Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

QPS maintains a substantial legacy codebase of approximately 5.5 million lines of code, developed over the past 35 years to collect, process, analyze, and deliver hydrographic spatial data. Updating this codebase to incorporate new libraries often requires significant refactoring to accommodate new data types. Recently, we successfully transitioned from an in-house solution to `Boost.Geometry` for spatial indexing. This transition required far less refactoring than anticipated, primarily due to `Boost.Geometry`'s ability to adapt to our existing geometry types. `Boost.Geometry`'s geometry types are concrete implementations of "concepts," which facilitate the adaptation of user-defined geometry types to seamlessly integrate with its algorithms and spatial indexing features. In this presentation, I will: - Provide an overview of the unique spatial data we handle in hydrography. - Share our success story of transitioning to `Boost.Geometry`. - Discuss how `Boost.Geometry` enabled us to generalize our spatial indexing. - Demonstrate, through a brief code example, how to use concepts to adapt existing types for use with `Boost.Geometry`. Join me to learn how `Boost.Geometry` can streamline your transition to modern spatial indexing solutions while minimizing codebase disruption. Weston Renoud https://talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-europe-2025/talk/C8EMH7/ Room: SA02 @ 17.07.2025 15:00:00 #foss4ge2025 #GeneralTrack #TransitionToFoss4G

New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Rhode Island will have to pay the entire cost of recovery from a major February snowstorm.

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham died Saturday evening after a "brief and sudden illness.

The memo from the Smithsonian's secretary, Lonnie Bunch, responded to a White House report that calls the National Museum of American History driven by "a radical, activist ideology."

"We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently."

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