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Russia damages Chinese consulate in Odesa as Chinese drone parts found in Kyiv following similar attack: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/04/russia-damages-chinese-consulate-in.html

Paper plants can emit as much CO2 as oil refineries.
They’re flying under the radar.
Environmental Protection Agency accounting loopholes and aging equipment
have helped fuel pollution that may be undercounted by 350 percent.
https://grist.org/clima…

Paper plants can emit as much CO2 as oil refineries. They’re flying under the radar.
Environmental Protection Agency accounting loopholes and aging equipment have helped fuel pollution that may be undercounted by 350 percent.

Browns DC Jim Schwartz expects career year from Myles Garrett following record-setting contract https://www.nfl.com/news/browns-dc-jim-schwartz-expects-career-year-from-myles-garrett-following-record-setting-contra…

Since November 2024, Serbia had a sharp rise in attacks on journalists amid political unrest, including 23 physical assaults and 128 total attacks and threats (Attila Mong/Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/06/alarming-escal

Alarming escalation in attacks on journalists amid political crisis in Serbia - Committee to Protect Journalists
Berlin, June 3, 2025—What journalists called a “witch hunt” atmosphere against government critics in Serbia one year ago has since escalated into a rise in attacks and threats against the press, following a deadly railway station collapse in November 2024 that triggered a widespread anti-corruption movement. Initial protests demanding accountability for the tragedy have turned...

NAVER LABS Europe Submission to the Instruction-following Track
Beomseok Lee, Marcely Zanon Boito, Laurent Besacier, Ioan Calapodescu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01808

NAVER LABS Europe Submission to the Instruction-following Track
In this paper we describe NAVER LABS Europe submission to the instruction-following speech processing short track at IWSLT 2025. We participate in the constrained settings, developing systems that can simultaneously perform ASR, ST, and SQA tasks from English speech input into the following target languages: Chinese, Italian, and German. Our solution leverages two pretrained modules: (1) a speech-to-LLM embedding projector trained using representations from the SeamlessM4T-v2-large speech encod…

Dynamic Space Filling
P. L. Krapivsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01128 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.01128

Dynamic Space Filling
Dynamic space filling (DSF) is a stochastic process defined on any connected graph. Each vertex can host an arbitrary number of particles forming a pile, with every arriving particle landing on the top of the pile. Particles in a pile, except for the particle at the bottom, can hop to neighboring vertices. Eligible particles hop independently and stochastically, with the overall hopping rate set to unity for every eligible particle at every vertex. When the number of vertices in a graph is equa…

Court filing: Deel alleges Rippling's "competitive intelligence manager" Brett Alexander Johnson posed as a customer to access Deel's product and business info (George Hammond/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/abd988f6-e524-48d9-8433-27c…

New spying claims emerge in Silicon Valley corporate espionage scandal
HR start-ups Rippling and Deel trade allegations their leaders directed efforts to steal company secrets from one another

LongAnimation: Long Animation Generation with Dynamic Global-Local Memory
Nan Chen, Mengqi Huang, Yihao Meng, Zhendong Mao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01945

LongAnimation: Long Animation Generation with Dynamic Global-Local Memory
Animation colorization is a crucial part of real animation industry production. Long animation colorization has high labor costs. Therefore, automated long animation colorization based on the video generation model has significant research value. Existing studies are limited to short-term colorization. These studies adopt a local paradigm, fusing overlapping features to achieve smooth transitions between local segments. However, the local paradigm neglects global information, failing to maintai…

To be effective a boobytrap needs to be laid in a location frequented by the enemy.
These raccoons are super predictable, you can see a path they've worn into the grass

Mattel combines its film and television production units into a single unit under the direction of Mattel Films president and Barbie producer Robbie Brenner (Jeremy Fuster/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/mattel-combines-film-tv-units-under-robbie-bren…

Mattel Combines Film, TV Units Under Robbie Brenner
The exec and "Barbie" producer will be president and chief content officer of the unified company