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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.

Periodic radio and X-ray emission from an accreting #WhiteDwarf binary: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02882-x -> UNC-Chapel Hill astronomers help crack cosmic radio mystery: https://uncnews.unc.edu/2026/06/02/unc-chapel-hill-astronomers-help-crack-cosmic-radio-mystery/ -> Mysterious signals keep coming from space - at least part of this mysterious class of radio-emitting objects may originate from interacting stellar companions rather than neutron stars: https://theconversation.com/mysterious-signals-keep-coming-from-space-we-have-found-their-rosetta-stone-281753 & https://www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/new-long-period-transient-reveals-its-secrets

„Masters of the Universe“ im Test: Helden aus der Personalabteilung
Der neue He-Man ist ein Film wie eine Pelz-Unterhose: Ganz witzig, aber sinnlos. Diesen zerfahrenen Quatsch hätte man wenigstens kürzen können.

„Masters of the Universe“ im Test: Helden aus der Personalabteilung
Der neue He-Man ist ein Film wie eine Pelz-Unterhose: Ganz witzig, aber sinnlos. Diesen zerfahrenen Quatsch hätte man wenigstens kürzen können.

Mystery Road S01: trefzeker gefilmd Australisch misdaadmysterie - VARAgids - BNNVARA
https://www.bnnvara.nl/varagids/artikelen/mystery-road-s01-trefzeker-gefilmd-australisch-misdaadmysterie
Op t moment het tweede seizoen te zien op ARTE (D). Wel achter een regioblokje, dus vanuit NL een VPN noodzakelijk.
Aanrader!
Mystery Road: Origin - Fernsehfilme und Serien | ARTE
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/RC-024568/mystery-road-origin/

This is devastating.
Due to imperialist prohibitions, Cuba will no longer be able to process Visa or MasterCard transactions.
It's also a warning to other countries: set up alternatives to USA owned payment systems.
Cuba | El Banco Central informa que el país no podrš efectuar transacciones con tarjetas Visa y Mastercard a raíz de las medidas coercitivas unilaterales impuestas por Trump – NODAL

Cuba | El Banco Central informa que el país no podrá efectuar transacciones con tarjetas Visa y Mastercard a raíz de las medidas coercitivas unilaterales impuestas por Trump – NODAL
NODAL - Noticias de América Latina y el Caribe

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%…

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?

Daten-Firma Palantir erzielt 85 Prozent Umsatzplus
Palantir baute sich den Ruf auf, Muster in großen Datenmengen zu finden. Nach Militär und Behörden wollen nun auch US-Unternehmen davon profitieren.
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Daten-Firma Palantir erzielt 85 Prozent Umsatzplus
Palantir baute sich den Ruf auf, Muster in großen Datenmengen zu finden. Nach Militär und Behörden wollen nun auch US-Unternehmen davon profitieren.