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Debora Weber-Wulff

@wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy

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I still teach various media and software-oriented subjects at an engineering college in Berlin, Germany, although I retired in April 2023. Projects on […]

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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 14h

Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement

https://www.iccl.ie/press-release/scientists-call-on-the-president-of-the-european-commission-to-retract-ai-hype-statement/

Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement

**Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.** Through freedom of information, ICCL Enforce learnt that the President relied on the marketing claims of tech CEOs around "AGI" and "superintelligence" when she claimed that AI would approach human reasoning by next year. The letter asks the President to retract the statement, diligently evaluate marketing claims of AI products and seek impartial scientific evidence in the future. As the letter says, "these tech CEOs claims concerning “superintelligence” and “AGI” are manifestly bound with their financial imperatives and not rigorous science." AI hype promoted by the President has consequences. The leaked Omnibus documents show that the Commission proposes to dismantle personal data protection for AI. This will not improve the EU's competitiveness, but is instead a gift to US tech companies. **ICCL Enforce Senior Fellow, Dr Kris Shrishak, one of the signatories of the letter, said today: **_"Citizens already face AI harms: discrimination, privacy-violations, psychological and environmental harms. Instead of effectively addressing these harms and stopping companies from exploiting workers_ _and stealing creative work, the President is promoting AI hype that serves these companies."_ _“Leaders of EU institutions have a responsibility to citizens. By promoting AI hype in the midst of a dangerous bubble, the European Commission risks proposing harmful policies, wasting public funds and being complicit in AI harms."_ * * * Download the Letter **ENDS** For media queries or to arrange interviews, contact: ruth.mccourt@iccl.ie / molly.kavanagh@iccl.ie / 087 415 7162

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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Oxford and Harvard libraries now publishing their own diamond open access journals. Love it. ❤️

Paying hundreds of millions to big commercial publishers isn't the only way of supporting researchers to publish their research.

Oxford: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/shox#collapse5381526

Harvard […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

DC’s license plate, for those unfamiliar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Washington,_D.C.

Vehicle registration plates of Washington, D.C. - Wikipedia

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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 3d

A New Icelandic-to-English Online Dictionary is out!

https://arnastofnun.is/is/frettir/new-icelandic-english-online-dictionary

Vefkaka -> cookie

Other news:

https://www.arnastofnun.is/en/front-page

A New Icelandic-to-English Online Dictionary

A formal opening ceremony was held in the library of the Edda building on the 23rd of October to celebrate the launch of a new Icelandic-to-English online dictionary.

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 3d

We are at most a few years away from the mainstream media becoming controlled top to bottom, with a few very exceptions, by ultrarich conservatives and their hirelings.

CBS News is gone;
CNN seems about to follow.
The Los Angeles Times installed an AI-powered “bias meter” to warn readers […]

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Wu-Tang Yutani Corporation @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 3d

"I asked chatgpt and..." without wishing to be rude, I cannot now take anything else you say remotely seriously

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Great job for somebody in Berlin!
https://mastodon.social/@sovtechfund/115502508712928818

Sovereign Tech Agency (@sovtechfund@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image We're #hiring a new Head of the Sovereign Tech Fund! 🚀 The Sovereign Tech Fund is the flagship program of the Sovereign Tech Agency. Since 2022, we've invested in critical open source infrastructure—from curl to FreeBSD to technologies like DNS that power the web—to strengthen digital sovereignty. Now we're in a pivotal phase of growth and scaling, and we're looking for an experienced leader for this key role. 1/2

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Kilian Evang @texttheater.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Word of the day: excubator

“Greenlandic Wikipedia is set to be shuttered, and any articles that remain will be moved into the Wikipedia Incubator, where new language editions are tested and built.”

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1124005/ai-wikipedia-vulnerable-languages-doom-spiral/

人工智能、维基百科以及未校对的弱势语言机器翻译

AI, Wikipedia, and uncorrected machine translations of vulnerable languages (www.technologyreview.com) 03:57 ↑ 100 HN Points

www.technologyreview.com

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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Amazon strategised about keeping water use secret
https://www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-reveals-true-data-centres-water-usage-secret-plan/
Leaked document reveals company's water consumption

Amazon strategised about keeping water use secret

www.source-material.org

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heise online @heiseonline.social.heise.de.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Office-Alternative aus Deutschland von Ionos und Nextcloud ist jetzt verfügbar

Mit "Ionos Nextcloud Workspace" gibt es jetzt eine deutsche Konkurrenz zu Microsoft 365. Der Verzicht auf US-Clouds soll die digitale Souveränität stärken […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Now imagine something 4 times brighter that the full moon, but a single point source, moving across the sky as fast as a Starlink satellite. It's so bright that it would definitely not feel good to look at, and would instantly destroy your night vision. If you look at it with binoculars or a […]

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heise online @heiseonline.social.heise.de.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Hackerparagraf: BSI-Chefin fordert Sicherheitsforscher-Entkriminalisierung

Die Präsidentin des Bundesamts für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik hat Änderungen am Hackerparagrafen gefordert. Unterstützung kommt aus der Opposition […]

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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 8d

@eichkat3r
'Machiavelli für Frauen' lesen

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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Time to donate to your local food bank if you can afford it and haven't already done so. One of the best ways to support people in need in our communities.

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 14d

#tomellison gives brilliant voice to #wikipedia zinging #academics.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-its-me-wikipedia-and-i-am-ready-for-your-apology

"Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology…global academic, scientific, and pro-fact community. I suppose you’ve come to say […]

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Joe Roe @joeroe.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 14d

Update: turns out the fancy computer vision and document AI pipeline made a tonne of mistakes. Back to transcribing it by hand...

