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Russian attacks kill 2, injure 30 across Ukraine over past day, cause blackouts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/russian-attacks-kill-injure-across.html

"Writing is one of the most disruptive technologies ever invented after agriculture. Before writing, people could pass information in the current moment, to those who were close enough to hear noises made by other people. Writing allows people to communicate across space, passing written information to readers without the physical presence of the author. And it allows them to communicate across time, leaving evidence of thoughts long after the thinker had died."

🎯 Smartwatches allow researchers to identify human activity with 78% accuracy
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Smartwatches allow researchers to identify human activity with 78% accuracy
Researchers have long been able to use information from smartwatches to identify physical movement, such as sitting or walking, that wearers are performing in a controlled lab setting.

Xfinity launches StreamStore, an aggregation platform that lets viewers to browse, subscribe to, and manage streaming subscriptions (David Satin/The Streamable)
https://thestreamable.com/xfinity-launching-streamstore-aggregation-platform

Xfinity launches StreamStore to allow subscribers to purchase and manage streaming subscriptions more easily
StreamStore will help viewers shop for new streaming subscriptions, and keep those subscriptions all in one place.

FORTA: Byzantine-Resilient FL Aggregation via DFT-Guided Krum
Usayd Shahul, J. Harshan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14588 https://arxiv…

FORTA: Byzantine-Resilient FL Aggregation via DFT-Guided Krum
Secure federated learning enables collaborative model training across decentralized users while preserving data privacy. A key component is secure aggregation, which keeps individual updates hidden from both the server and users, while also defending against Byzantine users who corrupt the aggregation. To this end, Jinhyun So et al. recently developed a Byzantine-resilient secure aggregation scheme using a secret-sharing strategy over finite-field arithmetic. However, such an approach can suffe…

Leveraging Synthetic Data for Question Answering with Multilingual LLMs in the Agricultural Domain
Rishemjit Kaur, Arshdeep Singh Bhankhar, Surangika Ranathunga, Jashanpreet Singh Salh, Sudhir Rajput, Vidhi, Kashish Mahendra, Bhavika Berwal, Ritesh Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16974…

Leveraging Synthetic Data for Question Answering with Multilingual LLMs in the Agricultural Domain
Enabling farmers to access accurate agriculture-related information in their native languages in a timely manner is crucial for the success of the agriculture field. Although large language models (LLMs) can be used to implement Question Answering (QA) systems, simply using publicly available general-purpose LLMs in agriculture typically offer generic advisories, lacking precision in local and multilingual contexts due to insufficient domain-specific training and scarcity of high-quality, regio…

40 Jahre Amiga – die Wow-Maschine
Mit dem Commodore Amiga 1000 begann 1985 nicht nur das Multimedia-Zeitalter. Die Architektur und ihre Auswirkungen sind bis heute bedeutsam.
https://www.heise.de/news/40-Jahre…

Trump Administration To End Protections for 58 Million Acres of National Forests | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-06-23/trump-administration-end-protections-58-million-acres-national-forests

💸 Agency for college athlete payment deals agrees to loosen third-party restrictions
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/jul/31/agency-for-college-athlete-payment-deals-agrees-to-loosen-third-party-restrictio…