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Innovation and Data Privacy Are Not Natural Enemies: Insights from Korea’s Experience
https://fpf.org/blog/innovation-and-data-privacy-are-not-natural-enemies-insights-from-koreas-experience/
Innovation and Data Privacy Are Not Natural Enemies: Insights from Korea’s Experience
https://fpf.org/blog/innovation-and-data-privacy-are-not-natural-enemies-insights-from-koreas-experience/
Eros Innovation, an AI and IP company which owns 12K film titles and 100K AI-ready characters, closed ~$150M in capital and acquisitions at a $2B valuation (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/eros-innovation-150…
Cate Blanchett, Cyndi Lauper, and 800 creatives launch "Stealing Isn't Innovation" to protest unauthorized AI training, backed by RIAA, SAG-AFTRA, and others (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int…
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115601979925351548
hear me out, how about NOT CRAMMING EVERYTHING INTO ONE DEVICE that just works mid for everything, but instead, you know, do some actual innovation here and there
for example, make devices specifically tailored for certain tasks
like if you're Apple why in the fuck don't you make devices with e-paper screens for people who don't want to be terminally online
RE: #Microsoft #MS
Schau mal, was ich auf SWR.de gefunden habe: https://www.swr.de/unternehmen/innovation/whitepaper-fediverse-100.html?at_medium=social&at_campaign=info@swr.de&at_source=mastodon
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Chancen des Fediverse für Journalismus
SWR https://www.swr.de/unternehmen/innovation/whitepaper-fediverse-100.html?at_medium=social&at_campaign=info@swr.de&at_source=webshare
"UK Government unveils £43m funding competition for low-carbon aviation innovation"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Technology
Two interesting articles about the dubious financials of OpenAI and the recent NVIDIA earnings report (which regardless of positive outcome triggered a sell-off):
The Structural Collapse: How Google’s Integrated Stack Is Dismantling the OpenAI Thesis
https://shanakaanslemperera.substack…
Chancen des Fediverse für Journalismus
https://www.swr.de/unternehmen/innovation/whitepaper-fediverse-100.html?at_medium=social&at_campaign=info@swr.de&at_source=webshare
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An idol has left her group in order to contest a seat in the upcoming Japanese parliamentary elections. Nana Matsuura suddenly left "dela" and her agency on January 21, and the following day announced her candidacy for the Aichi Prefecture 9th District seat in the House of Representatives, representing the Japan Innovation Party (Ishin). Her profile describes her as a graduate of Nanzan University's Faculty of Law, and a former IT company employee. She says "I'm 25-years-old, a member of the…
Spannend: 60 Seiten Whitepaper zum Thema Chancen des Fediverse für #Journalismus https://www.swr.de/unternehmen/innovation/whitepaper-fediverse-100.html
#CFP: 2026 Conference: Religion, Technology, and Innovation
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2026 Call for Papers
via Input 4 RELCFP
RE: https://chaos.social/@stk/115939398172400578
Ernsthaft einen Hackathon auszurichten heißt, dass man jeden inhaltlichen Anspruch aufgegeben hat, dass es nur noch um Simulation von Teilhabe und Innovation geht.
The European Commission on Wednesday unveiled new proposals to ease regulations on AI and data privacy.
The EU has for years sought to rein in tech companies on various issues,
but is also attempting to balance this with the need to compete with tech firms in the United States and East Asia.
"Europe has not so far reaped the full benefits of the digital revolution,"
EU economy commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis said.
"And we cannot afford to pay the …
Cate Blanchett, Cyndi Lauper, and 800 creatives launch "Stealing Isn't Innovation" to protest unauthorized AI training, backed by RIAA, SAG-AFTRA, and others (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int…
iPhone-Nutzer dürfen jetzt - also irgendwann - endlich auch. Zwei WhatsApp-Accounts! Privat & Job endlich getrennt – fast wie Android, nur mit Beta-Glanz. Nicht nur Jörg Schieb nennt’s „überfällig“. Meta nennt’s wohl Innovation.
Ich habe die vergangenen Wochen genau mit dem Problem gekämpft, privates Konto und Community für den #TCB (meinen Tennisverein). Macht endlich hinne.
38 coastal, remote, and island communities are getting a lifeline for their fragile energy grids.
