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Russian officer admits to downing Azerbaijani airliner in reported leak: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/russian-officer-admits-to-downing.html

Quadratic Programming-Based Posture Manipulation and Thrust-vectoring for Agile Dynamic Walking on Narrow Pathways
Chenghao Wang, Eric Sihite, Kaushik Venkatesh Krishnamurthy, Shreyansh Pitroda, Adarsh Salagame, Alireza Ramezani, Morteza Gharib
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23203

Quadratic Programming-Based Posture Manipulation and Thrust-vectoring for Agile Dynamic Walking on Narrow Pathways
There has been significant advancement in legged robot's agility where they can show impressive acrobatic maneuvers, such as parkour. These maneuvers rely heavily on posture manipulation. To expand the stability and locomotion plasticity, we use the multi-modal ability in our legged-aerial platform, the Husky Beta, to perform thruster-assisted walking. This robot has thrusters on each of its sagittal knee joints which can be used to stabilize its frontal dynamic as it walks. In this work, we pe…

Azerbaijan gives eight journalists prison sentences ranging from 7.5 to 15 years, as part of a series of media trials set to obliterate independent reporting (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/06/8-journalists-g…

8 journalists given lengthy jail terms as Azerbaijan crushes free press - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, June 23, 2025— Eight Azerbaijani journalists have received prison sentences ranging from 7 ½ to 15 years, as part of an ongoing series of media trials likely to obliterate independent reporting in the Caucasus nation. In a closed-door trial on Monday, columnist and peace activist Bahruz Samadov was sentenced by a court in...

Iterative Methods for the Projected Solutions of Quasi-equilibrium Problems
Didier Aussel, Jauny, Asrifa Sultana, Shivani Valecha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22080

Iterative Methods for the Projected Solutions of Quasi-equilibrium Problems
Aussel et al. (J Optim Theory Appl 170 818-837 2016) introduced the concept of projected solutions for the quasi-variational inequalities with a non-self constraint map, that is, the case where the constraint map may take values outside the feasible set. This paper presents two iterative methods to determine the projected solutions for quasi-equilibrium problems (QEP). We prove the convergence of the sequence generated by iterative methods to a projected solution of the QEP under some suitable …

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Languages Still Left Behind: Toward a Better Multilingual Machine Translation Benchmark
Chihiro Taguchi, Seng Mai, Keita Kurabe, Yusuke Sakai, Georgina Agyei, Soudabeh Eslami, David Chiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20511

Languages Still Left Behind: Toward a Better Multilingual Machine Translation Benchmark
Multilingual machine translation (MT) benchmarks play a central role in evaluating the capabilities of modern MT systems. Among them, the FLORES+ benchmark is widely used, offering English-to-many translation data for over 200 languages, curated with strict quality control protocols. However, we study data in four languages (Asante Twi, Japanese, Jinghpaw, and South Azerbaijani) and uncover critical shortcomings in the benchmark's suitability for truly multilingual evaluation. Human assessments…

🍫 Cacao agroforestry in Belize hits the sweet spot for people and nature
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/cacao-agroforestry-in-belize-hits-the-sweet-spot-for-people-and-nature/

Cacao agroforestry in Belize hits the sweet spot for people and nature
The Maya Golden Landscape in southern Belize is a patchwork of protected areas, agricultural lands and small communities, part of the greater Maya Forest, the second-largest tropical forest in the Americas, after the Amazon. It’s a haven for predators like jaguars (Panthera onca) and pumas (Puma concolor), and threatened species like Baird’s tapirs (Tapirus bairdii) […]

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