Tootfinder

Had an #acting #coaching client do a take focusing on one aim, then do a take focusing on a different aim, then, for a third take, had them split the difference and it was beautiful to see them do the scene with that greater breath to it. Sometimes finding the pieces builds the whole well.

What Kubiak, Raiders Aim To Establish During Training Camp https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-what-kubiak-aim-establish-during-training-camp

Q&A with California AG Rob Bonta about why David Ellison is "desperate", some Hollywood guilds supporting Paramount's WBD deal, concerns about CNN, and more (Steven Zeitchik/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.

California AG Rob Bonta Says David Ellison Is “Desperate” and “Grasping at Straws”
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Bonta took aim at the Paramount chief and emerging legal rival: “He cannot flee accountability."

Stephen Miller railed:
“The leftist is fundamentally motivated by envy, by hatred, by jealousy.
The leftist looks at what is beautiful and what is good and what is natural and is filled with envy and hatred.
The leftist looks at a perfect family with a perfect life and a perfect job and a perfect kid and goes to church every Sunday.”
Miller also dismissed concerns about civil rights abuses by the administration.
“One of the hallmarks of leftwing violence and te…

‘Enemies of civilization’: top Trump officials launch sweeping attack on left
Marco Rubio and Stephen Miller took aim at only leftwing activism at meeting of 66 nations against political violence

Less than two weeks until the Technolution SI/PI seminar and probefest in Gouda, NL. Looks like there's still spots open if anyone wants to sign up; my probing training the day before the main event also still has a few spots.
I'll have a "vendor" table for ngscopeclient demoing it with a ThunderScope, PicoScope, ASEQ spectrometer, and whatever other compatible gear I can scrounge up.

What Kubiak, Raiders Aim To Establish During Training Camp https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-what-kubiak-aim-establish-during-training-camp

Here's a short video of me using fisk-ai to make a local RAG based knowledge base using the Puppet documentation.
You can go from zero to fully built knowledge base in about a minute. No services to run, no databases to run etc.
You can optionally expose this as a local MCP server so you can teach other AI harnesses about your local documentation. But the aim is to build a all-local capable system for your private docs.
This is the main feature added in version 0.0.2.…

Sverigebilden. https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/sep/07/reindeer-and-rare-earth-minerals-swedish-politicians-take-aim-at-indigenous-sami-in-mining-dispute

Reindeer and rare-earth minerals: Swedish politicians take aim at Indigenous Sami in mining dispute
Gabna community fear their traditional herding routes will be sacrificed as far-right rhetoric ramps up against them

Spectro Cloud, an AI infrastucture company helping manage token costs, raised a $100M Series D from AMD, LG, others at a $1B valuation, up from $750M in 2024 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/all-deals/2026/07/15/spectro-cloud-b…

Exclusive: Spectro Cloud hits $1B valuation amid rising AI model switching
Companies that aim to drive down AI costs have attracted investors in 2026.

Here we go.
#MigrationMoralPanic ##UKPol
Andy Burnham votes in favour of controversial asylum reforms amid rebellion - Manchester Evening News
https://www.

Andy Burnham votes in favour of controversial asylum reforms amid rebellion
Andy Burnham has voted in favour of asylum reforms which aim to cut the number of asylum appeals being granted

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Grandaddy:
🎵 So You'll Aim Toward the Sky
#Grandaddy
https://grandaddy.bandcamp.com/track/so-youll-aim-toward-the-sky-piano-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/7Jj7i9VSTSFPTyfm50RacI

Trump has taken the war with Iran into a new, murkier phase as the two sides move further and further from the vague memorandum of understanding(MoU) signed on 17 June.
And as during the opening phase of the conflict, the US leader’s objectives and methods are clouded in confusion, daily U-turns and boasts that within hours are revealed to be false.
Washington’s short-term aim is clear enough – to regain control of the strait of Hormuz from Iran – and the president seems willing …

Chaos and confusion bring US no closer to resolution on strait of Hormuz
Five months of U-turns and false boasts leave Donald Trump in worse position than when he started

So, they can load the gun and cock it and aim it, they just can't pull the trigger...
Court: USPS Can Comply With Trump Mail Ballot Order - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/07/court-usps-can-comply-with-trump-mail-ballot-order/

Tailwind Labs, the company behind Tailwind CSS, is joining Shopify; in January, it laid off three of four engineers, citing AI's impact on documentation traffic (Supreeth Koundinya/AIM)
https://analyticsindiamag.com/ai-news/tailwind-joins-shopify-will…

