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DPRK supplies Russia with millions of shells: the alliance of dictators grows stronger: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/17/dprk-supplies-russia-with-millions.html

I feel like this Masto post will be evidence in yet another claim against Air Canada for wrecking someone’s mobility aid.
https://mastodon.social/@mollyanglin/115228115467133057

Molly Anglin (@mollyanglin@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Sitting on the tarmac for an Air Canada flight from Toronto to Ottawa… The ground crew spent 2 hrs trying to fit a wheelchair into the cargo. After a very long time, they took it off the plane - but appeared to have detached the battery and maybe broken it. 😱 There were maybe 7-10 people out there trying to fix it. I feel for the owner of that chair! #accessibility #aircanada

Iran's largest crypto exchange Nobitex says it was hacked, and pro-Israel group Predatory Sparrow claims responsibility; Elliptic: $90M was stolen and "burned" (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/18/hack

Hackers steal and destroy millions from Iran's largest crypto exchange | TechCrunch
It's the latest cyberattack on Iran claimed by a pro-Israeli hacking group since the latest flare up in tensions between the two countries.

Just finished "The Melancholy of Summer" by Louisa Onomé. It's an excellent book about parental abandonment, rejecting and accepting help, and friendship, set in Toronto. There were a few threads that didn't quite get wrapped up by the end, but the ending wasn't dissatisfying, and the writing is excellent, particularly TV gee dialogue and the narration of Summer's thoughts. I felt like the strategic use of stutters both gave the main character extra vulnerability, but also helped subtly clue the reader into moments where Summer's perception of her interlocutors doesn't match their real feelings. Between this and "Like Home", I feel like Onomé's novels are a bit rough around the edges, yet they're still some of the most enjoyable books I've been reading, probably because she's pours so much humanity into her characters and lets their honest desire for something better rub off on the audience.
#AmReading

Somebody ate a bee this morning.
Mr. Boots fed her a Benedryl right away, & she’s looking a lot better than she did a few hrs ago, but she’s still swollen, & I think it still hurts a bit. *sigh*
#DogsOfMastodon #SpicyFly

Bears, star CB Jaylon Johnson mulling options with season-ending surgery possible https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/bears-star-cb-jaylon-johnson-mulling-options-with-seasonending-surgery-possible

Quantencomputer knackt 6-Bit Verschlüsselung
https://stohl.de/wordpress/?p=192046

Quantencomputer knackt 6-Bit Verschlüsselung
Ingenieur Steve Tippeconnic erreichte am 4. September 2025 einen Meilenstein im Bereich des Quantencomputings, indem er erfolgreich einen sechs-Bit großen elliptischen Kurven-Kryptografie-Schlüssel…

@… like millions of date strings suddenly cried out…

Controlling Multimodal LLMs via Reward-guided Decoding
Oscar Ma\~nas, Pierluca D'Oro, Koustuv Sinha, Adriana Romero-Soriano, Michal Drozdzal, Aishwarya Agrawal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11616

Controlling Multimodal LLMs via Reward-guided Decoding
As Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) gain widespread applicability, it is becoming increasingly desirable to adapt them for diverse user needs. In this paper, we study the adaptation of MLLMs through controlled decoding. To achieve this, we introduce the first method for reward-guided decoding of MLLMs and demonstrate its application in improving their visual grounding. Our method involves building reward models for visual grounding and using them to guide the MLLM's decoding process. Co…

A look at China's efforts to grow its "low-altitude economy", or airspace below 1,000 meters, by leveraging its strengths in drone production and R&D (William Langley/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/65e4bb30-b04c-4f0e-8686-effb96398999…

China made millions of drones. Now it has to find uses for them
Authorities bet ‘low-altitude economy’ will be next driver of growth