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Apple announces Workout Buddy, bringing Apple Intelligence to Apple Watch fitness workouts by providing personalized insights during exercise sessions (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/09/ai-powered-workout-buddy-coming…

Apple Unveils AI-Powered 'Workout Buddy' for Apple Watch at WWDC
Apple at WWDC just announced Workout Buddy, which brings Apple Intelligence to fitness workouts on Apple Watch for the first time. The new feature...

AI is coming for entry-level jobs. Everybody needs to get ready.
CEOs are saying that AI is coming for a lot of jobs, and soon
— perhaps as many as half of all white-collar workers.
That’s likely to show up first in entry-level jobs, where the basic skills required are the easiest to replicate,
and in tech, where the ability to rapidly adapt the latest software tools is itself an entry-level job requirement.
Sure enough, in recent years unemployment has risen…

AI is coming for entry-level jobs. Everybody needs to get ready.
AI may replace a lot of entry-level skills. So how will workers acquire more advanced ones?

Trump threatens federal takeover of NYC if 'communist' Zohran Mamdani wins mayoral race (Steven Nelson/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/07/08/us-news/trump-threatens-federal-takeover-of-nyc-if-communist-mamdani-wins-mayoral-race/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p125#a250708p125

Beyond Communication Overhead: A Multilevel Monte Carlo Approach for Mitigating Compression Bias in Distributed Learning
Ze'ev Zukerman, Bassel Hamoud, Kfir Y. Levy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05508

Beyond Communication Overhead: A Multilevel Monte Carlo Approach for Mitigating Compression Bias in Distributed Learning
Distributed learning methods have gained substantial momentum in recent years, with communication overhead often emerging as a critical bottleneck. Gradient compression techniques alleviate communication costs but involve an inherent trade-off between the empirical efficiency of biased compressors and the theoretical guarantees of unbiased compressors. In this work, we introduce a novel Multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) compression scheme that leverages biased compressors to construct statistically…

On commensurators of free groups and free pro-p groups
Yiftach Barnea, Mikhail Ershov, Adrien Le Boudec, Colin D. Reid, Matteo Vannacci, Thomas Weigel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04120

On commensurators of free groups and free pro-p groups
We study the commensurators of free groups and free pro-$p$ groups, as well as certain subgroups of these. We prove that the commensurator $Comm(F)$ of a non-abelian free group of finite rank $F$ is not virtually simple, answering a question of Lubotzky. On the other hand, we exhibit a family of easy-to-define finitely generated subgroups of $Comm(F)$ and show that some groups in this family are simple. For a prime $p$, we also consider the p-commensurator $Comm_p(F)$, which is the commensura…

Characterizing Compute-Communication Overlap in GPU-Accelerated Distributed Deep Learning: Performance and Power Implications
Seonho Lee, Jihwan Oh, Junkyum Kim, Seokjin Go, Jongse Park, Divya Mahajan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03114

Characterizing Compute-Communication Overlap in GPU-Accelerated Distributed Deep Learning: Performance and Power Implications
This paper provides an in-depth characterization of GPU-accelerated systems, to understand the interplay between overlapping computation and communication which is commonly employed in distributed training settings. Due to the large size of models, distributing them across multiple devices is required. Overlapping strategies, which enable concurrent computation and communication, are critical for mitigating communication bottlenecks and maximizing GPU utilization. However, the current consensus…

SVG Favicons and CSS Anchor Positioning are two big wins shipping in Safari 26 Beta: https://webkit.org/blog/16993/news-from-wwdc25-web-technology-coming-this-fall-in-safari-26-beta/

The US Ambassador to Canada is a gas lighting, lying nutcase like his Administration.
“"Coming to the U.S., that's a decision for the Canadians to make. Searching devices and all of that is not a well-founded fear. We don't do that. America is a welcoming place," he said.
"I've heard that from Americans coming into Canada as well, OK? Saying, 'You know, we've not received a warm reception when we've gotten to Canadian customs,'" he said.”
#usa #canada #never51
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/border-device-searches-us-ambassador-1.7555350

Apple says ChatGPT image generation is now available in Image Playground with new ChatGPT styles, releases an API, adds Genmoji text descriptions, and more (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/09/chatgpt-integration-co…

ChatGPT Integration Coming to Apple's Image Playground
Apple today revealed a number of updates for Image Playground and Genmoji. ChatGPT image generation is now available directly in Image Playground,...

Communications lost with
Gaza-bound aid ship Madleen
after Israeli navy tells it to change course
Freedom Flotilla Coalition says ship’s communications were jammed after Israeli defence minister threatened to ‘take all necessary measures’ to prevent the humanitarian ship from reaching Gaza