Tootfinder

So Bitvise, the developer of an SSH client that competes with PuTTY, the widely-used open-source SSH and Telnet client, somehow got hold of the domain putty.org and is using it to promote its own products.
Here's how Bitvise responded to a tech blogger/journalist who wrote about this situation.
https://blog.pupred.…

Sources: Trump is expected to sign an executive order as soon as this week that would open up 401(k) plans to cryptocurrency and other alternative investments (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/07906211-5ab8-4917-bcad-5397c0bc3170

Dershowitz: There Is No Epstein Client List, And Don't Blame the DoJ (Ed Morrissey/HotAir)
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/07/15/dershowitz-there-is-no-epstein-client-list-and-dont-blame-the-doj-n3804811
http://www.memeorandum.com/250715/p101#a250715p101

Sources: the European Commission has stalled one of its X investigations for breaking its digital transparency rules, as it negotiates a trade deal with the US (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8f38514b-3265-496e-91e2-f8a44daa0ab6

We should acknowledge that if there is an "Epstein client list",
there’s a good chance Donald Trump is on it.
“I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,” Trump said in 2002.
“He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
Is that why Bondi won’t release the list?
Quite the enticing possibility.
If there ever was a case made for conspiracy theorists,…

Trump betrays his conspiracy-addled base
From Epstein to chemtrails, they're learning it was all a scam.

📅 Hurra! 2 Workshops im #VHS #Traunstein Programm!
https://mro.name/vhs
Im Winter biete ich fü…

http://putty.cl

from my link log —
Client rate throttling in the Heroku platform API Ruby gem.
https://www.schneems.com/2020/07/08/a-fast-car-needs-good-brakes-how-we-added-client-rate-throttling-to-the-platform-a…

A Fast Car Needs Good Brakes: How We Added Client Rate Throttling to the Platform API Gem
When API requests are made one-after-the-other they’ll quickly hit rate limits and when that happens:

@… I’m thinking of the built-in LSP client, but I’m not sure which part is actually causing me frustration.

I don't recall seeing much measurement research on mobile carrier identification from client traffic. Didn't find much in a cursory search.
Does this exist? Is it feasible, particularly with branded devices like this?
Can classification be done by address pools unique, IDs, MACs, user agent strings, default start-up apps, default DNS queries/settings, etc.?
Clue, ideas, and pointers wanted.

Steve Herman (@w7voa@journa.host)
Attached: 1 image CNBC - A company owned by President Trump announces it own branded Trump Mobile cell phone service and will sell a "T1" smartphone, featuring gold-colored metal case etched with an American flag. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/16/trump-mobile-phone-plan.html

So, driving home from a client call & up ahead of me on the freeway I see a giant blue pickup truck flying
4 count ‘em 4 giant flags behind the cab
I roll my eyes
Get a little closer…
Ok
US Flag
Massachusetts Flag
…progress Pride Flag
???Pride flag with “Don’t tread on me”
Did NOT expect that.

I really wish there was an #iPad client for #Parsec.

Sources: Perplexity jumped to a $18B valuation two months after it raised at $14B; its annualized revenues jumped from $35M in August 2024 to $150M this month (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4e05a5c5-84ad-4f8a-991a-d7f3842de76d

Towards a Non-Binary View of IPv6 Adoption
Sulyab Thottungal Valapu, John Heidemann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11678 https://arxiv.or…

Towards a Non-Binary View of IPv6 Adoption
Twelve years have passed since World IPv6 Launch Day, but what is the current state of IPv6 deployment? Prior work has examined IPv6 status as a binary: can you use IPv6, or not? As deployment increases we must consider a more nuanced, non-binary perspective on IPv6: how much and often can a user or a service use IPv6? We consider this question as a client, server, and cloud provider. Considering the client's perspective, we observe user traffic. We see that the fraction of IPv6 traffic a user …

One might think that multiple versions of Epstein’s client list will likely appear in the news. The first version of Epstein’s client list will probably receive the most coverage. Therefore, it doesn’t really pay to hold onto a list you plan to release or to release it only if someone else does.

