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Palantir removed three journalists from a security conference after they asked about its work with ICE and threatened to call police on a Wired reporter (Caroline Haskins/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-defense-conference-journalists/

Palantir Is Going on Defense
Palantir threatened to call police on a WIRED reporter and kicked out other journalists from a recent conference following reports of the data analytics firm’s work with the Trump administration.

Safe. Everywhere. Always. | A Canberra Community Survey
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdSrRIhL9NhacbREQUPvZ-KN7VN15VelwkoXwIHFCDLq4qgHg/viewform

Safe. Everywhere. Always. | A Canberra Community Survey
Women should be safe no matter where they are, what they’re doing or what they’re wearing. In response to recent horrific events of men’s violence against women in our community, Senator for the ACT and Minister for Women Katy Gallagher is inviting all Canberra women and girls to share their experiences and ideas for change in the survey below. A summary of key findings from the survey will be made public following its conclusion, alongside a list of commitments and proposed next steps. A…

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.

TRANSCRIPT: Leader Schumer Holds Press Conference Following Passage Of Reconciliation Bill (The Senate Democratic Caucus)
https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/transcript-leader-schumer-holds-press-conference-following-passage-of-reconciliation-bill
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p128#a250702p128

VChatter: Exploring Generative Conversational Agents for Simulating Exposure Therapy to Reduce Social Anxiety
Han Zhang, KaWing Tsang, Zhenhui Peng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03520

VChatter: Exploring Generative Conversational Agents for Simulating Exposure Therapy to Reduce Social Anxiety
Many people struggle with social anxiety, feeling fear, or even physically uncomfortable in social situations like talking to strangers. Exposure therapy, a clinical method that gradually and repeatedly exposes individuals to the source of their fear and helps them build coping mechanisms, can reduce social anxiety but traditionally requires human therapists' guidance and constructions of situations. In this paper, we developed a multi-agent system VChatter to explore large language models(LLMs…

“Humans generally want to feel chosen and special, and some individuals will believe they are to an extraordinary degree.” —YDS Prof Yii-Jan Lin as quoted in Rolling Stone on A.I. and religious fervor. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/cultu

People Are Finding Spiritual Fulfillment in AI. Religious Scholars Have Thoughts
People keep falling down rabbit holes of prophecy and spiritualism thanks to conversations with AI chatbots. Here's what religious scholars are saying.

A look at the ~$377 TranscribeGlass smart glasses that use AI to subtitle conversations in nearly real time, built for the deaf or hard-of-hearing (Boone Ashworth/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/these-translating-ai-glasses-put-subtitles-on-…

These Transcribing Eyeglasses Put Subtitles on the World
TranscribeGlass can subtitle conversations in nearly real time and will soon be able to translate languages and tell you when the person you’re talking to you is feeling socially awkward.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.11978 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_…

Optimized Kalman Filter based State Estimation and Height Control in Hopping Robots
Rotor-based hopping locomotion significantly improves efficiency and operation time as compared to purely flying systems; where most hopping robots use the liftoff states and an assumed ballistic trajectory to determine the hopping height. However, significant aerial phase force (e.g., thrust and drag) can invalidate this assumption and lead to poor estimation performance. To combat this issue, a group has implemented multiple sensors (active and passive optical, inertial, and contact) and sign…

Zelensky blames Putin-Trump call for massive Russian airstrike on Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/04/zelensky-blames-putintrump-call-for.html

The number of primes not in a numerical semigroup
Yong-Gao Chen, Hui Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03625 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.…

The number of primes not in a numerical semigroup
For two coprime positive integers $a,b$, let $π^* (a, b)$ be the number of primes that cannot be represented as $au+bv$, where $u,v$ are nonnegative integers. In this paper, we prove that $π^* (a, b)\ge 0.014 π(ab-a-b)$ and pose following conjecture: $π^* (a, b)\ge \frac 12 π(ab-a-b)$, where $π(x)$ denotes the number of primes not exceeding $x$. This conjecture is confirmed for $1\le a\le 8$.