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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.

Coinbase says its new "everything exchange" will include tokenized assets, stocks, derivatives, prediction markets, and more, for US users in the coming months (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/31/coinbase-t

Coinbase says it's launching tokenized stocks, predictions markets for U.S. users in coming months
The expansion puts Coinbase in even closer competition with Robinhood, Gemini and Kraken, all of whom have tokenized equity offerings for users outside the U.S.

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.

Leveraging Caliper and Benchpark to Analyze MPI Communication Patterns: Insights from AMG2023, Kripke, and Laghos
Grace Nansamba, Evelyn Namugwanya, David Boehme, Dewi Yokelson, Riley Shipley, Derek Schafer, Michael McKinsey, Olga Pearce, Anthony Skjellum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22372

Leveraging Caliper and Benchpark to Analyze MPI Communication Patterns: Insights from AMG2023, Kripke, and Laghos
We introduce ``communication regions'' into the widely used Caliper HPC profiling tool. A communication region is an annotation enabling capture of metrics about the data being communicated (including statistics of these metrics), and metrics about the MPI processes involved in the communications, something not previously possible in Caliper. We explore the utility of communication regions with three representative modeling and simulation applications, AMG2023, Kripke, and Laghos, all part of t…

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…

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

A look at the potential future of personalized, AI-generated entertainment, and how it could both submerge human originality and enable new forms of expression (Joshua Rothman/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/ai-is-coming-for-cu…

A.I. Is Coming for Culture
We’re used to algorithms guiding our choices. But when machines can effortlessly generate the content we consume, Joshua Rothman asks, what’s left for the human imagination?

A look at the potential future of personalized, AI-generated entertainment, and how it could both submerge human originality and enable new forms of expression (Joshua Rothman/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/ai-is-coming-for-cu…

A.I. Is Coming for Culture
We’re used to algorithms guiding our choices. But when machines can effortlessly generate the content we consume, Joshua Rothman asks, what’s left for the human imagination?

NASA says its NASA live programming will be available on Netflix starting this summer; it will be still available on NASA's app and site for free without ads (Lauren E. Low/NASA)
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-is-coming-to-netflix-this-summer/…

NASA+ is Coming to Netflix This Summer - NASA
NASA announced Monday its latest plans to team up with a streaming service to bring space a little closer to home. Starting this summer, NASA+ live