A survey of UK academic integrity violations finds nearly 7,000 proven AI cheating cases in 2023-24, or 5.1 per 1,000 students, up from 1.6 per 1,000 in 2022-23 (Michael Goodier/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.co…
‘Shark Skin’ Coating for Airliners May Cut Fuel Use by 4% – Delta is Testing on its 767 Fleet https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/shark-skin-coating-for-airliners-may-cut-fuel-use-by-4-delta-is-testing/
"Cutting funding for science research will have far-reaching consequences" - "We are on the precipice of losing an entire generation of scientists."- InForum | #Fargo #NorthDakota
Among other things, #writing is drafting, way, way too much, often confused and contradictory material, before cutting, cutting, cutting, interspersed with muttering, naps, more coffee (and other drinks) than is healthy, the odd social media post, and various crises of confidence. The whole process repeats a few times before anyone but the author sees the text and then the whole operation goes through se…
Sources: Anthropic has rehired Boris Cherny and Cat Wu, who developed Claude Code, just two weeks after they left for Cursor developer Anysphere (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/anthr…
Senate Democrats Say Trump 'Ceding Global Leadership' to China (Ryan Chua/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-14/senate-democrats-say-trump-ceding-global-leadership-to-china
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p126#a250714p126
Cutting rules for non-relativistic dark matter in solids based on Kohn-Sham orbitals
Zheng-Liang Liang, Fawei Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11033 https:…
LLMs are now part of our daily work, making coding easier. Join Ivan Dolgov at this year's Berlin Buzzwords to learn how they built an in-house LLM for AI code completion in JetBrains products, covering design choices, data preparation, training and model evaluation.
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AI coding tools make developers slower, study finds
Artificial intelligence coding tools are supposed to make software development faster, but researchers who tested these tools in a randomized, controlled trial found the opposite.
🤷♂️ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/ai_
Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and CLI Codex, terminal-based AI tools launched since February, have surprisingly gained ground on AI code editors with traditional UIs (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/ai-coding-tools-a…