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Source: OpenAI awards bonuses to ~1,000 research and engineering employees, or ~30% of its staff, ranging from several hundred thousand to millions of dollars (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/o

OpenAI Pays Bonuses Ranging Up To Millions of Dollars to 1,000 Researchers, Engineers
OpenAI is paying bonuses to around 1,000 employees on its technical research and engineering teams, or about a third of the company, ranging from the low hundreds of thousands to millions, as the company gears up to release its latest flagship GPT-5 model and faces an ever-rising battle for AI talent, according to a person with knowledge of the bonuses. The size of the bonuses will be

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In melancholy, the spirits are carried away by an agitation, but a weak agitation that lacks power or violence, a sort of impotent upset that follows neither a particular path nor the aperta opercula [open ways], but traverses the cerebral matter constantly creating new pores. Yet the spirits do not wander far on the new paths they create, and their agitation dies down rapidly, as their strength is quickly spent and motion comes to a halt: ‘non longe perveniunt’ [they do not reach far]. A trouble of this nature, common to all delirium, does not have the power to produce on the surface of the body the violent movements or the cries to be observed in mania and frenzy. Melancholy never attains frenzy; it is a madness always at the limits of its own impotence. That paradox is explained by the secret alterations in the spirits. Ordinarily, they travel with the speed and instantaneous transparency of rays of light, but in melancholy they become weighed down with night, becoming ‘obscure, thick and dark’, and the images of things that they bring before consciousness are ‘in a shadow, or covered with darkness’. As a result they move more slowly, and are more like a dark, chemical vapour than pure light. This chemical vapour is acid in nature, rather than sulphurous or alcoholic, for in acid vapours the particles are mobile and incapable of repose, but their activity is weak and without consequence. When they are distilled, all that remains in the still is a kind of insipid phlegm. Acid vapours, therefore, are taken to have the same properties as melancholy, whereas alcoholic vapours, which are always ready to burst into flames, are more related to frenzy, and sulphurous vapours bring on mania, as they are agitated by continuous, violent movement. If the ‘formal reason and causes’ of melancholy were to be sought, it made sense to look for them in the vapours that rose up from the blood to the head, and which had degenerated into ‘an acetous or sharp distillation’. A cursory glance seems to indicate that a melancholy of spirits and a whole chemistry of humours lies behind Willis’ analyses, but in fact his guiding principle mostly reflects the immediate qualities of the melancholic illness: an impotent disorder, and the shadow that comes over the spirit with an acrid acidity that slowly corrodes the heart and the mind. The chemistry of acids is not an explanation of the symptoms, but a qualitative option: a whole phenomenology of melancholic experience.
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Timestamps

UNDERNEWS: Millions of Americans Urged to Avoid Driving in 3 States
https://prorevnews.blogspot.com/2025/07/millions-of-americans-urged-to-avoid.html

Demand that the European Union does not leave millions of dogs and cats unprotected against illegal breeding! #AnimalRights

Demand that the European Union does not leave millions of dogs and cats unprotected against illegal breeding!
While MEPs prepare to vote on a groundbreaking regulation on the welfare of dogs and cats, animal welfare organizations warn: the proposed exemptions could leave millions of animals unprotected.

Quoi!?
Pour 20 millions, moi aussi, je pourrais vous élucider plein de choses! (Le problème est évidemment que je ne suis pas dans les réseaux par lesquels on obtient ces contrats lucratifs.)
https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/2025/articl

You don't want to miss today's extra-packed Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know today, including
--Microsoft enabled Israeli spy agency's mass surveillance of Palestinians' mobile calls,
--Cisco's registered web users disclosed in a likely Salesforce breach-related vishing attack,
--Google confirms customer theft in Salesforce breach-related incident,
--Broadcom chip flaw exposes millions of Dell laptops to attack, …

Microsoft enabled Israeli spy agency's mass surveillance of Palestinians' mobile calls
Cisco's registered web users disclosed in a likely Salesforce breach-related vishing attack, Google confirms customer theft in Salesforce breach-related incident, Broadcom chip flaw exposes millions of Dell laptops to attack, MSFT's Project Ire can ID malware with AI, much more

Melnyk: Diskussion über Truppenentsendung derzeit "Scheindebatte"
Der frühere ukrainische Botschafter in Deutschland, Andrij Melnyk, sieht in den Diskussionen über eine Entsendung deutscher oder europäischer Friedenstruppen in sein Land derzeit nur eine "Scheindebatte". "Solange man nicht weiß, was genau diese Truppen tun werden und mit welchem Mandat, kann doch kein deutscher Politiker ernsthaft be…
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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

Millions of public euros subsidize bullfighting through regional televisions https://www.animanaturalis.org/n/46882?utm_source=Mastodon
Madrid raises its voice against bullfighting and for a cruelty-free culture

Millions of public euros subsidize bullfighting through regional televisions
We reveal the hidden cost of public funding for bullfighting broadcasts on Spain’s regional television channels, which has increased in recent years, especially in those Autonomous Communities governed by the Partido Popular and VOX.