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My latest bit for The Register on why engineers should develop their communication skills:
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/18/communications_for_engineers/

To progress as an engineer career-wise, become a great communicator
Systems Approach: It'll even help you develop technical skills

Harvard Divinity School broke precedent
by refusing to publish a video of its commencement speech
after a speaker went off-script to call attention to the perilous conditions in Gaza.
“There are no safe zones left in Gaza after 600 days and 77 years of genocide,” said Zehra Imam,
who graduated from the Harvard Divinity School this spring and participated in the embattled Religion and Public Life program.
Imam, who is Muslim, was speaking with two other students f…

A Harvard Commencement Speaker Mentioned Gaza. The School Refused to Publish Her Speech.
Divinity School insiders said Harvard’s practices are at odds with the public perception that the university is fighting Trump.

Minimizing Communication for Parallel Symmetric Tensor Times Same Vector Computation
Hussam Al Daas (STFC, Scientific Computing Department, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK), Grey Ballard (Wake Forest University, Computer Science Department, Winston-Salem, NC, USA), Laura Grigori (EPFL, Institute of Mathematics, Lausanne, Switzerland,PSI, Center for Scientific Computing, Theory,Data, Villigen, Switzerland), Suraj Kumar (Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologi…

Minimizing Communication for Parallel Symmetric Tensor Times Same Vector Computation
In this article, we focus on the parallel communication cost of multiplying the same vector along two modes of a $3$-dimensional symmetric tensor. This is a key computation in the higher-order power method for determining eigenpairs of a $3$-dimensional symmetric tensor and in gradient-based methods for computing a symmetric CP decomposition. We establish communication lower bounds that determine how much data movement is required to perform the specified computation in parallel. The core idea …

Apple's Journal app is coming to iPad and Mac in iPadOS 26 and macOS Tahoe and gains features like multiple journals, map view, inline images, and more (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/17/apples-journal-app-i…

Apple’s Journal app is coming to iPad and Mac with big upgrades - 9to5Mac
Apple’s Journal app is coming to the iPad and Mac this fall as part of iPadOS 26 and macOS Tahoe, with several new features included.

Minding the Politeness Gap in Cross-cultural Communication
Yuka Machino, Matthias Hofer, Max Siegel, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Robert D. Hawkins
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15623

Minding the Politeness Gap in Cross-cultural Communication
Misunderstandings in cross-cultural communication often arise from subtle differences in interpretation, but it is unclear whether these differences arise from the literal meanings assigned to words or from more general pragmatic factors such as norms around politeness and brevity. In this paper, we report three experiments examining how speakers of British and American English interpret intensifiers like "quite" and "very." To better understand these cross-cultural differences, we developed a …

Neuer NFC-Standard vervierfacht die Reichweite
Die neuen Spezifikationen sollen den Near-Field-Communication-Standard (NFC) schneller und bequemer in der Nutzung machen. 
https://www.…

On Gorenstein $\mathbb{Q}_p$-rational threefolds and fourfolds
Jefferson Baudin, Zsolt Patakfalvi, Linus R\"osler, Maciej Zdanowicz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15491

On Gorenstein $\mathbb{Q}_p$-rational threefolds and fourfolds
We prove that for $n \leq 4$ and $p > 5$, quasi--Gorenstein $F$--pure and $\mathbb{Q}_p$--rational $n$--fold singularities are canonical. This is analogous to the usual fact that rational Gorenstein singularities are canonical. The proof is based on a careful analysis of the dual complex of a dlt modification of a log canonical singularity. The result for $n = 4$ is contingent upon the existence of log resolutions.

Revisiting Compositional Generalization Capability of Large Language Models Considering Instruction Following Ability
Yusuke Sakai, Hidetaka Kamigaito, Taro Watanabe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15629

Revisiting Compositional Generalization Capability of Large Language Models Considering Instruction Following Ability
In generative commonsense reasoning tasks such as CommonGen, generative large language models (LLMs) compose sentences that include all given concepts. However, when focusing on instruction-following capabilities, if a prompt specifies a concept order, LLMs must generate sentences that adhere to the specified order. To address this, we propose Ordered CommonGen, a benchmark designed to evaluate the compositional generalization and instruction-following abilities of LLMs. This benchmark measures…

The Irish Data Protection Commission says Meta told it that WhatsApp ads "won't be launching" in the EU "until 2026"; WhatsApp says ads are coming "gradually" (Ellen O'Regan/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/whatsapp-m

WhatsApp won’t roll out ads in EU until 2026
Meta’s advertising plan has triggered privacy concerns in Europe.