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Series A, Episode 12 - Deliverance
BLAKE: I don't know. They look like micro power cells.
CALLY: I've never seen that type before.
ENSOR: [Strangled whisper] Help...help...help me. Help me.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/112/144 B7B5

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

Which defensive legend could help the Cowboys the most in 2025? https://insidethestar.com/which-defensive-legend-could-help-the-cowboys-the-most-in-2025

Florida AG: We're Sending State Troops To Help In CA - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/florida-ag-were-sending-state-troops-to-help-in-ca/

#UkPol Good question!!
"Why is Labour so afraid to admit that we must tax the rich?"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Alexandra Savior:
🎵 Can't Help Myself
#NowPlaying #AlexandraSavior
https://alexandrasavior.bandcamp.com/track/cant-help-myself
https://open.spotify.com/track/7gsgDKsnLvCRZdtaEmYE0K

"So often in the study of religion, we rely on published literary materials. This class is really intended to help students—and to help myself—think about the full social, economic, and political life into which what we call religion emerges. Religion is never absent from those very concrete connections.”
—YDS Prof Nasrallah on the travel seminar to Greece and Türkiye for her course

The best thing in the world that you can do is to help someone else with something they need.
That’s not an ethical mandate, it’s a bit of hedonistic advice. Go help someone. If it doesn’t feel great, you’re not doing it hard enough.

Every single time this happen, they are making sure creatives, artists, academics, etc are never setting foot to the US again.
Just a slow burn that is making sure US dominance in many fields will disappear. https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/114666117530646022

Reykjavík Grapevine provides answers to questions you were too afraid to ask
https://grapevine.is/mag/2025/07/07/help-call-charlie-campsites-expensive-vegetables-beautiful-but-harmless-eruption-more/…

From Iceland — Help? Call Charlie! Campsites, Expensive Vegetables, Beautiful But Harmless Eruption & More
Unsolicited advice from an unreliable advisor Help is a four-letter verb meaning “to make it easier or possible for someone...

Five potential Steelers targets to help Aaron Rodgers, including current Packers wide receivers

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/five-po

A thing that literally anyone can do to show resistance and help prevent death and suffering: wear a proper N95 mask when in public.
COVID is spiking right now. People get injured, disabled and die from this every day.

Nice. Now do Netanyahu, the rest of the israeli government, and everyone in the IDF. You know, the folks perpetrating the genocide of the Palestinian people.
Oh, and maybe stop running surveillance flights to help israel commit genocide.
#israel #genocide

Apple unveils updates to help parents protect kids and teens, including easier Child Accounts setup, stronger defaults, and granular App Store age ratings (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/11/ios-26-expands-family-tool…

iOS 26: Apple will expand family tools for child accounts - 9to5Mac
Apple today announced updates aimed at helping parents protect kids online, as part of its broader push to make Apple platforms safer.

ROS Help Desk: GenAI Powered, User-Centric Framework for ROS Error Diagnosis and Debugging
Kavindie Katuwandeniya, Samith Rajapaksha Jayasekara Widhanapathirana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07846

ROS Help Desk: GenAI Powered, User-Centric Framework for ROS Error Diagnosis and Debugging
As the robotics systems increasingly integrate into daily life, from smart home assistants to the new-wave of industrial automation systems (Industry 4.0), there's an increasing need to bridge the gap between complex robotic systems and everyday users. The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a flexible framework often utilised in writing robot software, providing tools and libraries for building complex robotic systems. However, ROS's distributed architecture and technical messaging system create b…

Help or Hindrance: Understanding the Impact of Robot Communication in Action Teams
Tauhid Tanjim, Jonathan St. George, Kevin Ching, Hee Rin Lee, Angelique Taylor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08892

Help or Hindrance: Understanding the Impact of Robot Communication in Action Teams
The human-robot interaction (HRI) field has recognized the importance of enabling robots to interact with teams. Human teams rely on effective communication for successful collaboration in time-sensitive environments. Robots can play a role in enhancing team coordination through real-time assistance. Despite significant progress in human-robot teaming research, there remains an essential gap in how robots can effectively communicate with action teams using multimodal interaction cues in time-se…

With CrowdStrike's help, United Natural Foods is working to bring systems back online by June 15 and resume product deliveries after a cyberattack disrupted its operations.
Sounds like they were in good cyber shape before they were hit.

