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‘The court now grants’: Judge finally agrees to toss Jan. 6 defendant’s gun case in light of Trump pardon and decisions on where the government’s ‘resources are best spent’
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/the-court-now-grants-judge-finally-agrees-to-toss-jan-6-defendants-gun-case-in-light-of-trump-pardon-and-decisions-on-where-the-governments-resources-are-best-spent/

Qualcomm agrees to acquire UK-listed Alphawave, which makes high-speed chip and connectivity tech for data centers, for $2.4B in cash, set to close in Q1 2026 (Amy Thomson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

UAV-Based Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture Across Diverse Land Covers: Validation and Bayesian Uncertainty Characterization
Runze Zhang, Ishfaq Aziz, Derek Houtz, Yuxiang Zhao, Trent W. Ford, Adam C. Watts, Mohamad Alipour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05572

UAV-Based Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture Across Diverse Land Covers: Validation and Bayesian Uncertainty Characterization
High-resolution soil moisture (SM) observations are critical for agricultural monitoring, forestry management, and hazard prediction, yet current satellite passive microwave missions cannot directly provide retrievals at tens-of-meter spatial scales. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) mounted microwave radiometry presents a promising alternative, but most evaluations to date have focused on agricultural settings, with limited exploration across other land covers and few efforts to quantify retrieval…

Towards Autonomous In-situ Soil Sampling and Mapping in Large-Scale Agricultural Environments
Thien Hoang Nguyen, Erik Muller, Michael Rubin, Xiaofei Wang, Fiorella Sibona, Salah Sukkarieh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05653

Towards Autonomous In-situ Soil Sampling and Mapping in Large-Scale Agricultural Environments
Traditional soil sampling and analysis methods are labor-intensive, time-consuming, and limited in spatial resolution, making them unsuitable for large-scale precision agriculture. To address these limitations, we present a robotic solution for real-time sampling, analysis and mapping of key soil properties. Our system consists of two main sub-systems: a Sample Acquisition System (SAS) for precise, automated in-field soil sampling; and a Sample Analysis Lab (Lab) for real-time soil property ana…

Multiple immigration sweeps reported across L.A., with a tense standoff downtown (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-06/immigration-sweeps-across-los-angeles
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p158#a250606p158

Calico in early summer.
#caturday #photography

TerraFM: A Scalable Foundation Model for Unified Multisensor Earth Observation
Muhammad Sohail Danish, Muhammad Akhtar Munir, Syed Roshaan Ali Shah, Muhammad Haris Khan, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Jorma Laaksonen, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Salman Khan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06281

TerraFM: A Scalable Foundation Model for Unified Multisensor Earth Observation
Modern Earth observation (EO) increasingly leverages deep learning to harness the scale and diversity of satellite imagery across sensors and regions. While recent foundation models have demonstrated promising generalization across EO tasks, many remain limited by the scale, geographical coverage, and spectral diversity of their training data, factors critical for learning globally transferable representations. In this work, we introduce TerraFM, a scalable self-supervised learning model that l…

Musk tried and failed to enact systemic change across the entire government.
Many tech executives and investors who support Trump have narrower goals that focus on creating a regulatory climate favorable to themselves.
While Trump and Musk traded barbs on their respective social networks,
a cryptocurrency company whose business had been hamstrung by the Biden administration went public on the New York Stock Exchange,
its share price popping 200 percent.
An art…

Musk and Trump are over. Silicon Valley is just getting started.
The Tech-Trump alliance has always had tensions. But its lucrative nature has outweighed the ideological differences.

Ancient Native American agricultural site's true extent revealed : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/06/nx-s1-5423660/surprise-ancient-native-american-agriculture

CapVest-owned Datasite, which offers workflow automation tech for dealmaking, acquires Grata, which helps users with all aspects of the deal process, for $200M (Maria Armental/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/private-equi…