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Steelers GM Omar Khan on offseason overhaul: 'We think it came together pretty nicely' https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-gm-omar-khan-offseason-overhaul-we-think-it-came-together-pretty-nicely

South Florida Deportations Are Quietly Filling Animal Shelters (Alex DeLuca/Miami New Times)
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/south-florida-animal-shelters-quietly-filling-up-amid-deportations-23635702
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p28#a250725p28

Wimbledon 2025:
Coco Gauff will be the No 2 seed for the second straight Grand Slam event following her victory at the 2025 French Open.
https://www.tennis365.com/tennis-news/wimbledon-2025-womens-seeds-confir…

Wimbledon 2025 women's singles seeds confirmed: Sabalenka & Gauff lead, Swiatek's lowest position since 2021
The full list of women's singles seeds for the 2025 Wimbledon Championships.

Just saw this:
#AI can mean a lot of things these days, but lots of the popular meanings imply a bevy of harms that I definitely wouldn't feel are worth a cute fish game. In fact, these harms are so acute that even "just" playing into the AI hype becomes its own kind of harm (it's similar to blockchain in that way).
@… noticed that the authors claim the code base is 80% AI generated, which is a red flag because people with sound moral compasses wouldn't be using AI to "help" write code in the first place. The authors aren't by some miracle people who couldn't build this app without help, in case that influences your thinking about it: they have the skills to write the code themselves, although it likely would have taken longer (but also been better).
I was more interested in the fish-classification AI, and how much it might be dependent on datacenters. Thankfully, a quick glance at the code confirms they're using ONNX and running a self-trained neural network on your device. While the exponentially-increasing energy & water demands of datacenters to support billion-parameter models are a real concern, this is not that. Even a non-AI game can burn a lot of cycles on someone's phone, and I don't think there's anything to complain about energy-wise if we're just using cycles on the end user's device as long as we're not having them keep it on for hours crunching numbers like blockchain stuff does. Running whatever stuff locally while the user is playing a game is a negligible environmental concern, unlike, say, calling out to ChatGPT where you're directly feeding datacenter demand. Since they claimed to have trained the network themselves, and since it's actually totally reasonable to make your own dataset for this and get good-enough-for-a-silly-game results with just a few hundred examples, I don't have any ethical objections to the data sourcing or training processes either. Hooray! This is finally an example of "ethical use of neutral networks" that I can hold up as an example of what people should be doing instead of the BS they are doing.
But wait... Remember what I said about feeding the AI hype being its own form of harm? Yeah, between using AI tools for coding and calling their classifier "AI" in a way that makes it seem like the same kind of thing as ChatGPT et al., they're leaning into the hype rather than helping restrain it. And that means they're causing harm. Big AI companies can point to them and say "look AI enables cute things you like" when AI didn't actually enable it. So I'm feeling meh about this cute game and won't be sharing it aside from this post. If you love the cute fish, you don't really have to feel bad for playing with it, but I'd feel bad for advertising it without a disclaimer.

Denmark ending letter deliveries is a sign of the digital times
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3v37plv2edo.amp

Denmark ending letter deliveries is a sign of the digital times - BBC News
PostNord blames sharply falling demand - will other post firms around the world follow suit?

StyleAdaptedLM: Enhancing Instruction Following Models with Efficient Stylistic Transfer
Pritika Ramu, Apoorv Saxena, Meghanath M Y, Varsha Sankar, Debraj Basu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18294

StyleAdaptedLM: Enhancing Instruction Following Models with Efficient Stylistic Transfer
Adapting LLMs to specific stylistic characteristics, like brand voice or authorial tones, is crucial for enterprise communication but challenging to achieve from corpora which lacks instruction-response formatting without compromising instruction adherence. We introduce StyleAdaptedLM, a framework that efficiently transfers stylistic traits to instruction-following models using Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA). LoRA adapters are first trained on a base model with diverse unstructured stylistic corpor…

Timer wrap around strikes again:
''The root cause was traced to a software timing bug. The software function that switches the signal amplifier on and off relies on an internal timer. This timer is constantly counting up and restarts from zero once every 16 months. If the function happens to be using the timer at the exact moment it restarts, the amplifier remains switched off, and Juice’s signal is too weak to detect from Earth.'

Juice team resolves anomaly on approach to Venus
The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) is on track for its gravity-assist flyby at Venus on 31 August, following the successful resolution of a spacecraft communication anomaly that temporarily severed contact with Earth.The issue, which emerged during a routine ground station pass on 16 July, temporarily disrupted Juice’s ability to transmit information about its health and status (telemetry).Thanks to swift and coordinated action by the teams at ESA’s European Sp…

Online Adaptation for Flying Quadrotors in Tight Formations
Pei-An Hsieh, Kong Yao Chee, M. Ani Hsieh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17488 https://

Online Adaptation for Flying Quadrotors in Tight Formations
The task of flying in tight formations is challenging for teams of quadrotors because the complex aerodynamic wake interactions can destabilize individual team members as well as the team. Furthermore, these aerodynamic effects are highly nonlinear and fast-paced, making them difficult to model and predict. To overcome these challenges, we present L1 KNODE-DW MPC, an adaptive, mixed expert learning based control framework that allows individual quadrotors to accurately track trajectories while …

NATO boss Rutte (fmr Dutch PM) sends app to Trump, who promptly publishes it.
"Wow, your bombing of Iran was great; it makes the world a safer place!"
Straight from The Hague, formerly known as the International City of Peace and Justice. Awkward.

Historic Tokyo Bridge Liberated from Concrete Overpass Will Shine Again Thanks to Grassroots Campaign https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/historic-tokyo-bridge-pulled-out-from-under-highway-overpass-following-gra…

Historic Tokyo Bridge Liberated from Concrete Overpass Will Shine Again Thanks to Grassroots Campaign
The Nihonbashi Bridge was considered the first reference node of the entire Japanese national road network at the time.