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Anna Gomez, the sole Democrat on the FCC, dissents against the Paramount-Skydance merger and says the FCC made "unprecedented" moves to help broker the deal (Caitlin Huston/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Dissenting FCC Commissioner: Paramount Chose “Capitulation Over Courage” In Dealing With Trump
“Despite this regrettable outcome, this Administration is not done with its assault on the First Amendment. In fact, it may only be beginning," Anna M. Gomez said.

'There is no protest without music': WMass singers bring songs of dissent to the people
https://www.masslive.com/westernmass/2025/09/there-is-no-prote…

‘There is no protest without music’: WMass singers bring songs of dissent to the people
Citing its multiple benefits in protest, several Pioneer Valley musicians are working to bring more melody to local rallies.

Zelensky doesn't have legitimacy to sign a peace deal, Russia's top diplomat claims: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/24/zelensky-doesnt-have-legitimacy-to.html

Uber launches prepaid passes, letting customers pay a discounted price in advance on frequently taken trips, in bundles of 5, 10, 15, or 20 rides (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/782765/uber-prepaid-pass-bundle-discount-route…

Uber launches prepaid passes for frequent routes
Uber announced prepaid passes for frequently made trips, when purchased in bulk.

Decentralized Federated Learning of Probabilistic Generative Classifiers
Aritz P\'erez, Carlos Echegoyen, Guzm\'an Santaf\'e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17285

Decentralized Federated Learning of Probabilistic Generative Classifiers
Federated learning is a paradigm of increasing relevance in real world applications, aimed at building a global model across a network of heterogeneous users without requiring the sharing of private data. We focus on model learning over decentralized architectures, where users collaborate directly to update the global model without relying on a central server. In this context, the current paper proposes a novel approach to collaboratively learn probabilistic generative classifiers with a parame…

On the Convergence of Policy Mirror Descent with Temporal Difference Evaluation
Jiacai Liu, Wenye Li, Ke Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18822 https://arxiv…

State Dept. Guts Human Rights Reporting, Removing Anything The Administration Doesn’t Think Violates Human Rights | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/25/state-dept-guts-human-rights-reporting-removing-anything-the-administration-doesnt-think-violates-human-rights/

Dequantization and Hardness of Spectral Sum Estimation
Roman Edenhofer, Atsuya Hasegawa, Fran\c{c}ois Le Gall
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20183 https://arxi…

Dequantization and Hardness of Spectral Sum Estimation
We give new dequantization and hardness results for estimating spectral sums of matrices, such as the log-determinant. Recent quantum algorithms have demonstrated that the logarithm of the determinant of sparse, well-conditioned, positive matrices can be approximated to $\varepsilon$-relative accuracy in time polylogarithmic in the dimension $N$, specifically in time $\mathrm{poly}(\mathrm{log}(N), s, κ, 1/\varepsilon)$, where $s$ is the sparsity and $κ$ the condition number of the input matr…

DirecTV experiments with discontinuing satellite TV subscriptions for new customers in several US regions and directing subscribers toward its streaming option (Luke Bouma/Cord Cutters News)
https://cordcuttersnews.com/directv-stop…

DIRECTV Stops Selling Satellite TV for New Customers in Select Areas | Cord Cutters News
DIRECTV, a leading provider of television entertainment, has announced a significant shift in its service offerings, discontinuing satellite TV subscriptions for new customers in several regions across the United States. The company is now directing new subscribers toward its streaming option, as part of a broader strategy to adapt to evolving consumer preferences and technological […]