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Section of railway track damaged near Warsaw, Polish PM Tusk confirms sabotage On Nov

Section of railway track damaged near Warsaw, Polish PM Tusk confirms sabotage

“This route is crucially important for delivering aid to Ukraine. We will catch the perpetrators, whoever they are,” Tusk wrote on X.

⚡️Romania evacuating people from village on border with Ukraine after Russian drone hit and set ablaze a gas tanker just a few hundred meters from the Romanian village

‘It could explode any minute’ local authorities say , Politico shares

Journalisten moeten zich niet laten misbruiken door ondernemers die ‘schaduwkabinetje’ spelen

Journalisten moeten zich niet laten misbruiken door ondernemers die ‘schaduwkabinetje’ spelen

De laatste keer, dat het CDA een kabinetsformatie zozeer kon sturen - met 1 eigen informateur en een politiek 'incontournable' positie - was in 2006. PvdA - Wouter Bos - en VVD - Mark&Rita - verloren toen fors. Een centrumlinks kabinet was het resultaat. #BetrouwbareBronnen omny.fm/shows/betrou...

"First world" country.

NRC is de bitch van Domrechts - Frontaal Naakt Ik heb eindelijk ook een complottheorie! Roofkapitalisten en corrupte journalisten spannen samen om ervoor te zorgen dat het volgende kabinet van Nederland een monocultureel bedrijventerrein maakt.

Ik heb eindelijk ook een complottheorie! Roofkapitalisten en corrupte journalisten spannen samen om ervoor te zorgen dat het volgende kabinet van Nederland een monocultureel bedrijventerrein maakt.

Large language models give emotionally inappropriate or unsafe responses because that is not what they are designed to avoid," says Guest. "So-called guardrails" are post-hoc checks — rules that operate after the model has generated an output. "If a response isn't caught by these rules, it will slip through," Guest adds.

But teaching AI systems to recognize high-stakes emotional content, like depression or addiction, has been challenging. Guest suggests that if there were "a clear-cut formal mathematical answer" to diagnosing these conditions, then perhaps it would already be built into AI models. But AI doesn't understand context or emotional nuance the way humans do. "To help people, the experts need to meet them in person," Guest adds. "Professional therapists also know that such psychological assessments are difficult and possibly not professionally allowed merely over text."

> models give unsafe responses because that is not what they are designed to avoid. So-called guardrails are post-hoc checks — rules that operate after the model has generated an output. If a response isn't caught by these rules, it will slip through

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Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable | Radboud University Will AI soon surpass the human brain? If you ask employees at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other large tech companies, it is inevitable. However, researchers at Radboud University and other institutes ...

Perhaps counterintuitive but guardrails are full-blown cognition in the case of models that contain data from the web which obviously also contains inappropriate content. Only human cognition at that point can sort this data into appropriate for a child or not.

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In their paper, the researchers introduce a thought experiment where an AGI is allowed to be developed under ideal circumstances. Olivia Guest, co-author and assistant professor in Computational Cognitive Science at Radboud University: ‘For the sake of the thought experiment, we assume that engineers would have access to everything they might conceivably need, from perfect datasets to the most efficient machine learning methods possible. But even if we give the AGI-engineer every advantage, every benefit of the doubt, there is no conceivable method of achieving what big tech companies promise.’

That’s because cognition, or the ability to observe, learn and gain new insight, is incredibly hard to replicate through AI on the scale that it occurs in the human brain. ‘If you have a conversation with someone, you might recall something you said fifteen minutes before. Or a year before. Or that someone else explained to you half your life ago. Any such knowledge might be crucial to advancing the conversation you’re having. People do that seamlessly’, explains van Rooij.

> assume engineers have access to everything they might conceivably need, from perfect datasets to the most efficient machine learning methods. Even if we give the AGI-engineer every advantage, there is no method of achieving what big tech companies promise.

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And I'll repeat this because why not.

This is really what companies want. They want us to be totally isolated from other people. And all our interactions to be mediated by their LLMs, in a way that literally edits and devalues what we know and say.

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Po kilku latach znów otwarte będą przejścia graniczne z Białorusią w Kuźnicy i Bobrownikach W poniedziałek, po kilkuletnim zamknięciu, zostaną otwarte drogowe przejścia graniczne z Białorusią w Kuźnicy i Bobrownikach. MSWiA podkreśla, że decyzja była możliwa po uszczelnieniu granicy, na k...

Poland is today reopening its border crossings with Belarus at Kuźnica (for passenger traffic) and Bobrowniki (for freight), which have been closed since 2021 and 2023 respectively.

Warsaw says tightened security at the border has allowed it to take the decision.

Chinese eigenaar doekt ineens Fries bedrijf op. Waar zijn de bedrijfs­geheimen van klanten? Het Friese DCI, een keuringsclub voor de scheepvaart- en jachtbouwsector, kreeg eind 2019 een nieuw, Chinees moederbedrijf. De nieuwe eigenaar vertrok dit jaar met de noorderzon. Niemand weet nu waar ...