Through the Energy Technology Innovation Partnership Project, they're designing microgrids, exploring local renewable generation, and hardening systems against extreme weather. The goal: reliable, affordable power that can withstand the next storm.
Als jemand, der gerade Drittmittel-Anträge schreibt und Alternativideen für weitere Anträge sammelt, finde ich den Vorschlag sehr spannend. #academicchatter
https://www.jmwiarda.de/…
Interview: "Datenschutz schützt die Schwächeren gegenüber mächtigen Akteuren"
Datenschutz steht politisch unter Druck. Warum er für Freiheit, Demokratie und nachhaltige Innovation notwendig ist, erklärt Prof. Tobias Keber im Gespräch.
What a world.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Canadian Energy Innovation Call for Proposals
https://natural-resources.canada.ca/funding-partnerships/artificial-intelligence-canadian-energy-innovation
BRE SME Low Carbon Innovation Workshop 2 (2017-09) - Hotel energy challenge: BREEAM, ethical sourcing, Responsible Hospitality Partnership, ClearlySo impact investment. - https://m.earth.org.uk/BRE-Low-Carbon-Innovation.html
Upscale AI, which is building AI networking infrastructure, raised $200M led by Tiger, Premji Invest, and Xora Innovation at a $1B valuation to take on Cisco (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Dieser #Digitalgipfel ist eine Art neoliberales Dauergewitter.
Bürokratieabbau ("Vereinfachung"), Deregulierung, Innovation, Investitionen.. und wieder von vorn.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115933745141491485
Periodic reminder that despite relentless Chrome propaganda, a lot of innovation in web browsers comes from Mozilla and Apple.
We need more PRIDE:
- Passion
- Research
- Innovation
- Development
- Education
Ahoi München.
Am Mittwoch, den 11.02.2026 sprechen wir abends bei der Münchener Volkshochschule im Rahmen des Programmschwerpunktes Zukünfte über den "Mythos der Innovation".
Man kann sich noch anmelden:
https://www.
I love that Amazon made a Rome Edition Echo Dot earlier this year for some reason https://www.amazon.it/dp/B0F3LYNQK4
Datenschutz ist ein Grundrecht, kein Luxus. Die Balance zwischen Innovation und Datenschutz zu finden ist wichtig, aber sie darf nicht einseitig zulasten unserer Privatsphäre gehen.
Als Bürger können wir uns einmischen. Schreibt euren Europaabgeordneten, macht euch kundig, diskutiert mit. Der Digitale Omnibus wird kommen – aber wie er am Ende aussieht, ist noch nicht in Stein gemeißelt. - Jörg Schieb | #Datenschutz
RE: #RSS (atom) feed on the SuperSakura site. It's …
"Clear Vivid"-Podcast von Alan Alda: "Alex Pentland: Shared Wisdom" https://www.goloudnow.com/podcasts/clearvivid-with-alan-alda-931/alex-pentland-shared-wisdom-563176
*How technological innovation has shape…
One of the most ill-conceived #EV charging solutions is to place the plug in the kerb. Clearly, no one has considered the costs of groundwork and accessibility. Introducing a special arm for the latter does not improve the situation. This is not innovation, this is stupidity.
This website illustrates nicely how the US lost the competition–at least for now–in open(ish) LLM models: #AIResearch #AGI_hype
/via Wired
Google releases TranslateGemma, a suite of Gemma 3-based open translation models available in 4B, 12B, and 27B parameter sizes with support for 55 languages (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/translategemma/
#CFP: American Academy of Religion, Western Region 2026 Conference: Religion, Technology, and Innovation
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Q&A with iRobot co-founder Colin Angle on the company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy, regulatory pressure that killed Amazon's deal, his new robotics startup, and more (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/20/it-f
Your idea could be the next tool our community relies on.
Since 2021, the GÉANT Innovation Programme has supported 30 projects that grew into flagship community services like #eduroam and eduVPN.
