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Nationaler Zulassungstest fürs Medizinstudium: Indien sperrt Telegram tagelang
Um gegen Betrug und Verunsicherung bei Prüflingen vorzugehen, wurde in Indien vor dem nationalen Zulassungstest fürs Medizinstudium Telegram temporär gesperrt.

Nationaler Zulassungstest fürs Medizinstudium: Indien sperrt Telegram tagelang
Um gegen Betrug und Verunsicherung bei Prüflingen vorzugehen, wurde in Indien vor dem nationalen Zulassungstest fürs Medizinstudium Telegram temporär gesperrt.

Filings: Waymo pulls its ~4K robotaxis from highways after finding 13 instances of the cars driving into highway sections under construction (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/waymo-recal…

Waymo recalls nearly 4,000 robotaxis to stop them driving into highway construction zones | TechCrunch
The company has identified at least 13 instances where its robotaxis drove into highway sections closed for construction.

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 126 nodes and 28561 edges.
Tags: Soc…

Andy Burnham’s ‘Manchesterism’, a degrowth perspective
Tomorrow, Andy Burnham will become the next UK Prime Minister.  He has set out his vision for his premiership, under the title 'Manchesterism'.  Much ink has already been spilled in scrutinising it.  Our sister site, Steady State Manchester, carried this article following his speech at the city's People's History Museum.  Steady State Manchester has been witness to the emergence of the supposed 'Manchester model…

Andy Burnham’s ‘Manchesterism’, a degrowth perspective
Tomorrow, Andy Burnham will become the next UK Prime Minister.  He has set out his vision for his premiership, under the title ‘Manchesterism’.  Much ink has already been spilled in scr…

Q&A with Steven Soderbergh about using AI to visualize 10% of his John Lennon documentary after running out of "time and money", facing a backlash, and more (Jake Coyle/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/john-lennon

Steven Soderbergh on John Lennon and AI
The day John Lennon was shot in 1980, he and Yoko Ono gave an interview to a San Francisco radio crew from their home in New York’s Dakota Apartments. In “John Lennon: The Last Interview,” Steven Soderbergh pp those surviving tapes into a new documentary that debuted Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival. But his decision to fill in some visuals using Meta's AI software has prompted an outcry. One of America’s leading filmmakers was using AI? In a film about a Beatle, no less? Soderbergh…

The Newsom administration is suing five more California cities
— Calexico, Costa Mesa, Half Moon Bay, Ridgecrest and Turlock — for failing to complete state-mandated housing plans, known as the “housing element.”

Huntington Beach was the first city to face such a legal action, and it recently finalized its housing element plans following a court-order and massive fines.
The law, which has been in place since 1969, requires cities and counties every eight years to d…

Newsom continues crackdown on cities over housing plan requirements. 'No city gets a pass,' governor says
Gov. Gavin Newsom and California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta filed legal actions this week against five small cities that they say are failing to meet benchmarks required for housing planning.

from my link log —
It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06437
saved 2020-11-20 https://dotat.at/:/6EPK8.html…

It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister
When the Mersenne Twister made his first appearance in 1997 it was a powerful example of how linear maps on $\mathbf F_2$ could be used to generate pseudorandom numbers. In particular, the easiness with which generators with long periods could be defined gave the Mersenne Twister a large following, in spite of the fact that such long periods are not a measure of quality, and they require a large amount of memory. Even at the time of its publication, several defects of the Mersenne Twister were …

Ireland has some excellent writers.
"It seems that losing colonial control of Egypt has not stopped Denial flowing through the British body politic." -- @…
#TLDR: #MorganMcSweeney

Gabler und Flanq erproben unbemanntes Überwasserschiff gestartet aus Torpedorohr
Die autonomen Boote "Ranger" und "Raider" sollen aus Torpedorohren von U-Booten abgesetzt werden, um an der Wasseroberfläche Militäroperationen durchzuführen.

Gabler und Flanq erproben unbemanntes Überwasserschiff gestartet aus Torpedorohr
Die autonomen Boote "Ranger" und "Raider" sollen aus Torpedorohren von U-Booten abgesetzt werden, um an der Wasseroberfläche Militäroperationen durchzuführen.

The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index sank ~10% for the week, its largest weekly fall in over a year, and is now down ~20% from its late-June all-time high (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/chipmakers-other-h…