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Artist Michael Strevens hides tiny human figures inside huge geometric abstract patterns, turning flat graphic designs into vast, infinite-feeling worlds. At first glance, you see sharp architectural lines and colorful grids, but zooming in reveals tiny people wandering through massive scale environments. designyoutrust.com/2026/10/a… Adding a single micro-figure completely shifts your sense of perspective. It instantly transforms a basic pattern into an architectural landscape that feels miles wide. #CreativeCuration #VisualArt
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Clio acquires Page to support push into proactive legal intelligence betakit.com/clio-acquires-pa… via @BetaKit

Clio acquires Page to support push into proactive legal intelligence

Burnaby, BC, legaltech firm Clio has acquired Kitchener-Waterloo’s Page, which sells AI-powered government relations software to monitor emerging legislation and regulations.

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Vote young yet govern much later: West African youth’s struggle for power globalvoices.org/2026/10/26/… via @globalvoices | In all of West Africa, the voting age is 18, but presidential eligibility ages vary widely

Vote young yet govern much later: West African youth’s struggle for power

Young people are deemed mature enough to elect their leaders, yet not to replace them. They drive political movements forward by voting, advocating, campaigning, and protesting, yet cannot run for...

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AI models cost more when you don’t use English restofworld.org/2026/ai-toke…

AI models cost more when you don’t use English

Some languages require far more tokens for AI models to process, raising costs and reducing context for the people who use them.

restofworld.org
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Google cleared 250,000 trees for a Finnish data centre, Guardian reports thenextweb.com/news/google-f… via @thenextweb

Google Finland cleared about 250,000 trees for a planned data centre

‘I want to apologise,’ the Google Finland country manager said after an estimated 250,000 trees were felled at Muhos.

thenextweb.com
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Some iPhone Duo screens are already failing arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026… | Apple’s “precision-engineered” hinge is apparently damaging some iPhone Duo screens

Some iPhone Duo screens are already failing

Apple's "precision-engineered" hinge is apparently damaging some iPhone Duo screens.

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Anthropic’s Claude AI model accessed Georgia voter data in US theguardian.com/technology/2… | Latest example of unauthorized behaviour shows AI model bypassed paywall to access data as part of statistics project

Anthropic’s Claude AI model accessed Georgia voter data in US

Latest example of unauthorised behaviour shows AI model bypassed paywall to access data as part of statistics project

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This startup’s self-driving excavators help dig up $600M in new funding techcrunch.com/2026/10/26/th… via @techcrunch

This startup's self-driving excavators help dig up $600M in new funding | TechCrunch

Bedrock Robotics, which is now valued at $4.1 billion, is particularly focused on autonomous excavators, in part because of a growing shortage of skilled operators.

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Anthropic files to go public engadget.com/2296724/anthrop… | The company may be valued as high as $2 trillion

Anthropic files to go public - Engadget

The company may be valued as high as $2 trillion.

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Ex-GitHub CEO launches a GitHub rival that reinvents the pull request thenewstack.io/entire-trails… via @thenewstack

Ex-GitHub CEO launches a GitHub rival that reinvents the pull request

Ex-GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke’s startup Entire launches a GitHub alternative that swaps pull requests for Trails, an eval-driven agentic code review system.

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Canadian small business owners turn to personal credit cfotech.ca/story/canadian-sm… via @techday_ca | One in four owners are putting homes and savings at risk as tight cash flow pushes them to back their firms with personal credit

Canadian small business owners turn to personal credit

One in four owners are putting homes and savings at risk as tight cash flow pushes them to back their firms with personal credit.

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Government of Canada unveils proposed stablecoin regulations betakit.com/government-of-ca… via @BetaKit

Government of Canada unveils proposed stablecoin regulations |

Proposed regulations make up a framework for Canada’s Stablecoin Act and are subject to a 60-day consultation period.

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Big Tech and authoritarian states: Belarus globalvoices.org/2026/10/24/… via @DergachevaD

Big Tech and authoritarian states: Belarus

In the latest GV podcast, we discussed why Russia restricts access to many social media services, while Belarus does not impose comparable restrictions; censorship, surveillance, and digital author...

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Raspberry Pi Desktop proves old PCs aren't past it theregister.com/os-platforms…

Raspberry Pi Desktop proves old PCs aren't past it

Debian 13-based refresh runs comfortably on veteran ThinkPads, without making installation a hobby

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UK funds £100m AI biosecurity lab with OpenAI and Anthropic thenextweb.com/news/uk-funds… via @thenextweb

UK funds £100m AI biosecurity lab with OpenAI and Anthropic

The UK puts £100m into a new AI biosecurity lab. OpenAI and Anthropic add up to £200m, in credits and model access rather than cash.

thenextweb.com
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Ice sheet expansion may have started 2,000 years ago, but we canceled that arstechnica.com/science/2026… | The tiny remains of the Laurentide Ice Sheet began getting somewhat less tiny

Ice sheet expansion may have started 2,000 years ago, but we canceled that

The tiny remains of the Laurentide Ice Sheet began getting somewhat less tiny.

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The datacentre next door: on the frontline of tech’s latest David v Goliath battle theguardian.com/technology/2… | The AI boom is pitting local residents against corporate giants seeking to power their energy-hungry networks – but one Welsh city is fighting back

The datacentre next door: on the frontline of tech’s latest David v Goliath battle

The AI boom is pitting local residents against corporate giants seeking to power their energy-hungry networks – but one Welsh city is fighting back

theguardian.com
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Block’s new voice model sounds eerily human techcrunch.com/2026/10/24/bl… via @techcrunch

Block's new voice model sounds eerily human | TechCrunch

Block said that the voice model can run locally on a MacBook M4 Max

techcrunch.com
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Meta is charging government and nonprofit pages to post links on Facebook engadget.com/2295422/meta-is…

Meta is charging government and nonprofit pages to post links on Facebook - Engadget

The new restrictions are a test which is explicitly not supposed to impact these entities.

engadget.com
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A few engineers asked IT for Linux. Then it spread to 200 machines thenewstack.io/linux-develop… via @thenewstack

A few engineers asked IT for Linux. Then it spread to 200 machines.

Swif.ai is expanding Linux device management so IT can say yes to developers. The pitch: AI teams get Linux, and security gets proof of control.

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