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Heat killed a record 50,000 people in European cities this summer,
new research suggests,
with scientists blaming climate breakdown for two in every three of the deaths.
Hot days pushed vulnerable bodies into overdrive and warm nights prevented them from recovering.
Morgues and funeral homes filled with bodies from June to August
as the heat added by planet-baking pollution cut short an extra 32,000 lives in urban areas,
the researchers found.
The “…

@marcel@waldvogel.family
2026-10-23 09:36:56

"Das eigentliche Problem liegt tiefer. In vielen Unternehmen und Organisationen ist die technische Infrastruktur über Jahre gewachsen, hat sich immer stärker vernetzt und die Abhängigkeit von externen Anbietern hat stetig zugenommen. Hinzu kommen bekannte Schwachstellen, die zu spät geschlossen werden."
So @… heute bei

@mia@hcommons.social
2026-10-22 10:27:33

This Friday! LIBER AI Pulse seminar, 'A Critical Perspective on AI Literacy', 12:30 CEST
libereurope.eu/event/liber-ai-
I'm going to share these resources - any other key suggestions?
Elements of AI (and more):

@tezoatlipoca@mas.to
2026-10-21 21:21:48

UGH.
So someone internally raised the fact "hey, we have #PHP on <one of our devices>" and so technically one of our products is affected and now I have EVERY exec LOSING THEIR SHIT and asking for status updates every 30 minutes im like hold the crap on, I'm still doing the technical assessment, and they're like "Copilot said to do this" or "Claude suggested&quo…

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-10-22 20:50:53

John Malone, who was a major WBD stakeholder, said the Trump administration told Netflix its bid for WBD would be blocked, so Netflix dropped out of bidding (Deadline)
deadline.com/2026/10/john-malo

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2026-10-23 06:15:11

"Bullshit universities: the future of automated education"
doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-023
"[…] The dream that AI could teach students effectively neglects the importance of ‘learning how’ in order to ‘learn that’, that teachers are also role models, and t…

@vyskocilm@witter.cz
2026-10-22 15:11:51

Its 2026 and Chrome can't suggest strong passwords.
Feel free to check my pre agentic browser only (Go compiled to wasm) AGPLv3 page doing so for you. As a bonus me and my 0 advertising partners don't care if you visited the page.
It tries to fuzzy match the password strength instructions for some webs. Does not generate "4" unless pressed very hard.

@vrandecic@mas.to
2026-10-13 05:57:40

Interesting article: what is currently known as "reasoning" in LLMs really isn't. The author suggests to introduce a new form of reasoning inspired by how AlphaGo did it (on which the author worked on).
I think that the last two or three years that has been already happening, although on a much less tighter loop: the recent improvements in coding and math can be traced back to such approaches. The question is how to generalize this to the general domain. The article doesn…