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DirecTV strikes a distribution agreement with Paramount Global, and unveils a $20/month MyKids plan with content from Paramount, Disney, WBD, and more (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/06/directv-mykids-plan-paramount-global-channels/…

DirecTV launches kid-focused plan after integrating Paramount-owned channels into genre packs
CBS-owned broadcast stations and cable networks like MTV, Paramount Network, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon are joining DirecTV's streaming genre-based packages.

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Social-Media-Trend: Im Reich der Ostmulle
Sie nennen sich Ostmullen und stellen auf TikTok ihre Tattoos, ihre Dekolletés und ihre Weltanschauung aus. Damit machen junge Frauen rechtsextreme Ideologie zu Pop.

Communication-Efficient Publication of Sparse Vectors under Differential Privacy
Quentin Hillebrand, Vorapong Suppakitpaisarn, Tetsuo Shibuya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20234

Communication-Efficient Publication of Sparse Vectors under Differential Privacy
In this work, we propose a differentially private algorithm for publishing matrices aggregated from sparse vectors. These matrices include social network adjacency matrices, user-item interaction matrices in recommendation systems, and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in DNA data. Traditionally, differential privacy in vector collection relies on randomized response, but this approach incurs high communication costs. Specifically, for a matrix with $N$ users, $n$ columns, and $m$ nonzero …

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«The original paper confidently and without discussion labelled millions of tweets based on what Dave (and some others) said about the website in the tweet, but the original authors have almost certainly never heard of Dave. […] Dave's opinions must take on a form totally independent of Dave, because the original authors would never have taken this dataset seriously had it been presented as "Dave's thoughts on media." This is the spectacle of computation.»
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https://theluddite.org/post/spectacle-of-computation.html

Towards an Introspective Dynamic Model of Globally Distributed Computing Infrastructures
Ozgur O. Kilic, David K. Park, Yihui Ren, Tatiana Korchuganova, Sairam Sri Vatsavai, Joseph Boudreau, Tasnuva Chowdhury, Shengyu Feng, Raees Khan, Jaehyung Kim, Scott Klasky, Tadashi Maeno, Paul Nilsson, Verena Ingrid Martinez Outschoorn, Norbert Podhorszki, Fr\'ed\'eric Suter, Wei Yang, Yiming Yang, Shinjae Yoo, Alexei Klimentov, Adolfy Hoisie

Towards an Introspective Dynamic Model of Globally Distributed Computing Infrastructures
Large-scale scientific collaborations like ATLAS, Belle II, CMS, DUNE, and others involve hundreds of research institutes and thousands of researchers spread across the globe. These experiments generate petabytes of data, with volumes soon expected to reach exabytes. Consequently, there is a growing need for computation, including structured data processing from raw data to consumer-ready derived data, extensive Monte Carlo simulation campaigns, and a wide range of end-user analysis. To manage …

Die ePetition 181743 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Sachenrecht mit dem Titel
Reform des § 1093 BGB (Wohnrecht an heutigen Lebensverhältnissen ausrichten)
kann bis zum Montag 04. August 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird eine Änderung des Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuchs dahingehend gefor…

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