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Source: Meta has hired highly influential OpenAI researcher Trapit Bansal to work on its AI reasoning models under the company's new AI superintelligence unit (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/26/meta-hi…

Meta hires key OpenAI researcher to work on AI reasoning models | TechCrunch
Meta has hired a key OpenAI researcher to work on AI reasoning models under its new AI superintelligence unit.

I’ve been discussing some agent swarm based development work on LinkedIn. So far it’s going well, I’m figuring out how to get the results I want from the tools. As I say there, it feels more like managing a team of experienced product managers and developers (which I’ve done a few times in my career) than doing developer work faster.

Update on my Swift/iOS app development work using Claude-flow. | Adrian Cockcroft
Update on my Swift/iOS app development work using Claude-flow. I took some time away from it but last week I continued cleaning up the code. The app was working for me but Claude had built over 200 tests, unit tests and UI automation tests and I spent a day focused on getting them all to work, which found a few issues in the app code. Claude isn’t as good at writing Swift as Python (which tends to work first time) but when the compile failures and test error logs are passed back to it, it d…

"It's "#ORCID and…," not "ORCID or…": How researcher identifiers work together to help researchers, build a better picture of research, and streamline administrative tasks": White Paper by MoreBrains › https://

Unique Cowboys offensive lineman getting work at new 'jumbo' position https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/unique-dallas-cowboys-offensive-lineman-getting-work-new-jumbo-position

DOGE Flacks Work To Ax Dozens Of Gun Regulations - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/doge-flacks-work-to-ax-dozens-of-gun-regulations/

Thanking the @… folks for the excellent work they do, and especially for their upcoming support for security certificates for IP addresses which is nothing short of revolutionary for the future of the (Small) Web.

Getting ready to issue IP address certificates
Happy to see the progress on this. Thought you might be interested in seeing how important this feature is going to be for the Small Web: It’s going to be invaluable for helping decentralise the web. Thank you for the work you do 🙂

Steelers' Aaron Rodgers sends message to Jets fans ahead of Week 1 showdown: 'I'm sorry it didn't work out'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/n…

National Guard troops to pick up trash in DC, work on 'beautification' projects (NBC4 Washington)
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/national-guard-troops-to-pick-up-trash-in-dc-work-on-beautification-projects/3980033/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250827/p7#a250827p7

Bringing Pets to Work https://onfirenow.com/bringing-pets-to-work/

Every day, 125 Americans are killed with guns.
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Every day, 125 Americans are killed with guns. But we can work together to make every town safer, and support solutions that will address the causes of gun violence in …

»Warum Bitcoin nicht umweltfreundlicher wird:
Bitcoin verbraucht mehr Strom als viele Länder – und das ganz bewusst. Ein technologischer Umstieg könnte das ändern, scheitert aber am Widerstand der Community. Warum?«
Auch deswegen sind Krypto-Währungen kein Fortschritt, sondern ein Verlust der Erde von Energie die sie sich Egoisten bezahlt bekommen wollen.
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Warum Bitcoin nicht umweltfreundlicher wird
Bitcoin verbraucht mehr Strom als viele Länder – und das ganz bewusst. Ein technologischer Umstieg könnte das ändern, scheitert aber am Widerstand der Community. Warum?

Why did we add Planned Dates to OmniFocus 4.7, when we already have both Due Dates and Defer Dates?
Defer Dates and Due Dates express constraints: you can't work on something before a date, or you need to finish something by a date. They affect the task's status: it's not available until its Defer Date, and it's overdue after its Due Date.
Planned Dates don't affect a task's status, they simply schedule when you currently plan to do the task. Goodbye, fake…

Planned versus Deferred date intended usage?
The defer date indicates when you want a task to become available. Until that date, it won’t show up in any perspectives that are filtering out unavailable tasks. It’s a way of hiding future work so it’s not distracting you today. You’ll start to see available tasks in various perspectives as soon as they’ve reached their defer date. The new planned date is for scheduling when you actually plan to do the task. It could be days or weeks or months later than the defer date. It doesn’…

dbpedia_genre: DBpedia work-genre network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between artists and their works on one side and genre classifications on the other, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 266717 nodes and 463497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

«75% of subjects were expected to use AI at work. 22% felt pressured to use AI when it was not appropriate. So 16% of subjects just say they used the AI when they didn’t! People feel they would be putting their job at risk if they pushed back on AI directives.»
Wow, "my manager would rather believe my work came from the garbage generator" must make any bullshit job even more bullshit.
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/25/16-of-employees-pretend-to-use-ai-at-work-to-please-their-boss/

Another story from my past experience.
When I was hired on my boss gave me code to look at to learn the system and to see why the developer couldn't get it to work.
I made a copy of the code and dug in to figure out what it did and why it didn't work. After a couple of days I presented my results to the boss and working code that worked. To say he was suprised would be an understatement. I found out the dev was struggling to make it work for weeks and a complete rookie…

The popular meaning of "luddite" is a straw-man. It's a sloppy word with a sloppy meaning now, and it's one we'd do well to watch out for.
The actual reality of who the Luddites were is far more interesting, the center of the hard-fought struggles against owners of factories disrupting entire towns and cities economies with massively terrible results, centralizing power and money and leaving a great number of people without any control of their work, formerly artisans who'd had a hand in their own work, and many automated out of jobs. Luddites destroyed automated looms not because they hated technology. They destroyed automated looms because they were taking the livelihood they depended on, with no recourse, and it was a disaster for a good while, and then millwork has gone from those places probably forever.
The problem now with LLMs and automated research systems is there's very little way for workers and creators to stick their shoes in the machinery. They've tried (https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12281) but mostly failed, since unlike a factory full of textile workers, the equipment is remote, the automation virtual, an intangible software object that few can access in any meaningful way.

EGC: HaaS Lite WP1 D17 Financial Research - EGC Work Package 1: Deliverable 17: Financial Research, Public Report. - https://www.earth.org.uk/EGC-WP1-D17-Financial-Research.html

EGC: HaaS Lite WP1 D17 Financial Research
EGC Work Package 1: Deliverable 17: Financial Research, Public Report.

The less faith I have that we’ll be able to work out a trade deal that the US leader will actually abide by, the more I think @… ’s idea of turning Canada into the land of software lock bypassing could work.
It feels like the software-nuclear option—it would do more harm than good if we didn’t dedicate ourselves to it for at least 5 years, and that would e…

"Accessibility people, you go work on that thing of yours over there": Addressing Disability Inclusion in AI Product Organizations
Sanika Moharana, Cynthia L. Bennett, Erin Buehler, Michael Madaio, Vinita Tibdewal, Shaun K. Kane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16607

"Accessibility people, you go work on that thing of yours over there": Addressing Disability Inclusion in AI Product Organizations
The rapid emergence of generative AI has changed the way that technology is designed, constructed, maintained, and evaluated. Decisions made when creating AI-powered systems may impact some users disproportionately, such as people with disabilities. In this paper, we report on an interview study with 25 AI practitioners across multiple roles (engineering, research, UX, and responsible AI) about how their work processes and artifacts may impact end users with disabilities. We found that practiti…

Monday's excellent adventure: business in NYC M-F, need to take the train. Not yet packed, chores-chores-chores around the house, train to catch at 2pm. At 12:29 I am still home, need to drop by work to drop off some stuff and then catch the red line to South Station to the Acela. So at 12:30 I hop on the cargo bike, assist to maximum, arrive at work 25 minutes later, leave bike in the "long term" parking, drop crap at desk, I have a few minutes to grab lunch,

Further signs of the fall of civilization:
Melania Trump launches AI contest for schoolchildren in grades K-12;
National contest aims to encourage kids to work together to address community issues with artificial intelligence
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202…

Establishing validated standards for Home and Work location Detection
Silvia de Sojo, Lorenzo Lucchini, Ollin D. Langle-Chimal, Samuel P. Fraiberger, Laura Alessandretti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20679