Reporting on Sam Altman blog posts without the addendum that he needs to keep the narrative of "AGI soon" going for his house of cards to hold is irresponsible. (Acknowledging that most of the things he said about AI were just false would also help.)

Reading an article about big tech being “customer zero” for AI, I can’t help but think of this Simpsons episode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CXhRjkgLUQ

When topics of discourse prove difficult to approach, stories can help us on our way. This famed short story about a graceful city with an unexpected abberation helps me reflect on where I want to apply my capacity for writing, sketching and teaching.

https://axbom.com/omelas/

#DigitalEthics

Very excited about this! Code to access GRIN will help lots of Google Books partners, and the example might open other doors, as well as the obvious benefits of access to data!
'Institutional Books 1.0: A 242B token dataset from Harvard Library's collections, refined for accuracy and usability' https://arxiv.org/abs/2506…

Institutional Books 1.0: A 242B token dataset from Harvard Library's collections, refined for accuracy and usability
Large language models (LLMs) use data to learn about the world in order to produce meaningful correlations and predictions. As such, the nature, scale, quality, and diversity of the datasets used to train these models, or to support their work at inference time, have a direct impact on their quality. The rapid development and adoption of LLMs of varying quality has brought into focus the scarcity of publicly available, high-quality training data and revealed an urgent need to ground the steward…

China is dramatically investing in renewable energy. In pure self-interest but it will also help to improve it’s position as a world superpower. In the USA Trump is breaking down investments in renewable energy. Europe should not follow his self-destructive example.
https://www.

Photos: The Scale of China’s Solar-Power Projects
As the Trump administration’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” eliminates many clean-energy incentives in the U.S., China continues huge investments in wind and solar power, reportedly accounting for 74 percent of all projects now under construction worldwide.

Will the L.A. protests help Trump? by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
#uspol

I’m sorry, but I cannot help a tiny bit of Schadenfreude. A colleague is an enthusiastic user of ChatGPT and recently told me that one does not need traditional reference managers like Zotero anymore, since you can just ask the LLM to re-format your references according to a given style. Now he got article proofs back with countless comments that the dates in in-text references don’t match the dates in the bibliography. 🙃

from my link log —
Emacs which-key vs Embark for help on prefix keymaps.
https://www.matem.unam.mx/~omar/apropos-emacs.html#the-case-against-which-key-a-polemic
saved 2025-07-08

We're going to need so much community and mutual aid to deal with the coming climate change reckoning combined with the complete abandonment by the US government. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:f7utvjkqbgwfj…

“Siloviki” is perhaps the most borrowed word in Russian studies
— probably because it explains so much about Putin’s Russia.
Its members are the police, the border control, the army, the security services, the spies.
For their service to the regime, they are rewarded with early pensions,
plenty of cash and almost total immunity from investigation for corruption or brutality.
In truth, the American security state, with its qualified immunity, surveillance appar…

Opinion | Here’s What’s Happening in America, in Six (Mostly) Russian Terms
To help Americans name their new reality, we wrote a phrase book of authoritarianism.

EU to help Moldova fight hybrid attacks from 'agents of autocracy,' von der Leyen says ahead of September election: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/05/eu-to-help-moldova-fight.html

Linear programs help to find optimal solutions based on a set of constrains. I used {ompr} before, but the new package {tidyLP} looks promising and integrates with the tidyverse. #rstats #linearprograms #optimization

GitHub - colin-fraser/tidyLP: Tidy Linear Programs
Tidy Linear Programs. Contribute to colin-fraser/tidyLP development by creating an account on GitHub.

