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Melissa Hortman, top Democrat in Minnesota House, shot and killed in home
Gov. Tim Walz confirmed Saturday morning that Hortman and her husband Mark had both been killed in what he called targeted political violence.
https://www.startribune.com…

Melissa Hortman, top Democrat in Minnesota House, shot and killed
Gov. Tim Walz confirmed Saturday morning that Hortman and her husband Mark had both been killed in what he called targeted political violence.

A look at 10 AI agent startups from YC's first-ever spring Demo Day; the batch included 144 companies, 70 of which focused on agentic AI (Samantha Stokes/Business Insider)
https://africa.businessinsider.com/new

The 10 most exciting AI agent startups at Y Combinator's Demo Day for its first-ever spring cohort
Christmas came early for Y Combinator

Well, this day is off to a shitty start. It appears that some magat militia moron is trying to kill DFL legislators in Minnesota.
https://www.startribune.com/brooklyn-park-police-searching-for-suspect-in-multiple-targ…

1,800-year-old Roman Water Pipe Made from Hollow Tree Trunks Found Under a Street in Belgium https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/1800-year-old-roman-water-pipe-made-from-hollow-tree-trunks-found-under-a-street-in-b…

1,800-year-old Roman Water Pipe Made from Hollow Tree Trunks Found Under a Street in Belgium
The wooden tree-trunk piping is just another method that Roman plumbers must have used to handle hydro-logistics in their settlements.

Wird super.
Mattel and OpenAI Announce Strategic Collaboration
https://corporate.mattel.com/news/mattel-and-openai-announce-strategic-collaboration

"Despite good-faith efforts by DSI [dense street imagery] providers to protect individual privacy through blurring faces and license plates, these measures fail to address broader privacy concerns. In this work, we find that increased data density and advancements in artificial intelligence enable harmful group membership inferences from supposedly anonymized data."
via @…

Privacy of Groups in Dense Street Imagery
Spatially and temporally dense street imagery (DSI) datasets have grown unbounded. In 2024, individual companies possessed around 3 trillion unique images of public streets. DSI data streams are only set to grow as companies like Lyft and Waymo use DSI to train autonomous vehicle algorithms and analyze collisions. Academic researchers leverage DSI to explore novel approaches to urban analysis. Despite good-faith efforts by DSI providers to protect individual privacy through blurring faces and l…

Reminder: public protest is about visibility, not hiding. The power comes from people being willing to be visible, put their time on the line, and if needed, their bodies.
If you're going to start shit, maybe just ... don't. Direct action of the illegal sort requires careful planning and a tactical and strategic plan for why it will win. It happens sometimes, but it's not the mode, it's not the mode of the No Kings protests. This is a popular, public demonstration of outrage. It's legal (for now, and I hope, ever).
Yes, the police may try to kettle protesters and then trap them into curfew violations in places that have curfews. Masks won't save us from that where it happens. Just running the system with competent representation (and enough bodies to make it A Problem for the system) will.
We don't all need to be masked vigilantes at protests, and in a lot of cases, we need to be worried about the people masking up and starting shit. Remember that this is our opponents current tactic: masked, violent attacks. Don't look like them.

Onkologie-Strategie: Nach Übernahme von Biotheus will Biontech Curevac kaufen
Biontech will den Konkurrenten Curevac aus Tübingen kaufen. Der Standort soll weiter eine wichtige Rolle spielen.

AIM Intelligent Machines, which retrofits heavy construction equipment to operate autonomously, raised $50M from Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, and others (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/10/2025/co…

Construction tech startup AIM raises $50M to fuel expansion
The firm that retrofits heavy equipment into autonomous machines, backed by Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst, can help fill the construction industry’s huge labor gap and growing infrastructure demand.

London-based Noah, which is developing API-focused stablecoin infrastructure to enable real-time cross-border payments, raised a $22M seed led by LocalGlobe (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/06/10/noah-thijn-lamers-stable…

Exclusive: Stablecoin startup Noah raises $22 million, adds Adyen vet as cofounder
“I feel like I have the energy of [when I was] 25,” said Thijn Lamers, who is 66 years old.