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"Reflections on Attending the BIALL Conference: Exploring AI and Legal Librarianship" https://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/asl/2025/07/18/reflections-on-attending-the-biall-conference-exploring-ai-and-legal-l…

heise | Home Assistant: Wetterabhängige Automationen für den Sommer einrichten
Hohe Temperaturen und UV-Werte belasten unseren Körper. Das Smart Home macht heiße Sommertage über clevere Automationen verträglicher.

Building Automotive Security on Internet Standards: An Integration of DNSSEC, DANE, and DANCE to Authenticate and Authorize In-Car Services
Timo Salomon, Mehmet Mueller, Philipp Meyer, Thomas C. Schmidt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13261

Building Automotive Security on Internet Standards: An Integration of DNSSEC, DANE, and DANCE to Authenticate and Authorize In-Car Services
The automotive industry is undergoing a software-as-a-service transformation that enables software-defined functions and post-sale updates via cloud and vehicle-to-everything communication. Connectivity in cars introduces significant security challenges, as remote attacks on vehicles have become increasingly prevalent. Current automotive designs call for security solutions that address the entire lifetime of a vehicle. In this paper, we propose to authenticate and authorize in-vehicle services …

National security elites accept Trump is creating a new world order (Eric Bazail-Eimil/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/19/aspen-forum-attendees-admit-theres-no-return-to-a-pre-trump-world-order-00464338
http://www.memeorandum.com/250719/p37#a250719p37

i am determined to read the attention/transformer paper
i even printed it out

Compact Attention: Exploiting Structured Spatio-Temporal Sparsity for Fast Video Generation
Qirui Li, Guangcong Zheng, Qi Zhao, Jie Li, Bin Dong, Yiwu Yao, Xi Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12969

Compact Attention: Exploiting Structured Spatio-Temporal Sparsity for Fast Video Generation
The computational demands of self-attention mechanisms pose a critical challenge for transformer-based video generation, particularly in synthesizing ultra-long sequences. Current approaches, such as factorized attention and fixed sparse patterns, fail to fully exploit the inherent spatio-temporal redundancies in video data. Through systematic analysis of video diffusion transformers (DiT), we uncover a key insight: Attention matrices exhibit structured, yet heterogeneous sparsity patterns, whe…

The CTO of Palantir, the company being tasked with making a master database of intelligence files on all US citizens, is joining the army-ish.
So are other tech execs. This feels…really bad.
https://gizmodo.com/silicon-valley-exe

Silicon Valley Execs Join the Army as Officers (But Won't Have to Attend Boot Camp)
The tech industry is fully on board, but the rank and file won't have to do time as grunts.

Hadrian, which is building largely automated factories to produce space and defense parts, raised a $260M Series C, bringing its total funding to ~$500M (Aria Alamalhodaei/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/17/hadria…

Hadrian raises $260M to build out automated factories for space and defense parts | TechCrunch
Hadrian wants to revolutionize American manufacturing through automation.

Scandales sexuels dans l'Église catholique: Léon XIV promet la justice, mais traîne déjŠ des casseroles
https://www.slate.fr/societe/nouveau-pape-leon-xiv-attentes-abus-sexuels-espoir-plainte-craint…

"Were the No Kings protests the largest single-day demonstration in American history?"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/19/no-kings-how-many-protesters-attended?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other