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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@ulldma/117258384268650865 Toulouse is such a special place for aerospace things! Make sure to also do an Airbus Final Assembly Line visit. You get to spot some nice liveries of undelivered aircrafts and tons of insights into the assembly of an aircraft. https://www.manatour.fr/airbus/

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  The "breakthrough" from the OpenAI Astra models are the implementation of the concepts from this 2015 paper recurrent neural network paper by Jürgen Schmidhuber from Università della Svizzera italiana. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.09249 "The new technique OpenAI is using, known as recurrent depth or looped transformer, allows an AI model to improve its answers by processing the same text multiple times.” https://www.theinformation.com/articles/secret-technique-behind-openais-astra-...

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  Local LLMs have been super useful to write custom parsers for websites that don't offer RSS (shame on them!) just by passing the list of articles page and prompted to create an RSS feed for them. Qwen 3.8 just one-shotted me a Rust HTML parser to create RSS feeds that I serve on localhost so they show up in my RSS reader with the rest of the RSS content. It just figured out how the cHash works on Typo3 CMSes to create correct pagination queries 🙌

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  "With the powerful M5 Ultra, Mac Studio scales up to a 36-core CPU, up to an 80-core GPU, and a staggering 512GB of unified memory, enabling users to run enormous LLMs entirely on device" https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-new-mac-studio-with-m5-max-and-m5-ultra/

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  Designer Simon Weckert has created a colourful camouflage shirt that is not detected by some AI video systems. Developed in response to a pilot project to use artificial intelligence (AI) video surveillance at Berlin's Kottbusser Tor, which starts this month, the shirt was designed to stop the user being recognised as a person. https://www.dezeen.com/2026/08/25/digital-camouflage-shirt-ai-video-surveillance-simon-weckert/

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  RE: https://flipboard.com/@washpost/opinions-efcn4m7sz/-/a-Uf5Lxn8qTvGvEndQg_ZXvw%3Aa%3A419161690-%2F0 Yes, and everyone in #MiddlePowers countries should see it. "Let it be known to all that we, the free French, are undefeated. We will not surrender, we will not retreat, and our children will have nothing to reproach us for.” The movie beautifully portrayed how isolated Charles de Gaulle was and how dire the situation seemed. But driven and uncompromising forces are punching way abo...

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  Well, I guess Melania wanted to have a sequel https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/b4758b44-5210-46e2-a40e-18a8cbc9df2d

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  It’s a very though day for all these European companies who have been fooled by the Biden administration that the US was an investable region for green energy with the Inflation Reduction Act. NEL, Orsted, Vestas … all getting destroyed in the public markets given that Trump’s motto is going to be “drill baby drill”, and fuck the planet

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  Shameful behavior from some European member states lacking solidarity with Spain regarding the current developments in #Cueda There's a lot of instrumentalisation going on. But I mostly feel bad for the Moroccan people whose aspirations for a better life are being weaponized by their government, with support from the the US https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/08/01/comment-se-positionnent-les-pays-europeens-face-a-la-crise-de-ceuta/

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  RE: https://flipboard.com/@techcrunch/cybersecurity-9rqeebe0z/-/a-DPSFb5PSS8G1MCwi15AHuA%3Aa%3A3199687-%2F0 Want to take the risk of missing out on the next generation of robotics companies that are being developed in Zurich, Munich, Paris, Hangzhou, Moss, London, Wrocław, Tokyo ... ? Be my guest, but at your own risk UMA, ANYbotics, Neura, Unitree, Hexagon, Wandercraft, HuggingFace, Mistral, Humanoid ...

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@fj/112869015949273517 Happy Signal Birthday! 🎉 Signal 1.0 hit the App Store 12 years ago already today

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  OpenAI adds Trump-appointed NSA Spy Chief on their board 🕵️‍♂️ https://openai.com/index/openai-appoints-retired-us-army-general/

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  🇪🇺🫂 It's amazing to see the EU Civil Protection Mechanism working in such critical times. ❣️ European countries have offered aid resulting so far in 24 patients being transported to hospitals in 🇧🇪, 🇫🇷, 🇩🇪, and 🇮🇹. 💪 Burns Assessment Teams from 🇫🇷 and 🇮🇹 are supporting hospitals🇨🇭 in Valais & Lausanne by providing highly specialised burn care expertise. So far, 21 countries have offered help: 18 for treatment, 9 for transport and 6 offered the experts. https://civil-protection-humanitarian-aid...

