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@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-07-23 18:54:26

Burrow: Bengals' contract trouble 'disappointing' espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/458058

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-06-23 18:41:47

Another “Long Links” curation of long-form works that probably nobody has time for all of, but one or two of which might enrich your life. Featuring: Population shrinkage, “evitability of enshittification”, vibe-coding tales, the usual cosmology fun, a story 70 years in the making, and Equus asinus.

Asinus in opere tesselato Byzantino.
My neighborhood’s network infrastructure, which outlines the form of a cathedral’s nave.
@benb@osintua.eu
2025-07-24 14:17:33

Kremlin indicates Putin-Zelensky meeting unlikely before August amid ongoing Russia-Ukraine negotiations: benborges.xyz/2025/07/24/kreml

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-23 17:40:53

Filing: Elon Musk's lawyers say he "does not use a computer" after OpenAI accused Musk of not complying with the discovery process in his lawsuit against OpenAI (Wired)
wired.com/story/elon-musk-comp

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-07-22 18:49:01

In which I spend months in apparently unexplored parts of the nondeterministic-finite-automaton territory and get a good result. Once again, of interest only to people who care about ε-closures. (Those people are my people.)
tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-07-24 09:30:55

A look at WaPo's recent staff departures: five WaPo Opinion columnists, including Philip Bump, have taken buyouts, while two have moved to the newsroom (Charlotte Klein/New York Magazine)
nymag.com/intelligencer/articl

@rmdes@mstdn.social
2025-06-25 00:12:20

French Judge Investigating Robert Spatz (81) Requests Spain’s Judicial Assistance openbuddhism.org/justice/2025/

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-07-20 07:50:29

The 35-day old baby who starved to death in Gaza was clearly a Hamas terrorist. Anyone who says otherwise is antisemitic.
aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/19/w

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2025-06-23 23:40:31

Nine takeaways on Brazil’s crackdown on illegal mining in Munduruku lands news.mongabay.com/2025/06/nine

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-07-24 01:13:12

People are already moving stuff into office while workmen are completing finish working inside
#cornell #photo #photography

Interior of a building with barricades erected to keep visitors out of areas where construction is still ongoing,  on side there is a wood slat ceiling,  on the other side you can still see a lot of HVAC stuff above.
@jensilber@mastodon.social
2025-06-23 14:42:45

I do not understand why the U.S. military accepts noncitizen volunteers. However, since the U.S. military does accept noncitizen volunteers, I really do not understand why those servicemembers aren't automatically granted citizenship with their honorable discharge.
military.net/veterans-facing-d

Ukraine announced on June 13 that its short-range Sapsan ballistic missile would go into mass production
-- a major development in Kyiv's ongoing efforts to domestically produce the weapons it needs to fight Russia's full-scale invasion.
As Ukraine faces growing challenges in securing weapons from Western partners, and Russia continues launching drone and missile strikes on civilians, the development of Ukraine’s missile production is seen as a critical step toward strength…

@arXiv_quantph_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-24 10:11:39

Demonstration of Efficient Predictive Surrogates for Large-scale Quantum Processors
Wei-You Liao, Yuxuan Du, Xinbiao Wang, Tian-Ci Tian, Yong Luo, Bo Du, Dacheng Tao, He-Liang Huang
arxiv.org/abs/2507.17470

@arXiv_csAI_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-25 07:31:51

SMARTAPS: Tool-augmented LLMs for Operations Management
Timothy Tin Long Yu, Mahdi Mostajabdaveh, Jabo Serge Byusa, Rindra Ramamonjison, Giuseppe Carenini, Kun Mao, Zirui Zhou, Yong Zhang
arxiv.org/abs/2507.17927

@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy
2025-06-22 10:46:38

EU president throws her full weight behind the Netanyahu & Trump attacks on Iran, while negotiations were ongoing.
Reminders:
1) Iran restarted uranium enrichment after Trump withdrew from the agreement in 2018.
2) US intelligence recently stated that Iran did not pursue nuclear weapon development.

@ Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu on Bluesky:

Iran must never acquire the bomb. 
With tensions in the Middle East at a new peak, stability must be the priority. 
And respect for international law is critical. 
Now is the moment for Iran to engage in a credible diplomatic solution. 
The negotiating table is the only place to end this crisis. 
June 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM &% Everybody can reply 2
@benb@osintua.eu
2025-07-22 20:53:28

Ukraine war latest: Russian troops enter Pokrovsk, Ukrainian 'search and destroy' operation ongoing: benborges.xyz/2025/07/22/ukrai

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2025-07-24 17:31:57

Cowboys’ Micah Parsons Could Face Consequences Amid Contract Situation heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-co]

@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2025-06-22 14:31:42

Wisconsin Public Radio is being destroyed by the current administration…
➡️ wpr.org/news/wisconsin-public-

@publicvoit@graz.social
2025-07-17 13:15:20

Dear American friends,
tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20 by @… contains a lesson on

@arXiv_csRO_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-23 11:51:10

Compliant Residual DAgger: Improving Real-World Contact-Rich Manipulation with Human Corrections
Xiaomeng Xu, Yifan Hou, Zeyi Liu, Shuran Song
arxiv.org/abs/2506.16685

@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-25 09:45:50

Exploring Developer Experience Factors in Software Ecosystems
Rodrigo Oliveira Zacarias, L\'eo Carvalho Ramos Antunes, M\'arcio de Oliveira Barros, Rodrigo Pereira dos Santos, Patricia Lago
arxiv.org/abs/2506.19757

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-06-24 10:01:27

Azerbaijan gives eight journalists prison sentences ranging from 7.5 to 15 years, as part of a series of media trials set to obliterate independent reporting (Committee to Protect Journalists)
cpj.org/2025/06/8-journalists-

@arXiv_astrophGA_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-23 09:49:52

Simulating realistic Lyman-$\alpha$ emitting galaxies including the effect of radiative transfer
Hasti Khoraminezhad, Shun Saito, Max Gronke, Chris Byrohl
arxiv.org/abs/2507.16707

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-06-22 16:19:32

“The band said: ‘You know what’s “not appropriate” Keir?!’ They then used an expletive to accuse the prime minister of arming a genocide.
Israel has strongly denied allegations of genocide relating to the ongoing war in Gaza.”
– BBC
israel has strongly denied that it’s raining, have they, BBC? So tell me, what do you see when you look out the fucking window?
#bbc

@mattmaisonre@mastodon.world
2025-05-22 20:50:15

Small Multifamily Investment Trends Report Q2 2025
Arbor Realty Trust - May 22, 2025
“Amid ongoing macroeconomic uncertainty, the small multifamily sector remains well-positioned to weather volatility and build on market momentum as the economy navigates stormy conditions.”

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2025-07-21 16:35:20

Incredible if you think about it...
"The bug, when exploited, allows hackers to steal private digital keys from SharePoint servers without needing any credentials to log in. Once in, the hackers can remotely plant malware, and gain access to the files and data stored within"
Big #Microsoft

@cheryanne@aus.social
2025-06-22 00:21:40

FFS
Ray Stevens, a Gold Coast Liberal National party MP has called for the return of vagrancy laws to allow police to prosecute homeless people amid an ongoing crackdown on tent cities in Queensland.
"The police reluctantly tell me they have no legislative power to move these people on, which I find incredibly disappointing..."

@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy
2025-06-22 12:04:05

Dutch caretaker-minister of defense joins in with German chancellor Merz, saying "Israel is doing our dirty work". That'd be by attacking Iran while negotiations were ongoing, and after US intelligence concluded that Iran was not actively pursuing nuclear weapons development.

