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Mattel combines its film and television production units into a single unit under the direction of Mattel Films president and Barbie producer Robbie Brenner (Jeremy Fuster/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/mattel-combines-film-tv-units-under-robbie-bren…

Mattel Combines Film, TV Units Under Robbie Brenner
The exec and "Barbie" producer will be president and chief content officer of the unified company

NAVER LABS Europe Submission to the Instruction-following Track
Beomseok Lee, Marcely Zanon Boito, Laurent Besacier, Ioan Calapodescu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01808

NAVER LABS Europe Submission to the Instruction-following Track
In this paper we describe NAVER LABS Europe submission to the instruction-following speech processing short track at IWSLT 2025. We participate in the constrained settings, developing systems that can simultaneously perform ASR, ST, and SQA tasks from English speech input into the following target languages: Chinese, Italian, and German. Our solution leverages two pretrained modules: (1) a speech-to-LLM embedding projector trained using representations from the SeamlessM4T-v2-large speech encod…

Dynamic Space Filling
P. L. Krapivsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01128 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.01128

Dynamic Space Filling
Dynamic space filling (DSF) is a stochastic process defined on any connected graph. Each vertex can host an arbitrary number of particles forming a pile, with every arriving particle landing on the top of the pile. Particles in a pile, except for the particle at the bottom, can hop to neighboring vertices. Eligible particles hop independently and stochastically, with the overall hopping rate set to unity for every eligible particle at every vertex. When the number of vertices in a graph is equa…

To be effective a boobytrap needs to be laid in a location frequented by the enemy.
These raccoons are super predictable, you can see a path they've worn into the grass

Now I’m on MIRAC’s mailing list, so hopefully I don’t miss the next one.
Also, though…it is just deeply heartening to randomly encounter a protest: not a thing that I already knew about, but a thing that just •showed up• in my neighborhood. It makes me feel like the circle of resistance is much bigger than my own little circle. And it is.
That’s the feeling I want us to create: “Wow, these protests are everywhere.”

Personal care products may be toxic to aquatic life, study warns #AnimalRights

Personal care products may be toxic to aquatic life, study warns
You probably know the feeling. It's been a few days since you last washed your hair, and it feels greasy, heavy, and tangled. You hop in the shower and apply a generous amount of shampoo to your hair.

"As a political force, the Labour left is finished. The tactic of entryism – entering the Labour party and changing it – is finished too."
"..a string of local council victories next year would pave the way for an unprecedented challenge to #Labour – not from the right, as the party has always had to fight, but from its radical flank. And this new movement could take parts of Lab…

The British left is coming for the Government
Whisper it as yet, but after five long years of confusion and disarray, the British left is rallying. Local political organisations are coalescing, from Chiswick to Liverpool to Newcastle. The Green P

State Change via One-Dimensional Scattering in Quantum Mechanics
Olivia Pomerenk, Charles S. Peskin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.24090 https://

State Change via One-Dimensional Scattering in Quantum Mechanics
We consider a pair of particles that interact in a one-dimensional setting via a delta-function potential. One of the particles is confined to a one-dimensional box, and the other particle is free. The free particle is incident from the left with specified energy, and it may cause changes in state of the confined particle before flying away to the left or to the right. We present a non-perturbative formulation and computational scheme that determines the probability of any such outcome, as a fu…

The Confidence Paradox: Can LLM Know When It's Wrong
Sahil Tripathi, Md Tabrez Nafis, Imran Hussain, Jiechao Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23464 https…

The Confidence Paradox: Can LLM Know When It's Wrong
Document Visual Question Answering (DocVQA) systems are increasingly deployed in real world applications, yet they remain ethically opaque-often producing overconfident answers to ambiguous questions or failing to communicate uncertainty in a trustworthy manner. This misalignment between model confidence and actual knowledge poses significant risks, particularly in domains requiring ethical accountability. Existing approaches such as LayoutLMv3, UDOP, and DONUT have advanced SOTA performance by…

Quantum anomalous Hall effects and Hall crystals at fractional filling of helical trilayer graphene
Sen Niu, Jason Alicea, D. N. Sheng, Yang Peng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24146 …

Quantum anomalous Hall effects and Hall crystals at fractional filling of helical trilayer graphene
Helical trilayer graphene realizes a versatile moiré system in which anomalous Hall effects have been recently observed at integer and fractional fillings. Focusing on helical trilayers near the magic angle and under a substrate potential, we demonstrate that an isolated higher Chern band with Chern number $|C_{band}|=2$ emerges, enabling the exploration of many-body states beyond the conventional Landau level paradigm. We use exact diagonalization to predict a rich phase diagram of …