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Kiedy piszesz bibliotekę w #RustLang, bo chcesz bezpiecznego kodu, a zamiast tego dostajesz jakiś paskudny #heisenbug z przekłamaniem danych.
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JWST reveals a supernova following a gamma-ray burst at z $\simeq$ 7.3
A. J. Levan, B. Schneider, E. Le Floc'h, G. Brammer, N. R. Tanvir, D. B. Malesani, A. Martin-Carrillo, A. Rossi, A. Saccardi, A. Sneppen, S. D. Vergani, J. An, J. -L. Atteia, F. E. Bauer, V. Buat, S. Campana, A. Chrimes, B. Cordier, L. Cotter, F. Daigne, V. D'Elia, M. De Pasquale, A. de Ugarte Postigo, G. Corcoran, R. A. J. Eyles-Ferris, H. Fausey, A. S. Fruchter, O. Godet, B. P. Gompertz, D. Gotz, N. Habeeb…

JWST reveals a supernova following a gamma-ray burst at z $\simeq$ 7.3
The majority of energetic long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are thought to arise from the collapse of massive stars, making them powerful tracers of star formation across cosmic time. Evidence for this origin comes from the presence of supernovae in the aftermath of the GRB event, whose properties in turn link back to those of the collapsing star. In principle, with GRBs we can study the properties of individual stars in the distant universe. Here, we present JWST/NIRCAM observations that d…

Ashby, which offers an AI-powered talent platform combining applications, CRM, search, and more, raised a $50M Series D, following a $30M Series C in 2024 (Judy Rider/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/ai-powered-hr-platform-ashby-raise/

Exclusive: With OpenAI and Shopify As Customers, Ashby Raises $50M Series D For AI-Powered Talent Platform
In a Crunchbase News exclusive, San Francisco-based Ashby, provider of an “all-in-one” AI-powered HR platform, says it has raised $50 million in a Series D round of funding, just over a year after raising its $30 million Series C.

Just saw this:
#AI can mean a lot of things these days, but lots of the popular meanings imply a bevy of harms that I definitely wouldn't feel are worth a cute fish game. In fact, these harms are so acute that even "just" playing into the AI hype becomes its own kind of harm (it's similar to blockchain in that way).
@… noticed that the authors claim the code base is 80% AI generated, which is a red flag because people with sound moral compasses wouldn't be using AI to "help" write code in the first place. The authors aren't by some miracle people who couldn't build this app without help, in case that influences your thinking about it: they have the skills to write the code themselves, although it likely would have taken longer (but also been better).
I was more interested in the fish-classification AI, and how much it might be dependent on datacenters. Thankfully, a quick glance at the code confirms they're using ONNX and running a self-trained neural network on your device. While the exponentially-increasing energy & water demands of datacenters to support billion-parameter models are a real concern, this is not that. Even a non-AI game can burn a lot of cycles on someone's phone, and I don't think there's anything to complain about energy-wise if we're just using cycles on the end user's device as long as we're not having them keep it on for hours crunching numbers like blockchain stuff does. Running whatever stuff locally while the user is playing a game is a negligible environmental concern, unlike, say, calling out to ChatGPT where you're directly feeding datacenter demand. Since they claimed to have trained the network themselves, and since it's actually totally reasonable to make your own dataset for this and get good-enough-for-a-silly-game results with just a few hundred examples, I don't have any ethical objections to the data sourcing or training processes either. Hooray! This is finally an example of "ethical use of neutral networks" that I can hold up as an example of what people should be doing instead of the BS they are doing.
But wait... Remember what I said about feeding the AI hype being its own form of harm? Yeah, between using AI tools for coding and calling their classifier "AI" in a way that makes it seem like the same kind of thing as ChatGPT et al., they're leaning into the hype rather than helping restrain it. And that means they're causing harm. Big AI companies can point to them and say "look AI enables cute things you like" when AI didn't actually enable it. So I'm feeling meh about this cute game and won't be sharing it aside from this post. If you love the cute fish, you don't really have to feel bad for playing with it, but I'd feel bad for advertising it without a disclaimer.

BREAKTHROUGH: Belgian Authorities Arrest and Interrogate Israeli War Crimes Suspects Following Complaint by Hind Rajab Foundation and GLAN - THE HIND RAJAB FOUNDATION
https://www.hindr…

Leeds former head teacher faces no charges following terrorism arrest for holding up a graphic from a satirical magazine.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz9kdq84j3lo

Leeds former head teacher's terror arrest shock over protest cartoon
Jon Farley is held by police under the Terrorism Act for six hours over a placard he was carrying.

IF YOU EVER FEEL HEAVY
BECAUSE YOU CARE DEEPLY ABOUT INJUSTICE, SUFFERING AND ECOLOGICAL DESTRUCTION,
REMEMBER THAT A TRILLION
DOLLAR PROPAGANDA MACHINE
WAS BUILT TO MAKE YOU NUMB
AND IT DIDN'T WORK ON YOU
-- Natasha Jay
https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/1147281

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Trump diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency following leg swelling (Betsy Klein/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/17/politics/trump-leg-swelling-chronic-venous-insufficiency
http://www.memeorandum.com/250717/p138#a250717p138