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Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Souveränität: EU-Kommission liebäugelt mit Ersatz von Microsofts Cloud Azure

“Great Badges!!”
For the #accordion crowd who refuses to be pro-fascist
https://accordionbruce.etsy.com/listing/1344908552

The excellent @… (https://erinkissane.com) has written a lot about the idea of “governance” in tech: the human networks and processes that surround the things that we build. Erin has proposed — and I agree, though I long failed to see it! — that governance is the gaping hole in the way we build OSS, shared infra, and the whole technology commons.
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Windsurf CEO Jeff Wang on what happened after co-founders Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen left for Google, and how Cognition's deal to acquire Windsurf unfolded (Jeff Wang/@jeffwsurf)
https://x.com/jeffwsurf/status/1946376139959841084

Jeff Wang (@jeffwsurf) on X
To put it mildly, the past week at Windsurf has been crazy. There have been a lot of different rumors and reports, so I want to share a transparent account of how it actually went down. Before I start, I just want to say that Varun and Douglas were great founders and this

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Frumpies:
🎵 Whatshisname Hearts the Frumpies
#TheFrumpies
https://bikinikill.bandcamp.com/track/whatshisname-hearts-the-frumpies
https://open.spotify.com/track/4AQi9RIONIdFBihQ1A6iET

"The minimum scientifically plausible number of deaths attributable to the genocide overall is more than 460,000"
This is an area whose population, before the #October7Attack, was 2,226,544. Which is to say, at least one in every five people IN THE WHOLE OF #GAZA has now been killed …

The Real Gaza Death Toll is Impossible to Know Today, But the Minimum Isn’t
The problem with leaving this sentiment at “we have no idea how many people have been killed” is that we do have a very clear idea of the minimum, based on the most rigorous, detailed analyses that statisticians, epidemiologists, and experts on urban warfare, working together under stringent peer review in the world’s leading research forums, agree on. And that minimum number is indeed much higher than the Ministry’s count. That minimum scientifically plausible number of traumatic death…

“How to avoid that your post about AI helps the hype”
https://hidde.blog/ai-hype/
Largely agree. I’m careful about the words I use on when I talk / post about it. I avoid terms that anthropomorphize, imply agency, reasoning, etc. I ask people to clarify *which* technology when they say “AI” (…

Signs that your post about AI helps the hype
If we're not cautious, we may accidentally feed the AI hype by talking about it in specific ways.

If you've been paying attention, this is a *very* strong signal that OpenAI is hitting the limits of improved capability with more compute/data and they're (predictably) all out of other ideas. The quiet "exponential model capabilities" lie here is what Altmann promised but is now starting not to be able to deliver, even in cherry-picked demo terms.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/11/sam-altman-says-agi-is-a-pointless-term-experts-agree.html
The "agentic" turn was never going to pan out, because it exposes the unreliability of LLMs too directly, and it turns out that no amount of yelling at your text vending machine to "Be smarter! Think harder!" will actually get you anything more than vended text.
I'm *praying* that we get into this crash sooner rather than later, since the faster it comes, the less painful it will be.
My recent reading in actual research papers corroborates this, for example, asking LLMs to play games exposes their utter lack of anything that can be termed "reasoning":
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08501v1

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SoundOfCinema
Ryuichi Sakamoto & Ryuichi Sakamoto:
🎵 Opus "Bibo no Aozora"
#RyuichiSakamoto
https://open.spotify.com/track/1eGd0Sqc3RQoICDjEamNFU

Microsoft and the NFL extend their partnership to bring real-time game data and analysis to coaches and players using Microsoft Copilot and Azure AI (Ali McCadden/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/microsoft-nfl-ai-analysis.html

Microsoft and NFL announce multiyear partnership to use AI to enhance game day analysis
Microsoft and the NFL announced a multiyear extension of their partnership to bring real-time analysis to the sidelines using Microsoft Copilot and Azure AI.