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Filing: Disney and NBCUniversal sue Midjourney in California, accusing it of direct and secondary copyright infringement; they say talks with Midjourney failed (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/11/disney-nbcu-midjourney-copyright
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Disney, NBCU sue Midjourney over copyright infringement
It's the first legal action from major Hollywood studios against a generative AI company.

Die geplante #Generalsanierung stark befahrener #Bahnstrecken in #Deutschland verzögert sich deutlich.
Statt bis 2031 soll das Vorhaben nun erst 2036 abgeschlossen sein. Die let…

Sanierung von mehr als 40 Bahnstrecken verzögert sich um fünf Jahre
Eigentlich wollten Bund und Bahn bis 2031 mehr als 40 stark genutzte Strecken sanieren. Jetzt wird es deutlich länger dauern. Die letzte Strecke, Flensburg-Hamburg, soll nun erst 2036 modernisiert werden.

A Privacy-Preserving Recommender for Filling Web Forms Using a Local Large Language Model
Amirreza Nayyeri, Abbas Rasoolzadegan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01527 https://

A Privacy-Preserving Recommender for Filling Web Forms Using a Local Large Language Model
Web applications are increasingly used in critical domains such as education, finance, and e-commerce. This highlights the need to ensure their failure-free performance. One effective method for evaluating failure-free performance is web form testing, where defining effective test scenarios is key to a complete and accurate evaluation. A core aspect of this process involves filling form fields with suitable values to create effective test cases. However, manually generating these values is time…

Tilted Dirac cones and their topology in Holographic Materials
Jeong-Won Seo, Taewon Yuk, Sang-Jin Sin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03033 https://arxiv.org/p…

Tilted Dirac cones and their topology in Holographic Materials
We explore strongly correlated materials with tilted Dirac cone by introducing a method to realize this spectral feature within a holographic setup. Following the work by Moradpouri et al., we construct an asymptotically AdS spacetime by uplifting the vielbein of Volovik et al to tilt the flat spacetime light cone. We then couple the resulting metric to holographic fermions and compute their spectral functions, confirming the presence of a tilted Dirac cone in momentum space. We also calculate …

I haven’t been very active in the last month. I haven’t watched many movies or taken much photography. All of this is because I finally found a new flat away from city life, close to nature. One thing that has changed is that I’m back to being very active on Couchsurfing. I love meeting new people from around the world, fellow travelers with great stories, and maybe even friends for life. This is much more interesting and important than following every footstep on what’s happening in the new…

Sources: ByteDance is working on a lightweight MR device that resembles goggles, tethered to a compute puck, and has a team working on the device's custom chips (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/bytedance-developin…

ByteDance Developing Mixed Reality Goggles in Challenge to Meta
Competition in mixed reality devices is heating up. TikTok’s parent, ByteDance, is working on a lightweight mixed reality device that resembles a pair of goggles, according to three people with direct knowledge of the project. It’s following in the footsteps of Meta Platforms, which has been ...

All-Dry Transfer of Graphene Film by Van der Waals Interactions
Seong-Jun Yang, Shinyoung Choi, Francis Okello Odongo Ngome, Ki-Jeong Kim, Si-Young Choi, Cheol-Joo Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18965 …

All-Dry Transfer of Graphene Film by Van der Waals Interactions
We report a method that uses van der Waals interactions to transfer continuous, high-quality graphene films from Ge(110) to a different substrate held by hexagonal boron nitride carriers in a clean, dry environment. The transferred films are uniform and continuous with low defect density and few charge puddles. The transfer is effective because of the weak interfacial adhesion energy between graphene and Ge. Based on the minimum strain energy required for the isolation of film, the upper limit …

Positional numeral systems over polyadic rings
Steven Duplij
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12930 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.12930…

Positional numeral systems over polyadic rings
We construct positional numeral systems that work natively over nonderived polyadic $\left( m,n\right) $-rings whose addition takes $m$ arguments and multiplication takes $n$. In such rings, the length of an admissible additive word and a multiplicative tower are not arbitrary (as in the binary case), but \textquotedblleft quantized\textquotedblright. Our main contributions are the following. Existence: every commutative $\left( m,n\right) $-ring admits a base-$p$ place-value expansion that res…