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About Computer, Software engineering, Math. You're warned : Social skills of a hyena on acid.
Iron-air batteries are a long-duration energy storage technology that uses a reversible rusting process, where iron reacts with oxygen to generate electricity and is restored during charging. #ClimateChange formenergy.com/technology/b...
Battery Technology
Our first commercial product is a grid-scale, iron-air battery capable of cost-effectively storing 100 hours of energy.
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I’ve seen many engineers dunking on this position but I think it’s reasonable. Vibe coding is essentially replacing “no code” platforms and arguably the recent sale of Airtable is an indication of how that segment is compressing. Those users have no need for source code, it’s simply unnecessary.
Mathematicians are grappling with the possibility that AI might eclipse them. ~ Kai Williams. www.understandingai.org/p/mathematic... #AI4Math
Mathematicians are grappling with the possibility that AI might eclipse them
I talked to 20 mathematicians about rapid AI progress in their field.
understandingai.org
Multinational corporations dodge $500bn tax by shifting profits to low/no tax jurisdictions. Stifle social development. Need a simple change - must pay tax where they actually create profit, instead of where they pretend to on paper. UK can collect extra $16.9bn a yr. Must check corporate abuse.
Countries to gain $500bn more tax a year under UN ‘pay-where-you-play’ plan - Tax Justice Network
UN tax convention commitment to scrap 100-year-old corporate tax approach will unleash new economic era without increasing taxes, experts say Countries can collect US$500 billion more in corporate tax...
taxjustice.net
A cyberattack on the U.K.'s Police National Legal Database (PNLD) has compromised contact data of more than 100,000 police officers and other criminal justice professionals.
ExfilSquad hackers leak info of over 100,000 UK police officers, staff
A cyberattack on the U.K.'s Police National Legal Database (PNLD) has compromised contact data of more than 100,000 police officers and other criminal justice professionals.
bleepingcomputer.com
Après neuf années au pouvoir, Emmanuel Macron ne peut plus évoquer l’héritage, il a un bilan. Les catastrophes en cours mettent en lumière l’extrême dénuement de nos services publics, organisé par des années d’austérité budgétaire et de politique dans le seul intérêt du privé. Par Martine Orange
Ce que les incendies disent de nos services publics
Après neuf années au pouvoir, Emmanuel Macron ne peut plus évoquer l’héritage, il a un bilan. Les catastrophes en cours mettent en lumière l’extrême dénuement de nos services publics, organisé par des années d’austérité budgétaire et de politique dans le seul intérêt du privé.
l.mediapart.fr
Today's great news..." #Solar is poised to overtake #coal as China’s largest source of installed power capacity this year, as Beijing steps up its green transition with a renewed emphasis on efficiency, quality and orderly growth over sheer scale." www.scmp.com/economy/chin...
China’s solar surge nears milestone – even as Beijing hits brakes on sheer scale
Coal capacity is projected to lose its long-held crown this year, despite a pivot from raw solar panel expansion to quality.
scmp.com
Avant de déclarer peut-être injustement que c'est probable, je veux vérifier : comment le gouvernements de Macron ont-ils traité les pompiers après les mégas feux de 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021 et 2022 ?
Mediapart@mediapart.fr · last wk.Club de Mediapart 🖋️ | Alors que pleuvent les éloges officiels envers les sapeurs-pompiers, il est probable que leur sacrifice soit payé de mots sans aucune suite, comme ce fut le cas pour les professionnels de santé durant le Covid.
Les élèves utilisent l'IA massivement pour leurs devoirs. Les institutions nient ou cherchent des parades techniques. Avant de parler d'adaptation, voici un état des lieux. ⬇️ https://framablog.org/2026/07/05/ia-et-education-1-2-plongee-dans-liapocalypse-educative/ 📬 Ma veille dev de la semaine
What keeps some #programminglanguages relevant for decades while others fade away? 💻 🤔 In Part 1 of this Andrew Oram series, explore the different paths of C, C++, #JavaScript, #Java, #PHP, #COBOL, #FORTRAN, #BASIC, #Perl, and others 👇 lpi.org/gt73 #coding #Rust
"Matignon, le ministère de l’intérieur, les préfet et préfète en place parlent, beaucoup, tous les jours. Mais c’est comme si une calculatrice géante avait pris le contrôle de leur communication. Ou une intelligence artificielle mal entraînée peut-être." www.mediapart.fr/journal/ecol...
Incendies : qui sont les vrais pyromanes ?
