Luís de Sousa

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Cryptocurrency firm HTX has been sanctioned by the UK government, who allege that the exchange was part of “infrastructure” used by Russia to circumvent sanctions and helped move $1.5 billion back to the Kremlin.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-26/crypto-firm-htx-sanctioned-by-uk-for-helping-kremlin-move-money

#Ukraine #Russia #UK #HTX

#dggs #geoplegma #deckgl #geoinsight | João Manuel

At GeoInsight, we’ve been building dggs.io for a while now, continuously improving it as this demo product evolves. For those unfamiliar: dggs.io is a website for exploring and visualizing DGGS (Discrete Global Grid System) data, making spatial indexing systems easier to inspect, experiment with, and work with visually. A lot of DGGS tooling assumes your data is already tied to a specific rendering stack or grid implementation. That makes data exploration harder than it should be. I also wanted to visually test the work we have been doing at GeoPlegma (https://lnkd.in/eTdKBAAs). So I added a new capability (in dggs.io/zones) You can now visualize data directly from DGGS zone IDs by: • Uploading JSON files (specific format, check the paste section) • Loading Parquet datasets • Reading Zarr data (although this only requires a parent ID, and the depth of the refinement level) • Pasting zone IDs directly (specific format) You only need your IDs and it's associated data. I use deck.gl to visualize on the map. This works across multiple DGGS grids, deck.gl native ones (H3, A5, QUADKEY, S2, GEOHASH) and including systems outside deck.gl’s native support, with interoperability across ecosystems like and Geoplegma-compatible grids (IVEA7H, ISEA3H, etc, which are coming from DGGAL). The goal is simple: Reduce the friction between having DGGS-indexed data and actually exploring it visually. No custom preprocessing pipeline. No assumptions about a single grid ecosystem. No injected geometries, you just load zone IDs with your integrated data, and inspect the data. This is the kind of the product problem I enjoy solving. The screenshots are from the Sentinel-2 bands integrated into a DGGS grid from a json file, and the other one is a DEM from Canada, from a parquet one. These files were generated by our API. If you notice something is off or a bug with the website, please let me know privately, and if you also want I can provide examples. Also, if you work with DGGS or spatial indexing systems, I’d love to hear what tooling gaps still slow you down. Special thanks to Michael Jendryke, Dr. #dggs #geoplegma #deckgl #geoinsight

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#PopeLeo did not chose his name at hazard. His first encyclical is not only a stark take on the social challenges of today, it definitely offers paths forwards, forging a new #Doctrine for the #Church. #SocialMedia , #ArtificialIntelligence, the future of #Work, #Information and #Truth, it is all there.

Well worth some reading time and reflection.

https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html

Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)

ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________

Felix is working in a projection in PROJ: Snyder Polyhedral Equal Area

He added this interesting animation.
https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ/pull/4758#issuecomment-4395921780

#InformaticsEurope is conducting a survey to collect perspectives on the role of #AI in #Informatics #Education.

The study aims to explore how #ArtificialIntelligence, including #GenerativeAI and #AgenticAI, is influencing Informatics (#ComputerScience) education across Europe.

https://www.informatics-europe.org/index.php?option=com_acym&ctrl=fronturl&task=click&urlid=126&userid=3747&mailid=210

AI in Informatics Education in Europe

A landscape survey on AI in Informatics Education in Europe

openEO OGC Standard | Earth Observation Data API

Learn how openEO enables interoperable processing of large Earth observation datasets using a unified cloud-based API.

Open Geospatial Consortium
#OTD in 1930, 1972 #ACMTuringAward recipient Edsger Dijkstra was born. He received the award for elevating programming to a rigorous, intellectual discipline, arguing programs should be built correctly, not debugged into correctness. For more: https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/dijkstra_1053701.cfm

Excited to announce that the @EUCommission has updated it's follow buttons on the website footer!
What's that first platform there? Could that be #Mastodon?
And where did the link to #X go?
All the posts and comments here on Mastodon calling for this, trust me we read them!

#SocialMedia #EU #EuropeanCommission #FollowUs

@osgeo Charter Members should now have received an invitation to participate in this survey. How are #LLMs impacting #OSGeo projects? And the work of those involved? The Board of Directors wishes to understand the current landscape to plan for the future.

Every opinion counts, please let yourself be heard.

https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/assessing-the-impact-of-llms-on-geospatial-foss/

#GenAI #OpenSource #LLM

Assessing the impact of Large Language Models on Geospatial Open Source Software - OSGeo

Dear OSGeo Charter member, To better understand the reach of LLMs and their implications the OSGeo Board of Directors is launching a survey directed at all Charter members. Whether you are a PSC member, a code contributor, a translator or … Continued

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Thanks to everyone who showed up at #geomobLX 🇵🇹 last night! See you in Autumn! 👋 #geomob #meetup #geospatial @geomob @dovtov @luis_de_sousa @geomob @lcalisto @kateryna