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Amazon's newest Fire TV Sticks are dropping support for normal sideloading, blocking apps from outside the Amazon Appstore unless the device is registered with developers. Cord Cutters News reports: This week, Amazon announced the upcoming launch of a new Fire TV Stick HD. The new model will run on Amazon's Vega OS, rather than Android, so most streaming apps will be supported, but users won't be add third party apps. Now, on the product page to preorder the new Fire Stick, some Amazon customers are getting a message warning them that the new model won't allow sideloading. Interestingly, not all customers are getting the message, whether signed in to an Amazon account or not.
The message, shown in a screenshot below, says: "For enhanced security, this device prevents sideloading or installing apps from unknown sources. Only apps from the Amazon Appstore are available for download." [...] The Fire TV Stick Select, announced in September 2025, also runs on Vega and some customers will see the same message about sideloading on that product page. [...] While Amazon continues to be a "multi-OS company," we should expect that future Fire TV models will also be built with Vega OS, limiting the apps users can access with their streaming devices to those from the Amazon Appstore.
The message, shown in a screenshot below, says: "For enhanced security, this device prevents sideloading or installing apps from unknown sources. Only apps from the Amazon Appstore are available for download." [...] The Fire TV Stick Select, announced in September 2025, also runs on Vega and some customers will see the same message about sideloading on that product page. [...] While Amazon continues to be a "multi-OS company," we should expect that future Fire TV models will also be built with Vega OS, limiting the apps users can access with their streaming devices to those from the Amazon Appstore.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Thursday, OpenAI announced it had developed a large language model specifically trained on common biology workflows. Called GPT-Rosalind after Rosalind Franklin, the model appears to differ from most science-focused models from major tech companies, which have generally taken a more generic approach that works for various fields. In a press briefing, Yunyun Wang, OpenAI's Life Sciences Product Lead, said the system was designed to tackle two major roadblocks faced by current biology researchers. One is the massive datasets created by decades of genome sequencing and protein biochemistry, which can be too much for any one researcher to take in. The second is that biology has many highly specialized subfields, each with its own techniques and jargon. So, for example, a geneticist who finds themselves working on a gene that's active in brain cells might struggle to understand the immense neurobiological literature.
Wang said the company had taken an LLM and trained it on 50 of the most common biological workflows, as well as on how to access the major public databases of biological information. Further training has resulted in a system that can suggest likely biological pathways and prioritize potential drug targets. "We're connecting genotype to phenotype through known pathways and regulatory mechanisms, infer likely structural or functional properties of proteins, and really leveraging this mechanistic understanding," Wang said. To address LLMs' tendencies toward sycophancy and overenthusiasm, OpenAI says it has tuned the model to be more skeptical, so it's more likely to tell you when something is a bad drug target. There was a lot of talk about GPT-Rosalind's "reasoning" and "expert-level" abilities. We were told that the former was defined as being able to work through complex, multi-step processes, while the latter was derived from the model's performance on a handful of benchmarks. Access to GPT-Rosalind is currently limited "due to concerns about the model's potential for harmful outputs if asked to do something like optimize a virus's infectivity," notes Ars. Only U.S.-based organizations can request access at the moment.
Wang said the company had taken an LLM and trained it on 50 of the most common biological workflows, as well as on how to access the major public databases of biological information. Further training has resulted in a system that can suggest likely biological pathways and prioritize potential drug targets. "We're connecting genotype to phenotype through known pathways and regulatory mechanisms, infer likely structural or functional properties of proteins, and really leveraging this mechanistic understanding," Wang said. To address LLMs' tendencies toward sycophancy and overenthusiasm, OpenAI says it has tuned the model to be more skeptical, so it's more likely to tell you when something is a bad drug target. There was a lot of talk about GPT-Rosalind's "reasoning" and "expert-level" abilities. We were told that the former was defined as being able to work through complex, multi-step processes, while the latter was derived from the model's performance on a handful of benchmarks. Access to GPT-Rosalind is currently limited "due to concerns about the model's potential for harmful outputs if asked to do something like optimize a virus's infectivity," notes Ars. Only U.S.-based organizations can request access at the moment.
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Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo writes: Windows has limited FAT32 partitions to a maximum of 32GB for decades now. When memory cards and USB drives exceeded 32GB in size, the only options were exFAT or NTFS. Neither option was well supported on other platforms at first, although exFAT support is fairly widespread now. In their latest blog post, Microsoft announced that the limit for FAT32 partitions is being increased to 2TB. Of course, that doesn't mean that every device that supports FAT32 will work flawlessly with a 2TB partition size, but at least there is a decent chance that older devices with don't support exFAT will now be usable with memory cards over 32GB.
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DEN HAAG (ANP) - Het kabinet wil een subsidie in het leven roepen om mensen met een laag inkomen of middeninkomen te helpen bij de aanschaf van een elektrische auto, bevestigen bronnen na berichtgeving door RTL Nieuws. Daarvoor zouden zij dan hun brandstofauto moeten inruilen. Er zou 50 miljoen euro voor worden uitgetrokken.
Ook zouden bedrijven meer ruimte krijgen om groene investeringen te doen. De belastingkorting daarvoor zou van 40 naar 45 procent gaan.
De maatregelen maken onderdeel uit van het pakket energiemaatregelen dat het kabinet maandag presenteert. Dit weekend overleggen de ministers nog met verschillende oppositiepartijen, aangezien de coalitie van D66, VVD en CDA geen meerderheid heeft in de Tweede Kamer. Exacte bedragen kunnen daardoor nog veranderen, benadrukken ingewijden.
Het kabinet wil ook de onbelaste kilometervergoeding verhogen en een noodfonds voor de energierekening vullen. Bronnen zeiden tegen het ANP dat het kabinet waarschijnlijk minder dan 1 miljard euro voor het pakket uittrekt.
BRUSSEL (ANP) - België dirigeert een van zijn mijnenjagers naar het Midden-Oosten, melden Belgische media. Het marineschip is zo dichter bij de Straat van Hormuz, waar een groep landen mogelijk zeemijnen gaat ruimen om de belangrijke zeestraat weer bevaarbaar te maken.
België heeft al laten weten dat het een bijdrage wil leveren aan een internationale missie om de scheepvaart in de zee-engte weer op gang te helpen. In die plannen kan schot komen nu Iran en de Verenigde Staten een staakt-het-vuren in acht nemen en Iran zegt de zeestraat te willen heropenen.
De mijnenjager Primula vaart alvast van de Oostzee naar de Middellandse Zee, meldt de Franstalige omroep RTBF. De opdracht voor het schip staat nog niet vast, ook omdat nog onduidelijk is of in de Straat van Hormuz zeemijnen moeten worden geruimd. Berichten dat Iran een tiental mijnen zou hebben geplaatst, zijn niet bevestigd. De Primula vaart traag en heeft volgens de Belgische marinecommandant een maand nodig voor de reis.
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The teams take to the field at Ewood Park. It’s all Coventry, the Jolly Boating song ringing out. It’s a bit more sparse in the home end, despite efforts from those in Warwickshire to get hold of tickets. The hill behind the Darwen End may well be full of Sky Blue, too.
Frank Lampard’s advice to his players: “Stay calm in your heads but not in your legs.”
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