This post is based on a technical report written by Kazuki Fujii, who led the Llama 3.3 Swallow model development. The Institute of Science Tokyo has successfully trained Llama 3.3 Swallow, a 70-billion-parameter large language model (LLM) with enhanced Japanese capabilities, using Amazon SageMaker HyperPod. The model demonstrates superior performance in Japanese language tasks, outperforming…
Fly Agaric Marshmallow Laser Feast Soils around the world are polluted, worn out, over-fertilised and exhausted. How did we get to a place where we think of soil as dirt? Soils are buzzing with life, criss-crossed with a hard-to-fathom complexity of connections, a multitude of symbiotic partnerships between plant roots, mycorrhizal fungi and nitrogen-fixing bacteria….
Ecuador’s Rio Los Cedros is a source of insight for Robert Macfarlane Murray Cooper/Minden Pictures/Alamy Is a River Alive?Robert Macfarlane (Penguin Books (UK) W. W. Norton (US, 20 May)) Early on in this often beautiful, wild and wildly provocative book, Robert Macfarlane recounts telling his son the title of his project. The boy exclaims that…
Adam Eley & Catrin Nye BBC News Getty Images Baby food pouches have become a staple for many families Parents should not rely on shop-bought baby food pouches as everyday meals, new government guidance states. It is the first time the NHS website has published advice on commercial baby food, and follows an investigation by…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK economy suffered its worst contraction in almost two years in April as Donald Trump’s trade war hit exports to the US and tax increases held back the services sector, underlining the challenge facing…
Michael Dempsey Technology Reporter Reaction Engines Reaction Engines hoped one day its tech would power a reusable space plane “It was going great until it fell apart.” Richard Varvill recalls the emotional shock that hits home when a high-tech venture goes off the rails. The former chief technology officer speaks ruefully about his long career…
#!/usr/bin/env python3 # Exploit Title: macOS LaunchDaemon iOS 17.2 – Privilege Escalation # Author: Mohammed Idrees Banyamer (@banyamer_security) # GitHub: https://github.com/mbanyamer # Date: 2025-05-31 # Tested on: macOS Sonoma (14.x ARM64 / x86_64) # CVE: CVE-2025-24085 # Type: Local Privilege Escalation # Platform: macOS # Author Country: Jordan # Description: # This local privilege…
Natalie Sherman Business reporter Watch: A trade deal, a family photo and conflict in the Middle East – Trump’s short G7 President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to reduce tariffs on UK cars being shipped to the US, which will bring into force parts of a tariff deal agreed between the two countries…
Old smartphones could be reused to support data collection and analysis University researchers built data centers from recycled phones for just 8 euros each Project shows environmental gains are possible through creative device reuse Each year, more than a billion smartphones are manufactured worldwide, and most are thrown out within a few years, often still…
Quantum computers can simulate the behaviour of high-energy particles Google Quantum AI, designed by Sayo Studio Quantum computers are beginning to become powerful tools for studying some of the most fundamental forces in the universe – and some of the trickiest to understand. Two experiments have used them to pave a new way forward for…
