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‘We detected unusual activity’: the scam that uses AI to exploit your holiday photos

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Fraudsters use pictures posted on Instagram or Facebook to create emails seeking bank account detailsYou are on a short break in Porto and post some pictures of your family on Instagram or Facebook. With a small section of the Douro river in the background, you think it could have been taken anywhere.A few days later, […]

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Fine-Tuning Tool-Calling LLMs: A Complete Guide Using XYZ-Aquila-SFT and Qwen3

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In this tutorial, we implement an end-to-end supervised fine-tuning pipeline for the XYZ-Aquila-SFT dataset, Hugging Face Transformers, PyTorch, and PEFT. We stream and inspect the dataset, parse multi-turn tool-use trajectories, extract structured tool calls, analyze corpus characteristics, and preserve embedded reasoning and observation patterns. We then convert tool schemas between message-embedded and structured formats, render

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Gen Z flocks to BirdTok as birding takes flight: ‘It’s a craving for something real’

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Social media and Shazam-like birdsong apps drawing young people to hobby as they seek a gentler connection to the outside worldSorry Elon, but they’re not your kind of tweets. Social media users are flocking to TikTok to join a burgeoning trend for birding videos as the hobby attracts a younger demographic.With the internet ever more

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No 10’s ads for a TikTok team show why social media is a smart career move

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The Guardian’s deputy editor of social platforms on the demand from high-profile people and brands for help in harnessing the power of TikTokI didn’t want to work in social media. If you’d asked 15-year-old me my dream job, I might have said foreign correspondent, or maybe travel writer. So you can imagine my surprise to

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Secondhand booksellers in UK and Ireland suspect AI firms behind ‘strange’ bulk orders

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Development comes after Anthropic was found to have spent millions on books to scan for ‘data acquisition’Secondhand booksellers in the UK and Ireland are reporting a flurry of bulk orders from mystery buyers, amid speculation AI companies are acquiring the tomes for their data.Bookshops contacted by the Guardian say they have been receiving orders from

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Why does everything feel meh? We’re in the era of joyless decadence – Stateside with Kai and Carter

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We should, in theory, be happy. Thanks to our phones, we can do practically anything – listen to our favorite bands’ entire discographies, have extravagant meals delivered to our door, travel the world through an endless scroll. So why do so many of these experiences feel so joyless? Why do so many of us feel

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As online dating goes into ‘salvage mode’, can AI solve all its problems?

ai, AI (Artificial Intelligence), Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Dating, Internet safety, Life and style, Online Dating, Technology, World news

Dating apps such as Bumble forced to adapt as ‘swipe fatigue’ growsBumble was supposed to be different. When it launched in 2014, it offered women a simple proposition: if you matched with a man, you had to make the first move. The rule was meant to make online dating safer and less intimidating, while giving

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Z.ai Ships GLM-5.3 Without Retraining the Base Model: Better at Complex Coding and Long-Horizon Tasks

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Z.ai just released GLM-5.3. GLM-5.3 runs on the same 743B base model as GLM-5.2. Every reported gain comes from scaled post-training: more task environments, more environment types, longer training. The results land in two places. Coding jumps most on the longest-horizon benchmarks, with Terminal-Bench 3.0 moving from 4.6 to 28.3. Cybersecurity moved further than Z.ai

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Meet Needle 2: An Open 45M-Parameter Tool-Calling Model That Ships as a 14MB Binary and Runs a Full Session in 28MB of RAM

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Cactus Compute has released Needle 2, an open 45M-parameter model for tool calling, device use, and structured extraction. The entire model ships as a single 14MB binary that runs a full session in about 28MB of RAM. Weights are trained and deployed at CQ2-bit using Cactus Quants, and the model is sealed inside the company’s

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Create a Reasoning-Focused LLM: A Practical Guide to Streaming, Curating, and Fine-Tuning the SupraLabs Reasoning Corpus

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In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end workflow for working with the SupraLabs reasoning corpus. We stream a representative subset directly from the Hugging Face Hub, inspect its source distribution, token-length patterns, task composition, and reasoning-to-answer ratios, and then apply a series of quality filters to remove unsuitable training examples. We transform the retained samples

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