Meta Security Researcher's AI Agent Accidentally Deleted Her Emails Meta's Summer Yue says she ran OpenClaw on her inbox, but its size 'triggered compaction [and] lost my original instruction' to get her permission before deleting.

As people try to figure out how to put AI into productive use, things happen...

#artificialintelligence #productivity

Instagram and YouTube owners built 'addiction machines', trial told The tech giants are under scrutiny over social media addiction in a landmark jury trial in Los Angeles

Tobacco trial moment for social media industry?

Legal processes in California, USA federal, and EU involving different social media companies.

Key issues:
Is social media addictive?
Is social media intentionally designed to be addictive?
Is addictiveness causing harm?

#socialmedia #trials #law

Using cashtags, the company NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc becomes $NDAQ. A short form to identify a stock that is traded on the stock market. Combine the Dollar sign with an immediately following short code for the stock (without space in between).

Use "cashtags" to tag stocks traded on the market with Dollar sign and trading short code. (Works similar to hasthags).

Example for NASDAQ OMX Group: $NDAQ

For stock analyses and market news etc.

#finance #stocks #markets #stockmarket #trading #dividend #annualreport #investments #nasdaq #nyse

When two years of academic work vanished with a single click After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.

AI life: Professor lost two years of material related to publication drafts, grant applications, and teaching preps. This after toggling a switch in ChatGPT.

In an earlier story, a hard drive was reformatted, erasing everything on the computer for a person using a chat bot for vibe coding...

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Should children use social media?

Scientific study:

* 8000 children followed over 4 years.

* More social media use linked to increased ADHD symptoms.

* Playing video games is linked to decreased symptoms, i.e. better focus.

#socialmedia #adhd #focus #pediatrics #research #science #sciencesky

2026 Job Outlook survey by National Association of Colleges and Employers indicates slow job market for entry-level college positions. Projected change in hires is 1.6 %, with data from fall 2025.

Recent college graduates will continue to face challenging job market in USA 2026, according to employer survey.

Worst in five years. AI impact?

2026 Job Outlook report is a free download from National Association of Colleges and Employers.

naceweb.org/research/rep...

#collegegraduate #jobmarket

The Case Centre Impact Index 2025 Discover The Case Centre Impact Index 2025. This annual ranking of organisations is based on the global reach and impact of their case writing.

Teaching with cases is fun. Students learn meta skills that AI cannot yet replace.

Top business schools in The Case Centre Impact Index 2025:
1 Harvard
2 Insead
3 IBS
4 IMD
5 Ivey
6 Stanford
7 Amity
8 Darden
9 CBS
10 MIT
11 Rotterdam
12 Columbia
13 LBS
14 IESE
15 Kellogg
30 St Gallen
35 Vlerick

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 was awarded “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Joel Mokyr “for having identified ...

"Economics Nobel Prize" to Joel Mokyr for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress and to Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction.

#economics #sciencesky #science #nobelprize

Deloitte caught out using AI in $440,000 report | 7.30 YouTube video by ABC News In-depth

AI Fail: Consulting report delivered to public sector client with hallucinated content and cited sources. OpenAi model used.

Many professional service firms are eager to use AI, meanwhile hold-off hiring recent university graduates.

#ai #productivity #servicequality #consultingservices #chatgpt

Movie Subtitles and English Language Acquisition

Maybe it is not just slacking!

Watching TV with subtitles, instead of with dubbing, improves language skills with statistical significant difference.

Research by:
Frauke Baumeister (IFO Institute), Eric A. Hanushek (Stanford), and Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social (University of Munich).

Giotto.ai, the European AI lab, is in a funding round at a valuation above 1 billion. It outperformed ChatGPT 5, Cloud Opus 4, Grok 4, and Gemini 4.5 in the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) test. It tests progress towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

#ai #llm #artificialintelligence

Innovation Cluster Ranking 2025 The Global Innovation Index 2025 reveals the ranking of the world’s most innovative clusters. Discover which innovation clusters top the ranking.

Where is USA's innovation done?
The micro economics concept "Clusters" are agglomerations of businesses, universities etc that accelerate innovation.

The top USA ones:
San Jose–San Francisco
New York City
Boston–Cambridge
Los Angeles
San Diego
Washington–Baltimore
Seattle

#clusters #innovation

Stockholm Wellbeing Index 6.87 - hhs.se - Stockholm School of Economics As a first step towards Wellbeing Growth in Stockholm we have created and measured a Wellbeing Index among people living in Stockholm. The results are presented in our newly released Stockholm Wellbei...

Is happiness trending?

1. First Stockholm Wellbeing Index Report is released.

2. "The Happiness Files: Insights on Work and Life", by professor Arthur C. Brooks, on NY Times Bestseller list.

3. Professor Diana Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social, proposes new counting in "The measures of Progress".

Global Innovation Index 2025 Tracking the most recent global innovation trends, the GII captures a moment of recalibration where R&D growth has slowed, venture capital activity has moderated with cautious early-stage funding,...

The most innovative economies, 2025 ranking:

1 Switzerland
2 Sweden
3 USA
4 South Korea
5 Singapore
6 UK
7 Finland
8 Netherlands
9 Denmark
10 China

Global Innovation Index 2025, by WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization).

#innovation #research #R&D #patents #science

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Survey of 813 scientists finds that Bluesky is the more useful social media platform for professional scientists.

As anecdotal support, this journal article itself is references by 2731 Bluesky users and has 43 X posts (Altmetrics data, when posting this).

