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“Two European journalists were hacked using government spyware made by Israeli surveillance tech provider Paragon.”
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/researchers-confirm-two-journalists-were-hacked-with-paragon-spyware/

Researchers confirm two journalists were hacked with Paragon spyware | TechCrunch
The confirmation of two hacked victims further deepens an ongoing spyware scandal that, for now, appears largely focused on the Italian government.

PublicSpaces Conferentie 2025: Shaping our Digital Future.
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PublicSpaces Conferentie

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Confronting Whiteness

AIFoundry invites you to the 2nd edition of the AI Plumbers Conference, a meetup for low-level AI builders who value real conversations over keynote slides and for anyone working in modern data infrastructure, machine learning and open-source software projects. Connect, swap ideas and collaborate, free from the pressure of constant talks.
📅 When: June 15, 2025 – 10 am
📍 Where: GLS Event Campus Berlin, Kastanienallee 82 | 10435 Berlin
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AI Plumbers conference: 2nd edition · Luma
AIFoundry is bringing you the AI Plumbers Conference: 2nd edition — an open source meetup for low-level AI builders to dive deep into "the plumbing" of modern…

Updated Post: Podcast ep 194: Transformation and comfort do not live in the same house: rethinking comfort zones, familiarity, and change https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-194-transformation-and-comfort

Minerals were all the talk at the largest Ukraine Recovery Conference: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/minerals-were-all-the-talk.html

Compress Any Segment Anything Model (SAM)
Juntong Fan, Zhiwei Hao, Jianqiang Shen, Shang-Ling Jui, Yi Zhang, Jing-Xiao Liao, Feng-Lei Fan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08765

Compress Any Segment Anything Model (SAM)
Due to the excellent performance in yielding high-quality, zero-shot segmentation, Segment Anything Model (SAM) and its variants have been widely applied in diverse scenarios such as healthcare and intelligent manufacturing. Therefore, effectively compressing SAMs has become an increasingly pressing practical need. In this study, we propose Birkhoff, a novel data-free compression algorithm for SAM and its variants. Unlike quantization, pruning, distillation, and other compression methods, Birkh…

Check it out and register: Communal Resistance to Artificial Systems
https://www.civicsoftechnology.org/2025conference
4th Annual Civics of Technology Online Conference held online on July 31st and August 1st, 2025, from 11-3 pm EST

Satellite Event
AIFoundry invites you to the 2nd edition of the AI Plumbers Conference, a meetup for low-level AI builders who value real conversations over keynote slides and for anyone working in modern data infrastructure, machine learning and open-source software projects. Connect, swap ideas and collaborate, free from the pressure of constant talks.
📅 When: June 15, 2025 – 10 am-5 pm
📍 Where: GLS Event Campus Berlin, Kastanienallee 82 | 10435 Berlin
Register now:

3.5 billion euros in new funds pledged for Ukraine's reconstruction after Recovery Conference, ministry says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/13/billion-euros-in-new-funds.html