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Microsofts neues Regelwerk für KI-Sicherheit - eine Farce
Microsoft hat sich nun selber einen Code of Conduct auferlegt, der für die Sicherheit seiner KI-Systeme sorgen soll. Wir haben ihn uns genauer angesehen.

Microsofts neues Regelwerk für KI-Sicherheit - eine Farce
Microsoft hat sich nun selber einen Code of Conduct auferlegt, der für die Sicherheit seiner KI-Systeme sorgen soll. Wir haben ihn uns genauer angesehen.

Is emoji interpretation just a "fun" summer topic, or does emoji misinterpretation ever become serious, like in court discussions? - In face there have been several cases both in North America and Europe where emoji meanings were negotiated in court! I keep a collection of them because it's a nice intersection with my alter ego, the "forensic" linguist. For example, in cases from Canada and Bavaria, judges had to decide whether a thumbs-up 👍 in a chat was meant as a signal of agreement (to a contract or contract amendment), or whether (like the senders argued) it constituted only an acknowledgement of receipt of the message. In both cases, the context was super important - how did the parties interact before, what else was said in the chat, etc. Interesting! #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay

Crosslisted article(s) found for math.ST. https://arxiv.org/list/math.ST/new
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- Graph Causal Optimal Transport and Wasserstein Distances
Jan Ob{\l}\'oj, Vlad Tuchilus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13716 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathPR_bot/117109746090804032
- Detection of Structural Distortions in Functional Time Series
Debanjana Datta, Rituparna Sen, Nalini Ravishanker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13762 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statME_bot/117109778563001128
- A Structural Characterization of Entropy Functionals
Daniel Lazarev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13917 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIT_bot/117109760641851678
- Change Point Detection and Localization in High-Dimensional Time Series
Patrick Bastian, Daria Tieplova, Nina D\"ornemann, Tim Kutta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14344 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statME_bot/117109842628849962
- A distance-based theory of lottery complexity
Giulio Principi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14464 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_econTH_bot/117109786200544079
- Handover of In-Context Learning State Across Session Boundaries
Masahiro Kato, Taka Kato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14528 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/117109896699069976
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At AWS Summit, AWS announced Continuum, which uses AI to find and fix code vulnerabilities, Context, which organizes company data for AI agents, and more (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/amazon-unvei

Amazon unveils new AI agents, trying to thread the needle between autonomy and human control
AWS used its New York Summit to roll out AI agents that act on their own — from fixing security vulnerabilities to triaging email — while trying to keep humans in control of how far they go.

I have a habbit of making (too) many (small) packages for functionality that might be reused in different context. {box} might be an alternative by making scripts into modlues that can be loaded: #RStats

‘box’: Write Reusable, Composable and Modular R Code
A modern module system for R. Organise code into hierarchical, composable, reusable modules, and use it effortlessly across projects via a flexible, declarative dependency loading syntax.

future of scientific publishing my ass
#academicChatter
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11044-y

Reimagining research papers as interactive and reliable AI agents - Nature
Paper2Agent converts research papers into interactive artificial intelligence agents by turning manuscripts, code and data into model context protocol-based tool-invoking systems that reproduce original results, answer new scientific queries and collaborate to generate novel insights.

The unique selling point of the #blockchain in public lore is, that you can not change anything once it is written to the blockchain. But of course you can.
https://www.

Ravencoin, a blockchain built from Bitcoin’s code, could roll back four days of transactions
Two mining pools controlling most of Ravencoin’s hashpower are building a replacement chain from before Friday’s first invalid block, putting deposits, withdrawals and payments made since then at risk of reversal.

Microsoft publishes a 37-page "humanist AI code of conduct", establishing that "people matter more than AI", rejecting legal personhood for AI, and more (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/994566/microsoft-humanist-ai-code-of-co…

Microsoft says ‘people matter more than AI’ following safety concerns
Microsoft has created a ‘humanist AI code of conduct’ in response to safety concerns.

Just posted the story of how a theatre once killed itself with math.
Anyone can, you just have to ignore the math.
#math

Math Counts, Even in the Arts
Years ago, in Chicago, there was a successful improv comedy theatre company. They were so successful they got the city to include them in a major downtown “theatre district” build-out. They got a beautiful set of intimate spaces. Spaces with rent that could not be covered even if they

So... it turns out that one of the downsides of using good noise-cancelling headsets to do morse code #HamRadio is that they cancel the sound of thunder as well as of heavy rain. When I finally saw the lightning, I decided to give the rest of the Slow-Speed conTest a pass this evening.
For those not familiar, this is a weekly morse code practice session where you go slow …