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Sources: News Corp and Daily Mail owner DMGT have held talks about a potential joint takeover of the Telegraph, with RedBird IMI taking a low 25% stake (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-11…

News Corp. Eyes Joint Telegraph Bid With Daily Mail Owner, RedBird IMI
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. and the owner of the Daily Mail have held talks about a potential joint takeover of the Telegraph — one of the UK’s most famous newspapers — alongside the UAE-backed investment fund RedBird IMI, people familiar with the matter said.

Dick Dale – “The Tigers Loose” (1986)
Rhino Records / Balboa Records
This was when I first started digging into surf music. Gotta start with the "King"! 👑 🎸
This album was recorded live at a (long gone) venue right on the beach in Huntington Beach, CA. They had all sorts of cool bands play there in the 80s (Agent Orange, Ramones, Circle Jerks, etc.). I remember seeing TSOL on the marquee one day and wishing I could stay and watch the band, but it was a 21 joint, …

For everybody who wasn't there, here's what you missed at yesterday's Godot Engine Meetup in Berlin: Grown adults toying around at a kid's playground. 😁 (Note: There were a lot more people! It's just that I took my photos at the end of the event.)
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Oh no, the #UW #Seattle encampment might get attacked tomorrow.
This is a crappy piece of "guidance" from UW administration, saying basically "we asked the fash nicely not to beat up kids, but they say they're still coming, and we asked the encampment to leave, and t…

Tribes Meeting With Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Describe Harms Uranium Mining Has Had on Them, and the Threats New Mines Pose - Inside Climate News
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10032024/southwest-uranium-mining-harms-tribes/…

Tribes Meeting With Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Describe Harms Uranium Mining Has Had on Them, and the Threats New Mines Pose - Inside Climate News
As spiking uranium prices drive a surge of proposals for new mines, the Navajo Nation joined the Ute Mountain Ute, Havasupai, Northern Arapaho and Oglala Sioux tribes in a commission hearing with federal officials to push back against mining on and near their lands.

Cowboys DE Dorance Armstrong expected to sign new contract with Commanders https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_de_dorance_armstrong_expected_to_sign_new_contract_with_commanders/s1_17236_400…

Cowboys DE Dorance Armstrong expected to sign new contract with Commanders
The Dallas Cowboys are losing defensive end Dorance Armstrong to former defensive coordinator Dan Quinn and the Washington Commanders, according to NFL report Jeremy Fowler. Armstrong is expected to sign a new deal out of free agency with the Cowboys’ NFC East rival. The defender first joined Dallas on a four-year, $3.12 million rookie deal, then he signed a two-year extension for $12 million. That extended contract ran out at the end of the 2023 season, which concluded in the first round of …

Ignore the dust. This is the unit bearing the front USB3 ports of my PC case, a CoolerMaster N400. When opening this, I thought I would find a circuit board that I can easily trace and solder. Nope. It's just a piece of black plastic held together by dark forces. The lower port is broken. It works if I bend it upwards with considerable force, but it doesn't stay like that. I assume it's a broken solder joint and there's still a PCB inside. I wonder if the plastic would be abl…

What fresh hell is this?
#ai #fediverse

ExACT: An End-to-End Autonomous Excavator System Using Action Chunking With Transformers
Liangliang Chen, Shiyu Jin, Haoyu Wang, Liangjun Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05861

ExACT: An End-to-End Autonomous Excavator System Using Action Chunking With Transformers
Excavators are crucial for diverse tasks such as construction and mining, while autonomous excavator systems enhance safety and efficiency, address labor shortages, and improve human working conditions. Different from the existing modularized approaches, this paper introduces ExACT, an end-to-end autonomous excavator system that processes raw LiDAR, camera data, and joint positions to control excavator valves directly. Utilizing the Action Chunking with Transformers (ACT) architecture, ExACT em…

Oh no, the #UW #Seattle encampment might get attacked tomorrow.
This is a crappy piece of "guidance" from UW administration, saying basically "we asked the fash nicely not to beat up kids, but they say they're still coming, and we asked the encampment to leave, and t…