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• Post #4103330

  "New four-year #US #student #visa limit could force #international #research PhDs to leave country mid-programme" (#Chemistry World) https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/new-four-year-us-student-visa-limit-could-force-international-research-phds-to-leave-country-mid-programme/4023908.article

• Post #3840618

  "#Global #childhood #immunization coverage inches forward despite conflict and hesitancy – #UNICEF, #WHO" https://www.who.int/news/item/15-07-2026-global-childhood-immunization-coverage-inches-forward-despite-conflict-and-hesitancy---unicef--who #vaccination #health #GlobalHealth

• Post #2562386

  "Who will maintain the #web when PHP’s veterans retire?" ... A new Perforce report finds PHP's #developer base is aging out faster than it's being replenished — and #AI-generated code may be making the problem worse, not better ... #PHP #OpenSource #JuniorDevs https://thenewstack.io/php-web-skills-hiring-age/

• Post #2134668

  From Venture Beat: "One command turns any open-source repo into an #AI #agent #backdoor. #OpenClaw proved no supply-chain scanner has a detection category for it" #Security #OpenSource https://venturebeat.com/security/one-command-open-source-repo-ai-agent-backdoor-openclaw-supply-chain-scanner

• Post #2093381

  From #Futurism: "The Horrible #Economics of #AI Are Starting to Come Crashing Down" #AIBubble https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/economics-ai-tokens-crashing-down

• Post #2093379

  #TIL about the new book by the #Internet #Archive: "Vanishing #Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record (2026)" #InternetArchive #ebook #OpenAccess https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026

• Post #2093378

  From #OWID: "What is the most #unequal country in South America? It depends on what metric you look at" https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/what-is-the-most-unequal-country-in-south-america-it-depends-on-what-metric-you-look-at In my country, #Peru, 0.1% gets 22% of the income. Extremely unequal. #SouthAmerica #Economics #Disparity

• Post #2093377

  From #SMBC: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/meaning-7 Hover text: "The worst part is the robot makes him use reddit 7 hours a day, because that's what past employees were doing in its training data." #Humor #DarkHumor #AI

• Post #2093372

  A good take on #Dawkins suffering from #AIPsychosis thinking that #Claude is sentient: "Richard Dawkins and The Claude Delusion" https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/richard-dawkins-and-the-claude-delusion #AI

• Post #2093371

  #TIL about the #Cisco #OpenSource tool: "#Model #Provenance Kit" https://github.com/cisco-ai-defense/model-provenance-kit Tries to give a hand with tracking provenance as well as comparing #AI models.

• Post #2093370

  A good article from #Nature: "How to design effective scientific figures" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-026-02466-9 #Science #Dataviz

• Post #2093369

  A very interesting paper from #Nature that discusses current trends and gives an outlook of future developments: "Tracing the rise of #biomedical foundation #models" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-026-03135-y #AI

• Post #2093362

  From The Register: "Brit #mathematician lets #AI #agent loose with credit card – cue password #leaks, CAPTCHA #chaos and more" https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/05/05/british-mathematician-hands-openclaw-agent-a-credit-card/5228654

• Post #1920846

  "Defunding #fungi: #US’s living library of ‘vital ecosystem engineers’ is in danger of closing" #Science #crisis #USA #Biology https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/26/arbuscular-mycorrhizal-fungi-living-library-vital-ecosystem-engineers

• Post #1650948

  From The Register: "#NHS staff resist using #Palantir #software" '...Staff reportedly cite #ethics concerns, #privacy worries, and doubt the platform adds much.. ' #Surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/03/nhs_staff_against_palantir/?td=keepreading

• Post #1581540

  Oncoming #Security #Webinar by #OAS (#OEA): Take Control of Your #Digital Security: Introducing the Updated Gender-Responsive #Cybersecurity MOOC "Our Networks, Our Security" https://oas-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9qZ5uBG6Qlm8GE00H76_ww#/registration

• Post #1581539

  #TIL about an #RStats package made by a cool group from Univesity of #Chile to deal with #ICD10 and #ICD11 in #PublicHealth and #HealthInteroperability work: https://github.com/RodoTasso/ciecl #Health #DataScience

• Post #1581537

  #RedClara y #CUDI están convocando a un "#Programa Piloto #LMM #Federado" https://cudi.edu.mx/noticias/lmm-federado #LLM #AI #Model #LATAM

• Post #1581536

  #TIL about this good #IBM video explaining clearly and didactically what #AI technical debt means, its causes and impact: https://youtu.be/DgXV8QSlI4U?si=siQ0OY8kzpyNVSbX #FOMO #TechnicalDebt #VibeCoding

• Post #1581534

  "Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab Releases #VimRAG: a Multimodal #RAG #Framework that Uses a Memory #Graph to Navigate Massive Visual Contexts" #AI #MultimodalRAG https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/04/10/alibabas-tongyi-lab-releases-vimrag-a-multimodal-rag-framework-that-uses-a-memory-graph-to-navigate-massive-visual-contexts/

• Post #1581533

  I have an unfounded theory that in #Peru we are low key training people to do complex estimations and take multidimensional decision, otherwise why have 35 different parties, and have to cast 5 distinct votes in today's #election: president, national senate, regional senate, deputies (congress representative for the #USA folks), and Andean Parliament. And then we got preferential votes. The voting ballot was huge (see the models here https://eg2026.onpe.gob.pe/cedula/descarga-tu-cedula/...

• Post #1581532

  The evaluation of #Anthropic #Mythos by #AISI #UK, does not seem to demonstrate the super-cracking ability mentioned elsewhere. It is noted its specific ability to chain attacks. https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-evaluation-of-claude-mythos-previews-cyber-capabilities See also: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/uk-govs-mythos-ai-tests-help-separate-cybersecurity-threat-from-hype/ #AI #Security

• Post #1581531

  From #Berkeley: "How We Broke Top #AI #Agent #Benchmarks: And What Comes Next" https://rdi.berkeley.edu/blog/trustworthy-benchmarks-cont/

• Post #1581529

  An interesting podcast from #StackOverflow on #digital #sovereignty and #sovereign #AI. "No country left behind with sovereign AI" https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/04/17/no-country-left-behind-with-sovereign-ai/ #SovereignAI

• Post #891847

  A good article on the #Claude #code #leak: "The Snake That Ate Itself: What Claude Code’s Source Revealed About #AI #Engineering Culture" '... The Uncomfortable Truth The company that sells AI coding tools cannot build a quality product with its own AI coding tools...' https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-snake-that-ate-itself-what-claude

• Post #842221

  From Scientific American: "AI was supposed to save coders time. It may be doing the opposite" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-developers-using-ai-are-working-longer-hours/ #VibeCoding #Code #Developers #AI

• Post #643217

  #TIL that, again, #Djikstra was a ahead of his time, saying that what we call #VibeCoding is flawed because a language is a less precise tool than a formal representation: 'On the foolishness of "natural language programming"' (late 1970s) https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html #AI