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Grenfell survivor urges government to speed up firms’ contract ban ahead of eighth anniversary | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/grenfell-survivor-urges-government-speed-firms-contract…

The Chicago Tribune is offering buyouts to the newsroom's 75 union members; the newsroom last went through buyouts in 2021, when nearly 40 people left (Kaitlin Washburn/Chicago Sun Times)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/business/2025/06/12/chicag…

Chicago Tribune offering newsroom buyouts
The newsroom's union, which ratified its first contract just seven months ago, said in a statement cutting staff as a "short-term profit boost" is unsustainable. It was not immediately known how many positions the company was looking to cut or what dollar amount it's trying to save.

USDA ended contract for food assistance ‘clearinghouse’ required by law, lawsuit claims
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2025/06/usda-ended-contract-for-food-assistance-clearinghouse-required-by-law-lawsuit-claims/

»Longtime ABC News correspondent Terry Moran is out of job after he made a social media post critical of President Donald Trump and White House Deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller. The network announced Tuesday that Moran’s contract would not be renewed.« https://www.

Vox Media Union says it has reached a tentative three-year agreement with Vox Media, averting a strike (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/vox-media-union-agreement-contract-1236430370/

Vox Media Union Reaches Agreement on Three-Year Contract
Vox Media Union, affiliated with WGA East, announced a tentative agreement with the digital media company after an overnight bargaining session.

What do you do with a news organization like ABC that is frightened to the point of being cowardly of the very institutions it's supposed to report on?
✅ ABC News Parts Ways With Terry Moran After Trump Social Media Post
https://deadline.com/2025/06/terry-mor

ABC News Parts Ways With Terry Moran Over His Social Media Post About Trump And Aide Stephen Miller
ABC News says that it has chosen not to renew the contract of Terry Moran after he posted, then deleted, an attack on Donald Trump and his top aide Stephen Miller. ABC News suspended Moran on Sunday. “We are at the end of our agreement with Terry Moran and based on his recent post – […]

SAG-AFTRA reaches a tentative deal with Activision, EA, Epic, Take-Two, and other game companies on the Interactive Media Contract, after months of strikes (Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/sag-video-game-companie…

SAG-AFTRA and Video Game Companies Reach Tentative New Deal
SAG-AFTRA and the video game companies have reached a tentative deal, putting and end to the strike in sight.

WGA East-affiliated Vox Media Union voted to authorize a strike starting June 12 if its demands for higher pay and protections against AI abuse are not met (Jeremy Fuster/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/vox-media-union-authorize-strike-vote/

Vox Media Union Members Vote to Authorize Strike With Midnight Deadline
The WGA East-affiliated Vox Media Union voted to go on strike if a deal on a new contract is not reached by 90%.

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

You won't want to miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Trump cyber EO reverses some parts of Biden, Obama orders
--Starlink endangers WH security,
--Nigeria convicts Chinese cybercriminals,
--US sentences Nigerian hacker,
--ICE arrests Oz hacker,
--Italy ends contract with spyware company Paragon,
--Supreme Ct. gives DOGE social security data,
--BADBOX 2.0 …

Trump cyber EO reverses some parts of Biden, Obama orders
Starlink endangers WH security, Nigeria convicts Chinese cybercriminals, US sentences Nigerian hacker, ICE arrests Oz hacker, Italy ends contract with spyware company Paragon, Supreme Ct. gives DOGE our social security data, BADBOX 2.0 infects 1m+ devices, EU issues cyber blueprint, much more

I just wrote a letter demanding a fair contract for @Writers Guild of America East members at Vox Media! Write one here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/help-union-members-at-vox-media-win-a-fair-contract

Glendale terminates contract with HSI, ICE to house detainees in its jail – NBC Los Angeles
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/glendale-terminates-contract-with-hsi-ice-to-house-detainees-in-its-jail/3718681/

VA used a DOGE AI tool by Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia that hallucinated contract sizes to cancel 24 deals; Lavingia says "mistakes were made" (ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-veterans-affairs-ai-contra…

DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts
We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wrong tool for this,” one expert said.

FDA tells drugmakers to redo studies over data integrity issue
(*CRO misconduct issue)
https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2025/04/04/fda-research-cro-raptim-india-data/

FDA tells drugmakers to redo studies run by a contract research firm due to data integrity issues
Citing "objectionable conditions," the agency said there were problems with the way Raptim Research tested medicines in India.

ABC News says it has "made the decision to not renew" Terry Moran's contract after suspending him for calling Stephen Miller a "world-class hater" (Brian Stelter/@brianstelter)
https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1932543451179925550

Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) on X
BREAKING: Terry Moran is out at ABC News. "We are at the end of our agreement with Terry Moran and based on his recent post – which was a clear violation of ABC News policies – we have made the decision to not renew," an ABC spokesperson says.