The Guardian partners with Cambridge University to launch Secure Messaging in its app, protecting sources by making messages indistinguishable from other data (Katharine Viner/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/membership/20…

In the style of Paul Stanley:
I want 25* all day
And 15 every night
*Taking poetic license, the numbers could be converted to 75 and 60 respectively to help those in the US understand.

«The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization which hosts and develops Wikipedia, has paused an experiment that showed users AI-generated summaries at the top of articles after an overwhelmingly negative reaction from the Wikipedia editors community.»
It's nice to see places where community can help course correct!
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-pauses-ai-generated-summaries-after-editor-backlash/

They blame immigrants so you won't blame billionaires.
They are enriching themselves by stealing $TRILLIONS in federal programs that help average citizens through the "One Big Bill"...
...then blaming immigrants for 'a lack of funding for Americans'.
#trump #billionaires

Alert - new email spam angle!

"So, for example, your thermostat can reduce its energy use when prices are higher, and your EV can generate a charging schedule based on forecasted prices to save you money."
https://www.theverge.com/news/685733/apple-home-energykit-energy-ma…

Apple Home is expanding its energy management features 
Apple’s new EnergyKit framework lets developers tap into energy use data from the Home app to help reduce and schedule energy use of devices.

Bunny Ball demo is waiting for you!
Or are you waiting for the full release?
#arcade

Bunny Ball on Steam
Cute Cozy Action! Collected BunnyBalls and other animals! Help them get food in this mix of Pinball and BreakOut!

#MutualAid I'm going to sleep, and while I sleep, can you help me out by boosting this?
https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/114837080153655342
I just got int…

Maryland works to replace parking lots at train stations with dense housing & mixed use development.

Maryland announces $1.25 million in grants for development around rail stations
The announcement comes as Maryland is trying to double down on a bet that transit hubs can help turn the tide on climate and housing affordability issues.

I'm pretty sure all the white folks (and anyone else who didn't learn the underlying lessons first hand) were assigned to learn about Red Summer, the Chinese Exclusion Acts, Wilmington 1898, and more than a few other things that came up in cultural conversation during the last Trump presidency. This is all on the test, and you're taking it now.
But in case anyone missed the assignment, I'll give you the TL;DR: ethnic cleansing has been central to American politics basically forever, which shouldn't be surprising given it's a nation founded on genocide and the belief in the right to commit it without constraint.
If you haven't done the math yet, I'll help you out. The "Haitian Immigrants" lets them grab black folks, they've been grabbing folks from Mexico south and lumping in indigenous Americans (just so they don't skip out on the oldest American genocide), and the Muslim ban/Hamas rhetoric lets them grab anyone who else they see fit.
The lack of due process lets them grab anyone and they don't have to prove anything. They're talking about deporting "one million" and possibly"millions" of people. So how do they get those numbers?
There are already reports that they're just grabbing random brown folks, trying to take 3k people per day. They fly to blue cities and grab as many black and brown people as they can, then send them to death camps in foreign countries and pretend they have no way to get them back. That's it. That's the game.
This isn't new. The big difference now is that the cops aren't hiding their uniforms under white hoods this time. Do you get it yet?

There's always a problem of referring to someone who should not be named.
Perhaps iconography might help, such as "🟠💩for 🧠s".
As in "Those who show up at immigration courts are not the dangerous thugs 🟠💩for 🧠s said were the targets"

There's always a problem of referring to someone who should not be named.
Perhaps iconography might help, such as "🟠💩for 🧠s".
As in "Those who show up at immigration courts are not the dangerous thugs 🟠💩for 🧠s said were the targets"

> New partnership sees Google Cloud agree to work with the UK government in helping public services use advanced tech to shake off decades old ‘ball and chain’ legacy contracts which leave essential services vulnerable to cyberattack.
"ball and chain" being a government code term for Windows?

New Google partnership will help rid taxpayer of ‘ball and chain’ legacy tech and aim to upskill 100,000 civil servants in tech and AI
New partnership with Google Cloud will help modernise outdated government IT, upskill 100,000 civil servants in digital and AI by 2030, and secure better tech deals for the taxpayer.

