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Trump announces US-EU arms agreement including aid for Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/24/trump-announces-useu-arms-agreement.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/22/trump-children-flores-settlement-agreement

GOP/MAGA is growing in the fertile soil of an end-times religious cult.
Did you know that 4 out of 10 Americans believe we're living in the biblical end times?
Sure, they're not all in complete agreement about what that means
https://bsky.app/profile/arbiteriapetu

Advocacy works, if done right. Find out how investigations by WorkerRights Consortium led to a joint effort along the supply chain to eliminate gender-based violence in Indonesia’s garment factories – more in my feature with TriplePundit.
https://www.triplepundi…

Trump administration reaches deal with Columbia University (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/07/23/trump-columbia-university-agreement-federal-funding/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p159#a250723p159

I used the acronym "LLMs" after the word "AI" in a school parents' meeting today and only one other parent ( my husband) knew what it was.
Is it just a bit of jargon? Completely unknown? Or am I out of touch?
jargon but also a word people use
not jargon but a bit obscure
No idea what you're talking about
I'm a techbro who wants to know what people think

Active Attack Resilience in 5G: A New Take on Authentication and Key Agreement
Nazatul H. Sultan, Xinlong Guan, Josef Pieprzyk, Wei Ni, Sharif Abuadbba, Hajime Suzuki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17491

Active Attack Resilience in 5G: A New Take on Authentication and Key Agreement
As 5G networks expand into critical infrastructure, secure and efficient user authentication is more important than ever. The 5G-AKA protocol, standardized by 3GPP in TS 33.501, is central to authentication in current 5G deployments. It provides mutual authentication, user privacy, and key secrecy. However, despite its adoption, 5G-AKA has known limitations in both security and performance. While it focuses on protecting privacy against passive attackers, recent studies show its vulnerabilities…

Gamefound, a board game crowdfunding company, acquires Indiegogo, which has 38M members and will change its pricing to be in line with Gamefound's flat 5% fee (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/712733/indiegogo-acquired-gamefound-crowdfund…

Indiegogo is getting acquired by Gamefound, a board game crowdfunding company
Gamefound is acquiring Indiegogo. As part of the acquisition, Indiegogo will change its pricing to be in line with Gamefound’s.

AI-Driven Tools in Modern Software Quality Assurance: An Assessment of Benefits, Challenges, and Future Directions
Ihor Pysmennyi, Roman Kyslyi, Kyrylo Kleshch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16586

AI-Driven Tools in Modern Software Quality Assurance: An Assessment of Benefits, Challenges, and Future Directions
Traditional quality assurance (QA) methods face significant challenges in addressing the complexity, scale, and rapid iteration cycles of modern software systems and are strained by limited resources available, leading to substantial costs associated with poor quality. The object of this research is the Quality Assurance processes for modern distributed software applications. The subject of the research is the assessment of the benefits, challenges, and prospects of integrating modern AI-orient…

29th Ramstein meeting: new AGREEMENTS for joint defense reached #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/22/th-ramstein-meeting-new-agreements.html