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AFGE | Major AFGE Victory: Senate Parliamentarian Drops GOP Plans Gutting Civil Service in Reconciliation Bill
https://www.afge.org/article/major-afge-victory-senate-parliamentarian-drops-gop-plans-gutting-civil-service-in-reconciliation-bill/

Understanding the Challenges and Promises of Developing Generative AI Apps: An Empirical Study
Buthayna AlMulla, Maram Assi, Safwat Hassan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16453

Understanding the Challenges and Promises of Developing Generative AI Apps: An Empirical Study
The release of ChatGPT in 2022 triggered a rapid surge in generative artificial intelligence mobile apps (i.e., Gen-AI apps). Despite widespread adoption, little is known about how end users perceive and evaluate these Gen-AI functionalities in practice. In this work, we conduct a user-centered analysis of 676,066 reviews from 173 Gen-AI apps on the Google Play Store. We introduce a four-phase methodology, SARA (Selection, Acquisition, Refinement, and Analysis), that enables the systematic extr…

Tesla quietly launches its robotaxi service in Austin, with ~10 vehicles and a human safety driver; Elon Musk says customers will pay "a $4.20 flat fee" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5aefc191-d3de-4e6b-a2eb-08defd0678ee

Tesla launches robotaxi service in Austin
Self-driving technology on which Elon Musk has staked future of his company debuts in Texas

One takeaway from every AFC team's offseason workouts: Chiefs seeing early flashes from first-round rookie

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news…

Abuse and #Buddhism: Behind the Smiling Façade https://www.info-buddhism.com/Abuse_and_Buddhism-Behind_the_Smiling_Facade-Anna_Sawerthal.html

Abuse and Buddhism: Behind the Smiling Façade
Buddhism in the West is in a crisis. For years, it had benefited from a reputation too good to be true. Only now are victims of sexual abuse, corruption and cultic behaviour finally beginning to speak out.

DK Metcalf had eye on another AFC team before trade to Pittsburgh Steelers https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/pittsburgh-steelers/news/dk-metcalf-had-eye-another-afc-team-trade-pittsburg…

Erledigte Aufgaben tun schon gut.
Traps vom Waschbecken des Gäste-WCs gereinigt, Dunstabzugshaube aufgehängt, den kürzlich elektrifizierten Rollladen endlich shellyfiziert, Bilder aufgehängt, Wäsche abgenommen, neue Wäsche aufgehängt … die kann auch gleich wieder abgenommen werden.
Außerdem bei Clair Obscur den Eveque (oder Evoque?) mühsam besiegt, kurz danach in einen Clair hineingerannt, der mich auch mehrere Anläufe gekostet hat. Und dann am Ende des nächsten Gebiets in einem …

History-Augmented Vision-Language Models for Frontier-Based Zero-Shot Object Navigation
Mobin Habibpour, Fatemeh Afghah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16623 ht…

History-Augmented Vision-Language Models for Frontier-Based Zero-Shot Object Navigation
Object Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) challenges robots to find objects in unseen environments, demanding sophisticated reasoning. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) show potential, current ObjectNav methods often employ them superficially, primarily using vision-language embeddings for object-scene similarity checks rather than leveraging deeper reasoning. This limits contextual understanding and leads to practical issues like repetitive navigation behaviors. This paper introduces a novel zero-s…

AFGE | OPM’s New Performance Management Rules Are Illegal, Violate Labor Contracts
https://www.afge.org/article/opms-new-performance-management-rules-are-illegal-violate-labor-contracts/

Sotomayor slams SCOTUS for 'gross' abuse of discretion
https://lawandcrime.com/supreme-court/so-gross-an-abuse-sotomayor-rips-scotus-for-rewarding-trump-admins-flagrantly-unlawful-conduct-and-no-notice-deportations/