Arete-27B is Qwen3.8-27B post-trained on roughly 53 million tokens to reinforce Western values. An 803-prompt evaluation across seven value categories shows propaganda rate fell from 22% to 1%. Hermes Bench scores show no significant performance trade-offs.
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Propaganda rate reduced from 22% to 1% after fine-tuning.
Evaluation used 803 prompts covering freedom of expression, democracy, privacy, and four other categories.
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PETAFAB on Steam for $9.99, PC Mac Steam Deck 90Hz OLED
PETAFAB is now on Steam for $9.99 and runs on PC, Mac and Steam Deck with 90 Hz OLED support. High-end PCs can reach up to 540 Hz refresh and 8000 Hz late-latch mouse for ultra-low latency.
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Price: $9.99 on Steam.
Platform specs: PC, Mac, Steam Deck with 90 Hz OLED; up to 540 Hz + 8000 Hz late-latch mouse on high-end PC.
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- Original post
- store.steampowered.com - Linked in the post
TrialGPT – award-winning LLM framework for trial matching
TrialGPT is an award-winning LLM framework for clinical trial matching, deployed in real-world patient recruitment workflows. The author is seeking a tenure-track assistant professor position in medical AI and notes a K99/R00 award with about $750k available for the new institution.
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K99/R00 award provides roughly $750k R00 funding that can be activated at a new institution.
PubMedQA has 2.5k citations and 950k downloads.
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- Original post
- Qiao Jin, MD - Linked page
Pegasus spyware iPhone infection via fake GIF
Pegasus spyware infected iPhones without the user tapping anything by sending an iMessage with a fake GIF that targeted Apple’s image decompression engine. Researchers found the decompression math was flexible enough to enable the exploit.
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Infection method: iMessage with a fake GIF.
Targeted component: Apple’s image decompression engine.