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Sky strikes a £2.1B output deal with ITV Studios, ITV's thriving production arm, until 2032; ITV Studios is not part of the acquisition (Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/sky-acquires-itv-love-island-1236973761/

Sky To Takeover ITV In $2.1B Deal That Dramatically Reshapes British Television
Sky has finally sealed a deal to acquire ITV's television network operations, putting it in charge of hit series including 'Love Island.

In Michoacšn, Mexico, drying soil threatens water supplies and avocados, says study https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/in-michoacan-mexico-drying-soil-threatens-water-supplies-and-avocados-says-study/

In Michoacán, Mexico, drying soil threatens water supplies and avocados, says study
MEXICO CITY — In the heart of Mexico’s southwestern state of Michoacán, Juan Madrigal spends his free time organizing to protect the city of Uruapan’s urban ecological park, a 50-hectare (124-acre) plot of land at the edge of the Río Santa Bárbara. A state-protected area since 1995, the park’s marshlands help to purify the surrounding […]

Updated my post on evaluating ACRs to add a note about ‘N/A’ entries in a WCAG VPAT:
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/01/how-i-evaluate-an-acr-vpat.html#Update01
In short: not allowed; ask vendor for clarity.

How I Evaluate an ACR (VPAT®)
ACRs are Accessibility Conformance Reports, which are the output of a VPAT, or Voluntary Product Accessibility Template maintained by ITIC, or the Information Technology Industry Council (which is why VPAT often has a ® symbol hanging off it). An organization may fill out the template to indicate how or if…

Once hailed as an AI visionary, Satya Nadella faces pressure as a compute crunch forces Microsoft to prioritize its own AI products over Azure cloud customers (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-nadella-hardest…

Inside Nadella's hardest year
Microsoft bet everything on AI. Is its North Star now a noose?

US anti-trust investigation into Microsofts business practices on #Azure and AI:
"The CIDs [i.e., the documents requesting information] say the goal of the FTC probe is to determine if #Microsoft has used unfair methods of competition in its cloud, software products, and related service…

@… I think this is particularly interesting in the context of the previous "What is the Fediverse?" (Paraphrasing, don't recall exact wording) poll.
If we generally agree that the Fediverse is the total sum of all ActivityPub messages, then it should become quite obvious that presuming how others must use the protocol is a fool's errand at best.

Fisher Forecasting for the DESC with $\texttt{Augur}$
Paul Rogozenski, Sankarshana Srinivasan, Javier S\'anchez, Nora Elisa Chisari, Arthur Loureiro, Marc Paterno, Rebekah Polen, Heather Prince, Biancamaria Sersante, An\v{z}e Slosar, Sandro Vitenti, Carlos Garc\'ia-Garc\'ia, Eric Gawiser, Christos Georgiou, C. Danielle Leonard, Ayan Mitra, Jeremy Neveu, The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03876 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.03876 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.03876
arXiv:2608.03876v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) has begun its ten-year survey of the entire visible southern hemisphere. To ensure robust cosmological measurements, computationally inexpensive investigations of modeling choices must be made to gauge the performance of proposed cosmological analyses. In this paper, we introduce the $\texttt{Augur}$ tool of the Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC), which provides Fisher forecasts for cosmological inference for the LSST using software frameworks designed for DESC science. We test the pipeline by comparing it to forecasts produced by external code and direct sampling of the posterior via nested sampling methods, finding good agreement between all methods. We additionally investigate a range of modeling and hyperparameter choices for a 3$\times$2pt investigation in harmonic space, providing users with diagnostics to obtain reliable forecasts. $\texttt{Augur}$ will be continually updated to be compatible with the other tools in the DESC software ecosystem as additional probes and functionality become available.
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Alibaba and its US payment processor AUS agree to pay $600M to resolve DOJ allegations that they failed to prevent illegal sales of drugs and other products (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/alibaba-aus-merchant-services-p…

Indian IT company Persistent Systems offers to acquire its Germany-based peer Nagarro for $1.45B; Indian IT companies are ramping up M&A as AI reshapes growth (Sayan Chakraborty/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technolog…

Indian IT firms ramp up acquisitions as AI reshapes growth
Smaller firms in particular target large contracts as clients consolidate vendors