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A weaponized AI chatbot is flooding Canadian city councils with climate misinformation, and already having some 'success'.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/28/investigations/weaponized-ai-chatbot-…

A weaponized AI chatbot is flooding city councils with climate misinformation
Internal instructions accessed by Canada’s National Observer show that the chatbot produces tailored scripts, petitions, reports and even speeches for council chambers. The messaging is all framed to resonate with municipal officials’ duty to represent local interests. The chatbot drops the cost of misinformation to "close to zero."

This is quite an effort to signal a single bit of information.
https://apnews.com/article/conclave-pope-francis-cardinals-50c798caa826bbb7c913791175536add

Black smoke indicates conclave hasn't elected a new pope
Black smoke has poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave to choose a new leader of the Catholic Church. The smoke billowed out at 9 p.m. Wednesday, some four hours after 133 cardinals solemnly entered the Sistine Chapel, took their oaths of secrecy and formally opened the centuries-old ritual to elect a successor to Pope Francis to lead the 1.4 billion-member church. With no one securing the necessary two-thirds majority, or 89…

Honestly, good for these folks
City councils in Boise and Salt Lake City work around restrictions on LGBTQ flags
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/08/nx-s1-5389748/city-councils-in-boise-and-salt-lake-…

A look at the intensifying race for super apps in the Gulf, as Careem, Talabat, Amazon, Botim, and Noon consolidate various services into single platforms (Divsha Bhat/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/middle-east-super-apps/

Tech giants in the Gulf are building super-apps to dominate digital life
From Dubai to Riyadh, apps are consolidating ride-hailing, payments, and delivery into single platforms.

State Department tells consulates to resume processing Harvard visas - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/06/06/state-department-tells-consulates-reject-harvard-visas/

#Wasserstoff gilt als Hoffnungsträger für die #Dekarbonisierung, doch beim Transport durch bestehende #Erdgasleitungen gibt es

Pipelines for hydrogen transport: A review of integrity and safety challenges
The European Commission highlights hydrogen as an important energy carrier and chemical feedstock that could help decarbonise sectors otherwise deemed hard-to-abate. Europe’s existing natural gas grid is seen as a promising asset to repurpose for the transportation of hydrogen. This technical report provides a literature review of hydrogen's impact on pipeline materials, particularly steel and polymers. Hydrogen is known to reduce the ductility, fracture toughness, and the fatigue crack growt…

Trump administration weighs broad cancellation of California funding (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/07/trump-california-funding/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250607/p57#a250607p57

The contract between Italy's intelligence services and the offensive cyber company Paragon has been canceled
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/securi

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At a clandestine math conclave in Berkeley in May, a chatbot powered by o4-mini answered some of the hardest solvable problems much faster than a mathematician (Lyndie Chiou/Scientific American)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article…

Inside the Secret Meeting Where Mathematicians Struggled to Outsmart AI
The world's leading mathematicians were stunned by how adept artificial intelligence is at doing their jobs