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The FCC enters into a consent decree with Sinclair to resolve a variety of issues; Sinclair won't admit to rules violations and will pay a $500K civil penalty (George Winslow/TV Tech)
https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/fcc-fines-sinclair-usd500-000

FCC Fines Sinclair $500,000
Station group enters into consent decree to resolve a variety of issues without admitting to rules violations

Ich hatte mich auf der #bibliocon25 noch gefragt, wann ich denn das letzte Mal in Bremen war bei einem Bibliothekartag. Beim Stöbern im BIB-OPUS habe ich die Antwort gefunden: 2014 war es und meine Präsentation hieß "Bibliotheken: Wir öffnen Daten. Zum Stand der Entwicklung einer offenen Dateninfrastruktur", siehe

TDCOSMO XXIII. First spatially resolved kinematics of the lens galaxy obtained using JWST-NIRSpec to improve time-delay cosmography
Anowar J. Shajib, Tommaso Treu, Sherry H. Suyu, David Law, Ak{\i}n Y{\i}ld{\i}r{\i}m, Michele Cappellari, Aymeric Galan, Shawn Knabel, Han Wang, Simon Birrer, Fr\'ed\'eric Courbin, Christopher D. Fassnacht, Joshua A. Frieman, Alejandra Melo, Takahiro Morishita, Pritom Mozumdar, Dominique Sluse, Massimo Stiavelli

TDCOSMO XXIII. First spatially resolved kinematics of the lens galaxy obtained using JWST-NIRSpec to improve time-delay cosmography
Spatially resolved stellar kinematics has become a key ingredient in time-delay cosmography to break the mass-sheet degeneracy in the mass profile and, in turn, provide a precise constraint on the Hubble constant and other cosmological parameters. In this paper, we present the first measurements of 2D resolved stellar kinematics for the lens galaxy in the quadruply lensed quasar system \lensname, using integral field spectroscopy from the JWST's Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec), marking the…

Depth-resolved polarisation sensitive optical coherence tomography reveals the complex microanatomical response of cartilage to compression
Darven Murali Tharan (The University of Auckland, Department of Physics, New Zealand, The Dodd Walls Centre for Quantum and Photonic Technology), Marco Bonesi (The University of Auckland, Department of Physics, New Zealand, The Dodd Walls Centre for Quantum and Photonic Technology), Daniel Everett (The Dodd Walls Centre for Quantum and Photonic Tec…

Depth-resolved polarisation sensitive optical coherence tomography reveals the complex microanatomical response of cartilage to compression
Conventional methods for analysing cartilage microstructure under mechanical loading are largely destructive. In this work, we evaluate the efficacy of using depth-resolved polarisation sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT) to study the cartilage morphological response to compression. We show that depth-resolved PS-OCT reveals the microstructure of cartilage under load, and it can do so non-destructively, opening significant possibilities for enhanced clinical assessment of cartilage …

Memo: OpenAI's Mark Chen responds to Meta offers, says it feels like "someone has broken into our home and stolen something" and OpenAI is "recalibrating comp" (Zoë Schiffer/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-meta-leadership-talent…

OpenAI Leadership Responds to Meta Offers: 'Someone Has Broken Into Our Home'
As Mark Zuckerberg lures away top research talent to Meta, OpenAI executives say they're ‘recalibrating comp,’ according to an internal memo.

Improving Generalization Ability of Robotic Imitation Learning by Resolving Causal Confusion in Observations
Yifei Chen, Yuzhe Zhang, Giovanni D'urso, Nicholas Lawrance, Brendan Tidd
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22380

Improving Generalization Ability of Robotic Imitation Learning by Resolving Causal Confusion in Observations
Recent developments in imitation learning have considerably advanced robotic manipulation. However, current techniques in imitation learning can suffer from poor generalization, limiting performance even under relatively minor domain shifts. In this work, we aim to enhance the generalization capabilities of complex imitation learning algorithms to handle unpredictable changes from the training environments to deployment environments. To avoid confusion caused by observations that are not releva…

Scale-resolved turbulent Prandtl number for Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard convection at $\boldsymbol{Pr =10^{-3}}$
Shashwat Bhattacharya, Dmitry Krasnov, Ambrish Pandey, Toshiyuki Gotoh, J\"org Schumacher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22110

Scale-resolved turbulent Prandtl number for Rayleigh-Bénard convection at $\boldsymbol{Pr =10^{-3}}$
We present a framework to calculate the scale-resolved turbulent Prandtl number $Pr_t$ for the well-mixed and highly inertial bulk of a turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard mesoscale convection layer at a molecular Prandtl number $Pr=10^{-3}$. It builds on Kolmogorov's refined similarity hypothesis of homogeneous isotropic fluid and passive scalar turbulence, based on log-normally distributed amplitudes of kinetic energy and scalar dissipation rates that are coarse-grained over variable scales $r$ in the…

rare moment of honesty from cops about their politics. that being said, it's better when they feel they have to hide this allegiance, and SF sheriff is an elected position that is recallable.
https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/chad-bianco-paul-miy…

Unterstützung aus Deutschland für die Ukraine bei UN-Sondersitzung
Der neue deutsche UN-Botschafter Ricklef Beutin hat der Ukraine anhaltende Hilfe bei der Verteidigung gegen Russland zugesagt: "Deutschland wird zusammen mit seinen Verbündeten die Ukraine und ihr Recht darauf, sich selbst zu verteidigen, so lange unterstützen, wie es nötig ist", sagte Beutin bei einer Sondersitzung des Sicherheitsrats der Vereinten Nationen i…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Erneut russische Drohnenangriffe ++
Nach ukrainischen Angaben hat Russland das Land erneut massiv angegriffen - aus der Region Saporischschja wird ein Toter gemeldet. Nach Angaben des Weißen Hauses hoffen die USA weiter auf ein Treffen von Putin und Selenskyj.

"Cato Institute’s Thomas Berry offered this view: “Holding that IEEPA does not authorize tariffs would be the cleanest and simplest way to resolve this case, and it appears that the Federal Circuit may be leaning toward that result.”
Trump administration 'beaten up badly' by judges doubting his 'unbounded power' over trade - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-judges-trade/