Reposted by @scitechnews.bsky.socialKen Aizawa @kenaizawa.bsky.social · 10/04/2026link.springer.com/article/10.1... First review of Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation. #hps #philscilink.springer.comA science-first theory of confirmation - MetascienceMetascience - 0104
scitechnews.bsky.social @scitechnews.bsky.social · 12/04/2026au.news.yahoo.com/glass-square... #Storageau.news.yahoo.comIs this glass square the long, long future of data storage?Researchers say a palm-sized piece of glass could store the equivalent of 2 million books for over 10,000 years. 000
Reposted by @scitechnews.bsky.socialBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · 26/03/2026New BJPS Short Read! Why Does Causal Reasoning Work? Naftali Weinberger, Porter Williams & James Woodward on the role of worldly infrastructure www.thebsps.org/short-reads/... #philsci #philskythebsps.orgWhy Does Causal Reasoning Work? | BJPS Short ReadsNaftali Weinberger, Porter Williams and James Woodward on the role of worldly infrastructure 06120
scitechnews.bsky.social @scitechnews.bsky.social · 27/03/2026www.sysdig.com/blog/kuberne... #Kubernetessysdig.comKubernetes 1.35 - New security features | SysdigDiscover the new security features in Kubernetes 1.35, from breaking changes like cgroup v1 removal to safer defaults for auth, images, and namespaces. 000
Reposted by @scitechnews.bsky.socialAlisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 25/03/2026#HPS 🧪 0176
scitechnews.bsky.social @scitechnews.bsky.social · 26/03/2026www.theregister.com/2026/02/15/e... #Russiatheregister.comInfosec exec sold eight zero-day exploit kits to Russia: DoJInfosec in Brief: PLUS: Fake ransomware group exposed; EC blesses Google's big Wiz deal; Alleged sewage hacker cuffed; And more 000
Reposted by @scitechnews.bsky.socialGreg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 24/03/2026I got to welcome @saraseager.bsky.social—one of the world's leading astrobiologists—to my St. Mike's course: Aliens & The Heavens! My students drove a lively Q&A about exoplanets, funding, and definitions of life.👽🌌 #astrobiology #academicsky #hps 🐋🌱 @utoronto.ca @ustmikes.bsky.social 052
scitechnews.bsky.social @scitechnews.bsky.social · 25/03/2026www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne... #DeepFakenbcnews.comAI-generated evidence showing up in court alarms judgesAI’s growing abilities to create realistic videos, images, documents and audio have judges worried about the trustworthiness of evidence in their courtrooms. 001
Reposted by @scitechnews.bsky.socialAllan Konopka @hamatsa50.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Citation: issues.org/interview-ka... 🧪 #philsciissues.org“You Learn More From Failure—When Things Are Not Working Well.”Nobel Prize–winning biochemist Katalin Karikó, whose research laid the groundwork for COVID-19 vaccines, talks about how hard work and focus led to her scientific success. 021
scitechnews.bsky.social @scitechnews.bsky.social · 24/03/2026www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr... #DataSecuritytomshardware.comNorth Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location [Updated]A barely perceptible keystroke delay was the smoking gun that led to the uncovering of a malign imposter. 000
Reposted by @scitechnews.bsky.socialBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Just accepted: Cognitive Bias in Large Language Models: A Vindicatory Approach – David Thorstad Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #philsky 095
scitechnews.bsky.social @scitechnews.bsky.social · 23/03/2026www.phoronix.com/review/linux... #Radeonphoronix.comLinux 6.19's Significant ~30% Performance Boost For Old AMD Radeon GPUsFor those still using old AMD GCN 1.0 'Southern Islands' or GCN 1.1 'Sea Islands' graphics cards, the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel is a wonderful holiday gift. 000
Reposted by @scitechnews.bsky.socialBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Models of science focus on how scientific agents/activities reach solutions or produce discoveries. I think this is why they're often so useless at actually explaining how science does what it does. We need to understand how science generates problems because that's exactly where it excels. 3579
scitechnews.bsky.social @scitechnews.bsky.social · 21/03/2026foss-daily.org/posts/micros... #AIfoss-daily.orgMicrosoft's Notepad Got Pwned (They Added AI To It, So...)Notepad RCE vulnerability CVE-2026-20841 explained. How a text editor became a remote code execution vector. What you need to know. 000
