AGI debate heats up as Demis Hassabis calls Yann LeCun’s view ‘plain incorrect’ | Technology News - The Indian Express

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“LeCun, the outgoing chief of AI at Meta, has said that the concept of general intelligence does not exist as it is used to designate human-level intelligence, which is not general but super-specialised. While humans navigate real-world environments and deal with other people well, LeCun argues that humans perform poorly at structured tasks like chess.”

— from AGI debate heats up as Demis Hassabis calls Yann LeCun’s view ‘plain incorrect’ | Technology News - The Indian Express as of 1 January 2026

Waymo's San Francisco outage raises doubts over robotaxi readiness during crises | Reuters

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“The company said the confirmation processes its vehicles follow were established during early deployment and that it was now refining them to match its current scale. Waymo is implementing fleet-wide updates that provide vehicles with "specific power outage context, allowing it to navigate more decisively." Both Cummings and Koopman said robotaxi operators should face additional permitting requirements once their fleets grow beyond a certain size to ensure that they have adequate capabilities to deal with large-scale failures. "If this had been an earthquake, it would have been a problem," Koopman said. "This is just a shot across the bow."”

— from Waymo's San Francisco outage raises doubts over robotaxi readiness during crises | Reuters as of 29 December 2025

Tech whistleblowers face job losses and isolation - The Washington Post

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“The biggest corporations are increasingly playing hardball against employee critics. Earlier this year, Meta won an arbitration ruling against Wynn-Williams that bars her from promoting her tell-all memoir or saying anything “disparaging, critical or otherwise detrimental” about Meta, including in private remarks to her husband or children, according to Ravi Naik, Wynn-Williams’s lawyer.”

— from Tech whistleblowers face job losses and isolation - The Washington Post as of 29 December 2025

Has feminism failed women? CBS wants to know | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian

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“S funding cuts have caused 1,394 family planning clinics to shut down. Millions of people have been left without access to contraceptives or care as part of a “radical shift towards conservative ideologies that deliberately block human rights”, according to the International Planned Parenthood Federation. But make sure you tune into CBS to hear if feminism is bad for women!”

— from Has feminism failed women? CBS wants to know | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian as of 29 December 2025

River Sherbourne project nears completion in Coventry - BBC News

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“Jordan Davis from the Sherbourne Valley Project said the project really highlights the existence of the river within the city centre. It was not just a construction project but am opportunity for residents to find out more about the river and its history, he said. "It is said that Coventry's very existence, going as far back as 700 AD, is because of the River Sherborne. It's Coventry's foundational river. "People came and settled in Coventry because of the river itself. Coventry owes a lot of its industrial history to the river, loads of working mills, a lot of the sort of cloth dyeing which is obviously the composition of the river itself. That's where we got Coventry Blue from."”

— from River Sherbourne project nears completion in Coventry - BBC News as of 27 December 2025

The River Sherbourne - Coventry Society

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“There are many interesting and beautiful places to visit on the River Sherbourne through Coventry, but here are seven you shouldn’t miss. From Upstream to Downstream”

— from The River Sherbourne - Coventry Society as of 27 December 2025

I have a Masters Degree, I was a "gifted child", I also live in absolute poverty in the 6th richest country in the world

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“The high prevalence of cold, damp, poorly energy efficient households in the UK is considered one of the main reasons why the UK continues to have higher excess deaths over the winter period when compared with other European countries”

— from I have a Masters Degree, I was a "gifted child", I also live in absolute poverty in the 6th richest country in the world as of 26 December 2025

Theft of crypto - Google News 2025

The susceptibility of cryptocurrency to theft and abuse is staggering but seldom figured into day-to-day news.

