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Übernachtungsdienstleister Numa: CCC findet gesammelte Ausweisdaten
Ein Mitglied des Chaos Computer Clubs wollte eigentlich nur übernachten – und fand eine vollständige Kundendatensammlung.
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Bango: subscription providers are reducing their reliance on direct acquisition strategies like social media ads due to rising costs and diminishing returns (Daniel Frankel/StreamTV Insider)
https://www.streamtvinsider.com/advertisin…

Bango: Subscription providers turn to bundling as direct acquisition marketing falters
Marketers of subscription services including those themed around streaming video and music are cutting back on once reliable direct acquisition strategies, including display and social media advert | A new Bango study concludes that subscription service providers are cutting back on once reliable direct acquisition strategies, including display and social media advertising, for customer growth and are turning to indirect marketing mechanisms like bundling.

Google will have a nonexclusive license to certain Windsurf technology, but will not be taking a stake in the company (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/11/windsurfs-ceo-goes-to-google-openais-acquisition-falls-…

Windsurf's CEO goes to Google; OpenAI's acquisition falls apart | TechCrunch
Notably, Google is not taking a stake in Windsurf and will not have any control over the company.

New post on our family learning blog, "USAFA Letter: 13 August 1990"
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USAFA Letter: 13 August 1990
My mother, Angie Fryer, kept meticulous records of every letter I sent home as a cadet at the US Air Force Academy from 30 June 1988 to 27 May 1992. She also kept numerous other related news articl…

Former top Cowboys assistant in mix for Deion Sanders' Colorado football staff https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/former-top-dallas-cowboys-assistant-in-mix-deion-sanders-colorado-football-staff

PersonaLens: A Benchmark for Personalization Evaluation in Conversational AI Assistants
Zheng Zhao, Clara Vania, Subhradeep Kayal, Naila Khan, Shay B. Cohen, Emine Yilmaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09902

PersonaLens: A Benchmark for Personalization Evaluation in Conversational AI Assistants
Large language models (LLMs) have advanced conversational AI assistants. However, systematically evaluating how well these assistants apply personalization--adapting to individual user preferences while completing tasks--remains challenging. Existing personalization benchmarks focus on chit-chat, non-conversational tasks, or narrow domains, failing to capture the complexities of personalized task-oriented assistance. To address this, we introduce PersonaLens, a comprehensive benchmark for evalu…

Découvrez notre association 'Les Chardons Bleus' et notre mission de soutien aux victimes d'abus de la OKC.
https://chardonsbleus.org/association

Qualcomm stellt AR1 Gen 1-Chip für lokale KI-Assistenz auf Smartbrillen vor
Qualcomm hat den AR1 Gen 1-Chip vorgestellt, der die Ausführung von KI-Features auf Smartbrillen effizienter und lokal auf den Geräten ermöglichen soll.

Sources: OpenAI and Windsurf talks ended after Windsurf raised concerns over how its tech would fit into OpenAI's agreement to share tech with Microsoft (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-winds…

OpenAI, Windsurf Break Off Acquisition Talks Over Microsoft IP Concerns
OpenAI has ended discussions to buy Windsurf, the maker of a popular artificial intelligence coding assistant formerly known as Codeium. Instead, Google will hire Windsurf’s CEO and some staff, both Google and Windsurf said. The talks between OpenAI to buy the startup for $3 billion ended in ...

The exclusivity period on OpenAI's $3B offer to acquire coding startup Windsurf has expired, which means that Windsurf is free to explore other options (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/07/11/the-exc

The exclusivity on OpenAI’s $3 billion acquisition for AI coding startup Windsurf has expired
Windsurf is now free to explore other options.