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BeIN Sports extends its three-year Premier League live TV rights deal in MENA for ~£550M, up 10% over the last cycle; League's total overseas rights rose 27% (Matt Slater/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6432549/2025/06/17/p…

Premier League extends Middle East TV deal, overseas media rights value up 27%
The new three-year deal runs from next season through until the end of 2027-28 and is worth approximately £550m.

Google says threat actors are stealing sensitive data from organizations by targeting fully patched, end-of-life appliances from cybersecurity company SonicWall (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
https://therecord.media/sonicwall-sma-100-series-overstep-malware-unc6148

Google spots tailored backdoor malware aimed at SonicWall appliances
Google researchers reported on a malware campaign against end-of-life SonicWall appliances, noting that the attackers were good at covering their tracks.

"Musk and his allies systematically built a false narrative of widespread fraud at the Social Security Administration based on misinterpreted data, using their claims to justify an aggressive effort to gain access to personal information on millions of Americans."
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Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security
The drama offers a case study in how Elon Musk’s team sought to run a critical government agency through misinformation and social media blasts — and how longtime employees responded.

Mh. Riding the Nuremberg subway and noticing #vodafone still offers nothing beyond EGPRS there in 2025. Guess ezperiencing thst in Berlin that was more than a decade ago... #nürnberg #gsm

So far the Social Security agency’s core functions — like sending monthly checks to 74 million Americans — have remained largely intact.
But under pressure from Musk’s team, nearly half of the Social Security Administration’s 140 senior executives, and thousands of employees overall, have taken buyouts or retired.
As many as 12 percent of staff members, out of a bureaucracy that numbered around 57,000 people, are expected to depart their jobs as part of DOGE’s cost-cutting plan.

Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security
The drama offers a case study in how Elon Musk’s team sought to run a critical government agency through misinformation and social media blasts — and how longtime employees responded.

Google spots tailored backdoor malware aimed at SonicWall appliances https://therecord.media/sonicwall-sma-100-series-overstep-malware-unc6148

Measuring Informativeness Gap of (Mis)Calibrated Predictors
Yiding Feng, Wei Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12094 https://arxiv.org/…

Measuring Informativeness Gap of (Mis)Calibrated Predictors
In many applications, decision-makers must choose between multiple predictive models that may all be miscalibrated. Which model (i.e., predictor) is more "useful" in downstream decision tasks? To answer this, our first contribution introduces the notion of the informativeness gap between any two predictors, defined as the maximum normalized payoff advantage one predictor offers over the other across all decision-making tasks. Our framework strictly generalizes several existing notions: it subsu…

heise | Android-Smartphone: Nothing Phone (3) mit Dot-Matrix-Display im Test
Nothing schlägt mit dem Phone (3) den Weg in die Smartphone-Oberklasse ein. Aus den blinkenden LEDs wurde ein zweites Display.

Trump Relishes Troops in American Streets While Shunning Conflict Overseas (Peter Baker/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/us/politics/trump-military-parade-israel-iran.html?unlocked_article_code=1.O08.TJl2.yA3aClTP65su&smid=bs-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p9#a250614p9

Trump has ordered more troops to Los Angeles and Washington than he currently has stationed in Syria and Iraq combined.
He seems more willing to use the military against Americans than against Iranians.
He celebrates a show of force on U.S. soil even as he denounces “endless wars” outside its borders.

Trump Relishes Troops in American Streets While Shunning Conflict Overseas
The seemingly disparate postures of recent days speak to the president’s complicated relationship with the military.