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Former Wagner fighter seeks asylum in Finland after fleeing across Russian border, media reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/12/former-wagner-fighter-seeks-asylum.html

Bipedal Balance Control with Whole-body Musculoskeletal Standing and Falling Simulations
Chengtian Ma, Yunyue Wei, Chenhui Zuo, Chen Zhang, Yanan Sui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09383

Bipedal Balance Control with Whole-body Musculoskeletal Standing and Falling Simulations
Balance control is important for human and bipedal robotic systems. While dynamic balance during locomotion has received considerable attention, quantitative understanding of static balance and falling remains limited. This work presents a hierarchical control pipeline for simulating human balance via a comprehensive whole-body musculoskeletal system. We identified spatiotemporal dynamics of balancing during stable standing, revealed the impact of muscle injury on balancing behavior, and genera…

Hat jemand die neue Identitätsprüfung von Intrum beim SwissPass schon ausprobiert und die Datenschutz-Regeln angeschaut?
Wäre interessiert zu wissen, was Intrum mit den Ausweiskopien und Selfies machen darf, ob da z.B. eine "konzerninterne Weiterverwendung" enthalten ist...

SwissPass setzt auf digitale Identitätsprüfung von Intrum
SwissPass nutzt neu eine digitale Identitätsprüfung von Intrum. Die Lösung sorgt für eine sichere, benutzerfreundliche Verifikation von Ausweisen – datenschutzkonform und effizient. Sie ist Teil einer langfristigen Partnerschaft im Bereich Digital Onboarding.

I go on Facebook
An Irishman in Ireland has posted a picture of his Irish flag flying outside his house (in response to some sports thing, apparently?)
The comments are exclusively full of Irish people spouting vitriol about the United States
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The Anglosphere mind has been fully reverse-colonised by its biggest boi. They define themselves in opposition to it; without it, they would have no identity at all. Very sad state of affairs.

Thermodynamic Analysis of Transverse Momentum Spectra in Pb-Pb Collisions at 2.76 TeV: Centrality Dependence of Temperature, Freezeout Parameters and Non-Extensitivity
M. Waqas, Hassan Ali Khan, Wolfgang Bietenholz, Muhammad Ajaz, Jihane Ben Slimane, Haifa I. Alrebdi, A. Haj Ismail
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07369

Thermodynamic Analysis of Transverse Momentum Spectra in Pb-Pb Collisions at 2.76 TeV: Centrality Dependence of Temperature, Freezeout Parameters and Non-Extensitivity
We study properties of Pb-Pb collisions at 2.76 TeV in mid-rapidity, $|y|<0.5$, based on data by the ALICE Collaboration. In particular, we examine the transverse momentum ($p_T$) spectra of positively charged (identified) hadrons, $π^+$, $K^+$ and $p$, generated in various centrality intervals. We perform individual fits using the thermodynamically consistent Tsallis distribution to extract the following quantities: the non-extensitivity parameter, $q$, the effective temperature, $T…

Calibrated Lanthanide Atomic Data for Kilonova Radiative Transfer. I. Atomic Structure and Opacities
Andreas Fl\"ors, Ricardo Ferreira da Silva, Jos\'e P. Marques, Jorge M. Sampaio, Gabriel Mart\'inez-Pinedo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07785

Calibrated Lanthanide Atomic Data for Kilonova Radiative Transfer. I. Atomic Structure and Opacities
The early spectra of the kilonova (KN) AT2017gfo following the binary neutron star merger GW170817 exhibit numerous features shaped by r-process nucleosynthesis products. Although a few species were tentatively detected, no third-peak elements were unambiguously identified, as the amount of atomic data required for radiative transfer modeling is immense. Although comprehensive atomic data, including atomic opacities, is now available for many elements, wavelength-calibrated data remains limited…

Geometry-Dependent Adhesion in Transparent, Monodomain Liquid Crystal Elastomers
Aidan Street, Devesh Mistry, Johan Mattsson, Helen F. Gleeson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07639

Geometry-Dependent Adhesion in Transparent, Monodomain Liquid Crystal Elastomers
Elastomeric pressure-sensitive adhesives (PSAs) form adhesive bonds under light pressure. Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are exciting PSA candidates as they can impart both anisotropy and temperature-dependence to adhesion, but the full potential of their anisotropic adhesion is unexplored. Here, identical side-chain LCEs, produced as transparent isotropic or nematic films are investigated; the latter aligned in homeotropic or planar geometries. Their room-temperature adhesion, determined thr…

Shifting from Ranking to Set Selection for Retrieval Augmented Generation
Dahyun Lee, Yongrae Jo, Haeju Park, Moontae Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06838 …

Shifting from Ranking to Set Selection for Retrieval Augmented Generation
Retrieval in Retrieval-Augmented Generation(RAG) must ensure that retrieved passages are not only individually relevant but also collectively form a comprehensive set. Existing approaches primarily rerank top-k passages based on their individual relevance, often failing to meet the information needs of complex queries in multi-hop question answering. In this work, we propose a set-wise passage selection approach and introduce SETR, which explicitly identifies the information requirements of a q…

Intrinsic defects explain n-type conductivity in CrSBr
Timur Biktagirov, Wolf Gero Schmidt, Karl Jakob Schiller, Michele Capra, Jonah Elias Nitschke, Lasse Sternemann, Anna Isaeva, Mirko Cinchetti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06553

Intrinsic defects explain n-type conductivity in CrSBr
Understanding and controlling native defects is essential for unlocking the full potential of two-dimensional magnetic semiconductors. Here, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and first-principles calculations are used to explore the electronic properties of bulk CrSBr. ARPES measurements reveal clear signatures of conduction band filling in as-grown crystals, indicative of unintentional doping. An analysis of intrinsic defects based on density functional theory (DFT) identifies …

Scenarios in Computing Research: A Systematic Review of the Use of Scenario Methods for Exploring the Future of Computing Technologies in Society
Julia Barnett, Kimon Kieslich, Jasmine Sinchai, Nicholas Diakopoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05605

Scenarios in Computing Research: A Systematic Review of the Use of Scenario Methods for Exploring the Future of Computing Technologies in Society
Scenario building is an established method to anticipate the future of emerging technologies. Its primary goal is to use narratives to map future trajectories of technology development and sociotechnical adoption. Following this process, risks and benefits can be identified early on, and strategies can be developed that strive for desirable futures. In recent years, computer science has adopted this method and applied it to various technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI). Because c…