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Będąc na lofotach ciężko nie natknąć się na jakieś muzeum sztokfisza (suszonej ryby). Dorsze skrei od wieków były tutaj suszone na świeżym powietrzu i do teraz po drodze są wielkie instalacje do suszenia.

Sam smak - nie jest zły jak na bogactwo białka i witamin. Rozumiem skąd jest to popularna przekąska na szlaki, a kiedyś na drogę. W naszym domu, głównym smakoszem tej przekąski pozostanie Freja.

Samego norweskiego sztokfisza głównie skupują... Włosi :) Od XV wieku, kiedy na jedne…

Szlak prowadzący z plaży Ryten na Kvalvika to nasz nr 2. szlak po lodowcu. Był fajnie wytyczony przez co nie był skrajnie trudny. Część była w "remoncie" przez co do samej plaży Kvalivika nie doszliśmy, ale dla samej drogi było warto. Idealny na popołudniowy spacer z psem po zawodzie w Å.

W okolicy jest park narodowy, przez co można stać tylko na kempingach albo "u gospodarza", co odstrasza część ludzi, autokary i zorganizowane wycieczki.

Widoki niesamowite, na…

Today, power speaks in the seductive language of images laced with bigotry, seeded with cruelty, and driven by the logic of exclusion and ethnic cleansing.
Culture is no longer merely a reflection of the past;
it has become its erasure.
It functions as pedagogy — through what Ariella Aïsha Azoulay names as “imperial technologies,” and what I have called “disimagination machines.”
It is designed to strip the colonized not only of their futures but of their historie…

The Interview: Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
“The most intimate aspects of our life continue to be shaped by imperialism, which means that some of the most intimate patterns of experience are shared”

»DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results:
Privacy-focused browser DuckDuckGo is rolling out a new setting that lets users filter out AI images in search results. The company says it’s launching the feature in response to feedback from users who said AI images can get in the way of finding what they’re looking for.«
I don't prefer this as my main search engine but if this could not trigger ain anti-AI hype?
🔎

DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results | TechCrunch
DuckDuckGo's new search feature comes as the internet is being flooded with AI-generated slop.

Ich hab die Idee¹ von @… (bzw seiner Tochter) mal mit meiner Diss² ausprobiert³: klappt großartig, um „Strategien“ unterschiedlicher Chatbots zu explorieren.
• Gemini schlägt mir allerlei⁴ Dissertationen von Leuten vor, die so ähnlich aber nicht genau so heißen wie ich.
• GPT-4o phantasiert zunächst einen Titel zusammen und behauptet dann⁴ m…

Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺 (@skyglowberlin@fediscience.org)
Attached: 4 images My daughter just came up with a great exercise: challenge your students to find the title of your PhD using ONLY LLMs (no Google allowed). If any of them manage, they get gummy bears 😃 I asked five different models, and got five different answers, all five of which were completely wrong 😂 #AI #ChatGPT #AISlop #LLM #LLMFail #Education #HigherEducation #AcademicChatter

Leveraging Pathology Foundation Models for Panoptic Segmentation of Melanoma in H&E Images
Jiaqi Lv, Yijie Zhu, Carmen Guadalupe Colin Tenorio, Brinder Singh Chohan, Mark Eastwood, Shan E Ahmed Raza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13974

Leveraging Pathology Foundation Models for Panoptic Segmentation of Melanoma in H&E Images
Melanoma is an aggressive form of skin cancer with rapid progression and high metastatic potential. Accurate characterisation of tissue morphology in melanoma is crucial for prognosis and treatment planning. However, manual segmentation of tissue regions from haematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stained whole-slide images (WSIs) is labour-intensive and prone to inter-observer variability, this motivates the need for reliable automated tissue segmentation methods. In this study, we propose a novel deep …

We implemented a major new feature in the AIL Project that addresses a long-standing issue related to the collection of images or screenshots that may be harmful to analysts (e.g., violent content, CSAM, etc.). The feature allows users to trigger the description of an image before actually viewing it.
The feature will be included in the upcoming release of AIL (version 6.2).
This work is co-funded in the AIPITCH project. We would like to thank Qwen for the open source Qwen2-VL vi…

EILMELDUNG: Hamburger Senat prüft ob Bürgergeldempfänger auch die diskriminierende Bezahlkarte bekommen können.
https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/hamburg/bezahlkarte-einsatz-koennte-in-hamburg-ausgeweitet-werden,be…

Bezahlkarte: Einsatz könnte in Hamburg ausgeweitet werden
Hamburg war vor gut einem Jahr das erste Bundesland, das Bezahlkarten für Asylbewerber eingeführt hat. Jetzt prüft der Senat, ob auch andere Empfänger staatlicher Leistungen eine ähnliche Karte bekommen können - anstatt dass Bargeld ausgezahlt wird.

Mastodon doesn't seem to like the upgrade to Ubuntu 24. Does anyone have a good tutorial?
#MastoAdmin

Co nam odbiło szlajać się po nocy :D melduję się z góry Hesten.

#norwegia #norway

Strong piece; I wonder how much trouble Klein will get in for publishing it?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/opinion/antisemitism-american-jews-israel-mamdani.html?unlocke…

Opinion | Why American Jews No Longer Understand One Another
The consensus that held them together for generations is breaking down.

The 35-day old baby who starved to death in Gaza was clearly a Hamas terrorist. Anyone who says otherwise is antisemitic.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/19/weeks-old-baby-dies-of-starvation-in-gaza-hospital-amid-ongoing…

Weeks-old baby dies of starvation in Gaza hospital during ongoing blockade
Medical sources also report 116 killed across Gaza, including 38 desperate residents seeking food at GHF site.

