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Former Pro Bowl WR says he's mulling retirement but would consider playing for Cowboys, two other teams

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/former-

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.

Muovi hajoaa ympäristössä mikromuoveiksi, mistä seuraa ongelmia sekä luonnolle että ihmisille. Muovin aiheuttamat terveyskulut ovat maailmassa melkoiset. https://www.maaseuduntulevaisuus.fi/koti/28eb0d3c-3b7c-4464-bd5f-eed14b3f3531

Tiesitkö? Tässä suomalaisturistien suosimassa meressä on muovia hurjat määrät
Muovi hajoaa ympäristössä mikromuoveiksi, mistä seuraa ongelmia sekä luonnolle että ihmisille. Muovin aiheuttamat terveyskulut ovat maailmassa melkoiset.

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

Substack raised $100M from the Chernin Group, a16z, and others, sources say at a $1.1B valuation, as it builds a social network and focuses on advertising (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/business/substack-fundraising-social-network.htm…

Substack Raises $100 Million, Betting on Subscriptions but Coming Around to Ads
Substack, originally a newsletter service, says its app now has millions of users interacting with its creators.

Automating Steering for Safe Multimodal Large Language Models
Lyucheng Wu, Mengru Wang, Ziwen Xu, Tri Cao, Nay Oo, Bryan Hooi, Shumin Deng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13255

Automating Steering for Safe Multimodal Large Language Models
Recent progress in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has unlocked powerful cross-modal reasoning abilities, but also raised new safety concerns, particularly when faced with adversarial multimodal inputs. To improve the safety of MLLMs during inference, we introduce a modular and adaptive inference-time intervention technology, AutoSteer, without requiring any fine-tuning of the underlying model. AutoSteer incorporates three core components: (1) a novel Safety Awareness Score (SAS) that …

Congratulations to Akhil Thomas for his succesful PhD defense today in Freiburg with a thesis on Data-driven analysis of microstructure-sensitive fatigue damage initiation! 🎉🥂🙌
#pmd #materialsscience #ai

Substack raised $100M from the Chernin Group, a16z, and others, sources say at a $1.1B valuation, as it builds a social network and focuses on advertising (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/business/substack-fundraising-social-network.htm…

Substack Raises $100 Million, Betting on Subscriptions but Coming Around to Ads
Substack, originally a newsletter service, says its app now has millions of users interacting with its creators.

An Indicator analysis of 85 AI "nudify" websites: the sites averaged 18.5M monthly visitors, may generate up to $36M annually, and rely on Big Tech services (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-nudify-websites-are-raking-in-millions-…

AI 'Nudify' Websites Are Raking in Millions of Dollars
Millions of people are accessing harmful AI “nudify” websites. New analysis says the sites are making millions and rely on tech from US companies.