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"Come to mind the names of violent battles: DR-DOS, Taligent, AmigaOS, Newton OS, Windows for Pen Computing, Copland, Vino, NeXTSTEP, Novell NetWare, JavaOS, BeOS, DoJ vs Microsoft, Rhapsody, POSIX, Linux is communism, Linux is a cancer, Samizdat, Windows Vista, SCO, Symbian, Solaris, OpenSolaris, systemd, Windows Phone, MeeGo, Tizen, Firefox OS, Sailfish OS. Countless mythical man-month hours were lost. Millions of lines of code were fired."

Aftermath Of The Kernel Wars
During the 1980s and 90s, computer companies waged an open war for supremacy. We are witnesses of an age that could be described as post-apocalyptic. The dust has settled for the past 20 years, with a small ignition of hostilities around 2010, between members of the mobile duopoly and some late challengers. But to a large degree, we can say that the Kernel Wars are over, and we are privileged observers of their aftermath. But everyone was surprised to discover the winner emerging from the ashes…

"O sea que extirparon, le extirparon nueve ceros a este pesito de aca delante. Y como este Austral equivale a mil millones de pesos moneda nacional, y como en aquel entonces se compraba con 83 $mn un dolar, este Austral equivale a DOCE MILLONES DE DOLARES… (risas, mezcladas con silencio, lagrimas e ironia), lo cual parece un chiste, si no fuera una joda grande como una casa…"

Tato Bores en Busca De La Vereda Del Sol
Monologo N° 2000 - Domingo 9 de setiembre de 1990 - 21 horas 30 minutos.

The Republican budget measure that Donald Trump signed into law late last week contains a provision that analysts say will
🔥allow private jet owners to write off the full cost of their aircraft in the first year of purchase,
❌a boon to the ultra-rich that comes as millions of people are set to lose healthcare under the same legislation.
FlyUSA, a private aviation provider, gushed in a blog post that with final passage of the unpopular budget reconciliation package,
…

The Return of 100% Bonus Depreciation: How 2025 Made Private Aircraft Ownership More Valuable Than Ever
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R.1) was permanently reinstated 100% bonus depreciation for capital equipment, including business & aviation aircraft.

High-Sensitivity Fiber Interferometer for Gravitational Phase Shift Measurement on Entangled States
Eleonora Polini, Piotr Chru\'sciel, Georgi Dvali, Christopher Hilweg, Beg\"um Kabag\"oz, Dorotea Macri, Thomas Mieling, Thomas Morling, Eric Oelker, Elisabeth Steininger, Xinghui Yin, Haocun Yu, Sebastian Zell, Tongxuan Zhang, Nergis Mavalvala, Philip Walther

High-Sensitivity Fiber Interferometer for Gravitational Phase Shift Measurement on Entangled States
In this contribution, we describe the status of our experiment aimed at measuring the gravitationally induced phase shift on path-entangled photons. We use a kilometer-scale fiber interferometer whose arms are vertically displaced in the Earth gravitational potential, allowing photons propagating at different heights to accumulate different phases. To date, this is the first experiment to measure this effect on massless particles, thereby experimentally combining general relativity and quantum …

Sources: Ruoming Pang, head of the foundation models team at Apple, is leaving to join Meta, which offered a package worth tens of millions of dollars per year (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta Hires Apple Top AI Models Executive
Apple Inc.’s top executive in charge of artificial intelligence models is leaving for Meta Platforms Inc., another setback in the iPhone maker’s struggling AI efforts.

Serendipitous Recommendation with Multimodal LLM
Haoting Wang, Jianling Wang, Hao Li, Fangjun Yi, Mengyu Fu, Youwei Zhang, Yifan Liu, Liang Liu, Minmin Chen, Ed H. Chi, Lichan Hong, Haokai Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08283

Serendipitous Recommendation with Multimodal LLM
Conventional recommendation systems succeed in identifying relevant content but often fail to provide users with surprising or novel items. Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) possess the world knowledge and multimodal understanding needed for serendipity, but their integration into billion-item-scale platforms presents significant challenges. In this paper, we propose a novel hierarchical framework where fine-tuned MLLMs provide high-level guidance to conventional recommendation models, s…

"June likely to be among Europe's hottest on record as heatwave brings new temperature highs"
#Europe #Climate #ClimateChange

June heatwave pushes Europe into record-breaking territory
Last month is likely to be one of Europe’s hottest Junes on record as extreme heat driven by climate change affects millions across the continent

Millions of low-income Americans could experience
🆘 staggering financial losses
under the domestic policy package that Republicans advanced through the Senate on Tuesday,
💥which reserves its greatest benefits for the rich while threatening to strip health insurance, food stamps and other aid from the poor.
For many of these families, the loss of critical federal support is likely to negate any improvements they might have seen as a result of slightly lower taxes, expe…

Poorest Americans Would Be Hurt By Trump’s Big Bill
Small improvements in taxes are overshadowed by cuts to health insurance and other federal aid, resulting in a package favoring the wealthy.

Filing: OpenAI seeks to block a May 13 court order requiring it to preserve all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats, arguing it poses a risk to users' privacy (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
OpenAI defends privacy of hundreds of millions of ChatGPT users.

On the Comprehensibility of Multi-structured Financial Documents using LLMs and Pre-processing Tools
Shivani Upadhyay, Messiah Ataey, Shariyar Murtuza, Yifan Nie, Jimmy Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05182

On the Comprehensibility of Multi-structured Financial Documents using LLMs and Pre-processing Tools
The proliferation of complex structured data in hybrid sources, such as PDF documents and web pages, presents unique challenges for current Large Language Models (LLMs) and Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in providing accurate answers. Despite the recent advancements of MLLMs, they still often falter when interpreting intricately structured information, such as nested tables and multi-dimensional plots, leading to hallucinations and erroneous outputs. This paper explores the capabilit…