AIM — India's Leading AI & Data Science Media Platform
India's Leading AI & Data Science Media Platform

"Populist and rightwing figures take aim at Ed Miliband and UK net zero policies at ‘anti-woke Davos’"
#Climate #ClimateChange #UK

Populist and rightwing figures take aim at Ed Miliband and UK net zero policies at ‘anti-woke Davos’
Kemi Badenoch, who joined US anti-abortion activists and European far-right parties at ARC, described energy secretary as a ‘villain’

Trump's Religious Liberty Commission takes aim at church-state separation (Michelle Boorstein/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2026/06/26/trumps-religious-liberty-commission-takes-aim-church-state-separation/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzgyNDQ2NDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzgzODI4Nzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3ODI0NDY0MDAsImp0aSI6IjI2ZDk4NDMzLTBiNDAtNDE0My04YzM4LWE3ZGIyMzgzMGNjYiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9yZWxpZ2lvbi8yMDI2LzA2LzI2L3RydW1wcy1yZWxpZ2lvdXMtbGliZXJ0eS1jb21taXNzaW9uLXRha2VzLWFpbS1jaHVyY2gtc3RhdGUtc2VwYXJhdGlvbi8ifQ.ih9prgbG1Pq1V1_dR4dLW7MbOM2Z8s6rNN3Rq11EvTw&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/260626/p117#a260626p117

Execs are confused: we forced you to use all these powerful AI tools and yet our profits aren't 10x! What gives?
Individual productivity is always downstream of strategy. And the same "more, faster!" attitude that creates incremental improvements in delivery speed means that leaders rush through strategy formation.
If the tasks don't add up to anything meaningful, no amount of model improvements will help you.

Even with a silver bullet, you still have to aim
Productivity gains among frontline employees can't counteract the abdication of responsibility at the executive level.

I donated again to Develop Africa to support students in Sierra Leone. This time to help fund a new solar system for their main office computer training center
https://www.developafrica.org/about-develop-africa
"we provide education, child sponsorship, leadership d…

House Speaker Mike Johnson is hoping to get all of his members on board a new reconciliation package and pass it next week.
House Republican leaders released the text of their $95 billion third reconciliation bill on Wednesday morning and aim to pass it next week.
The bill provides $10 billion to the House Administration Committee to give in grants to implement the SAVE Act -- a voter ID bill that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote.
It directs $60 bill…

House Republicans Outline $95 Billion Reconciliation Package
The proposal includes money for defense and provisions to require proof of citizenship when registering to vote.

George Kittle, Nick Bosa traveling to Australia as 49ers stars aim to return for Week 1 vs. Rams, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/george-kittle-nick-bosa-49ers-rams-austra…

If the real aim were to cut emissions, we would push fossil fuel use in the electricity sector down to zero, and scale up renewables and battery storage instead. The net effect? Much lower climate impacts and much lower bills. Instead, the programme will greatly ramp up both. Why?
https://w…

The great carbon capture con: behold the wasted billions Burnham could claw back
There are far better ways to tackle climate breakdown, but successive governments have chosen to listen to the fossil fuel companies instead, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Person Hides Prompt Injection in Legal Filing Telling AI to Side With Them https://www.404media.co/person-hides-prompt-injection-in-legal-filing-telling-ai-to-side-with-them/

Visual form matching supports arithmetic across visual and auditory modalities https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00426-026-02362-x

Visual form matching supports arithmetic across visual and auditory modalities - Psychological Research
Arithmetic computation is ubiquitous in daily life and occurs in both visual and auditory modalities. Visual form matching, as a key visual perceptual ability, serves as an important cognitive basis for arithmetic ability, but its role in auditory arithmetic tasks remains unclear. The primary aim of this study was to examine whether the association between visual form matching and arithmetic processing is influenced by the presentation modality. A sample of 241 undergraduates from China (109 ma…

#today is the TTK Energy Group meeting, which gets me out of the house and walking, then I aim to get back on #research ...
It will be hot again today (>30C) as the last couple of days and the next week or so.

"When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!"
—Chuck Norris
#acting #coaching

Sorry this is a link to the bird site, but this is a very good short commentary from Ben Wray and worth your time:
https://x.com/Ben_Wray1989/status/2084235921885364469?s=20

Ben Wray (@Ben_Wray1989) on X
Renewed my residency today. I'm an immigrant, but not the sort that's subject to scapegoating and demonisation. Ceuta is exemplar of how the powerful manipulate the desperate for their own interests. We should aim our ire towards the elites, & show solidarity with the migrants.

