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KI-Update kompakt: Hate Aid vs. KI-Brillen, Mistral, Prompts, Twitch
Das „KI-Update“ liefert drei mal pro Woche eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
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KI-Update kompakt: Hate Aid vs. KI-Brillen, Mistral, Prompts, Twitch
Das „KI-Update“ liefert drei mal pro Woche eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.

These mysterious exoplanets may have clouds of vaporized rock and grounds of scorching magma oceans | Space
These mysterious exoplanets may have clouds of vaporized rock and grounds of scorching magma oceans | Space https://www.s…

A hacker group called Breach Boyz has been emailing local TV stations in Oklahoma with seemingly accurate PII, including the SSNs, of 30 inmates in the Rogers County jail, but authorities say there has been no breach.
https://ktul.com/news/local/mystery-deepens-ov…

Mystery deepens over data breach of inmate info
Ten days ago we reported about claims that a hacker group called Breach Boyz had gained information about inmates at the Rogers County jail, sending us an email

The probing-class demo board is (I think) finished and awaiting final design review.
Anyone else want to throw a few eyes on it before it goes out to JLC?
https://github.com/azonenberg/electronics-training/tree/master/oscillosco…

electronics-training/oscilloscope-probing/lab/boards/demo-board at master · azonenberg/electronics-training
Training materials for classes etc. Contribute to azonenberg/electronics-training development by creating an account on GitHub.

Mistral says its platform will support third-party open models, starting with Z.ai's GLM-5.2, and run them on the same infrastructure as its own models (Mistral AI Blog)
https://mistral.ai/news/regional-inference-open-models-new-compute/

In-region inference, open models, and new European infrastructure for sovereign AI.
Mistral is bringing together the inference infrastructure, open models, and long-term commitments Europe needs to control its AI future, and setting a roadmap for the world.

Mysterious strikes targeting multiple Ecuadorian fishing boats near the Galšpagos Islands this year were carried out as part of a covert CIA program.
According to the WaPo, citing a source with knowledge,
“the strikes were part of a ‘covert action’ program, a type of secret operation overseas that is approved by the president but where the role of the U.S. government is not publicly acknowledged.”
With the Pentagon denying any knowledge of or involvement with the strikes on …

CIA Behind Mystery Strikes on Ecuadorian Fishing Boats
FENIX 701 It took chipping away at it by the The Guardian,...

On Bridging Mixture Distributions
Pierre Del Moral, Ajay Jasra, Ke Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13383 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.13383 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.13383
arXiv:2608.13383v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this article we consider bridging between two mixture probability measures. In particular, given access to a Markov kernel between two component distributions, we provide a general mechanism to generate samples from one mixture to the other. Associated to a given reference and extended state space, we prove entropic optimality of this approach. In order to use this idea one needs to know the underlying mixtures and the Markov kernel, which is seldom available, and so we consider the case of Gaussian mixtures and Schr\"odinger Bridges. We prove a general $2-$Wasserstein continuity bound between the exact bridge and one that is approximated, based on $\epsilon-$covariance inflation, and these rely on a novel continuity analysis of perturbed Riccati maps. We apply our results in the context of bridging mixtures of Gaussians, single Gaussians and empirical estimators of the Gaussian parameters and the Monge map. For mixtures of Gaussians, when the parameters are estimated using the Expectation-Maxmization algorithm, the upper-bound on the $2-$Wasserstein distance between the true and approximated bridges is, under assumptions and with probability at least $1-10N^{-1}$, $\mathcal{O}\big(\big[\big(\tfrac{d\log N}{N}\big)^{1/2}\left\{1 \big(\tfrac{d\log N}{N}\right)^{1/2}(\epsilon^{-2} 1)\big\} \epsilon^2\big]\big) $
and for the other two cases, in expectation, $\mathcal{O}\left(d\left\{\tfrac{1 \epsilon^{-2}}{1 N} \epsilon^2\right\}\right)$, where $d,N\in\mathbb{N}$ is the dimension of the Gaussian and the number of empirical samples respectively. We also investigate our bounds numerically.
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Memories Mysteriously Survive After Brain Shutdown, And Scientists Don’t Know Why https://www.404media.co/memories-mysteriously-survive-after-brain-shutdown-and-scientists-dont-know-why/

Far out in the Pacific Ocean, Ecuadorean fishermen have been attacked by unidentified “gringos” using drones, survivors say,
spurring a mystery over whether the American military, the armed forces of another country or private military contractors were behind the strikes.
One fishing boat has been lost at sea since January, the U.N. says, with eight people still missing and presumed dead.
The survivors of two other vessels said they came under attack in March by English-spe…

Ecuadorean Fishing Boats Hit by Mystery Attackers
Ecuadorean crews plying the waters of the Pacific have been targeted by a mysterious outfit equipped with drones. Some sailors appear to have lost their lives.

Amazon found a way to not be held accountable for any terrible thing they've done to you.
Making sure that a judge or a jury of your peers won't enter into it seems like a ploy by a company about to really screw us
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2