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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.

Sources: Nvidia is developing a Nemotron 4 model with 1T parameters, up from Nemotron 3 Ultra's 550B parameters but smaller than leading Chinese open models (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-trying-develop-wo…

Why Nvidia Is Trying To Develop The World’s Best Open-Source AI Models
Nvidia is doubling down on its open-source efforts, pouring investment into an ambitious new in-house AI model that it hopes will drive demand for its hardware—but that could also compete with customers and partners. Nvidia is aiming for the new model, the biggest of a family that it is calling ...

Working in computer security, I've learned to be *real fucking careful* about this law and have heard of it being interpreted *very broadly.* If a client of mine described a system to circumvent access restrictions like this I would fire them. But assuming I didn't fire them, I would
1) tell them to shut it down immediately
2) tell them to talk to a lawyer.
LLMs, as a class of user, are clearly not authorized to access the information. By circumventing access controls, they have "knowingly accessed a computer without authorization." Those access restrictions exist to protect against various damages, including bandwidth use and "intellectual property theft" (another concept I'm not a fan of, but anyway). By violating those restrictions they could open themselves up to legal liability.
Now, IANAL. My job is to describe risk. That's a sufficient risk. It actually doesn't even matter if you'd win the case in the end, a lot of people just can't afford to fight.
But, in this case, it tends to be powerful people, for whom the law does not apply, abusing people who neither have the protection of the law nor the money to just ruin someone's life with a flood of lawyers.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030

DeepSeek launches V4-Pro, its most advanced model that rivals Kimi K3 on some benchmarks at much lower prices, costing $0.44/1M input and $0.87/1M output tokens (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/deepseek-r…

DeepSeek Releases Flagship V4-Pro Model in Challenge to Kimi K3
Chinese AI developer DeepSeek on Wednesday launched the official version of its most advanced model, V4-Pro, which offers capabilities comparable to Moonshot AI’s popular Kimi K3 model on some benchmarks at much lower prices. DeepSeek’s latest release further intensifies the competition among increasingly powerful Chinese open-source models and U.S. frontier models from Anthropic and OpenAI. A

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:

"Open Access Publishing Fund Efficiency: An Expansion and Replication of Luo et al. (2022)"
https://doi.org/10.18438/eblip30968
"This study’s objective was to replicate and test Luo et al.’s (2022) proposals regarding open access publishing fund efficiency, specifically the time ef…

I'm slowly running my script to update the price list for the books in the #InternetArchive acquisition wishlist, which I last updated (for USA addresses) in 2019.
https://archive.org/details/open_libra…

Open Libraries wish list with USA booksellers information
From the wish list, 2019 version, 1 million ISBNs were searched among USA booksellers (via AbeBooks) to find additional information about availability and approximate prices. This is the result.

RE: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117057099753905023
To explain for non-techies: Google is actively obstructing the way tagged version information of some source code can be accessed in supposed open source source projects. Normally these vers…

https://www.sofatime.app/profile/mrxoom2005

Source: Trajectory, founded by ex-DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI, and Meta staffers to build continual learning models, raised $40M led by Sequoia at a $300M valuation (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tr

Trajectory, Founded by Ex-Google and Apple Researchers, Raises Funding From Sequoia in Back-to-Back Round
As closed-source models have gotten more expensive, businesses have found workarounds by customizing open-source AI for their specific needs. Some are also trying to improve the software they use that allows models to use tools and take actions, otherwise known as a harness.Now, startups that ...

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
Personal webpage of Alexandre Dulaunoy - from information security to open source and art

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Rival Consoles:
🎵 Pulses of Information
#RivalConsoles
https://rivalconsoles.bandcamp.com/track/pulses-of-information
https://open.spotify.com/track/2hWJBOBNI9BJFvwT8Nb4x2

The poster session at #DH2026 was full of delicious snacks *and* hope for the future of digital humanities. Yay!
A random selection of the last four poster photos I took

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…

Hello. Can anyone tell me if the Britannia Panopticon in #Glasgow is open for viewing Thurs or Fri afternoons? I've read that it is but I really had to dig for that information so I'm a bit wary of trusting it. I was lucky enough to see inside 27 or 28 years or so ago and would love to visit again even though I found it a very spooky space.

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

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.

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.

