Press freedom groups are warning that the arrests of two independent journalists,
including the veteran former CNN anchor Don Lemon,
signal a chilling new crackdown on US media by the Trump administration.
Lemon was taken into custody on Thursday night by federal agents in Los Angeles,
despite a magistrate judge declining to sign off on charges against him a week ago
in connection with a protest at a Minnesota church against violent government immigration enforc…
Former CNN anchor Don Lemon arrested after anti-ICE protests at Minnesota church
Pam Bondi, Donald Trump’s attorney general, alleges that
Lemon was involved in a ‘coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota’.
Lemon was among the reporters who covered a protest against the immigration crackdown at the church
where an official with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency is a pastor.
A magistrate judge in Minnesota had declined last wee…
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"Trump told right-wing anchor Katie Pavlich on NewsNation, “I don’t think it is [time to invoke it] yet. It might be at some point. **It does make life a lot easier. You don’t go through the court system. It’s just a much easier thing to do.**”
Trump just let slip the real reason he wants to use the Insurrection Act: analyst - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-insurrection-act-2674975261/
LoD-Structured 3D Gaussian Splatting for Streaming Video Reconstruction
Xinhui Liu, Can Wang, Lei Liu, Zhenghao Chen, Wei Jiang, Wei Wang, Dong Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18475 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.18475 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.18475
arXiv:2601.18475v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Free-Viewpoint Video (FVV) reconstruction enables photorealistic and interactive 3D scene visualization; however, real-time streaming is often bottlenecked by sparse-view inputs, prohibitive training costs, and bandwidth constraints. While recent 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has advanced FVV due to its superior rendering speed, Streaming Free-Viewpoint Video (SFVV) introduces additional demands for rapid optimization, high-fidelity reconstruction under sparse constraints, and minimal storage footprints. To bridge this gap, we propose StreamLoD-GS, an LoD-based Gaussian Splatting framework designed specifically for SFVV. Our approach integrates three core innovations: 1) an Anchor- and Octree-based LoD-structured 3DGS with a hierarchical Gaussian dropout technique to ensure efficient and stable optimization while maintaining high-quality rendering; 2) a GMM-based motion partitioning mechanism that separates dynamic and static content, refining dynamic regions while preserving background stability; and 3) a quantized residual refinement framework that significantly reduces storage requirements without compromising visual fidelity. Extensive experiments demonstrate that StreamLoD-GS achieves competitive or state-of-the-art performance in terms of quality, efficiency, and storage.
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Welp. That was a long night.
Good news: my last box on Debian Bookworm has been updated, I'm now 100% Trixie, both bare metal and VMs.
And the prodigal scope is back from the LeCroy service center after what feels like several months of downtime between waiting for friends to help me rack/unrack the 70 pound boat anchor and shipping back and forth.
Turns out there were multiple failed internal power supplies, both on the acquisition board and the top level system PSU, p…
MAGA revolt: Kelly, Prince, and Greene's unedited attacks against Trump aired on CNN - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/anchor-blindsided-as-cnn/
What are Out-of-band Application Security Testing (OAST) domains? Out-of-band application security testing (OAST) is a method for finding exploitable vulnerabilities in a web application by forcing a target to call back to a piece of infrastructure controlled by the tester. OAST domains (sub-domains most often) are often free and hosted by OAST tool providers like interact.sh. What happens when something is free on the Internet? It gets abused.
Let’s make tOAST of the most commonly ab…
Today in “If My Newscast Could Use Illustrative B-Roll From #HeatedRivalry “…
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FOR THE MOST PART - CIGARETTE SMOKING IS DECLINING, OR BECOMING LESS POPULAR, IN THE UNITED STATES.
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Moments after Trump finished taping a 13-minute interview on Tuesday
with the “CBS Evening News” anchor Tony Dokoupil in Michigan,
Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, approached Mr. Dokoupil and his colleagues to convey a message from the president.
“He said, ‘Make sure you guys don’t cut the tape, make sure the interview is out in full,’”
Ms. Leavitt said in an even tone, according to a recording of the exchange obtained by The New York Times.
“Y…
👍 "Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut offered immediate push back on Sunday when CNN anchor Jake Tapper said a vote against an expected $50 billion request by President Donald Trump to fund his attack on Iran would be seen as “voting against the troops.”"
‘Oh, come on!’ Senate Dem pushes back on CNN after being hit for opposing Trump’s ‘war’ - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/iran-war-2675865057/
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