Oil and plastic pollution from shipwreck raises concerns, legal scrutiny in India https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/oil-and-plastic-pollution-from-shipwreck-raises-concerns-legal-scrutiny-in-india/

Oil and plastic pollution from shipwreck raises concerns, legal scrutiny in India
As shiny, pearl-like white plastic pellets rode wave after wave and piled up on the beaches of Thiruvananthapuram in India’s southern state of Kerala, local residents were first bemused, then baffled. Some, more enterprising than others, began collecting them in sacks with help from the local police — a first step in heading off what […]

Sign the petition: Save Our Swifts. Swifts alone have lost more than half their population in just 20 years. A big help would be to incorporate a “swift brick” that gives these birds a place to nest in all new houses. #Swifts
https://

Sign the petition: Save Our Swifts
Swifts have lost more than half their population in 20 years. A simple £35 brick in new builds could help save them. Labour used to support this – now they’re planning to backtrack. Sign the petition now to show them the public still backs this nature-friendly fix:

Tech to Support Older Adults and Caregivers: Five Privacy Questions for Age Tech
https://fpf.org/blog/tech-to-support-older-adults-and-caregivers-five-privacy-questions-for-age-tech/
@…

#today will be surfing the #NewScientist article splurge, getting ready to 'onboard' my friend as RA (Research Assistant) to help me find a good solutiion for a particularly knotty issue, and going to the dentist. (The last may not be good since I've had a persistent issue for a coup…

"You’re one step away from becoming an analytics leader for the digital age.
Northeastern University’s Master of Professional Studies in Analytics program provides in-demand skills, resumé-building experiences, and flexible learning options so you can help organizations make better data-driven decisions."
dear #LinkedIn , I am 80 yrs old. And you are

How Classroom Rituals Help Create Community
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_classroom_rituals_help_create_community?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content…

How Classroom Rituals Help Create Community
Small practices, repeated regularly and with intentionality, can help students feel a sense of belonging at school.

"The disconnection between designers and users has let user interfaces to drift off to a space where only designers are satisfied by them. It is time to remember the users trying to find those buttons, trying to bend those spoons, and to take their satisfaction into account, too."
https://d…

The Button And The Spoon
As my father approaches his 80th birthday, his first contacts with the latest technologies become ever more interesting. As a pen-and-pencil architect and entrepreneur with 50 years of experience, technology is not a necessity; rather, just another useful tool. He setup his first fax machine at the end of the 90s, and got his first computer a decade after that. At some point in the 2010s he bought a smartphone, and one day asked me for help to finish some task on it. I remember his face when I …

Biggest remaining need for every NFC team: Secondary help for Packers, Cowboys, protection for Baker Mayfield

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/biggest…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Freeway:
🎵 Help Yourself
#Freeway
https://ppudc.bandcamp.com/album/help-yourself
https://open.spotify.com/track/1BmD4wRtxTvfWz201z1hWO

Which part of the Oath of Enlistment do you think Marines in LA will uphold?
"I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."

Help me reach this epic goal of getting an dollar https://ko-fi.com/raysofred/goal?g=0

Struggling To Eat Slowly? This Easy Meal Tweak Can Help
https://scitechdaily.com/struggling-to-eat-slowly-this-easy-meal-tweak-can-help/

London-based Definely, whose AI tools help law firms draft and review legal contracts, raised a $30M Series B led by Revaia, with Clio and others participating (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/06/09/uk-legaltech-de…

UK legaltech Definely secures $30M to boost global reach and AI development
UK legaltech company Definely has raised $30 million in Series B funding to accelerate its global expansion and AI product roadmap. This additional funding brings the total amount raised by Definely since its inception to $40 million. Launched in 2020 by Nnamdi Emelifeonwu and Feargus MacDaei, Definely was born from lived experience, including that of co-founder MacDaeid, who is registered blind after being diagnosed with a degenerative eye condition at age 11. Throughout his life, he consiste…

