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OpenAI walks a tricky tightrope with GPT-5.1’s eight new personalities

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#gpt5 #openai #technology #press


OpenAI walks a tricky tightrope with GPT-5.1’s eight new personalities

New controls attempt to please critics on both sides with a balance between bland and habit-forming.
Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)
#technology #press #openai #gpt5

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Researchers isolate memorization from problem-solving in AI neural networks

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#memorization #technology #press


Researchers isolate memorization from reasoning in AI neural networks

Basic arithmetic ability lives in the memorization pathways, not logic circuits.
Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)
#technology #press #memorization

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From Project Gutenberg:

Flint: His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes

by Maud Wilder Goodwin

Get it at: gutenberg.org/ebooks/21690

Flint: His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes by Maud Wilder Goodwin

Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
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Propaganda war: Iran produces Hebrew-language documentary byteseu.com/1535471/ #Conflicts #Iran #Israel #IsraelIran #Propaganda #Tasnim
Propaganda war: Iran produces Hebrew-language documentary

Propaganda war: Iran produces Hebrew-language documentary

Iranian propaganda - targeting Israelis? The Iranian news agency Tasnim, affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has released its first-ever
BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
#israel #iran #Propaganda #conflicts #israeliran #tasnim

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Most big emerging economies, including China, Brazil and India, can weather U.S. tariffs without excessive pain, a study by risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft showed, raising doubt about the clout of President Donald Trump's trade tools.

The firm analysed the resilience of 20 of the biggest emerging markets using measures from debt levels to export-revenue reliance to gauge their ability to handle trade volatility and rapidly shifting geopolitical alliances.

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#economics

#economics

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Wandan, #Taiwan
Crowds gather to watch the eruption of a mud volcano. It was the second eruption this year. Local officials said three eruption vents were identified, two of them newly formed, with mud flows affecting nearby gardens and red bean fields.

Photograph: Cheng-Chia Huang/Zuma Press/Shutterstock

#photography
#MudVolcano

Crowds gather to watch the eruption of a mud volcano.
#Photography #Taiwan #mudvolcano

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North holds forum on Japan’s colonial atrocities as Pyongyang nonresponsive to Tokyo’s summit request byteseu.com/1535469/ #Conflicts #NorthKorea
Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, attends a wreath-laying ceremony at Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam, on March 2, 2019. [AP/YONHAP]

North holds forum on Japan’s colonial atrocities as Pyongyang nonresponsive to Tokyo’s summit request

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#NorthKorea #conflicts

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Oh, dang, Parabolic can download an entire video playlist ​:neofox_floof_surprised:​
Currently using this to download/preserve "The Basics," my favorite video series from Tom Scott ​:neobun_3c:​
This is a desktop, with the left side showing Youtube, a video platform that hosts users' videos, and the right side showing Parabolic, a program that downloads Youtube videos. Here, I'm downloading an entire playlist of videos right now.
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Lemonheep (Pirate YT Videos!)
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Waow, surprised how little space it actually takes, especially since they're 1080P video files ​:surprised_pikachu:​
This is a screenshot of the "Properties" section in a folder a playlist of downloaded videos is in. Here, it takes 3.1GB, which is much less than I expected out of a video file.
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3+ Minecraft builds for your garden😄 | #minecraft #minecraftbuilding #minecraftbuilds#minecraftbuild allforgardening.com/1507786/3-… #GrowAGarden #MinecraftGarden #MinecraftGardening #MinecraftGrowAGarden
3+ Minecraft builds for your garden😄 | #minecraft #minecraftbuilding #minecraftbuilds#minecraftbuild

3+ Minecraft builds for your garden😄 | #minecraft #minecraftbuilding #minecraftbuilds#minecraftbuild - All

Editor (All For Gardening)
#minecraft #Minecraftbuilds #growagarden #minecraftgarden #minecraftgardening #minecraftgrowagarden #minecraftbuilding

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“Would you declassify the Epstein files?”

