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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.

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.

Some people are terrified of ever being seen as weak and vulnerable,
of not having all the answers,
of being doubtful and unsure.
And that terror is where the fascist aesthetic finds purchase.
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/c.im%…

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

Kommentar: Tim Cook, ein Meister der (Preis)politik
Apple hat seine Preise durch die Bank weg kräftig angehoben, selbst bei Altware – und begründet das mit der RAM-Inflation. Die Vorgehensweise ist bemerkenswert.
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Kommentar: Tim Cook, ein Meister der (Preis)politik
Apple hat seine Preise durch die Bank weg kräftig angehoben, selbst bei Altware – und begründet das mit der RAM-Inflation. Die Vorgehensweise ist bemerkenswert.

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?

Eco Puzzler: 0-GHG Energy - For those on their way to mastering engineering... How to create a 100% Greenhouse Gas Free Energy System for the UK? #ecoEngineering #renewables -

Eco Puzzler: 0-GHG Energy
For those on their way to mastering engineering... How to create a 100% Greenhouse Gas Free Energy System for the UK? #ecoEngineering #renewables

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

Three siblings were found by a station guard as they wandered around Barcelona’s Estació de França in 1984.
They carried no luggage or ID.
The oldest of them (Ramón) was five.
They had been driven there by a man they knew only as Denis.
He had left, ostensibly to buy them sweets, and never returned.
No adults came forward to claim them so they found themselves in the Spanish childcare system.
At this point, the mystery deepened.
As one carer rec…

Abandoned review – this real-life mystery makes for TV that’s a wild helter-skelter ride
Now grown, three siblings search for clues as to why their parents left them at a Barcelona railway station in 1984 – and uncover a secret family history they could never have imagined