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A New Hybrid Model of Generative Adversarial Network and You Only Look Once Algorithm for Automatic License-Plate Recognition
Behnoud Shafiezadeh, Amir Mashmool, Farshad Eshghi, Manoochehr Kelarestaghi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06868

A New Hybrid Model of Generative Adversarial Network and You Only Look Once Algorithm for Automatic License-Plate Recognition
Automatic License-Plate Recognition (ALPR) plays a pivotal role in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) as a fundamental element of Smart Cities. However, due to its high variability, ALPR faces challenging issues more efficiently addressed by deep learning techniques. In this paper, a selective Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) is proposed for deblurring in the preprocessing step, coupled with the state-of-the-art You-Only-Look-Once (YOLO)v5 object detection architectures for License-Pl…

ICE Arrest Illegal Alien Driving an 18-Wheeler with New York Commerical Driver's License Issued to "No Name" (Department of Homeland Security)
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/10/10/ice-arrest-illegal-alien-driving-18-wheeler-new-york-commerical-drivers-license
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p133#a251010p133

Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, Quora, People, O'Reilly, wikiHow, Ziff Davis, and others adopt the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) Standard to set terms for AI scraping (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/775072/rsl-standard-licensing-ai…

The web has a new system for making AI companies pay up
A new licensing standard, called the RSL Standard, aims to allow AI companies to license content from across the web. Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and others are already on board.

VRAE: Vertical Residual Autoencoder for License Plate Denoising and Deblurring
Cuong Nguyen, Dung T. Tran, Hong Nguyen, Xuan-Vu Phan, Nam-Phong Nguyen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08392

VRAE: Vertical Residual Autoencoder for License Plate Denoising and Deblurring
In real-world traffic surveillance, vehicle images captured under adverse weather, poor lighting, or high-speed motion often suffer from severe noise and blur. Such degradations significantly reduce the accuracy of license plate recognition systems, especially when the plate occupies only a small region within the full vehicle image. Restoring these degraded images a fast realtime manner is thus a crucial pre-processing step to enhance recognition performance. In this work, we propose a Vertica…

Swedish music rights organization STIM launches a license that lets AI companies train models on copyrighted works while paying royalties to creators (Stine Jacobsen/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/sweden…

Police searched national network of automatic license plate reading cameras in abortion investigation https://therecord.media/police-searched-license-reading-cameras-abortion-investigation

I’m amazed that the FOSM site is still alive.
#OpenStreetMap and was created by folks who didn’t want OSM to switch to ODbL away from CC BY-SA back in 2012. If y…

Interesting question on road.cc: is there a bit of road that you just hate #cycling on?
For me, a short stretch of southbound Mearns Rd at Mearns Kirk. Slight rise, poor surface, from Eaglesham Rd to the roundabout:
https://www.…

OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

@… *If* scrapers would actually follow the spec, I’m somewhat for it. It *does* allow for you to insert a custom license that says “No scraping, under any circumstances”.
But would any scraper actually follow it? Of course not.

Matrix-Driven Instant Review: Confident Detection and Reconstruction of LLM Plagiarism on PC
Ruichong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06309 https://arxiv.…

Matrix-Driven Instant Review: Confident Detection and Reconstruction of LLM Plagiarism on PC
In recent years, concerns about intellectual property (IP) in large language models (LLMs) have grown significantly. Plagiarizing other LLMs (through direct weight copying, upcycling, pruning, or continual pretraining) and claiming authorship without properly attributing to the original license, is a serious misconduct that can lead to significant financial and reputational harm to the original developers. However, existing methods for detecting LLM plagiarism fall short in key areas. They fail…

Donald Trump believes he has a license to kill - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/04/donald-trump-believes-he-has-a-license-to-kill/

Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, Quora, People, O'Reilly, wikiHow, Ziff Davis, and others adopt the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) Standard to set terms for AI scraping (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/775072/rsl-standard-licensing-ai…

The web has a new system for making AI companies pay up
A new licensing standard, called the RSL Standard, aims to allow AI companies to license content from across the web. Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and others are already on board.

