London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces https://www.btp.police.uk/news/btp/news/england/btp-expands-live-facial-recognition-lfr-trial-into-london-underground-stations/
www.btp.police.uk
BTP expands Live Facial Recognition (LFR) trial into London Underground stations
British Transport Police (BTP) is to expand its trial of Live Facial Recognition (LFR) technology by deploying it in Transport for London (TfL) Underground stations.
DeepSeek Harness developer preview https://deepseek.com/harness/en/
Deepseek
DeepSeek Harness developer preview: Everything is a plugin
DeepSeek Harness is now available in developer preview to developers building agent harnesses worldwide, with the source code released at the same time. Every agent capability is implemented as a plugin that can be swapped or recomposed.
GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3
Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with? https://mun-logadan.github.io/why-does-opus-5-feel-worse/
mun-logadan.github.io
Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
A blog
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Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption https://blog.google/security/how-google-is-making-private-ai-practical-with-homomorphic-encryption/
Google
How Google is Making Private AI Practical with Homomorphic Encryption
Today we're excited to showcase HEIR, the latest powerful tool added to our Private Computing Toolkit. HEIR is an open source compiler that unlocks cryptographically-sec…
RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland https://rustdesk.com/blog/unattended-remote-access-wayland/
RustDesk
Unattended Remote Access on Wayland with RustDesk
RustDesk brings true unattended remote access to Wayland, with multi-monitor support. A preview build for x86_64 Debian/Ubuntu-based systems is available now.
Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel https://sankalp.bearblog.dev/autoresearch/
sankalp's blog
Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel over baseline with Codex in GPU Mode's qr_v2 problem
Table of Contents
Intro
Contest in short
Problem intro
Why this problem is auto-research-able
Learning Enough to Ask Better Questions
(Optional) Math f...
Intro
Contest in short
Problem intro
Why this problem is auto-research-able
Learning Enough to Ask Better Questions
(Optional) Math f...
At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/the-first-at-home-test-for-infected-ticks-could-improve-lyme-disease-diagnosis-180989235/
Smithsonian Magazine
The First At-Home Test for Infected Ticks Could Improve Lyme Disease Diagnosis
LymeAlert will hit the market in August. The latest tool against the tick-borne illness could become a medicine cabinet staple
Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dad2.70432
Alzheimer’s Association
Semaglutide attenuates a proteomics‐based dementia risk signature in older adults with overweight or obesity and cardiovascular…
INTRODUCTION
Plasma proteomics detect multi-pathway biological changes preceding dementia onset. The Dementia SomaSignal Test (dSST) is a validated 25-protein score predicting 5- and 20-year all-cau...
Plasma proteomics detect multi-pathway biological changes preceding dementia onset. The Dementia SomaSignal Test (dSST) is a validated 25-protein score predicting 5- and 20-year all-cau...
A spectre is haunting Unicode https://www.dampfkraft.com/ghost-characters.html
Dampfkraft
A Spectre is Haunting Unicode
In 1978 Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and
Industry
established the encoding that would later be known as JIS X 0208, which still
serves as an important reference for all Japanese encodings. However, after the
JIS standard was released people noticed…
Industry
established the encoding that would later be known as JIS X 0208, which still
serves as an important reference for all Japanese encodings. However, after the
JIS standard was released people noticed…
AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain https://davidepiffer.com/p/ai-isnt-outthinking-mathematicians
Davidepiffer
AI Isn’t Outthinking Mathematicians. It’s Out-Remembering Them.
The key advantage may not be superior reasoning, but a virtually unlimited symbolic working memory.
AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/so-how-ai-drug-discovery-doing-really
Science
So How Is AI Drug Discovery Doing, Really?
So How Is AI Drug Discovery Doing, Really?
Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023) https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/good-ideas
www.henrikkarlsson.xyz
Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born
Solitary work, creativity and larval ideas
Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter https://www.severe-weather.eu/long-range-2/super-el-nino-growth-accelerating-to-record-strength-fall-winter-2026-2027-forecast-impact-united-states-canada-europe-fa/