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My department is looking to hire a professor of practice in CS, with a focus on AI. Job posting below. If you have questions I'll do my best to answer them, else find someone who can! We are in Providence, easy commute access from Boston.
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Professor of the Practice in Computer Science with a Focus on Artificial Intelligence - Providence, Rhode Island job with Computer Science | 37970844
The Department of Computer Science at Brown University is seeking applicants for a Professor of the Practice position at the assistant, associate, ...

"A pair of US lawmakers are calling for an investigation into how easily spies can steal information based on devices’ electromagnetic and acoustic leaks—a spying trick the NSA once codenamed TEMPEST"
https://www.wired.com/story/how-vulnerable

How Vulnerable Are Computers to an 80-Year-Old Spy Technique? Congress Wants Answers
A pair of US lawmakers are calling for an investigation into how easily spies can steal information based on devices’ electromagnetic and acoustic leaks—a spying trick the NSA once codenamed TEMPEST.

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RadixArk, led by former xAI employee Ying Sheng, raised a $100M seed at a $400M valuation to make AI inference more efficient via its open-source SGLang engine (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com…

Join us (@…) as a postdoc working on your choice of ecological forecasting or drone computer vision based monitoring of the iconic Everglades ecosystem. Applications due Friday. Happy to answer question about the position.
https://jabberwocky.weecology.org/2026/04/15/postdoc-job-ad-wading-bird-ecology-in-the-everglades/

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On the Valorization of Technical Authority 💡Nerd Alert: 1/5. Readable, but also mostly venting about weird encounters at a conference in San Francisco. The academic AI critic is often either bored or angry. Bored because everyone keeps saying the same things, or angry because all the same things need

Rebuilding public trust in AI requires meaningful citizen engagement, transparent governance, and robust legislation. Technology itself is not the problem. The issue is that few people trust institutions to deploy it wisely and for their benefit. This makes the first step to answer the following question: What’s it in for me?

Breaking the doom loop: How to rebuild trust in AI
Rebuilding public trust in AI requires meaningful citizen engagement, transparent governance, and robust legislation. By involving communities and prioritising effective oversight, institutions can break the ...

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Règlements de comptes entre ultras du PSG : de Munich Š l’A11, l’histoire secrète d’une bagarre en trois rounds - Le Parisien
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Règlements de comptes entre ultras du PSG : de Munich à l’A11, l’histoire secrète d’une bagarre en trois rounds
Samedi, un groupe de supporters ultras du PSG en a attaqué un autre lors d’un déplacement vers Angers. Un règlement de comptes qui trouve son origine à la dernière finale de Ligue des champions en Allemagne.

Training data generation for context-dependent rubric-based short answer grading
Pavel \v{S}indel\'a\v{r}, D\'avid Slivka, Christopher Bouma, Filip Pr\'a\v{s}il, Ond\v{r}ej Bojar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28537 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.28537 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.28537
arXiv:2603.28537v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Every 4 years, the PISA test is administered by the OECD to test the knowledge of teenage students worldwide and allow for comparisons of educational systems. However, having to avoid language differences and annotator bias makes the grading of student answers challenging. For these reasons, it would be interesting to compare methods of automatic student answer grading. To train some of these methods, which require machine learning, or to compute parameters or select hyperparameters for those that do not, a large amount of domain-specific data is needed. In this work, we explore a small number of methods for creating a large-scale training dataset using only a relatively small confidential dataset as a reference, leveraging a set of very simple derived text formats to preserve confidentiality. Using these methods, we successfully created three surrogate datasets that are, at the very least, superficially more similar to the reference dataset than purely the result of prompt-based generation. Early experiments suggest one of these approaches might also lead to improved model training.
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Anker announces Thus, a compute-in-memory chip it says will bring on-device AI to its products and accessories, starting with its upcoming Soundcore earbuds (John Higgins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/916463/anker-thus-chip-announcement

Anker made its own chip to bring AI to all its products
The Thus chip will come to earbuds first before being rolled out to other Anker products.