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Surface Defect Detection on Machined Metal Medical Parts
Use RF-DETR and Gemini 2.5 Pro to detect surface defects on machined medical components and generate automated inspection observations.
Behind the Scenes of a Technical Interview
This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum โs careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written i n partnership with tech career development company Parsity and delivered to your inbox for free! Iโve sat on both sides of the interview table several times over the past decade. You might be surprised to hear that Iโve often been just as nervous interviewing candidates as I was when being interviewed! Nearly all the interview advice out there is about the candidateโs side, but understanding the other side can also help you prepare. Let me show you what Iโve seen firsthand, and what Iโd bet is happening at the company you just interviewed with. If you recently got rejected after an interview, this might explain what actually happened. One caveat, because Iโve been on the receiving end of this: A couple of my recent interviews were run entirely by AI. These were screening rounds, but a growing share of job seekers now report being interviewed by a bot somewhere in the process. Everything below assumes you reached a person. Most teams have no standard prep You might assume companies train people to run interviews. Many donโt. In practice, your interviewers may be much less prepared than it seems. Their prep might look like this: โHereโs a rubric from three years ago, figure it out.โ Or: โLetโs grab a conference room between meetings and decide what to ask.โ The questions are often whatever the interviewer personally studied wโฆ
Nominations Open for the 2026 PyTorch Foundation Contributor Awards
Nominations are now open for the 2026 PyTorch Foundation Contributor Awards! These awards recognize outstanding individuals whose contributions help strengthen PyTorch Foundation-hosted projects, including PyTorch, vLLM, DeepSpeed, Ray, Helion, and...
How Musicians Can Get Paid for Training AI
Musicians are accustomed to getting paid each time their creative work is used. Across vinyl/CD sales, streams, radio, cover versions, and those numerous niches like karaoke, there are agreements in place about what โuseโ means. Underlying this is a simple economic principle: The more something is used, the more money it makes. Generative AI has complicated the definition of use . On the one hand, you could argue that the use of a piece of musical training data happens just once, at the point of training. On the other hand, creators would be right to complain that the creative essence of their work lives on in the structure of the model, used every time the model produces an output. Now, companies like Sureel and SoundVerse are working to re-create the essential economic principle that motivates creativity in an era of AI. Such initiatives aim to turn the generative AI industry from one guilty of โthe biggest act of copyright theft in historyโ into one that coexists harmoniously with hardworking artists. Music Royalties for the AI era Sureel , a startup Warner Music Group just acquired , has partnered with the Swedish copyright agency STIM to explore the potential for music creators to get paid when their music is used to train generative AI tools . Sureelโs software labels online media, such as a music file, with instructions determined by the owner. The instructions specify whether an AI company may use the media freely in training, limit its influence in any given traininโฆ
Voice for AI Agents and Applications
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4vPQ3HE Voice is one of the most natural human interfaces, but adding it to AI applications has historically forced a tradeoff: fast voice-to-voice models that sacrifice reliability, or accurate speech-to-text-to-LLM-to-speech pipelines that add latency. This course teaches you how to get both, using Vocal Bridge's architecture that pairs a real-time foreground agent with a reasoning background agent. Taught by Ashwyn Sharma, CEO and Co-Founder of Vocal Bridge (an AI Fund portfolio company), this course covers three practical integration patterns that meet you where you are: voice embedded in an application, voice layered onto an existing agent without touching its logic, and voice as a tool your LLM can call when it decides a conversation is the right modality. In detail, you'll survey the traditional voice stack and its tradeoffs, then explore three live integration patterns to understand when each one applies. Build a voice-interactive tic-tac-toe game where voice commands and mouse clicks work together over a single synchronized channel, then add a voice layer to an existing agent with minimal code, leaving your prompts, RAG pipeline, and tools untouched. Give your agent a make_phone_call tool so it can dial a real number, hold a conversation with a demo agent, and stream the transcript back live. Set up evaluation-driven development using Vocal Bridge's multimodal evaluator to score calls, catch regressions, and refine prompts before issues reโฆ
Surveilled, targeted, and now hacked: WFP must protect Palestinians in Gaza after massive data breach
We, the undersigned civil society organizations, condemn in the strongest possible terms the cyberattack on the World Food Programme (WFP) that took place on May 14, 2026, exposing the personal data of 600,000 Palestinian households in Gaza. The post Surveilled, targeted, and now hacked: WFP must protect Palestinians in Gaza after massive data breach appeared first on Access Now .
