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Civitai Ban of Real People Content Deals Major Blow to the Nonconsensual AI Porn Ecosystem https://www.404media.co/civitai-ban-of-real-people-content-deals-major-blow-to-the-nonconsensual-ai-porn-ecosystem/…

YouTube mega streamer IShowSpeed's recent visits to Lithuania and China show how countries are focusing on creators' fan bases as a new strategy for soft power (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

An American mega-influencer flew to Lithuania. Then the chaos began.
The streamer IShowSpeed drank pink soup in the Baltics, marveled at cars in China and made friends in Saudi Arabia. Are his tours propaganda, or just good advertising?

DOGE loses control over government grants website, freeing up billions (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/27/doge-loses-control-federal-grants/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzUwOTk2ODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzUyMzc5MTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTA5OTY4MDAsImp0aSI6Ijg5MDBiZTk1LTc0ODktNGUyMC1iNmY0LTZjOWZhNGFmODNlMiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDI1LzA2LzI3L2RvZ2UtbG9zZXMtY29udHJvbC1mZWRlcmFsLWdyYW50cy8ifQ.Sd0lvhogISrMbsfmJpF3BJJZwMZe82DlkqnlEq2e8Kg&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250627/p152#a250627p152

Microsoft is pushing for bulk email senders to use addresses that can be replied to. (ie not "no-reply@")

Strengthening Email Ecosystem: Outlook’s New Requirements for High‐Volume Senders | Microsoft Community Hub
April 29th Update - Changes have been made to the action take on messages that do not meet requirements, please see details below. Introduction In an era...

Exploring the Jupyter Ecosystem: An Empirical Study of Bugs and Vulnerabilities
Wenyuan Jiang, Diany Pressato, Harsh Darji, Thibaud Lutellier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18833 ht…

Exploring the Jupyter Ecosystem: An Empirical Study of Bugs and Vulnerabilities
Background. Jupyter notebooks are one of the main tools used by data scientists. Notebooks include features (configuration scripts, markdown, images, etc.) that make them challenging to analyze compared to traditional software. As a result, existing software engineering models, tools, and studies do not capture the uniqueness of Notebook's behavior. Aims. This paper aims to provide a large-scale empirical study of bugs and vulnerabilities in the Notebook ecosystem. Method. We collected and anal…

Sources: DOGE has built an AI tool aiming to cut 50% of federal regulations, or around 100,000 rules, by the first anniversary of Trump's inauguration (Washington Post)

DOGE builds AI tool to cut 50 percent of federal regulations
The U.S. DOGE Service is using a new AI tool to eliminate federal regulations, aiming to cut 50 percent of rules by the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Collaborative Agentic AI Needs Interoperability Across Ecosystems
Rishi Sharma, Martijn de Vos, Pradyumna Chari, Ramesh Raskar, Anne-Marie Kermarrec
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21550

Collaborative Agentic AI Needs Interoperability Across Ecosystems
Collaborative agentic AI is projected to transform entire industries by enabling AI-powered agents to autonomously perceive, plan, and act within digital environments. Yet, current solutions in this field are all built in isolation, and we are rapidly heading toward a landscape of fragmented, incompatible ecosystems. In this position paper, we argue that interoperability, achieved by the adoption of minimal standards, is essential to ensure open, secure, web-scale, and widely-adopted agentic ec…

Bridging the Narrative Divide: Cross-Platform Discourse Networks in Fragmented Ecosystems
Patrick Gerard, Hans W. A. Hanley, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21729

Bridging the Narrative Divide: Cross-Platform Discourse Networks in Fragmented Ecosystems
Political discourse has grown increasingly fragmented across different social platforms, making it challenging to trace how narratives spread and evolve within such a fragmented information ecosystem. Reconstructing social graphs and information diffusion networks is challenging, and available strategies typically depend on platform-specific features and behavioral signals which are often incompatible across systems and increasingly restricted. To address these challenges, we present a platform…

Star witness against Kilmar Abrego García was due to be deported. Now he's being freed. (Maria Sacchetti/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/06/28/star-witness-against-kilmar-abrego-garca-was-due-be-deported-now-hes-being-freed/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzUxMDgzMjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzUyNDY1NTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTEwODMyMDAsImp0aSI6ImVkZTBmMDcyLWEyOTEtNGU5Zi04NGIwLWY5YzdiZGYwMmQxYiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9pbW1pZ3JhdGlvbi8yMDI1LzA2LzI4L3N0YXItd2l0bmVzcy1hZ2FpbnN0LWtpbG1hci1hYnJlZ28tZ2FyY2Etd2FzLWR1ZS1iZS1kZXBvcnRlZC1ub3ctaGVzLWJlaW5nLWZyZWVkLyJ9._Nch735ocr9BypFYB3Xw3tJUhhZe5g2iCY6LIT4QPPA&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p90#a250628p90

Creative Commons debuts CC Signals, a framework that will allow dataset holders to detail how their content can or cannot be reused for training AI models (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/25/creative…

Creative Commons debuts CC signals, a framework for an open AI ecosystem | TechCrunch
CC signals will allow dataset holders to detail how their content can or cannot be reused by machines, as in the case of training AI models.