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US won't send some weapons pledged to Ukraine following a Pentagon review of military aid
A Pentagon review determined that stocks were too low on some weapons previously pledged to Ukraine,
so pending shipments of some items won’t be sent,
according to a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity to provide information that has not yet been made public.

The Defense Department did not provide details on what specific weapons were being held back.

The…

US won't send some weapons pledged to Ukraine following a Pentagon review of military aid
The U.S. is halting some shipments of weapons to Ukraine amid concerns that its own stockpiles have declined too much

Ransomware Group Anubis has leaked what they extracted from Disneyland Paris
#ransomware

Ransomware.live 👀
Ransomware.live tracks ransomware groups and their activity. It was created by Julien Mousqueton, a security researcher. The website provides information on the groups' infrastructure, victims, and payment demands. It also includes a live map that shows the latest ransomware attacks.

If any fysh.org users are following, yes, it's currently down.
1. We had another slew of memory errors caught in the last hour.
2. I initiated an emergency reboot to see if that cleared them.
3. It failed on boot on first attempt, kernel panic.
4. After a reset it came up, including running the user-visible VMs (river etc), but is still logging a slew of memory errors.
5. So I've now shutdown the VMs again.
We'll be poking the service provider to s…

RewardBench 2: Advancing Reward Model Evaluation
Saumya Malik, Valentina Pyatkin, Sander Land, Jacob Morrison, Noah A. Smith, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Nathan Lambert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01937

RewardBench 2: Advancing Reward Model Evaluation
Reward models are used throughout the post-training of language models to capture nuanced signals from preference data and provide a training target for optimization across instruction following, reasoning, safety, and more domains. The community has begun establishing best practices for evaluating reward models, from the development of benchmarks that test capabilities in specific skill areas to others that test agreement with human preferences. At the same time, progress in evaluation has not…

The stability of independence polynomials of complete bipartite graphs
Guo Chen, Bo Ning, Jianhua Tu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24381 https://

The stability of independence polynomials of complete bipartite graphs
The independence polynomial of a graph is termed {\it stable} if all its roots are located in the left half-plane $\{z \in \mathbb{C} : \mathrm{Re}(z) \leq 0\}$, and the graph itself is also referred to as stable. Brown and Cameron (Electron. J. Combin. 25(1) (2018) \#P1.46) proved that the complete bipartite graph $K_{1,n}$ is stable and posed the question: \textbf{Are all complete bipartite graphs stable?} We answer this question by establishing the following results: \begin{itemize} \i…

The Soviet way with words 😂
(from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko)

Trofim Lysenko - Wikipedia

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10907 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@a…

Effect of crystallinity on spin-orbit torque in 5$\textit{d}$ iridium oxide IrO$_{2}$
The 5$\textit{d}$ transition-metal oxides provide an intriguing platform for generating an efficient spin current due to a unique electronic structure dominated by 5d electrons with strong spin-orbit coupling. Here, we report on the effect of crystallinity on current-driven spin-orbit torque (SOT) in binary 5$\textit{d}$ iridium oxide IrO$_{2}$ thin films by controlling amorphous, polycrystalline, and epitaxial states. By conducting harmonic Hall measurement in bilayers composed of ferromagneti…

Filing: Disney's EMEA revenue rose 4.4% YoY to £3.97B in the year to September 2024 and profits rose 3% YoY to £589K after the launch of Disney ad tier (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/disney-ad-tier-boosts-overseas-revenue-1…

Disney+ Ad Tier Boosts Overseas Revenue, Offsetting Drop In Box Office Takings
Disney's revenues in Europe, the Middle East and Africa rose 4.4% to £3.97B last year following the launch of an ad tier on streaming.

When was the first middle-finger used to denote contempt in a (mainstream) film? I don't know but there is an instance of it in Sergio Leone's 1971 Giù la testa (Duck, You Sucker / A Fistful of Dynamite).
This was perpetrated by Rod Steiger. In this film he and James Coburn also make a solid case that Keanu Reeves' accent in Bram Stoker's Dracula was not even close to being the worst in film history.

Realization of a Kondo Insulator in a Multilayer Moire Superlattice
Qiran Wu, Jingyuan Cui, Ang-Kun Wu, Yuze Meng, Dongxue Chen, Li Yan, Lei Ma, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Shi-Zeng Lin, Su-Fei Shi, Yong-Tao Cui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01329

Realization of a Kondo Insulator in a Multilayer Moire Superlattice
Kondo insulators are a paradigmatic strongly correlated electron system, arising from the hybridization between itinerary conduction electrons and localized magnetic moments, which opens a gap in the band of conduction electrons. Traditionally, the known Kondo insulators are found in materials with f-electrons. Recent developments in two-dimensional (2D) moire systems provide a new approach to generate flat bands with strong electron correlation, which host localized moments at half filling. In…