Giant Liquid Mirrors Could Revolutionise the Hunt for Habitable Worlds universetoday.com/articles/gia…
#science #engineering #astronomy
Giant Liquid Mirrors Could Revolutionise the Hunt for Habitable Worlds
A team of researchers has cracked the code for building space telescopes with mirrors the size of a soccer field, not from perfectly figured glass, but from liquid floating in zero gravity! The new research reveals how a 50-metre liquid mirror telesc…Universe Today
George Harrison's Beatles-era photos to be released in new book
https://apnews.com/article/george-harrison-beatles-photographs-book-third-eye-7f9fbdb0520ed542f847cdf04a90286b?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Deutschland will "Patriot"-Systeme für Ukraine kaufen ++
Die Bundesregierung will US-Flugabwehrsysteme vom Typ "Patriot" kaufen, um sie der Ukraine zur Verfügung zu stellen. In Kiew ist ein Geheimdienstoffizier offenbar gezielt getötet worden. Er soll Sabotageakte in Russland organisiert haben.
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Schwere Luftangriffe auf Kiew ++
Die russische Armee hat Kiew erneut in mehreren Wellen mit Drohnen und Raketen angegriffen. Nach einer Pause haben die USA die Lieferung von Waffen an die Ukraine wieder aufgenommen.tagesschau.de
Fantasma con l'Inter, ok in Spagna, ora il Sassuolo: tutti i "volti" di Buchanan
https://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/Serie-A/Inter/10-07-2025/buchanan-dall-inter-al-sassuolo-operazione-in-chiusura-come-e-andato-negli-ultimi-mesi.shtml?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Fantasma con l'Inter, ok in Spagna, ora il Sassuolo: tutti i "volti" di Buchanan
L'esterno prelevato dal Bruges nel gennaio del 2024 per più di 7 milioni si trasferisce a Reggio Emilia, ma il club nerazzurro avrà il diritto di recompraGregorio Spigno (La Gazzetta dello Sport)
Rubio-Lavrov Meeting Set for Thursday on ASEAN Sidelines – State Dept.
A meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Kuala Lumpur on the sidelines of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) events is scheduled for 10:00 GMT on Thursday, according to the US State…Sputnik International
West Bank Palestinians prepare to lose homes as Israel pushes for expulsion
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/7/10/west-bank-palestinians-prepare-to-lose-homes-as-israel-pushes-for-expulsion?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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West Bank Palestinians prepare to lose homes as Israel pushes for expulsion
Masafer Yatta villagers had their land deemed a military zone, and the Israeli army is trying to demolish their homes.Mat Nashed (Al Jazeera)
Not so comprehensive flood digram but comprehensive enough for internet/101 maybe.
I once made the Thai version of this so I figure I should do the English one.
The image is a diagram illustrating the water cycle and its interaction with urban and natural environments. It features a central arrow labeled "Evaporation" pointing upwards, with a fun fact stating that a tree can absorb water at the same rate as a cup of coffee per second. The diagram shows various pathways for water movement, including evaporation, infiltration, surface runoff, and discharge.
The diagram includes images of different surfaces, such as roads, green spaces, and rivers, to represent surface permeability. It also highlights the impact of external factors like climate change on the water cycle. The diagram shows how water can either infiltrate the ground or become surface runoff, leading to potential flooding if the difference in flow rate is greater than zero.
The diagram also includes a section on man-made drainage infrastructure, with arrows indicating water discharge via pump or gravity. The bottom right corner features a bar graph, possibly representing water levels or flow rates, and a globe icon, emphasizing the global context of the water cycle.
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Arrestato a Roma allenatore di taekwondo per violenza su minori
Un istruttore di una palestra a Pietralata è stato fermato con l’accusa di abusi sessuali su almeno tre ragazzine, con violenze avvenute anche nell’auto usata per accompagnarle a casa La polizia di…LiberoReporter
Pixel Tablet is a 7th generation Pixel launched in June 2023. 6th/7th gen Pixels had 5 years of support instead of 7 years of support like 8th/9th gen Pixels, so it has 3 years of support remaining.
Since it's a 7th gen Pixel, it's still ARMv8.2 without later ARM security features we consider important enough to make into hard requirements for new devices: PAC, BTI and MTE.
If you didn't have a Pixel 9, the Pixel 9 Pro Fold would be an option for a regular phone + small tablet.