I have a question about the following:
Space-X satellites are relatively low orbit - they go around the world, their radio/signal footprint on the ground goes around the world with them.
So how does a single country, the US, issue "license" for radio spectrum that apply outside of the US geographic borders?
"SpaceX buys wireless spectrum from EchoStar in $17 billion deal"

The Human Only Public License: #genAI

The Human Only Public License
A copyleft software license that restricts AI usage

Flock Surveillance
refers to the camera and data systems developed by Flock Safety,
-- a private technology company that provides automated license plate recognition  and
vehicle-tracking networks to
police departments, homeowners’ associations, and private businesses across the U.S.
🔥This system enables mass tracking of drivers and data sharing across police and private networks
without sufficient oversight,
raising serious concerns about privacy, …

What is FLOCK surveillance w/ EFF's Sarah Hamid; Oakland Police Commission w/ Ricardo Garcia Acosta and Omar Farmer | KPFA
Flock Surveillance refers to the camera and data systems developed by Flock Safety, a private technology company that provides automated license plate recognition  and vehicle-tracking networks to police departments, homeowners’ associations, and private businesses across the U.S. This system enables mass tracking of drivers and data sharing across police and private networks without sufficient oversight, … Continued

Super scheiss Software, welche ihre Scheiss-Lizenzserver hinter einem Scheiss-Cloudflare verstecken muss, so dass man seinen Servern eigentlich das ganze Scheiss-Internet öffnen muss.
Scheiss-Sicherheit. 🤬
Ich glaube, ich gehe heute besser nicht ein Bier trinken mit Kollegen, da gute Laune… 🙄

Wie muss man eigentlich bei #OSM Drängelgitter/Umlaufsperren taggen, die so eng sind, dass sie mit Lastenrad nicht passierbar sind bzw. wo man das Rad drüber tragen muss?
Ich frage für https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3860400

Node: 386040073
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

Zenbo Patrol: A Social Assistive Robot Based on Multimodal Deep Learning for Real-time Illegal Parking Recognition and Notification
Jian-jie Zheng, Chih-kai Yang, Po-han Chen, Lyn Chao-ling Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04190

Zenbo Patrol: A Social Assistive Robot Based on Multimodal Deep Learning for Real-time Illegal Parking Recognition and Notification
In the study, the social robot act as a patrol to recognize and notify illegal parking in real-time. Dual-model pipeline method and large multimodal model were compared, and the GPT-4o multimodal model was adopted in license plate recognition without preprocessing. For moving smoothly on a flat ground, the robot navigated in a simulated parking lot in the experiments. The robot changes angle view of the camera automatically to capture the images around with the format of license plate number. F…

Indonesia restores TikTok's local operating license after the company provided government-requested user activity data for August 25-30, when protests happened (Prima Wirayani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Public repo with text of a "Read Only License" and nothing else in the repo. So, can anyone else use that license text in their project? 🤔
(No license info -> no license grant, including no downloading, but would it kill to include a LICENSE.md?)
#technology #licenses #conundrum

DHS Wants States to Hand Over Driver's License Data for Citizenship Checks (Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-wants-states-to-hand-over-drivers-license-data-for-citizenship-checks
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p112#a251103p112

I'm sad so it's mostly cranking for me lately.

Woman Wrongfully Accused by a License Plate-Reading Camera - Then Exonerated By Camera-Equipped Car - Slashdot
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/11/01/2359245/woman-wrongfully-accused-by-a-license-plate-reading-camera---then-exonerated-by-camera-equipped-car?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Where do people publish images such that they are citable, FAIR and browsable?
I‘d like to publish my drawings under a CC-BY license for reuse but I am struggling finding a good place for that.
#FAIRprinciples

🎰 Do you have a license for that robot bookie?
#gambling

Earlier this year, DHS added millions of Americans’ Social Security data to the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, system,
allowing officials to use the tool to conduct bulk searches of voter rolls for the first time.
According to the document filed Thursday, SAVE also recently expanded to include passport and visa information.
Incorporating driver’s license information would allow election officials whose rolls don’t include voters’ Social Security …

DHS Wants States to Hand Over Driver’s License Data for Citizenship Checks
It’s the latest step in an unprecedented initiative to pool confidential data that the Trump administration claims will help identify noncitizens on voter rolls and tighten immigration enforcement.

