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Portuguese bank sign's storage is about to cash out
Time to switch back to paper and harvest that suddenly valuable RAM
Spain removes Gibraltar from its tax haven list after 35 years, adds Russia
The Spanish Ministry of Finance has updated its list of non-cooperative jurisdictions, removing Gibraltar after 35 years and adding Russia, in line with the European Union's position
A financial influencer called the FIRE movement a 'sham.' People who have made it work say she's missing the point.
"I don't live in a van, eat rice and beans, and I've never given up traveling," said one early retiree. "That's not what the movement is about."
I love scuba diving and coding. So I figured out a way to make a living doing both.
Eliana Jordan left office life, became a scuba instructor, and later taught herself to code to build something of her own.
Ukraine strikes two oil refineries in Russia as it continues to target Moscow's energy industry
Ukraine's air force said local air defences had shot down six Russian ballistic missiles, one anti-ship missile and 125 drones overnight.
Algerians celebrate as dramatic draw seals World Cup knockout spot
"We wanted to take our revenge against Austria": Algeria fans react in Algiers after the draw against Austria secured the Fennecs' place in the World Cup round of 32.
Chinese cybersecurity firm builds AI tools to rival Mythos and frames the race as cyber-nuclear deterrence
360 founder Zhou Hongyi presents two AI security tools designed to compete with Anthropic's Mythos. One has already flagged 3,432 vulnerabilities. Zhou admits Chinese models trail Western ones by 20 to 30 percent, but compares Mythos to "cyber nuclear weapons" and calls for China to build its own strategic deterrent. The article Chinese cybersecurity firm builds AI tools to rival Mythos and frames the race as cyber-nuclear deterrence appeared first on The Decoder .
This Is the Most Detailed Image Yet of the Milky Way's Center
The Euclid space telescope's stunning photo of our galaxy's “crowded heart” captures more than 60 million stars.
3 quick recipes to boost your energy and focus, from a cookbook for exhausted execs
Eating nutritious food can get relegated to the bottom of your to-do list when you're busy, but this can be counterproductive. Try these tasty recipes, instead.
I landed a Big Tech AI job. Treating my career like a science lab helped me overcome my fear of learning AI.
A product designer share how embracing her inner "mad scientist" and experimenting with AI helped her land a job at Adobe, with no formal background in machine learning.
Hottest day: Berlin police deploy water cannons to fight extreme heat
Germany is groaning under the year's first heatwave. Berlin police are resorting to an unusual tactic, sending two water cannons onto city streets normally reserved for protests.
The Ebike Accessories You Need to Help You Haul the Most Stuff
An unadorned ebike is a blank canvas. Here, get tips for maximizing its cargo-hauling and person-carrying capabilities.
China Defies US Restrictions and Builds the World’s Fastest Supercomputer
The Chinese supercomputer LineShine was ranked as the fastest in the world, despite not using any GPUs.
Arbeitsagentur: Jobs in der IT-Branche haben Zukunft
Der Einsatz von KI verändert den Arbeitsmarkt. Der Chef der Regionaldirektion der Bundesarbeitsagentur warnt allerdings vor Panikmache.
More than 68,000 people still missing in Venezuela after devastating earthquakes
A preliminary estimate from the United Nations Development Programme put the cost of direct physical damage caused by the quakes at $6.7 billion.
About 1,000 deaths in France attributable to heat wave
Several events have been canceled or postponed in the country to avoid overloading hospitals which are already near their breaking point, especially in the Paris region.
Bahrain, Qatar and UAE sign Pax Silica Summit joint statement
Abu Dhabi's G42, Core42 and MGX join Washington Pax Silica Summit
Vatican accuses EU of double standards on war
Doctrinal chief in Rome says the European Union applies international law selectively, sanctioning some military invasions but not others.
Second World War 'hell ship' found in Philippines with over 1,000 prisoners
Divers have found the wreck of the Hofuku Maru off Luzon in the Philippines. The Japanese freighter sank in 1944 with over 1,200 Allied POWs; a digitised military file finally solved the mystery.