Reposted by @scitechnews.bsky.socialInstitute of Art and Ideas @iai.tv · 17/03/2026We treat language as a neutral tool for describing reality, but what if it's actually creating it? | bit.ly/4uxxAjd Neuroscientist Jeremy Skipper argues that language itself is an altered state of consciousness, and only by losing it can we see the world as it really is. #philsci #cogsciiai.tvLanguage creates an altered state of consciousness<p><em>We tend to think of language as a transparent tool—a neutral medium for expressing thoughts and describing reality. While philosophers have (more or less) come to agree that “the map is not the... 061
scitechnews.bsky.social @scitechnews.bsky.social · 18/03/2026www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit... #RedHatbleepingcomputer.comNissan says thousands of customers exposed in Red Hat breachNissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Nissan) has confirmed that information of thousands of its customers has been compromised after the data breach at Red Hat in September. 000
Reposted by @scitechnews.bsky.socialMarco Facchin @marcofacchin.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Since I forgot to post it, here's a paper I wrote on predictive processing, structure-function mappings in the brain, and why their relationship is more complicated than you might have thought #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comStructure and function in the predictive brain - Biology & PhilosophyPredictive processing is an ambitious neurocomputational framework, offering an unified explanation of all cognitive processes in terms of a single computational operation, namely prediction error min... 12410
scitechnews.bsky.social @scitechnews.bsky.social · 16/03/2026fortune.com/2026/01/10/n... #Netflixfortune.comNetflix’s $82.7 billion rags-to-riches story: How the DVD-by-mail company swallowed Hollywood | FortuneThe streaming giant has offered a master class in audacious strategy. 001
Reposted by @scitechnews.bsky.socialAngela Black @nerdybutcute.bsky.social · 13/03/2026though Popper was no fan of religion, i think his falsificationism carves out space for important explanations of our reality that are nonetheless non-scientific (contra the positivists). he wasn't opposed to hermeneutic projects, he just didn't think they were science. #philosophy #philsci 072
scitechnews.bsky.social @scitechnews.bsky.social · 14/03/2026www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20... #Ransomwaremalwarebytes.comMatch, Hinge, OkCupid, and Panera Bread breached by ransomware groupShinyHunters claims to have stolen millions of records from Match Group dating apps and Panera Bread, with very different consequences for users. 000
Reposted by @scitechnews.bsky.socialLyceum Institute @lyceuminstitute.bsky.social · 10/03/2026We may understand the relationship between “philosophy” and “science” in two ways: first, inasmuch as philosophy itself is a science, of a certain kind; and second, how philosophy as a science stands relative to “science” in the modern sense. bit.ly/philsci2025 021
scitechnews.bsky.social @scitechnews.bsky.social · 11/03/2026www.theregister.com/2026/02/05/m... #Microsofttheregister.comSatya Nadella decides Microsoft needs a quality czar: Picks chap who used to lead Redmond’s security, lures replacement from Google 000
Reposted by @scitechnews.bsky.socialAllan Konopka @hamatsa50.bsky.social · 03/03/2026TIL about a large number of operators/tools that can be used to make Google searches much more focused and productive 🧪 #philsci cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...cardcatalogforlife.substack.comGoogle Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it. 35323
scitechnews.bsky.social @scitechnews.bsky.social · 05/03/2026www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit... #Officebleepingcomputer.comRussian hackers exploit recently patched Microsoft Office bug in attacksUkraine's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) says that Russian hackers are exploiting CVE-2026-21509, a recently patched vulnerability in multiple versions of Microsoft Office. 000
Reposted by @scitechnews.bsky.socialSabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Who owns our knowledge? This is the theme of the Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship today, for which I am honored to deliver the opening keynote on the relation between Open Science and #AI - Programme: openaccess.ox.ac.uk/sites/defaul... #philsciopenaccess.ox.ac.uk 1144
scitechnews.bsky.social @scitechnews.bsky.social · 02/03/2026www.macrumors.com/2026/01/16/a... #MacBookmacrumors.comApple's OLED MacBook Pro Launch Moves Closer With Panel ProductionDevelopment of Apple's rumored OLED MacBook Pro took another forward step this month when the next-generation production line responsible for manufacturing its displays commenced operation. Samsung Di... 000
