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If you care at all about whether public bodies, like the NHS, publish the code you paid for, you probably want to take a look at https://keepthingsopen.com

#openSource

An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open.

Code paid for with public money should, by default, be open to the public.

Major provider of learning management software Canvas has been breached over the bank holiday weekend. The platform is widely used in the UK higher education sector. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/instructure-confirms-data-breach-shinyhunters-claims-attack/
Instructure confirms data breach, ShinyHunters claims attack

Educational tech giant Instructure has confirmed that data was stolen in a cyberattack, with the ShinyHunters extortion gang claiming responsibility.

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Google’s on-device AI thinks that cars are made from horses
Spending the bank holiday reading up on so-called "thinking" AI models #ai

Just noticed that Disney have added a legal notice to their websites specifically forbidding AI scanning of their content. Maybe it's been there for ages (archive.org suggests it was there in 2025 but it's erroring so can't confirm). It's obviously of no practical benefit but first time I've noticed a corporation being so explicit about this.

https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/legal/notice-to-prevent-ai-scanning

#ai #disney #llm

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Air to Ground Message:

HEY DAD FLY SAFE

Area: Washington DC, USA
A: #a76934eab19
F: #f7bb0d10697

#acars #vdlm2

A COMPUTER CANNOT FIND OUT

THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER BE ALLOWED TO FUCK AROUND

Does anybody know of any recent research into how frontier #ai systems actually work? Like, how much is actually the #llm model and how much is traditional programming to shape the model prompt into something that actually works. The recent leak of Claude Code suggests there’s a lot of the latter. I’m curious how much of this shenanigans is going on #claude #claudecode #research #science