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- West Entrance to Old Faithful 
- West Entrance to Canyon 
- Mammoth Hot Springs to Norris 
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Needless to say, do not sign up for W or give them your ID information no matter how simple they eventually manage to make it.
You simply don’t need to.
You’re already in a far superior – non-corporate, federated – space.
Do not sign up for W. And warn your friends.
The only time you have any power to stop this is now. If they succeed in gaining network effects, you will be as powerless to stop them as you are with X.
And yes, they’re just another venture capita…

"In the entire federal regulatory landscape governing the privacy of personal health information, there are two main frameworks. Crisis pregnancy centers are exempt from both."
Not good.
https://kimmienicole.substack.com/p/what-they-take-when-you-walk-in…

What They Take When You Walk In
The HIPAA blind spot, the database at the center of it, and the women whose names ended up on the open internet.

Microsoft updates Edge with new AI features, including letting Copilot gather information from open tabs and use browsing history for more relevant answers (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/930188/microsoft-edge-copilot-ai-tabs

Microsoft’s Edge Copilot update uses AI to pull information from across your tabs
Microsoft Edge is adding a new AI feature that will allow its Copilot AI chatbot to answer questions about the content across all of your open tabs.

"Open Access Research Matters to the Public. We Can Prove It." @ Katina magazine
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2026/open-access-research-matters-to-the-public
"Information scho…

Bin nicht so der Fan von Jump 'n' Run Plattformer Spielen, aber beim Browsen durch die Open Source Game List (OSGL) bin ich auf VVVVVV gestoßen.
Zu meiner Schande muss ich gestehen, dass ich das Spiel vor gut 15 Jahren (!) günstig in einem der ersten Humble Bundles gekauft und seit dem nie wirklich gespielt hatte. Da hab ich wohl echt was verpasst! Macht ziemlich Spaß und der Soundtrack ist echt gelungen :)
In der Zwischenzeit ist das Spiel sogar Open Source geworden:

I just published The Open Contributions Descriptor format as an IETF Internet-Draft.
#opensource #opendata #openstandard

RE: https://floss.social/@CoMaps/116409089820321174
Looks interesting.
The website offers some good information on weaning yourself from privacy invading market leading products in many areas.
"Explore European and open-source alternatives to …

🌡️ Globale Erwärmung beschleunigt sich: 2023/24 lagen die Durchschnittstemperaturen erstmals 1,5°C über dem vorindustriellen Niveau.
Die DGI unterstützt den #Klimaaufruf 2025 von Deutscher Physikalischer Gesellschaft (#DPG) und Deutscher Meteorologischer Gesellschaft (

Microsoft says it is "exploring the potential of technologies like OpenClaw in an enterprise context", including a team of always-on agents within Microsoft 365 (Aaron Holmes/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/mic…

Microsoft Plots New Copilot Features Inspired by OpenClaw
As Microsoft faces growing competition for business customers from Anthropic, it is developing new features that would make its AI assistant Copilot function more like OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent that has taken the AI industry by storm in recent months. A newly created team under ...

Getting caught up on Katee Sackhoffs “Starbuck watches ‘Battlestar Galactica’ for the first time” videos on YouTube and it’s funny seeing them find the relevance on the show, not just to post 9/11, but to now
Robyn (her husband): “gee if the government would just release the ‘Cylon files’…”

Why does the Mac & Windows System Information app not contain the laptops' weight?
And why did I open it expecting to find that listed?
(They're 1.4 kg & 1.9 kg, fwiw. Certainly a noticeable difference after walking around with each one. I don't want to have to carry both (and their power bricks) all day again...)

So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”.
Totally trustworthy people.
(Any open source project that at the very least requires disclosure of AI-authored contributions should immediately ban Anthropic employees on principle.)
#AI

I was just looking at the watch again and noticed SR621 is listed on the face next to the model number. That is obviously the battery type. Why would they list this, unless you could do something with the information but there is no way to open the back.
Now I wonder if it is possible to carefully prise off the crystal to get to the module and from there the battery. 🤔
I'm not gonna try now but I might attempt it one day when the battery does run out.

