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Trump’s lying has always been notable for its audacity
– his willingness to make obviously untrue claims that can be very quickly debunked.
But it has also been distinguished by its repetitiveness
– his unwillingness to stop deploying an exaggerated statistic, baseless accusation or fictional tale after months or even years of debunkings.

Fact check: 10 debunked lies Donald Trump has repeated in the last week alone
The president’s recent public remarks have featured many old lies. In the interest of not letting them go uncorrected, here is a look at 10 debunked claims he repeated over the past week alone.

Cell-Probe Lower Bounds via Semi-Random CSP Refutation: Simplified and the Odd-Locality Case
Venkatesan Guruswami, Xin Lyu, Weiqiang Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22265 https:…

Cell-Probe Lower Bounds via Semi-Random CSP Refutation: Simplified and the Odd-Locality Case
A recent work (Korten, Pitassi, and Impagliazzo, FOCS 2025) established an insightful connection between static data structure lower bounds, range avoidance of $\text{NC}^0$ circuits, and the refutation of pseudorandom CSP instances, leading to improvements to some longstanding lower bounds in the cell-probe/bit-probe models. Here, we improve these lower bounds in certain cases via a more streamlined reduction to XOR refutation, coupled with handling the odd-arity case. Our result can be viewed…

@… I had no problem with 24.10 as a starting point. Switched to Kubuntu and upgraded to 25.04. Repeatedly (using VirtualBox for most tests).
I recently tested, repeatedly, the ability to recover after aggressively resetting the VM during an offline system update. A simple command successfully repaired things (online).
What's pictured is recomme…

Repeated warnings of AI-driven layoffs is fueling anxiety among workers, who report feeling pressured to accept pay cuts or worse conditions to keep their jobs (Anne Lutz Fernandez/Nobody Wants This)
https://nobody-wants-this.ghost.io/ai-is-already-disemp…

AI is Already Disempowering Workers Through Hype
Workers and students are being prepped for less power in the workplace

1/2: Eeek!
https://blog.google/products/chrome/store-reviews/
Just me, or is this a horrifying prospect? The SEO wars and the Amazon homepage have taught us that businesses will do anything - ANYTHING, ethics be damned, to game their online reputations. This …

Chrome is helping you shop smarter and safer with store reviews.
We’re introducing store reviews to Google Chrome in the U.S. to make your online shopping experience safer and more efficient. This feature uses data from Google Shopping and other popular review websites to provide people with helpful insights when shopping on e-commerce sites.Just click the icon to the left of the web address and you can access an AI-generated summary of reviews. The description will cover topics like customer service, product quality, shipping, pricing and returns, helping…

The DevSafeOps Dilemma: A Systematic Literature Review on Rapidity in Safe Autonomous Driving Development and Operation
Ali Nouri, Beatriz Cabrero-Daniel, Fredrik T\"orner, Christian Berger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21693

The DevSafeOps Dilemma: A Systematic Literature Review on Rapidity in Safe Autonomous Driving Development and Operation
Developing autonomous driving (AD) systems is challenging due to the complexity of the systems and the need to assure their safe and reliable operation. The widely adopted approach of DevOps seems promising to support the continuous technological progress in AI and the demand for fast reaction to incidents, which necessitate continuous development, deployment, and monitoring. We present a systematic literature review meant to identify, analyse, and synthesise a broad range of existing literatur…

I repeatedly point out that activists didn't create the contentious slogan "#BanCars"; the media did, multiple decades ago. We just took it because it's such an awesome phrase!
Any time there's even the slightest inconvenience to drivers, the media has blaring headlines about how cars are being banned. Cars temporarily restricted from a street for an outdoor event…

Call center agents in Australia, Canada, Greece, and the US say they've been repeatedly mistaken for AI, as the industry rapidly integrates AI alongside humans (Morgan Meaker/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sen. Thom Tillis says he won’t seek re-election
after opposing Trump megabill
“It’s not a hard choice, and I will not be seeking re-election” -- Sen. Thom Tillis announced.
His announcement comes after he voted against advancing Trump’s megabill.
Trump has repeatedly criticized Tillis over his opposition to the sweeping tax package — and has threatened to explore primary challengers to the two-term Senator

Sen. Thom Tillis says he won't seek re-election after opposing Trump megabill
Sen. Thom Tillis' announcement is likely to spur a competitive and costly election in the key battleground.

Chrome will debut AI-generated store reviews to US shoppers, where clicking an icon just to the left of the URL will show a popup with store reputation info (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/28/google-chrome-adds-ai-…

Google Chrome adds AI-powered store summaries to help US shoppers | TechCrunch
The feature will display a pop-up that informs consumers about the store's reputation for things like product quality, shopping, pricing, customer service, and returns.