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Google's lead for Home and Nest Anish Kattukaran apologizes for Assistant reliability issues on home devices and announces "major improvements" later this year (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/07/23/google-home-assistant-teas…

Google acknowledges Assistant issues with Home, teases ‘major improvements’ coming
Google is teasing some "major improvements" for Assistant and Home while acknowledging recent shortcomings.

Zahlen, bitte! 95 Bit Informationen in einem Strichcode
Der Strichcode macht bis heute die ganze Warenwelt mit einem Wisch über einen Scanner erfassbar und vereinfacht die Logistik enorm. Doch wie entstand er?

"Thoughts on Synthesizing Information: A Research Skill for Our Time?" https://muse.jhu.edu/article/964599
"Synthesizing information from multiple sources is a crucial skill for information literacy, and it is exceedingly important for learning in the 21st century information landscape.…

Strange Parables - an #improv #poem
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Strange Parables - an #improv #poem
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

A man named Christian Nieves, who goes by “Daytwo” and “PawsOnHips” online, allegedly stole $4 million from Coinbase users by impersonating employees at the crypto exchange.
https://dailyhodl.com/2025/06/23/hacke

Hackers Impersonate Coinbase User Support To Scam Victims of $4,000,000 Before Blowing Most of Money on Gambling: ZachXBT - The Daily Hodl
An investigation by top on-chain analyst ZachXBT has revealed how an alleged New York-based con artist stole millions of dollars from victims by pretending to be support staff from Coinbase.

📚 First Impressions: 15 Years of The Common Through Its Covers
#graphicdesign

First Impressions: 15 Years of The Common Through Its Covers
A crumpled wad of paper, scattered matches, a turnip, a marshmallow on a stick—The Common’s minimalist covers feature objects set against bright backgrounds. From an axe to a sudsy bar of soap, the…

I'm always curious of how a device becomes worse with time when it comes to their AI / speech recognition. Like how do you make it dumber?
https://9to5google.com/2025/07/23/google-home-assistant-tease-major-improvements/

Time-Sensitive Importance Splitting
Gabriel Dengler, Carlos E. Budde, Laura Carnevali, Arnd Hartmanns
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19568 https://

Time-Sensitive Importance Splitting
State-of-the-art methods for rare event simulation of non-Markovian models face practical or theoretical limits if observing the event of interest requires prior knowledge or information on the timed behavior of the system. In this paper, we attack both limits by extending importance splitting with a time-sensitive importance function. To this end, we perform backwards reachability search from the target states, considering information about the lower and upper bounds of the active timers in or…

Culture Minister Chris Bryant says UK's high-end TV tax credits are very competitive with the rest of the world, after calls to increase them from 25% to 40% (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/chris-bryant-down…

UK Culture Minister Chris Bryant Downplays Likelihood Of Improvements To High-End TV Tax Credit
Chris Bryant has talked not improving the UK High-End TV Tax Credit, Netflix & Donald Trump tariffs as he unveils creative sector plan.

"The Most Important Word in the English Language" #connect