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Mistral releases Shieldstral, a 3B multimodal safety classifier that it says matches models up to 7x its size on text safety, available under Apache 2.0 (Mistral AI Blog)
https://mistral.ai/news/shieldstral/

Introducing Shieldstral. | Mistral AI
Shieldstral introduces a 3B open-weights multimodal safety classifier that outperforms models up to 7x its size.

Former Bills head coach Sean McDermott predicts Buffalo will reach Super Bowl LXI https://www.nfl.com/news/former-bills-head-coach-sean-mcdermott-predicts-buffalo-will-reach-super-bowl-lxi

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The Lyon Amendment to the Lancaster Consensus: Perl’s toolchain version support policy.
https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/toolchain-site/blob/master/lyon-amendment.md
saved 2026-08-04

Slow news day, MBL?
(This is definitely a lens flare, ffs)
https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/nature_and_travel/2026/08/04/mysterious_bright_spot_appears_in_photograph_taken_/

Mysterious bright spot appears in photograph taken in Barkárdalur
During an evening walk in Barkárdalur valley in Hörgársveit this past weekend, Guðbrandur Ægir Ásbjörnsson snapped a photograph on a beautiful summer evening. Upon taking a closer look later, he noticed what appeared to be a mysterious bright spot neatly positioned on the left side of the image.

Golden bands and swirling vortices have been spotted on the sun in the most detailed images ever captured of the turbulent surface of our home star.
Astronomers observed the sun with the Inouye solar telescope in Hawaii, the world’s most powerful solar telescope, and saw new features smaller than 20km (12 miles) across in a magnetically active region close to a sun spot.
The unprecedented pictures show processes on the surface that are likely to explain the decades-long mystery o…

Unprecedented images may explain one of greatest mysteries of the sun
Highest-ever resolution pictures of our star could help show why its corona is millions of degrees hotter than its surface

Corazón Plata y Negro - Episode 2: "The Mystery Man" https://www.raiders.com/video/corazon-plata-y-negro-episode-2-the-mystery-man

Breakthrough Quantum Test Resolves a Major Cosmic Mystery https://www.404media.co/breakthrough-quantum-test-resolves-a-major-cosmic-mystery/

A profile of Google DeepMind philosopher Iason Gabriel, whose work has tracked, and in many cases predicted, the ethical challenges posed by the success of LLMs (Robert P Baird/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.c…

‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI
The long read: Since 2017, Iason Gabriel has worked at the tech giant, trying to anticipate – and think through – the impact of AI. But as commercial and geopolitical pressures escalate, can ethicists make any difference?

Corazón Plata y Negro - Capítulo 2: "El Hombre Misterioso" https://www.raiders.com/video/corazon-plata-y-negro-capitulo-2-el-hombre-misterioso