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A Rapid Review Regarding the Concept of Legal Requirements in Requirements Engineering
Jukka Ruohonen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06012 https://arxiv.org/pd…

A Rapid Review Regarding the Concept of Legal Requirements in Requirements Engineering
Out of a personal puzzlement, recent peer review comments, and demonstrable confusion in the existing literature, the paper presents a rapid review of the concept of legal requirements (LRs) in requirements engineering (RE) research. According to reviewing results, a normative understanding of LRs has often been present, although proper definitions and conceptual operationalizations are lacking. Some papers also see LRs as functional and others as non-functional requirements. Legal requirements…

I already have a deeply-trained deterministic expert system using carbon-based storage and processing which gives me the answer provided by a LLM ('the commands to run to get an answer') in an instant.
It even knows not to tell me 'netstat' when I'm on a FreeBSD box. https://infosec.exchange/…

⚓ Meet the cement transport ship that makes cement ingredients while sailing
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/meet-the-cement-transport-ship-that-makes-cement-ingredients-while-sailing/

Meet the cement transport ship that makes cement ingredients while sailing | TechCrunch
London-based Seabound has developed a carbon capture system that transforms CO2 from a ship's engine into limestone, which Heidelberg Materials will use to make cement.

"Our world is hurtling into climate disaster and what do politicians give us? Oilfields and new runways | Bill McGuire"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Exploring Empathy in Software Engineering: Insights from a Grey Literature Analysis of Practitioners' Perspectives
Lidiany Cerqueira, Jo\~ao Pedro Bastos, Danilo Neves, Glauco Carneiro, Rodrigo Sp\'inola, S\'avio Freire, Jos\'e Amancio Macedo Santos, Manoel Mendon\c{c}a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05325

Exploring Empathy in Software Engineering: Insights from a Grey Literature Analysis of Practitioners' Perspectives
Context. Empathy, a key social skill, is essential for communication and collaboration in SE but remains an under-researched topic. Aims. This study investigates empathy in SE from practitioners' perspectives, aiming to characterize its meaning, identify barriers, discuss practices to overcome them, and explore its effects. Method. A qualitative content analysis was conducted on 55 web articles from DEV and Medium, two communities widely used by practitioners. To strengthen our findings, we con…

Exploring the Most Extreme Blazars: New Insights from MAGIC
L. Foffano (for the MAGIC Collaboration), C. Arcaro (for the MAGIC Collaboration), A. Arbet-Engels (for the MAGIC Collaboration), F. D'Ammando (for the MAGIC Collaboration), P. Da Vela (for the MAGIC Collaboration), J. Jormanainen (for the MAGIC Collaboration), D. Linder (for the MAGIC Collaboration), S. Menon (for the MAGIC Collaboration), E. Prandini (for the MAGIC Collaboration), S. Ventura (for the MAGIC Collaboration)…

Exploring the Most Extreme Blazars: New Insights from MAGIC
Extremely high-peaked BL Lac objects (or extreme blazars) are unique extragalactic laboratories where particle acceleration processes are pushed at their physical limits. In these blazars, synchrotron emission peaking above keV energies is reprocessed to very-high-energy (VHE, energies > 100 GeV) gamma rays, often resulting in very hard TeV spectra. Over the past two decades, they have attracted a growing interest from the scientific community, both experimentally and theoretically, as crucial …

First Measurement of Neutrino Emissions from Spent Nuclear Fuel by the Double Chooz Experiment
Double Chooz Collaboration, T. Abrah\~ao, H. Almazan, J. C. dos Anjos, S. Appel, J. C. Barriere, I. Bekman, T. J. C. Bezerra, L. Bezrukov, E. Blucher, C. Bourgeois, C. Buck, J. Busenitz, A. Cabrera, M. Cerrada, E. Chauveau, P. Chimenti, O. Corpace, J. V. Dawson, J. F. Du, Z. Djurcic, A. Etenko, H. Furuta, I. Gil-Botella, A. Givaudan, H. Gomez, M. C. Goodman, T. Hara, J. Haser, D. Hellwig, A. …

First Measurement of Neutrino Emissions from Spent Nuclear Fuel by the Double Chooz Experiment
Neutrino emission from nuclear reactors provides real-time insights into reactor power and fuel evolution, with potential applications in monitoring and nuclear safeguards. Following reactor shutdown, a low-intensity flux of ``residual neutrinos'' persists due to the decay of long-lived fission isotopes in the partially burnt fuel remaining within the reactor cores and in spent nuclear fuel stored in nearby cooling pools. The Double Chooz experiment at the Chooz B nuclear power plant in France …

Mono and Polyauxic Growth Kinetic Models
Gustavo Mockaitis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05960 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.05960

Mono and Polyauxic Growth Kinetic Models
Accurate modeling of microbial growth curves is essential for understanding and optimizing bioprocesses in biotechnology and environmental engineering. While classical monoauxic models such as Monod, Boltzmann, and Gompertz are widely used, they often lack biological interpretability or fail to capture the complex, multiphasic growth patterns observed in systems with mixed substrates or microbial communities. This paper presents a methodological framework for reparametrizing the Boltzmann and G…

I'll be honest, I hear about "waves" of people coming to mastodon/Fediverse and I cringe a little.
Choose your metaphors carefully, people.
Waves go back to the ocean after wrecking your sandcastle, people
*I'm* enjoying this particular beach but I'm aware that I'm here through a sort of survivorship selection — the people who stay here with me are compatible with me because we're all the same sort of flotsam

Building an Open AIBOM Standard in the Wild
Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur, Keheliya Gallaba, Elyas Rashno, Arthit Suriyawongkul, Karen Bennet, Kate Stewart, Ahmed E. Hassan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07070 …

Building an Open AIBOM Standard in the Wild
Modern software engineering increasingly relies on open, community-driven standards, yet how such standards are created in fast-evolving domains like AI-powered systems remains underexplored. This paper presents a detailed experience report on the development of the AI Bill of Materials AIBOM specification, an extension of the ISO/IEC 5962:2021 Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) software bill of materials (SBOM) standard, which captures AI components such as datasets and iterative training a…