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Anthropic details an experiment on whether AI coding tools shape developer skills, finding that the biggest performance gap appears in debugging tasks (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills

How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Threema wird quantensicher: Partnerschaft mit IBM Research
Der Schweizer Messenger Threema arbeitet mit IBM Research zusammen, um seine Chats quantensicher zu machen. Ziel ist Schutz vor Quantencomputern.
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Ukrainian drones strike Russia’s Rosrezerv fuel depot in Yaroslavl region, sparking major fire: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/31/ukrainian-drones-strike-russias-rosrezerv.html

Neanderthal DNA is largely missing from the human X chromosome.
“We found a pattern indicating a sex bias: gene flow occurred predominantly between Neanderthal males and anatomically modern human females,”
said Dr Alexander Platt, a senior research scientist at the University of Pennsylvania and first author of the research.
The ancestors of modern humans and the closest related species, the Neanderthals, diverged, forming two distinct groups, about 600,000 years ago.

UKRI fellowship funding for exceptional AI researchers currently based outside of the UK - funding to relocate to the UK, establish a highly skilled team and undertake transformational AI research
More info: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/turing-ai-global-fellowsh…

Turing AI Global Fellowships
This fellowship funding opportunity is for exceptional Artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers currently based outside of the UK.

Bromacker regurgitalite reveals what an early land predator spit up 290 million years ago
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-bromacker-regurgitalite-reveals-early-predator.html

With #LoveReplicationsWeek just around the corner, let's talk about the new journal in the field: Replication Research (R2)
Repeating important research is an important building block of improving the reliability of research. R2 is turning this into a rewarding task by creating a venue to get these important studies published.
It's a journal aligned with the value…

email_eu: Email network (EU research inst.)
An email network (anonymized) from a large European research institution, collected from October 2003 to May 2005 (18 months). Each node corresponds to an email address, and a directed edge exists between nodes i and j, if i sent at least one message to j.
This network has 265214 nodes and 420045 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted

The Trump administration will review frozen grants to universities ✅without using its controversial standards that discouraged gender, race and sexual orientation initiatives and vaccine research.
In a settlement agreement filed in Massachusetts federal court Monday, the National Institutes of Health and a group of Democratic attorneys general who’d challenged the new criteria for #grant

Trump administration agrees to drop anti-DEI criteria for stalled health research grants - BLKNewsNow.com
The Trump administration will review frozen grants to universities without using its controversial standards that discouraged gender, race and sexual orientation initiatives and vaccine research.

Pinterest: Hunderte Entlassungen sollen Ressourcen für KI freisetzen
Pinterest plant, bis zu fünfzehn Prozent der Belegschaft zu entlassen. Das soll mehr Ressourcen für die Entwicklung von KI-Funktionen und -Produkten freisetzen.