"Yeah, yeah, I would," Donald Trump said on "Fox & Friends Weekend" on June 3, 2024.

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Also— WHO wrote Phenomeonomal (What the fuck this word is so SO hard for me to remember and pronounce and write) because that character is exquisitely written I don't think I stopped cackling every single time he opened his mouth but his best line BY FAR is the one about playing Magic the Gathering

#DispatchGame

#dispatchgame

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Donald Trump Asks Syrian President How Many Wives He Has At White House Meeting byteseu.com/1535467/ #Conflicts #Syria
Donald Trump Asks Syrian President How Many Wives He Has At White House Meeting

Donald Trump Asks Syrian President How Many Wives He Has At White House Meeting

President Donald Trump and President Ahmed al-Sharaa on November 10, 2025 in Washington DC.
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#syria #conflicts

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Russia's AI Robot Falls Seconds After Being Unveiled hardware.slashdot.org/story/25…

Russia's AI Robot Falls Seconds After Being Unveiled - Slashdot

Russia's first AI humanoid robot, Aldol, fell just seconds after its debut at a technology event in Moscow on Tuesday.
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This is tangential

#RemodelASongOrPoem
#HashTagGames

m.youtube.com/watch?v=UmlkOWnz…

- YouTube

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
m.youtube.com
#hashtaggames #remodelasongorpoem

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Gezicht op een vluchtelingenwijk in Kowloon, Hong Kong, Ed van der Elsken, 1959 - 1960

#Kowloon #HongKong #EdvanderElsken #fotografie #photography #EdVanDerElsken #EdvanderElsken

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The image shows a black and white photograph of an urban landscape, likely taken in the mid-19th century. The scene captures densely packed buildings with various architectural styles indicative of different periods or cultures. In one part of the photo, there's a hillside populated by smaller structures that appear to be less developed compared to others on flat ground. This contrast suggests areas where urbanization is more concentrated versus those still rural in nature. The clarity and tonal range suggest it was captured using an early photographic process like albumen silver print or perhaps salted paper, common during the mid-19th century when photography was emerging as a new art form. The absence of vibrant colors reinforces its historical context. There's no visible presence of modern infrastructure nor advanced industrial facilities. The image carries with it not only visual information but also cultural and social narratives about urban growth in that era. It offers insight into the dynamics between rural development and city expansion during this period, perhaps signifying migration patterns or economic activities driving these changes.
#Fotografie #Photography #HongKong #kowloon #edvanderelsken

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She built a brick ... house

#RemodelASongOrPoem
#HashTagGames

#hashtaggames #remodelasongorpoem

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The U.S. House has sent a bill to end the nation's longest government shutdown to President Trump's desk with no extension on health-care tax credits.
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Bill Ending Historic Government Shutdown Narrowly Heads to Trump Without Health-Care Tax Credit Extension

The U.S. House has passed a bill to end the nation's longest government shutdown with no extension on health-care tax credits.
Kevin Freking (Mississippi Free Press)

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I truly believe that Valve's new #SteamMachine, #SteamController, and #SteamFrame announcements are the biggest PC gaming news of all time. Here's my #breakdown #blog #coverage #article

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The biggest PC gaming news of ALL TIME

Valve's six minute announcement video just changed PC gaming with the premier of three new PC gaming devices: the New Steam Controller, New Steam Machine, and Steam Frame.
Gardiner Bryant (The Bryant Review)
#blog #article #coverage #steamcontroller #breakdown #steammachine #steamframe
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@xemo128 According to Valve's press release, it'll ship in a bundle with a Steam controller, and also be sold standalone.
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Linux kettle. Will it run doom?

Source reddit.com/r/tea/comments/1ovi…

black and white electric kettle with a digital temperature display reading 86 that look like penguin (Linux Tux mascot). Image credit https://www.reddit.com/r/tea/comments/1ovi1av/noone_appreciates_my_new_kettle/#lightbox
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I am deeply curious if it responds to HTTP Requests with the code 418: I’m a Teapot
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