Been making noise in Reason, and animating in Blender and After Effects.
Just an artifact of my ongoing growth and progress - about a minute long.
I didn't intend it to sound like the B-52's, but ended up sounding something like they would sound if Gene Belcher (Son of Bob) joined the band.
#noAI #reason

@arXiv_csCC_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-23 08:53:30

Lower Bounds against the Ideal Proof System in Finite Fields
Tal Elbaz, Nashlen Govindasamy, Jiaqi Lu, Iddo Tzameret
arxiv.org/abs/2506.17210

@zachleat@zachleat.com
2025-07-18 22:36:45

Roadmap and ongoing work in the milestone here: github.com/11ty/eleventy/miles

@arXiv_astrophSR_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-23 09:24:32

Betelgeuse, the Prototypical Red Supergiant
Andrea K. Dupree, Miguel Montarg\`es
arxiv.org/abs/2507.15966 arxiv.org/p…

@dhuyvetter@mastodon.social
2025-06-17 18:14:25

Corporate Media Continues to Ignore The Real Story of Israel's Attacks on Iran
Israel's preemptive attack on Iran is not a surprise—it is the first step to ongoing atrocity that risks nuclear war if we do not stop it immediately open.substack.com/pub/qasimras

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-06-18 20:49:24

Things are happening in the C2PA world; here are a couple of useful steps forward, plus cheers and boos for Adobe. Plus a live working C2PA demo you can try out: tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

A blurry picture of something or other with swirls of light.
A C2PA verifier pop-up saying that Adobe asserts that this picture was produced by Timothy Bray, that it was processed with Lightroom, and links to the author's accounts on LinkedIn and Instagram.
A C2PA verifier popup with a thumbnail of the picture, a hard-to-understand about embedded vs cloud credentials, a confirmation that this information was published by Adobe, that the photo was produced by Timothy Bray, and that it was processed with Lightroom.
@arXiv_astrophIM_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-23 08:01:12

A Generative Model for Disentangling Galaxy Photometric Parameters
Keen Leung, Colen Yan, Jun Yin
arxiv.org/abs/2507.15898

@arXiv_astrophHE_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-22 11:12:20

A Common Origin of Normal Type Ia Supernovae Suggested by the Photometric Diversity
Weiyu Wu, Ji-an Jiang, Dezheng Meng, Zelin Xu, Keiichi Maeda, Mamoru Doi, Ken'ichi Nomoto, Naoki Yasuda, Masaomi Tanaka, Toshikazu Shigeyama, Nozomu Tominaga, \v{Z}eljko Ivezi\'c, Peter Yoachim, Saurabh W. Jha, Tinggui Wang, Nao Suzuki, Hisanori Furusawa, Andrew J. Connolly, Satoshi Miyazaki

@pixelcode@social.tchncs.de
2025-06-19 12:27:09

I remember vividly when the Fediverse immediately used the fake news about an alleged #Israel​i airstrike on al-Ahli Arab Hospital on 17 October 2023 as evidence for an ongoing genocide.
Wondering what the conclusion from the #Iran​ian airstrike on

Our results confirm persistent gender disparities:
women are more frequently acknowledged than credited as co-authors, especially in roles involving investigation and analysis
arxiv.org/abs/2506.15237

@arXiv_csGR_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-23 08:35:40

Graphics4Science: Computer Graphics for Scientific Impacts
Peter Yichen Chen, Minghao Guo, Hanspeter Pfister, Ming Lin, William Freeman, Qixing Huang, Han-Wei Shen, Wojciech Matusik
arxiv.org/abs/2506.15786

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-06-18 08:54:02

insurancejournal.com/news/east
Erie Insurance appears to be denying a Scattered Spider attack.

@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizza
2025-07-20 08:54:13

I don't think AI slop is a new problem, I think it just accelerated a trend that was already ongoing.
It wasn't generated so easily, but the internet was already full of slop, just human generated.

