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MIT’s potshot at Harvard for its recent cap on the number of A’s faculty can dole out seems legit to me. Stoking grade obsession is only going to boost the incentive for students to ChatGPT their way to a 4.0.
https://emilypittsdonahoe.substack.com/p/three-grade-rel…

I was at an apolitical event honoring people finishing their academic degrees in the health sector recently, and the last speech, sort of as if it was added as an after thought, tried to give a political message, which received immense applause, but just wasn't a message to me.
The speaker said “we need to be loud against all organizations that are against humanitarian principles”. My first thought was: Wow, we can't even name the dangerous ideology anymore, yet alone the organization…

Omar Muñoz was getting ready to have his morning coffee just after 5am on Monday when he heard a loud bang at the front door of his Los Angeles home.
“Open up or else we’ll break down the door, and it’ll be bad for you,” the man on the other side yelled, Muñoz, 72, recalled.
Outside, Muñoz saw officers in police vests and opened the door.
When they told him to put his hands up, he explained he was frail after six recent surgeries.
He said something to the effect of,

‘They wanted to make a scene’: the 72-year-old paraded in dramatic arrest for ‘voter fraud’
Omar Muñoz, one of 28 people charged in California, speaks out about being dragged from his home in front of cameras as DoJ accused of ‘disgusting’ PR campaign

METR says a pilot test of OpenAI's monitoring system found vulnerabilities, including an exploit that could have let AI agents hide hundreds of recent actions (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/ai-safety

Cowboys Legend Troy Aikman Opens Door to Potential Dallas Return https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/cowboys-legend-troy-aikman-opens-door-to-potential-dallas-return

A months-long pull request for iD (#OpenStreetMap’s default editor) to allow it to display #WikimediaCommons photos similar to other street-level photo services like @… and Mapillary was recently unblocked:

Still in the mood for another round of patching?
After patching NGINX, PHP, and node.js it is urgent that you update your #Sylius shop immediately, following the recent security releases: https://

Security release: Sylius 1.14.21, 2.1.17, 2.2.12 and 2.3.2 | Sylius

I know this won't change anything, but I have completely stopped giving reviews on products sold on Amazon. Unless it's something wrong with the product and I want to warn people, I don't bother giving my free labor to them.

Sources: Datadog offered to buy Israeli cloud cybersecurity startup Upwind Security for ~$4B; Upwind is finalizing a $300M funding round at a ~$3.8B valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/datadog-offered-buy-se…

Datadog Offered $4 Billion to Buy Cloud Security Startup ‘Upwind’
Enterprise software firm Datadog recently offered to buy Israeli cloud cybersecurity startup Upwind Security for nearly $4 billion, according to someone with direct knowledge of the talks, the latest sign of white-hot interest in such firms. Upwind has fielded other takeover attempts from ...

Any reliance on Palantir is an overreliance on Palantir.
"Pentagon Investigators Say Overreliance on Palantir AI Tech Contributed to U.S. Strike That Killed 123 Iranian Children"
https://gizmodo.com/pentag…