#sciencesky #academicsky #science

The 10 most beautiful libraries in the world The Library of Trinity College Dublin is named the most beautiful library in the world by 200,000 voters in the 1000 Libraries Awards 2025.

World's 10 most beautiful libraries, as voted by 200 000 online.

No 10: Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris. Note the iron frame technique used constructing the reading room by architect Henri Labrouste. The library has 160 000 volumes of Nordic books, the largest collection outside of Nordics.

Concept Cars Our concept vehicles are living expressions of Bentley’s heritage and modern ambition. By marrying time‑honoured coachbuilding techniques with advanced electrification and autonomous systems, each Ben...

In comparison, Bentley has changed its logotype 5 times since 1919, modifying details. "B" has become rounder and feathers are reshaped.

Bentley steadily moves forward, but at a measured pace.

Bentley's new brand logotype is found on the EXP 15 concept car presented yesterday.

HBO Max | Stream Series and Movies Stream must-see series, hit movies, exclusive originals, family favorites, live sports, and breaking news. Plans start at $9.99/month.

Branding: HBO Max is back. A rebranding reversal.

1972: HBO (launch)

2010: HBO Go (streaming for cable subscribers).

The stand alone OTT streaming service was (re)branded as...
2015: HBO Now
2020: HBO Now --> HBO Max
2023: HBO Max --> Max
2025: Max --> HBO Max

Patient and clinician experiences of uncertainty in the diagnostic process: Current understanding and future directions Uncertainty occurs throughout the diagnostic process and must be managed to facilitate accurate and timely diagnoses and treatments. Better characteri…

It is worth noting that achieving accurate diagnosis does not depend on the competence of the physician alone. Healthcare is a co-produced service. The patients participate to various degrees in providing needed information. I.e. diagnosing in a clinical setting is different from vignette cases.

Patient and clinician experiences of uncertainty in the diagnostic process: Current understanding and future directions Uncertainty occurs throughout the diagnostic process and must be managed to facilitate accurate and timely diagnoses and treatments. Better characteri…

It is worth noting that achieving accurate diagnosis does not depend on the competence of the physician alone. Healthcare is a co-produced service. The patients participate to various degrees in providing needed information. I.e. diagnosing in a clinical setting is different from vignette cases.

Patient and clinician experiences of uncertainty in the diagnostic process: Current understanding and future directions Uncertainty occurs throughout the diagnostic process and must be managed to facilitate accurate and timely diagnoses and treatments. Better characteri…

It should be noted that achieving accurate diagnosis does not depend on the competence of the physician alone. Healthcare is a co-produced service. The patients participate to various degrees in providing needed information. I.e. diagnosing in a clinical setting is different from vignette cases.

Accuracy of Practitioner Estimates of Probability of Diagnosis Before and After Testing Do practitioners understand the probability of common clinical diagnoses? In this survey study of 553 practitioners performing primary care, respondents overestimated the probability of diagnosis befo...

The accuracy of probability for diagnosis being correct was overestimated in all patient scenarios in a study with 492 physicians. Also after tests had been done. Over-diagnosis likely leads to overuse of medicine. Also, there is a risk of alternative and correct diagnosis never being established.

Physicians’ Diagnostic Accuracy and Confidence Meyer and colleagues explore the relationship between physicians’ diagnostic accuracy, their confidence in that accuracy, and related resource utilization. In the related Invited Commentary, Dhaliwal ...

A study found that physicians were overconfident in their diagnosis accuracy. This might prevent the physician from revising diagnosis. Differential diagnosis overlooked. This could lead to patient harm.

Similarly, generative AI has been shown several times to be overconfident in its results.

Comparison of Physician and Computer Diagnostic Accuracy This study compares the performance of physicians with computerized symptom checkers in diagnostic accuracy.

Diagnosing is difficult:

A study of 234 physicians accuracy using written patient cases showed 72 % correct diagnosis.

When the physicians were allowed to make three guesses of the correct diagnosis, they were 85 % correct. The corresponding accuracy for a computer algorithm was 51 % correct.

A systematic review and meta-analysis of diagnostic performance comparison between generative AI and physicians - npj Digital Medicine npj Digital Medicine - A systematic review and meta-analysis of diagnostic performance comparison between generative AI and physicians

A meta-analysis of multiple studies published 2018-2024 of AI diagnosis showed 52 % accuracy, similar to physicians overall.

Expert physicians were still performing better in diagnosis than AI overall.

How accurate is your physician in setting diagnosis?
Would AI do better?

Microsoft: Physicians had 20 % accuracy and AI had 80% in benchmark w/ complex cases.

Microsoft: physicians do more than diagnose, needed due to ambiguities and trust. AI matures in 5-10y.

Comments has more studies.

Article: Capabilities and collaborative marketing practices among rival cluster-based wine producers, by James M. Crick & Dave Crick doi.org/10.1080/0267...

Catherine de’ Medici’s concealed spiral-locked letter to Raimond de Beccarie (c.1570) (UH0224) YouTube video by Letterlocking videos

A letter written by Catherine de’ Medici, Queen Consort of France, was protected by Letterlocking.

The letter is from c.1570.

Here is a video reproducing how the locking was created, step-by-step.

A New Look at Letterlocking: Secrets Sealed in Paper For centuries, evidence of a lost technology was tucked away in archives and libraries around the world.

Old tech: Letterlocking is a paper folding technique used prior to envelops to protect the content of letters during transport.

Book by Jana Dambrigo and Daniel Startza Smith, Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter, MIT Press.

Video example in comment with letter of Catherine de’ Medici.