The arrival of artificial intelligence in the global development and non-profit sectors has sparked a period of intense ethical reflection around what some are calling ‘poverty porn 2.0’. The challenge is not merely technical but fundamental to non-profit mission.
A police officer who has become unpopular in his home department is seconded to a small island which is a French Overseas Territory. He arrives in a suit, which is incongruous to his surroundings and new colleagues, develops a relationship with his new partner, a Frenchwoman, which is by turns adversarial and potentially romantic.
Brad Ingelsby struck gold with Mare of Eastown (HBO, 2021), a small town mystery series helmed by Kate Winslet and Jean Smart. His latest drama Task (HBO, 2025) also racked up critical acclaim.
I had been meaning to write something about the slowness of Pluribus (Apple TV+, 2025-present) for a while (especially after watching episode 7, “The Gap”, with my jaw on the floor for most of it, which may or may not be why the episode is named thusly), and then, there it was, a new CSTonline […]
In my story about one of the molecules of the year, cyclo[48]carbon, I noted that the DFT method used in the literature to model the C-C bond length alternation around the ring (OX B3LYP30) had been re-calibrated against a remeasured crystal structure of C18H18 or [18]-annulene (below) in order to reproduce the observed values for […]
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Time flies, and I am now much closer to the end of the PRISM ( PReservation and RecognItion of Spatial patterns using Machine learning ) project than to its beginning. 1 . The project’s primary goal is to develop methods for validating and including spatial patterns in machine learning. In this blog post, I summarize the project’s progress from April 2025 to February 2026 and share related outputs and activities.
February 9 – 13 2026 is International Love Data Week , but PKP celebrates data sharing all year round.
arXiv recently restricted review article submissions in computer science, requiring journal or conference acceptance before deposit.
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Resignations at Anthropic's safeguards research team and xAI, Opus 4.6 evaluation awareness, Bytedance AI video generation, US doesn't back Global AI Safety Report, "heinous crimes" and $1T selloffs