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The Trump DOJ has no right to seize Michigan's voter data,
the 6th Circuit's majority rules,
in alignment with every district court to have considered the question.
https://bsky.app/profile/klasfeldreports.com/post/3mp2stnztbj2d

Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com)
Blistering rebuke of Harmeet Dhillon's nationwide voter-data grab from the Sixth Circuit—with an opinion opening that it turns the Civil Rights Act on its head "to ensure that some people have not voted." Uninterrupted record of defeat for Trump's ex-election lawyer turned AAG. buff.ly/ql5mXBb

« Once an organisation accepts that the difficult software will be bought elsewhere, internal teams slowly lose the habit of building. Procurement becomes a substitute for strategy. Legal review becomes a substitute for leadership. Risk management becomes a substitute for execution. »
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Sovereignty Is Engineered, Not Procured
Personal webpage of Alexandre Dulaunoy - from information security to open source and art

I'll be getting my main laptop back soon, on which—for reasons that aren't relevant here—I've had to temporarily install Windows.
Now I'm faced with the dilemma of choosing a distro. Since my ThinkPad runs Arch Linux, I'm wondering if it's time to reinstall Fedora.
What I do know for sure is that it's time to give Wayland and Hyprland a try, after years of using i3wm.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Linda ovrebo, Anna Einarsson, Johannes Mannov, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Alessandro De Marchi, Anders J. Dahlin & Oslo kammerkor:
🎵 Magnificat in D major Wq 215
#Lindaovrebo #AnnaEinarsson
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Eccentricity-Constrained CNN Training Reveals Adaptive Information Coding Around the Visual Field
Dylan M. Diaz, Margaret M. Henderson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19316 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.19316 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.19316
arXiv:2607.19316v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In the primate visual system, center-preferring cortical populations have higher spatial resolution and overlap face- and word-selective regions while periphery-preferring populations have lower spatial resolution and overlap scene-selective regions. This "eccentricity bias" may reflect differential task-relevance: central vision may better support fine-grained tasks like face recognition and reading, while peripheral vision may better support scene understanding. To test whether eccentricity-dependent coding can emerge from natural experience, we used egocentric video and eye-tracking data from the Visual Experience Dataset (VEDB). We trained ResNet-18 models using contrastive learning (SimCLR) on frames modified to isolate different eccentricities (gaze-contingent fovea-only crops, periphery-only crops, and periphery-only crops with a NeuroFovea transform applied). We evaluated downstream task performance and model alignment with human fMRI data (Natural Scenes Dataset; encoding models). In-domain VEDB frame classification showed systematic differences between fovea- and periphery-only models across categories, indicating differential informativeness across tasks. On downstream classification, VEDB-pretrained models generalized better to scene categorization (Places365) than face recognition (VGGFace2), with fovea-only models stronger on both. Across visual cortex, VEDB-pretrained models matched neural predictivity of models trained on mid-sized non-egocentric datasets (ImageNet-100), suggesting egocentric data supports emergence of cortically-aligned representations. In scene-selective cortex (PPA, RSC), periphery-only models held a small but consistent advantage in explained variance over fovea-only models, suggesting these regions are aligned with peripheral statistics. Together, these results suggest egocentric experience may adaptively constrain cortical information processing.
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"Through this letter, I would like to describe the situation that thousands of immigrants are currently living through…"
— Letter from detained immigrants in #Delaney Hall

Intel taps Alex Katouzian, an ex-Qualcomm EVP, to lead Client Computing & Physical AI group, and names Pushkar Ranade as CTO, after serving on an interim basis (Dylan Martin/CRN)
https://www.crn.com/news/components-periph

Intel Taps Top Qualcomm Exec To Lead Client Computing, Physical AI Group
Intel said Monday that it has hired a top Qualcomm executive for a new position that will have him oversee the alignment of its long-running and critical PC business with the emerging field of physical AI, which its CEO has made a priority.

Alexander #Dobrindt mal wieder beim Shake Hands und Dealen mit Kriminellen, dieses Mal Netanyahu, der wegen Kriegsverbrechen und Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit vom internationalen Strafgerichtshof gesucht wird.
Deutsche Grenzpolizei und GSG9 sollen zusammen mit Kriegsverbrechern trainieren. …genau die Vorbilder für einen Innenminister, der heute schon als überzeugter Verbrecher an unse…

Don’t Do Team Meetings
Regular team meetings are often treated as a default part of work. They are seen as a sign of coordination, alignment, and healthy communication. In practice, they often reveal the opposite.
A recurring team meeting where everyone goes around the room to explain what they did last week is usually not a good use of time. It turns communication into a performance instead of a real exchange of useful information. If the team needs a formal meeting just to lear…

Don’t Do Team Meetings
Personal webpage of Alexandre Dulaunoy - from information security to open source and art

Sovereignty Is Engineered, Not Procured
Europe often asks whether it can build a company like Palantir: a software champion capable of serving intelligence, defence, law enforcement, crisis response, cyber defence, and public-sector decision-making at scale.
The usual answer is that Europe lacks data, capital, talent, or legal room. I do not think this is the full story.
The capacity is there. The data is there. The technical talent is there. The public-sector problems are …

Sovereignty Is Engineered, Not Procured
Personal webpage of Alexandre Dulaunoy - from information security to open source and art