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49ers TE Kittle bemoans NFL's smelling salts ban https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45909854/49ers-george-kittle-bemoans-nfl-new-ban-smelling-salts

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed a bill into law on August 1 banning AI use for providing mental health services, while allowing its use in admin roles (Sophia Fox-Sowell/StateScoop)
https://statescoop.com/illinois-bans-ai-mental-health-services/

Illinois bans AI from providing mental health services
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker approved a new law banning the use of artificial intelligence systems in providing psychotherapy services.

How it started... 🍌🚴🏼‍♂️
How it ended. 😩

heise | "Donkey Kong Bananza" angespielt: Affengeil oder total Banane?
Nintendo bringt endlich einen neuen Plattformer heraus – aber ohne Mario. Wir haben ausprobiert, ob "Donkey Kong Bananza" ein Kaufgrund für die Switch 2 ist.

ml5.js - Friendly machine learning for the web! https://blog.bmannconsulting.com/3lxsznpxhik2f

ml5.js - Friendly machine learning for the web! - Boris Mann Tech Blog
A neighborly approach to creating and exploring artificial intelligence in the browser.

"Instead of calculators, we could sit at exams with certain books on our desks, filled with logarithm and trigonometry tables, featuring formulae for algebra, calculus, and geometry. French-speaking Swiss students might remember the ubiquitous “Formulaire et Tables” of the “Commissions romandes de mathématiques, de physique et de chimie”, published by the Éditions du Tricorne, that many generations of Swiss students used during their exams."

Banning, Adopting, Reckoning
Last month, OpenAI, the company (in)famous for their ChatGPT product, released a course called "ChatGPT Foundations for K-12 Educators", an event that has raised more than a few eyebrows, and even some outrage. We must have a serious conversation about the value of a bullshit generator in the context of teaching programming skills to new generations.

Tradeoff Between the Number of Transmitted Molecules and the BER Performance in Molecular Communication between Bionanosensors
Dongliang Jing, Linjuan Li, Lin Lin, Andrew W. Eckford
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04466

Tradeoff Between the Number of Transmitted Molecules and the BER Performance in Molecular Communication between Bionanosensors
In the domain of molecular communication (MC), information is conveyed through the characteristics of molecules transmitted between the transmitter and the receiver bionanosensors via propagation. The constrained size of the transmitter imposes limitations on its storage capacity, constraining the number of available molecules for transmission, with a resulting effect on communication reliability. This paper primarily focuses on achieving an equilibrium between the number of transmitted molecul…

Children's Commissioner for England Rachel de Souza criticizes a Channel 4 documentary on porn star Bonnie Blue for "glamorising and normalising" extreme porn (Amelia Gentleman/The Guardian)
https://www.theguard…

Microsoft's Q4 earnings show its non-AI "core infrastructure business" is booming, with consumer productivity software revenue up 20%, its best uptick in years (Asa Fitch/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.w…

Besides the bruised bananas I am chuffed at today's ride to the store and general adventure ride around town, going places I didn't think I could get to by bike. I rode about 13 miles and a little over an hour. The ebike is great for outrunning traffic or getting up those nasty hills. I still go really slow (PAS 1 or turned off) when on the crowded Oak Leaf Trail.
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