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Chargers WR Quentin Johnston ready to prove himself with breakout year following retirement of Mike Williams

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

Painful lesson of the day: the desoldering gun does not care about your feelings or your hands when clearing a clog and not being careful. However, got the CPU, PPU, WRAM, and VRAM unsoldered (including sockets) from the NES mainboard. I'll solder the VRAM and WRAM back in later. Desoldering guns make things so much easier even if I'm an idiot on occasion.
#electronics

Chern junctions in Moir\'e-Patterned Graphene/PbI2
Sun Yan, M. Monteverde, V. Derkach, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, F. Chiodi, H. Bouchiat, A. D. Chepelianskii
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04935

Chern junctions in Moiré-Patterned Graphene/PbI2
Expanding the moiré material library continues to unlock novel quantum phases and emergent electronic behaviors. In this work, we introduce PbI2 into the moiré family and investigate the magnetotransport properties of moiré superlattice in a hexagonal boron nitride/graphene/PbI2 heterostructures. In high-field quantum Hall regime, we observe a robust dissipationless transport at charge neutrality point, indicative of incompressible states stabilized at the filling factor vh = 0. Additionally…

Trade-Offs in EuBa2Cu3Oy Films containing Artificial Pinning Centers: Higher Critical Currents yet Faster Vortex Creep
Jiangteng Liu, Masashi Miura, Daisaku Yokoe, Takeharu Kato, Akira Ibi, Teruo Izumi, Serena Eley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01119

Trade-Offs in EuBa2Cu3Oy Films containing Artificial Pinning Centers: Higher Critical Currents yet Faster Vortex Creep
The electromagnetic properties of type-II superconductors depend on vortices-magnetic flux lines whose motion introduces dissipation that can be mitigated by pinning from material defects. The material disorder landscape is tuned by the choice of materials growth technique and incorporation of impurities that serve as vortex pinning centers. For example, metal organic deposition (MOD) and pulsed laser deposition (PLD) produce high-quality superconducting films with uncorrelated versus correlate…

Distinct element-specific nanoscale magnetization dynamics following ultrafast laser excitation
Emma Bernard, Rahul Jangid, Nanna Zhou Hagstr\"om, Meera Madhavi, Jeffrey A. Brock, Matteo Pancaldi, Dario De Angelis, Flavio Capotondi, Emanuele Pedersoli, Kyle Rockwell, Mark W. Keller, Stefano Bonetti, Eric E. Fullerton, Ezio Iacocca, Thomas J. Silva, Roopali Kukreja

Distinct element-specific nanoscale magnetization dynamics following ultrafast laser excitation
Time-resolved ultrafast extreme ultraviolet (EUV) magnetic scattering is used to study laser-driven ultrafast magnetization dynamics of labyrinthine domains in a [Co/Ni/Pt] multilayer. Our measurements at the Co and Ni M-edges reveal distinct ultrafast distortions of the scattering pattern position and width for Ni compared to Co. Ni shows a strong modification of the scattering pattern, 9 to 41 times stronger than Co. As distortions of the labyrinthine pattern in reciprocal space relate to the…

FingerTip 20K: A Benchmark for Proactive and Personalized Mobile LLM Agents
Qinglong Yang, Haoming Li, Haotian Zhao, Xiaokai Yan, Jingtao Ding, Fengli Xu, Yong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21071

FingerTip 20K: A Benchmark for Proactive and Personalized Mobile LLM Agents
Mobile GUI agents are becoming critical tools for enhancing human-device interaction efficiency, with multimodal large language models (MLLMs) emerging as dominant paradigms in this domain. Current agents, however, are limited to following explicit human instructions, resulting in insufficient capability for proactive intent anticipation. Additionally, these agents fail to leverage the contextual information associated with users during task execution, thereby neglecting potentially vast differ…

Taking a break from flying potential victims in MSFS 24, managed to get my PPL with a far higher score than I probably deserved. Will definitely continue later on tonight, but for now it's time to relax a bit.
#linux #gaming

Ah, current plans for today: find some way to get Microsoft Flight Sim 2024 running on my computer. So far I've managed to select my starting airport/airfield and then the game hangs. It's progress, but I have a feeling this fight is going to go on for awhile considering the game hangs immediately afterwards.
#linux

I love the fact that switching out a failing SSD just involved formatting the new SSD, copying the files over via `rsync`, powering off the computer, and swapping the new SSD in for the old one. I did have to make a minor tweak to the `fstab` because I decided to go with XFS, but the down time for the computer was only for as long as it took me to get the SSD swapped in.
#linux