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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Bridget St. John:
🎵 Ask Me No Questions
#BridgetStJohn
https://broadsidehacks.bandcamp.com/track/ask-me-no-questions
https://open.spotify.com/track/5KLIxkbEngfMKTZ3KkMetY

Do you have experience developing Open Educational Resources (OER) or developing educational software? The Journal of Open Source Education (JOSE) is looking for reviewers to help with our check-list driven peer review process. Happy to answer questions about reviewing for JOSE if you're interested.
https://forms.gle/Rizd3TcHnQKhrbYY7

Institutional Data. Open Knowledge. AI. How can we create better bridges between them and work together to solve some of our big issues around data and access to knowledge in the age of AI?
The coming AI-BRIDGES Symposium in London (May 28-29) looks at these questions.
If you care about Open Knowledge, Institutional Data and AI, join us!
Registration open till May 21st. It's free, but seats are limited. Link to full program and registration here:

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.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Unclassified
Jana Irmert:
🎵 Monuments To Our Questions
#JanaIrmert
https://open.spotify.com/track/4jRC3xKmygWh74fU1sND7z

Institutional Data. Open Knowledge. AI. How can we create better bridges between them and work together to solve some of our big issues around data and access to knowledge in the age of AI?
The coming AI-BRIDGES Symposium in London (May 28-29) looks at these questions.
If you care about Open Knowledge, Institutional Data and AI, join us!
Registration open till May 21st. It's free, but seats are limited. Link to full program and registration here:

I'm adding an auto trigger feature to ngscopeclient soon and one of the open questions is how to depict it on the toolbar.
In the Before Times there would be the possibility of like a magic wand or sparkles plus the normal trigger icon, but I feel like in today's world that would go over about as well as a Confederate flag.
And I want to be visually clear this is "forced trigger if no event happens within say 100ms" not "automatically configure the trigger …

Being an author in 2026 means having to answer questions like this… (About a book written in 2018. And whose prose is *obviously* no, suggesting this person hasn't really cracked open the book much.)

Insurance tech startup Corgi denies accusations that it used Papermark's open source software code to develop its software and present it as its own (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/26/corg

Corgi, the buzzy Y Combinator-backed insurance tech startup, says it didn't steal an open source product | TechCrunch
Corgi became embroiled in controversy when Papermark accused it of stealing its software. Corgi says it did not, raising new questions about vibe coding.

Fortune: #DeepSeek unveils V4 model, with rock-bottom prices and close integration with Huawei’s chips https://fortune.com/2026/04/24/deepseek-v4-ai-model-price-perfor…

DeepSeek unveils its newest model at rock-bottom prices and with ‘full support’ from Huawei chips
The narrow gap between DeepSeek and leading U.S. models, as well as its low prices, raises questions about OpenAI and Anthropic's competitive moat.

“At its simplest, parents need money, but they also need time,”
said Tara Dawson McGuinness, executive director of the New Practice Lab.
“It’s one thing to be able to afford putting food on the table,
but we heard in some of the open-ended questions, a real hunger…to be there with your children at the dinner table,
and that wages and work were competing with the ability for people to see their kids.”
This is why Democrats around the country are pushing for more …

The Other Critical Childcare Issue That Politicians Overlook
Yes, parents want affordable childcare. But more than anything, they want more quality time with their kids.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
PawPaw Rod:
🎵 No Questions Asked
#PawPawRod
https://open.spotify.com/track/3d48aw8noWTYhSGxQMuD2N

Journal of Global Catholicism Volume 10, Issue 2 (2026) Inter-Spiritual Dialogue Released
https://ift.tt/JfhkIHe
Post-Migration Discussion Dear Suscribers,The listserv-to-Commons transition is complete,…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Low-level "visual" perception with visual-to-auditory sensory substitution is at least on par with brain implants for restoring vision. It's the higher-level visual perception where there remain many open questions. Much more scientific effort should go into that. #BCI #blindness

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