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Blind date: ‘She seemed to like me, but I’ve been wrong about this kind of thing before’

Philip, 74, an antiquarian book dealer, meets Carol, 66, who is retired

What were you hoping for?
Reciprocated love at first sight (I don’t ask for much in this life). To meet a kindred spirit who might even become a partner.

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The UK is introducing an ‘Australia plus’ under-16s social media ban. But how is it going there?

Last week, the prime minister, Keir Starmer, announced a sweeping ban on under-16s that would stop them accessing social media apps including Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, X and Facebook by 2027.

The move has been nicknamed an ‘Australia plus’ ban, after Australia became the first country to introduce a nation-wide ban on children accessing these apps at the end of last year.

But how is it actually going over there? Political correspondent Aletha Adu teamed up with Guardian Australia social media host and reporter Matilda Boseley to find out

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Profound lessons from dog training, the story of the Brexit campaign and France’s struggle with heat-trap homes

Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days

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Two tickets for Wimbledon Centre Court? That’ll be £586,000 please

A pair of debenture tickets changed hands this week for a sum far beyond the means of ordinary tennis fans

Like many of us, Marcos Ortega enters the Wimbledon public ticket ballot every year in the hope of seeing some championship tennis. In seven straight years of trying, however, he has never got lucky. So he was delighted – initially, at least – to learn there was a way to secure a ticket for every game played on Centre Court.

But Ortega’s hopeful delight quickly turned to anger when he discovered that it would cost him £293,000.

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Social media bans go global: big tech faces a reckoning after Australia’s crackdown

As a host of countries move to rein in social media use by children, could this be technology’s big tobacco moment?

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Slashdot

News for nerds, stuff that matters

US Government Allows Anthropic Limited Release of 'Mythos' AI Model, Saying 'Appropriate Safeguards are in Place"

"The US government has allowed Anthropic to release its powerful Mythos AI model to select companies and organizations," reports CNN, "revising license requirements after ordering an export block earlier this month in the wake of national security fears."


Since the export ban earlier in June, "Anthropic has worked with the US government to address risks associated with the Covered Models," Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wrote to the company in a letter dated Friday. In light of progress in that work, Lutnick wrote, "I have determined that appropriate safeguards are in place to permit certain trusted partners to access the Claude Mythos 5 Model."

The letter does not include permission for Anthropic to release Fable, a less powerful version of Mythos. "We received notice from the US government that Mythos 5, our strongest cybersecurity model, can be redeployed to a small group of cyber defenders and infrastructure providers," Anthropic said in a statement...

Conversations between Anthropic and the government are expected to continue into the weekend, with an eye to restoring access to Fable, as well, a source familiar with the discussions told CNN.

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720 Ollie

This discovery was key to his demonstration of regular/goofy symmetry violation, which won him gold in the theory portion of the X Games.

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