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We’re excited to welcome Windows developers to JetBrains Air! Download for x64 / Download for ARM64 Since we launched the JetBrains Air, Windows support has been one of the most requested updates from the developer community. We heard that feedback and worked hard to bring Air to Windows. Air is built for agent-agnostic development – […]
It doesn’t pay to be a media company in the age of Trump.
Seasoned cruisers told Business Insider how to make the most of your first cruise, like what to pack and when to book excursions and reservations.
Xgimi, the Chinese company known for its all-in-one smart projectors, is expanding its portfolio with a new line of screen-equipped smart glasses that first debuted at CES 2026. Unlike AR glasses from companies like Meta and Snap, Xgimi’s new privacy-focused MemoMind One skip cameras for a lighter and more discreet design that helps hide their […]
Olivia DiBona and her husband lived with her parents for six months while they renovated their house. They doubled their square footage for $500,000.
An internal Deloitte presentation projects that the consulting industry's classic hourly billing model will shrink to a thin sliver of the total market by 2035, replaced by AI agents. "Our model is toast," one consultant summed up the message. McKinsey and BCG are already searching for alternative revenue models. The article Deloitte tells its own consultants: AI is coming for the billable hour appeared first on The Decoder .
After months of living in different cities, from London to LA, in search of my dream forever home, I realized I just wanted a semi-nomadic lifestyle.
The Wall Street Journal printed an outright false headline and heavily misleading story claiming this, which of course was uncritically amplified by the usual suspects. I post this now on its own so that we have a place to link to, to explain the situation. Headline News WSJ Headline (Obvious Nonsense): China Has Matched Anthropic in Cybersecurity, Resetting AI Race. That. Did. Not. Happen. The post even claims, explicitly, that Claude Opus 4.8 similarly ‘matches’ Claude Mythos, a claim which is even more obviously false. Shame upon the Wall Street Journal. I fear Gell-Mann Amnesia. If they can get something as important as this so completely wrong, what about everything else? I am skipping over the parts that involve accurate reporting, or minor quibbles. It seems important to focus on clearly debunking the central false claims. Alas, the mistakes made here very much rhyme with mistakes being made throughout all this by the White House, and that get latched onto by certain bad actors, who have played a large part in leaving us unprepared for the Mythos Moment. For a full understanding of GLM-5.2, which is indeed an impressive open model, here is my full coverage of that release , placing it in proper context. It is important to understand what makes Mythos special. This is not it. What Makes Mythos Special What makes mythos special is not that only the chosen one can identify any given vulnerability in code. What makes Mythos special is that it can identify vulnerabilities…
Look, I'm as much of a Rationalist with a special interest in AI x-risk as anyone. But oh my god do I hate talking about "P(doom)". When it first started showing up in the wake of ChatGPT, I assumed that it was floating around variously adjacent circles of faux-intellectuals, but surely everyone in my circles could see how braindead it was... right? (This post was partially inspired by a recent conversation with Liron about Doom Debates . [1] ) I guess it's time for me to focus on a place where I'm shocked that everyone else is dropping the ball . [2] P(doom) is Hopelessly Vague Let's start with the ambiguity. Does "doom" mean... extinction? A lot of people think so! I have personally encountered people who think catastrophic harms from AI are likely, but the risks of all humans dying are low. They're like "Sure, 99.999% of humans might die from AI, but the AI will obviously want to keep thousands of humans alive for science and potential trade with aliens and stuff, so my P(doom) is approximately 0%." That might sound crazy. Surely you, dear reader, know exactly what "doom" means. You know, for example, which of these count as doom and which don't: A young ASI tries to use it's first-mover advantage to take over the world and prevent other ASI competitors from emerging. In doing so it sparks a war against humanity where it eventually loses, [3] but it kills 10% of all humans in the process. ASI empowers a single person or small group of humans to become tyrants and lock in…
The Supreme Court just placed once-independent agencies more firmly under presidential control. The court ruled in Trump v. Slaughter with a 6-3 vote that President Donald Trump had the authority to fire the Federal Trade Commission's two Democratic commissioners, even though it broke with decades of prior legal precedent at the time. The justices have […]
Hungary's new prime minister ended Budapest's veto on Ukraine's EU accession talks in June, but is resisting further progress, citing minority rights, Western Balkans fairness, and domestic political pressures. Here's why he's digging in.
