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Still one of my favorite films . . . RIP
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/movies/enzo-staiola-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Enzo Staiola, Who Starred in ‘Bicycle Thieves’ as a Child, Dies at 85
Discovered on the street in Rome, he had a brush with stardom when he was cast in what many consider one of the greatest films of all time.

Warner Bros. Discovery: Aufspaltung angekündigt
In einer umfassenden Umstrukturierung trennt der US-Konzern seine Filmstudios samt Streaming vom klassischen Kabelsender-Geschäft.
https://www.

Hearing Hands: Generating Sounds from Physical Interactions in 3D Scenes
Yiming Dou, Wonseok Oh, Yuqing Luo, Antonio Loquercio, Andrew Owens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09989

Hearing Hands: Generating Sounds from Physical Interactions in 3D Scenes
We study the problem of making 3D scene reconstructions interactive by asking the following question: can we predict the sounds of human hands physically interacting with a scene? First, we record a video of a human manipulating objects within a 3D scene using their hands. We then use these action-sound pairs to train a rectified flow model to map 3D hand trajectories to their corresponding audio. At test time, a user can query the model for other actions, parameterized as sequences of hand pos…

Urheberrecht: Smartphone-Aufnahmen des Tagesgeschehens sind geschützt
Handy-Videos etwa von Naturkatastrophen haben zwar keinen filmischen Charakter, genießen als Laufbilder laut einem Urteil aber urheberrechtlichen Schutz.

Check out my latest CSO piece, which examines how Trump’s nominees for national cyber director and CISA director will face shared challenges but different prospects in coping with unprecedented reductions in cyber personnel across the federal government.
Many thanks to Michael Daniel of the Cyber Threat Alliance and Mark Montgomery of FDD for their help and insight.
Daniel made a point about Trump's cutbacks on cyber spending, a situation that most cyber folks haven't see…

Top US cyber officials face divergent paths after Senate confirmation
Following their Senate confirmations, Sean Cairncross and Sean Plankey — Trump’s nominees for national cyber director and CISA director — will face shared challenges but different prospects in coping with unprecedented reductions in cyber personnel across the federal government.

Bernie Sanders warned of the US’s slide into authoritarianism
following Donald Trump’s decision to deploy the national guard to Los Angeles over the city’s protests against federal immigration raids.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

They've always had the best name and now they're the best team, too. Congratulations to the YDS soccer team the Paracleats, the newly crowned champions of the Yale grad schools IM soccer league! The Paracleats beat the School of Management 4-1 in Sunday's championship game following their 5-1 thrashing of Medicine in the semifinal.

Series A, Episode 13 - Orac
CALLY: I'm sure.
[Scene: Gan is in a cabin. We see him listen to the following conversation over the intercom.]
BLAKE: [O.S.] Our only hope is if they have a supply on Aristo.
VILA: [O.S.] But if they don't?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/113/60

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On Friday, Trump’s border czar,
Tom Homan, said he plans to send the National Guard to Los Angeles
to combat protests against ICE that began this weekend following immigration raids in the city.
“We are making Los Angeles safer. Mayor Bass should be thanking us. She says they are going to mobilize—guess what?
We are already mobilizing.
We are going to bring the National Guard in tonight,”
Homan told Fox News.
California Governor Gavin Newsom respo…

LA protests live: National Guard to arrive within 24 hours after being deployed by Trump over immigration demos
Demonstrators clash with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in hours-long stand-off

Several significant pieces of the House-approved spending bill are at risk of falling out of the legislation as it moves through the Senate
At least one of Thune’s members is already publicly floating that his party should be willing to directly overrule Senate Parlementarian MacDonough on the reconciliation bill.
In a tweet last month, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) wrote on X that “disagreeing with the Senate parliamentarian may be warranted if the parliamentarian gives bad advice, and …