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Following on previous comments alluding to the big payment systems as a hegemonic cudgel, here's something about a Brazilian system being investigated by the US government for unfair competition.
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250

How Brazil's innovative 'Pix' payment system is angering Trump and Zuckerberg
The Pix instant payment system is used by nearly everyone in Brazil, from street vendors to major retailers. In a recent op-ed, economist Paul Krugman even touted it as the “future of money”. Its success has sparked global interest and some political tension after US President Donald Trump launched an investigation into the system.

In 10 Minutes, UN’s Tsunami Warning System Notified Millions in East Asia Following Russian Earthquake https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/in-10-minutes-uns-tsunami-warning-system-notified-millions-in-east-asia-follo…

In 10 Minutes, UN's Tsunami Warning System Notified Millions in East Asia Following Russian Earthquake
Thanks to this global monitoring system, which has been deployed for more than 20 years, millions of people in Japan and Russia were warned.

1/ f noise and two-level systems in MBE-grown Al thin films
Shouray Kumar Sahu, Yen-Hsun Glen Lin, Kuan-Hui Lai, Chao-Kai Cheng, Chun-Wei Wu, Elica Anne Heredia, Ray-Tai Wang, Yen-Hsiang Lin, Juainai Kwo, Minghwei Hong, Juhn-Jong Lin, Sheng-Shiuan Yeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01850

1/ f noise and two-level systems in MBE-grown Al thin films
Aluminum thin films are essential to the functionalities of electronic and quantum devices, where two-level systems (TLS) can degrade device performance. MBE-grown Al films may appeal to these applications due to their low TLS densities. We studied the energy distributions of TLS densities, g(E), in 10-nm-thick MBE-grown and electron-beam evaporated Al films through 1/f noise measurements between 80 and 360 K. At 300 K, the noise magnitudes in MBE-grown films are about three times lower than in…

"While crop seed vaults are common around the world, nurseries for wild and native plants are rare, and many plant species quietly become extinct. This marks #Gurukula out as a Noah’s ark for endangered plant species."

Human-Centered Explainability in Interactive Information Systems: A Survey
Yuhao Zhang, Jiaxin An, Ben Wang, Yan Zhang, Jiqun Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02300

Human-Centered Explainability in Interactive Information Systems: A Survey
Human-centered explainability has become a critical foundation for the responsible development of interactive information systems, where users must be able to understand, interpret, and scrutinize AI-driven outputs to make informed decisions. This systematic survey of literature aims to characterize recent progress in user studies on explainability in interactive information systems by reviewing how explainability has been conceptualized, designed, and evaluated in practice. Following PRISMA gu…

14: with something flying on it. I’ve got even fewer covers matching this description—but this one’s a classic.
#30AlbumCovers

14: with something flying on it. I’ve got even fewer covers matching this description—but this one’s a classic.
#30AlbumCovers

On the day the UK parliament voted to proscribe the citizen peaceful direct action group Palestine Action as supposedly terrorist, Channel 4 showed the searing Basement Films documentary "Gaza doctors under attack". It showed the actions of the Israeli terrorist State in destroying Gaza's healthcare system, murdering civilians of all kinds and targeting health workers some of whom have died following torture. Sprinkled throughout were the repetitive lies of the occupation.

#GiffordFire has been growing dramatically on its north flank. Lucky shot here, no fewer than FOUR aircraft.

Nuclear fusion plasma fuelling with ice pellets using a neuromorphic controller
L. L. T. C. Jansen, E. Petri, M. van Berkel, W. P. M. H. Heemels
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02147

Nuclear fusion plasma fuelling with ice pellets using a neuromorphic controller
In reactor-grade tokamaks, pellet injection is the best candidate for core plasma fuelling. However, density control schemes that can handle the hybrid nature of this type of fuelling, i.e., the discrete impact of the pellets on the continuously evolving plasma density, are lacking. This paper proposes a neuromorphic controller, inspired by the integrate-and-fire neuronal model, to address this problem. The overall system is modelled as a hybrid system, and we analyse the proposed controller in…