@muz4now@mastodon.world
2025-07-17 11:38:11

A Brand Divided: Trademark and the Legacy of Frida Kahlo
illusionofmore.com/a-brand-div

@arXiv_physicsgeoph_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-23 08:39:02

Earthquake Swarm Activity in the Tokara Islands (2025): Statistical Analysis Indicates Low Probability of Major Seismic Event
Tomokazu Konishi
arxiv.org/abs/2507.15872

@dwf@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-21 13:14:15

Looking at the Markdown note-taking/Zettelkasten/"second brain" software space and being really put off by the almost religious fervor around it all.
I have a variety of "things I need infrequently want to note down in a place I can reliably retrieve them later" and "ongoing personal projects that get picked up and put down as bandwidth allows, for which I'd like to serialize my work".
I don't want to save every stray thought. Most of my tho…

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-06-17 19:13:12

'In the local data that the audit examined from three [THREE] police forces, they identified clear evidence of “over-representation among suspects of Asian and Pakistani-heritage men”.
'However, the review also criticised the ongoing failure to collect ethnicity at a national level, with it not recorded for two-thirds of perpetrators, making it impossible “to provide any accurate assessment from the nationally collected data”.'
Not so conclusive then.

A massive volcanic eruption in Indonesia sent ash and smoke miles into the sky,
grounding flights, blanketing villages, and prompting evacuations as authorities remain on high alert.
Though no casualties have been reported, the volcano’s ongoing activity has disrupted travel and rattled residents in a region familiar with eruptions.

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-07-16 16:42:10

Visited my 95-year-old Mom in Saskatchewan and came away with Prairie pictures and thoughts on memory and topography and Google color science and healthcare economics. tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

The sky, between dark trees, is full of blue and pink color at sunset.
A gravel road goes straight away and uphill over the horizon. To its left, a row of telephone poles. Above, richly-blue sky. To either side, brilliant yellow canola flowers. On the horizon the right, a cluster of trees and buildings marks a farm.
A red neon sign, all-caps, in swirling lines that suggest the stripes of a flag, reads "EVERY AMERICAN FLAG IS A WARNING SIGN".
A large room with large and colorful artworks on its wall.
@arXiv_csMA_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-22 07:36:10

Learning to Communicate in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Cyber Defence
Faizan Contractor, Li Li, Ranwa Al Mallah
arxiv.org/abs/2507.14658

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2025-07-19 18:16:31

Lingering Concerns Ahead of Las Vegas Raiders Training Camp raiderramble.com/2025/07/19/li

@lilmikesf@c.im
2025-07-17 14:10:12

#Republican controlled #Senate approves $9 billion in cuts to #PBS and other non profit public broadcasting operations, as well as previously budgeted support for US

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2025-05-28 15:17:03

JWST Reveals Spectral Tracers of Recent Surface Modification on #Europa: iopscience.iop.org/article/10. -> SwRI scientists contribute to uncovering ongoing surface modification on Jupiter’s moon Europa: swri.org/newsroom/press-releas

@arXiv_astrophIM_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-22 09:58:30

'Setting Fire to the Last Forest': Project West Ford and the Mobilization of the Astronomical Community 1958-1965
John C. Barentine
arxiv.org/abs/2507.14714

@laimis@mstdn.social
2025-05-17 05:56:46

Yeah ok but met gala was great and the soup at #ferrari kitchen is to die for
formula1.com/en/latest/article

@elduvelle@neuromatch.social
2025-06-14 21:18:43

Love to see all the #NoKings posts!! Do we have any sources on total turnout?
Edit: this #TheGuardian article says "several millions" and also that they're still ongoing in some places:

@chrisnelder@mastodon.energy
2025-05-13 16:36:01

I was curious to see what streaming news media would do today, after three straight weeks of nonstop, utterly pointless coverage of the Pope. Would they finally get back to talking about the ongoing destruction of the American democratic state and the urgent matters piling up?
Naaaaah. Every single network (including, sadly, BBC and Sky News) chose to air the thoroughly disgusting spectacle of TFG and MBS making deals in KSA.
And then: Show trials! Kardashian! Mendezez! Diddy!

