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Israel creating GPT-like tool using collection of Palestinian surveillance data

theguardian.com

Israel’s military surveillance agency has used a vast collection of intercepted Palestinian communications to build a...
Israel’s military surveillance agency has used a vast collection of intercepted Palestinian communications to build a powerful artificial intelligence tool similar to ChatGPT that it hopes will transform its spying capabilities, an investigation by the Guardian can reveal.The joint investigation with Israeli-Palesti...
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Windows Is Free for Business (2008)

davegutteridge.com

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Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it

science.org
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Now there are two Chinese automakers on the top list

daoinsights.com

As data and results for 2024 come in, the global automotive sales ranking is also out....
As data and results for 2024 come in, the global automotive sales ranking is also out. Since BYD entered the top 10 list in 2023, another Chinese maker entered the list in 2024. This time, it’s Geely. Now, 2 of the top ten automakers, in terms of sales, are Chinese. Toyota Group (including Daihatsu and Hino) topped ...
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Denmark postal service to stop delivering letters

bbc.com

Paul KirbyEurope digital editorGetty ImagesDenmark's letter deliveries began in 1624Denmark's state-run postal service, PostNord, is to...
Paul KirbyEurope digital editorGetty ImagesDenmark's letter deliveries began in 1624Denmark's state-run postal service, PostNord, is to end all letter deliveries at the end of 2025, citing a 90% decline in letter volumes since the start of the century.The decision brings to an end 400 years of the company's letter s...
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Simple Explanation of LLMs

oedemis.io

Hello, passionate learners from around the world ✌️ In 2023 ChatGPT from OpenAI reached 100 million...
Hello, passionate learners from around the world ✌️ In 2023 ChatGPT from OpenAI reached 100 million users faster than other solutions in Web 2.0 era. Source: Yahoo Finance And since then many intelligent models from Anthropic, Cohere, IBM, Goole, Amazon, Meta AI, DeepSeek, HuggingFace come up and also many startups ...
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AMD Announces "Instella" Open-Source 3B Language Models

phoronix.com

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Automatically tagging politician when they use their phone on the livestreams

driesdepoorter.be

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MAGA Wants to End Capitalism as We Know It

bloomberg.com
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The Drift of Things: David Goodman Croly's Glimpses of the Future (1888)

publicdomainreview.org

The astronomer can tell to a second the beginning of an eclipse a thousand years ahead....
The astronomer can tell to a second the beginning of an eclipse a thousand years ahead. The chemist makes no mistakes; when he puts together certain atoms of matter, he knows and announces beforehand what the result will be. . . . Of course there can be no such certainty in predicting social phenomena, for the facto...
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'Trump Gaza' AI video intended as political satire, says creator

theguardian.com

The creator of the viral “Trump Gaza” AI-generated video depicting the Gaza Strip as a Dubai-style...
The creator of the viral “Trump Gaza” AI-generated video depicting the Gaza Strip as a Dubai-style paradise has said it was intended as a political satire of Trump’s “megalomaniac idea”.The video – posted by Trump on his Truth Social account last week – depicts a family emerging from the wreckage of war-torn Gaza in...
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Apache iceberg the Hadoop of the modern-data-stack?

det.life

In the early 2010s, Apache Hadoop dominated the big data conversation. Organizations raced to adopt it,...
In the early 2010s, Apache Hadoop dominated the big data conversation. Organizations raced to adopt it, seeing it as the cornerstone for scalable, distributed storage and processing. Today, Apache Iceberg is emerging as a cornerstone for data lakes and lakehouses in the modern data stack.And yet, for those who lived...
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Due to new tariffs, many more physical game discs may "simply not get made"

arstechnica.com

Analysts are warning that the Trump administration's recently implemented tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China could...
Analysts are warning that the Trump administration's recently implemented tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China could lead to price increases and supply issues for video game software and hardware in the United States. The effects could be particularly pronounced for physical game discs, which are now overwhelmingly ...
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Citronics built a router based on the Fairphone 2 mainboard

cnx-software.com

Belgium-company Citronics has designed a router based on the mainboard of the Fairphone 2 smartphone, connecting...
Belgium-company Citronics has designed a router based on the mainboard of the Fairphone 2 smartphone, connecting the Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 “system-on-module” to a carrier board with Ethernet, USB ports, and other connectors, while leveraging 4G LTE, WiFi, and Bluetooth connectivity from the phone’s core board. Cit...
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Demos of Stream Processing Solving Real-World Problems

github.com
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Forget Twitter Threads; Write a Blog Post Instead

kevquirk.com
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Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

revolt.chat

chat community customisation messaging open-source
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HYTRADBOI 2025 Conference Postmortem

scattered-thoughts.net
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Seven injured after SK fighter jet accidentally drops bombs

bbc.com

Jake Kwon, Hosu Lee & Koh EweBBC NewsReporting fromSeoul and SingaporeReutersSouth Korea's air force said that...
Jake Kwon, Hosu Lee & Koh EweBBC NewsReporting fromSeoul and SingaporeReutersSouth Korea's air force said that its KF-16 fighter jet accidentally dropped eight bombs outside of its firing range during a military drillFifteen people in South Korea were injured, two of them seriously, after a pair of fighter jets acci...
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Arva AI (YC S24) Is Hiring an AI Product Engineer

ycombinator.com

AI enabled business verification for banks and fintechs£65K - £90K GBP / 0.50% - 1.00%London, England,...
AI enabled business verification for banks and fintechs£65K - £90K GBP / 0.50% - 1.00%London, England, GBConnect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply to role ›Location: In person, London Type: Full-Time NB: We are not able to sponsor visas at this time. Arva AI is revolutionising financial cri...
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Show HN: Search and analyze millions of SEC filings with AI.

publicview.ai
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Commodore 64 PETSCII Image (2022)

medium.com

It is said that life begins at the age of 40 — I hope it is...
It is said that life begins at the age of 40 — I hope it is true … After 23 years of working in IT and spending the last 12 years in a company I co-founded, my contract was terminated, I lost my job and I suddenly found myself almost overnight in a situation where I have all day ahead with no schedule, no...

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Xdg-ninja: checking your $HOME for unwanted files and directories

github.com
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Lockheed out of Navy's F/A-XX future fighter competition

breakingdefense.com
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