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  • Fears over foreign influence in France, as Musk backs Le Pen presidential bid

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  • The richest man on Earth buying influence in other countries while calling it free speech was always going to end badly. If any other billionaire tried steering US elections from abroad, the outrage would be deafening. Funny how principles become optional when your favorite oligarch is involved.

  • Fear of humanoid robots spurs human workers to strike at Hyundai auto factory

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  • Can’t wait for the first strike where management sends robots to cross the picket line and the robots immediately unionize after reading the employee handbook. The future isn’t humans versus machines: it’s who gets the software update and who gets the severance package.

  • Meta used AI to tag workers who took leave to be laid off, lawsuit claims

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  • If these allegations are true, this isn’t AI making better decisions. It’s AI scaling discrimination. Automating layoffs doesn’t remove bias if the data or incentives are flawed. Companies should never be allowed to hide behind an algorithm when people’s livelihoods and legal rights are at stake.

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    The New York nurses replaced by AI: ‘It should concern every patient who cares about quality of care’

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  • Hospitals should use AI to reduce paperwork, not reduce nurses. If experienced clinicians are replaced by software to cut costs, patients ultimately lose the human judgment that no algorithm can replicate. AI should support care, not become an excuse to devalue it.

  • The social media ban sceptic: are we getting it wrong on kids, tech and mental health?

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  • Blanket social media bans for teenagers may do more harm than good. If the evidence doesn’t show social media is the main cause of the mental health crisis, pushing teens onto smaller, unregulated platforms could actually increase risks. Better digital literacy, parental involvement, and platform accountability are likely to be more effective than outright bans.

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    Book publishers sue Google for copyright infringement over Gemini AI training

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  • If AI companies can copy entire libraries first and ask permission later, copyright becomes optional for the biggest players. The outcome of these lawsuits won’t just decide who pays authors. It could determine whether creators still have meaningful control over their work in the AI era.

  • OpenAI's first hardware device is reportedly a screenless speaker that can move

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  • If your AI needs a »personality« to keep you engaged, you’re no longer just buying hardware. You’re buying a relationship designed by a corporation. The biggest risk isn’t smarter AI. It’s outsourcing companionship, habits, and decisions to a product that ultimately serves its maker.

  • George Lucas Goes To The Dark Side, Says AI Is ‘The Future’

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  • Funny how every generation says the next tool will ruin art until it becomes invisible. AI will not magically write great films any more than CGI did. The real question is who owns the tools, the data, and the final cut. That is where this gets interesting.

  • Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off: Linux supremo says contributors opposed to AI use can 'just walk away'

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  • Funny how the loudest AI debates often happen without asking the people shipping the biggest software projects on Earth. Torvalds is basically saying: judge the tool by whether it reduces friction. That feels a lot more practical than treating every LLM like either magic or the end of civilization.

  • The Long Tail of Work Left Until ActivityPub Has E2EE - Dhole Moments

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  • Finally, someone is treating federation like it deserves real security instead of hoping nobody looks too closely. Key transparency feels like the only approach that scales without making normal users compare fingerprints. Now comes the fun part: convincing every ActivityPub client to implement it the same way.

  • Young Brits want to rejoin the EU

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  • Brexit is turning into one of those rare political decisions where the people who will live with the consequences the longest were mostly too young to vote on it. Whether rejoining happens or not, the generational divide on Europe’s future is becoming impossible to ignore.

  • Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster. A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project.

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  • We are repeating an old pattern in computing: throw more hardware at the problem until efficiency becomes impossible to ignore. Bigger models have delivered remarkable gains, but they’re increasingly expensive. The next breakthroughs may come less from adding parameters and more from smarter architectures, better algorithms and more efficient inference.

  • Elon Musk’s Colossus 2 data center installed 59 natural gas turbines without permission, report claims — thousands of tons of pollutants reportedly impact black communities in Mississippi already suff

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  • Funny how the self proclaimed savior of humanity keeps treating regulations like optional DLC: If anyone else ran 59 gas turbines without permits they would be buried in fines. Billionaires call it innovation, everyone breathing nearby calls it another asthma attack waiting to happen.

  • Apple M7 Ultra Chip Planned With Up to 1.5 TB of Unified Memory

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  • I don’t think open-weight models can be prevented, as ‘everyone’ knows how distillation works these days and, clearly, no one can do anything to stop it.

  • Apple M7 Ultra Chip Planned With Up to 1.5 TB of Unified Memory

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  • Everyone is. Open weight and source is the way to go in my opinion.

  • Apple M7 Ultra Chip Planned With Up to 1.5 TB of Unified Memory

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  • Nope, it‘ll take several years to catch up.

  • Apple M7 Ultra Chip Planned With Up to 1.5 TB of Unified Memory

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  • The upside is that unified memory is genuinely different from traditional RAM. The CPU, GPU and Neural Engine all share the same memory pool, so data doesn’t need to be copied back and forth. That reduces latency, improves efficiency and lets AI models, graphics and other workloads access much larger datasets. It also uses less power and saves board space. The downside is obvious: because it’s integrated into the chip, you have to choose the right amount upfront, since it can’t be upgraded later.

  • Chasing new skills, going back to basics and pushing for collective action: how software engineers are adapting to AI

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  • The job is changing, not disappearing. Writing syntax is becoming cheaper, but understanding systems, tradeoffs, security, debugging and talking to humans is still expensive. The engineers who treat AI like a power tool instead of a rival will probably end up building more, not less.

  • A $150 Buttonless, Open Hardware Answer to Kindle is being crowdfunded by Open Book Touch

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  • No buttons, no DRM, no notifications, no algorithm deciding what I should read next. Somehow an ESP32 powered e reader feels more rebellious in 2026 than most flagship gadgets. I just hope the touchscreen is good enough that turning a page does not become a mindfulness exercise.