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Qantas confirms personal info of 5.7M customers were held on the system compromised in a recent cyberattack, including names, email addresses, and phone numbers (Stephanie Chalmers/ABC)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-09/qan

Qantas confirms 5.7 million customers were impacted in cyber attack
Qantas Group chief executive Vanessa Hudson says the airline is focused on understanding what details of their data have been compromised and will let them know as soon as possible.

US confirms Trump ordered resumption of Ukraine military aid shipments: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/09/us-confirms-trump-ordered-resumption.html

Beyond Communication Overhead: A Multilevel Monte Carlo Approach for Mitigating Compression Bias in Distributed Learning
Ze'ev Zukerman, Bassel Hamoud, Kfir Y. Levy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05508

Beyond Communication Overhead: A Multilevel Monte Carlo Approach for Mitigating Compression Bias in Distributed Learning
Distributed learning methods have gained substantial momentum in recent years, with communication overhead often emerging as a critical bottleneck. Gradient compression techniques alleviate communication costs but involve an inherent trade-off between the empirical efficiency of biased compressors and the theoretical guarantees of unbiased compressors. In this work, we introduce a novel Multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) compression scheme that leverages biased compressors to construct statistically…

immigrant rights is a bike issue https://usa.streetsblog.org/2025/05/02/freedom-to-move-why-immigration-belongs-in-the-mobility-conversation

Freedom to Move: Why Immigration Belongs in the Mobility Conversation — Streetsblog USA
"If movement is a right, then that right must apply to everyone regardless of identity."

"This Suits You the Best": Query Focused Comparative Explainable Summarization
Arnav Attri, Anuj Attri, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Suman Banerjee, Amey Patil, Muthusamy Chelliah, Nikesh Garera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04733

"This Suits You the Best": Query Focused Comparative Explainable Summarization
Product recommendations inherently involve comparisons, yet traditional opinion summarization often fails to provide holistic comparative insights. We propose the novel task of generating Query-Focused Comparative Explainable Summaries (QF-CES) using Multi-Source Opinion Summarization (M-OS). To address the lack of query-focused recommendation datasets, we introduce MS-Q2P, comprising 7,500 queries mapped to 22,500 recommended products with metadata. We leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) to …

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« Face Š Trump et Š une direction démocrate dépassée, une poussée Š gauche se confirme aux Etats-Unis »
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2025/07/09/face-a-trump-…

« Face à Trump et à une direction démocrate dépassée, une poussée à gauche se confirme aux Etats-Unis »
Le 24 juin, Zohran Mamdani, un représentant de l’aile gauche du Parti démocrate, a remporté l’investiture pour la mairie de New York. Si son chemin vers la victoire sera sans doute escarpé, l’universitaire Mathieu Bonzom y voit, dans une tribune au « Monde », l’essor d’une gauche de plus en plus crédible.

Optimization of Fractal Image Compression
Nastaran Pourshab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06325 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06325

Optimization of Fractal Image Compression
Fractal Image Compression (FIC) is a lossy image compression technique that leverages self-similarity within an image to achieve high compression ratios. However, the process of compressing the image is computationally expensive. This paper investigates optimization techniques to improve the efficiency of FIC, focusing on increasing compression ratio and reducing computational time. The paper explores a novel approach named the Box Counting Method for estimating fractal dimensions, which is ver…

Towards an Explainable Comparison and Alignment of Feature Embeddings
Mohammad Jalali, Bahar Dibaei Nia, Farzan Farnia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06231 htt…

Towards an Explainable Comparison and Alignment of Feature Embeddings
While several feature embedding models have been developed in the literature, comparisons of these embeddings have largely focused on their numerical performance in classification-related downstream applications. However, an interpretable comparison of different embeddings requires identifying and analyzing mismatches between sample groups clustered within the embedding spaces. In this work, we propose the \emph{Spectral Pairwise Embedding Comparison (SPEC)} framework to compare embeddings and …

Ukraine's ambassador to US will be replaced, foreign minister confirms: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/08/ukraines-ambassador-to-us-will.html