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Vikings, RB Aaron Jones agree to revised contract to keep him in Minnesota for 2026 season https://www.nfl.com/news/vikings-rb-aaron-jones-agree-to-revised-contract-for-2026-season

Trial By Wine
Schmidty, Swanny and Clarky revisit crimes and run them through their jury of three, debating both sides of the case to agree an appropriate (if totally fictitious) sentence...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/trial-by-win…

Too Good to Be True: A Study on Modern Automatic Speech Recognition for the Evaluation of Speech Enhancement
Danilo de Oliveira, Tal Peer, Timo Gerkmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12107 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.12107 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.12107
arXiv:2605.12107v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Speech enhancement (SE) systems are typically evaluated using a variety of instrumental metrics. The use of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems to evaluate SE performance is common in literature, usually in terms of word error rate (WER). However, WER scores depend heavily on the choice of ASR system and text normalization pipeline. In this paper, we investigate how modern ASR models correlate with human recognition of enhanced speech. A listening experiment reveals that modern ASR models with large-scale noisy training and embedded language models correlate more with human WER than simpler ones, with a transducer model providing the most reliable transcriptions. Nevertheless, we also show that these models' robustness to noise and use of context can be uninformative to an acoustics-focused evaluation of enhancement performance.
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Vikings, RB Aaron Jones agree to revised contract for next season: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7087365/2026/03/11/aaron-jones-vikings-nfl-free-agency-2026/

This is the most stupid commit I had to make in a while

#StuartAdams, who has been in the news several times for corruption like his Qatar junket and changing the law to protect his statutory rapist relative, is yet again in the news for corruption.
#utpol #Utah

Stuart Adams' PAC received $135,000 from MIDA-connected donors days after approving controversial data center
Utah Senate President Stuart Adams' political action committee collected $135,000 from five MIDA-connected donors in a single day — the five largest donations in the PAC's history — just days after Adams chaired the approval of Kevin O'Leary's controversial 40,000-acre data center in northern Utah.

A US district court judge heard arguments over rules that limit journalists' access to the Pentagon, in a case brought by NYT, and vows to issue a prompt ruling (Michael Kunzelman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-pol…

Judge weighs New York Times bid to block policy limiting journalists' access to Pentagon
The New York Times is urging a federal judge to block a Pentagon policy that has limited access to the building for journalists from many mainstream news outlets. U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman didn’t rule from the bench after hearing arguments in the newspaper's lawsuit against the Defense Department. The Times is seeking a court order for the Pentagon to reinstate press credentials for reporters who refused to agree to the new rules. A newspaper lawyer said the policy is depriving Americ…

from my link log —
$1,000,000 worth of invalid EV certificates revoked.
https://scotthelme.co.uk/extended-validation-not-so-extended/
saved 2019-09-14

Extended Validation not so... extended? How I revoked $1,000,000 worth of EV certificates!
Personal like or dislike of EV aside for a moment, we can all agree on what the name of EV certs implies. Organisations get their company details in the certificate and CAs have to do some extended validation of that data compared to a normal certificate. Turns out, that doesn't

The US Congress has passed a 45-day extension of a law that grants US intelligence agencies warrantless spying powers.
Bitter infighting over section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in the Republican wing of Congress has repeatedly tanked conservative leaders’ plans to renew the controversial surveillance law for multiple years.
The deadlock continued on Thursday, as the Republican House speaker Mike Johnson refused to include key reforms pushed by hardliners in …

WBD confirms that it received a revised bid from Paramount to acquire the company, but says it still recommends that shareholders vote for Netflix's deal (The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Warner Bros. Discovery Says It’s Reviewing Sweetened Paramount Bid
The global streaming giant revised its takeover offer after a recent amended bid by Paramount.