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UK ministers lobby Trump to avert backlash against social media ban

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No 10 is worried about retaliation from White House over restrictions to under-16s’ internet useMinisters have embarked on a concerted lobbying operation to prevent a backlash from the Trump administration to the under-16s social media ban announced by Keir Starmer.Officials said they have spent weeks trying to reassure senior Trump officials and the US president […]

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Meet Flash-KMeans: An IO-Aware, Exact K-Means That Runs Over 200× Faster Than FAISS on GPUs

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k-means has been an offline tool for decades. You run it once to preprocess data, then move on. A team of researchers from UC Berkeley and UT Austin released Flash-KMeans, a new open-source library that targets a different setting. Modern AI pipelines now call k-means inside training and inference loops. At that frequency, latency per

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Starmer confirms social media ban for under-16s, saying this is a ‘big moment for our country’ – UK politics live

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Prime minister defends going for full ban, saying social media is making children unhappy and unsafeStarmer acknowledges some teenagers will get round these restrictons. But that does not make the rules pointless, he says.Will it mean that no child ever looks at social media again? No.But look, this might shock you, but it doesn’t shock

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Z.ai Launches GLM-5.2 With a Usable 1M-Token Context, Two Thinking-Effort Levels, and No Benchmarks at Launch

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GLM-5.2 is the latest large language model from Z.ai, becoming the third major release in the GLM-5 line. It follows GLM-5 (February 11), GLM-5-Turbo (March 15), and GLM-5.1 (April 7). That makes four flagship-tier coding releases in roughly four months. Usable 1M-Token Context Window GLM-5.2’s standout spec is a 1,000,000-token context window. Z.ai labels the

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Europe is starting to break up with US big tech. But it’s still abiding by the Silicon Valley rulebook | Max von Thun

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The European Commission has unveiled its plans for digital sovereignty. Its proposals betray a disappointing lack of visionBeti Hohler is a Slovenian national who lives in the Netherlands. Like tens of millions of other Europeans, she uses Apple’s app store and has an Amazon account. When she travels for work or leisure, she may want

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Claude Code Guide 2026: 25 Features with Examples + Demo

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Claude Code started as a terminal coding assistant. It now runs as a layered agentic system. Underneath, Claude Code separates memory, hooks, skills, subagents, plugins, and MCP into distinct layers. Each layer changes what the model can see or do. This article covers 25 features and strategies for scaling Claude Code. It is written for

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A Coding Hands-On on FineWeb for Streaming, Filtering, Deduplication, Tokenization, and Large-Scale Web Corpus Analytics

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In this tutorial, we explore the FineWeb dataset through an advanced hands-on workflow. We stream a manageable sample of the dataset without downloading the full multi-terabyte corpus, inspect its schema and metadata, and analyze key fields such as URL, language, language score, and token count. We also reproduce simplified versions of FineWeb’s quality-filtering pipeline, apply

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13 Father’s Day gadget gifts your dad won’t stop talking about, based on raves from real dads

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Readers reply: Experts say we should use passkeys, but can a smartphone pin really be safer than a password?

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The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsThis week’s question: Is ‘ripen at home’ fruit the supermarkets’ idea of a joke?I’ve been struggling to get my head around the idea that a passkey, which can be a pin on

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Elon Musk and co may relish march of the robots but there must be AI boundaries in the workplace | Heather Stewart

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As such technology advances quickly, firms should not lose sight of what qualities humans bring to jobsA robot magician called D4YRL was rejected as a member of the Magic Circle last week, for being insufficiently human.While D4YRL’s tricks were exemplary, the august organisation decided “he” did not engage the audience’s emotions as a flesh-and-blood performer

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