One of the rare examples where #Microsoft actually created a software itself (instead of buying some 3rd party tool embracing it) was published as open source (MIT license): https://github.com/microsoft/BASIC-M65

Sources: the US is proposing annual approvals for exports of chipmaking supplies to Samsung and SK Hynix factories in China as part of a "site license" idea (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

CodeGenLink: A Tool to Find the Likely Origin and License of Automatically Generated Code
Daniele Bifolco, Guido Annicchiarico, Pierluigi Barbiero, Massimiliano Di Penta, Fiorella Zampetti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01077

CodeGenLink: A Tool to Find the Likely Origin and License of Automatically Generated Code
Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely used in software development tasks nowadays. Unlike reusing code taken from the Web, for LLMs' generated code, developers are concerned about its lack of trustworthiness and possible copyright or licensing violations, due to the lack of code provenance information. This paper proposes CodeGenLink, a GitHub CoPilot extension for Visual Studio Code aimed at (i) suggesting links containing code very similar to automatically generated code, and (ii) whenever …

TIL about the Octobass as a result of my random YouTube-live-music feed stumbling into a performance of Gounod’s “Messe Solonelle” which is pretty good and, well, has an octobass in the orchestra.
#music

"The Free Software Foundation has been sliding into irrelevance more and more by entirely failing to address its big Creepy Uncle problem. Open-Source has turned into a form of unpaid internship to be hired to make shitty apps that bring more surveillance and ads to our world."
https://aria.dog/barks/forklift…

Introducing the Forklift Certified License—Aria’s Barks
It's not following the OSI definition of open-source because i don't give a damn how capital defines its needs.

If you think the fact it's "digital" will stop me burning my ID card in protest then you can think again!
Phones burn up nicely if you get them right.
They recently decided that company directors have to prove their digital ID. My company turnover is like 500 quid but I'm still a director of it.
So I had to prove my digital ID.
To do this, I had to take my driving license to a post office.
Which means it's no more secure than the driving license I already had, surely?
Wonder if I can sell a digital ID on the black market and then keep getting a new one.
#digitalID #ukpol #creepingAuthoritarianism

#jazz #music

ⓘ This user watches TV in the UK without a license 📺

UK filings: Revolut CEO and largest shareholder Nik Storonsky has shifted his residency from the UK to the UAE; Revolut is awaiting a full UK banking license (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/54348782-abc4-4345-a939-f8606103109e

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
In the spirit of the season, Let's play!
#FactCheckAShowOrFilm

minimizing the literal nazi talk from a potential key Trump person… again.
I don't think the American media will ever learn. The day they 'resist' as they are taken off the air by the fully authoritarian regime they'll probably say something like:
"today, in a controversial act, the administration declared that this news channel broadcast license has been changed. The new license will only allow reruns of the Presidents past speeches to play 24/7. After an immediate stay was requested by this station, the Supreme Court has ruled the change to be lawful. Goodnight America.”
#trump #TheAmericanFascist
https://flipboard.com/@npr/politics-v8m4p3ukz/-/a-L0fqOCw2R9S7wUBllP74TQ:a:3195441-/0

President sundowning-at-1-pm was asked for his license plate to vote?
Did he mean a valet in 1993 asked for his plate? Because no American politcal election in almost 250 years has asked anyone for their license plate.
#USpol

California AG sues city for allowing out-of-state searches of license plate reader database https://therecord.media/california-lawsuit-el-cajon-police-out-of-state-searches-flock-database

The Hippocratic License was just brought to my attention: #opensource #ethics

DHS Plans to Collect State Driver’s License Data for Citizenship Checks — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/dhs-citizenship-checks-drivers-license-data

Sources: Netflix is in talks to license video podcasts from iHeartMedia and is seeking exclusivity, meaning full episodes would no longer be uploaded to YouTube (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Washington folks: anybody know the history of WAC 308-330-500 and adjacent statutes? What was the rationale?
When did it stop being enforced? And why? It's clearly a dead law, I've never seen a bicycle license plate in the ten years I've lived here. Although I guess a cop in a bad mood could probably still ticket you for violating it if they really wanted to.

DHS Wants States to Hand Over Driver's License Data for Citizenship Checks (ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/dhs-citizenship-checks-drivers-license-data
http://www.memeorandum.com/251031/p126#a251031p126

Just received an email from Jetbrains about data collection in their IDE
> We’re now adding the option to allow the collection of detailed code‑related data pertaining to IDE activity, such as edit history, terminal usage, and your interactions with AI features. This may include code snippets, prompt text, and AI responses.
> If you’re using a non-commercial license, detailed code‑related data collection will be enabled as part of your next IDE update – you will be notified …