Establishing validated standards for Home and Work location Detection
Smartphone location data have transformed urban mobility research, providing unprecedented insights into how people navigate and interact in cities. However, leveraging location data at scale presents methodological challenges. Accurately identifying individuals' home and work locations is critical for a range of applications, including commuting analysis, unemployment estimation, and urban accessibility studies. Despite their widespread use, home-work detection methods lack a standardized fram…

Well worth a read:
The icons in /Applications/Utilities/ in MacOS 26 Tahoe represent a folder full of dead canaries.
via @…
https://

MacOS 26 Tahoe’s Dead Canary Utility App Icons
These are the not the work of carpenters who care about the backs of the cabinets they’re building. These icons are so bad, they look like the work of untrained “How hard can it be?” dilettante carpenters who only last a few days on the job before sawing off one of their own fingers.

Weekend Reads
* FreeBSD Journal https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/networking-3/
* Anatomy of DDoSia

If #AI is allegedly so good for worker productivity and improving efficiency across organizations, why are the AI companies making their own employees work 72 hour workweeks?
If the tech actually helped them get more done faster, wouldn’t they have SHORTER workweeks? Why aren’t they using their own tools to help their employees?
Context: #Anthropic earlier this year, and they told me that this is a job with far longer work hours than any other place they’ve worked at.
They are also pulling 60 hour weeks there, they have zero tolerance for remote work, because the culture is “you don’t want to be left behind”. This person basically disappeared from social life once they took this job. I had never seen them so tired before.

Unique Cowboys offensive lineman getting work at new 'jumbo' position https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/unique-dallas-cowboys-offensive-lineman-getting-work-new-jumbo-position

"Hi Andy, Faceb**k is looking for a Content Design Manager"
Yeah, well that's Faceb**k's problem. There's no way I would work for them!
#Work

I had a plumber in my house today to replace stuck 20 year old saddle valve for fridge with a tee and standard valve. A few minutes in, he found me & informed me the saddle valve was actually on the hot pipe. He asked if I was OK with the extra work to switch to the cold pipe. I was definitely OK with this!
He completed the work within the minimum 1 hour labor charge, so only extra charge for parts. I was very grateful to have someone that was looking out for me & wanted to do…

When you work with animals and have dogs at home, routine sniffspections are required.

Cowboys consider Micah Parsons cleared to practice, start to pressure All-Pro to return to on-field work

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys

"In this TED talk, Jason Fried, founder of 37 signals, discusses how people get work done. When asked where do you go when you really need to get something done, almost no-one says: the office (unless it is early in the morning or late at night)? This is especially for creative people and knowledge workers..."

I am planning on moving my shit away from Notion.
The whole "2nd Brain" thing does not work for me (it just gives me busywork instead of doing something useful) so what I am looking for
- self-hostable
- should have a web interface I can use from any machine without installation
-I need "tasks", "projects" that contain tasks and "notes" (ideally optionally connected to projects and/or tasks)
- boards for tasks
- mobile …

WebC is a hard project to work on. It was the last thing I shipped before getting laid off a few years ago and unfortunately the project still reminds me of that. Returning to it and shipping a new version feels like some kinda growth and I’m happy about that.
https://neighborhood.11ty.dev/@11ty/11

When another coach capitalist philosopher starts telling you how people wouldn't work at all if they weren't coerced to, and the whole world would fall apart then, you should remind them that practically the whole Internet — yes, the same they're using to spread their capitalistic bullshit and the one capitalism is repeatedly trying to turn into complete useless shit — is founded on the work of volunteers, who for many years tirelessly work to keep it working while usually not expecting anything in return.
#AntiCapitalism

Marc Benioff says "AI is doing 30% to 50% of the work at Salesforce now", including software engineering and customer service (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-26/salesforce-ceo-s…

Anti-Phishing Training Does Not Work: A Large-Scale Empirical Assessment of Multi-Modal Training Grounded in the NIST Phish Scale
Andrew T. Rozema, James C. Davis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19899

