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France Becomes First Government to Endorse UN #OpenSource Principles, Joined by 19 Organizations
https://unite.un.org/fr/news/france-be

Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission
"They could fix this problem. One of their talented software engineers could stop this fraudulent practice in its tracks, if they had the will to do so."
🎶 https://www.404media.co/sp…

Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission
"They could fix this problem. One of their talented software engineers could stop this fraudulent practice in its tracks, if they had the will to do so."

Swalwell: You were promised lower prices on day one. How many of you are feeling those lower prices?
You were promised an end to all wars on day one. How many of you have seen an end to those wars?
Donald Trump is 0 for 150. He made those promises on day one—and now we’re on day 150.
https://

Amazon quietly walks back promise on Trump’s tariffs
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/21/2334480/-Amazon-quietly-walks-back-promise-on-Trump-s-tariffs?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=main

"Rachel Reeves Promised Oil Industry ‘Quid Pro Quo’ Over Windfall Tax in Private Meeting"
#UK #UnitedKigdom #Climate

Rachel Reeves Promised Oil Industry ‘Quid Pro Quo’ Over Windfall Tax in Private Meeting
Chancellor Rachel Reeves told a fossil fuel giant that the industry would receive a “quid pro quo” in return for higher taxes on its windfall profits, DeSmog can reveal. In a meeting with the Norwegian state energy company Equinor on 27 August last year, Reeves suggested that the government’s carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) […]

Promises made, promises kept
#cartoon #promise

Exploiting Primacy Effect To Improve Large Language Models
Bianca Raimondi, Maurizio Gabbrielli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13949 https://

Exploiting Primacy Effect To Improve Large Language Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) have become essential in many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, leveraging extensive pre-training and fine-tuning to achieve high accuracy. However, like humans, LLMs exhibit biases, particularly positional biases such as primacy and recency effects, which can influence the accuracy of the answers. The primacy effect-where items presented first are more likely to be remembered or selected-plays a key role in Multiple Choice Question Answering (MCQA), where th…

Very nice multi day tour blog from @…
With a nice video!
https://elperronegro.com/posts/2025-06-08-backpacking-pyrenees/

Backpacking in the Pyrenees
Our walking and backpacking trip to the Pyrenees to do the "3000 Ibones", including a road trip back home

Man vet inte vem som blir bäst men de som blir bäst har i princip alltid varit bra https://traningslara.se/man-vet-inte-vem-som-blir-bast-men-de-som-blir-bast-har-i-princip-alltid-varit-bra/

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/aflac-incorporated-discloses-cybersecurity-incident-302487036.html
Likely another Scattered Spider incident

Aflac Incorporated Discloses Cybersecurity Incident
/PRNewswire/ -- On June 12, 2025, Aflac Incorporated (NYSE: AFL) identified suspicious activity on our network in the United States. We promptly initiated our...