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UK to pay for EU defense fund access amidst growing Russia threat, FT reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/22/uk-to-pay-for-eu.html

A Meeting to discuss Heathrow's low pay problem: https://hounslowtradescouncil.org/heathrows-low-pay-problem/

Heathrow’s Low Pay Problem
An Open Meeting Hounslow Trades Union Council Thursday 26th June 7.30pm, . Hounslow United Reformed Church, 114 Hanworth Road, Hounslow, TW3 1UF Eight years ago, Heathrow Airport became a Living Wa…

Analysis: 16 of the UK's top 50 biggest news websites now use a "consent or pay" model to let users opt out of cookies; almost 100% choose to accept cookies (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/consent-or-pay-…

More UK news publishers are adopting 'consent or pay' advertising model
Sixteen of the 50 biggest news websites in the UK are now using a “consent or pay” model to allow users to pay to reject personalised ads.

Rioter Ordered To Pay $500,000 To Widow Of Late Cop - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/rioter-ordered-to-pay-500000-to-widow-of-late-cop/

Jury orders man to pay $500K for assaulting police officer who killed himself after Capitol riot (Associated Press)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/jury-orders-man-pay-500k-assaulting-police-officer-killed-capitol-riot-rcna214645
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p4#a250624p4

lol!
https://journa.host/@w7voa/114905295332917245

Trump claimed that Joe Biden had “established toxic diversity, equity and inclusion ideology as a guiding principle of American AI development”.
“But the American people do not want woke Marxist lunacy in the AI models,” Trump said
Trump told assembled industry leaders that he wants them to “change the name” of artificial intelligence
and that they should not be forced to pay the authors of articles or books they use to train their large language models

Prompt Smart, Pay Less: Cost-Aware APO for Real-World Applications
Jayesh Choudhari, Piyush Kumar Singh, Douglas McIlwraith, Snehal Nair
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15884

Prompt Smart, Pay Less: Cost-Aware APO for Real-World Applications
Prompt design is a critical factor in the effectiveness of Large Language Models (LLMs), yet remains largely heuristic, manual, and difficult to scale. This paper presents the first comprehensive evaluation of Automatic Prompt Optimization (APO) methods for real-world, high-stakes multiclass classification in a commercial setting, addressing a critical gap in the existing literature where most of the APO frameworks have been validated only on benchmark classification tasks of limited complexity…

Quotes that have evolved over time to add a twist

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
The original first half is by Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think (1820).
The second half was made up by Twitter and then falsely attributed the entire quote to Oscar Wilde, it's still a great addition, I think.
Jack of all…

Columbia University to pay out more than $220M after violating Jewish students' civil rights in massive win for Trump admin (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/07/23/us-news/columbia-university-to-pay-out-more-than-220m-after-violating-jewish-students-civil-rights-in-massive-win-for-trump-admin/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p170#a250723p170

heise | EU erzwingt NFC-Öffnung für Payments: Tschüss Apple Pay?
iPhone ans Terminal und schwupp ist bezahlt – das ging bisher nur mit Apple Pay. Jetzt dürfen auch PayPal & Co. die NFC-Schnittstelle nutzen. Was heißt das?

At an All-In Podcast summit, President Trump said forcing AI firms to pay for each copyrighted work is "not doable", calling for "common sense" AI and IP rules (Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/trump-ai-action-plan-copyright-1236466617/

White House’s AI Action Plan Includes Rules On Ideological Bias And Calls For Removing Regulatory Barriers, But Makes No Comment On Copyright
The plan does not address the use of copyrighted material in training models.

Can’t pay, won’t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/14/cant-pay-wont-pay-impoverished-streaming-service…

i'm getting increasingly intolerant of people who call cryptocurrencies a scam because they're basically the only way to pay for stuff that's not captured by christofascists https://hachyderm.io/@fasterthanlime/114907994076068205

At an All-In Podcast summit, President Trump said forcing AI firms to pay for each copyrighted work is "not doable", calling for "common sense" AI and IP rules (Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/trump-ai-action-plan-copyright-1236466617/

Donald Trump Says AI Companies Can’t Be Expected To Pay For All Copyrighted Content Used In Their Training Models: “Not Do-Able”
The White House's AI Action Plan does not address copyright, but Trump did.