When you are a Godot developer, every day is Xmas!
Support for Apple's VisionPro has now been merged into Godot:
https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/105628

Native visionOS platform support by rsanchezsaez · Pull Request #105628 · godotengine/godot
Dear Godot community, I'm on Apple's visionOS engineering team, and we would like to contribute Vision Pro support to the Godot engine. This is the first PR that lays the foundation for tha...

Ann Telnaez, Trumps Nobel peace Prize.
https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d7599abc-9992-4c4f-b395-9cdb36369a66_1800x1519.jpeg

Discover ColPali at Berlin Buzzwords 2025 with Sonam Pankaj. This session covers what ColPali is, how its "late-interaction" works, and how you can deploy its quantised version on your laptop.
Learn more: https://2025.berlinbuzzwords.de/sessio

Please share this link about the EIGHT (STEM / coding / design / engineering summer camps Shelly Fryer and I are teaching in June and July 2025 through "Summer at Providence Day School!"
https://lessons.wesfryer.com/courses/summer-2025

Lessons by Dr. Wesley Fryer (wesfryer.com) - Summer 2025
Students: Come have FUN this summer and develop your STEM / coding / design skills with Dr. Fryer and Mrs. Fryer at "Summer Day School at Providence Day School!" All week-long classes are open to BOTH current PDS students and students attending other schools! Direct links to register for each camp

Researchers: at least 750 US hospitals faced disruptions on the day of last year's big CrowdStrike outage, and 200 had outages related to patient care services (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/at-least-750-u

At Least 750 US Hospitals Faced Disruptions During Last Year’s CrowdStrike Outage, Study Finds
Of those, more than 200 appear to have had outages of services related to patient care following CrowdStrike’s disastrous crash, researchers have revealed.

"„Vibe Coding“ ist ein Euphe­mis­mus für plan­lo­se Nach­läs­sig­keit. Der Begriff sug­ge­riert intui­ti­ve, krea­ti­ve Arbeit, ver­steckt aber den Ver­zicht auf metho­di­sche Sorg­falt und pro­fes­sio­nel­le Stan­dards. Die­se Umdeu­tung macht Unfä­hig­keit zur Tugend."
(Original title: KI-Tool versteckt Inkompetenz)
ht…

KI-Tool versteckt Inkompetenz
Ein Vibe-Coder schreibt ohne es zu merken auf X, wie kaputt Vibe-Coding ist: Ein Staging-System greift direkt auf die Produktionsdatenbank zu. Keine Versionskontrolle mit Git. Tests funktionieren laut den Posts nur auf dem Produktionssystem. Und der Höhepunkt: Ein KI-Tool warnt explizit "I can not b

Words fail me.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-indians-redskins-guardians-commanders-8863d8d95f56414f0f74cab0e897a93f

Trump's latest demand: Washington football and Cleveland baseball teams should change names back
President Donald Trump has called for Washington's football team and Cleveland's baseball team to return to their previous names. On Sunday, Trump posted on Truth Social urging the Washington Commanders to revert to the Redskins and the Cleveland Guardians to return to the Indians. He claimed there is significant public support for the change, citing heritage and tradition. However, both teams have stated they have no plans to revisit the name changes. The Commanders and Guardians adopted their…

🥳 New Kitten Release
• Improved Markdown parser
Kitten’s JavaScript tagged template strings (`kitten.html`) no longer fail to render as expected when interpolated values are used inside of Markdown where the Markdown render changes source order.
So, for example, the following will now work correctly, whereas, previously, the link source and link text would have been erroneously flipped:
kitten.html`
<markdown>
[${linkText}](${linkSource})
…

app/CHANGELOG.md at main
app - A web development kit that’s small, purrs, and loves you.

Blind Super Resolution with Reference Images and Implicit Degradation Representation
Huu-Phu Do, Po-Chih Hu, Hao-Chien Hsueh, Che-Kai Liu, Vu-Hoang Tran, Ching-Chun Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13915

Blind Super Resolution with Reference Images and Implicit Degradation Representation
Previous studies in blind super-resolution (BSR) have primarily concentrated on estimating degradation kernels directly from low-resolution (LR) inputs to enhance super-resolution. However, these degradation kernels, which model the transition from a high-resolution (HR) image to its LR version, should account for not only the degradation process but also the downscaling factor. Applying the same degradation kernel across varying super-resolution scales may be impractical. Our research acknowle…

In her first note to staff, OpenAI's incoming CEO of Applications, Fidji Simo, lays out an optimistic vision for how AI will change the world (Kylie Robison/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-fidji-simo-note-employees/

OpenAI's New CEO of Applications Strikes Hyper-Optimistic Tone in First Memo to Staff
Ex-Instacart CEO Fidji Simo sent a memo to staff Monday laying out her vision for how AI will change the world.

"There are hells on earth and Dubai is one: an infernal creation born of the worst of human tendencies."
https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/everything-else

Caitlín Doherty, Everything Else — Sidecar
In Dubai.

Dzięki @… za przypomnienie mi o tej wspaniałej platformówce sprzed lat!

Od razu kupiłem na gog i zainstalowałem z z flatpacka wersje na stemadecka.

Z chęcią kiedyś zagram w poziom, który budujesz :D

#giereczkowo …

China wants foreign businesses to invest more in the country -- but recent actions taken against foreign executives are sending a chill.
⭐️Chinese authorities have blocked a U.S.-based Wells Fargo banker from returning home,
⭐️and separately sentenced a Japanese executive to more than three years’ imprisonment for espionage.
Though few details of the cases have been made known, they are a reminder of China’s expansive security apparatus
and what to some executives, bu…

China Exit Ban on Wells Fargo Executive Stokes Foreign Business Anxiety
A Wells Fargo banker was blocked from leaving and a Japanese pharmaceutical executive was imprisoned, even as Beijing tries to court overseas investors.

