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Apple alleges that Tang Tan, OpenAI's chief hardware officer and a former Apple VP, has directed Apple staffers interviewing at OpenAI to share Apple secrets (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/10/apple-openai-lawsuit-trade-secrets.html

Apple sues OpenAI alleging trade secret theft, says scheme was 'at every level'
The two companies entered into a high-profile partnership in 2024 when ChatGPT was integrated into the iPhone's operating system.

Brevyn Spann-Ford, Ryan Flournoy react to signing extensions: 'I'm so grateful' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/brevyn-spann-ford-ryan-flournoy-react-to-signing-extensions-i-m-so-grateful

A Hong Kong court convicts Dow Jones of deterring WSJ reporter Selina Cheng from exercising union rights but acquits it of dismissing her in 2024 for doing so (Danny Vincent/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/10/wall-st…

Wall Street Journal publisher convicted in Hong Kong of deterring reporter from union role
Dow Jones convicted of one count of deterring Selina Cheng from role at Hong Kong Journalist Association but cleared of second charge

75 years ago the Soviet #SpaceDogs Dezik and Tsygan became the first vertebrates to survive a spaceflight, if only a suborbital one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dezik_and_Tsygan (and see https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2024/06/11/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-11-juni-2024/ for the first vertebrate to reach space but didn't make it back alive two years earlier).

Remember the disastrous way Columbus handled its breach two years ago? The city's IT director, who is partially responsible for the mess, is retiring and will be lauded by the city council.
https://www.wosu.org/politics-g…

Columbus' IT director retiring nearly two years after major cyber attack exposed citizens' data
Soon after the city first noticed something was wrong on July 18, 2024, officials shut down systems to thwart the attack. The action shut down the city's systems for months, leaving some systems not fully operational until 2025.

I updated “Don’t Disable Form Controls” with a suggestion on what to do with submit buttons:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/02/dont-disable-form-controls.html#SubmitInstead
And no, making them read-only is not it, so don’t:

Don’t Disable Form Controls
Just another usability and accessibility pro telling authors not to do the thing they continue to do. It’s Ok to Disable Buttons There are plenty of cases where you want to disable a button until a user takes a conscious action to enable it, such as when launching nuclear missiles.…

Analysis: since August 2024, the Daily Mail, BBC News, Fox News, and CNN have each gained more than 11M core TikTok followers; Fox News grew from 91K to 11.5M (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/social_media/the-news-…

The news publishers on Tiktok with biggest growth since 2024
Press Gazette analysis shows the biggest and fastest-growing of the major news publishers on Tiktok, with data from August 2026.

Even in 2014, the Guardian knew:
The Republican party of the United States remains the party of denying women fundamental human rights.
The US press as a whole remains the instrument of softening up or ignoring this reality.
“Trump has long been criticized for his public treatment of women,” ran a CNN headline.
“The ones in his life argue he’s different in private.”
What follows is a puff piece in which prominent Republican women say nice things about him,

The Republican party remains the party of denying women human rights
The GOP ticket of JD Vance and Donald Trump, from ‘menstrual surveillance’ to sexual assault, has made itself clear

“You know the rest. You used to be able to go to greet people at the gate at an airport. They lied about Iraq and killed countless hundreds of thousands of innocents. Technological surveillance became the default expectation for everything we do, public or private. They made the cops into an army, all across the country.”
https://www.anildash.com/2024/09/11/23-what-was-911/

from my link log —
Smoothed asymptotics: from number theory to quantum field theory.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10981
saved 2024-02-18 https://dotat.at…

Smoothed asymptotics: from number theory to QFT
Inspired by the method of smoothed asymptotics developed by Terence Tao, we introduce a new ultra-violet regularisation scheme for loop integrals in quantum field theory which we call $η$ regularisation. This allows us to reveal a surprising connection between the elimination of divergences in divergent series of powers and the preservation of gauge invariance in the regularisation of loop integrals in quantum field theory. In particular, we note that a method for regularising the series of na…

"Out of Bib – Lernen auf dem Campus: Eine vergleichende Analyse zu Ergebnissen aus einer Studie der Nicht-Benutzung in Kooperation mit ausgewählten deutschen Hochschulbibliotheken" von Miriam Wildermuth in den Berliner Handreichungen zur Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft des @…:

"in its annual block grant to the Scottish government, the UK government deducts what it would have collected in income tax revenue had its rates been applied north of the border."
"Scottish income tax receipts, for 2024-25, were £209m lower than [...] forecast."
"combined with higher than expected income tax revenue in England and Northern Ireland, [...] the Treasury will deduct from the Scottish Budget [...] a record £720m."
UK Treasury not r…

More than £700m to be cut from Scottish Budget next year
The Scottish Fiscal Commission said the reduction would correct the difference between forecast and actual income tax revenues.

There is a reason why I bought two washlets after my 2024 trip to Japan.
(Source: #Japan #Bidet #Washlet #💩

Suomalaiset kuluttavat yhä paljon eläinperäisiä tuotteita #ruoka

Suomalaiset kuluttavat yhä paljon eläinperäisiä tuotteita | Animalia-media
Suomalaisten lihankulutus on pysynyt lähes samalla tasolla kuin vuonna 2024. Kulutus väheni edellisvuodesta vain noin 0,2 kiloa.

President Trump asks SCOTUS to overturn an $83.3M award a jury told him to pay E. Jean Carroll in 2024 for defaming her after she accused him of sexual assault (Abbie VanSickle/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/2…

Trump Asks Supreme Court to Overturn $83.3 Million Award in Carroll Defamation Case
President Trump paid E. Jean Carroll more than $5 million from a 2023 lawsuit, but he is now asking the court to overturn a much larger award that a jury ordered him to pay in 2024 for defaming her.

Former 6th Round Pick Named ‘Biggest Surprise’ for Cowboys https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/wide-receiver-ryan-flournoy-biggest-surprise/

from my link log —
A history of Psion and Symbian.
https://www.abortretry.fail/p/of-psion-and-symbian
saved 2024-06-23 https://

Of Psion and Symbian
Mobile before iOS and Android

Between 2020 and 2024, no cervical cancer deaths were recorded in women aged 20 to 24
- the first time that had happened over a five-year period.
Without vaccination, around 23 deaths would have been expected.
"It's incredible to think that a single jab can almost eliminate a particular type of cancer,"
said Prof Peter Sasieni, the lead researcher at Queen Mary University of London.

Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine
A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.

In honor of the current over-the-top #HeatWave in Western Europe here is #DavidGilmour performing the 1970 #PinkFloyd piece "Fat Old #Sun" in #Rome in 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvP1sQGKREM. Other recordings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs5x6WBylnw (2024, same tour), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJTplhld7Ro (2016), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeGn6hvhuso and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSqlI-HYuCA (both 2006).

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Beth Gibbons:
🎵 Floating On A Moment (6 Music Session, 27 May 2024)
#BethGibbons
https://m0rl0ck.bandcamp.com/track/floating-on-a-moment-m0rl0ck
https://open.spotify.com/track/0WH39BFVGotzXe3torfzvK