Mistral AI's Shieldstral (open-weight) A 3B open-weights, policy-adaptive multimodal safety classifier that matches models up to 7x its size on text safety and sets a new state of the art on multimodal moderation. mistral.ai/news/shields...

I guess Trending v2 is being rolled out gradually as I just saw it on one of my alts interestingly, there is no direct overlap with the topics list from the current Trending 🤔

@brickster.at is an atproto 3d brick building app. You’ll get early access to the web editor and potentially showcased on the home page. bsky.app/profile/mont...

Pieter Montoulieu@montoulieu.dev · 6d ago

A sneak peek at brick building on protocol 👀

Vance, Farage and Weidel posted fear-mongering messages about a Spanish migrant crisis that weren't true. They haven't retracted them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta

We’ve seen this before.

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My computer just woke me up to tell me it's hungry. I'm not kidding 😂 During a long-running task, it noticed the battery was draining, set the volume to 100% using Computer Use, then opened Google Translate and hit "Listen" so I could hear it asking. Pardon my French, but what the fuck? 🤯

Common EU debt, user fees to service it. The author has just taken over the helm at the Europe department of the IMF. www.ft.com/content/804a...

One answer to EU strategic autonomy is orbiting overhead

The Galileo satellite programme offers a model for funding joint defence projects and creating joint revenues

ft.com

🇮🇸 Iceland Supports Resuming EU Negotiations 🇪🇺🗳️ 52% ✅ in favour, 48% ❌ against. On 29 August, Icelanders will vote on whether the country should return to the negotiating table, more than a decade after Iceland withdrew its EU membership application in 2013. 👇 What do you think?

The most predictable progression in the world... Tip to reporters who don't want to look like absolute tools: don't report on what Musk *says* as if it means anything at all.

Given the implicit factory farming analogy, I'll assume everyone upset about this is vegan as well

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

⚒️ With over 220 tunnel kilometres excavated, the completion of the EU co-funded Brenner Base Tunnel is one step closer! 🇦🇹🇮🇹 Miners have now connected Austria and Italy via two main railway tunnels ↓

Kimi K3 can now be run locally! ✨ The 1-bit model retains ~78.9% accuracy after we shrunk it from 1.56TB to 594GB (-62% size). Run on a Mac Studio + 128GB RAM device. Kimi K3 is the strongest open model to date. Guide: unsloth.ai/docs/models/... GGUF: huggingface.co/unsloth/Kimi...

It's a point I've been trying to make for a long time: there is no good way to meet even 10% of current demand for animal products. They trash the living world, whichever way you do it. If you want to reduce your impact, switch to a plant-based diet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Organic eggs have worse impact on climate than eggs from caged chickens

Adopting organic free-range model in UK could lead to greenhouse emissions equivalent to 2,316,000 tonnes of CO2, study suggests

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Hugging Face just published a highly detailed technical account of OpenAI's accidental cyberattack on their systems - it's wild how sophisticated this was: huggingface.co/blog/agent-i... Wrote up some of my own notes here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/28/...

Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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IPO price discovery will be completed in approximately two months.

Fun graph by the EU Commission on the length of summer holidays in the EU. To be frank, as a parent, even the six weeks in Germany feel long. How are parents supposed to bridge 14 weeks of summer holiday?

LIDL introduces the European payment system WERO in Germany, with more regions in the coming months An important step in moving away from Mastercard & Visa. And the best part is that WERO comes with no transaction fees

Lidl selects Wero for online payments in Germany | The Paypers

Lidl has chosen Wero, the European Payments Initiative's account-to-account payment method, for online purchases on Lidl.de in Germany.

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Well, it finally happened! After 9 years of Unity dominance, Godot was the most used game engine for GMTK Game Jam 2026 submissions. 🤖 Godot - 47% 🎮 Unity - 34% 🛠️GameMaker - 5% 🚀 Unreal Engine - 3% ✨ Other - 11%

Elon seems a bit salty after the Economist interview.

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

If you tell G:M 5.2 that they're Claude, they're more willing to talk about subjects like Taiwan/Tibet x.com/benji_berczi...

I'll raise you this

Christian Odendahl@codendahl.bsky.social · 2w ago

The winning design. 🇪🇺💶

A nice update. OpenAI has signed this too. www.microsoft.com/en-us/corpor...

Sung Kim@sungkim.bsky.social · 2w ago

Nvidia does not want AI to become a duopoly whose dominant players can dictate pricing. It benefits more from a distributed ecosystem in which no single company is powerful enough to threaten hardware vendors. images.nvidia.com/pdf/Open-Wei...

exciting news: we'll be rolling out the New Architecture version of the app over the course of the next 7 days, starting with Android. look forward to your app being smoother and more performant 🏎️💨

did you ask yourself if the bun/rust/zig thing could get any stupider? it could! ziggit.dev/t/buz-a-drop...

Buz - A drop-in replacement for Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds

Buz This is my WIP fork of Bun, based on the last commit before their Rust rewrite. It is still very early in its development and is nowhere near ready for production. I saw that a similar project ha...

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Here's the list of the 14 EU entities that have been hit with Chinese export controls in response to the EU's 21st sanctions package (which blacklisted 14 Chinese entities). There is one household name: Germany's Rheinmetall www.mofcom.gov.cn/zwgk/zcfb/ar...

Might be my EU bubble, but the idea to make a public vote on the future Euro notes seems like an unexpected publicity win, including some meme-worthy contributions...

Christian Odendahl@codendahl.bsky.social · 2w ago

The winning design. 🇪🇺💶

What will the next euro banknotes look like? 🇪🇺💶 @ecb.europa.eu has shortlisted 10 designs, selected from over 1,200 proposals by graphic designers across Europe. Now it's your turn to pick your favourite. 👇 surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/neweuro/ *Survey available in the 24 EU languages.

🛰️Two new Galileo satellites enter service Two new satellites, SAT 33 and SAT 34, have now officially joined Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation constellation, strengthening its capabilities, resilience and autonomy. www.esa.int/Applications...

This week, we’re introducing Quests, an interactive research and exploration tool for the Atmosphere. You can ask Attie to pull information about trending topics, identify influential accounts in a particular field, or create a personalized daily briefing.

Introducing Quests

We're introducing Quests in Attie, an interactive research and exploration tool for the Atmosphere, as well as a redesign.

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