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Dolphins acquiring Giants TE Darren Waller for 2026 sixth-round pick https://www.nfl.com/news/dolphins-acquiring-giants-te-darren-waller-for-2026-pick

U.S. Department of Education Announces the University of Pennsylvania Has Entered into a Resolution Agreement to Resolve its Title IX Violations (U.S. Department of Education)
https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-announces-university-of-pennsylvania-has-entered-resolution-agreement-resolve-its-title-ix-violations
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p151#a250701p151

Google made an agreement to buy half of the output of CFS's first fusion plant; about 200MW; sometime 'in the early 2030's.
(Microsoft have an agreement for one of Helion's fusion reactors which is 50MW and supposedly before 2030).
CFS does fairly conventional Tokamaks (albeit with HTS superconducotrs, so vastly smaller than ITER)

Google and Commonwealth Fusion Systems Sign Strategic Partnership
The world's largest and leading commercial fusion energy company

'Governments like Spain and others are doing what many had not expected only years ago: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is powerfully advocating for the suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, an extensive trade deal in place since 2000, due to “the catastrophic situation of genocide.”'
'If more such governments were to adopt a similar, uncompromising stance, Israel would be [stopped] from acquiring the .. weapons it uses to carry out .. genocide.'

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The barbarian role of cultural demolition crew is especially important when you consider how often cultural reconstruction is needed. Many of Rome’s glaring defects — exploitation, authoritarianism, corrupt self-aggrandizement — flow from deeply human tendencies. Time and again they’ve transformed promising civilizations into decaying, oppressive monstrosities. Time and again, history seems to cry out: Bring on the demolition crew! And time and again barbarians cheerfully respond to the call. Their previous massive wreaking of destruction, near the end of the second millennium B.C., had come after civilization went through centuries of apparent ossification.
In a way, barbarians are just a special case of that general and potent zero-sum dynamic in cultural evolution: brutal competition among neighboring societies. This rivalry renders ossified cultures vulnerable to a makeover, minor or major. They may be taken over by a vast neighboring civilization, which will revamp them in its image. Or they may be infiltrated and perhaps even disassembled by barbarians, paving the way for future reassembly. Or they may revive and prevail — an example of the “challenge and response” dynamic stressed by Arnold Toynbee. In any event, the point remains the same: however deeply human the tendencies of exploitation, authoritarianism, and self-aggrandizement, cultures that surrender to them may not be long for this world.
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(Robert Wright, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny)
Is it time for the barbarians now? Or perhaps we — here on Fedi — are the barbarians.

CADRE: Customizable Assurance of Data Readiness in Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning
Kaveen Hiniduma, Zilinghan Li, Aditya Sinha, Ravi Madduri, Suren Byna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23849

CADRE: Customizable Assurance of Data Readiness in Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning
Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning (PPFL) is a decentralized machine learning approach where multiple clients train a model collaboratively. PPFL preserves privacy and security of the client's data by not exchanging it. However, ensuring that data at each client is of high quality and ready for federated learning (FL) is a challenge due to restricted data access. In this paper, we introduce CADRE (Customizable Assurance of Data REadiness) for FL, a novel framework that allows users to define…

SEC filing: Oracle signed multiple large cloud agreements, including one that is expected to contribute $30B in annual revenue starting in FY28; ORCL jumps 5% (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/30/oracle-orcl-stock-cloud-deal.html

Oracle stock jumps after $30 billion annual cloud deal revealed in filing
Oracle shares have jumped more than 33% this year, benefiting from cloud growth and the rise of artificial intelligence models.

A New Perspective On AI Safety Through Control Theory Methodologies
Lars Ullrich, Walter Zimmer, Ross Greer, Knut Graichen, Alois C. Knoll, Mohan Trivedi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23703

A New Perspective On AI Safety Through Control Theory Methodologies
While artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing rapidly and mastering increasingly complex problems with astonishing performance, the safety assurance of such systems is a major concern. Particularly in the context of safety-critical, real-world cyber-physical systems, AI promises to achieve a new level of autonomy but is hampered by a lack of safety assurance. While data-driven control takes up recent developments in AI to improve control systems, control theory in general could be leveraged t…

Dolphins acquiring Giants TE Darren Waller for multiple draft picks https://www.nfl.com/news/dolphins-acquiring-giants-te-darren-waller-for-multiple-draft-picks

Microsoft and the CWA reach a tentative contract agreement for ~300 ZeniMax QA workers after two years of talks, marking Microsoft's first US union contract (Josh Eidelson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20