The death of partying in the USA
Link: derekthompson.org/p/the-death-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
The Death of Partying in the U.S.A.—and Why It Matters
Young Americans today spend 70 percent less time attending or hosting parties than they did at the beginning of the 21st century. Why?Derek Thompson
Al Jazeera, oggi almeno 55 morti a Gaza per i raid - Medio Oriente - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/mondo/mediooriente/2025/07/10/al-jazeera-oggi-almeno-55-morti-a-gaza-per-i-raid_f21350bc-5640-4161-b3ac-35eb4baddf5b.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Al Jazeera, oggi almeno 55 morti a Gaza per i raid - Medio Oriente - Ansa.it
Le forze israeliane intensificano gli attacchi aerei e terrestri su Gaza, uccidendo almeno 55 palestinesi nel territorio assediato dall'alba, secondo quanto riferito da fonti mediche ad Al Jazeera. (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
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La ribellione dei ricercatori: 300 membri del CNR rifiutano di collaborare al riarmo - L'INDIPENDENTE
Oltre 300 ricercatori del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche hanno dichiarato la propria indisponibilità a prestare la propria attività intellettuale a studi finalizzati al settore bellico.Dario Lucisano (Lindipendente.online)
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Felon Trump praises the bravery and fortitude of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.
It takes no bravery & fortitude to arrest people just going through their daily routine trying to lead a quiet life.
#ice #cruelty #corruption #uspolitics #felontrump
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Trump loves ICE. Its Workforce Has Never Been So Miserable.
A “mission impossible” deportation campaign has left many employees burned out and morally conflicted.Nick Miroff (The Atlantic)
📰 Israele sponsorizza un report contro Francesca Albanese con annunci su Google
#️⃣ #ESTERI #FrancescaAlbanese #Gaza #Israele #MedioOriente #ONU #Palestina #Openonline #News #Notizie #Italia #mastomondo
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Israele sponsorizza un report contro Francesca Albanese con annunci su Google
Oltre all'annuncio delle possibili sanzioni contro di lei da parte degli Stati Uniti, interviene Tel Aviv sfruttando il motore di ricercaDavid Puente (Open)
Ferrero ha raggiunto accordo per acquistare Kellogg - Notizie - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/economia/2025/07/10/ferrero-ha-raggiunto-accordo-per-acquistare-kellogg_db3b6238-43a7-4852-80c9-d4e682ed6a19.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su Economia @economia-AgenziaAnsa
Ferrero ha raggiunto accordo per acquistare Kellogg - Notizie - Ansa.it
Ferrero ha raggiunto un accordo per acquistare WK Kellogg per 23 dollari per azione in contanti. E' quanto si legge in una nota. L'accordo è stato approvato all'unanimità dal consigli di amministrazione di WK Kellogg. (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
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"TikTok is preparing to launch a standalone app for U.S. users that is expected to operate on a separate algorithm and data system from its global app, laying the groundwork for a potential sale orchestrated by U.S. President Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.
Over the past several months, TikTok employees have been working under tight deadlines to build a new, U.S.-specific version of TikTok by transferring and duplicating the application's codebase — including AI models, algorithms, features, and user data — from the global platform, current employees at the company told Reuters, who requested anonymity while discussing private matters.
The move could open the door to resolving years of debate over whether the company would share what is considered the crown jewel of the ByteDance-owned short video-sharing platform- the recommendation algorithm powering the Chinese-owned platform, which has been at the center of the U.S.-China technology standoff."
reuters.com/world/china/tiktok…
#SocialMedia #USA #TikTok #Trump #China
Il techbro Jack Dorsey rastrella finanziamenti dai fondi di investimento, rilascia una app ciofeca e si fa fare l'assessment da programmatori indipendenti di buona volontà
Nel weekend Dorsey ha lanciato #Bitchat, un'app di chat open source, che ha promesso sarà "sicura" e "privata". Ma poi ecco un avviso: "l'app non è stata testata o esaminata per problemi di sicurezza: non fidatevi!" 🤣
Gli esperti di sicurezza stanno già trovando delle falle.
techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/jack…
Jack Dorsey says his 'secure' new Bitchat app has not been tested for security | TechCrunch
Dorsey admitted that his new messaging app had not been reviewed or tested for security issues prior to its launch.Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (TechCrunch)
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Recensione OnePlus Watch 3 43mm: stiloso con super batteria
#Autonomia #Compatto #Design #FitnessTracker #GadgetTech #OnePlus #OnePlusWatch3 #Review #Smartwatch #WearOS #Wearables
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Recensione OnePlus Watch 3 43mm: stiloso con super batteria
OnePlus Watch 3 43mm sfida Apple e Samsung con un'autonomia imbattibile in un corpo compatto. Ecco tutte le funzioni, i pro e i contro nella nostra prova.CeoTech
More of a vintage Casio guy myself. But exciting to think kids might get their first non-smartwatch because of the movie tie-in.
