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Defense tech firm Leidos acquires VA-based Kudu Dynamics, which provides AI-enabled cyber defense and offense tools to the US DOD and other customers, for $300M (Courtney Albon/Defense News)
https://www.defensenews.com/industry/2025/05/…

Leidos acquires cyber company Kudu Dynamics
The finalized deal comes as Leidos is implementing a new “NorthStar” strategy that identifies cyber as one of five primary growth areas for the company.

NFL analyst still doubts Cowboys despite aggressive offseason https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/nfl-analyst-still-doubts-dallas-cowboys-despite-aggressive-nfl-offseason

Zelensky signs ratification of Special Tribunal on Russian aggression: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/zelensky-signs-ratification-of-special.html

Fallout from Steelers-Dolphins blockbuster trade, plus Miami acquires retired tight end from Giants

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

Asymptotically Optimal Secure Aggregation for Wireless Federated Learning with Multiple Servers
Zhenhao Huang, Kai Liang, Yuanming Shi, Songze Li, Youlong Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23680

Asymptotically Optimal Secure Aggregation for Wireless Federated Learning with Multiple Servers
In this paper, we investigate the transmission latency of the secure aggregation problem in a \emph{wireless} federated learning system with multiple curious servers. We propose a privacy-preserving coded aggregation scheme where the servers can not infer any information about the distributed users' local gradients, nor the aggregation value. In our scheme, each user encodes its local gradient into $\sK$ confidential messages intended exclusively for different servers using a multi-secret shari…

Alphagenome: Deepmind KI analysiert Auswirkungen von DNA-Veränderungen
Deepminds neue KI Alphagenome analysiert DNA-Veränderungen, um Auswirkungen auf unsere Gesundheit zu entschlüsseln.
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Across the country, Republican lawmakers have been working to undermine or altogether undo the will of the voters -- by making it harder to pass amendments and laws through citizen-led initiatives.
In #Missouri, the 2025 legislative session was dominated by Republican lawmakers trying to reverse two major measures that voters had put on the ballot and approved just months before;
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Red State Voters Approved Progressive Measures. GOP Lawmakers Are Trying to Undermine Them.
In the wake of ballot measures that increased abortion access and improved sick leave for workers, a coordinated effort is unfolding across the country to restrict direct democracy — and shift power to partisan legislatures.

Grammarly acquires email startup Superhuman as part of a push to build an AI-powered productivity suite; Superhuman was last valued at $825M in 2021 (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/grammarly-acquires-e…

Robinhood announces an expanded offering of tokenized US stocks across Europe, crypto staking in US, a Layer 2 blockchain for real-world asset settlement, more (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/30/robinhood-crypto-cannes.html

Robinhood expands its global push, minutes from crypto chief's old cramped apartment in Cannes
Robinhood is offering tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs across Europe, crypto staking in the U.S., perpetual futures for eligible EU traders, and a new blockchain.

A profile of prediction market Kalshi, which is using its federal financial license to open up sports gambling across the US, even in states where it is illegal (Justina Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

Kalshi Pushes Sports Betting as Trump, Deregulation Boosts Prediction Market
Armed with a federal license and allies in Trumpworld, the tech start-up is pushing prediction markets across America into a legal gray zone: sports betting.