Reposted by @scitechnews.bsky.socialBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · 26/02/2026"The wave function of the universe is like a cosmic secret that physics itself conspires to keep." New Scientist covers recent work by Eddy Keming Chen & Roderich Tumulka published in the BJPS: www.newscientist.com/article/2513... Link to the (free) paper in next comment. #philsci #philsky #hpsnewscientist.comThe universe may be hiding a fundamentally unknowable quantum secretEven given a set of possible quantum states for our cosmos, it's impossible for us to determine which one of them is correct 194
scitechnews.bsky.social @scitechnews.bsky.social · 27/02/2026www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-rese... #Wormwelivesecurity.comESET Research: Sandworm behind cyberattack on Poland’s power grid in late 2025The attack involved data-wiping malware that ESET researchers have now analyzed and named DynoWiper. 000
Reposted by @scitechnews.bsky.socialLSE Philosophy @lsephilosophy.bsky.social · 26/02/2026⚛️ Do molecules have structure? Yesterday, @vanessaseifert.bsky.social and Alexander Franklin delivered the BSPS Popper Prize lecture and talked about their award winning research. 📹 Lecture recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Sa... #PhilSci @aliboyle.bsky.social @thebsps.bsky.social 1165
scitechnews.bsky.social @scitechnews.bsky.social · 26/02/2026www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit... #Malwarebleepingcomputer.comStealC hackers hacked as researchers hijack malware control panelsA cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw in the web-based control panel used by operators of the StealC info-stealing malware allowed researchers to observe active sessions and gather intelligence on the att... 000
Reposted by @scitechnews.bsky.socialgraemefawcett @graeme.fawcett.social · 25/02/2026Quantum mechanics is the accounting of the network, general relativity is just a story the nodes tell themselves to make them feel like they get to move too. Sorry little fellas, the universe is moving, you're just a convenient home till the next hop is free #physics #maldacena #philsci 001
scitechnews.bsky.social @scitechnews.bsky.social · 25/02/2026www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microso... #Microsoft365bleepingcomputer.comMicrosoft to enforce MFA for Microsoft 365 admin center sign-insMicrosoft will start enforcing multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all users accessing the Microsoft 365 admin center starting next month. 000
Reposted by @scitechnews.bsky.socialMark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 22/02/2026"The problem is that good science is, well, really hard, and irreproducibility simply comes with the job." #MetaSci #PhilSci 051
scitechnews.bsky.social @scitechnews.bsky.social · 22/02/2026www.certkit.io/blog/45-day-... #LetsEncryptcertkit.ioLet's Encrypt is moving to 45-day certificates before everyone elseThe CA/Browser Forum set 47-day certificates as the target for 2029. Let's Encrypt decided to implement it a year earlier. Here's their roadmap and what it means for your automation. 000
Reposted by @scitechnews.bsky.socialPhilipp Haueis @phaueis.eurosky.social · 20/02/2026Finished last revisions my book „The Conceptual Fabric of Science“ - this is an image from the chapter on the epistemic utility of patchwork concepts for describing, classifying or explaining phenomena. (1/2) 1152
scitechnews.bsky.social @scitechnews.bsky.social · 21/02/2026www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/nist-cv... #NISTcybersecuritydive.comNIST is rethinking its role in analyzing software vulnerabilitiesAs the agency’s vulnerability database buckles under a flood of submissions, it’s planning to shift some responsibilities to other parties. 000
Reposted by @scitechnews.bsky.socialBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · 18/02/2026From the latest issue: Are We in a Sixth Mass Extinction? The Challenges of Answering and Value of Asking – Federica Bocchi, Alisa Bokulich, Leticia Castillo Brache, Gloria Grand-Pierre & Aja Watkins Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... #philsci #philsky 02510
scitechnews.bsky.social @scitechnews.bsky.social · 20/02/2026www.macrumors.com/2026/01/25/m... #MacBookmacrumors.comApple Reportedly Aiming to Upgrade the MacBook Pro Twice This YearApple plans to release new MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, Mac Studio, and Studio Display models in the first half of this year, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. In his Power On newsletter today, Gurma... 000
