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The Trump administration is offering grants of tens of millions of dollars to cities across the US
to create more Memphis-style enforcement surges
– on the condition that they abandon progressive ideologies on policing.
The US Department of Justice says it will announce up to four finalist cities
which will split $300m in grant funding
under a federal “Model Cities” policing initiative (MCI) next month,
setting the stage for some of the largest federal pol…

Trump officials offer cities tens of millions for Memphis-style police surges – with conditions
DoJ to give $300m for enforcement surges in four cities, as long as they abandon progressive ideologies on policing

drosophila_flybi: Fruit fly protein interactions (Drosophila melanogaster)
Binary protein-protein interactions (PPIs) for Drosophila melanogaster, containing 8723 PPIs among 2939 proteins. The iteractions were identified using a yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) analysis.
This network has 2939 nodes and 8723 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

#Hambach Wald wird Wildnis

#BUND unterzeichnet gemeinsame Erklärung von Land #NRW und Region.

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Xbox chief strategy officer Matthew Ball said Game Pass lost "millions" of subscribers in the months following a 50% price hike announced in October 2025 (Eddie Makuch/GameSpot)
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/is-xbox-fixable/

Is Xbox Fixable?
At Summer Game Fest today, Xbox’s new chief strategy officer Matthew Ball spoke about some of the company’s big moves recently, including its strategy on exclusives and what’s next for the company in the hardware space with Project Helix. He made these comments at The Game Business Live. “Reliable pipeline” of exclusives On the subject...

“Thomas, that’s a great question! ✨Stars used to be twinkly little lights in the night sky that inspired thousands of generations of humans! But you can’t see them anymore because we launched millions of 🛰️ data center satellites to make AIs like me work! 😇 How else can I help you?”

The latest wildfire emergency has centered on British Columbia, where a fast-moving wildfire near Summerland and Peachland triggered one of the province's largest evacuation events of the year.
Authorities declared a provincial state of emergency on August 8 after more than 20,000 people were forced from their homes as the Bald Range wildfire rapidly expanded amid hot, dry, and windy conditions.
A wildfire map published by the BC Wildfire Service shows active fires burning a…

Map Shows Where Millions of Americans At Risk as Canadian Wildfires Explode
Canadian wildfires trigger mass evacuations and send smoke across the U.S., putting millions at risk from poor air quality.

Source: Applied Compute, which helps companies customize models with their data, is in talks to raise "hundreds of millions" led by Elad Gil at a ~$3B valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/app…

Applied Compute in Talks to Double Valuation to $3 Billion on Open-Source Demand
Applied Compute, a year-old startup that helps companies run and customize open-source models with their own data, is discussing a new funding round that would value it at around $3 billion, more than double its valuation from a round announced four months ago, according to a person with ...

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116726575162112584
And even for the most optimal of use cases, code generation, which gives an LLM every possible advantage (huge amounts of self-similar training data with millions of iterations of the same problems and solutions, strictly deterministic symbol sequences in highly simplified languages), LLMs are starting to approach local maxima; they’re even regressing when context windows get too large (so more capable hardware doesn’t help).
I still strongly believe that they’re useless for 99% of tasks they’re marketed for and for the rest (like coding) there will be locally run solutions that are affordable.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Filings: Grubhub parent Wonder is raising hundreds of millions at a $9B valuation; source: founder Marc Lore indicated he'll contribute $200M to the round (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/marc-lores-wonder-t…

Marc Lore’s Wonder Ties $9 Billion-Valuation Fundraise to Future IPO
Wonder, the owner of GrubHub and Blue Apron, is lining up hundreds of millions of dollars, at a valuation of $9 billion, in what could be its last round before going public. To seal the deal, founder Marc Lore has been offering investors sweeteners—and putting his own money in the pot. The ...