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- 1Meta's Muse AI Agent Draws Praise and Unease in First-Hand Review▼I Tried Meta’s Muse AI Agent. It’s Helpful and Scary at the Same Time.
A Wall Street Journal writer tested Meta's Muse AI agent and described the experience as both helpful and unsettling. The review suggests the assistant is capable enough to be useful in daily tasks, while its capabilities raise concerns about privacy and how much it knows about users. The mixed verdict is fueling broader debate about Meta's push into personal AI agents.
- 2Chinese AI lab StepFun unveils Step 5 Preview model●Chinese AI lab StepFun has unveiled Step 5 Preview, a sparse mixture of experts model with roughly 600 billion total par
Chinese AI lab StepFun has unveiled Step 5 Preview, a sparse mixture-of-experts model with roughly 600 billion total parameters and about 27 billion active per token. The model supports a one million token context window and is designed for long-horizon agent work, with open weights. Observers are noting the specifications and what the release means for competition among Chinese AI labs and open-weight model development.
- 3Couples turn to AI agent for emotional labor▼Couples are using a viral AI agent to do their emotional labor. It’s been helpful — and chaotic.
Couples are increasingly using a viral AI agent to handle emotional labor in their relationships, such as composing difficult messages and managing feelings-based conversations. Reports describe the experience as both helpful and chaotic, with users saying the tool eases communication but sometimes produces awkward or mismatched results.
- 4Berlin pharmacy in Charlottenburg offering Covid vaccination appointments●Falls jemand Interesse hat an Covid Impfung in Berlin. die Leibnitz Apotheke in Charlottenburg hat Termine für Menschen
The Leibniz Apotheke in Berlin's Charlottenburg district is offering Covid vaccination appointments for people aged 18 and over, with bookings available through its online vaccination calendar. A Green Party member shared the information with others in Berlin, encouraging anyone interested to sign up. It comes as booster awareness continues during the ongoing pandemic.
- 5Pirate Party health group urges STIKO to revise COVID vaccine advice●Die AG Gesundheit + Pflege der Piratenpartei fordert die STIKO auf, ihre Empfehlung zur COVID-19-Impfung, zu revidieren
The health and care working group of Germany's Pirate Party is calling on the Standing Committee on Vaccination (STIKO) to revise its recommendation on COVID-19 vaccination. In a statement, the group argues that broad vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 should be restored to the catalogue of recommended immunisations. The demand reopens debate over how Germany's vaccination advisory body currently weighs COVID-19 boosters for the general population.
- 6Author Beth Canalichio Shares New Book on Family Mental Health▼Improving Family Lives: Author & Mental Health Professional Beth Canalichio Shares her Helpful Book
Author and mental health professional Beth Canalichio is presenting her new book focused on improving family life, in an appearance covered by television outlet WBOC. The book draws on her professional experience to offer guidance for families, and the segment highlights her advice on strengthening relationships and supporting mental wellbeing at home.
- 7Spectator jokes about not knowing the rules at basketball game●At a # BasketBall game. It would be helpful to know the rules, but I guess that in the audience the only rule is “cheer
A spectator at a basketball game has shared their experience of watching without knowing the rules, joking that the only rule for the audience is to cheer when everyone else does. They also observed that the visiting team appeared to have brought no supporters of their own, leaving the crowd one-sided.
- 8PFU fixes ScanSnap image output bug on new macOS versions●ScanSnap、ちょっと調べてみますか PFU、macOS 27 Golden GateやmacOS 26.7＆15.8環境でScanSnapスキャン後に画像が出力されない不具合を修正した「ScanSnap Home v4.1.0」をリリ
PFU has released ScanSnap Home v4.1.0, fixing a bug that caused scanned images not to be output after scanning on macOS 27 Golden Gate as well as macOS 26.7 and 15.8. The update matters for users of PFU's ScanSnap scanners who upgraded to the latest macOS versions and found their scans were not saving properly.