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-17 18:55:51

Microsoft and AMD announce a "strategic, multi-year partnership" to design custom silicon for a number of devices, including next-generation Xbox consoles (Jez Corden/Windows Central)
windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox

@aardrian@toot.cafe
2025-06-10 14:58:54

I’m mostly out of the loop on IAAP stuffs (since overlays are members and fuck that), but Rian seems to have a valid concern here for ongoing credits:
mstdn.io/@rianrietveld/1146582

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2025-07-20 06:10:39

CFP> Book Reviews for the Journal of Buddhist Ethics
ift.tt/7Niyd5J
CFP: Visibilising Marginalised Early Career Researchers in Peace, Conflict and Security Studies: A…
via Input 4 RELCFP

@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-17 10:45:21

The User Perspective on Island-Ready 6G Communication: A Survey of Future Smartphone Usage in Crisis-Struck Areas with Local Cellular Connectivity
Leon Janzen, Florentin Putz, Marc-Andr\'e Kaufhold, Kolja Straub, Matthias Hollick
arxiv.org/abs/2506.13466

@arXiv_csPL_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-17 08:31:30

Towards Relational Contextual Equality Saturation
Tyler Hou, Shadaj Laddad, Joseph M. Hellerstein
arxiv.org/abs/2507.11897

@pre@boing.world
2025-06-22 10:19:09
Content warning: UKPol MidEast

I see Sir Kier Starmer thinks that it's "inappropriate" for a music festival to have a band that campaigns for peace and an end to genocide, but that it's perfectly appropriate and may "alleviate" a "grave threat” for a country to bomb nuclear sites in a another country!
He thinks daubing some paint on airplanes as a protest is terrorism, but that using those planes in reconnaissance to support an ongoing genocide by Israel is a good and normal use of them.
What a fucking weasel, absolute death worshiping fuck-knuckle.
Goddamn Labour party loves them some illegal wars of aggression in the middle east. Can't get enough of it.
Please fuck off Sir Starmer.
#ukpol #iran #kneecap #starmer #fuckKnuckle

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2025-06-09 16:10:00

Hard to find a single summarizing quote from the post, but it keeps coming back to two closely related ideas:
(1) the tendency of humans to blame themselves for poor tool performance (“oh I should have prompted in •that• way instead, my bad”), and
(2) what we educators call the “hidden curriculum:” people are unaware of learning they have done / habitual effort they are expending, and thus they see their own learning / ongoing effort as zero-cost, obvious, nonexistent, innate personal virtue, etc.
The existence of (2) sets people up for (1); recognizing (2) helps cure (1).
4/

@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2025-07-15 06:17:26

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
JENNA: We're below horizon now.
GAN: Then she's lost!
AVON: Only us. She got what she really wanted.
VILA: I thought that was us.
blake.torpidity.net/m/203/510…

Claude Sonnet 4.0 describes the image as: "This appears to be a scene set aboard the Liberator, the advanced alien spacecraft that serves as the crew's base of operations. The setting shows the ship's distinctive flight deck with its characteristic hexagonal viewports and sleek, futuristic interior design. The scene captures what appears to be a tense moment during their ongoing struggle against the totalitarian Federation. The high-tech control panels and the ship's sophisticated architecture …
@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2025-07-18 20:03:53

Singapore accuses Chinese state-backed hackers of attacking critical infrastructure networks therecord.media/singapore-accu

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2025-06-07 13:19:19

Just finished another round of my ongoing "fix the general lack of good signal integrity and high speed digital info on wikipedia" effort.
Today's focus was making some examples for the article on emphasis en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emphasis

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-07-03 20:41:13

T.J. Watt contract: How past tensions with Steelers could linger during ongoing negotiations

cbssports.com/nfl/news/t-j-wat

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2025-07-20 12:16:21

How the NFLPA leadership mess impacts Cowboys' Smith, Odighizuwa as camp kicks off cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-06-12 05:07:45

I saw Brian WIlson’s “SMiLE” tour in August 2005 and wrote it up: tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/20
You can watch that show here:

@arXiv_astrophGA_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-22 09:17:40

The ALMA Survey of 70 $\mu$m Dark High-mass Clumps in Early Stages (ASHES). XII. Unanchored Forked Stream in the Propogating Path of a Protostellar Outflow
Shuting Lin, Siyi Feng, Patricio Sanhueza, Ke Wang, Zhi-Yu Zhang, Yichen Zhang, Fengwei Xu, Junzhi Wang, Kaho Morii, Hauyu Baobab Liu, Sheng-Yuan Liu, Lile Wang, Hui Li, Daniel Tafoya, Willem Baan, Shanghuo Li, Giovanni Sabatini

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-07-15 11:12:17

Finally: the United States sanctions Israeli officials for their ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
And by that I mean the United States sanctions the United Nations Human Rights Council special rapporteur Francesca Albanese for criticising and calling for an end to Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.
“Are we the baddies?”
What a silly question. When did you stop?