Casio G-SHOCK & Marvel Studios’ The Fantastic Four: First Steps ⌚🍿 🇬🇧
"H.E.R.B.I.E. is putting our watches to the test 🔬🤖
💥 Shock-tested, 🔥 heat-blasted, ❄ frozen, ⚡ zapped - Made to endure & Ready 4 Launch"
youtube.com/watch?v=6jHiTpivW0…
#Casio #CasioCult #WristCheck #Wristwatch #Movies #AnaDigi #GShock #FantasticFour #MarvelComics #MovieTieIn #CrossPromotion
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
Tesla announces Nov. annual meeting under pressure from shareholders, but may still be skirting law
https://apnews.com/article/tesla-grok-musk-x-chatbot-xai-trump-ce3e7da4ec6ccf0e8c5e30772af53540?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Stephen King to narrate 'Hansel and Gretel' audiobook with Maurice Sendak's illustrations
https://apnews.com/article/maurice-sendak-stephen-king-audiobook-hansel-gretel-c55f23b85312686977482f6a3ab61bce?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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#solidarity #internationalistsolidarity #prisons #greece #Anarchism #antiimperialism #ArmedStruggle
LLMs are not really intelligent, they just create synthetic text by reproducing patterns from their training data. They can be incredibly powerful tools, but the way they are commonly used nowadays is less than useful, it's quite counterproductive. They don't have any kind of cognition, there is no mind in there; all the perceived intelligence exists in the language itself and in the structure of the texts the LLM has been trained on.
However, by fooling yourself into thinking that the LLM is actually intelligent, you are putting yourself in psychological danger.
I don't say, " Don't use LLMs!" They are still powerful tools or cute toys, you just need to remind yourself that you aren't talking to anybody, it's just a text synth that doesn't know what it's doing, a text synth that doesn't know anything but the texts it has eaten, and that generates new texts to look similar to the ones in the traininig data. Don't listen to the advertising, they're just trying to sell you some rubbish that can't do what they promise you.
Also, if you use LLMs, try to use smaller ones that can be run on a local machine, and then install them there. Those don't use insane amounts of energy, those also don't archive everything you tell them for data mining, and they don't even need an Internet connection in order to work, unless you want them to search the web for information.
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/th…
Is AI getting smarter or just getting better at faking it?
AI is different enough from us to redefine intelligence itself without ever understanding what that means.John Nosta (Psychology Today)
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If we ever see a real artificial mind, some kind of LLM will probably be a small but significant component of that, but the current wave of machine learning will most likely come to a grinding halt very soon because of a lack of cheap training data. The reason why all of this is happening now is simple: The technologies behind machine learning have been around for decades, but computers weren't fast enough and didn't have enough memory for those tools to become really powerful until the early 2000s, and around the same time, the Internet went mainstream and got filled with all kinds of data that could be datamined for training sets. Now there is so much synthetic content out there that automated data mining won't work much longer, you need humans to curate and clean the training data, which makes the process slow and expensive. I expect to see another decades long AI winter after the commercial hype is over.
If you look for real intelligence, look at autonomous robots and computer game NPCs. There you can find machine learning and artificial neural networks applied to actual cognitive tasks in which an agent interacts with its environment. Those things may not even be as intelligent as a rat yet, but they are actually intelligent, unlike LLMs.
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This article explains it quite nicely. An LLM is not an artificial mind but rather a zillion-dimensional map of the abstract vector space of all the texts on which it has been trained. Every possible text is a single one-dimensional path through that space. The LLM treats your input as the beginning of a path through that landscape and tries to continue it.
Likewise, an image generator is a zillion-dimensional map of all the images in its training data set. It doesn't know anything about the world, it just tries to find the coordinates of a point in the vector space of all possible images that matches your prompt.
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/th…
AI is freakishly different, but we keep trying to make it human.
