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As a genre, the “award acceptance lecture” is little more than a formality and a banality. But there is at least one charming exception to this rule—the talks given by the foremost computer scientists on the occasion of their Turing Awards. Some read like manifestos: John Backus’ “Can Programming
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“Don’t open suspicious emails.” This used to be the baseline mantra with cybersecurity training. Spotting a counterfeit data request was once simple: poor spelling, questionable email addresses, or a direct request for cash accompanied by an incredible story of a prince or ageing millionaire. But those days are over.
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* Agentic Atlas browser pulled as OpenAI focuses on one single app * New ChatGPT desktop app includes built-in browser and agentic capabilities * Could this finally be the 'superapp' we were promised back in April 2026? Not even a full year after OpenAI launched its own, dedicated agentic browser, ChatGPT
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Anthropic has announced another extension for its promotional free access to the Claude Fable 5 AI model. Originally scheduled to wrap up on July 12, the company has pushed the deadline back, granting users free availability until July 19. In tandem with the extended deadline, Anthropic is continuing its usage
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Express AI is one of the few AI platforms that backs its privacy claims with an independent audit. It won't replace a standalone AI subscription for power users, but privacy-conscious professionals who already use ExpressVPN will find genuine value here. Pros * +Zero-access architecture * +Five models in one * +Audited
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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Meter asset provider Calisen, the UK's largest owner and manager of 'smart' electricity and water meters, expects quite a lot of its newly appointed Group Chief Technology Officer, Diane Bitzel, who joined in April 2026. The mission she has chosen to accept is not impossible, but
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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Getting a prescription for glasses has always been the same: You schedule an appointment with an eye doctor, sit in an exam room while someone flips the lenses and asks you which is best, and wait at least a week for your new glasses to arrive. Not to mention paying
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Meta has released a new AI image model, one clearly designed to compete with ChatGPT and Google Gemini's Nano Banana 2. Meta AI has to not only convince people that AI can make the images they want, but that it will make images that are worth switching AI
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Lumo delivers on its core promise: AI chat that not even Proton can read. Raw capability still trails frontier models, but for users handling sensitive work, that privacy guarantee is worth the trade-off. Pros * +Zero-access encryption * +No training on your data * +Ghost Mode for private sessions Cons * -Weaker than frontier