With up to €50K in funding, 2025 projects can turn a pilot, proof of concept, or novel idea into something that benefits the entire
The Economist: Geothermal energy’s massive leap forward
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JeTAeF3Ft6E
From video's description: "Could geothermal soon overtake nuclear power? Vijay Vaitheeswaran, our Global energy & climate innovation editor and winner of the Energy Write…
RE: https://climatejustice.social/@terminaltilt/115896899179047548
…And to make this even worse, this is an attack against permissionless innovation - a core principle enabling both the Internet itself, and the resulting
40 Jahre Windows – ich habe die Reise von 1.0 bis 95, NT und dem Cloud-Schwenk miterlebt. Was einst Innovation war, ist heute ein Abhängigkeitsverhältnis, das Politik und Verwaltung kaum hinterfragen. Während Europa über digitale Souveränität spricht, binden wir uns mmer fester an #Microsoft
Everyone is selling innovation and none of it works. What if I started an agency that sold denovation. We'll build you a last-gen project that actually works.
It'll cost twice as much up front, but you won't have to pay to get it fixed once a year forever.
From the article: "In this century, the émigré fraction of U.S. Nobels in physics, chemistry and medicine now stands at 40 percent." https://mastodon.social/@ScienceScholar/115701386822807521
Invest Rural
Shares the real stories, lessons and investor insights from Australia's rural innovation ecosystem...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/invest-rural/
Have a small plane and want to get approval for a reasonable change that requires approval? It looks like #aviation
GCVE-BCP-05 - GCVE Vulnerability Format (Updated CVE Record Format) has been published as DRAFT and ready for public review.
The standard is similar to the @… record format with some extensions (via the X_ prefixes) for GCVE format and the reference implementation vulnerability-lookup. This allows some flexibility and innovation in GNA - GCVE space w…
Through painstaking financial innovation, the USA have discovered that it's good to build roofs which don't just fly off houses.
https://nciuastrongerroof.com/Home/FortifiedRoof
"Clear Vivid"-Podcast von Alan Alda:
"Alex Pentland: Shared Wisdom"
https://goloudnow.com/podcasts/clearvivid-with-alan-alda-931/alex-pentland-shared-wisdom-563176
"How technological innovation…
8 vezes em que cientistas morreram por seus experimentos
@… https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/115541933159141939
The Theory of Strategic Evolution: Games with Endogenous Players and Strategic Replicators
Kevin Vallier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07901 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.07901 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.07901
arXiv:2512.07901v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper develops the Theory of Strategic Evolution, a general model for systems in which the population of players, strategies, and institutional rules evolve together. The theory extends replicator dynamics to settings with endogenous players, multi level selection, innovation, constitutional change, and meta governance. The central mathematical object is a Poiesis stack: a hierarchy of strategic layers linked by cross level gain matrices. Under small gain conditions, the system admits a global Lyapunov function and satisfies selection, tracking, and stochastic stability results at every finite depth. We prove that the class is closed under block extension, innovation events, heterogeneous utilities, continuous strategy spaces, and constitutional evolution. The closure theorem shows that no new dynamics arise at higher levels and that unrestricted self modification cannot preserve Lyapunov structure. The theory unifies results from evolutionary game theory, institutional design, innovation dynamics, and constitutional political economy, providing a general mathematical model of long run strategic adaptation.
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I keep thinking of something I've read years ago:
"Innovation is not the same as progress"
Progress implies a change forward, improvement, for the better.
Innovation is just change for the sake of change. Something new, not necessarily better.
Progress is hard, innovating is much easier.
🙋♂️ What the fuck is wrong with you?
❓ Have you ever seen a bandwagon you didn’t want to jump on?
💩 Can you please be less shit? https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115643458015221823
Un texte pédagogique qui vaut quelques minutes :
Simon Tremblay-Pepin, « Savoir lire en sciences humaines »
https://crits.ustpaul.ca/crits/blogue/savoir-lire-en-sciences-humaines?
Open Access: Bibliothek der Association for Computing Machinery öffnet sich
Ab Januar 2026 sollen alle Publikationen der ACM Digital Library öffentlich zugänglich sein. Das soll Wissen zugänglicher machen und Innovation fördern.
Gavin Newsom, the California governor,
announced the appointment of two prominent scientists
who left the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in recent months over conflicts with the Trump administration to state positions.
Dr Susan Monarez, the former director of the CDC, will lead California’s new public health initiative, the Public Health Network Innovation Exchange (PHNIX).
