🚨 In case you missed it: We've filed a complaint against Whitebridge AI. The company sells “reputation reports” on everyone with an online presence – without a valid legal basis. More info 👉 https://noyb.eu/en/whitebridgeai-your-personal-data-sale-you-and-anyone

Nothing that we didn't know since the emergence of language models. Landmark is only the fact that OpenAI (finally) states it publicly.

Heimische Medien berichten (schon wieder) über eine Schrottstudie eines neoliberalen US-Thinktanks (und verherrlichen ihn dabei als Verbraucherschutzorganisation). Wir und @uebermedien.de haben das schon vor zwei Jahren erklärt: www.moment.at/story/schlec...

I guess it's time to leave this platform, too. What is it whith these CEOs & co. turning up to be nazis in disguise?

Was entscheidet, was wir auf Social Media sehen? Heute bei „Spontan gefragt“ auf KURIER TV: TUW-Forscher @stefanresearch.bsky.social erklärt, wie Algorithmen unsere digitale Realität formen. 🕘 21:15 auf KURIER TV 📺 Mediathek: kurier.tv/spontan-gefr...

Together with www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-cul... I have created a template for making #LLMs (from different vendors and even self hosted ones) easily accessible to researchers - including advanced document RAG with #docling. github.com/complexity-s...

AI ist oft nützlich - aber ist sie auch sicher? Mit geometrischen Methoden kann man in manchen Fällen beweisen, dass neuronale Netze bestimmte Fehler garantiert niemals machen werden, zeigt man an der TU Wien:

🇧🇬🇺🇦In March 2025, a voice on the phone said: “We will bring you to your knees, swine.” Weeks later, his family was chased on a Bulgarian highway. 🧵This isn’t fiction. It’s the true story of Svet DiNahum - a writer punished for exposing Russian lies. 1/24

Relation Extraction or Pattern Matching? How well do RE models generalise to OOD data? We find that higher in-distribution scores do not necessarily translate to better transferability. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.12533

Sehr schönes Ö1-Hörbild zum 50. Geburtstag des legendären „Köln Concert“ von Keith Jarrett, über ein verlorenes Klavier, Improvisation und Komposition und die Verwandtschaft zwischen „Köln Concert“ und dem Kitsch-Klassiker „Love Story“: https://oe1.orf.at/player/20250510/794417/1746860702000

Wanna see something cool? At the Grammy's in 1976, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme explained what jazz is. The result? The crowd losing its mind. 🔥

#MusicSky #MayTheFourth

I love these silicon valley bros that think ChatGPT has achieved some kind of sentience and therefore might have rights. Like dudes, you don't even think poor people deserve rights, let's try to achieve that before giving person-hood to the autocomplete algorithm.

Great project: Internet in a box internet-in-a-box.org#easy-install #education

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

A couple more days: We extended the paper submission deadline for the 6th PatentSemTech Workshop @SIGIRConf 2025! 'til April 30. easychair.org/cfp/PatentSe...

573 anerkannte Impfschäden bei 65 Millionen Geimpften und 182 Millionen Impfdosen zeigen, wie unglaublich sicher die Impfungen sind. Bei über 180.000 Todesfällen durch Corona sollten wir eher Aufklärung fordern, wie viele Tode Querdenker mit Lügen und Panikmache über die Impfung verursacht haben.

Sometimes I wear headphones just so people don’t talk to me. I’m not even listening to anything — it’s just social protection at this point

LongEval is turning three this year! This is a Call for Participation to our CLEF 2025 Lab - try out how your IR system does in the long term. Check the details on our page: clef-longeval.github.io

ESSIR 2025, the European Summer School on Information Retrieval in Wolverhampton, UK, July 7-11! Dive into cutting-edge Information Retrieval & AI, network with experts. Plus, don’t miss the interactive FDIA Symposium! 🎓 👉 http://2025.essir.eu/ #ir #ai #ecir2025

What predicts public risk perception of microplastics in food 🍽️ & plastic-policy support? 🚫 In a survey study in Austria (N=741), we applied the Climate Change Risk Perception Model (van der Linden, 2015) to advance psychosocial theoretical foundations in the plastic field. ⬇️ doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

This is high art

#ECIR2025 opening.

#ecir2025, here I am!

