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Former ABC News correspondent and anchor Terry Moran launches a Substack channel following his ouster from the news network (Glenn Garner/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/terry-moran-launches-substack-abc-news-dismissal-1236431503/…

Terry Moran Launches Substack Channel To Continue “Important Work” After ABC News Dismissal
Following Terry Moran's unceremonious ousting from ABC News, the Emmy-winning anchor and reporter has already moved onto his next platform.

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 180 nodes and 45047 edges.
Tags: Soc…

Madre Fire Update from Los Padres National Forest
Size: 80,786 Acres / Containment: 67%
Total Personnel: 1,330
Work continues along the west, northwest, northeast, and southwest of the fire perimeter to strengthen both - direct and indirect - containment lines as well as mop-up and patrol to ensure lines are secure. Dozer and handcrews are engaged on rugged terrain along the southeast flank, with ongoing efforts focused on structure protection and securing Highway 166. Aeri…

Watch Duty - Wildfire Maps & Alerts
Real-time information about wildfire and firefighting efforts nearby

Ukraine's security service says AI allowed its drones to keep flying "along a pre-planned route" even after losing signal in Russia during "Operation Spiderweb" (Fabrice Deprez/Financial Times)

How AI guided Ukraine’s drones to hit Russian airfields
Artificial intelligence took over the steering of unmanned quadcopters after losing signal

Phase Evolution and Substrate-Dependent Nucleation of Quartz GeO$_2$ Films Grown by MOCVD on r- and c-Plane Sapphires
Botong Li, Imteaz Rahaman, Hunter Ellis, Bobby G. Duersch, Kathy Anderson, Kai Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09380

Phase Evolution and Substrate-Dependent Nucleation of Quartz GeO$_2$ Films Grown by MOCVD on r- and c-Plane Sapphires
Ultrawide-bandgap (UWBG) semiconductors, such as GeO$_2$, are gaining significant attention for their potential in high-performance applications, particularly in piezoelectric devices. Despite extensive research, a comprehensive understanding of the growth dynamics and phase evolution of GeO$_2$ films via metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) remains insufficient. In this study, we investigate the growth behavior and morphological evolution of GeO$_2$ thin films on r-plane and c-plane…

ConStyX: Content Style Augmentation for Generalizable Medical Image Segmentation
Xi Chen, Zhiqiang Shen, Peng Cao, Jinzhu Yang, Osmar R. Zaiane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10675

ConStyX: Content Style Augmentation for Generalizable Medical Image Segmentation
Medical images are usually collected from multiple domains, leading to domain shifts that impair the performance of medical image segmentation models. Domain Generalization (DG) aims to address this issue by training a robust model with strong generalizability. Recently, numerous domain randomization-based DG methods have been proposed. However, these methods suffer from the following limitations: 1) constrained efficiency of domain randomization due to their exclusive dependence on image style…

AC/DC: LLM-based Audio Comprehension via Dialogue Continuation
Yusuke Fujita, Tomoya Mizumoto, Atsushi Kojima, Lianbo Liu, Yui Sudo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10312

AC/DC: LLM-based Audio Comprehension via Dialogue Continuation
We propose an instruction-following audio comprehension model that leverages the dialogue continuation ability of large language models (LLMs). Instead of directly generating target captions in training data, the proposed method trains a model to produce responses as if the input caption triggered a dialogue. This dialogue continuation training mitigates the caption variation problem. Learning to continue a dialogue effectively captures the caption's meaning beyond its surface-level words. As a…

Schramm-Loewner evolution contains a topological Sierpi\'nski carpet when $\kappa$ is close to 8
Haoyu Liu, Zijie Zhuang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09609

Schramm-Loewner evolution contains a topological Sierpiński carpet when $κ$ is close to 8
We consider the Schramm-Loewner evolution (SLE$_κ$) for $κ\in (4,8)$, which is the regime where the curve is self-intersecting but not space-filling. We show that there exists $δ_0>0$ such that for $κ\in (8 - δ_0,8)$, the range of an SLE$_κ$ curve almost surely contains a topological Sierpiński carpet. Combined with a result of Ntalampekos (2021), this implies that in this parameter range, SLE$_κ$ is almost surely conformally non-removable, and the conformal welding problem for SLE$_κ$…

PowerLines: US power providers have sought regulatory approval for $29B in rate increases in H1 2025, up 142% YoY, following booming data center demand (Martha Muir/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c5f20c78-7931-492f-9153-675f3046e245

On the origin of the E1 electron trap level in GaN and dilute AlxGa1-xN films
Piotr Kruszewski, Jose Coutinho, Vladimir P. Markevich, Pawel Prystawko, Lijie Sun, Jerzy Plesiewicz, Chris A. Dawe, Matthew P. Halsall, Anthony R. Peaker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10566

On the origin of the E1 electron trap level in GaN and dilute AlxGa1-xN films
The results of high-resolution Laplace deep-level transient spectroscopy (L-DLTS) measurements applied to the E1 and FeGa electron traps in dilute AlxGa1-xN films (x = 0.063), grown by metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE) on Ammono-GaN substrates, are presented. It is shown that the electron emission signals associated with the E1 donor and the FeGa acceptor levels split into individual components due to the aluminium fluctuations in the nearest neighbour shells around the E1 and FeGa defe…