The report from the AI + TCS Working Group held at the @simonsinstitute.bsky.social is out, including "twelve concrete near-term recommended actions." Currently reading it: while I have some reservations, but there is some good in it! Notably items 7, 8, and 11. simons.berkeley.edu/ai-tcs-worki...

Look, it's really simple: if its a work tool, your employer should pay for it, not you. Please don't contribute to normalizing “pay for your own work tools”.

this is potentially quite a big deal.

Holger Hestermeyer@hhesterm.bsky.social · last mo.

This incident needs to be thoroughly investigated. If true, no public office in the EU or any member state can continue to run any microsoft products. nltimes.nl/2026/05/22/m...

New system: 1. A week before QIP deadline the program committee publishes the titles of all accepted papers. 2. Everyone prompts LLMs for a week to produce these papers. 3. For each title, the best paper gets accepted (decided by an LLM). 4. This week's QIP is over and another QIP happens next week.

I'm actually more shocked that sharks are older than Saturn's rings

Thomas House@tah-sci.com · 2mo ago

One thing I only just realised is that sharks are old enough - not just marginally but by millions of years - to have eaten trilobites. This is somehow more odd feeling than the fact they pre-date Saturn's rings.

One thing I only just realised is that sharks are old enough - not just marginally but by millions of years - to have eaten trilobites. This is somehow more odd feeling than the fact they pre-date Saturn's rings.

tenez j'ai fait un schéma pour expliquer un truc à un collègue à propos de l'économie de l'attention et je me dis ça peut servir :

christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

Ce n'était certainement pas un petit feu de forêt de rien du tout qui allait pousser Hortense et René dans les bras de ces dangereux escrolos d’ultragauche... Ma première BD, les fables bucoliques autogérées, est sortie ! 🦊 A retrouver dans votre librairie indé préférée (lien de commande en bio)

Un lecteur @lemonde.fr signalait en commentaire que mettre "-ai" à la fin d'une recherche Google désactivait les résumés AI. Testé ce matin, ça fonctionne. Merci, cher lecteur !

The list of accepted papers at #FOCS2026 is out! sanjeevkhanna.org/FOCS2026_Acc...

I should be focusing on lecture but I'm busy being mad that the empty set is disjoint from itself

It's time for the Theory Jobs spreadsheet for 2026! The theory CS community crowdsources who accepted which jobs every year. Blog post: kamathematics.wordpress.com/2026/06/01/t... Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/1Qcn... Results: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Your time will come. 🗃️🎓

Apparently German real estate company Quantum has successfully sued the Dutch national quantum computing initiative Quantum Delta NL for trademark infringement on their use of "quantum". blog.galalaw.com/post/102mp68... www.boek9.nl/system/files...

Use of ‘House of Quantum’ and ‘Quantum Delta NL’ infringes Quantum trademark (via Passle)

Quantum is a real estate specialist that develops and manages real estate projects and provides asset management services. Quantum carries out these act...

blog.galalaw.com

The Jetsons lied to us

Mme Dati a reçu le soutien de Reconquête, du Rassemblement national et maintient un candidat raciste sur sa liste. Elle est, indubitablement, la candidate de la fachosphère. Dimanche, une seule liste peut la battre et une seule. Pas une voix ne doit manquer.

We are very happy to share that Grenoble will host TQC, one of the most important quantum computing conferences, in 2027! Excited to welcome the community in the heart of the Alpes! tqc-conference.org/2026/2027/

FOCS 2026 will be held in New York City Nov 8 - 11! CFP is up (link below). Submit your best work in theoretical computer science by April 1, 5pm ET.

Absolutely love this! www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up... Kudos to the Norwegian Consumer Council for their efforts to fight enshittification! www.forbrukerradet.no/news-in-engl... Read their report here: storage02.forbrukerradet.no/media/2026/0...

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator

YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

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Come see me speak about the new era of simplex method theory. Wednesday!

TCS+@tcsplus.bsky.social · 7mo ago

And... we are back on 🎉! The first talk of the season will be delivered by Sophie Huiberts (CNRS, @sophie.huiberts.me), on ⏰ March 4 (10am PT, 1pm ET, 19:00 CET): "Analyzing the Simplex Method by the Book" RSVP to receive the link (one day before the talk): forms.gle/aD621bCwswjB...

N'importe quoi. Tout le monde le sait bien que ce sont les fusions des universités qui nous font monter dans le ranking.

John Williams@johnhuww.bsky.social · 7mo ago

“Chinese universities’ climbing in global rankings is real. It’s not a ‘mystery bounce’ but the result of 3 decades of sustained, targeted investment,” Sustained, targeted investment .. an innovative intervention! An approach for the U.K. to consider?! giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

📚 Jai déjà lu des thèses de doctorat en neuropsychologie et des méta analyses dans le train. 👶 Nombre de fois où un enfant m'a gêné : 0 🚅 Nombre de fois où des adultes étaient pénibles à parler au téléphone ou regarder des vidéos sans casque : plein

Si vous cherchez à réduire vos dépendances numériques aux US, je vous invite à jeter un œil sur le site European Alternatives qui recense des services européens dans pas mal de catégories (mails, messageries, VPN, cloud etc.) ⤵️ european-alternatives.eu/categories

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List of all categories on European Alternatives

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ICALP 2026 CFP is out. This year it’ll be at Royal Holloway (London area), July 7–10, 2026. Abstract registration: Feb 3 Paper deadline: Feb 6 Details: icalppodcspaa2026.cs.rhul.ac.uk/icalp/

Reminder: Two weeks left to apply for the Assistant/Associate Professor positions in Theoretical Computer Science at Cambridge. Application deadline: 15 December 2025. Details and application portal: cst.cam.ac.uk/assistantass...

WTF!