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Eight years as a backend engineer in Stockholm, back in Tokyo since 2023, and I still ship something small most nights, usually badly. My one rule: the only real review of a model is the thing you built with it. That is why there is no leaderboard on this site.

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Smart glasses makers can’t shift privacy duties to users, says EU regulator. But who is responsible in India?

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Companies that make smart glasses or provide the apps and AI services linked to them “should not rely on the users’ actions to meet their own GDPR obligations,” the European Data Protection Board…

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