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  Have a great week-end everyone 🕶️ #FoShur

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  This is an amazing take on the impact of code agents on software engineering and teams. Explores how to build team-wide alignement into the agentic development flow. 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClWD8OEYgp8 📃 https://maggieappleton.com/zero-alignment

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  Very accurate words by Claude Malhuret

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  Important take-away from HuggingFace: you cannot trust closed weights providers for incident response. They used GLM 5.2 on HuggingFace's own infra to circumvent the provider’s guardrails they were hitting. Also ensured that no attacker data or credentials were leaving their environment. https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026 This is consistent with malware patterns that inject nuclear weapons or biological threats-related text to evade automatic reversing with guardrail...

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  Congrats Spain for making Team Europe proud! 🫶🇪🇸🇪🇺 United in Diversity, we win!

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/116919867956176773 In good news, > 100 petabytes of climate data from the last 50 years was copied from NASA to the Alps data center in Lugano, Switzerland. In the next few months, another 40 petabytes of climate data from NOAA will be transferred to Switzerland. "The uncertainty about the climate discussion [under the Trump administration] has also been a motivation for me personally" ~ ETH Prof Thomas Zurbuchen (ex Science Lead @ NASA), who...

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  Ursula von der Leyen is not pulling any punches in these times of unprecedented assaults, from Project 2025 / MAGA to Putin, on the foundational values of the European Union. https://www.zeit.de/politik/2025-04/ursula-von-der-leyen-eu-usa-donald-trump-english

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@fj/116913693727209854 America: International Law constrains others, but we don't need to abide by it. Example of the day: Hormuz tolls Accountability for thee but not for me

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  RE: https://mstdn.social/@Strandjunker/116352713481300858 Bombing bridges and power plants that serve primarily civilian purposes, without clear and immediate military necessity, would violate the principles of distinction, proportionality, and military necessity under International Humanitarian Law. Such actions would likely be classified as war crimes. Yet, most of our leaders are not taking a stand against Trump. Shameful.

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  NIST received 50 submissions in response to the call for additional #PostQuantum Signature Schemes and deemed 40 to be complete and proper according to the submission requirements. Accepted schemes (based on many different assumptions) can be found at: https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/pqc-dig-sig/round-1-additional-signatures

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  While Planet and others US Earth Observation companies are restricting images over Lebanon, Airbus provides critical imagery to reporting on the huge scale of Israeli destruction in Lebanon. "Rights groups have sounded the alarm, warning that Israel’s military offensive is mirroring tactics used in Gaza – from heavy strikes on critical infrastructure and healthcare facilities, to the targeting of journalists and psychological warfare.” https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/24/middleeast/lebano...

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@fj/116872609806928406 When you think about it, the Trump administration attacking refereeing decisions is just the continuation of their attacks on the judiciary. From the ICC and US judges to football referees, they will bully, intimidate, threaten or corrupt everyone that will try to enforce rules in a fair and indiscriminate fashion.

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  Infantino needs to resign FIFA is such a clown show Corrupted allocations of World Cups, FIFA Peace Prizes, meddling in assignation of referees to specific matches … and now, Trump called Infantino to re-instate Balogun who got a red card in the next match. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7423410/2026/07/05/usmnt-folarin-balogun-red-card-available/

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  “La slopagande prospère dans le vide intersidéral d’un fil d’actualité, où chaque affirmation est déconnectée de sa source et de ses conséquences — et où chaque affirmation renforce un sentiment universel de doute.” "C’est dans des espaces à la temporalité volontairement plus lente que devra être imaginé cet avenir, au sein d’une société capable de reconnaître qu’elle participe à la même réalité.” https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/07/01/lage-de-la-slopagande/

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  🥇 @EPFL@social.epfl.ch Prof Maryna Viazovska received the 2022 Fields Medal for her work on sphere packing. Maryna met Sidharth Hariharan in 2024 and started a Lean proof for the Sphere Packing theorems. Now, without any additional input outside the paper and work-in-progress repo, the AI agent Gauss completed the proof for dimension 8 in 5 days, expanding the codebase from 20,000 to 60,000 lines. Dimension 24 optimality and periodic uniqueness were completed in about 2 weeks. https://github.c...

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  RE: https://flipboard.com/@quartz/business-news-gjbtjdrjz/-/a-a9CgmblXSNGcfhqYFbv30Q%3Aa%3A7497286-%2F0 Microsoft: ”By 2030, we’ll be carbon negative” https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/01/16/microsoft-will-be-carbon-negative-by-2030/ SHUUUUURE

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  ~100 more Starlink v1 satellites will be burning up in the upper atmosphere in the next 6 months, bringing up the total number of de-orbited Starlink satellites to ~500 out of 6000 launched https://api.starlink.com/public-files/Commitment%20to%20Space%20Sustainability.pdf De-orbiting satellites by burning them up did work when the volume of satellites was small, but already 10% of aerosol particules in the stratosphere contain aluminum/other metals. The problem is only going to get worse with t...