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What is a passkey, how does it work and why is it better than a password?

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Login method for apps and websites stored on users’ devices provides stronger security and is resistant to phishing and breachesThe UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has called time on the password – from now on, you should use a passkey.The NCSC said this week it would no longer recommend using passwords where passkeys were available. […]

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Google DeepMind Introduces Vision Banana: An Instruction-Tuned Image Generator That Beats SAM 3 on Segmentation and Depth Anything V3 on Metric Depth Estimation

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For years, the computer vision community has operated on two separate tracks: generative models (which produce images) and discriminative models (which understand them). The assumption was straightforward — models good at making pictures aren’t necessarily good at reading them. A new paper from Google, titled “Image Generators are Generalist Vision Learners” (arXiv:2604.20329), published April 22,

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Meet GitNexus: An Open-Source MCP-Native Knowledge Graph Engine That Gives Claude Code and Cursor Full Codebase Structural Awareness

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There is a quiet failure mode that lives at the center of every AI-assisted coding workflow. You ask Claude Code, Cursor, or Windsurf to modify a function. The agent does it confidently, cleanly, and incorrectly — because it had no idea that 47 other functions depended on the return type it just changed. Breaking changes

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A Coding Implementation on Microsoft’s OpenMementos with Trace Structure Analysis, Context Compression, and Fine-Tuning Data Preparation

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In this tutorial, we work with Microsoft’s OpenMementos dataset and explore how reasoning traces are structured through blocks and mementos in a practical, Colab-ready workflow. We stream the dataset efficiently, parse its special-token format, inspect how reasoning and summaries are organized, and measure the compression provided by the memento representation across different domains. As we

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US justice department steps in on behalf of xAI in Colorado regulation case

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Move creates conflict between state and administration as Trump seeks federal framework over states handling issueSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxThe US justice department said on Friday it had intervened in a lawsuit by Elon Musk’s xAI challenging a Colorado law aimed at regulating artificial intelligence

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Democratic Maine governor vetoes first US state freeze on new datacenters

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Janet Mills says moratorium would’ve been ‘appropriate’ if it didn’t interfere with ongoing datacenter project in MaineThe Democratic governor of Maine on Friday vetoed a bill that would have made it the first US state to impose a moratorium on large new datacenters, even as local opposition to the electricity-hungry facilities grows.The decision reflects the

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DeepSeek AI Releases DeepSeek-V4: Compressed Sparse Attention and Heavily Compressed Attention Enable One-Million-Token Contexts

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DeepSeek-AI has released a preview version of the DeepSeek-V4 series: two Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language models built around one core challenge making one-million-token context windows practical and affordable at inference time. The series consists of DeepSeek-V4-Pro, with 1.6T total parameters and 49B activated per token, and DeepSeek-V4-Flash, with 284B total parameters and 13B activated per token.

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Officials hugely underestimated impact of AI datacentres on UK carbon emissions

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Revised figures increase fears about how the energy-intensive sites could worsen the climate emergency The UK government vastly underestimated the climate impact of artificial intelligence, it has emerged, after officials raised their estimate of carbon emissions from the technology by a factor of more than 100.According to new data quietly published this week, energy use

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‘Look, no hands’: China chases the driverless dream at Beijing car show

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As domestic sales slow manufacturers are investing in AI and seeking growth in technology and in overseas marketsAt the world’s biggest car fair, which opened in Beijing on Friday, there were hundreds of manufacturers, more than 1,000 vehicles, hundreds of thousands of enthusiasts – and hardly anyone behind a wheel.China’s car companies have cornered the

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Fitness tracker for Fido? Experts split on benefits of pet tech

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As sales soar, some say trackers can help animal anxiety or weight loss while others advise leaving diagnoses to the vetPet health and activity trackers are bounding on to the market but experts are split on whether they are the cat’s pyjamas or barking up the wrong tree.As owners monitor their own step count, heart

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