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An interview with Jony Ive and Laurene Powell Jobs on tech's next chapter, meeting in 1997, Steve Jobs, Apple, Powell Jobs' io investment in 2019, AI, and more (Matthew Garrahan/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7f0a45b0-a3cc-4e1c-be71-1b7b42958d4…

‘Humanity deserves better’: Jony Ive and Laurene Powell Jobs on tech’s next chapter
After Apple, the Silicon Valley visionaries are looking to artificial intelligence to shape the future again

#Shakira’s “Hips Don’t Lie” is (almost) twenty years old. And it remains an amazing bunker buster of a pop song. https://music.apple.com/us/album/hips-dont-lie-feat…

Found an old review, really loved working with New Noveta back in 2019:
"The two young performers get straight to work making the attendees at the edges of the room feel uncomfortable, grasping each other's bodies, screaming and crying, while brandishing what appears to be a giant folding fan made of 2ft blades. The pair chase each other on foot through the crowd, pushing people in all directions and never looking anything other than distressed, disturbed or downright terrified…

Towards Efficient Random-Order Enumeration for Join Queries
Pengyu Chen, Zizheng Guo, Jianwei Yang, Dongjing Miao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00489 https://…

Towards Efficient Random-Order Enumeration for Join Queries
In many data analysis pipelines, a basic and time-consuming process is to produce join results and feed them into downstream tasks. Numerous enumeration algorithms have been developed for this purpose. To be a statistically meaningful representation of the whole join result, the result tuples are required to be enumerated in uniformly random order. However, existing studies lack an efficient random-order enumeration algorithm with a worst-case runtime guarantee for (cyclic) join queries. In thi…

"data compiled and published by Israel’s own government makes clear that it has been starving Gaza. Between March and June, Israel allowed just 56,000 tonnes of food to enter the territory, Cogat records show, less than a quarter of Gaza’s minimum needs for that period"
#GazaGenocide
#GazaStarvation

The fate of Trump’s megabill could come down to a fight over clean energy tax credits,
as a handful of Senate Republicans stage a last-minute rally to preserve wind and solar incentives from Democrats’ 2022 climate law.
Conservatives thought they secured a major win ahead of floor action on their megabill when Trump convinced Senate Majority Leader John Thune to crack down on tax credits for wind and solar energy from the Inflation Reduction Act.
Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.),…

source: #USpol

WBD Chair Emeritus John Malone says he discussed WBD-Fox merger with Rupert Murdoch in July 2024; sources say a possible deal was raised but not pursued (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3a32fdcb-1248-4721-8269-2867dc5e4d78

Nvidia executives, including Jensen Huang, have sold $1B worth of company stock in the past 12 months, with $500M in share sales occurring in June 2025 alone (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/36f346ad-c649-42ac-a6b6-1a8cc881e0bb

Nvidia executives cash out $1bn worth of shares
Chief executive Jensen Huang leads wave of insider selling as AI demand boosts stock to record high