https://aimagazine.com/articles/is-worlds-biggest-data-centre-campus-in-texas-sustainable

NO KINGS 2.0 NATIONAL PROTEST - JULY 4TH, 2025 INDEPENDENCE WITHOUT TYRANNY

This Fourth of July, we're reclaiming America's promise; Freedom for all! Justice for all! NO KINGS! What started as a local protest is now a nationwide movement. This isn't about left vs. right; this is about the people vs. power unchecked. No more leaders above the law. No more silence when rights are stripped away. No more fear, manipulation, or false patriotism. From coast to coast, city streets to small towns, we're raising our voices: Against authoritarianism, corrupt leadership, racism, xenophobia, and injustice. For the rights of immigrants, workers, families, and everyday Americans For truth, transparency, and equality under the Constitution.

WHO'S INVITED? Everyone who believes in liberty - true liberty, not just the brand sold during election season.

July 4th No Kings 2.0

NO KINGS 2.0 NATIONAL PROTEST - JULY 4TH, 2025 INDEPENDENCE WITHOUT TYRANNY This Fourth of July, we're reclaiming America's promise; Freedom for all! Justice for all! NO KINGS! What started as a local protest is now a nationwide movement.

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Reporting Highlights

Winning Record: In the Texas Capitol, where the vast majority of bills fail to pass, all but three of Elon Musk’s public priorities became law this legislative session.

Company Gains: Musk’s wins include laws that will benefit companies like SpaceX and Tesla.

Playing the Long Game: Musk has steadily invested his personal and professional capital in Texas over more than a decade. Most of his businesses are now headquartered here.

How Changes to Texas Law Will Help Elon Musk’s Companies

While Elon Musk took Washington, D.C., by storm, his company representatives and lobbyists were also notching up big political wins in the heart of his vast business empire: Texas.

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https://finimize.com/content/microsoft-shifts-gears-on-ai-chip-design-plans

https://finimize.com/content/microsoft-shifts-gears-on-ai-chip-design-plans

The operation reportedly began with the detonation of a concealed minefield, forcing Israeli forces to seek shelter in nearby civilian homes.

Israeli Soldiers Killed, Wounded in Complex Resistance Attacks in Gaza - Palestine Chronicle

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A powerful new report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council by Francesca Albanese, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, is drawing sharp condemnation — not only from Israel but also from the United States.

Titled ‘From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide’, the report delivers a searing indictment of corporate involvement in Israel’s settler-colonial enterprise and its ongoing genocidal war on Gaza, accusing private and state-linked companies of enabling apartheid, war crimes, and genocide.

Economy of Genocide: UN Report Links Western Firms to Israeli War Crimes - Palestine Chronicle

The report delivers a searing indictment of corporate involvement in Israel’s settler-colonial enterprise and its genocide in Gaza.

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Homes raided, people approached on the street, called from unknown numbers, arrested without warning: how British police are cracking down on activists

'Like a kidnapping': How UK police are hunting pro-Palestine activists

At 7am on 6 March, three men turned up at Lujane's door.  They said they were from the British Transport Police (BTP) and asked her to come for an interview regarding a video in which, several months before, she had been seen chanting pro-Palestine …

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A powerful new report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council by Francesca Albanese, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, is drawing sharp condemnation — not only from Israel but also from the United States.

Titled ‘From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide’, the report delivers a searing indictment of corporate involvement in Israel’s settler-colonial enterprise and its ongoing genocidal war on Gaza, accusing private and state-linked companies of enabling apartheid, war crimes, and genocide.

Economy of Genocide: UN Report Links Western Firms to Israeli War Crimes - Palestine Chronicle

The report delivers a searing indictment of corporate involvement in Israel’s settler-colonial enterprise and its genocide in Gaza.

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https://t.me/operativnoZSU/185304

Iran’s president has ordered the country to suspend its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency after American airstrikes hit its most-important nuclear facilities.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/apnews.com/a…

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.

This paper introduces DiffuCoder, a 7B-scale open-source masked diffusion large language model (dLLM) specifically designed for code generation.

The research provides insights into how dLLMs generate content, distinguishing their decoding behavior from that of autoregressive (AR) models. Unlike AR models, dLLMs can intrinsically adjust their generation causality and increasing sampling temperature diversifies not just token choices but also their generation order, creating a rich search space for reinforcement learning (RL).

This flexibility allows dLLMs to be more non-autoregressive and generate tokens in a less sequential, more "human-like" code writing manner.

To leverage this diversity and improve performance, the paper proposes coupled-GRPO RL algorithm. This method utilizes a coupled-sampling scheme that constructs complementary mask noise during training to reduce the variance of token log-likelihood estimates while maintaining training efficiency.

Experimentally, coupled-GRPO significantly boosts DiffuCoder's performance on code generation benchmarks, notably improving EvalPlus scores by 4.4% with training on only 21K samples. The research also shows that coupled-GRPO trained models experience a smaller performance drop when decoding steps are halved (resulting in a 2x speedup), indicating increased parallelism and reduced reliance on AR bias during decoding.

available at huggingface.co/apple/DiffuCode…

apple/DiffuCoder-7B-cpGRPO · Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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On +972, we Palestinians speak for ourselves (Mahmoud Mushtaha, 2025-07-02)

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>> ... speaking out has meant navigating a hostile media environment, shaped by pro-Israel bias and corporate funders. In my own work, I’ve been asked by editors to replace the word “occupation” with “conflict”, or to remove “apartheid” ...

>> Other times, this hostility is the absence of space altogether...

>> This is why +972 Magazine matters. It’s one of the few platforms where Palestinians are not just written about or quoted. We are among its contributors, analysts, editors, and decisionmakers, and we shape the coverage.

>> +972 ... doesn’t have corporate backers. It doesn’t take funding from the U.S. or Israeli governments, ...

>> ... By supporting +972, you help ensure that Palestinians continue to have our voices heard — and without filtering the truth.

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