FCC takes aim at Disney's push for public support amid regulatory probes (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fcc-takes-aim-disney-push-public-support-the-view-rcna351251
http://www.memeorandum.com/260623/p64#a260623p64

Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission takes aim at church-state separation
The Trump administration took aim at the separation of church and state Friday,
issuing a draft report from the "president’s Religious Liberty Commission"
that says the separation concept is a legal error
and that Americans should view religion as an “essential support”
and always remember “the Creator who made us and bestows our rights.”
The 224-page report recommended the…

Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission takes aim at church-state separation
The report recommends the Justice Department issue guidance to promote “an originalist understanding” of how the Constitution sees religion and government.

Fox Corp. extends its partnership with iSpot to include data that tells sponsors whether ads resulted in meaningful outcomes, such as a movie ticket purchase (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/fox-ispot-measurement-partnership-o…

Fox, iSpot Aim to Deliver Faster Data Tying Ads to 'Outcomes'
Fox, iSpot Aim to Deliver Faster Data Tying Ads to Business 'Outcomes'

"#Germany blames #Russia for attempted drone attack at Leipzig airport"
By — Geir Moulson, Associated Press (AP)

Germany blames Russia for attempted drone attack at Leipzig airport
Moscow has been widely accused by Western officials of running a campaign of sabotage and disruption across Europe with the aim of undermining support for Ukraine and destabilizing European nations.

Automatically describe data and models as text using the {report} package. #rstats

"When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!"
—Chuck Norris
#acting #coaching

Fascist Paramilitary weaponize vehicle, aim their car at legal observer (Trenton, NJ, 8/4/26)
Source:
#ice

Samsung debuts Samsung Galaxy Card, its first-ever US credit card, a Visa from Barclays; it offers 5% rewards for purchases directly from Samsung (John Velasco/Tom's Guide)
https://www.tomsguide.com/phones/samsung-p

Samsung Galaxy Card takes aim at Apple Card with way more perks and rewards — here’s what you get
You get 5% rewards when you buy stuff directly from Samsung

A New Gaming GPU Challenger: Bolt Graphics Takes Aim at NVIDIA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fZM9wOvbh0

For my latest article for Inquirer.net, I decided to talk about something light and fun and it is the daily puzzle game #Gerrymandle. Your aim in the game is to create electoral districts so that your political party wins more districts than other parties.

Gerrymandle: A fun way to steal elections
MANILA, Philippines - Do you still play Wordle, that viral word game that came out in 2021 then got bought by The New York Times in 2022? I still solve Wordle every day—on hard mode!—and have

So I'm getting close to finish all the "most official" #Doom expansions. There's of course a lot more Doom engine games to play (plus Doom 64, for which I need to figure out a good way to play it). Wondering if I should aim for Duke Nukem 3D engine games next for a change.
#games

Taste and nutritional needs in space are different than those on Earth,
and researchers are trying to develop preservation methods and food production systems that address those requirements.
New systems will need to safely integrate with the habitat’s life-support system;
These technologies could also help address food insecurity on Earth.

A reminder that if you ever see Chris Rufo in person, throw something wet at him. A sugary drink, a rotten tomato.. really, whatever you have on hand. Aim for his smarmy, transphobe face.

RE: https://corteximplant.com/@revengeday/116851393554189784
Long thread, so here’s a short version:
When Bandcamp (or any platform) goes awful, don’t aim your pitchforks at the people relying on that platform who are now caught in the middle. If you’re going to punch, aim first.
My own thoughts below. 🧵

DFW Airport scraps controversial Islamic foot-washing station plan as Texas Gov Abbott takes aim (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dfw-airport-scraps-controversial-islamic-footwashing-station-plan-texas-gov-abbott-takes-aim
http://www.memeorandum.com/260814/p104#a260814p104

Idrottsvetenskap/träningsstudier är ett forskningsfält med studier som i genomsnitt är ganska dåliga. Evidens nr femtioelva https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40279-026-02451-2

The Uptake of Preregistration, and Its Impact on the Proportion of Supported Hypotheses, in Sports Science - Sports Medicine
Background The proportion of studies with results supporting their hypotheses has been implausibly high in sports science, suggesting the widespread presence of questionable research practices (QRPs). Preregistration is recommended to mitigate QRPs. Objectives The aim of this study was to evaluate the uptake of preregistration in sports science journals, and its association with the proportion of supported hypotheses. The influence of journal quartile on these factors was also examined. Differe…

Draft: the Trump admin plans to use the UN General Assembly to push a global "freedom of expression" declaration that EU lawmakers call an attack on tech rules (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-admi…

Trump administration will push ‘free speech’ declaration at UN that takes aim at European tech regulation
The White House and Republican party allies have repeatedly attacked EU rules that govern online platforms as censorship. Now they want the world to put the critique into writing.