I'm not even a developer (used to be), I'm the technical writer - so I know as much, sometimes more (been here a while) than they do. So I am frequently Tier 2 support.
If I had $1 everytime _"they"_ came upstream with "its not working", I'd be retired.
What, specifically, isn't working? What product? Version? Clean install or upgrade? logs? diagnostic dump? snap of the license page? Does it start or not? If it starts, is a particular feature n…

Today I learned about the Nwulite Obodo Open Data License (NOODL).
https://licensingafricandatasets.com/

EverTracer: Hunting Stolen Large Language Models via Stealthy and Robust Probabilistic Fingerprint
Zhenhua Xu, Meng Han, Wenpeng Xing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03058 https://…

EverTracer: Hunting Stolen Large Language Models via Stealthy and Robust Probabilistic Fingerprint
The proliferation of large language models (LLMs) has intensified concerns over model theft and license violations, necessitating robust and stealthy ownership verification. Existing fingerprinting methods either require impractical white-box access or introduce detectable statistical anomalies. We propose EverTracer, a novel gray-box fingerprinting framework that ensures stealthy and robust model provenance tracing. EverTracer is the first to repurpose Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) for d…

Last month, Judge Goodstein had temporarily blocked the state’s election commission from releasing its voter files to the Department of Justice,
a decision that was openly criticized by Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon
and later reversed by the state Supreme Court.
The DOJ had sought the information, including names, addresses, driver’s license numbers, and social security numbers,
of over three million registered voters as part of Trump’s M…

"House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Burns Down" #ELB
Time: Police are investigating the cause of a fire that burned down the home of South Carolina Circuit Court judge Diane Goodstein, who had reportedly received death threats for weeks related to her work. State law enforcement is investigating the house fire … Continue reading “House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Burns Down” →

It's time for San Francisco to follow Austin's and Evanston's lead and end its Flock contract.
https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/115273074215468855

Why can your driver’s license not be used for voting without registration? You must prove citizenship to obtain a government-issued ID to vote. Why do you still need to register? Think about it.
Trump Announces Executive Order Plans on Voter ID Requirements https://ground.news/article/trump-announces-executive-order-plans-on-voter-id-requirements_df492d

"Creative Commons is a license that lets the creators of intellectual property define how that property may be used by others. Partially this license is a reaction to the poor way #copyright law is being viewed today...
...gives creators a way to provide for more interaction with their ideas. And this interaction is a great way to market, in the right circumstances. More managers shou…

It's always funny when the object recognition of #Panoramax sees faces/license plates in random things and blurs them.
This one has a cute example: https://en.osm.town/@PanoramaxContribs/115100629584324411

ActiveMark: on watermarking of visual foundation models via massive activations
Anna Chistyakova, Mikhail Pautov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04966 https://a…

ActiveMark: on watermarking of visual foundation models via massive activations
Being trained on large and vast datasets, visual foundation models (VFMs) can be fine-tuned for diverse downstream tasks, achieving remarkable performance and efficiency in various computer vision applications. The high computation cost of data collection and training motivates the owners of some VFMs to distribute them alongside the license to protect their intellectual property rights. However, a dishonest user of the protected model's copy may illegally redistribute it, for example, to make …

I think that I am going to let my EAA membership lapse next year. I'm not going to be able to afford to go to AirVenture, and I definitely can't afford a license, yet.

A proposed class action suit against Amazon filed August 22 claims it misleads customers, who think they own content they bought when they only have a license (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

You Don’t Actually Own That Movie You Just “Bought.” A New Class Action Lawsuit Targets Amazon
A suit challenges Prime Video telling people they can "buy" a movie when they're purchasing a license to watch it for a period of time.

Indonesia suspends TikTok's local operating license, saying it failed to share complete livestream activity data during protests following a government request (Chandra Asmara/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

There are light years between (1) “I thought this code was useful, so I shared it online and slapped an OSS license on it” and (2) “We set up a foundation to fund ongoing maintenance of this critical OSS project while guaranteeing its independence.”
The “dependency, fork, or rewrite?” question looks very, very different for (1) vs (2).
Yet how many of us think about where any given library dependency sits on that continuum when we add a dependency? Even if we try, how can we ••tell••?
5/

I bought a 2 machine license for SPSS (student discount) for school. It gave me a serial number.I loaded a copy on Windows (v31), worked fine. Anyone know where i can find SPSS for Linux? I keep seeing reference to v27 working but I can't find a download link, even on the IBM website.And lots of "here is how you install it/set environment" but no actual link to download. Not that I know if my serial # will even work or if its Win/Mac only.