Dear „fundamental Christians“, for you the proof that the climate catastrophe is men made is easy:
• God said to Noah: “I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.” (Gen 9, 13)
• You are fighting rainbows, calling them and those who praise it evil.
• So you cut the contract that was sealed between us.
• Therefore there will be flood – and worse. One does not cut the gay ribbon between yourself and God.
• It i…

“CVE naming and assignment to software packages and versions are the foundation upon which the software vulnerability ecosystem is based. Without it, we can’t track newly discovered vulnerabilities. We can’t score their severity or predict their exploitation. And we certainly wouldn’t be able to make the best decisions regarding patching them.”

CVE program averts swift end after CISA executes 11-month contract extension
After DHS did not renew its funding contract for reasons unspecified, MITRE’s 25-year-old Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program was slated for an abrupt shutdown on April 16, which would have left security flaw tracking in limbo. CISA stepped in to provide a bridge.

Edinburgh-based Wordsmith, whose AI tools help legal teams automate contract and policy reviews, raised a $25M Series A led by Index Ventures (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/04/wordsmith-ai-raises-25m-build-legal-a…

Wordsmith AI raises $25M to build legal AI for in-house teams - SiliconANGLE
Wordsmith AI raises $25M to build legal AI for in-house teams - SiliconANGLE

SAG-AFTRA reaches a tentative deal with Activision, EA, Epic, Take-Two, and other game companies on the Interactive Media Contract, after months of strikes (Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/sag-video-game-companie…

SAG-AFTRA and Video Game Companies Reach Tentative New Deal
SAG-AFTRA and the video game companies have reached a tentative deal, putting and end to the strike in sight.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei saying the quiet part out loud in a CNN interview about impending job losses due to AI:
"There's an inherent social contract in democracy where ultimately the ordinary person has a certain amount of leverage because they're contributing to the economy.
"If that leverage goes away, then it's harder to make democracies work, and it's harder to prevent concentration of power."

How to write a release 101: https://esq.social/@NationalLawReview/114557843845477792

National Law Review (@NationalLawReview@esq.social)
Attached: 1 image Minnesota Supreme Court Upholds Enforceability of Contract Release Language Against Negligence Claims https://natlawreview.com/article/minnesota-supreme-court-upholds-enforceability-contract-release-language-against?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

«Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears»
And this is just the beginning: Most big scientific conferences are not only already committed to 2025 venues but also 2026, given the long contract deadlines for such events. Academic societies are very reluctant to cancel existing contracts given how expensive doing so is.
Imho, 2027 will be the conference year to watch (if anything resembling a US academy is left by then).
https://archive.is/20250524023504/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01636-5

Politico's editorial union says its new AI tool generates garbled or made-up DC intelligence, including a fictional basket-weaver guild; Politico defends it (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/08/2025/politicos-a…

Politico’s AI tool spits out made-up slop, union says
Unionized staffers say the AI tool violates language in their contract.

Reddit sues AI startup Anthropic for breach of contract, ‘unfair competition’
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/04/reddit-anthropic-lawsuit-ai.html

Microsoft and the CWA reach a tentative contract agreement for ~300 ZeniMax QA workers after two years of talks, marking Microsoft's first US union contract (Josh Eidelson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

«Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears»
And this is just the beginning: Most big scientific conferences are not only already committed to 2025 venues but also 2026, given the long contract deadlines for such events. Academic societies are very reluctant to cancel existing contracts given how expensive doing so is.
Imho, 2027 will be the conference year to watch (if anything resembling a US academy is left by then).
https://archive.is/20250524023504/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01636-5

WGA East threatens a strike by Vox employees without a new contract that includes The Dodo Union staffers along with better pay, AI protections, and more (Sean Burch/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/vox-media-union-strike-pledge-new-deal-ai-protecti…

Vox Media Union Pledges to Strike Without New Deal Addressing AI, Rising Costs
Vox employees are threatening to strike unless they are given a new media contract that includes better pay and protections against AI.

“What we ultimately want, and what we believe we need, is a commons that is strong, resilient, growing, useful (to machines and to humans)—all the good things, frankly. But as our open infrastructures mature they become increasingly taken for granted, and the feeling that “this is for all of us” is replaced with “everyone is entitled to this”. While this sounds the same, it really isn’t. Because with entitlement comes misuse, the social contract breaks, reciprocation evaporates, and ultimately the magic weakens.”
Very glad to see that @… is working to address the deep challenges that have arisen at the intersection of the open movement and corporate AI.
https://creativecommons.org/2025/04/02/reciprocity-in-the-age-of-ai/
h/t @…

Sources: Lionsgate Motion Picture Group President Nathan Kahane is expected to leave his post by 2025's end and transition to a producing deal with the studio (Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/05/lionsgate-president-nathan-kahane-departu…

Lionsgate Motion Picture Group President Nathan Kahane Departing Studio By End Of Year — The Dish
Nathan Kahane is expected to exit his Lionsgate post as Motion Picture Group President when his contract expires this year, sources tell Deadline.