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Prescott cites his history with ownership and is upbeat Micah Parsons will remain with Cowboys https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/prescott-cites-his-history-with-ownership-and-is-upbeat-micah-parsons-will-rem…

The Republican budget measure that Donald Trump signed into law late last week contains a provision that analysts say will
🔥allow private jet owners to write off the full cost of their aircraft in the first year of purchase,
❌a boon to the ultra-rich that comes as millions of people are set to lose healthcare under the same legislation.
FlyUSA, a private aviation provider, gushed in a blog post that with final passage of the unpopular budget reconciliation package,
…

The Return of 100% Bonus Depreciation: How 2025 Made Private Aircraft Ownership More Valuable Than Ever
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R.1) was permanently reinstated 100% bonus depreciation for capital equipment, including business & aviation aircraft.

📉 Global study links early smartphone ownership with poorer mental health in young adults
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-global-links-early-smartphone-ownership.html

Global study links early smartphone ownership with poorer mental health in young adults
Owning a smartphone before age 13 is associated with poorer mental health and well-being in early adulthood, according to a global study of more than 100,000 young people.

Sources: China held talks about merging a group of chip equipment makers into a national champion but faced pushback over ownership structure and valuation (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/579fbffe-9add-466a-8d72-31d12151c040

Giants sell minority ownership to Koch family as deal earns highest valuation for sports franchise, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/giant…

Kyrgyzstan enacts a law requiring media to register with authorities and limiting foreign ownership to 35%, after approving penalties for "false information" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/kyrg…

Common ownership? Never, so long as society clings to economic monopolies and the machinery of state, true freedom for all remains impossible!
As Rocker argued, only the abolition of all monopolies and the creation of a federation of free communities, where the land and means of production belong to everyone, not privileged minorities, can end exploitation and allow genuine liberty to flourish.
Until then, "common ownership" is just a slogan, not a living reality.

Parking Availability Prediction via Fusing Multi-Source Data with A Self-Supervised Learning Enhanced Spatio-Temporal Inverted Transformer
Yin Huang, Yongqi Dong, Youhua Tang, Li Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04362

Parking Availability Prediction via Fusing Multi-Source Data with A Self-Supervised Learning Enhanced Spatio-Temporal Inverted Transformer
The rapid growth of private car ownership has worsened the urban parking predicament, underscoring the need for accurate and effective parking availability prediction to support urban planning and management. To address key limitations in modeling spatio-temporal dependencies and exploiting multi-source data for parking availability prediction, this study proposes a novel approach with SST-iTransformer. The methodology leverages K-means clustering to establish parking cluster zones (PCZs), extr…

I think there should be a training and duty of care requirement for dog ownership. They enforce such for guns, but guns (except SIGs) don't just randomly attack without provocation. Any old idiot is allowed to have a dog as vicious as they like, and you're not allowed to say jack shit about it until you've actually been injured.

Fixed a recently reported, asan-caught UaF in ngscopeclient earlier today when loading session files containing a protocol analyzer.
Apparently the analyzer never called AddRef() / Release() on the filter and could thus outlive it.
Yet another reason why the planned refactoring of filter ownership to use std::shared_ptr's rather than manual hand refcounting can't come soon enough. Just need to ship v0.1 first...

Micah Parsons contract: Cowboys players 'clearly frustrated' with Jerry Jones, 'distracted' ahead of season

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/…

Body Ownership Affects the Processing of Sensorimotor Contingencies in Virtual Reality
Evan G. Center, Matti Pouke, Alessandro Nardi, Lukas Gehrke, Klaus Gramann, Timo Ojala, Steven M. LaValle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01420

Body Ownership Affects the Processing of Sensorimotor Contingencies in Virtual Reality
Presence in virtual reality (VR), the subjective sense of "being there" in a virtual environment, is notoriously difficult to measure. Electroencephalography (EEG) may offer a promising, unobtrusive means of assessing a user's momentary state of presence. Unlike traditional questionnaires, EEG does not interrupt the experience or rely on users' retrospective self-reports, thereby avoiding interference with the very state it aims to capture. Previous research has attempted to quantify presence i…

🗡️ 'Stop killing games': Demands for game ownership must also include workers' rights
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-08-games-demands-game-ownership-workers.html

'Stop killing games': Demands for game ownership must also include workers' rights
When French video-game publisher Ubisoft announced it was shutting down servers for The Crew, a popular online racing game released in 2014, it wasn't just the end of a title. It marked the beginning of a broader reckoning about the nature of digital ownership, led by players angry at the company's decision to deny them something they had paid for.

