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I love the fact that switching out a failing SSD just involved formatting the new SSD, copying the files over via `rsync`, powering off the computer, and swapping the new SSD in for the old one. I did have to make a minor tweak to the `fstab` because I decided to go with XFS, but the down time for the computer was only for as long as it took me to get the SSD swapped in.
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Saints QB Tyler Shough ready to deal with ups, downs of being rookie starter: 'You're not going to faze me if we start off 0-2 or I (expletive) suck https://www.nfl.com/news/saints-qb-tyler-shough-ready-to-deal-with-ups-downs-…

Personalized Mental State Evaluation in Human-Robot Interaction using Federated Learning
Andrea Bussolan, Oliver Avram, Andrea Pignata, Gianvito Urgese, Stefano Baraldo, Anna Valente
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20212

Personalized Mental State Evaluation in Human-Robot Interaction using Federated Learning
With the advent of Industry 5.0, manufacturers are increasingly prioritizing worker well-being alongside mass customization. Stress-aware Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) plays a crucial role in this paradigm, where robots must adapt their behavior to human mental states to improve collaboration fluency and safety. This paper presents a novel framework that integrates Federated Learning (FL) to enable personalized mental state evaluation while preserving user privacy. By leveraging physiological…

An Ejection Event Captured by VLBI During the Outburst of Swift J1727.8$-$1613
Hongmin Cao, Jun Yang, S\'andor Frey, Callan M. Wood, James C. A. Miller-Jones, Krisztina \'E. Gab\'anyi, Giulia Migliori, Marcello Giroletti, Lang Cui, Tao An, Xiaoyu Hong, Weihua Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18817

An Ejection Event Captured by VLBI During the Outburst of Swift J1727.8$-$1613
We observed a newly-discovered Galactic black hole X-ray binary Swift J1727.8$-$1613 with the European Very Long Baseline Interferometry Network (EVN) at 5 GHz. The observation was conducted immediately following a radio quenching event detected by the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA). The visibility amplitude evolution over time reveals a large-amplitude radio flare and is consistent with an ejection event. The data can be interpreted either as a stationary component (i.e., the radio core…

Effect of Berry connection on attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy in gapped graphene
Jiayu Yan, Hongxuan Er, Wei Dang, Jiahuan Ren, Chao Chen, Dianxiang Ren, Fulong Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19286

Effect of Berry connection on attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy in gapped graphene
We investigated the attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy (ATAS) in gapped graphene by numerically solving the four-band density-matrix equations. Our results reveal that, in contrast to graphene whose fishbone-shaped spectra primarily oscillates at twice the frequency of the pump laser, the ATAS of gapped graphene exhibits a first-order harmonic component induced by the Berry connection. To gain insight into this interesting results, we employ a simplified model that considers only the …

Zahlen, bitte! Medizinische Hilfe in 2 Stunden an jeden Ort im Outback: Der RFDS
Wie schafft man schnelle ärztliche Versorgung im riesigen Outback? Das sichert der Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia per ausgeklügeltem Flug-Netzwerk

Shield AI has emerged as a lead contender in the increasingly crowded race against competitors like Anduril and AeroVironment
to outfit the U.S. military with killer drones.
The $5 billion-valued startup, founded in 2015 by brothers Ryan and Brandon Tseng,
sells a suite of hardware and products, including autonomous piloting software that has been used to fly fighter jets.
In March, it raised $240 million in a funding round led by Korean conglomerate Hanwha and Amer…

How A Grisly Injury Threw $5 Billion Drone Startup Shield AI Off Course
Shield AI executives overlooked its V-BAT drone’s safety hazards. With sales falling short and the CEO stepping down, the company is trying to win back military customers.

A continuous damage accumulation scenario for elastomeric frictional wear
Ombeline Taisne, Julien Caillard, C\^ome Thillaye du Boullay, Marc Couty, Costantino Creton, Jean Comtet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17860

A continuous damage accumulation scenario for elastomeric frictional wear
Understanding how materials wear off following frictional sliding is a long-standing question in tribology. In this respect, the particular case of the wear of soft rubbery elastomeric materials stands apart: tire wear produces several million tonnes of abraded materials per year, bearing immense industrial and environmental impact, while the soft nature of elastomers and their inability to accommodate plastic deformation before failure renders their wear mechanisms almost intractable. Here, we…

Statement from AFM International President on Trump Attacking Members Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift
https://www.afm.org/2025/05/afm-statement-on-trump-attacking-members-bruce-springsteen-and-taylor-swift/

Statement from AFM International President on Trump Attacking Members Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift
American Federation of Musicians International President Tino Gagliardi issued the following statement in response to Donald Trump’s attacks on members Bruce Springsteen, member of Local 47 (Los…

Iran vowed swift retaliation Saturday following the U.S. military’s strikes on the Iranian nuclear program.
“Every American citizen or military personnel in the region is now a target,” a commentator on Iranian state media said.
Al-Asad Air Base, an Iraqi installation 150 miles west of Baghdad that is operated jointly by the Iraqi and U.S. air forces, houses thousands of American troops,
the largest U.S. deployment in the country.
Iran and its proxies have in recent…

U.S. bases that could attack Iran — and become targets
A number of U.S. military sites in the Middle East could face reprisals if Trump strikes Iran.