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The US Defense Department awards a one-year $200M contract to OpenAI to develop AI tools for addressing challenges in "warfighting and enterprise domains" (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/16/openai-wins-200-million-us-defe…

OpenAI wins $200 million U.S. defense contract
Months after announcing a partnership with defense-tech startup Anduril, OpenAI has secured a $200 million contract with the Department of Defense.

“It doesn’t get anywhere close to The Dark Side Of The Moon, but a few years ago it had clocked up 12 million sales. That’s pretty big!”: Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson on the band’s classic album — with the “bloody awful” cover https://flip.it/qgpOgk?utm_source=dlvr.it&am…

“It doesn’t get anywhere close to The Dark Side Of The Moon, but a few years ago it had clocked up 12 million sales. That’s pretty big!”: Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson on the band’s classic album — with the “bloody awful” cover
And no - it's not a concept album!

Layered tree-independence number and clique-based separators
Cl\'ement Dallard, Martin Milani\v{c}, Andrea Munaro, Shizhou Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12424

Layered tree-independence number and clique-based separators
Motivated by a question of Galby, Munaro, and Yang (SoCG 2023) asking whether every graph class of bounded layered tree-independence number admits clique-based separators of sublinear weight, we investigate relations between layered tree-independence number, weight of clique-based separators, clique cover degeneracy and independence degeneracy. In particular, we provide a number of results bounding these parameters on geometric intersection graphs. For example, we show that the layered tree-ind…

Model Context Protocol (MCP) at First Glance: Studying the Security and Maintainability of MCP Servers
Mohammed Mehedi Hasan, Hao Li, Emad Fallahzadeh, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13538

Model Context Protocol (MCP) at First Glance: Studying the Security and Maintainability of MCP Servers
Although Foundation Models (FMs), such as GPT-4, are increasingly used in domains like finance and software engineering, reliance on textual interfaces limits these models' real-world interaction. To address this, FM providers introduced tool calling-triggering a proliferation of frameworks with distinct tool interfaces. In late 2024, Anthropic introduced the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to standardize this tool ecosystem, which has become the de facto standard with over eight million weekly SD…

Generalist Models in Medical Image Segmentation: A Survey and Performance Comparison with Task-Specific Approaches
Andrea Moglia (Politecnico di Milano), Matteo Leccardi (Politecnico di Milano), Matteo Cavicchioli (Politecnico di Milano), Alice Maccarini (Universit\`a di Pavia), Marco Marcon (Politecnico di Milano), Luca Mainardi (Politecnico di Milano), Pietro Cerveri (Politecnico di Milano, Universit\`a di Pavia)

Generalist Models in Medical Image Segmentation: A Survey and Performance Comparison with Task-Specific Approaches
Following the successful paradigm shift of large language models, leveraging pre-training on a massive corpus of data and fine-tuning on different downstream tasks, generalist models have made their foray into computer vision. The introduction of Segment Anything Model (SAM) set a milestone on segmentation of natural images, inspiring the design of a multitude of architectures for medical image segmentation. In this survey we offer a comprehensive and in-depth investigation on generalist models…

Henry Clay Frick was a union buster

In 1892, he hired hundreds of Pinkerton detectives
— a private army of thugs with guns
— to quell a strike against a Pennsylvania steel mill.
Ten men were killed, dozens injured, and the situation became so inflamed that the state militia was called in to break the workers’ resistance.
Frick, who made a fortune supplying the coal derivative known as coke
to Andrew Carnegie’s steel company, where Frick later served…

At the Frick, a grand Gilded Age collection shows its intimate side
A five-year, $220-million expansions has transformed the Frick, without changing anything fundamental to the experience.

EUNIS Habitat Maps: Enhancing Thematic and Spatial Resolution for Europe through Machine Learning
Sara Si-Moussi, Stephan Hennekens, Sander M\"ucher, Wanda De Keersmaecker, Milan Chytr\'y, Emiliano Agrillo, Fabio Attorre, Idoia Biurrun, Gianmaria Bonari, Andra\v{z} \v{C}arni, Renata \'Cu\v{s}terevska, Tetiana Dziuba, Klaus Ecker, Behl\"ul G\"uler, Ute Jandt, Borja Jim\'enez-Alfaro, Jonathan Lenoir, Jens-Christian Svenning, Grzegorz Swacha, Wilfried Thuiller

EUNIS Habitat Maps: Enhancing Thematic and Spatial Resolution for Europe through Machine Learning
The EUNIS habitat classification is crucial for categorising European habitats, supporting European policy on nature conservation and implementing the Nature Restoration Law. To meet the growing demand for detailed and accurate habitat information, we provide spatial predictions for 260 EUNIS habitat types at hierarchical level 3, together with independent validation and uncertainty analyses. Using ensemble machine learning models, together with high-resolution satellite imagery and ecologica…

Vikings ink TE Oliver to 3-yr., $23.25M extension https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45485798/vikings-sign-te-josh-oliver-3-year-2325-contract-extension

"Hur många ska falla i detta tysta spel?
Hur många ska offras i ett system som är fel?
Vi är människor, inte papper i ett kontor"
Ander Barylai från Paris, om varför han inte vill skickas tillbaka till Sverige. https://www.dn.se/insandare/jag-vill-inte-

Insändare. Jag vill inte tillbaka till helvetet i Sverige
Ander Barylai, asylsökande från Afghanistan: EU:s flyktingpolitik visar sitt omänskliga ansikte när man som ung asylsökande bollas mellan medlemsländerna.

The Trump administration’s cancellation of $766 million in contracts to develop mRNA vaccines against potential pandemic flu viruses -- is the latest blow -- to national defense, former health security officials said.
They warned that the U.S. could be at the mercy of other countries in the next pandemic.
“The administration’s actions are gutting our deterrence from biological threats,” said Beth Cameron, a senior adviser to the Brown University Pandemic Center
"we are…

In Axing mRNA Contract, Trump Delivers Another Blow to US Biosecurity, Former Officials Say - KFF Health News
The Trump administration is eroding national pandemic flu defenses as it guts health agencies, cuts research and health budgets, and withdraws funding for bird flu vaccines, health security experts said.