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The title is “DC’s Access Journalists Turned the News Into a Luxury Good” and I for one hadn’t realized how true this is until I read https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/dcs-access-journalists-turned-the-news-into-a-luxury-good

DC’s Access Journalists Turned the News Into a Luxury Good
Before the internet, what would today be called a “paywall” was just...

Scattered Lapsus claims SK Telecom data breach; company denies
https://www.chosun.com/english/industry-en/2025/09/16/H6FGTVALUJHMHOT7U24FE6NJ7A/

Scattered Lapsus claims SK Telecom data breach; company denies
Scattered Lapsus claims SK Telecom data breach; company denies Authorities probe alleged 27 million customer data theft; hackers linked to past attacks

Telekom will neuen Funk für Blaulichtorganisationen liefern
Die Telekom will Fotos, Videos und Livestreams per Funk für Polizei und Co möglich machen. Andere Netzbetreiber bringen sich ebenfalls in Stellung.
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AvatarSync: Rethinking Talking-Head Animation through Autoregressive Perspective
Yuchen Deng, Xiuyang Wu, Hai-Tao Zheng, Suiyang Zhang, Yi He, Yuxing Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12052

AvatarSync: Rethinking Talking-Head Animation through Autoregressive Perspective
Existing talking-head animation approaches based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) or diffusion models often suffer from inter-frame flicker, identity drift, and slow inference. These limitations inherent to their video generation pipelines restrict their suitability for applications. To address this, we introduce AvatarSync, an autoregressive framework on phoneme representations that generates realistic and controllable talking-head animations from a single reference image, driven dire…

The US FCC announces proceedings to potentially bar Hong Kong telecom HKT and its subsidiaries from accessing domestic US networks, citing its ties to China (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/us-block-h

FCC moves to expel one of Hong Kong’s largest telco companies from U.S. networks
The U.S. has taken steps to block one of Hong Kong’s largest phone companies from accessing the country's domestic telecom networks over national security concerns.

WSJ restructures its health, science, and education teams, with the health group moving back under the business team, after separating during the pandemic (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/wsj-restructures-…

WSJ restructures health, science and education, makes layoffs - Talking Biz News
Wall Street Journal editor in chief Emma Tucker sent out the following on Wednesday: Dear all, Today we are announcing changes to how we structure our health, science and education teams at The Wall Street Journal. The health group is returning to the business team after becoming a separate coverage area during the Covid-19 pandemic. Coverage of […]

Time for another round of critical AI weekend reading:
Crashing hard: why talking about bubbles obscures the real social cost of overinvesting into “Artificial Intelligence”
Aline Blankertz (@…)

Crashing hard: why talking about bubbles obscures the real social cost of overinvesting into “Artificial Intelligence”
More and more commentators talk about and warn of an “AI bubble”, and everybody seems to congratulate each other on being such a smart financial analyst. BUT: A bubble pops and you are left with air and maybe a splash of soap somewhere on the floor. A fairly clean affair. This kind of investor speak

Montag: Telekom mit multimedialem Polizeifunk, IAA mit leichtem Besucherzuwachs
Vodafone & O2 mit Gegenvorschlägen Halbe Million IAA-Besucher Biometrische Grenzkontrolle ab Oktober Hin und Her zum Verbrenner-Aus Krise der VR-Branche

KI Phone und Tablet: Telekom und Perplexity verkaufen Hardware
Das KI Phone und KI Tablet der Telekom kommen (fast) ohne Apps aus – dafür nutzen sie den KI-Assistenten von Perplexity.
https://www.