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noyb @noyb.eu · 1d

🎉 Big #WIN for student privacy! 🔒 Austria’s DPA has issued a decision finding that #Microsoft 365 Education illegally tracks pupils and uses student data for Microsoft's own purposes.

📰 Read the full blog post, including a comment by Max #Schrems 👉 noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-...

noyb win: Microsoft 365 Education tracks school children

Favorable decision by the Austrian DSB: Microsoft Education 365 may not track school kids and Microsoft is ordered to provide full access to kids' data.

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noyb @noyb.eu · 11d

🚨 In case you missed it: We've filed a complaint against Whitebridge AI. The company sells “reputation reports” on everyone with an online presence – without a valid legal basis.

More info 👉 https://noyb.eu/en/whitebridgeai-your-personal-data-sale-you-and-anyone

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Florina Piroi @flrp.bsky.social · 17d

Nothing that we didn't know since the emergence of language models. Landmark is only the fact that OpenAI (finally) states it publicly.

Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 19d

"The researchers demonstrated that hallucinations stemmed from statistical properties of language model training rather than implementation flaws. "

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits.

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Moment.at @moment.at · 25d

Heimische Medien berichten (schon wieder) über eine Schrottstudie eines neoliberalen US-Thinktanks (und verherrlichen ihn dabei als Verbraucherschutzorganisation). Wir und @uebermedien.de haben das schon vor zwei Jahren erklärt: www.moment.at/story/schlec...

Wie österreichische Qualitätsmedien über eine Schrottstudie zu Europas Bahnhöfen berichten - und wem das nützt

Deutsche Bahnhöfe sind schlecht. Wiener Bahnhöfe sind top. Das sagt der European Railway Station Index - ein schwachsinniges Ranking einer neoliberalen US-amerikanischen Lobbygruppe.

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Florina Piroi @flrp.bsky.social · Sep 11

I guess it's time to leave this platform, too. What is it whith these CEOs & co. turning up to be nazis in disguise?

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · Sep 10

Violence is always unacceptable, and threats of violence have no place in public discourse. Our thoughts are with Charlie Kirk and his family.

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TU Wien @tuwien.at · Jul 25

Was entscheidet, was wir auf Social Media sehen?
Heute bei „Spontan gefragt“ auf KURIER TV: TUW-Forscher @stefanresearch.bsky.social erklärt, wie Algorithmen unsere digitale Realität formen.
🕘 21:15 auf KURIER TV
📺 Mediathek: kurier.tv/spontan-gefr...

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Georg Heiler @geoheil.com · Jul 20

Together with www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-cul... I have created a template for making #LLMs (from different vendors and even self hosted ones) easily accessible to researchers - including advanced document RAG with #docling. github.com/complexity-s...

GitHub - complexity-science-hub/llm-in-a-box-template: Template to use genai for chatting and via api to accelerate research

Template to use genai for chatting and via api to accelerate research - complexity-science-hub/llm-in-a-box-template

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TU Wien @tuwien.at · Jun 30

AI ist oft nützlich - aber ist sie auch sicher? Mit geometrischen Methoden kann man in manchen Fällen beweisen, dass neuronale Netze bestimmte Fehler garantiert niemals machen werden, zeigt man an der TU Wien:

TU Wien macht Unsicherheit in Künstlicher Intelligenz berechenbar

Mathematische Garantien für neuronale Netzwerke: Ein interdisziplinäres Team der TU Wien präsentiert eine neue Methode bei der Top-Konferenz ICML

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Terje Helland @terjehelland.bsky.social · May 25

🇧🇬🇺🇦In March 2025, a voice on the phone said: “We will bring you to your knees, swine.”
Weeks later, his family was chased on a Bulgarian highway.
🧵This isn’t fiction. It’s the true story of Svet DiNahum - a writer punished for exposing Russian lies.

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Varvara Arzt @kleines-gespenst.bsky.social · May 20

Relation Extraction or Pattern Matching? How well do RE models generalise to OOD data? We find that higher in-distribution scores do not necessarily translate to better transferability.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.12533

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Armin Wolf @arminwolf.at · May 11

Sehr schönes Ö1-Hörbild zum 50. Geburtstag des legendären „Köln Concert“ von Keith Jarrett, über ein verlorenes Klavier, Improvisation und Komposition und die Verwandtschaft zwischen „Köln Concert“ und dem Kitsch-Klassiker „Love Story“:
https://oe1.orf.at/player/20250510/794417/1746860702000

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Danny Deraney @dannyderaney.bsky.social · May 4

Wanna see something cool?

At the Grammy's in 1976, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme explained what jazz is.

The result? The crowd losing its mind. 🔥

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Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social · May 4

#MusicSky #MayTheFourth

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Florina Piroi @flrp.bsky.social · Apr 30

JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · Apr 30

Speed killed depth.

Scale killed trust.

The feed killed context.

The result? A media system that can publish everything and still say nothing.
paragraph.com/@signalvs…

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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · Apr 27

I love these silicon valley bros that think ChatGPT has achieved some kind of sentience and therefore might have rights.

Like dudes, you don't even think poor people deserve rights, let's try to achieve that before giving person-hood to the autocomplete algorithm.

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · Apr 27

Great project: Internet in a box
internet-in-a-box.org#easy-install
#education

Internet-in-a-Box - Mandela's Library of Alexandria

Internet-in-a-Box is a tiny, powerful 'Digital Library of Alexandria' that can be set up by any school, medical clinic or community worldwide.

internet-in-a-box.org

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Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · Apr 25

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Apr 25

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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Florina Piroi @flrp.bsky.social · Apr 24

A couple more days: We extended the paper submission deadline for the 6th PatentSemTech Workshop @SIGIRConf 2025! 'til April 30.
easychair.org/cfp/PatentSe...

CFP

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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · Apr 22

573 anerkannte Impfschäden bei 65 Millionen Geimpften und 182 Millionen Impfdosen zeigen, wie unglaublich sicher die Impfungen sind. Bei über 180.000 Todesfällen durch Corona sollten wir eher Aufklärung fordern, wie viele Tode Querdenker mit Lügen und Panikmache über die Impfung verursacht haben.

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Introvert Problems @introvertproblems.bsky.social · Apr 18

Sometimes I wear headphones just so people don’t talk to me. I’m not even listening to anything — it’s just social protection at this point

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Florina Piroi @flrp.bsky.social · Apr 11

LongEval is turning three this year!

This is a Call for Participation to our CLEF 2025 Lab - try out how your IR system does in the long term.

Check the details on our page:
clef-longeval.github.io

LongEval 2025

Conference Template

clef-longeval.github.io

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Ingo Frommholz @ingo.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · Apr 9

ESSIR 2025, the European Summer School on Information Retrieval in Wolverhampton, UK, July 7-11! Dive into cutting-edge Information Retrieval & AI, network with experts. Plus, don’t miss the interactive FDIA Symposium! 🎓

👉 http://2025.essir.eu/ #ir #ai #ecir2025

ELLIS ESSIR 2025

About the School The European Summer School on Information Retrieval (ESSIR) is held regularly, providing high-quality teaching of Information Retrieval (IR) and advanced IR topics to an audience of researchers and research students. The mission of the school is to enable students to learn about

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Leonie Fian @leoniefian.bsky.social · Apr 7

What predicts public risk perception of microplastics in food 🍽️ & plastic-policy support? 🚫 In a survey study in Austria (N=741), we applied the Climate Change Risk Perception Model (van der Linden, 2015) to advance psychosocial theoretical foundations in the plastic field. ⬇️ doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

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Satan’s Niece @krissychula.bsky.social · Apr 6

This is high art

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