"How plants could help us detect, and even destroy, dangerous ‘forever chemicals’"
#Plants #PFAS #ForeverChemicals

How plants could help us detect, and even destroy, dangerous ‘forever chemicals'
Tools to address PFAS pollution are limited. Here's what researchers are learning about how these chemicals travel through the environment — and what farmers and landowners can do about it.

for #FollowFriday I encourage everyone to follow the @… group and help out as much as you can! :)

🧠 A new tool can help predict brain-damaging seizures and free up continuous EEG machines for high-risk patients
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-05-tool-brain-seizures-free-eeg.html

A new tool can help predict brain-damaging seizures and free up continuous EEG machines for high-risk patients
In hospital intensive care units, neurologists often use a simple scorecard to quickly evaluate a critically ill patient's likelihood of having a brain-damaging seizure so they can prevent it. The scorecard saves lives, lowers costs and helps doctors make far more efficient use of important, expensive medical equipment.

I wish to re-emphasize how strongly I support Canadian boycotts etc. against the US. I don’t take it personally and I’m not offended. On the contrary, I appreciate the help.

@… @… @… what’s the complaint, exactly? what web site did I help?

What problem are you trying to solve?
Is it the classic "more value for shareholders" or something that will actually help people trying to just fucking survive?

The following highlight is from the book ‘Hitler’ by Joachim Fest. The period it refers to is the early 1930's, before the Nazis came to power. I can't help but associate it to the current support for Reform in the UK though. Potentially dangerous times ahead… (1/2)

Take me now, Jesus, Buddha, Satan, any divine entity.

Alright, I'm ready to start an anti-Mamdani PAC to help relieve the billionaires of some of their money. We'll run mailers and TV ads making him look incredibly based while also paying ourselves a ridiculously high salary. Who wants in? 🙃
https://www.

The global economy is projected to slow sharply this year
as Trump’s trade policy disrupts international commerce and increases economic uncertainty,
the World Bank said on Tuesday in a report that underscores the toll of America’s trade war.
Despite the weakening outlook, the global economy is not expected to fall into a recession, the World Bank said.
However, the trade tension is setting the stage for the weakest decade of growth since the 1960s.
Economic dev…

World Bank Forecast Underscores Cost of U.S. Trade War
Along with a sharply downgraded projection for global output this year, it urged a “course correction” on trade to help preserve living standards.

Good Signal tips for activism.
#signal

Using Signal groups for activism
Things are heating up. Millions of people are taking to the streets against Trump's rising authoritarianism. Communities around the US are organizing to defend against ICE raids, to protest Israeli genocide, for mutual aid, and for other forms of fighting fascism. Signal can help people safely organize in all of

Are you looking for the tools to help your #church youth leaders to accompany, work with, and support #LGBTQ young people? We have put together a curriculum that will allow you to do this at

Accompanying LGBTQ+ Youth — Yale Youth Ministry Institute
Theologians and practitioners discuss the importance of supporting and walking with LGBTQ+ youth.

Amid all the hate & violence, I kinda feel the need to personally up the kindness.
Do the opposite of MAGA: Remember what it means & feels like to need help.
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:34542nslyw2xlrewe33gqipg/post/3lr6kzcqapk2…

The Guardian partners with Cambridge University to launch Secure Messaging in its app, protecting sources by making messages indistinguishable from other data (Katharine Viner/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/membership/20…

Switzerland 🇨🇭 to ease #EV charging in apartment buildings: The Ständerat has voted in favour of the 'Unverbietbarkeit' of installing home EV charging points, which means that owner's associations cannot prohibit them.
The same applies to rental properties. This is a major step that will help more Swiss to switch.
The Bundesrat must now amend law(s) and regulations.

