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Johnson gives 'assurance' to top Senate Dem he'll move government funding bills (Mia McCarthy/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/06/congress/johnson-gives-assurance-to-top-senate-dem-hell-move-government-funding-bills-00594750
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p96#a251006p96

FuboTV agrees to pay $3.4M to settle a 2023 class action lawsuit alleging it violated US and California privacy laws over user data; Fubo denies the claims (Luke Bouma/Cord Cutters News)
https://cordcuttersnews.com/fu…

Fubo May Owe You Money After Agreeing to Pay $3.4 Million to Settle Class Action Lawsuit Over Privacy Violations | Cord Cutters News
FuboTV Inc. and FuboTV Media Inc. have agreed to pay $3.4 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging the companies violated federal and California privacy laws, including the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), and California Civil Code § 1799.3. The lawsuit claims Fubo improperly collected, stored, used, […]

"Navigating #openaccess publishing #agreement caps in 2025" https://…

Optimal Simultaneous Byzantine Agreement, Common Knowledge and Limited Information Exchange
Ron van der Meyden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03418 https://arx…

Optimal Simultaneous Byzantine Agreement, Common Knowledge and Limited Information Exchange
In order to develop solutions that perform actions as early as possible, analysis of distributed algorithms using epistemic logic has generally concentrated on ``full information protocols'', which may be inefficient with respect to space and computation time. The paper reconsiders the epistemic analysis of the problem of Simultaneous Byzantine Agreement with respect to weaker, but more practical, exchanges of information. The paper first clarifies some issues concerning both the specification …

Modifying The Scope of Reciprocal Tariffs and Establishing Procedures for Implementing Trade and Security Agreements (President Donald J. Trump/The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/modifying-the-scope-of-reciprocal-tariffs-and-establishing-procedures-for-implementing-trade-and-security-agreements/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250906/p25#a250906p25

Sources: the SEC has been probing AppLovin over allegations that it violated platform partners' agreements to push more targeted ads to consumers; APP drops 14% (Olivia Solon/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Farage: No problem changing GFA to remove ECHR reference
https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0906/1532172-farage-echr/
<< abso-fucking-lutely a problem. The ECHR reference was added to stop the UK reneging on its agreement by creative interpretation. Farage and his ilk a…

Farage: No problem changing GFA to remove ECHR reference
Leader of Reform UK Nigel Farage has said that he does not see a problem with renegotiating the Good Friday Agreement to remove the reference to the European Convention on Human Rights.

foldoc: FOLDOC entries (2002)
A network of hyperlinks among entries in the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC, www.foldoc.org), an online dictionary of acronyms and technical terms for computers. An edge points from i to j if the term j is referred to in the entry for term i. Edge weight denotes number of uses of the same term.
This network has 13356 nodes and 120238 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Weighted

US offers EU 10 percent tariff deal -- with caveats (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/us-eu-tariff-deal-donald-trump-trade-agreement/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250707/p124#a250707p124

Some French news publishers have signed agreements with unions to redistribute revenue from AI licensing deals to journalists; Le Monde redistributes 25% (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/in-france…

Some French publishers are giving AI revenue directly to journalists. Could that ever happen in the U.S.?
Le Monde agreed to give journalists 25% of revenue from licensing deals with OpenAI and Perplexity. Now, other French publishers are following suit.