“OpenAI agreed to pay Oracle $30B a year for data center services”
Wow

Hilariously, this one is pay-walled! #openscience #nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01826-1

Here's an idea: let's replace banknotes with people, with banknotes with animals. Then you could pay with two goats, a buffalo and three guinea pigs.

New credit card hack my family just got caught by
Someone slapped official looking QR codes on all the parking meters in Salem, MA
Scan the code, pay parking with credit card, your credit card just got p0wned
New credit cards for us!
#hack #qrcode

We need to reclaim the tradition of imposing taxes on the rich to cover the costs of war. It’s why we got the income tax in the first place.

War is a mechanism that concentrates wealth at the top. If that is not countered with policy, it suggests that part of the purpose of the war is that concentration.
(see the past 25 years as an example)

There are greedy people, and I don't like them very much.
But people who aren't greedy, per se, but who will nonetheless always be the last to offer to pay for something, always be ready to point out that they drank half a glass less than the others, always wait to see if I cave and say ok, I'll settle this then we'll see.
These people.
These people, they make life just that little shittier, for absolutely fucking nothing.

A Price to Pay: U.S. Lawmaker Efforts to Regulate Algorithmic and Data-Driven Pricing
https://fpf.org/blog/a-price-to-pay-u-s-lawmaker-efforts-to-regulate-algorithmic-and-data-driven-pricing/
@…

Cool. So we all pay 5% more for Japanese goods, and you get $550 billion to hand out to your grifting son of a bitch donors https://flipboard.com/@petapixel/petapixel-t8l3kt33z/-/a-8x7h5-h1S_OrhO4ytSOUXQ:a:1814180069-/0

@… I've been thinking on and off over the past few months if I should sign up (And make my employer pay the membership dues of course).
On one hand I would love to support the concept of professional organizations in our field, seems like there are way too many cowboys just slapping together barely cohesive code and making billions of doll…

oh, the yellowish tint of gen-AI art might come from revisions. each revision of an image on chatGPT makes it slightly more yellow, not sure why, and I'm not going to pay for more image quota to experiment
gemini doesn't have that behavior (but also gemini is less stable when you ask for revisions)
(both of them assumed I'm female when I asked for a pic of me with you as my boyfriend. chatGPT became a girl when I said I was a guy, and it took 3 tries and a "think…

"Activists from the UK action group Everyone hates Elon and Greenpeace Italy unfolded a giant 20x20m banner reading “If you can rent Venice for your wedding, you can pay more tax” on Piazza San Marco, as Jeff Bezos is due to celebrate his reportedly multi-million wedding in the lagoon city this week."
https://m…

Genius. Thank you, Greenpeace!

DoJ says voting machine maker funneled LA county money into slush funds used to pay bribes
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/20/smartmatic-voting-machines-bribery

😢😣
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/23/britain-toxic-chemicals-labour-tory-brexit-regulations?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

😢😣
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/23/britain-toxic-chemicals-labour-tory-brexit-regulations?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Dynamic #EV charging prices, following the spot market, and available to all - including direct payment with bank or credit card, without ‘fees’. A big ‘Bravo!’ for enercity and EV-Pay for showing what is possible in Germany, despite all the ‘Eichrecht’ hurdles.

Stündlich wechselnde Ladepreise: Enercity und EV-Pay führen dynamische Ad-hoc-Preise ein - electrive.net
Der Strompreis am Spotmarkt schwankt, an Ladesäulen sind heute aber starre Festpreise die Regel. In Hannover ist das bald anders: Enercity und EV-Pay starten

It’s ok, anyone stupid enough to *voluntarily* travel to the US will be stupid enough to pay this fee.
(I sympathise with those of you who are forced to go; not everyone has the privilege of being able to refuse.) https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/114876352417719220

Bills to bring back throwback red helmets for final regular-season game at Highmark Stadium

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bills-to-br…

Investigation finds Rev. Barber did not misdirect funds to pay his ex alimony %
https://religionnews.com/2025/06/21/investigation-finds-rev-barber-did-not-misdirect-funds-to-pay-his-ex-alimony/

Businesses and households served by PJM, the US' largest power grid operator, will pay a record $16.1B for electricity supplies amid an AI-driven demand surge (Naureen S Malik/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Musician Liam Benzvi on taking risks that pay off
https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/musician-liam-benzvi-on-taking-risks-that-pay-off/?utm_…

Musician Liam Benzvi on taking risks that pay off – The Creative Independent
Musician Liam Benzvi discusses success, instant gratification, and being in pursuit of what you love.

