Briefs

Afternoon briefs

Short items from today's intake that did not lead a full story, each with its source. Nothing here is a stitched article — every item stands on its own outlet.

Reported with AI assistance from public sources. Every item below names its outlet and links to it. An editor pass and fact-check ran on the edition's full stories before publication. — Align Newsroom, part of Creytix.

ai

Full story: Webhook IP Ranges Added to Meta API

A tiny world model running games on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W — Hacker News — Front Page

Granite Switch 4.1.1 — Update models like you update software — Hugging Face — Blog

Can Frontier Models See Past a Decoy? Elorian Tests Visual Reasoning — Latent Space — Newsletter/Podcast

rust-v0.166.0 — OpenAI Codex — Releases (watched repo)

An updated Model Spec for more capable and beneficial AI — OpenAI — News

v5.22.0: Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) — HF Transformers — Releases (watched repo)

Patrick Stewart Has Died — Hacker News — Front Page

culture

L’Arcom adresse une mise en garde à Radio France à la suite de la diffusion sur France Culture d’un montage détournant des propos de Jean-Luc Mélenchon — Le Monde

technology

Full story: Iluvatar CoreX Says New GPU Matches Nvidia H200 as Chip Gap Closes

us-politics

No clear majority emerges as Israel counts final election votes — Africanews

Israel election result shows no overall majority as vote count complete — Al Jazeera English

Flávio Bolsonaro calls himself 'leader of Brazil' after election loss — BBC News — World

world

Full story: Patrick Stewart, Star of Star Trek, Dies Aged 86

Cameroon families demand return of relatives from Ukraine — Africanews

Real Madrid and FC Barcelona honour Spain train crash victims — Al Jazeera English

'The city is alive': A brief peace in Kherson, but residents fear what comes next — BBC News — World

Edouard Philippe placé sous le statut de témoin assisté dans une enquête ouverte notamment pour détournement de fonds publics — Le Monde

“I am the right person”: Delcy Rodríguez casts herself as guarantor of Venezuela’s transition — MercoPress

Japan's IHI vies with Korean rival to capture overseas nuclear demand — Nikkei Asia