So, @… is working on using LLMs to process XML Except for, the models can’t write legal XML. So he’s using the model to generate a sloppy-XML parser: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/202…

My First Open Source AI Generated Library
In a first for me, I published some agentic programmed AI slop to PyPI.

The AI equivalent of your starship exploding at the launchpad. https://tldr.nettime.org/@festal/114721637610323807

felix stalder (@festal@tldr.nettime.org)
Attached: 1 image Oh yeah, fast track model collapse!

Google reveals the design of the Pixel 10 a few weeks ahead of the launch event; it strongly resembles the Pixel 9 but has a third back camera (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/711033/google-pixel-10-design-tease-reveal

Google solves its Pixel 10 leaks by just showing us the phone
Google has published a short video showing off the design of its upcoming Pixel 10 smartphone. The video reveals that the phone has three back cameras.

UGPL: Uncertainty-Guided Progressive Learning for Evidence-Based Classification in Computed Tomography
Shravan Venkatraman, Pavan Kumar S, Rakesh Raj Madavan, Chandrakala S
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14102

UGPL: Uncertainty-Guided Progressive Learning for Evidence-Based Classification in Computed Tomography
Accurate classification of computed tomography (CT) images is essential for diagnosis and treatment planning, but existing methods often struggle with the subtle and spatially diverse nature of pathological features. Current approaches typically process images uniformly, limiting their ability to detect localized abnormalities that require focused analysis. We introduce UGPL, an uncertainty-guided progressive learning framework that performs a global-to-local analysis by first identifying regio…

Donald Trump wants to make it illegal to criticize him. He is trying to end freedom of speech.
That’s the best way to understand or explain what’s happening here. It’s a gradual process, but this is how it starts.
-- Max Berger
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/18/stephen-c

Skydance CEO met with FCC chair ahead of canceling "The Late Show"
The meeting came two days before CBS abruptly announced that it is canceling "The Late Show."

Poszliśmy sobie do restauracji w wiosce rybackiej na małej wyspie - oczywiście bardzo turystyczne miejsce, nie da się ukryć, ale jedzenie mieli super.

Zupa rybna była tak dobra, że żałowaliśmy, że na przystawkę wzięliśmy. Myślałem, że nie lubię zup rybnych, ale chyba wcześniej nie jadłem dobrej. Carpaccio z wieloryba było osobliwe - bardzo dobre, ale jest to niepowtarzalny smak, który bym porównał do dziczyzny z morza. Dorsz świetny, ale potrawka taka se - no wszystko dobrze, ale warzywa…

TIL there’s an Apple Silicon Linux distro for Macs and that Apple doesn’t even try to get in the way. I wonder if it feels faster or slower than MacOS.
https://asahilinux.org/about/
h/t @…

About - Asahi Linux

Look at how Trump’s fascist government treats a journalist asking questions about israel’s Hannibal Directive and its illegal nuclear weapons.
Oh, sorry, I meant Biden’s.
Lesser of two evils and all that, I guess.
https://www.newsweek.com/s…

Video: Journalist Sam Husseini Forcibly Removed From Blinken's Last News Conference
Sam Husseini was grabbed by security members and escorted out of the room.

Google says an advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think won gold at the International Mathematical Olympiad, solving 5 of 6 "exceptionally difficult" problems (Google DeepMind)
https://deepmind.…

Advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think officially achieves gold-medal standard at the International Mathematical Olympiad
Our advanced model officially achieved a gold-medal level performance on problems from the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), the world’s most prestigious competition for young...

The number of undocumented people held in immigration jails has exploded under Donald Trump’s brutal crackdown.
Despite polls showing growing public disgust with viral videos of heavily armed officers making violent arrests,
the administration is doubling down on policies aimed at filling immigration jails and detention camps with up to 100,000 people at any given time
— a massive expansion from the current incarcerating capacity of 41,500 people.
Along with tax brea…

Organizers Call for Shutdown of Immigrant Jails as Trump Expands Incarceration
Despite public outrage, Trump is doubling down on deportation policies designed to incarcerate 100,000 immigrants.

https://petapixel.com/2025/06/20/once-in-a-lifetime-photo-of-iss-crossing-the-sun-as-solar-flare-erupts/

‘Once in a Lifetime’ Photo of ISS Crossing the Sun as Solar Flare Erupts
Solar flares simply cannot be planned for.

Zuckerberg’s political shift didn’t shock Meta staff*: ‘The whole time this was all one inch underneath’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mark-zuckerberg-meta-nickname-trump-b2774168.html

Zuckerberg’s political shift didn’t shock Meta staff: ‘The whole time this was all one inch underneath’
Meta has implemented policy shifts that are more closely aligned with the administration since Trump was elected

Appfigures: xAI debuted Grok 4 late on July 9 and by July 11, Grok's gross revenue on iOS had risen 325% to $419K, up from $99K the day before Grok 4's launch (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/21/grok

Grok's AI companions drove downloads, but its latest model is the one making money | TechCrunch
Grok's unfiltered AI companions may be making headlines for their unhinged and NSFW responses, but it's Grok 4 that's driven the app's revenue of late.

