"Baidu CEO Robin Li recently predicted that 99 percent of so-called AI companies will not survive the bubble, while legitimate businesses are now squandering money and potential productivity gains in an attempt to turn everything into an AI workload." www.techspot.com/news/109626-...

India’s IT minister moves to Zoho’s spreadsheet and word processor, urges 1.4 billion people to do likewise

Do I have news for you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Muu3...

"Al posto di Word e PowerPoint, i funzionari migreranno verso LibreOffice. Le email passeranno attraverso Open Xchange e Thunderbird, invece di Outlook, e i documenti saranno modificati collettivamente su Nextcloud, non su Sharepoint." euractiv.it/section/capi...

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Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.

Author: Amy Luers, senior global director for Sustainability Science and Innovation, Microsoft. Ahem...

Anarchy in the AI: Trump's desire to supercharge US tech faces plenty of hurdles

'[...] Then I saw the last sentence, “AI-generated definition”, and I realised what went wrong. This was AI slop. Not only that. It was AI slop on ScienceDirect, a “premier platform for scientific, health and technical literature”' irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Dress https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/dress If you ask a topologist what their house is like they start counting windows, doors, and chimneys.

This is big. GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation: GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has resigned, and now GitHub will be part of Microsoft’s core AI engineering team. Github is no longer independent company. www.theverge.com/news/757461/...

Snake-in-the-Box Problem xkcd.com/3125/

It's time for action against plastic pollution. ⚠️ Only 9% of plastic is recycled. ⚠️ If current trends continue, plastic production will triple by 2060. Today, a new negotiation begins toward a global agreement to end plastic pollution. Our priorities for the agreement ↓

Europe’s summer of humiliation. A sobering read by Marc de Vos on Europe’s self imposed capitulation

Motherfucking wind farms…

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Eat https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/eat-5 If the comic was too long, please run an AI summary.

Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird. (he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Lesson https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/lesson Hollywood, call me. I can have this script done on a weekend.

End of an era, truly. variety.com/2025/music/o...

Dressings are used to protect wounds---two tablespoons are enough.

Sinner sfiorato da un tappo di champagne durante la finale di Wimbledon. Ora è positivo all'etanolo. [ibico]

Rebranding [sciscia]

Chi si illude che il potere abbia ancora bisogno della democrazia e di razionalità recita un ruolo ormai privo di senso. Riconoscerlo è il primo passo per ritrovare la capacità di agire. L'opinione di Ece Temelkuran.

'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tec...

The president of Aix-Marseilles University is welcoming US scientific refugees.He "likened the situation to that of European academics who fled persecution by Nazi Germany both before and during World War II" www.politico.eu/article/meet...

That time of the year when whole countries are scorched but the true problem is {insert your favorite} Bonus for news channels describing killing heat waves with images from swimming pools and beaches

Back in black: Microsoft Blue Screen of Death is going dark

Bellingcat CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social:

Trump banned important words from research - 350 of them. So we said 🛑Touche pas à mon pote!✊ and stuffed as many of them as we could into the abstract of our new math paper. 🫵You can do the same!🫵Join the cause with your next abstract - they will have no choice but to hear us. #AdoptCensoredWords

“…instead of using AI technology to run the chatbot and create the app, the company hired 700 engineers in India to pose as Natasha in conversations with clients, and then to do the actual coding of the app.”

a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon

#ElleKappa su #Repubblica

I learned from her Patreon that Vi Hart has just deleted her 1.5M-subscriber YouTube channel. The worsening of YT’s policies for creators finally reached her breaking point. To help herd folks to her videos’ new home, here’s a link to an early favorite of mine. vimeo.com/showcase/116...

I am begging for a Hollywood movie or TV writer to make something that features realistic 'artificial intelligence'

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Neuron https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/neuron 'The weird part is the hypnotic synchronized purring noises.'

After Trump DOJ snooping scandal, Wyden warns telcos still leave Senate in the dark

Popularity of the first name Eleanor correlates with Wind power generated in Poland (r=0.993)

European Citizens Initiative: Ban on conversion practices in the European Union eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

"First, the plane is 13 years old. You read that correctly. A piddling little Middle Eastern autocracy is trying to bribe our president with a used plane" read @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org on the Qatari 'gift' www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Ora Mattarella inizia a essere seriamente preoccupato. [luce so fusa] #conclave

#otd 5 years ago. groups.google.com/g/sage-devel... This project has now been completed in @passagemath.org: A modularized #SageMath, installable from binary wheels on #PyPI, with reusable components. #Python #FOSS #MathSky