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Interesting piece on the #Arctic #SeaIce and it's (improving) representation in global climate models by Gavin Schmidt over on @realclimate, I'm not entirely sure all of the improvement is for the right reasons, there are probably compensating biases, it would be interesting to see if the models get the regional signal correct in different parts of the Arctic, but overall I agree with this piece, there have been some big steps forward in global models, the regional level is often not very well represented though.
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2025/05/predicted-arctic-sea-ice-trends-over-time/

Vista Equity Partners agrees to acquire ERP software provider Acumatica from PE firm EQT, sources say in a deal that values Acumatica at ~$2B including debt (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…

Buyout Firm Vista to Acquire EQT’s Acumatica in $2 Billion Deal
Vista Equity Partners agreed to acquire Acumatica Inc., a software company that helps businesses streamline workflows.

The billions and billions of dollars this bill pumps into ICE far exceed any conceivable legitimate need the agency could have, even if you agree with its mission.
This bill takes the same masked, anonymous gunmen who have been kidnapping people off the streets and gives them a budget the size of a military.
This is not about honoring the law. This is not even about immigrants.
This is about creating a police state.
I see no other way to read these numbers.
https://mastodon.world/@MJmusicinears/114764606160963355

Wrote a post summarizing the recommendations I give to new #neocaridina shrimp keepers
https://unixorn.github.io/post/aquarium/2025-05-31-advice-for-new-neocaridina-keepers/
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Steelers acquire Jonnu Smith from Dolphins: Why he helps Aaron Rodgers as do-it-all weapon

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/steeler

TECH 2025: Europas Abhängigkeit von US-Clouds und Rüstungsgütern ist gefährlich. Die Konferenz in Heilbronn fordert: Mehr Investitionen in eigene Technologien, weniger Bürokratie – und ein „Buy European Act“ für digitale Souveränität. #Handelsblatt:
TECH 2025: „Europa hat alles außer Zeit“ – TECH-Aufbruch in Heilbronn

Warner Music and Bain announce a $1.2B joint venture to buy song rights; sources: Warner is in talks to acquire the Red Hot Chili Peppers' catalog for $300M (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8e50bf81-d346-49ec-a4a5-6b379e632140

Warner Music and Bain target $300mn Red Hot Chili Peppers catalogue deal
Acquisition would be a coup for record company and private equity firm’s new song rights joint venture

AURA: Agent for Understanding, Reasoning, and Automated Tool Use in Voice-Driven Tasks
Leander Melroy Maben, Gayathri Ganesh Lakshmy, Srijith Radhakrishnan, Siddhant Arora, Shinji Watanabe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23049

AURA: Agent for Understanding, Reasoning, and Automated Tool Use in Voice-Driven Tasks
Despite advances in language and speech technologies, no open-source system enables full speech-to-speech, multi-turn dialogue with integrated tool use and agentic reasoning. We introduce AURA (Agent for Understanding, Reasoning, and Automated Tool Use), the first open-source, speech-native assistant capable of completing complex, goal-driven tasks through dynamic tool invocation and multi-turn conversation. AURA combines open-weight ASR, TTS, and LLMs in a cascaded pipeline and supports tools …

Canada-based Clio, which makes cloud tools for law firms, agrees to acquire vLex, which offers a legal and regulatory database and an AI assistant, for $1B (Alex Riehl/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/clio-to-acquire-american-legaltech-vlex-for-1-billion…

Clio to acquire American legaltech vLex for $1 billion USD
vLex offers an extensive legal and regulatory database alongside an AI-powered assistant.

GOP Senators agree to change a provision in the tax bill from a 10-year ban on state AI regulation to a 5-year ban with carve outs for issues such as copyrights (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…