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BSI warnt: "Digitale Angriffsflächen im Automobilsektor wachsen rasant"
Digitale Dienste, Over-the-Air-Updates, KI und vernetzte Steuergeräte prägen Fahrzeugarchitekturen, weiß das BSI. Hersteller und Ausrüster müssten vorsorgen.

https://cyberscoop.com/nozomi-networks-mitsubishi-electric-acquisition-ot-ics-cybersecurity/
Mitsubishi Electric to acquire Nozomi Networks in $1 billion deal

Mitsubishi Electric to acquire Nozomi Networks in $1 billion deal
Industrial conglomerate Mitsubishi Electric has agreed to acquire OT and IoT cybersecurity specialist Nozomi Networks in a transaction that values the firm near the $1 billion mark.

SpaceX agrees to acquire EchoStar's AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses for up to $8.5B in cash and up to $8.5B in stock, resolving an FCC inquiry into EchoStar (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-…

Open ASR Leaderboard: Towards Reproducible and Transparent Multilingual and Long-Form Speech Recognition Evaluation
Vaibhav Srivastav, Steven Zheng, Eric Bezzam, Eustache Le Bihan, Nithin Koluguri, Piotr \.Zelasko, Somshubra Majumdar, Adel Moumen, Sanchit Gandhi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06961

Open ASR Leaderboard: Towards Reproducible and Transparent Multilingual and Long-Form Speech Recognition Evaluation
Despite rapid progress, ASR evaluation remains saturated with short-form English, and efficiency is rarely reported. We present the Open ASR Leaderboard, a fully reproducible benchmark and interactive leaderboard comparing 60+ open-source and proprietary systems across 11 datasets, including dedicated multilingual and long-form tracks. We standardize text normalization and report both word error rate (WER) and inverse real-time factor (RTFx), enabling fair accuracy-efficiency comparisons. For E…

The Trump administration has vowed to crack down on what it calls hate speech. It has labeled antifa, a loosely organized anti-fascist group, a terrorist organization.
And it has sought to punish figures such as TV host Jimmy Kimmel for statements perceived critical of conservative activists.
What the First Amendment makes clear is that it does not just protect the rights of speakers who say things with which Americans agree.
Or, as the Supreme Court said in a separate deci…

How the First Amendment protects Americans’ speech − and how it does not
Free speech is not absolute, nor does the Constitution protect only speech Americans like.

from my link log —
My ideal array language.
https://www.ashermancinelli.com/csblog/2025-7-20-Ideal-Array-Language.html
saved 2025-08-05

Why yes, I do like stories about big game hunters being taken out by the animals they're hunting https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/world/africa/big-game-hunter-killed-buffalo-safari-south-africa.html

Big-Game Hunter Is Killed by Buffalo During Safari
Asher Watkins, a real estate executive from Texas, was tracking a Cape buffalo in South Africa when he was attacked, a safari company said.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Beirut:
🎵 The Akara (Xaman edit)
#Beirut
https://xamanmx.bandcamp.com/track/beirut-the-akara-xaman-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/0UR2j2VE6wtIVeBbWfLcmd

SoftBank Group agrees to acquire ABB's robotics business, which generated sales of $2.3B last year, for $5.38B in a deal expected to close in mid-to-late 2026 (John Revill/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/abb-se…

Ripple and the SEC agree to dismiss their court appeals, ending a lawsuit but leaving a judge's injunction on XRP sales to institutions and a $125M fine intact (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/s