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After OpenAI announced a partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. uninstalls of ChatGPT surged 295% in a single day. Meanwhile, rival Anthropic "gained enough popularity to earn the number one spot on the App Store's Top Free Apps leaderboard," reports Engadget. TechCrunch reports: This data, which comes from market intelligence provider Sensor Tower, represents a sizable increase compared with ChatGPT's typical day-over-day uninstall rate of 9%, as measured over the past 30 days. [...] In addition, ChatGPT's download growth was impacted by the news of its DoD partnership, with its U.S. downloads dropping by 13% day-over-day on Saturday, shortly after the news of its deal went public. Those downloads continued to fall on Sunday, when they were down by 5% day-over-day. (Before the partnership was announced, the app's downloads had grown 14% day-over-day on Friday.)
[...] Consumers are also sharing their opinions about OpenAI's deal in the app's ratings, where 1-star reviews for ChatGPT surged 775% on Saturday, then grew 100% day-over-day on Sunday, Sensor Tower said. Five-star reviews declined during the same period, dropping by 50%. Other third-party data providers back up Sensor Tower's findings.
[...] Consumers are also sharing their opinions about OpenAI's deal in the app's ratings, where 1-star reviews for ChatGPT surged 775% on Saturday, then grew 100% day-over-day on Sunday, Sensor Tower said. Five-star reviews declined during the same period, dropping by 50%. Other third-party data providers back up Sensor Tower's findings.
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An anonymous reader shares a CTech article with the caption: "A brilliantly executed operation." From the report: Years before the air strike that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Israeli intelligence had been quietly mapping the daily rhythms of Tehran. According to reporting by the Financial Times (paywalled), nearly all of the Iranian capital's traffic cameras had been hacked years earlier, their footage encrypted and transmitted to Israeli servers. One camera angle near Pasteur Street, close to Khamenei's compound, allowed analysts to observe the routines of bodyguards and drivers: where they parked, when they arrived and whom they escorted. That data was fed into complex algorithms that built what intelligence officials call a "pattern of life," detailed profiles including addresses, work schedules and, crucially, which senior officials were being protected and transported. The surveillance stream was one of hundreds feeding Israel's intelligence system, which combines signals interception from Unit 8200, human assets recruited by the Mossad and large-scale data analysis by military intelligence.
When US and Israeli intelligence determined that Khamenei would attend a Saturday morning meeting at his compound, the opportunity was judged unusually favorable. Two people familiar with the operation told the FT that US intelligence provided confirmation from a human source that the meeting was proceeding as planned, a level of certainty required for a target of such magnitude. Israeli aircraft, reportedly airborne for hours, fired as many as 30 precision munitions. The strike was carried out in daylight, which the Israeli military said created tactical surprise despite heightened Iranian alertness. The Financial Times reports that the assassination was a political decision as much as a technological feat. Even during last year's 12-day war, when Israeli strikes killed more than a dozen Iranian nuclear scientists and senior military officials and disabled air defences through cyber operations and drones, Israel did not attempt to kill Khamenei.
The capability to do so, however, had been built over decades. Former Mossad official Sima Shine told the FT that Israel's strategic focus on Iran dates back to a 2001 directive from then-prime minister Ariel Sharon instructing intelligence chief Meir Dagan to make the Islamic Republic the priority target. What distinguishes the latest operation, according to the FT, is the scale of automation. Target tracking that once required painstaking visual confirmation has increasingly been handled by algorithm-driven systems parsing billions of data points. One person familiar with the process described it as an "assembly line with a single product: targets." Further reading: America Used Anthropic's AI for Its Attack On Iran, One Day After Banning It
When US and Israeli intelligence determined that Khamenei would attend a Saturday morning meeting at his compound, the opportunity was judged unusually favorable. Two people familiar with the operation told the FT that US intelligence provided confirmation from a human source that the meeting was proceeding as planned, a level of certainty required for a target of such magnitude. Israeli aircraft, reportedly airborne for hours, fired as many as 30 precision munitions. The strike was carried out in daylight, which the Israeli military said created tactical surprise despite heightened Iranian alertness. The Financial Times reports that the assassination was a political decision as much as a technological feat. Even during last year's 12-day war, when Israeli strikes killed more than a dozen Iranian nuclear scientists and senior military officials and disabled air defences through cyber operations and drones, Israel did not attempt to kill Khamenei.