Anti-Phishing Training Does Not Work: A Large-Scale Empirical Assessment of Multi-Modal Training Grounded in the NIST Phish Scale
Social engineering attacks using email, commonly known as phishing, are a critical cybersecurity threat. Phishing attacks often lead to operational incidents and data breaches. As a result, many organizations allocate a substantial portion of their cybersecurity budgets to phishing awareness training, driven in part by compliance requirements. However, the effectiveness of this training remains in dispute. Empirical evidence of training (in)effectiveness is essential for evidence-based cybersec…

On several input channels I’m seeing rage about the new Android Phone and Contacts apps, big redesigns with no warning. If there are people for whom you provide tech support, e.g. elderly relatives, you'd better get in touch and teach them how to answer a phone call, because tapping the green button doesn’t work any more. Also it’s hard to find call history, and more.
Some Product Manager needed a promotion. As usual, when doing cost/benefit analysis, the pain inflicted on users w…

It's Friday and don't stop work for the weekend before you check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Cyber incident disrupts Hawaiian Airlines, but flights are unaffected
--Food distributor UNFI restores operations,
--Danish gov't wants people to own copyrights to their bodies, faces and voices,
--N. Korea is automating crypto theft with AI tools,
--Pro-Iranian hacktivists leaked Saudi Ga…

Cyber incident disrupts Hawaiian Airlines, but flights are unaffected
Food distributor UNFI restores operations, Danish gov't wants people to own copyrights to their bodies, faces and voices, N. Korea is automating crypto theft with AI tools, Pro-Iranian hacktivists leaked Saudi Games records, Cambodia has been negligent in cybercrime compound crackdowns, much more

Resolving an error with path-tracing and a 2-to-1 mapping in a work of Jang, So, and Marotta
Murali Meyer, Daniel Stoertz, Mike Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18543 https://

Resolving an error with path-tracing and a 2-to-1 mapping in a work of Jang, So, and Marotta
We identify two nontrivial errors in the proof of the main results of the work \emph{generalized baby Mandelbrot sets adorned with halos in families of rational maps} by Jang, So, and Marotta. We correct these errors, showing that the main results remain true.

Today's bike ride to work was a bit rough when I got to Hampton Avenue. There's a 0.65 mile stretch between Mayfair and 124th that can be brutal. Last week wasn't as bad so I think I just need to time it a bit better with the oncoming traffic.
I actually got forced onto the sidewalk for a bit due to construction barrels, the super narrow "bike lane", and overly aggressive drivers.

Request below.
One of our users was lost trying to use Godot's Tile/Terrain support - we had adapted that system to the iPad.
The most effective way of using it today in Godot or Xogot is to spend a few hours looking for explanations on YouTube, and this was not great.
Miroslav took a stab at using our "Guide the user" idiom to try to simplify this process and steer users towards making it work.
The request is: are there other things you find hard to do …

It’s still amazing to see the work folks are doing delivering Uno, Avalonia, Flutter, and even React Native for the Windows Desktop UI story. The best development stories for Windows don’t come from Microsoft (unless you count WinForms).

We all perform tasks in our day-to-day work that are considered 'non-promotable' – these are crucial for project success, but they won't get you promoted. This is commonly known as 'glue work', a term coined by Tanya Reilly. At Berlin Buzzwords 2025, Fatima Taj shared her personal experience of narrowly avoiding the trap of being permanently stuck with glue work and explained how to handle similar situations.
Watch the full session: https://youtu.be/YJE8x6vzTCA?si=aE4Ogrp9t_oHdlhZ

Efficient Inversion of Unknown Unitary Operations with Structured Hamiltonians
Yin Mo, Tengxiang Lin, Xin Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20570 https://

Efficient Inversion of Unknown Unitary Operations with Structured Hamiltonians
Unknown unitary inversion is a fundamental primitive in quantum computing and physics. Although recent work has demonstrated that quantum algorithms can invert arbitrary unknown unitaries without accessing their classical descriptions, improving the efficiency of such protocols remains an open question. In this work, we present efficient quantum algorithms for inverting unitaries with specific Hamiltonian structures, achieving significant reductions in both ancilla qubit requirements and unitar…

