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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. 

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/

Sources: Sony Music has acquired Hipgnosis Songs, three months after it was rebranded as Recognition Music (Kristin Robinson/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/sony-music-publishing-acquires-hipgnosis-songs-group/

Sony Music Publishing Acquires Hipgnosis Songs Group, Including Songs by Sabrina Carpenter, One Direction & More
Sony Music Publishing acquired Hipgnosis Songs Group, with hits by Sabrina Carpenter and more, months after it rebranded as Recognition Music Group.

Rückschlag für Optimus Bot: Chef der Robotersparte verlässt Tesla
Milan Kovac, Chef der Entwicklung des humanoiden Roboters Optimus bei Tesla, verlässt das Unternehmen überraschend. Der Weggang könnte sich negativ auswirken.

Michael Dickson agrees to Seahawks extension, resumes title as NFL's highest-paid punter

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/michael

UAV-Based Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture Across Diverse Land Covers: Validation and Bayesian Uncertainty Characterization
Runze Zhang, Ishfaq Aziz, Derek Houtz, Yuxiang Zhao, Trent W. Ford, Adam C. Watts, Mohamad Alipour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05572

UAV-Based Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture Across Diverse Land Covers: Validation and Bayesian Uncertainty Characterization
High-resolution soil moisture (SM) observations are critical for agricultural monitoring, forestry management, and hazard prediction, yet current satellite passive microwave missions cannot directly provide retrievals at tens-of-meter spatial scales. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) mounted microwave radiometry presents a promising alternative, but most evaluations to date have focused on agricultural settings, with limited exploration across other land covers and few efforts to quantify retrieval…

Towards Autonomous In-situ Soil Sampling and Mapping in Large-Scale Agricultural Environments
Thien Hoang Nguyen, Erik Muller, Michael Rubin, Xiaofei Wang, Fiorella Sibona, Salah Sukkarieh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05653

Towards Autonomous In-situ Soil Sampling and Mapping in Large-Scale Agricultural Environments
Traditional soil sampling and analysis methods are labor-intensive, time-consuming, and limited in spatial resolution, making them unsuitable for large-scale precision agriculture. To address these limitations, we present a robotic solution for real-time sampling, analysis and mapping of key soil properties. Our system consists of two main sub-systems: a Sample Acquisition System (SAS) for precise, automated in-field soil sampling; and a Sample Analysis Lab (Lab) for real-time soil property ana…

The problem of course is that our problems are complex.
“Advanced AI suffers ‘complete accuracy collapse’ in face of complex problems, study finds” - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/09/apple-artificial-intelligence…

Qualcomm agrees to acquire UK-listed Alphawave, which makes high-speed chip and connectivity tech for data centers, for $2.4B in cash, set to close in Q1 2026 (Amy Thomson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Tencent Music agrees to buy podcasting startup Ximalaya for $1.3B in cash, plus some stock, in a bid to become China's Spotify; Ximalaya had 303M MAUs in 2023 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20