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New Firefighting Technologies Could Help Battle Blazes Like Those in France and Spain

Spain declared a national emergency in the community of Madrid and the province of Ávila due to the spread of intense wildfires. With fires still burning out of control, this year is shaping up to be one of the most devastating wildfire seasons on record for the region.

“We are facing a dramatic situation, not only in various Spanish provinces but also in regions of neighboring countries,” warned Spain prime minister Pedro Sánchez. He noted that “all available resources” have been deployed to manage the emergency in the cities of Ávila, León, Toledo, Madrid, and other parts of the country amidst a national state of emergency.

France has also been hit by massive blazes that have spawned their own weather. All told, the two countries have seen fires burn over more than 741,000 acres, according to European Forest Fire Information System, and hundreds of thousands have been forced to...

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X Money is launching in the US starting today

Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI. X Money, a core part of Elon Musk’s mission to turn X into an “everything app,” is rolling out starting today, 9to5Mac reports.

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Leading AI models (even Grok) are all a bunch of leftist punks

Capitalism may be driving the AI boom, but the LLMs themselves have different economic and social views than many of the companies that built them. Leading AI models subjected to the Political Compass quiz overwhelmingly landed in the libertarian-left quadrant - even "MechaHitler," aka Grok, managed it in

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Microsoft's solution to AI security: more AI and more acronyms

MDASH stuffed with MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and a side of GPT-5.4 AI agents can break through security, but they are also the solution to defending against an increasingly dangerous ecosystem of threats. On Monday, Microsoft announced a new security model that it says helped outperform several rival AI systems on a

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Impostor Chinese models pretend they're Claude

AI and ML Researchers find GLM and Kimi can adopt Claude's identity, but the evidence stops short of proving distillation Raising suspicion about their training methods, Z.ai's GLM 5.2 and Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 have used the name "Claude" in

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X Money is launching in the US starting today

Leading AI models (even Grok) are all a bunch of leftist punks

Microsoft's solution to AI security: more AI and more acronyms

Impostor Chinese models pretend they're Claude