Debora Weber-Wulff

Hi journalists! Before I start targeted emails to journalists I've talked to before, I'm just going to put this out here and see if it works:

Now that Reflect Orbital https://www.reflectorbital.com/ has officially filed to launch their first satellite, does anyone want to write an article about […]

Why blow up satellites when you can just hack them? Black Hat: A pair of German researchers showed how easy it is

@sundogplanets
Have you seen this?
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/07/balck_hat_satellites/

ChatGPT 5 how many bs in blueberry The word blueberry has three "b" letters: + B at the start + b in the middle (blueberry) « b right after that (bluebberry) Looks like blueberries don't just double down on flavor — they double down on bs too. Do you want me to count uppercase and lowercase separately or treat them the same?

AGI is right around the corner.

Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf: So begründet die Juristin ihren Verzicht »Nach reiflicher Überlegung stehe ich für die Wahl als Richterin nicht mehr zur Verfügung«: In einem über ihre Anwälte verbreiteten Schreiben erläutert Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf in acht Punkten ihren Rückzug.

tl;dr von der Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf Stellungnahme:
ACAB
C= CSU/CDU

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/frauke-brosius-gersdorf-so-begruendet-die-juristin-ihren-verzicht-a-0fd8e20a-ad80-4640-bf0f-8b557a4bb9d2

Shit diagram for gpt-5

When you vibe code the live presentation given to millions of viewers and don’t bother to check whether the y axis makes any sense whatsoever. Presumably the incremental increase from 69.1 to 74.9 just looked too small before? The AI equivalent of buying a flashy car? #GPT5

@Lambo
Ja, danke! War auch in der NY Times, hier ist der PNAS Artikel, sie haben es sehr schnell freigeschaltet wegen den großen Interesse:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2420092122

List of presidents of the United States - Wikipedia

@krichel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States

"45 men have served in 47 presidencies"
How do you get 46? Did you miss Grover Cleveland, who was the 22nd and 24th president.

Gee, wonder what that portends?

Constitution Sections on Due Process and Foreign Gifts Just Vanished from Congress' Website
#politics
https://www.404media.co/constitution-sections-on-due-process-and-foreign-gifts-just-vanished-from-congress-website/

Awkward, Google put out a blog in June about teenagers phoning up orgs and getting access to their databases by asking for access.. and yesterday updated it to say they also got owned by the same kids. https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/voice-phishing-data-extortion

Me again in German in Deutschlandfunk about Ghostwriting:

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/ghostwriter-fuer-wissenschaftliche-arbeiten-interview-debora-weber-wulff-100.html

And right after a discussion of the PNAS paper about the industrial sized problem of paper mills […]

Plagiate von öffentlichen Personen, hilft KI? Interview Debora Weber-Wulf

I was interviewed yesterday in Deutschlandfunk, "Campus & Karriere" about Plagiarism and AI (in German):

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/plagiate-von-oeffentlichen-personen-hilft-ki-interview-debora-weber-wulf-100.html

#AcademicIntegrity

Scientific fraud is growing rapidly - here is a very recent publication in PNAS:

The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2420092122

And a report by the NY Times (gift link):

Fraudulent Scientific […]

the LLM is _not a learning aid,_ it is an _absolute barrier to learning._ it is _not similar in kind_ to copy/pasting from stackoverflow or cliffs notes. it fully supplants the entire process of learning, and the person using the LLM _never improves their understanding_ because the LLM cognitive […]

It's been 3 days since I put in these numbers and just to make sure I am super angry as I go to bed, I checked again.

There area now 8,093 Starlink satellites in orbit, out of 12,308 total active satellites. 1,243 Starlink satellites have burned up.

As with almost everything else happening […]

Why I changed my mind on the genocide charge against Israel For the past 21 months of horrific violence and heartbreaking suffering in the Gaza Strip, I’ve been wrestling with the contentious…

A tipping point is happening.

From the Chair of Israel Studies at UCLA:

#fußehoch

Two data centers in San Antonio have used 463 million gallons of water in the past two years.
The Alamo City facilities, owned by Microsoft and the Army Corps,
have drained water from the surrounding area despite difficult drought conditionsthroughout Texas.
Why It Matters
In 2025, data centers […]

My talented Semantic Modeling students from the HTW Berlin have contributed to #Wikidata project Govdirectory (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory) by modeling the governments of Cyprus, Grenada, Togo, and Vietnam!

They had to deal with large reorganizations in […]

Fast jede zweite Zeile fehlerhaft: KI-Code voller Sicherheitslücken

https://www.golem.de/news/fast-jede-zweite-zeile-fehlerhaft-ki-code-voller-sicherheitsluecken-2507-198664.html

> Die Verbreitung von KI in der Softwareentwicklung verursacht Probleme: Eine Untersuchung von Veracode an rund 100 […]

#LLM s make me want to take up correspondence in longhand on onionskin paper with overseas literary and scientific associates.

Dorothy Bishop calculates in
"New publishing models will only work if authors embrace them": https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/07/new-publishing-models-will-only-work-if.html

"Meanwhile, between 2021-2025 around US$973 million* in APCs has gone into the coffers of publishers - money that could […]

Ooh, the third reboot worked!

After a 1 hour delay Berlin-Hamburg, but still catching my train to Copenhagen, which was delayed by 90 minutes, we are now between two fields between Ringsted and Copenhagen. They are rebooting the engine for a second time.
And here we had picked up 40 minutes speeding through Jütland, Fünen […]

Australian government: We want to ban anyone under the age of 16 accessing social media.

Google, Meta, etc: You can't do this to us... Errr... Our customers! This is big government interfering in the free market! We believe in freedom! Government does best when it does least!

Australian […]

Die Bahnstrecke Berlin-Hamburg ist mal wieder gesperrt..... Buch, Essen, Trinken nicht vergessen, sollte man von B nach H oder H nach B wollen heute (und nicht erst ab Samstag).

#Bahn

Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.

“Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months, city and police officials confirmed this week.”

City engineer credits lower speed limits and smart design.

I agree. #Helsinki #VisionZero

Sowas können sich auch nur Stolzlappen ausdenken... Rasierklingen unterm BlauSticker. 🤢😡
Also ihr Lieben, seid vorsichtig beim Nazidreckentfernen egal ob in Leipzig und andernorts! 🫶🏻

@mina @DanielleVossebeld
No one can have too many pillows. And a nice healty plant? And some light bulbs? And oooh, THAT lamp looks much better....

@DanielleVossebeld The scenic route usually costs about 300 € more ;)

Wenn 'KI' nicht lernen kann, ohne alle Literatur der Welt zu stehlen...

Müssten wir dann im Interesse "der Wirtschaft" nicht auch SchülerInnen, Auszubildenden und StudentInnen erlauben, ihre Fachliteratur umsonst zu beziehen....?

Frage für ein "Land der Ingenieure".