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Microsoft’s 2025 work trend index report found that many workers are increasingly grappling with “infinite workdays”,
which start before sunrise and stretch late into the night.
They are interrupted by some 270 pinging notifications along the way, about one every two minutes.
https://www.…

Breaking down the infinite workday
To unlock AI’s full potential, we need to clear one key barrier. A follow-up to the 2025 Work Trend Index.

Don't leave for the weekend without reading today's packed Metacurity for the most crucial infosec developments you should know, including
--Customers keep buying Predator spyware despite US sanctions
--Ukraine paralyzed top Siberian ISP,
--Meta AI shows other customers' sensitive info,
--Whole Foods still grappling with product disruptions,
--Malicious adtech is highly interconnected,
--Cybercrims are selling lost RCMP key containing informants…

Customers keep buying Predator spyware despite US sanctions
Ukraine paralyzed top Siberian ISP, Meta AI shows other customers' sensitive info, Whole Foods still grappling with product disruptions, Malicious adtech is highly interconnected, Cybercrims are selling lost RCMP key containing informants' data, BEC scammer sentenced to four years, much more

‘A death sentence’: a young mother grappling with addiction dies in a drug-plagued US prison | New Mexico | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/06/cibola-county-prison-new-mexico-deaths

Glasgow City Council is grappling with widespread disruption to its digital services more than a week after a serious cyberattack forced core systems offline.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/security/glasgow-city-council-ser…

Glasgow City Council services still crippled a week after cyberattack
Glasgow City Council is grappling with widespread disruption to its digital services more than a week after a serious cyberattack forced core systems offline.

How Disney is grappling with integrating AI into its filmmaking process while safeguarding IP and addressing legal uncertainty, fan backlash, and union concerns (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/disney-

How Disney is grappling with integrating AI into its filmmaking process while safeguarding IP and addressing legal uncertainty, fan backlash, and union concerns (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/disney-

«The whole thing is a mess and yet another embarrassment for the UK. And they were all warned about it, while insisting these concerns were exaggerations. But this isn’t just about the UK—it’s a cautionary tale for every democracy grappling with how to regulate the internet»
Go UK, "yet another embarrassment" is just too fitting 😅
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/04/didnt-take-long-to-reveal-the-uks-online-safety-act-is-exactly-the-privacy-crushing-failure-everyone-warned-about/

https://theconversation.com/its-a-complicated-time-to-be-a-white-southerner-and-their-views-on-race-reflect-that-261454?utm_medium=article_native_share&utm…

‘It’s a complicated time to be a white Southerner’ − and their views on race reflect that
How do white Southerners think about their racial status in a world that is scrutinizing white advantages? Researchers found people across the political spectrum grappling with what being white means.

Voiceover Artists Weigh the 'Faustian Bargain' of Lending Their Talents to AI https://www.404media.co/voiceover-artists-ai-voice-acting-jobs-microsoft-openai-chatgpt/

An interview with ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet, as the company navigates political instability in The Netherlands and abroad and the impacts of Trump's trade war (Adam Satariano/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.co…

How ASML, a Key Supplier to the Chip Industry, Is Navigating Trump’s Trade War
ASML, the Dutch company that makes multimillion-dollar tools to manufacture advanced semiconductors, is grappling with the repercussions of a tech trade war.

New Zealand prime minister Ardern was grappling with whether to go:
“Something had been loosened worldwide,” she says,
with rage everywhere,
public servants being followed and attacked,
as if they were “somehow distinct from being human”.
We all recognise this rage,
but Ardern was at the centre of it,
representing progressive politics, tough Covid measures, empathy, emotion, anti-racism, femaleness;
a symbol of a different time, more rational…

A Novel Hierarchical Co-Optimization Framework for Coordinated Task Scheduling and Power Dispatch in Computing Power Networks
Haoxiang Luo, Kun Yang, Qi Huang, Schahram Dustdar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04015

A Novel Hierarchical Co-Optimization Framework for Coordinated Task Scheduling and Power Dispatch in Computing Power Networks
The proliferation of large-scale artificial intelligence and data-intensive applications has spurred the development of Computing Power Networks (CPNs), which promise to deliver ubiquitous and on-demand computational resources. However, the immense energy consumption of these networks poses a significant sustainability challenge. Simultaneously, power grids are grappling with the instability introduced by the high penetration of intermittent renewable energy sources (RES). This paper addresses …