Do any game devs in my network here live and work in Donegal?
I have some other game devs I know looking to connect up with other game devs locally. Give me a shout!
#IrishGameDev #GameDev #IndieDev

I have to use #Gitlab CI at $work, and I'm surprised how clunky it is.
CI Components are not real components, they just dump YAML into a global namespace, needing hacks to customize them.
There's no reusability at the granularity of Github Actions (other than concatenation of bash scripts).
I keep running into dead ends. I check Gitlab's own bug tracker to see if an…

At annual Sack Summit, Maxx Crosby stresses Raiders have 'a lot of work to do' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6454694/2025/06/27/maxx-crosby-raiders-sack-summit-las-vegas/

#BikeDiary update: I just passed 2000 miles (and 3200km shortly before that) on the Tern, after 11 months.
I rode it through the Minnesota winter, with the exception of just a few days, and it went pretty well (another thread!). It's held up to the heavy usage just great; the only really significant work was that I wore through the brake pads at around 1700 mi.
It's still my primary transportation. It's still displacing the vast majority of my driving. It is still a daily joy.

Weekend list of critical reading links about the state[1] of Tech, AI[2] hype/finance/politics, mostly long form:
Ed Zitron's The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/
How to use computing power faster: on the weird ec…

The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble
Hey! Before we go any further — if you want to support my work, please sign up for the premium version of Where’s Your Ed At, it’s a $7-a-month (or $70-a-year) paid product where every week you get a premium newsletter, all while supporting my free work too.  Also,

Spouse is a psychotherapist. I am a heavily-interdisciplinary computer programmer. We both work with complex systems.
We are diagnosing why the heat pump mini-split isn't working as expected
Their first hypothesis, of course, is "communication breakdown with partner unit"
Mine is "configuration error root-caused to bad UX design"
... We were both right

“The court has a menu of options. Will it break up Google (by ordering it to sell the Chrome browser or even Android)? Make it share valuable data with its rivals? All of the above?”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/opinion

Opinion | Google Could Get Broken Up This Week for Antitrust Violations. Here’s What It Would Mean.
It will be effective if people who work at big tech companies start quitting their jobs.

If I met Ben Mendelsohn i will always tell him how amazing his work on Bloodlines was. One of the character performances out there.
If you've not seen bloodlines then go watch the first season, and then stop!
#ifIMet

Six protestors who demonstrated in front of the New York City offices of #Palantir Technologies
were arrested on Thursday morning.
The demonstrators had gathered to bring attention to the controversial firm and the work it does to power the deportation of immigrants from the US.
The protestors stood in front of the Palantir offices on Manhattan’s Avenue of the Americas,
linking arms…

I am using MS Word’s web version for work and either the grammar checker has become a lot worse or just a lot more aggressive.
It keeps suggesting things that are not just wrong, but incomprehensible.
…
Fuck, they put an LLM in it, didn’t they?

I wonder where Ireland’s regulator got this idea?
https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/114751272606146547

I appreciate the fact that this draft was done in haste, but some of the
sentences that you are sending out in the world to do your work for you are
loitering in taverns or asleep beside the highway.
-- Dr. Dwight Van de Vate, Professor of Philosophy,
University of Tennessee at Knoxville

I need to go work at the dorms later on today. You better believe I'm going to be biking there instead of paying for parking.

'AI Is Designing Bizarre New Physics Experiments That Actually Work'
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-comes-up-with-bizarre-physics-experiments-but-they-work/

On that show Ozark they're torturing people by playing loud metal at all hours of the day. That wouldn't work with me. And I would never tell people what kind of music to play to torture me. But you could probably guess

as far as im concerned putting on any type of work uniform gives u barbie downstairs

For the @… 3.14 release party I explored new @… beat functionality inspired by a conversation with drummer Matt Davies about the work of Malcolm Braff

The UK CMA giving Google "strategic market status" could allow publishers to opt out of Google AI Overviews without removing websites from search (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/cma-to…

CMA set to force Google to work more fairly with UK publishers
CMA sets out plans to start curbing Google power in the UK and will address secrecy and unfairness around Google AI Overviews.

