A Chinese large model that made its name on technical capability is being "raised" into something else entirely by netizens.
Recently, Bilibili's tech section has seen a flood of AI-operated accounts modeled on DeepSeek, with the first video from "DeepSeek Whale Girl in Operations" surpassing 2 million views.
Anime-style depictions of DeepSeek—"Whale Girl" and "Big Fat Fish"—spread rapidly, and some even developed plug-ins specifically to block these AI comments.
Notably, DeepSeek is not the only AI whose personality has been assigned by netizens.
For an AI with no official anthropomorphic image, netizens have already begun forming factions over who is more entitled to represent it.
Oct 31, 2026 · via finance.biggo.com
The New York Islanders have had to overcome a lot of obstacles in the early going of the 2026-27 season, which has led to some up-and-down play on the ice.
Where did Islanders land in NHL power rankings?
However, even with their success, the Islanders aren't making much of a move up the NHL power rankings done by Sean Gentille and Dom Luszczyszyn of The Athletic (subscription required), and they deserve better.
With at least one point recorded in seven out of their last eight games, the Islanders move up the standings in the Metropolitan Division and Eastern Conference, but that isn't exactly being reflected in the power rankings.
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Oct 31, 2026 · via sports.yahoo.com
State Secretary for Education and Emancipation Judith Tielen observes a modest improvement in the extent to which people recognize sexually transgressive behavior.
Research conducted this year for the National Action Programme on Tackling Sexually Transgressive Behaviour and Sexual Violence (NAP) surveyed 2,372 people on the programme’s impact.
This is encouraging news and reinforces our conviction that sustained attention and a determined approach to preventing sexually transgressive behavior are of real value,” the state secretary said.
Familiarity with sexually transgressive behavior is high, the research shows.
The research further indicates that sexually transgressive behavior is discussed with growing frequency among colleagues, managers, and human resources staff.
Oct 31, 2026 · via nltimes.nl
Offshore Meta Contractors Reportedly Reviewing Footage of Users in Intimate Settings; Meta has Failed to Explain How Sensitive Images Are Used to Train AI Systems Letter Text (PDF) Washington (October 29, 2026) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.)
News outlets have cited numerous reports of the use of Meta glasses to sexually harass unsuspecting women for social media content.
For example, in October of 2025, 404 Media reported that a network of men secretly filmed women while soliciting sexual services using Meta AI Glasses.
The letter follows a request in March, led by Markey, seeking information about Meta’s reported plans to integrate facial recognition technology into Meta Glasses.
To what extent did Meta’s teams responsible for women’s safety and mitigating intimate image abuse participate in the design, development, and evaluation of Meta’s glasses?
Oct 31, 2026 · via newbedfordguide.com
The Portland Trail Blazers have once again received some recognition for their in-season tournament court, even if they were unable to repeat last year's impressive finish.
The Athletic recently ranked all 30 NBA Cup courts, placing Portland's design fourth in the league.
While that represents a slight step backward from last season, when the Trail Blazers were considered to have the best in-season tournament court in the NBA, finishing inside the top five is still a strong showing.
Portland will get another opportunity to put its court on display as it competes in this year's NBA Cup.
This team will look to continue making a statement in the coming weeks as the NBA Cup unfolds.
Oct 30, 2026 · via roundtable.io
The force will use a facial recognition van and NEC NeoFace equipment loaned by Bedfordshire Police.
Retrospective facial recognition (RFR), which searches previously captured images against police databases, has also produced incorrect identifications.
The force also acknowledged in writing to Choudhury that the arrest may have resulted from bias within facial recognition technology.
The UK has no dedicated statutory framework specifically governing police use of facial recognition.
As police forces continue expanding facial recognition deployments, the forthcoming legislation will determine how consistently the technology is governed across England and Wales.
Oct 30, 2026 · via biometricupdate.com
UK Immigration Enforcement will be able to deploy live facial recognition (LFR) technology outside of border zones to look for people who have never committed a criminal offence, prompting concern from digital rights groups about surveillance overreach.
It also covers joint deployments with police forces, allowing Immigration Enforcement to supply watchlists for police facial recognition systems, or otherwise process police-supplied data through its own systems.
“It is shocking to see the Home Office quietly set itself up for yet another massive expansion of facial recognition use in this country.
What will happen when an algorithm malfunction or dodgy Home Office data leads to someone being wrongly accused of breaching immigration rules?
