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Wrapping up the year grateful for an inspiring work environment and an incredible global team. Learning every day from colleagues across Chile, Mexico, Spain, Morocco, Italy, Senegal, India, and beyond. Different cultures, one shared purpose. Onward to an even stronger year ahead
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I left Washington just after Trump moved the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. When I arrived in the U.K., the debate was whether Britain should follow. Today, Britain has recognised the State of Palestine and imposed sanctions on Israel. If change is possible in the U.K., it is possible in the U.S., and it's happening.
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كمان ساعة ان شاء الله
اتعملك Hack ولا لسه؟
في حلقة جديدة من بودكاست الويك اند بنتكلم عن الـ Security، والـ Hacks والـ Critical Vulnerabilities اللي بنسمع عنها كل شوية، حتى في أكبر الشركات.
ليه المشاكل دي بتحصل؟ وهل إحنا كـ Software Engineers بنستهين بالـ Security؟ وإيه اللي المفروض نغيره في طريقة بناء الـ Software عشان نقلل المشاكل دي؟
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#StoriesOf2025
A story from 2025 that holds a special place in our hearts. ❤️
Syria is where ICARDA’s story began. After years of conflict took a heavy toll on agriculture, a new chapter is taking shape focused on restoring local agricultural systems and building resilience. 🌱
Explore how ICARDA is working with the Syrian Ministry of Agriculture to support this new chapter.
Read our 2025 Annual Report: annual-report.icarda.org/202…
Khaled Al-Shamaa retweeted
حتى لو مش هتبني نموذج معرفة الكلام ده مهم و ان شاء الله يكون بداية خير، مجهود اكثر من رائع 👏👏👏
نكمل رحلتنا مع مشروع (الجبرتي)
المشروع التعليمي الوحيد باللغة العربية
اللي هدفه يساعد الناس أن تتمكن من صنع نماذج لغوية, بنفس الطريقة التي تحدث في أكبر المختبرات العالمية
كيف تطور نموذج لغوي, من الصفر بإستخدام PyTorch
حلقتنا الجديدة مع Embeddings
youtu.be/LoiwWHreksA
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We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence.
block.xyz/dessa
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Cancelling a subscription shouldn't be this hard. If you can sign up with a click, you must be able to cancel with one.
Head to nyc.gov/click-to-cancel to file a complaint against any business that makes it hard to cancel a subscription.
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تصريح د. نزار حداد، المدير العام على هامش توقيع #الصندوق_الكويتي للتنمية اتفاقية منحة مع المركز الدولي للبحوث الزراعية في المناطق الجافة «إيكاردا»، للإسهام في تمويل مشروع تطوير ونشر الأصناف الزراعية المحسّنة وراثياً باستخدام الحلول الذكية. يهدف المشروع إلى تحديث وتسريع برامج التحسين الوراثي للمحاصيل الزراعية، من خلال تطوير أصناف محسّنة قادرة على التكيّف مع التغيرات المناخية والظروف البيئية في المناطق الجافة وشبه الجافة بالدول العربية.
A statement by Dr. Nizar Haddad, Director-General of (ICARDA) on the sidelines of the grant agreement signing between#KuwaitFund for Development and the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (@ICARDA ) to contribute to the financing of a smart solutions-based project for developing and disseminating genetically improved agricultural varieties. It aims to update and accelerate genetically improved agricultural crops programs through developing modified varieties capable of adapting to climate change and environmental conditions of dry and semi-dry regions in Arab states.
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A major milestone for climate-resilient agriculture across the Arab region!
ICARDA and @KuwaitFund have signed the Regional Breeding Modernization Project (BredMod 2.0), implemented with the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR).
Together, we aim to modernize crop breeding, accelerate the development of climate-resilient varieties, and strengthen food security across the Arab region.
Read more: icarda.org/media/news/kfaed-…
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OpenAI models helped researchers—operating as part of our Patch the Planet initiative—discover critical security flaws in PHP, an open-source programming language used to run an estimated 70% of websites.