When Lifetimes Liberate: A Type System for Arenas with Higher-Order Reachability Tracking
Siyuan He, Songlin Jia, Yuyan Bao, Tiark Rompf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04253 https:/…

When Lifetimes Liberate: A Type System for Arenas with Higher-Order Reachability Tracking
Static resource management in higher-order functional languages remains elusive due to tensions between control, expressiveness, and flexibility. Region-based systems [Grossman et al. 2002; Tofte et al. 2001] offer control over lifetimes and expressive in-region sharing, but restrict resources to lexical scopes. Rust, an instance of ownership types [Clarke et al. 2013], offers non-lexical lifetimes and robust safety guarantees, yet its global invariants make common sharing patterns hard to expr…

‘Not many events like this left’ — A Ukrainian literary festival in a city falsely claimed by Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/03/not-many-events-like-this.html

"The water industry: a return to public ownership should still be on the table" 👍
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/21/the-guardian-view-on-the-water-industry-a-return-to-pub…

Trump officials discussing ownership stakes in defense firms, Lutnik says (Amy B Wang/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/26/trump-lutnick-ownership-defense-companies/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250826/p130#a250826p130

cars are emerging as a political fault line all over the country, from Prop K in SF to the NYC mayoral primary. which side are you on? https://www.jalopnik.com/1895759/nyc-mayor-election-zohran-mamdani-won-non-car-owners/

NYC's Upset Election Was Drawn Along An Odd Line: Car Ownership
Car ownership and transit ridership serve as a shorthand for someone's entire living situation — and, apparently, their politics.

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…

ASINT: Learning AS-to-Organization Mapping from Internet Metadata
Yongzhe Xu, Weitong Li, Eeshan Umrani, Taejoong Chung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02571 https://

ASINT: Learning AS-to-Organization Mapping from Internet Metadata
Accurately mapping Autonomous Systems (ASNs) to their owning or operating organizations underpins Internet measurement research and security applications. Yet existing approaches commonly rely solely on WHOIS or PeeringDB, missing important relationships (e.g., cross-regional aliases, parent-child ownership) and failing to unify organizations scattered across different RIR identifiers. We introduce ASINT, an end-to-end pipeline that fuses bulk registry data with unstructured Web sources, then e…

UK ministers take the unusual step of ordering secrecy over the names of four media companies that responded to a consultation on foreign newspaper ownership (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun

Wednesday’s discovery exposes a key weakness of the public key infrastructure that’s responsible for ensuring trust of the entire Internet.
Despite being the only thing ensuring that gmail.com, bankofamerica.com or any other website is controlled by the entity claiming ownership,
the entire system can collapse with a single point of failure.
The Certificate Authority ecosystem is a castle with many doors:
the failure of one CA can cause the security of the whole cast…

Mis-issued certificates for 1.1.1.1 DNS service pose a threat to the Internet
The three certificates were issued in May but only came to light Wednesday.

How a Trade 16 Years Ago Impacted Raiders' Ownership Today https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-tom-brady-richard-seymour-magic-johnson-mark-davis

Studio Rúcach @… in collaboration with CREW are excited to announce a two-part masterclass exploring co-operative models for game dev.
Part 1: Navigating Co-Op Mode (Online)
Hear from co-ops creating equitable workplaces in the games industry.

Under US copyright law the ownership of the copyright is in the person who recorded the video onto a tangible medium, the owner is not the speaker/subject who is in the video.
(A nit picker may note that there could be a copyright in the text of a speech if that text had been written down rather than impromptu. But even then, making a video for the purpose of engaging with the content would most likely be protected as a fair use.)
So this raises a question whether this takedown …

housing ownership law possibilities
Should we maybe have a law that says any one person or entity can only own a max of 2 houses? Or that you can only own 1 not being lived in by your immediate family?
I can see several reasonable use cases for having 1 extra house, including when an old person dies and the family takes a while to decide what's happening with their previous house. And we could debate those cases, and maybe even decide it's not worth arguing over 2 or 3 extra, because that isn't the biggest problem.
But I think we could possibly mostly agree that having one person or company own 5 or 10 or 50 or 500 houses just to extract profit from them is not good for overall wellbeing.
#housing #law #HouseOwnership #HousingMarket #renting #RentalMarket

""The [newly formed] Debcrafters’ […] team will take the lead on syncing & merging packages from Debian, reviewing proposed migration issues, upstreaming Ubuntu deltas, and take ownership of major transitions […]""
Makes me wonder how many similar efforts Canonical/Ubuntu already announced over the years to improved the interaction with Debian – and what became of them.

