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Instagram, TikTok und Co erst ab 15 - neue Initiative durch EU-Minister
Mehrere EU-Länder wollen ein Verbot von Social Media für unter 15-Jährige. Die Plattformen seien gefährlich für die Entwicklung der Kinder.

On initiative of 'farmers' party' BBB, Dutch parliament now requested govt to see whether we can leave the Aarhus convention, an international treaty that strengthens the rights of the public in environmental matters
Via stemvizier.nl on Bluesky

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Ukraine covers Europe: the West loses the initiative while the Russian Federation arms itself: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/06/ukraine-covers-europe-the-west.html

Gabbard’s team has sought spy agency data to enforce Trump’s agenda

The Director’s Initiative Group has expressed an interest in gaining access to emails and chat logs of the largest U.S. intelligence agencies to root out “weaponization,” according to multiple people familiar with the effort.

Gabbard’s team has sought spy agency data to enforce Trump’s agenda
A team created by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has sought access to emails and chat logs of the largest U.S. spy agencies to root out “weaponization.”

@… https://social.heise.de/@heiseonline/114816740251310071 Interessant, habe das erste Mal von dieser Initiative gehört. Weiß man…

Damals in Bayern vor 15 Jahren, Sieg des Volksentscheids für ein Rauchverbot in Kneipen und Gastwirtschaften.
https://www.oedp.de/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/newsdetails/news/seit-15-jahren-oedp-in…

More Belgian (Flemish?) households with solar panels, batteries or electric vehicles will be able to benefit from the flexibility they can offer the energy system as energy retailers Bolt and Trevion collaborate with VPP operator Powernaut.
https://powernaut.io/press/powernaut-a

Powernaut, Bolt, Trevion and Partners launch Belgium’s first energy contracts that pay consumers for grid support - Powernaut
Using Powernaut’s smart software, households with solar panels, home batteries, or EVs can now earn money by allowing their energy retailer to manage their devices intelligently. For example, devices may charge or reduce output during peak times to avoid grid overload. Retailers like Bolt and Trevion are offering these new contracts, allowing customers to benefit financially without sacrificing comfort. Partners such as Qbus and Innovoltus support the initiative, which is seen as a key step …

#Memphis! Help support local #immigrant families in need by dropping off non-perishable food items and toiletries.
Many who’d normally be working are now afraid to leave home due to #ICE activity! This has l…

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Co-DETECT: Collaborative Discovery of Edge Cases in Text Classification
Chenfei Xiong, Jingwei Ni, Yu Fan, Vil\'em Zouhar, Donya Rooein, Lorena Calvo-Bartolom\'e, Alexander Hoyle, Zhijing Jin, Mrinmaya Sachan, Markus Leippold, Dirk Hovy, Mennatallah El-Assady, Elliott Ash
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05010

Co-DETECT: Collaborative Discovery of Edge Cases in Text Classification
We introduce Co-DETECT (Collaborative Discovery of Edge cases in TExt ClassificaTion), a novel mixed-initiative annotation framework that integrates human expertise with automatic annotation guided by large language models (LLMs). Co-DETECT starts with an initial, sketch-level codebook and dataset provided by a domain expert, then leverages the LLM to annotate the data and identify edge cases that are not well described by the initial codebook. Specifically, Co-DETECT flags challenging examples…

Xbox-Entlassungen: Microsoft stellt Spiele von Rare und The Initiative ein
Allmählich zeichnet sich das Ausmaß der Entlassungen bei Microsofts Xbox-Abteilung ab. Auch namhafte Studios sind von den Kürzungen betroffen.

FPF Launches Major Initiative to Study Economic and Policy Implications of AgeTech
https://fpf.org/press-releases/fpf-launches-major-initiative-to-study-economic-and-policy-implications-of-agetech/

Governance and Technological Challenge in Digital Solidarity Economies: A Case Study of a Collaborative Transportation Platform in South Korea
Jeongone Seo, Tawfiq Ammari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04166

Governance and Technological Challenge in Digital Solidarity Economies: A Case Study of a Collaborative Transportation Platform in South Korea
South Korea's City P illustrates how lofty goals of digital solidarity can falter when challenged by local governance realities. Drawing on Hansmann's ownership theory, collaborative governance concepts, and platform cooperativism, we conducted a qualitative case study involving policy documents, independent assessments, and 11 in-depth interviews with residents, officials, and technology developers. Findings reveal a marked disconnect between the initiative's stated emphasis on community co-ow…

Tems and Native Instruments join forces to empower women in music across Africa
https://blog.native-instruments.com/tems-and-native-instruments/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=muz4now/magazin…

Tems and Native Instruments join forces to empower women in music across Africa | Native Instruments Blog
Discover how GRAMMY-winner Tems and Native Instruments are partnering with the Leading Vibe Initiative to empower emerging women in music across Africa.