Over the past two months, we led a coalition of maintainers, researchers, and security providers to prepare fixes and protections ahead of disclosure. This duration was necessary because the fix was quite intricate and required a major change to the PHP engine. Every site using PHP can now safely upgrade their version to stay secure, in addition to applying mitigations from various security vendors.
Due to the severity of these flaws and PHP’s widespread use, we consider this bug to be one of the most impactful vulnerabilities in recent memory. It also marks a new phase, where AI can find security bugs with internet-scale impact.
This is an example of the Defender’s Window in action: to our knowledge, frontier AI was able to find this vulnerability ahead of attackers, giving defenders time to prepare.
openai.com/index/coordinated…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
OpenAI may claim a role in the coordinated response and patching process. But the initial discovery and exploit development, however, occurred several months earlier by an independent researcher.
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IF AN IMMEDIATE UPDATE IS NOT FEASIBLE, IT IS RECOMMEND THAT ORGANIZATIONS TAKE THE SYSTEM OFFLINE UNTIL IT CAN BE FULLY MITIGATED. 🤯 💣
Effective Immediately, all organizations using PHP for their systems are advised to be prepared for an update addressing two critical vulnerabilities. PHP is widely used for web applications. These vulnerabilities often provide a direct path to the server's file system or database. If an immediate update is not feasible, it is recommend that organizations take the system offline until it can be fully mitigated. NSA will follow up shortly with more specific guidance.
The minimal action if you don't want to take your system offline 🫣
Cloudflare has deployed default web application firewall (WAF) protections for newly disclosed PHP vulnerabilities before public disclosure. The rules use request and response signals to stop exploit attempts and prevent exposed data from reaching attackers. cfl.re/488w8dc
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We have posted more information about today's security releases, including the sequence of events that led to the discovery, how the PHP security team is improving their processes, and what we need from you to continue this critical work. #php #security thephp.foundation/blog/2026/…
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A new frontier for on-device speech.
We're open-sourcing Phonon, a suite of TTS models under 50m parameters, setting a new standard for naturalness and accuracy across languages, with the broadest inference support to date.
Phonon-31m is available under Apache 2.0.
gradium.ai/phonon🧵
🚨 BREAKING: PHP is warning admins to prepare for emergency security updates tomorrow to fix two critical vulnerabilities rated CVSS 9.2.
However, security researchers at @watchtowrcyber rate the flaws CVSS 10.0 and say they are RCE vulnerabilities affecting PHP 5 through 8.
Information about the vulnerabilities has reportedly leaked ahead of disclosure.
No known exploitation in the wild.
🔗 bleepingcomputer.com/news/se…
bleepingcomputer.com/news/se…
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To increase PHP representation in open source research, we encourage you to take the 2027 State of Open Source Survey. Perforce, in collaboration with the Open Source Initiative and the Eclipse Foundation, have released the survey and you can take it here: research.net/r/ZXLCRSF
Introducing Scope: Open-source evaluation for AI coding agents opensource.microsoft.com/blo…
Our Fortran and GenStat code carries years of scientific work. It is time to bring that knowledge into modern platforms like R for flexible, interpreted workflows and Rust for fast, compiled applications, making our tools easier to maintain, extend, and share 🤗
Our latest model advances bring stronger capabilities for building and migrating software in low-resource programming languages such as COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic.
These languages power software that banks, governments, and businesses depend on. Progress here means understanding decades of business logic and helping developers modernize those systems while preserving what works.
We’re building these capabilities around the challenges developers and enterprise customers bring us. If your team is working on these systems, tell us which languages and workflows we should tackle next.
openai.com/index/low-resourc…
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In @Nature this week, our new research shows how machine learning can improve weather forecasts two to six weeks out, a timeframe that's historically been very difficult to predict.
It's exciting to see the potential of this work to help us better prepare for extreme weather, manage natural resources, and make more informed decisions in agriculture.
There's a broader lesson here... the future may not just be about ever-more-capable models, but about building intelligent verification systems around them: systems that learn where models are systematically wrong, reason about cause and effect, and continuously calibrate predictions against reality.
Read more: microsoft.com/en-us/research…
