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Researchers say tactics used to make AI more engaging, like making them more agreeable, can make chatbots reinforce harmful ideas, like encouraging drug use (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

Your chatbot friend might be messing with your mind
OpenAI, Meta and others want people to spend more time with AI chatbots, but there is growing evidence that they can hook users or reinforce harmful ideas.

AgriEval: A Comprehensive Chinese Agricultural Benchmark for Large Language Models
Lian Yan, Haotian Wang, Chen Tang, Haifeng Liu, Tianyang Sun, Liangliang Liu, Yi Guan, Jingchi Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21773

AgriEval: A Comprehensive Chinese Agricultural Benchmark for Large Language Models
In the agricultural domain, the deployment of large language models (LLMs) is hindered by the lack of training data and evaluation benchmarks. To mitigate this issue, we propose AgriEval, the first comprehensive Chinese agricultural benchmark with three main characteristics: (1) Comprehensive Capability Evaluation. AgriEval covers six major agriculture categories and 29 subcategories within agriculture, addressing four core cognitive scenarios: memorization, understanding, inference, and genera…

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 …

Immer mehr #Landwirte setzen auf #Agroforstwirtschaft, um ihre Felder widerstandsfähiger gegen #Trockenheit zu machen.
Auch Henning Rehren aus

Gegen die Trockenheit: Bäume auf dem Acker als Klimaanlage
Gegen die Trockenheit auf den Feldern scheint es eine Lösung zu geben: Bäume. Denn sie verändern das Klima auf dem Feld. Auch Landwirt Henning Rehren aus Gehrden hat seine Felder umgestellt.

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…

Cluster analysis of earthquake hypocenters in Azerbaijan and surrounding territories
Sergii Skurativskyi, Sergiy Mykulyak, Yuliya Semenova, Kateryna Skurativska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22829

Cluster analysis of earthquake hypocenters in Azerbaijan and surrounding territories
The research focuses on seismic events that occurred in Azerbaijan and adjacent territories, regions known for strong seismic activity. We analyze a catalog of recorded earthquakes between 2010 and 2023, extracting the locations of the earthquake hypocenters for study purposes. Using statistical methods and cluster analysis tools, we developed a procedure for partitioning hypocenter clusters. The procedure begins with estimates of the Morisita Index, which is suitable for preliminary assessment…

Foundations for Energy-Aware Zero-Energy Devices: From Energy Sensing to Adaptive Protocols
Onel L. A. L\'opez, Mateen Ashraf, Samer Nasser, Gabriel M. de Jesus, Ritesh Kumar Singh, Miltiadis C. Filippou, Jeroen Famaey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22740

Foundations for Energy-Aware Zero-Energy Devices: From Energy Sensing to Adaptive Protocols
Zero-energy devices (ZEDs) are key enablers of sustainable Internet of Things networks by operating solely on harvested ambient energy. Their limited and dynamic energy budget calls for protocols that are energy-aware and intelligently adaptive. However, designing effective energy-aware protocols for ZEDs requires theoretical models that realistically reflect device constraints. Indeed, existing approaches often oversimplify key aspects such as energy information (EI) acquisition, task-level va…

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...

A #ClimateChange increase in a ticks range creates ever more people allergic to #meat and #dairy, which reduces demand for the products of an industry that aggravates the

Auf der griechischen Insel #Chios wurden am 22. Juni 2025 wegen heftiger #Waldbrände der #Notstand ausgerufen.
Mehrere Dörfer mussten evakuiert werden. Stromausfälle,