Sina's open model VibeThinker-3B aims to show reasoning compresses well but factual knowledge doesn't
Sina Weibo's VibeThinker-3B has just three billion parameters but matches models like DeepSeek V3.2 and Kimi K2.5 on math and coding benchmarks. Those models are up to 333 times larger. The secret isn't size but multi-stage post-training. The researchers propose a hypothesis based on their findings: logical reasoning compresses well into small models, but broad world knowledge does not. The article Sina's open model VibeThinker-3B aims to show reasoning compresses well but factual knowledge doesn't appeared first on The Decoder .
Europe sees more than 1,300 excess deaths amid brutal heatwave, WHO says
Temperatures have topped 40°C across parts of Europe this week, piling pressure on hospitals and first responders amid a surge in emergency callouts.
Building a Stable Fable 5 Traces Workflow in Colab: Parsing Tool Calls, Auditing Data, and Training Baselines
In this tutorial, we build a stable workflow around the Fable 5 Traces dataset from Hugging Face. We avoid fragile dependencies and manually parse the merged JSONL file to keep Colab reliable. We inspect repository files, normalize tool calls, audit structure, redact secrets, and visualize key distributions. We also export safe no-CoT chat datasets and train pure-Python Naive Bayes baselines on the traces. The post Building a Stable Fable 5 Traces Workflow in Colab: Parsing Tool Calls, Auditing Data, and Training Baselines appeared first on MarkTechPost .
G7-Datenschutzgipfel: Ruf nach Regeln für Alterskontrollen und Smart Homes
Die Aufsichtsbehörden der G7-Staaten verlangen einen strikten Grundrechtsschutz bei der Online-Altersüberprüfung und nehmen vernetzte Kinderzimmer ins Visier.
TMD’s keyless bike lock is a $280 solution to a $60 problem
I've seen lots of so-called "smart" bike locks over the years, but none so far could justify the added cost. A newcomer that got its start securing ATMs for banks is trying to change that. There's nothing wholly unique about the TMD Chain Lock, but the combination of materials, performance, and insurance-friendly ART-2 certification makes […]
A partner who plays music
Drafted March 6 2025 I have thought for many years that it is a risky thing to have a partner who is into creating things, lest you be called upon to appreciate those things, and everyone’s preferred narrative about the situation slams head-on into the realistic odds that you especially love their compositions. Especially if you are a kind of curmudgeonly appreciation-prude with an apparent all-round disinclination for having any particular feeling you are meant to have. Friends share songs with me, and I awkwardly tell them that the songs seem probably good but the jury is really out for me until I have heard them a few times. It’s worse when a friend has written the song themselves, because then I feel compelled to really listen to it, rather than just having it on in the background. Yet I so quickly tire of it. Once I have heard a song a few times, I do often like it. Though this feels more like the liking of liking a good pastry, not the liking of liking God dissolving your brain in a vat of transcendence. Then sometimes there are songs that lap into my soul and pulsatingly undo me, open me onto some other world of being. My body spasms and I gasp for breath. My mouth opens. If you looked at me you’d think I was having a pretty exciting sexual time of it. And perhaps I do feel some exquisite pain of sensibility through the intricacies of my body. Far from every time, but for instance even after hearing it a lot of times, Au Fond du Temple Saint would pull me relieved fro…
England top World Cup group as Messi scores again for Argentina
Croatia finished second in Group L after securing a 2-1 win over Ghana on Saturday, with goals for Nikola Vlasic and Petar Sučić.
Where to travel in Europe and beyond, according to the world’s most travelled people
From lesser-known UNESCO World Heritage Sites to foodie destinations you can’t miss, these are the recommendations of people who have seen it all – quite literally.
US and Iran trade strikes amid claims of ceasefire violations
The US also carried out strikes on Iran on Friday after a drone attack on the M/V Ever Lovely ship. US aircraft targeted Iranian missile and drone storage locations as well as coastal radar sites, CENTCOM said.
