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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis commutes Tina Peters' prison sentence (KUSA-TV)
https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/local-politics/jared-polis-tina-peters-prison-sentence/73-a289e9ba-7cd0-47d0-8d68-bdabc3f87847
http://www.memeorandum.com/260515/p100#a260515p100

A hacker group called Breach Boyz has been emailing local TV stations in Oklahoma with seemingly accurate PII, including the SSNs, of 30 inmates in the Rogers County jail, but authorities say there has been no breach.
https://ktul.com/news/local/mystery-deepens-ov…

Mystery deepens over data breach of inmate info
Ten days ago we reported about claims that a hacker group called Breach Boyz had gained information about inmates at the Rogers County jail, sending us an email

253g Weizensauer, 300g Weizen hell, 150g Weizenvollkorn und 50g Roggenschrot. Salz, Wasser und etwas Malz und viel Geduld. Ich liebe es, das #MillLoaf nach Dan Lepard.
Den Duft müsst Ihr Euch selbst vorstellen.
#urslisbäckerei

I write a Gist approximately every two weeks. The idea, really, is to write a readable digest of a particular topic at a particular moment in time.
Sometimes I set out to explain something that is outside the main news cycle, but that I think is significant.
Sometimes I just feel like making jokes at the expense of British politicians.
And sometimes I am giving an opinion, as best I can.
But who knows what might bubble up in the future?

The Gist
News, Data policy, law and the absurdity of life. A round up of what Ireland's talking about.

Reducing Linguistic Hallucination in LM-Based Speech Enhancement via Noise-Invariant Acoustic-Semantic Distillation
Zheng Wang, Xiaobin Rong, Hang Su, Tianyi Tan, Junnan Wu, Lichun Fan, Zhenbo Luo, Jian Luan, Jing Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08608 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.08608 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.08608
arXiv:2605.08608v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Language model (LM)-based speech enhancement (SE) can generate natural-sounding speech, but under severe noise it often suffers from unreliable conditioning, leading to perceptually plausible yet linguistically incorrect outputs. To address this issue, we propose L3-SE, a noise-invariant acoustic-semantic distillation framework for reducing linguistic hallucination in LM-based SE. The proposed method learns a noise-invariant conditioning encoder from noisy speech by jointly distilling two complementary clean-speech targets: an acoustic target for reconstruction fidelity and a semantic target for linguistic consistency. The resulting noise-invariant acoustic-semantic representations are used to condition a decoder-only autoregressive language model, which predicts clean acoustic tokens that are decoded into enhanced speech. To support high-quality generation, we further employ a high-fidelity codec built on learnable weighted WavLM layer representations as the discrete acoustic interface. By improving the reliability of conditioning under adverse conditions, the proposed framework substantially reduces hallucination and improves content faithfulness. Experiments show that the proposed method consistently outperforms prior LM-based speech enhancement baselines on linguistic consistency metrics, with especially clear gains under low-SNR and reverberant conditions, while maintaining competitive perceptual quality. Audio samples are available at https://max1wz.github.io/L3-SE-Demo-Page/. The complete source code will be released after the manuscript is accepted.
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Indonesia sentences eFishery founder Gibran Huzaifah to nine years in prison, concluding a $300M scandal that destroyed one of Southeast Asia's top startups (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-29/fo…

"‘Nice career your husband has. It would be a shame if something were to happen to it”"
‘Holy Cow’: Trump Sparks Panic on Live TV, Sends Chilling Warning to Republicans in Congress About What He’ll Do to Their Families If They Cross Him
https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/05/21/smh-trump-sparks-shock-on-live-tv-after-sending-chilling-warning-to-republicans-in-congress-about-what-hell-do-to-their-families-if-they-cross-him/

All I wanted is a quick note when a new book from one of the authors or book series I like is published. And the same for new works from movie directors or TV series I enjoy.
An email newsletter or an RSS feed could easily handle that with no or little overhead.
But those often did not exist or were way too noisy because somebody wanted to sell something else.
And that's why soon everybody will use AI agents with all their overhead for that.

Saarländischer Genealogentag 2026
#SanktWendel. Aktueller Bericht am Sonntag vom 07.06.2026 im Saarländischen Rundfunk.
https://www.sr-mediathek.de/index.php?seite=7&…

@… FYI I just noticed a typo on https://cv.gergo.csillger.hu/cv/generic/. The first word in the first sentence is "Thorough." Presumably t…