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Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Ultimatum an Meta: Philippinen verlangen Maßnahmen gegen Fake News

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Intel underestimates fsin error bounds by 1.3 quintillion.
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/intel-underestimates-error-bounds-by-1-3-quintillion/
saved 2026-07-13

Intel Underestimates Error Bounds by 1.3 quintillion
Intel’s manuals for their x86/x64 processor clearly state that the fsin instruction (calculating the trigonometric sine) has a maximum error, in round-to-nearest mode, of one unit in the last place…

#ESC #nerdporn 🤓
Alles, nur nicht der Panikmodus: So funktioniert die Technik des #ESC2026

Petit déjeuner au son des oiseaux. Meilleur moment de la journée... #birding #nature #BirdSong

The state of #security these days: #Python #virtualenv package now includes SHA256 sums of their bundled wheels, declaring that it protects against "supply-chain compromise". Because obviously there are so many attack vectors that permit you to alter a .whl file but not the .py file in the same directory.
No, I'm not saying verifying checksum makes no sense, because indeed it can save some pain if fs is damaged somehow. However, calling this a "security" feature is a misnomer at best, and openly giving people false sense of security at worst.

Dieser Irrsinn mit der unethischen Nutzung von KI wird immer undurchsichtiger und hat das Zeug, das Vertrauen in Medien zu zerstören.
Der Chef des größten dt Verlags Springer hat in der WAMS einen Kommentar zu MP Voigt geschrieben, der eine Rede in KZ Gedenkstätte mit KI hatte schreiben lassen. Er ist als Meinungsbetrag gezeichnet „von Mathias Döpfner“.
Jetzt hat Kollege @…

"A federal magistrate judge tore into the Trump administration for mismanaging the discovery process in their criminal case against former CNN reporter Don Lemon and the protesters at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota."
Trump DOJ admonished over 'belt and suspenders' excuse for hiding evidence - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-doj-2676897602/

Pushing back on the idea that GenAI is "just another tool" for coding.
This comes up all the time in discussions on its use in open source software. People will fall back on the argument that it's like linters or autocomplete, and all that matters is whether the code passes muster. But it's not. In addition to the ethical issues, GenAI is a fundamentally different kind of "coding tool" and needs to be considered differently.
A comment to that effect in…

Policy on accepting PRs that include LLM generated code? · helix-editor helix · Discussion #15408
Hello! I've just been checking out Helix recently, and I quite enjoy what I've seen so far! It's fast, intuitive, ships a lot of nice defaults, and works well with what I've used it for thus far! I...

It has always seemed bizarre to me that we don't have rules on maximum workplace temperatures - and this past month has only underlined how important they would be.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/1…

Arctic winter sea-ice extent fails to expand and sets a new record low in 2026 #Arctic

Arctic winter sea-ice extent fails to expand and sets a new record low in 2026
In 2026, the Arctic winter sea-ice extent (annual maximum extent) reached the lowest value since satellite observations began in 1979, following the previous record low in March 2025. As part of the Arctic Challenge for Sustainability III (ArCS III), the National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) maintain a long-term dataset spanning more than 40 years.