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Studies: women are 25% less likely than men to have basic digital skills, are more likely to be in automation-threatened jobs, and use ChatGPT less at work (Isabel Berwick/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7f0fbd7d-011a-448d-9d23-8a8db2006df4

Women are lagging behind on AI but they can catch up
Curiosity, experimentation and learning are crucial if women are to shape the future of work

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After a full day of sessions, come relax and connect with fellow attendees at our Get-Together on 16 June, generously sponsored by our partner Search Guard. Enjoy tasty food, drinks, and live music – a fantastic opportunity to meet new people and catch up with familiar faces.
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U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla on Thursday was handcuffed by officers and forcefully removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s news conference in Los Angeles
as he tried to speak up about immigration raids that have led to protests in California and around the country.
Video shows a Secret Service agent on Noem’s security detail grabbing the California senator by his jacket and shoving him from the room
as he tried to speak up during the DHS secretary’s event.
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Sen. Alex Padilla removed from Noem's press conference by security
Democratic California U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla has been forcefully removed Thursday by security officers from a news conference on immigration by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Video shows a Secret Service special agent on Noem’s detail grabbing Padilla by his jacket and shoving him from the room as the senator struggles to catch his breath while identifying himself.“I’m Sen. Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary,” he shouted in a halting voice. He tries to push back …

Slept through it. Catch-up couldn't go beyond 2 AM (#WWDC25 was at 1 AM SGT) because reached the 800 limit on Mastodon 🤦‍♂️
Maybe Mastodon should limit it by time duration or something instead.

Raiders Countdown to kickoff catch up 99-95: Who wore it best and who's wearing it now https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/06/05/raiders-countdown-to-kickoff-…

Mac OS Tahoe trying to catch up to @… with Spotlight, I see. Hope they expose the APIs so Raycast can do it better, as usual. #WWDC25

20:48—#AutisticBurnout is real.
I’m taking a break to recharge and spend time with other autistic people on #YouTube (via #FreeTube).
Catch you all when I feel up to it!

Sources: Toronto-based AI startup Cohere is seeking to raise $500M at a valuation of over $5.5B; it raised a $500M Series D at a $5.5B valuation in July 2024 (Financial Times)

AI start-up Cohere seeks $500mn in effort to catch up to OpenAI and Anthropic
Canadian group seeks valuation of up to $6.5bn but rivals have soared far higher in comparison

✨ Spring SIGs wrapped! ✨
From Prague to Paris to Ispra, 4 GÉANT Special Interest Groups (SIGs) met to explore AI, Time & Frequency networks, service strategy development, and network operations.
Spring days packed with great ideas, useful insights, new collaborations, and our beloved Lightning Talks.
👏 Big thanks to CESNET, RENATER, EC JRC & all who joined in-person and online.
Catch up on all the highlights and takeaways here 👉

GÉANT Community Programme | GÉANT CONNECT Online
The GÉANT community programme supports research and education through the activities of Special Interest Groups and Task Forces and connects academia, the business community and governmental organisations.

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So Builder . ai Mechanical Turked things and Microsoft (and others) were none the wiser.
Due diligence: boring stuff that when you skip it with catch up with you fast.
“Builder . ai’s platform relied on around 700 engineers based in India who manually wrote code based on customer requests. Despite the company marketing it as AI-generated, most of the work was done by humans behind the scenes.”

London AI startup Builder.ai collapses after 'human-powered' tech revelation
London AI startup Builder.ai collapses after 'human-powered' tech revelation

Heading North to trendy Hebden Bridge, to catch up with @… and thence to York to collect daughter from uni

The UK plans to launch an autonomous taxi trial in London in spring 2026, a year earlier than planned; Uber and Wayve will partner to operate the service (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4c9f4025-ec0b-4cdb-9ba5-1c3e77041487

UK to launch trials of driverless taxi services next spring
Britain tries to catch up in the race to adopt autonomous vehicles

Branding idea:
Tea bags for people who love to have the neighbours round for a catch-up
“Nicer Tea”

This is good. https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/what-im-learning-from-maha

What I’m learning from MAHA
And why public health needs to catch up with the curiosity-driven movement

It was great attending Kotlinconf, speaking about the work we're doing in Android Studio with Jewel and Compose, meeting so many great folks!
While you wait for the new talk recording, catch up on the Markdown talk from @… Italy I mentioned today!

Setting a caged animal free is good for your karma.
That's why you can find cages filled with little birds for sale at the bigger Buddhist temples here in Saigon.
To sell them, you'll have to catch them first. So, in many trees lining a canal here, you'll hear birds chirping away.
Or is it the mp3 player you hear?
On the left you see a small cage, filled with birds that were lured in there by the mp3 player (in a little plastic bag) on the right of the photo. Difficult to spot, but you'll get there.
During the week cages are picked up and rotated out for empty ones.
#photography day 10 of #30daysIRL