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lovely overview of social housing's benefits and recent social housing successes in the US! https://theconversation.com/from-seattle-to-atlanta-new-social-housing-programs-seek-to…

From Seattle to Atlanta, new social housing programs seek to make homes permanently affordable for a range of incomes
Americans are realizing that the country’s two-tiered system of market-rate housing and government-operated, low-income housing isn’t doing the trick.

Hugging Face begins taking orders for its $449 Reachy Mini Wireless and $299 Reachy Mini Lite open source robots, which come as kits for developers to build (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/hugging-fa…

Hugging Face opens up orders for its Reachy Mini desktop robots | TechCrunch
Hugging Face is releasing two versions of its desktop robot meant for designing and coding AI applications.

Detecting and Mitigating Reward Hacking in Reinforcement Learning Systems: A Comprehensive Empirical Study
Ibne Farabi Shihab, Sanjeda Akter, Anuj Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05619

Detecting and Mitigating Reward Hacking in Reinforcement Learning Systems: A Comprehensive Empirical Study
Reward hacking in Reinforcement Learning (RL) systems poses a critical threat to the deployment of autonomous agents, where agents exploit flaws in reward functions to achieve high scores without fulfilling intended objectives. Despite growing awareness of this problem, systematic detection and mitigation approaches remain limited. This paper presents a large-scale empirical study of reward hacking across diverse RL environments and algorithms. We analyze 15,247 training episodes across 15 RL e…

The asylum seeker bashers in Dutch parliament - a 2/3 majority - just voted to end priority status of recognised refugees in allocating housing.
The govt organization responsible for shelter is worried about the consequences. Keeping refugees in emergency locations for years will cost billions.

Forty-five billion will build a lot of stuff.
As a point of comparison: In 2023, the United States budgeted $12.8 billion to build new affordable housing.
We’re about to spend nearly four times on detention centers as we spend on housing.
https://newrepublic.com/article/197619…

Are We About to Have Labor Camps in the United States of America?
If you think that’s far-fetched, then you really haven’t been paying attention to what the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have been up to lately.

The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Song Kum Hyok (Song), a malicious cyber actor associated with the sanctioned Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB) hacking group Andariel.
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-rel…

Sanctions Imposed on DPRK IT Workers Generating Revenue for the Kim Regime
WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Song Kum Hyok, (Song), a malicious cyber actor associated with the sanctioned Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB) hacking group Andariel.Song facilitated an information technology (IT) worker scheme in which individuals, often DPRK nationals working from countries such as China and Russia, were recruited and provided with falsified ident…

Delistings rise nearly 50% as home sellers quit the market
https://qz.com/delistings-up-realtor-com-housing-market-report

The hacking group responsible for recent attacks on M&S, Qantas and others has ramped up its efforts to phish companies across sectors.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/security/m-s-hackers-gear-up-new-attacks

M&S hackers gear up for new attacks, and RaaS provider continues cyber showdown
The hacking group responsible for recent attacks on M&S, Qantas and others has ramped up its efforts to phish companies across sectors.

Sharp lower bound for the charged Hawking mass in the electrostatic space
Benedito Leandro, Guilherme Sabo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03353 https://…

Sharp lower bound for the charged Hawking mass in the electrostatic space
We prove sharp lower bounds for the charged Hawking mass of stable surfaces in electrostatic space-times in various contexts. An upper bound for the genus of stable surfaces in the electrostatic system is provided. We also study the positivity for the charged Hawking mass of a minimal surface with index one in the electrostatic space-times. A criterion for a CMC surface in the Reissner-Nordstrom deSitter space to be stable is presented.

This is the first I've heard of this:
“They’re finding backdoors in Barbie dolls,” said Antani, now CEO of Horizon3.ai, a cybersecurity firm, referring to concerns from researchers who successfully hacked the microphone of a digitally connected version of the toy."
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Smartphones have become an intelligence treasure trove
Hackers tied to China's government have tried repeatedly to access the phones of prominent Americans, part of Beijing's sprawling cyberespionage efforts. Smartphones and other mobile devices present significant national security and cybersecurity risks, as foreign government hackers exploit vulnerabilities in mobile networks and apps to spy on people and steal secrets. And people's careless use of mobile devices to share sensitive information is another concern. National security experts say th…