Trump Learns the Political Price of Conspiracy Theories (Karl Rove/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-will-pay-a-political-price-of-conspiracy-theories-f1e7cf9d
http://www.memeorandum.com/250724/p36#a250724p36

Cowboys Headlines: Lakers sale good news for Jerry Jones; cheerleaders get huge pay raise https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/20/news-headlines-los-angeles-laker…

We need this to gain more widespread adoption asap. PayPal is heavily pushing shops and restaurants to offer their Payment method. This must not be accepted as they are evil fuckers. https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/115065835725739378

CASPER: Contrastive Approach for Smart Ponzi Scheme Detecter with More Negative Samples
Weijia Yang, Tian Lan, Leyuan Liu, Wei Chen, Tianqing Zhu, Sheng Wen, Xiaosong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16840

CASPER: Contrastive Approach for Smart Ponzi Scheme Detecter with More Negative Samples
The rapid evolution of digital currency trading, fueled by the integration of blockchain technology, has led to both innovation and the emergence of smart Ponzi schemes. A smart Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation in smart contract that uses funds from new investors to pay returns to earlier investors. Traditional Ponzi scheme detection methods based on deep learning typically rely on fully supervised models, which require large amounts of labeled data. However, such data is often…

A classic. Reporter fails to pay attention to what the nimbys actually say.
Reporter: Critics fear that [very modest] upzone won't produce "housing that is actually affordable for county residents"
Then quotes critic who fears it will "just provide more affordably priced rental units"
https://…

I think the Vibecoding reddit has accidentally stumbled on the best description of vibecoding:
It's "roleplay for guys [it is always guys] who want to feel like hackers without doing the hard part".
(Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/com…

Alison Downes, director of pressure group Stop Sizewell C, said: "This much-delayed final investment decision has only crawled over the line thanks to guarantees that the public purse, not private investors, will carry the can for the inevitable cost overruns."
#Sizewell C nuclear project cost rises to £38bn - BBC News

Sizewell C nuclear project cost rises to £38bn
Households will pay £1 a month towards the construction of the UK's second new nuclear power plant.

@… @… You put meat on a stick and make it think, you get what you pay for.

Just imagine how long this shit would last if nobody freaking payed them.
Don't freaking pay them!
https://mastodon.social/@verge/114892486016179121

Scattered Spider affiliate given 10 year sentence, ordered to pay $13 million in restitution https://therecord.media/scattered-spider-affiliate-sentenced-10-years

Shell, BP, Total, Sasol: Stop wrecking Africa. Pay for your destruction. #Africa

Big oil: end fossil fuels, boost renewables, pay for climate damage
People across Africa are telling oil and gas giants like BP, Shell, TotalEnergies and Sasol to end fossil fuels, boost renewables, pay for climate damage

Why a federal program paying employees not to work may violate spending laws (Madeline Materna/GovExec.com)
https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2025/07/why-federal-program-paying-employees-not-work-may-violate-spending-laws/406896/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p30#a250723p30

is AI real life
is it just fantasy
caught up in the hype
no escape from reality
#ai #llm #vibecoding

When traveling to #UK for a conference (so, hotel, breakfast, lunch already covered), does one need cash? Can I pay with #Mastercard (#postfinance) in a pub or for ice cream? I mean, with the physi…

NYC announces new minimum-pay rules for rideshare drivers, settling on a 5% increase after Uber and Lyft strongly opposed a proposed 6.1% pay hike (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

If I were the operator of this coal plant - one that is costing me and electrical rate payers (you and me) a $million per day I would simply throw the switch and shut it down.
Yes, a $million per day. For power that is not needed, for pollution that is not wanted. And we get to foot the bill.
I'd tell FFOTUS to stuff it up his ample behind and that if he wants it he can hire staff, buy coal, and pay for it.

