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Sources: WBD initiates a round of layoffs in its cable TV divisions, affecting well under 100 employees and largely impacting the Discovery side of the company (Peter White/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/warner-bros-discovery-layoffs-tv-d…

Warner Bros. Discovery Initiates More Layoffs In Cable TV Divisions
Deadline understands that the company is set to layoff a number of people, particularly on the cable television side of its business.

Cybersec information overload got you down? Then don't miss today's Metacurity for a concise run-down of the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--1,000 CISA employees have decamped from the agency since January
--Victoria's Secret postpones earnings release after cyberattack,
--New security fixes for Qualcomm chips,
--AFP nabs nearly two dozen in sextortion sting,
--Marriott can't be sued for breach,
--Trump dumps …

1,000 CISA employees have left the agency since January
Victoria's Secret postpones earnings release after cyberattack, New security fixes for Qualcomm chips, AFP nabs nearly two dozen in sextortion sting, Marriott can't be sued for breach, Trump dumps AI Safety Institute, Indian grocery delivery startup wiped out by hack, so much more

Ciekawostka: #Windows 95 (a w niektórych przypadkach i nowsze wersje) miały niezbyt optymalną obsługę stanu bezczynności — wpadały w pętlę nieprzerwanego sprawdzania, czy mają coś do zrobienia ("busy loop"), niepotrzebnie grzejąc procesor. Oczywiście, można było to obejść, instalując program, którego jedynym zadaniem było wykrywanie tego stanu i przejmowanie obsługi bezczynności przy wykorz…

I honestly don’t get how this is possible in 2025.
There’s no excuse for not having protected backups of everything critical. That was true 30 years ago, it is true today. Back then a bigger piece of the risk was hardware, less malware. Today it is unlikely for a disk failure to take your data because we all learned that RAID was worthwhile. But RAID is not a backup and backups today need to be resistant to intentional malicious deletion.

WAFT: Warping-Alone Field Transforms for Optical Flow
Yihan Wang, Jia Deng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21526 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

WAFT: Warping-Alone Field Transforms for Optical Flow
We introduce Warping-Alone Field Transforms (WAFT), a simple and effective method for optical flow. WAFT is similar to RAFT but replaces cost volume with high-resolution warping, achieving better accuracy with lower memory cost. This design challenges the conventional wisdom that constructing cost volumes is necessary for strong performance. WAFT is a simple and flexible meta-architecture with minimal inductive biases and reliance on custom designs. Compared with existing methods, WAFT ranks 1s…

The Nevada Legislature rejects a proposal to create a $95M annual tax credit for the Sony- and WBD-backed Summerlin Studios project in Las Vegas (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/las-vegas-studio-prosposal-dies-1236417137/

Las Vegas Studio Proposal Dies in Nevada Legislature
A plan to build a $400 million studio in Las Vegas died in the state legislature on Monday night, after lawmakers balked at subsidies.

Der #Windpark Wulkow-Trebnitz mit neun #Vestas V150-Anlagen ist in Betrieb gegangen.
Fünf davon betreibt die #EnBW. Nach Verzögerungen durch

wpd und EnBW nehmen neun Windenergieanlagen vom Typ Vestas V150 in Betrieb nehmen | Windkraft-Journal
EnBW nimmt Windpark Wulkow-Trebnitz in Betrieb Windpark ist wichtiger Bestandteil des Erneuerbaren-Clusters in Märkisch-Oderland Zeichnungsphase für Bürgerbeteiligung beginnt Ende Februar 2025 (WK-intern) - Im Windeignungsgebiet Wulkow-Trebnitz in der Gemeinde Neuhardenberg wurde 2023 der Bau von neun Windenergieanlagen abgeschlossen, für die naturwind Potsdam die Genehmigung vorbereitet und Ende 2020 erhalten hatte. Die Projektierer und Betreiber wpd

NOW— Mass ICE arrests happened/are happening at the Manhattan immigration court at 290 Broadway on the 20th floor.
I was just outside the building and an observer came out crying, confirmed they witnessed people getting detained outside courtrooms while families watched and wept.
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The trade wars have succeeded.
The new N150, 16Gb, 256Gb, 2 Nic's, 2 hdmi, 1 dp, 1 extra nvme slot and even Win11 (will be wiped obviously) has dropped to $110 or EUR 96,60.
The buy button was pressed.

In a filing, the Newhouse family, which owns Condé Nast, says it plans to sell 100M WBD shares worth around $1.1B total; $WBD falls 4% (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/warner-bros-discovery-stock-sale-newhouse-family/

Warner Bros. Discovery Stock Falls as Newhouse Family Sells $1.1 Billion in Shares
The media giant's shares tumbled over 4% during Tuesday's trading session after the Condé Nast owners sold 100 million shares