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EU's Frontex has published a children's book for children who are about to be deported
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https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/6eea0e99-e464-11ef-be2a-01aa75ed71a1
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Toolbox for children in return - Publications Office of the EU
Addressing the return of unaccompanied minors or children within families is a delicate matter that demands a humane approach. This approach must not only respect fundamental rights but also prioritise the child's best interests. Additionally, clear and comprehensive information about the return procedures is essential for those involved, enabling them to prepare as effectively as possible. One of the primary objectives of Frontex is to assist MS throughout all stages of the return procedures. …

3.5 billion euros in new funds pledged for Ukraine's reconstruction after Recovery Conference, ministry says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/13/billion-euros-in-new-funds.html

What happens when bees can’t buzz right? Nature starts falling apart #nature

What happens when bees can’t buzz right? Nature starts falling apart
High heat and heavy metals dampen a bumblebee’s trademark buzz, threatening pollen release and colony chatter. Tiny sensors captured up-to-400-hertz tremors that falter under environmental stress, raising alarms for ecosystems and sparking ideas for pollination robots.

#LB Quando eu for ditador do mundo, todo mundo serš obrigado a assistir "Túmulo dos Vagalumes" para entender que guerra é isso daí, e não aqueles filmes cheios de heroísmo de Hollywood.
https://poly…

Virasoro constraints for Hodge integrals
Xin Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10033 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10033

Virasoro constraints for Hodge integrals
The purpose of this paper is to study Virasoro constraints for Hodge integrals in Gromov-Witten theory of any target varieties. Results consist of the following: Firstly, we propose Virasoro conjecture for Hodge integrals in Gromov-Witten theory of any target varieties; Secondly, we prove Virasoro constraints for Hodge integrals in genus zero of any target varieties; Thirdly, we prove the genus-1 $L_1^{\mathbb{E}}$ constraint with one Hodge character class insertion for any target varieties; La…

VerIF: Verification Engineering for Reinforcement Learning in Instruction Following
Hao Peng, Yunjia Qi, Xiaozhi Wang, Bin Xu, Lei Hou, Juanzi Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09942 …

VerIF: Verification Engineering for Reinforcement Learning in Instruction Following
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become a key technique for enhancing large language models (LLMs), with verification engineering playing a central role. However, best practices for RL in instruction following remain underexplored. In this work, we explore the verification challenge in RL for instruction following and propose VerIF, a verification method that combines rule-based code verification with LLM-based verification from a large reasoning model (e.g., QwQ-32B). …

It's worth bearing in mind that all AI companies are in that phase where they burn money to attract the most customers and hope that the competition blinks first. That means all AI is pretty badly underpriced.
For coding, that's a problem. It's just on the edge of being arguably positive for some. If the price goes up by an order of ten, the bubble is going to burst. And it may take the other AI use cases with it. After all, coding was kind of a killer app.

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Deep Potential-Driven Molecular Dynamics of CO Ice Analogues: Investigating Desorption Following Vibrational Excitation
Maxime Infuso, Samuel Del Fr\'e, Gilberto A. Alou, Mathieu Bertin, Jean-Hugues Fillion, Alejandro Rivero Santamar\'ia, Maurice Monnerville
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10882…

Deep Potential-Driven Molecular Dynamics of CO Ice Analogues: Investigating Desorption Following Vibrational Excitation
We present a new deep learning-based machine learning potential (MLP) for molecular dynamics simulations of solid carbon monoxide (CO), capable of accurately describing CO vibrations both in the fundamental state and in highly excited vibrational states, up to approximately v = 40. The MLP is based on the combination of high-dimensional neural network atomic potentials using the DeePMD-kit package, trained on prior ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) data, with selective treatment of the excite…