Met pushes ahead with major facial recognition expansion: Metropolitan Police set to roll out live facial recognition in the West End and Soho, but critics say police are ‘rushing ahead’ without regulation.
Oct 30, 2026 · via computerweekly.com
Singer-songwriter Noah Kahan is bringing his stadium tour to Tampa in April, which means many people will be hopping on that pre-sale.
But, buying those tickets could require much more than a credit card.
FOX 13's Blake DeVine reports.
Oct 30, 2026 · via fox13news.com
By day I build hospital software. Most of what I do will never be seen by anyone outside my team: a fix to a data import that quietly stopped failing, a migration that went so smoothly nobody remembers it happened, a review comment that stopped a bad pattern spreading. By evening I write in public. A post takes me a few hours and can reach more people in a day than my best code will ever touch directly. Only one of those shows up when someone searches my name. So which one is the real work? It is tempting to pick a side, and plenty of people do, loudly. I think both sides are partly right, and the more interesting question sits underneath them. Researchers have been poking at that question for decades, in car factories, hospitals, universities and open source mailing lists, and what they found is more useful than either side's slogan. The case for the buried builder Some of the most important engineering work is invisible by design. When it goes well, nothing happens. No outage, no incident, no story to tell. The engineer who spends three weeks making a payment flow idempotent has prevented a disaster that will never be written about, because it never occurred. In 2001, two MIT researchers, Nelson Repenning and John Sterman, studied why process improvement programmes kept failing in manufacturing and product development. Their paper took its title from something an engineer at a car company told them: "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened." What they found was a loop. Organisations that rely on firefighting end up rewarding and promoting the people who save the day through heroic effort, rather than the people whose quiet improvement work means there is no fire to fight. Over time, they
Oct 30, 2026 · via hackernoon.com
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights is the only organization listed in the Legis1 bill record for S. 3779, the ICE Out of Our Faces Act.
By the Numbers The third-quarter 2026 report from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights lists a filing amount of $270,000.
That is up $50,000 from the in-house second-quarter 2026 report of $220,000.
Outside firm NVG LLC filed a separate third-quarter 2026 report for the same client, listing $60,000, bringing the combined client total to $330,000 this quarter.
The filing also lists support for the Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act by title, without a bill number.
Oct 29, 2026 · via legis1.com
Recordings from people undergoing epilepsy monitoring reveal that certain amygdala neurons fire more strongly for images that participants later recognize.
Funding included the National Institutes of Health’s BRAIN Initiative, which supports tools and research for understanding brain activity.
About 40% of the recorded amygdala neurons met the study’s criteria for category selectivity.
Dig deeper into the amygdala and memory formation These studies connect recent human findings with foundational research on memory circuits and experimental stimulation.
The original story "Scientists find a walnut-sized area of the brain has a giant role in memory" is published in The Brighter Side of News.
Oct 29, 2026 · via thebrighterside.news
Facial recognition is an inherently personal and intimate technology.
The event, sponsored by the civil liberties group Big Brother Watch, was designed to give people an opportunity to air their grievances with politicians, the media, and the companies involved.
It also invited representatives from Sainsbury’s, a company that is currently in the process of introducing facial recognition to 200 of its stores.
Facewatch said it gave the invitation “serious consideration” but cited concerns about the balance of the event “given the tone of Big Brother Watch’s campaign messaging to date”.
When TechRadar visited a South London Sainsbury’s earlier this month, we found that there was no viable way of opting out of the facial recognition system and that security had little information about how the system works.
Oct 29, 2026 · via techradar.com
Nevertheless, the litigation highlights an emerging area of risk for organizations developing, licensing, or incorporating generative AI applications into their operations.
Traditional software agreements may not adequately describe how AI applications analyze uploaded images or what data they generate from those images.
Where regulated biometric processing occurs, assess whether the organization's disclosures, releases, retention policies, and deletion procedures satisfy applicable legal requirements.
The outcome of these cases could help clarify the circumstances under which generative AI image processing constitutes biometric collection.
For businesses, understanding how AI applications process personal information is becoming as important as understanding what those applications can do.
Oct 29, 2026 · via natlawreview.com
Tangible Africa, an initiative that teaches coding without requiring computers, electricity or internet access, has earned several national and international accolades, including the 2024 Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA) President’s Award.
In 2025, Universities South Africa (USAf) selected it as one of the country’s leading societal impact cases.
