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The IETF’s “AI-CONTROL Workshop Report”: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-iab-ai-control-report-02.html
Where by “AI-CONTROL” they mean “dealing with LLM-building scrapers”.

Astronomie: Womöglich zweite Aufnahme des Exoplaneten bei Alpha Centauri A
Um Alpha Centauri A kreist womöglich ein Exoplanet in der Zone, in der flüssiges Wasser vorkommen könnte. Bestätigt ist das nicht, es gibt aber nun zwei Bilder.

Find the best contrast between one color and a list of options, e.g. for labels in geom_tile: {prismatic::best_contrast()} https://emilhvitfeldt.github.io/prismatic/reference/best_contrast.html

Two days after catastrophic floods roared through Central Texas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency still hadn't not answered nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.
The lack of responsiveness happened because the agency had fired hundreds of contractors at call centers.
The agency laid off the contractors on July 5 after their contracts expired and were not extended

FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that weren’t extended.

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

Center Stage: So funktionieren Apples neue Selfie-Kameras beim iPhone 17
Apple hat ein neues Selfie-Feature implementiert, das bislang unbekannt war: Der Center-Stage-Sensor ist so eingerichtet, dass man frei knipsen kann.
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Understanding Inconsistent State Update Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts
Lantian Li, Yuyu Chen, Jingwen Wu, Yue Pan, Zhongxing Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06192 https://

Understanding Inconsistent State Update Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts
Smart contracts enable contract terms to be automatically executed and verified on the blockchain, and recent years have witnessed numerous applications of them in areas such as financial institutions and supply chains. The execution logic of a smart contract is closely related to the contract state, and thus the correct and safe execution of the contract depends heavily on the precise control and update of the contract state. However, the contract state update process can have issues. In parti…

Contrarians to the Rescue on Birthright Citizenship! (Norman Eisen/The Contrarian)
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/contrarians-to-the-rescue-on-birthright
http://www.memeorandum.com/250712/p24#a250712p24

Further tests reveal Grok 4 appears to consult Elon Musk's views on a range of sensitive topics, and its answers tend to align with Musk's personal opinions (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/grok

Grok 4 seems to consult Elon Musk to answer controversial questions | TechCrunch
Elon Musk's newly launched AI chatbot, Grok 4, seemed to reference Musk's posts on social media before answering controversial questions.

Happening now: Cambridge University REAL Centre 10th Anniversary Conference online.
Centre Director, Prof Pauline Rose, gives a warm welcome speaking about friendship as the starting point for rigorous research in education and development, building connections, inclusivity, and warmth.
https://www.educ.c…