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(israel’s occupation forces have surrounded her neighbourhood with tanks and are firing on houses and tents. The israeli genocide of the Palestinian people is being live streamed by its victims.)

Astronomer CEO Andy Byron resigns after a video of him cuddling with chief people officer Kristin Cabot at a Coldplay concert went viral (Eleanor Hawkins/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/19/astronomer-ceo-andy-byron-resigns-coldplay-kisscam

Astronomer CEO Andy Byron resigns following Coldplay concert scandal
"Andy Byron has tendered his resignation, and the Board of Directors has accepted," the company said Saturday.

Memoirs of the CP/M creator released:
“Our father, Gary Kildall, was one of the founders of the personal computer industry, but you probably don’t know his name. Those who have heard of him may recall the myth that he ‘missed’ the opportunity to become Bill Gates by going flying instead of meeting with IBM. Unfortunately, this tall tale paints Gary as a ‘could-have-been,’ ignores his deep contributions, and overshadows his role as an inventor of key technologies that define how compute…

In His Own Words: Gary Kildall
Gary Kildall was a pioneer of personal computer software. He wrote programming language tools, including assemblers (Intel 4004), interpreters (BASIC), and compilers (PL/M). He created a widely-used disk operating system (CP/M). He and his wife, Dorothy McEwen, started a successful company called Digital Research to develop and market CP/M, which for years was the dominant operating system for personal microcomputers. Thousands of programs were written to run under it, and a million or more peo…

Many people are detained at U.S. airports for reasons they find arbitrary and mysterious.
I got lucky—when I was stopped by Customs and Border Protection last week, after flying to Los Angeles from Melbourne, a border agent told me, explicitly and proudly, why I’d been pulled out of the customs line.
“Look, we both know why you are here,” the agent told me.
He identified himself to me as Adam, though his colleagues referred to him as Officer Martinez.
When I said that…

How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation
Alistair Kitchen on being detained at Los Angeles International Airport and sent back to Australia because of his reporting on the protests at Columbia University criticizing Israel’s actions in Gaza.

Stabilizing and Tuning Superconductivity in La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_{7-\delta}$ Films: Oxygen Recycling Protocol Reveals Hole-Doping Analogue
Lifen Xiang, Siyi Lei, Xiaolin Ren, Ziao Han, Zijian Xu, X. J. Zhou, Zhihai Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11581

Stabilizing and Tuning Superconductivity in La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_{7-δ}$ Films: Oxygen Recycling Protocol Reveals Hole-Doping Analogue
The recent achievement of superconductivity in La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_{7-δ}$ with transition temperatures exceeding 40 K in thin films under compressive strain and 80 K in bulk crystals under high pressure opens new avenues for research on high-temperature superconductivity. The realization of superconductivity in thin films requires delicate control of growth conditions, which presents significant challenges in the synthesis process. Furthermore, the stability of superconducting La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_{7-δ}…

MultiPark: Multimodal Parking Transformer with Next-Segment Prediction
Han Zheng, Zikang Zhou, Guli Zhang, Zhepei Wang, Kaixuan Wang, Peiliang Li, Shaojie Shen, Ming Yang, Tong Qin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11537

MultiPark: Multimodal Parking Transformer with Next-Segment Prediction
Parking accurately and safely in highly constrained spaces remains a critical challenge. Unlike structured driving environments, parking requires executing complex maneuvers such as frequent gear shifts and steering saturation. Recent attempts to employ imitation learning (IL) for parking have achieved promising results. However, existing works ignore the multimodal nature of parking behavior in lane-free open space, failing to derive multiple plausible solutions under the same situation. Notab…

A Survey of Reinforcement Learning for Software Engineering
Dong Wang, Hanmo You, Lingwei Zhu, Kaiwei Lin, Zheng Chen, Chen Yang, Junji Yu, Zan Wang, Junjie Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12483

A Survey of Reinforcement Learning for Software Engineering
Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for sequential decision-making and has attracted growing interest across various domains, particularly following the advent of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) in 2015. Simultaneously, the rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has further fueled interest in integrating RL with LLMs to enable more adaptive and intelligent systems. In the field of software engineering (SE), the increasing complexity of systems and the ris…

Spin decoherence dynamics of Er$^{3 }$ in CeO$_2$ film
Sagar Kumar Seth, Jonah Nagura, Vrindaa Somjit, Aneesh Bapat, Xinhao Li, Gregory D. Grant, Ignas Masiulionis, Xu Han, F. Joseph Heremans, Giulia Galli, David D. Awschalom, Supratik Guha, Jiefei Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12429

Spin decoherence dynamics of Er$^{3+}$ in CeO$_2$ film
Developing telecom-compatible spin-photon interfaces is essential towards scalable quantum networks. Erbium ions (Er$^{3+}$) exhibit a unique combination of a telecom (1.5 $μ$m) optical transition and an effective spin-$1/2$ ground state, but identifying a host that enables heterogeneous device integration while preserving long optical and spin coherence remains an open challenge. We explore a new platform of Er$^{3+}$:CeO$_2$ films on silicon, offering low nuclear spin density and the potenti…

Transversal packings in families of percolated hypergraphs
Jie Han, Jie Hu, Shunan Wei, Donglei Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12740 https://

Transversal packings in families of percolated hypergraphs
Let $F$ be a strictly $1$-balanced $k$-graph on $s$ vertices with $t$ edges and $δ_{F,d}^T$ be the infimum of $δ>0$ such that for every $α>0$ and sufficiently large $n\in \mathbb{N}$, every $k$-graph system $\mathbf H=\{H_{1}, H_{2}, \dots ,H_{tn}\}$ on the same $sn$ vertices with $δ_d(H_i)\ge (δ+α)\binom{sn-d}{k-d}$, $i\in [tn]$ contains a transversal $F$-factor, that is, an $F$-factor consisting of exactly one edge from each $H_i$. In this paper we prove the following result. Let $\math…

Filing: WBD says it plans to "significantly reduce" CEO David Zaslav's annual pay, including his cash bonus, after shareholders rejected his 2024 pay package (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/warne

Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav Pay to Drop After Company Split
WBD CEO David Zaslav will see his pay package take a haircut after the proposed separation of Warner Bros. Discovery in 2026. The company granted him $225 million in stock option awards.