Reposted by @scitechnews.bsky.socialAleksander Molak @alxndrmlk.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Your Friends Influence Your Choices, But You Don't Know How Exactly AKA: Causal Inference on Networks: When Your Exposure Mapping Is Wrong 1/ #CausalSky #StatSky #EpiSky #EconSky #MLSky 1052
scitechnews.bsky.social @scitechnews.bsky.social · 18/02/2026www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi... #BitLockerwindowscentral.comMicrosoft will assist the FBI in unlocking your Windows PC data if askedMicrosoft says it will provide the FBI with BitLocker encryption keys if requested for PCs that upload their key to the cloud via your Microsoft Account. 000
Reposted by @scitechnews.bsky.socialVoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 16/02/2026Xu Lu & Lingxuan Wu provide new micro evidence that depositor inattention affects banks’ deposit pricing & interest rate risk. Banks serving more inattentive depositors set lower deposit rates, have lower deposit betas, & weaker outflows when the policy rate rises. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky 052
scitechnews.bsky.social @scitechnews.bsky.social · 16/02/2026openai.com/index/scalin... #PostgreSQLopenai.comScaling PostgreSQL to power 800 million ChatGPT usersAn inside look at how OpenAI scaled PostgreSQL to millions of queries per second using replicas, caching, rate limiting, and workload isolation. 000
Reposted by @scitechnews.bsky.socialSean Brodrick @seanbrodrick.bsky.social · 14/02/2026"The stock market is reflecting fears of an AI apocalypse for white-collar jobs. The momentum trade is swept up by concerns that AI could disrupt established industries like insurance and wealth management" #EconSky Gift link: www.marketwatch.com/story/the-st... 2176
scitechnews.bsky.social @scitechnews.bsky.social · 15/02/20269to5google.com/2026/01/21/g... #Gemini9to5google.comGoogle DeepMind CEO reiterates 'no plans' for Gemini ads, surprised ChatGPT added them 'so early'Google is doubling down on its commitment to keeping Gemini ad-free for the foreseeable future, as ChatGPT prepares to introduce... 000
Reposted by @scitechnews.bsky.socialSabine Winters (she/her) @sllwinters.bsky.social · 13/02/2026On the left: IceCube, one of the world’s most prestigious neutrino observatories, located in Antarctica. On the right: Google Reviews of IceCube. 😆#philsci #Science #SciSky 1103
scitechnews.bsky.social @scitechnews.bsky.social · 14/02/2026www.eddieoz.com/llms-under-s... #RedTeameddieoz.comLLMs Under Siege: The Red Team Reality Check of 2026An extensive benchmark of 30 distinct models in "Red Team" scenarios demonstrates that while the distance between experimental technology and viable cyber weapon is closing, significant performance di... 000
Reposted by @scitechnews.bsky.socialDaniel Liu 🍜 @dan-liu.net · 09/02/2026My new article, hot off the e-press: This year the cell biology journal Protoplasma celebrates its 100th anniversary! But why did its founders name it "Protoplasma" in 1926, and what does the name say about the history of the idea of the cell? link.springer.com/article/10.1... #histsci #philscilink.springer.comWhy is this journal called Protoplasma? A history of protoplasm theory and the divisions in cell biology before 1926 - ProtoplasmaWhen the journal Protoplasma was founded 100 years ago in 1926, scientists used two different concepts to describe what we would now consider one and the same object: the cell for the membrane-bound s... 13014
scitechnews.bsky.social @scitechnews.bsky.social · 13/02/2026www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/mi... #Microsoftwindowscentral.comMicrosoft stock down 10% as its AI prospects shrivelMicrosoft execs have offloaded millions of dollars worth of stock over the past quarter, as the firm's outlook (no pun intended) looks murky. 000
Reposted by @scitechnews.bsky.socialMark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Dark Matter Map "Scientists have created the highest resolution map of the dark matter that threads through the universe—showing its influence on the formation of stars, galaxies and planets." #News #Science 🧪phys.orgHigh-resolution map shows dark matter's gravity pulled normal matter into galaxiesScientists have created the highest resolution map of the dark matter that threads through the universe—showing its influence on the formation of stars, galaxies and planets. 718647
scitechnews.bsky.social @scitechnews.bsky.social · 12/02/2026www.sciencefocus.com/news/earth-t... #MilkyWaysciencefocus.comEarth may be trapped inside a giant void in space, say scientists | BBC Science Focus MagazineEarth and the Milky Way could be floating in a billion lightyear wide void – a discovery that could help decipher one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology 000