Face aux feux extrêmes qui dévorent le Sud-Ouest, le gouvernement communique beaucoup. Mais l’algorithme de ses discours est bloqué sur une programmation monomaniaque : le sécuritaire. Pas de vision,…
mediapart.fr
Fires in France have now burned over 91,000 acres, by far the most of any year since the satellite record started in 2006. Current area burned is about 34x larger than this date in a typical (median) year:
“City officials announced Thursday that a contract with Flock Safety, a Georgia-based surveillance technology manufacturer, would not be renewed. Salem will also remove its currently installed Flock Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs).”
Salem joins list of Mass. communities to reject surveillance company over data concerns
City officials have said that the company’s cameras pose local data concerns that outweigh their assistance to law enforcement.
boston.com
1/ The Chinese Open Source model Kimi-k3 from Moonshot AI is claiming it will release it’s weights on Monday. «The full model weights will be released by July 27, 2026.» What does this mean in normal speak and what are the possible implications on stocks and politics? www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k3
Kimi K3 Tech Blog: Open Frontier Intelligence
Kimi K3 is the world's first open 3T-class model — frontier performance across coding, knowledge work, and reasoning, with native multimodality and 1M context.
kimi.com
11/ Interestingly, 25 companies (notably not including OpenAI and Anthropic) published a letter on Friday warning against «"premature restrictions" on open-weight AI models».
Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against 'premature restrictions' of open-weight models
Chinese open-weight models are gaining steam against leading offerings from American companies. OpenAI and Anthropic did not sign the letter.
cnbc.com
„Tens of thousands in France flee burning holiday haven. Beachgoers watch clouds of smoke rise into the sky, on the beach of Moutchic, in #Lacanau, southwestern France, on July 24. PHOTO: AFP“ Ein Wahnsinnsfoto, das die @nytimes.com da veröffentlicht hat #Klimakrise #Hitze #Frankreich #Feuer
For the first time, an A400M has been used to drop fire retardant to aid in firefighting. Via Twitter acct @CotamFleet
ownfeed@ownfeed.bsky.social · 2w agoA French A400M Atlas military cargo aircraft — originally designed to transport tanks and troops — has been converted into a wildfire bomber, capable of dropping 20 tonnes of retardant in under 10 seconds.
NASA's Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex under smoke and flames from the forest fires in Spain. 24 July 2026.
It's a "maxi-moon." It's a "planet-planet." It's an "exosatellite." A newfound Jupiter-size object orbits a brown dwarf (halfway between a planet and a star), which in turn orbits a star. So what do you call this object? It's a remarkable discovery, by any name. 🔭🧪 www.eso.org/public/news/...
Airbus is migrating 70 critical applications from AWS to Scaleway, a French cloud provider, to increase digital sovereignty and ensure data remains under European control.
Airbus migrating 70 critical apps from AWS to France's Scaleway amid digital sovereignty push
Total of 900 applications including ERP, CRM, and manufacturing systems going to be kept 'under European control'
theregister.com
Apache Arrow 25.0.0 earlier this month, Arrow JS 21.2.0 today, arrow-rs and arrow-go in the oven. Different repos, different release schedules, but a common format! Some details about the Arrow 25.0.0 release here: arrow.apache.org/blog/2026/07...
Apache Arrow 25.0.0 Release
The Apache Arrow team is pleased to announce the 25.0.0 release. This release covers over 3 months of development work and includes 222 resolved issues on 268 distinct commits from 66 distinct contrib...
arrow.apache.org
Haskell is used in way more places than you might think! I wish more companies were comfortable talking about what they use and why, but it’s delightful to see H-E-B talking about it here Give it a read! It’s got something for everyone, from mainframes to coding agents and everything in between
Haskell programming language@haskell.org · 3w agoThe second instalment of our series "Haskellers from the trenches" is about Enterprise #Haskell at H-E-B, the Texan grocery chain. Blog post: blog.haskell.org/enterprise-h... Discourse: discourse.haskell.org/t/enterprise...
Mathematician Levent Alpöge found a counterexample to the Jacobi conjecture using Claude Fable! This conjecture claims that if F: ℂⁿ→ℂⁿ is a polynomial map whose Jacobian is invertible at each point, F has a polynomial inverse. Open since 1939. But no more! (1/n)
Jacobian conjecture - Wikipedia
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Just a friendly reminder that propaganda works because it gets shared and spread, no matter the intention of the person spreading it.
1/3 Have you ever discovered that another field had already addressed a problem your discipline was struggling with? Or found relevant research🧪 years after it could have been useful? This experience may be more common than we think. #HyperSpecialization #philsci #SciWri #metasci #SciComment
Overspecialization and the Fragmentation of Scientific Knowledge – The Molehill Effect: How Niche Research, Consensus-Based Objectivity, and Missing Integration Shape Contemporary Research Epistemolog...
Contemporary scientific research is characterized by increasing specialization, resulting in fragmented knowledge structures across disciplines. This article introduces the concept of the Molehill Eff...
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