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In UK parliamentary testimony, a Google executive says the company should not be required to license "freely available" open web content for AI training (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/google-ai-training-pay-opt-…

Google IP boss: We shouldn't pay for AI training on 'freely available' content
Google's global IP boss has said the tech giant does not believe it should have to pay to use "freely available content" for AI training.

Darmstadt wächst – aber bezahlbarer Wohnraum schrumpft. Laut FAZ treiben Zuwanderung und knappe Flächen die Mieten auf Rekordniveau. Kommunen reagieren mit neuen Baugebieten – doch Nachverdichtung ersetzt keine echte Wohnungspolitik. OB Benz: Darmstadt braucht Einfamilienhäuser und soziale Infrastruktur #Mieten #Wohnraum

The US urged UN members to take a tougher stance against North Korea IT worker scams and crypto thefts; an October 2025 report said 40 countries were affected (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
https://therecord.media/40-countries-impacted-nk-it-thefts-united-nations

More than 40 countries impacted by North Korea IT worker scams, crypto thefts
Eleven countries led a session at the UN headquarters in New York centered around a 140-page report released last fall that covered North Korea’s extensive cyber-focused efforts to fund its nuclear and ballistic weapons program.

Another Record Proposal Submission from #JWST Observers: https://www.stsci.edu/contents/news/jwst/2025/another-record-proposal-submission-from-jwst-observers -> "The 2,935 proposals received include 2,639 General Observer proposals for 101,751 hours (vs. 8,000 hours offered at an oversubscription of 13:1), 53 Survey, 14 Pure Parallels, 243 Archival Research, 116 Target of Opportunity, and 105 Joint Programs" -> Researchers Submit Record Number of Ambitious Proposals for Webb's Fifth Year of Science: https://www.stsci.edu/contents/news-releases/2025/news-2025-405

@… My wife has a copy of every Pokémon game for every console ever, and the consoles required to play them.
I do indeed walk in on her playing on the Nintendo64 sometimes.

Old recording, Prince just jamming away on his piano , "Mary don't you weep", https://open.spotify.com/track/3MyoPEPdJbaIKRyuk8zTj2?si=ySxjztMoS3OJT1E8D-v4cQ

Mary Don't You Weep - Piano & A Microphone 1983 Version
Prince · Piano & A Microphone 1983 · Song · 2018

ECMSim: A high-performance web simulation of cardiac ECM remodeling through integrated ODE-based signaling and diffusion
Hasi Hays, William Richardson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12577

ECMSim: A high-performance web simulation of cardiac ECM remodeling through integrated ODE-based signaling and diffusion
Extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling is central to a wide variety of healthy and diseased tissue processes. Unfortunately, predicting ECM remodeling under various chemical and mechanical conditions has proven to be excessively challenging, due in part to its complex regulation by intracellular and extracellular molecular reaction networks that are spatially and temporally dynamic. We introduce ECMSim, which is a highly interactive, real-time, and web application designed to simulate heterogene…

Sources: Amazon plans to cut as much as 15% of its HR staff, and additional layoffs will likely affect other areas of its core consumer business (Jason Del Rey/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/10/14/amazon-layoffs-pxt-hr-andy-jassy/

Amazon is planning a new wave of layoffs, sources say
Amazon's 10,000-plus employee HR division, which includes recruiters, is expected to be among the hardest hit in the job cuts.

#WritersCoffeeClub
9. How does the means of publication change a work? print? digital? audiobook? something else?
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9. I do only digital so my answers are limited. I wouldn't change my preexisting work to fit the publishing format (I am naive enough to believe it fits most formats I need 'as is'). But creating a new work (or recreating it) would get a lot from le…

Army Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd, an Army officer with Indo-Pacific experience but no digital warfare experience, emerges as potential Cyber Command, NSA pick
https://therecord.media/cyber-command-nsa-potential-pick-lt-gen-joshua-rudd

Army officer with Indo-Pacific experience emerges as potential Cyber Command, NSA pick
Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd, the No. 2 at U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, has emerged as a potential pick to lead U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, multiple people familiar with the search told Recorded Future News.