Cities reverse course on automated license plate reader cameras amid privacy concerns https://therecord.media/cities-reverse-course-on-automated-license-plate-reader-cameras

Good Morning #Canada
Finally, arriving at our our 10th province, Manitoba, and putting this series to rest means no more nightmares. Friendly Manitoba, it says so right on their license plates, also has hundreds of abandoned towns, but today we'll focus on Scarf. Named for William Scarf, not for winter clothing or the more recent term for eating quickly, the settlement began in the 1880s, started to flourish after train service arrived in 1907, and died slowly after train service stopped, with the last residents leaving in the 1980s. But in 2013, the regional mayor decided to sell parcels of land in the ghost town for $10. I wasn't able to find out if this plan to bring Scarf back from the dead was successful, but perhaps the area is cursed. In 2020, a tornado touched down near Scarf, killing two teenagers when their vehicle was swept off the road.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianGhostTowns
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-rm-looks-to-sell-ghost-town-lots-for-10-1.2086700

'The FCC should look into the license': Trump threatens ABC and NBC over negative coverage - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2674156738/

Das Herbstwetter in der Schweiz ist heute nach englischsprachigen Ortschaftsnamen benannt — auf @… die Fakten ;)
🌧️ https://www.openstreetmap.…

rain, schweiz
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

An “on-premise” software that immediately stops working if the license key verification, hosted on AWS, no longer functions. Exactly my kind of humor. #Metabase

"Our intro and then a question from @plactagonic:
Q1 Where are you posting from today?
Q2 What makes bikes fun for you?
Hi! I'm posting from the north coast of Scotland, near John O'Groats (which you may have heard of). I'm a lifelong cyclist, I don't even have a driver's license 😄
I just gave away an old racer, so now I only have two bikes, a 20 yr old hybrid "city bike", and my first battery-assisted cycle, "Big Red". Here…

License plate surveillance company Flock Safety faces bipartisan pressure from lawmakers and local organizers over its data handling and cybersecurity practices (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Flock haters cross political divides to remove error-prone cameras
Lawmakers’ calls for Flock probe may help kill local contracts, expert says.

This reads like a warning. So is cURL like nuts? Are people allergic to cURL!?
@… my watch might contain your software, maybe. They aren't 100% sure though. 🤷 🤣
[Note to reader, it almost certainly does contain cURL. I would be shocked if it did not!]
#WristCheck

I benutze gerne den #lizenzhinweisgenerator für Objekte aus #wikicommons. Gerade merke ich aber, dass er nur mit CC-Lizenzen umgehen kann. Schade, die Attribution für die "WTF Public License" muss man sich dann selber basteln 🙂

Just a normal government employee
#uspol

MF-LPR$^2$: Multi-Frame License Plate Image Restoration and Recognition using Optical Flow
Kihyun Na, Junseok Oh, Youngkwan Cho, Bumjin Kim, Sungmin Cho, Jinyoung Choi, Injung Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14797

MF-LPR$^2$: Multi-Frame License Plate Image Restoration and Recognition using Optical Flow
License plate recognition (LPR) is important for traffic law enforcement, crime investigation, and surveillance. However, license plate areas in dash cam images often suffer from low resolution, motion blur, and glare, which make accurate recognition challenging. Existing generative models that rely on pretrained priors cannot reliably restore such poor-quality images, frequently introducing severe artifacts and distortions. To address this issue, we propose a novel multi-frame license plate re…

Unlicensed Band Allocation for Heterogeneous Networks
Po-Heng Chou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23216 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.23216

Unlicensed Band Allocation for Heterogeneous Networks
Based on the License-Assisted Access (LAA) small cell architecture, the LAA coexisting with Wi-Fi heterogeneous networks provides LTE mobile users with high bandwidth efficiency as the unlicensed channels are shared among LAA and Wi-Fi. However, LAA and Wi-Fi interfere with each other when both systems use the same unlicensed channel in heterogeneous networks. In such a network, unlicensed band allocation for LAA and Wi-Fi is an important issue that may affect the quality of service (QoS) of bo…

If you are a US citizen holding a #HamRadio license, please add your name to #AmateurRadio antennas with bills in both the house and senate,…

Sources: Monzo is considering a new application for a US banking license, hoping for approval amid Trump's deregulation push, after dropping a 2021 attempt (Laith Al-Khalaf/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5e5853b9-a631-4248-ae83-18388765ff47

