Python rejects $1.5M grant from U.S. govt. fearing ethical compromise

The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has withdrawn its $1.5 million grant proposal to the U.S. National Science Foundation ...

IBM's open source Granite 4.0 Nano AI models are small enough to run locally directly in your browser

IBM is entering a crowded and rapidly evolving market of small language models (SLMs), competing with offerings like Qwen3, ...
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I Use Python, but I’m Learning R and the Tidyverse for Data Analysis Too

I 'm a big fan of Python for data analysis, but even I get curious about what else is available. R has long been the go-to ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Massive New Database Will Connect Billions of Historic Records to Tell the Full Story of American Slavery

In 1834, a 22-year-old Yoruba man who would come to be known as Manuel Vidau was captured as a prisoner of war and sold to slave traders in Lagos, today the largest city in Nigeria. A Spanish ship ...
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