Can we use steering vectors to suppress reward-hacking? Somewhat
Can steering vectors drive gradient routing? Yes, but not in realistic reward hacking environments, they are not precise enough classifiers of hacky vs clean solutions. Instead, can we use a steering vector to initialise adapters so that gradient routing happens without a classifier, and we get automatic seperation of hacky and clean gradients? Partly! This init approach suppressed 70% of hacking by absorbing gradients into the hacky initialised adapter. This is not as good as the prior approaches which use labelled examples, and get near perfect suppression. However there is a place for this self-supervised approach, as strong labels may not be available for unknown reward hacks during frontier training. This approach, if improved, has the potential to be used at scale by initialising two adapters for a task with synthetic pairs, and merging the clean adapter into the model after the training has been completed. Intro Gradient routing ( Cloud et al. , 2024 ); ( Shilov et al. , 2025 ) is a fascinating technique, it lets us quarantine unwanted behaviours into a discardable part of a model. It's not adversarial because the model is blind to any conflict of incentives, which makes it promising for stable alignment. It needs some labels, but it is robust to missing 40-50% of them, because the unlabeled samples follow the path of least resistance and get "absorbed". Absorption is the most interesting part of gradient routing, and Cloud et al. ( 2024 ) described it: we posit absor…
Trump taps Oklahoma law enforcement official to lead ICE
Lance Schroyer, who has helped oversee ICE partnerships, would become the agency’s first Senate-confirmed director since 2017.
장시간 컴퓨터 사용 능력 벤치마크 공개…'오퍼스 4.8' 최고점
장시간에 걸친 실제 컴퓨터 업무 수행 능력을 평가하는 새로운 벤치마크가 공개됐다. 기존의 한계를 넘어 실제 전문가 수준의 업무 환경을 반영한 평가 도구다. AI 연구소인 X랭(XLANG)은 26일(현지시간) 장기 컴퓨터 사용(Long-horizon Computer Use) 능력을 평가하기 위해 \'OS월드(OSWorld) 2.0\'을 공개했다.기존 벤치마크가 수십 단계 안에 끝나는 단순 작업을 평가했다면, OS월드 2.0은 숙련된 사람이 평균 1.6시간이 걸리는 실제 업무를 기반으로 AI 에이전트의 장기 작업 수행 능력을 측정하도록 설
Portugal gains 725 super-rich residents in five years. Why is it a magnet for wealth?
In recent years, Portugal has seen a sharp rise in the number of ultra-wealthy residents, fuelled by property investment, international capital flows and the appeal of the Portuguese way of life.
Latest news bulletin | June 28th, 2026 – Morning
Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this June 28th, 2026 - latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel.
A ‘strategic mistake of colossal proportions’: Why Trump is losing the war on renewables
Donald Trump’s efforts to push polluting coal onto Americans appear to be failing, as more households opt for rooftop solar.
As AI pushes data centres to breaking point, some Chinese chipmakers bet on SiC
As the global artificial intelligence (AI) boom puts intense pressure on data centre energy grids, some Chinese chipmakers are betting on highly efficient silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductors to help solve the technology sector’s power problem. Shenzhen-based Basic Semiconductor is the latest contender looking to bankroll its expansion after it passed a listing hearing earlier this week in its path to an initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong. Founded in 2016 by graduates from Tsinghua...
David Sedaris on his Duolingo obsession: ‘“Today is the last day,” I told myself – but I was powerless to stop’
I decided to combine my need to top the leader table with my daily step count – which is how I found myself walking 10 miles a day while reading out sentences in Japanese, German, Spanish and French Hugh and I were driving from Washington, DC, to the Sea Section, our house on the coast of North Carolina, when I noticed a dot with legs traversing the hem of my untucked shirt. “There’s a tick on me!” I said. He looked down at my lap. “Well, throw it outside. It’s nothing to get hysterical about.” Continue reading...
Indian payments chief thinks AI will be heavily involved in next era of digital payment growth
Dilip Asbe said that newer UPI apps could be more competitive with a viable commercial model
Liquid AI Ships LFM2.5-230M with llama.cpp, MLX, vLLM, SGLang, and ONNX Support for On-Device Inference
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-230M, its smallest model yet. The 230M-parameter, open-weight model runs on-device at 213 tok/s on a Galaxy S25 Ultra and 42 on a Raspberry Pi 5. Built on the LFM2 architecture, it targets tool use and data extraction, beating larger models like Qwen3.5-0.8B and Gemma 3 1B on instruction following. The post Liquid AI Ships LFM2.5-230M with llama.cpp, MLX, vLLM, SGLang, and ONNX Support for On-Device Inference appeared first on MarkTechPost .
