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Lions-Falcons preseason game suspended following injury to Detroit safety Morice Norris https://www.nfl.com/news/lions-falcons-preseason-game-suspended-following-injury-to-detroit-safety-morice-norris

Western Honey Bee flying away after visiting a Canary Island Daisy. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. April, 2025. #laarboretum #bee #honeybee

Anyone here that cares about all of the following or knows someone who does:
* #s390
* #Fedora
* #LinuxKernel
I'm wondering if its worth enabling s390 for some or all …

#programminghumor #memes

Story links:
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/09/former-whatsapp-security-boss-sues-meta-for-systemic-cybersecurity-failures/
https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/09/in-court-filing-google-concedes-the-open-web-is-in-rapid-decline/

Knowledge Collapse in LLMs: When Fluency Survives but Facts Fail under Recursive Synthetic Training
Figarri Keisha, Zekun Wu, Ze Wang, Adriano Koshiyama, Philip Treleaven
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04796

Knowledge Collapse in LLMs: When Fluency Survives but Facts Fail under Recursive Synthetic Training
Large language models increasingly rely on synthetic data due to human-written content scarcity, yet recursive training on model-generated outputs leads to model collapse, a degenerative process threatening factual reliability. We define knowledge collapse as a distinct three-stage phenomenon where factual accuracy deteriorates while surface fluency persists, creating "confidently wrong" outputs that pose critical risks in accuracy-dependent domains. Through controlled experiments with recursiv…

Big news for the energy transition!
And a nice little 'told you so' moment for yours truly :)
In the first half of this year, renewables produced more electricity globally than coal, for the first time.
And 2025 is the date I predicted for this to happen, back in 2016, in a blog post for Ecofys! The score was 23%-40% at the time, with most of the renewables share still coming from hydro, and the prediction was less than obvious.

I am feeling oddly competitive now that my twelve year old has caught up with my progress in Silksong.
#Silksong

Filing: Nasdaq asks the US SEC to let investors trade tokenized securities on its exchange, potentially rolling out the first token-settled trades in Q3 2026 (Anirban Sen/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/nasdaq-makes…

IFDECORATOR: Wrapping Instruction Following Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards
Xu Guo, Tianyi Liang, Tong Jian, Xiaogui Yang, Ling-I Wu, Chenhui Li, Zhihui Lu, Qipeng Guo, Kai Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04632

IFDECORATOR: Wrapping Instruction Following Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards
Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) improves instruction following capabilities of large language models (LLMs), but suffers from training inefficiency due to inadequate difficulty assessment. Moreover, RLVR is prone to over-optimization, where LLMs exploit verification shortcuts without aligning to the actual intent of user instructions. We introduce Instruction Following Decorator (IFDecorator}, a framework that wraps RLVR training into a robust and sample-efficient pipeline…