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Estimation of Treatment Effects in Extreme and Unobserved Data
Jiyuan Tan, Jose Blanchet, Vasilis Syrgkanis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14051 https://

Estimation of Treatment Effects in Extreme and Unobserved Data
Causal effect estimation seeks to determine the impact of an intervention from observational data. However, the existing causal inference literature primarily addresses treatment effects on frequently occurring events. But what if we are interested in estimating the effects of a policy intervention whose benefits, while potentially important, can only be observed and measured in rare yet impactful events, such as extreme climate events? The standard causal inference methodology is not designed …

Reminded someone that not only did #accessiBe’s overlay not help a site, it may have been a factor in the lawsuit against that site (PDF):
https://archive.org/details/gov.uscourts.paw…

MONTANO v. RESTAURANT EQUIPPERS, INC. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This item represents a case in PACER, the U.S. Government's website for federal case data. If you wish to see the entire case, please consult PACER directly.

AWS rolls out Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, meant to help businesses create a network of AI agents that analyze internal data, write code, and take on other tasks (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/16/2025

Amazon launches AI agent-building platform for businesses to help boost productivity
The product launch comes amid high anxiety among workers about job cuts due to AI.

This story is cute: A malicious "Solidity" (that's the smart contract language Ethereum and other blockchains use) extension for Cursor, the Vibe-Coding Editor included code that steals your tokens/coins.
I find it funny for two reasons:
- Blockchainers love talking about how you need to verify things you interact with but someone wasn't checking if they have the right extension
- Programming smart contracts is hard because it's a massively hostile envir…

Code highlighting with Cursor AI for $500,000
Kaspersky GReAT experts uncover malicious extensions for Cursor AI that download the Quasar backdoor and a crypto stealer.

Deja Foxx, a 25-year-old political content creator who has over 395,000 followers on TikTok, is running for Democratic nomination in Arizona’s 7th District after only turning the minimum age to serve in Congress in April.
Fifty-four-year-old former Pima County Supervisor Adelita Grijalva, the daughter of the late Rep. Raul Grijalva, was widely seen as the frontrunner in the race to replace her father,
but recent internal polling from Foxx’s campaign first published by Politico su…

Arizona Special Election: 25-Year-Old Deja Foxx Seeks To Go From TikTok Activist To Congress
Deja Foxx, a 25-year-old political content creator, is a contender for an Arizona congressional seat.

Impact and Performance of Randomized Test-Generation using Prolog
Marcus Gelderie, Maximilian Luff, Maximilian Peltzer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13178 htt…

Impact and Performance of Randomized Test-Generation using Prolog
We study randomized generation of sequences of test-inputs to a system using Prolog. Prolog is a natural fit to generate test-sequences that have complex logical inter-dependent structure. To counter the problems posed by a large (or infinite) set of possible tests, randomization is a natural choice. We study the impact that randomization in conjunction with SLD resolution have on the test performance. To this end, this paper proposes two strategies to add randomization to a test-generating pro…

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An interview with US Press Freedom Tracker Senior Reporter Stephanie Sugars on documenting nearly 62,000 anti-press social posts by Trump over the past 10 years (Liam Scott/Freedom of the Press Foundation)
http://freedom.press/issues/the-repor

The reporter documenting 10 years of Trump’s anti-media posts
Since Trump’s first term as president, Stephanie Sugars has managed an extensive database that documents each and every anti-media post from Trump.

Guerre en Ukraine : le grand désarroi des russophones de Daugavpils, en Lettonie
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2022/03/03/guerre-en-ukraine-le-grand-desarroi-des-r…

Guerre en Ukraine : le grand désarroi des russophones de Daugavpils, en Lettonie
Dans cette ville située près des frontières russe et biélorusse, la guerre en Ukraine déchire les familles, la population se divisant entre Russes ou russophones et Lettons. Vers qui doivent-ils se tourner ?

Quantifying Diagnostic Signal Decay in Dementia: A National Study of Medicare Hospitalization Data
Federica Spoto, Jiazi Tian, Jonas H\"ugel, Daniel T. Ortega, Christine S. Ritchie, Deborah Blacker, Francesca Dominici, Chirag J. Patel, Daniel Mork, Hossein Estiri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14669

Quantifying Diagnostic Signal Decay in Dementia: A National Study of Medicare Hospitalization Data
Background: Artificial intelligence (AI) models in healthcare depend on the fidelity of diagnostic data, yet the quality of such data is often compromised by variability in clinical documentation practices. In dementia, a condition already prone to diagnostic ambiguity, this variability may introduce systematic distortion into claims-based research and AI model development. Methods: We analyzed Medicare Part A hospitalization data from 2016-2018 to examine patterns of dementia-related ICD-10 …