Mein #Passwort ist wohl zu gefährlich... 🙃
> A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client (Password="...L~FJj&YNG]<z. e?8dRF").
#Security #AspDotNet

Sources: former Goldman Sachs banker Simon Dingemans and former Sainsbury's CEO Justin King are among those on a shortlist to chair Channel 4 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f33dff0b-0637-4949-9ee7-c030526acae6

#EpsteinClientList

Comcast IPv6 decided to bork itself again. Nothing I've tried (restarting DHCPv6 client, power cycling the modem) works.
My router gets a v6 address, can hit the internet without issues.
Router makes a DHCPv6 request, gets a delegated /59 out of my static /56.
But when I try to use an address out of the /59 on the local network (via radvd handing out /64's) it gets nowhere, traceroutes stop at the CPE/CMTS.

Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning against Malicious Clients Based on Verifiable Functional Encryption
Nina Cai, Jinguang Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12846

Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning against Malicious Clients Based on Verifiable Functional Encryption
Federated learning is a promising distributed learning paradigm that enables collaborative model training without exposing local client data, thereby protect data privacy. However, it also brings new threats and challenges. The advancement of model inversion attacks has rendered the plaintext transmission of local models insecure, while the distributed nature of federated learning makes it particularly vulnerable to attacks raised by malicious clients. To protect data privacy and prevent malici…

Robot Context Protocol (RCP): A Runtime-Agnostic Interface for Agent-Aware Robot Control
Lambert Lee, Joshua Lau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11650 https://

Robot Context Protocol (RCP): A Runtime-Agnostic Interface for Agent-Aware Robot Control
The Robot Context Protocol (RCP) is a lightweight, middleware-agnostic communication protocol designed to simplify the complexity of robotic systems and enable seamless interaction between robots, users, and autonomous agents. RCP provides a unified and semantically meaningful interface that decouples client-facing operations from backend implementations, supporting a wide range of deployment environments including physical robots, cloud-based orchestrators, and simulated platforms. Built on HT…

Sources: OpenAI is aiming to add a checkout system into ChatGPT, to ensure users complete transactions within the platform, with merchants paying a commission (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/449102a2-d270-4d68-8616-70bfbaf212de

FAFO: Over 1 million TPS on a single node running EVM while still Merkleizing every block
Ryan Zarick, Isaac Zhang, Daniel Wong, Thomas Kim, Bryan Pellegrino, Mignon Li, Kelvin Wong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10757

FAFO: Over 1 million TPS on a single node running EVM while still Merkleizing every block
Current blockchain execution throughput is limited by data contention, reducing execution layer parallelism. Fast Ahead-of-Formation Optimization (FAFO) is the first blockchain transaction scheduler to address this problem by reordering transactions before block formation for maximum concurrency. FAFO uses CPU-optimized cache-friendly Bloom filters to efficiently detect conflicts and schedule parallel transaction execution at high throughput and low overhead. We integrate the Rust EVM client …

have they made a matrix client that works yet

Sources: the European Commission has stalled one of its X investigations for breaking its digital transparency rules, as it negotiates a trade deal with the US (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8f38514b-3265-496e-91e2-f8a44daa0ab6

The US FCC aims to introduce a ban on companies that use certain Chinese tech and equipment from building submarine communication cables connecting to the US (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8ac34fb9-6a51-4343-bfe4-fea566b4fa8c
…

Spouse (a psychotherapist) was forwarded this paper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18412
> Expressing stigma and inappropriate responses prevents LLMs from safely replacing mental health providers
which has caused us to spend a big chunk of after dinner lounging alternating among incredulous…

Expressing stigma and inappropriate responses prevents LLMs from safely replacing mental health providers
Should a large language model (LLM) be used as a therapist? In this paper, we investigate the use of LLMs to *replace* mental health providers, a use case promoted in the tech startup and research space. We conduct a mapping review of therapy guides used by major medical institutions to identify crucial aspects of therapeutic relationships, such as the importance of a therapeutic alliance between therapist and client. We then assess the ability of LLMs to reproduce and adhere to these aspects o…

DOJ: The Epstein Client List That Bondi Had On Her Desk Doesn't Exist | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/07/doj-epstein-client-list-bondi-had-her-desk

In Beijing, Jensen Huang says Nvidia would "accelerate the recovery" of its China chip sales and he expects US export licences "to come through very shortly" (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e30a643c-c6ec-4e9d-abdc-ef0ab6e2579b…

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino weighs quitting over Trump admin handling of Jeffrey Epstein 'client list' (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/07/11/us-news/fbi-deputy-director-dan-bongino-weighs-quitting-over-trump-admin-handling-of-jeffrey-epstein-client-list/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250712/p15#a250712p15

The Mastodon List Manager (https://www.mastodonlistmanager.org) is a real nice tool. Finally removed some old lists and put accounts on other lists instead. Would take forever with the mastodon client, but this only requires a few minutes.
Thanks @…

I missed today's protest because I had client work but clients paying me for work helps fuel the efforts in put into the community.
I got a bunch of supplies recently to make more unhoused person care packages and I purchased art from marginalized people that will be made available in the Free Little Art Gallery.
We all gotta do what we can, when we can, in the ways we can.
#resist

🚀 Getting Started
For Developers:
Quick API integration
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.moonshot.ai/v1") response = client.chat.completions.create( model="kimi-k2-instruct", messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Build me a we…

ABC-FHE : A Resource-Efficient Accelerator Enabling Bootstrappable Parameters for Client-Side Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Sungwoong Yune, Hyojeong Lee, Adiwena Putra, Hyunjun Cho, Cuong Duong Manh, Jaeho Jeon, Joo-Young Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08461

ABC-FHE : A Resource-Efficient Accelerator Enabling Bootstrappable Parameters for Client-Side Fully Homomorphic Encryption
As the demand for privacy-preserving computation continues to grow, fully homomorphic encryption (FHE)-which enables continuous computation on encrypted data-has become a critical solution. However, its adoption is hindered by significant computational overhead, requiring 10000-fold more computation compared to plaintext processing. Recent advancements in FHE accelerators have successfully improved server-side performance, but client-side computations remain a bottleneck, particularly under boo…

Working with an #acting #coaching client on a great speech, and the tremor that came into and under their voice as they delivered was really a thing of beauty just now. So glad to see them finding that.
#ActingCoach

An example of what’s now possible—thanks to our (@…) sophisticated MCP Server for JDBC, Oracle’s native JDBC Driver, and Anthropic's Claude Desktop as the MCP client:
A dashboard generated from Oracle’s HR database using the following natural language prompt:
Using JDBC with the following connection details:
URL: jdbc:oracle:thin:@oracle-h…

The BBC reports 2024-25 revenue up 9% YoY to £5.9B, £3.8B license fee income after an inflationary price rise, and a £132M deficit, down from £263M in 2023-24 (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b221217d-1f95-41b1-92d3-d8626caedf24

Never Trust the Manufacturer, Never Trust the Client: A Novel Method for Streaming STL Files for Secure Additive
Seyed Ali Ghazi Asgar, Narasimha Reddy, Satish T. S. Bukkapatnam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06421

Never Trust the Manufacturer, Never Trust the Client: A Novel Method for Streaming STL Files for Secure Additive
While additive manufacturing has opened interesting avenues to reimagine manufacturing as a service (MaaS) platform, transmission of design files from client to manufacturer over networks opens up many cybersecurity challenges. Securing client's intellectual property (IP) especially from cyber-attacks emerges as a major challenge. Earlier works introduced streaming, instead of sharing process plan (G-code) files, as a possible solution. However, executing client's G-codes on manufacturer's mach…

"In conclusion, we have investigated our own actions and discovered nothing untoward..."
https://abcnews.go.com/US/doj-fbi-review-finds-jeffrey-epstein-client-list/story?id=123526125

DOJ, FBI review finds no Jeffrey Epstein 'client list,' confirms suicide: Memo 
No further charges are expected with the investigation into Epstein.

