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Lovely piece, and why I often take small hotel rooms in cities: so I'm forced out to go explore. I especially love this line: "I understood how a metropolis allows you to be solitary without being lonely." People who don't live in cities don't get this.
https://www.nytim…

Opinion | The Paris Métro Smell That Transports Me
A whiff of the Paris Métro flings me back to a summer I spent in France.

Don't miss today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--DOGE killed $324 million in grants for cybersecurity diversity, global partners
--US is the top investor in global spyware,
--Kenyan authorities accused of installing spyware on filmmakers' phones,
--GOP senators press Zuckerberg on WhatsApp whistleblower's claims,
--Wyden accuses Microsoft of negligence in Ascension attack,
--CISA says CVE shoul…

DOGE killed $324 million in grants for cybersecurity diversity, global partners
US is the top investor in global spyware, Kenyan authorities accused of installing spyware on filmmakers' phones, GOP senators press Zuckerberg on WhatsApp whistleblower's claims, Wyden accuses Microsoft of negligence in Ascension attack, CISA says CVE should remain public, much more

Sources: UK-based The Observer cuts casual staff, changes its production days, and significantly reduces pagination, following its sale to Tortoise in April (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/observer-cuts-casual-s…

Observer cuts casual shifts amidst drop in pages for Sunday title
The Observer has made told its casual staff team there are "fewer shifts available" following its sale to Tortoise In April 2025.

Exploratory Retrieval-Augmented Planning For Continual Embodied Instruction Following
Minjong Yoo, Jinwoo Jang, Wei-jin Park, Honguk Woo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08222 https:/…

Exploratory Retrieval-Augmented Planning For Continual Embodied Instruction Following
This study presents an Exploratory Retrieval-Augmented Planning (ExRAP) framework, designed to tackle continual instruction following tasks of embodied agents in dynamic, non-stationary environments. The framework enhances Large Language Models' (LLMs) embodied reasoning capabilities by efficiently exploring the physical environment and establishing the environmental context memory, thereby effectively grounding the task planning process in time-varying environment contexts. In ExRAP, given mul…

Josef Hader erhält Film-Preis
Josef Hader wird für seine Tragikomödie "Andrea lässt sich scheiden" mit dem Ernst-Lubitsch-Preis 2025 des Clubs der Filmjornalisten ausgezeichnet.
https://www.kabarett-news.de/News-vom-11.07.2025-josef-hader.html
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Lady's slipper, Cypripedium acaule, along the carriage roads in Acadia National Park last month
#naturalist #wildflower #photography

Following the expected mention of technology neutrality with regard to the 2035 review of CO₂ standards for cars, the automotive section of Von der Leyen's State of the Union speech ends on a positive note:
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/SPEECH…

Europe's red line to China: Stop fueling Putin’s war machine or face policy reversal, Von der Leyen warns - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/08/europes-red-line-to-china-stop-fueling-putins-war-machine-or-face-policy-reversal-von-der-leyen-warns/

Europe's red line to China: Stop fueling Putin’s war machine or face policy reversal, Von der Leyen warns - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/08/europes-red-line-to-china-stop-fueling-putins-war-machine-or-face-policy-reversal-von-der-leyen-warns/

Free London business paper City AM says it returned to print profitability, with gross profit margin of 50% last quarter and EBIT up 52% from January to August (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/city-am-trumpets-re…

City AM trumpets resurgence of print profitability
London business newspaper City AM has seen massive growth in its print profitability following a "transformative" year under its new owner.