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Gemini 3.0 Spotted in the Wild Through A/B Testing

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💥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Main takeaway: So I kept reading rumors that Gemini 3.0 is accessible through Google AI Studio through A/B testing and the SVGs folks were posting (of Xbox controllers in particular) made me think that they might be right.Gemini 3.0 is one of the most anticipated releases in AI at the moment because of the expected advances in coding performance.Evaluating models is a difficult task, but surprisingly the SVG generation task seems to be a very efficient proxy for gauging model quality as @simonw has shown us using…

An Ohio lawmaker condemns the finding of “inappropriate code” in his D.C. office

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🚀 Check out this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: congress,Dave Taylor,ohio 💡 Key idea: Rep. Dave Taylor, R-Ohio, says he condemns the photo found in his Washington office that appears to depict "a despicable and completely inappropriate symbol near a staff member." This symbol was not explained. But a Politico story on the subject included a photo it obtained of an American flag that had been modified to include a swastika. The flag was attached to the bulletin board. Read more: J.D. Vance dismisses bipartisan furor over young GOP's racist and offensive group chat “The…

Pop-rock wizard Todd Rundgren: ‘When I met John Lennon, he was a bunch of rags with nothing to say’ | Todd Rundgren

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💥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Todd Rundgren,Music,Pop and rock,Culture ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: I saw the light so wonderful. How did you write it? EmunmkI was still learning to write songs and by the time I got to something/anything? [1972, featuring I Saw the Light] I would slip into the formula – verse, chorus, bridge etc., always about the girl or boy who broke your heart. I moved my hand around the keyboard and after 20 minutes that song was finished. That's partly why I went completely off the grid…

A new wave of social media apps provides hope in a devastated world

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💥 Read this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 Category: Startups,Social,social media ✅ Main takeaway: Zahra Naqvi remembers the magical days of the early social Internet. I grew up in the One Direction and Marvel fandoms in the early 2010s. That was when people posted pictures of lattes with the Valencia filter on Instagram, and Twitter was still Twitter, a place where people came together to swap jokes and cultural analysis. But now Instagram is full of influencers, and Twitter is X, a digital town hall of fierce political division. “The platforms that won were the ones that kept people…

Paul vs. Davis: Former UFC fighters Anderson Silva and Chris Weidman compete in a boxing match on the Paul vs. Davis undercard

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💥 Check out this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Key idea: Chris Weidman and Anderson Silva will fight in a six-round heavyweight bout on Jake Paul's undercard. Exhibition bout vs. Gervonta Davis on Nov. 14 in Miami, Most Valuable Promotions announced.Weidman, 41, and Silva, 50, have fought in the UFC, with Weidman winning their back-to-back bout in 2013.American fighter Weidman ended Silva's seven-year reign as UFC middleweight champion with his first win, and both men have since retired from mixed martial arts.Silva participated in five boxing matches, losing two of them.The Brazilian, widely considered one of…

R360: World Team 12 boss talks about chances of launching new rugby event

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🔥 Discover this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: Samarasinh hoped the World 12 team would be the equivalent of rugby. She was the CEO of the proposed event, the newest rebel in the game before R360.Aiming to launch in August 2022, the World 12s will hold an annual three-week 12-player event, featuring the sport's biggest names, in a major global city.Ultimately, despite high-profile ambassadors such as former All Blacks captain Kieran Read and Springbok legend Schalk Burger, and promises that stars could earn upwards of £250,000 for less than a month's work,…

Video game union workers rally against $55bn Saudi-backed private acquisition of EA, with formal petition to regulators

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💥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Main takeaway: EA employees and the Communications Workers of America union have issued a statement against the proposed private acquisition of the company, claiming they were not represented in the negotiations and any jobs lost as a result would "be a choice, not a necessity, made to pad investors' pockets". The acquisition of EA by a group of private investors was announced at the end of September. The deal, for $55bn, includes investment from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and Affinity Partners, the company of President Donald Trump's…

Federal immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras, judge says

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🚀 Explore this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 Category: Chicago,Department of Homeland Security,ice,immigration,Sara Ellis 📌 Key idea: CHICAGO (AP) — Federal immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras, a judge said Thursday after seeing tear gas and other aggressive steps used against protesters. US District Judge Sarah Ellis said she was "a little flabbergasted" after seeing television images of clashes between agents and the public during President Donald Trump's administration's anti-immigration campaign. Read more: Protesters on Chicago's South Side were tear gassed after high-speed Border Patrol chase ended in arrest…

Spanish police investigate the disappearance of a Picasso painting on its way to an exhibition Art theft

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🔥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Art theft,Pablo Picasso,Spain,Exhibitions,Grenada,Art and design,Culture,Europe,Art ✅ Key idea: Police in Spain are investigating the disappearance of a small Picasso painting worth €600,000 (£520,000), which disappeared on its way from Madrid to an exhibition in the southern city of Granada.gouache and pencil work, Naturaleza muerta with guitar (“Still Life with Guitar,” was scheduled to be shown in a new exhibition at the CajaGranada Foundation, which opened last week.But the picture, painted in 1919 and measuring 12.7cm x 9.8cm, never made it into the Still Life: Eternity of Idleness…

Deel’s valuation reaches $17.3 billion after raising $300 million from big-name venture capital firms

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🔥 Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 Category: Fintech,Startups,TC,Venture 💡 Key idea: Although it's been amusing for the tech industry to watch Decacorns' two payroll rivals, Deel and Rippling, sue each other over a corporate espionage scandal, it's clear that top-tier venture capital firms aren't too scared. Deel announced Thursday that it has raised a $300 million Series E round co-led by Ribbit Capital and Andreessen Horowitz's Series A round, with participation from existing investors such as Coatue Management and General Catalyst. Deel says it has been profitable for three years and exceeded $1 billion in ARR, including…