Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending' A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...

Heckuva job, Donnie.

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Image de la CPI avec un tampon disant 'Microsoft Baned'

La Cour pénale internationale a décidé de migrer de Microsoft Office vers la solution Open Source Open Desk.

👉 www.euractiv.com/new...

It’s okay to use AI, but double-check what it produces. I saw this :

Workers replaced by AI have a dire warning for the world “Basically, the most evil billionaires in Silicon Valley want to consume everything before it's too late, and then kick the tires and leave us all to drown…”

🚨 New @therealnews.com:

Workers replaced by AI have a dire warning for the world.

Marc Steiner & I teamed up for this crossover episode on how the AI boom is shaping the economy & the impact it is already having on working people’s lives, livelihoods, and jobs.

therealnews.com/workers-repl...

AWS Outage: Lessons from October 2025 The October 2025 AWS outage stalled thousands of services globally. Get the causes, impacts, and practical lessons in our detailed report.

AWS’s major outage on Oct 20 left millions in the dark—both literally and digitally. From frozen banks to silent smart homes, the disruption was global. What went wrong, and what’s next for the cloud? Read our deep dive: scienceagenda.net/news/aws-out...

Claude Talk with Claude, an AI assistant from Anthropic

Suddenly, thousands of "developers" can't work.

Claude.ai Is Down claude.ai from Hacker News via #gcufeed@libera.chat / gcu.info/gruik/

A maze

Excited for OpenAI to IPO just so we can see what investor reactions are to spending $50B - $75B a quarter on data centers and AI researchers while losing tens of billions a quarter.

Comic. [Two people in a hot air balloon] PERSON 1: 0 mph... 0 mph... Ooh, 1 mph with that last gust... 0 mph... 1 mph... 1 mph... *2 mph!!!* PERSON 2: *Yessss!* [caption] Breaking the hot air balloon level-flight airspeed record

Airspeed

xkcd.com/3161/

J’ai un sacré dilemme (sérieux).
M’efforcer de préserver la santé mentale de mes étudiants ou de leur faire prendre conscience de la situation ? Parce qu’ils sont tous à fond sur le vélo et les transports en commun contre le changement climatique, et on a dépassé la portée de ça depuis un moment…

YouTube video by Clément Viktorovitch Réponds jamais, réponds à rien, embrouille-les.

« Réponds jamais, réponds à rien, embrouille-les. »

Marlène Schiappa révèle publiquement les secrets de communication du gouvernement ?!
youtube.com/shorts/ZrfUx...

T'inquiète pas, d'ici 3 mois Kasbarian aura obtenu que les enseignants imposent à leurs élèves d'aller voir Grokipedia pour le mettre en concurrence saine et non faussée avec Wikipedia et choisissent ce qu'ils préfèrent afin de déwokiser le travail scolaire.

Les victimes et témoins de pédocriminalité peuvent désormais être mises en garde à vue lorsqu'elles dénoncent un peu trop fort les complicités du pouvoir politique.

Image showing replacing Microsoft products with Linux, Tuta Mail and Tuta Calendar.

No more Microsoft Exchange. 🇩🇪German consultancy IAGO GmbH celebrates its decision to switch to Tuta Mail. 🎉

The benefit:

✅ Digital sovereignty
✅ Security
✅ GDPR-compliance

Check here Niclas' review. ❤️
➡️ tuta.com/blog/iago-sw...

#Privacy #DigitalSovereignty #EmailEncryption #MadeInGermany

AI Is Causing a Grim New Twist on the Dunning-Kruger Effect, New Research Finds New research shows how AI tools is making a Dunning-Kruger specimen out of everyone that uses them, no matter how smart.

“‘When it comes to AI, the [Dunning-Kruger effect] vanishes,’ study senior author Robin Welsch, a professor at Aalto University, said in a statement about the work. ‘In fact, what’s really surprising is that higher AI literacy brings more overconfidence.’”

Judge rules George R.R. Martin and other authors can sue OpenAI for copyright infringement

• Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright

• OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied

When AI and Secure Chat Meet, Users Deserve Strong Controls Over How Both Google and Apple are cramming new AI features into their phones and other devices, and neither company has offered clear ways to control which apps those AI systems can access. Recent issues

Google and Apple should add a device-level AI permission, just like it does for other potentially invasive privacy features, like location, to their phones. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Comic. [two connected spacecraft hovering in space above the Earth] Houston, the view is superb. We can see the continents spread out below us, right where they’ve been since the Earth formed. [caption] I still can’t believe we developed spaceflight before we figured out that the continents moved.

Continents

xkcd.com/3159/

We are selecting international students for our Masters.
They had to write a project.
One of the projects had references that were clearly LLM-generated: some links pointed to paper with a different list of authors and a slightly different title.

One week to opt out or be fodder for LinkedIn AI training : Nations previously exempt from scraping now in the firing line

So, LinkedIn is about to become AI slop all the way down, huh?

www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/l...

Leak reveals Amazon plan to keep water use of data centres secret

You actually can't say leak if you're talking about water use

Once again the owning class is selling an inadequate solution to a problem they created. Who else would think we'd want photos of a vacation we'll never afford?

Reels of desperation; grasping for SOMETHING to sell the entire AGI Industry, and it's just not happening.

I am very glad the Python Software Foundation is sticking to their mission statement.

I'm also bummed that the US government's war on diversity forced the PSF needed to turn down $1,500,000 of funding.

Imagine if PyLadies and Black Python Devs couldn't have booths at PyCon...

‘Do not trust your eyes’: AI generates surge in expense fraud Business software groups warn that top AI models are increasingly being used to create ultra-realistic fake receipts

The Financial Times reports on a rise in fraud in expense reports as workers are using generative AI tools to create fake receipts.

This would’ve never occurred to me. It’s such a brilliant crime since the enforcement burden is high and cost cheap. AI will enable all sorts of new interesting crimes

Browser Password Managers Are Great, and a Terrible Idea Your browser isn’t leaking your passwords, but it’s still smarter to use a third-party password manager.

Your browser isn’t leaking your passwords, but it’s still smarter to use a third-party password manager.

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).

It’s also concerning. 1/

A screenshot of the original Interstellar release date which was October 26, 2014

TOMORROW IS A VERY IMPORTANT HOLIDAY

A paper cone printed on the inside, placed on a wooden floor, and under sunlight. We can see a grid and a map printed. There's a thread crossing the upper opening, holding a very small bead right on the axis of the cone.

Close view from above: the bead, its shadow on the grid lines and the map. The shadow says its approx. 16h20 (4:20 pm), and its near the Brazil-Bolivia border on the map: at the time of this photo the Suns was directly overhead at this place.

🔭 🧪 #EduSky
A paper conical #sundial
From the Sun's altitude and azimut, this sundial derives solar time, & the position on the map where the Sun is directly overhead.
Here its approx.4:20pm local solar time ; the Sun is approaching the Brazil-Bolivia border.

1/☀️

NASA Discovers Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS NASA confirms the discovery of Comet 3I/ATLAS, a rare interstellar object passing through our solar system.

NASA just confirmed a new interstellar visitor — Comet 3I/ATLAS.
Only the 3rd of its kind ever found, it’s racing through our solar system with secrets from beyond the stars.
Read the full story ➡️ scienceagenda.net/news/nasa-di...