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Moonlake AI, which creates tools to "vibe code virtual worlds", including for gaming, animation, and filmmaking, comes out of stealth with a $28M seed (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivast

Gaming Worlds Could Be The Answer To AI’s Data Problem
Stanford PhDs Fan-Yun Sun and Sharon Lee cofounded AI research company Moonlake AI to help people "vibe code virtual worlds."

Inferring Dynamic Physical Properties from Video Foundation Models
Guanqi Zhan, Xianzheng Ma, Weidi Xie, Andrew Zisserman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02311 https://

Inferring Dynamic Physical Properties from Video Foundation Models
We study the task of predicting dynamic physical properties from videos. More specifically, we consider physical properties that require temporal information to be inferred: elasticity of a bouncing object, viscosity of a flowing liquid, and dynamic friction of an object sliding on a surface. To this end, we make the following contributions: (i) We collect a new video dataset for each physical property, consisting of synthetic training and testing splits, as well as a real split for real world …

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 07 - Assassin
DAYNA: Feeling any better now? [she serves Tarrant and Avon, reclining on the loungers, then goes over to Soolin and hands her one]
TARRANT: I still think you left it to the last minute on purpose.
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High-quality Tungsten-doped Vanadium Dioxide Thin Films Fabricated in an Extremely Low-oxygen Furnace Environment
Vishwa Krishna Rajan, Ken Araki, Robert Y. Wang, Liping Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01956

High-quality Tungsten-doped Vanadium Dioxide Thin Films Fabricated in an Extremely Low-oxygen Furnace Environment
This work reports the fabrication and characterization of high-quality tungsten-doped vanadium dioxide (WxV1-xO2, x = 0~3 at. %) by thermal oxidation of sputtered tungsten-vanadium alloyed thin films with different atomic percentages and high-temperature annealing in an extremely low oxygen atmosphere (5 to 20 ppm) along with reduction of surface over-oxides in high vacuum (1 mPa). Oxidation parameters such as temperature, time and nitrogen purging rate are first optimized for obtaining high qu…

Book Review: "Doughnut Economics"
#economics

To Share, or Not to Share: A Study on GEO-LEO Systems for IoT Services with Random Access
Marcel Grec, Federico Clazzer, Israel Leyva-Mayorga, Andrea Munari, Gianluigi Liva, Petar Popovski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01506

To Share, or Not to Share: A Study on GEO-LEO Systems for IoT Services with Random Access
The increasing number of satellite deployments, both in the low and geostationary Earth orbit exacerbates the already ongoing scarcity of wireless resources when targeting ubiquitous connectivity. For the aim of supporting a massive number of IoT devices characterized by bursty traffic and modern variants of random access, we pose the following question: Should competing satellite operators share spectrum resources or is an exclusive allocation preferable? This question is addressed by devising…

From my LinkedIn post: “Telling your dev team to use AI coding tools is like telling your 2010 ops team to use AWS. They didn’t know how to code, they were ticket and click-it VMware people… developers who don’t have product management mindset or have never managed a dev team will fail by trying to micromanage the output of the tool rather than specifying the outcome of the product and managing the agent team to deliver that outcome.”

Back in 2010 when we first started using AWS to run Netflix, the AWS services were very incomplete, somewhat unreliable, had scaling issues, but were super fast to provision compared to filing… | Adrian Cockcroft
Back in 2010 when we first started using AWS to run Netflix, the AWS services were very incomplete, somewhat unreliable, had scaling issues, but were super fast to provision compared to filing tickets and waiting for data center ops teams to do what we need. We worked around the issues, built a new cloud native developer driven architecture and scaled Netflix at speed. At the time many people said we were crazy to run a large enterprise on cloud and would be back in datacenters when it failed. …

A Novel Tunable Controller for Grid Forming Converters towards Critical Services Application
Yangyadatta Tripathy, Barjeev Tyagi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01748 https://…

A Novel Tunable Controller for Grid Forming Converters towards Critical Services Application
This paper demonstrates the key features of a control system applicable to inverter-based resources (IBR), which is based on grid-forming technology. Such resources are classified as grid-forming or grid-following converters based on the type of output with or without grid connection. With rapid growth in the energy sector to adopt carbon-free generation, Grid Forming Converter (GFC) seems suitable for power provision to remote or islanded operation of converters. A fully-fledged bulk power gri…

MetLife Stadium playing surface under the microscope again following Malik Nabers' knee injury

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/metlife

SEC filing: Meta says it is no longer facing a CFPB investigation over advertising for financial services on its platforms (Evan Weinberger/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/meta-escapes-cfpb-probe-into-financial-se…

Meta Escapes CFPB Probe Into Financial Services Advertising
Facebook and Instagram parent Meta Platforms Inc. said it is no longer facing potential penalties from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over advertising for financial services on its platforms.