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Sources: Anthropic refused federal law enforcement requests to use its AI models for some tasks, such as the surveillance of US citizens, irking the White House (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/17/2025

Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use
The AI company declined to allow requests by contractors working with federal law enforcement.

In an internal memo, Axios CEO Jim VandeHei warns that the US is in "a post-news era" where "everyone has their own individual reality" (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/14/2025/axios-ceo-us-is-in-post-news-era

Exclusive: Axios CEO: US is in ‘post-news’ era
Jim VandeHei wrote in an internal memo that what matters is information, not “the news.”

Das #Kryptos scheint gelöst worden zu sein. Zwei Nerds haben einen Seitenkanalangriff gestartet und den Klartext extrahiert.
Kryptos ist eine Skulptur vor der #cia mit geheimem Text. Seit Jahren wird versucht, den Text zu entschlüsseln.
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Solution to CIA’s Kryptos Sculpture Is Found in Smiths…

Vox launches its subscriber-only program on Patreon, offering access to Vox.com, ad-free content, livestream events, two new exclusive video series, and more (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/11/16/2025/vox-to-partner-with…

Exclusive: Vox to partner with Patreon for new paywalled shows
Vox said it hopes to supplement its shows with live newsroom conversations and community features such as chats.

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plant_pol_vazquez: Vazquez & Simberloff plant-pollinator webs
Eight bipartite networks of plants and pollinators, from the Nahuel Huapi National Park and surrounding areas in Rio Negro, Argentina, from September 1999 to Feburary 2000. Edge weights represent the frequency of species interaction, and there is a common set of vertices across all eight webs.
This network has 144 nodes and 36 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Weighted, Multilayer

A C.I.A. Secret Kept for 35 Years Is Found in the Smithsonian's Vault (John Schwartz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/science/kryptos-cia-solution-sanborn-auction.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p23#a251016p23

In the next #ag2025goerlitz talk the Co-PI of the #DST2000 radio survey telescope array to be built in #Nevada - https://www.deepsynoptic.org - starting next year introduced the current plan with 1650 6.15-meter telescopes, to be operational in 2029. A German antenna maker is involved - https://schauenburg-international.com/mtex-antenna-technology-entwirft-prototypen-des-dsa-2000-projekts-der-caltech/ - as are German astronomers. The DST-2000 will be the radio counterpart to SPHEREx, Rubin and eROSITA.

Sources: Raymond Zage and James Lu, who control most of Grindr, are in talks to take it private after a Temasek unit sold shares pledged for personal loans (Liz Hoffman/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/13/2025/grindr-explor…

Grindr explores take-private after lender calls insiders’ loans
Dating app’s controlling shareholders are discussing buyout financing with Fortress Investment Group for a deal that would likely have national-security implications, people familiar with the matter said.

Internal tests show WaPo launched its AI podcast feature despite 68% of generated scripts failed its standards, saying it would "iterate through" the issues (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/14/2025

Exclusive: ‘Iterate through’: Why The Washington Post launched an error-ridden AI product
Between 68% and 84% of AI-generated scripts failed the Post’s own internal testing, but the paper launched the AI podcast feature anyway.