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The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests
—not be a tool of the federal govt.
Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting https://www.

Virginia Senate leaders express “unequivocal opposition” to Compact
The letter calls upon the University to immediately cease consideration of the Compact, and if not, the state will work to negatively impact the University’s funding.

ChatGPT on the Road: Leveraging Large Language Model-Powered In-vehicle Conversational Agents for Safer and More Enjoyable Driving Experience
Yeana Lee Bond (Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA), Mungyeong Choe (Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA), Baker Kasim Hasan (Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA), Arsh Siddiqui (Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA), Myounghoon Jeon (Com…

ChatGPT on the Road: Leveraging Large Language Model-Powered In-vehicle Conversational Agents for Safer and More Enjoyable Driving Experience
Studies on in-vehicle conversational agents have traditionally relied on pre-scripted prompts or limited voice commands, constraining natural driver-agent interaction. To resolve this issue, the present study explored the potential of a ChatGPT-based in-vehicle agent capable of carrying continuous, multi-turn dialogues. Forty drivers participated in our experiment using a motion-based driving simulator, comparing three conditions (No agent, Pre-scripted agent, and ChatGPT-based agent) as a with…

🥳 New Kitten Release
Housekeeping:
• Updated runtime version to Node version 22.18.0 (latest LTS).
• Removed `--experimental-global-customevent` in node launch command (as `CustomEvent` is no longer behing the CLI flag since Node v19.0.0)
• Renamed `--experimental-loader` flag to `--loader` as the experimental prefix is no longer required.
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Forschung: Verschmelzen Menschen und KI zu einem "evolutionären Individuum"?
Mit der Entwicklung von KI-Technik könnte die Menschheit einen großen evolutionären Übergang eingeleitet haben. Das meinen zumindest zwei Evolutionsbiologen.

The Virginia Police Benevolent Association is backing
Abigail Spanberger,
the Democratic nominee for governor
— a switch from four years ago,
when the group favored Republicans up and down the statewide ticket.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/20…

Police group endorses Spanberger, Democrat running for Virginia governor
The Virginia Police Benevolent Association, which four years ago supported all Republicans, is backing Abigail Spanberger (D) over Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R).

Nice, #Python 3.9 is very soon EOL [1], so it is finally fine to use Structural Pattern Matching [2] (i.e. the `match` statement, a `switch` on steroids) everywhere! 🥳
[1] https://devguide.python.org/versions/

Apparently there is a hacking world championship and Apparently Denmark won Silver this year.
Tillykke alle! 🇩🇰🏆🇩🇰💻👩‍💻👨‍💻🇩🇰
https://www.version2.dk/artikel/danmark-vinder-soelv-til-hacker-em-jeg-er-helt-overvaeldet-og-meget-roert

Knuddels im Wandel: Vom Hobbyprojekt zur Community-Plattform
Knuddels ist seit 25 Jahren online, hatte eine Vergangenheit mit Cybergrooming und setzt heute auf eine treue Community und strengere Sicherheitsmaßnahmen.

Digitalminister Wildberger: Social-Media-Altersschranken sorgfältig prüfen
Im Interview mit heise online spricht sich Bundesdigitalminister Karsten Wildberger gegen eine vorschnelle Einführung eines Mindestalters für Social Media aus.