Google News - News about North Korea • crypto - Overview https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZjbmt0TXpZd1NoRUtEd2lmeHNxVkVCR0twQ1lRVHVKMDdTZ0FQAQ?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

Gluten Free Cheese Sauce for Broccoli & Cauliflower | Chef Janet

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“2 oz gouda cheese, block form, not pre shredded 2 oz sharp or extra sharp cheddar block, not pre-shredded 4 Tbsp unsalted butter, divided 2 + 2 1 Tbsp gluten-free flour blend, King Arthur Measure for Measure recommended 2 tsp cornstarch 1 c whole milk, lactose-free ok ¼ tsp granulated garlic or ⅛ tsp garlic powder 1 2 pinches finely ground black pepper ¼-⅛ tsp salt”

— from Gluten Free Cheese Sauce for Broccoli & Cauliflower | Chef Janet as of 23 December 2025

Histopathology turnaround times - Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

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“Urology biopsy turnaround time: The target is to report 80% of diagnostic biopsy cases within 7 days, and 80% of all specimens within 10 days (except those requiring decalcification). ”

— from Histopathology turnaround times - Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust as of 21 December 2025

Prostate cancer MRI scans: is the NHS ready? - Cancer Research UK - Cancer News

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From May, 2019: ““The benefits of doing mpMRI is that fewer men will need to have a biopsy. We think that using MRI will mean a quarter of a million fewer men per year in Europe alone will need a biopsy. And there’s a million biopsies done each year in Europe.” Emberton says that using mpMRI will mean that fewer prostate cancers will be missed. And it will help to reduce the diagnosis of prostate cancers that would never have caused harm, so called overdiagnosis. ”

— from Prostate cancer MRI scans: is the NHS ready? - Cancer Research UK - Cancer News as of 21 December 2025

MRI could solve prostate cancer overdiagnosis | InSight+

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““PSA testing has unquestionably found cancers at an early stage so that we can cure them, but the problem has been overdetection and overtreatment,” he said. “Based on the findings of this study, mpMRI goes a long way towards avoiding overdetection, by missing out those Gleason 6s [the lowest grade prostate cancer].””

— from MRI could solve prostate cancer overdiagnosis | InSight+ as of 21 December 2025

D16E GPS Fishing Bait Boat with Large Bait Container Automatic Bait Boat with 400-500M Remote Range - AliExpress

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“D16E GPS Fishing Bait Boat with Large Bait Container Automatic Bait Boat with 400-500M Remote Range”

Just add used DJI Osmo Pocket

— from D16E GPS Fishing Bait Boat with Large Bait Container Automatic Bait Boat with 400-500M Remote Range - AliExpress as of 20 December 2025

Global progress on extreme poverty is stalling and may reverse soon | Vox

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/470491/extreme-poverty-sub-saharan-africa-world-bank-conflict-climate-change

Second Alzheimer’s drug, donanemab, not available on NHS - Alzheimer's Research UK

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"the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has decided not to offer donanemab on the NHS, citing its “significant cost”."

“In recent weeks, experts have called for more new medicines to be made available on the NHS because this attracts more clinical trials and investment to the UK. Although the UK has a strong history in dementia research, it currently hosts just 7% of global dementia trials and under 3% of participants in phase 3 trials for dementia worldwide live here.”

— from Second Alzheimer’s drug, donanemab, not available on NHS - Alzheimer's Research UK as of 18 December 2025

Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State | The New Republic

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“He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable. How far will Miller’s sadistic designs go?”

— from Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State | The New Republic as of 17 December 2025

Industry voice: Inside the rise of AI-enabled cyber threats

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“Attackers are using AI to automate reconnaissance and create realistic phishing content. They’re also developing polymorphic malware that constantly mutates to avoid detection and spread across multiple domains. These techniques amplify traditional tactics and make them harder to trace or contain. It’s no surprise that more than six in ten IT leaders see AI as a growing source of cybersecurity risk. 61% reported a clear rise in risk levels, while only 31% feel confident in their ability to manage these new kinds of attacks.”

— from Industry voice: Inside the rise of AI-enabled cyber threats as of 16 December 2025

Coventry hospital says sorry over poor performance as new system blamed - CoventryLive

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“the Trust undertook a major transformation programme with the implementation of an electronic patient record (EPR). To ensure this was safe and successful it added that operational activity was reduced for a six-month period and, as a consequence, the number of operations and outpatient appointments was reduced. This in turn had a significant impact on waiting lists.”