Two labs started dreaming, and they built two different architectures
Anthropic and OpenAI both shipped 'dreaming' for AI memory in May and June 2026, and they built opposite architectures. A look at what each lab shipped, what the empirical literature says, and what to do if you are building memory for your own agent. The post Two labs started dreaming, and they built two different architectures appeared first on Arize AI .
TRAJECT-Bench: A trajectory-aware benchmark for evaluating agentic tool use
Large language model (LLM)-based agents increasingly rely on tool use to complete real-world tasks. While existing works evaluate the LLMs' tool use capability, they largely focus on the final answers yet overlook the detailed tool usage trajectory, i.e., whether tools are selected, parameterized, and ordered correctly. We introduce TRAJECT-Bench, a trajectory-aware benchmark to comprehensively evaluate LLMs' tool use capability through diverse tasks with fine-grained evaluation metrics. TRAJECT-Bench pairs high-fidelity, executable tools across practical domains with tasks grounded in production-style APIs, and synthesizes trajectories that vary in breadth (parallel calls) and depth (interdependent chains). Besides final accuracy, TRAJECT-Bench also reports trajectory-level diagnostics, including tool selection and argument correctness, and dependency/order satisfaction. Analyses reveal failure modes such as similar tool confusion and parameter-blind selection, and scaling behavior with tool diversity and trajectory length where the bottleneck of transiting from short to mid-length trajectories is revealed, offering actionable guidance for LLMs' tool use.
What I learned meeting international peace advocate and atomic bomb survivor Koko Kondo
What can an atomic bomb survivor teach us about peace in an age of war? Kathleen Egan reflects on meeting Hiroshima survivor Koko Kondo.
State of the blog, mid-2026
About 3 years since I started writing weekly.
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The Hybrid AI Stack Is Coming for the Pricing Power of OpenAI and Anthropic
OpenAI and Anthropic are going public while still capturing much of the money spent on foundation-model usage. But deployment patterns are starting to tell a more complicated story. Companies are building hybrid model portfolios, using proprietary models where convenience, support, and frontier capability matter, while turning to open-weights models where cost, privacy, customization, and deployment Continue reading "The Hybrid AI Stack Is Coming for the Pricing Power of OpenAI and Anthropic" The post The Hybrid AI Stack Is Coming for the Pricing Power of OpenAI and Anthropic appeared first on Gradient Flow .
General Motors Is Cutting Its Development Cycles in Half
For decades, automakers enjoyed a luxury that had nothing to do with the softest leather or the smoothest engines. Their luxury was time, with some popular cars and trucks enduring for a decade or longer before they received a full redesign. The clock is ticking faster now, thanks to China. BYD and other automakers there are speeding electric vehicles (EVs) and other models from drawing board to showrooms in two years or less. General Motors is among the Western automakers striving to match that blistering pace, by harnessing AI and simulation to dramatically shorten development times. GMโs effort is being spearheaded by Sterling Anderson , the technologist and robotics guru who led development teams for Teslaโs Autopilot and the Model X before cofounding Aurora Innovation , the autonomous trucking company. GM lured Anderson last June as its chief product officer, offering a US $40 million package to guide the development of the automakerโs cars, autonomous models, batteries, software, and other tech. How GM Is Accelerating Its Designs In a recent video call, Anderson and Jason Fischer , GMโs executive director of virtual integration engineering, walked me through the companyโs latest design processes. But first, Anderson offered a wide-lens view of how AI is transforming everything that came before. Sterling Anderson, robotics guru and former Tesla executive, is pushing AI to accelerate GMโs design process. General Motors Anderson sees design and human ingenuity falling intโฆ
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Stress-testing AI councils in practice
Will the MATCH Act Change Chip Controls?
