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A look at Meta's recent hires for its nascent superintelligence unit, including Pei Sun, who developed two generations of Waymo's perception models (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/02/2025

Meta’s new hires offer a peek into superintelligence plans
The résumés of new hires suggest Meta is working on models with reasoning capabilities to more directly take on OpenAI’s suite of products.

Conservatives Are Losing It Over Superman’s Basic Morality
(... funny my autoposter posted this to 𝐻𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑟 𝑁𝑒𝑤𝑠 when I was at the theater with my family to see it)
https://jacobin.com/2025/07/superman-reactionary-morality-film-review/

Conservatives Are Losing It Over Superman’s Basic Morality
Reactionary hysterics over James Gunn’s Superman reboot bring some delight to America’s otherwise plainest superhero.

»Tarnen und Täuschen – Perplexity umgeht gezielt Sperren und greift geschützte Inhalte ab:
Cloudflare hat Perplexity eine Falle gestellt – und die KI-Suchmaschine ist sofort hineingetappt. Das Vorgehen ähnle jenem nordkoreanischer Hacker, sagen Kritiker«
Die anderen KIs werden diesbezüglich sicherlich nicht viel anders sein. Somit wird verschlüsselte Übertragungen um so wichtiger.
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Perplexity umgeht gezielt Sperren und greift geschützte Inhalte ab
Cloudflare hat Perplexity eine Falle gestellt – und die KI-Suchmaschine ist sofort hineingetappt. Das Vorgehen ähnle jenem nordkoreanischer Hacker, sagen Kritiker

Lab-grown sperm and eggs just a few years away, scientists say;
Quest to create viable human sex cells in lab progressing rapidly, with huge implications for reproduction
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jul/05/lab-grown-sperm-and-…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
SPRINTS:
🎵 Rage
#SPRINTS
https://sprintsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/rage
https://open.spotify.com/track/7wyLMQGdZrHcd7YLSfihUP

The Supreme Court issued a wave of opinions last week, wrapping a 2024-25 term filled with major victories for Donald Trump’s agenda.
Amid high-profile decisions on nationwide injunctions, LGBTQ books, trans health care, and more,
the court made the unusual choice to delay a ruling on
"Louisiana v. Callais":
-- a redistricting case that could alter the future of voting rights across the country.
The court order did not explain the justices’ rationale…

The Supreme Court Delayed a Ruling That Could Shape Voting Rights Across the US
The court’s choice to punt a key redistricting case signals trouble for the future of the Voting Rights Act.

US Supreme Court won't consider reviving Montana abortion parental consent law | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-supreme-court-wont-consider-reviving-montana-abortion-parental-consent-law-2025-07-03/

The brazen partisan redistricting underway in Texas,
with Republicans attempting to entrench themselves in office and Democrats weighing a counter-offensive in blue states,
👉 was greenlit by the US Supreme Court six years ago.
Chief Justice John Roberts, in an opinion for a 5-4 court,
💥declared that federal judges could not review extreme partisan gerrymanders to determine if they violated constitutional rights.
Roberts’ opinion reversed cases that would have all…

Chief Justice John Roberts enabled Texas’ gambit to gerrymander the state for the GOP
The brazen partisan redistricting underway in Texas, with Republicans attempting to entrench themselves in office and Democrats weighing a counter-offensive in blue states, was greenlit by the US Supreme Court six years ago.

Ilya Sutskever becomes the CEO of Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup he co-founded after leaving OpenAI; Meta reportedly poached previous CEO Daniel Gross (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/03/ilya-sutsk

Judges using 'alternative routes' to bypass Supreme Court's pro-Trump rulings - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-supreme-court-wins/