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Simon H
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UKRI / InnovateUK Digital & Tech wrangler @InnovateUK usually found nr Westminster searching for ££££. Personal views.
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noelreports.com
Takeoff of two Tu-95MS strategic bombers from Olenya air base... monitoring.
noelreports.com NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 22h
Russia has reportedly completed preparations for a large-scale combined strike expected within the next 48 hours. Key threats include up to 84 Kh-101 missiles, 36 Kalibr cruise missiles, MiG-31Ks with Kinzhal capability, and Iskander systems. Mass drone attacks are likely.
November 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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mattdpearce.com
I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
A LinkedIn ad showing Jensen Huang shaking hands with some vague fashion executive: L'OREAL 6,204,444 followers Promoted We're thrilled to announce a collaboration with NVIDIA to supercharge beauty with next-gen Al. WELCOME TO NVIDIA L'ORÉAL GROUPE
November 18, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
It looks like China's CO₂ emissions have peaked
November 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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arstechnica.com
New Windows 11 AI agents can work in the background but create new security risks
Agents with read/write access to your files create big security, privacy issues.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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josiah.writes.news
Politico: "Ex-Cabinet minister Anne Marie-Trevelyan has used the parliament pass she is allowed as a former MP on 55 occasions since she was booted out at the 2024 election...

"She also works for lobbying firm Fullbrook Strategies - as does ex-MP Nigel Evans, who used his pass 47 times."
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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resprofnews.bsky.social
EU moves to bar China from parts of Horizon Europe.

Entities “linked” with the Chinese technology ministry also blocked entirely under draft work programme.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...
EU moves to bar China from parts of Horizon Europe - Research Professional News
Entities “linked” with the Chinese technology ministry also blocked entirely under draft work programme
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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resprofnews.bsky.social
UK expects Horizon Europe rebate after limited winnings.

Clawback in prospect after UK’s sluggish EU research programme start, with losses capped at £330m.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
November 12, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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resprofnews.bsky.social
The UK is expecting a rebate on a portion of the £2 billion it paid the EU in 2024 to be part of Horizon Europe, because British academics and companies failed to win enough funding from the bloc’s R&I programme that year.

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UK expects Horizon Europe rebate after limited winnings - Research Professional News
Clawback in prospect after UK’s sluggish EU research programme start, with losses capped at £330m
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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catapultnetwork.bsky.social
📻 Six new international #OpenRAN vendors joined Digital Catapult’s advanced connectivity programme.

⚡ @energysyscat.bsky.social has shared a new report as part of its work with Mission Innovation which investigates the current and future landscape of #LongDurationEnergyStorage technologies.
November 14, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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catapultnetwork.bsky.social
The weather might be getting colder, but the
@innovateuk.bsky.social #CatapultNetwork isn’t cooling down 🚀 Here’s our top highlights from the month so far ⬇️
November 14, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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techcrunch.com
The federal cybersecurity agency said some government departments had been actively exploited after failing to properly patch their systems.
CISA warns federal agencies to patch flawed Cisco firewalls amid 'active exploitation' across the US government | TechCrunch
The federal cybersecurity agency said some government departments had been actively exploited after failing to properly patch their systems.
techcrunch.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
simonbim.bsky.social
@innovateuk.bsky.social and DSIT just announced £21m backing for #cybersecurity and #CHERI The cutting-edge technology, Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions an innovative technology, which can block up to 70% of the most common cyber attacks.

www.ukri.org/news/21-mill...

#CHERI
£21 million backing for technology to stop cyber attackers
Advanced cyber protections will be embedded into the digital systems that power everything from critical infrastructure to consumer electronics.
www.ukri.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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generalboles.bsky.social
I need the most Canadian story you have.

