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Texas-based Securonix acquires ThreatQuotient, which helps companies analyze threat intelligence more efficiently; ThreatQuotient had raised about $170M (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/11/securonix-…

Securonix acquires threat intelligence startup ThreatQuotient - SiliconANGLE
Securonix acquires threat intelligence startup ThreatQuotient - SiliconANGLE

The NYT appoints Ligaya Mishan and Tejal Rao as co-chief restaurant critics, part of an effort to expand starred restaurant reviews across the US, not just NYC (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/business/medi…

New York Times Names Ligaya Mishan and Tejal Rao as Co-Chief Restaurant Critics
The pair, Ligaya Mishan and Tejal Rao, are part of an effort to expand starred restaurant reviews across the country, the company said.

Step-by-step Instructions and a Simple Tabular Output Format Improve the Dependency Parsing Accuracy of LLMs
Hiroshi Matsuda, Chunpeng Ma, Masayuki Asahara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09983

Step-by-step Instructions and a Simple Tabular Output Format Improve the Dependency Parsing Accuracy of LLMs
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled impressive performance in various tasks. However, standard prompting often struggles to produce structurally valid and accurate outputs, especially in dependency parsing. We propose a novel step-by-step instruction strategy, where universal part-of-speech tagging precedes the prediction of syntactic heads and dependency labels, and a simplified CoNLL-U like output format, our method achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on Universal Depe…

Advances on Affordable Hardware Platforms for Human Demonstration Acquisition in Agricultural Applications
Alberto San-Miguel-Tello, Gennaro Scarati, Alejandro Hern\'andez, Mario Cavero-Vidal, Aakash Maroti, N\'estor Garc\'ia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09494

Advances on Affordable Hardware Platforms for Human Demonstration Acquisition in Agricultural Applications
This paper presents advances on the Universal Manipulation Interface (UMI), a low-cost hand-held gripper for robot Learning from Demonstration (LfD), for complex in-the-wild scenarios found in agricultural settings. The focus is on improving the acquisition of suitable samples with minimal additional setup. Firstly, idle times and user's cognitive load are reduced through the extraction of individual samples from a continuous demonstration considering task events. Secondly, reliability on the g…

As long as it's sufficiently "debugged" 😉
Food as Software (FaS)
#futurism

«GitHub is Leaking Trump’s Plans to 'Accelerate' AI Across Government»
Don't tell the UK government, otherwise Starmer and his AI lackies will just copy and paste that playbook 😂
https://www.404media.co/github-is-leaking-trumps-plans-to-accelerate-ai-across-government/

Am running across occasional uses of the phrases “Mastodon tweet” and “Bluesky tweet”. Hmm… I think that’s OK. Twitter is irretrievably gone so let’s memorialize it in a short, pleasant, instantly-understandable new idiom.

Consent for Processing Personal Data in the Age of AI: Key Updates Across Asia-Pacific
https://fpf.org/blog/consent-for-processing-personal-data-in-the-age-of-ai-key-updates-across-asia-pacific/

Apple announces a new live translation feature across Messages, FaceTime, and Phone apps, but has not yet said how many languages will be supported (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/09/appl…

Apple introduces live translation across Messages, FaceTime, and Phone at WWDC 25 | TechCrunch
Apple is introducing Live Translation, powered by Apple Intelligence, for Messages, FaceTime and Phone calls. 

MLB acquires a minority stake in Jomboy Media and partners with the baseball-centered media company to collaborate on content activations, IP growth, and more (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/…

MLB Buys Stake in Jomboy Media, Partners for Digital Content
MLB inked a pact with Jimmy O'Brien's Jomboy Media, under which the league is acquiring a stake in his company and collaborating on digital content.