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Live Midden-Oosten: Nederlandse regering veroordeelt Israëlisch plan voor verdere bezetting Westelijke Jordaanoever | de Volkskrant
https://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/live-midde…

WhisTLE: Deeply Supervised, Text-Only Domain Adaptation for Pretrained Speech Recognition Transformers
Akshat Pandey, Karun Kumar, Raphael Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10452 …

WhisTLE: Deeply Supervised, Text-Only Domain Adaptation for Pretrained Speech Recognition Transformers
Pretrained automatic speech recognition (ASR) models such as Whisper perform well but still need domain adaptation to handle unseen vocabulary and parlance. In many real-world settings, collecting speech data is impractical, necessitating text-only adaptation. We propose WhisTLE, a deeply supervised, text-only adaptation method for pretrained encoder-decoder ASR models. WhisTLE trains a variational autoencoder (VAE) to model encoder outputs from text and fine-tunes the decoder using the learned…

This article does not in fact mention anything Reality Winner says she shares with Donald Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/books/review/i-am-not-your-enemy-reality-winner.html

USA und westliche Staaten werfen Russland Rechtsbruch vor
Die USA und westliche Verbündete haben Russland in einer gemeinsamen Erklärung, die während der Sitzung der UN-Generalversammlung verlesen wurde, den Bruch des Völkerrechts und den Verstoß gegen die UN-Charta vorgeworfen. Hintergrund ist das Eindringen mutmaßlich russischer Drohnen in den polnischen Luftraum Mitte der Woche.
In der Erklärung wird Russland zudem aufgef…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ USA und Verbündete werfen Kreml Rechtsbruch vor ++
Die USA und westliche Verbündete haben Russland nach dem Drohnen-Vorfall in Polen Völkerrechtsbruch vorgeworfen. Der ukrainische Präsident Selenskyj sieht den Vormarsch russischer Truppen in der Region Sumy als gescheitert. Der Liveblog vom Freitag zum Nachlesen.

VR-Risiken für Kinder: Meta hat Forschung beeinflusst, sagen Whistleblower
Zwei ehemalige Mitarbeiter werfen Meta vor, Einfluss auf Forschung zu Risiken von Virtual Reality für Kinder genommen zu haben.

Der westliche Exzeptionalismus https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10058

How to Leak Under the Trump Administration
https://theintercept.com/2025/02/26/how-to-leak-whistleblower-trump/

How to Leak Under the Trump Administration
Want to expose wrongdoing in the U.S. government? Take these steps to keep yourself safe.

Dismissals at Justice Dept. Would Bypass Civil Service and Whistle-Blower Laws (Devlin Barrett/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/us/politics/justice-department-dismissals-civil-service-laws.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250715/p51#a250715p51

A bit of distraction.
When I was a boy, in the 1950s, you heard people whistling everywhere. Delivery boys, building workers, shopkeepers.
Then, from some time in the 60s you've hardly heard it.
Why?
Hypotheses:
* Noisier streets (cars).
* Decline of singable popular music.
* Increased self-consciousness.
What do you think?

The Justice Department is accelerating its efforts to undo decades of civil service protections intended to insulate the work of law enforcement officials from political interference.
A new batch of more than 20 career employees at the department and its component agencies were fired on Friday,
including the attorney general’s own ethics adviser, Joseph W. Tirrell.
Others who were dismissed included a handful of senior officials at the U.S. Marshals Service, as well as pros…

Dismissals at Justice Dept. Would Bypass Civil Service and Whistle-Blower Laws
In court filings and dismissal letters, the Justice Department’s political leadership claims sweeping authority to fire career law enforcement officials without cause.