'Klanten van DCI vragen zich nu af waar hun uiterst gedetailleerde dossiers met productinformatie zijn gebleven. Wie draait op voor de economische schade van producten die zonder certificering niet verkocht kunnen worde? En: zijn er bedrijfsgeheimen in China beland?'

En het zorgelijke is dat deze Hugo Logtenberg de partner is van Kamilla Leupen , de directeur van zo ongeveer alle kranten in Nederland. Geen wonder dat nog geen enkele krant serieus onderzoek doet naar wat er nu feitelijk aan de hand is

Aangezien @nrc.nl vindt dat publieke figuren geen privacy verdienen: kunnen jullie alsjeblieft duiden waarom jullie journalist die innige banden met de VVD heeft, journalistiek bedrijft die gunstig is voor de VVD en Quote-500? Ieder zijn keuze, maar dan controleer je niet de macht.

“Zonder de VVD is er eigenlijk geen kabinet te vormen. (…) De leider daarvan heet Dilan Yesilgöz. En als je dan dit soort uitspraken doet dan moet je daar ook de gevolgen van dragen.”

Genoeg stront aan de knikker dus.

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There were 92,400 Lego cutlasses inside the shipping container that fell off the Tokio Express back in 1997. This one was found in August by Laura Dale on a beach near Newquay some 28 years after it plummeted into the ocean.
Photo: Laura Dale

Ik begreep snelle hoofdredactionele verklaring (‘nieuwsbrief’) niet. Daarin bespeurde ik geen enkele reflectie op de mogelijkheid dat NRC gebruikt werd om formatieproces te beïnvloeden door Wijers te beschadigen. Terwijl dat een zeer serieus scenario is, met verstrekkende maatschappelijke gevolgen.

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So you've come to the UK fleeing war or persecution, you're granted refugee status, you live here for 18 years during which time you build a life, career and family, and then the govt deems the country you came from safe and deports you.

Jezusmina 😨

Dat lichtbruine is bijna 20 graden warmer dan normaal (1981-2010)!!

Alleen zo ongeveer Lapland en oostpunt Siberië superkpud 🫥

Zoals het recht op veilige abortus in Nederland nu weer ondermijnd wordt door uiterst rechtse, conservatieve krachten, zo geldt dit ook voor andere verworven rechten.

Als ze niet goed in de Grondwet zijn verankerd, zal er op n slecht moment weer aan getornd worden.

Een draadje over kanaries🦜

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- Volgens een Gallup-peiling wil ongeveer 40% van de Amerikaanse vrouwen tussen 15 en 44 jaar permanent uit de VS verhuizen. Het cijfer weerspiegelt onvrede over politiek, economie en sociale omstandigheden.

A new plan to escape from China’s iron grip on rare earths – ReSourceEU – is also in the works, and will be modelled on the bloc’s decoupling from Russian energy supplies after it invaded Ukraine.

The commission is looking to force capitals to remove Huawei Technologies from 5G networks and is considering conditioning funds from its Global Gateway infrastructure initiative, unless recipient countries commit to not using the Chinese tech giant in projects using EU money.

“Despite countering narratives, I would like to clarify that what the EU is currently doing is solely aimed at promoting and safeguarding its own competitiveness and security, for instance, by reducing critical dependencies,” she said.

But not everyone is convinced the new tone is wise.

One official called it a “fundamental misread” of how China works. Another said Beijing “only respects power, not nice words”.

Speakers who do not work for EU institutions, meanwhile, were less constrained in their remarks.

Under pressure from Beijing’s chokehold on rare earths and the simmering feud over chipmaker Nexperia, EU officials have been asked to tone down their public rhetoric on Beijing, even as the bloc moves forward aggressively with its de-risking plans.

‘Don’t mention the war’: EU recalibrates China discourse amid rare earths deal Official sources say Brussels is in ‘de-escalation mode’ as it tries to convince Beijing to issue more export licences for critical minerals.

Softer words, harder policy: EU recalibrates on China as it seeks rare earths breakthrough

Brussels is in ‘de-escalation mode’ as it tries to convince Beijing to issue more export licences for critical minerals

My report

The AI bubble may be about to bust.

Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.

We all need to say this very clearly:

NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!

Expropriate their asses instead.

They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.

They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

Dangerously ill Crimean Tatar political prisoner ‘not allowed’ life-saving medication Fears that Russia’s withdrawal from the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture would remove any last restraints were probably justified judging by its life-threatening medical torture of Am...

Die Befürchtungen um Russlands Austritt aus der Europäischen Konvention gegen Folter 2025 waren wohl berechtigt: Die lebenswichtigen Medikamente für den krimtartarischen Gefangenen Amet Suleimanow gab man seiner Frau mit den Worten „nicht erlaubt“ zurück.
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