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Das Netzwerk Datenschutzexpertise übt scharfe Kritik am Praxisregister Schmerz. Daten würden intransparent fragwürdigen Auswertungen der Pharmaindustrie dienen.

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Delirium often goes underreported, making it hard for #AI to predict accurately. Our review of 120 studies found common data issues that hurt model reliability. We created a step-by-step guide to help build fairer, more accurate models—so we eventually can detect #delirium earlier and im…

I find this map especially amusing in that in 1893, 238 colonists departed Australia (purportedly nonexistent) to found the New Australia colony in Paraguay (ditto).
Of course, Australia didn’t federate till 1901, so it could be argued that Australia didn’t *actually* exist at the time. And given Paraguay’s tremendous (but still hotly contested) losses in the 1864-70 Paraguayan War, the latter country was itself hanging on by a thread.

U-R-VEDA: Integrating UNET, Residual Links, Edge and Dual Attention, and Vision Transformer for Accurate Semantic Segmentation of CMRs
Racheal Mukisa, Arvind K. Bansal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20689

U-R-VEDA: Integrating UNET, Residual Links, Edge and Dual Attention, and Vision Transformer for Accurate Semantic Segmentation of CMRs
Artificial intelligence, including deep learning models, will play a transformative role in automated medical image analysis for the diagnosis of cardiac disorders and their management. Automated accurate delineation of cardiac images is the first necessary initial step for the quantification and automated diagnosis of cardiac disorders. In this paper, we propose a deep learning based enhanced UNet model, U-R-Veda, which integrates convolution transformations, vision transformer, residual links…

Exploring the role of accretion disk geometry in shaping black hole shadows
Zi-Liang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21148 https://ar…

Exploring the role of accretion disk geometry in shaping black hole shadows
We study black hole imaging in the context of geometrically thick accretion disks in Schwarzschild spacetime. By decomposing the emitting region into a set of one-dimensional luminous segments, each characterized by its inclination angle and inner radius, we construct transfer functions that capture key image features-namely, the direct image, lensing ring, and photon ring. This approach allows a unified treatment of disk geometry and viewing angle. We explore three regimes: optically thin, opt…

An Accretion Flare Interpretation for the UHE Neutrino Event KM3-230213A
Chengchao Yuan, Leonard Pfeiffer, Walter Winter, Sara Buson, Federico Testagrossa, Jose Maria Sanchez Zaballa, Alessandra Azzollini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21111

An Accretion Flare Interpretation for the UHE Neutrino Event KM3-230213A
We study the origin of the ultra-high-energy (UHE) astrophysical neutrino event KM3-230213A detected by KM3NeT, focusing on MRC 0614-083 which has been pinpointed as the closest blazar to the neutrino localization. A joint interpretation of the optical, infrared, and X-ray light curves suggests that MRC 0614-083 has undergone a super-Eddington accretion flare accompanied by efficient proton acceleration. That flare has initiated a delayed infrared echo within the surrounding dust torus, which s…

Encryption Is Not a Crime - Privacy Guides
Contrary to what some policymakers seem to believe, whether naively or maliciously, encryption is not a crime. Anyone asserting encryption is a tool for crime is either painfully misinformed or is attempting to manipulate legislators to gain oppressive power over the people. Encryption is not a crime, encryption is a shield.
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Encryption Is Not a Crime
Encryption is not a crime, encryption protects all of us. Encryption, and especially end-to-end encryption, is an essential tool to protect everyone online. Attempts to undermine encryption are an attack to our fundamental right to privacy and an attack to our inherent right to security and safety.

Source: OpenAI recently began renting Google's TPUs to power ChatGPT, marking its first significant use of non-Nvidia chips; Meta also considered using TPUs (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-convinces-open…

Google Convinces OpenAI to Use TPU Chips in Win Against Nvidia
OpenAI, one of the world’s biggest customers of Nvidia artificial intelligence chips, recently began renting Google’s AI chips to power ChatGPT and other products, the first time it has used non-Nvidia chips in a meaningful way, according to a person who is involved in the arrangement. The move ...

Internal emails: ICE is using Mobile Fortify, an app that uses facial recognition and fingerprint scanning via phone cameras to identify people in the field (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/ice-is-using-a-new-f…

ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is using it in the field.