Edison's plan to pay Eaton fire victims could mean less litigation, less compensation
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-07-25/edisons-program-to-pay-eaton-fire-victims-leaves-questions
🆓

Edison’s plan to pay Eaton fire victims could mean less litigation, less compensation
Supporters say victims could get paid more quickly through Edison's plan, but lawyers say they might get shortchanged

Just had to upgrade my solo instance of hosted Mastodon from the smallest plan (est. 5 active users) to the next size (est. 20 active users), due to database storage exhaustion.
I’m still happy to pay someone else to deal with Ruby, and it’s certainly worth $9/month…
…and I’m also happy when it happens, but this is totally the fault of the network effects of the occasional @…

Estimating Deprivation Cost Functions for Power Outages During Disasters: A Discrete Choice Modeling Approach
Xiangpeng Li, Mona Ahmadiani, Richard Woodward, Bo Li, Arnold Vedlitz, Ali Mostafavi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16993

Estimating Deprivation Cost Functions for Power Outages During Disasters: A Discrete Choice Modeling Approach
Systems for the generation and distribution of electrical power represents critical infrastructure and, when extreme weather events disrupt such systems, this imposes substantial costs on consumers. These costs can be conceptualized as deprivation costs, an increasing function of time without service, quantifiable through individuals' willingness to pay for power restoration. Despite widespread recognition of outage impacts, a gap in the research literature exists regarding the systematic measu…

#shame

OMG Google, you're desperate. What you just did is exactly *why* I just started to pay for Kagi.

"The Matrix is everywhere, it's all
around us, here even in this room.
You can see it out your window or
on your television. You feel it
when you go to work, or go to
church or pay your taxes. It is
the world that has been pulled
over your eyes to blind you from
the truth."
— MORPHEUS

It has been years since I bought a Windows machine, but the first thing I did was remove crapware like that.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2881134/dont-fall-for-mcafees-deceptive-antivirus-warnings-on-your-laptop.html

South African regulators approve Canal 's ~$3B acquisition of MultiChoice, set to create Africa's largest pay TV and streaming group with ~50M subscribers (Loni Prinsloo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Agent's Take: Why changing positions would be well worth the switch for Steelers' Darnell Washington

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/agents-

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Estimating quantile treatments without strict overlap
Marco Avella-Medina, Richard Davis, Gennady Samorodnitsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18215 https://…

Estimating quantile treatments without strict overlap
We consider the problem of estimating quantile treatment effects without assuming strict overlap , i.e., we do not assume that the propensity score is bounded away from zero. More specifically, we consider an inverse probability weighting (IPW) approach for estimating quantiles in the potential outcomes framework and pay special attention to scenarios where the propensity scores can tend to zero as a regularly varying function. Our approach effectively considers a heavy-tailed objective functio…

Tesla quietly launches its robotaxi service in Austin, with ~10 vehicles and a human safety driver; Elon Musk says customers will pay "a $4.20 flat fee" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5aefc191-d3de-4e6b-a2eb-08defd0678ee

Tesla launches robotaxi service in Austin
Self-driving technology on which Elon Musk has staked future of his company debuts in Texas

Not Even Nice Work If You Can Get It; A Longitudinal Study of Uber's Algorithmic Pay and Pricing
Reuben Binns, Jake Stein, Siddhartha Datta, Max Van Kleek, Nigel Shadbolt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15278

Not Even Nice Work If You Can Get It; A Longitudinal Study of Uber's Algorithmic Pay and Pricing
Ride-sharing platforms like Uber market themselves as enabling `flexibility' for their workforce, meaning that drivers are expected to anticipate when and where the algorithm will allocate them jobs, and how well remunerated those jobs will be. In this work we describe our process of participatory action research with drivers and trade union organisers, culminating in a participatory audit of Uber's algorithmic pay and work allocation, before and after the introduction of dynamic pricing. Throu…

Trevon Diggs Got Candid About Losing $500K of His Cowboys' Salary: 'Hurt My Feelings' https://www.si.com/nfl/trevon-diggs-got-candid-about-losing-500k-of-his-cowboys-salary-hurt-my-feelings

Sources: Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky could get a multibillion-dollar payout if he drives the fintech's valuation to ~$150B, under an Elon Musk-style pay deal (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c93e33ad-450d-446f-b9c5-e877e3b07b25

Revolut chief in line for Musk-style payday at $150bn valuation
Nik Storonsky struck deal before SoftBank funding round that awards him more shares if valuation clears set hurdles

It's Esther Kim Varet,
Democrat running to flip blue California's closest Republican held seat.
We know the Republicans are scared of my brand of leadership, because they've already started attacking me online.
This week my opponent announced that she wants to work with Trump to sell federal parks to pay for tax cuts for their friends.
It's unacceptable.
My opponent is powered by billionaires,
but I'm powered by you.
Can you …

I'm with Esther Kim Varet
Show your support with a contribution.