The environmental dependence of the circumgalactic medium in a high-resolution cosmological simulation
Georg Herzog, Rajeshwari Dutta, Michele Fumagalli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.08654 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.08654 https://arxiv.org/html/2609.08654
arXiv:2609.08654v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: There is increasing evidence from observations that the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of galaxies depends on the large-scale structure in which they are embedded. When probing the CGM in absorption using quasar sightlines, studies find an enhanced sky coverage in the CGM of galaxies in overdensities compared to galaxies in isolation. However, the exact reason for this environmental dependence is still unclear. In this work we aim to model for the first time the influence of the large-scale structure on the cool and warm ($T\sim10^{4-5}$ K) gas phases of the CGM. We use a high-resolution ($m_{gas}\approx 4.5\times 10^4$ M$_{\odot}$, $m_{dm}\approx 2.4\times 10^5$ M$_{\odot}$) cosmological simulation based on the EAGLE model of galaxy formation. We select all galaxies at $z=0$ with stellar mass $M_*>10^8$ M$_\odot$ and split them into galaxies in overdensities (group galaxies) and galaxies in isolation using a Friends-of-Friends algorithm. For these two samples, we investigate how the large-scale structure influences the physical properties of the CGM and the measured covering fractions of the cool and warm gas phases. When the two samples of group and isolated galaxies are matched in stellar mass, halo mass, and we use only central galaxies, we do not find any significant difference in the physical properties of the CGM and the measured covering fractions. However, when satellite galaxies are included, we recover the observational trends in the difference of covering fractions with the environment. The difficulty of recovering the observational trends shows the complexity of capturing the multiphase CGM in simulations. However, since our results concerning the admixture of satellites are independent of the employed subgrid physics, this work shows that central galaxies and satellites need to be disentangled in observational studies to clearly discern the role of the environment on the CGM.
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Draft: the Trump admin plans to use the UN General Assembly to push a global "freedom of expression" declaration that EU lawmakers call an attack on tech rules (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-admi…

Trump administration will push ‘free speech’ declaration at UN that takes aim at European tech regulation
The White House and Republican party allies have repeatedly attacked EU rules that govern online platforms as censorship. Now they want the world to put the critique into writing.

University of Leiden @… will soon have their #africa maps collection online
"(re)Mapping Africa: Colonial cartography collection soon ready for search"

Now this would have been fun to do in the early 1960s. Take the X-15's XLR99 rocket engine, throttle it way down, then open it up for the land speed record. Aim first at 700, then 800, then Mach 1.

The Campaign Legal Center (CLC),
a nonprofit whose stated aim is to defend democracy,
has filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE)
regarding monetary “gifts” from Donald Trump to a handful of White House staffers.
Trump made payments of $45,000 each to Natalie Harp, his doting executive assistant who rarely leaves his side;
Chamberlain Harris,
his deputy director of Oval Office operations;
and Margo Martin,
a Wh…

Ethics Complaint Filed Over Trump’s Cash Gifts to Natalie Harp, 3 Other Staffers
The complaint alleges that there is a “legitimate question” whether Trump is paying staffers for their loyalty.

AI-based single-shot structured-light depth reconstruction for real-time laparoscopic surgical guidance
Wayne Wonseok Rodgers, Xiangyi Le, Seonghoon Jang, Shuwen Wei, Justin Opfermann, Michael Kam, Axel Krieger, Jin U. Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05109 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.05109 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.05109
arXiv:2608.05109v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Significance. Accurate intraoperative depth perception is important for autonomous and semi-autonomous robotic laparoscopic surgery. Conventional fringe projection profilometry can achieve millimeter-scale accuracy but often requires multi-shot acquisition, digital-micromirror-device projection, and projector-camera synchronization, complicating integration into compact laparoscopic systems.
Aim. To develop a synchronization-free, single-shot depth-sensing platform using a passive LED-illuminated binary mask and a VQ-VAE prior with a custom U-Net depth head.
Approach. A compact projection module was coupled to one channel of a dual-channel laparoscope, while the second channel imaged the fringe-illuminated target. A Zivid 3D camera acquired reference depth for 722 paired phantom images. Zivid depth maps were reprojected into the SSLE image frame for supervised training and evaluation. The VQ-VAE encoded each input into a discrete latent representation, and a latent-space U-Net predicted depth without a separate mask-prediction branch.
Results. Using a fixed train/validation/test split, the proposed model achieved an MAE of 3.70 mm, AbsRel of 0.0326, delta=1.1 accuracy of 0.962, and delta=1.1^2 accuracy of 0.970. It achieved lower MAE than the dual U-Net MaskNet DepthNet baseline and outperformed off-the-shelf monocular depth models in MAE, AbsRel, and threshold accuracy. The pipeline operated at 26.0 Hz over 301 consecutive frames on an NVIDIA A100 GPU.
Conclusions. The LED-illuminated binary-pattern platform with latent-space depth reconstruction enables synchronization-free, video-rate endoscopic depth estimation. Results demonstrate Zivid-referenced phantom reconstruction without an explicit segmentation stage, while emphasizing the importance of dataset size and SSLE-Zivid calibration accuracy.
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The global AI boom has thrust CPUs back into the spotlight as Nvidia, Qualcomm, MediaTek, and others challenge Intel and AMD in the AI data center CPU market (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/tech-asia/why-cpus-are-n…

Why CPUs are now at the center of the AI race
US chipmakers lead, but China players aim to increase local market share

"When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!"
—Chuck Norris
#acting #coaching

Microsoft, Amazon and Google’s collective carbon emissions
have increased by nearly a fifth in the past year,
driven largely by datacentre construction.
In the financial year ending March 2026, the three tech companies emitted
119m mTCO₂e (metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent),
or about a third of those of France.
The previous year, they emitted roughly 101m mTCO₂e,
roughly equivalent to the 2024 emissions of Czechia.
The US companies’ cl…

Datacentres drive up big tech’s carbon emissions to a third of those of France
Microsoft, Amazon and Google say they still aim to achieve net zero output despite construction boom

"Before tourists can see bonobos, trackers must earn their trust"
#Bonobos #Animals

Before tourists can see bonobos, trackers must earn their trust
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In Salonga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, researchers and trackers are working to habituate a group of about 60 bonobos. The aim is to help the great apes accept a limited human presence, first for […]

HD Media of Charleston, WV, has agreed to acquire 25 community newspapers serving Indiana and Ohio from AIM Media Management, effective September 1 (The Daily Reporter)
https://www.greenfieldreporter.com/2026/08/19/hd-media-to-acquire-a…

Trump takes aim at nursing home residents in latest voting crackdown - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-voting-2677706832/

Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary e-Journal: Call for Pappers
https://ift.tt/B8XA7lb
H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Africa: 9 August - 16 August H-Net Job Guide 08/24/2026 -…
via Input 4 RELCFP

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Aim:
🎵 True to Hip-Hop (feat. AG)
#Aim
https://aim1970.bandcamp.com/track/true-to-hip-hop-remastered
https://open.spotify.com/track/22CNT4gTsTtXB0lPWzBDY1

"When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!"
—Chuck Norris
#acting #coaching

Brandon Herrera, who is the GOP candidate for Texas’s 23rd congressional district, has made a string of insults while fashioning a rightwing online persona as the “AK Guy”, and hosts a YouTube channel with more than 4 million subscribers that tests and reviews firearms.
The comments, first reported by CNN, include Herrera taking aim at people he opposes politically, and women. In a 2023 video, he said that a gun range dummy’s empty head was “full of mush – much like the average Austin …

Katy Padilla Stout - EMILYs List
A Champion for Texas Families Katy Padilla Stout is a lifelong Texan, wife, mother, attorney, and former public school teacher…

PhantomSeal: Proactive Deepfakes Defense with Identity/Context Protection and Forensic Tracing
Liangqin Ren, Zeyan Liu, Ye Wang, Yuxin Chen, Fengjun Li, Bo Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20564 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20564 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.20564
arXiv:2607.20564v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Deepfakes, especially face-swapping attacks, pose significant challenges to authenticity, security, and ethics across science, engineering, and society. While most existing detection/tracing approaches operate post hoc, proactive defenses that aim to intervene before deepfake generation remain limited in terms of real-world effectiveness. In this paper, we present PhantomSeal, the first proactive defense to simultaneously protect both the identity and the context of users' images from being used in face-swapping attacks, while supporting forensic tracing. We present a novel cloaking technique that embeds a selected identity as a stealthy identifier. This mechanism steers the deepfake generation process toward producing content that resembles the chosen cloak identity, thereby preventing successful face-swapping while enabling effective feature-based forensic analysis. The effectiveness and robustness of PhantomSeal is demonstrated in extensive experiments across different face-swapping architectures and models. For example, it reduces the attack success rate of SimSwap, an advanced deepfake model, to 0.30%, and correctly identifies 97.97% of manipulated content. Codes can be found at https://github.com/LiangqinRen/PhantomSeal
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DataAgent, which is developing AI agents that autonomously fix failures inside companies' own cloud infrastructure, emerges from stealth with a $10M pre-seed (CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/h1vdhnvoge

DataAgent emerges from stealth with $10 million pre-Seed to build self-healing infrastructure
The Israeli startup is taking aim at the cost and complexity of observability by putting autonomous agents directly inside production environments. 

Big Companies Aim to Ease A.I. Transition for American Workers (Lydia DePillis/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/business/economy/ai-work-force-training-job-losses.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260625/p121#a260625p121

Politico plans to launch a global app, offering personalized content from all of its free and paywalled journalism from the US and Europe, by the end of 2026 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

How Politico has boosted AI innovation by moving to one headless CMS
Politico is changing the tech it runs on to Sanity CMS with the aim of being more global and more innovative.

The Federal Communications Commission on Monday blasted Disney’s push for public support amid the agency’s probes of “The View” and ABC’s broadcast licenses,
the latest development in Disney’s growing standoff with regulators.
The FCC, under Trump-appointed Chair Brendan Carr, said in February that it was looking into whether “The View” violated equal-time rules
after an appearance by James Talarico, the Democratic candidate in November’s U.S. Senate race in Texas.
…

FCC takes aim at Disney’s push for public support amid regulatory probes
ABC stations aired spots urging viewers to contact the FCC and support the network in its fight against the agency, saying its actions threaten free speech.

This year's Defcon badges include Baochip-1x, an open source chip whose security is verifiable and that can also be used as a hardware security token (Kim Zetter/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/defcon-34-badge-baochip-andrew-bunnie-huang/

The New Defcon Badges Pack a Unique Open Source Chip That Doubles as a Security Key
Created by legendary hardware hacker Andrew “bunnie” Huang, the badges for this year’s famed security conference aim to push the boundaries of security and transparency.

One month after the United States supreme court struck down his first attempt to restrict the guarantee of birthright citizenship enshrined in the US constitution,
Donald ⁠Trumpsigned ⁠executive orders on Thursday that aim to deny ⁠US citizenship to children born in the United States to so-called “birth tourists”.
The ‌orders, which have not yet been made public, apparently expand the definitions of children the White House deems ineligible ⁠for birthright citizenship
and s…

Trump signs executive orders in effort to limit US birthright citizenship and target so-called ‘birth tourists’– live
Pair of orders come month after supreme court struck down administration’s earlier attempt to place restrictions on birthright citizenship enshrined in US constitution

Investigation: YouTuber Caleb Chan appears to be behind channels using AI-assisted scripts and paid actors to publish political clickbait targeting Democrats (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/02/2026

Exclusive: Paid actors, AI writing: How a new kind of video business cashed in on America’s divided politics
‘Ghost creators’ are reaching millions of viewers with nearly identical, sensationalized videos that take aim at Democrats.

The conservative writer taking aim at Newsom's green agenda (Camille Von Kaenel/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/23/chris-rufo-conservative-gavin-newsom-california-green-bureaucracy-00971300
http://www.memeorandum.com/260623/p72#a260623p72

Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary e-Journal: Call for Pappers
https://ift.tt/DK7x3Ce
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Tehran has set out a protracted negotiating timetable
designed to keep Donald Trump embroiled in the Iran conflict until the midterm elections,
in the hope of inflicting the same ruinous blow on his presidency
as Jimmy Carter suffered over the 1979-81 US embassy hostage crisis.
For many inside Iran, inflicting meaningful revenge on Trump is a legitimate and self-standing war aim,
reflected in the mood of those attending the funeral of the supreme leader Ali Kham…

Iran plots to deal Trump a blow in midterms by keeping him entangled in war
By dragging out talks, Tehran aims to damage the US president politically – but some fear a bruised and weakened Trump could lash back

OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon, Microsoft, and others launch Raise Us, a new non-profit led by ex-Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo to help US workers adapt to AI (Lydia DePillis/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/business/economy/ai-work-…

Big Companies Aim to Ease A.I. Transition for American Workers
OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon and Microsoft have signed on to an effort led by Gina Raimondo, a former commerce secretary.

