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Staffers, including 14 full-time reporters, from three nonprofit newsrooms backed by Signal Ohio are unionizing with the Northeast Ohio NewsGuild (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/signal-ohio-joins-wave-of-nonprofit-n…

Signal Ohio joins wave of nonprofit newsroom unionization
Journalists from Signal Cleveland, Signal Akron, and Signal Statewide are seeking voluntary recognition.

Microsoft says its Gaming Copilot feature, which recently hit Windows 11 as a public beta, uses screenshots to understand in-game events, not to train AI models (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)

Microsoft responds to Gaming Copilot controversy, says it uses screenshots to understand in-game events, not for training AI models — optional feature can be turned off, but not easily uninstalled
Microsoft says it isn't using your data to train its AI.

Answering the Unanswerable Is to Err Knowingly: Analyzing and Mitigating Abstention Failures in Large Reasoning Models
Yi Liu, Xiangyu Liu, Zequn Sun, Wei Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18760

Answering the Unanswerable Is to Err Knowingly: Analyzing and Mitigating Abstention Failures in Large Reasoning Models
Large reasoning models (LRMs) have shown remarkable progress on complex reasoning tasks. However, some questions posed to LRMs are inherently unanswerable, such as math problems lacking sufficient conditions. We find that LRMs continually fail to provide appropriate abstentions when confronted with these unanswerable questions. In this paper, we systematically analyze, investigate, and resolve this issue for trustworthy AI. We first conduct a detailed analysis of the distinct response behaviors…

👭 The US’s biggest pro women’s sports unions have found strength together
#sports

NRW: Datenschutzbeauftragte warnt zum Schulbeginn vor unbedachter iPad-Nutzung
Die Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz NRW warnt vor uneingeschränkter Nutzung von Apples iCloud auf Schul-iPads. Sie empfiehlt datenschutzkonforme Alternativen.

For the love fuck, this is meaningless. LLM models can't shut themselves off. They're never "on" in the first place. They don't have physicality or permanence.
It's an algorithm that transforms one state of data into another, and for each invocation needs to be fed the whole conversation again.
Perpetuating the unhinged bullshit that LLMs are somehow sentient is harmful.
Dear journalists, for the love of Carl Sagan's sweater vest get some actual experts to vet claims from the industry or indusry-adjacent sources and clarify your reporting.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/25/ai-models-may-be-developing-their-own-survival-drive-researchers-say

I'm sending a digitally signed and encrypted #email with somewhat sensitive data to an external party.
His thank-you-answer with the full quote of the while conversation came back signed and unencrypted.
Oh boy. 😔
#PIM

„Doch sogar ein Gericht hat bereits entschieden, dass Abschiebungen über Nacht nicht zulässig sind, da sie als traumatisch für die Betroffenen angesehen werden.“
Auch die deutsche Bundesregierung setzt ihr ausländerfeindliches Parteiprogramm über Recht und Ordnung.
KN (€) über die unmenschliche Abschiebepraxis, die Familien zerreißt und ihre Erwachsenen Kinder wegwirft. Der Schaden wird auch in den Stadtbildern sichtbar werden.

Abschiebung um 4 Uhr morgens: Das Entsetzen und die Folgen
Eine nächtliche Abschiebung in Sülfeld sorgt für Entsetzen: Zwei Geschwister werden von ihrer Familie getrennt und nach Griechenland abgeschoben. Die erschütternden Szenen werfen Fragen zu Menschlichkeit und Behördenverhalten auf. Der Schaden ist nicht wiedergutzumachen, meint Redakteurin Sylvana Lublow.

Sometimes when I go to the swimming pool it's fun to jump in the deep end, sink to the bottom (a whole 2 metres down) and hold my breath for 15-20 seconds or so. It's so quiet and peaceful that for a moment you can forget everything.
But this, this is completely unimaginable. A new world record has been set for free diving - Alexey Molchanov has swum down to 126 metres (and back up again!) and held his breath for over 4½ minutes.
My mind is completely and utterly boggled. Not to mention my lungs.
#freediving
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c4gvw7zmwgko

Gave up on Apple Containers for the time being. Just too unpredictable and unmanageable networking.
Was mainly using it to run a local Pihole container to filter out ads. Was recommended to use Podman as a drop-in replacement because I can't use Docker Desktop. But Podman uses a VM to host the containers and that VM does already bind on Port 53 for its container DNS resolution. So ended up using a small VM with UTM virtualisation app that runs the Pihole container in an Alpine Li…