Something that I wrote a year ago:
"But – wasn’t the word-wide-web designed to be a … web? Where links connect sites & information? I’m sad to say: The big players have succeeded to destroy a part of this ideology by creating walled platforms. And we happlily followed. 😭"
https://www.lock…

Sources: Chinese AI developer MiniMax is working on a 2.7T-parameter model, dubbed M3 Pro and set for release as early as Q3, and plans to open-source it (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusiv…

Exclusive: China’s MiniMax Plans to Launch 2.7-Trillion Parameter Model
Chinese AI developer MiniMax is working on a new large language model with 2.7 trillion parameters, larger than any other Chinese AI models currently on the market, according to two people with knowledge of the plan. The new model could be released as early as the third quarter, according to the people. The model is known as M3 Pro among MiniMax employees involved in its development, but it is

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 ...

Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, a16z, and others sign a letter defending open-source AI; Jensen Huang, in his first X post, says open models strengthen cybersecurity (Leo Schwartz/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/me…

Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Others Sign Letter Defending Open-Source AI
Many of the largest U.S. tech companies signed a joint letter on Friday defending open-source AI software as the Trump administration considers possible restrictions on Chinese labs. The letter—signed by Meta Platforms, Nvidia, Microsoft and Andreessen Horowitz, along with AI startups like Reflection and Hugging Face—argued that open-weight AI models strengthen competition and expand access to

Joint elastic full waveform inversion of multi-component geophone and distributed acoustic sensing data
Hoang Anh Nguyen, Ali Tura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01649 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.01649 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.01649
arXiv:2607.01649v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Joint full waveform inversion (FWI) of distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) and ocean-bottom node (OBN) data typically requires converting measured strain to particle velocity, introducing numerical noise and spectral distortion. To eliminate this, we present an elastic multi-parameter FWI framework using a velocity-stress-strain (VSS) formulation that directly models pressure, particle velocity, and gauge-length-averaged DAS strain from a single forward simulation. Data residuals are injected additively into a single backward simulation, making computational cost independent of the active sensor subsets. We benchmark individual and combined datasets on cross-talk and elastic Marmousi models. Our results show that joint inversion recovers elastic parameters more accurately than single deployments when the sensors offer complementary information. Specifically, pairing two-component geophones with a deviated borehole DAS cable yields the most accurate parameter recovery and mitigates inter-parameter cross-talk by providing a distinct physical observable and complementary depth aperture. We release our implementation as xFWI, an open-source, Devito-based Python package for scalable, multi-deployment inversions.
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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

Emmanuel Pelletier made some excellent accessibility docs for Grist https://support.getgrist.com/accessibility/

« Once an organisation accepts that the difficult software will be bought elsewhere, internal teams slowly lose the habit of building. Procurement becomes a substitute for strategy. Legal review becomes a substitute for leadership. Risk management becomes a substitute for execution. »
https://…

Sovereignty Is Engineered, Not Procured
Personal webpage of Alexandre Dulaunoy - from information security to open source and art

"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.

The US, China, and other APEC economies release a statement supporting open models, while emphasizing respect for security, data protection, and IP rights (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/24/china-ai-open-source-apec.html

U.S., other nations back open-source AI with 'strong security' at China summit
The APEC statement is the first to include open-source cooperation at a minister level, said Li Lecheng, China's industry and information technology minister.

Check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you may have missed since Friday, including
--OpenAI missed rogue agent,
--Hugging Face breach reshapes open-v-closed AI,
--Firms abandon AI lab loyalty,
--Open-weight AI's Kubernetes moment
--China pushes open-weight AI,
--Washington splits on Chinese AI,
--N. Korea expands its intelligence apparatus,
--Hackers hijack hotel Wi-Fi to steal Microsoft 365 accounts,
--DOJ tests privacy limits with GrapheneOS prosecution,
--Malware found in Steam’s biggest indie game,
--Google unveils a simpler threat actor naming scheme,
--Dutch Olympic speed skating venue hit by The Gentlemen,
--Tribeca Festival leak exposed celebrity contact information,
--Companies return to entry-level human hiring in the AI era,
--Comic-Con bans Meta smart glasses,
--AI guardrails fail on mass-casualty prompt
https://www.metacurity.com/ai-watch-openais-hacking-agent-breach-signals-a-fracturing-ai-order/

Alibaba prices Qwen3.8-Max at $2 per 1M input tokens and $6 per 1M output tokens via its API, below Kimi K3's $3/1M input tokens and $15/1M output tokens (Henry Siu/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/alibaba-offers-ne…

Alibaba Offers New Flagship Model at Lower Prices Than Kimi K3
Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group made its new flagship model, Qwen3.8-Max, widely available on Monday through application programming interfaces at lower prices than its Chinese competitor Moonshot AI’s popular Kimi K3 model. Alibaba will also make the open-source model available for download next week. The API for Qwen3.8-Max, Alibaba’s largest-ever model with 2.4 trillion parameters, costs