B02 - Shadow
BEK: What's in it for you?
BLAKE: You can help me with one of my crew. His name's Vila and he's suffering from a bad attack of alcoholic remorse. [Into bracelet] All right, Cally. [To them] He wants to make a necklace of his teeth.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/321

YouTube rolls out a tool to let some creators upload different thumbnails for each video dubbed into a different language, to help expand their global audience (Dan Whateley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-te

YouTube is testing a new feature to help videos travel globally
YouTube is testing a new tool to let creators switch out thumbnails for videos in different languages, helping their content spread globally.

The Dallas Cowboys could use some help at 2 positions https://insidethestar.com/the-dallas-cowboys-could-use-some-help-at-2-positions

Not to beg post but joining my Patreon would actually help me out so much. please support creators. https://patreon.com/RaysOfRed

The Guardian has uploaded "coverdrop" to github, embedding a covert secure messaging channel into their phone app.
I've not looked at it, but I imagine it's mostly going to be for text messages, as media uploads don't fit the network profile (upload/download) of news consumption apps.

Meta launches V-JEPA 2, an open-source AI "world model" to understand and predict 3D environments and object movements, to help robotics and self-driving cars (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/11/meta-launc

Meta launches AI 'world model' to advance robotics, self-driving cars
Meta on Wednesday announced it's rolling out a new AI "world model" that can better understand the 3D environment and movements of physical objects.

Listen to Dr. Laurie Santos as she explains how to help youth incorporate #wellness activities into their own lives, which is especially important to those who are #depressed at

The Science of Well-Being — Yale Youth Ministry Institute
The most popular course in the more than three-century history of Yale, “The Science of Well-Being” highlights research that reveals misconceptions about what makes us happy — and the concrete steps we can take to live a more fulfilling life. Yale Professor Laurie Santos has taken this course and created a new version specifically for high school aged youth. Hear the conversation about how youth (and youth workers) can improve their mental and physical health.

#GiftLink
Kerr County Repeatedly Sought Help with Flood Risk. Texas Said No. - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/us/politics/texas-flood-alarm-system.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Vk8.oWOj.kZA6xlNSs45c&smid=url-share

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03108 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_…

Writing with AI Lowers Psychological Ownership, but Longer Prompts Can Help
The feeling of something belonging to someone is called "psychological ownership." A common assumption is that writing with generative AI lowers psychological ownership, but the extent to which this occurs and the role of prompt length are unclear. We report on two experiments to examine the relationship between psychological ownership and prompt length. Participants wrote short stories either completely by themselves or wrote prompts of varying lengths. Results show that when participants wrot…

Ukraine needs new Marshall Plan, Trump's envoy Kellogg says ahead of Recovery Conference: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/ukraine-needs-new-marshall-plan.html

The European Commission drops plans to impose a digital tax on tech giants in its upcoming 2028-2034 budget proposal, amid ongoing EU-US trade negotiations (Gregorio Sorgi/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/victory-eu-donald-trump-meta-tax-digital/…

Victory for Trump as EU backs down on digital taxes in next budget
Shelving the plan could help EU persuade the U.S. to give it a more favorable trade deal and comes just two months after the Commission suggested it.

Three things Ravens' accomplished this offseason to help return to defensive dominance https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45701486/baltimore-ravens-defense-chuck-pagano-draft-jaire-alexander

Some of the country’s largest liberal foundations are quietly working to raise at least $250 million
to help civil groups push back against President Trump and what they see as his steady drift toward authoritarianism.
The effort is in its early days,
working to secure initial commitments.
But the scale of the collaborative undertaking has turned heads in the tightly networked world of philanthropy.
It comes as donors are licking their wounds and many efforts to …

Liberal Fund-Raising Drive Seeks $250 Million to Aid Pushback Against Trump
Donors hope to raise huge sums of money to help those fighting what they see as a drift toward authoritarianism, but without attracting unwanted White House attention.

Time to fight, mobilise everybody you know, to stop the creation of backdoors in E2E encryption.
#encryption

Possible End to End to End Encryption: Come Help - Bert Hubert's writings
tl;dr: The European Commission is honestly asking for experts to advise them on ways to institute “effective and lawful access to data for law enforcement”. If you are an expert, I urge you to apply to join this group. You have until September 1st. Do read on for more details! The never-ending battle where police and intelligence services demand more/total access to communications shows no sign of stopping, even in the face of mathematical and practical impossibilities.

