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Google says it has stopped charging Canadian advertisers a 2.5% surcharge after Canada rescinded the DST following President Trump's threats (Pippa Norman/Globe and Mail)
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/arti…

Google stops charging Canadian advertisers extra fee after digital services tax dropped
Amazon, which was also subject to tax, said it will wait until DST is officially rescinded before making any changes

Here are the email addresses to make your voice heard at Disney/ABC:
👉General Issues: DisneyABCtv_Support@disney.com
👉Publicity / Corporate Comms: Ashley.r.kline@disney.com
👉Audience Information: cheryl.pratesa@abc.com
👉Investor Relations: alexia.quadrani@disney.com
👉Disney Advertising: Disney.Advertising@disney.com
If anyone needs sample language, here’s a starting point you can copy and paste:
Dear Disney/ABC Leadership,
Your decision to silence a comedian for a harmless joke while protecting and platforming voices that openly promote cruelty is indefensible. It reeks of hypocrisy, cowardice, and corporate complicity.
Suppressing humor while elevating propaganda is how fascism gains ground. You are helping it along.
This is a warning: every dollar I once spent on Disney subscriptions, merchandise, films, and parks will now be withheld. I will also be encouraging others to cancel, divest, and pressure your advertisers and shareholders until Disney/ABC adopts clear, viewpoint-neutral standards that respect all voices equally.
History will not remember kindly the corporations that bent to fear and power, silencing dissent while protecting division. Right now, Disney/ABC is on the wrong side of that history. Shame on you. We will remember!
Sincerely,
- From Rob Brezsny on a different Social Media platform
#BoycottDisney #JimmyKImmel #FreedomOfSpeech

Apparently an older boy generated the ads with AI and ran away.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/nexon-respond-to-claims-theyre-using-ai-generated-tiktok-streamers-to-advertise-the-first-descendant…

Nexon respond to claims they're using AI-generated Tiktok streamers to advertise The First Descendant
The First Descendant publishers Nexon have addressed AI-looking streamer adverts for the game on TikTok, saying they and the platform are investigating.

Mercedes bringt physische Tasten für aktuelle und zukünftige Modelle zurück
Mercedes Benz räumt ein, "dass physische Tasten besser sind“. Damit folgt der Autobauer VW und dem Wunsch der NCAP.

Adversarial attacks to image classification systems using evolutionary algorithms
Sergio Nesmachnow, Jamal Toutouh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13136 https:/…

Adversarial attacks to image classification systems using evolutionary algorithms
Image classification currently faces significant security challenges due to adversarial attacks, which consist of intentional alterations designed to deceive classification models based on artificial intelligence. This article explores an approach to generate adversarial attacks against image classifiers using a combination of evolutionary algorithms and generative adversarial networks. The proposed approach explores the latent space of a generative adversarial network with an evolutionary algo…

AutoPartGen: Autogressive 3D Part Generation and Discovery
Minghao Chen, Jianyuan Wang, Roman Shapovalov, Tom Monnier, Hyunyoung Jung, Dilin Wang, Rakesh Ranjan, Iro Laina, Andrea Vedaldi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13346

AutoPartGen: Autogressive 3D Part Generation and Discovery
We introduce AutoPartGen, a model that generates objects composed of 3D parts in an autoregressive manner. This model can take as input an image of an object, 2D masks of the object's parts, or an existing 3D object, and generate a corresponding compositional 3D reconstruction. Our approach builds upon 3DShape2VecSet, a recent latent 3D representation with powerful geometric expressiveness. We observe that this latent space exhibits strong compositional properties, making it particularly well-s…

Empowering LLMs with Parameterized Skills for Adversarial Long-Horizon Planning
Sijia Cui, Shuai Xu, Aiyao He, Yanna Wang, Bo Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13127 https://…

Empowering LLMs with Parameterized Skills for Adversarial Long-Horizon Planning
Recent advancements in Large Language Models(LLMs) have led to the development of LLM-based AI agents. A key challenge is the creation of agents that can effectively ground themselves in complex, adversarial long-horizon environments. Existing methods mainly focus on (1) using LLMs as policies to interact with the environment through generating low-level feasible actions, and (2) utilizing LLMs to generate high-level tasks or language guides to stimulate action generation. However, the former s…

💢 Why is open source hardware not working for 3D printers?
https://blog.adafruit.com/2025/07/30/why-is-open-source-hardware-not-working-for-3d-printers/

Netflix says it's on track to double its advertising revenue this year and that it will roll out interactive ads in the second half of 2025 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/709288/netflix-q2-2025-earningsdouble-ad-revenue
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Netflix says it’s streamed 95 billion hours in 2025, and a lot of ads too
Netflix says it’s on track to “double” revenue earned from advertising in 2025, according to its Q2 2025 earnings results.

Towards Inclusive Toxic Content Moderation: Addressing Vulnerabilities to Adversarial Attacks in Toxicity Classifiers Tackling LLM-generated Content
Shaz Furniturewala, Arkaitz Zubiaga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12672

Towards Inclusive Toxic Content Moderation: Addressing Vulnerabilities to Adversarial Attacks in Toxicity Classifiers Tackling LLM-generated Content
The volume of machine-generated content online has grown dramatically due to the widespread use of Large Language Models (LLMs), leading to new challenges for content moderation systems. Conventional content moderation classifiers, which are usually trained on text produced by humans, suffer from misclassifications due to LLM-generated text deviating from their training data and adversarial attacks that aim to avoid detection. Present-day defence tactics are reactive rather than proactive, sinc…