A sweeping 2023 Texas immigration law that lets state authorities arrest and deport people suspected of having illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border
can go into effect after a federal appeals court on Friday lifted a lower court’s stoppage of certain provisions.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an unpublished order after Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office appealed the lower court’s May 14 injunction,
which had blocked most of the law a day before it was set …
There are always good reasons to head over to the Ojai Music Festival (OMF) come early June, for avowed fans of contemporary and modern music
— modern as in, say, from Stravinsky’s 1913 Rite of Spring forward.
More general-purpose, musically curious types are also welcome, especially on more populist programs such as the Rhiannon Giddens–directed 2023 fest.
But this year’s model, running from June 11 to 14, exerts an extra double-barreled magnetism.
This year marks th…
California Attorney General Rob Bonta today filed a lawsuit against Chrome Holding Co.,
-- formerly known as 23andMe
-- for failing to protect its customers’ sensitive personal information and genetic data related to their health, genetic predispositions and risk factors, biological relatives, ancestry, and ethnicity.
In 2023, 23andMe experienced a data breach that affected nearly 7 million users across the United States,
including 855,541 Californians.
While 23…
I made a veggie Döner Box yesterday. It was nice.
Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.05.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1347447 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
Connie Chan Rocks. Thank you Nancy Pelosi-- good pick to endorse for your seat.
Connie Chan represents the Internet Archive district in San Francisco, and got unanimous support for: Digital Library Rights, and Internet Archive Day resolution in 2025, and got the Internet Archive Hero award in 2023!
Ich würde gerne wissen, wofür die Anhänger der CxU votiert haben.
Statue of Geoffrey Chaucer as a Canterbury Tale Pilgrim, High Street, Canterbury, April 2023
#photography #documentaryphotography #documentingplace
@… @…
I moved out of Google Workspace a few years ago, to Proton Mail. It was relatively painless. I'm considering a move to Tuta in the future.
Google Search was trivial …
Arkham: Iran's largest crypto exchange, Nobitex, processed $2.3B since 2023 via Tron and BNB Chain, including $23M since the Iran war started in February (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/how
Awesome feature of @… and Android: you can define multiple languages as preferred in Android and apps use it.
#TuskyApp uses it for your language selector.
That makes switching the language for your posts easy.
Ahhhw today three years ago in #scotland : a view over #LochLomond
I even blogged about it back then: https://www.…
spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 291 nodes and 5535 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish
Oh yes we took back control, so we could be poisoned.
"Use of glyphosate as a pre-harvest drying agent was banned in the EU in 2023, and campaigners are now calling on the UK government to do the same. The chemical is still licensed for other uses on the continent."
Not that the EU is to be relied on to rein in capital.
Campaigners call for ban on use of glyphosate at harvest time - BBC News
Analysis: 25% of the 13,000 US federal lobbyists are involved in AI issues, up from 11% in 2023; OpenAI plans to host the opening of its DC office on Wednesday (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/technology/ai-lobbying-w…
@… @… Po każdej takiej "akcji społeczności" przypomina mi się serial "The curse" (2023).
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GillesPeterson
Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble:
🎵 We Travel The Space Ways (Live at Maida Vale, 2023)
#KahilElZabarsEthnicHeritageEnsemble
OpenAI president Greg Brockman's journal has emerged as a star witness in the Musk v. Altman trial; Brockman says he stopped writing about OpenAI in it in 2023 (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/musk-openai-trial
DiffVQE: Hybrid Diffusion Voice Quality Enhancement Under Acoustic Echo and Noise
Haljan Lugo Girao, Ernst Seidel, Pejman Mowlaee, Ziyue Zhao, Tim Fingscheidt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08189 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.08189 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.08189
arXiv:2605.08189v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Acoustic echo and background noise pose challenges on speech enhancement in hands-free systems and speakerphones. Discriminatively trained end-to-end methods represent a powerful solution for joint acoustic echo control (AEC) and denoising. However, with the advent of generative methods, diffusion-based approaches have seen remarkable performance in speech enhancement tasks. In this work, to the best of our knowledge, we provide the first (still non-causal) diffusion-based AEC model (DiffVQE) that is reproducible in terms of topology, training data, and training framework. So far, without employing diffusion, Microsoft's discriminative DeepVQE model has been shown to excel any of the ICASSP 2023 AEC Challenge entries achieving remarkable performance. Using data from the Interspeech 2025 URGENT Challenge for a diverse, high-quality training dataset, our DiffVQE excels DeepVQE both in echo and noise control performance, as well as in computational complexity and model size.
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Challenger, Gray & Christmas: out of ~398K US jobs cuts in 2026 through May, employers cited AI as the reason for ~88K of them, up from ~54K in all of 2025 (Hyunsoo Rim/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/ai-was-the-top-re…
This week, the Roberts Court made clear that when it comes to drawing congressional districts,
Black voters have no rights that anyone is bound to respect.
For years, Alabama, where a quarter of the population is Black, had defied federal court orders,
including one reaffirmed by the Supreme Court itself in 2023,
to create a second majority- or plurality-Black congressional district.
Alabama’s reasoning for not doing so was simple:
Its Republican legislato…
A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved a $46.75 million settlement for victims of a 2023 data breach
at the genetic testing company 23andMe,
which exposed genetic and other personal information of an estimated 6.9 million customers.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Brian Walsh in St. Louis said the settlement was fair and equitable, and in the best interest of a trust overseen by the company's bankruptcy administrator.
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