The capability to do so, however, had been built over decades. Former Mossad official Sima Shine told the FT that Israel's strategic focus on Iran dates back to a 2001 directive from then-prime minister Ariel Sharon instructing intelligence chief Meir Dagan to make the Islamic Republic the priority target. What distinguishes the latest operation, according to the FT, is the scale of automation. Target tracking that once required painstaking visual confirmation has increasingly been handled by algorithm-driven systems parsing billions of data points. One person familiar with the process described it as an "assembly line with a single product: targets." Further reading: America Used Anthropic's AI for Its Attack On Iran, One Day After Banning It
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Recent advances in science have revolutionized our understanding of the Maya, e.g. there’s evidence that “more people lived in the classic-era Maya lowlands than on the Italian peninsula during the peak of the Roman empire…”
Kinderen die de ouderrol op zich nemen, lijken verantwoordelijk en volwassen, maar betalen daar vaak een hoge emotionele prijs voor. In de psychologie heet dit parentificatie: een omkering van rollen waarbij het kind structureel zorgt voor de ouder, het gezin of zieke familieleden.
Wanneer zorg te ver gaat
Af en toe oppassen, een zieke ouder thee brengen of wat extra helpen in het huishouden is normaal en zelfs goed voor de ontwikkeling. Het wordt problematisch zodra een kind structureel de emotionele of praktische spil van het gezin wordt, geen ruimte meer heeft voor spelen, vriendschappen en hobby’s, en voelt dat de echte verantwoordelijkheid bij hem of haar ligt. Professionals zien dat vooral gevoelige kinderen daarin snel doorschieten: zij troosten, bemiddelen bij ruzies en regelen afspraken, terwijl ze hun eigen behoeften wegdrukken.
De rekening komt later
Die vroege omslag naar ‘altijd sterk zijn’ laat sporen na in het volwassen leven. Volwassenen die als kind geparentificeerd werden, kampen opvallend vaak met burn-out, perfectionisme, depressieve klachten en moeite om grenzen te stellen of hulp te vragen. In relaties raken ze gemakkelijk verstrikt in patronen van pleasen en oververantwoordelijkheid: hun eigenwaarde lijkt af te hangen van hoeveel ze voor anderen zorgen. “De ewig hilfreichen Kinder werden zu ewig hilfreichen Erwachsenen”, vat een Duitse therapeut het samen.
Maatschappelijke blinde vlek
Dat kinderen bijspringen in een overbelast zorgsysteem wordt politiek soms zelfs stilzwijgend ingecalculeerd, maar de psychische kosten blijven grotendeels onzichtbaar. Onderzoek laat zien dat jonge mantelzorgers vaker kamp hebben met stress, vermoeidheid en slechtere toekomstkansen, terwijl juist zij minder snel om hulp vragen. De vraag is niet of kinderen mogen helpen, maar of we als samenleving accepteren dat zij een gat dichten dat eigenlijk door volwassenen en instituties gevuld zou moeten worden.
Wat kinderen echt nodig hebben
Deskundigen benadrukken dat kinderen best even mogen meedraaien wanneer het thuis moeilijk is, zolang helder blijft dat de eindverantwoordelijkheid bij de volwassene ligt en het kind een eigen leven kan opbouwen. Dat vraagt om vroegtijdige signalering door scholen, huisartsen en jeugdzorg, maar ook om een cultuur waarin niet het ‘dappere, sterke kind’ wordt bejubeld, maar de volwassene die zorg durft uit te besteden. Want wie kinderen nu kind laat zijn, voorkomt later volwassenen die zichzelf tot ze erbij neervallen blijven wegcijferen.
Law enforcement data shows profit-driven cybercrime is dominated by 35- to 44-year-olds, not script kiddies
Contrary to what some believe, cybercrime is not a kids' game. Middle-aged adults, not teenagers, now make up the biggest chunk of people getting busted.…
Rosatom said construction of two new units at Bushehr, Iran’s only operational nuclear plant, was suspended due to ongoing attacks.