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The person who accepts lies for strategic reasons loses the facts as weapons. In the world the liar creates, the liar wins every battle. The only remedy against alternative truths is the truth.
Dutch author Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, on Von der Leyen's "trade deal" with Trump.

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India's RBI grants Paytm "in-principle" approval to operate as a payment services provider for online merchants, after China's Ant Group sold its entire stake (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/12/indi

Indian fintech Paytm wins a major regulatory battle days after key investor exit | TechCrunch
Paytm has received approval from India’s central bank to resume onboarding new online merchants and offer its digital payment services.

R&D has become more effective at finding productivity-enhancing ideas,
but these ideas may also render rivals’ technologies obsolete,
making innovations more transient.
Because of obsolescence, rising R&D does not necessarily mean rising aggregate productivity growth.

Adaptive Pareto-Optimal Token Merging for Edge Transformer Models in Semantic Communication
Omar Erak, Omar Alhussein, Hatem Abou-Zeid, Mehdi Bennis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09168

Adaptive Pareto-Optimal Token Merging for Edge Transformer Models in Semantic Communication
Large-scale transformer models have emerged as a powerful tool for semantic communication systems, enabling edge devices to extract rich representations for robust inference across noisy wireless channels. However, their substantial computational demands remain a major barrier to practical deployment in resource-constrained 6G networks. In this paper, we present a training-free framework for adaptive token merging in pretrained vision transformers to jointly reduce inference time and transmissi…

BBC confirms 500 foreigners killed fighting for Russia in Ukraine
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/11/bbc-confirms-500-foreign-mercenaries-killed-fighting-for-russia-in-ukraine/

Guten Morgen.

De stageaire van de NOS kon weer de foto's met oververhitte ouderen niet vinden -
Vanaf morgen 10.00 uur hitteplan in hele land van kracht
https://nos.nl/l/2578290
> Omdat het de komende dagen erg warm wordt, heeft het RIVM de waarschuwing afgegeven. Vanaf morgen gaat de temperatuur in het zu…

Der Liveblog vom Donnerstag zum Nachlesen:
Der deutsche Rüstungskonzern Rheinmetall will künftig Artilleriegeschosse direkt in der Ukraine produzieren. Morgen tagt der UN-Sicherheitsrat zur Verletzung des polnischen Luftraums durch mutmaßlich russische Drohnen.
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Rheinmetall plant Rüstungsfabrik in der Ukraine ++
Der deutsche Rüstungskonzern Rheinmetall will künftig Artilleriegeschosse direkt in der Ukraine produzieren. Morgen tagt der UN-Sicherheitsrat zur Verletzung des polnischen Luftraums durch mutmaßlich russische Drohnen.

Continents have lost so much water to the ocean since 2002 that they have surpassed ice sheets as the biggest contributor to global sea level rise, a new study reveals.
Almost 70% of this loss is due to unchecked groundwater extraction,
which removes water from deep aquifers and eventually transfers it to the ocean, researchers found.
Together with rising rates of evaporation due to climate change, this has caused rapidly drying "hotspots" to merge into four &quo…

'Like a creeping mold that's spreading across the landscape': Separate dry areas around the world are merging into 'mega-drying' regions at an alarming rate, study finds
Unchecked groundwater extraction and climate change have dried continents significantly over the past 22 years, with 101 countries now losing fresh water to the ocean, research reveals.