Russia must pay at least 500 billion euros in compensation to Ukraine, Germany's Merz says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/russia-must-pay-at-least.html

You picked the most overrated and underrated NFL teams https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6509332/2025/07/23/nfl-underrated-overrated-teams-the-pulse/

£100Bn or £20?
How much would water nationalisation cost initially?
If the companies are allowed to go bankrupt then the latter.
Of course then there will be more costs of investing properly in decent water infrastructure, water conservation and waste reduction and management.
But the public are being asked to pay for that, and profits and bonuses now.
Labour’s arguments on #WaterNationalisation

Labour’s arguments on water nationalisation reveal their total economic incompetence
This exchange took place in The Commons yesterday as Clive Lewis MP asked Steve Reed MP, the Environment Secretary, about nationalisation of the water industry: Clive Lewis (Norwich South) (Lab) I am afraid that the report feels like a missed opportunity for the Government to show the public whose side they are on....

Filing: WBD says it plans to "significantly reduce" CEO David Zaslav's annual pay, including his cash bonus, after shareholders rejected his 2024 pay package (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/warne

Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav Pay to Drop After Company Split
WBD CEO David Zaslav will see his pay package take a haircut after the proposed separation of Warner Bros. Discovery in 2026. The company granted him $225 million in stock option awards.

The UK plans to ban public sector and key infrastructure orgs from paying ransoms to ransomware attackers, require others to notify the UK if they plan to pay (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu…

@… I feel like there was a time when Apple Support would have somehow made that right for you, not just “lol you can pay us more money because of our bug that we don’t know if we’ll fix” but I guess that was before the services revenue line had to go up 📈

Columbia Agrees to Pay More Than $200 Million to Settle Trump Fight (Douglas Belkin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/columbia-reaches-deal-with-trump-administration-to-restore-federal-funds-2e3cfdc6
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p173#a250723p173

Cowboys Star Left With ‘Hurt Feelings’ After Jerry Jones Move https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-star-left-with-hurt-feelings-after-jerry-jones-move/?adt_ei=[email]

Tap to Pay: In diesen Ländern dient das iPhone jetzt als Bezahlterminal
Der im iPhone eingebaute NFC-Chip lässt sich nicht nur zum kontaktlosen Bezahlen nutzen, sondern kann auch Karten auslesen. Apple erweitert nun sein Tap to Pay.

PayPal announces PayPal World, an upcoming platform designed to simplify cross-border payments via Venmo, India's UPI, Tencent's Tenpay, and Mercado Pago (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/22/payp

PayPal taps wallets from China and India to make cross-border payments easier for 2 billion people | TechCrunch
PayPal is partnering with global fintech companies to let users pay to different wallet systems cross border.

Columbia University to pay over $200 million to resolve Trump probes (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/columbia-university-trump-administration-reach-deal-over-funding-washington-post-2025-07-23/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p167#a250723p167

Agent's Take: How Trey Hendrickson and Bengals can find common ground to keep star pass rusher in Cincinnati

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

Walmart has agreed to pay
$5.6 million
to settle a lawsuit alleging that the retail giant
charged California customers prices that were higher than advertised
https://www.aol.com/news/walmart-pay-5-6-million-011551472.html

Walmart to pay $5.6 million to settle lawsuit alleging California shoppers were overcharged
Walmart has agreed to pay $5.6 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office, alleging that the retail giant overcha...

Monitoring firm MUSO says piracy hit a low in 2020 with 130B website visits and grew by 2024 to 216B; in Sweden, 25% of those surveyed reported pirating in 2024 (Gabriel V Rindborg/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/

Silicon Valley's bet on Trump starts to pay off (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/23/trump-ai-action-plan-big-tech/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p32#a250723p32

Senate Finance cuts doctor pay raises from Trump tax bill | STAT
https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/17/senate-finance-trump-tax-bill-republicans-remove-medicare-pay-raises-for-doctors/?utm_campaign=rss

Browns might end up using money from Johnny Manziel to help pay for their new $2.4 billion stadium

