https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-senate-strikes-ai-regulation-ban-trump-megabill-2025-07-01/

The violence last week in Kafr Malik, in the West Bank, comes amid a surge in assaults by Israeli settlers. It also set off a chain of violence in the area.

By Fatima AbdulKarim
July 1, 2025 Updated 1:56 p.m. ET

"The attackers threw another firebomb into the bedroom where Mr. Afeef’s newborn nephew was being lulled to sleep, scorching furniture and leaving blackened marks on the floor and walls, the family said. The damage was visible when Times reporters visited on Friday.
[...]
Soon after, Israeli forces arrived and opened fired at Palestinians instead of stopping the rioters, according to multiple witnesses.

The soldiers killed three people, according to the Palestinian health ministry. [...]Nine others were injured, some gravely..."

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/world/middleeast/israel-west-bank-palestinians-attack.html

The violence last week in Kafr Malik, in the West Bank, comes amid a surge in assaults by Israeli settlers. It also set off a chain of violence in the area.

By Fatima AbdulKarim
July 1, 2025 Updated 1:56 p.m. ET

"The attackers threw another firebomb into the bedroom where Mr. Afeef’s newborn nephew was being lulled to sleep, scorching furniture and leaving blackened marks on the floor and walls, the family said. The damage was visible when Times reporters visited on Friday.
[...]
Soon after, Israeli forces arrived and opened fired at Palestinians instead of stopping the rioters, according to multiple witnesses.

The soldiers killed three people, according to the Palestinian health ministry. [...]Nine others were injured, some gravely..."

archive.ph/j6Mce

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/world/middleeast/israel-west-bank-palestinians-attack.html

Republican Alaskan Senator Lisa Murkowski said Tuesday that despite voting in favor of the sweeping tax and spending package, she wants the House to return the "One Big Beautiful Bill" to the Senate for further work.

"My hope is that the House is gonna look at this and recognize that we're not there yet," Murkowski told reporters today.

Murkowski's vote was pivotal in the Senate's razor-thin 51–50 passage of the bill. The Alaska senator had been the focus of intense lobbying by GOP leaders, including Senate Majority Leader John Thune, to secure her support amid concerns over Medicaid cuts and food assistance reductions. The bill now heads to the House, where its future remains uncertain.

Big, Beautiful Bill: Republican Lisa Murkowski Urges House Not to Vote on Bill She Just Approved

Sen. Lisa Murkowski backs Trump's megabill but urges House to return it for fixes, citing Medicaid cuts and tax impacts on Alaska.

^{Amanda Castro (Newsweek)}

In modern LLM applications like RAG and Agents, the model is constantly fed new context. For example, in RAG, we retrieve relevant documents and stuff them into the prompt.

The issue is that this dynamically retrieved context doesn't always appear at the beginning of the input sequence. Traditional KV caching only reuses a "common prefix," so if the new information isn't at the very start, the cache hit rate plummets, and your GPU ends up recomputing the same things over and over.

CacheBlend changes the game by allowing for the reuse of pre-computed KV caches regardless of their position in the input sequence.

This makes it possible to achieve a 100% KV Cache hit rate in applications like RAG. The performance gains are significant:

• Faster Time-To-First-Token (TTFT): Get your initial response much quicker.
• More Throughput: Serve significantly more users with the same hardware.
• Almost lossless Output Quality: All of this is achieved with little degradation in the model's generation quality.

CacheBlend works by intelligently handling the two main challenges of reusing non-prefix caches:

• Positional Encoding Update: It efficiently updates positional encodings to ensure the model always knows the correct position of each token, even when we're stitching together cached and new data.
• Selective Attention Recalculation: Instead of recomputing everything, it strategically recalculates only the minimal cross-attention needed between the new and cached chunks to maintain perfect generation quality.

An interactive CacheBlend demo is available at: github.com/LMCache/LMCache-Exa…

LMCache-Examples/demo-rag-blending at main · LMCache/LMCache-Examples

Contribute to LMCache/LMCache-Examples development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

https://www.pcmag.com/news/fcc-relaxes-rule-to-allow-for-wider-phone-support-on-t-mobiles-cellular

Sorella di perfezione - Giuseppe Iannozzi - LFA Publisher - La poesia salverà il mondo!"

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Welcome to the future, where asking a question costs $4.99 and you'll never be able to find out if the answer is right or not.

Questo complesso condominiale di Tokyo (e di che città, sennò) è così assolutamente pazzurdo… nemmeno in uno dei miei sogni iperconfusi avrei mai potuto vedere una cosa del genere. E pensare che, a quanto si vede da vari elementi sparsi nell’appartamento, è pure tipo del secolo scorso, è vecchio! Ma ha fin troppe cose particolari… […]

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minioctt

2025-07-01 22:05:39

“Inside Tokyo’s STRANGEST Retro Apartment” — “Nell’Appartamento Retrò PIÙ STRANO di Tokyo”

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Questo complesso condominiale di Tokyo (e di che città, sennò) è così assolutamente pazzurdo… nemmeno in uno dei miei sogni iperconfusi avrei mai potuto vedere una cosa del genere. E pensare che, a quanto si vede da vari elementi sparsi nell’appartamento, è pure tipo del secolo scorso, è vecchio! Ma ha fin troppe cose particolari… queste sono solo le più belle per me:

