The Download: Amsterdam’s welfare AI experiment, and making humanoid robots safer

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Inside Amsterdam’s high-stakes experiment to create fair welfare AI Amsterdam thought it was on the right track. City officials in the welfare department believed they could build technology that would prevent fraud while […]

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summary and analysis of the supply chain attack targeting the React Native development ecosystem

🧪 Incident: NPM Package Compromise Target: 16 popular npm packages maintained by the GlueStack project, widely used in React Native development Attack Type: Supply-chain malware injection Scale: Nearly 1 million downloads per week collectively Affected Packages: Not all disclosed yet, but include components of GlueStack CLI and DevOps plugins *🐛 Identified Malicious Activity * 📦 […]

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Better vibes and vibe coding with Gemini 2.5

June 10, 2025 Ryan and Ben welcome Tulsee Doshi and Logan Kilpatrick from Google’s DeepMind to discuss the advanced capabilities of the new Gemini 2.5, the importance of feedback loops for model improvement and reducing hallucinations, the necessity of great data for advancements, and enhancing developer experience through tool integration. Source link

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Visualizing Neural Networks with the Grand Tour

The Grand Tour is a classic visualization technique for high-dimensional point clouds that projects a high-dimensional dataset into two dimensions. Over time, the Grand Tour smoothly animates its projection so that every possible view of the dataset is (eventually) presented to the viewer. Unlike modern nonlinear projection methods such as t-SNE and UMAP, the Grand […]

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