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Advocacy works, if done right. Find out how investigations by WorkerRights Consortium led to a joint effort along the supply chain to eliminate gender-based violence in Indonesia’s garment factories – more in my feature with TriplePundit.
https://www.triplepundi…

Landmark Gender Justice Agreement for Indonesian Garment Workers Shows the Power of Research and Campaigning
Last year, two garment factories in Indonesia signed a gender justice agreement aimed at eliminating gender-based violence with a union-led program. Now, the organizers behind it want to see the model spread across the country.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/22/trump-children-flores-settlement-agreement

AI-Driven Tools in Modern Software Quality Assurance: An Assessment of Benefits, Challenges, and Future Directions
Ihor Pysmennyi, Roman Kyslyi, Kyrylo Kleshch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16586

AI-Driven Tools in Modern Software Quality Assurance: An Assessment of Benefits, Challenges, and Future Directions
Traditional quality assurance (QA) methods face significant challenges in addressing the complexity, scale, and rapid iteration cycles of modern software systems and are strained by limited resources available, leading to substantial costs associated with poor quality. The object of this research is the Quality Assurance processes for modern distributed software applications. The subject of the research is the assessment of the benefits, challenges, and prospects of integrating modern AI-orient…

Mechanisms to Verify International Agreements About AI Development
Aaron Scher, Lisa Thiergart
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15867 https://

Mechanisms to Verify International Agreements About AI Development
International agreements about AI development may be required to reduce catastrophic risks from advanced AI systems. However, agreements about such a high-stakes technology must be backed by verification mechanisms--processes or tools that give one party greater confidence that another is following the agreed-upon rules, typically by detecting violations. This report gives an overview of potential verification approaches for three example policy goals, aiming to demonstrate how countries could …

Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at the results of Australia’s age assurance trials, plus signs of regret over US chip bans to China.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/australia-okays-age-assuran…

Australia okays age assurance tech - Asian Tech Roundup
Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at the results of Australia’s age assurance trials, plus signs of ...

A look at Apple's conservative approach to M&A, which may need to change to catch up in AI by acquiring a startup like Perplexity, Cohere, Sierra AI, or Mistral (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/…

Here is Alex Steffen echoing my thoughts (or I'm echoing his - either way, we're agreeing with each other.) https://open.substack.com/pub/alexsteffen/p/after-earth-day?r=asd4o&utm_campaign=post&am…

After Earth Day
The biggest error of my working life (so far).

My removal from #nasa #nyc continued afoot.
I haven’t said much of it here — but my competitive grant proposals (nasa scientists get funded this way since full cost accounting hit in 2004) have been chosen, but not funded.
There is no grant money to distribute. Folks in the know have seen that - ROSES, the acronym for research opportunities in science, does not have a 2025 call and the 2024 chosen post January 2025 don’t have money getting distributed.
If I cannot get proposals funded I will be in the same situation as every other soft money researcher.
So the soft RIF is coming for me and 1000’s of others.

Snap acquires Saturn, a calendar app for high school and college students, and says 80% of US high schoolers attend schools that support Saturn (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/snap

Snap is acquiring Saturn, a calendar app used at thousands of high schools
Snap has acquired Saturn, a calendar app used at thousands of high schools.