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Kurdish Militant Group Agrees to Swap Guns for Ballots and End 40-year Insurgency with Turkey https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/kurdish-militant-group-agrees-to-swap-guns-for-ballots-and-end-40-year-insurgency-…

Kurdish Militant Group Agrees to Swap Guns for Ballots and End 40-year Insurgency with Turkey
Imprisoned founder of the group, Abdullah Öcalan, released a statement from prison calling on the group to convene a conference and dissolve.

Affaire de Bétharram : en 1998, les ratés de la justice face aux agresseurs présumés
https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2025/06/25/affaire-de-betharram-en-1998-les-rates-de-la-…

Affaire de Bétharram : en 1998, les ratés de la justice face aux agresseurs présumés
Le dossier judiciaire de l’époque mettant en cause le père Silviet-Carricart, auquel « Le Monde » a eu accès, relève deux défaillances majeures dans la procédure. La première concerne cet ancien directeur de l’établissement scolaire privé, la seconde l’ex-surveillant Damien S., aujourd’hui mis en cause dans une centaine de plaintes.

AALC: Large Language Model Efficient Reasoning via Adaptive Accuracy-Length Control
Ruosen Li, Ziming Luo, Quan Zhang, Ruochen Li, Ben Zhou, Ali Payani, Xinya Du
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20160

AALC: Large Language Model Efficient Reasoning via Adaptive Accuracy-Length Control
Large reasoning models (LRMs) achieve impressive reasoning capabilities by generating lengthy chain-of-thoughts, but this "overthinking" incurs high latency and cost without commensurate accuracy gains. In this work, we introduce AALC, a lightweight, accuracy-aware length reward integrated into reinforcement learning that dynamically balances correctness and brevity during training. By incorporating validation accuracy into the reward and employing a smooth, dynamically scheduled length penalty…

Kraken secures a MiCA license from the Central Bank of Ireland to offer crypto services across the EU, following Coinbase's approval in Luxembourg last week (Callan Quinn/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/327112/kraken-license-europes-new-rules

Kraken Becomes Latest to Win a License Under Europe's New Rules
Approval from Ireland's central bank gives Kraken the ability to operate across 27 EU states as it races to catch up to rival Coinbase.

Lol, how did I miss that the UK military named its AI trial WINTERMUTE?
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/largest-ever-uk-defence-ai-trial-conducted-across-land-sea-and-air

Largest ever UK defence AI trial conducted across land, sea and air
Sailors and air crews are set to benefit from new artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities following the UK's largest ever multi-domain AI trial, bringing together land, sea and air equipment.

Empowering Digital Agriculture: A Privacy-Preserving Framework for Data Sharing and Collaborative Research
Osama Zafar, Rosemarie Santa Gonz\'alez, Mina Namazi, Alfonso Morales, Erman Ayday
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20872

Empowering Digital Agriculture: A Privacy-Preserving Framework for Data Sharing and Collaborative Research
Data-driven agriculture, which integrates technology and data into agricultural practices, has the potential to improve crop yield, disease resilience, and long-term soil health. However, privacy concerns, such as adverse pricing, discrimination, and resource manipulation, deter farmers from sharing data, as it can be used against them. To address this barrier, we propose a privacy-preserving framework that enables secure data sharing and collaboration for research and development while mitigat…

"Firefighting foams contain toxic PFAS. Could soybeans be the answer?"
#PFAS #ForeverChemicals

Firefighting foams contain toxic PFAS. Could soybeans be the answer?
The surprising "win-win" for farmers and fire departments

Leveraging Correlation Across Test Platforms for Variance-Reduced Metric Estimation
Rachel Luo, Heng Yang, Michael Watson, Apoorva Sharma, Sushant Veer, Edward Schmerling, Marco Pavone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20553

Leveraging Correlation Across Test Platforms for Variance-Reduced Metric Estimation
Learning-based robotic systems demand rigorous validation to assure reliable performance, but extensive real-world testing is often prohibitively expensive, and if conducted may still yield insufficient data for high-confidence guarantees. In this work, we introduce a general estimation framework that leverages paired data across test platforms, e.g., paired simulation and real-world observations, to achieve better estimates of real-world metrics via the method of control variates. By incorpora…

Kraken launches Krak, a P2P payments app that lets users send funds across 110 countries using 300 assets, including crypto, stablecoins, and fiat currencies (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/06/

Crypto Exchange Kraken Unveils ‘Krak:’ Its New All-in-One Global Money App
The Krak app allows users to instantly transact across borders for almost no cost, while earning competitive rewards on their account balances.

Data management software vendor Rubrik agrees to acquire Predibase, which helps with deploying AI models; source: Rubrik plans to pay between $100M and $500M (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/25/rubrik-agrees-to-bu…

Rubrik agrees to buy AI startup Predibase for over $100 million
Rubrik is seeking to bolster its artificial intelligence capabilities through acquisition.