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Moment, which offers fixed income portfolio management software to financial institutions, raised a $36M Series B led by Index, taking its total funding to $56M (PYMNTS.com)
https://www.pymnts.com/news/investment-tracker/2025…

Moment Raises $36 Million to Automate Fixed Income Investments
Moment has raised $36 million in new funding for its fixed income automation offering. The company’s Series B round, announced Wednesday (July 9), was led

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EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/10/ebcdic-is-incompatible-with-gdpr/
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EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR
Welcome to acronym city! The Court of Appeal of Brussels has made an interesting ruling. A customer complained that their bank was spelling the customer's name incorrectly. The bank didn't have support for diacritical marks. Things like á, è, ô, ü, ç etc. Those accents are common in many languages. So it was a little surprising that the bank didn't support them. The bank refused to spell their c…

(2020) Economic growth is incompatible with biodiversity conservation #environment

Economic growth is incompatible with biodiversity conservation
The increase in resource consumption and polluting emissions as a result of economic growth is not compatible with biodiversity conservation. However, most international policies on biodiversity and sustainability advocate economic growth. These are the main conclusions of the study "Biodiversity policy beyond economic growth," published this week in the scientific journal Conservation Letters. This contradiction became clear after a review of international scientific and policy work on the sub…

Don't Forget Imagination!
Evgenii E. Vityaev, Andrei Mantsivoda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06062 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06062

Don't Forget Imagination!
Cognitive imagination is a type of imagination that plays a key role in human thinking. It is not a ``picture-in-the-head'' imagination. It is a faculty to mentally visualize coherent and holistic systems of concepts and causal links that serve as semantic contexts for reasoning, decision making and prediction. Our position is that the role of cognitive imagination is still greatly underestimated, and this creates numerous problems and diminishes the current capabilities of AI. For instance, wh…

Imagining The Past
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Kokomo:
🎵 Use Your Imagination
#Kokomo
https://zrecords.bandcamp.com/track/kokomo-use-your-imagination-dave-lee-re-imagined-mix-bundle-only
https://open.spotify.com/track/68Z176bq1Wnr6VoISuxRVd

Hundreds of Newly-Found Structures Reveal True Scope of Hidden Pre-Incan Civilization https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/hundreds-of-newly-found-structures-reveal-the-true-scope-of-this-little-known-pre-i…

Hundreds of Newly-Found Structures Reveal True Scope of Hidden Pre-Incan Civilization
Gran Pajatén is located high in the northeastern Peruvian Andes, and was likely the center of the Chachapoya civilization.

Ask yourself: How many water bottles thrown at cops are worth keeping one innocent American* teen out of inhumane #ICE detention?
For anyone criticizing the #LA protests or suggesting they should stop for any reason, let's be clear about the stakes. Read this article (or my summary):
https://abcnews.go.com/US/massachusetts-teen-detained-ice-family-video-ice/story?id=122511685
This 18-year-old was snatched without a warrant, because he was in his dad's car and allegedly (possibly a lie or mistake) his dad drove recklessly. He's been in the US since he was 5, originally on a student visa that's since expired. He is an innocent American, by any reasonable definition of those two words*. Thankfully, he's since been released on bail, but he may yet be held indefinitely in ICE detention (in inhumane conditions that have been repeatedly documented) and/or separated from his family & friends and shipped off to Brazil where he last lived when he was 5 (ICE does not care whether he speaks Portuguese, has any family there, etc), all potentially without due process (though he seems to be getting that in this case). Even if this doesn't happen to Marcelo due to the media attention & protests, it is certainly happening to other innocent Americans throughout the country who aren't as lucky to have people standing up for them.
Here's Marcelo speaking about detention conditions and those he was detained with:
https://youtube.com/shorts/ZpZMUb9aEys?si=bpK-022CU7Acb5RY
Do you know how many kids like Marcelo were detained in LA yesterday? Probably zero, because of the protests, including their confrontational tactics. The most "violence" I've seen (from the protestors) is throwing a water bottle at a line of heavily-armored riot police. So the protests are working to protect the community. If you're suggesting a change in tactics, consider whether your suggested tactics (like pre-scheduled non-confrontational protests that have been happening for weeks) will protect the Marcelos of LA.
*Whether he's innocent or American should not in fact matter, but sadly it might to some reading this. If that's you, you've still got some growing up to do.

Somebody at Apple had a meeting and came out of it saying, “Yes. Put Freeform in the dock by default. On every Mac.” #imaginethemeeting

Fast Equivariant Imaging: Acceleration for Unsupervised Learning via Augmented Lagrangian and Auxiliary PnP Denoisers
Guixian Xu, Jinglai Li, Junqi Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06764

Fast Equivariant Imaging: Acceleration for Unsupervised Learning via Augmented Lagrangian and Auxiliary PnP Denoisers
We propose Fast Equivariant Imaging (FEI), a novel unsupervised learning framework to efficiently train deep imaging networks without ground-truth data. From the perspective of reformulating the Equivariant Imaging based optimization problem via the method of Lagrange multipliers and utilizing plug-and-play denoisers, this novel unsupervised scheme shows superior efficiency and performance compared to vanilla Equivariant Imaging paradigm. In particular, our PnP-FEI scheme achieves an order-of-m…