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Corded vacuums are supposed to be outdated – so why is the Shark Detect Lift-Away XL so good?

Surprisingly easy to manoeuvre and skilled at cleaning carpet and hard floor, Shark’s upright bagless model is one of the best corded vacuums I’ve tested• The best vacuum cleanersCorded vacuum cleaners aren’t as glamorous as their cordless cousins, but swapping battery power for a plug socket has its advantages. The device will never be short […]

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Could AI be conscious?

Experts believe it’s at least possible. We urgently need a plan to navigate the ethical implicationsIn January, the AI company Anthropic published a new constitution for Claude, its most advanced large language model (LLM), which contained the comment: “We are caught in a difficult position where we neither want to overstate the likelihood of Claude’s moral patienthood

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Victoria announces new social media ‘demasking’ powers for accounts accused of vilification

New laws would give Vcat power to force social and AI platforms to identify anonymous users in move premier says will protect childrenGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSocial media companies could be forced to identify anonymous accounts accused of online vilification, under new laws being proposed in Victoria.The Victorian premier,

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‘We noticed a login from a new device’: the message from fraudsters targeting your X account

They are out to steal your password to commit further fraud such as crypto scams or phishing attacksYou have had an X account for years, since it was known as Twitter. When an email arrives about a new login from a location nowhere near where you live, alarm bells begin to ring.“We noticed a login

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10 Open-Source No-Code AI Platforms for Building LLM Apps, RAG Systems, and AI Agents

Introduction Building an LLM application no longer requires wiring orchestration code by hand. A class of open-source platforms now exposes retrieval, agents, and workflows through visual canvases, web UIs, and plain-English prompts. These tools let developers prototype in minutes and self-host for data control. This article reviews ten open-source projects across three jobs: building LLM

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Kimi K3 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro vs GLM-5.2: Open Trillion-Scale MoE Models Compared on Benchmarks, License, and Serving Cost

Three Chinese labs now hold the top of the open-weight leaderboard. Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3, DeepSeek V4 Pro, and Zhipu AI’s GLM-5.2 are all sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models with million-token context windows. Each targets long-horizon coding and agent workloads. This article compares them on three axes an AI team actually decides on: measured capability, license

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Fine-Tuning Qwen3 with LoRA Using NVIDIA NeMo AutoModel: A Complete Single-GPU Google Colab Workflow Tutorial

In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end NVIDIA NeMo AutoModel workflow in Google Colab and use a single GPU to explore the same configuration-driven training architecture that scales to distributed multi-GPU environments. We verify the available CUDA hardware and precision support, install NeMo AutoModel directly from its source repository, load an official Qwen3-0.6B LoRA fine-tuning

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Albanese’s AI speech was a good start. Now Australia must confront these bigger questions | Julianne Schultz

The PM’s vision must look beyond datacentres and copyright to questions of capability, security and public benefitGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastEvery new technology has a tipping point, when it speeds towards ubiquity, changing the world as we once knew it. In the past six months, artificial intelligence, in its

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NVIDIA Released DeepStream 9.1: Bringing Agentic AI to Vision AI With 13 Skills and Multi-View 3D Tracking

NVIDIA just released DeepStream 9.1. The update targets a persistent problem in video analytics. Tracking one object across many cameras traditionally requires manual camera calibration and complicated calculations. DeepStream 9.1 addresses this with two additions: Multi-View 3D Tracking (MV3DT) and AutoMagicCalib (AMC). Both ship as agentic skills for coding agents. As a result, developers move

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Andy Burnham’s plan to scrap technology department triggers backlash

MPs and industry experts say potential reorganisation will waste time at critical moment for AI and economic growthAndy Burnham’s plan to scrap the government’s technology department has triggered an angry backlash from MPs, Whitehall officials and tech experts.The incoming prime minister has asked officials to draw up plans to abolish the Department for Science, Innovation

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