How Google and others have carefully rewritten their terms and conditions to include words like AI, as tech companies look to train their AI models on user data (Eli Tan/New York Times)

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table-transformer - Table Transformer (TATR) is a deep learning model for extracting tables from unstructured documents (PDFs and images). This is also the official repository for the PubTables-1M dataset and GriTS evaluation metric. github.com/microsoft/table-tra…

Looking for the artwork for Trixie the next Debian release bits.debian.org/2024/06/trixie…

Konec dobíhání autobusů a čekání na zastávkách. V Česku se rozjíždí „MHD na míru“

Startup Citya zavádí nový typ veřejné dopravy – lidé si pomocí aplikace objednají mikrobus, který je zaveze, kam potřebují. A za téměř stejné peníze jako stojí jízdenka na MHD. Koncept se ujal v Česku i zahraničí.

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CISA confirms hackers may have accessed data from chemical facilities during January incident

The agency found no evidence that hackers exfiltrated information but noted the intrusion “may have resulted in the potential unauthorized access”...

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Update on Newton, the Wayland-native accessibility project

There's incredibly good news for people who use accessibility tools on Linux, but who were facing serious, gamebreaking problems when trying to use Wayland. Matt Campbell, of the GNOME accessibility team, has been hard at work on an entirely new accessibility architecture for modern free desktops, and he's got some impre

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Detecting hallucinations in large language models using semantic entropy
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Recherche d'un thème pour Trixie, la prochaine version de Debian bits.debian.org/2024/06/trixie…

Recherche d'un thème pour Trixie, la prochaine version de Debian bits.debian.org/2024/06/trixie…

Wealthy Canadians announce BMW X3 convoy to protest capital gains tax hike thebeaverton.com/2024/06/wealt…

All the Data on Earth Can Fit in a Cup of DNA in MIT's Jurassic Park Project - xatakaon.com/research/all-the-…

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Sovereign Tech Fund Opens Up To Smaller Investments & Updated Criteria

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund has been making sizable investments into various Linux desktop projects, the Rust-based Coreutils implementation, libmicrohttpd, PHP, a systemd bug bounty, and other prominent open-source software that could benefit from greater financial resources. Today they have announced they have opened up for a new round of applications for tho…
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Flesh-Eating Bacteria That Can Kill in Two Days Spreads in Japan - Bloomberg reports:

A disease caused by a rare "flesh-eating bacteria" that can k... - science.slashdot.org/story/24/… #japan

How disabled people use Apple Vision Pro for work, entertainment, and more, and interviews with some disabled Apple staff who built the accessibility features (Andrew Leland/New York Magazine)

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Apple developer documentation: macOS 15 Sequoia will let virtual machine users sign into iCloud and Apple ID-related services, which was previously not possible (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)

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„Birlikte“-Fest in Köln: Sprengstoffhunden haben angeschlagen | Express
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LaTeX is the first PDF/UA-2 compliance accessible PDF producer

Link: github.com/latex3/tagging-proj…
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Als ein deutscher Nazi in #Hanau 2020 zehn Menschen ermordete, ging der Karneval ganz normal weiter. Im Bundestag wurde sogar am Tag danach gefeiert.
Ich würde gerne glauben, dass wir als Gesellschaft dazugelernt haben und die jetzt in #Mannheim gezeigte Anteilnahme nichts mit #Rassismus zu tun hat.

Nur sehe ich sehr wenig #Trauer und #Humanität, sondern vor allem die vollkommen unangemessene Betonung der Herkunft des Täters.

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3 reasons why Bitcoin failed to break above $72K - Regulatory uncertainty and volatile macroeconomic events may weaken furt... - cointelegraph.com/news/3-reaso… #approval #gamestop #markets #senate #veto #fdic #gbtc #nvda #gme
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Is there any chance we can encourage you to trend #NVIDIA when that's the company you mean, please? I know what their NASDAQ handle is, but #NVDA is much more widely known as the name of the screen reader we make and the #NVDA hashtag is very widely used for the screen reader. It will save both our communities polluting each other's feeds. If you'd like to find out more about the screen reader, our website is nvaccess.org/ - Thank you!