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Fact Check: AI-Generated Image Falsely Shows Nepal Army Pointing Guns at Sunsari Protesters From Two Meters Away

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Fact Check: AI-Generated Image Falsely Shows Nepal Army Pointing Guns at Sunsari Protesters From Two Meters Away

Kathmandu. A photo claiming to show the Nepal Army pointing weapons at protesters from just two meters away during the recent protests in Sunsari has been widely shared on Facebook over the past few days. The image was also posted by…

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The Hidden Cost of Postgres Constraints at Scale

The Hidden Cost of Postgres Constraints at Scale

Your ingest workers are queuing. pg_stat_activity shows lock waits. The blocked query is not a slow SELECT. It's your bulk INSERT, waiting on the devices table. You added a FOREIGN KEY there months ago. You added a UNIQUE constraint on the…

China should lean into its defining AI advantage – accessibility

South China Morning Post

China should lean into its defining AI advantage – accessibility

China’s emerging advantage in artificial intelligence (AI) is not that it already has the world’s best chips or strongest frontier models. It is that Chinese companies are increasingly providing capable intelligence at a price the global…

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Live: Last medals in the pool to be won, Diamonds face tough match-up

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Live: Last medals in the pool to be won, Diamonds face tough match-up

The Diamonds have perhaps their toughest match-up of the group stage against South Africa and Sam Short completes his packed schedule with the men's 200m and 1,500m freestyle finals on the same night. Follow live.

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Valve says Steam Machine reservation-holders aren't being leapfrogged

Engadget

Valve says Steam Machine reservation-holders aren't being leapfrogged

Valve says that no one on its Steam Machine waitlist is leapfrogging over anyone currently holding a reservation.

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Drone footage shows Mount Etna cable car above volcanic landscape

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Drone footage shows Mount Etna cable car above volcanic landscape

Sicily's Etna cable car carries visitors up Europe's active volcano while engineers manage risks from eruptions, gases and harsh conditions.

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From Python Script Hell to a Modern Data Integration Framework

From Python Script Hell to a Modern Data Integration Framework

Every Data Team Eventually Ends Up with a Collection of Python Scripts Almost every enterprise data platform follows a similar evolution. At the beginning of a project, data ingestion requirements are usually straightforward. Business…

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DataImpulse Proxy Service Review

A relative newcomer in the industry, DataImpulse has grabbed a slice of the proxy pie thanks to its wallet-friendly, high-performing service. From more than 90 million ethically-sourced residential IPs across 195 locations to mobile and…

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5 ways I speed up my Android phone beyond clearing system cache - all for free

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5 ways I speed up my Android phone beyond clearing system cache - all for free

Here's how I improve the performance of my Google Pixel, Samsung, and even Motorola. Or at least make it seem that way.

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One Script, Five Dialects: How to Turn a Screenplay Into AI Video Prompts for Any Tool

One Script, Five Dialects: How to Turn a Screenplay Into AI Video Prompts for Any Tool

Runway wants physics. Veo wants JSON. Kling wants beats. Here is how to stop rewriting the same scene four times. Last month I spent an entire afternoon on a single establishing shot. Empty street, one man, a light turning on in a window…

How Multi-Model AI Pipelines Lose the Truth at Handoffs

How Multi-Model AI Pipelines Lose the Truth at Handoffs

Consider a hypothetical but representative handoff. A research model returns a careful finding: an association observed in one dataset, in a controlled setting, with limited generalization beyond the domain tested. Correlation, not cause…

Why Boring Traders Make More Money

In 2024, the S&P 500 returned 25%. The average equity investor made 16.5%. Same market. Same year. An eight-point gap between the index and the people trying to beat it. That gap wasn’t bad luck. DALBAR tracks this every year, and the…