After 2.5 months owning a #Framework 13, I can add one more review to the pile:
https://www-gem.codeberg.page/sys_Framework13-2/
Curious to hear about your own experien…

German Quantum Systems takes 10% ownership in Ukrainian defense robotics firm Frontline: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/german-quantum-systems-takes-ownership.html

NFL Will Get a Stake in ESPN in a Complex Deal https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/business/media/nfl-espn-disney-deal.html

Intellectual Property Rights and Entrepreneurship in the NFT Ecosystem: Legal Frameworks, Business Models, and Innovation Opportunities
Pranav Darshan, Rohan J S, Raghuveer Rajesh, Ruchitha M, Sanika Kamath, Manas M N
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00172

Intellectual Property Rights and Entrepreneurship in the NFT Ecosystem: Legal Frameworks, Business Models, and Innovation Opportunities
Non Fungible Tokens have changed digital ownership and how creators earn money. Between 2021 and 2024, the market value exceeded 40 billion. However, the fast growth of the NFT ecosystem has revealed serious issues in managing intellectual property rights. There is a lot of confusion about the difference between owning an NFT and owning the copyright for the underlying content. This research looks at the gap between traditional copyright laws and blockchain-based transactions. We use a mixed me…

Q&A: Rodney Benson, one of four authors of How Media Ownership Matters, on which ownership models for news lead to strong journalism and business outcomes (Dr. Anya Schiffrin/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/the-interview/rodney-b

Rodney Benson on the Value of Publicly Backed Journalism
A recent book suggests American media can learn from European ownership structures.

Introducing LCOAI: A Standardized Economic Metric for Evaluating AI Deployment Costs
Eliseo Curcio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02596 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Introducing LCOAI: A Standardized Economic Metric for Evaluating AI Deployment Costs
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes foundational to enterprise infrastructure, organizations face growing challenges in accurately assessing the full economic implications of AI deployment. Existing metrics such as API token costs, GPU-hour billing, or Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) fail to capture the complete lifecycle costs of AI systems and provide limited comparability across deployment models. This paper introduces the Levelized Cost of Artificial Intelligence (LCOAI), a standardized e…

"A retread of the defeated 2015-19 project is unlikely to be a recipe for future success.
"Even so, this is a very encouraging beginning. The march of authoritarianism and racism across this country, the disgusting consensus behind complicity in Israeli genocide and the attempt to keep public ownership and wealth redistribution off the table can all be challenged by the emergence of a left movement on this scale."

Goldman Sachs and BNY partner to let institutional investors purchase tokenized money market funds, with ownership recorded on Goldman's blockchain platform (Hugh Son/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/23/goldman-sachs-bny-money-market-fund-digital…

Goldman Sachs and BNY join forces to transform $7.1 trillion money market industry with digital tokens
Clients of BNY will be able to invest in money market funds whose ownership will be recorded on Goldman's blockchain platform.

Commanders' Bobby Wagner on ownership stake in WNBA's Storm: 'I want to be on the right side of change' https://www.nfl.com/news/commanders-bobby-wagner-on-ownership-stake-in-wnba-s-storm-i-want-to-be-on-t…

tl;dr Sheffield is nice https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/23/not-all-grassroots-venues-are-struggling-sheffields-leadmill-may-be-closing-but-the-citys-diy-hubs-are-thri…

Zeroize: The Tiny and Memory-Safe Rust Crate - Sensitive Data in Memory: A Hidden Threat
In a secure environment, one of the most overlooked threats is the presence of sensitive data in memory, such as passwords, tokens, cryptographic keys, or card numbers. Even when using Rust, where we emphasize ownership and thread safety, there's another crucial question to consider: What remains in the heap or stack after we no longer need it?
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Zeroize: The Tiny and Memory-Safe Rust Crate
Sensitive Data in Memory: A Hidden Threat In a secure environment, one of the most...