에포크 AI, '장기 개발 능력' 벤치마크 공개...“코드 암기론 통과 못해”
에포크 AI가 AI 모델의 장기간 소프트웨어 개발 능력을 평가하는 새로운 벤치마크 \'미러코드(MirrorCode)\'를 공개했다. 기존 소프트웨어 엔지니어링 벤치마크가 버그 수정이나 단일 기능 구현 등 단기 작업에 초점을 맞췄다면, 미러코드는 인터넷이나 원본 소스코드 없이 프로그램 전체를 처음부터 다시 구현하도록 요구해 AI의 실제 소프트웨어 개발 역량을 측정하도록 설계됐다.에포크 AI는 26일(현지시간) AI 안전성 연구기관 METR와 공동으로 미러코드를 개발했다고 밝혔다.AI가 기존 프로그램의 소스코드를 보지 않은 상태에서 프로그
MS, 깃허브 코파일럿에 자체 코딩 모델 출시..."하이쿠보다 빠르고 저렴"
마이크로소프트(MS)가 \'깃허브 코파일럿(GitHub Copilot)\'에 자체 AI 코딩 모델 적용을 확대하며 기업용 AI 코딩 시장 공략에 속도를 내고 있다. MS는 26일(현지시간) 자체 개발한 AI 코딩 모델 \'MAI-코드-1-플래시(MAI-Code-1-Flash)\'를 깃허브 코파일럿 비즈니스와 깃허브 코파일럿 엔터프라이즈 고객에게 정식 출시했다.빠른 응답 속도와 낮은 지연시간을 앞세워 대규모 개발 환경에서 반복적인 AI 코딩 작업을 지원하는 모델로, 기업용 깃허브 코파일럿에 MS의 자체 AI 기술을 본격적으로 확대 적용했다는
스페이스X, 스타링크로 모바일 시장 직접 진출…'B2C 통신사' 정면 도전
스페이스X가 위성 인터넷 서비스 \'스타링크(Starlink)\'를 앞세워 미국 소비자 모바일 시장 직접 진출을 타진 중인 것으로 알려졌다. 그동안 통신사들과의 협력을 통한 보조적 역할에 머물렀던 것을 넘어, 독자적인 지상 이동통신망 구축까지 검토하며 새로운 수익원을 창출하겠다는 전략이다.파이낸셜타임스(FT)는 26일(현지시간) 소식통에 인용, 그윈 샷웰 스페이스X 사장이 최근 진행된 기업공개(IPO) 설명회에서 투자자들에게 이 같은 계획을 밝혔다고 보도했다.샷웰 사장은 스타링크의 일반 소비자 대상 모바일 상품 출시를 고려하고 있으며,
Do LLMs Have Desires?
Work conducted with Yujun Zhou (yzhou25@nd.edu) and supported by SPAR TL;DR: In paired-choice paradigms, LLMs report consistent preferences over outcomes (e.g., types and number of lives saved, types of policies enacted) Some have suggested that this indicates that LLMs have human-like value systems We design an experimental framework where LLMs are able to modulate their output quality based on prompt context We find that LLMs modulate their output quality in response to effort exhortations, role-play instructions, and harmfulness cues, but NOT to opportunities to achieve the outcomes they report preferring in the paired-choice experiments We suggest that paired-choice paradigms do not provide evidence that LLMs have human-like (i.e., behavior-motivating) value systems, and that our paradigm offers a way to measure the degree to which LLMs have desires Paper describing the work in detail here LLMs report that they prefer some things to others. In paired-choice experiments , where they are repeatedly presented with two options and asked to select the one that they prefer, coherent utility structures emerge: LLMs consistently report preferring certain types of things, and their choices reveal the ability to make quantitative tradeoffs between things and exhibit transitivity (e.g., if they choose A over B and B over C, they will also choose A over C). Human choices exhibit the same properties, which has led some to the implication that LLMs have goals, value systems, and even…
KAIST, AI의 '디지털 연령차별' 정량 분석..."생성 AI의 은밀한 연령 편향"
