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An interview with OpenAI for Science head Kevin Weil on the team's mission, why LLMs can't come up with game-changing discoveries yet, and more (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/26/1131728/ins…

Inside OpenAI’s big play for science 
An exclusive conversation with Kevin Weil, head of OpenAI for Science, a new team that wants to make scientists more productive.

> Większość podróżnych przewożących okazy CITES, tłumaczy się nieznajomością przepisów, ale to nie zwalnia ich z odpowiedzialności prawnej. Należy pamiętać, aby nie kupować i nie przewozić pamiątek wykonanych z chronionych gatunków fauny i flory.

Higher education starts to fight back against attacks on its value and policies
https://hechingerreport.org/value-policies-funding-cut-universities-colleges-start-fighting-back/

"The Economics of Libraries"
https://www.routledge.com/The-Economics-of-Libraries/Martorana-Rizzo/p/book/9781032364285 (erscheint im April)
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POL-OS: Osnabrück: Pkw beschädigt - Zeugen gesucht Osnabrück (ots) - Die Polizei sucht nach einem Fahrzeugführer, der am Dienstag in der Zeit von 8.50 bis 14 Uhr mit seinem Fahrzeug einen an der Voigts-Rhetz-Straße in Osnabrück geparkten Pkw beschädigt hat - und sich unerlaubt von der ... https://www.presseportal.de/bla…

Ich? Übertreiben? Quaaaatsch.
(Ja, WIP, ich invertier' das noch…)

I submitted a proposal for a lightning talk for #FOSDEM . It's about .... from street-level hack to open cultural production.
https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2026

Current summary of all of the GPU acceleration work I've been doing in ngscopeclient since v0.1.1.
Other than the CDR PLL and eye pattern which were high-priority targets that were worth the effort, and the Ethernet which I got nerdsniped on, these are all trivial inner loops of just a few lines that I threw at the GPU without any significant tuning, so there's probably more performance upside.
But I'm not complaining with what I've pulled off so far. (As you ca…

Source: as part of its Google deal, Apple has full access to the Gemini model in its own data centers and can use distillation to produce smaller models (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-can-distill-googles-big-gemini-model

Apple Can ‘Distill’ Google’s Big Gemini Model
Before we get to today’s column, we wanted to flag OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s major reorg, the company’s new "Spud” model and its decision to shut down the Sora video app and application programming interface, which we scooped on Tuesday. (For what the company’s organizational structure looks like ...

POL-AUR: Hage - Beschädigung einer Ampelanlage / Aurich - Autofahrer gesucht / Südbrookmerland - Pedelec-Fahrerin verletzt / Aurich - Schwer verletzt nach Fahrradsturz Landkreis Aurich (ots) - Kriminalitätsgeschehen Hage - Beschädigung einer Ampelanlage In Hage kam es in der Nacht von Samstag auf Sonntag zu einer Sachbeschädigung. Es wurde durch unbekannte Täterschaft an der Straße Sestein Dimt ein Ampelmast ...