#ContemporaryContradictions #HashTagGames
Rules: include as many contradictions s you'd like. Can be profound or trivial. Each contradiction is stated via exactly 1 or 2 questions, no statements and not more than 2 questions. Try to group yours into a single post, rather than one post per contradiction, so that it's easier to see more voices when scrolling the hash tag.
Why does "race" work according to the "one drop rule" if you have Black ancestors, but according to "blood quantum" if you have Indigenous ancestors? Who benefits from this arrangement?
Why do we think of seeds as merely a reproduction mechanism for trees, instead of thinking of trees as merely a reproduction mechanism for seeds, especially since some plants can spend millennia as seeds but can survive for only part of a year after sprouting? Are metabolic activity or structural complexity really so important?
If Columbus discovered America, did Batu Khan discover Europe? What is an "Age of Discovery?"
Why don't corporations in the US try to lobby the government for a single-payer healthcare system where the government foots the bill for healthcare instead of companies paying to deeply subsidize their employees' healthcare? What benefit do they gain that's worth that cost, which in other countries is paid for via taxes?
Why is the cost of renting (which gets you zero equity) anywhere close to the cost of a mortgage (which eventually gets you ownership)? If the costs are similar but the benefits are so different, why does anyone ever rent?
Why do we obsess over the fruit/vegetable classification of tomatoes, but not corn, okra, cucumbers, zucchini, etc.?

Tom Brady Breaks Silence on Las Vegas Raiders Ownership Details https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/tom-brady-las-vegas-raiders/?adt_ei=[email]

The National Association of Broadcasters and several broadcasting companies urge the FCC to end its rule capping the number of TV stations an entity can own (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/broadcaster-fcc-abolish-nation…

Broadcasters Call for FCC to Abolish National TV Ownership Rule
The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and several broadcast companies called for a repel of the FCC's national TV ownership rule.

@… Of course. That’s why Trump is doing us all a favor and retaining *personal* ownership over companies, rather than letting that burden fall on the government.
/s

Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Natural Language Art Provenance Searches in the Getty Provenance Index
Mathew Henrickson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19093 https://

Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Natural Language Art Provenance Searches in the Getty Provenance Index
This research presents a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) framework for art provenance studies, focusing on the Getty Provenance Index. Provenance research establishes the ownership history of artworks, which is essential for verifying authenticity, supporting restitution and legal claims, and understanding the cultural and historical context of art objects. The process is complicated by fragmented, multilingual archival data that hinders efficient retrieval. Current search portals require …

Parsons blasts Cowboys on contract tactics, 'ownership's always gonna make it drag out' https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/17/cowboys-star-micah-parsons…

“Sikh owners, Sikh manager - what Morecambe takeover means to community”
I’ll tell you what it means. It means the half time snacks will be AWESOME. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c8ry4v3dv22o

Morecambe takeover: What Panjab Warriors and Ashvir Johal history means for Sikhs
BBC Sport explores the impact of Morecambe's new ownership and manager on the Sikh community, as the National League club enter a new era.

Cross-ownership improves ESG performance https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140988325004979 @…

Sheriffs with shields and batons.
You don't often see it expressed in a visible way like this, but such state violence ultimately backs up all property ownership. Homelessness only exists because if people entered and made a home in a vacant or underused property, the state would use essentially unlimited force to evict them.

Venerable S.F. dive bar in Tenderloin evicted by sheriff’s deputies with ‘shields & batons’
The foreclosed-upon pub was known for hosting punk shows in the 2000s and had one of the last smoking rooms in San Francisco.

This is a good plan for sorting out the abonimable #water system in the United Kingdom. Time to sort this shit out!
https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-

Water Belongs to All of Us - Back the People's Plan for Water!
Privatisation has broken our water system. Evidence shows public ownership can bring fairer, cleaner and cheaper water. That’s why I'm backing the People’s Plan for Water. Join me:

GPUnion: Autonomous GPU Sharing on Campus
Yufang Li (The Hong Kong University of Science,Technology), Yuanbo Zhang (Sun Yat-sen University), Hanlong Liao (National University of Defense Technology), Guoming Tang (The Hong Kong University of Science,Technology), Deke Guo (Sun Yat-sen University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18928

