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Down to the beach near Falcon

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Winter beaches @ Falcon

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Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan

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Uber to roll out thousands of robo-cabs built by China’s Baidu

Coming soon, somewhere in the Middle East or Asia

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AMD cleared to join Nvidia and resume selling some underpowered AI chips to China

Waiting for license approval but plans to resume shipments of the MI308 accelerator soon-ish

The US government has cleared AMD to resume exporting some accelerators to China.…

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Anthropic Rolls Out Claude AI For Financial Services

Anthropic has launched a specialized version of its Claude AI tools for the financial services sector, designed to assist professionals with investment decisions, market analysis, and research. The Financial Analysis Solution "includes Claude 4 models, Claude Code and Claude for Enterprise with expanded usage limits, implementation support and other features," reports CNBC. From the report: As part of its new Financial Analysis Solution, Claude will get real-time access to financial information through data providers like Box, PitchBook, Databricks, S&P Global and Snowflake. Anthropic said many of these integrations are available on Tuesday, with more to come. Anthropic's Financial Analysis Solution and Claude for Enterprise are available on AWS Marketplace. The company said Google Cloud Marketplace availability is coming soon. "What this is is a tailored version of Claude for Enterprise," Kate Jensen, Anthropic's head of revenue said at an event in New York City on Tuesday. "It's specifically built for financial analysts, and it's equipped for the nuance, accuracy and reasoning that you need to handle the complexity of your work."

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KDE's Android TV Alternative, Plasma Bigscreen, Rises From the Dead

Plasma Bigscreen, KDE's TV-focused interface, is being revived after years of inactivity thanks to contributor Devin, who overhauled the UI, redesigned the Settings app, improved app launching, and updated key modules. While still in progress -- with features like HDMI-CEC remote support and a virtual keyboard pending -- the project aims to rejoin KDE's official Plasma release schedule, potentially in version 6.5. Neowin reports: If you have not heard of it, Plasma Bigscreen is a Plasma shell for televisions, with original support for the now-defunct Mycroft AI assistant. It used to provide a simple launcher for apps and custom "Mycroft Skills" before development stalled, causing most distributions to drop it. The project was left behind during the big transition to Plasma 6 last year because no one had ported it in time for the megarelease. After a friend of his started poking at the code, Devin stepped in to tackle the much-needed work. [...]

For anyone who wants to test this out, you can do as Devin did by installing Plasma Bigscreen on a Raspberry Pi using postmarketOS, though you would have to compile it yourself or pull from the nightly repos to get the latest changes. Applications like Kodi and VacuumTube (smart TV version of YouTube) work well with remote navigation, and some games like SuperTuxKart are playable. Controller support exists, but getting TV remotes to work over HDMI CEC is still untested. The project is far from finished; it still needs an arrow-navigable virtual keyboard and a clearer long-term direction now that Mycroft is gone. Still, the goal is to get it back into the official Plasma release schedule, possibly for version 6.5.

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Reddit Starts Verifying Ages of Users In the UK

Reddit has begun verifying users' ages in the UK to restrict access to "certain mature content" for minors, complying with the UK's Online Safety Act. The BBC reports: Reddit, known for its online communities and discussions, said that while it does not want to know who its audience is: "It would be helpful for our safety efforts to be able to confirm whether you are a child or an adult." Ofcom, the UK regulator, said: "We expect other companies to follow suit, or face enforcement if they fail to act." Reddit said that from 14 July, an outside firm called Persona will perform age verification for the social media platform either through an uploaded selfie or "a photo of your government ID," such as a passport. It said Reddit will not have access to the photo and will only retain a user's verification status and date of birth so people do not have to re-enter it each time they try to access restricted content. Reddit added that Persona "promises not to retain the picture for longer than seven days" and will not have access to a user's data on the site. The new rules in the UK come into force on 25 July. [...]

Companies that fail to meet the rules face fines of up to 18 million pounds or 10% of worldwide revenue, "whichever is greater." [Ofcom] added that in the most serious cases, it can seek a court order for "business disruption measures," such as requiring payment providers or advertisers to withdraw their services from a platform, or requiring Internet Service Providers to block access to a site in the UK."

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LibreOffice Lands Built-In Support For Bitcoin As Currency

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Phoronix: Merged yesterday to the latest development code for the LibreOffice open-source office suite is now recognizing Bitcoin "BTC" as a supported currency for use within the Calc spreadsheet program and elsewhere within this cross-platform free software office suite. Stemming from a recent bug report requesting Bitcoin as an official currency option within LibreOffice Calc, the necessary additions are now in place so it's a built-in preset like USD and EUR. Thus easier managing of Bitcoin transactions and the like from within LibreOffice Calc.

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Fokke & Sukke

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Todos Santos

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Rijnmond - Nieuws

Het laatste nieuws van vandaag over Rotterdam, Feyenoord, het verkeer en het weer in de regio Rijnmond

Grote brand bij afvalverwerking onder controle, ook nablussen klaar

Bij afvalverwerkingsbedrijf PreZero aan de Nieuwe Waterwegstraat in Schiedam is in de nacht van dinsdag op woensdag een grote brand uitgebroken. Na een paar uur had de brandweer het vuur onder controle. De brandweer was nog de hele woensdagochtend bezig met nablussen, maar ook dat is inmiddels klaar.

Grote brand bij afvalverwerking onder controle maar nablussen duurt nog lang

Bij afvalverwerkingsbedrijf PreZero aan de Nieuwe Waterwegstraat in Schiedam is in de nacht van dinsdag op woensdag een grote brand uitgebroken. Na een paar uur had de brandweer het vuur onder controle. De brandweer verwacht nog de hele woensdagochtend bezig te zijn met nablussen.