An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: Trump Media & Technology Group has unveiled a paid-for, licensed data feed that will give banks and trading firms "the fastest" access to posts from influential Truth Social accounts, such as President Donald Trump's, whose posts often move global markets. The product, called 'Truth API,' will deliver posts from the 10 most influential accounts to customers at a significantly faster pace than a regular push notification on the Truth Social platform, a spokesperson said. The feed is designed for organizations "most impacted by the cost of a delay in information," such as algorithmic trading firms, the company said in a statement. "Until now... firms that prioritize tracking influential Truth posts have relied on manual monitoring. Truth API closes the gap." "Markets already move on Truth Social posts ... As adoption grows, we expect Truth API to become a meaningful, ongoing source of revenue for the company," TMTG's interim CEO Kevin McGurn said.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

India's Competition Commission has fined HP India and its partners about 1.4 billion rupees ($14.4 million), alleging the company colluded with resellers to rig government PC bids and fix prices for ink cartridges, toner, and other printing supplies. "It said that HP was aiming to outcompete other OEMs and discourage resellers from selling 'counterfeit' ink and toner," adds Ars Technica. From the report: In an order, the CCI said that HP India worked with five resellers to coordinate their bid prices for government contracts to increase the chances of an HP partner winning the contracts. The company was fined 1.3 billion rupees (about $13.1 million). [...] HP was also fined 119.8 million rupees (about $1.2 million) for "indulging in cartelization in sale and supply of supplies products comprising of toner, cartridges, and other consumable used with print hardware products," CCI said in its announcement. The agency also fined 21 HP resellers 35.2 million rupees (about $365,335).

In a separate order, the CCI said that WhatsApp records showed that HP and 16 of its Tier-2 reseller partners operated "in a collusive arrangement" and that the messages show the companies engaging in "bid rigging, including cover bidding, price fixation, and customer allocation during 2017-2020." HP India played a central role, the regulator said.

Per the order, HP India said that high printing supply prices led some resellers to threaten to "shift to low-cost counterfeit products to compete on price." "HP India was commercially forced into a position where it had to support the collusive arrangement adopted by the Tier-2 resellers," the order reads. For its part, the order said that HP India "humbly objects to HP India's role being characterized as a 'kingpin' of the entire collusive arrangement." [...] The CCI also ordered HP India and its channel partners to "cease and desist from anti-competitive conduct" and to hold competition compliance training programs within 60 days.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

'When in Rome' scene from 'Roman Legion-Hare', 1955. [Slyt. 2:56]

Cw warning: stereotypes. Yosemite Sam, Bugs Bunny and Nero.

Throughout July and August and leading up to (at last) the release of Coyote vs Acme, Connor Ratliff is video-reviewing all 35 theatrical Chuck Jones & Michael Maltese Wile E. Coyote cartoons (plus one TV pilot).

niggyl :) has added a photo to the pool:

Somewhere in the Du Cane Range, Cradle Mountain - Lake St Clair National Park. I'd love to say where it is but I have no real idea because of the conditions that descended upon us.

The weather simply closed us out, drenched us, half drowned my GRiii and made life at altitude unpleasant! Even the weatherproof X-T5 took some moisture.

One simply cannot take our weather for granted, this is why we have rescue helicopters and lose half a dozen lives a year.

Fuji X-T5, Fujinon XF 16-50mm f/2.8-4.8, 1/320th sec at f/6.4, ISO 500.

"Adventure before dementia" has added a photo to the pool:

Three Sydney beaches are my theme for today, starting with Coogee, I know how non-Australians murder the name, but it is what it is. Sydney is home to over 100 beaches, ranging from world-famous surf spots along the coastline to sheltered, calm coves hidden within the harbour.

"Adventure before dementia" has added a photo to the pool:

Three Sydney beaches are my theme for today, here the iconic and, in my opinion, wildly over-rated Bondi (pronounced Bon-dye) Beach. Sydney is home to over 100 beaches, ranging from world-famous surf spots along the coastline to sheltered, calm coves hidden within the harbour.

iain.davidson100 has added a photo to the pool:

De vindingrijkheid van de natuur kent geen grenzen. Vogels maken gebruik van de glasvezels die in de drone-oorlog in gebruik zijn.

Het zit erop. Deze zondag is de WK-finale tussen Argentinië en Spanje: het einde van het grootste WK ooit.

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

ajpscs posted a photo:

the SQUARE
TOKYO LOST SOULS
© ajpscs

DanÅke Carlsson posted a photo:

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

South Korea is developing its own security-focused AI model and hopes to bring it online by the end of the year, to ensure the nation has sovereign bug-finding capabilities. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT Bae Kyung-hoon revealed the effort to create the model yesterday, and said it’s needed so South Korea possesses a bug-finding model to rival Anthropic’s Mythos. The US government has twice blocked access to Mythos, once by requiring Anthropic to offer it only to American citizens – a demand the AI company could not meet and therefore blocked all access – and a second time by ordering the company to take down its services so Washington could investigate allegations of possible dangerous performance problems. Those incidents led many other nations conclude that the US could in future deny access to powerful models – meaning US-based organizations and national security agencies would have an edge. Washington has since allowed limited access to Mythos to some of its allies. Interest in developing sovereign AI capacity has nonetheless soared, and Bae said South Korea now aspires to develop its own Mythos-class model. The Register is aware of another effort to create Mythos-like tools, involving private firms and infrastructure operators across several countries. In South Korea, the government’s approach is to add security-related information to the corpus it is using to train a locally developed frontier model. The minister said he expects that security-capable model will debut by the end of 2026. South Korea has also sought bids to create a chatbot that will be made freely available to all residents, plus an agentic application that will help locals interact with government services. Minister Bae made his remarks at a policy briefing session conducted by President Lee Jae Myung, during which discussions about AI also touched on using the technology to detect fake news in real time, and put it to work handling complaints about government services more quickly than is currently possible. ®