GPUnion: Autonomous GPU Sharing on Campus
A pronounced imbalance in GPU resources exists on campus, where some laboratories own underutilized servers while others lack the compute needed for AI research. GPU sharing can alleviate this disparity, while existing platforms typically rely on centralized oversight and persistent allocation models, conflicting with the voluntary and autonomous nature of academic resource ownership. We present GPUnion, a campus-scale GPU sharing platform enabling voluntary participation while preserving full …

Seahawks legend Bobby Wagner joins Storm ownership group

https://www.cbssports.com/wnba/news/seahawks-legend-bobby-wagner-joins-storm-ownership-group/

US Acts Against Foreign Ownership of Farmland Amid China Tension (Ilena Peng/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-08/us-acts-against-foreign-ownership-of-farmland-amid-china-tension
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p48#a250708p48

So, the whole WeTransfer content ownership thing... Am I correct in thinking that 6.2 and 6.3 are completely at odds with each other?
#WeTransfer

Replaced article(s) found for cs.PL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.PL/new
[1/1]:
- Place Capability Graphs: A General-Purpose Model of Rust's Ownership and Borrowing Guarantees
Grannan, B\'il\'y, Fiala, Geer, de Medeiros, M\"uller, Summers

UK legislation to allow foreign states to own up to 15% in British newspapers passes, clearing the way for the Telegraph's sale to a RedBird Capital-led group (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jul

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03108 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_…

Writing with AI Lowers Psychological Ownership, but Longer Prompts Can Help
The feeling of something belonging to someone is called "psychological ownership." A common assumption is that writing with generative AI lowers psychological ownership, but the extent to which this occurs and the role of prompt length are unclear. We report on two experiments to examine the relationship between psychological ownership and prompt length. Participants wrote short stories either completely by themselves or wrote prompts of varying lengths. Results show that when participants wrot…

Sources: a Chinese fab making Huawei's AI chips is set to start production as soon as the end of 2025, with two more due in 2026; the fabs' ownership is unclear (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/64caeab8-a326-4626-98fb-e1bf665827d3

Towards Mitigating Excessive Forgetting in LLM Unlearning via Entanglement-Aware Unlearning with Proxy Constraint
Zhihao Liu, Jian Lou, Yuke Hu, Xiaochen Li, Tailun Chen, Yitian Chen, Zhan Qin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20443

Towards Mitigating Excessive Forgetting in LLM Unlearning via Entanglement-Aware Unlearning with Proxy Constraint
Large language models (LLMs) are trained on massive datasets that may include private or copyrighted content. Due to growing privacy and ownership concerns, data owners may request the removal of their data from trained models. Machine unlearning provides a practical solution by removing the influence of specific data without full retraining. However, most existing methods lack a sound forgetting boundary, causing some samples to be under-forgotten, leaving residual leakage risks, while others …

Brady Raises Idea of Super Bowl Being Played Overseas https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-tom-brady-super-bowl-overseas-pete-carroll

Mgmt: We don't have the resources to make our own LLM. Can we just monetize AI prompts?
Business School Student: Hold my beer 🍺
#blockchain

PromptChain: A Decentralized Web3 Architecture for Managing AI Prompts as Digital Assets
We present PromptChain, a decentralized Web3 architecture that establishes AI prompts as first-class digital assets with verifiable ownership, version control, and monetization capabilities. Current centralized platforms lack mechanisms for proper attribution, quality assurance, or fair compensation for prompt creators. PromptChain addresses these limitations through a novel integration of IPFS for immutable storage, smart contracts for governance, and token incentives for community curation. O…

Q&A: Rodney Benson, one of four authors of How Media Ownership Matters, on which ownership models for news lead to strong journalism and business outcomes (Dr. Anya Schiffrin/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/the-interview/rodney-b

Instead of the CHIPS Act money being tied to Intel actually building fabs,
the money is now tied to the government buying into Intel.
That is a different thing.
The specific deal is also different from the concept of the government getting shares as part of a grant to build fabs.
According to the SEC filing, there is less emphasis on fab building and more emphasis on government ownership.
The actual Intel deal is a major change to CHIPS Act purposes
and…

The U.S. Now Owns 10% Of Intel. What That Means For America's Chip Supply.
Featured Videos The U.S. Now Owns 10% Of Intel. What That Means For America's Chip Supply. S&P 500 Hits High; Cameco, Rubrik, Micron Among Stocks …