Meter, which sells and maintains packages of custom data center networking equipment, raised $170M led by General Catalyst at a $1B valuation (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/business/dealbook/meter-n…

Meter, Networking Start-Up, Raises $170 Million
The company has collected $170 million in new capital as it seeks to help connect data centers and other businesses in the age of artificial intelligence.

George Pickens: We Help Each Other Every Day | Dallas Cowboys 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDryaAyZZIY

It's so weird that the Brexit UK government in buying OneWeb, after blocking UK companies from Galileo, has ended up in a tech partnership with France that became more valuable as counties started looking at non-US communications services.
https://www.…

UK Gov Boosts Eutelsat's OneWeb LEO Broadband Satellites by £140m
The UK Government has agreed to commit a further £140m (€163.3) of public investment to help Eutelsat grow and expand its constellation of OneWeb ultrafast b

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.03295 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Examining Human-AI Collaboration for Co-Writing Constructive Comments Online
This paper examines if large language models (LLMs) can help people write constructive comments on divisive social issues due to the difficulty of expressing constructive disagreement online. Through controlled experiments with 600 participants from India and the US, who reviewed and wrote constructive comments on threads related to Islamophobia and homophobia, we observed potential misalignment between how LLMs and humans perceive constructiveness in online comments. While the LLM was more lik…

Steelers still trying to acquire one more playmaker to help new QB Aaron Rodgers, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/steeler

Memo: Google appoints a new chief AI architect, DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu, who will coordinate future AI-powered product development (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/11/2025/google-names-new-ch…

Google names new chief AI architect to advance developments
DeepMind’s tech chief, Koray Kavukcuoglu, was named to the newly created position, where he will work alongside Sundar Pichai to help speed up production.

Who are the NFL's best tight ends? Execs, coaches and scouts help rank 2025's top 10 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45530874/ranking-nfl-top-10-tight-ends-2025-execs-coaches-scouts-make-their-picks-best-ga…

Mind Security, which offers AI-powered automated data loss prevention services to help prevent breaches, raised a $30M Series A (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/04/mind-raises-30m-help-businesses-prevent-da…

Mind raises $30M to help businesses prevent data leaks using AI - SiliconANGLE
Mind raises $30M to help businesses prevent data leaks using AI - SiliconANGLE

WR Matthew Golden can 'play anywhere on the field' to help Packers 'go get that Lambeau Trophy' https://www.nfl.com/news/wr-matthew-golden-can-play-anywhere-on-the-field-to-help-packers-go-get-that-lamb…

YouTube rolls out a tool to let some creators upload different thumbnails for each video dubbed into a different language, to help expand their global audience (Dan Whateley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-te

YouTube is testing a new feature to help videos travel globally
YouTube is testing a new tool to let creators switch out thumbnails for videos in different languages, helping their content spread globally.

First-round pick Matthew Golden willing to 'play anywhere on the field' to help Packers chase a Super Bowl

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/…

Aaron Rodgers already hates one thing about Steelers practice: Veteran QB says he 'can't stand' this

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/aaron…

Fins' Tagovailoa aims to 'stay available' all season https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45486610/dolphins-tua-tagovailoa-aims-shift-my-mindset-stay-safe

Apple unveils iPadOS 26 with new features to help users manipulate windows, including fluidly resizing them and opening more at once, a new Files app, and more (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/apple/679420/apple-ipados-wwdc-2025

Apple launches iPadOS 26 with a new look and way better multitasking
Is the iPad more Mac, or more iPhone? Apple’s still trying to figure that out.

The EU publishes a voluntary code of practice to help companies follow its AI Act, including requiring developers to provide up-to-date AI feature documentation (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Israeli VC firm Cyberstarts has raised a $300M fund to allow long-time employees at some of its portfolio companies to cash out their vested shares (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20