— from Coventry hospital says sorry over poor performance as new system blamed - CoventryLive as of 16 December 2025

Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence – The White House

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“This “anti-fascist” lie has become the organizing rallying cry used by domestic terrorists to wage a violent assault against democratic institutions, constitutional rights, and fundamental American liberties.  Common threads animating this violent conduct include anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.  As described in the Order of September 22, 2025 (Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization), the groups and entities that perpetuate this extremism have created a movement that embraces and elevates violence to achieve policy outcomes, including justifying additional assassinations.  For example, Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin engraved the bullets used in the murder with so-called “anti-fascist” rhetoric.  ”

— from Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence – The White House as of 16 December 2025

Laszlo Zsolnai - Corvinus University of Budapest

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“This study advances a view of the university as an autonomous learning community and redefines its functions as follows: to generate an universal orientation across disciplines and cultures, to assist the whole person development of its members, to create a new holistic understanding of planetary challenges, including transdisciplinary codesigned, stakeholder engaged and solutions-oriented research, to bring forth responsible practitioners, to enhance the problem-solving capabilities of society and to catalyze progressive changes in human-Earth systems.”

— from Laszlo Zsolnai - Corvinus University of Budapest as of 14 December 2025

IASEAI | Conference 2026

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“The International Association for Safe & Ethical AI (IASEAI) will host its second annual conference (IASEAIʼ26) on 24-26 February 2026 at UNESCO House in Paris, France.”

— from IASEAI | Conference 2026 as of 12 December 2025

fre:ac audio converter

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“With fre:ac you easily rip your audio CDs to MP3 or M4A files for use with your hardware player or convert files that do not play with other audio software. You can even convert whole music libraries retaining the folder and filename structure”

— from as of 12 December 2025 https://www.freac.org/

Notepad++ Vulnerability Let Attackers Hijack Network Traffic to Install Malware via Updates

Notepad++ Vulnerability Let Attackers Hijack Network Traffic to Install Malware via Updates https://cybersecuritynews.com/notepad-vulnerability-exploited/

GG Archives: Ocean Travel, Immigration, & Military History

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“Explore the GG Archives' vast collection of historical passenger lists, military yearbooks, immigration records, and maritime history. Discover rare images, vintage fashion, and epicurean lifestyle insights from the 1800s to the 1950s.”

— from GG Archives: Ocean Travel, Immigration, & Military History | Passenger Lists & Historical Collections as of 12 December 2025

Story of HMS Wayland, formerly RMS Antonia

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HMS Wayland was a fleet repair ship created by converting a transatlantic Cunard passenger liner, the Antonia, built in 1921. The Wayland served in the Mediterranean in 1943 supporting the Allied invasion of Italy. Then went on to serve the British Pacific fleet operating out of Sri Lanka.

— from Antonia - HMS Ausonia as of 12 December 2025

India shows how BritCard Digital ID could be weaponised

"In selling the plans to the public, the Labour government will have to demonstrate foolproof safeguards that can keep the Brit card from being weaponised against the marginalised. In doing so, it will have to acknowledge and learn from India's crimes against its Muslim population"

 https://centralbylines.co.uk/politics/india-shows-how-britcard-digital-id-could-be-weaponised/

Conn Syndrome web page

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“Conn's is the most common cause of difficult to control hypertension or drug resistant hypertension (DRH).  It is likely the cause of high blood pressure in up to 20% of all with high blood pressure.”

— from main@hyperaldosteronism.groups.io | Home as of 10 December 2025

AI Sucks And You Should Not Use It - Zine

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“Why Generative AI Sucks And You Should Not Use It (June 2025) - Zine v1”

— from AI Sucks And You Should Not Use It as of 8 December 2025

All We Want Is Everything: How We Dismantle Male Supremacy

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“Drawing on her trademark skill, wit, clarity, and sharp insight, Soraya Chemaly walks us through how male supremacy operates, adapting dynamically in order to maintain cruel, exploitative systems of oppression.”

— from All We Want Is Everything: How We Dismantle Male Supremacy - Kindle edition by Chemaly, Soraya. Politics & Social Sciences Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. as of 8 December 2025

Famous.ai - big app builder claims

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“Whether you're building the next unicorn startup, launching your first app, or diving into Web3— Famous.ai turns your vision into reality across every platform that matters.”