License plate reader company Flock launches new product that detects human voices https://therecord.media/flock-surveillance-technology-gunshot-voice-detection

From Hugging Face to GitHub: Tracing License Drift in the Open-Source AI Ecosystem
James Jewitt, Hao Li, Bram Adams, Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur, Ahmed E. Hassan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09873

From Hugging Face to GitHub: Tracing License Drift in the Open-Source AI Ecosystem
Hidden license conflicts in the open-source AI ecosystem pose serious legal and ethical risks, exposing organizations to potential litigation and users to undisclosed risk. However, the field lacks a data-driven understanding of how frequently these conflicts occur, where they originate, and which communities are most affected. We present the first end-to-end audit of licenses for datasets and models on Hugging Face, as well as their downstream integration into open-source software applications…

Seriously that text goes so hard, I love it:
"[My new license] is not following the OSI definition of open-source because i don’t give a damn how capital defines its needs."
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115230422460611013

C-SPAN, a nonprofit network supported by license fees from cable and satellite companies since 1979, lands distribution deals with YouTube TV and Hulu Live TV (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/09/c-span-youtube-tv-carriage-1236505312/

C-SPAN Networks Land Distribution On YouTube TV And Hulu+Live TV
YouTube TV will carry C-SPAN‘s three channels on its base package starting this fall, a major break as the public affairs network grapples with consumers cutting their cable subscriptions. C-SPAN also said that YouTube TV would sponsor the network’s coverage of America250 celebrations, and C-SPAN’s presence on YouTube will be boosted. A C-SPAN spokesperson said […]

I’ve been really interested in both aspects of this post:
1. ICE right-wing fringe groups conspicuously steered clear of protests yesterday in a way that suggests that orders went out (whose?) and/or (I’m guessing “and”) that there’s a sense from those people that they don’t have public support and don’t have free license to instigate violence.
2. Police went out of their way to put on a friendly face. I’ve been getting vibes that some local police resent ICE — “this is OUR turf, beating up Black and brown people was OUR job” — and, contrary to what we and the regime might expect, ICE isn’t always getting free support by default from that quarter.
Caveats: No solid conclusions here, just reading vibes. And even if it is actually true for now, all of this can shift on a dime. Still, sure is notable. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mxc7liuon6iq5gzapmmwkq22/post/3m3krd3w4s22k

Trump maintains control over and can profit from his businesses while in office through a revocable trust, of which he is both the sole donor and sole beneficiary.
In his first term, those looking to support Trump financially could lend him money against his real estate, license his name, buy his assets, join one of his clubs or book a hotel.
Since leaving office in 2021, Trump’s business empire expanded into the digital realm, where the products are often intangible, but the rev…

Truth Social, the $Trump meme coin and World Liberty Financial Give Supporters And Favor Seekers New Ways To Pay Trump
Foreign firms, crypto whales and political allies are using Trump’s newest ventures to route millions into companies he profits from while in office.

Any lawyer who contributes to such a drafting effort should be quickly stripped of their license to practice law on the grounds that they have forgotten even the rudiments of our Constitutional system.
"Trump says lawyers are drafting executive order to end mail-in voting"
https://www…

Ok #osint #geolocation folks...
1) What is this building?
2) Where was I standing?
3) What is the antenna mast on top for? Can you identify the exact license, frequency band, etc?
CW guesses or answers to avoid spoilers.

Can Constructions "SCAN" Compositionality ?
Ganesh Katrapati, Manish Shrivastava
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20074 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.2007…

Can Constructions "SCAN" Compositionality ?
Sequence to Sequence models struggle at compositionality and systematic generalisation even while they excel at many other tasks. We attribute this limitation to their failure to internalise constructions conventionalised form meaning pairings that license productive recombination. Building on these insights, we introduce an unsupervised procedure for mining pseudo-constructions: variable-slot templates automatically extracted from training data. When applied to the SCAN dataset, our method yie…

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#JunkDrawerASongOrPoem

Developers' Perspectives on Software Licensing: Current Practices, Challenges, and Tools
Nathan Wintersgill, Trevor Stalnaker, Daniel Otten, Laura A. Heymann, Oscar Chaparro, Massimiliano Di Penta, Daniel M. German, Denys Poshyvanyk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01096

