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'Pew Pew': The Chinese Companies Marketing Anti-Drone Weapons on TikTok

WIRED

On TikTok, Chinese manufacturers are advertising signal-blocking weapons with the breezy cadence of consumer lifestyle advertising. "Pew, pew, pew!" a woman wearing sneakers and high-waisted pink trousers says cheerfully in a video uploaded to TikTok. She is standing on what appears to be an industrial rooftop while demonstrating how to use a black device resembling an oversized laser tag gun. "Jamming gun, good," she adds, flashing a thumbs up. These days, nearly any product imaginable is available for purchase on TikTok straight from Chinese factories, ranging from industrial chemicals to mystical crystals and custom pilates reformers.


Masked protesters arrested outside Trump's Board of Peace meeting

Al Jazeera

Why was El Paso airspace shut down? Masked protesters arrested outside Trump's Board of Peace meeting NewsFeed Masked protesters arrested outside Trump's Board of Peace meeting Pro-Palestinian protesters gathered in downtown Washington, DC, outside Donald Trump's Board of Peace event, with some wearing masks of Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu and Marco Rubio. Several were shoved and arrested by police. Palestinians in Gaza say'Board of Peace' will further occupation OpenAI's Sam Altman: Global AI regulation'urgently' needed Gaza'stabilization force' commander outlines security plans Trump praises'magnificent' B-2 bombers that struck Iran in 2025 Jordan-Israel relationship'at its worst' after West Bank plans Trump's'Board of Peace' convenes for first time



Decades of international failure on Palestine

Al Jazeera

'The next stage of the Gaza genocide has begun' How important is the Rafah crossing reopening? US President Trump convenes inaugural'Board of Peace' meeting after decades of inaction on addressing core Palestinian demands to end the Israeli occupation. Al Jazeera takes a look at the international community's failures. Masked protesters arrested outside Trump's Board of Peace meeting Palestinians in Gaza say'Board of Peace' will further occupation OpenAI's Sam Altman: Global AI regulation'urgently' needed Gaza'stabilization force' commander outlines security plans Trump praises'magnificent' B-2 bombers that struck Iran in 2025 Jordan-Israel relationship'at its worst' after West Bank plans Trump's'Board of Peace' convenes for first time


Towards Federated Foundation Models: Scalable Dataset Pipelines for Group-Structured Learning Zachary Charles

Neural Information Processing Systems

We introduce Dataset Grouper, a library to create large-scale group-structured (e.g., federated) datasets, enabling federated learning simulation at the scale of foundation models. This library facilitates the creation of group-structured versions of existing datasets based on user-specified partitions, and directly leads to a variety of useful heterogeneous datasets that can be plugged into existing software frameworks. Dataset Grouper offers three key advantages. First, it scales to settings where even a single group's dataset is too large to fit in memory. Second, it provides flexibility, both in choosing the base (non-partitioned) dataset and in defining partitions.



Palestinians in Gaza say 'Board of Peace' will further occupation

Al Jazeera

'The next stage of the Gaza genocide has begun' How important is the Rafah crossing reopening? Palestinians in Gaza say'Board of Peace' will further occupation NewsFeed Palestinians in Gaza say'Board of Peace' will further occupation Many Palestinians in Gaza reacted to the inaugural meeting of Donald Trump's so-called "Board of Peace" with deep scepticism, seeing it as a way to further Israel's illegal occupation of the territory. Masked protesters arrested outside Trump's Board of Peace meeting OpenAI's Sam Altman: Global AI regulation'urgently' needed Gaza'stabilization force' commander outlines security plans Trump praises'magnificent' B-2 bombers that struck Iran in 2025 Jordan-Israel relationship'at its worst' after West Bank plans Trump's'Board of Peace' convenes for first time



Optimal Subsampling with Influence Functions

Neural Information Processing Systems

As the amount of data increases, the question arises as to how best to deal with the large datasets. While computational platforms such as Spark [28] and Ray [23] help process large datasets once a desired model is chosen, simply using smaller data can be a faster solution for exploratory data modeling, rapid prototyping, or other tasks where the accuracy obtainable from the full dataset is notneeded.