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Microsoft's Project Silica team details its laser-modified glass storage tech, saying tests suggest that it can preserve information for at least 10,000 years (Gayoung Lee/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/microsofts-glass-chip-holds-terabytes-of-d…

Microsoft's Glass Chip Holds Terabytes of Data for 10,000 Years
"This will change the way we think about keeping data and archival preservation."

Candidate Dark Galaxy-2 - Validation and Analysis of an Almost Dark #Galaxy in the Perseus Cluster: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adddab/meta -> NASA’s Hubble Identifies One of Darkest Known Galaxies: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-identifies-one-of-darkest-known-galaxies/

"Der Soziologe Maurice Crul und die Sozialwissenschaftlerin Frans Lelie sind bei ihrer Studie [...] darauf gestoßen, dass eine nicht unerhebliche Gruppe in der alten Mehrheitsgesellschaft in der Praxis positive Erfahrungen mit ihrer migrantischen Nachbarschaft macht, aber dennoch Vielfalt theoretisch negativ sieht. Das gleiche gilt auch andersrum. Menschen, die Vielfalt positiv sehen, lassen sich oft durch praktische negative Erfahrungen nicht beeinflussen." (1/4)

Begegnungsorte in Deutschland: Einer für alle
Wir müssen mehr miteinander reden, heißt es. Aber wo? Eine Spurensuche vom Volkshochschulkurs bis zur Eckkneipe.

"Recycling Glass into Sand Helps Protect Louisiana’s Coast from Erosion"
#US #USA #America #Louisiana

Recycling Glass into Sand Helps Protect Louisiana’s Coast from Erosion | Happy Eco News
Recycling glass into sand by New Orleans startup Glass Half Full processes 100,000 pounds monthly to restore Louisiana's eroding coastline, creating disaster relief materials and supporting wetland protection while diverting bottles from landfills.

En Route To Fellaria
(This is just a tiny fragment, but it was one of the most memorable days and places I had a chance to visit in 2025... Surreal not just because of the many colors and textures at this time of year [late September], but also the vastness and traces of processes so much larger & older than life...)
#MountainMonday

"Across a variety of tasks, including mathematical reasoning and reading comprehension, we find that although AI assistance improves performance in the short-term, people perform significantly worse without AI and are more likely to give up."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04721

AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance
People often optimize for long-term goals in collaboration: A mentor or companion doesn't just answer questions, but also scaffolds learning, tracks progress, and prioritizes the other person's growth over immediate results. In contrast, current AI systems are fundamentally short-sighted collaborators - optimized for providing instant and complete responses, without ever saying no (unless for safety reasons). What are the consequences of this dynamic? Here, through a series of randomized contro…

Das EnergiePortal des Kreises Schleswig-Flensburg informiert über aktuelle Entwicklungen zur #Energiewende.
Ein integriertes #Solardachkataster zeigt, ob sich #Photovoltaik auf…

Energieportal
Willkommen im EnergiePortal des Kreises Schleswig-Flensburg! Hier informieren wir Sie aktuell über wichtige Themen rund um Energiewende und Nachhaltigkeit. Außerdem können Sie berechnen lassen, wie gut sich Ihr Hausdach für die Installation von Solarmodulen oder als Gründach eignet und sich auch gleich ein neues Heizungssystem vorschlagen und optimieren lassen.  Viel Erfolg beim Ausprobieren.  Projektpartner Fördermittelgeber

The #COLIBRE project - calibrating subgrid feedback in cosmological simulations that include a cold gas phase / Cosmological hydrodynamical #simulations of #GalaxyFormation and evolution: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/548/1/stag300/8650960 / https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/548/1/stag375/8650959 -> New simulations reveal the cold, dusty reality of galaxy formation: https://www.astronomie.nl/nieuws/en/new-simulations-reveal-the-cold-dusty-reality-of-galaxy-formation-4807

Anthropic's Project Glasswing includes AWS, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Palo Alto Networks, and others (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/project-glasswing-microsoft-google-apple-anthropic/

Apple, Google, and Microsoft join Anthropic's Project Glasswing to defend world's most critical software
Is this AI's Manhattan Project? Twelve tech rivals are banding together and using Anthropic's unreleased Mythos model to find thousands of vulnerabilities before adversaries do.

Anthropic commits up to $100M in usage credits for Project Glasswing, along with $4M in direct donations to open-source security organizations (Greg Otto/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/project-glasswing-anthropic-ai-open-source-software-vulnera…

Tech giants launch AI-powered ‘Project Glasswing’ to identify critical software vulnerabilities
Anthropic unveils Project Glasswing with major tech partners, using an unreleased model to find and fix long-hidden software vulnerabilities.