Developers' Perspectives on Software Licensing: Current Practices, Challenges, and Tools
Most modern software products incorporate open-source components, requiring development teams to maintain compliance with each component's licenses. Noncompliance can lead to significant financial, legal, and reputational repercussions. While some organizations may seek advice from legal practitioners to assist with licensing tasks, developers still play a key role in such a process. To this end, it is essential to understand how developers approach license compliance tasks, the challenges they…

Meta announces a partnership with Midjourney, to license the startup's "aesthetic technology" for Meta's future models and products (Alexandr Wang/@alexandr_wang)
https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/1958983843169673367

Alexandr Wang (@alexandr_wang) on X
1/ Today we’re proud to announce a partnership with @midjourney, to license their aesthetic technology for our future models and products, bringing beauty to billions.

New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that
Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data 💥in an abortion investigation,
contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and the Johnson County Sheriff that she was
“being searched for as a missing person,” and that“it was about her safety.” 
The new information shows that deputies had initiated a "death investigation" of a "non-viable fetus," logged evidence of a woman’…

Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.
New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and the Johnson County Sheriff that she was “being searched for as a missing person,” and that “it was about her safety.” The new information shows that deputies had initiated a "death investigation" of a "non-viable fetus," collected evidence of a woman’s self-managed abortion, and consulted…

Lammy refers himself to watchdog after fishing illegally with JD Vance (Aletha Adu/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/13/david-lammy-watchdog-illegal-fishing-without-license-jd-vance
http://www.memeorandum.com/250813/p30#a250813p30

I am thinking of asking my California state legislative reps to enact a law that would not recognize an Oklahoma driver's license until the applicant driver takes a test to demonstrate that he/she can distinguish up from down.
(Such tests would require payment of a non-refundable test fee of $100 and a mandatory three day study period, within the borders of California, to prepare for the test. Tests will be administered at one of three locations: Barstow, Alturas, or Morro Bay.)

FDA pulls biologics license for chikungunya vaccine
https://archive.ph/fyM2G

Sources: Nvidia spent more than $900M to hire Enfabrica CEO Rochan Sankar and other employees at the AI hardware startup and to license the company's technology (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/18/nvidia-spent-over-900-million-…

Nvidia just spent over $900 million to hire Enfabrica CEO, license AI startup's technology
In a deal reminiscent of acquihires by Meta and Google, Nvidia hired Enfabrica's CEO and other employees of the startup, and licensed its technology.

Sources: ESPN is in talks to license MLB.TV and wants midweek national games, giving up Sunday Night regular season games and the Home Run Derby (Alex Sherman/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/21/cnbc-sport-why-espns-histo…

CNBC Sport: Why ESPN’s historic streaming launch may actually cost it subscribers
The flagship ESPN launch is all about giving anyone who wants sports content access to what ESPN has to offer. But it may actually cost Disney subscribers.

A month into the new Trump administration,
on the predawn streets of suburban Maryland,
a high-ranking ICE official stood alongside a Mazda sedan that his officers had just stopped.
The official told a local TV reporter at the scene what was about to happen.
“He can either give us a license,”
he said,
“or we’ll smash the fucking window out and drag him out.”
Then, as the driver refused to exit the car, officers broke the glass

“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself.

Cyprus's financial regulator grants a crypto license to Revolut, allowing the startup to offer crypto services across the EU under new regulations (Elizabeth Howcroft/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

The FCC hasn't denied any license renewals in decades and the legal battle would be long, so Brendan Carr's threats are designed to make the media self-censor (CNN)
https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1758286615238bb1f6cfd45f0/raw

Asserting a License to Kill: Why the Caribbean Strike is a Dangerous Departure from the “War on Terror”
https://www.justsecurity.org/120568/caribbean-strike-departure-war-on-terror/

Sources: publishers are considering moving from flat-fee AI content licensing deals with companies to usage-based deals; Perplexity is developing such a model (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/news-p…

News Publishers Shift AI Licensing Focus to Usage-Based Deals
Signs that OpenAI and other artificial intelligence firms are generating ever-increasing revenues are getting attention—from news publishers who want to get their piece of the action. Publishers that have struck deals to license their content to AI firms for training large language models are ...

Mexico-based fintech Plata, approved for a banking license in December 2024, raised $250M at a $3.1B valuation, as it seeks to transition to a full-fledged bank (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-16/mexico…

Critics say the Philippine government is prioritizing collecting online casino license fees, projected at ~$1B in 2025, over tackling online gambling addiction (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-14/on…