Starlette, an open-source Python framework underpinning FastAPI, has a vulnerability, called BadHost, that can allow hackers to bypass authorization (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/information-te

Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package
BadHost" was found in Starlette, a package with 325 million weekly downloads.

"Video Recordings, From Speaker Series to Open Access Repository"
https://doi.org/10.31274/joerhe.24658
"[…] the care, pace, and speakers’ perspectives on how open access and librarianship practices share stories in their collections. Based on the Western Washington University En…

My moment of clarity in the last few weeks was coming back to “Oh right, copyright is a hack, and one that is not serving us, particularly us on the margins”
The moral rights of authorship and the way we situate our legal process of ownership are, actually, kinda at odds. And it entirely misses the idea of a commons, both as community and as a cultural base to draw from.
I've long believed that we, collectively, should own our culture — to have modern myths be Copyright 1972 LucasFilm, the traditional songs we sing Copyright 1922, now owned by Warner/Chappell Music is one of the things I find repugnant about the situation we find ourselves in.
That said, reconciling that with the behavior of the AI companies, _particularly_ the American ones? It's hard. Google abuses its monopoly position; Microsoft has forced harmful and terrible tooling on people at every turn; OpenAI is run by someone who actively despises art and does not understand it; and Anthropic is run by a guy who is trying to make sure the apocalypse has a pleasant demeanor and doesn't offend any corporations on the way. All of the above have scraped the web with no active consent — and that's largely fine, that's what putting things in common _is_, that's the beauty of the open information world we have the remnants of — but also actively evading measures people put in place to stop it and with absolutely no willingness to engage with the process. Extracting from the commons _is_ the tragedy of the commons.
It does not mean that enlarging the commons with the resulting tools is bad. The doctrine of original sin is a Christian concept I do not subscribe to. The concept of 'fruit of the poisonous tree' is a legal tool to fix power relations not a moral stance. They're worth understanding, but they are not absolute moral stances that are self-evident.
These are not harmless tools, but so too putting hard regulation and corporate, legalistic scrutiny on everything has a vastly negative impact: it is a yoke on human creativity and community to the reins of capital.
And, so too, disruption has huge costs. We are, apparently, committed to doing things the worst possible way. One can just hope that we capture the good too, because the ride has started and it's rather late to get off.

Sovereignty Is Engineered, Not Procured
Europe often asks whether it can build a company like Palantir: a software champion capable of serving intelligence, defence, law enforcement, crisis response, cyber defence, and public-sector decision-making at scale.
The usual answer is that Europe lacks data, capital, talent, or legal room. I do not think this is the full story.
The capacity is there. The data is there. The technical talent is there. The public-sector problems are …

Sovereignty Is Engineered, Not Procured
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This remains a terrible idea
https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@openrightsgroup/116624071726108448

Open Rights Group (@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org)
Attached: 1 image Access to information shouldn't be ransomed for our personal data. We’ve gone from ID checks for porn to potentially age-gating social media, livestreams, websites and more. Safety doesn't come from a surveillance-based Internet 🚫 Respond to the UK consultation by 26 May ➡️ https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/growing-up-in-the-online-world-a-national-consultation #onlinesafety #ageverification #privacy #digitalID #ukpolitics #ukpol

Chinese firms
— some with links to the People’s Liberation Army
— marrying artificial intelligence with open-source data
to market information they claim can “expose” the movements of U.S. forces.

Beijing has sought to distance itself from any direct involvement in the Iran war, but the firms
— many of which have emerged in the past five years as part of the government’s push to harness private AI for military use
— are capitalizing on the conflict.

U.S. …

Chinese firms market Iran war intelligence ‘exposing’ U.S. forces
Private Chinese technology companies — some with ties to the military — are marketing detailed intelligence on movements of U.S. forces in Iran, even as Beijing seeks to keep its distance.

