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Newsweek acquires adtech firm Adprime, a demand-side platform focused on healthcare marketers, to strengthen its health vertical and grow B2B revenue (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/newsweek-adtech-firm-adprime-health-expansion/

Newsweek Snaps Up Adtech Firm Adprime to Fuel Health Expansion
The tie-up is part of a broader bid from the publisher to diversify its advertising

If you think AI is more about human flourishing than advertising, just look at Zuckerberg's latest earnings call: "AI will make advertising a meaningfully larger share of global GDP than it is today"
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-ai-

Sources: the FTC is investigating whether roughly a dozen advertising and advocacy groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/…

F.T.C. Investigates Ad Groups and Watchdogs, Alleging Boycott Collusion
The regulator is looking into whether roughly a dozen groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers.

Improved Byzantine Agreement under an Adaptive Adversary
Fabien Dufoulon, Gopal Pandurangan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04919 https://…

Improved Byzantine Agreement under an Adaptive Adversary
Byzantine agreement is a fundamental problem in fault-tolerant distributed computing that has been studied intensively for the last four decades. Much of the research has focused on a static Byzantine adversary, where the adversary is constrained to choose the Byzantine nodes in advance of the protocol's execution. This work focuses on the harder case of an adaptive Byzantine adversary that can choose the Byzantine nodes \emph{adaptively} based on the protocol's execution. While efficient $O(\l…

Die #Wohngebäudeversicherung in den #USA wird 2025 voraussichtlich um durchschnittlich 8 % teurer.
Hauptgründe sind Schäden durch #Klimakatastrophen wie

"Morning Midas": Frachter mit hunderten Elektroautos brennt im Nordpazifik
Hunderte Kilometer südlich von Alaska ist ein Autofrachter in Brand geraten, an Bord hat er auch hunderte Elektroautos. Die Crew wurde komplett evakuiert.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16873 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

AdvPrompter: Fast Adaptive Adversarial Prompting for LLMs
Large Language Models (LLMs) are vulnerable to jailbreaking attacks that lead to generation of inappropriate or harmful content. Manual red-teaming requires a time-consuming search for adversarial prompts, whereas automatic adversarial prompt generation often leads to semantically meaningless attacks that do not scale well. In this paper, we present a novel method that uses another LLM, called AdvPrompter, to generate human-readable adversarial prompts in seconds. AdvPrompter, which is trained …

Puja Vohra, former EVP of marketing for Paramount , is joining Fox Corporation in the newly created role of chief marketing officer and EVP of ad sales (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/puja-vohra-foix-cmo-advertising-sal…

Fox Taps Paramount Marketing Veteran Puja Vohra As CMO, Ad Sales
Fox Corp. named Puja Vohra, formerly a senior marketing executive at Paramount Global, as CMO of ad sales

Zunehmende #Unwetter in den #USA führen zu immer höheren Schäden und treiben die Kosten für #Gebäudeversicherungen nach oben.
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Folgen der Klimakrise: Versicherungskosten steigen in den USA
Trump zweifelt den Klimawandel an. Gleichzeitig verursachen mehr Unwetter in den USA Schäden. Das führt zu steigenden Versicherungskosten – auch für den Staat.

Sources: the FTC is investigating whether roughly a dozen advertising and advocacy groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/…

F.T.C. Investigates Ad Groups and Watchdogs, Alleging Boycott Collusion
The regulator is looking into whether roughly a dozen groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers.