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Linkup Research has released SPARSEUP, an open-source sparse embedding model built on a 149M-parameter ModernBERT backbone. It scores 56.4 nDCG@10 on BEIR-13, which Linkup calls the best result it knows of for a public sparse encoder under 150M parameters.
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Microsoft just released the KB5126657 update for Windows 10 for users in the Extended Security program during this month’s Patch Tuesday. See what’s included:
Apple Music’s iconic red app icon has reportedly been replaced with a black-and-white version in the latest iOS 27.2 beta, 9to5Mac reports. The eighth note on the icon also appears to have a slightly sharper angle than the original.
Microsoft released the Windows 10 KB5126657 extended security update, which includes this month’s record-breaking October 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes and a few bug fixes and changes.
iOS 27.2 beta 4 debuted today for developers, and the update includes a new app icon for Apple Music alongside other design updates in the Music app. more…
Microsoft announced today that devices running Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro editions have reached the end of support and will no longer receive monthly security and non-security preview updates.
An overhauled Apple Health app is coming, but it looks like iOS 27.2 won’t include it. more…
Z.ai’s GLM-Legal is a legal AI model built on GLM-5.3-Flash. It scores 19.2% all-pass on Harvey’s Legal Agent Benchmark, nearly 3x its base, at $0.15 per test. Access is by application.
Alibaba’s Qwen team has introduced QwenGyre, an elastic reinforcement learning RL framework for extreme-long-horizon agent training. QwenGyre is an online reinforcement learning system from Alibaba that trains coding agents through unmodified, black-box harnesses.
We checked 12 AI live translation tools, including Palabra.ai, Google Live Translate, DeepL Voice, Teams Interpreter and Wordly, against official pages for languages, latency, platforms and pricing.
TII has released Falcon-ASR, a 1.6B speech recognition model for Arabic with an Emirati focus. It reports 20.92% average WER on 6 Arabic test sets, but weights and an API are not yet available.
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