There is no question that we are reaching peak cyber news overload, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--OpenAI’s Astra crosses the critical cyber threshold,
--Anthropic splits one model into two,
--Global crackdown sinks Sality botnet,
--AI agent swarm’s hack was a warning shot,
--Lenovo flaw opened 5,000 Dropbox accounts,
--FBI probes sale of ID scans for 170m N. Americans,
--ShinyHunters voice-phishes banking tech leader Jack Henry,
--Russian charged with infecting thousands of freelancers,
--Silver Fox hides malware behind fake downloads,
--Novocure breach exposes cancer patient records,
--Pocket Bitcoin breach links identities to transactions,
--Critical Artifactory flaw faces active attacks,
--Cyberattack disrupts Maryland health system,
--Researcher drops Kaspersky zero-day,
--SonicWall zero-days chained in attacks,
--Hackers breach Philippine nuclear and naval targets,
--Phishers weaponize Faronics to deploy ScreenConnect,
--FBI warns attackers target high-profile people and their connections,
--House extends cyber information-sharing law,
--Canadian mayor sues over data breach allegations,
--Judge questions venue for Coupang breach suit,
--AIR Security raises $50m,
--Norway takes aim at pervert glasses,
--Snap makes pervert glasses even pricier
https://www.metacurity.com/openais-astra-crosses-the-critical-cyber-threshold/

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Trump has criticised oil companies for “making too much money” from the global energy market disruption caused by his war on Iran.
Brent crude had been trading at about $70 (£52) a barrel before the first US-Israeli strikes at the end of February,
but by the end of April it had soared as high as $126 and is now trading at about $85 a barrel.
The US president took aim at the windfall profits revealed last week by ExxonMobil and Chevron, and said the companies would “give som…

Trump accuses oil companies of ‘making too much money’ from his war on Iran
US president hits out at ExxonMobil and Chevron, saying they should ‘give some of that back to the public’

Lawmakers Aim to Finish Graham's Final Mission: Russia Sanctions (Joe Gould/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/congress/lindsey-graham-russia-sanctions-bill
http://www.memeorandum.com/260714/p27#a260714p27

Sources: Anthropic's bankers said the company could raise $100B in its IPO, which could value it at $2T, in recent discussions with potential investors (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/technol

Anthropic Could Aim to Raise $100 Billion in Blockbuster I.P.O.
The offering could value the five-year-old A.I. start-up at $2 trillion, its bankers have told potential investors, which would exceed Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

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AMD plans to ship Helios, its first rack-scale AI system to rival Nvidia, later in 2026 to Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and others; Helios costs an estimated $5M (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/20/amd-helios-microsoft-ai-nvidia.html

AMD launches Helios, its first rack AI system to rival Nvidia, adding Microsoft as newest buyer
AMD is taking aim at Nvidia with Helios, its first AI rack system, and has landed Microsoft as a new customer, joining Meta, OpenAI and Oracle.

BART Online Open-Source Sequence Toolbox for Computational MRI
Daniel Mackner, Philip Schaten, Markus Huemer, Viktoria Buchegger, Moritz Blumenthal, Xiaoqing Wang, Martin Uecker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19099 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.19099 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.19099
arXiv:2607.19099v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Purpose In advanced computational MRI techniques, acquisition and reconstruction techniques are jointly designed. For reproducibility, it is therefore important to provide an open implementation of both. At the same time, any use in a clinical environment usually requires a close integration with the MRI scanner. Ensuring long-time reproducibility and maintenance then poses additional challenges. In this work, we aim to provide a fully integrated open-source framework that can meet these demands.
Methods A software framework to develop pulse sequences is added to the BART toolbox. In addition, a vendor-specific driver sequence is developed that can be used to run the sequence on a clinical MRI scanner enabling online adjustment of all relevant sequence parameters. Using the Pulseq format, the exact same sequence can also be reproduced offline. As proof-of-concept, quantitative MRI methods for T1 and joint water/fat R2*, B0 mapping using radial FLASH and model-based reconstruction are implemented in the proposed framework. Consistency between online and offline acquisition is validated in phantom and in vivo experiments.
Results Quantitative MRI methods consisting of acquisition and reconstruction were successfully implemented in BART. Acquisition parameters and FOV can be adapted online on a clinical MRI system. Quantitative parameter maps from model-based reconstruction agree for online and offline regenerated Pulseq acquisitions.
Conclusion This work enables reproducibility of advanced computational MRI methods within a comprehensive end-to-end open-source framework.
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The New Canadian Tariffs
take aim at big industries,
like aluminum and steel,
in addition to smaller ones located in states with closely watched midterm elections
The Canadian tariffs were designed to protect domestic companies hit by a fresh set of hefty U.S. tariffs
and to sting Donald Trump and his Republican Party
as they head into a difficult midterm election in November

