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Block Communications enters into an agreement to sell its entire portfolio of TV stations to Gray Media for $80M; the deal is expected to close in Q4 2025 (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/08/gray-media-acquiring-block-communications-tv-st…

Block Communications sells TV stations to Gray Media
Block Communications has entered into an agreement to sell its entire portfolio of television stations to Gray Media, the companies announced on Friday.

Какво е Creative Commons? - Петър Тушков
https://petertoushkov.eu/paper-books/kakvo-e-creative-commons

Какво е Creative Commons? - Петър Тушков
Наскоро публикувах моя български превод на „Приключенията на Алиса в Страната на чудесата“ под условията на договора Криейтив Комънс и имам усещането, че може би трябва да поговорим какво означават тези две думи.

⛓️‍💥 Broken Tokens? Your Language Model can Secretly Handle Non-Canonical Tokenizations
#ai #llm

Broken Tokens? Your Language Model can Secretly Handle Non-Canonical Tokenizations
Modern tokenizers employ deterministic algorithms to map text into a single "canonical" token sequence, yet the same string can be encoded as many non-canonical tokenizations using the tokenizer vocabulary. In this work, we investigate the robustness of LMs to text encoded with non-canonical tokenizations entirely unseen during training. Surprisingly, when evaluated across 20 benchmarks, we find that instruction-tuned models retain up to 93.4% of their original performance when given a randomly…

Internal communications reveal Vermont prisons’ frustrations working with ICE - VTDigger https://vtdigger.org/2025/06/28/internal-communications-reveal-vermont-prisons-frustrations-working-with-ice/

Internal communications reveal Vermont prisons’ frustrations working with ICE
Growing demands, arrivals at all hours and a rare disease are just some of the challenges Vermont’s prisons have faced while working with federal immigration authorities.

Communication via Sensing
Mohammad Kazemi, Tolga M. Duman, Deniz G\"und\"uz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23000 https://arxiv.…

Communication via Sensing
We present an alternative take on the recently popularized concept of `$\textit{joint sensing and communications}$', which focuses on using communication resources also for sensing. Here, we propose the opposite, where we exploit the sensing capabilities of the receiver for communication. Our goal is to characterize the fundamental limits of communication over such a channel, which we call `$\textit{communication via sensing}$'. We assume that changes in the sensed attributes, e.g., location, s…

Examining the Social Communication and Community Engagement of Autistic Adults through an Asynchronous Focus Group
Blade Frisch, Betts Peters, Keith Vertanen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00202

Examining the Social Communication and Community Engagement of Autistic Adults through an Asynchronous Focus Group
Purpose: Little research has explored the communication needs of autistic adults and how their needs differ from those of other disabled populations. Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) can support these communication needs, but more guidance is needed on how to design AAC to support this population. Materials and Methods: We conducted an online, asynchronous, text-based focus group with five autistic adults to explore their social communication and community engagement and how A…

The Trump administration may have just axed the IRS Direct File program.
During a summit earlier this week, IRS Commissioner Billy Long said the free tax filing service is “gone,”
adding that “big beautiful Billy wiped that out
https://news.bloombe…

IRS Chief Says Direct File Is ‘Gone,’ Other Audit Tech Is Coming
The Biden-era IRS free filing tool, Direct File, is “gone,” IRS Commissioner Billy Long said.

E-WAN: Efficient Communication in Energy Harvesting Low-Power Networks
Naomi Stricker, David Blaser, Andres Gomez, Lothar Thiele
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23788

E-WAN: Efficient Communication in Energy Harvesting Low-Power Networks
The ever-increasing number of distributed embedded systems in the context of the Internet of Things (IoT), Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) rely on wireless communication to collect and exchange data. Nodes can employ single-hop communication which, despite its ease, may necessitate energy-intensive long-range communication to cover long distances. Conversely, multi-hop communication allows for more energy-efficient short-range communication since nodes can rely …

The Most Communist President Ever (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-most-communist-president-ever
http://www.memeorandum.com/250901/p25#a250901p25

Channel characterization in screen-to-camera based optical camera communication
Vaigai Nayaki Yokar, Hoa Le Minh, Zabih Ghassemlooy, Wai Lok Woo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23005

Channel characterization in screen-to-camera based optical camera communication
With the increase in optical camera communication (OCC), a screen to camera-based communication can be established. This opens a new field of visible light communication (VLC) known as smartphone to smartphone based visible light communication (S2SVLC) system. In this paper, we experimentally demonstrate a S2SVLC system based on VLC technology using a smartphone screen and a smartphone camera over a link span of 20 cms. We analyze the Lambertian order of the smartphone screen and carry out a ch…