmax activation function comes in. Softmax takes the raw, unbounded scores produced by a neural network and transforms them into a well-defined probability distribution, making it possible to interpret each output as the likelihood of a specific

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NVIDIA AI Released Nemotron Speech ASR: A New Open Source Transcription Model Designed from the Ground Up for Low-Latency Use Cases like Voice Agents

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NVIDIA has just released its new streaming English transcription model (Nemotron Speech ASR) built specifically for low latency voice agents and live captioning. The checkpoint nvidia/nemotron-speech-streaming-en-0.6b on Hugging Face combines a cache aware FastConformer encoder with an RNNT decoder, and is tuned for both streaming and batch workloads on modern NVIDIA GPUs. Model design, architecture

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Elon Musk’s xAI announces it has raised $20bn amid backlash over Grok deepfakes

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AI company’s chatbot faces criticism over its generation of sexualized, nonconsensual images of women and girlsElon Musk’s artificial intelligence company has raised $20bn in its latest funding round, the startup announced Tuesday, even as its marquee chatbot Grok faces backlash over generating sexualized, nonconsensual images of women and underage girls.xAI’s Series E funding round featured

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How to actually reduce your screen time this year: 15 expert tips

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If you want to doomscroll less this year, try these realistic tips from screen time coachesSimple daily rituals for building fun, calm and play into your days in 2026Sign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying fewer, better thingsI wish time travel were real. If it were, I’d go back to

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AI consciousness is a red herring in the safety debate | Letters

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We should take AI risks seriously, but doing so requires conceptual clarity, says Prof Virginia Dignum. Plus letters from John Robinson and Eric SkidmoreThe concern expressed by Yoshua Bengio that advanced AI systems might one day resist being shut down deserves careful consideration (AI showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be ready to pull

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