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Musk’s xAI sues user who allegedly used Grok to create child sexual abuse material

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Case is one of first brought by an AI company against a user ⁠for allegedly using a tool to generate child abuse materialElon Musk’s artificial-intelligence startup xAI has sued a South Carolina man arrested ⁠earlier this year on charges of sexually exploiting minors, alleging he misused the company’s AI system Grok to ⁠create child sexual […]

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Brain implant helps paralysed man to feed himself and drink from cup

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Keith Thomas can move arms and hands, and feel sensation of touch after ‘double neural bypass’ and months of trainingA man who was paralysed from the chest down in a swimming accident six years ago has been able to feed himself and drink from a cup thanks to a brain implant that bypasses his spinal

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‘Keys to the kingdom’: hackers who gained access to heart of London transport network jailed

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Thalha Jubair, 20, and Owen Flowers, 19, sentenced to five and a half years each for cyber-attack that cost Transport for London £39mThe data of millions of commuters was stolen, Londoners were left out of pocket and 27,000 Transport for London staff were forced to reset their passwords.Over four days in 2024 a pair of

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SpaceXAI Open-Sources Grok Build: The Rust Agent Harness, TUI, and Tool Layer Behind Its Coding CLI

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SpaceXAI has open-sourced Grok Build, the terminal-based AI coding agent behind its grok CLI. The source landed on GitHub today. The release covers the agent harness, TUI, CLI shell, and developer tooling under the Apache 2.0 license What is Grok Build? A harness is the scaffolding around a model. It assembles context, calls the model,

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Moroccan intelligence insider reveals widespread use of Pegasus hacking software

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Whistleblower suggests internal security services deployed spyware from 2017 against key domestic and foreign targetsA former member of Morocco’s domestic intelligence service has helped to provide an unprecedented insight into how the north African state used hacking software – including Pegasus spyware – to target journalists, human rights defenders, French politicians and Spanish cabinet ministers

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‘Social media bans are likely to make things worse’: psychologist Candice Odgers on kids, tech and mental health

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She has studied adolescent mental health for 25 years and fears the debate obscures some of the biggest issues facing teenagers – from the impact of Covid to the health of their adult caregiversThe quickest way to make being online safer for children and teens would be to kick all adult men off the internet,

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Robots, AI and drones: how the Dutch navy is using tech to transform its sea defences

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Uncrewed systems are the future for armed forces and the Netherlands is leading the way ‘to keep people out of danger zones’On each side of the target ship, a black vessel keeps a watchful distance. Defender 1 and Defender 2 are the eyes and ears of the navy – but they have nobody onboard, and

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Anthony Albanese’s AI vision scores high on vibes but the devil will be in the detail. And there is one glaring omission … | David Pocock

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When the PM talks about new laws applying to the ‘next generation of large-scale datacentres’ what does he mean?Albanese’s AI blueprint sparks calls for datacentre moratorium until new regulations in placeExpectations were high as the prime minister took the stage at the University of Sydney on Wednesday to outline a pivot in his government’s approach

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Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling: A 975B-Parameter Open-Weights Multimodal MoE With 41B Active Parameters And Controllable Thinking Effort

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Thinking Machines Lab just released Inkling, their first model trained from scratch, weights are open, fine-tunable on Tinker. The lab pitches it as a base for customization. What is Inkling? Inkling is a Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 975B total parameters and 41B active. It supports a context window of up to 1M tokens. Pretraining covered 45

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Soofi Consortium Releases Soofi S 30B-A3B: An Open Hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE Foundation Model For German And English

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A German research consortium has published the pretraining report for Soofi S 30B-A3B. It is an open base model for German and English. Training ran end to end on Deutsche Telekom’s Industrial AI Cloud in Munich. Preview weights are on Hugging Face. It is worth noting that among some of the fully open base models

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