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#Minnesota Pubic Radio (MPR) parent company cuts 30 jobs following federal funding cuts | MPR News (h/t akuzee@bsky.social)
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/08/15/m

MPR parent company cuts 30 jobs following federal funding cuts
Minnesota Public Radio's parent company laid off 30 staff members Friday after Congress clawed back funding that it had previously approved for public broadcasting. Cuts in state funding from the Minnesota Legislature exacerbated the budget gap.

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
WhatsApp-Funktion ermöglicht KI-Abschaltung in Chats – ist aber nicht nötig

Donald Trump on Sunday directed federal immigration officials to prioritize deportations from Democratic-run cities,
a move that comes after large protests erupted in Los Angeles and other major cities against the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
Trump in a social media posting called on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials
“to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in Hist…

Trump directs ICE to prioritize deportations from Democratic-run cities
President Donald Trump has directed federal immigration officials to prioritize deportations from Democratic-run cities after large protests have erupted in Los Angeles and other major cities against the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Trump in a social media posting Sunday called on ICE officials “to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History.” He added that to reach the goal officials ”must…

Pretty interesting piece on how the #NASA proposed butget cuts (and the overall political mess in the US) affects #ESA.

What happens to Europe’s space ambitions if NASA cuts joint missions
Experts tell Euronews Next that if the US Congress passes the proposed NASA budget cuts, the EU-US relationship will never be able to go back to the way it was.

Current episode of the Citations Needed podcast on the "Abundance" talking point is really good.
"Abundance" is Neoliberalism and trickle down economics with a new coat of (lead) paint.
https://pca.st/episode/c8a05dc1-3b04-4255-b978-cf76bf40e…

Russia intensifies efforts to encircle key Ukrainian cities of Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/russia-intensifies-efforts-to-encircle.html

New characterization of full weight spectrum one-orbit cyclic subspace codes
Minjia Shi, Wenhao Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13418 https://

New characterization of full weight spectrum one-orbit cyclic subspace codes
Castello $\textit{et al}$. [J. Comb. Theory Ser. A, 212, 106005 (2025)] provided a complete classification for full weight spectrum (FWS) one-orbit cyclic subspace codes. In this paper, we determine the weight distributions of a family of FWS codes and exhibit some equivalence classes of FWS codes under certain conditions. Furthermore, we provide a complete classification for $r$-FWS codes.

WhatsApp-Funktion ermöglicht KI-Abschaltung in Chats – ist aber nicht nötig
Der KI-Chatbot in WhatsApp kann nicht deaktiviert werden. Allerdings ermöglicht eine Einstellung, dass Nutzer Meta AI nicht in Chats verwenden können. 

Ukraine war latest: Mass attack hits cities overnight as Ukrainians brace for 50 more days of Russian terror: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/ukraine-war-latest-mass-attack.html

WhatsApp führt Werbung ein
In der Messenger-App WhatsApp soll künftig Werbung angezeigt werden. Die Chats selbst sollen davon aber nicht betroffen sein, beteuert das Unternehmen.
https://www.heise.de/ne…