@benb@osintua.eu
2025-07-07 16:36:44

Ukraine submits multi-billion euro weapons wish list to Germany amid ongoing Russian aggression: benborges.xyz/2025/07/07/ukrai

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-07-09 20:30:36

In which I spelunk through the low-level mechanics of traversing Nondeterministic Finite Automata. ε-closures FTW! tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20
I’m sure that the world’s population contains dozens of people w…

@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-18 09:28:12

A Three-Phase Evaluation Approach for new Information and Data Models in the Smart Grid Domain
Christine van Stiphoudt, Sergio Potenciano Menci, Gilbert Fridgen
arxiv.org/abs/2507.12649

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2025-06-12 16:10:36

This is the non-emotional (!) version of what the Planetary Society thinks about the #NASA FY 2026 Budget Request ... from an ongoing online press conference.

@arXiv_csRO_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-18 08:35:31

TUM Teleoperation: Open Source Software for Remote Driving and Assistance of Automated Vehicles
Tobias Kerbl, David Brecht, Nils Gehrke, Nijinshan Karunainayagam, Niklas Krauss, Florian Pfab, Richard Taupitz, Ines Trautmannsheimer, Xiyan Su, Maria-Magdalena Wolf, Frank Diermeyer
arxiv.org/abs/2506.13933

@arXiv_quantph_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-16 10:18:11

Versatile Wavelength-Division Multiplexed Quantum Key Distribution Network Operating Simultaneously in the O and C Bands
Davide Scalcon, Matteo Padovan, Paolo Villoresi, Giuseppe Vallone, Marco Avesani
arxiv.org/abs/2507.11175

@publicvoit@graz.social
2025-05-31 08:15:07

Good advice by @… on using phrases like "increase by X #percent" and so forth in a way that people can follow:
Comparing #Numbers Badly

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-07-11 19:54:04

The European Commission drops plans to impose a digital tax on tech giants in its upcoming 2028-2034 budget proposal, amid ongoing EU-US trade negotiations (Gregorio Sorgi/Politico)
politico.eu/article/victory-eu

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-06-13 11:34:24

“Two European journalists were hacked using government spyware made by Israeli surveillance tech provider Paragon.”
techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/rese

@benb@osintua.eu
2025-07-15 15:35:52

Trump's ultimatum on Ukraine war: Kremlin weighs response as tensions rise: benborges.xyz/2025/07/15/trump

@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-19 08:37:03

Large Language Models for Unit Testing: A Systematic Literature Review
Quanjun Zhang, Chunrong Fang, Siqi Gu, Ye Shang, Zhenyu Chen, Liang Xiao
arxiv.org/abs/2506.15227

At least a half-dozen existing student-loan repayment programs will be extinguished,
including the most affordable option,
the Biden-era plan known as SAVE.
The nearly eight million people in that plan will soon need to figure out their next-best option.
The system is being restructured at a crucial moment in the ongoing student loan saga.
Only 44 percent of the nearly 35 million borrowers who should be making payments actually are, according to calculations b…

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-06-09 16:01:40

1/2 “My input stream is full of it: Fear and loathing and cheerleading and prognosticating on what generative AI means and whether it’s Good or Bad and what we should be doing. All the channels: Blogs and peer-reviewed papers and social-media posts and business-news stories. So there’s lots of AI angst out there, but this is mine. I think the following is a bit unique because it focuses on cost, working backward from there.”

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2025-06-10 22:43:14

The PI of #PUNCH and a composite image from the images by the five satellites, during the ongoing #AAS246 press conference: the stitching already works quite well and will improve further, but already now halo CMEs can be followed to a larger angular size than ever before and until hours before Earth impact.

