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At the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians, 20 mathematicians reflect on how AI advances are transforming their work and field; many are optimistic (Kai Williams/Understanding AI)
https://www.understandingai.org/p/mathematicians-are-grappling-with

Mathematicians are grappling with the possibility that AI might eclipse them
I talked to 20 mathematicians about rapid AI progress in their field.

From Press Progress
We published a big story this week, that hasn't been covered in-depth anywhere else in mainstream media.
Canadian Border Services, or the CBSA raided a peaceful protest in Calgary last week, where international students were protesting being left without status.
Immigration rules were changed in the middle of the students' education, impacting their eligibility for post-graduation work permits upon completion.
PressProgress obtained exclusi…

Sold a Lie: Emails Reveal Government and College Assured International Students they Would be Eligible for a Post-Graduation Work Permit Despite Rule Changes.
Now, students are facing removal orders from Canada after an ICE-like CBSA raid at their protest in Calgary

Been working on a project->many plans->worklist with Claude for ages but always struggled to keep track of progress and goal over 10 or 20 step pieces of work.
Made it write me a tool to view all the markdown files, real time updating etc. This helps SO MUCH.
With a bunch of these projects in a dir and implementation decisions project goals etc in a RAG database its amazing to go back and figure out why something is how it is and past decisions.

Work in progress: monitoring public EV charging ad hoc prices (i.e. what you pay on the go at the charger with a bank or credit card without registration) in the European Union.
Across the EU, only 40% of pricing transparency as required by #AFIR regulation for EV charging. Most countries fail.

So, seems I have a new job lined up finally as I've signed the tentative offer letter. Also, still working with Zig and made progress with grabbing information from the Linux `sys` tree for sector/logical block sizes. Been a busy yet awesome day.
#zig #programming

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What We Know about Responsible AI Practices in Industry: A Half Decade of Empirical Research
Wesley Hanwen Deng, Agathe Balayn, Andrew Selbst, Jason I. Hong, Motahhare Eslami, Kenneth Holstein, Hanna Wallach, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Solon Barocas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10431 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10431 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.10431
arXiv:2608.10431v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Responsible AI (RAI) has become a central concern for technology companies, regulators, and the public. How industry practitioners interpret, implement, and sustain RAI work directly shapes the design and deployment of AI systems. As empirical scholarship examining RAI practices in industry has rapidly expanded, findings are dispersed across studies that focus on different roles, organizational contexts, and interventions. This work synthesizes current knowledge through a literature review of 161 empirical studies spanning six years, each engaging industry practitioners via interviews, surveys, workshops, ethnographies, and other methods. Our synthesis reveals both meaningful progress and persistent challenges in industry RAI practice. Practitioner awareness has increased, RAI activities have become more professionalized, and interventions such as toolkits and guidelines are more widely adopted. At the same time, practitioners continue to face substantial barriers, including limited training, uneven organizational support, and a lack of interventions tailored to day-to-day work practices. By consolidating and organizing these findings, we provide a more complete account of industry RAI than any single study to date. We conclude by discussing implications for RAI researchers, practitioners seeking to adopt effective practices, and policymakers aiming to ground governance efforts in the realities of industry contexts.
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Good win. For a work in progress there is plenty to be happy about. For starters, the intensity is massively improved over last season.
Szoboszlai is my MOTM, but a special shout out to Isak and Wirtz for some terrific pressing.
Jacquet and Araujo look very promising. As much as I was sorry to see Konate leave, I'm thinking #LFC has a good replacement.
Hope those who limped off …

Climate solutions in action this week:
California Resources Corp is opening the state's first CO2 storage site in a depleted oil field—creating permanent geologic storage for industrial emissions.
Recife, Brazil launched a public-private initiative financing collection, sorting, and recycled-content markets to build a circular plastics economy.
Real progress, happening now.
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Spending a chunk of today working on a new gamedev project! I'm trying very hard to limit scope, and using nothing but placeholder assets for now, so it's actually coming together quickly. What kind of game do you think this will be? #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

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In my experience, at least, it feels like offshoring went through a productive evolution over the years, from
“Just farm it out to a bunch of those third world people who are cheap and barely even exist as humans!!”
to
“We can totally have globally distributed software teams with some people in places with a lower cost of living, as long as we work extra hard to make sure everyone functions as a team.”
That may be a rosy picture that comes from my own limited circles, but…that's the progress I saw. I wonder when / if folks will do similar learning about the current cost-cutting manias.

I spent many hours in vulnogram today and to be honest. I'm glad that a colleague started to work on a replacement called vulniverse. Still early beta but it's promising.
#opensource #vulniverse #cybersecurity #cve #gcve
work in progress https://github.com/vulnerability-lookup/vulniverse