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Wow, what a wonderful day at @… ! They put on a great conference and I was honored to have been part of it. I held a privacy workshop and gave a #fedvierse talk. I just posted the worksheets from the workshop and the presentation from the talk over on the …

Read it from the former MEP who was the European Parliament's rapporteur for the CO₂ emission performance standards for passenger cars and light commercial vehicles:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-end-goal-accounting-trick-w…

From End Goal to Accounting Trick: What a 90% Target in 2035 Really Means
A 90% CO₂ target for 2035 sounds close to zero. In practice, it creates significant room for plug-in hybrids and combustion-engine vehicles.

The privately funded National Trust for Historic Preservation last week asked the U.S. District Court to block Trump’s project.
“No president is legally allowed to tear down portions of the White House without any review whatsoever
— not President Trump, not President Biden, and not anyone else,” the lawsuit states.
“And no president is legally allowed to construct a ballroom on public property without giving the public the opportunity to weigh in.”
Trump had the East W…

Trump administration says White House ballroom construction is a matter of national security
The Trump administration says in a court filing that the president’s White House ballroom construction project must continue for unexplained national security reasons. It also says a preservationists’ organization that wants it stopped has no standing to sue. The court filing Monday was in response to a lawsuit filed last Friday by the National Trust for Historic Preservation asking a federal judge to halt President Donald Trump’s project until it goes through multiple independent reviews…

Using #PSR-3 placeholders properly in #PHP (and other awesome alliterations).
https://peakd.com/hive-168588/@crell/u

Source: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and more are set to unveil the Agentic AI Foundation to build open-source AI agent standards as soon as this week (Aaron Holmes/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai…

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Agree to Develop Agent Standards Together
For AI agents to work properly in automating white-collar tasks, the companies developing the agents and the companies running the enterprise apps those agents use will need to agree on technical standards for how these technologies connect to each other.Some leading companies are preparing to ...

The #EU - #Mercosur deal «reaffirms standards established under the WTO's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and introduces enhanced protections for copyrights, trademarks, designs, patents and trade secrets».
Also «simulations project a rise in GHG emissions across M…

I’m not going to dunk on the author, but I just saw this take:
If you’re still […] “these tools are unethical so I won’t use them”: you’ve not understood how things have already changed.
Yes pal, I have understood how things have changed, thank you.
Standing strong in my convictions about intellectual property rights, doesn’t mean I don’t understand. It means I have principles.

A gritty performance, a disappointing loss and Panthers have a new standard https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6960744/2026/01/10/panthers-season-ends-playoffs-rams/

Interesting how Poetiq (company) can improve on the performance of the standard Gemini 3.0 Pro model by adding refinements and tricks. It leads to a 9% improvement on the ARC-AGI-2 Benchmark.
https://poetiq.ai/posts/arcagi_verified/

Poetiq Shatters ARC-AGI-2 State of the Art at Half the Cost
We are proud to confirm that our system has officially outperformed existing methods, establishing a new state-of-the-art by a significant margin.