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EFF Says News‑USA Today Published Fabricated EFF Quotes and Names in Six Articles

Electronic Frontier Foundation says News‑USA Today attributed quotes to nonexistent EFF staff in six articles from April–June and hasn’t corrected them. ...Read more

#eff, #newsusatoday, #fakenames, #mediaethics, #journalism

ECB Raises Key Interest Rates by 25 Basis Points, Cites Middle East War and Higher Energy Prices

The ECB raised its three key rates by 25 basis points, citing Middle East conflict and higher energy-price assumptions; new rates take effect June 17. ...Read more

#eurozone, #ecb, #interest-rates, #inflation

Strategy’s May Bitcoin Buys and SpaceX Disclosure Explain Spike in Public Corporate Holdings

May’s rise in disclosed corporate bitcoin holdings was driven mainly by Strategy’s roughly 25,400 BTC purchases and SpaceX’s disclosure of 18,712 BTC. ...Read more

$MSTR, #bitcoin, #corporate-treasury, #microstrategy, #spacex

China Team Open-Sources Embodied-R1.5, Claims SOTA on Many Embodied‑AI Benchmarks

A Tianjin University-led team open-sources Embodied-R1.5, an 8B embodied-AI model claiming SOTA on many benchmarks; results and parameter counts not independently verified. ...Read more

#embodied-ai, #robotics, #artificial-intelligence, #arxiv

Preprint describes three-particle bosonic Pfaffian state in ultracold rubidium atoms

A June 10 arXiv preprint reports a minimal three‑particle bosonic Pfaffian state in ultracold 87Rb — an early step toward non‑Abelian topological matter. ...Read more

#physics, #quantum, #ultracold, #pfaffian

Storm Prediction Center issues Tornado Watch 303 for parts of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska

SPC issued Tornado Watch 303 for parts of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska; a few tornadoes (possible EF2+), large hail and damaging winds are possible through 9 p.m. ...Read more

#tornado, #severeweather, #midwest, #nws

UK to spend nearly £30m to expand AI diagnostics in the NHS; £20m to roll out chest X‑ray tools to trusts by 2029

UK to invest almost £30m to expand AI-assisted diagnostics in the NHS, including £20m to roll out AI chest X-ray tools to all English trusts by 2029. ...Read more

#nhs, #ai, #healthcare, #lungcancer

DGA Reaches Tentative Four-Year Deal With AMPTP; SAG-AFTRA Offers Solidarity

SAG-AFTRA praised the DGA after directors reached a tentative four-year deal with studio negotiators, a step toward aligning Hollywood’s major unions. ...Read more

#dga, #sag-aftra, #amptp, #hollywood, #labor

DOJ, FBI Seize 13 Websites Tied to Suspected Chinese Effort Targeting U.S. Clearance Holders

DOJ and FBI seized 13 fake consulting websites used by suspected Chinese agents to recruit U.S. security-clearance holders for sensitive information. ...Read more

#china, #espionage, #justice-department, #fbi, #nationalsecurity

President Signs Secure America Act, Locking in $69.5 Billion for DHS Through 2029

President signs S.2, the Secure America Act, providing roughly $69.5 billion in multiyear funding for DHS immigration and related operations through Sept. 30, 2029. ...Read more

#dhs, #immigration, #funding, #congress

CBO: Secure America Act would provide $69.5 billion in mandatory spending through 2035, mostly 2026–29

CBO estimates S.2 would obligate $69.545 billion in mandatory spending through 2035, with most outlays concentrated between 2026 and 2029. ...Read more

#congress, #budget, #cbo, #bordersecurity

Google unveils DiffusionGemma — experimental diffusion model for faster local text generation

Google unveiled DiffusionGemma, a 26B experimental diffusion Mixture-of-Experts text model that aims for up to 4x faster GPU generation for speed-critical local apps. ...Read more

$GOOGL, #google, #ai, #diffusionmodels, #llm

U.S. Consumer Prices Rise 0.5% in May; Annual Inflation Accelerates to 4.2% Ahead of Fed Meeting

CPI rose 0.5% in May and 4.2% year-over-year as gasoline and shelter costs pushed inflation higher just before the Fed's June meeting. ...Read more

#economy, #inflation, #cpi, #federal-reserve

Human Rights Watch report: Rwandan forces and M23 forcibly recruited and detained thousands in eastern Congo

Human Rights Watch says Rwandan forces and M23 recruited, detained and abused thousands — including children — at camps in eastern Congo; urges ICC probe. ...Read more

#rwanda, #m23, #drcongo, #humanrights, #hrw

Researchers report agentic LLMs outperformed expert biologists and produced robot-assembled DNA in lab tests

Researchers report agentic LLMs outperformed expert biologists on biosecurity tasks and that model-written code ran an OpenTrons robot to assemble DNA. ...Read more

#ai, #biosecurity, #llm, #syntheticbiology