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Microsoft: Millionen-Rückzahlungen in Australien wegen teurer Office-Abos mit KI
Nach Klageeinreichung von Australiens Verbraucherschutzbehörde wegen verteuerter Office-Abos mit KI bietet Microsoft Rückzahlungen an.

Ruling party claims victory in Georgian elections amid major protests: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/05/ruling-party-claims-victory-in.html

Multimodal Carotid Risk Stratification with Large Vision-Language Models: Benchmarking, Fine-Tuning, and Clinical Insights
Daphne Tsolissou, Theofanis Ganitidis, Konstantinos Mitsis, Stergios CHristodoulidis, Maria Vakalopoulou, Konstantina Nikita
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02922

Multimodal Carotid Risk Stratification with Large Vision-Language Models: Benchmarking, Fine-Tuning, and Clinical Insights
Reliable risk assessment for carotid atheromatous disease remains a major clinical challenge, as it requires integrating diverse clinical and imaging information in a manner that is transparent and interpretable to clinicians. This study investigates the potential of state-of-the-art and recent large vision-language models (LVLMs) for multimodal carotid plaque assessment by integrating ultrasound imaging (USI) with structured clinical, demographic, laboratory, and protein biomarker data. A fram…

The American Civil Liberties Union of South Carolina filed a lawsuit Friday against Clemson University,
accusing the school of violating the First Amendment by firing a faculty member over a Facebook post criticizing the late conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.
The complaint, filed in U.S. District Court on behalf of former assistant professor
Joshua Bregy,
seeks his reinstatement, corrections to his personnel record and monetary damages.
“The First Amendme…

ACLU sues Clemson for firing professor over Facebook post criticizing Charlie Kirk
The American Civil Liberties Union of South Carolina filed a lawsuit Friday against Clemson University, accusing the school of violating the First Amendment by

Catherine Rampell, a former WaPo columnist who left amid the paper's editorial upheaval, joins The Bulwark to write a weekly economics and policy newsletter (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/05/2025/washington-post-e…

Washington Post economics columnist moves to The Bulwark
Catherine Rampell will write a weekly economics and policy-focused newsletter for the anti-Trump media brand.

Grounding Large Language Models in Clinical Evidence: A Retrieval-Augmented Generation System for Querying UK NICE Clinical Guidelines
Matthew Lewis, Samuel Thio, Richard JB Dobson, Spiros Denaxas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02967

Grounding Large Language Models in Clinical Evidence: A Retrieval-Augmented Generation System for Querying UK NICE Clinical Guidelines
This paper presents the development and evaluation of a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system for querying the United Kingdom's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) clinical guidelines using Large Language Models (LLMs). The extensive length and volume of these guidelines can impede their utilisation within a time-constrained healthcare system, a challenge this project addresses through the creation of a system capable of providing users with precisely matched informat…

How Synthesia is combining multiple AI voice and video models to improve avatar realism with natural gestures and accent preservation (Rhiannon Williams/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/0

Synthesia’s AI clones are more expressive than ever. Soon they’ll be able to talk back.
The uncanny valley is narrowing. Are we ready for what comes next?

Ethnic cleansing in Donbass: who is really settling in Ukrainian homes?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/05/ethnic-cleansing-in-donbass-who.html

Data shows WLFI's sharp drop was driven by shorting and dumping across exchanges, not Justin Sun's token movements; WLFI blames phishing-related compromises (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/09/0

WLFI News: If They Can Do it to Sun, Who's Next?' Say Insiders as WLFI Claims Freeze Was to 'Protect Users'
Onchain data shows WLFI’s sharp drop was driven by shorting and dumping across exchanges – not Justin Sun's token movements – while the project says wallet freezes targeted phishing-related compromises, not market participants.

Ukraine claims strike on 'one of Russia's largest' explosives plants far from the front lines: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/06/ukraine-claims-strike-on-one.html