Clashes erupted in Paris on Saturday at the end of a major demonstration as more than 400,000 people protested across France over school funding and soaring living costs, challenging President Emmanuel Macron's government a week after widespread rioting and looting. https://to.pbs.org/3TZTBdo

More than 400,000 protest across France, challenging Macron as Paris clashes erupt

Paris police estimated turnout at 110,000, with demonstrators mobilizing despite restrictions that confined the march to the city’s southeastern edge, away from the center.

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Basically: NOT Peter Attia deadline.com/2026/03/kara...

CNN To Debut 'Kara Swisher Wants To Live Forever' On April 11

The show will be the latest from its Original Series unit.

deadline.com

This is where I post from: #Art

Watch the latest video in our Forum of Mathematics, Pi video gallery which accompanies the paper 'Quasi-BPS categories for K3 surfaces' by Tudor Pădurariu and Yukinobu Toda. Access the video and article: 📺 https://cup.org/3UuJhKq 📚 https://cup.org/4ztJ5tO

PHP-ocalypse: How two critical web bugs almost broke the internet

PHP-ocalypse: How two critical web bugs almost broke the internet

Two critical bugs in the PHP web programming language, used by the majority of the internet, threatened to upend the internet — and it's unlikely to be the last major software scare.

techcrunch.com

Sunflower

— I am convinced however that men do more harm to themselves than ever the Devil could do to them. George Gordon Byron

Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing

Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing

MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs.

techcrunch.com

Biologist David Haskell says flowering plants are more than decorative. We owe our existence to them. “There would be no humans on this planet because we evolved in the grasslands or at the edge of the African grasslands.” Take a tour of our Floral Planet: buff.ly/COIOVqv

La catastrophe commence par des mots qui banalisent la haine. Rappel aux medias de masse : le racisme n’est pas une opinion, mais un délit. Discriminer et stigmatiser à raison de l’origine, de la croyance ou de l’apparence est interdit par la loi depuis le 1er juillet 1972.

#FlatironCCB is hiring! Check out our numerous postdoc research positions in computational biology: https://bit.ly/4sk77Fo #science #biology #hiring

New: AI is making it so much easier for hackers to discover serious vulnerabilities. This applies both to people with little skill, and researchers with a lot of expertise. If you can't accept AI is exceptional at finding critical bugs, you're not living in reality www.404media.co/php2shell-bl...

AI Is Changing Everything About Hacking. No One Knows What Happens Next

'Black October:' The PHP vulnerabilities and a series of other hacks and bugs have cybersecurity experts freaking out and unsure what happens next.

404media.co

Today in class: quadric surfaces

C'est juste monstrueux ce qui s'est passé à Solenzara aujourd'hui. Les records volent en éclat. Je le rappelle : une mer plus chaude, sous l’effet du changement climatique d’origine humaine, favorise l’évaporation et fournit davantage de chaleur et d’humidité à l’atmosphère.

Full Tetrahedral Symmetry Group! #mathart

The American Mathematical Society (AMS) has launched AI and Mathematics: Selected Resources, a curated collection to help mathematicians explore the opportunities, questions, and evolving discussions surrounding AI and mathematical discovery.

Southern California and the US Southwest face heavy rain from Pacific storms rolling in, offering a preview of the coming El Niño winter across the US.

California Rain and Flood Risk Offer Preview of El Niño Winter

Southern California and the US Southwest face heavy rain from Pacific storms rolling in, offering a preview of the coming El Niño winter.

bloom.bg

Archive.org is currently offline. We are working to restore service now.

A major cybersecurity threat prompted a scramble Wednesday to protect websites around the world. Government websites were among those temporarily taken offline as officials rushed to install security patches. Others remain offline entirely.

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Connect2Nature 🇨🇦@invisitech.bsky.social · 4d ago

#Connect2Nature #Birds #BirdoftheDay For today's Alt theme of #Black&White I thought I would submit this artsy experiment of a high key edit of an African Cape Penguin. Technically this is a photo, but you need your imagination to fill in the blanks. #Nature #Photography

#Connect2Nature #Birds #BirdoftheDay For today's Alt theme of #Black&White I thought I would submit this artsy experiment of a high key edit of an African Cape Penguin. Technically this is a photo, but you need your imagination to fill in the blanks. #Nature #Photography

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election action you can take

My friend Pru Foster put together a list of simple, obtainable things you can do to better ensure election integrity, including links. You can print this, cut it into thirds, and distribute them at farmer's markets, community events, and so on.

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We're accepting applications for our Targeted Grants to Math+AI Institutes, a one-time call to support established institutes working on AI challenges in #math. Full proposals due Dec 1, 2026: https://bit.ly/4yvSFeI

Targeted Grants to Math+AI Institutes — Request for Applications

The Simons Foundation’s Mathematics and Physical Sciences (MPS) division invites applications for Targeted Grants to Math+AI Institutes. Deadline for Application Submission: December 1, 2026, 12 p.m.

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Also in my newlsetter today is a printable cheat sheet with links to websites to help support voting rights and take other actions to protect our democracy. You can post them on grocery store boards, or hand them out at the farmers market or whatever! badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-star-can...

I'm no expert in any of this, but... YIKES!!! "A normal size for a NIST P-384 elliptic curve cryptography private key contains roughly 384 bits of entropy, a size allowing almost 2³⁸⁴, or a number with 116 digits, different possibilities. The private key sizes of the compromised keys ranged from

The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs

Intermediate certs allow anyone to mint web credentials for any Internet server.

arstechnica.com

✨ On Thursday, October 22nd, 1pm, join host Evan Schaffer, PhD, when he welcomes @columbiauniversity.bsky.social's Dr. Kimberly Stachenfeld to the #FBISeminarSeries. Dr. Stachenfeld presents "Discovering Symbolic Models of Human and Animal Behavior with Large Language Models". NOT TO MISS!

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 5d ago

Somewhere in a Roman brickyard, around 1800 years ago, a fresh tile was drying peacefully ahead of firing - until a dog trotted straight across it. Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history. 📷️me

Conic section posters with an autumn vibe: www.diffgeom.com/product/post... www.diffgeom.com/product/post... Browse all my poster images, which are designed without AI and mostly rendered in the LaTeX picture environment: www.diffgeom.com/product-cate... #Math #MathSky #MathArt #SciArt

Gifts for science geeks: Spiral-bound Physics Art Notebooks with dotted pages. Front and back cover are printed with scans of two different hand-crafted artworks of mine! Seven different combinations in total, see (and buy ;-) ) them here: store.elkement.art/pages/physic... #SciArt #MathSky