Toward Generalized Autonomous Agents: A Neuro-Symbolic AI Framework for Integrating Social and Technical Support in Education
Ryan Hare, Ying Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18406

Toward Generalized Autonomous Agents: A Neuro-Symbolic AI Framework for Integrating Social and Technical Support in Education
One of the enduring challenges in education is how to empower students to take ownership of their learning by setting meaningful goals, tracking their progress, and adapting their strategies when faced with setbacks. Research has shown that this form of leaner-centered learning is best cultivated through structured, supportive environments that promote guided practice, scaffolded inquiry, and collaborative dialogue. In response, educational efforts have increasingly embraced artificial-intellig…

Socio-Technical Smell Dynamics in Code Samples: A Multivocal Review on Emergence, Evolution, and Co-Occurrence
Arthur Bueno, Bruno Cafeo, Maria Cagnin, Awdren Font\~ao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13481

Socio-Technical Smell Dynamics in Code Samples: A Multivocal Review on Emergence, Evolution, and Co-Occurrence
Code samples play a pivotal role in open-source ecosystems (OSSECO), serving as lightweight artifacts that support knowledge transfer, onboarding, and framework adoption. Despite their instructional relevance, these samples are often governed informally, with minimal review and unclear ownership, which increases their exposure to socio-technical degradation. In this context, the co-occurrence and longitudinal interplay of code smells (e.g., large classes, poor modularity) and community smells (…

Hot-Swap MarkBoard: An Efficient Black-box Watermarking Approach for Large-scale Model Distribution
Zhicheng Zhang, Peizhuo Lv, Mengke Wan, Jiang Fang, Diandian Guo, Yezeng Chen, Yinlong Liu, Wei Ma, Jiyan Sun, Liru Geng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20650

Hot-Swap MarkBoard: An Efficient Black-box Watermarking Approach for Large-scale Model Distribution
Recently, Deep Learning (DL) models have been increasingly deployed on end-user devices as On-Device AI, offering improved efficiency and privacy. However, this deployment trend poses more serious Intellectual Property (IP) risks, as models are distributed on numerous local devices, making them vulnerable to theft and redistribution. Most existing ownership protection solutions (e.g., backdoor-based watermarking) are designed for cloud-based AI-as-a-Service (AIaaS) and are not directly applicab…

Sources: the NFL is in talks to take a minority stake of up to 10% in ESPN, which would own NFL Network and RedZone rather than just hold a controlling stake (Alex Sherman/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/24/nfl-media-espn-equity-ownership-deal.html

NFL in talks to take a 10% stake in ESPN
ESPN would own all of NFL Network and NFL RedZone, rather than just a controlling stake, if the deal moves forward as currently constructed, CNBC has learned.

It is possible Musk wants to take Tesla private (hard at 946B market cap) or at least thinking of increasing his ownership. Dropping share price helps either way.
#Musk #Tesla

"... abolishing Ofwat and replacing it with a shinier regulator won’t stop sewage dumping or profiteering if the finance and ownership structures stay the same."
Surfers Against Sewage.
Water companies to be overseen by new watchdog to 'prevent abuses of the past', government says - live updates - BBC News
https://www.…

Scrap Ofwat, says major report, as author warns water bills will rise by 30% in five years - live updates
Sir Jon Cunliffe's report into the water sector in England and Wales makes 88 recommendations - including making water meters mandatory.

WATCH: Netflix drops extended trailer for coming docuseries on Cowboys, Jerry Jones https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/30/netflix-docuseries-trailer-cowboys-jerry-jones/844199…

Commanders' Bobby Wagner joins Seattle Storm ownership as WNBA momentum builds https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6511314/2025/07/23/commanders-bobby-wagner-invests-seattle-storm/

The U.S. government is likely to take ownership stakes in more companies
— just as it did with Intel
— toward the goal of building a sovereign wealth fund,
National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett said Monday
It's a new paradigm for the U.S. government's relationship with the private sector,
and raises fresh questions about how much authority the administration intends to exert over corporate America.

Government will take stakes in more companies, top Trump adviser says
It's a new paradigm for the U.S. government's relationship with the private sector.

