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ISP Frontier Communications settles a lawsuit from record labels that demanded broadband users accused of piracy be dropped; SCOTUS may hear Cox's similar case (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

ISP settles with record labels that demanded mass termination of Internet users
One piracy case is over, but the biggest one could be decided by Supreme Court.

In all probability, the USA is beyond redemption now.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/03/trump-tax-bill-passes-congress?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

In a vote of 218-214, Republicans passed Trump’s megabill,
sending it to the president’s desk by his self-imposed Independence Day deadline
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jul/03/trump-big-bill-…

ISP Frontier Communications settles a lawsuit from record labels that demanded broadband users accused of piracy be dropped; SCOTUS may hear Cox's similar case (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

ISP settles with record labels that demanded mass termination of Internet users
One piracy case is over, but the biggest one could be decided by Supreme Court.

A Look Inside Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan Lair (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/us/jeffrey-epstein-mansion-photos.html?unlocked_article_code=1.b08.dOob.ioSkJfE1u_Fc&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250805/p16#a250805p16

‘Legal bullying’: global protest rights on line in Dutch court case https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/04/protest-rights-dutch-court-case-slapps-eu-greenpeace?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

🔗 Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/two-guys-hated-using-comcast-so-they-built-their-own-fiber-isp/

Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP
Brothers-in-law use construction knowledge to compete against Comcast in Michigan.

Learning with pyCub: A New Simulation and Exercise Framework for Humanoid Robotics
Lukas Rustler, Matej Hoffmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01756 https://

Learning with pyCub: A New Simulation and Exercise Framework for Humanoid Robotics
We present pyCub, an open-source physics-based simulation of the humanoid robot iCub, along with exercises to teach students the basics of humanoid robotics. Compared to existing iCub similators (iCub SIM, iCub Gazebo), which require C++ code and YARP as middleware, pyCub works without YARP and with Python code. The complete robot with all articulations has been simulated, with two cameras in the eyes and the unique sensitive skin of the iCub comprising 4000 receptors on its body surface. The e…

For more than a year Trump, 79, has exhibited odd behavior at campaign events, in interviews, in his spontaneous remarks and at press conferences.
The president repeatedly drifts off topic,
including during a cabinet meeting this month when he spent 15 minutes talking about decorating,
and appears to misremember simple facts about his government and his life.

Elon Musk calls Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ tax bill
a ‘disgusting abomination’
The former head of Doge said the ‘outrageous’ tax bill will cause the deficit to grow to $2.5tn
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j