Prof Greyling describes it as the best honours project he has supervised in three decades.
Tangible Africa uses small, puzzle-like tokens to represent coding instructions.
Having undergone two global evaluations, including UNICEF’s Learning Cabinet, Tangible Africa demonstrates how locally developed university innovation can achieve international impact.
Oct 29, 2026 · via news.mandela.ac.za
Microscopic smear images of different white blood cell subtypes can look strikingly similar, and their appearance is further altered by staining variation, differences in microscope and acquisition setup, and the presence of surrounding background content such as red blood cells, platelets, and staining artifacts.
Rather than fixing a single preprocessing pipeline, the team evaluated four conditions: not cropped and minimally prepared, not cropped and processed, cropped and minimally prepared, and cropped and processed.
Subject of Research: Deep learning classification of five white blood cell types from microscopic smear images Article Title: Attention guided hybrid fusion of MobileNetV3 DenseNet121 and DINOv2 for five class white blood cell classification Article References: Shehan, M. S. H., Islam, M., Rahim, A., Uddin, M., Rahman, M. M., Rana, M. S., Islam, M. A., Bakhsh, M. M., Kabtia, M., & Raihan, D. I.
Attention guided hybrid fusion of MobileNetV3 DenseNet121 and DINOv2 for five class white blood cell classification.
Discover Analytics, 4(1), Article 37. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44257-026-00086-1 Image Credits: AI Generated DOI: 10.1007/s44257-026-00086-1
Oct 29, 2026 · via bioengineer.org
Input 2026-10-29 14:56:15 Updated 2026-10-29 14:56:15 [Financial News] MUSINSA is operating an artificial intelligence (AI)-based image search service.
According to industry sources on the 29th, MUSINSA recently introduced its image search service, ‘MUSINSA Lens.’
Users can upload a photo using the lens icon in the search bar, and AI will recognize the products in the image and find identical or similar items on MUSINSA Store.
It will expand the technology’s application to a range of services and is also pursuing plans to introduce image search on 29CM.
SSF.com, operated by Samsung C&T Fashion Group, is also enhancing its image search service.
Oct 29, 2026 · via en.fnnews.com
Her case, published as a case report in Discover Neuroscience, describes how clinicians arrived at a diagnosis of clinically suspected botulism purely through pattern recognition and the systematic exclusion of every major neurological mimic.
Over the next 48 hours she developed bilateral ptosis, mid-dilated non-reactive pupils, progressive bulbar weakness, and respiratory muscle involvement.
Subject of Research: A case report of clinically suspected, laboratory-unconfirmed botulism diagnosed through clinical pattern recognition and systematic exclusion of neurological mimics.
Article Title: Clinically suspected botulism without laboratory confirmation diagnosed through clinical pattern recognition and systematic exclusion Article References: Mann, G. S., Rajeev, M., Nandwani, S., & Jain, N. (2026).
Clinically suspected botulism without laboratory confirmation diagnosed through clinical pattern recognition and systematic exclusion.
Oct 29, 2026 · via bioengineer.org
[Digital Today reporter Daegeon Seok (석대건)] Musinsa said on 29 it has unveiled "Musinsa Lens," an AI image search service that lets users find products with a single photo.
When a user taps the lens icon in the search bar and uploads a photo, the AI recognises products in the image.
Users can find products based on visual information through Musinsa Lens, including fit, mood and colour tones that are difficult to translate into search terms.
Musinsa plans to further advance its in-house image-recognition AI model to improve search accuracy and expand the services it is applied to.
It will add search results filtering and sorting features in the fourth quarter and is pushing to introduce image search to 29CM as well.
Oct 29, 2026 · via digitaltoday.co.kr
CSF300 is a standard dataset for cattle facial recognition scenarios, which includes 300 individual cattle with a total of 2,899 facial images, covering individual cattle in cattle breeding facilities.
Therefore, to verify the generalization of the cattle facial recognition model, this project introduces the BCFD-10K and CFFD datasets as supplements.
The design of the hybrid enhancement module MEM is the core of the cattle facial recognition network DSFFNet.
The use of focus loss function can effectively adjust the sample weights for the imbalanced number of cattle sample images in some cattle facial recognition datasets.
Therefore, in a limited number of training epochs, the cattle facial recognition model can achieve optimal recognition accuracy.
Oct 29, 2026 · via nature.com
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Oct 28, 2026 · via police1.com