No that's too Canadian.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5d
When a man hijacked a bus in Hamilton, Ontario, on Tuesday, the potentially catastrophic scenario ended happily. It turns out he was a pretty decent bus driver. He made regular stops to pick up passengers, the police reported. At one point someone tried to board with an expired bus pass. No dice.
A Man Took a Bus for a Joyride. Turns Out, He’s Not a Bad Driver.
The incident in Hamilton, Ontario, ended safely with an arrest and no injuries (and all fares paid).
nyti.ms
November 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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apnews.com
Japanese technology company SoftBank Group Corp. says it has sold all the Nvidia Corp. shares that it owned for $5.83 billion.
Japan's SoftBank says it has sold its shares in Nvidia for $5.8 billion
Japanese technology giant SoftBank says it has sold its stake in Nvidia for $5.8 billion. Tokyo-based SoftBank Group Corp. said it sold the stake in October.
bit.ly
November 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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antfu.me
My first advice to junior contributors is to STOP using vibe coding for PRs. OSS is always about people more than about code. We don't need more code generated by LLM, we need more people who care.
November 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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forbes.com
Nscale, a tiny London-based startup, just landed $500 million in backing from AI chip giant Nvidia to help build a massive data centers for OpenAI in the U.K. and Europe.
Nvidia Keeps Minting New Coreweave-Style AI Data Center Unicorns
Nscale, a tiny London-based startup, just landed $500 million in backing from AI chip giant Nvidia to help build a massive data centers for OpenAI in the U.K. and Europe.
www.forbes.com
September 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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hacksterio.bsky.social
Oxford researchers built "fluidic robots" that move, sense, and make decisions using only information encoded into their physical structure.
If I Only Had a Brain
Oxford researchers built "fluidic robots" that move, sense, and make decisions using only information encoded into their physical structure.
www.hackster.io
November 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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danneidle.bsky.social
This video is brilliant: buff.ly/1zyTWmM

Seems a total slam dunk that owners of private jets should pay fuel duties. Doesn't it?

The answer is annoying.

Thread:
Private jets don't pay fuel tax. Now I don't either.
You pay fuel duty. Why don’t billionaires? This week, we launched WeWingAnyCar.com to help you qualify for the same tax breaks that private jets get. Because tax loopholes shouldn’t just be for…
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November 8, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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edzitron.com
Reports say that OpenAI will need to raise another $70bn in 2027.

Based on my calculations, I believe OpenAI needs to raise $100bn in 2026 just to handle its rate of spending, and potentially more based on $1.4tr+ in deals it has agreed to.

