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Microsoft: ”By 2030, we’ll be carbon negative”
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/01/16/microsoft-will-be-carbon-negative-by-2030/
SHUUUUURE
Between this and the Google Quantum Circuit ZKP bug/forgeries, I think it should become standard practice to formally verify zero-knowledge proof circuits.
Otherwise, we really have zero-knowledge about what's being proven.
title text: The research was overseen by the Institutional Review Board, which is what I named my surfboard.
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New: Google is quietly trying to buy code from Android developers to train an AI coding tool as part of a "confidential" program. Tells them it's a "once-in-a-generation opportunity" for "helping society at large"
https://www.404media.co/google-is-quietly-buying-code-from-play-store-developers-to-train-ai/
"U.S. forces deployed to war zones have been targeted using commercially available location data"
Just like I, @johnnyryan and others warned.
US Senator Wyden says it's time to "start treating the adtech industry as a national security threat". Agreed.
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/pentagon-says-us-military-personnel-are-reportedly-being-targeted-using-location-2026-05-28/
In case you were thinking that stuff is up to date: only 4.4% of OpenSSH servers are on 10.0 or later, a version that came out over a year ago.
ACL Statement on Desk Rejecting Papers with Hallucinated References
"During the final consistency checks of the camera ready versions of papers accepted to ACL 2026, we identified over 100 papers that contained citations to non-existent literature. Since these papers were going to be published and are no longer subject to the anonymity requirements, an automated system was used to identify potential citation issues and then all flagged citations were reviewed by human experts (PCs and SACs) to confirm that references did not exist. Whether human-authored or LLM-generated, the inclusion of these non-existent references is a clear violation of the ACL Policy on Publication Ethics. Consequently, we have made the decision to desk- reject these accepted papers to maintain the quality and trustworthiness of the conference proceedings."