Robert Reich here, with breaking news:
The House of Representatives has voted to take back a whopping $1.1 billion in federal funding for public broadcasting.
These are huge, crippling cuts,
and if passed by the Senate, they'll be a fatal blow to public radio and television stations around the country.
It's all part of Donald Trump's ongoing war on the free press.
He knows that independent journalism is one of the biggest obstacles to his authorita…

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-05-31 17:37:03

It’s language pedantry! No, it’s math pedantry! Anyhow, “Comparing Numbers Badly” gripes about the mis-use of “order(s) of magnitude” and percentages in comparing numbers: tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

@benb@osintua.eu
2025-07-14 13:48:25

US Envoy Kellogg to spend a week in Ukraine as President Zelensky looks to bolster defense cooperation: benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/us-en

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-07-11 11:31:11

Also, may I just say, fuck Sergey Brin.
(How’s that for offensive, Sergey? You fucking genocide apologist piece of shit.) kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/1148

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-07-05 17:15:55

Source: an ongoing outage at IT giant Ingram Micro is caused by a ransomware attack from SafePay, which has become one of the more active operations in 2025 (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-06-01 23:23:40

“This considers how two modern cameras handle a difficult color challenge, illustrated by photos of a perfect rose and a piano.” tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

Interior of a large church; in the foreground, a black grand piano with the cover up; the works of the piano reflect off the bottom of the cover.
A deep-red rose blossom; leaves and fences in the background are blurred.
A deep-red rose blossom; leaves and fences in the background are blurred.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2025-06-11 22:29:29

With the 5th #AAS246 presser come the paper arxiv.org/abs/2506.07262 (ALMA-JELLY I: High Resolution CO(2-1) Observations of Ongoing Ram Pressure Stripping in NGC 4858 Reveal Asymmetrical Gas Tail Formation and Fallback), the press release news.arizona.edu/news/belly-be (In the belly of the beast: massive clumps reveal star factories from a bygone era of the cosmos) and the papers iopscience.iop.org/article/10. (UNCOVERing the Faint End of the z ∼ 7 [O iii] Luminosity Function with JWST's F410M Medium Bandpass Filter) with the press release science.nasa.gov/missions/webb and arxiv.org/abs/2505.06198 (The "Dark-Matter Dominated" Galaxy Segue 1 Modeled with a Black Hole and no Dark Halo) with the press release utsa.edu/today/2025/06/story/r

@benb@osintua.eu
2025-07-13 22:21:15

Russia's summer offensive has fallen 'far short of expectations,' Zelensky says: benborges.xyz/2025/07/13/russi

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-07-06 19:16:08

In which I argue that arguments about whether #genAI is useful or not are the wrong arguments. The important issues are what it’s for and what it costs.
Having very unkind feelings about the people pushing it.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-07 19:01:55

Sources: the UK has delayed proposals to regulate AI, with plans to introduce an AI bill in 2026 to address concerns about issues like safety and copyright (The Guardian)
theguardian.com/technology/202

@benb@osintua.eu
2025-07-13 14:36:49

Kim Jong Un pledges full support to Russia amidst Ukraine war: benborges.xyz/2025/07/13/kim-j

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-06-25 17:31:32

Hey, looking for Bitcoin advice. I cashed out (almost all of) mine in 2017: tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/20
Just now, a nag email from my wallet provider reminded me to peek in there for t…

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@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-05-28 21:49:38

Here are a couple of springtime pictures with small associated stories. It’s a thrill to find something positive to write about: tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

Rocks on the beach with a total of 4 purple sea stars snuggled between them.
An evergreen tree in spring, with light green needles at the tip of each branch.
@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-06-26 17:42:02

In which I recommend that if you’re building or upgrading a moderately serious music-listening system, you use Qobuz and include a cheap Mac Mini: tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

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@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-07-01 18:35:38

“At the moment, we have no idea what the impact of genAI on software development is going to be. The impact of anything on coding is hard to measure systematically, so we rely on anecdata and the community’s eventual consensus. So, here’s my anecdata. Tl;dr: The AI was not useless.” tbray…