First ever all female #spacewalk - thanks @NASA - you’ve made two little girls from #cornwall #england very happy, and wonderfully ambitious 😇 #space #women #inspiration

From Helston, Cornwall to the moon. Proud of the part Britain has played in this historic moment. independent.co.uk/news/scien…

RT @TheSMI: Announced at today's Astra Carta Plenary session, the @astroscale_UK ELSA-M mission in partnership with @esa will carry the Ast…

The Astra Carta seal will fly on our ELSA-M satellite, a powerful symbol of the shared commitment to protect Earth’s orbits and promote responsible activity beyond our planet. Supported by @spacegovuk, @esa and @EutelsatGroup through the Sunrise Partnership Project, ELSA-M will remove a Eutelsat OneWeb satellite at the end of its life and show what sustainable space operations look like in action. astroscale.com/en/news/elsa-…

#glasto GUTTED. Closer than I've ever been anyways 😂😂

Sending love to the marketing bod from @fastic that just sent a test email to their subscriber database 🫶🏽 be kind Fastic bosses - be kind!

Exclusive: ALL.SPACE, a satellite communications technology company, will this week announce a £33m fundraising led by Boka Group, a defence-focused investor which has just recruited Ben Wallace, the former defence secretary, as a partner. news.sky.com/story/advanced-…

Advanced communications firm ALL.SPACE secures £33m from blue-chip backers Read more🔗 trib.al/Cbnieww

There are “whole parts of the world” which have been excluded from conversations about how best to regulate and control artificial intelligence, a new report is warning. An international panel of 38 tech experts tasked by the UN Secretary General to advise it on AI issues has today (Thursday) released its findings – and it is highly critical of what it describes as a “patchwork” of existing rules and guidelines (anyone on the AI beat will tell you we have read a *lot* of codes, pledges, commitments on responsible AI in recent years - almost all of them voluntary)   It looked at a number of recent high-profile multi-national AI treaties, including the Bletchley Park declaration and the G20 AI Principles, and found that only Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US had signed up to all of them. More than 100 of the UN’s 193 member states were missing entirely. Many of those are in the global south.   The UN secretary-general’s high-level advisory body on artificial intelligence also criticised the voluntary nature of many existing guidelines which are currently in place in various countries.   “No one currently understands all of AI’s inner workings enough to fully control its outputs or predict its evolution,” the report states. “Nor are decision makers held accountable for developing, deploying or using systems they do not understand.”   It further claimed that “many terms routinely used with respect to AI – fairness, safety, transparency – do not have agreed definitions” leading, it argued, to the creation of industry standards which are “divorced from the values that they were intended to uphold.”   The group,  which included the brilliant UK computer scientist @DameWendyDBE ,  is recommending that the UN should set up its own global AI scientific committee, similar to the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change. It suggests establishing an AI office in UN headquarters, and a global AI fund to ensure that more countries are able to access AI tools and training.   “Of the top 100 high-performance computing clusters in the world capable of training large AI models, not one is hosted in a developing country,” it notes.   The UN will now consider the recommendations.   As part of its research, the group also surveyed 340 tech experts and asked them to rate their concerns about the use of AI in 14 different areas. The use of AI to compromise information (such as in the generation of misinformation and deepfakes), and the use of the tech in armed conflict, emerged as the two themes which worried them the most.   There are already growing calls for the UN to update its treaty on autonomous weapons, including from the Red Cross.   “The Advisory Body considers it essential to identify clear red lines delineating unlawful use cases, including relying on AI to select and engage targets autonomously,” the report says.

Overheard in @Tesco (from one teammate to another) “Are you going to the Self Service Party” 😂😂😂

Nothing more dismal than being sent emails from @glastonbury selling merch for a festival I’ve never successfully got a ticket for… how fun. Not.

Loving some of the questions at the Reach for the Sky festival this morning. What a panel. Go girls! @_Jessification_ @TECgirls

In case you missed it... This week we announced investment from @NATO as part of their Innovation Fund. Through empowering innovative technology, they are enabling enhanced resilience across global #manufacturing and infrastructure. @FinancialTimes 🔗 ft.pulse.ly/ypo5hymoid

Ooof! @NASAWebb @ESA_Webb smashes it. A new record holder for the most distant galaxy ever detected. A redshift of 14.32 equates to about 290 million years after the Big Bang. Amazing that luminous galaxies could form so quickly. arxiv.org/abs/2405.18485

Wanna know more about solar storms? @Astro_Jonny has our backs 👇🏽

Had similar for a group from a school I know but it was porn that was being shared. My kid wasn’t in the group but alerted me to it so I could help advise. The school was incredible at dealing with it - but with no external support - they are relying on common sense.

Our local @Tesco is at risk of killing people in their car park with a dead tree that they keep ignoring. The branches are unstable now & will fall on someone when parking their car, or onto my house. They don’t care about their #Community #StAustell #Cornwall

LIVE: @Astro_Pam delivers the #SpaceSymposium keynote address on making space exploration sustainable for future generations. #39Space x.com/i/broadcasts/1YqKDgLOE…