Programme aims to build national AI talent pool
Deno Land has published Deno 2.9, an update of the company’s JavaScript / TypeScript / WebAssembly runtime that features deno desktop , a mechanism for building native desktop applications from the web stack developers already know. Introduced June 25 , Deno 2.9 also improves startup time, memory use, and HTTP throughput, the company said. Deno installation instructions can be found at docs.deno.com . With Deno 2.9, users can point deno desktop at a script or a web framework project to produce a native and self-contained desktop application where the UI runs in a webview and the logic runs in Deno. Because deno desktop is built on the same machinery as deno compile , the output is a single, distributable binary with code and assets embedded, Deno Land said. Also in Deno 2.9, a hello-world program now cold-starts in about half the time it took in 2.8 (34ms down to 17ms), the company said. This improvement results from a combination of factors including lazy-loading node: globals out of the snapshot, gating the eager Node bootstrap to Node workers, a V8 code cache for residual lazy-loaded ESM modules, and a minified snapshot. Deno 2.9 also brings improvements in memory usage, specifically memory under load. In Deno 2.8, resident set size grew with the workload, from roughly 94 MB serving plaintext to 197 MB streaming 1 MiB bodies, whereas in Deno 2.9 it stays essentially flat, holding around 62 MB no matter what the server is doing. This works out to 2.2x less peak resident se…
The all-stock deal values Iridium at $8 billion and gives Rocket Lab even more firepower to compete against Amazon and SpaceX.
Belgrade could get the chance to forge closer relations with the bloc after dropping laws experts had warned would undermine democracy.
At Cannes Lions, management consultant Kelsey Robinson breaks down McKinsey's new research showing a paradox in AI adoption: marketers are widely using AI and excited by it, but many also fear its impact on their roles.
Tension over digital regulation clouds ongoing talks to launch a new EU-U.S. tech "dialog."
As air conditioning becomes the subject of political debates, the European Commission is treading carefully to maintain a neutral stance.
This post was created in partnership with Roundel Key takeaways Shopping no longer starts in one place—or follows a predictable path. During an ADWEEK House Cannes Lions group chat co-hosted […]
Looking to use AI while you browse the web? Here's how the AI tools in Chrome, Edge, and Firefox compare.
Princeton-Forscher lassen KI-Modelle 500 Tage ein Start-up führen. Nur drei schaffen es ins Plus – eine simple Wirtschafts-Weisheit ist besser als fast alle.
EU money will be used to support fishers whose livelihoods are threatened by climate change.
Brick is one of the few new devices that positively changed my daily content consumption. You can finally buy it on Amazon.
What’s at stake with every commit Security incidents in financial services are both frequent and costly. The average data breach in the financial industry cost USD 6.08 million in 2024. That includes incident response, customer notification, legal work, and reputational damage, but it doesn’t include the months of engineering that went into writing well-intentioned but […]
Enterprise investment in AI is booming. Gartner is calling 2026 an “inflection year” for organizations to align their AI projects with strategic business objectives. As the pressure to prove ROI mounts, executives and technology leaders are looking to agentic AI to drive the measurable financial outcomes their businesses seek. A prime opportunity for AI agents…
tl;dr: As recursive self-improvement accelerates, we need a top-level agenda to research how to effectively keep humans in the loop. We need to study how humans can best interpret and guide research performed by autonomous agents when those agents lack taste, tacit knowledge or competence, or may try to reward hack, sandbag or sabotage such research. This is one attempt to define the problem and the shape of potential solutions. A Story About the Future of Research Imagine yourself a year or two in the future. Recursive self-improvement (RSI) is accelerating. Agents work in swarms independently for days or weeks at a time doing research. You work in a frontier lab doing AI safety research. You sit in front of your computer and click into the input box, ready to kick off a new project. What do you type? “Solve AI alignment”? Beware giving a magic genie vague wishes. Think about that again: what exactly do you type? How do you know what you type is the best way to prompt this agent swarm into doing your bidding? When the lead agent comes back a week later, what exactly does that output look like? How do you use that output to launch the next phase of the project? How will you validate that output to ensure the agent hasn’t reward hacked, sabotaged or incompetently explored the research space? How will you know what key decisions the agent made? Which research paths they explored? Which research paths they intentionally or unintentionally left unexplored? How will you know how…
Women who were vaccinated against covid-19 in the luteal phase of their menstrual cycle reported having a breakthrough infection sooner than those vaccinated during their follicular phase
As Europe accelerates its green transition, the debate over air conditioning has become emblematic of a broader challenge. Climate policy is no longer judged solely by its environmental ambitions, but also by whether it can reduce emissions without deepening social inequalities.