Sources: the HFPA voted to reconstitute itself on Monday, two years after disbanding, to reexamine Jay Penske and Todd Boehly's deal to buy the Golden Globes (Richard Rushfield/The Ankler)
https://theankler.com/p/hfpa-reboots-upends-golden-globes

Scoop: HFPA Reboots, Upends Golden Globes Ownership by Penske-Boehly
As California's AG withholds deal approval, the voting body required to dissolve for the transaction reverses course and is seeking to oust Helen Hoehne

Clothing subscription service Rent the Runway gives up around 86% ownership to three lenders in exchange for $240M in debt relief and $20M in fresh financing (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-21/rent-the-…

Colts announce ownership transition from late Jim Irsay to his 3 daughters https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6414311/2025/06/09/colts-ownership-jim-irsay-nfl-daughters/

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.

Towards Provable (In)Secure Model Weight Release Schemes
Xing Yang, Bingtao Wang, Yuhao Wang, Zimo Ji, Terry Jingchen Zhang, Wenyuan Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19874

Towards Provable (In)Secure Model Weight Release Schemes
Recent secure weight release schemes claim to enable open-source model distribution while protecting model ownership and preventing misuse. However, these approaches lack rigorous security foundations and provide only informal security guarantees. Inspired by established works in cryptography, we formalize the security of weight release schemes by introducing several concrete security definitions. We then demonstrate our definition's utility through a case study of TaylorMLP, a prominent secure…

US Steel, once America's biggest company, is now under foreign ownership (Chris Isidore/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/06/18/business/nippon-steel-finalizes-deal-to-buy-100-of-us-steel
http://www.memeorandum.com/250618/p113#a250618p113

Colts formalize transition to Irsay's daughters https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45480405/colts-reveal-ownership-transition-jim-irsay-daughters

Tom Brady Has Strong Message on Raiders Owner Mark Davis https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/tom-brady-mark-davis-message/?adt_ei=[email]

The FCC approves the Paramount-Skydance deal, granting the transfer of licenses for 28 CBS-owned local TV stations to the Skydance-led ownership group (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/fcc-approves-paramount-skydance-…

FCC Approves Paramount-Skydance Deal
The FCC approved the transfer of CBS licenses to Skydance's ownership group, paving the way to the merger of Skydance and Paramount.

Eli passes on Giants stake: 'Too expensive for me' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45703430/eli-manning-passes-buying-ownership-stake-giants

A survey by Google Cloud and The Harris Poll finds 87% of game developers are using AI agents in their workflows; 63% expressed concerns about data ownership (Vic Hood/GamesIndustry.biz)
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/87-of-game-devel…

87% of game developers are using AI agents in their workflows, says new survey
A new survey by Google Cloud and The Harris Poll has found that 87% of developers are using AI agents in their workflow…

Eli Manning backs out of bid for New York Giants ownership stake citing cost, conflict of interest

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/eli-man

Paramount reports Q2 revenue up 1% YoY to $6.85B, a $57M profit, vs. a $5.4B loss a year ago, Paramount subs down by 1.3M QoQ to 77.7M and revenue up 23% YoY (Jill Goldsmith/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/paramount-global-earning…

Paramount Sees Q2 Bump From ‘Mission Impossible’, Paramount+ In Redstone Swan Song As Skydance Merger Set To Close
aramount Global reported its last set of financials under Redstone ownership with a jump in theatrical revenue from Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning.

Of course I'm no fan of the Islamic Revolution (Iran) but this is a very good move.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0gngq4wjqo

Iran expands dog walking ban beyond Tehran
Dogs are vieved as "unclean" by Islamic officials, but ownership is rising as a form of quiet rebellion.

WGLE:Backdoor-free and Multi-bit Black-box Watermarking for Graph Neural Networks
Tingzhi Li, Xuefeng Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08602 https://

WGLE:Backdoor-free and Multi-bit Black-box Watermarking for Graph Neural Networks
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are increasingly deployed in graph-related applications, making ownership verification critical to protect their intellectual property against model theft. Fingerprinting and black-box watermarking are two main methods. However, the former relies on determining model similarity, which is computationally expensive and prone to ownership collisions after model post-processing such as model pruning or fine-tuning. The latter embeds backdoors, exposing watermarked model…

Nvidia debuts the Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2, a hybrid Mamba-transformer model, saying it achieves scores comparable to or better than Qwen3-8B on reasoning benchmarks (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/nvidia-rele

Nvidia releases a new small, open model Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2 with toggle on/off reasoning
Developers are free to create and distribute derivative models. Importantly, Nvidia does not claim ownership of any outputs generated...

