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The Trump administration is moving to
dismantle the
National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado,
taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs

Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

Source: Tencent tells staff that Yao Shunyu, an ex-OpenAI researcher who joined in September, is now its chief AI scientist, reporting to President Martin Lau (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/tencent-name…

Tencent Names Former OpenAI Researcher Chief AI Scientist
Tencent Holdings internally announced that Yao Shunyu, a researcher who joined from OpenAI in September, is now serving as a chief AI scientist overseeing the Chinese tech giant’s large language model department as well as its newly established AI infrastructure department, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Yao’s major role, part of Tencent’s office of the CEO and president,

„Policymakers need to understand that AGI is a contested term.“
https://www.techpolicy.press/most-researchers-do-not-believe-agi-is-imminent-why-do-policymakers-act-otherwise/

CSUN Researchers Call for Public’s Help in Documenting Joshua Trees’ Surprise Out-of-Season Bloom
https://newsroom.csun.edu/2025/12/16/csun-researchers-call-for-publics-help-in-documenting-joshua-trees-sur…

Punk’s 10 Best Accordion Players: A Tribute to Squeezebox Rockers
(Discuss)
https://dyingscene.com/archive/heroes-of-the-punk-accordion-a-tribute-to-squeezebox-rockers/
This is a few years old so there’s been some lineup chang…

So, bondi deleted a government study showing that right-wingers commit more terrorism, and @… put me onto it. Now there's another copy online here:
https://www…

What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism | PDF | Extremism | Crimes
National Institute of Justice-funded research projects have led to a better understanding of the processes that result in violent action, factors that increase the risk of radicalizing to violence, and how best to prevent and respond to violent extremism.

A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size:
https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison
"In a joint study with the UK AI Security Institute and the Alan Turing Institute, we found that as few as 250 malicious documents can produce a "

"By examining several widely used AI models designed for cancer detection, the researchers found that performance varied depending on patients’ self-reported gender, race, and age. They also identified multiple reasons why these disparities occur."
What AI Learned From Cancer Slides Shocked Researchers
https://scitechdaily.com/what-ai-learned-from-cancer-slides-shocked-researchers/

Northwest researchers find 6-million-year-old ice
— the oldest on Earth
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/12/16/all-science-no-fiction-northwest-researchers-6-million-year-old-ice/

Northwest researchers find 6-million-year-old ice — the oldest on Earth
To find the oldest ice on the planet researchers had to go somewhere that’s been cold for a long time — where the ice builds up in layers instead of melting away.

Wüsste gern, ob da die Kosten eingerechnet sind, die entstehen, weil Leute ihre Wohnungen verlieren, dem Stress nicht standhalten und krank werden, deren Kindern die Unterstützung fehlt, die sie brauchen, um durch das kaputte Bildungssystem zu kommen. Und so weiter.
Fucking Pseudopolitik.
"Keine "nennenswerten Einsparungen" durch Bürgergeld-Reform"