— from Famous.ai as of 5 December 2025

Visual Effects Overview | Camtasia Tutorial

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“Apply visual effects, for example to adjust color or change how media moves across the screen, without altering the original media. Effects can be applied to video clips and images, as well as objects such as text, callouts, and shapes.”

— from Visual Effects Overview | Camtasia Tutorial as of 5 December 2025

Amazon Workers Issue Warning About Company’s ‘All-Costs-Justified’ Approach to AI Development | WIRED

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“OVER 1,000Amazon employees have anonymously signed an open letter warning that the company’s allegedly “all-costs-justified, warp-speed approach to AI development” could cause “staggering damage to democracy, to our jobs, and to the earth,” an internal advocacy group announced on Wednesday.”

— from Amazon Workers Issue Warning About Company’s ‘All-Costs-Justified’ Approach to AI Development | WIRED as of 4 December 2025

Richard Feynman opened a sealed safe at Los Alamos

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“Richard Feynman opened a sealed safe at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project using nothing but memory, intuition, and a borrowed screwdriver, then calmly handed out classified files to startled physicists to prove that the world’s most secure laboratory was not secure at all. He was supposed to focus on equations that would change history, yet he could not ignore the simple fact that the military treated secrecy like magic instead of engineering. Feynman overheard officers bragging about unbreakable locks. He asked for a copy of the combination system. No one gave it to him, so he studied the filing cabinets instead. He noticed scratches near common numbers, patterns in how physicists set combinations, and the lazy habit of choosing birthdays. Within weeks he opened dozens of safes across the lab with nothing but logic. He never stole anything. He left polite notes that read, “Please improve your security.” Some generals were furious. Others were terrified. Feynman kept telling them that the point of science was honesty, not ceremony.”

— from (13) Facebook as of 4 December 2025

Bursting at the seams

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“The GP patient list has grown by about 2,000 patients over the last 20 years, peaking at nearly 7,000 pre-COVID. But because of how tight services are, this has dropped slightly to about 6,500.”

— from Bursting at the seams as of 1 December 2025

HOW TO COOK THE PERFECT STEAK: PRIME RIB on Vimeo

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“HOW TO COOK THE PERFECT STEAK: PRIME RIB”

— from HOW TO COOK THE PERFECT STEAK: PRIME RIB on Vimeo as of 1 December 2025

dance style shuffle - Google Search

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“"...So that's pretty much the step for the first shuffle. So one more time. Six seven eight and one two. Three four five six seven eight good. Six seven eight and one two three...”

— from dance style shuffle - Google Search as of 30 November 2025

What is Male Supremacism — Institute for Research on Male Supremacism

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“We define a male supremacist system as a cultural, political, economic, and social system, in which cisgender men disproportionately control status, power, and resources, and women, trans men, and non-binary people are subordinated. Such systems are underpinned by an ideology of male supremacism, the belief in cisgender men’s superiority and right to dominate and control others. While male supremacism also intersects with other axes of oppression, such as racism, xenophobia, antisemitism, and heterosexism, it motivates and undergirds the types of events described above. Male supremacism manifests in various ways, including physical and sexual violence, militarism, and exertion of control over women’s, trans men’s, and non-binary people’s bodies.”

— from What is Male Supremacism — Institute for Research on Male Supremacism as of 29 November 2025

Ellison owns Paramount?

'60 Minutes' Rubs Salt in Wound of Killed MAGA Plan https://www.thedailybeast.com/60-minutes-rubs-salt-in-wound-of-killed-maga-plan/