"Report: Poland as a target of Russian hybrid attacks."
#Russia

Report: Poland as a target of Russian hybrid attacks
**Russia does not need to wage open war to regularly and significantly attack Poland. In recent years, we have witnessed a sequence of acts of sabotage, cyberattacks, subversion, intelligence operations, and information campaigns that sit on the threshold of armed conflict. This constitutes the „Phase 0” of war and the permanent testing of methods and tools within the framework of hybrid attacks.** 

Chinese AI developer MiniMax launches M3, a new coding model that it says rivals Opus 4.7, costing $0.12 per 1M input tokens, compared with $5 for Opus 4.7 (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/chin…

China’s MiniMax Launches New Model as Open-Source AI Coding Battle Heats Up
Chinese AI developer MiniMax on Monday launched a new large language model called M3, saying the new model’s coding capability approaches that of Anthropic’s Opus 4.7, which was released in April. The new MiniMax model is particularly suitable for coding and complex multi-step tasks for AI agents, according to the company. It can understand text, images and video in prompts. MiniMax’s M3 costs

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Google has re-engineered its search engine to keep users inside its own ecosystem with AI-powered interactive experiences. If your task is to find and critically assess information on the open web, you're fresh out of luck.
https://www.

Google Search is no longer about searching
Google has re-engineered its search engine to keep users inside its own ecosystem with AI-powered interactive experiences. If your task is to find and critically ...

Information Geometry via the Q-Root Transform
Levin Maier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20081 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.20081 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.20081
arXiv:2603.20081v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this paper, we introduce \emph{$\ell^p$-information geometry}, an infinite-dimensional framework that shares key features with the geometry of the space of probability densities \( \mathrm{Dens}(M) \) on a closed manifold, while also incorporating aspects of measure-valued information geometry. We define the \emph{$\ell^2$-probability simplex} with a noncanonical differentiable structure induced via the \emph{$q$-root transform} from an open subset of the \( \ell^q \)-sphere. This choice makes the \(q\)-root transform an \emph{isometry} and allows us to construct the \(\ell^2\)- and \(\ell^q\)-Fisher--Rao geometries, including \emph{Amari--\v{C}encov \(\alpha\)-connections} and a \emph{Chern connection} in the \(\ell^q\)-setting.
We then apply this framework to an infinite-dimensional linear optimization problem. We show that the corresponding gradient flow with respect to the \(\ell^2\)--Fisher--Rao metric can be solved explicitly, converges to a maximizer under a natural monotonicity assumption, and admits an interpretation as the geodesic flow of an \emph{exponential connection}. In particular, we prove that this \(e\)-connection is \emph{geodesically complete}. We further relate these flows to a \emph{completely integrable Hamiltonian system} through a \emph{momentum map} associated with a Hamiltonian torus action on infinite-dimensional complex projective space.
Finally, inspired by the \(\ell^2\)-theory, we outline an analogous Fisher--Rao geometry for \( \mathrm{Dens}(M) \) on possibly noncompact Riemannian manifolds, showing that, with a suitable spherical differentiable structure, the square-root transform remains an \emph{isometry}.
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Don’t Do Team Meetings
Regular team meetings are often treated as a default part of work. They are seen as a sign of coordination, alignment, and healthy communication. In practice, they often reveal the opposite.
A recurring team meeting where everyone goes around the room to explain what they did last week is usually not a good use of time. It turns communication into a performance instead of a real exchange of useful information. If the team needs a formal meeting just to lear…

Don’t Do Team Meetings
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Emmanuel Pelletier made some excellent accessibility docs for Grist https://support.getgrist.com/accessibility/

Behold, and harken! When I was a wee child, this was my Google.
Its firmware was not upgradable, it needed no charging and was always on.
Dewey, the lord of Decimals, had a system, and it _was_ good.
Encyclopedias were our more formally fact-checked Wikipedia. Microfilm and microfiche the optical technologies we used to access compressed information.
Turn the filmstrip when you hear the beep.