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Bill @sempf.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14d

If you are in a privacy supporting country, LinkedIn won a court case so they still gonna scrape your data to train copilot unless you opt out right meow. Settings/Data Privacy

#privacy #linkedin

The opt out screen for LinkedIn AI scraping.

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 15d

At least I got the day job to implement a "no AI browsers on work machines" policy.

If you CISO has not released a policy forbidding AI browsers at your company they are asleep at the wheel.
https://mstdn.social/@Hackread/115448122449051028

Hackread.com (@Hackread@mstdn.social)

🚨 A newly disclosed "ChatGPT Tainted Memories" flaw in the ChatGPT Atlas browser allows malicious command injection via hidden prompts in memory. Read: https://hackread.com/chatgpt-tainted-memories-atlas-browser/ #CyberSecurity #AI #BrowserSecurity #OpenAI #AtlasBrowser #ChatGPT

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Dr Pen @drpen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16d

This should be required reading for anyone in HE or education.
(via Ben W)

https://defector.com/higher-eds-rush-to-adopt-ai-is-about-so-much-more-than-ai

#academia #academicchatter #ai #genai

*... the accelerated conversion of universities into profit centers for private equity is their […]

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Stefan Münz @stefanmuenz.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 18d

Bei #fridaysforfuture gibt es wieder #ringvorlesungen, jeweils ca. 80-90 Minuten lang inkl. Publikumsfragen. Für alle, die tiefer in die verschiedenen Aspekte der #klimakrise eintauchen möchten, ein unglaublich tolles, frei zugängliches Bildungsangebot. Im Wintersemester 2025-/26 sind wieder 14 […]

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Ralf Stubner @rstub.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 18d

Is 42 a "good" random seed? I know I have used it a lot in various stackoverflow posts. But this can indeed have a negative effect on people and *especially* LLMs using the example code as Claus Wilke is arguing here
https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/if-your-random-seed-is-42-i-will
and here […]

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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 19d

Brilliant quote by Ben Roberts on LinkedIn about using AI in grading papers:

"It’s getting a bit like a modern version of that famous Solzhenitsyn quote, but you replace ‘lying’ with ‘using AI’:

‘We know that they are using AI, they know that we are using AI, they even know that we know they […]

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 20d

Key findings:
45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue.
31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions.
20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information.
Gemini performed worst with […]

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Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20d

Hilarious side effect of the OpenAI pivot to porn plus the Swedish ban on online pornography purchases: Paying for ChatGPT in Sweden may be a criminal act soon.

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Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷 @larsmb.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22d

Ich bin von der in meinen Augen rassistischen Äußerung von #FriedrichMerz, die er jetzt auch nochmal explizit als #Bundeskanzler getätigt hat, extrem angewidert.

Warum das keine Regierungskrise mir Rücktritten auslöst lässt sich meiner Meinung nach nur damit erklären, dass rassistische bis […]

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Holger Dittmann @holgertdittmann.ruhr.social.ap.brid.gy · 22d

Deutsche Touristen, gründlich durchalkoholisiert und auf Alphamännchentrip, sind ja bekanntlich die Kronjuwelen im Stadtbild beliebter Urlaubsorte. Glauben sie wenigstens.

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Rettungstasse ☕️ @rettungstasse.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22d

Vielleicht sollte Herr Merz nicht nur Töchter, sondern auch Omas fragen:
Es war und ist auch in Deutschland immer gefährlich für Frauen. Und die Gefahr heißt Mann, nicht Migrationshintergrund.
Immerhin dürfen Ehemänner ihre Frauen nicht mehr ungestraft vergewaltigen.
Das wurde ihnen 1997 gegen […]

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Mark Hurst @markhurst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22d

A few months ago I warned that falling space junk could collide with an airliner in flight:
https://buttondown.com/creativegood/archive/musks-space-junk-is-a-threat-to-us-all/

Now @arstechnica reports that a plane just got hit […]

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Lö(h)we @loewe.metalhead.club.ap.brid.gy · 22d

#xkcd readers know what happened to #aws ...

https://xkcd.com/908/

A four-panel xkcd comic shows two stick figure characters: one standing and one sitting at a computer.

Panel 1:
The standing character points to a small box on the floor with a cord coming from it.
Standing character: “What’s this?”
Sitting character: “The cloud.”

Panel 2:
The standing character looks confused.
Standing character: “Huh? I always thought ‘the cloud’ was a huge, amorphous network of servers somewhere.”
Sitting character replies: “Yeah, but everyone buys server time from everyone else. In the end, they’re all getting it here.”

Panel 3:
The standing character asks: “How? You’re on a cable modem.”
The sitting character responds: “There’s a lot of caching.”
The standing character, now looking at the long cord stretched across the room, asks: “Should the cord be stretched across the room like this?”
Sitting character answers: “Of course. It has to reach the server, and the server is over there.”

Panel 4:
The cord stretches across the floor between them.
Standing character: “What if someone trips on it?”
Sitting character: “Who would want to do that? It sounds unpleasant.”
Standing character: “Uh. Sometimes people do stuff by accident.”
Sitting character: “I don’t think I know anybody like that.”

(alt text by ChatGPT)

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Flippin' 'eck, Tucker! @losttourist.social.chatty.monster.ap.brid.gy · 22d

Meanwhile, because Mastodon server admins are all cheapskates and we're not going to pay the sort of prices for hosting that AWS charge, the Fediverse keeps on chugging away happily while the corporate internet falls apare.

#aws #awsdown #fediverse