In August, Monarez was fired by the Trump administration less than a month in…
Ukraine’s air defense: aircraft, drone swarms, and innovation, – Zelenskyy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/02/ukraines-air-defense-aircraft-drone.html
How the AI Act became a case study for critics who say the EU puts regulation ahead of innovation, as the European Commission postpones a key part of the law (Financial Times)
Irgendwie bekommt der Gedanke an Solaranlagen auf dem Dach und eigene Stromspeicher im Keller eine ganz neue Stärke.
Man stelle sich vor, die CDU hätte nicht so viel Geld in zentrale Energieversorgung mit fossilen Energien gesteckt, sondern den Ausbau von dezentralen Erneuerbaren unterstützt, statt ihn zu sabotieren.
Konservative Fossilpolitik macht uns einfach und billig angreifbar. Und das einfach, weil strunzdumme Ideologie gegen Innovation regiert.
#CFP: American Academy of Religion, Western Region 2026 Conference: Religion, Technology, and Innovation
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This one's pretty cool. Sludgy and doomy and gritty-- DEAD NEANDERTHALS are from Nijmegen, Netherlands and they're known for their innovation- other things they've done has had sax, etc - this demo from just a couple days ago is just synth, drums and (heavily distorted) vocal. And it's fucking great.
https://
Mij lijkt het een verschrikkelijk plan dat Rotterdam z'n kunstacademie verliest.
Onderteken de petitie:
https://savewdka.petities.nl/
Serial entrepreneur Hamed Bahmani on early-stage building in neurotech https://www.neurofounders.co/post/serial-entrepreneur-hamed-bahmani-on-early-stage-building-in-neurotech
User interface pretending to be human: fraud.
Statistical sentence generation described as “intelligence”: fraud.
Telling people, often children, to commit dangerous or criminal acts: all sorts of crimes.
Scientific papers generated, non-existing cases quoted at court, homework faked, artists ripped-off: fraud and copyright infringement.
Training based on unlicensed works: copyright infringement.
Data centers with tax incentives and special energy pricing: theft.
Promises to investors of AGI: fraud.
Government bailouts with taxpayer money: theft and fraud.
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Media and politicians: This is innovation, don’t get left behind.
Just read about DeepSeek Sparse Attention.
Essentially, they gave ADHD to an AI to make it work better, and market it as a big innovation.
This would be a chance for Neurotypicals to question their attitude towards Neurodiversity, but I doubt they take the hint.
#adhd #neurodiversity …
“[open social] must be funded like infrastructure, not consumer apps. In fact, given the scale of hybrid threats, it should be funded from defense budgets, not innovation leftovers.
The strategic layer of democracy is the information layer. And right now, it is outsourced.” @seabass.bsky.social
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But the debt industry itself hasn't gotten any more efficient: "the cost of moving a dollar from a saver to a borrower was about two cents in 1910; a hundred years later, it was the same." ... "This puzzle resolves itself once we recognize that the vast majority of financial innovation is geared towards figuring out how to siphon off resources through fees, insider information and lobbying."
I wonder if programming language innovation will drop off post-AI. Like there's not much point learning a new language if you're not programming it directly, and LLMs know less about them.
You'll just reach for the language with the most (non-LLM generated) training data which will always be the older ones.
The way all "AI" CEOs and evangelists keep talking about how we all need to be more positive and believe more and talk less about the material issues ... that is how an actual innovation, a paradigm shift even, looks like, yes?
A look at Tsinghua University, which leads China's AI innovation, with 4,986 AI patents between 2005 and 2024, alumni behind startups like DeepSeek, and more (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
Arzt zu KI & Co.: „Digitale Werkzeuge müssen in der Hand der Medizin bleiben“
Während die Industrie den schnellen und kostenlosen Zugang zu Gesundheitsdaten für Innovation fordert, pochen Ärzte auf Kontrolle und klare ethische Regeln.
"Success! EU Microplastic Ban Regulation Drives Innovation in Biodegradable Alternatives"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Plastic
Don’t let anything stop you. While you’re out there building the world and driving innovation, we in Europe prefer to spend our time thinking up great new laws to forbid the use of things we can’t create ourselves 💪
#europe #ai
https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-invests-50-billion-in-american-ai-infrastructure
"Rethinking Data Discovery for Libraries and Digital Humanities" @ Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School: https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/10/24/rethinking-data-discovery-for-libraries-and-digital-humanities/
"Scientists Develop Cigarette Butt Asphalt to Build Stronger Roads"
#Roads #Recycling
https://hap…
#CFP: American Academy of Religion, Western Region 2026 Conference: Religion, Technology, and Innovation
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Got to say a few words on "AI and Art" on the "Blaues Rauschen" Podcast. My main point: AI art will not only diminish what people using it can express but will also change people's acceptance of friction: If all you know if perfectly smooth slop, will you really accept anything but? Also: Decomputing.
https://
The EU just opened the funding floodgates for clean energy innovation.
