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Rheinmetall to deliver Skyranger counter-drone systems on Leopard chassis to Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/09/rheinmetall-to-deliver-skyranger-counterdrone.html

Protected areas hit hard as Mekong countries’ forest cover shrank in 2024 https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/protected-areas-hit-hard-as-mekong-countries-forest-cover-shrank-in-2024/

Protected areas hit hard as Mekong countries’ forest cover shrank in 2024
BANGKOK — The Mekong countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam lost a combined area of tree cover of nearly a million hectares in 2024, or an area almost the size of Lebanon. That’s according to Mongabay’s analysis* of satellite data published by the Global Land Analysis and Discovery (GLAD) laboratory at the University of Maryland, […]

House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday he’ll schedule the swearing in of the new Arizona Democratic House member “as soon as she wants.”
Adelita Grijalva won a special election for a House seat on Sept. 24,
but has been unable to actually represent her district in Congress until the speaker officially swears her into office.
Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, has so far refused to accommodate her request to officially take office while the House is not conducting legislativ…

WATCH: Delay swearing in Rep. Grijalva 'has nothing to do' with Epstein petition, Johnson says
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday he’ll schedule the swearing in of the new Arizona Democratic House member "as soon as she wants."

Dolphins' McDaniel breaks up skirmish vs. Bears https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45927444/mike-mcdaniel-breaks-dolphins-bears-skirmish-joint-practice

Or even early 50s!
https://fosstodon.org/@saramg/110533658857413797

Das neue IPhone-Betriebssystem verleitet zu fast so schlimmen Spielereien mit dem Aussehen wie damals die Preferences der Amiga-Workbench. Und jetzt kann ich mich nicht entscheiden.

I Wanted To Tell You
https://sharoncummings.wordpress.com/2025/08/02/i-wanted-to-tell-you/#like-18001

I Wanted To Tell You
This piece reflects the hidden aspect of domestic violence against women. It is a mixed media piece by artist Sharon Cummings. A haunting vision that should keep us all on alert to our family, frie…

Verbraucherschutz: Kalifornien schränkt Schiedsgerichtsklauseln ein
Schiedsgerichtsklauseln versperren immer öfter den Zugang zum Gericht, oft in ganz anderen Zusammenhängen. Davor schützt Kalifornien jetzt Konsumenten.

In a meeting with news agencies, Pope Leo XIV urged journalists to stand firm against manipulation of information, conveyed respect for war reporters, and more (Kristina Millare/Catholic World Report)
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/…

Pope Leo XIV: News agencies have ‘crucial role’ in forming consciences, sharing the truth

Power Mechanism: Private Tabular Representation Release for Model Agnostic Consumption
Praneeth Vepakomma, Kaustubh Ponkshe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05581 https://

Power Mechanism: Private Tabular Representation Release for Model Agnostic Consumption
Traditional collaborative learning approaches are based on sharing of model weights between clients and a server. However, there are advantages to resource efficiency through schemes based on sharing of embeddings (activations) created from the data. Several differentially private methods were developed for sharing of weights while such mechanisms do not exist so far for sharing of embeddings. We propose Ours to learn a privacy encoding network in conjunction with a small utility generation net…