I like to use this quote for when a client doesn't like what I've done:
“A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is.”
― John Cage

Lovely. First task of the day: doing “just” a few small CSS changes in a client project I haven't touched in about 5 years.
Alright…
➜ nvm use
Found '.nvmrc' with version <8.6.0>
N/A: version "v8.6.0" is not yet installed.
I already know where this is going …… 🫠😂

Could you folks tell me if this office worker emoji has a mustache or not on your client?👨🏻‍💼

"Please use HTML enabled email client to view this message."
Ehm... No... You need to send #plain text #email. Do not put the onus on me to take care of secure communications.

I just discovered that you can use #Voyager the lemmy client as a #pwa . It works better than the native client

Sigh, the client wants to add more items to the release for next week and they don't even have it tested. This time around I am putting a flag on each and every program they want to add so when (not if) they pull it Friday afternoon a quick search & delete will nuke those modules. I am not going to be popular in a bit when I do the pre-release walkthrough for the release schedule in a few minutes.

I still think he's a space reptilian wearing a human skin suit. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3ltnetgzaxc2s

arse:
'Accept State: remote can't support version # {2}
Program Version (Minimum): 3'
Jun 11 15:07:08 major sh[1012]: rpc.nfsd: Writing version string to kernel: 2 3 4 4.1 4.2
Jun 11 15:07:08 major sh[1012]: rpc.nfsd: Setting version failed: errno 22 (Invalid argument)
OK, so Debian Trixie has NFSv2 server configured out of the kernel; (it has the client as a module)

Attention Fedora users: ngscopeclient is now building Fedora packages in GitHub Actions CI (most recent build as of this post at https://github.com/ngscopeclient/scopehal-apps/actions/runs/16252224927).
Can anyone try installing these and verify …

Merge pull request #859 from Gherkin/master · ngscopeclient/scopehal-apps@39988c1
ngscopeclient and other client applications for libscopehal. - Merge pull request #859 from Gherkin/master · ngscopeclient/scopehal-apps@39988c1

It's been an awesome day so far. Just as one client has signed off, another is (hopefully) about to go live!
#Work #Freelance #Gratitude

#PhanpySocial changelog ✨
🌟 Featured profiles (for upcoming Mastodon v4.4)
🔑 Revoke access token when logging out
📸 Respect server's media description character limit
🪣 Add indicator for exclusive lists
🧪 Sandbox https://

Phanpy
Minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client

Hupe!
https://fedi.computernewb.com/@vncresolver/114822689750640879

VNC Resolver (@vncresolver@fedi.computernewb.com)
Attached: 1 image IP/Port: 80.152.145.134:5900 Hostname: p50989186.dip0.t-ipconnect.de Client Name: Qt for Embedded Linux VNC Server Location: Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, DE 🇩🇪 ASN: AS3320 Deutsche Telekom AG VNC Password: N/A ID: 67070669 Added to DB: 05/07/2025, 07:06:18 PM (UTC) Last seen: 05/07/2025, 03:00:00 PM (UTC) https://computernewb.com/vncresolver/browse#id/67070669

Open source software spotube (uses Spotify for data, YouTube for audio) got a legal notice
https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube

GitHub - KRTirtho/spotube: 🎧 Open source music client! Available for both desktop & mobile!
🎧 Open source music client! Available for both desktop & mobile! - KRTirtho/spotube

A Python client for the ATLAS API
Heloise F. Stevance, Jack Leland, Ken W. Smith
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06403 https://arxiv.org/p…

A Python client for the ATLAS API
The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) is an all-sky optical sky survey with a cadence of 24 to 48 hours and the ATLAS Transient Server processes the alert stream to enable the discovery and follow-up of extra-galactic transients. The data from the ATLAS server can be accessed through a REST API, which has allowed the development of bots that need direct access to the data to help rank alerts and trigger followup observations of promising targets. Here we present the python c…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20117 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…

Exact and Linear Convergence for Federated Learning under Arbitrary Client Participation is Attainable
This work tackles the fundamental challenges in Federated Learning (FL) posed by arbitrary client participation and data heterogeneity, prevalent characteristics in practical FL settings. It is well-established that popular FedAvg-style algorithms struggle with exact convergence and can suffer from slow convergence rates since a decaying learning rate is required to mitigate these scenarios. To address these issues, we introduce the concept of stochastic matrix and the corresponding time-varyin…

Sources: Cantor Equity Partners 1, a SPAC backed by Cantor Fitzgerald, is in late-stage talks with Blockstream Capital founder Adam Back to buy $3B in bitcoin (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a4a362a6-cc8b-4188-8658-75183a3d6f5f

MTG says Americans are 'not going to accept' there is no Epstein client list (Rachel Dobkin/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/marjorie-taylor-greene-jeffrey-epstein-client-list-b2786010.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250709/p144#a250709p144

UNIX Trix
For those of you in the reseller business, here is a helpful tip that will
save your support staff a few hours of precious time. Before you send your
next machine out to an untrained client, change the permissions on /etc/passwd
to 666 and make sure there is a copy somewhere on the disk. Now when they
forget the root password, you can easily login as an ordinary user and correct
the damage. Having a bootable tape (for larger machines) is not a bad …

Fox Corp ad sales president Jeff Collins says advertisers, including foreign governments and US agencies are flocking to Fox News to reach "an audience of one" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8e9f099d-0bb7-4cbb-ac05-bb070a07ee05

Google signs two 20-year power purchase agreements worth $3B to access hydroelectric power from Brookfield's renewables arm, delivering up to 670MW of power (Martha Muir/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d8bef8a3-5988-4080-ad7d-61bc9885e6ba

FBI: Epstein Client List Does Not Exist, Epstein Committed Suicide, Maybe Never Existed Either
https://www.wonkette.com/p/fbi-epstein-client-list-does-not

@… Oh, I totally get this. We had the same problem at my last job. Until we get a new GHC with a server-client architecture, I’m not holding my breath on a fix. (I hope to replace Cabal one day, but I’m not going to go and make a Haskell compiler. MicroHs is cool though.)
Maybe I met your coworkers! I didn’t go to any workshops because I’m lazy, I ju…

The US Commerce Department opens national security probes into imports of unmanned aircraft systems and polysilicon supply chains, used in chip manufacturing (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3b6899b4-063e-44c8-b57b-3a097294f99a

Supporting Intel(r) SGX on Multi-Package Platforms
Simon Johnson, Raghunandan Makaram, Amy Santoni, Vinnie Scarlata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08190 https:…

Supporting Intel(r) SGX on Multi-Package Platforms
Intel(r) Software Guard Extensions (SGX) was originally released on client platforms and later extended to single socket server platforms. As developers have become familiar with the capabilities of the technology, the applicability of this capability in the cloud has been tested. Various Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) are demonstrating the value of using SGX based Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) to create a new paradigm of Confidential Cloud Computing. This paper describes the additional …

Cleaning up my lab after removing a piece of client hardware from a $dayjob project.
Durng that project I was using *every single one* of the 12 RJ45 gig-e drops on the west wall of my lab:
* Siglent load
* MultiLane BERT
* 4 GHz LeCroy scope
* R&S DMM
* R&S PSU
* Work laptop on sandbox vlan
* 2x Siglent AWG for ThunderScope testing
* Windows laptop for ThunderScope testing
* Siglent PSU on bench with client device
* Two NICs on…

Got to work with an #acting #coaching client today on material I know really well and they were cold reading. Their second read was like a breathe of fresh air, and the words were new again. I kinda love it.
#ActingCoach

Team Trump struggles to control the Epstein 'client list' fire it helped create (Steve Benen/MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/team-trump-struggles-control-epstein-client-list-fire-helped-create-rcna217441
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p91#a250708p91

So… My day yesterday
Was just getting started on my day and got notified I had a client onsite in an hour. An hours drive away. Called, client didn’t wanna reschedule said “oh 30m late, that’s not late”1️⃣
15m away on 495 TPMS alert goes off & tire pressure counts down from 38psi like a bomb timer…

Burn baby burn!
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/entertainment/english/trumps-own-supporters-are-burning-maga-hats-epstein-list-is-the-reason-why/videoshow/122370627…

Trump's Own Supporters Are Burning MAGA Hats & 'Epstein List' Is The Reason Why
U.S. President Donald Trump comes under fire amid Epstein case backlash. MAGA loyalists call for burning iconic 'Make America Great Again' caps. Trump's own support base turns against him as anger over 'Epstein Files' grows. Department of Justice (DOJ) has claimed Epstein did not maintain a 'client list'. This was despite promises from Attorney General Pam Bondi about 'a list on my table'. Bondi raised expectations of conservative influencers and conspiracy theorists. But then came DOJ's findin…

I’m trying to help a client pick a good UI framework they can start their product with, but ultimately grow into their own design system and component library. They have started development with React, which isn’t surprising, but they are also open to using a more framework-agnostic approach in the future.
Any suggestions for a really mature and solid, themeable framework as a starting point? Chakra UI? Ark UI? Radix?

Alibaba is putting $7B in Taobao promotions as JD.com invests $1.4B to grow food delivery, with both offering discounts to become China's leading "everyday app" (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3ee074a1-0210-4f09-ba6a-563ad0860aa3

An Architecture for Privacy-Preserving Telemetry Scheme
Kenneth Odoh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06350 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.0635…

An Architecture for Privacy-Preserving Telemetry Scheme
We present a privacy-preserving telemetry aggregation scheme. Our underlying frequency estimation routine works within the framework of differential privacy. The design philosophy follows a client-server architecture. Furthermore, the system uses a local differential privacy scheme where data gets randomized on the client before submitting the request to the resource server. This scheme allows for data analysis on de-identified data by carefully adding noise to prevent re-identification attacks…

Is your family member or client at Alligator Alcatraz? We obtained a list (Miami Herald)
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article310541770.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250713/p22#a250713p22

Mistral releases Mistral Code, a "vibe coding" client forked from open source project Continue, in private beta on JetBrains platforms and VS Code (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/04/mistral-releases-a-vibe-co…

Mistral releases a vibe coding client, Mistral Code | TechCrunch
French AI startup Mistral is releasing its own 'vibe coding' client, Mistral Code, to compete with incumbents like Windsurf, Anysphere's Cursor, and GitHub Copilot.

Exclusive: DOJ, FBI conclude Epstein had no "client list," committed suicide (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/07/jeffrey-epstein-suicide-client-list-trump-administration
http://www.memeorandum.com/250706/p46#a250706p46

Insiders describe Linda Yaccarino's tumultuous partnership with Elon Musk and say the two failed to gel as Musk's blunt style clashed with Yaccarino's polish (Financial Times)

Federated Learning within Global Energy Budget over Heterogeneous Edge Accelerators
Roopkatha Banerjee, Tejus Chandrashekar, Ananth Eswar, Yogesh Simmhan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10413

Federated Learning within Global Energy Budget over Heterogeneous Edge Accelerators
Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients while preserving data privacy. However, optimizing both energy efficiency and model accuracy remains a challenge, given device and data heterogeneity. Further, sustainable AI through a global energy budget for FL has not been explored. We propose a novel optimization problem for client selection in FL that maximizes the model accuracy within an overall energy limit and reduces training time. We solve this wi…

Jeffrey Epstein didn't have a 'client list,' and committed suicide, DOJ and FBI reveal in findings that debunk conspiracy theories: report (Caitlin McCormack/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/07/06/us-news/jeffrey-epstein-didnt-have-a-client-list-committed-suicide-doj-fbi-reveal-in-findings-that-debunk-conspiracy-theories/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250706/p49#a250706p49

Disney and ITV agree a deal to stream hit shows like The Bear and Love Island on each other's platforms for the first time, starting July 16; both can sell ads (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/97a2dea6-4639-45c1-8499-aa3eed935413
…

Sources: xAI prepares a new fundraising round, its third in two months, targeting a valuation of $170B to $200B, up 10x from its May 2024 valuation of $18B (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/25aab987-c2a1-4fca-8883-38a617269b68

Investor letter: US newsroom-cum-hedge fund Hunterbrook Global is valued at $100M after new funding, which a source says will go toward expanding its newsroom (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8531db94-907d-4361-a1d8-a70ec1eef1bb

Trump Administration Acknowledges Lack of Evidence From Epstein Documents (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/us/politics/trump-administration-jeffrey-epstein-client-list-suicide.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250707/p116#a250707p116

Insiders describe Linda Yaccarino's tumultuous partnership with Elon Musk and say the two failed to gel as Musk's blunt style clashed with Yaccarino's polish (Financial Times)

Sources: Apple is in talks to acquire US streaming rights for Formula 1 following the success of F1 the Movie, which has grossed ~$300M at the box office (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ef6bbb12-1ef5-4fc7-bff5-77d000c36bff

Disney and ITV agree a deal to stream hit shows like The Bear and Love Island on each other's platforms for the first time, starting July 16; both can sell ads (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/97a2dea6-4639-45c1-8499-aa3eed935413

PowerLines: US power providers have sought regulatory approval for $29B in rate increases in H1 2025, up 142% YoY, following booming data center demand (Martha Muir/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c5f20c78-7931-492f-9153-675f3046e245

Independent labels and trade associations urge the EU to probe UMG's $775M acquisition of music services company Downtown, saying it gives UMG too much power (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1c6315ba-1369-41b2-9ea1-5c31077a0a50

Sources: Revolut is in talks to raise about $1B of funding via newly issued shares and the sale of some existing stock at a $65B valuation (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f4de3f2e-2476-4048-a035-f1f78a59922e

Channel 4 airs Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, the documentary dropped by the BBC; its producer says the BBC's subservience to politics is "ruining" the corporation (Henry Mance/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d21fc58c-c482-4818-b960-f6d31555f…

Sources: Amazon weighs another multibillion-dollar investment in Anthropic, as it seeks to position itself ahead of Google, which has invested $3B in Anthropic (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3e569928-dc0e-4baa-80c3-b51d24facb23

Sources: Nvidia plans to launch a new AI chip designed for China that will be a version of its Blackwell RTX Pro 6000 processor, as soon as September (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e496f80f-1789-46b3-9275-a3f54344047e

Italy arrests Chinese citizen Xu Zewei; a source says Xu is linked to hacking group Hafnium that breached Microsoft in 2021 to steal COVID-19 vaccine secrets (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f7299b6f-2b58-46c0-bbe5-e650357e8f48

M&S Chair Archie Norman tells UK parliament that it used the FBI and UK agencies to combat the May cyberattack and confirms DragonForce was behind the attack (Laura Onita/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/83d362a3-7c11-4c8f-bd33-ff45454cea72

Sources: Apple is in talks to acquire US streaming rights for Formula 1 following the success of F1 the Movie, which has grossed ~$300M at the box office (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ef6bbb12-1ef5-4fc7-bff5-77d000c36bff

A profile of Steam developer Valve, which has a flat corporate structure and high profit per head; Ampere: Steam hit 170M MAUs in May, versus 153M a year prior (Louis Ashworth/Financial Times)
https://on.ft.com/4nC87SA

US industrial companies, like Gates Industrial, are seeking to capitalize on the AI boom by ramping up efforts to supply specialized data center equipment (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7e4145d1-c614-4a81-bbb2-104e717bd3b1

Experts say ransomware group DragonForce, which targeted M&S, Harrods, and the Co-op, started a turf war with rival RansomHub, potentially bringing more hacks (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/22cb54ef-1611-4aef-b671-16316280e3fb

On-the-job learning in fields like law and banking faces a dual threat as hybrid work limits juniors' exposure to seniors and gen AI replaces key routine tasks (Emma Jacobs/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/071089b8-839a-4f96-af79-394c08a146d1

Sources: OpenAI tightened security, adding biometric checks in offices and isolating sensitive systems, to protect model weights and other IP from espionage (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f896c4d9-bab7-40a2-9e67-4058093ce250

ThinkBroadband: 78% of UK properties have access to full-fiber broadband, up from 12% in Jan. 2020, which experts credit to Ofcom's 2021 pro-competition push (Financial Times)