Die Deutschland-App soll Anträge stark vereinfachen – per Chat, Formular oder KI-Avatar. Zum technischen Konzept und KI-Risiken haben wir nachgehakt.
For the zero-truncated Negative Binomial specification often used in count regression-- e.g., Ch.8 in this book --I seem unable to find published results to verify the derivatives of the log-likelihood with respect to the so-called dispersion parameter, or its reciprocal (which I find more tractable). Below I provide some context and my best stab at the derivatives I am trying to verify. Grateful for any feedback re: What I might have done wrong; Published results (besides the work I cite) that could be used for verification. Disclaimer - posting here after failing to get input in this other forum Context Consider a random count-variable with probability mass function ( p.m.f) : \begin{aligned} Y_i \sim \textrm{Z.T. Neg. Bin}(\lambda_i,\alpha) & \equiv \Pr(Y_i = y_i | Y_i > 0) \\ & = \left. \frac{\Gamma(y_i+\alpha)}{\Gamma(y_i+1)\Gamma(\alpha)}\left(\alpha^{-1}\lambda_i\right)^{y_i}\left(1+\alpha^{-1}\lambda_i\right)^{-(\alpha+y_i)} \middle/ 1-(1+\alpha^{-1}\lambda_i)^{-\alpha} \right. \end{aligned} where: $y_i > 0 \quad (i=1,2,\dots,n)$ denotes the observed realisations (observations enter a zero-truncated sample only after the first count occurs); $\lambda_i = e^{\mathbf{x}_i^T\boldsymbol{\beta}}$ is the link function, with $\mathbf{x}^T_i$ being the $i$ -th row of the regression data matrix; and $\boldsymbol{\beta}$ the unknown vector of regression coefficients (to be estimated); $\alpha$ is another unknown parameter to be estimated, namely the reciprocal of the so-called…
Firefighter pay widely varies across the 50 states. Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows just how big these differences are.
This post was created in partnership with Paramount Advertising Connected TV is evolving into more than a viewing platform—it is becoming a dynamic bridge between storytelling, commerce, and consumer action. […]
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I would like to know when one would be preferred over the other, I am visualizing my data before applying any transformations to make them normalized. Are there specific cases or rules that one is used over the other?
This post was created in partnership with Empathy Lab The campaign had a good run. One big idea launched everywhere, studied, repeated. Now? Not so much. During an ADWEEK House […]
Samuel Moyn’s new book argues that the elderly wield disproportionate power, leaving young people with diminished opportunities.
Carlo Buontempo, Copernicus Climate Change service director, says heatwaves have become "more intense, lasting longer and starting earlier in the season" in Europe as the continent "is warming faster than the global average".
Court says Redmond can file briefs, take part in hearings amid challenge to the current path Big Tech's data spice uses to legally flow
Vegvisir, an Estonian defence technology company building the command-and-control software layer for the multi-domain battlefield, today announced a venture investment from Iron Wolf Capital (IWC). V...
Assistive technology policy activity has accelerated since 2016, with at least 38 countries adopting national strategies aligned with the World Health Organisation and United Nations frameworks.
TL;DR PyTorch now has a Cross-Repository CI Relay (CRCR) that automatically triggers and tracks CI in downstream repositories whenever a PR is opened or a commit is pushed against pytorch/pytorch....
Value of some chip manufacturers have tripled, or more, driving Asia Pacific stock markets sharply higher Shares in chipmakers have surged in the first half of this year as investors piled into companies that make the hardware underpinning the AI boom, according to analysis. Investors have driven up the value of semiconductor and memory chip manufacturers, whose profits have soared during 2026, at the expense of some large software companies, which have fallen out of favour this year. Continue reading...
Claude Code creator Boris Cherny wrote about "what roles might look like in the future," from the "builder" to the "sweeper" to the "grower."
I went to my first World Cup game, the US opener against Paraguay in Los Angeles' SoFi Stadium. It was worth it, especially from my suite seats.
Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said governments should provide "temporary measures" such as cooling centres during heatwaves. High air conditioning use is "already jeopardising" the EU's energy capacity, she said.
Italian VC P101 has integrated PranaVentures, an operational venture capital company specialising in Seed investments. The combination brings together more than €600 million in assets raised, creating...
As a chef and former line cook, I've got easy tips for making perfect, juicy, flavorful burgers from ground beef that easily cook evenly on a grill.