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The EU says Apple and Meta will not face sanctions immediately after their 60 day DMA grace period ends on June 26, following €500M and €200M fines in April (Peggy Corlin/Euronews)
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/06…

Apple and Meta to escape sanctions for failing to meet digital rules
The European Commission will opt not to impose immediate financial penalties on Apple and Meta—even if they fail to comply with the legislation by next week's deadline. #EuropeNews

40 some films and such that have come out or will come out in 2025 that I'm interested in (and may or may not see) 😂
#film

2025 films
A list of 44 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Wolf Man (2025), Companion (2025), This Is the Tom Green Documentary (2025), By Design (2025) and If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (2025).

Cowboys ink 2 veterans to deals following individual workouts https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-ink-2-veterans-to-deals-following-individual-workouts

Nine players trying to avoid bust label, plus Lamar seeks college teammate and Travis Kelce's falling stock

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/ne…

Revisiting Compositional Generalization Capability of Large Language Models Considering Instruction Following Ability
Yusuke Sakai, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Taro Watanabe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15629

Revisiting Compositional Generalization Capability of Large Language Models Considering Instruction Following Ability
In generative commonsense reasoning tasks such as CommonGen, generative large language models (LLMs) compose sentences that include all given concepts. However, when focusing on instruction-following capabilities, if a prompt specifies a concept order, LLMs must generate sentences that adhere to the specified order. To address this, we propose Ordered CommonGen, a benchmark designed to evaluate the compositional generalization and instruction-following abilities of LLMs. This benchmark measures…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Gong:
🎵 Flying Teapot
#Gong
https://misterloft.bandcamp.com/track/plan-te-gong-inspired-by-the-flying-teapot

Alcon buys Village Roadshow's library of 108 films for $417.5M, following Village Roadshow's bankruptcy in March; the library generates an estimated $50M/year (Anthony D'Alessandro/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/village-roadshow-acquis…

Village Roadshow Entertainment Group’s Film Library Acquired By Alcon For $417M+
Village Roadshow Film Library Acquired By Alcon

Was für ein Verlust für die Kölner Kinoszene. Bernhard Marsch, zentrale Figur des Filmclub 813, ist Sonntagabend bei einem Unfall verstorben.
https://www.filmstiftung.de/news/bernhard-marsch-verstorben/

Bernhard Marsch verstorben - Film und Medien Stiftung NRW
Der Kölner Regisseur, Drehbuchautor, Filmproduzent und Schauspieler Bernhard Marsch ist überraschend bei einem tragischen Unfall im Alter von 63 Jahren verstorben.Der 1962 geborene Filmemacher war eine engagierte Persönlichkeit der Kölner Filmszene. 1990 gehörte Marsch zu den Gründungsmitgliedern des Filmclub 813, dessen langjähriger Vorsitzender er war. Der Filmclub wurde mehrfach mit dem Kinematheksverbundspreis ausgezeichnet und gilt als fester Bestandteil der Kölner Filmkultur.

Vermont plastic bag use dropped 91% following ban, researchers find #Vermont

Vermont plastic bag use dropped 91% following ban, researchers find
In the midst of 2020 COVID measures, another change took place in Vermont: A law went into effect banning businesses from offering plastic bags to customers, with paper bags only available for a fee.

Model Predictive Path-Following Control for a Quadrotor
David Leprich, Mario Rosenfelder, Mario Hermle, Jingshan Chen, Peter Eberhard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15447

Model Predictive Path-Following Control for a Quadrotor
Automating drone-assisted processes is a complex task. Many solutions rely on trajectory generation and tracking, whereas in contrast, path-following control is a particularly promising approach, offering an intuitive and natural approach to automate tasks for drones and other vehicles. While different solutions to the path-following problem have been proposed, most of them lack the capability to explicitly handle state and input constraints, are formulated in a conservative two-stage approach,…