🤖 MIT researchers teach AI models to interpret charts

The new ChartNet training dataset could improve the accuracy of vision-language models that help analyze business trends or interpret scientific figures.

📰 Source: MIT News - Machine learning
🔗 Link: https://news.mit.edu/2026/mit-researchers-teach-ai-models-to-interpret-charts-0603

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📰 Palantir Contracts Have Become ‘An Unacceptable Point of Weakness,’ UK Politicians Warn

A government committee says that the country’s growing dependence on the data analytics company is a serious liability.

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🔗 Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.wired.com/story/uk-government-palantir-warning-report/

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Palantir Contracts Have Become ‘An Unacceptable Point of Weakness,’ UK Politicians Warn

A government committee says that the country’s growing dependence on the data analytics company is a serious liability.

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📰 Russian Spy Agency Says Foreign Spies Turned Officials' Smartphones Into Surveillance Devices

Russia's FSB claims foreign intelligence services compromised smartphones belonging to senior Russian officials, allegedly turning them into surveillance devices capable of stealing data, recording...

📰 Source: Slashdot
🔗 Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/06/02/1714238/russian-spy-agency-says-foreign-spies-turned-officials-smartphones-into-surveillance-devices?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

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Russian Spy Agency Says Foreign Spies Turned Officials' Smartphones Into Surveillance Devices - Slashdot

Russia's FSB claims foreign intelligence services compromised smartphones belonging to senior Russian officials, allegedly turning them into surveillance devices capable of stealing data, recording conversations, and activating microphones or cameras. "This software is used to steal existing data, e...

📰 Amazon, Ring sued for alleged privacy violations from facial recognition tools

Ring is the source of a new lawsuit that claims one of its features can capture facial data from passers by without their knowledge.

📰 Source: Engadget - Technology News & Expert Reviews
🔗 Link: https://www.engadget.com/2186039/amazon-ring-sued-for-alleged-privacy-violations-from-facial-recognition-tools/

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📰 Building in the Agentic Era with Power BI and Fabric

Microsoft Build 2026 marks a major shift in how developers build data experiences with AI agents. Today we're announcing two capabilities that bring agentic analytics to the forefront: Agent Skills...

📰 Source: Power BI Updates Blog articles
🔗 Link: https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Power-BI-Updates-Blog/Building-in-the-Agentic-Era-with-Power-BI-and-Fabric/ba-p/5190754

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Building in the Agentic Era with Power BI and Fabric

If you haven’t already, check out Arun Ulag’s hero blog “Microsoft Build 2026: Building Agentic Apps with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Databases” for a complete look at all of our Microsoft Build announcements across our Fabric and database offerings. _______________________________________     Mi...

📊 Query Tags: The Context Your Warehouse Queries Have Been Missing

Databricks SQL logs key attributes of every query automatically: who ran it, on which...

📰 Source: Databricks
🔗 Link: https://www.databricks.com/blog/query-tags-context-your-warehouse-queries-have-been-missing

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Query Tags: The Context Your Warehouse Queries Have Been Missing

Query tags let you attach custom context to every SQL execution for granular cost attribution and customizable monitoring for shared warehouses.

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Top Agentic Frameworks for Building Applications 2026 | The PyCharm Blog

Let's compare the leading agentic AI frameworks in 2026 and explore what each framework does best – click here to find the right framework for your project.

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Last chance for Texas teachers to sign up for our summer data science training! Texas teachers can earn up to 3.0 CEUs and a $350 stipend thanks to continued funding from WeTeach_CS. If interested fill out this survey: https://forms.gle/D9keqxY7zF41zUaT9 #iteachmath #ngss #datascience #CS4ALL #CS4YALL @edutooters

🎮 New data shows Sony has been selling fewer and fewer copies of its PlayStation exclusives since 2020

Sales of PlayStation's first-party exclusive games have been on the decline since the company's 2020 fiscal year, according to new data, only registering a brief spike last year (2025). That percep...

📰 Source: Eurogamer.net Latest Articles Feed
🔗 Link: https://www.eurogamer.net/sony-playstation-first-party-sales-decline

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Request for feedback from people on #fosstodon and beyond: me and my colleague Juan have been working hard to ensure that our upcoming workshop at Mobile Tartu 2026 is as reproducible as possible. Please can anyone interested in this #datascience and #reproducibleresearch space 'kick the tires' of our pre-requisites page, up to scratch? Any issues reported very welcome 🙏 https://github.com/tdscience/tartu26/issues/2
Kick the tires: pre-requisites page · Issue #2 · tdscience/tartu26

The course website is work in progress, but we're sending out a link to the https://tdscience.github.io/tartu26/prerequisites.html page soon so the priority is to get that ready so people can ensur...

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