The question of if a country could fuck itself harder than the UK did with Brexit has today been answered.

Vielfach durch Studien dokumentiert: Die Zeiten waren immer „am besten“, als man noch nicht erwachsen war - egal, wann das tatsächlich war. (Möglicherweise, weil man sich damals mit den meisten Problemen noch nicht selbst auseinandersetzen musste.)

US-Regierung vs. Restliche Welt

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

My former KTH colleague Ioana Bercea is hiring for two Ph.D. students in (randomized) algorithms and data structures. This is a great opportunity embedded into a very nice TCS group at KTH! www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/...

Der "Wassernobelpreis" geht an Günter Blöschl: Der "Stockholm Water Prize" der Schwedischen Akademie gilt als höchste Auszeichnung in der Wasserforschung. Wir gratulieren sehr herzlich!

🔥 „EMPÖRT EUCH!“ – brüllen die Populisten, Trump und Musk xittern, Nazis klatschen. Und wir? Empören uns brav weiter, bis die Demokratie aufgibt. Läuft richtig super! 🙄🤡 Weiterlesen: www.mimikama.org/populismus-t...

so ... what's the difference between the US and the Afghanistan governments? Will we see boarded windows in the US soon?

Get used to hearing about #AI Factories 🚀 There are a lot of questions about how the project is set up, how the hubs are gonna work, and how researchers & companies will be able to access them. Get the answers in this #webinar on 31 March: events.vsc.ac.at/e/aif with @eurocc-austria.bsky.social

It's official: Austria has been selected as one of the hosts for #AI Factories in Europe! The VSC team contributed to the Austria's proposal and will be involved in the project by operating the new supercomputer & co-designing the training program 🎉 vsc.ac.at//news/2025/n...

Epic idea

Wien hat den Energieverbrauch pro Kopf seit 2005 um 33,7 % gesenkt – mehr als doppelt so viel wie der österreichische Durchschnitt (15,7 %)! Laut dem Städtischem Energieeffizienzprogramm war dieses Ziel eigentlich bis 2030 vorgesehen. Der Verbrauch ist damit so niedrig, wie 1993.

Yeah, it feels like hell right now

Saudi Arabia talks: - Ukraine ready to accept 30-day ceasefire - US will tell Russia it must reciprocate - US lifts pause on security aid and intelligence - Both sides agree to name negotiating teams - And conclude minerals deal "as soon as possible" - Ukraine insists European partners be involved

FULL KEYNOTE -- me + Guy K at SXSW on why privacy is a fundamental guarantor of a gorgeous, good life (not an absence, not a vacuum, not abstract). And how AI threatens privacy. And why Signal is so special and why you should use & love & support it ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyH7...

Talking to a righter be like: “They say—” Dibbler began, green in the face. “Who says? “They say,” “You know. They. Everyone. They say trolls have killed someone up at Dolly Sisters and the dwarfs have smashed up Chalky the troll’s all-night pottery and they’ve broken down the Brass Bridge and --”

PAN 2025 Call for Participation: Shared Tasks on Authorship Analysis, Computational Ethics, and Originality We'd like to invite you to participate in the following shared tasks at PAN 2025 held in conjunction with the CLEF conference in Madrid, Spain. Find out more at pan.webis.de/clef25/pan25...

Current Affairs magazine (@currentaffairs.bsky.social) shows you don't need paywalls for sustainability. 🧱 By embracing a model of free access and reader support, the publication is thriving without locking away knowledge. Learn how: blog.archive.org/2025/03/04/c...

I haven't even met Donald for negotiations and he's already given me everything I want.

Das ist zwar einerseits positiv, zeigt aber auch, dass sich diese Leute sehr wohl bewusst sind, welchen Unsinn sie verbreiten – und dass sie erst dann zur Wahrheit zurückkehren, wenn die Verantwortung für die Toten auf sie zurückfällt.

If the EU didn’t exist already, we’d have to found it today. 🇪🇺

There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵

Die Wirtschaftsinformatikerin Birgit Hofreiter, Leiterin des TU Wien i²c, war mit dem #schrödingerstipendium an der University of Technology Sydney. Sie erlernte dort die Fähigkeit, Rahmenbedingungen für eine erfolgreiche Kooperation mit der Industrie zu gestalten. 🌏 www.fwf.ac.at/entdecken/im...