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Was anyone else taught this? I learnt ITA in my earliest education. Unlike the people profiled in the article I've never had any trouble with spelling or any aspect of learning or using English and I'd wondered if that was *because* I'd been taught ITA but judging by this article I was just lucky!

Die Hamburger Volksinitiative »Schluss mit Gendersprache in Verwaltung und Bildung« ist vor dem #Verfassungsgericht gescheitert.

Vielleicht sollte sich die Stadt mal bei Mannheim nach der Rechtslage erkundigen. Die hat dank @… Erfahrung mit #Beetmobil|en.

Kleines Fahrgärtchen in Gefahr - Neustadt-Geflüster
In der Prießnitzstraße im Dresdner Stadtteil Neustadt sorgt ein bepflanzter Fahrradanhänger für Diskussionen. Laut den Initiatoren des Projekts, der Initiative

The Washington Post could soon allow non-professional writers to submit opinion columns using an AI writing coach known as Ember,
according to a report from The New York Times.
The move is reportedly part of a broader initiative to open the paper to outside opinion pieces, including from other publications, Substack writers, and amateur columnists.
Sources tell the Times that Ember “could automate several functions normally provided by human editors,”
including by offe…

The Washington Post is planning to let amateur writers submit columns — with the help of AI
The Washington Post is planning a new initiative that will allow non-professional writers to submit opinion pieces using an AI-powered writing coach, called Ember, according to The New York Times.

🎉 Happy 10th anniversary to In The Field - the initiative showcasing the global #impact of #NRENs!
Now counting more than 480 stories from over 100 NRENs across the globe, #InTheField highlights the divers…

Von der Initiative #Carolabrücke gibt es neue lustige Visualisierungen zum Neubau.
https://initiative-carolabruecke.de/2025/06/06/pressemitteilung-0…

Pressemitteilung 06.06.2025 - Initiative Carolabrücke
Neues Konzept für Ersatzneubau in historischer Optik Die Initiative Carolabrücke bringt sich mit einem neuen Konzept in die Diskussion um einen Ersatzneubau ein. Zuletzt bescheinigte Baubürgermeister Stephan Kühn dem CDU-Vorschlag einer zweigeschossigen Brücke prinzipielle Umsetzbarkeit. Im Vergleich dazu ist eine gestalterische Anpassung an die typischen Dresdner Bogenbrücken leicht umsetzbar. Mit einer Konzeptdarstellung (siehe Anhang) zeigt die Initiative […]

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.

Finally with some new help we were able to restart the "Neos monthly" initiative again and have our first post 🥳
#NeosCMS https://neos.social/@team/114629938904952545

Initiative offers relief to street vendors facing hardship amid immigration crackdowns – NBC Los Angeles
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/street-vendors-immigration-relief-inland-empire/3737432/

Pistorius versichert Ukraine internationale Hilfe bei Stärkung der Flugabwehr
Bundesverteidigungsminister Boris Pistorius hat der Ukraine erneut fortwährende Unterstützung durch westliche Partner versichert. Bei einem Treffen der Ukraine-Kontaktgruppe kündigte Pistorius einen neuen Anlauf für die internationale Verstärkung und Aufrechterhaltung der ukrainischen Flugabwehr an. Dazu solle eine multinationale Initiative («Immedi…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Gefangenenaustausch steht bevor ++
Die Ukraine und Russland werden voraussichtlich am Wochenende erneut Kriegsgefangene austauschen. Verteidigungsminister Pistorius verspricht der Ukraine anhaltende Unterstützung des Westens, vor allem beim Ausbau der Flugabwehr.

El Masnou Becomes Second Spanish City to Endorse the Plant Based Treaty https://vegconomist.com/society/charity-campaigns/el-masnou-becomes-second-spanish-city-endorse-plant-based-treaty/

El Masnou Becomes Second Spanish City to Endorse the Plant Based Treaty - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
El Masnou, a municipality in Catalonia, has formally endorsed the Plant Based Treaty, making it the second city in Spain to join the global initiative. The

Hypocrisie #Universités exsangues déjŠ #StandUpForScience

Choose Europe for Science : pour les scientifiques américains, un accueil en France dans des universités délabrées
Fier de lancer son initiative pour recevoir les chercheurs et chercheuses en péril aux Etats-Unis depuis le retour de Trump, Emmanuel Macron ferme les yeux sur l’état de l’écosystème de recherche français, exsangue.

Das #Volksbegehren „#BerlinAutofrei“ ist laut #Verfassungsgerichtshof zulässig.
Die Initiative darf ihr Vorhaben für weitgehend autofreie Straßen im Berliner S-Bahn-Rin…

Verfassungsgerichtshof Berlin - Volksbegehren "Berlin autofrei" zulässig
Die Initiative "Volksentscheid Berlin autofrei" kann ihr Gesetzesvorhaben für ein weitgehendes Autoverbot in der Hauptstadt weiter verfolgen.

Dynamical mass of the Serpens intermediate-mass young stellar system EC\,95 with DYNAMO--VLBA
Jazm\'in Ord\'o\~nez-Toro (Instituto de Radioastronom\'ia y Astrof\'isica, Universidad Nacional Aut\'onoma de M\'exico, M\'exico), Sergio A. Dzib (Max Planck Institut f\"ur Radioastronomie, Germany), Laurent Loinard (Instituto de Radioastronom\'ia y Astrof\'isica, Universidad Nacional Aut\'onoma de M\'exico, M\'exico, Black Hole Initiative a…

Dynamical mass of the Serpens intermediate-mass young stellar system EC\,95 with DYNAMO--VLBA
We present dynamical mass measurements, obtained from multi-epoch Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations, for the young multiple stellar system EC\,95, located in the core of the Serpens star-forming region. Our dataset includes both archival data and more recent observations obtained as part of the \textit{Dynamical Masses of Young Stellar Multiple Systems with the VLBA project} (DYNAMO--VLBA), totalling 32 epochs over 12 years of observation. The observations span more than hal…

And so it begins.
https://blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/we-are-announcing-sparkasse-as-our-first-national-credential-partner-for-eu-age-assurance/

We are announcing Sparkasse as our first national credential partner for EU age assurance.
The lack of a reliable standard for safe, effective age checks across sites and apps online has long frustrated parents and companies. Google’s Credential Manager API — backed by Google Wallet and zero-knowledge proof cryptography — has proven that it’s possible. What’s needed now is collaboration and initiative to bring about the future of digital identity.That begins now. At the Global Digital Collaboration Conference today in Geneva, Germany’s Sparkasse, a trusted network of 343 …

Der vielfältigste und migrantischste Radiosender Deutschlands ist in Gefahr!
Werde jetzt mit uns laut, um COSMO zu retten!
https://innn.it/savecosmoradio
COSMO ist ARD-weit das einzige Radioprojekt, das konsequent mehrsprachig arbeitet, migrantische und queere Perspektiven redaktio…

Petition · Vielfalt braucht eine Stimme: Save COSMO Radio! · innn.it
Jetzt innn.it-Petition unterschreiben & Initiative #saveCOSMOradio unterstützen!

Wait, what?! Doch nicht COSMO! 😱 Meinetwegen können sie jeden anderen Sender abschaffen. (Naja, fast.) Okay, jetzt’s zählt’s: #saveCOSMOradio https://innn.it/savecosmoradio

Petition · Vielfalt braucht eine Stimme: Save COSMO Radio! · innn.it
Jetzt innn.it-Petition unterschreiben & Initiative #saveCOSMOradio unterstützen!

Looks like EU funding of #FLOSS will continue: "Open digital infrastructure, from search and identity to cloud and software governance, is now a strategic European priority."

NGI Forum 2025 marks a strategic shift from Next Generation Internet toward the Open Internet Stack
The Next Generation Internet (NGI) Forum 2025, the flagship event of the European Commission’s NGI initiative, took place in Brussels on 19-20 June, with over 200 on-site participants and many more via web stream. The Forum focused on accelerating the shift from research and experimentation to the deployment of sovereign, open digital infrastructures.

Great new :qgis: initiative by @… and @…:
Make #QGIS an open platform for building geospatial

QGIS 3D for Open Source Digital Twins | Lutra Consulting
Join our crowdfunding campaign to enhance QGIS 3D tools for open-source digital twins, bringing improved performance, features, and community-driven innovation.

Erholung für alle https://weddingweiser.de/erholung-fuer-alle-1/

Zur Geschichte des Volksparks Rehberge: Erholung für alle
Im Rahmen einer Freiluftausstellung zeigt die Initiative Parkcafé Rehberge die beeindruckenden Transformationen des Gebiets sowie …

"Suspend UK from oil oversight body over protests crackdown, say campaign groups"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #FossilFuels

Great Letters to the Editor #action initiative by students at Cornell!
https://blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-initiatives/the-mcclintock-letters/

Wieso ist es einer Publikation wie der BZ nicht möglich, einen passenden Begriff zu finden? Open Source ist es jedenfalls nicht, weil es weder um Quellcode geht, noch eine offene Lizenz existiert. Journalisten-freier oder -begutachteter Beitrag ist gemeint.
> Beitrag, der im Rahmen unserer Open-Source-Initiative eingereicht wurde. Mit Open Source gibt der Berliner Verlag allen Interessierten die Möglichkeit, Texte mit inhaltlicher Relevanz und professionellen Qualitätsstandards anzu…

Probably well known here but just to be sure. The EuroStack initiative deserves the attention it is getting. It is a complete European approach to digital sovereignty. Read all about it.
#ict

EuroStack
Building a european alternative for technological sovereignty

Donald Trump recently said Canada could freely participate in his Golden Dome in exchange for annexation. The US president’s post came on the heels of Mark Carney expressing interest in the missile ‘defense’ initiative, betraying his election promise to distance Canada from the US.
Take a minute to email Carney and defence minister David McGuinty to reject Canadian participation in Trump’s Golden Dome.

Tubi announces plans to distribute 20 films funded on Kickstarter, starting in the fall, and to invest in Kickstarter's FilmStream Collective Fund (Charles Pulliam-Moore/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/684374/tubi-kickstarter-initiative

Kickstarter-funded films are coming to Tubi
Tubi and Kickstarter are partnering to bring a selection of crowdfunded movies to the upstart streamer.

📢 The 2025 GÉANT Innovation Programme has been awarded to the GÉANT Digital Research Environment (DRE) initiative!
Based on the @… Research Cloud, the initiative is a close collaboration between SURF & GÉANT.
Four NRENs —SUNET, Switch, HEAnet & Sikt — will also contribute with their own funding by establishing national tenancies of the GÉANT DRE.

GÉANT Innovation Programme awards its 2025 edition to Digital Research Environment (DRE) initiative | GÉANT CONNECT Online
The GÉANT Innovation Programme is excited to announce the award of its entire 2025 fund to the development of a GÉANT Digital Research Environment (DRE) and of a series of related Proof of Concepts. Based on the SURF Research Cloud, this digital platform will allow researchers and research organisations within NREN communities to build virtual

Looking forward to speaking at @… again – and especially with such an awesome group of people! 💙
https://events.drupal.org/…

Status and Goals of the Drupal Open University Initiative | Drupal Events
DrupalCon unites experts from around the globe who create ambitious digital experiences. Network, learn, and be inspired.

Sources: OpenAI will rent additional computing power from Oracle, totaling about 4.5 gigawatts of US data center power, as part of its Stargate initiative (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Wow, they're cancelling that Perfect Dark reboot? It looked so good, though?
https://kotaku.com/xbox-reportedly-cancels-that-cool-looking-perfect-dark-1851785531

Xbox Reportedly Cancels That Cool-Looking Perfect Dark Reboot
Perfect Dark studio The Initiative has also been shut down as part of ongoing layoffs at Microsoft

Las Vegas Raiders celebrate success of 5th annual INSPIRE event held at Intermountain Health Performance Center, presented by Allegiant https://www.raiders.com/news/las-vegas-rai

In #Ostfildern kann man jetzt kostenlos zwei Lastenräder ausleihen, eine richtig gute Initiative des #adfc
Buchung: https://lastenrad-ostfild…

Lastenrad Ostfildern
Mit dem Freien Lastenrad Ostfildern (FLO) möchte der ADFC Ostfildern Interessierten ein Lastenrad für nachhaltige Transportaufgaben ausleihen.

Strengthening Cybersecurity Resilience in Agriculture Through Educational Interventions: A Case Study of the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska
George Grispos, Logan Mears, Larry Loucks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23800

Strengthening Cybersecurity Resilience in Agriculture Through Educational Interventions: A Case Study of the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska
The increasing digitization of agricultural operations has introduced new cybersecurity challenges for the farming community. This paper introduces an educational intervention called Cybersecurity Improvement Initiative for Agriculture (CIIA), which aims to strengthen cybersecurity awareness and resilience among farmers and food producers. Using a case study that focuses on farmers from the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska, the research evaluates pre- and post- intervention survey data to assess partici…

Germany seeks deeper partnership with Israel on cybersecurity https://therecord.media/germany-israel-deepen-cyber-cooperation

Beyond the LUMIR challenge: The pathway to foundational registration models
Junyu Chen, Shuwen Wei, Joel Honkamaa, Pekka Marttinen, Hang Zhang, Min Liu, Yichao Zhou, Zuopeng Tan, Zhuoyuan Wang, Yi Wang, Hongchao Zhou, Shunbo Hu, Yi Zhang, Qian Tao, Lukas F\"orner, Thomas Wendler, Bailiang Jian, Benedikt Wiestler, Tim Hable, Jin Kim, Dan Ruan, Frederic Madesta, Thilo Sentker, Wiebke Heyer, Lianrui Zuo, Yuwei Dai, Jing Wu, Jerry L. Prince, Harrison Bai, Yong Du, Yihao Liu, Alessa He…

Beyond the LUMIR challenge: The pathway to foundational registration models
Medical image challenges have played a transformative role in advancing the field, catalyzing algorithmic innovation and establishing new performance standards across diverse clinical applications. Image registration, a foundational task in neuroimaging pipelines, has similarly benefited from the Learn2Reg initiative. Building on this foundation, we introduce the Large-scale Unsupervised Brain MRI Image Registration (LUMIR) challenge, a next-generation benchmark designed to assess and advance u…

Es wäre ein Schaden für die Demokratie, wenn eine Verwaltung rechtswidrige Verfahren zuließe. Aber ist es nicht ein größerer Schaden, wenn staatliche Verwaltung mit parteipolitischer Führung rechtmäßige Verfahren versuchen durch vorgeschobene Bedenken zu verhindern, statt dem Volk zu seinem Recht zu verhelfe?
Dann muss man sich fragen, wem der Staat dient: willkürlichen Parteiinteressen oder dem Willen des Volkes?
Volksbegehren

Berlin autofrei: Volksbegehren für autofreies Berlin im S-Bahn-Ring zugelassen
Kaum noch Autos in der Berliner Innenstadt – das ist die Vision von "Berlin autofrei". Ein Gerichtsbeschluss bringt die Initiative ihrem Ziel einen Schritt näher.

Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, and Ping Identity quietly ended the Critical Infrastructure Defense Project, a program that offered free services to vulnerable critical infrastructure sectors and was first launched in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
https://www.

Cyber firms sunset free services meant to counter Russia-linked hacking threats
The 2022 initiative by Cloudflare, CrowdStrike and Ping Identity provided cybersecurity support to critical infrastructure sectors seen as potential targets of Russia-linked attacks.

Partially-shared Imaging Regression on Integrating Heterogeneous Brain-Cognition Associations across Alzheimer's Diagnoses
Yang Sui, Qi Xu, Ting Li, Yang Bai, Annie Qu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24259

Partially-shared Imaging Regression on Integrating Heterogeneous Brain-Cognition Associations across Alzheimer's Diagnoses
This paper is motivated by the heterogeneous associations among demographic covariates, imaging data, and cognitive performances across different diagnostic groups within the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) study. We propose a novel PArtially-shared Imaging Regression (PAIR) model with smooth spatial component integration to capture heterogeneous imaging coefficients across multiple data sources. The model assumes that each imaging coefficient can be represented as a weighted…

Temporally Extending Existing Web Archive Collections for Longitudinal Analysis
Lesley Frew, Michael L. Nelson, Michele C. Weigle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24091

Temporally Extending Existing Web Archive Collections for Longitudinal Analysis
The Environmental Governance and Data Initiative (EDGI) regularly crawled US federal environmental websites between 2016 and 2020 to capture changes between two presidential administrations. However, because it does not include the previous administration ending in 2008, the collection is unsuitable for answering our research question, Were the website terms deleted by the Trump administration (2017--2021) added by the Obama administration (2009--2017)? Thus, like many researchers using the Way…

Many of us in the west believe they live in a democratic society. But do we, really?
Fifteen years ago, I "discovered" Democratic Education and Sociocracy: A truly empowering way of education and a democratic system that is much more democratic than the popular "majority of votes" version. So, I took the initiative, together with Jaqcueline van Ewijk and Suzanne Thissen to start doe040, a democratic school based on sociocracy.
Anyway, only recently, I discov…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00212 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csMA_…

Which Agent Causes Task Failures and When? On Automated Failure Attribution of LLM Multi-Agent Systems
Failure attribution in LLM multi-agent systems-identifying the agent and step responsible for task failures-provides crucial clues for systems debugging but remains underexplored and labor-intensive. In this paper, we propose and formulate a new research area: automated failure attribution for LLM multi-agent systems. To support this initiative, we introduce the Who&When dataset, comprising extensive failure logs from 127 LLM multi-agent systems with fine-grained annotations linking failures to…

Erholung für alle https://weddingweiser.de/erholung-fuer-alle-1/

Zur Geschichte des Volksparks Rehberge: Erholung für alle
Im Rahmen einer Freiluftausstellung zeigt die Initiative Parkcafé Rehberge die beeindruckenden Transformationen des Gebiets sowie …

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The broligarchs are loving this idea...
#privacy #surveillance

Health Secretary Wants Every American To Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years - Slashdot
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a major federal campaign to promote wearable health tech, aiming for every American to adopt a device within four years as part of a broader effort to "Make America Healthy Again." Gizmodo reports: RFK Jr. announced the initiative ...

Brazil is piloting dWallet, a digital wallet program that allows users to monetize their data, the first nationwide initiative of its kind in the world (Gabriel Daros/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/brazil-dwallet-user-data-pilot/

In a world first, Brazilians will soon be able to sell their digital data
Brazil is piloting dWallet, that lets citizens earn money from their data, but experts warn it could deepen inequality.

Gov. Jeff Landry’s signature private education initiative left out of Louisiana budget • Louisiana Illuminator
https://lailluminator.com/2025/06/12/gov-jeff-landrys-signature-private-education-voucher-initiative-left-out-of-louisiana-budget/

I'd be interested in how well "hand over all the data or be fired" will work in a country without a presidential override for legislation.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/02/reform-uk-to-pilot-doge-…

Las Vegas Raiders celebrate success of 5th annual INSPIRE event held at Intermountain Health Performance Center, presented by Allegiant https://www.raiders.com/news/las-vegas-rai

Bridding OT and PaaS in Edge-to-Cloud Continuum
Carlos J Barrios (LIG, UIS, CITI), Yves Denneulin (LIG, Grenoble INP)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21072 http…

Bridding OT and PaaS in Edge-to-Cloud Continuum
The Operational Technology Platform as a Service (OTPaaS) initiative provides a structured framework for the efficient management and storage of data. It ensures excellent response times while improving security, reliability, data and technology sovereignty, robustness, and energy efficiency, which are crucial for industrial transformation and data sovereignty. This paper illustrates successful deployment, adaptable application management, and various integration components catering to Edge and…

This is a great initiative. Please check the GitHub link on the attached post if you use Linux on Tablet PC.
From: @…
https://floss.social/@kde/114745104649286…

The rise of China, along with regional powers such as Turkey, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia, has disrupted the unipolar dominance of the U.S.
These would-be regional hegemons bring with them their own means of imposing influence through economic incentives and coercion.
In China’s case, infrastructure and trade development through the Belt and Road Initiative is counterbalanced with shows of military strength in the South China Sea.
As the global order becomes increasingly fragm…

Are hegemonies a relic of the past? The role of coercion and consent in global domination
From Athens to the British Empire and on to the US – dominant powers have used might and consent to exert influence.

Amazon Ads and Roku sign a new ad initiative to give media buyers access to 80% of US connected-TV households, set to launch by Q4 2025, using Amazon's DSP (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/amazon-ads-roku-set…

Amazon Ads & Roku Set Landmark Pact Giving Brands Access To 80% Of Connected-TV Households
Amazon Ads and Roku are teaming on a landmark initiative that will give advertisers access to more than 80% of connected-TV households in the U.S.

ALIA in partnership with the Office of Community Cohesion is looking to work with public libraries across the country on an exciting new community engagement initiative. Participating libraries will receive a payment of $9,900 incl GST in order to host a range of programs that strengthen, grow, and protect community cohesion in diverse ways.
Information session on Wednesday 25 June, 12:30pm AEST. This is your opportunity to find out more and ask questions before putting in your expres…

Kostenlose EU-App zeigt offene WLAN-Netze an
https://stohl.de/wordpress/?p=191162

Kostenlose EU-App zeigt offene WLAN-Netze an
Um kostenloses WLAN für alle Bürger der EU zugänglich zu machen, hat die Europäische Kommission vor einiger Zeit eine Initiative gestartet: Kostenloses WLAN finden: EU-App zeigt über 100.000 Hotspo…

I would like to see an initiative that evaluates messaging services that promise encryption and document the findings. For example, a service may claim that emails are encrypted and secure. However, if the secret keys are managed on infrastructure controlled by the service without further protection, there are limitations, and I wouldn't call it end-to-end encryption. I think it would be useful to have a neutral web page where users could lookup the security levels of services (or apps).…

Wero: Luxemburg stößt hinzu
„Ab Juni 2026 können Kunden von Spuerkeess, BIL, POST Luxembourg, Raiffeisen und BGL BNP Paribas die digitale Wallet Wero nutzen.“
„Zu erwähnen ist auch die geplante Integration von Payconiq, das 2023 von EPI übernommen wurde. Die Umstellung soll schrittweise erfolgen, wobei Payconiq voraussichtlich bis September 2026 vollständig durch Wero ersetzt wird.“
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Enabling Syscall Intercept for RISC-V
Petar Andri\'c, Aaron Call, Ramon Nou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10217 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Enabling Syscall Intercept for RISC-V
The European Union technological sovereignty strategy centers around the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture, with the European Processor Initiative leading efforts to build production-ready processors. Focusing on realizing a functional RISC-V ecosystem, the BZL initiative (www.bzl.es) is making an effort to create a software stack along with the hardware. In this work, we detail the efforts made in porting a widely used syscall interception library, mainly used on AdHocFS (i.e., DAOS, GekkoFS…

Luxembourg #publication 20.5.2025
L'initiative stratégique "Accélérer la Souveraineté Numérique 2030"
• La stratégie du Luxembourg en matière d'intelligence artificielle
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Amazon Ads and Roku sign a new ad initiative to give media buyers access to 80% of US connected-TV households, set to launch by Q4 2025, using Amazon's DSP (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/amazon-ads-roku-set…

Amazon Ads & Roku Set Landmark Pact Giving Brands Access To 80% Of Connected-TV Households
Amazon Ads and Roku are teaming on a landmark initiative that will give advertisers access to more than 80% of connected-TV households in the U.S.

The Journey of CodeLab: How University Hackathons Built a Community of Engaged Students
Renato Cordeiro Ferreira (University of S\~ao Paulo), Renata Santos Miranda (University of S\~ao Paulo), Alfredo Goldman (University of S\~ao Paulo)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12840

The Journey of CodeLab: How University Hackathons Built a Community of Engaged Students
This paper presents the journey of CodeLab: a student-organized initiative from the University of São Paulo that has grown thanks to university hackathons. It summarizes patterns, challenges, and lessons learned over 15 competitions organized by the group from 2015 to 2020. By describing these experiences, this report aims to help CodeLab to resume its events after the COVID-19 pandemic, and foster similar initiatives around the world.

The Guardian expects AI licensing to account for roughly 40% of its licensing revenue for the current financial year (Paula Felps/International News Media Association)
https://www.inma.org/blogs/product-initiative/post.cfm/…

How The Guardian is taking charge of AI licensings
During a recent INMA Webinar, Robert Hahn, director of business affairs and licensing at The Guardian, explained how the company has taken a proactive deal-making position to ensure it has control over its future and how the content is used in the AI era.

Seems a part of what @… warns of...
SLASHDOT: Silicon Valley Execs Join the Army As Officers
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/

Silicon Valley Execs Join the Army As Officers - Slashdot
The U.S. Army Reserve has directly commissioned four top Silicon Valley executives as lieutenant colonels under a new initiative, Detachment 201, aimed at accelerating tech integration into military operations. While these part-time roles are intended to bring private-sector innovation to defense mo...

There's a lot of pressurefor businesses to get ahead with AI.
And I imagine at many companies
there's a sense that if you don't keep up, you're leaving innovation on the table.
At the same time, there's a gap between the excitement around AI and understanding what it means for each role.
CarGurus started an internal initiative "AI Forward" to meet business units and function where they are.
The group works together to evaluate u…

How CarGurus's new working group helps employees experiment with AI
The online marketplace for cars is helping its employees adopt and explore new tech with AI Forward, a working group designed to lead AI adoption.

SPD-Linke fordern Annährung an Russland
Kurz vor dem Parteitag haben SPD-Linke eine neue Sicherheits- und Außenpolitik einschließlich einer Annäherung an Russland verlangt. "Schrittweise Rückkehr zur Entspannung der Beziehungen und einer Zusammenarbeit mit Russland...", heißt es dem als "Manifest" bezeichnetem Dokument. Das Töten und Sterben in der Ukraine müsse möglichst schnell beendet werden. Zud…
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SPD-Initiative fordert Friedenspolitik statt Aufrüstung
In einem Brief fordern mehr als 100 SPD-nahe Personen um Ex-Fraktionschef Mützenich einen Kurswechsel in der Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik und Gespräche mit Russland. Das Schreiben könnte für Unruhe in der Koalition sorgen.

WEBCAST JUN 12 - Atlantic Council - Why the UN’s Internet Governance Forum still matters twenty years on
#IGF2025
https://isoc.live/19443

Enteignen? Wohnungskonzerne? 200.000 Wohnungen? Das ist doch ein Tabu!
Doch die Chancen stehen nicht schlecht! Denn die Artikel 14 und 15 des Grundgesetzes erlauben ausdrücklich Enteignungen und Überführungen in Gemeineigentum im Sinne des Gemeinwohls - natürlich gegen Zahlung einer angemessenen Entschädigung.

Wohnungskonzerne enteignen: Darf man das?
Die Berliner können ab heute für einen Volksentscheid unterschreiben, mit dem die Vergesellschaftung von mehr als 200.000 Wohnungen angestrebt wird. Die Chancen für die Initiative stehen recht gut.

Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, and Ping Identity end a 2022 project offering free cybersecurity tools to critical infrastructure sectors at risk from Russian attacks (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/…

Cyber firms sunset free services meant to counter Russia-linked hacking threats
The 2022 initiative by Cloudflare, CrowdStrike and Ping Identity provided cybersecurity support to critical infrastructure sectors seen as potential targets of Russia-linked attacks.

Federal health officials are seeking to launch a “bold, edgy” public service campaign to warn Americans of the dangers of ultra-processed foods in social media, transit ads, billboards and even text messages.
-- And they potentially stand to profit off the results.
Calley Means, a key adviser to Bobby Kennedy, could directly benefit from one of the campaign’s stated aims:
popularizing “technology like wearables as cool, modern tools for measuring diet impact and taking contr…

Parkcafé Rehberge: Baubeginn schon 2025? https://weddingweiser.de/parkcafe-rehberge-baubeginn-schon-2025/

„Den Schlüssel haben wir immer gehabt“: Parkcafé Rehberge: Baubeginn schon 2025?
Seit mehr als vier Jahren setzt sich die Initiative Parkcafé Rehberge nun schon für …

Bericht: Viele G7-Staaten wollen Ölpreis-Obergrenze kappen
Die meisten G7-Staaten sind offenbar bereit, auch ohne die USA die Preisobergrenze für russisches Öl auf 45 Dollar pro Barrel zu senken. Das berichtet die Nachrichtenagentur Reuters unter Berufung auf vier mit der Angelegenheit vertraute Insider. Es gebe eine entsprechende Initiative der europäischen Länder sowie positive Signale aus Kanada, Großbritannien und möglich…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Pistorius verspricht weitere Militärhilfen ++
Bundesverteidigungsminister Pistorius hat der Ukraine weitere Militärhilfen in Milliardenhöhe in Aussicht gestellt. Die Europäer versprechen bei einem Außenministertreffen in Rom, den Druck auf Russland zu erhöhen.

Introducing FAIR: A federated approach to strengthen the WordPress ecosystem;
A new community-led initiative to extend WordPress distribution beyond a single point of control. @…

Introducing FAIR: A federated approach to strengthen the WordPress ecosystem | We Love Open Source - All Things Open
Last week, at AltCtrl.org, a community gathering focused on the open web, a large group of contributors from the WordPress Ecosystem introduced FAIR, a new federated approach to plugin and... Read More

Parkcafé Rehberge: Baubeginn schon 2025? https://weddingweiser.de/parkcafe-rehberge-baubeginn-schon-2025/

„Den Schlüssel haben wir immer gehabt“: Parkcafé Rehberge: Baubeginn schon 2025?
Seit mehr als vier Jahren setzt sich die Initiative Parkcafé Rehberge nun schon für …

#Facebook front office grabbed great publicity from its bold #billion dollar public #pledge to help solve the #BayArea

Here’s where the money Meta spent on its $1 billion pledge for affordable housing has gone
Executives at Facebook’s parent company in 2022 stopped committing funding to the initiative, slowing progress.

Klimafonds-Initiative: Nationalrat will lieber erst nach Bergstürzen zahlen. https://download-media.srf.ch/world/audio/Echo_der_Zeit_radio/2025/06/Echo_der_Zeit_radio_AUDI20250618_RS_0064_db1e2ae5adbb4c53a038853b2b4cd29a.mp3?d=ap&assetId=4b91d528-afac-3c6e-a89a-f09a5cc680f3

Trump von Russland und Ukraine "enttäuscht"
US-Präsident Donald Trump hat angesichts stagnierender Verhandlungen zwischen Moskau und Kiew Frustration geäußert. "Ich bin sehr enttäuscht von Russland, aber ich bin auch von der Ukraine enttäuscht", sagte er. Seiner Ansicht nach wäre eine Einigung zwischen beiden Ländern bereits möglich gewesen.
Trotz einer Initiative des US-Präsidenten sind alle Bemühungen um eine Waffenruhe ge…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Trump kritisiert Moskau und Kiew ++
US-Präsident Trump äußert sich wegen der bisher weitgehend erfolglosen Verhandlungen enttäuscht von Russland und der Ukraine. Verteidigungsminister Pistorius stellt der Ukraine weitere Militärhilfen in Milliardenhöhe in Aussicht.

Einordnung gfs Bern zu AKW: Wenn in einer so frühen Phase die Stimmabsichten zur Blackout-Initiative so tief sind (46:48), dann können wir getrost einer Ablehnung entgegensehen. Der « neue AKW-Trend » ist ein von Lobbyisten getriebener Medienhype. https://cockpit.gfsbern.ch/de/cockpit/versorgungssicherheit-2025-2/