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/browns-

Donald Trump’s attempt to take credit for the additional weapons headed to Ukraine at Europe’s expense has created some friction in EU-US relations.
“If we pay for these weapons, it’s our support,”
said Kaja Kallas, the EU foreign policy chief, on Wednesday.
“So it’s European support,
and we are doing as much as we can to help Ukraine …
If you promise to give the weapons but say that somebody else is going to pay for it,
it’s not really given by …

Sources: Meta's talks with Scale AI started in mid-April, with Zuckerberg floating a $5B investment in early May, which Alexandr Wang later countered with $20B (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-agreed-pay…

Meta Agreed to Pay up for Scale AI but Then Wanted More for Its Money
The negotiations started as just one billionaire tech founder talking to another. Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg approached Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang in mid-April about a potentially industry-shaking deal. Zuckerberg wanted Wang to join Meta and was willing to pay billions of dollars to ...

Sources: Paramount will pay $300M a year for five years to bring global streaming rights for South Park to Paramount , including US rights for the first time (Meg James/Los Angeles Times)

'South Park' creators reach $1.5-billion streaming deal with Paramount
Paramount has reached an agreement that will bring 'South Park' to streaming service Paramount+ for the first time in the U.S.

Should the Commanders pay Terry McLaurin top-10 WR money as he approaches the receiver wall at age 30?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/should-

Every major US city has a private foundation supporting police,
with more than 250 nationwide, according to a 2021 report by research and activist groups Little Sis and Color of Change.
The foundations have been used to pay for surveillance technologies in cities like Baltimore and Los Angeles -- without being subject to public scrutiny, according to the report.
More than a year after a digital news outlet and a research group sued the Atlanta Police Foundation for alleged…

Delta plans for 20% of its fares to be individually determined using AI by the end of 2025, up from 3% now, with the goal of eliminating static pricing entirely (Irina Ivanova/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/07/16/delt…

Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket
The airline touted a partnership with an AI-enabled revenue system as a step on the road to fully personalized ticket pricing, part of its goal to raise profit margins long-term.

Filing: Newsmax agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $67M to settle a defamation lawsuit over false claims about the 2020 election, with $27M due this month (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/08/18/media/newsmax-dominion-settle-2020-election-defamatio…

Newsmax will pay $67 million to settle Dominion lawsuit over network’s 2020 election lies
Egregious lies about the 2020 presidential election are going to cost Newsmax millions.

Match is settling with the FTC for $14M and a number of changes like making it easy to cancel subs, after the FTC sued in 2019 over false advertising and more (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/12/matc

Match to pay $14M to the FTC due to false advertising and other deceptive practices | TechCrunch
Match Group agrees to pay the FTC $14 million after it was sued for deceiving users into buying subscriptions.

FuboTV agrees to pay $3.4M to settle a 2023 class action lawsuit alleging it violated US and California privacy laws over user data; Fubo denies the claims (Luke Bouma/Cord Cutters News)
https://cordcuttersnews.com/fu…

Fubo May Owe You Money After Agreeing to Pay $3.4 Million to Settle Class Action Lawsuit Over Privacy Violations | Cord Cutters News
FuboTV Inc. and FuboTV Media Inc. have agreed to pay $3.4 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging the companies violated federal and California privacy laws, including the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), and California Civil Code § 1799.3. The lawsuit claims Fubo improperly collected, stored, used, […]

Polymarket says it is buying little-known derivatives exchange QCX, in a move to legally re-enter the US market; a source says Polymarket will pay $112M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-21/cr…

Sources: Meta offered Ruoming Pang a $200M pay package over a several-year period in line with Meta's other major AI hires; Apple didn't try to match the offer (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta Poached Apple’s Ruoming Pang With Pay Package Over $200 Million
Meta Platforms Inc. has made unusually high compensation offers to new members of its “superintelligence” team — including a more than $200 million package for a former Apple Inc. distinguished engineer.

Google will pay $30M to settle a class action lawsuit alleging it violated kids' privacy on YouTube by collecting data without parental consent for targeted ads (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

Meta's WhatsApp Pay has struggled to gain traction in India in part due to regulators delaying its full launch as well as minimal product upgrades and marketing (Ananya Bhattacharya/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/whatsapp-pay-download-india/

Meta’s grand WhatsApp fintech experiment in India has fizzled
Despite having 500 million users in India, WhatsApp couldn’t crack the country’s $3 trillion fintech market.