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Food delivery riders call on platforms to open up AI ‘black box’ they say has cut pay

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Workers who blame algorithms for lowering their earnings are getting help from academics to find out how the system worksGig economy workers are urging delivery platforms to open up the “black box” of computer-driven algorithms that determine the jobs they are offered and how much they are paid, blaming increased use of AI for lowering […]

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Google Launches Agentic Video Understanding for Gemini Flash Models, Cutting Video Tokens by Up to 88%

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Video has been the most expensive modality to reason over. A Gemini model handed a 90-minute lecture has, until now, ingested the whole thing at a fixed one frame per second, whether the question was ‘summarize this’ or ‘what time does the speaker switch to the pricing slide?’ That single-pass design forces a bad trade:

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NVIDIA Releases Personal AI Router (PAIR): An Open Source Virtual Inference Router that Distributes Local AI Requests Across RTX, DGX Spark, and Mac Nodes

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Multi-agent workflows have changed the shape of local inference. A lead agent decomposes a task and spawns subagents. What looked like one user request becomes dozens of independent model calls. Pointed at a single local engine, those calls compete for the same execution slots. The queue grows while a workstation, laptop, or DGX Spark on

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Black Box: The Chatbots | Spirals | Ep 1 – podcast

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Across the world, hundreds of people have come to believe they have made extraordinary scientific discoveries with AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Others say their AI has ‘awakened’, or is leading them to a higher spiritual realm. The Guardian journalist Michael Safi investigates a phenomenon labelled ‘AI psychosis’, travelling to the US

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As AI madness encroaches, we need human connection more than ever. But we’ll have to fight for it | Van Badham

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We don’t want the isolating, automated outputs tech lords are selling us. We’re yearning for a shared frame of referenceI have a cherished memory of a family trip to the movies. In the Australian tradition, we bought choc-top ice-creams, chattered through pre-show trailers and a hush fell on the full house as the movie started.It

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US military disables ad trackers on troops’ phones amid security fears

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Senator releases letters from armed forces after reports of location data being used to track US troops in Middle EastUS military officials say they have disabled advertising trackers on a range of phones and computers, according to letters released on Friday by the US senator Ron Wyden and ⁠statements given to Reuters.The development follows reports

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The best hair dryers for smooth, speedy styling at home – whatever your hair type

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Want every day to be a good hair day? We tested 22 hair dryers to find the best, from gentle diffusers to high-speed and travel-ready models• The best hot brushes, tried and tested by our expertIn my years of reviewing beauty tech, it was upgrading my hair dryer that made the biggest difference to my

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Google DeepMind’s WeatherNext 3 Trains on Weather Station Observations to Deliver 5 km Global Forecasts, Refreshed Every Hour

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AI weather models have spent three years closing the gap with physics-based forecasting, but two problems stayed open: resolution too coarse for local terrain, and initialization tied to numerical weather prediction (NWP) analysis that arrives about six hours late. WeatherNext 3, released by Google DeepMind and Google Research, attacks both. It takes a live global

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Serbians targeted with spyware in country’s ‘largest documented wave of surveillance’

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Student protesters among those hacked, says digital rights group, though Aleksandar Vučić’s government denies spying At least 14 people from across Serbian civil society were targeted with advanced spyware earlier this year in what the digital rights group Share Foundation said was the largest documented ​wave of such infection in Serbia to date.The wave of

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Sadiq Khan agrees to have his texts and emails searched in Palantir legal battle

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US tech company has sued London mayor after he prevented it from working with Metropolitan policeSadiq Khan has agreed for his text messages and emails to be searched as part of a legal battle with Palantir, the high court has been told, after he prevented the US technology company from working with the Metropolitan police.The

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