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Delegation with Costly Inspection
Mohammad T. Hajiaghayi, Piotr Krysta, Mohammad Mahdavi, Suho Shin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07162 https://

Delegation with Costly Inspection
We study the problem of delegated choice with inspection cost (DCIC), which is a variant of the delegated choice problem by Kleinberg and Kleinberg (EC'18) as well as an extension of the Pandora's box problem with nonobligatory inspection (PNOI) by Doval (JET'18). In our model, an agent may strategically misreport the proposed element's utility, unlike the standard delegated choice problem which assumes that the agent truthfully reports the utility for the proposed alternative. Thus, the princi…

Justin Sun-linked BiT Global dismisses with prejudice its lawsuit against Coinbase for delisting wBTC; the delisting followed Coinbase launching rival cbBTC (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/06/07…

Coinbase, BiT Global End Legal Fight Over WBTC Delisting
BiT Global agreed to dismiss its lawsuit against Coinbase, with each party covering its own legal expenses.

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Southern Baptist delegates at national meeting overwhelmingly call for banning same-sex marriage (Peter Smith/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/southern-baptists-meeting-sexual-abuse-jennifer-lyell-8ebb5246978918f46d243d6ce2d9f4a5
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p8#a250611p8

USC professor Allison Marsh writes this delightful short article for IEEE Spectrum about Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert's British counterparts in Cambridge and how, in their case, a document (the Lighthill Report) precipitated cuts in British AI research funding in ways similar to how funding was temporarily cut in the U.S. following MIT's publishing of Minsky and Papert's "Perceptrons" in 1969.
"Freddy the Robot Was the Fall Guy for British AI"

Freddy the Robot Was the Fall Guy for British AI

Its creator lost a power struggle that led to an AI winter in the 1970s

Russland will Beziehungen zu USA verbessern
Die Gespräche über eine Verbesserung der angespannten Beziehungen zwischen Russland und den USA werden nach russischen Angaben in Moskau fortgesetzt. "Ich kann bestätigen, dass die nächsten Verhandlungen der Delegationen in sehr naher Zukunft in Moskau stattfinden werden", sagte der neue russische Botschafter in den USA, Alexander Dartschiew, der amtlichen Nachrichtenagentur Tass zu…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Ukraine erhält Leichname von Gefallenen ++
Die Ukraine hat die sterblichen Überreste von mehr als 1.200 getöteten Soldaten erhalten. Russland meldet einen Vorstoß im Westen der ukrainischen Region Donezk.

From AP religion news:
Southern Baptists target porn, sports betting, same-sex marriage and ‘willful childlessness’
https://apnews.com/article/southern-baptists-pornography-sports-betting-gay-marriage-aac48…

Southern Baptists to meet in Dallas for annual evangelical gathering
Southern Baptists meeting this week in Dallas will be asked to approve resolutions calling for a legal ban on pornography and reversing the U.S. Supreme Court’s approval of same-sex marriage. The proposed resolutions call for laws on gender, marriage and family based on what they say is biblical teaching. They also call for legislators to curtail sports betting and to support policies that promote childbearing. Delegates of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant de…

Broadband Low-loss Unidirectional Reflection On-chip with Asymmetric Dielectric Metasurface
Heijun Jeong, Zeki Hayran, Yuan Liu, Yahui Xiao, Hwaseob Lee, Zi Wang, Jonathan Klamkin, Francesco Monticone, Tingyi Gu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06872

Broadband Low-loss Unidirectional Reflection On-chip with Asymmetric Dielectric Metasurface
Metasurface has emerged as a powerful platform for controlling light at subwavelength thickness, enabling new functionalities for imaging, polarization manipulation, and angular momentum conversion within a flat surface. We explored an integrated asymmetric metasurface simultaneously achieving broadband, low loss forward power transmission, and significant back reflection sup-pression in multi-mode waveguides. The tapering along the direction of light propagation leads to low loss and space-eff…

The White House Is Delighted With Events in Los Angeles (The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/trump-national-guard-los-angeles-hegseth/683104/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p6#a250611p6