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A US judge dismissed Rumble's antitrust suit accusing Google of violating antitrust law by allegedly promoting YouTube in search results and its other products (Wendy Davis/MediaPost)
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/406168/

Google Defeats Rumble Antitrust Suit
Conservative video platform Rumble's antitrust claims against Google fell outside the four-year statute of limitations, a federal judge ruled.

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

{annotater}: Annotate package load calls, so we can have an idea of the overall purpose of the libraries we’re loading: #rstats

Hybrid Annotation for Propaganda Detection: Integrating LLM Pre-Annotations with Human Intelligence
Ariana Sahitaj, Premtim Sahitaj, Veronika Solopova, Jiaao Li, Sebastian M\"oller, Vera Schmitt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18343

Hybrid Annotation for Propaganda Detection: Integrating LLM Pre-Annotations with Human Intelligence
Propaganda detection on social media remains challenging due to task complexity and limited high-quality labeled data. This paper introduces a novel framework that combines human expertise with Large Language Model (LLM) assistance to improve both annotation consistency and scalability. We propose a hierarchical taxonomy that organizes 14 fine-grained propaganda techniques into three broader categories, conduct a human annotation study on the HQP dataset that reveals low inter-annotator agreeme…

Voy a compartiros el comunicado que estš difundiendo el colectivo "Villalba sin sangre"
#antitaurino #colladoVillalba

The DOJ settles its lawsuit challenging HPE's $14B acquisition of Juniper; HPE must divest Instant On and license the source code for Juniper's Mist AI software (Rishabh Jaiswal/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-doj-se

Kneeling to anti-democrats, we may have an army soon, but little left to fight for. Sharp opinion article.
"Hahaha, clever Rutte wrapped Trump around his finger."?
It's the self-deception of the weak. But Trump isn't the puppet. He's the puppet master.
https://www.volkskrant.nl/cs-beb181f5/

Knielend voor antidemocraten hebben we straks misschien wel een leger, maar weinig meer over om voor te vechten

@… Longhorn should be in the upcoming PHP Annotated right?

European Commission says Meta has proposed limited changes to its pay-or-consent ad model, and Meta faces daily fines if it determines they are not sufficient (Reuters)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

Meta will only make limited changes to pay-or-consent model, EU says
Meta Platforms made only limited changes to its pay-or-consent model, and EU regulators cannot confirm compliance with an antitrust order. The European Commission may impose periodic penalties starting June 27, if Meta continues to fail meeting the required standards.