AI doesn’t replicate human thought—it bypasses it entirely, operating in a way that diverges from our minds even as we keep trying to map it onto ourselves.John Nosta (Psychology Today)
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Have we hmmm we. Really defined cognition? What of those with intensely visual minds?
Un sacco di gente si sta comprando l'albero di Natale in offerta al 50% con il Prime Day, e onestamente è un'idea geniale
https://www.gqitalia.it/article/albero-di-natale-offerta-prime-day?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Un sacco di gente si sta comprando l'albero di Natale in offerta al 50% con il Prime Day, e onestamente è un'idea geniale
Un albero di Natale a luglio? Sì, se è a metà prezzo e di super qualità. Ecco l'albero di Natale, in edizione limitata, che sta dominando le vendite durante questo Amazon Prime Day 2025Alessio Di Nizio (GQ Italia)
Why Does It Take So Long to Reach Your Marathon Potential?
https://www.runnersworld.com/training/a65349994/why-marathon-potential-takes-years/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Why Does It Take So Long to Reach Your Marathon Potential?
Reaching your marathon potential can take 10-15 years of consistent training. Learn why it’s a long-term journey and how to stay motivated along the way.Jenny McCoy (Runner's World)
Argentina Moves to Appeal US Judge’s Order to Give Up YPF Stake
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-10/argentina-moves-to-appeal-us-judge-s-order-to-give-up-ypf-stake?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Fondazione Assolombarda, aziende aprano le proprie biblioteche - Libri - Ragazzi - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/cultura/libri/ragazzi/2025/07/10/fondazione-assolombarda-aziende-aprano-le-proprie-biblioteche_66932dc2-5497-4ddd-815b-4b08afe3a017.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su Spettacolo e Cultura @spettacolo-e-cultura-AgenziaAnsa
Fondazione Assolombarda, aziende aprano le proprie biblioteche - Libri - Ragazzi - Ansa.it
"È più che mai necessario, oggi, che le aziende aprano le proprie biblioteche aziendali, collegandole con quelle scolastiche e di quartiere". (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
Ex-ASML Staffer Gets 3 Years in Jail for Sharing Trade Secrets with Russia
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-10/ex-asml-staffer-gets-3-years-in-jail-for-sharing-trade-secrets-with-russia?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Paul McCartney da settembre in tournee' negli Usa - Musica - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/cultura/musica/2025/07/10/paul-mccartney-da-settembre-in-tournee-negli-usa_4a7f9670-ff59-4988-bd3d-cd62a0e254bd.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Paul McCartney da settembre in tournee' negli Usa - Musica - Ansa.it
Paul McCartney sta per tornare in tournee in Nord America. L'ex Beatle ha annunciato le date del suo primo tour dal 2022 che prendera' il via il 29 settembre a Palm Desert in California. (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
Fondazione Assolombarda, aziende aprano le proprie biblioteche - Libri - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/cultura/libri/2025/07/10/fondazione-assolombarda-aziende-aprano-le-proprie-biblioteche_e383751b-efe1-4a1b-89a0-cf81be259cbe.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Fondazione Assolombarda, aziende aprano le proprie biblioteche - Libri - Ansa.it
"È più che mai necessario, oggi, che le aziende aprano le proprie biblioteche aziendali, collegandole con quelle scolastiche e di quartiere". (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
Al via l'11 luglio l'edizione 2025 di Umbria Jazz - Musica - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/cultura/musica/2025/07/10/al-via-l11-luglio-ledizione-2025-di-umbria-jazz_b34a843c-97fb-4325-a1be-96dfdbab48d2.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Al via l'11 luglio l'edizione 2025 di Umbria Jazz - Musica - Ansa.it
Dopo l'anteprima dedicata al 40/o anno di collaborazione tra Umbria Jazz e il Berklee College of Music di Boston, si apre l'11 luglio, l'edizione 2025 di Umbria Jazz, che proseguirà a Perugia fino al 20 luglio. (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
Il meglio di Fabio Fognini in questi 5 momenti memorabili da rivivere
https://www.esquire.com/it/sport/a65361635/ritiro-fognini-5-momenti-piu-iconici-carriera/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Il meglio di Fabio Fognini in questi 5 momenti memorabili da rivivere
Tennista talentuoso, personaggio istrionico e divisivo, la sua è stata una carriera ricca di momenti memorabiliMaurizio Gaddi (Esquire)
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