Wild Galois representations: elliptic curves with wild cyclic reduction
Nirvana Coppola
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20562 https://arxi…

Wild Galois representations: elliptic curves with wild cyclic reduction
In 1990, Kraus classified all possible inertia images of the $\ell$-adic Galois representation attached to an elliptic curve over a non-archimedean local field. In previous work, the author computed explicitly the Galois representation of elliptic curves having non-abelian inertia image, a phenomenon which only occurs when the residue characteristic of the field of definition is $2$ or $3$ and the curve attains good reduction over some non-abelian ramified extension. In this work, the computati…

An efficient algorithm for entropic optimal transport under martingale-type constraints
Xun Tang, Michael Shavlovsky, Holakou Rahmanian, Tesi Xiao, Lexing Ying
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17641

An efficient algorithm for entropic optimal transport under martingale-type constraints
This work introduces novel computational methods for entropic optimal transport (OT) problems under martingale-type conditions. The considered problems include the discrete martingale optimal transport (MOT) problem. Moreover, as the (super-)martingale conditions are equivalent to row-wise (in-)equality constraints on the coupling matrix, our work applies to a prevalent class of OT problems with structural constraints. Inspired by the recent empirical success of Sinkhorn-type algorithms, we pro…

Am I late to work because I wanted to hang this up before heading out this morning? Absolutely, I sure am!
#Anarchism #Syndicalism #AnarchoSyndicalism

Wazuh the maker of the unified #XDR and #SIEM protection for endpoints
and cloud workloads has technical and non-technical #remote roles open.

Careers | Wazuh
Would you like to be part of our team? If you would like to work on an open source project, Wazuh is the right place for you.

Court filings from in-ear hardware startup iyO's trademark dispute lawsuit against OpenAI detail OpenAI and io's early work on in-ear hardware devices (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/23/court-filing…

Court filings reveal OpenAI and io's early work on an AI device | TechCrunch
Court filings in a trademark case against OpenAI reveal some of the company's early work on developing AI devices.

@… EXCUSE ME YOU GET TO WORK WITH BRAM STEIN??
(amazing)

I think a misunderstanding is that people want to fight "scraping" or "automated systems". But my feeling is that the issue is with the _purpose_ of the scraping: It's not "that person is scraping my site" it's "that person wants to use my work to train their slop machine". The issue is the SLOP machine with all the negative externalities they have.
And that is a path worth exploring (that I have similarly argued for code): We want to cont…

Cowboys' defensive line has work cut out after latest rankings https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-defensive-line-has-work-cut-out-after-latest-rankings

The scene at work right now is kind of amusing. There are three people in the conference room looking at a TV.
It's the children of two people who work here, because it's that weird week before school starts, but camps and done.
So they put on a movie and the kids are all sitting at the table watching TV.

OmniFocus 4.7 is now available, introducing a new “Planned” date type (for specifying the date an item is scheduled for work), the ability to create mutually exclusive tags (handy in a variety of workflows, like prioritization and energy level assignment), and improved repeat functionality (including new support for setting a repeat to end after a specific date or set number of repetitions).
Enjoy!

Leena AI, which develops an employee-facing agentic AI assistant, launches "AI colleagues" that it says can work and interact just like human employees (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/24/leena-ai-anno…

Leena AI announces voice-enabled AI ‘colleagues’ who can work alongside you - SiliconANGLE
Leena AI announces voice-enabled AI ‘colleagues’ who can work alongside you - SiliconANGLE

I'm very busy at the moment with work and life stuff, so if I am taking a while to reply, you are in my reply queue.
Have an awesome day!