Congress's Push to Take the Lead on China
MERICS China Security and Risk Tracker 01/2026
MERICS China Security and Risk Tracker 01/2026 Linda_Heyer Wed, 06/17/2026 - 12:30 picture alliance / ZUMAPRESS.com | Handout/White House Download (pdf - 1.21 MB) Tracker China Security and Risk Tracker Jun 18, 2026 18 min read MERICS China Security and Risk Tracker 01/2026 Trump's remarks after China Summit compromise Taiwan's security by Aurelio Insisa Taiwanโs security outlook deteriorated in the aftermath of the Xi-Trump summit, held on 14-15 May in Beijing, with the US announcement that a fresh USD 14 billion arms deal with the island is now โunder reviewโ. The US move also raises questions for European actors over the sustainability of their behind-the-scenes security engagement with Taiwan. Before the two presidents met for the US-China summit, Beijing reportedly asked the US side to make an explicit statement opposing โTaiwan independenceโ and endorsing Taiwan unification with the Peopleโs Republic China (PRC). However, the US made no such remarks. Instead, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated on 15 May that โUS policy on the issue of Taiwan is unchanged as of today.โ There was no mention of Taiwan in the White Houseโs readout of the summit released on 17 May. Yet, US President Donald Trump himself managed to cast uncertainty in an interview immediately after the summit. Asked whether the โpeople of Taiwanโ should โfeel more or less secureโ, President Trump replied โNeutral โฆ Iโm not looking to have somebody go independent. And, you know, we're supposed to travelโฆ
OpenAI Just Launched 3 Free AI Courses with Certificates
Having the right certificate can make all the difference. But with so many out there, getting the right one isnโt easy. Thatโs where OpenAI Academy comes in. OpenAI, the company behind the ChatGPT models, has introduced a learning platform through its OpenAI academy that offers AI courses for upskilling professionals. These courses cover topics like [โฆ] The post OpenAI Just Launched 3 Free AI Courses with Certificates appeared first on Analytics Vidhya .
A Metadata Benchmark of Lance, Delta Lake, and Iceberg on S3
A Rust benchmark comparison of Lance, Delta Lake, and Apache Iceberg on S3 and S3 Express, and why Lance is optimized for object storage metadata.
๐บ Cursorโs $60B SpaceX deal is official
PLUS: Qwen robots, SubQโs 12M-token model, and more
A near-autonomous AI chemist improves a challenging reaction in medicinal chemistry
OpenAI and Molecule.one show how a near-autonomous AI chemist using GPT-5.4 improved a key drug-making reaction, advancing medicinal chemistry research.
UK Winter Fellowship 2027, Research Track | GovAI Blog
Seasonal Fellowships are three-month opportunities designed to accelerate or launch impactful careers in AI governance and policy. The fellowship has both a Research Track and an Applied Track.
UK Winter Fellowship 2027, Applied Track | GovAI Blog
Seasonal Fellowships are three-month opportunities designed to accelerate or launch impactful careers in AI governance and policy. The fellowship has both a Research Track and an Applied Track.
2026 State of the Digital Decade report shows progress but urges closing structural gaps to reach 2030 goals
2026 State of the Digital Decade report shows progress but urges closing structural gaps to reach 2030 goals Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 06/17/2026 - 11:35 The European Commission published the fourth State of the Digital Decade report, showing that Europe has made progress on its 2030 digital transformation targets, such as secure and sustainable digital infrastructures and the digitalisation of public services โ but the challenge now is delivering results at scale, speed and consistency. The report comes as the Commission published the last Special Eurobarometer , showing that an overwhelming majority of Europeans rank digital policy as a top EU priority, firmly backing a more autonomous European digital future. The Digital Decade Policy Programme serves as the EU's strategic compass for advancing and investing in Europe's digital competitiveness and sovereignty. The report evaluates progress made by the EU in its digitalisation across the board, including in critical infrastructures, digitalisation of business, digital skills, and digitalisation of public services. This year, the report goes beyond stocktaking, outlining priority reforms and investments at EU and Member States level in an attempt to guide digital funding allocations in the next EU Multiannual Financial Framework. Henna Virkkunen , Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, said: With the Digital Decade policy programme, the foundations of the EUโs digital transformation are iโฆ
Junie: The JetBrains AI Coding Agent Leaves Beta
