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#Wikipedia steht unter Beschuss wie noch nie
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Overly academic/distanced ethical discussions
Had a weird interaction with @/brainwane@social.coop just now. I misinterpreted one of their posts quoting someone else and I think the combination of that plus an interaction pattern where I'd assume their stance on something and respond critically to that ended up with me getting blocked. I don't have hard feelings exactly, and this post is only partly about this particular person, but I noticed something interesting by the end of the conversation that had been bothering me. They repeatedly criticized me for assuming what their position was, but never actually stated their position. They didn't say: "I'm bothered you assumed my position was X, it's actually Y." They just said "I'm bothered you assumed my position was X, please don't assume my position!" I get that it's annoying to have people respond to a straw man version of your argument, but when I in response asked some direct questions about what their position was, they gave some non-answers and then blocked me. It's entirely possible it's a coincidence, and they just happened to run out of patience on that iteration, but it makes me take their critique of my interactions a bit less seriously. I suspect that they just didn't want to hear what I was saying, while at the same time they wanted to feel as if they were someone who values public critique and open discussion of tricky issues (if anyone reading this post also followed our interaction and has a different opinion of my behavior, I'd be glad to hear it; it's possible In effectively being an asshole here and it would be useful to hear that if so).
In any case, the fact that at the end of the entire discussion, I'm realizing I still don't actually know their position on whether they think the AI use case in question is worthwhile feels odd. They praised the system on several occasions, albeit noting some drawbacks while doing so. They said that the system was possibly changing their anti-AI stance, but then got mad at me for assuming this meant that they thought this use-case was justified. Maybe they just haven't made up their mind yet but didn't want to say that?
Interestingly, in one of their own blog posts that got linked in the discussion, they discuss a different AI system, and despite listing a bunch of concrete harms, conclude that it's okay to use it. That's fine; I don't think *every* use of AI is wrong on balance, but what bothered me was that their post dismissed a number of real ethical issues by saying essentially "I haven't seen calls for a boycott over this issue, so it's not a reason to stop use." That's an extremely socially conformist version of ethics that doesn't sit well with me. The discussion also ended up linking this post: https://chelseatroy.com/2024/08/28/does-ai-benefit-the-world/ which bothered me in a related way. In it, Troy describes classroom teaching techniques for introducing and helping students explore the ethics of AI, and they seem mostly great. They avoid prescribing any particular correct stance, which is important when teaching given the power relationship, and they help students understand the limitations of their perspectives regarding global impacts, which is great. But the overall conclusion of the post is that "nobody is qualified to really judge global impacts, so we should focus on ways to improve outcomes instead of trying to judge them." This bothers me because we actually do have a responsibility to make decisive ethical judgments despite limitations of our perspectives. If we never commit to any ethical judgment against a technology because we think our perspective is too limited to know the true impacts (which I'll concede it invariably is) then we'll have to accept every technology without objection, limiting ourselves to trying to improve their impacts without opposing them. Given who currently controls most of the resources that go into exploration for new technologies, this stance is too permissive. Perhaps if our objection to a technology was absolute and instantly effective, I'd buy the argument that objecting without a deep global view of the long-term risks is dangerous. As things stand, I think that objecting to the development/use of certain technologies in certain contexts is necessary, and although there's a lot of uncertainly, I expect strongly enough that the overall outcomes of objection will be positive that I think it's a good thing to do.
The deeper point here I guess is that this kind of "things are too complicated, let's have a nuanced discussion where we don't come to any conclusions because we see a lot of unknowns along with definite harms" really bothers me.

Ukraine meldet Beschädigung von Gasanlagen
Das staatliche ukrainische Energieunternehmen Naftogaz teilte mit, dass seine Anlagen in der vergangenen Nacht durch einen russischen Drohnenangriff beschädigt wurden. Die Leitung sprach von einem massiven Angriff auf die Infrastruktur der Gasproduktion.
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Pistorius stellt zwei Patriots in Aussicht ++
Laut Verteidigungsminister Pistorius ist Deutschland bereit, der Ukraine zwei Patriot-Flugabwehrsysteme zu liefern. Vor neuen Verhandlungen zwischen Moskau und Kiew dämpft der Kreml die Erwartungen.

Do AI models help produce verified bug fixes?
Li Huang, Ilgiz Mustafin, Marco Piccioni, Alessandro Schena, Reto Weber, Bertrand Meyer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15822

Do AI models help produce verified bug fixes?
Among areas of software engineering where AI techniques -- particularly, Large Language Models -- seem poised to yield dramatic improvements, an attractive candidate is Automatic Program Repair (APR), the production of satisfactory corrections to software bugs. Does this expectation materialize in practice? How do we find out, making sure that proposed corrections actually work? If programmers have access to LLMs, how do they actually use them to complement their own skills? To answer these q…

Das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) warnt vor der weiteren Nutzung von Windows 10 nach dem Support-Ende im Oktober 2025. Millionen Nutzer müssen jetzt handeln.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10486622?wt_mc=sm.re

Device-Free Localization Using Commercial UWB Transceivers
Hyun Seok Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13938 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.…

Device-Free Localization Using Commercial UWB Transceivers
Recently, commercial ultra-wideband (UWB) transceivers have enabled not only measuring device-to-device distance but also tracking the position of a pedestrian who does not carry a UWB device. UWB-based device-free localization that does not require dedicated radar equipment is compatible with existing anchor infrastructure and can be reused to reduce hardware deployment costs. However, it is difficult to estimate the target's position accurately in real-world scenarios due to the low signal-to…

Ukraine will Gasimport versechsfachen
Nach gezielten russischen Angriffen auf ukrainische Gasförderanlagen plant das angegriffene Land seine Gasimporte 2025 zu versechsfachen. Mindestens 4,6 Milliarden Kubikmeter Gas werde die Ukraine dieses Jahr importieren, kündigte Energieminister Herman Haluschtschenko im Parlament laut der Nachrichtenagentur Interfax-Ukraine an. Es seien bisher Verträge über 2,9 Milliarden Kubikmeter abg…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Russland und Ukraine tauschen Kriegsgefangene aus ++
Russland und die Ukraine haben weitere Kriegsgefangene ausgetauscht. Die russische Armee hat erneut mehrere Städte mit Drohnen angriffen - in Odessa wurde mindestens ein Mensch getötet, 14 weitere wurden verletzt.

EU importierte für 33 Milliarden Euro russisches Flüssiggas
Seit dem Beginn des russischen Angriffskriegs gegen die Ukraine hat die Europäische Union einem Bericht zufolge für 32,7 Milliarden Euro russisches Flüssiggas importiert. Das berichtet das Magazin Stern, dem Eurostat-Zahlen dazu vorliegen, die das Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) beim Statistischen Bundesamt abgefragt hatte.
Demnach beläuft…
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EU und Deutschland: Russisches Flüssigerdgas - weiter willkommen
Deutschland und die EU wollen nicht mehr, dass der Gasverkauf Putins Krieg finanziert. Doch bei Flüssigerdgas endet die Entschlossenheit. Das kommt weiter in die EU, und am Export verdient Deutschland sogar mit.

Polen untersucht Ausfall von Flugmanagement-Systemen
In Polen hat es nach Angaben der Behörden im Flugverkehr einen Ausfall der Managementsysteme gegeben. Die Ursache dafür werde untersucht, teilte ein Sprecher des Innenministeriums mit. Der Inlandsgeheimdienst gehe dabei auch dem Verdacht der Sabotage nach. Beamte sammelten Informationen und analysierten sie.
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Mindestens drei Tote bei russischen Angriffen ++
Bei Luftangriffen in der Zentralukraine und in Odessa sind mindestens drei Menschen getötet worden. Russland hat seine große Militärschau im August ohne Nennung von Gründen abgesagt.

Russland: Werden ukrainische Angriffe vergelten
Der Kreml hat angekündigt, dass Russland auf die jüngsten ukrainischen Angriffe reagieren werde, wenn das Militär dies für angemessen halte. Staatschef Wladimir Putin habe US-Präsident Donald Trump informiert, dass die russische Regierung zu Vergeltungsmaßnahmen verpflichtet sei. Kreml-Sprecher Dmitri Peskow sagte weiter, dass Putin und Trump während ihres Gesprächs am Mittwoch …
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Satellitenbilder zeigen Schäden an Flugzeugen ++
Nach dem ukrainischen Angriff vom Sonntag auf russische Militärstützpunkte sind auf Satellitenbildern Schäden an einigen Maschinen zu sehen. Im Norden der Ukraine sind bei Angriffen laut Behörden mindestens fünf Menschen getötet worden. Der Liveblog vom Donnerstag zum Nachlesen.