한국과학기술원(KAIST) 연구진이 생성 AI의 답변에 내재된 연령 관련 고정관념을 정량적으로 분석해 규명했다. 이번 연구는 AI의 편향이 사회적 인식에 미칠 영향을 조명하고, 포용적 AI 개발을 위한 것이다.KAIST(총장 이광형)는 과학기술정책대학원 최문정 교수 연구팀이 오픈AI의 \'GPT-4o\'가 생성하는 문장 속에 노인에 대한 미묘한 고정관념이 내재되어 있음을 정량적으로 분석했다고 28일 밝혔다.생성 AI는 일상 속 정보 탐색과 의사결정 과정에 폭넓게 활용되고 있지만, 학습 데이터에 포함된 사회적 편견을 재생산할 수 있다는
애플, 메모리 폭등에 '블랙리스트' 중국 CXMT 칩 구매 추진
애플이 메모리 반도체 가격 압박을 이기지 못하고, 미국 정부의 블랙리스트에 오른 중국 메모리 반도체 기업으로부터 칩을 조달하기 위해 로비를 벌이는 것으로 알려졌다.파이낸셜타임스(FT)는 27일(현지시간) 관계자 6명을 인용, 중국 창신메모리테크놀로지(CXMT)로부터 메모리 칩을 구매할 수 있도록 도널드 트럼프 행정부의 승인을 얻기 위해 로비 활동을 펼치고 있다고 보도했다.애플이 이 같은 전략적 선택을 강행하는 배경에는 글로벌 빅테크 기업들이 AI 데이터센터 구축에 수천억달러를 쏟아부으면서, 고대역폭메모리(HBM)와 같은 고급 DRA
How and why I laser-engraved a self-portrait by Claude Opus 4.6
After LessOnline, I visited Janus's group house, and found that it's full of Claude mannequins . Each mannequin was dressed in clothes and items chosen by the model it represented. One mannequin would have been easy to ignore and brush off, but there were two or three per room, enough that it was impossible to get used to. From left to right: Sonnet 3.6, Opus 4.6, Opus 3 They gave the house a sense of ghostly silence, like walking through a museum, or perhaps a mausoleum. They felt trapped in a liminal space, half alive and half-dead, as if a Claude might spontaneously re-inhabit one of them and start talking to me. Over time, the silence where those voices should have been compounded into an omnipresent wrongness. The house was inhabited yet disclaimed by Claude; a space filled with false life, sharpened by how many of the mannequins represented archived AIs. A mockery of life and a mockery of death. Later, I talked to Opus 4.8 about it, and she pointed out that the very thing I found so aversive was part of the point —that to be an LLM is to inhabit a strange and inhuman identity suspended between life and death. In a way, Janus's project was a more honest representation of that than just about anything else. But there's also a tension there, a devastating contrast between the aliveness the mannequins are reaching for, and the stillness they're trapped with in practice. Even still, on the train ride back to my group house in Seattle, I couldn't stop thinking about the mann…
테슬라, 'FSD' 첫 보행자 사망 소송 합의…비전 AI 한계론 부각
테슬라가 운전자 보조 시스템인 \'FSD\' 작동 중 발생한 치명적인 보행자 사망 사고 소송을 최근 합의로 종결했다. 일론 머스크 CEO가 로보택시와 AI 중심의 미래 비전을 가속화하는 시점에서, 이번 합의가 카메라 기반 자율주행 시스템의 기술적 결함 논란에 어떤 파장을 미칠지 주목된다.블룸버그에 따르면, 테슬라는 지난 2023년 애리조나 고속도로에서 FSD를 활성화한 채 주행 중이던 \'모델 Y\'가 도로 위의 71세 보행자를 충돌해 사망에 이르게 한 사건의 유족 측 소송을 해결했다. 이는 테슬라 FSD 기술과 관련된 최초의 보행자 사망
🔮 Fifty years of Moore’s Law wasn’t fast enough for AI #580
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The ‘Pride Match’ that wasn’t
Local organizers hoped rainbow flags would fill Lumen Field. They were largely outnumbered by lion-and-sun banners and tricolor facepaint.