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Samsung agrees to acquire Seattle-based Xealth, which helps healthcare providers manage digital health tools and has raised over $50M, for an undisclosed sum (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/samsung-acquiring…

I have my share of issues with Parkrose Permaculture, but she has a lot of things I do strongly agree with. I can't stress enough that you never dehumanize your enemies. You can respond appropriately to violence. You can defend yourself from them by any means necessary. But you do not dehumanize them. You always limit your response to the minimum necessary to defend yourself.
There are a number of former Nazi skins who became antifascists after realizing they were wrong. Those folks tend to be some of the most dedicated because they feel a debt, and some of the most knowledgeable because they were there. Coming out of these types of cults, police included, is hard and takes time. A lot of us don't have the ability to work with them. But some do.
By repeatedly humanizing your opponent, you can break some of them. The #Seattle Police Department was not defunded but saw a massive reduction in numbers because their morale was destroyed. Some people will never change. Some people are broken and feel like they need the power. But if you change one person's mind, even give them something to think about, it's a crack. If even one cop quits, that's one less trained gun pointed at you in the future.
The 18 year old marines and federalized national guard troops out there are literally kids. A lot of them came from poor communities. They are being used in a way they haven't been trained to do, doing things they (should) have been told are not legal. They joined to get out of poverty, to go to college, or to "defend the American people" (regardless of how misguided that is). Few, if any, of them joined to abuse people. They will be especially open to persuasion.
Remind those troops that they are carrying out illegal orders, that they are being called on to violate their oath to protect the constitution, that they are suppressing the free speech of the fellow Americans they swore to defend. Remind them that the people they could be illegally arresting now are just like their parents, their neighbors, their families, the friends who didn't join. Remind them that this is the first step. They will be called on to kill Americans if they let this keep going.
Remind them ICE sleeps in hotels while they sleep on the ground. Remind them that their drunk and incompetent leadership thinks of them as disposable tools. Remind them that some of these people are out protesting *for them* against cuts to the VA and other services. Remind them that the people they're defending refuse to make college free so they can recruit from poor schools. Remind them that they will always be welcome when they're ready to join the side of freedom and justice.
When you dehumanize your enemies, you unify them. When you humanize your enemies, you can divide them. There is no weapon available to us right now so powerful as compassion.
https://youtu.be/YtWOYUDMsBw

Sources: David Ellison, the CEO of Skydance, has recently held early discussions about acquiring Bari Weiss' The Free Press (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/business/free-press-skydance-acquisition-talks.html

Skydance in Early Talks to Acquire Bari Weiss’s Free Press
David Ellison, the founder of Skydance, and Bari Weiss, the co-founder of The Free Press, are attending the annual Allen & Co. conference in Sun Valley this week.

Extended Version: It Should Be Easy but... New Users Experiences and Challenges with Secret Management Tools
Lorenzo Neil, Deepthi Mungara, Laurie Williams, Yasemin Acar, Bradley Reaves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09036

Extended Version: It Should Be Easy but... New Users Experiences and Challenges with Secret Management Tools
Software developers face risks of leaking their software secrets, such as API keys or passwords, which can result in significant harm. Secret management tools (SMTs), such as HashiCorp Vault Secrets or Infisical, are highly recommended by industry, academia, and security guidelines to manage secrets securely. SMTs are designed to help developers secure their secrets in a central location, yet secrets leaks are still commonplace, and developers report difficulty in learning how to setup and use …

Zelensky has told European allies that he is open to halting hostilities and ceding to Russia de facto control over territory it already holds. So Putin can agree with a cease-fire anytime! That would freeze the situation for talks. But instead Putin, the agressor, chooses to continue attacking. Putin deeds illustrate his intentions, the complete destruction of Ukraine. Putin simply can't live with a prosperous Ukraine.

Monitoring and performance of AugerPrime
Bel\'en Andrada (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08723 https://

Monitoring and performance of AugerPrime
The upgrade of Pierre Auger Observatory, AugerPrime, is a multi-hybrid system designed to improve the sensitivity and precision of ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measurements. It includes scintillator detectors positioned both atop the enhanced Water-Cherenkov detectors and buried nearby for direct muon measurements, along with radio and fluorescence detectors. In this contribution, we present an overview of the monitoring tools developed for all the components of AugerPrime, focusing on real-tim…

Modality-Agnostic Input Channels Enable Segmentation of Brain lesions in Multimodal MRI with Sequences Unavailable During Training
Anthony P. Addison, Felix Wagner, Wentian Xu, Natalie Voets, Konstantinos Kamnitsas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09290

Modality-Agnostic Input Channels Enable Segmentation of Brain lesions in Multimodal MRI with Sequences Unavailable During Training
Segmentation models are important tools for the detection and analysis of lesions in brain MRI. Depending on the type of brain pathology that is imaged, MRI scanners can acquire multiple, different image modalities (contrasts). Most segmentation models for multimodal brain MRI are restricted to fixed modalities and cannot effectively process new ones at inference. Some models generalize to unseen modalities but may lose discriminative modality-specific information. This work aims to develop a m…

A Survey on Non-Intrusive ASR Refinement: From Output-Level Correction to Full-Model Distillation
Mohammad Reza Peyghan, Fatemeh Rajabi, Saman Soleimani Roudi, Saeedreza Zouashkiani, Sajjad Amini, Shahrokh Ghaemmaghami
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07285

A Survey on Non-Intrusive ASR Refinement: From Output-Level Correction to Full-Model Distillation
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has become an integral component of modern technology, powering applications such as voice-activated assistants, transcription services, and accessibility tools. Yet ASR systems continue to struggle with the inherent variability of human speech, such as accents, dialects, and speaking styles, as well as environmental interference, including background noise. Moreover, domain-specific conversations often employ specialized terminology, which can exacerbate tran…

SpaceX agrees to acquire EchoStar's AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses for up to $8.5B in cash and up to $8.5B in stock, resolving an FCC inquiry into EchoStar (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-…

Sources: Nexstar, which owns or partners with over 200 TV stations, is in advanced talks to acquire Tegna, which has 64 TV stations; TGNA rises 30% after hours (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/nextar-