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I accidentally uninstalled "Microsoft Edge for Android" which also removed my extensions (UBlock Origin ad-blocker, for one) & when I reinstalled... OMG, certain sites are utterly UNUSUABLE.
Thank God for #Microsoft #Edge for

OpenAI's failed Windsurf deal signals broader M&A challenges for OpenAI until it renegotiates its deal with Microsoft (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/openai-windsurf-google/

An OpenAI Acquisition Turns Into a Google 'Hackqusition'...
A rough few weeks may signal some real talent trouble for OpenAI – at the worst possible time

SKA-Low simulations for a cosmic dawn/epoch of reionisation deep field
Anna Bonaldi, Philippa Hartley, Simon Purser, Omkar Bait, Eunseong Lee, Robert Braun, Florent Mertens, Andrea Bracco, Wendy Williams, Cath Trott
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09533

SKA-Low simulations for a cosmic dawn/epoch of reionisation deep field
We present a realistic simulation of an SKA-Low cosmic dawn/epoch of reionisation (CD/EoR) observation, which can be used to further the development of foreground-mitigation approaches. The simulation corresponds to a deep (1000 h) integration pointing over the 106 MHz-196 MHz frequency range. The sky components include the CD/EoR signal, extragalactic foreground emission featuring strong (over 5 Jy at 150 MHz) out-of-field sources and in-field sources down to 1 microJy at 150 MHz, and Galactic…

Missouri AG Andrew Bailey is investigating Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta, claiming the companies' AI chatbots are discriminating against President Trump (Adi Robertson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/704851/misso

A Republican state attorney general is formally investigating why AI chatbots don’t like Donald Trump
Missouri state attorney general Andrew Bailey has demanded information from Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google for why their AI chatbots ranked Trump last on a list of how well presidents handled antisemitism.

Silicon Valley was never woke. It just played woke on TV. https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/114721179380101771

Patterns and Dynamics of Netflix TV Show Popularity
Nahyeon Lee, Jongsoo Lim, Hyeong-Chai Jeong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01620 https://

Patterns and Dynamics of Netflix TV Show Popularity
We investigate the global dynamics of media consumption by analyzing daily top-ranked Netflix TV shows across 71 countries over a span of 822 days. Using an information-theoretic framework, we quantify diversity, similarity, and directional influence in consumption trends through three core measures, Shannon entropy, mutual information, and Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence. Entropy reveals that content diversity varies by region, with North America and Europe exhibiting highly dynamic viewing p…

Probabilistic measures afford fair comparisons of AIWP and NWP model output
Tilmann Gneiting, Tobias Biegert, Kristof Kraus, Eva-Maria Walz, Alexander I. Jordan, Sebastian Lerch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03744

Probabilistic measures afford fair comparisons of AIWP and NWP model output
We introduce a new measure for fair and meaningful comparisons of single-valued output from artificial intelligence based weather prediction (AIWP) and numerical weather prediction (NWP) models, called potential continuous ranked probability score (PC). In a nutshell, we subject the deterministic backbone of physics-based and data-driven models post hoc to the same statistical postprocessing technique, namely, isotonic distributional regression (IDR). Then we find PC as the mean continuous rank…