:alice_party: GAMEOVER FOR INFANTINO :alice_party:

Not only his proposal has collapsed, but now he knows he doesn't even have the votes for a reelection.

The Trump deal was his retirement plan.

https://nypost.com/2026/07/31/business/fifa-has-scrapped-20b-world-cup-sell-off-plan-following-european-boycott-global-outrage-sources/

#fifa #corruption #trump #uspol

｢ we reviewed 22 paper submissions this summer, spread across NeurIPS, WACV, and TerraBytes (a geospatial workshop at ECCV). Fifteen of the 22 (68%) contained entirely fabricated citations, fabricated author lists for existing papers, and/or were clearly LLM-generated (e.g. hallucinated technical jargon, nonsensical writing, irrelevant citations)

https://geospatialml.com/posts/reviewing-ai-slop/

#ai #science #research

🦀 Progress toward compiling Linux with gccrs // LWN

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1083202/f1ba926cd57ac5c5/

#linux #gccrs #rust #gcc

I'm the US Government, and I'm here for your robot.

🦅 The US government just banned Roombas

｢ It’s not coming for your existing Roomba, and companies can keep importing and selling already approved ones. But the government claims that future foreign robots pose a national security risk, and even robovac companies are suddenly being asked to commit to US manufacturing ｣

https://www.theverge.com/policy/972312/us-robot-ban-sweep-up-chinese-vacuums

#china #robots #tradewar #geopol

🧬 Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini

｢ AlphaFold is an AI program that can accurately predict three-dimensional structures of proteins from their amino acid sequences in minutes instead of years. It's now being used to accelerate drug discovery, develop vaccines and understand the structural changes in proteins associated with neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's ｣

https://www.engadget.com/2225849/google-shuts-down-alphafold/

#science #ai #alphafold

｢ JWST quickly exposed the two candidates as Dyson sphere impostors – and the explanation was brilliantly simple. The light from both stars was being boosted by a distant galaxy almost perfectly lined up behind them ｣

https://www.sciencealert.com/jwst-just-examined-two-stars-suspected-of-harboring-dyson-spheres-heres-what-it-found

#science #dysonsphere #aliens #jwst

Using ThinkPad T480 as a mobile phone | maroš grego

https://grego.site/blog/thinkphone

#thinkpad #t480 #libreboot

Uefa blasts Fifa over Infantino plan to 'sell football's soul' for $4bn

｢ Interest has already been expressed by Joshua Kushner, the younger brother of Jared Kushner, son in law to Infantino ally President Trump, via his fund Thrive Eternal. JPMorgan and, according to the FT, former Liberty Media CEO Greg Maffei are reported to be advising Fifa ｣

https://www.cityam.com/uefa-blasts-fifa-over-infantino-plan-to-sell-footballs-soul-for-4bn/

#fifa #corruption #uspol #worldcup

👾 C64 Online - Play classic C64 games online!

https://c64online.com/

#c64 #GamePreservation #retrogaming

｢ narcissistic leaders – those with a tendency to be self-centred and entitled – were more likely than others to resist remote work. Why? The study concluded "it interferes with their motivations for power and status". ｣
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2026/0722/1584510-narcissistic-self-centred-bosses-working-from-home-hybrid-work/

#remotework

｢ LLMs are averaging machines. Every answer they produce, everything they do, fundamentally comes down to the most likely result. Meaning for every tiny creative decision you cede, however small, the decision will be “made” by the LLM and given the most average possible answer ｣
https://goodnameforablog.com/posts/very-average-prototypes/

#ai #gamedev #vibecoding