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A look at China's gray market of token resellers, who use accumulated identities and USDT-funded cards to obtain Claude accounts and route them through proxies (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/chinas-token-resellers-cre…

How China’s Token Resellers Create an Anthropic Gray Market
In Beijing’s Haidian District, a bustling hub for local universities and tech companies, six out of the roughly 30 tenants in one run-of-the-mill office building are all in the same business, according to one occupant of the building: selling Chinese customers access to Anthropic’s Claude and ...

#GoodNews #GuteNachrichten
Das Haus der Geschichte in #Bonn übernimmt den Nachlass von Heinz Erhardt
"Solange es Haare gibt, liegen sich Menschen in denselben."

Heinz Erhardt kommt ins Museum | Mehr als Klamauk
Das Bonner Haus der Geschichte übernimmt den Nachlass des Komikers Heinz Erhardt. Warum? Weil er es verdient hat!

Bei Vučić in Serbien - Selenskyj-Besuch als „Schlag ins Gesicht“ Moskaus #News #Nachrichten

Genau mein Humor:
https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/duckduckgo-mocks-ai-smart-glasses-by-selling-normal-fing-sunglasses-3395157/

CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin calls the State Department’s report
“an incredible piece of garbage”
for attempting to link U.S. peace movements to Cuba
and for “paint[ing] this picture of a tiny island nation that is trying to overthrow the United States"
http://www.democrac…

“We Can’t Be Intimidated”: CodePink Slams Rubio-Led Campaign Against Cuba Solidarity Groups
As the Trump administration threatens to intensify its “global campaign to crush radical left terrorism,” we look at a new 100-page report issued by the State Department last week accusing the Cuban government of waging a “sustained campaign of subversion against the United States.” The report claims Cuba has backed a number of groups in the United States, including the National Lawyers Guild, Pastors for Peace, the National Network on Cuba and the feminist antiwar organization CodePink…

Predictive Enhancement Calibration for Latent Breast MRI Virtual Contrast Enhancement
Qin Lei, Hao Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03612 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.03612 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.03612
arXiv:2608.03612v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Virtual contrast enhancement (VCE) synthesizes enhanced breast MR images from pre-contrast acquisitions. Modern latent generators offer strong image priors, but their bounded natural-image autoencoders conflict with the non-canonical intensity scale of MRI. We show that the upper bound can alter radiomic fidelity before generation, while scaling source and target independently creates a coordinate inconsistency. We propose Predictive Enhancement Calibration (PEC), which represents each pair in a shared, case-adaptive coordinate during training and predicts its unavailable upper endpoint from the pre-contrast image at inference. We integrate PEC with a pretrained FLUX latent flow transformer via parameter-efficient reference conditioning. Target round trips first isolate representation loss before generation; near-matched conditional models then compare PEC with fixed-wide and separate coordinates under comparable training budgets and backbone settings. On the fixed internal MAMA100 development cohort, PEC improves all eight point estimates in this source-only VCE setting, with paired evidence strongest for MSE and LPIPS.\noindent\textbf{Code:} https://github.com/tanlei0/pec-breast-mri-vce
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A profile of The Onion, which is set to become an eight-figure business this year, driven by its ~85K paying subscribers, and how it plans to reimagine Infowars (Sam Blum/Inc)
https://www.inc.com/sam-blum/the-onions-audacious-pla…

The Onion's Audacious Plans for Infowars Are Not a Joke 
Owner Jeff Lawson, CEO Ben Collins, and comedian Tim Heidecker tell Inc. how they found themselves owning goblinlove.net and selling gay frog plushies, and what it means for the future of 'The Onion.

If AI is so good at coding, shouldn’t we not only see an increase in quantity (∗︎ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/16/we-found-the-missing-ai-apps-and-nobody-downloads-them/), but also in quality?
Similarly, if we’re close to “fully automa…

@… #Cleantech Warum Windfirmen jetzt so wenig bieten #Windenergie #Energiewende. …

Warum Windfirmen jetzt so wenig bieten
4,79 Cent Zuschlag, 6,1 Cent Kosten – und die Firmen stehen trotzdem Schlange.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@alshafei/117290468286845254
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