A Million Tokens of Context, and Six Turns Is All It Takes: Claude Opus 4.6 and Arabic Conversation

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A chain of six links turning from clear glass into rough stone

Ehab Saleh | techkahwa.net Model released: February 6, 2026 | Published: February 20, 2026 The numbers first Metric Result What it measures Source Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index First place at release Composite general intelligence Artificial Analysis, February 2026 GDPval-AA First Real work tasks Artificial Analysis TerminalBench First Coding and execution Artificial Analysis CritPT 13% Research-level … Read more

Sony WF-1000XM6 review roundup: slimmer, well tuned, and not the ANC champion everyone expected

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Sony WF-1000XM6 review roundup: slimmer, well tuned, and not the ANC champion everyone expected

techkahwa.net | February 12, 2026 Sony’s 1000X earbuds have been the default recommendation for people who want great sound and strong noise canceling in one small case. The WF-1000XM6 arrives today at USD 329.99, and the first reviews show a very polished pair of earbuds that no longer wins every category by default, especially against … Read more

XML sitemaps and robots.txt: what each one really controls

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XML sitemaps and robots.txt: what each one really controls

techkahwa.net | 4 February 2026 Sitemaps and robots.txt sit next to each other in every SEO checklist, so people often treat them as two halves of the same tool. They are not. A sitemap helps Google discover your URLs; robots.txt tells crawlers where they may go. And the point that causes the most damage when … Read more

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SpaceX buys xAI in a $1.25 trillion all-stock deal

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SpaceX buys xAI in a $1.25 trillion all-stock deal

techkahwa.net | 3 February 2026 SpaceX is acquiring xAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, in an all-stock deal that values the combined business at $1.25 trillion. The deal, announced on 2 February, values SpaceX at $1 trillion and xAI at $250 billion, according to a Reuters factbox, and CNBC called it “the biggest merger of … Read more

Notepad++ updates were hijacked for months to deliver malware to chosen targets

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Notepad++ updates were hijacked for months to deliver malware to chosen targets

techkahwa.net | 3 February 2026 The Notepad++ project has disclosed that attackers compromised the shared hosting server behind its website and used it to intercept and redirect update traffic from June to December 2025. The targeting was selective and not every user was hit, but the advice for everyone is the same: manually install Notepad++ … Read more

DeepMind’s AlphaGenome reaches Nature, reading a million DNA letters to predict what mutations in the genome’s dark matter do

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DeepMind's AlphaGenome reaches Nature, reading a million DNA letters to predict what mutations in the genome's dark matter do

techkahwa.net | 29 January 2026 Google DeepMind’s AlphaGenome model has been published in Nature, taking in a million letters of DNA at a time and predicting how small changes in that sequence affect the way genes are switched on and off. The paper reports that the model matched or beat the strongest external tools on … Read more

Microsoft rushes an emergency fix for an Office flaw already used in attacks

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Microsoft rushes an emergency fix for an Office flaw already used in attacks

techkahwa.net | 27 January 2026 Microsoft has released an emergency fix for a Microsoft Office vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-21509, and the US cybersecurity agency CISA has already added it to its list of flaws being exploited in real attacks. For most people using Office 2021 or later, the fix is almost effortless: close every Office … Read more

EU opens formal DSA investigation into X over Grok’s sexualised deepfakes

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EU opens formal DSA investigation into X over Grok's sexualised deepfakes

techkahwa.net | 27 January 2026 The European Commission opened a formal investigation under the Digital Services Act (DSA) into X on Monday 26 January, over sexualised deepfake images produced with Grok, the AI chatbot built into the platform. The Commission is examining whether X properly manages the risks of illegal content, including material that may … Read more

75 Percent on an Arabic Leaderboard: What the Falcon-H1-Arabic Number Measures, and What It Hides

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A brass scale where a small glowing cube outweighs a large cloud of vapour

Ehab Saleh | techkahwa.net Model released: January 5, 2026 | Published: January 19, 2026 The numbers first Model Size Context OALL Source Falcon-H1-Arabic 34B 34B 256K tokens ~75.36% Technology Innovation Institute, January 2026 Falcon-H1-Arabic 7B 7B 256K tokens 71.47% Same source Falcon-H1-Arabic 3B 3B 128K tokens ~62% Same source And the comparisons as the developer … Read more