Finally! Some not-conflicted adults looking at the privacy concerns of LLM bots just slurping up your data without regulation or permission.
“OpenAI did not respect Canadian privacy laws when it trained its immensely popular ChatGPT tool, resulting in the collection and use of sensitive personal information, according to a joint investigation.
The federal privacy commissioner and his counterparts in Quebec, British Columbia and Alberta outlined their findings Wednesday morning into ChatGPT— a chatbot that generates conversational, human-like responses when users type in questions or tasks.
The privacy watchdogs' launched their probe in 2023 following a complaint that the company unlawfully collected, used and disclosed personal information without consent. "
#OpenAI #ChatGPT #LLM #Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Privacy

Marco DeepResearch: Unlocking Efficient Deep Research Agents via Verification-Centric Design
Bin Zhu, Qianghuai Jia, Tian Lan, Junyang Ren, Feng Gu, Feihu Jiang, Longyue Wang, Zhao Xu, Weihua Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28376 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.28376 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.28376
arXiv:2603.28376v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Deep research agents autonomously conduct open-ended investigations, integrating complex information retrieval with multi-step reasoning across diverse sources to solve real-world problems. To sustain this capability on long-horizon tasks, reliable verification is critical during both training and inference. A major bottleneck in existing paradigms stems from the lack of explicit verification mechanisms in QA data synthesis, trajectory construction, and test-time scaling. Errors introduced at each stage propagate downstream and degrade the overall agent performance. To address this, we present Marco DeepResearch, a deep research agent optimized with a verification-centric framework design at three levels: \textbf{(1)~QA Data Synthesis:} We introduce verification mechanisms to graph-based and agent-based QA synthesis to control question difficulty while ensuring answers are unique and correct; \textbf{(2)~Trajectory Construction:} We design a verification-driven trajectory synthesis method that injects explicit verification patterns into training trajectories; and \textbf{(3)~Test-time scaling:} We use Marco DeepResearch itself as a verifier at inference time and effectively improve performance on challenging questions. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that our proposed Marco DeepResearch agent significantly outperforms 8B-scale deep research agents on most challenging benchmarks, such as BrowseComp and BrowseComp-ZH. Crucially, under a maximum budget of 600 tool calls, Marco DeepResearch even surpasses or approaches several 30B-scale agents, like Tongyi DeepResearch-30B.
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Replaced article(s) found for physics.chem-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.chem-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Split-Flows: Measure Transport and Information Loss Across Molecular Resolutions
Sander Hummerich, Tristan Bereau, Ullrich K\"othe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01464 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicschemph_bot/115490816487573744
- Quantum eigenvalue processing
Guang Hao Low, Yuan Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06240 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/111758196229197043
- Coupled Lindblad pseudomode theory for simulating open quantum systems
Zhen Huang, Gunhee Park, Garnet Kin-Lic Chan, Lin Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10308 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/114675483322324201
- Cyclic- and helical-symmetry-adapted phonon formalism within density functional perturbation theory
Abhiraj Sharma, Phanish Suryanarayana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.08745 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatmtrlsci_bot/115892655431613772
- Bound Trions in Two-Dimensional Monolayers: A Review
Roman Ya. Kezerashvili
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.08346 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatmeshall_bot/116204368684768448
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Shuggie Otis:
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OpenAI releases Privacy Filter, an open-weight model for masking personally identifiable information in text, with 1.5B total and 50M active parameters (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-privacy-filter

Before submitting one or more talks to @… 2026, I wrote a blog post based on my 2024 presentation: Bring Back RSS for Operational Security.
#rss #infosec

Bring Back RSS for Operational Security
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Sources: advertisers that bought ChatGPT's first ad campaigns say the process was low tech and that they haven't received much data showing if their ads worked (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
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OpenAI’s First Advertisers Can’t Prove ChatGPT Ads Work
As OpenAI prepares to open up ad sales to more marketers next month, it is trying to address what some advertisers say was lacking in the initial ad sales offering. Among other things, the ChatGPT creator is planning to streamline the process of ad buying, either in partnerships with ad tech ...

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Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas:
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