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Judge Orders New Map to Empower Black Voters in Mississippi - Capital B News
https://capitalbnews.org/mississippi-redraw-map-voting/

SEC filing: Alden-owned MediaNews makes a ~$88M bid for DallasNews Corporation, after the Dallas Morning News parent signed a $75M merger agreement with Hearst (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/business/media/d…

Alden Global Capital Makes a Play for The Dallas Morning News
The investment firm’s MediaNews Group, the country’s second-largest newspaper publisher, put in a bid for the publication nearly two weeks after Hearst agreed to buy it.

AppZen, which builds AI-powered tools to automate finance functions, raised a $180M Series D led by Riverwood Capital, bringing its total funding to $290M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/fintech/agentic-ai-startup-appzen-seriesd/…

With Amazon And Salesforce As Customers, Agentic AI Startup AppZen Lands $180M To ‘Transform’ Finance...
AppZen, which has built an agentic AI platform for finance teams, has raised $180 million in a Series D round, the company told Crunchbase News. Riverwood Capital led the growth financing round.

"Syndicalism is a method of industrial organization which goes away from all the traditional conceptions of authority and government, of capitalism and the State. While communism, in abolishing individual capitalism, creates a worse monster in its place in the form of the economic state, syndicalism leaves all the patterns of administration which in the past have resulted only in the oppression and exploitation of man by man, and sets out to build an organizational form based on the nat…

Niet Oekraïne, maar Trump capituleert
"President Trump de „pragmatische vredesstichter” (dixit secretaris-generaal Rutte) maakt er geen geheim van dat hij Poetin meer vertrouwt dan Zelensky en zijn handen van Europa wil aftrekken." https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/08/2…

cuPDLP : A Further Enhanced GPU-Based First-Order Solver for Linear Programming
Haihao Lu, Zedong Peng, Jinwen Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14051 https:…

cuPDLP+: A Further Enhanced GPU-Based First-Order Solver for Linear Programming
We introduce cuPDLP+, a further enhanced GPU-based first-order solver for linear programming. Building on the predecessor cuPDLP, cuPDLP+ incorporates recent algorithmic advances, including the restarted Halpern PDHG method with reflection, a novel restart criterion, and a PID-controlled primal weight update. These innovations are carefully tailored for GPU architectures and deliver substantial empirical gains. On a comprehensive benchmark of MIPLIB LP relaxations, cuPDLP+ achieves 2x - 4x spee…

UK legislation to allow foreign states to own up to 15% in British newspapers passes, clearing the way for the Telegraph's sale to a RedBird Capital-led group (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jul

Judge refuses to expunge record of man exonerated for Jan. 6
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/trump-appointed-judge-refuses-to-expunge-record-of-accused-capitol-rioter-who-called-jan-6-a-magical-day-but-was-fully-acquitted-of-charges/

If you put money above the people and the planet, then you are no friend of mine because from where I stand it means you would rather protect greed than stand beside me in the struggle for justice and freedom.
#Capitalism #AntiCapitalism

UMG has partnered with IP asset management company Liquidax Capital to "accelerate the development of UMG's music-related AI patents", already filing 15 (Ethan Millman/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Universal Music Group Increasing Efforts on Music AI Patents
UMG said it's filed for 15 patents through the partnership already, including one related to AI threat protection.