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Mozilla appoints Anthony Enzor-DeMeo as its CEO amid a challenging period for Mozilla's for-profit arm with layoffs, restructuring, and its Google dependence (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/845216/mozilla-ceo-anthony-enzor-demeo

Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox
Anthony Enzor-DeMeo says he thinks Mozilla and Firefox still have a role to play in the web, even as things shift toward AI.

We are running out of browsers which are useable …
Mozilla's New CEO Bets #Firefox's Future on #AI - Slashdot

So how long until the Firefox logo becomes another AI company logo that looks like a butthole?
:firefox: https://www.theverge.com/tech/845216/mozilla-ceo-anthony-enzor-demeo

From Translink
The Pattullo Bridge will be closed northbound one night and fully closed the next night this week, due to ongoing construction work on the new stalΕəwΓasəm Bridge.

To ensure public safety, the bridge will be closed northbound into New Westminster on Thursday, December 18 from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. This will be followed by a full closure in both directions on Friday, December 19 from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m.

FYI, the closing date for submitting comments on the US Department of Education’s plans to prioritize "patriotic education" in its discretionary grant programs is this Friday, October 17. The American Historical Association has an excellent resource to help folks weigh in! https://www.

Went on LinkedIn (was checking my profile to trim it down some more) and saw an ICE ad, so I did the only proper thing;
(I did check the comments real quick and they were 🔥 - huge ratio of anti-ICE comments. On. LinkedIn.)

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Verification of Scientific Software
Stephen F. Siegel, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12314 https://

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Verification of Scientific Software
This volume contains the proceedings of the Verification of Scientific Software (VSS 2025) workshop, held on 4 May 2025 at McMaster University, Canada, as part of ETAPS 2025. VSS brings together researchers in software verification and scientific computing to address challenges in ensuring the correctness and reliability of large-scale scientific codes. The program featured five peer-reviewed papers, three invited contributions, and a set of challenge problems, covering themes such as deductive…

A Longitudinal Study on Different Annotator Feedback Loops in Complex RAG Tasks
Sara Rosenthal, Maeda Hanafi, Yannis Katsis, Lucian Popa, Marina Danilevsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11897

A Longitudinal Study on Different Annotator Feedback Loops in Complex RAG Tasks
Grounding conversations in existing passages, known as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), is an important aspect of Chat-Based Assistants powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) to ensure they are faithful and don't provide misinformation. Several benchmarks have been created to measure the performance of LLMs on this task. We present a longitudinal study comparing the feedback loop of an internal and external human annotator group for the complex annotation task of creating multi-turn RAG c…

Bon. On a encore dévalisé la pépinière de Keranna...

Questions remain about how leaders at the Los Angeles fire department responded to a fire that leveled entire communities,
and who within the agency knew about concerns the fire could still pose a threat.
A former LA city councilor says the aftermath and recovery effort should serve as a Pearl Harbor moment for the city,
which should never again be in a position with flames encroaching on all sides.
The LA Times has published a series of bombshell revelationsabout th…