Trump Gives Green Light to U.S. Companies to Aim Hacks at Cybercriminals (Dustin Volz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/us/politics/trump-private-companies-hacking-cybercriminals.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260813/p79#a260813p79

Newly disclosed records reveal how undercover federal agents posed as concerned community members
to spy on residents and activists who opposed Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) crackdown in Minnesota.
Internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) files, document the actions of several undercover agents,
including one who went by the username “peanutbutterjelly” in Signal chats with activists.
The documents show that the officer kept records of Signal conve…

Revealed: How undercover agents spied on anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota
One agent’s aim was to ‘gather intelligence regarding any organized networks of conspirators’

When the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson,
the landmark case overturning Roe v. Wade,
it marked a turning point in the lives of millions of Americans.
It was also the culmination of a decades-long movement whose grievances were embodied by the man who wrote the court’s opinion:
Samuel Anthony Alito Jr.
This is a man driven to push boundaries and mold ideas.
His aim is to right the wrongs of the past six decades, as he saw them.

"the board took aim at efforts by regulators to stifle new therapies for late-stage melanoma and Duchenne muscular dystrophy"
'Kill shots': WSJ infuriated as Trump's FDA repeats 'absurdities' to stifle medicine - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fda/

A year ago this week,
Zohran Mamdani’s surprise victory in the Democratic primary for mayor upended New York politics.
Now, in the closing days of another primary season,
he has thrown himself back onto the campaign trail,
this time risking his political capital in a high-stakes bid to catapult fellow leftists to primary victories against the old Democratic guard.
Mr. Mamdani and allies are attempting to unseat two Democratic incumbents,
Representatives Da…

Mamdani Burns Allies in Making a Big Bet for Congress and the Left
The strength of the mayor’s political brand will be tested on Tuesday, when his slate of leftist congressional candidates takes aim at Democratic incumbents.

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Shooting Starlink: The "no limits" partnership between Russia and China is taking aim at Elon Musk (THE INSIDER)
https://theins.press/en/inv/294635
http://www.memeorandum.com/260709/p113#a260709p113

House takes aim at powerful legal bar group with probe into law school DEI (John Solomon/JusttheNews.com)
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/mona-house-takes-aim-powerful-legal-bar-group-probe-law-school-dei
http://www.memeorandum.com/260721/p8#a260721p8

U.S. sanctions Iranian airlines in aim to tighten economic squeeze as war spreads, oil rises (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/08/us-sanctions-iran-airlines-oil-economy-war.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260908/p62#a260908p62

With a Gerrymander Vanquished, Wisconsin Democrats Aim for Control (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/us/politics/wisconsin-legislature-democrats.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260907/p3#a260907p3

New on #blog: "How hard is it to get a jobserver client right?"
"""
In November 2025, I’ve started working on #steve, the #jobserver for #Gentoo. I wrote about it already, in the “One jobserver to rule them all” post. Back then, my main focus was on the motivation for a system-wide jobserver, and the technical details of getting it working. I have also mentioned a few client bugs we’ve discovered along the way.
Since then, we’ve found a few more bugs, as well as problematic design patterns. I think they’re kind of interesting, so I’ve decided to dedicate this post specifically to them. As a disclaimer, my aim is not to pick on specific projects; I’m bringing them up as real examples of what we’ve hit, and how that impacts jobserver operation.
"""
https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2026/09/02/how-hard-is-it-to-get-a-jobserver-client-right/

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott takes aim at Muslim washing stations in airports (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/08/20/fight-over-airport-washing-stations-is-latest-anti-muslim-salvo-gop/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260820/p35#a260820p35