The European Commission launched €5.2bn in new funding opportunities targeting net-zero tech, low-carbon hydrogen, and industrial decarbonization. The goal: hit 2030 climate targets while keeping European industry competitive and resilient on the path to climate neutrality by 2050.
US startups are increasingly adopting Chinese open source AI models, as some capabilities of Chinese models start to catch up with those of frontier US labs (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/silicon-valley-building-free-chinese-ai-r…
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Meta says it will continue to operate and sell the Manus service, and Manus' talent will join Meta to deliver agents across Meta products, including Meta AI (Meta)
https://www.facebook.com/business/news/manus-joins-meta-accelerating-ai-in…
Nach dem Digital-Gipfel fordert Gerald Lembkel: Es braucht weniger Strategiepapiere und mehr Umsetzung. Deutschland scheitert nicht an fehlendem Wissen, sondern an mangelndem Handlungswillen. Digitalisierung entsteht durch konsequentes Tun – nicht durch neue Absichtserklärungen. #Digitalisierung #Innovation
Amazon Leo,
formerly Project Kuiper,
is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network,
aiming to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities beyond the reach of existing networks.
Our initial satellite constellation will include more than 3,000 spacecraft,
which we began deploying in April 2025 when we sent our first 27 satellites into space.
That mission was the first of more than 80 to deploy our constellation
The AI boom is driving coordinated innovation in the US as it builds fabs and energy infrastructure that could have lasting value even if the bubble bursts (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2025/the-benefits-of-bubbles/
Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Arzt zu KI & Co.: „Digitale Werkzeuge müssen in der Hand der Medizin bleiben“
🌿 Oxford’s TIDE Centre launches the Nature’s Intelligence Studio at #COP30 — turning 3.4 billion years of evolution into solutions for today’s climate and energy challenges. Innovation inspired by the Amazon, for the planet. 🌍✨
Senkt eine neue Innovation Kosten, verändert Verhalten und steigert die Produktivität, dann ist das kein vorübergehender Spuk, sondern echter Strukturwandel. So wie die Eisenbahn die Logistik revolutionierte und Elektrizität die Industrie auf ein neues Level hob, verspricht #KI riesige Effizienzgewinne in der Arbeit, meint Holger Schmidt in
Zoom says its "federated AI" model, combining its SLM with open- and closed-source models, got 48.1% on Humanity's Last Exam vs. 45.8% for Gemini 3 Pro w/ tools (Xuedong Huang/Zoom)
https://www.zoom.com/en/blog/humanitys-last-exam-zoom-ai-breakthrough/
TikTok öffnet die KI-Spielwiese: Bild- und Textgenerierung, “Smart Split” und Avatare drängen in den Mainstream. Innovation? Oder nur mehr digitaler Datenmüll im Feed? Der Autor bleibt skeptisch: “Die Gefahr ist, dass Leute KI-Inhalte zunehmend abschalten.” #TikTokAI #Kreativität
Taiwan opens its largest AI supercomputing data center using Nvidia's Blackwell chips, a major effort in its push for sovereign AI and chip industry innovation (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/ta…
Tucuvi, which develops AI agents that check in with patients and escalate cases to human teams when needed, raised a $20M Series A, led by Cathay and Leadwind (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/01/08/clinical-voice-ai-startup-tucuvi-raises-20m/
Samsung says Ballie, a robot announced six years ago but never released, is an "active innovation platform" within the company helping inform other products (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Vinci, which uses AI simulations to accelerate chip and other hardware design, raised a $36M Series A led by Xora Innovation, taking its total funding to $46M (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/software-
Copenhagen-based Formalize, whose compliance software serves organizations in 80 countries, raised a €30M Series B co-led by Acton Capital and Blackfin Tech (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/10/28/formalize-raises-eur30m-to-a…