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The founder and driving force behind the #SaxaVord Spaceport is “stepping back but not down” from his role after receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis: https://www.shetnews.co.uk/2025/07/17/strang-step-back-spaceport-receiving/ - German company Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) is confident it could become the first to successfully launch a rocket from the UK’s only licensed vertical spaceport, with the firm planning another test flight during a five-week window at the end of the year.

Neuer NFC-Standard vervierfacht die Reichweite
Die neuen Spezifikationen sollen den Near-Field-Communication-Standard (NFC) schneller und bequemer in der Nutzung machen. 
https://www.…

As we prepare for the ngscopeclient v0.1 release, I'd like to actually commission a proper application icon.
We're in initial talks with one designer but they're just a general icon/branding shop and have no specific EE experience so they'll need somewhat specific guidelines of what we want the icon to depict.
Does anyone have suggestions on what the icon should look like? Sketches, concepts, text descriptions, whatever are all very much of interest.

Read all about Chatcontrol and why we should resist it. This sentence is extremely scary.... "Specifically, this AI will have to be built by WhatsApp/Meta so they can monitor us on behalf of the EU" 😱
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/chatcontrol-in-brief/

Chatcontrol 2025 edition in Brief - Bert Hubert's writings
In short, led by Denmark, many EU member states are arguing for forcing WhatsApp/Signal/etc to inspect all our photos and links, using AI. If the AI is in any “doubt” if this might be child pornography, your photo, location, phone number & other details get reported to Europol and a local police force. What happens next is not specified, but your holiday in Cyprus might end up with you having to explain your photos over at the local police station.

Somebody ate a bee this morning.
Mr. Boots fed her a Benedryl right away, & she’s looking a lot better than she did a few hrs ago, but she’s still swollen, & I think it still hurts a bit. *sigh*
#DogsOfMastodon #SpicyFly

She is very cute and politically on the bestest side but this morning I found a dead mouse head on my front porch and I'm not sure if that was a compliment or a threat.

SafeConstellations: Steering LLM Safety to Reduce Over-Refusals Through Task-Specific Trajectory
Utsav Maskey, Sumit Yadav, Mark Dras, Usman Naseem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11290

SafeConstellations: Steering LLM Safety to Reduce Over-Refusals Through Task-Specific Trajectory
LLMs increasingly exhibit over-refusal behavior, where safety mechanisms cause models to reject benign instructions that superficially resemble harmful content. This phenomena diminishes utility in production applications that repeatedly rely on common prompt templates or applications that frequently rely on LLMs for specific tasks (e.g. sentiment analysis, language translation). Through comprehensive evaluation, we demonstrate that LLMs still tend to refuse responses to harmful instructions wh…

📝🗃️ 𝗿𝗱𝗼𝗰𝗱𝘂𝗺𝗽: Dump ‘R’ Package Source, Documentation, and Vignettes into One File for use in LLMs #rstats #LLM is on CRAN https://www.ekotov.pro/rdocdum…

rdocdump: Dump R Package Documentation and Vignettes into One File
Dump R Package Documentation and Vignettes into One File

Hyundai testet deutschen humanoiden Roboter Neura 4NE1 im Schiffsbau
Hyundai will zusammen mit dem deutschen Robotikunternehmen Neura Robotics, deren Roboter fit für schwere und risikoreiche Arbeiten im Schiffsbau machen.

2027 will Amazon "Spaceballs 2" ins Kino bringen
Nach genau vierzig Jahren soll ein neuer Teil der Kult-Parodie "Spaceballs" erscheinen. Deren Schöpfer Mel Brooks ist dabei, ebenso Teile des Original-Casts.