Indianapolis Colts announce ownership transition as late Jim Irsay passes franchise to children

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/indiana

Learning Obfuscations Of LLM Embedding Sequences: Stained Glass Transform
Jay Roberts, Kyle Mylonakis, Sidhartha Roy, Kaan Kale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09452

Learning Obfuscations Of LLM Embedding Sequences: Stained Glass Transform
The high cost of ownership of AI compute infrastructure and challenges of robust serving of large language models (LLMs) has led to a surge in managed Model-as-a-service deployments. Even when enterprises choose on-premises deployments, the compute infrastructure is typically shared across many teams in order to maximize the return on investment. In both scenarios the deployed models operate only on plaintext data, and so enterprise data owners must allow their data to appear in plaintext on a …

NWaaS: Nonintrusive Watermarking as a Service for X-to-Image DNN
Haonan An, Guang Hua, Yu Guo, Hangcheng Cao, Susanto Rahardja, Yuguang Fang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18036 htt…

NWaaS: Nonintrusive Watermarking as a Service for X-to-Image DNN
The intellectual property of deep neural network (DNN) models can be protected with DNN watermarking, which embeds copyright watermarks into model parameters (white-box), model behavior (black-box), or model outputs (box-free), and the watermarks can be subsequently extracted to verify model ownership or detect model theft. Despite recent advances, these existing methods are inherently intrusive, as they either modify the model parameters or alter the structure. This natural intrusiveness raise…

Irsay-Gordon on her hands-on approach: 'I would suggest it for anyone that has to pay coaches millions' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45501891/nfl-indianapolis-colts-ownership-carlie-irsay-gordon

Jerry Jones' ego once again has a Cowboys star growing frustrated https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/jerry-jones-ego-once-again-has-dallas-cowboys-star-growing-frustrated

Tom Brady on role as Raiders limited partner: 'I'm there as a great sounding board' https://www.nfl.com/news/tom-brady-on-role-as-raiders-limited-partner-i-m-there-as-a-great-sounding-board

MEraser: An Effective Fingerprint Erasure Approach for Large Language Models
Jingxuan Zhang, Zhenhua Xu, Rui Hu, Wenpeng Xing, Xuhong Zhang, Meng Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12551

MEraser: An Effective Fingerprint Erasure Approach for Large Language Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) have become increasingly prevalent across various sectors, raising critical concerns about model ownership and intellectual property protection. Although backdoor-based fingerprinting has emerged as a promising solution for model authentication, effective attacks for removing these fingerprints remain largely unexplored. Therefore, we present Mismatched Eraser (MEraser), a novel method for effectively removing backdoor-based fingerprints from LLMs while maintaining …

Irsay's daughters take ownership 'very seriously' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45487941/take-very-seriously

Hashed Watermark as a Filter: Defeating Forging and Overwriting Attacks in Weight-based Neural Network Watermarking
Yuan Yao, Jin Song, Jian Jin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11137

Hashed Watermark as a Filter: Defeating Forging and Overwriting Attacks in Weight-based Neural Network Watermarking
As valuable digital assets, deep neural networks necessitate robust ownership protection, positioning neural network watermarking (NNW) as a promising solution. Among various NNW approaches, weight-based methods are favored for their simplicity and practicality; however, they remain vulnerable to forging and overwriting attacks. To address those challenges, we propose NeuralMark, a robust method built around a hashed watermark filter. Specifically, we utilize a hash function to generate an irre…

NFLPA executive director Lloyd Howell Jr. was not advised to resign from firm seeking NFL minority ownership: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6486656/2025/07/10/nflpa-lloyd-howell-jr-carlyle-group/

Ex-NFLPA boss resigns role at equity firm Carlyle https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45790595/ex-nflpa-boss-howell-quits-role-consultant-carlyle-group

Bills QB Josh Allen explains why he doesn't think the tush push should be banned: 'My advice is to stop it'

https://www.cbssports.com/…

Dallas Cowboys are NFL's most valuable team for sixth straight season https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6551573/2025/08/13/most-valuable-nfl-teams-sportico-cowboys-rams/

Wetzel: Why the NFLPA mess should matter to football fans https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45712186/why-nflpa-mess-matter-football-fans