#linguistics #jobs
14(!) Ph.D. positions are available in the international, interdisciplinary and intersectorial research and training network "MultiLAwa – Multilingual Language Awareness in the European Digital Society".
The network focusses on the interconnections between #language #awareness, pluri-/ #multilingualism and #digitality.
Find more information on the open #PhD positions here: https://www.multilawa.eu/open-phd-positions/

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Shuggie Otis:
🎵 Inspiration Information
#ShuggieOtis
https://shuggieotis.bandcamp.com/track/inspiration-information
https://open.spotify.com/track/6qH6xP8tzxvZlCcmHit4AL

The US Department of Commerce's BIS is formally investigating whether Chinese companies like Moonshot are accessing advanced US AI chips to train their models (Leo Schwartz/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/u-

U.S. Investigates Chinese AI Companies’ Access to Chips Amid Moonshot Accusations
This week, Trump administration officials have taken to the airwaves and X to blast Chinese open source AI companies like Moonshot, accusing them of stealing intellectual property from the likes of Anthropic and other U.S. AI developers. The administration’s concerns aren’t just rhetoric, ...

COBRA2026: a large-scale multicenter pelvic cone-beam computed tomography projection dataset
Adrian Thummerer, Simon Rit, Florian Kamp, Matteo Maspero, Martjin P. W. Intven, Thomas G. Bon\'e, Christopher Kurz, Guillaume Landry, Thomas Baudier, Mustafa Kadhim, Julius Arnold, Michael Rauter, Barbara Kn\"ausl, Lukas Zimmermann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20037 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20037 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.20037
arXiv:2607.20037v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The COBRA2026 dataset is a large-scale, multicenter resource of raw radiotherapy cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) acquisitions created for the development and evaluation of conventional and learning-based reconstruction and image-correction methods. It contains data from 867 patients undergoing pelvic radiotherapy at six European centers, acquired using Elekta and Varian imaging systems. For each case, the dataset includes raw projection data, acquisition geometry, calibration and correction information, clinically reconstructed CBCT images, and corresponding planning CT images. Vendor-specific files were anonymized and converted into open formats. Planning CT images were deformably registered to the daily CBCT anatomy, and matched projections were simulated using the corresponding acquisition geometry. All cases underwent visual quality control, and cases with substantial processing or registration errors were excluded. The approximately 950 GB dataset is divided into training, validation, and test sets containing 692, 52, and 123 cases, respectively. Projection stacks and volumetric images are provided as compressed MetaImage files, with geometry and metadata supplied in XML and YAML formats. COBRA2026 supports research on full- and sparse-view reconstruction, low-dose imaging, artifact and scatter correction, motion compensation, and synthetic CT generation. The dataset is released under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license, indexed on Zenodo (doi:10.5281/zenodo.21322350), and accompanied by openly available preprocessing and baseline reconstruction code. It also forms the basis of the COBRA2026 reconstruction challenge.
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Black Samurai, Daddy Freddy & The Ragga Twins:
🎵 Information Critic
#BlackSamurai #DaddyFreddy #TheRaggaTwins
https://niceuprecords.bandcamp.com/track/information-critic-original
https://open.spotify.com/track/0OovFXxxQBB0i4HuAL2KU0

Sources: Chinese startup Moonshot AI is seeking formal approval from investors to start a Hong Kong IPO process, which could happen in as soon as six months (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/moonshot-ai-seeks-…

Moonshot AI Seeks Investor Approval to Begin IPO Process
Chinese startup Moonshot AI, whose powerful new open-source model is upending Silicon Valley, is seeking formal approval from investors to begin preparations for an initial public offering in Hong Kong, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. The Beijing-based company recently distributed a shareholder resolution regarding its IPO plan, according to the people. The timing of its

Sources: DeepSeek's annualized revenue recently reached $400M to $500M as it seeks to raise ~$7.4B at a ~$74B valuation, up from ~$50B after raising ~$7B in May (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/de

DeepSeek’s Annualized Revenue Nears $500 Million, Boosting Fundraise and IPO Plans
Strong revenue growth at DeepSeek is empowering the Chinese open-source AI star to raise its second-funding round of 50 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) and plot a potential public offering in Shanghai next year, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The three-year-old startup’s ...

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Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas:
🎵 Totality
#NaturalInformationSocietyandBitchinBajas
https://naturalinformationsocietyandbitchinbajas.bandcamp.com/track/totality
https://open.spotify.com/track/3lCX7IIrfwMICU0fLOuLEY