• L’ambiente di ingresso del condominio è indescrivibile, con questa forma circolare di nudo cemento, e due diverse scale che ci girano attorno… ricorda fin troppo uno degli ambienti iniziali di Mirror’s Edge, anche se a confronto questo è più stretto.
• Le due scale del condominio (non guardate sotto…) dividono gli appartamenti in standard, che comunque non sono male, e costosi, che sono fin troppo lussuriosi anche per gli standard occidentali… questi ultimi sembrano cosa sarebbe una fottuta camera di hotel se fosse sviluppata come una casa intera.
• È altissimo relativamente ad altri edifici (sempre abitativi) nelle vicinanze, quindi da alcune finestre si vede un panorama di tutto il distretto di Ikebukuro e anche ben oltre…
• Per l’appartamento di lusso, c’è pure una doccia sul tetto! Cosa??? (Fa paura, un po’…)
• I piani bassi, invece, includono una scaletta di metallo di emergenza, che si piazza e si ripone; top per uscire di casa senza incontrare i vicini, o quando si rischia di essere in ritardo.

L’unica cosa che non capisco è, appunto… perché mai è vecchio? Non si fanno più queste cose assurde? Molto triste, ed ennesimo indicatore di recessione… eppure, secondo me, bisognerebbe costruirla in Italia sta roba… così (possibilmente, auspicabilmente…) per legge di mercato gli appartamenti normali noiosi nelle vicinanze scenderanno di prezzo, e le persone normali si potranno permettere almeno quelli. (Anche se, visto che in questo appartamento di lusso ha un valore di 90 milioni di yen, circa 531mila euro, credo sia già più economico di un appartamento seppur scrauso ma in città come Milano, Torino, Bologna… ops.)

#apartment #appartamento #condominio #lusso #Tokyo

- YouTube

Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.

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https://www.techspot.com/news/108518-global-server-market-surges-134-q1-2025-while.html

Forget chatbots. Zuckerberg’s vision is much grander. He is betting that within a few years, AI will not just be answering your questions or writing your emails. It will be managing your schedule, anticipating your needs, running your home, helping you make decisions, and maybe even guiding your career. Call it Life-as-a-Service, powered by Meta.

The move is seen as a direct challenge to competitors. “The launch of Meta Superintelligence labs isn’t just an announcement; it’s a statement: Meta won’t settle for second place in AI,” commented Alon Yamin, cofounder and CEO of the AI detection platform Copyleaks. He added, “Meta and Mark clearly see this as a make or break moment for AI leadership.”

Mark Zuckerberg Already Knows Your Life. Now He Wants His AI to Run It

In a sweeping new plan, the Meta CEO is assembling an AI "Avengers team" to build not just a better chatbot, but a personalized intelligence that anticipates your needs, manages your schedule, and guides your decisions. Welcome to Life-as-a-Service.

^{Luc Olinga (Gizmodo)}

"One of the things I think that is exciting about this is, we're offering up our National Guard and other folks in Florida to be deputized to be immigration judges. We're working with the Department of Justice for the approvals. I'm sure Pam [Bondi] will approve," DeSantis said as Trump nodded his head and said, "Yep."

DeSantis didn't elaborate on who the other "folks" would be.

DeSantis continued, "But then...I'll have a National Guard judge advocate here. Someone has a notice to appear, Biden would tell them to come back in three years and appear. Now, you'll be able to appear in like a day or two. So, they're not going to be detained, hopefully, for all that long."

Ron DeSantis plans to 'deputize' Floridians as 'judges' of immigrant detainees

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) used a photo opportunity with President Donald Trump to share his plan to move undocumented migrants through Alligator Alcatraz and other Florida detention facilities as quickly as possible.

^{Jennifer Bowers Bahney (Raw Story)}

Amazon, Blackrock, and Keller Williams LLC are some of the companies named in the report.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/truthout.org…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

UN Expert Exposes Companies Aiding Israel’s Genocide, Occupation in Palestine

^{Sharon Zhang (Truthout)}

"This bill is about caviar over kids and hedge funds over health care."

Senate votes to cut $930 billion from Medicaid

^{Mother Jones}

It's the end of the day, the first in this new week following the summer solstice. As much as it pains me, the Intergalactic Council demands to...

stuff.octt.eu.org/2025/07/the-…

In questi giorni molti media parlano di 54 °C a Siviglia, ma attenzione: si tratta della temperatura della superficie terrestre, rilevata dal satellite Sentinel-3 dell’ESA, non della temperatura dell’aria che sentiamo o leggiamo nei bollettini meteo.

Questi dati si ottengono misurando il calore emesso dal suolo, che può essere ben più elevato rispetto all’aria, specie su asfalto o terreno secco esposto al sole.

Le temperature dell’aria in Spagna, seppur molto alte, non hanno superato i 45 °C.

Un dato importante da comprendere per evitare confusione e allarmismi.
Scopri di più sul nostro sito.

Caldo record in Europa: ma davvero in Spagna 54°C?

L’ESA (Agenzia Spaziale Europea) ha recentemente pubblicato un’impressionante immagine satellitare che mostra le temperature superficiali estreme rilevate in Europa il 29 giugno 2025, durante l’attuale ondata di caldo anomalo che

^{Andrea Pardini (METEO POP - RMA APS)}