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Canva launches a foundational design model that generates editable layered designs, expands Canva AI, makes Affinity free for all users, and more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/30/canva-launches-its-own-desig…

Canva launches its own design model, adds new AI features to the platform | TechCrunch
Canva is launching new features like Forms and email design, and it makes Affinity free for all users.

Large language mistake:
"Le problème est que, selon les connaissances actuelles en neurosciences, la pensée humaine est largement indépendante du langage humain — et nous avons peu de raisons de croire que des modèles linguistiques toujours plus sophistiqués permettront de créer une forme d'intelligence qui égalera ou surpassera la nôtre."
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Ĉu pensado dependas de lingvo? Aperas pli da atestaĵo ke la respondo estas ne.
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https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-polyglot-neuroscientist-resolving-how-the-brain-parses-language-20251205/

The Polyglot Neuroscientist Resolving How the Brain Parses Language | Quanta Magazine
Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to LLMs.

The Salt Lake Tribune launches The Southern Utah Tribune, a free monthly newspaper, its latest local news product after a Cache Valley newsletter and Moab paper (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/t…

The Salt Lake Tribune, preparing to drop its paywall, launches a free, monthly print newspaper for Southern Utah
“We believe that the first thing we have to do is build something that people want.”

Zhipu AI launches a share sale to raise ~$560M in a Hong Kong IPO at a valuation of ~$6.6B, which would make it the first LLM developer listed in Hong Kong (Themis Qi/South China Morning Post)
https://www.sc…

China’s Zhipu AI launches US$560 million share sale amid heated IPO tech race
The company, marketed overseas as Z.ai, eyes US$6.6 billion valuation with Hong Kong’s first large language model listing.

North Korea Makes Russian Language a Required School Subject, Minister Says - The Moscow Times
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/11/27/north-korea-makes-russian-language-a-required-school-subject-minister-says-a91259



Both Quikscript and Shavian were essentially the results of a design competition,
sponsored--posthumously--by playwright George Bernard Shaw,
who laid out the terms in his will.
Shaw wanted someone to create an ideal phonetic alphabet for English that trumped Pitman shorthand.
British designer Ronald Kingsley Read, a finalist in the 1960s competition, designed both Quikscript and Shavian, the latter being named in Shaw's honor

Here are 50 Different Written Languages. Can You Tell Which are Fake? - Core77
Below are examples of 50 different written languages. Unless you're Indiana Jones, I doubt you'll recognize more than a handful. However, of these 50 scripts, five of them are contrived 20th Century creations. Two of them are shorthand-style phonetic alphabets designed for English; one of them is an ideographic writing

White House launches new 'media bias' tracker on site (Ashleigh Fields/NewsNation)
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/white-house-launches-new-media-bias-tracker-on-site/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251129/p51#a251129p51

unicodelang: Languages spoken by country (2015)
A bipartite network of languages and the countries in which they are spoken, as estimated by Unicode. Edges are weighted by the proportion of the given country's population that is literate in a particular language.
This network has 868 nodes and 1255 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Weighted

Beyond human loss, floods from Cyclone Ditwah devastate Sri Lanka’s wildlife https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/beyond-human-loss-floods-from-cyclone-ditwah-devastate-sri-lankas-wildlife/

Beyond human loss, floods from Cyclone Ditwah devastate Sri Lanka’s wildlife
COLOMBO — Sri Lanka continues to grapple with the human toll of Cyclone Ditwah, which triggered devastating floods and landslides killing 650 people and leaving another 200 missing. In the wake of the human disaster, however, a different tragedy has unfolded largely unnoticed. Across floodplains, protected areas and farmlands, thousands of animals have also fallen […]