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A tool or model opens in the Heidelberg AI Curriculum: what it does, what it costs, how to start. A repo opens on GitHub.
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I discovered a sound that leaks your exact location (and it's everywhere) - YouTube Genius piece of OSINT by Colsto, who demonstrates how you can take almost imperceptible background noise of planes from a video soundtrack, figure out their Doppler curves, then cross reference them against ADS-B data to find the…
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There's a lot of stuff in this new release of my LLM CLI tool and Python library, representing around two months of accumulated features and fixes.
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I was reminded today of AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies , a chart produced by Apollo Global Management in September 2025, which appeared to show a slowdown in U.S. corporate AI adoption based on numbers collected by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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I've been getting the occasional confusing Python dependency error since switching over to Python 3.15 and the rule I'm having to remember is: