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Holy hell. #Ozzy
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Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath singer and godfather of heavy metal, dies at 76 just weeks after farewell show
CNN — Ozzy Osbourne, the hellraising frontman of Black Sabbath and reality TV star, has died aged 76. The news was confirmed via a statement from the Osbourne family shared with CNN on Tuesday: “It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne …

Rep. Ilhan Omar asked CNN anchor and Chief White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins if she finds slain activist Charlie Kirk’s views “reprehensible” as Collins grilled her about social media posts related to Kirk.
Omar faced an attempted censure over her posts, which included reposting a video referencing Kirk being “shot through the neck” by his own “Frankenstein monster.”
Four Republicans helped vote down the censure resolution

Dem Ilhan Omar Straight-Up Asks CNN Anchor ‘Do You Not Find Charlie Kirk’s Views Reprehensible ...
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) straight-up asked CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins if she finds slain activist Charlie Kirk's views "reprehensible."

This is the summer of flooding across the US, and scientists know why | CNN #weather

#CNN: Trump administration released FBI records on MLK Jr.
A masterful move by Trump, setting up a (false) standard for reviews of his own conduct. Not that he's equal to #MLK in any way but you know him.
Watch how GOP will now show sympathy for MLK's "flaws".
https://us.cnn.com/2025/07/21/politics/released-fbi-records-mlk-jr

US Marines mobilized to Los Angeles are being sent home, Pentagon says (Haley Britzky/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/21/politics/us-marines-los-angeles-being-sent-home
http://www.memeorandum.com/250721/p112#a250721p112

Kim Jong Un says his ‘heart aches’ over North Korean soldiers killed fighting for Russia, in rare admission of losses | CNN
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/21/asia/kim-jong-un-north-korea-soldiers-russia-ukraine-intl-hnk

That's how disfunctional the Trump administration is
https://bsky.app/profile/cnn.com/post/3lug2optv3s2l

CNN (@cnn.com)
“Marco Rubio has four jobs at once — that’s how much confidence President Trump has in him,” Vice President JD Vance told CNN in a statement. cnn.it/3IwxTHR

A Flow-rate-conserving CNN-based Domain Decomposition Method for Blood Flow Simulations
Simon Klaes, Axel Klawonn, Natalie Kubicki, Martin Lanser, Kengo Nakajima, Takashi Shimokawabe, Janine Weber
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15900

A Flow-rate-conserving CNN-based Domain Decomposition Method for Blood Flow Simulations
This work aims to predict blood flow with non-Newtonian viscosity in stenosed arteries using convolutional neural network (CNN) surrogate models. An alternating Schwarz domain decomposition method is proposed which uses CNN-based subdomain solvers. A universal subdomain solver (USDS) is trained on a single, fixed geometry and then applied for each subdomain solve in the Schwarz method. Results for two-dimensional stenotic arteries of varying shape and length for different inflow conditions are …

A Novel Domain-Aware CNN Architecture for Faster-than-Nyquist Signaling Detection
Osman Tokluoglu, Enver Cavus, Ebrahim Bedeer, Halim Yanikomeroglu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15291

A Novel Domain-Aware CNN Architecture for Faster-than-Nyquist Signaling Detection
This paper proposes a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based detector for faster-than-Nyquist (FTN) signaling that employs structured fixed kernel layers with domain-informed masking to mitigate intersymbol interference (ISI). Unlike standard CNNs with sliding kernels, the proposed method utilizes fixed-position kernels to directly capture ISI effects at varying distances from the central symbol. A hierarchical filter allocation strategy is also introduced, assigning more filters to earlier l…

FEMA search and rescue chief resigns after frustration with Texas flood response (Gabe Cohen/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/21/politics/fema-search-and-rescue-chief-resigns
http://www.memeorandum.com/250721/p145#a250721p145

The Q&A with Trump and Zelensky on Monday showed how the White House has remade the press pool to evade tough questions and set up Trump's talking points (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/08/18/media/trump-zelensky-brian-glenn-peter-doocy-press-corp…

Zelensky meeting shows how the White House has remade the press corps to Trump’s liking
Veteran White House correspondents privately grumbled as a MAGA online personality dominated the Q&A during a photo op with President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Eine kritische #Sicherheitslücke in #SharePoint-Servern wird derzeit aktiv ausgenutzt.
Betroffen sind lokale Installationen in Unternehmen und Behörden, nicht jedoch #Microsoft365

Microsoft alerts businesses and governments to attacks on SharePoint servers
Microsoft has issued an alert about “active attacks” on server software used by government agencies and businesses to share documents within organizations and recommended security updates that customers should apply immediately.

Jeder Angriff auf Wissen und Informationsquellen ist auch ein Angriff auf Demokratie und Freiheit.
In den USA passiert das ungeniert in großem Maßstab, aber auch Deutschland zeigt Trends zu einerseits mehr Intransparenz auf politisches und Regierungshandeln und andererseits Verwässerung von Wissen durch Populismus und Angriffe auf das Vertrauen in staatliche Institutionen, die dem Schutz der Bürgerschaft dienen.

Deep Skin Lesion Segmentation with Transformer-CNN Fusion: Toward Intelligent Skin Cancer Analysis
Xin Wang, Xiaopei Zhang, Xingang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14509 https:/…

Deep Skin Lesion Segmentation with Transformer-CNN Fusion: Toward Intelligent Skin Cancer Analysis
This paper proposes a high-precision semantic segmentation method based on an improved TransUNet architecture to address the challenges of complex lesion structures, blurred boundaries, and significant scale variations in skin lesion images. The method integrates a transformer module into the traditional encoder-decoder framework to model global semantic information, while retaining a convolutional branch to preserve local texture and edge features. This enhances the model's ability to perceive…

Hybrid Deep Learning-Federated Learning Powered Intrusion Detection System for IoT/5G Advanced Edge Computing Network
Rasil Baidar, Sasa Maric, Robert Abbas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15555

Hybrid Deep Learning-Federated Learning Powered Intrusion Detection System for IoT/5G Advanced Edge Computing Network
The exponential expansion of IoT and 5G-Advanced applications has enlarged the attack surface for DDoS, malware, and zero-day intrusions. We propose an intrusion detection system that fuses a convolutional neural network (CNN), a bidirectional LSTM (BiLSTM), and an autoencoder (AE) bottleneck within a privacy-preserving federated learning (FL) framework. The CNN-BiLSTM branch captures local and gated cross-feature interactions, while the AE emphasizes reconstruction-based anomaly sensitivity. T…

Exclusive: Newly discovered photos and video shed fresh light on Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/22/politics/kfile-trump-epstein-photos-footage
http://www.memeorandum.com/250722/p143#a250722p143

El nivel de narcicismo de este señor es realmente patético. Sin mencionar el hecho de que esta política es una especie de regreso a la venta de oficios y dignidades de épocas pasadas.
Contexto: https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2025/09/19/eeuu/trump-pres…

At first I thought „Oh no, I need to peel off laptop stickers!“, but then I remembered that I won’t travel to the United States anytime soon (for large values of “soon”).
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/17/politics/antifa-terrorist-designation-trump

Trump says he’s designating Antifa as a terrorist organization
President Donald Trump said he is designating the far-left anti-fascism movement Antifa as a terrorist organization, announcing the move on his Truth Social platform in the early hours of Thursday morning UK time.

From @… 5 Things AM August 20, 2025:
#news #CNN #censorship

Multi-fidelity Ensemble Kalman Filter algorithms enhanced by Convolutional Neural Networks
Tom Moussie, Paolo Errante, Marcello Meldi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13744

Multi-fidelity Ensemble Kalman Filter algorithms enhanced by Convolutional Neural Networks
The present research work proposes advancement for Data Assimilation strategies using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). More precisely, multi-fidelity and multi-level algorithms for the Ensemble Kalman Filter are enhanced by CNN tools, with the objective to reduce the discrepancy in the prediction between ensemble realizations performed with different models. The proposed methodology is assessed via the analysis of the flow through a cascade of NACA 0012 profiles for Reynolds $Re=1\,000$ and…

Air Quality PM2.5 Index Prediction Model Based on CNN-LSTM
Zicheng Guo, Shuqi Wu, Meixing Zhu, He Guandi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11215 https://arxiv.org…

Air Quality PM2.5 Index Prediction Model Based on CNN-LSTM
With the intensification of global climate change, accurate prediction of air quality indicators, especially PM2.5 concentration, has become increasingly important in fields such as environmental protection, public health, and urban management. To address this, we propose an air quality PM2.5 index prediction model based on a hybrid CNN-LSTM architecture. The model effectively combines Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) for local spatial feature extraction and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) net…

Trump says law enforcement crackdown will 'go on to other places' during appearance at police facility in DC (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/08/21/politics/trump-dc-washington-police-military
http://www.memeorandum.com/250821/p130#a250821p130

Louisiana police chiefs among those arrested and accused in a bribery scheme to help foreign nationals get visas.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/16/us/louisiana-police-chiefs-arrested-bribery-scheme

Louisiana police chiefs among those arrested and accused in a bribery scheme to help foreign nationals get visas
A group of current or former Louisiana police chiefs and the operator of a Subway sandwich shop are accused of colluding in a decade-long scheme to falsify police reports to help foreign nationals get visas meant for crime victims or witnesses.

March 2025 https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-banners-kennedy-center/ vs https://e…

Photo of 'imperial red banners' with Trump's likeness outside Kennedy Center isn't real
The image showed U.S. President Donald Trump's face on large red banners outside the prominent performing arts institution in Washington.

Performance Analysis of Post-Training Quantization for CNN-based Conjunctival Pallor Anemia Detection
Sebastian A. Cruz Romero, Wilfredo E. Lugo Beauchamp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15151

Performance Analysis of Post-Training Quantization for CNN-based Conjunctival Pallor Anemia Detection
Anemia is a widespread global health issue, particularly among young children in low-resource settings. Traditional methods for anemia detection often require expensive equipment and expert knowledge, creating barriers to early and accurate diagnosis. To address these challenges, we explore the use of deep learning models for detecting anemia through conjunctival pallor, focusing on the CP-AnemiC dataset, which includes 710 images from children aged 6-59 months. The dataset is annotated with he…

Mahmoud Khalil Lashes Out After CNN Asks If He Condemns Hamas: 'Disingenuous and Absurd To Ask Such Questions' (Meghan Blonder/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/mahmoud-khalil-lashes-out-after-cnn-asks-if-he-condemns-hamas-disingenuous-and-absurd-to-ask-such-questions/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250722/p144#a250722p144

Status, the newsletter founded by ex-CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy, hires Brian Lowry as Hollywood correspondent and Natalie Korach as media correspondent (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Oliver Darcy Staffing Up Status: Hires Brian Lowry and Natalie Korach in Expansion Push (Exclusive)
The writers join from Vanity Fair and The Wrap, with Darcy also working with Stacey Farish on advertising and sponsorship opportunities.

A Time- and Energy-Efficient CNN with Dense Connections on Memristor-Based Chips
Wenyong Zhou, Yuan Ren, Jiajun Zhou, Tianshu Hou, Ngai Wong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12251 htt…

A Time- and Energy-Efficient CNN with Dense Connections on Memristor-Based Chips
Designing lightweight convolutional neural network (CNN) models is an active research area in edge AI. Compute-in-memory (CIM) provides a new computing paradigm to alleviate time and energy consumption caused by data transfer in von Neumann architecture. Among competing alternatives, resistive random-access memory (RRAM) is a promising CIM device owing to its reliability and multi-bit programmability. However, classical lightweight designs such as depthwise convolution incurs under-utilization …

Detection of kink oscillations in solar coronal loops by a CNN-LSTM neural network
Sergey A. Belov, Yu Zhong, Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov, Valery M. Nakariakov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15041

Detection of kink oscillations in solar coronal loops by a CNN-LSTM neural network
A hybrid machine learning model which combines a shallow convolutional neural network and a long short-term memory network (CNN--LSTM), has been developed to automate the detection of kink oscillations in coronal plasma loops within large volumes of high-cadence sequences of imaging data. The network was trained on a set of 10,000 synthetic data cubes designed to mimic sequences of coronal images, achieving an accuracy greater than 98\% on this synthetic dataset. The model was then applied to d…

"Russia sees Trump’s 50-day window as a green light to keep up brutal offensive in Ukraine"
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/15/europe/putin-window-ukraine-war-trump-analysis-intl-hnk

Russia sees Trump’s 50-day window as a green light to keep up brutal offensive in Ukraine
President Trump has effectively handed Vladimir Putin an extraordinary green light: 50 days to finish off his brutal summer offensive in Ukraine before facing any consequences.

Bock, Gärtner und was weiß ich.
Wichtig in Erinnerung zu behalten: ein Schwerpunkt in Trumps kürzlich veröffentlichter KI-Stretegie ist der Export von KI-Technik und Services an "Freunde und Partner". Der auf "amerikanische Werte" getrimmte Müll soll auch hier die Hirne fluten. Die Fristen zur Umsetzung laufen, wer nächstes Jahr noch ChatGPT, Perplexity usw. nutzt, dem ist nicht mehr zu helfen.

XAI-Driven Spectral Analysis of Cough Sounds for Respiratory Disease Characterization
Patricia Amado-Caballero, Luis Miguel San-Jos\'e-Revuelta, Mar\'ia Dolores Aguilar-Garc\'ia, Jos\'e Ram\'on Garmendia-Leiza, Carlos Alberola-L\'opez, Pablo Casaseca-de-la-Higuera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14949

XAI-Driven Spectral Analysis of Cough Sounds for Respiratory Disease Characterization
This paper proposes an eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)-driven methodology to enhance the understanding of cough sound analysis for respiratory disease management. We employ occlusion maps to highlight relevant spectral regions in cough spectrograms processed by a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Subsequently, spectral analysis of spectrograms weighted by these occlusion maps reveals significant differences between disease groups, particularly in patients with COPD, where cough patt…

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/11/politics/chinese-hackers-suspected-law-firm-hack Chinese hackers hacked into the most powerful telecom and communications law firm in DC and maybe the world. Founded by former FCC chairman and true gentleman Dick Wiley.

Chinese hackers suspected in breach of powerful DC law firm
Suspected Chinese hackers have broken into the email accounts of attorneys and advisers at a powerful Washington, DC, law firm in an apparent intelligence-gathering operation, the firm, Wiley Rein, told clients this week in a memo reviewed by CNN.

Americans largely oppose Trump's ramp-up of deportations, CNN poll finds (Ariel Edwards-Levy/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/20/politics/cnn-poll-trump-deportations
http://www.memeorandum.com/250720/p29#a250720p29

The Farm Aid music festival will be livestreamed on Saturday, Sept. 20, and broadcast on CNN's channel starting at 7 p.m. ET.
https://bsky.app/profile/usatoday.com/post/3lzbvs7csla2r

USA TODAY (@usatoday.com)
The Farm Aid music festival will be livestreamed on Saturday, Sept. 20, and broadcast on CNN's channel starting at 7 p.m. ET. https://bit.ly/46pq66Q

Machine learning revolution for exoplanet direct imaging detection: transformer architectures
Yu-Chia Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14508 https://arxiv.or…

Machine learning revolution for exoplanet direct imaging detection: transformer architectures
Directly imaging exoplanets is a formidable challenge due to extreme contrast ratios and quasi-static speckle noise, motivating the exploration of advanced post-processing methods. While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown promise, their inherent limitations in capturing long-range dependencies in image sequences hinder their effectiveness. This study introduces a novel hybrid deep learning architecture that combines a CNN feature extractor with a Transformer encoder to leverage tem…

google glass and snapchat spectacles were both such wildly successful products, which we all trampled one another to get, of course facebook-wunderkind-who-isn't-really-a-wunderkind will succeed with possibly the most unappealing glasses ever made since someone ended up with auto glass in their eyes after flying through a windshield in a collision. It's a sure thing! /s

Mark Zuckerberg is making a major bet on the future. He’s about to share it
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a bold claim on the social media giant’s earnings call in July. Answering a question from an analyst, he said people without smart glasses may one day be at a “significant cognitive disadvantage” compared to those who do use the tech.

Filing: Newsmax agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $67M to settle a defamation lawsuit over false claims about the 2020 election, with $27M due this month (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/08/18/media/newsmax-dominion-settle-2020-election-defamatio…

Newsmax will pay $67 million to settle Dominion lawsuit over network’s 2020 election lies
Egregious lies about the 2020 presidential election are going to cost Newsmax millions.

A fascinating story from back in July about one of the last #mahjong carvers in Hong Kong... https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2025/07/style/h…

Meet the last woman carving mahjong tiles by hand in Hong Kong
In a tiny roadside storefront, Ho Sau-mei has been carving mahjong tiles since she was 13 years old. Now in her 60s, she is the only female artisan left in Hong Kong as mass production replaces handmade craftsmanship.

SCRNet: Spatial-Channel Regulation Network for Medical Ultrasound Image Segmentation
Weixin Xu, Ziliang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13899 https://arxiv…

SCRNet: Spatial-Channel Regulation Network for Medical Ultrasound Image Segmentation
Medical ultrasound image segmentation presents a formidable challenge in the realm of computer vision. Traditional approaches rely on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformer-based methods to address the intricacies of medical image segmentation. Nevertheless, inherent limitations persist, as CNN-based methods tend to disregard long-range dependencies, while Transformer-based methods may overlook local contextual information. To address these deficiencies, we propose a novel Feature…

Efficient and Verifiable Privacy-Preserving Convolutional Computation for CNN Inference with Untrusted Clouds
Jinyu Lu, Xinrong Sun, Yunting Tao, Tong Ji, Fanyu Kong, Guoqiang Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12832

Efficient and Verifiable Privacy-Preserving Convolutional Computation for CNN Inference with Untrusted Clouds
The widespread adoption of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in resource-constrained scenarios has driven the development of Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) system. However, this approach is susceptible to privacy leakage, as the data sent from the client to the untrusted cloud server often contains sensitive information. Existing CNN privacy-preserving schemes, while effective in ensuring data confidentiality through homomorphic encryption and secret sharing, face efficiency bottlenec…

Guess what: Still not going to renew my Disney subscription next month.
No longer just #FAFO, now it’s #FAFFO “F__k Around with Fascism and Find Out”
#JimmyKimmel #Disney #Consequences
#Fascism
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/entertainment/jimmy-kimmel-returning?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Half a dozen lawyers and scholars say President Trump's lawsuit against NYT lacks legal merit and its main purpose is to threaten criticism of the president (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/media/trump-new-york-times-nyt-lawsuit-meritless-experts…

Trump’s lawsuit against The New York Times is meritless, First Amendment experts say
The president’s defamation lawsuit against the Times is frivolous, according to half a dozen lawyers and First Amendment scholars who spoke with CNN. But his chances in court are almost beside the point, some of the experts said.

Trump regime rewriting climate science.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/07/climate/wright-national-climate-assessments-updating

Energy chief suggests Trump administration is altering previously published climate reports
Wright said the Trump administration is updating the National Climate Assessments that have been previously published, which the administration recently removed from government websites.

Several lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have criticized Trump’s politicization of the justice department.
In an interview with NBC News, Rand Paul, Republican senator of Kentucky, toed a line, and said that “lawfare in all forms is bad,” before insisting that Joe Biden was the “king of lawfare”.
Paul also noted that “we need to get politics out of the judicial system as much as we can”.
Meanwhile, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer said on CNN that Trump’s actions re…

Good proposal, a no-fly zone above Ukraine, NATO/EU can do this, it is non-escalatory and saves delivered weapons and material from europe from destruction.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/15/europe/poland-nato-no-fly-zone-ukraine-russian-drones-i…

NATO should impose no-fly zone over Ukraine to protect against Russian drones, Poland says
Poland’s foreign minister has suggested that NATO states should consider imposing a no-fly zone over Ukraine to protect the alliance’s territory and people from Russian drones.

Target's CEO is stepping down as customers turn away (Nathaniel Meyersohn/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/08/20/business/target-stock-ceo-cornell
http://www.memeorandum.com/250820/p80#a250820p80

Exclusive: Trump to offer Putin formal US recognition of Russian gains in Ukraine and ban on Nato membership, sources tell CNN | Proposed deal described as ‘most generous offer yet’ in Trump’s bid to put an end to the conflict
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-putin-alaska-summit-news-08-14-25

A news station, real enough for the US DoD to have someone on it, was knowingly using Grok-generated images without labelling them as such.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/15/media/oan-gaetz-ai-images-women-military-kingsley-wilson

A Trump-favored MAGA network praised an increase in women soldiers. Its images were fake
The images of female soldiers appear to have been generated using Elon Musk’s Grok.

The FCC hasn't denied any license renewals in decades and the legal battle would be long, so Brendan Carr's threats are designed to make the media self-censor (CNN)
https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1758286615238bb1f6cfd45f0/raw

Comprehensive Evaluation of CNN-Based Audio Tagging Models on Resource-Constrained Devices
Jordi Grau-Haro, Ruben Ribes-Serrano, Javier Naranjo-Alcazar, Marta Garcia-Ballesteros, Pedro Zuccarello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14049

Comprehensive Evaluation of CNN-Based Audio Tagging Models on Resource-Constrained Devices
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have demonstrated exceptional performance in audio tagging tasks. However, deploying these models on resource-constrained devices like the Raspberry Pi poses challenges related to computational efficiency and thermal management. In this paper, a comprehensive evaluation of multiple convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures for audio tagging on the Raspberry Pi is conducted, encompassing all 1D and 2D models from the Pretrained Audio Neural Networks (P…

This is the summer of flooding across the US, and scientists know why (Andrew Freedman/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/20/climate/summer-of-flooding
http://www.memeorandum.com/250720/p63#a250720p63

As Trump pushes Texas takeover in fight for House, Democrats plot their counterpunch (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/20/politics/redistricting-2026-house-democrats
http://www.memeorandum.com/250720/p13#a250720p13

CNN's Jeremy Diamond says Israeli settlers in the West Bank attacked the car he was in while on assignment; a Deutsche Welle team was attacked there on July 4 (Melanie Goodfellow/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/cnn-correspondent-…

CNN Crew Attacked By Israeli Settlers In West Bank Amid Escalating Violence Against Journalists
CNN Correspondent Says He And Crew Were Attacked By Israeli Settlers In West Bank Amid Escalating Violence Against Journalists

Judge rejects Trump administration request to release Jeffrey Epstein grand jury documents (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/08/20/politics/jeffrey-epstein-grand-jury-documents-rejected-request
http://www.memeorandum.com/250820/p94#a250820p94

A Hybrid Multi-Well Hopfield-CNN with Feature Extraction and K-Means for MNIST Classification
Ahmed Farooq
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08766 https://…

A Hybrid Multi-Well Hopfield-CNN with Feature Extraction and K-Means for MNIST Classification
This study presents a hybrid model for classifying handwritten digits in the MNIST dataset, combining convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with a multi-well Hopfield network. The approach employs a CNN to extract high-dimensional features from input images, which are then clustered into class-specific prototypes using k-means clustering. These prototypes serve as attractors in a multi-well energy landscape, where a Hopfield network performs classification by minimizing an energy function that b…

How nice of him to give away what's not his.
Exclusive: Trump to offer Putin formal US recognition of Russian gains in Ukraine and ban on Nato membership, sources tell CNN | Proposed deal described as ‘most generous offer yet’ in Trump’s bid to put an end to the conflict
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-putin-alaska-summit-news-08-14-25

Tulsi Gabbard revokes security clearances of 37 current and former national security officials (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/08/19/politics/tulsi-gabbard-revokes-security-clearances
http://www.memeorandum.com/250820/p7#a250820p7

DOJ prosecutor investigating New York Attorney General Letitia James seen posing for photos outside of her home (Kara Scannell/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/08/19/politics/ed-martin-letitia-james-brooklyn-new-york-house
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p151#a250819p151

Brain Tumor Detection Through Diverse CNN Architectures in IoT Healthcare Industries: Fast R-CNN, U-Net, Transfer Learning-Based CNN, and Fully Connected CNN
Mohsen Asghari Ilani, Yaser M. Banad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05821

Brain Tumor Detection Through Diverse CNN Architectures in IoT Healthcare Industries: Fast R-CNN, U-Net, Transfer Learning-Based CNN, and Fully Connected CNN
Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered deep learning has advanced brain tumor diagnosis in Internet of Things (IoT)-healthcare systems, achieving high accuracy with large datasets. Brain health is critical to human life, and accurate diagnosis is essential for effective treatment. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) provides key data for brain tumor detection, serving as a major source of big data for AI-driven image classification. In this study, we classified glioma, meningioma, and pituitary tumo…

CNN's Erin Burnett shreds right-wing hypocrisy with devastating superclip of their remarks - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/jimmy-kimmel-2674008412/

Just 23% of Americans say Israeli military actions in Gaza are fully justified, CNN poll finds (Edward Wu/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/18/politics/cnn-poll-israel-support
http://www.memeorandum.com/250718/p137#a250718p137

Early Detection of Furniture-Infesting Wood-Boring Beetles Using CNN-LSTM Networks and MFCC-Based Acoustic Features
J. M. Chan Sri Manukalpa, H. S. Bopage, W. A. M. Jayawardena, P. K. P. G. Panduwawala
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12793

Early Detection of Furniture-Infesting Wood-Boring Beetles Using CNN-LSTM Networks and MFCC-Based Acoustic Features
Structural pests, such as termites, pose a serious threat to wooden buildings, resulting in significant economic losses due to their hidden and progressive damage. Traditional detection methods, such as visual inspections and chemical treatments, are invasive, labor intensive, and ineffective for early stage infestations. To bridge this gap, this study proposes a non invasive deep learning based acoustic classification framework for early termite detection. We aim to develop a robust, scalable …

CNN relaunched its FAST channel CNN Headlines, which now features two hours of a new live, original show anchored by Brad Smith, last week (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/08/cnn-headlines-live-channel-relaunch

Scoop: CNN relaunches FAST channel with original, live programming
The revamp is part of a sweeping overhaul of CNN's streaming and video efforts.

5 big questions about Trump's ties to Epstein (Aaron Blake/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/19/politics/epstein-trump-ties-analysis
http://www.memeorandum.com/250719/p54#a250719p54

Unleashing Vision Foundation Models for Coronary Artery Segmentation: Parallel ViT-CNN Encoding and Variational Fusion
Caixia Dong, Duwei Dai, Xinyi Han, Fan Liu, Xu Yang, Zongfang Li, Songhua Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12938

Unleashing Vision Foundation Models for Coronary Artery Segmentation: Parallel ViT-CNN Encoding and Variational Fusion
Accurate coronary artery segmentation is critical for computeraided diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD), yet it remains challenging due to the small size, complex morphology, and low contrast with surrounding tissues. To address these challenges, we propose a novel segmentation framework that leverages the power of vision foundation models (VFMs) through a parallel encoding architecture. Specifically, a vision transformer (ViT) encoder within the VFM captures global structural features, …

A US judge rules Infowars will go up for sale yet again, paving the way for The Onion to revive its bid for the conspiracy-driven outlet and its assets (Hadas Gold/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/08/13/media/infowars-alex-jones-onion-sale-texas-judge

Alex Jones’ Infowars will go up for sale yet again, judge rules
The order paves the way for The Onion to revive its bid for the conspiracy-driven outlet and its assets.

Zelensky meeting shows how the White House has remade the press corps to Trump's liking (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/08/18/media/trump-zelensky-brian-glenn-peter-doocy-press-corps
http://www.memeorandum.com/250818/p150#a250818p150

Apparently Donald Trump doesn’t want the public to see reminders of his immediate predecessors when they visit the White House.
Portraits of former presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and George H.W. Bush have been relocated from prominent public display to the top of a staircase that few people can access, CNN reported

Trump moves Obama, Bush portraits to hidden stairwell
Once a dramatic feature of the White House entryway, the official portrait of former President Barack Obama has been moved to a decidedly less prominent position, underscoring the years-long tensions between the 44th and 47th presidents.

Why Trump deserves credit for his Ukraine push -- and why it may all fall apart (Stephen Collinson/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/08/19/politics/trump-zelensky-meeting-oval-office-putin-war-analysis
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p8#a250819p8

Some right-wing media stars, whose conspiracy theories helped put Trump in power, are rejecting his call to stop wasting "time and energy on Jeffrey Epstein" (Brian Stelter/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/07/14/media/trump-maga-media-epstein-files-c…

MAGA media’s conspiracy theories put Trump in power — and now they’re coming back to bite him
Some of the most influential voices in right-wing media are rejecting Trump’s call to stop wasting “time and energy on Jeffrey Epstein.”

Trump escalates attacks against Smithsonian museums, says there's too much focus on 'how bad slavery was' (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/08/19/politics/trump-slavery-museum-smithsonian
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p110#a250819p110

CNN's John Miller Says Kirk Shooter 'Wasn't an Amateur'
https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/cnn-intelligence-analyst-says-kirk-shooter-wasnt-an-amateur/

Larry Ellison’s expected incursion into Hollywood and Big Media, if successful,
could also go well beyond what other tech moguls like Jeff Bezos and Marc Benioff have attempted through their acquisitions of The Washington Post and Time magazine, respectively.
For those men, the acquisitions were more like expensive hobbies.
Mr. Ellison is up to something very different:
transforming himself into a media magnate.
Along with his son, David, he could soon end up …

Opinion | Larry Ellison Is Closing In on CNN, HBO and TikTok
Larry Ellison is now suddenly poised to become the most powerful media mogul America has ever seen.

Americans are broadly dissatisfied with how much Epstein info the government has released, CNN poll finds (Jennifer Agiesta/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/15/politics/jeffrey-epstein-cnn-poll
http://www.memeorandum.com/250715/p80#a250715p80

Democrats are far more motivated than Republicans for next year's midterms, CNN poll finds (Jennifer Agiesta/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/17/politics/democrats-republicans-midterms-poll
http://www.memeorandum.com/250717/p31#a250717p31

More than 10% of Gaza's population has been killed or injured, former Israeli military chief says (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/15/middleeast/1-in-10-palestinians-killed-injured-gaza-israel-intl?Date=20250916&Profile=CNN
http://www.memeorandum.com/250915/p166#a250915p166

Charles Bierbauer, a former CNN correspondent and White House Correspondents' Association president from 1991 to 1992, has died at the age of 83 (Alison Main/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/politics/charles-bierbauer-correspondent-dies-83

Charles Bierbauer, former CNN correspondent, dies at 83
Bierbauer retired from CNN in 2001 after two decades covering news in Washington, DC, and around the world.

