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Ukraine launches missile attack against Crimea, Donetsk and Rostov: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/ukraine-launches-missile-attack-against.html

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Three cases against IF NOT EXISTS / IF EXISTS in PostgreSQL DDL.
https://postgres.ai/blog/20211103-three-cases-against-if-not-exists-and-if-exists-in-postgresql-ddl
saved 2021-11-12

Three Cases Against IF NOT EXISTS / IF EXISTS in Postgres DDL | Postgres AI

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Many DDL statements in PostgreSQL support modified IF EXISTS / IF NOT EXISTS. For example:

 test=# create table if not exists mytable(); CREATE TABLE test=# drop table if exists mytable; DROP TABLE 

I recommend using `IF EXISTS` / `IF NOT EXISTS`…

President Trump drops his lawsuit against Iowa pollster Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register; Selzer's attorney told NPR that there has been no settlement (Sarah Rumpf/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump/br…

BREAKING: Trump Drops Lawsuit Against Iowa Pollster Ann Selzer
President Donald Trump has dropped his lawsuit against Iowa pollster Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register.

Neural Autoregressive Modeling of Brain Aging
Ridvan Yesiloglu, Wei Peng, Md Tauhidul Islam, Ehsan Adeli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22954 https://arxiv.org…

Neural Autoregressive Modeling of Brain Aging
Brain aging synthesis is a critical task with broad applications in clinical and computational neuroscience. The ability to predict the future structural evolution of a subject's brain from an earlier MRI scan provides valuable insights into aging trajectories. Yet, the high-dimensionality of data, subtle changes of structure across ages, and subject-specific patterns constitute challenges in the synthesis of the aging brain. To overcome these challenges, we propose NeuroAR, a novel brain aging…

NYC-based Empathy, which runs an online platform providing on-demand tools and guidance for bereaving families, raised a $72M Series C led by Adams Street (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/05/29/exclusi

Exclusive: Empathy raises $72 million Series C to tackle the agonizing logistics of death
Founded in 2020, Empathy has raised a $72 million Series C, with Adams Street Partners leading the round, Fortune has exclusively learned.

15) How do the Cowboys stack up against NFC East https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/15-how-do-the-cowboys-stack-up-against-nfc-east

A former CIA officer
who helped lead the intelligence assessments over alleged Russia interference in the 2016 presidential election
has said Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence,
is ignorant of the practices of espionage
after she accused Barack Obama and his national security team of
“treasonous conspiracy” against Donald Trump.
Susan Miller, the agency’s head of counter-intelligence at the time of the election,
told the Guardian th…

A US federal judge orders the USAGM to immediately disburse RFE/RL's May funding of ~$12M, following a similar order last month for its April funding (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
https://www.rferl.org/a/rfe-rl-order-lamberth-court-funding-/33429…

US Court Orders Agency Overseeing RFE/RL To Pay May Funding
A US district judge on May 30 granted Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL)’s third request for a temporary restraining order (TRO) in its lawsuit against the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) and ordered the agency to immediately disburse RFE/RL's May funding.

15) How do the Cowboys stack up against NFC East https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/15-how-do-the-cowboys-stack-up-against-nfc-east

Eagles’ $41 Million All-Pro RB Says Cowboys ‘Never Picked Up Phone’ in Free Agency https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/saquon-barkley-free-agency-snub/?adt_ei=[email]