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"Populism, platforms, and the challenges of science communication"
https://elephantinthelab.org/populism-platforms-and-the-challenges-of-science-communication/
"Teresa Völker interviewed Jeanette Hofmann about the rol…

🌽 Closely sown corn plants communicate to defend themselves
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-08-24/closely-sown-corn-plants-communicate-to-defend-themselves.html

Closely sown corn plants communicate to defend themselves
By releasing an alcohol into the air that causes neighbors’ roots to exude pesticides, they can even protect subsequent generations of crops

'The digital commons should not be treated as an object ripe for extraction, but as an expression of “commoning” [Dulong de Rosnay and Stalder 2020]; i.e., as a manifestation of the practice of making, maintaining, and protecting shared and open resources.'
From 'Generative AI and the Future of the Digital Commons' https://www.…

Generative AI and the Future of the Digital Commons: Five Open Questions and Knowledge Gaps
The rapid advancement of Generative AI (GenAI) relies heavily on the digital commons, a vast collection of free and open online content that is created, shared, and maintained by communities. However, this relationship is becoming increasingly strained due to financial burdens, decreased contributions, and misalignment between AI models and community norms. As we move deeper into the GenAI era, it is essential to examine the interdependent relationship between GenAI, the long-term sustainabilit…

Persistent and Partitioned MPI for Stencil Communication
Gerald Collom, Jason Burmark, Olga Pearce, Amanda Bienz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13370 https://a…

Persistent and Partitioned MPI for Stencil Communication
Many parallel applications rely on iterative stencil operations, whose performance are dominated by communication costs at large scales. Several MPI optimizations, such as persistent and partitioned communication, reduce overheads and improve communication efficiency through amortized setup costs and reduced synchronization of threaded sends. This paper presents the performance of stencil communication in the Comb benchmarking suite when using non blocking, persistent, and partitioned communica…

Rubio denies European leaders coming to White House to 'keep Zelensky from being bullied': https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/18/rubio-denies-european-leaders-coming.html

Deep Semantic Inference over the Air: An Efficient Task-Oriented Communication System
Chenyang Wang, Roger Olsson, Stefan Forsstr\"om, Qing He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12748

Deep Semantic Inference over the Air: An Efficient Task-Oriented Communication System
Empowered by deep learning, semantic communication marks a paradigm shift from transmitting raw data to conveying task-relevant meaning, enabling more efficient and intelligent wireless systems. In this study, we explore a deep learning-based task-oriented communication framework that jointly considers classification performance, computational latency, and communication cost. We adopt ResNets-based models and evaluate them on the CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100 datasets to simulate real-world classifica…

Tyler-Mania coming to Cowboys’ camp in 2025 https://insidethestar.com/tyler-mania-coming-to-cowboys-camp-in-2025

Samsung rolls out a software update to display promotions and ads on the Cover Screens of some Family Hub refrigerators in the US as part of a pilot program (Aamir Siddiqui/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-confirms-smart…

Samsung confirms its $1,800+ fridges will start showing you ads
Samsung confirms ads are coming to some Family Hub refrigerators in the US through a new software update. Check out the company's statement!

Communication Efficient Split Learning of ViTs with Attention-based Double Compression
Federico Alvetreti, Jary Pomponi, Paolo Di Lorenzo, Simone Scardapane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15058

Communication Efficient Split Learning of ViTs with Attention-based Double Compression
This paper proposes a novel communication-efficient Split Learning (SL) framework, named Attention-based Double Compression (ADC), which reduces the communication overhead required for transmitting intermediate Vision Transformers activations during the SL training process. ADC incorporates two parallel compression strategies. The first one merges samples' activations that are similar, based on the average attention score calculated in the last client layer; this strategy is class-agnostic, mea…

Spatial Balancing: Harnessing Spatial Reasoning to Balance Scientific Exposition and Narrative Engagement in LLM-assisted Science Communication Writing
Kexue Fu, Jiaye Leng, Yawen Zhang, Jingfei Huang, Yihang Zuo, Runze Cai, Zijian Ding, Ray LC, Shengdong Zhao, Qinyuan Lei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13742

Spatial Balancing: Harnessing Spatial Reasoning to Balance Scientific Exposition and Narrative Engagement in LLM-assisted Science Communication Writing
Balancing scientific exposition and narrative engagement is a central challenge in science communication. To examine how to achieve balance, we conducted a formative study with four science communicators and a literature review of science communication practices, focusing on their workflows and strategies. These insights revealed how creators iteratively shift between exposition and engagement but often lack structured support. Building on this, we developed SpatialBalancing, a co-writing syste…