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Xbox has become a shell of its former self, weighed down by job cuts and studio closures, as it focuses on franchises like Halo and reaching "a billion people" (Andrew Webster/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/games/998758/xbox-activision-blizzard

Xbox is barely Xbox anymore
Further changes and layoffs at Xbox signal a further retreat from Microsoft’s gaming brand.

The housing unit, attractively set around a courtyard in converted student accommodation, follows the
⭐️“Housing First” principle that has made Finland a world leader when it comes to tackling homelessness.
👉The model focuses on housing as a fundamental human right rather than a reward.
Temporary accommodation is seen not as a solution, but something to be avoided.
All support is centred on ensuring that people have permanent homes,
with everything else follow…

Finland tried to end homelessness. What can we learn from its runaway success – and recent failures?
The Housing First policy led to the number of homeless people in Finland dropping by half. Those with firsthand experience explain why it worked

To Decarbonize Quickly, Think Beyond Electrification.
Focuses on buildings and transport.
By Sam Butler
#EnergyTransition

To Decarbonize Quickly, Think Beyond Electrification – Jacobin
Electrifying everything sounds like the obvious path off fossil fuels, but it requires critical minerals we can’t source quickly enough. Alternative technologies and interventions can cut emissions faster, cheaper, and without mineral bottlenecks.

Tracey Johnson, assistant professor of history and African American studies, picked pieces ranging from the mid-19th century to the present for her survey course HIST 3165: History of Art and Activism in the United States. This course focuses on issues such as racial injustice, homelessness and the HIV/AIDs crisis through the lens of creative activism and protest.
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Sherry Turkle say AI is fine for solving hard problems or work tasks but is really focuses on LLMs replacing any emotional interaction that should be with other human. Hard to disagree!
Is AI Making Us Less Human? by 404 Media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whqDsYhCl0s

Sources: Apple is cutting 200 jobs, including ~100 positions from the Vision Pro unit and another 100 from the Siri team, as it focuses on new devices and AI (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Ion Irradiation of GridPix Detector at Bonn Isochronous Cyclotron
Vladislavs Plesanovs (Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universit\"at Bonn, Physics Institute), Hemanth Manikantan (Insituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali), Dennis Sauerland (Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universit\"at Bonn, Physics Institute), Paolo Soffitta (Insituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali), Carlo Lefevre (Insituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali), Ettore Del Monte (Insituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali), Jochen Kaminski (Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universit\"at Bonn, Physics Institute), Reinhard Beck (Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universit\"at Bonn, Physics Institute), Klaus Desch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.20987 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.20987 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.20987
arXiv:2608.20987v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The potential successor of the IXPE --- the EXPO or Enhanced X-ray Polarimetry Observatory will have a new X-ray polarimeter based on GridPix technology. To certify this detector for operation within the expected radiation environment conditions, the irradiation tests were performed at the Bonn Isochronous Cyclotron at HISKPabbreviation\footnote{ stands for Helmholtz-Institut f\"ur Strahlen- und Kernphysik or Helmholz Institute for Radiation and Nuclear Physics}, University of Bonn. Two beam modes were used --- proton beam at 14\,MeV and 100\,MeV $^{14}\mathrm{N}^{5 }$ ions. The aforementioned GridPix detector contains the readout ASIC, Timepix, with $256\times256$ pixel grid with a pitch of \SI{55}{\micro\meter} and covered with a protection layer. The Al grid stands on the SU8 pillars above pixels forming the amplification stage. The alignment of grid holes and silicon pixels enable primary electron detection. This paper focuses on the description and results of these testbeams. The accumulated ion rates exceed by far the expected limits without a significant deterioration in chip performance.
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It's gotta really suck to be laid off by MONDAY
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/monday-com-lays-off-hundreds-to-focuses-on-ai/

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In an age of Donald Trump’s tyranny, we are surrounded by sellouts.
Millions of Americans now believe that.
In his tremendous new book, “Profiles in Cowardice,”
veteran journalist Jacob Weisberg goes a way towards proving it
The book focuses on some of the many so-called leaders Weisberg describes as
“the weak and the too willing,”
those “who have betrayed their most important civic responsibilities”
by capitulating to President Trump’s authoritarian…

Disgustingly willing partners in Trump’s lethal overreach have been many: Brent Larkin
Ten years ago this month, I asked JD Vance whom he planned to vote for in the presidential election between Trump and Hillary Clinton. “I’ll probably vote third-party,” he answered. “But I’m definitely not voting for Trump." Today, Vance is just another profile in cowardice, writes Brent Larkin in his column today.