What a mess.
www.wheresyoured.at/where-is-ope...
OpenAI Will Need To Raise Over $100bn In 2026 To Survive At Its Current Rate Of Spend The Information recently reported that OpenAI would raise $90bn in 2027, and I don’t believe this company can make it to July 2026 without raising at least another $30bn, especially because it now has the burden of its deal with Amazon Web Services, on top of CoreWeave, on top of Microsoft, on top of Google, and on top of Oracle via Stargate Abilene. As discussed previously, these amounts work out to around $11bn a month by the year 2027, a year when this company believes it will make $60bn in revenue. I do not see how it is possible in OpenAi’s current state to handle any of these costs, even with the supposed $20bn arriving in December from SoftBank. In its H1 2025 form — with effectively a single vendor compute contract at a discounted rate and little capital expenditure burn (as OpenAI’s partners shoulder the entirety of those costs) — OpenAI is on course to burn far in excess of the supposed $8bn or $9bn that it has leaked to the press. One day, I imagine we’ll find out what it is that’s really going on at OpenAI. And when we do, I’ll be taking detailed notes on those who doubted me.
November 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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edzitron.com
Based on my analysis, OpenAI burned $19 billion of their $28.6 billion in cash from 2023 through 1H2025, meaning there's at least $4.1 billion in cash unaccounted for, as my analysis includes *ALL* reported costs that OpenAI has incurred. Where is the money?
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OpenAI Burned An Estimated $19bn In Cash Between 2023 and H1 2025 — Where Did It Go? OpenAI had $9.6bn in cash at the end of June. So, Microsoft’s funding in 2023 was $2bn in cash (and $8bn in credits, but I’m not counting those), add in the $6.6bn of cash from 2024 (i’m not including the line of credit, as that would be a “cash equivalent), $10bn from SoftBank and other investors in June 2025, and we assume $2bn in revenue in 2023, $3.7bn in revenue in 2024, and $4.3bn in the first half of 2025 (for a total of $28.6bn in cash), this means that OpenAI burned $19bn in cash from the beginning of 2023 through the end of June 2025. Yet the reported losses are much smaller. For the sake of argument, I’m also going to leave OpenAI’s $4bn line of credit out of the calculation. In 2024, OpenAI allegedly burned $5bn. Through H1 2025, it had a “net loss” of $13.5bn but an “operating loss” of $6.7bn, and the painfully-worded accounting leaked to The Information is done in such a way as to make it unclear how much of that is cash, with the hopes that you believe it’s not cash burn. $19bn in burned cash doesn’t make sense based on any reported numbers. Even if we assume OpenAI burned $2bn in cash in 2023, $5bn in cash in 2024 and $6.7bn in cash in H1 2025, that's $13.7 billion in burn - yet OpenAI has only $9.6 billion in cash at the end of H1 2025. That's a $4.1 billion difference in burnrate. $4.1 billion is a pretty big number. That's a $4.1 billion difference in burnrate. $4.1 billion is a pretty big number. I guess there could be prepayments as part of its deals with Broadcom or CoreWeave, but even then, The Information had another tidbit: OpenAI also recorded around $670 million of equity it gave to unnamed entities for providing the company with servers in the first half of 2025, compared to $1 billion in such equity compensation last year. While it’s not clear which cloud provider or providers received the equity, the decision could help OpenAI minimize its cash burn as it projected it would spend $16 billion to rent servers this year. So, on top of paying cash for compute, OpenAI has also been paying for it in stock. If OpenAI “burned” $5bn in 2024, and had an “operating loss” of $6.7bn, how did it end up with $9.6bn in cash at the end of June? With the revenue it’s (apparently) making, OpenAI should have significantly more cash than it has. Unless, of course, what has been leaked isn’t reflective of OpenAI’s actual cash position.
November 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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kevinkorte.bsky.social
While many Web Hosters are becoming big tech resellers, Ionos and Nextcloud just released an alternative to GSuite and M365. It's built entirely on open-source software and is even cheaper than most of its competitors.
#opensource #office
Office alternative from Germany by Ionos and Nextcloud is now available
With "Ionos Nextcloud Workspace," there is now German competition for Microsoft 365. The avoidance of US clouds is intended to strengthen digital sovereignty.
www.heise.de
November 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Perplexity’s open-source tool to run trillion-parameter models without costly upgrades #machinelearning #ai
Perplexity’s open-source tool to run trillion-parameter models without costly upgrades
    Perplexity’s open-source tool to run trillion-parameter models without costly upgrades 0 views Eyal Estrin unread, 3:18 PM (14 minutes ago)    to https://www.infoworld.com/article/4085830/perplexitys-open-source-tool-to-run-trillion-parameter-models-without-costly-upgrades-2.html https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.27656 Eyal Estrin CISSP, CCSP, CISM, CISA, CDPSE, CCSK Blog: https://security-24-7.com | Books: https://amzn.to/42Xai9A | https://amzn.to/3Sggbtv Twitter: @eyalestrin | Bluesky: @eyalestrin.bsky.social Reply all Reply to author Forward
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November 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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waldo.net
I am yet again helping a state that wants to use open source software but they can't because the state conflates "acquiring software" with "buying a thing." I strongly recommend that user-facing open source software projects consider working with a reseller to let governments buy their software.
November 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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shipwreck75.bsky.social
Multiple flights destined for Brussels Airport (BRU) are currently holding over Belgian airspace. Possibly linked to new drone activity in Belgian airspace. Likely related to earlier drone incidents reported today. Russians at work again possibly.
November 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM