May 2026

AT&T sues California in attempt to shut off old phone network

AT&T sues California in attempt to shut off old phone network

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AT&T sued California yesterday over the state’s refusal to let the carrier stop providing phone service to all potential customers in its wireline network territory. AT&T is also asking the Federal Communications Commission to declare that California cannot enforce its rules and to let AT&T stop providing service to about 199,000 phone customers. “California requires AT&T to spend $1 billion each year to maintain a century-old telephone network that almost no one uses,” AT&T said in a lawsuit […]

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Google Wants to Encourage AI Education in India With It’s New Teacher Training Partnerships

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The initiative signals how central AI is becoming to the future of classrooms and education infrastructure. India’s huge student population and fast-growing internet access make it a primary market for global tech companies looking to roll out AI-driven education tools. This latest effort focuses both on teacher training and on helping students learn. Google says its AI Educator Series will train teachers to use AI responsibly while boosting digital literacy among educators. The program is rolling out with […]

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Datasette Agent

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We just announced the first release of Datasette Agent, a new extensible AI assistant for Datasette. I’ve been working on my LLM Python library for just over three years now, and Datasette Agent represents the moment that LLM and Datasette finally come together. I’m really excited about it! Datasette Agent provides a conversational interface for asking questions of the data you have stored in Datasette. Add the datasette-agent-charts plugin and it can generate charts of your data as […]

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JWST maps the weather on a hot gas giant 700 light-years away

JWST maps the weather on a hot gas giant 700 light-years away

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WASP-94A b is a hot, tidally locked gas giant orbiting close to one of the stars in a binary system roughly 690 light-years away from Earth. In a new Science study, scientists led by Sagnick Mukherjee, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University, used the James Webb Space Telescope to learn what the weather looks like out there. Tidal locking means that you no longer have day- and night-side temperature differences sweeping across the planet. “We wanted to understand […]

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Can liveness detection models generalise to synthetic media generation techniques they were never trained on? [D]

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Most liveness detection systems in production today were built around a threat model where the attacker is submitting a static image or a basic replay video. The generation quality of current synthetic media is categorically different from what those training datasets captured. The question I keep coming back to is whether a model trained on historical deepfake samples can generalise to generation techniques that did not exist when the training data was assembled. And if the answer is […]

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Intelligent radiology workflow optimization with AI agents

Intelligent radiology workflow optimization with AI agents

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Many healthcare organizations report that traditional worklist systems rely on rigid rules that ignore critical context, radiologist specialization, current workload, fatigue levels, and case complexity. This creates a persistent challenge: radiologists cherry-pick easier, higher-value cases while avoiding complex studies, leading to diagnostic delays and increased costs. Research across 62 hospitals analyzing 2.2 million studies found that inefficient case assignment causes 17.7-minute delays for expedited cases and costs of $2.1M–$4.2M across hospital networks. The root cause is straightforward: traditional […]

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Zillow loses thousands of listings in fight over “hidden” homes

Zillow loses thousands of listings in fight over “hidden” homes

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On Wednesday, Zillow abruptly lost access to thousands of property listings in the Chicago area after filing a lawsuit accusing a private listing network owner of colluding with the nation’s largest brokerage to harm consumers by hiding homes. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, hopeful Chicagoland home buyers browsing Zillow and Trulia suddenly saw significantly fewer listings. On Zillow, a nearly 5,000-home market dropped to about 1,700. Thorough home buyers diligently checking every possible resource can still turn to […]

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The Matching Principle: A Geometric Theory of Loss Functions for Nuisance-Robust Representation Learning

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Robustness, domain adaptation, photometric and occlusion invariance, compositional generalisation, temporal robustness, alignment safety, and classical anisotropic regularisation are usually treated as separate problems with separate method families. This paper argues that much of their shared structure is one statistical problem: estimate the covariance of label-preserving deployment nuisance, then regularise the encoder Jacobian along a matrix whose range covers that covariance (the matching principle). CORAL, adversarial training, IRM, augmentation, metric learning, Jacobian penalties, and alignment-style constraints are different estimators […]

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Couth and uncouth function pairs

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“You can’t always get what you want. But sometimes you get what you need.” — The Rolling Stones Circular functions and hyperbolic functions aren’t invertible, but we invert them anyway. These functions map many points in the domain to each point in the range, and we invert them by mapping a point in the range back to some point in the domain. Often this works as expected, but sometimes it doesn’t. In the previous post I said You can […]

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