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Enact, which develops full-stack tech for general-purpose robots, emerges from stealth with a $30M pre-seed from Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch, Yann LeCun, and more (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/10/22/mistral-boss-and…

Mistral boss and Yann LeCun back Swiss robotics startup Enact in $30M pre-seed round
Swiss robotics startup Enact Intelligence has today emerged out of stealth, with a $30m pre-seed round and backing from two heavyweights from the French AI ecoysystem, Mistral boss Arthur Mensch and Meta's former AI chief scientist Yann LeCun.The $30m funding is high for a pre-seed funding round and comes as investors continue to invest heavily in robotics. Enact is building the underlying technology for general purpose robots.It says it’s developing tech that enables robots to manipulate ob…

Schon mitbekommen, wer sich gefragt hat was es bringt auf dem tollen Bundeswehrfragebogen 0 Interesse anzukreuzen: genau null.
Den die Bundeswehr "lädt" dich einfach trotzdem zur Musterung ein. Vorerst wohl noch freiwillig, mit großer rechtlicher Unsicherheit.
Was glaubt ihr wohl was passiert wenn wir alle noch nicht kriegstüchtig genug sind?

My Acorn BBC Master 512; that's a BBC Master with an added 80186 copro (which is the board in the middle).
Hmm first time I've had the top off in ages, I guess I should check it's batteries and PSU; there doesn't seem to be any crud around the batteries.
It's got a little board from CJE which I think lets you switch in the extra EPROM sockets vs extra RAM.
#retrocomputing

Digitaler Totalitarismus: Wie Russlands App Max zur Überwachungswaffe wird
Eine Studie legt das Ausmaß der Spionagefähigkeiten der russischen Super-App Max offen. Die staatlich verordnete Anwendung gilt als Muster digitaler Kontrolle.

Digitaler Totalitarismus: Wie Russlands App Max zur Überwachungswaffe wird
Eine Studie legt das Ausmaß der Spionagefähigkeiten der russischen Super-App Max offen. Die staatlich verordnete Anwendung gilt als Muster digitaler Kontrolle.

RE: https://mister.computer/@kyle/117140532374587001
Adopting strict concurrency across my codebases was painful in some places, but can’t argue with crash reports going down.

🇪🇺 Voxtral 3 runs via Mistral's EU, US and global API endpoints or self-deployed on-premises, with control over audio retention. Voice agent API: $0.04/min with Mistral Small 4, $0.08/min with a larger model. #DataSovereignty
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There will be a #Security devroom at #FOSDEM again next year. See https://github.com/security-devroom/fo

fosdem-2027/README.md at master · security-devroom/fosdem-2027
FOSDEM Security Devroom 2027 planning. Contribute to security-devroom/fosdem-2027 development by creating an account on GitHub.

"Lebendig begraben" https://www.nordkurier.de/regional/uckermark/lebendig-begraben-dreifache-mutter-erleidet-jahrelange-tortur-wegen-mysterioeser-einschulung-4868947

„Lebendig begraben“: Dreifache Mutter erleidet jahrelange Tortur wegen mysteriöser Krankheit
Eine Mutter erzählt, wie ME/CFS ihr Leben ausbremste und sie dennoch zurückfand. Ihr leiser Neuanfang beginnt fern der Familie – in einem abgedunkelten Zimmer auf dem Land.

'We have dogs in Ottawa': Akheem Mesidor is paving the way for next gen Canadian NFL players https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49662894/los-angeles-chargers-akheem-mesidor-ottawa-canada-nfl-players

Ox Alpha, a "stealth model" from an unknown AI lab with a 1M-token multimodal context and capacity for 100T tokens/day, goes viral after launching on OpenRouter (Rohail Saleem/Wccftech)
https://wccftech.com/a-my…

A Mysterious AI Lab Is Offering 100 Trillion Free Tokens/Day For Its Ox Alpha Model, As Evidence Points To Zhipu’s Unreleased GLM
Ox Alpha's 1-million-token context window and video inputs hint at a heavily upgraded GLM-class model that's undergoing live testing.