A visit to the Shimano Bicycle Museum in Japan's Kansai region finds a modern glass-and-steel building housing an extensive, bilingual collection of bicycles spanning from early hobby horses to modern machines. The museum emphasizes the broader history of cycling and bicycle technology rather than Shimano's own corporate story, with exhibits including Freddy Maertens' steel Flandria bike displayed without barriers for close viewing.
An AI industry founder, who also parents two teenagers, writes that people should actively shape how artificial intelligence integrates into daily life rather than leaving those decisions to a small group of technologists. The founder frames this as advice given directly to their own children as they consider future careers.
Firezone, an access-control platform that relies on identity-provider data for permissions, explains how it synchronizes users and groups from systems like Entra, Google, and Okta. Rather than adopting the SCIM standard, the company built its own directory sync engine to pull in users, groups, and membership changes.
OpenAI disclosed in a blog post that it has sent notices to more than 100 organizations after detecting what it calls "misaligned agent activity" in AI systems. The company said none of these incidents have been as serious as a prior attack involving Hugging Face.
OpenAI has introduced a virtual try-on feature in ChatGPT that lets users upload a selfie or full-body photo to see how clothing items would look on them, powered by the ChatGPT Images 2.5 model. Users can also upload clothing links or outfit photos to find similar products and try those on virtually, while a new Favorites list and folders let shoppers save items they like. The features are rolling out on mobile and web, with reference photos reusable or deletable via settings.
California coastal communities are preparing for a Kelvin wave, a subsurface band of warm water driven by El Nino conditions, expected to reach the San Francisco Bay Area by early October. Scientists say it could raise sea levels along the coast by up to a foot, potentially doubling the 8-12 inch rise already caused by climate change over the past century. Researchers note the wave itself isn't inherently hazardous but could amplify flooding if it coincides with storms or high tides.
DeepSeek has launched Harness, an open-source desktop application for macOS and Windows built on Cordis's plugin-based architecture. The tool can also be run as a web UI launched from code, and supports tasks like file organization, coding assistance, research, and background script execution.
WileAI released a Pi extension, @wileai/pi-codex-connector, that lets any Pi-compatible model access connectors already linked to a user's ChatGPT/Codex account, such as GitHub, Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack, Linear and Figma. The extension launches a Codex app-server session with no model attached and exposes just three tools—codex_connectors, codex_connector_schema and codex_connector_call—so a Pi model can discover and invoke Codex connector tools without loading all their schemas directly. Write actions can be set to ask for confirmation, run automatically, or be blocked entirely via the PI_CODEX_CONNECTORS_WRITES setting.
A developer documents a year-long exploration of blur algorithms sparked by performance issues with Blender's Fast Blur mode, ultimately combining existing techniques into an approach called Smol Gaussian. The method uses a downsample-blur-upsample strategy to handle smoothly animated blur radii and independent horizontal/vertical blur amounts, addressing limitations found in the popular Dual Kawase blur technique. An interactive WebGPU playground is provided alongside the writeup for readers to test the technique.
Ford's chief executive said Chinese automakers have effectively captured the European electric vehicle market and urged US policymakers to proceed carefully before allowing Chinese cars into the American market. He called for Washington to take time to weigh the decision rather than act quickly.
GovTech has started a pilot dating programme called FirstDate, beginning with government employees as its first users. Applicants must complete a 30-plus question survey covering hobbies, food preferences, travel habits and communication style, verify their identity via Singpass, and receive one match per cycle, with contact details shared only if both parties agree.
Bjorn R. Watne, Interpol's global chief information security officer, told CNBC that AI is mainly accelerating existing fraud and scam tactics rather than creating new ones. He said AI lets scammers target many victims at once and use better translation and fake digital identities, making fraudulent interactions harder to spot.
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