Junie started as an experiment. We asked, โWhat if an AI coding agent didnโt just guess at the details of your project, but actually used the same tools you do?โ Over the last year, that experiment turned into a product used by developers every day โ inside the IDE and the terminal. Today, the JetBrains [โฆ]
State of the Digital Decade 2026 - Factsheet
State of the Digital Decade 2026 - Factsheet dumimar Wed, 06/17/2026 - 10:22 This factsheet outlines the key findings of the 2026 State of the Digital Decade Report. Highlighting the progress made by the EU towards the 2030 targets, it also mentions the key points to help EU's digital transformation to move forward: Scale: coordination and cofinancing across Member States and EU instruments Speed: implementation, simplification, recalibration of policy Coherence: simultaneous deployment and uptake of strategic technologies It also summarises the main concerns for Europeans in 2026, based on the Special Eurobarometer survey . You can download the factsheet below. Find out more about the 2026 State of the Digital Decade . Downloads State of the Digital Decade 2026 - Factsheet Download Related topics Digital Decade Digital Decade reporting Digital Decade 2026
VibeThinker-3B and the Strength of Post-Training
Short note on VibeThinker-3B, a 3B model based on Qwen2.5-Coder-3B whose reported coding and reasoning results point to strong post-training.
MolmoMotion: Language-guided 3D motion forecasting
MolmoMotion is an open, language-guided 3D motion forecasting model that predicts how object points will move in the future, enabling stronger motion prediction for robotics, video generation, and other systems that need to reason about what happens next.
Digital Decade 2026 - Progress report on multi-country projects
Digital Decade 2026 - Progress report on multi-country projects dumimar Wed, 06/17/2026 - 09:43 This report presents the progress of selected multi-country projects (MCPs) and European Digital Infrastructure Consortia (EDICs) between May 2025 and May 2026. The areas of activity for multi-country projects remained stable in this period. This allowed EU countries and the European Commission to advance on many large-scale projects developing the EUโs technological capacities in these sectors. Main developments European Digital Infrastructure Consortia (EDICs) Two new European Digital Infrastructure Consortia (EDICs) have been set up, namely the Digital Commons EDIC and the Innovative Massive Public Administration interConnected Transformation Services EDIC ( IMPACTS-EDIC ). Member States have submitted applications to the Commission to set up two more EDICs, namely the Cybersecurity Skills Coalition EDIC (CSC EDIC) and the EDIC for Agrifood. Further EDICs are currently in preparation, and more initiatives are under consideration for becoming EDICs. The first Annual EDIC Gathering took place in November 2025 with a broad participation of Member States representatives and EDICs, with a focus on common challenges and strategic discussion about the future development of the EDIC ecosystem. Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEI) The IPCEI on Microelectronics and Communication Technologies (IPCEI-ME/CT) and the IPCEI on Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure and Serviceโฆ
Digital Decade 2026 - Monitoring of 2025 EU-level recommendations
Digital Decade 2026 - Monitoring of 2025 EU-level recommendations dumimar Wed, 06/17/2026 - 09:22 This document reviews EU and Member State progress on implementing Digital Decade recommendations since the 2025 State of the Digital Decade report. The document focuses on concrete digital measures and policy advancements, including legislative initiatives, targeted funding, the adoption of strategies and the implementation of joint projects. Given the cooperative nature of the Digital Decade Policy Programme (DDPP) , the assessment evaluates both joint actions โ involving the Commission and EU countries โ and individual Member State initiatives that have cross-border impact on the EUโs digital transformation. Find out more about the 2026 State of the Digital Decade package . Downloads Commission Staff Working Document - Digital Decade 2026 - Monitoring of 2025 EU-level recommendations Download Related topics Digital Decade Digital Decade reporting Digital Decade 2026
The 2026 Digital Decade eHealth Indicator Study
