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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.

USC professor Allison Marsh writes this delightful short article for IEEE Spectrum about Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert's British counterparts in Cambridge and how, in their case, a document (the Lighthill Report) precipitated cuts in British AI research funding in ways similar to how funding was temporarily cut in the U.S. following MIT's publishing of Minsky and Papert's "Perceptrons" in 1969.
"Freddy the Robot Was the Fall Guy for British AI"

Freddy the Robot Was the Fall Guy for British AI

Its creator lost a power struggle that led to an AI winter in the 1970s

WHY DO YOU PEOPLE STILL GOTTA BE PUTTING QUALITY CONTENT OVER ON THE HELLSCAPE

Prescott's summer flings to bubble WR will need to morph into substantial contributions https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/09/dallas-cowboys-player-profile-wr-jalen-brooks/…

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This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01456 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Decomposing a signed graph into rooted circuits
We prove a precise min-max theorem for the following problem. Let $G$ be an Eulerian graph with a specified set of edges $S \subseteq E(G)$, and let $b$ be a vertex of $G$. Then what is the maximum integer $k$ so that the edge-set of $G$ can be partitioned into $k$ non-zero $b$-trails? That is, each trail must begin and end at $b$ and contain an odd number of edges from~$S$. This theorem is motivated by a connection to vertex-minors and yields two conjectures of Máčajová and Škoviera as cor…

Sources: EchoStar is considering filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to protect its valuable wireless spectrum licenses from potential revocation by the FCC (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/echosta…

Optimal Graph Reconstruction by Counting Connected Components in Induced Subgraphs
Hadley Black, Arya Mazumdar, Barna Saha, Yinzhan Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08405

Optimal Graph Reconstruction by Counting Connected Components in Induced Subgraphs
The graph reconstruction problem has been extensively studied under various query models. In this paper, we propose a new query model regarding the number of connected components, which is one of the most basic and fundamental graph parameters. Formally, we consider the problem of reconstructing an $n$-node $m$-edge graph with oracle queries of the following form: provided with a subset of vertices, the oracle returns the number of connected components in the induced subgraph. We show $Θ(\frac…

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 …

Sources: EchoStar is considering filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to protect its valuable wireless spectrum licenses from potential revocation by the FCC (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/echosta…