February 2026

arXiv:2602.11158v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we compare methodological approaches for comparing student and staff perceptions, and ask: how much do these measures vary across different approaches? We focus on the case of AI perceptions, which are generally assessed via a single quantitative or qualitative measure, or with a mixed methods approach that compares two distinct data sources – e.g. a quantitative questionnaire with qualitative comments. To compare different approaches, we collect two forms of qualitative […]

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arXiv:2602.11157v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed worldwide, yet their safety alignment remains predominantly English-centric. This allows for vulnerabilities in non-English contexts, especially with low-resource languages. We introduce a novel application of knowledge distillation (KD) in the context of multilingual jailbreak prevention, examining its efficacy. We distill the refusal behaviors of a proprietary teacher model (OpenAI o1-mini) with Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) into three open-source student models: Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct, Gemma-2-2B-IT, and Qwen3-8B, using ~28,000 multilingual […]

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arXiv:2602.11156v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a powerful approach for grounding Large Language Model (LLM)-based chatbot responses on external knowledge. However, existing RAG studies typically assume well-structured textual sources (e.g. Wikipedia or curated datasets) and perform retrieval and generation at query time, which can limit their applicability in real-world chatbot scenarios. In this paper, we present HybridRAG, a novel and practical RAG framework towards more accurate and faster chatbot responses. First, HybridRAG ingests […]

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The gaming world has evolved at breakneck speed in the past couple of decades. Once upon a time, you had to wait for a year or more to get the new iteration of a game. (Think the old Total War release cycles, where the British and Australian branches of the company alternated on bi-yearly schedules.) Now, game development is fast and focused on near-instant gratification. A live-service shooter drops new content on a continuous cycle. This is fed […]

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For years, builders in tokenization have been waiting for a decisive signal that traditional finance would not just experiment with private blockchain infrastructure, but integrate with it into decentralized finance. That signal arrived when BlackRock’s tokenized money market fund, BUIDL, began trading on Uniswap through UniswapX in partnership with Securitize. This was not a sandbox pilot. It was a $2.1 billion tokenized US Treasury fund connecting directly to decentralized liquidity rails. The development was reported by Fortune, which […]

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I have launched many businesses and built multiple teams. If there is one super power that I think helped me in my entrepreneurial journey, it is the subtle art of delegating. As I am now using AI at work and in personal life and building an AI-first product, I see some people simply not getting anywhere with AI. Quality outputs or meaningful interactions seem to escape them. At a closer look though, I discovered that AI success and […]

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Introduction In modern cloud-native architectures, it’s increasingly common to run workloads in one cloud provider while needing to access resources in another. Whether you’re running a multi-cloud strategy, migrating between providers, or building a distributed system, your Kubernetes pods need secure, passwordless authentication across AWS, Azure, and GCP. This guide demonstrates how to implement cross-cloud authentication using industry best practices: AWS IRSA (IAM Roles for Service Accounts) Azure Workload Identity GCP Workload Identity Federation We’ll cover three real-world […]

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