MSNBC is getting a new name as part of its split from NBC News (Brian Stelter/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/08/18/media/msnbc-msnow-nbc-news-versant-split
http://www.memeorandum.com/250818/p57#a250818p57

Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison praises South Park creators, noting the show's profitability for Paramount, even as the show mercilessly skewers Trump (Brian Stelter/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/media/south-park-ellison-paramount-trump-…

‘South Park’ gets high praise from new Paramount boss amid Trump feud
Paramount’s new CEO doesn’t seem to think he has a “South Park” problem.

Trump diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency following leg swelling (Betsy Klein/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/17/politics/trump-leg-swelling-chronic-venous-insufficiency
http://www.memeorandum.com/250717/p138#a250717p138

Pam Bondi's 'hate speech' comments lead even some conservatives to cry foul (Aaron Blake/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/16/politics/pam-bondi-hate-speech-conservatives-analysis
http://www.memeorandum.com/250916/p166#a250916p166

Top oversight Democrat sends letter to Fox News demanding answers on edits to Trump's 2024 Epstein comments (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/17/media/trump-epstein-fox-news-edits-house-democrats-oversight
http://www.memeorandum.com/250717/p116#a250717p116

Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison visited CBS News early Thursday, expressing admiration for the news division and acknowledging recent stresses (Brian Stelter/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/media/paramount-skydance-cbs-news-david-ellison-merger

Inside the first day of Paramount’s new regime under David Ellison
Ellison spoke with CBS journalists on his first day, acknowledging the stresses of the past year and touting the importance of “fact-based journalism,” a person in attendance said.

Maurene Comey, federal prosecutor in Epstein case, fired from SDNY (Kara Scannell/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/16/politics/maurene-comey-fired-sdny
http://www.memeorandum.com/250716/p162#a250716p162

Trump's cherry-picked claims on political violence ignore his own rhetoric (Aaron Blake/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/15/politics/political-violence-trump-charlie-kirk
http://www.memeorandum.com/250916/p4#a250916p4

Exclusive: Oklahoma to begin controversial test to weed out 'woke' teacher applicants today (Sunlen Serfaty/CNN)
https://cnn.com/politics/prageru-oklahoma-woke-teacher-test
http://www.memeorandum.com/250815/p59#a250815p59

US military deploying over 4,000 additional troops to waters around Latin America as part of Trump's counter-cartel mission (Natasha Bertrand/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/08/15/politics/us-military-deploying-caribbean-latin-america-cartel-mission
http://www.memeorandum.com/250815/p60#a250815p60

Businesses have been eating Trump's tariffs. That's starting to change (Alicia Wallace/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/08/14/economy/us-ppi-wholesale-inflation-july
http://www.memeorandum.com/250814/p38#a250814p38

Putin praises Trump's peace efforts and floats potential nuclear deal at Alaska summit (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/08/14/europe/putin-trump-alaska-nuclear-meeting-intl
http://www.memeorandum.com/250814/p42#a250814p42

FEMA search and rescue teams take days to reach Texas after flooding as agency faces overhaul (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/13/politics/fema-texas-flooding-search-rescue
http://www.memeorandum.com/250713/p31#a250713p31

Trump says he's considering revoking Rosie O'Donnell's citizenship, reigniting decades-long feud (Donald Judd/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/12/politics/rosie-odonnell-donald-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/250713/p6#a250713p6

Trump shelves Chicago crackdown plans for now as advisers warn of legal headaches (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/12/politics/chicago-memphis-trump-national-guard
http://www.memeorandum.com/250912/p144#a250912p144

xAI issues lengthy apology for violent and antisemitic Grok social media posts (Hadas Gold/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/12/tech/xai-apology-antisemitic-grok-social-media-posts
http://www.memeorandum.com/250712/p58#a250712p58

White House lands on Trump-Putin summit location as officials race to prepare for historic Alaska meeting (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/08/12/politics/trump-putin-meeting-plan-location
http://www.memeorandum.com/250812/p138#a250812p138

Judge orders Trump administration to stop immigration arrests in Southern California without probable cause (Kaanita Iyer/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/11/politics/california-immigration-arrests-probable-cause
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p114#a250711p114

David Gergen, political insider who advised four presidents of both parties, dies at 83 (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/11/politics/david-gergen-dead
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p99#a250711p99

Watch Part One of Dana Bash's exclusive sit-down with Sen. Bernie Sanders (Dana Bash/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/08/10/politics/video/dana-bash-bernie-sanders-fight-oligarchy-trump-administration
http://www.memeorandum.com/250811/p86#a250811p86

Trump escalates battle to take control of spending away from Congress (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/03/politics/trump-congress-spending-shutdown-recissions?Date=20250903&Profile=CNN
http://www.memeorandum.com/250903/p33#a250903p33