Estonia lost out on $28m of tax revenues due to a poorly written law AI systems were able to identify in an instant. It sparked the country to rethink how it uses AI - putting it front and centre. My latest for @wired.com, supported by a @tarbellcenter.bsky.social grant www.wired.com/story/the-28...

A YouTube creator built the perfect alternative for anyone switching from Photoshop to GIMP. This free and open-source patch turns GIMP into a Photoshop-like editor with a familiar tool layout, keyboard shortcuts, more canvas space, and fully local files

Austria's new #supercomputer was officially inaugurated today! Multi-Site Computer Austria #MUSICA is a distributed system located in Vienna, Linz and Innsbruck. Learn more about it in our latest news article: asc.ac.at/news/2026/ne... #hpc #highperformancecomputing #Austria

I was asked to create a risk analysis of Microsoft 365 Copilot for a labor council and it occurs to me that others may find it useful. Voila! padlet.com/verdigris21/...

The end of an era! The last broadcast of BBC Radio 4 on Longwave (198kHz). The transmitter will be switched off at the end of June after nearly a century of transmission from Droitwich.

Linux laptop? Stick to a budget. Shop and check compatibility on somewhere like ubuntu.com/certified/la... Thinkpads are considered "easy". Then there are specialists like Slimbook, Tuxedo etc.

As luck would have it, Sean from New York, who used to work for a pool company, was nearby to talk about this blue stuff.

A security researcher said a flaw in FIFA’s online platforms allowed her to access several internal systems, including one that could have allowed her to take control of the TV stream of every World Cup match.

24 June via @mayflybooks.bsky.social

Keir Starmer keeps referring to the consultation as evidence for why the social media ban isn't a last gasp by-election gambit in his answers to the press. The consultation had 116,211 responses to 54 questions. The government has published a single percentage of answers to just two questions

Work punctuated with new password pauses!

NHS patients can't opt out of Palantir's data platform – but their hospital can

Oxford Uni student data pwned yet again - this time via career platform breach

Climate change: how fires and floods are creating uninsurable areas across Europe As #climaterisk increases, "the question is no longer whether or not the public sector will need to play a larger role, but how quickly it can be redesigned to do so"... theconversation.com/climate-chan...

Battery charged and now heating water. Days like this call for an extra battery.

A Very Peculiar Practice is on BBC Four. As relevant on university life today as it was in 1986!

UK universities cut jobs, research, teaching amid squeeze in overseas students. 30,000 job losses, brain drain, less student choice. Local economies shattered because of obsession with 'foreign' students. Govt can exclude them from immigration stats during period of study. archive.ph/L0iEn/again

REED: How many taxpayers' returns were leaked by the IRS in the 2020 breach? BLANCHE: Excuse me? REED: 405,427. One of them was Donald Trump, correct? BLANCHE: Donald Trump and his family. REED: And Donald Trump was president at the time. So it was his IRS that allowed this breach of privacy

#hpc This Friday's exploit: ssh-keysign-pwm github.com/0xdeadbeefne...

Are you a people person that wants to help us make our community bigger, better and stronger? Join our team! jobs.ashbyhq.com/openhomefoun...

New #HPC Job! 👉️ Marketing & Business Development Lead for Supercomputing, AI and Enterprise Data at HMx Labs Location: London, UK Employer: HMx Labs Remote: Hybrid

NASA's bid to save Swift from fiery death passes another hurdle

A combination of managing the decline without becoming an international laughing stock and high criticism of executive staff. #higherEducation committees.parliament.uk/committee/20...

The advice near the end might be good advice. anthropic.com/research/vib...

BWH Hotels guests warned after reservation data checks out with cybercrooks

Big yellow bus.

In this paper is presented GPUBreach, the first Rowhammer-based privilege-escalation on NVIDIA GPUs with GDDR6 memories. arxiv.org/pdf/2605.03812

#hpc Dirty Frag. Another route to root. access.redhat.com/security/vul...

Do you have a weird story to tell?

ShinyHunters claims dump puts 119K Vimeo emails in the wild

Applications for an Edinburgh Napier University Graduate Apprenticeship with EPCC close on 22 May. Details at edin.ac/3QGxfvt. Read about the experiences of EPCC Graduate Apprentices on our website: edin.ac/4he92Vr

Slightly diminish a book: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Celestial Neighbourhood.

17:17:17. We got one!

Any Leicestershire heating engineers who want to feature on heatpumpmonitor.org ???

CVE-2026-31431. This is not a drill. copy.fail

Rain or sun, that is the question. I ran out in to the rain to check a complicated collection of guttering around some sheds. Part of it was blocked in a hard to reach place. Now, I need more rain to see if I've unblocked it. But, but, lovely sun and free energy...

France's 'Secure' ID agency probes breach as crooks claim 19M records

Rod Liddle on @skynewsrss.bsky.social TV off.

Pfff, I once drove a Fiat Multipla to Portugal and back.

The U.S. telehealth giant says hackers stole customer support ticket data over the course of several days in February.

New #HPC Job! 😻️ Postdoctoral researcher Location: Esch-Belval, Luxembourg Employer: University of Luxembourg Remote: Remote friendly

New #HPC Job! 😸️ Postdoc in Confidential HPC for AI in Cancer Care (100%, 3 years) Location: Basel, Switzerland Employer: University of Basel | Department of Mathematics and Computer Science | HPC research group Remote: Fully onsite

From 2028, no new homes will be on the gas network - and will instead be on a heat network or get a heat pump - and they must have solar panels on their roofs covering an area equivalent to 40% of the ground floor space www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.

Comment: Research funding cuts threaten a whole generation of scientists UK will suffer lasting consequences from disrupted talent pipeline, say Mike Lockwood and James Wild, president and president-elect of @royalastrosoc.bsky.social www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

Hello - are you a researcher or a businessperson who has received emails from AI agents asking to talk to you (or asking you questions)? I want to chat to you

📚✨ In 10 years in libraries, I’ve never seen 300 Norwegian librarians moved like this. Today, @samhelmick.bsky.social did. The fight against book bans is about democracy. We can’t take our values for granted. 📖 #Libraries #FreedomToRead #Democracy

BBC World Service digital switch backfires as online audience drops

If you love tinkering with Linux and enjoyed biology and genetics at uni? Come work with us and turn that passion into a career driving #genomics powered breeding. #jobs #bioinformatics seek.co.nz/barenbrug-jobs?jobI Full PD: barenbrug.co.nz/careers

The Better Together report raises challenging questions about social fragmentation. Decentered Media is hosting a workshop at 6pm on Wednesday 18th March for people involved in independent and community media to reflect on these issues together luma.com/wb5xuyx4