Republicans astroturfed themselves

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“Republicans became so obsessed with Twitter that they pressured and even helped fund Elon Musk’s purchase of it in 2022. And since its been rebranded as X, they’ve only become more reliant on it, at the expense of both the platform’s business and cultural relevance. Now they can’t really function without it, like the poor souls still posting on 4chan or Neopets. They use X to coordinate propaganda, create policy, and as a jobs board for Trump’s second administration. Using its likes and shares in the place of actual leadership. And now we know that a staggering amount of the accounts Republicans have been relying on for viral feedback are either apolitical con artists milking their hatred for clicks or pitiful anonymous fascists LARPing America’s culture war because they can’t wage one at home. And from where I’m sitting, all this isn’t proof that shadowy foreign actors are destroying America. It’s proof that the American right has spent better part of the last decade letting algorithmic spam tell them what they want to hear, astroturfing themselves into believing that some silent majority out there believes in their worthless MAGA crusade. When all they were doing was chasing the approval of faceless accounts who realized their political movement was so hollow, so braindead simple, so spiritually worthless that they could easily earn a few Musk bucks by posting AI-generated photos of blonde women in American flag bikinis promising a Thousand Year Burger Reich. ”

— from Republicans astroturfed themselves as of 25 November 2025

Rosalía: Lux review – a demanding, distinctive clash of classical and chaos that couldn’t be by anyone else

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/nov/03/rosalia-lux-review-bjork-london-symphony-orchestra?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Only Office free open-source PowerPoint tool

https://www.xda-developers.com/never-going-back-to-powerpoint-after-mastering-free-open-source-tool/

Agentic AI security

Brilliant stuff: 

https://open.substack.com/pub/disesdi/p/key-components-of-agentic-architectures-456?r=1vvg7&utm_medium=ios

The Unrecognized Prevalence of Primary Aldosteronism: A Cross-sectional Study - PMC

Published in 2020!

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“In summary, our findings show a high prevalence of unrecognized yet biochemically overt primary aldosteronism using current confirmatory diagnostic thresholds. They highlight the inadequacy of the current diagnostic approach that heavily relies on the ARR and, most important, show the existence of a pathologic continuum of nonsuppressible renin-independent aldosterone production that parallels the severity of hypertension. These findings support the need to redefine primary aldosteronism from a rare and categorical disease to, instead, a common syndrome that manifests across a broad severity spectrum and may be a primary contributor to hypertension pathogenesis.”

— from The Unrecognized Prevalence of Primary Aldosteronism: A Cross-sectional Study - PMC as of 15 November 2025

Also see: Conn's and such

The ZOOM Handy H-1

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“Software H1 Firmware H1 System Version 2.10 H Series ASIO Driver Windows 10/11 (64bit)”

— from | ZOOM as of 15 November 2025

Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint - Medical Republic

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““In summary, our large-scale multi-ancestry GWAS provides a map of the genetic architecture of fibromyalgia, identifying 26 risk loci and providing robust genetic validation of the notion that fibromyalgia is primarily a central nervous system disorder,” the researchers concluded.”

— from Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint - Medical Republic as of 15 November 2025

Prompt Engineering Urges ‘Hermeneutic Prompting’ As A Powerful Technique Unlocking The True Value Of Generative AI

Hand stuff, worth experimenting with

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lanceeliot/2025/11/11/prompt-engineering-urges-hermeneutic-prompting-as-a-powerful-technique-unlocking-the-true-value-of-generative-ai/

Part X: The Enshittification of Judgment and the Fight for the Lawyer’s Soul

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“This process has a name, coined by Cory Doctorow: “enshittification.” The Enshittification Life Cycle Doctorow’s term describes the predictable, three-stage decay of digital platforms: First, the platform is good to its users. It offers a great, often subsidized, service to attract a large, locked-in user base. Next, the platform abuses its users to serve its business customers. Once users are captive, the platform’s loyalty shifts to the people who pay it. Finally, the platform abuses its business customers to extract all value for itself (shareholders). With everyone locked in, the platform becomes a “pile of shit”—a rent-seeking, inefficient monopoly that no one likes but everyone must use. This is the inevitable trajectory of Google, Amazon, and X. And it is precisely what is happening to the law.”

— from Part X: The Enshittification of Judgment and the Fight for the Lawyer’s Soul as of 10 November 2025

Easy broccoli soup recipe | Good Food

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“Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Put the potato and stock in a saucepan and bring to the boil, turn down to simmer for 10 mins until the potato is tender, then add the broccoli and some seasoning and cook for another 4-5 mins. Blend the soup until smooth”

— from Easy broccoli soup recipe | Good Food as of 10 November 2025