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In a wide-ranging report, the BFI says AI companies are plundering 130K UK film and TV scripts to train AI models in a "direct threat" to the industry's future (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technolog…

NFL news roundup: Dolphins CB Jalen Ramsey not planning on attending mandatory minicamp as sides continue to work towards trade https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-sunday-june-8

"I deleted my second brain" by Joan Westenberg is very worth reading. I am on a similar path right now, removing a lot of digital cruft and structures I had applied to my life in the belief that I could gain more control.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/i-deleted

I Deleted My Second Brain
Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save

#Requiescat For John Whitson, founder of Holy Mountain, who released essential albums by Six Organs of Admittance, Davis Redford Triad, Wooden Shjips, Zdrastvootie, Residual Echoes, OM, Daniel Higgs, Mammatus, and so many others. Here’s an interview from 2018.

Astroboter Asks: John Whitson (Holy Mountain Records // USA)
This interview with record label owner John Whitson from Holy Mountain Records is part of my ongoing series “Astroboter Asks”, in which I interview artists, creators and people who inspire me. Enjoy…

Protest the Weapons Industry Gala night of the year
5:00pm Thursday July 10
National Convention Centre
27 Constitution Ave, Canberra
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/protest-weapons-industry-gala-night-year

Protest the Weapons Industry Gala night of the year
War and genocide are good for business. That’s what the Defence Industry Awards 2025 are celebrating: war, death, destruction —and how best to profit from them. Join us to protest genocide and the war profiteers. And let’s tell the Albanese government to end two-way arms trade with Israel, dump AUKUS, impose full sanctions and close US bases in Australia. The Australian government and defence industries MUST • STOP ARMING ISRAEL • Stop the two-way arms trade with Israel • FULL sanct…

Hijacking JARVIS: Benchmarking Mobile GUI Agents against Unprivileged Third Parties
Guohong Liu, Jialei Ye, Jiacheng Liu, Yuanchun Li, Wei Liu, Pengzhi Gao, Jian Luan, Yunxin Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04227

Hijacking JARVIS: Benchmarking Mobile GUI Agents against Unprivileged Third Parties
Mobile GUI agents are designed to autonomously execute diverse device-control tasks by interpreting and interacting with mobile screens. Despite notable advancements, their resilience in real-world scenarios where screen content may be partially manipulated by untrustworthy third parties remains largely unexplored. Owing to their black-box and autonomous nature, these agents are vulnerable to manipulations that could compromise user devices. In this work, we present the first systematic investi…

Bad Hindelang, Allgäu, Bavaria Germany, June 2025 pics from a hike
#Silentsunday

Astra: Toward General-Purpose Mobile Robots via Hierarchical Multimodal Learning
Sheng Chen, Peiyu He, Jiaxin Hu, Ziyang Liu, Yansheng Wang, Tao Xu, Chi Zhang, Chongchong Zhang, Chao An, Shiyu Cai, Duo Cao, Kangping Chen, Shuai Chu, Tianwei Chu, Mingdi Dan, Min Du, Weiwei Fang, Pengyou Fu, Junkai Hu, Xiaowei Jiang, Zhaodi Jiang, Fuxuan Li, Jun Li, Minghui Li, Mingyao Li, Yanchang Li, Zhibin Li, Guangming Liu, Kairui Liu, Lihao Liu, Weizhi Liu, Xiaoshun Liu, Yufei Liu, Yunfei Liu, Qiang…

Astra: Toward General-Purpose Mobile Robots via Hierarchical Multimodal Learning
Modern robot navigation systems encounter difficulties in diverse and complex indoor environments. Traditional approaches rely on multiple modules with small models or rule-based systems and thus lack adaptability to new environments. To address this, we developed Astra, a comprehensive dual-model architecture, Astra-Global and Astra-Local, for mobile robot navigation. Astra-Global, a multimodal LLM, processes vision and language inputs to perform self and goal localization using a hybrid topol…

Ah. Just when I thought I could travel home through the Baltics for a change. #Interrail

9News Australia reporter Lauren Tomasi was shot with a rubber bullet by law enforcement live on camera while reporting on LA protests against immigration raids (Natasha May/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2…