Up to £500k for bold starts that align with, or contradict, the tenets of our opportunity space — climate monitoring/measurement edition💥

3 page proposal, ~3 week response time. Hope to hear from you 🙏🏼

💰 Up to £50k is available to support West Midlands transport innovators with green transport solutions. 🚎🌱
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CEO @AmandaBrockuk delves into global AI ecosystem in the AI Safety Institute decision to open source its 'Inspect' testing platform - which has spurred £8.5m in funding opportunities to expand AI safety ecosystem, in Computing.co.uk.
computing.co.uk/opinion/421263…
#openuk #openai

The @innovateUK Women in Innovation programme is supporting #WomaninInnovation who are looking to turbo-charge their business success.

Catch up on the Briefing Event and find out more 👇

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I’m starting to think there’s a persistent myth in popular science that neurotransmitters work like hormones. With a hormone, the amount of that hormone that’s floating around in your body correlates directly to the mental state represented by the hormone. Adrenaline is like

A US battery developer told me that if $56/kWh LFP ever reaches the US, American stationary battery makers “will be toast—everyone.” We report today that the price in China is now $47/kWh. The Electric. theinformation.com/articles/the-e…

Criminal gangs are buying (non refrigerated as know here won't be checked) English-registered coaches and vans to smuggle large amounts of illegal meat into the country, Farmers Weekly has learned.
Health chiefs described this as “the tip of the iceberg”.
fwi.co.uk/news/crime/mea…

The Open Manifesto 2024 is our asks of the next government. Supported by signing up as an individual or organisation and show your commitment to UK open source.
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I can’t find the following documented, but I bet the obsessive lowercasing of everything in Unix/C culture derives from lowercase being a cool novelty character set in the 1970 context (like Emoji in 2010) that people wanted to use, but didn’t want to get mixed up with uppercase.

The PDP-10 used a 6-bit character encoding (corresponding to the modern codepoints from 32–95), and had a 36-bit word size. So, words were limited to 6 characters, and could not be case-sensitive.

K&R’s original C compiler actually supported 31-character identifiers, but the

NEW: The check-in computers at several hotels around the U.S. are running a consumer spyware app called pcTattletale.

The app stealthily and continually captures screenshots of the booking systems, which contain guest information and reservation details.

techcrunch.com/2024/05/22/spy…

Examples of Russian attacks against Finland include hybrid operations using weaponized migration at the border, presumed destruction of critical energy infrastructure in the Baltic Sea, electronic warfare like GPS jamming, and various cyber-attacks. 4/

On the 4 July our graduation hall will double up as a polling station, meaning all graduates can no longer bring guests.

Election called - if UK based please sign up to #OpenManifesto #opensource #ukelection linkedin.com/posts/amandabr…

I don't think people understand just how true this is.

To be fair, and I'm going to be SUPER FREAKING BLUNT HERE. You want to know where the most vulnerabilities are going to be in the next decade?

Kubernetes clusters.

In the race to containerize literally everything, and the

if you’re a pure mathematician studying power grids the first thing you need to know is that a grid is not a grid, it’s a graph

if you’re an electrical engineer working with pure mathematicians the first thing you need to know is that a graph is not a graph, it’s a network

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The Turing is pleased to support this important initiative, which will help tackle threats from AI technology.

Funding #AiSafety is vital to ensuring we are protected from the potential risks of misuse while maximising the benefits of AI for a positive impact on society.

Today we joined OpenUK first 'meet-up' to talk about our work on open hex layouts & open constituency-level data. By being open we receive contributions from the community to improve the layouts and it leads to other requests and projects

Chaired by Gavin Summerson, Built Environment Team Lead, Connected Places Catapult, with Rachael Owens, Director, National Retrofit Hub and Head of Sustainability, Buckley Gray Yeoman

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