SocArXiv are pressing pause on accepting papers about AI, except where those papers are proper social science looking at AI in society.

Quarkus 3.30 is here! ✨ @JsonView support on REST Client ⚡ Hibernate Validator 9.1 with major performance improvements 🔐 New CLI decrypt command for secrets 🔒 Enhanced OIDC token propagation with method-level control > quarkus update Full details: buff.ly/ytuBlYx #Quarkus #Java

Legend has it that Mustafa is still hallucinating. #AI

New Token-Oriented Object Notation (#TOON) Hopes to Cut #LLM #Costs by Reducing Token Consumption https://www.infoq.com/ne...

🦅 A kind of "dog-fight" of robots in the air over Ukraine - our interceptor drone managed to catch up and destroy the Russian "Lancet" at the moment when it tried to maneuver, evading the attack.

🇱🇻🇺🇦 Latvia is the leader of the Drone Coalition, this year it has supplied Ukraine with about 12 thousand drones, — Zelensky

Great work and keep going!

Putin admits that he wants to turn Ukrainians in occupied territories into Russians, and that he is thus committing genocide in Ukraine. Too many genocide scholars fail to recognize the ongoing genocide in Ukraine. Shame on them!

Scottish council still rebuilding systems two years after ransomware attack

Not sure how to take this: Mastodon already exists and it's a European project... and it's struggling to take off. I don't think that the problem is the ActivityPub protocol. What does ATProtocol have that will lead to wider adoption?

The latest evidence that America is becoming a land of idiots:

OpenAI has experienced a data breach. Any user who utilized their API services should assume that personal data, including their name, location, user ID, and other details, is now in the possession of the hacker openai.com/index/mixpan...

Yo @washingtonpost.com this is embarrassingly bad and you should feel bad for running it. It is not news. It serves no good purpose. It makes you look ridiculous. Fucking hell.

In the age of AI, it's easy to make deepfake porn. But victims find it hard to undo the damage www.cbc.ca/news/world/a...

Fortunately for Vanity Fair/Conde Nast, the holiday weekend is upon us. Great time to take out the trash.

Same as it ever was.

The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?

Collective, racist punishment.

We found more than two dozen cases of immigration agents using "less lethal" weapons in ways that appear to flout the government's own rules, including by aiming at someone’s head, spine or groin or deploying chemical agents near children. With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

A chance discovery by a NASA rover on Mars shows that the red planet has a form of lightning, which researchers had suspected for decades but never seen. n.pr/4imUCUg

Firefighters struggle to reach residents potentially trapped on upper floors of burning housing complex.

US stops processing Afghan immigration requests after attack near White House reut.rs/4856win

Super Dry maker Asahi aims to restore logistics by February following cyberattack reut.rs/4pxD8qJ

Why is your employer so shitty they won't even sponsor JUnit? #opensource #java

An easy-to-exploit vulnerability in a jury system made by Tyler Technologies exposed the personally identifiable data of jurors, including names, home addresses, emails, and phone numbers.

I’ve been playing with #ProjectValhalla and the new #Java Value Classes (JEP 401), and I thought: “What happens if Protobuf messages become value classes?” 🤔 So I wrote a small protoc plugin and ran a few experiments: dariobalinzo.medium.com/protobuf-mee...

The Underwater Cables That Carry the Internet Are in Trouble https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/26/1448212/the-underwater-cables-that-carry-the-internet-are-in-trouble?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 Session Support | Discussion

Netflix's Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery is a solid third entry for Daniel Craig's Benoit Blanc, finally delivering the classic-style mystery the series has sorely needed. Our review: https://bit.ly/3K7mKOP

We're announcing a new partnership with StopNCII.org to prevent non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII) from spreading on Bluesky. While NCII hasn't been frequent on our platform, these incidents are devastating for victims and preventing them is a top safety priority. 1/4

Myanmar’s military has been blowing up parts of the KK Park scam compound. Experts say the actions are likely for show. www.wired.com/story/myanma...

This, but for AI

Introducing Slop Detective! Interactive game where you'll become fraud investigators, learning to spot AI-generated fakes and improve fact-checking skills. Perfect for kids learning to investigate suspicious stories, images, and audio clips. slopdetective.kagi.com

Another tainted #LLM that should be avoided. #AI www.404media.co/facebook-pus...

Seven or eight towers in the same complex on fire 😦 Homes for almost 5000 people.

Study Claims To Provide First Direct Evidence of Dark Matter https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/11/26/0018227/study-claims-to-provide-first-direct-evidence-of-dark-matter?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

The struggle. #linux

@thomascopeland.bsky.social and I try to explain why the rollout of user location data by X matters and how it's changing the conversation on the platform after some high-engagement political accounts were criticised for misleading users. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKr3...

Tip of the day: Tired of missing out on the content you actually care about? 🥱 Add RSS feeds from blogs, news, YouTube, and podcasts in one organised, algorithm free place.

Java 25's new CPU-Time Profiler (1) buff.ly/70nU5zN #Java

Who can tell the difference between USA and Russia anymore?

Witkoff advised the Russians on how to pitch their Ukraine plan to Trump www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Everything going well in America 🤮

#opensource #java

Like many services, as Signal grows, it becomes a more appealing place for scammers to try and cause harm. We've put together tips to help you protect yourself from phishing, scams, & impersonation attempts. Plus info about how Signal support communicates. support.signal.org/hc/en-us/art...

"It estimated that 2.5 million people had lost access to the PrEP preventive #HIV medication as of October 2025 due to donor funding cuts." www.reuters.com/business/hea...