We just put up billboards demanding an explanation on why our MAGA opponent voted to hide the list. -- Yes, that list.
It's Esther Kim Varet:
I promised you a Democrat who's a fighter, and who demands accountability,
because that is the only way we win California's most flippable congressional district.
We are not letting Young Kim get away with 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 between now and election day,
because we know the voters WILL remove her.
I'm not let…

I'm with Esther Kim Varet
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OpenAI says ChatGPT users send more than 2.5B prompts globally each day, more than 330M of those are in US, and the platform has 500M weekly active users (Mike Allen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/21/sam-altman-openai-trump-dc-fed

Altman plans D.C. push to "democratize" AI economic benefits
Altman wants to continue driving debate over the effect AI will have on jobs.

Muzeum 2 WŚ w Narwiku było dosyć ciekawe - dobrze krok po kroku przedstawiało przyczyny ataku niemców na neutralną Norwegię jak i późniejszy przebieg wojny i historię powojenną.

Było sporo polskich akcentów przez udział polaków w bitwie o Narwik, niestety nie załapaliśmy się już na wystawę o statkach Grom i Błyskawica, która była tymczasowa jakiś czas temu.

Było nawet Polskie tłumaczenie pod qr kodem, ale system wpisywania każdego numerka pod każdym tekstem był tragiczny - lepiej …

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is preparing to
💥shut down seven major investigations and cases concerning alleged housing discrimination and segregation, including
⚠️ some where the agency already found civil rights violations, according to HUD records obtained by ProPublica.
The high-profile cases involve allegations that state and local governments across the South and Midwest illegally discriminated against people of color
by placing industrial…

Trump Administration Prepares to Drop Seven Major Housing Discrimination Cases
Federal housing officials spent years investigating cities from Chicago to Memphis to Corpus Christi for putting industrial plants and unwanted facilities in poor, nonwhite neighborhoods. Now, under Trump, the agency plans to drop the cases.

OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent System Card outlines how its red team helped implement key security features like "Watch Mode Activation" and "Terminal Restrictions" (Louis Columbus/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/security/openais…

How OpenAI’s red team made ChatGPT agent into an AI fortress
Discover OpenAI's red team blueprint: How 110 coordinated attacks and 7 exploit fixes created ChatGPT Agent's revolutionary 95% security defense system.

The Trump administration on Thursday said it will restrict waivers that have allowed states to keep kids enrolled in Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program beyond the 12-month period of continuous coverage required under federal law.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), led by Mehmet Oz, announced the move on Thursday, saying that it has informed states of a “clear shift away from policies that extend beyond statutory limits,”
specifically restricting…

'Terrible Development': Trump Admin Restricts State Efforts to Help Kids Stay on Medicaid | Common Dreams
"The Trump administration will stop at nothing to rip coverage away from American families, even kids they claim they want to protect," said Sen. Ron Wyden.

A 0-day flaw in Microsoft SharePoint is being exploited in RCE attacks on servers globally; no patch exists and tens of thousands of servers are at risk (Washington Post)

Global hack on Microsoft product hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say
Unknown attackers exploited a “significant vulnerability” in Microsoft’s SharePoint collaboration software, hitting targets around the world. 

ICE raids of farms are a cruel reminder that the U.S. has long devalued immigrant labor
-- while also being wholly incapable of surviving without it
https://prismreports.org/2025/07/16/our-country-doesnt-value-the-farmworkers-who-help-su…

Our country does not value the people who help build, feed, and sustain it
ICE raids of farms are a cruel reminder that the U.S. has long devalued immigrant labor, while also being wholly incapable of surviving without it

A look at the video podcasting surge; study: ~75% of podcast consumers play video episodes and ~30% play video episodes minimized or in background mode (Joseph Bernstein/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/style/p

Popular Podcasts Like Joe Rogan and Theo Von Are All Video Now. Who Is Watching?
An audio-only medium spawned a giant industry that is now largely focused on video.

That's how disfunctional the Trump administration is
https://bsky.app/profile/cnn.com/post/3lug2optv3s2l

CNN (@cnn.com)
“Marco Rubio has four jobs at once — that’s how much confidence President Trump has in him,” Vice President JD Vance told CNN in a statement. cnn.it/3IwxTHR

Microsoft releases a patch for a SharePoint 0-day RCE flaw exploited globally on thousands of on-prem servers, says updates for SharePoint 2016 are in the works (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-21/micr…

Microsoft Server Software Comes Under Widespread Cyberattack (MSFT)
Microsoft Corp.’s server software is under attack from unidentified hackers, with cybersecurity analysts warning of widespread security breaches across the globe.

T-Mobile plans to expand support for the L4S network standard in the coming weeks, helping high-priority internet packets move fast, a first for a US network (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/710312/t-mobile-low-latency-l4s-5g

T-Mobile is bringing low-latency tech to 5G for the first time
T-Mobile is expanding its 5G network’s support for L4S, which should help make the internet feel faster and improve the experience for apps like video calling and cloud gaming.

@…
45-year mystery behind eerie photo from The Shining is believed to be solved
Man from infamous picture in the classic horror film identified by a retired academic and journalist

45-year mystery behind eerie photo from The Shining is believed to be solved | CBC Radio
The Shining is hailed as a spine-tingling horror classic, gripping audiences with its chilling psychological twists. It’s also mired with countless conspiracy theories. Now, one of those theories has finally been cracked: the mystery of where the infamous final photo, which ends the film on a haunting cliffhanger, came from.

At the 2025 RISC-V Summit in China, Nvidia says CUDA will now be compatible with RISC-V's instruction set architecture, making RISC-V a viable x86 and Arm rival (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.

Nvidia's CUDA platform now supports RISC-V — support brings open source instruction set to AI platforms, joining x86 and Arm
Yet another alternative.

At a time when strategists across Wall Street are dialing back their recession probabilities, Peter Berezin of BCA Research is doubling down.
President Donald Trump's 90-day tariff pause was enough to ease the worries of some investors,
but the chief global strategist at BCA has maintained his bearish outlook.
While Berezin has lowered his recession outlook from Liberation Day levels,
he still expects an economic slowdown to unfold this year.
"I've …

Stock market crash: Strategist says 25% drop, recession still base case — Business Insider
Peter Berezin of BCA Research maintains a bearish outlook despite a tariff pause. Berezin predicts a 60% chance of recession, with the S&P 500 dropping to 4,500. Economic concerns include trade uncertainty, rising delinquencies, and a weakening labor market.

Austin-based CertifID, which develops tech to prevent wire fraud in real estate transactions, raised a $47.5M Series C led by Centana Growth Partners (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/07/15/certifid-47-million-real-estat…

Exclusive: CertifID raises $47.5 million to fight real estate wire fraud
Real estate wire fraud is surging, driven by increasingly sophisticated scams.

While the rare earth market is dominated by China, Canada also has some of the largest reserves in the world.
But new rare earth mining projects have to balance the need for these materials with the environmental impacts that mining has on the land. 
Instead of starting from scratch, the University of Alberta and Calgary-based CVW CleanTech are trying to mine these valuable substances from tailings, a waste product of open-pit oilsands mining.
Previously known as Titanium …

New-age prospectors finding rare earth elements in tailings from Alberta oilsands | CBC News
Rare earth elements are a key part of the transition to a green economy. From magnets in wind turbines to batteries in electric vehicles, they’re needed for technology that is increasingly in demand.

Dallas-based iCounter, which uses AI to combat cyber risks, launches out of stealth from Apollo Information Systems with a $30M Series A led by SYN Ventures (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/07/16/icou…

Exclusive: iCounter raises $30M Series A
SYN Ventures leads the round.

Our results confirm persistent gender disparities:
women are more frequently acknowledged than credited as co-authors, especially in roles involving investigation and analysis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15237

Dissecting the gender divide: Authorship and acknowledgment in scientific publications
The issue of gender bias in scientific publications has been the subject of ongoing debate. One aspect of this debate concerns whether women receive equal credit for their contributions compared to men. Conventional wisdom suggests that women are more likely to be acknowledged than listed as co-authors, a role that carries greater prestige. Here, we analyze data from hundreds of thousands of scientists across nine disciplines and a broad range of publications. Our results confirm persistent gen…

North Carolina-based Eton Solutions, which offers wealth management ERP tools for single- and multifamily offices, raised a $58M Series C led by Navis Capital (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/07/16/eton-solutions-58m-fam…

Exclusive: Eton Solutions raises $58M for family office ERP
The company's tech provides a single source of truth for the ultra-rich.

Canadians travelling to the US advised to not fucking do that
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/06/canadians-travelling-to-the-us-advised-to-not-fucking-do-that/

Canadians travelling to the US advised to not fucking do that
OTTAWA - Canadians thinking of planning a trip to the United States are being advised by the Government of Canada to perhaps consider going anywhere else on the entire fucking planet for their summer vacations. 

Calgary-based GeologicAI, which uses AI and sensors to help capture data in rock and core samples faster, raised a $44M Series B led by Blue Earth Capital (Alex Riehl/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/geologicai-cashes-in-on-data-centre-boom-with-60-5-…

GeologicAI cashes in on data centre boom with $60.5-million CAD Series B
Mining tech startup will use funding to scale globally as demand for critical minerals intensifies.

"Putin is afraid to admit how many [Russian] people have died. Because if the moment comes when he needs to mobilize, his society will be afraid," Zelensky said.
Ukrainian authorities have confirmed that at least 20 of the bodies Russia returned as Ukrainian were actually Russian soldiers.
"Sometimes these bodies even have Russian passports," Zelensky said.
He also cited the case of a deceased Israeli citizen fighting on Russia's side, whom Moscow had …

Russia 'afraid to admit' scale of losses, trying to hide by dumping soldiers' bodies on Ukraine, Zelensky says
Ukrainian authorities have confirmed that at least 20 of the bodies Russia returned as Ukrainian were actually Russian soldiers, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

In a letter to CEO Aravind Srinivas, the BBC says it has evidence Perplexity's default model used its content and seeks "a proposal for financial compensation" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b743d401-dc5d-44b8-9987-825a4ffcf4ca

BBC threatens legal action against AI start-up Perplexity over content scraping
British broadcaster makes first move to clamp down on alleged infringement of copyright by tech groups

Ukraine announced on June 13 that its short-range Sapsan ballistic missile would go into mass production
-- a major development in Kyiv's ongoing efforts to domestically produce the weapons it needs to fight Russia's full-scale invasion.
As Ukraine faces growing challenges in securing weapons from Western partners, and Russia continues launching drone and missile strikes on civilians, the development of Ukraine’s missile production is seen as a critical step toward strength…

Tired of military aid delays, Ukraine has designed its own ballistic missile — and it’s already in mass-production
Ukraine announced on June 13 that it's short-range Sapsan ballistic missile would go into mass production, a major development in Kyiv's ongoing efforts to domestically produce the weapons it needs to fight Russia's full-scale invasion. As Ukraine faces growing challenges in securing weapons from Western partners, and Russia continues launching drone and missile strikes on civilians, the development of Ukraine’s missile production is seen as a critical step toward strengthening its defense c…

Coinbase says it has secured a MiCA license from Luxembourg to offer crypto services across the EU, and will shift its European base from Ireland to Luxembourg (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/20/coinbase-eu-license.html

Coinbase secures EU crypto license, swaps Ireland for Luxembourg as main hub
"Luxembourg is leading the way with its pro-business climate and thoughtful approach to regulation," Coinbase Brian Armstrong tells CNBC.

Russia is systematically recruiting migrant workers from Central Asia to fight in its war against Ukraine as "cannon fodder".
Citizens of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and other countries in the region are increasingly being drawn into Russia's war effort under duress or with misleading promises, HUR said.
Many of those recruited are reportedly killed on the front lines.
According to HUR, Russia's security servicestarget migrant workers who arrive in the country …

Russia recruits Central Asia migrants as 'cannon fodder' in Ukraine war, HUR says
Citizens of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and other countries in the region are increasingly being drawn into Russia's war effort, Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) says.

Silicon Valley is pushing senators to follow the House in reviving a favorable tax benefit that disappeared because of a US tax law Section 174 change in 2017 (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/20/silicon-valley-big-tech-tax-benefit

Silicon Valley is pushing revival of game-changing tax benefit for startups
This could change the math for a slew of startups, and even Big Tech.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg‘s recent public support for Donald Trump did not come as a shock to those who know or have closely worked with him.
Dozens of people who have either worked with or known Zuckerberg told the Financial Times that the CEO’s more public shift toward Trump is just Zuckerberg displaying the more “authentic” version of himself to the world,
even though he was once known to support liberal ideology and voiced opposition to Trump’s policies during the first admini…

Zuckerberg’s political shift didn’t shock Meta staff: ‘The whole time this was all one inch underneath’
Meta has implemented policy shifts that are more closely aligned with the administration since Trump was elected

Q&A with Yoshua Bengio on his nonprofit LawZero focusing on AI safety, its research direction, risks of increasingly capable and autonomous AI systems, and more (Sigal Samuel/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/417087/ai-safety-yoshua-bengio-lawze…

He’s the godfather of AI. Now, he has a bold new plan to keep us safe from it.
Humans — not AI systems — should be the ones with agency, says the godfather of AI.

“In the US, we have a set of electoral and legislative institutions that drive us toward only having two parties,”
Mark Copelovitch told us.
“That allowed the 20 to 25 percent of people that support the far right to basically take over one of the two parties,
and everything in our system is weighted towards the Republican constituency
— the Supreme Court, the gerrymandered House, the way the Senate is apportioned.
All of these things basically bias the electo…

“Neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”
Mark Copelovitch unpacks his signature phrase.

Cluely, which wants to help users "cheat on everything", including job interviews and exams, raised a $15M Series A led by a16z, two months after a $5.3M seed (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/20/clue

Cluely, a startup that helps 'cheat on everything,' raises $15M from a16z | TechCrunch
The controversial AI startup was founded earlier this year.

Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab raised $2B led by a16z at a $10B valuation; Murati will hold board voting rights that outweigh all other directors (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/9edc67e6-96a9-4d2b-820d-57bc1279e358

Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab valued at $10bn after $2bn fundraising
Six-month-old secretive AI start-up in one of the largest initial funding rounds in Silicon Valley’s history

Trump just won a temporary victory in court allowing his use of troops in Los Angeles.
His unhinged reaction to it reveals the true depths of his malevolent intentions toward... well, us
https://newrepublic.com/article/197074/trump-threat-unleash-t…

Trump’s Threat to Unleash Troops in Cities Just Got Darker and Scarier
The president just won a temporary victory in court on his troops in Los Angeles. His unhinged reaction to it reveals the true depths of his malevolent intentions toward—well, us.

Uber expands its data-labeling platform Uber AI Solutions to 30 countries, and adds new offerings like tools for developing AI agents and ready-to-use datasets (Richard Nieva/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2025/06/20/uber-scale-data-…

Uber Is Making A Push In Data Labeling After Scale AI’s Deal With Meta
The ride-haling giant, which unveiled a data-labeling platform late last year, thinks it can out-muscle the smaller rivals jockeying for position after Scale’s tie-up with Meta.

Democrats have an age problem
House Republicans managed to pass their draconian budget bill,
-- which promises to make massive cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and food assistance,
-- early Thursday morning by a narrow one-vote margin
💥that was only possible due the deaths of three Democrats in this current Congress. 
The latest Democrat to pass away was 75-year-old Representative Gerry Connolly of Virginia, who died on Wednesday after battling esophageal cancer.

Republicans Pass Horrid Tax Bill Thanks to Democrats Dying in Office
Republicans passed their terrible tax bill by one vote. Guess how many Democrats died in office this year.

Snap acquires Saturn, a calendar app for high school and college students, and says 80% of US high schoolers attend schools that support Saturn (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/snap

Snap is acquiring Saturn, a calendar app used at thousands of high schools
Snap has acquired Saturn, a calendar app used at thousands of high schools.

Preston Damsky is a law student at the University of Florida.
He is also a white nationalist and antisemite.
Last fall, he took a seminar taught by a federal judge on “originalism,”
the legal theory favored by many conservatives that seeks to interpret the Constitution based on its meaning when it was adopted.
In his capstone paper for the class, Mr. Damsky argued that the framers had intended for the phrase “We the People,” in the Constitution’s preamble, to refer exc…

A White Nationalist at University of Florida Wrote a Paper Promoting Racist Views. It Won Him an Award.
The University of Florida student won an academic honor after he argued in a paper that the Constitution applies only to white people. From there, the situation spiraled.

BitcoinTreasuries.net: about 130 publicly-listed companies currently hold ~$87B worth of bitcoin, equivalent to ~3.2% of all the bitcoins that will ever exist (Philip Stafford/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/394b3a87-bf5e-45dc-8f39-565e89f1fe47…

Who are the companies hoarding bitcoin?
Corporate treasuries now hold more than 3% of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency, a stash worth $87bn

Administration to phase out NIH support of HIV clinical guidelines
Doctors and advocates worry the move is a first step toward ending federal guidance for HIV treatment
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/06/21/hiv-aids-rfk-guidelines-n…

Administration to phase out NIH support of HIV clinical guidelines
The National Institutes of Health will phase out its support of the clinical practice guidelines that advise doctors how to diagnose and treat HIV.

Docs: the FCC is probing USCTM, launched by the Biden administration as a voluntary safety label for IoT devices, over its administrators' alleged ties to China (Brian Flood/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trumps-fcc-p

Trump-appointed FCC chairman probes Biden cybersecurity program over China concerns
President Trump's FCC is raising the alarm over alleged Chinese connections in Biden's cybersecurity labeling initiative as documents reveal national security concerns.

One under-scrutinized federal agency has been crucial to the Trump administration's effort to detain and deport noncitizens who protested Israel’s war in Gaza (many of them students who are in the U.S. on visas or green cards):
Homeland Security Investigations
-- the investigative arm of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (which markets itself as an elite force that targets human traffickers, drug smugglers, and war criminals).
As it built dossiers on Khalil and o…

Mahmoud Khalil Won His Freedom Despite the Best Efforts of ICE’s Intelligence Unit
Homeland Security Investigations once targeted human traffickers and cartels. Now it’s leading the charge against student protesters.

Hackers briefly exploited a front-end vulnerability in CoinMarketCap's rotating doodles feature to inject fake "Verify Wallet" phishing pop-ups (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2025/06/21/c

CoinMarketCap Briefly Exploited With Wallet Phishing Pop-Up Message
The company has not disclosed how many users were affected or whether any wallets were compromised as a result of the exploit.

Trump undermines Watergate laws in massive shift of ethics system

Then-Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman was 32 when, as a member of the House Judiciary Committee, she voted in 1974 for three articles of impeachment against President Richard M. Nixon.
She spent the next few years as part of a Congress that passed wave after wave of laws to rein in future presidents.

A half-century later, Holtzman, a New York Democrat, is watching as Donald Trump takes aim at post-Watergate reforms …

Trump undermines Watergate laws in massive shift of ethics system
Congress built a system 50 years ago to prevent another Nixon. Trump seems determined to dismantle those rules.

Anthropic's test of 16 top AI models from OpenAI and others found that, in some cases, they resorted to malicious behavior to avoid replacement or achieve goals (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/20/ai-models-deceive-steal-blackmail-an…

Top AI models will lie, cheat and steal to reach goals, Anthropic finds
The research used hypothetical scenarios, but those situations could get real fast.

Iran vowed swift retaliation Saturday following the U.S. military’s strikes on the Iranian nuclear program.
“Every American citizen or military personnel in the region is now a target,” a commentator on Iranian state media said.
Al-Asad Air Base, an Iraqi installation 150 miles west of Baghdad that is operated jointly by the Iraqi and U.S. air forces, houses thousands of American troops,
the largest U.S. deployment in the country.
Iran and its proxies have in recent…

U.S. bases that could attack Iran — and become targets
A number of U.S. military sites in the Middle East could face reprisals if Trump strikes Iran.

Character.AI hires Karandeep Anand, former Meta VP of Business Products, as CEO, 10 months after Google hired away the startup's co-founder and CEO Noam Shazeer (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/20/charact…

Character.AI taps Meta's former VP of business products as CEO | TechCrunch
Character.AI appointed Karandeep Anand to be the company's new CEO, helping it grow its platform and fight child safety concerns.

Sen. Padilla claps back after JD Vance calls him ‘Jose’:
‘ He knows my name'
Sen. Alex Padilla blasted the Trump administration Saturday,
-- calling it “petty and unserious”
after Vice President JD Vance referred to him as “Jose” during a news conference in Los Angeles the previous day.
“He knows my name,” Padilla said in an appearance on MSNBC on Saturday morning.
Vance visited Los Angeles on Friday for less than five hours
after several weeks o…

Sen. Padilla claps back after JD Vance calls him 'Jose': 'He knows my name'
Sen. Alex Padilla insisted the vice president knows his name, calling the misnaming a reflection of a "petty and unserious" administration. The dustup arrives as federal immigration raids continue to roil Los Angeles and surrounding communities.

Sources: Reddit is exploring Tools for Humanity's World ID identity system to allow users to verify that they are unique individuals while remaining anonymous (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/20/2025

Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users
Reddit, racing to preserve “humanness and authenticity,” has discussed using Sam Altman’s World ID, sources say.

It's Esther Kim Varet,
Democrat running to flip blue California's closest Republican held seat.
We know the Republicans are scared of my brand of leadership, because they've already started attacking me online.
This week my opponent announced that she wants to work with Trump to sell federal parks to pay for tax cuts for their friends.
It's unacceptable.
My opponent is powered by billionaires,
but I'm powered by you.
Can you …

I'm with Esther Kim Varet
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Meta unveils Oakley smart glasses with same features as Ray-Ban glasses but with 3K video recording and double the battery life, available in summer for $399 (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/690133/meta-oakley-hstn-ai-glasses-price-…

Meta announces Oakley smart glasses
Meta is releasing a new line of AI glasses with Oakley, starting with a $499 limited-edition gold accent frame that shoots 3K video.

Trump is upset that in the lower courts his administration has lost 96 percent of the time so far, accordingto one analysis.
The president’s apologists have asserted that this shows that the courts are biased against Trump.
In reality it is the law that is biased against actions that defy the web of statutes, regulations, rules, contracts, and case law that have long been part of our legal system.
Trump has even suggested that he may not be bound by the oath he swore on …

Trump’s stunning streak of losses in lower courts
Read more here.

A Reuters/Ipsos poll releasedThursday found that
🔥62 percent of self-identified Democrats said that the party should replace Democrats with new leaders,
with only 24 percent disagreeing with that statement.
A plurality of respondents, at 49 percent, said that they’re unsatisfied with current leaders.
The survey included over 4,200 respondents, including 1,293 Democrats, and was conducted earlier this month

62 Percent of Democrats Want Current Party Leaders to Be Replaced, Poll Finds
Democrats recently ousted David Hogg from leadership after he criticized the party for complacency.

Sheltering in a Bunker, Iran’s Supreme Leader Names Potential Successors
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not only picked replacements in his chain of military command in case they are killed in Israeli strikes,
he has also named three senior clerics to replace him should he, too, be slain.
Ayatollah Khamenei, 86, is aware that either Israel or the United States could try to assassinate him,
an end he would view as martyrdom, the officials said.
Given the possibility…

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Planning for His Possible Assassination, Picks Successors
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not only picked replacements in his chain of military command in case they are killed in Israeli strikes, he has also named three senior clerics to replace him should he, too, be slain.

Tell Your Senators: No War With Iran
https://act.indivisible.org/sign/no-iran-war-senate?source=bluesky&medium=directpost

Tell Your Senators: No War With Iran
The American people do not want to enter Netanyahu’s war with Iran. American involvement would not only put our troops into harm's way, but risk escalating an already volatile situation into all-out regional conflict. Unfortunately, Trump is engaging in wildly dangerous provocations in the press and on social media. We know we cannot trust this would-be authoritarian to diplomatically de-escalate this conflict and save lives. Fortunately, there’s something we can do about it. Our Constituti…

Leo Varadkar, who stood down as taoiseach in April 2024,
said he did not think a date should be fixed for an Irish unity referendum
as nationalists did not yet have the numbers to win.
But he said planning for a united Ireland should take place.
"I don't think a united Ireland is inevitable, I think it's something that we have to work towards," he said.
"But I think there are a lot of factors that would suggest that we're on that traje…

Leo Varadkar says Nigel Farage as PM would move Irish unity 'centre stage'
The former Irish prime minister says planning should take place for the possibility of Irish unification.

As the head of the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt has done little to uphold his organization’s claims to fight antisemitism
as the “leading anti-hate organization in the world.”
Instead, he’s shored up the ADL’s role as little more than a fierce pro-Israel lobby group known for defending Israel by attacking its critics.
With no sense of irony, much of this effort manifests as defamatory speech
— at least in the everyday, if not the legal, sense
— by…

MIT Student Condemned Genocide — So ADL Chief Said She Helped Cause Boulder Attack
Jonathan Greenblatt accused commencement speakers of spreading antisemitic lies — and suggested they’re responsible for violent attacks.

Harvard Divinity School broke precedent
by refusing to publish a video of its commencement speech
after a speaker went off-script to call attention to the perilous conditions in Gaza.
“There are no safe zones left in Gaza after 600 days and 77 years of genocide,” said Zehra Imam,
who graduated from the Harvard Divinity School this spring and participated in the embattled Religion and Public Life program.
Imam, who is Muslim, was speaking with two other students f…

A Harvard Commencement Speaker Mentioned Gaza. The School Refused to Publish Her Speech.
Divinity School insiders said Harvard’s practices are at odds with the public perception that the university is fighting Trump.

The authoritarian dream is rooted in the belief that state violence should serve as the primary tool of governance.
When the guardrails of democracy are dismantled, violence shifts from being a last resort to a governing principle.
This is precisely what unfolded in Los Angeles, where Trump deployed the National Guard and Marines to crush protests against his mass deportation policies,
while mobilizing ICE as a modern-day Gestapo.
What cannot be ignored is that the…

From the Streets of LA to the National Stage: The Left Must Win the Cultural War
Trump’s war on dissent can only be defeated by a left that challenges the values sustaining authoritarianism.

When Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536),
the youngest child of the newly dominant Spanish rulers Ferdinand and Isabella.,
was 3, her parents contracted her to marry Arthur, Prince of Wales, the heir to the Tudor king Henry VII in order to strengthen Spain's alliances,
since Henry's kingdom was a longstanding trade partner and an enemy of Spain's greatest enemy, France.
For the next decade Catherine had the best humanist education available,
preparing h…

Catherine of Aragon | Biography & Facts | Britannica
Catherine of Aragon (1485–1536) was the first wife of King Henry VIII of England. The refusal of Pope Clement VII to annul Henry’s marriage to Catherine triggered the break between Henry and Rome and led to the English Reformation. Learn more about Catherine’s life and marriage to Henry VIII with this article.

ICE issued new rules for Congress members visiting detention centers.
Experts say they’re illegal
Rep. Norma Torres (D-Pomona) and three other members of Congress were denied entry to the immigrant detention facility inside the Roybal Federal Building in Los Angeles
The lawmakers were attempting an unannounced inspection,
a common and long-standing practice under congressional oversight powers.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said too many prot…

ICE issued new rules for Congress members visiting detention centers. Experts say they’re illegal
Members from California, Illinois and New Jersey have been denied access in recent weeks to immigrant detention facilities in their states. Oversight experts say that's a substantial departure from past practice.