The 2026 Digital Decade eHealth Indicator Study dumimar Wed, 06/17/2026 - 09:15 This report presents the eHealth target monitoring results as at 31 December 2025 for the EU-27, Iceland and Norway under the Digital Decade Policy Programme. Access to electronic health records continues to increase across Europe In 2025, Member States made further progress towards achieving the eHealth target of โ100% of EU citizens having access to their electronic health records by 2030โ. The composite eHealth score for the EU-27 reached an average of 87%, an increase of 4 percentage points compared with 2024. All Member States have an online access service; four Member States operate regional services (Ireland, Italy, Spain and Sweden). Overall, 18 Member States, Iceland and Norway increased their maturity score compared with 2024, reflecting improvements such as wider availability of data types and a greater number of healthcare providers being connected and sharing data. Nine Member States maintained the same maturity level, including Belgium and Estonia, which reached a 100% composite maturity score in 2024. Some areas are advancing, while others require further effort Substantial progress has been made in improving the availability of electronic health record data. Data about identification (100%), personal information (98%), eDispenstion (91%) and ePrescription (89%) are the most widely available (see Figure 1). However, medical images (35%) and medical devices and implants (59%) remainโฆ
Digital Decade 2026 - DESI methodological note
Digital Decade 2026 - DESI methodological note dumimar Wed, 06/17/2026 - 09:15 The DESI methodological note outlines the monitoring system of the EUโs digital transformation within the Digital Decade Policy Programme. In line with the Digital Decade Policy Programme 2030 , the Digital Economy and Society Indicators (DESI) consists of a dashboard of digital indicators providing a multi-dimensional, detailed picture of the collective annual progress made by the EU countries towards the 2030 goals. The DESI 2026 dashboard features around 50 national-level indicators. Since the previous edition, it has been updated with several new indicators designed to refine the monitoring system ahead of the upcoming Digital Decade review. Find out more about the 2026 State of the Digital Decade package . Downloads Digital Decade 2026 - DESI methodological note Download Related topics Digital Decade Digital Decade reporting Digital Decade 2026
State of the Digital Decade 2026 - Closing structural gaps and mobilising investments for 2030 and beyond
State of the Digital Decade 2026 - Closing structural gaps and mobilising investments for 2030 and beyond dumimar Wed, 06/17/2026 - 09:15 The State of the Digital Decade 2026 report assesses the EUโs progress toward the 2030 Digital Decade targets. The 2026 report highlights that, while the foundations of the EUโs digital transformation are in place, the scale, speed and coordination of implementation need to be significantly reinforced. The EU has advanced in several areas, including connectivity, business digitalisation and the deployment of common digital infrastructures. However, significant gaps remain in foundational technologies, computing capacity, cybersecurity, advanced digital take-up, digital skills and scale-up capacity. Moreover, the progressive phase-put of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) creates a risk of investment discontinuity. The 2026 State of the Digital Decade report thus calls on Member States to use the next adjustment of their Digital Decade national roadmaps (December 2026) to address existing gaps through concrete measures and reforms, while ensuring stronger alignment with the next Multi-Annual Financial Framework (MFF) and the future EU Competitiveness Fund. The report also stresses the need for deeper EU-level coordination. On this page, you can find the reportโs main communication and Annex 1, together with the short versions of the 27 country reports. See also The full country reports and the country fact pages The full State of thโฆ
Digital Decade 2026 - Connectivity Coverage in Europe 2025 report
Digital Decade 2026 - Connectivity Coverage in Europe 2025 report dumimar Wed, 06/17/2026 - 09:10 Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) becomes Europe's most widespread fixed technology, while 5G signal nears universal reach as Member States advance towards the Digital Decade 2030 targets. The Connectivity Coverage in Europe 2025 report provides a comprehensive overview of fixed and mobile broadband coverage across the 27 EU Member States (EU27), Norway, Iceland, Switzerland and the United Kingdom as of mid-2025. The study and its report are designed to monitor the progress of EU Member States towards the targets as set out in the Digital Decade Policy programme . The report analyses the deployment of ten connectivity technologies (DSL, VDSL, VDSL2 Vectoring, cable modem DOCSIS 3.0, DOCSIS 3.1 and higher, FTTP, FWA, 5G, 5G in the 3.4-3.8 GHz band, and satellite) and four aggregated coverage categories, at national, rural and regional (NUTS-3) level. EU27 fixed connectivity coverage reached 98.0% , Next Generation Access (NGA) coverage reached 95.3%, fixed Very High-Capacity Network (VHCN) coverage reached 85.6%, and Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) coverage reached 74.1%. Mobile coverage also continued to expand, with 5G signal reaching 96.8% of households , and coverage of 5G in the 3.4-3.8 GHz band reaching 74.8%. The report identifies growing reliance on Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) solutions in low-density and geographically challenging regions, as well as the increasing relevance ofโฆ
