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AIxBio, Claude's Constitution, UK AI+Science, exams with chatbots, R updates (Posit, R Data Scientist, R Weekly), reading what Adam Kucharski is reading, AI vs reality at Salesforce, papers+preprints.

read this article in English Im Januar 2026 startet das neue Konsortium „PKP Open Journal Systems Deutschland 2026–2028“. 14 Einrichtungen aus Deutschland haben gemeinsam ihre Unterstützung für das Public Knowledge Project (PKP) erklärt und sich für die nächsten drei Jahre zu Mitgliedsbeiträgen verpflichtet. Auf diese Weise tragen sie zur nachhaltigen und gemeinsamen Finanzierung relevanter Open-Access-Infrastruktur bei.

The OJS Deutschland Consortium 2026 – 2028 is off to a strong start with 14 new members committing to collective investment in sustaining PKP open infrastructure.

Hasta los años veinte del siglo XIX, Cuba y Nueva España contaron con experiencias políticas similares respecto a España. A partir de 1821 cuando México se independizó, emprendieron trayectorias distintas, pero no desarticuladas. El texto muestra varias conexiones históricas.

DataCite brings together descriptive metadata for millions of research outputs, resources, and activities, serving systems across the world that rely on DataCite for high-quality metadata to put research in context and enable downstream discovery, reuse, and impact. As a vital source of open data and a foundational infrastructure provider, we are committed to making DataCite metadata as open and as usable as possible.

Like most digital infrastructure nowadays, Rogue Scholar and the underlying digital repository platform InvenioRDM are built and deployed using Docker containers. There are many ways to orchestrate (manage) Docker containers; two common options are Docker Compose for local development and Kubernetes for production infrastructure.

Kathryn Bigelow’s latest film, A House Built On Dynamite, opens with the kind of dread that has long haunted American imagination: a nuclear missile, origin unknown, tearing toward the United States. No one can stop it. Not even the country’s own Ground-Based Interceptor missiles, whose accuracy is as disputed as the… The post Who Are We In A World Built On Algorithms & Dynamite? appeared first on carrier-bag.net.

Part 2 summarizing chapters from "Biotechnology and AI: Technological Convergence and Information Hazards" from the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on AI and biotechnology convergence

Im Verfahren der Musikverwertungsgesellschaft GEMA gegen die ChatGPT-Betreiberin OpenAI hat das Landgericht München I entschieden. Dieses Urteil könnte weitreichende Konsequenzen für sämtliche KI-Betreiber wie auch für Urheberinnen nach sich ziehen. Betim Neziraj erläutert die Gerichtsentscheidung.

At the beginning of 2025, we outlined our goals for the year, our 2024 Highlights. As the year started, our work took place in a far more challenging global context than many of us anticipated. Across many countries, science and research faced funding cuts, layoffs, and attacks on diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion.