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Polymarket is auditing its Builders Program, which gives up to $2.5M in grants, after concerns that some participating startups are facilitating insider trading (Michael Roddan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/polym…

Polymarket Reverses Course on Startups That Piggyback on Insider Trades
Polymarket was already under pressure to curb insider trading when it launched a program late last year to support startups that sent trades to its prediction market. Those companies quickly began handing suspected insider trading accounts to their own customers, letting them copy those trades. ...

You don’t need to read Project Censored’s latest State of the Free Press report to know that the state of the free press in America is not good (but, obviously, you should still read the report). 
And it’s not just President Trump, his administration, and the MAGA faithful repeatedly, publicly expressing their hatred and verbalizing threats towards journalists and media organizations that don’t tow the Supreme Leader’s line.
It’s not just Trump and his cabinet bullying and berat…

The war on our sight
"This is a class war happening on two fronts: A war in reality, and a war on reality and our capacity to perceive it. And it’s high time we all start seeing and responding to all of this in the terms of a war that we are not just reporting on but on the frontlines of."

"At a top-level meeting of her 26 department chiefs in March, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen quietly approved a plan to stop EU funds from going to clean technology projects containing Chinese inverters."
https://www.

Exclusive | EU to cut funding for Chinese inverters amid change of tack towards Beijing
Without fanfare, Brussels will stop funding for projects that use the Chinese-made devices as part of a ‘do more, say less’ strategy.

"Almost two thirds of all the energy we dig up is wasted before it does a single thing of value, a loss RMI puts at more than $4.6 trillion a year, or roughly $600 for every person on Earth.”
#FossilFuels https://cleantechnica.com/2026/06/13/clean-energy-investments-surge-but-that-is-only-part-of-the-story/

Week in wildlife: an ostrich on the lam, a tortoise crossing a road and surfing seals
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2026/apr/10/week-in-wildlife-an-ostric…

Heute dann doch mal wieder trotz viel Trubel rundherum zu mehr als nur ins Büro radeln #rausgeschafft: Erst zum Apèro zum 40-jährigen Bestehen vom #Velofix und danach trotz anfangs etwas Nieselregen noch 'ne 40km #Radtour

Don Lemon's Lemon Media Network is expanding its newsroom and operations teams after surpassing 10M followers, with half of its growth in the past year alone (Stephanie Kaloi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/…

Don Lemon Expands Independent Media Company's Newsroom and Operations Teams
Don Lemon announced Sunday that his independent media company Lemon Media Network (LMN) is expanding its newsroom and operations teams. According to a release from LMN, the network has amassed more than 10 million subscribers across YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Substack, Facebook, Twitch, Threads and Bluesky, with half of the growth occurring in the last year.

Lately I've been thinking about how #Gentoo is perceived by people. So often they're stuck in the "ricer" mindset: Gentoo is being built from source, so it must be ZOMG fast. And if it isn't, then what's the point?
If I were to make four points for Gentoo (to stop myself from making more), they would be:
1. Gentoo is independent.
There is no company behind Gentoo. There is no business plan. It's made and maintained by volunteers. Driven by passion and not profit incentive. And we want to keep it that way.
2. Gentoo aims to be secure.
We are maintaining our own infrastructure to reduce the risk of being hijacked. We're securing our distribution channels and mirrors using OpenPGP. We're only using Codeberg (which we really appreciate) and GitHub as mirrors (with OpenPGP commit signatures) and contribution channels. We have a dedicated security team, who works with the developers to keep packages free of vulnerabilities and our users informed.
3. Gentoo is made by humans.
We banned LLM contributions two years ago, and never regretted it. We didn't "wait and see", we took decisive action, and if we got left behind, it's only for the better. Unfortunately, in today's LLM-ridden world we can't stop slop software from being packaged in Gentoo without sacrificing our commitment to keep packages up to date, but we try to keep the worst offenders (like copywashed chardet) at bay.
4. Gentoo supports sustainability.
This may sound ironic when so many of us build everything from source, but we're actually trying to make computing sustainable. Gentoo's source-first nature makes it inherently flexible. We try our best to support a plethora of older and less common hardware. We go against the flow and still try to provide a workable system on hardware that is not supported by Rust or V8. And on top of that, we do our best to provide binary packages for a variety of configurations.
Of course, that's not all. I want Gentoo to be reliable and stable, to be oriented towards privacy by default, to be welcome and respectful.
And all these things ultimately depend on people working on Gentoo, and contributing to Gentoo. We always need more people that share these principles and want to help us achieve them.
What do you appreciate in Gentoo?

War started: line goes up. War on pause: line goes up. War resumes: line goes up. Oil prices rise: line goes up. "Peace" talks: line goes up. Talks break down, more bombing: line goes up. Thermonuclear war threats: line goes up. Ceasefire summit: line goes up. Ceasefire starts: line goes up. Ceasefire actually completely made up by the US: line goes up. Bombings continue: line goes up.
Rational markets, baby!

Towards Fine-Grained Multi-Dimensional Speech Understanding: Data Pipeline, Benchmark, and Model
Guojian Li, Zhixian Zhao, Zhennan Lin, Jingbin Hu, Qirui Zhan, Yuang Cao, Pengyuan Xie, Chuan Xie, Jie Liu, Qiang Zhang, Zhonghua Fu, Lei Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12036 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.12036 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.12036
arXiv:2605.12036v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: While speech Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at conventional tasks like basic speech recognition, they lack fine-grained, multi-dimensional perception. This deficiency is evident in their struggle to disentangle complex features like micro-acoustic cues, acoustic scenes, and paralinguistic signals. This resulting incomplete comprehension of real-world speech fundamentally bottlenecks the development of perceptive and empathetic next-generation speech systems. At its core, this persistent perceptual limitation primarily stems from three interacting factors: scarce high-quality expressive data, absent fine-grained modeling for multi-dimensional attributes, and reliance on restricted coverage, coarse-grained benchmarks. We address these challenges through three pillars: First, our robust data curation pipeline resolves complex acoustic environments and long-audio timestamp alignment challenges to extract a high-quality spontaneous speech corpus from audiovisual sources. Second, we construct FMSU-Bench, a pioneering benchmark covering 14 speech attribute dimensions to rigorously assess the fine-grained, multi-dimensional speech understanding capabilities of current models. Third, empowered by our curated corpus, we introduce FM-Speech. Driven by a decoupled attribute modeling and progressive curriculum fine-tuning framework, it substantially elevates fine-grained, multi-dimensional acoustic perception. Extensive evaluations on FMSU-Bench reveal that current speech LLMs still require significant improvement in multi-dimensional, fine-grained understanding. In contrast, FM-Speech substantially outperforms current open-source models, establishing a robust paradigm for real-world speech understanding.
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