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EU expected to agree on new Moscow sanctions, Russian oil price cap, Reuters reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/eu-expected-to-agree-on.html

Accenture plans to acquire Australian cybersecurity company CyberCX from private equity firm BGH Capital; the deal reportedly values CyberCX at more than AU$1B (Mark Anderson/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-tel…

Accenture Acquires Australian Cybersecurity Firm CyberCX
Accenture Plc is buying Australian cybersecurity firm CyberCX, its largest acquisition to date in the sector that will boost operations in the Asia-Pacific region.

Charter schools are a money grab designed to destroy public education. An excuse to shovel public money into the pockets of people with big ideas about education that mostly don't work.
The irony is that the one thing almost all critics of education agree on is that too much money is spent on administrative/managerial staff. https://

Trump has said he is ready to impose sanctions on Moscow,
-- but on the condition that all Nato allies agree to completely halt purchases of Russian oil and other implement their own sanctions.
He also suggested members of the transatlantic alliance consider imposing tariffs of 50% to 100% on China for its purchases of Russian petroleum as a way to help end the war.
Turkey, a Nato member, is the third largest buyer of Russia’s oil products, after China and India, according …

Socioeconomic Impact of the Pierre Auger Observatory
Ingomar Allekotte (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration), Alejandra Calvo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10802

Socioeconomic Impact of the Pierre Auger Observatory
The Pierre Auger Observatory has been operating in Malargue, Province of Mendoza, western Argentina, for over two decades, significantly advancing our understanding of cosmic rays. Beyond its scientific mission, the installation and operation of the Observatory has had profound social, economic, educational and cultural impact on the local community, the region and worldwide. More than 90 percent of the Observatory's annual operational budget is invested in the region, benefiting sectors such a…

Atomistic Description of Spin Crossover Under Pressure and its Giant Barocaloric Effect
S. Vela, J. Ribas-Ari\~no, S. P. Vallone, A. M. dos Santos, M. A. Halcrow, K. G. Sandeman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10334

Atomistic Description of Spin Crossover Under Pressure and its Giant Barocaloric Effect
The pressure-dependent evolution of the spin crossover (SCO) transition has garnered significant interest due to its connection to the giant barocaloric effect (BCE) near room temperature. Pressure alters both the molecular and solid-state structures of SCO materials, affecting the relative stability of low- and high-spin states and, consequently, the transition temperature ($T_{1/2}$). Crucially, the shape of the $T_{1/2}$ vs. pressure curve dictates the magnitude of the BCE, making its accura…

PMF-CEC: Phoneme-augmented Multimodal Fusion for Context-aware ASR Error Correction with Error-specific Selective Decoding
Jiajun He, Tomoki Toda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11064 …

PMF-CEC: Phoneme-augmented Multimodal Fusion for Context-aware ASR Error Correction with Error-specific Selective Decoding
End-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) models often struggle to accurately recognize rare words. Previously, we introduced an ASR postprocessing method called error detection and context-aware error correction (ED-CEC), which leverages contextual information such as named entities and technical terms to improve the accuracy of ASR transcripts. Although ED-CEC achieves a notable success in correcting rare words, its accuracy remains low when dealing with rare words that have similar pronu…

Trump reportedly asked Zelensky if Ukraine could strike Moscow: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/15/trump-reportedly-asked-zelensky-if.html

Performance and extensions of the central data acquisition system for Phase II of the Pierre Auger Observatory
Paul Filip (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08747

Performance and extensions of the central data acquisition system for Phase II of the Pierre Auger Observatory
The Pierre Auger Observatory is a hybrid detector designed to observe and study ultra-high-energy particles of extraterrestrial origin. With its 27 fluorescence telescopes and over 1600 autonomously operating water-Cherenkov detectors spread over an area of 3000 km$^2$, it is world-leading in terms of exposure to cosmic rays and offers an unparalleled window into the physical processes that happen at energy scales unattainable by particle accelerators on Earth. Measurement information of candid…

Agora, which offers a white-labeling service to let other companies launch their own, self-branded versions of its stablecoin, AUSD, raised a $50M Series A (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/07/10/exclu…

Exclusive: Stablecoin startup Agora raises $50 million Series A led by crypto VC giant Paradigm
Agora is run by Nick Van Eck, son of the asset management veteran Jan van Eck.