Digital Decade 2026 - 5G Observatory Report
Digital Decade 2026 - 5G Observatory Report dumimar Wed, 06/17/2026 - 09:10 The 22nd edition of the European 5G Observatory report is the Commissionโs key policy repository for data related to 5G and its evolution towards 6G. This report is prepared by an external contractor for monitoring developments in the deployment of 5G in the EU and internationally, and assessing progress towards EUโs digital connectivity targets. Launched by the European Commission in 2018, the 5G Observatory has evolved into a tool for evidence-based policy-making under the Digital Decade Policy Programme (DDPP) . The 5G Observatory report provides on a yearly basis structured and policy-relevant data and analysis, which helps the Commission and the EU27 Member States assess progress, guide decision-making, and advance the EUโs digital objectives for 2030. Findings of the 2026 report The current edition shows that the EU is very close to achieving full basic 5G population coverage (96.8% of households) and slightly less close in terms of basic 5G rural coverage , which stands at 87.9%. However, mid-band coverage remains the main bottleneck in the EU. 5G coverage in the 3.4โ3.8 GHz spectrum band is substantially lower than general 5G coverage in many countries (74.8% overall household coverage in this band). Rural mid-band coverage is particularly weak. Internationally, countries such as South Korea, Japan, China, and India (in order of performance), consistently outperform the EU27 in both householdโฆ
Digital Decade 2026: eGovernment Benchmark 2026
Digital Decade 2026: eGovernment Benchmark 2026 dumimar Wed, 06/17/2026 - 09:07 The eGovernment Benchmark 2026 assesses availability and functionality of a selection of digital public service websites and portals across nine life events. The eGovernment Benchmark 2026 evaluates the availability and functionality of selected digital public service websites and portals at both Member State and European Union (EU) level. It covers 96 key services across nine life events: moving, transport, starting a small claims procedure, family, career, studying, health, starting a business and running a business. The Benchmark supports the monitoring framework of the Digital Decade Policy Programme (DDPP) by assessing the two key performance indicators (KPIs) for online public services for citizens and businesses. Using a user-centred approach, the eGovernment Benchmark applies the Mystery Shopper methodology. Trained evaluators act as ordinary users when interacting with portals and webpages, generating objective, first-hand evidence on service availability and functionality. Read more about the 2026 State of the Digital Decade package . Deliverables Insight report Executive summary Background report Factsheets Method Paper Downloads 1. eGovernment Benchmark 2026 - Final Results Download 2. eGovernment Benchmark 2026 - Machine readable format Download Related topics Creating a digital society eGovernment, Trust services and eID Digital Decade Digital Decade reporting Digital Decade 2026
Nemotron 3 Ultra and the Open Model Landscape | Nemotron Labs
Nemotron 3 Ultra is NVIDIA's latest frontier-intelligence open model โ 5x faster inference, up to 30% lower cost, and fully open: weights, training datasets, and fine-tuning recipes included. In this livestream, we're joined by Nathan Lambert, ML researcher and open model advocate, to dig into what Ultra means for developers building on open models today. We'll cover what sets Ultra apart technically โ the hybrid Mamba-Transformer backbone, Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation (MOPD), and how it fits into a system-of-models pattern. Nathan brings a researcher's perspective on post-training for agentic systems, and we'll get into where the open frontier model landscape is heading and what it takes to build models worth building on. What you'll learn: - How Ultra's post-training approach compares to what the open model ecosystem has seen at scale - What the hybrid Mamba-Transformer architecture means for long-context, multi-turn agent workflows - How open weights, datasets, and recipes enable domain-specific fine-tuning from day one - Where open frontier models are heading for agentic applications โ and what tradeoffs matter most Have questions about Ultra, post-training, or the open model landscape? Drop them live โ Nathan and the team will answer them in real time.
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