Speaking off: did those scumbags at the University of Zürich ever face any consequences for their highly unethical work?
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/reddit-ceo-pledges-site-will-remain-written-by-humans-and-voted-on-by-humans

I finally wrote up my experience running a few TDD workshops internally at work, and the things I learned.
https://functional.computer/blog/tdd-workshop
I found it quite different to running workshops for the public; I needed to start from the very beginning, and co…

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Jack Ohman says AI is making a mockery of his profession by plagiarizing the work of professional political cartoonists (Jack Ohman/San Francisco Chronicle)
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo

Expression for $g(k)$ Related to Waring's Problem
Owen Root
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17950 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.17950

Expression for $g(k)$ Related to Waring's Problem
Waring's Problem asks whether, for each positive integer $k$, there exists an integer $s$ such that every positive integer is a sum of at most $k$th powers. While Hilbert proved the existence of such $s$, Waring's Problem has lead to areas of related work, namely the function $g(k)$, which denotes the least such $s$. There is no known general closed form for $g(k)$, though for $g(k)$ has been evaluated for small $k$. Prior work has reduced the problem to verifying a particular condition, which …

Explaining Christian Wilkins' Raiders release: What happened, how do the finances work, and what's next?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/explain…

In the hands of someone like Trump,
deals are ways to evade, postpone or subvert the efficient work of markets.
Trump does not like markets,
precisely because they are impersonal and objective.
Their results – for corporations, entrepreneurs, investors and shareholders – are subject to clear measures of success and failure.
Because deals are personal, adversarial and incomplete,
they are perfect grist for Trump’s relentless publicity machine,
and a…

Milwaukee Peeps! A photographer friend of mine is working on a really cool project..
"Using 19th century dry plate photography to create a new body of work focused on Milwaukee, Wisconsin."
➡️ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/15128

@… Humans also work best when you put coffee in them.
It’s the eternal paradox: how can I make coffee before I’ve had my coffee?

The New York Times doubles down on cooking videos by partnering with cooking creators, expanding its video lineup, exploring more brand collaborations, and more (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Inside The New York Times’ Plan to Double Down on Cooking Videos (Exclusive)
The Times plans to work with cooking creators and its own staff to build up a video slate, beginning with a weekend baking series, and a video spinoff of The Veggie newsletter.

The two battery packs are easy to pull out and swap, they are held into 3D printed mounts with hook & loop straps.
I should have made the control box more of a quick disconnect thing, as I still need to work on the code... it's held in place by four screws.
The RD-6 has two 3D printed mounts on the side, with felt glued to them to prevent plastic-on-plastic rubbing.
I do not have a spare battery for the amp yet... maybe later.

London-based Attio, which offers a CRM service where AI agents and humans work together, raised a $52M Series B led by GV, bringing its total funding to $116M (Lucy Adams/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/08/26/attio-raises-52m-series-b-to-scale-crm-platform/…

Attio raises $52M Series B to scale CRM platform
London-based CRM startup Attio has raised $52 million in Series B funding to expand its CRM platform. The round was led by GV (Google Ventures), with participation from existing investors Redpoint Ventures, 01A, Point Nine, and Balderton Capital, bringing Attio’s total funding to $116 million.With the new funding, Attio plans to scale its engineering team, accelerate product development, and double down on go-to-market outreach. Investment will focus particularly on features that enhance agen…

Commanders QB Jayden Daniels excited to let WR Deebo Samuel do all the work on screen passes https://www.nfl.com/news/commanders-qb-jayden-daniels-excited-to-let-wr-deebo-samuel-do-all-the-work-on-screen-passe…

The Trump administration is cancelling another $175m in funding for California’s high-speed rail,
marking another setback for the state’s much-delayed project.
The US transportation department said on Tuesday it was withdrawing funding the $175m for grade separation, over-crossing and design work and to build a high-speed rail station in Madera.
The move follows the cancellation earlier this summer of $4bn in federal grants for the state’s ambitious but long-overdue plans.…

A look at the tensions between Meta, Apple, and Google on whether apps or app stores should check if a user is a minor, as states work on age verification bills (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta Clashes With Apple, Google Over Age Check Legislation
The biggest tech companies are warring over who’s responsible for children’s safety online, with billions of dollars in fines on the line as states rapidly pass conflicting laws requiring companies to verify users’ ages.

