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ICYMI: HHS extended a deadline to make healthcare apps / sites / kiosks accessible, kicking it to 2027 / 2028.
More:
https://www.lflegal.com/2023/07/healthtech-accessibility/
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Digital Accessibility, Healthcare, and US Law and Regulations
Note about Updates This article is about many of the laws and regulations that lie at the intersection of healthcare and digital accessibility in the United States. It was first published in 2023 when there was a Democrat (Joe Biden) in the White House. It has been updated many times since then.

NJ Governor says a software error at DMV led to the improper voter registration of ~6,600 noncitizens between June 2023 and June 2024; 400 of those cast ballots (Tracey Tully/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/nyregion/noncitizen-voting-new…

D.M.V. Error Led to 400 Noncitizens Voting in New Jersey, Governor Says
A software glitch in 2023 at the New Jersey Department of Motor Vehicles led to roughly 6,600 noncitizens being registered to vote, Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced on Tuesday.

Amazon says its business sales unit, Amazon Business, reached $60B in annualized gross sales in Q2, up ~71% from 2023, and serves 11M organizations worldwide (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

Gehaltsverzicht nötig - Doch nicht Hütter? Ex-Salzburger in Pole-Position #News #Nachrichten

The Simmons Memorial, Dane John Gardens, Canterbury | April 2023
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The first half of the summer was the hottest on record here in the central Netherlands (1901-2026)

from my link log —
Oops! We Automated Bullshit.
https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/blog/afb21/oops-we-automated-bullshit
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📢 EZB erhöht erstmals seit 2023 die Leitzinsen
Die Europäische Zentralbank hebt erstmals seit September 2023 die Leitzinsen im Euroraum an. Grund ist die wegen des Iran-Kriegs gestiegene Inflation. Der für Banken und Sparer wichtige Einlagenzins steigt von 2,0 Prozent auf 2,25 Prozent.
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EZB erhöht erstmals seit 2023 die Leitzinsen
Die Europäische Zentralbank hebt erstmals seit September 2023 die Leitzinsen im Euroraum an. Grund ist die wegen des Iran-Kriegs gestiegene Inflation. Der für Banken und Sparer wichtige Einlagenzins steigt von 2,0 Prozent auf 2,25 Prozent.

ChatGPT is a bullshit generator.
To understand AI, we should think harder about bullshit
-- Submitted by Alan Blackwell on Thu, 09/11/2023
https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/blog/afb21/oops-we-automated-bullshit

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

Campaigners call for ban on use of glyphosate at harvest time
Campaigners are calling for a ban on the use of the weedkiller over health concerns.

Prozess in NÖ - Terroralarm auf Wiener Pride: Zwei Schuldsprüche #News #Nachrichten

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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Mercery Lane, Canterbury, April 2023.
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Westgate Towers, Canterbury (Kent) | April 2023
#photography #documentaryphotography #heritagephotography #documentingspace

The Goods Shed, Canterbury West station | April 2023
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