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1/N Juurikaan ei ole näkynyt iloisia viestejä siitä, miten WCAG 2.2. on nyt ISO-standardi "ISO/IEC 40500:2025 - Information technology — W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2." https://www.iso.org/standard/91029.html - saatavana peräti ilmaiseksi! (Miten nyt käy ISO:n talouden?)…

ISO/IEC 40500:2025
Information technology — W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2

A Measurement Study of Model Context Protocol
Hechuan Guo, Yongle Hao, Yue Zhang, Minghui Xu, Peizhuo Lyu, Jiezhi Chen, Xiuzhen Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25292 https://…

A Measurement Study of Model Context Protocol
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has been proposed as a unifying standard for connecting large language models (LLMs) with external tools and resources, promising the same role for AI integration that HTTP and USB played for the Web and peripherals. Yet, despite rapid adoption and hype, its trajectory remains uncertain. Are MCP marketplaces truly growing, or merely inflated by placeholders and abandoned prototypes? Are servers secure and privacy-preserving, or do they expose users to systemic r…

Interesting way to represent uncertain or vague information into #knowledgegraphs (as e.g. easier integration of LLM/Deep Learning Results into KGs) via "Fuzzy OWL". Paper by Fernando Bobillo & Umberto Straccia: Fuzzy Ontology Representation using OWL 2

Fuzzy Ontology Representation using OWL 2
The need to deal with vague information in Semantic Web languages is rising in importance and, thus, calls for a standard way to represent such information. We may address this issue by either extending current Semantic Web languages to cope with vagueness, or by providing a procedure to represent such information within current standard languages and tools. In this work, we follow the latter approach, by identifying the syntactic differences that a fuzzy ontology language has to cope with, and…

“W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 approved as ISO/IEC international standard”
https://www.w3.org/press-releases/2025/wcag22-iso-pas/
ISO/IEC 40500:2025 (no cost):

W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 approved as ISO/IEC international standard
WCAG 2.2 is now ISO/IEC 40500:2025. This standard enables more countries to formally adopt WCAG 2.2. ISO/IEC 40500:2025 is free from the ISO website. Supporting resources and translations are free from the W3C website.

Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, Quora, People, O'Reilly, wikiHow, Ziff Davis, and others adopt the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) Standard to set terms for AI scraping (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/775072/rsl-standard-licensing-ai…

The web has a new system for making AI companies pay up
A new licensing standard, called the RSL Standard, aims to allow AI companies to license content from across the web. Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and others are already on board.

Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, Quora, People, O'Reilly, wikiHow, Ziff Davis, and others adopt the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) Standard to set terms for AI scraping (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/775072/rsl-standard-licensing-ai…

The web has a new system for making AI companies pay up
A new licensing standard, called the RSL Standard, aims to allow AI companies to license content from across the web. Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and others are already on board.

Vision-Free Retrieval: Rethinking Multimodal Search with Textual Scene Descriptions
Ioanna Ntinou, Alexandros Xenos, Yassine Ouali, Adrian Bulat, Georgios Tzimiropoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19203

Vision-Free Retrieval: Rethinking Multimodal Search with Textual Scene Descriptions
Contrastively-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have become the standard approach for learning discriminative vision-language representations. However, these models often exhibit shallow language understanding, manifesting bag-of-words behaviour. These limitations are reinforced by their dual-encoder design, which induces a modality gap. Additionally, the reliance on vast web-collected data corpora for training makes the process computationally expensive and introduces signif…

@… I suppose there is some sleight of hand that can occur between proposal/consensus/shipping but I have always thought two engine implementations was the gold standard for web standards (from a web author’s perspective)
I don’t think the poll (as currently worded) will tell give you an accurate answer to this question though — “1 or 2” on both sides…

I am unsurprised at the breakdown so far:
https://social.vivaldi.net/@HalleAndert/115548550635430577
Granted, the plethora of Chromia are splitting the vote, but even added together it’s not close.
Also, this is not scientific and may not reference reality. …

Exploring Formal Math on the Blockchain: An Explorer for Proofgold
Chad E. Brown, Cezary Kaliszyk, Josef Urban
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08267 https://arx…

Exploring Formal Math on the Blockchain: An Explorer for Proofgold
Proofgold is a blockchain that supports formalized mathematics alongside standard cryptocurrency functionality. It incorporates logical constructs into the blockchain, including declarations of formal theories, definitions, propositions and proofs. It also supports placing and collecting bounties on proving these propositions, incentivizing the development of the formal libraries contained in Proofgold. In this paper, we present a web-based blockchain explorer for Proofgold. The system exposes …

The superclustering of hot gas: cosmological sensitivity in the Websky simulations
M. Lokken, J. R. Bond, R. Hlo\v{z}ek, N. J. Carlson, Z. Li, A. van Engelen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08331

The superclustering of hot gas: cosmological sensitivity in the Websky simulations
Combinations of galaxy surveys and cosmic microwave background secondaries, such as the thermal Sunyaev Zeldovich (tSZ) effect, are increasingly being used to jointly constrain cosmology and astrophysical properties of the gas within and beyond halos. Standard cross-correlations measure a directionless correlation between the microwave maps and galaxy catalogs. However, more information about the cosmic web structure can be captured by summary statistics which include environmental constraints …