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When AI 'builds a browser,' check the repo before believing the hype

Autonomous agents may generate millions of lines of code, but shipping software is another matter

Opinion  AI-integrated development environment (IDE) company Cursor recently implied it had built a working web browser almost entirely with its AI agents. I won't say they lied, but CEO Michael Truell certainly tweeted: "We built a browser with GPT-5.2 in Cursor."…

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Classical music brings us joy and meaning. In this time of doom and gloom, we need to talk about that | James Murphy

Why do we focus on the bad news stories about cuts and crises in classical music ? Musicians are doing incredible things to engage, support and sustain us; we should tell those stories too

When did you last read a good news story about classical music?

Think of the stories that have made the headlines in recent years: funding cuts to national opera companies, closure threats to university music departments, councils axing local provision, classroom music-making in decline.

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US families face ‘impossible choices’ as White House pushes to freeze childcare funding

Childcare workers push back on Trump administration’s ‘ridiculous’ narrative that programs are riddled with fraud

US families are facing “impossible choices” as the Trump administration pushes to freeze federal funds for childcare and family assistance in five states over claims of potential fraud and misuse of taxpayer funds.

Billions of dollars of funding are at risk in Minnesota, New York, California, Illinois, and Colorado, each with state governments run by Democrats.

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‘Don’t they have mercy?’: A mother on losing her son in a record year of Saudi executions

Essam al-Shazly is the latest foreign national to die in a ‘horrifying’ surge in capital punishment under the rule of Mohammed bin Salman

In his four years on death row, Essam al-Shazly’s mother was his only contact with the outside world. During their daily calls she would calm his fears, control her own tears and listen to his hopes of returning home.

Speaking from the family home in Hurghada, a tourist resort on Egypt’s Red Sea coast, she says he would tell her, “Mom, I talk to you because I want to forget what I’m going through. Don’t ask me anything about prison.”

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Minister: gevangenen en tbs'ers konden online door fout in laptop

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Gevangenen en tbs'ers konden vanuit hun cel het internet op met speciale laptops die ze van justitie hadden gekregen, terwijl dat niet de bedoeling was. De toegang tot internet bleek niet goed te zijn afgesloten, meldt demissionair staatssecretaris Arno Rutte (Justitie en Veiligheid).

Gedetineerden kunnen de laptop krijgen om hun strafdossier te lezen. Dat dossier staat op een usb-stick die ze ook krijgen. Zo kunnen ze zich voorbereiden op een strafzaak. De Dienst Justitiële Inrichtingen (DJI) heeft ongeveer vijfhonderd laptops beschikbaar, en in 110 daarvan was toegang tot internet niet goed geblokkeerd.

Dat kwam afgelopen vrijdag aan het licht "bij een controle door een medewerker beveiliging" van een gevangenis, schrijft Rutte. Hij licht dat niet toe.

Herstel

De laptops zijn teruggehaald en worden hersteld. Ze waren aan gevangenen in "een groot deel van de DJI-inrichtingen" gegeven, maar niet aan mensen in de Extra Beveiligde Inrichting (EBI) in Vught.

Het is nog niet duidelijk of gedetineerden ook echt online zijn geweest door de fout.