Claude climbs to top of app store charts in US and UK after being blacklisted by Pentagon over ethics concerns

The AI model Claude has surged in popularity after being blacklisted by the Pentagon last week over ethics concerns.

Claude climbed to the No 1 spot on Apple’s chart of top free apps on Saturday in the US – dethroning OpenAI’s ChatGPT, just one day after the Pentagon tapped OpenAI to supply AI to classified military networks. The bot’s app climbed the iPhone app charts in the UK but did not beat out ChatGPT. Claude also raced up the Android charts in the US and UK, though ChatGPT reigned supreme, according to data from Sensor Tower.

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Trump’s decision to join Israel in attacking Iran has divided the American right – from Murdoch’s cheerleaders to Maga isolationists

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As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump repeatedly pledged to get the US out of “endless wars”, put “America first” and focus on domestic policy. After his first term, he was fond of boasting, somewhat misleadingly, that there were “no wars” during his presidency.

Now the Trump administration’s decision to join Israel in attacking Iran has shocked the US and the world. It has also divided conservative media in the US – with many journalists and pundits on the right celebrating Trump’s decision to confront a longtime American foe, but others expressing dismay or confusion at the revival of a Bush-style interventionism that they thought the Maga movement had repudiated.

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Prime minister does not believe US has a plan beyond ‘shock and awe’ stage, as some MPs dread what lies ahead

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Tony Blair’s support for the US invasion of Iraq has long loomed like a spectre over the Labour party.

It was present in 2013 when Ed Miliband as opposition leader voted to block UK military action against the Syrian regime.

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Bulky and noisy Iran-made unmanned attack drones have hit buildings in Bahrain, Kuwait, UAE and elsewhere

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Iran’s noisy $50,000 delta-winged Shahed 136 drones have long been an unwanted sight over the skies of Ukraine.

Now, over the last 48 hours, hundreds of the distinctive weapons have struck Bahrain, Kuwait, the UAE and across the Gulf as Tehran tries to intimidate and impose costs on regional allies of the US.

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Israel has closed all crossings into Gaza, threatening to plunge 2 million people into a new hunger crisis

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Israel closed all crossings into Gaza indefinitely when it attacked Iran, imposing a siege that has already pushed up food prices and threatens to plunge 2 million people into a new hunger crisis.

After more than two years of war, and with Israeli forces in control of about 60% of the territory, almost all of Gaza’s food must be brought in.

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In Lunteren, gemeente Ede, provincie Gelderland is vogelgriep vastgesteld op een pluimveebedrijf met leghennen. Om verspreiding van het virus te voorkomen, heeft het ministerie van Landbouw, Visserij, Voedselzekerheid en Natuur (LVVN) besloten de circa 34.000 dieren op de locatie te laten ruimen door de Nederlandse Voedsel- en Warenautoriteit (NVWA). In de 1 km zone rondom het besmette bedrijft liggen 3 andere pluimveebedrijven. In de 3 km bevinden zich 32 andere pluimveebedrijven. In de beperkingszone van 10 km rond de besmette locatie liggen 191 andere pluimveebedrijven. Veel van de bedrijven bevinden zich reeds in de beperkingszone rondom de besmetting in Ede van 23 februari jl. De bedrijven in de 1- en 3-kilometerzone worden door de NVWA gescreend en vervolgens gedurende 10 dagen gemonitord door middel van de kadaverbemonstering en gedurende 14 dagen intensief gemonitord door telefonische monitoring.

Last week, Nine Inch Nails released an album of remixes and unreleased session music from their Tron: Ares score called Tron Ares: Divergence. I’m listening to it now; pretty good so far.

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Turtle panel beater saving lives with 3D printer and dental glue. When turtles are struck on country roads, their shattered shells can mean certain death, but one rescuer in Victoria's east is patching them up and sending them home.

Iranian worshippers got notifications saying 'help has arrived'

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Dear Lazyweb, can someone show me a straightforward example of an X11 program calling XftDrawStringUtf8 that succeeds in displaying Japanese characters? On Debian 13 with "fonts-noto" installed, "lxterminal" can do it but XScreenSaver still can't seem to display anything more complicated than Cyrillic.

E.g. "unicrud --block Katakana".

The actual XFT font I get from XftFontOpenXlfd("-*-sans serif-bold-r-*-*-*-180-*-*-*-*-*-*") is

Noto Sans-300 :familylang=en :style=Bold :stylelang=en :fullname=Noto Sans Bold :fullnamelang=en :slant=0 :weight=200 :width=100 :pixelsize=401.899 :foundry=GOOG :antialias=True :hintstyle=1 :hinting=True :verticallayout=False :autohint=False :globaladvance=True :file=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/noto/NotoSans-Bold.ttf :index=0 :outline=True :scalable=True :dpi=96.4557 :rgba=5 :scale=1 :minspace=False :fontversion=131334 :capability=otlayout\:DFLT otlayout\:cyrl otlayout\:grek otlayout\:latn :fontformat=TrueType :embolden=False :embeddedbitmap=True :decorative=False :lcdfilter=1 :namelang=en :prgname=unicrud :postscriptname=NotoSans-Bold :color=False :symbol=False :variable=False :fonthashint=True :order=0 :namedinstance=False :fontwrapper=SFNT

Previously, previously, previously.