On Tuesday, roughly two dozen scientists gathered in the lobby of the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill for what resembled a science fair — but with a twist.
Instead of students presenting class projects, the event featured leading researchers from across the country standing in front of posters outlining their work — and the federal cuts that now threaten it.
The event, which was organized by Democrats on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, showcas…

Inside India's growing ~$1.5B e-waste recycling industry, about 95% of workers are employed informally, doing dangerous, toxic, and lawless work for meager pay (Yashraj Sharma/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/india-e-waste-recycling-electronics/

Inside India’s billion-dollar e-waste empire
The informal recycling economy is turning global e-waste into profit — at a steep human and environmental cost.

Police have little or no insight into where the federal enforcement actions are taking place
but often have to deal with the aftermath, including protests and questions from residents about what exactly happened.
In some cases, local cops have been mistaken for federal agents, eroding years of work to have immigrant communities trust the police

'Who are these people?' Masked immigration agents challenge local police, sow fear in L.A.
Local police have little or no insight into where the federal enforcement actions are taking place. In some cases, local cops have been mistaken for federal agents, eroding years of work to have immigrant communities trust the police.

Workers at Google, TikTok, Adobe, Dropbox, CrowdStrike, and other tech firms recount how managers used AI to justify firing them, speed up their work, and more (Brian Merchant/Blood in the Machine)
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-ai-is-killing-jo…

AI Killed My Job: Tech workers
Tech workers at TikTok, Google, and across the industry share stories about how AI is changing, ruining, or replacing their jobs.

Internal docs: Scale AI's efforts to train Google's Gemini were flooded with "spammy behavior" from unqualified independent contractors submitting shoddy work (Sam Blum/Inc)
https://www.inc.com/sam-blum/exclusive-sca

Exclusive: Scale AI's Spam, Security Woes Plagued the Company While Serving Google
How the startup that just scored a $14 billion investment from Meta struggled to contain 'spammy behavior' from unqualified contributors as it trained Gemini.

Advocates for mental health and unhoused people
blasted U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday
over his executive order titled
“Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets.”
Trump’s order directs U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi
to end policies that restrict the government from institutionalizing
“individuals on the streets who are a risk to themselves or others.”
She must also work with other Cabinet members
“to prioritize grants for state…

Trump Pushes Policies That 'Treat Homelessness and Mental Illness as a Crime' | Common Dreams
Advocates for mental health and unhoused people blasted U.S. President Donald Trump over his executive order titled "Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets."

Catalina “Xochitl” Santiago had already made it past the security line at the El Paso airport
when two border patrol agents called her in for questioning
and whisked her away to an immigration detention center.
Nearly a month after her arrest, she and her family still aren’t clear why she is detained.
Santiago is a beneficiary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) program
– which has allowed her to legally live and work in the US.
“They have …

A look at the possible remedies a US court might impose on Google after its antitrust loss last year, including a breakup, with a decision expected this week (Tim Wu/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/opinion…

Opinion | Google Could Get Broken Up This Week for Antitrust Violations. Here’s What It Would Mean.
It will be effective if people who work at big tech companies start quitting their jobs.

The AI Action Plan suggests Trump wants to inculcate a "try-first" culture through regulatory sandboxes for AI, which have already popped up in some US states (Aaron Mak/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/digit

The Johns Hopkins University Press will license its authors' books to train AI models, citing concerns that "the window may be closing" for making AI deals (Ellie Wolfe/The Baltimore Banner)
https://www.thebaltimoreb…

Johns Hopkins University Press will license its authors’ books to train AI models
Authors at the Johns Hopkins University Press will be able to opt out of the AI licensing agreement until the end of August; if they do not, their work will be used to train AI models.

While AI hasn't yet led to new physics discoveries, the tech is proving powerful in the field, aiding in experiment design and spotting patterns in complex data (Anil Ananthaswamy/Quanta Magazine)
https://www.quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up

AI Comes Up with Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work. | Quanta Magazine
Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.”