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First up, a reality check on AI benchmarking. Irene Solaiman, Hugging Face's chief policy officer, is pushing back on the idea that embedded AI evaluators will cleanly solve the problem of measuring model quality. The methods behind these benchmarks, she says, are still maturing — and treating them as settled science does more harm than good.
On that note, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has brought Privacy Badger to Safari on macOS, a move that extends one of the web's most trusted tracker-blocking tools to a browser used by tens of millions of people. It's a quiet but meaningful expansion of practical privacy protection for everyday users who may not know what's following them around online.
And looking further out, a mission has blasted off with an ambitious goal — returning a sample from Phobos, one of the two small moons orbiting Mars. If successful, it would mark only the second time humanity has retrieved material from beyond the Earth-Moon system, opening a new chapter in our understanding of the inner solar system.
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