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Defense tech firm Leidos acquires VA-based Kudu Dynamics, which provides AI-enabled cyber defense and offense tools to the US DOD and other customers, for $300M (Courtney Albon/Defense News)
https://www.defensenews.com/industry/2025/05/…

Leidos acquires cyber company Kudu Dynamics
The finalized deal comes as Leidos is implementing a new “NorthStar” strategy that identifies cyber as one of five primary growth areas for the company.

NFL analyst still doubts Cowboys despite aggressive offseason https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/nfl-analyst-still-doubts-dallas-cowboys-despite-aggressive-nfl-offseason

Zelensky signs ratification of Special Tribunal on Russian aggression: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/zelensky-signs-ratification-of-special.html

Enormous early-season wildfireshave erupted across the prairie provinces of Canada this week,
taxing local emergency response and threatening a long stretch of dangerous air quality across eastern North America.
The country’s largest fires
– the Bird River fire and the Border fire
– remain completely uncontained in northern Manitoba.
In Manitoba alone, wildfires have burned about 200,000 hectares already this year – already about three times the recent full-year …

Asymptotically Optimal Secure Aggregation for Wireless Federated Learning with Multiple Servers
Zhenhao Huang, Kai Liang, Yuanming Shi, Songze Li, Youlong Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23680

Asymptotically Optimal Secure Aggregation for Wireless Federated Learning with Multiple Servers
In this paper, we investigate the transmission latency of the secure aggregation problem in a \emph{wireless} federated learning system with multiple curious servers. We propose a privacy-preserving coded aggregation scheme where the servers can not infer any information about the distributed users' local gradients, nor the aggregation value. In our scheme, each user encodes its local gradient into $\sK$ confidential messages intended exclusively for different servers using a multi-secret shari…

Alphagenome: Deepmind KI analysiert Auswirkungen von DNA-Veränderungen
Deepminds neue KI Alphagenome analysiert DNA-Veränderungen, um Auswirkungen auf unsere Gesundheit zu entschlüsseln.
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Grammarly acquires email startup Superhuman as part of a push to build an AI-powered productivity suite; Superhuman was last valued at $825M in 2021 (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/grammarly-acquires-e…

Across the country, Republican lawmakers have been working to undermine or altogether undo the will of the voters -- by making it harder to pass amendments and laws through citizen-led initiatives.
In #Missouri, the 2025 legislative session was dominated by Republican lawmakers trying to reverse two major measures that voters had put on the ballot and approved just months before;
one made

Red State Voters Approved Progressive Measures. GOP Lawmakers Are Trying to Undermine Them.
In the wake of ballot measures that increased abortion access and improved sick leave for workers, a coordinated effort is unfolding across the country to restrict direct democracy — and shift power to partisan legislatures.

Robinhood announces an expanded offering of tokenized US stocks across Europe, crypto staking in US, a Layer 2 blockchain for real-world asset settlement, more (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/30/robinhood-crypto-cannes.html

Robinhood expands its global push, minutes from crypto chief's old cramped apartment in Cannes
Robinhood is offering tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs across Europe, crypto staking in the U.S., perpetual futures for eligible EU traders, and a new blockchain.

Rep Maxwell Frost:
1,500 at our Townhall in Wichita, Kansas this morning.
Working people across the nation are pissed off about this rigged economy, and they’re showing up.
Wichita’s Congressman refuses to host a Townhall, so we pulled up instead.
https://bsky.app/profil…