GitHub Availability Report: June 2025

In June, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. June 5 17:47 UTC (lasting 1 hour and 33 minutes) On June 5, 2025, between 17:47 UTC and 19:20 UTC, the Actions service was degraded, leading to run start delays and intermittent job failures. During this period, 47.2% of runs had […]

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There Are Too Many Rich People

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South Plains (SPFI) Q2 2025 Earnings Transcript

Image source: The Motley Fool. DATE Wednesday, July 16, 2025, at 5 p.m. EDT CALL PARTICIPANTS Chairman & CEO — Curtis Griffith President & CEO — Cory T. Newsom Chief Financial Officer — Steven Crockett Chief Banking Officer — Brent Bates Need a quote from one of our analysts? Email [email protected] TAKEAWAYS Loan Portfolio: Loans […]

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A Discussion of ‘Adversarial Examples Are Not Bugs, They Are Features’: Robust Feature Leakage

Ilyas et al. report a surprising result: a model trained on adversarial examples is effective on clean data. They suggest this transfer is driven by adverserial examples containing geuinely useful non-robust cues. But an alternate mechanism for the transfer could be a kind of “robust feature leakage” where the model picks up on faint robust […]

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Ukrainian hackers say they compromised a major Russian drone company, destroying data, backups, and systems

A pair of Ukraine-supporting hacktivist groups have reportedly claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on a major supplier of drones to Russia’s military called Gaskar Group. TechCrunch reported that BO Team—the “BO” stands for “Black Owl,” not “Body Odor,” in case you’re wondering—announced the operation with a Telegram post on July 14. The group stated that […]

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California Proposed A Law Making Broadband Affordable For Poor People. Telecom Lobbyists Have Already Destroyed It.

from the this-is-why-we-can’t-have-nice-things dept Last January, Democratic California Assemblymember Tasha Boerner introduced the California Affordable Home Internet Act (AB 353), which mandated that large ISPs in the state needed to provide broadband service at speeds of 100 Mbps down, 20 Mbps up for $15 a month to California residents who qualify for existing low-income assistance programs. […]

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Tether fuels crypto ecosystem with new $2 billion USDT mint

Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin issuer, minted an additional $2 billion USDT on July 16 on the Ethereum blockchain. Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino confirmed the mint via a post on X, clarifying that the new mints were an “inventory replenish” on Ethereum. This means the funds serve as inventory for future issuance and blockchain swaps, […]

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