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TRM Labs launches Beacon Network, a real-time alert system for illicit crypto activity, partnering with law enforcement and exchanges like Binance and Coinbase (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/08/19

Crypto Offers Answer to Money Laundering Crisis: Global Alert Network Called 'Beacon'
An industry-wide project led by TRM Labs is officially going live, and includes law enforcement and the major exchanges such as Coinbase and Binance.

Rob Jetten over de vernielingen bij het D66 kantoor.
#D66 #politiek

Ik kom net terug van ons partijkantoor in Den Haag. Daar waar D66’ers zich normaal met hart en ziel inzetten voor onze democratie, werd vandaag een ravage aangericht. Relschoppers hebben grote… | Rob Jetten | 25 comments
Ik kom net terug van ons partijkantoor in Den Haag. Daar waar D66’ers zich normaal met hart en ziel inzetten voor onze democratie, werd vandaag een ravage aangericht. Relschoppers hebben grote bakstenen door de ramen gegooid. Ze probeerden een brandende container naar binnen te rijden. Pure vernieling. Gelukkig raakte niemand gewond. En dat is eigenlijk een wonder. De beelden maken me woedend. Woedend dat agenten vanavond thuiskomen bij hun gezin, en moeten uitleggen dat ze belaagd zijn. Dat…

Sources: Nvidia told suppliers like Amkor and Samsung to halt H20 chip production after China urged local tech firms to avoid H20 over alleged security concerns (Qianer Liu/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-ord…

Nvidia Orders Halt to H20 Production After China Directive Against Purchases
Nvidia has told some of its component suppliers to suspend production work related to the H20, its chip tailor-made for the Chinese market, according to two people with direct knowledge of the communications. The directive comes weeks after the Chinese government told local tech companies to ...

Evaluation Guidelines for Empirical Studies in Software Engineering involving LLMs
Sebastian Baltes, Florian Angermeir, Chetan Arora, Marvin Mu\~noz Bar\'on, Chunyang Chen, Lukas B\"ohme, Fabio Calefato, Neil Ernst, Davide Falessi, Brian Fitzgerald, Davide Fucci, Marcos Kalinowski, Stefano Lambiase, Daniel Russo, Mircea Lungu, Lutz Prechelt, Paul Ralph, Christoph Treude, Stefan Wagner

Evaluation Guidelines for Empirical Studies in Software Engineering involving LLMs
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being integrated into software engineering (SE) research and practice, yet their non-determinism, opaque training data, and evolving architectures complicate the reproduction and replication of empirical studies. We present a community effort to scope this space, introducing a taxonomy of LLM-based study types together with eight guidelines for designing and reporting empirical studies involving LLMs. The guidelines present essential (must) criteria…

An inside look at Léon Thévenin, the only undersea internet cable repair ship permanently stationed in Africa, operated by the French telecom company Orange (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/africa-internet-cable-repair-ship/

When Africa’s internet breaks, this ship answers the call
Undersea internet cables are critical in today’s hyperconnected world. The crew of the Léon Thévenin maintains one stretch of this global network.

NYC-based Bluefish Labs, which analyzes prompt responses for large brands to understand how LLMs answer consumer questions, raised a $20M Series A led by NEA (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/20/bluefish…

Bluefish raises $20M to help enterprise marketing take control in the era of AI chatbots - SiliconANGLE
Bluefish raises $20M to help enterprise marketing take control in the era of AI chatbots - SiliconANGLE

YouGov: 59% of US adults use smart assistants to check the weather, 51% for music, 47% to get answers on the web, and 40% for timers, mirroring usage in 2018 (Rani Molla/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/people-use-google-amazon…

People use Google, Amazon, and Apple’s smart assistants for weather, timers, and music — the same stuff we were doing a decade ago
Digital assistants can do more but not well or consistently.

Further tests reveal Grok 4 appears to consult Elon Musk's views on a range of sensitive topics, and its answers tend to align with Musk's personal opinions (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/grok

Grok 4 seems to consult Elon Musk to answer controversial questions | TechCrunch
Elon Musk's newly launched AI chatbot, Grok 4, seemed to reference Musk's posts on social media before answering controversial questions.

NYC-based Protege, which prepares and sells real-world datasets like lab results and sports footage for AI training, raised a $25M Series A led by Footwork (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/one-year-old…

The One-Year-Old Startup Notching Data Deals For Model Makers
Companies like Scale AI and Surge have proven there’s a market for human-labeled data, like professionals’ answers to complex math or law questions, that AI research labs can use to train their models. Now, a young startup is tapping a similar opportunity, linking large model makers and AI ...

A Google executive says users increasingly want "contextual answers and summaries", but Google is not going to abandon the model that provides "10 blue links" (Elissa Welle/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/778306/google-ai-summaries-penske-…

Google thinks it can have AI summaries and a healthy web, too
Google said users increasingly want the AI summaries more than 10 blue links when asked about a lawsuit over AI Overviews.