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"One in nine migratory birds threatened with extinction, global report says"
#Birds #Animals

One in nine migratory birds threatened with extinction, global report says
Findings on decline of species such as Arctic tern and turtle dove published alongside flyways pledge at Kenya summit

goodnight
#night #spookySaturday #shittember

Elon Musk says SpaceX has decided to "build exclusively on Nvidia because we think the Vera Rubin architecture is the best architecture" (Shubhangi Goel/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-spacex-will-only-buy-from-nvidia-20…

SpaceX and Nvidia are taking their relationship exclusive
On SpaceX's earnings call on Wednesday, CEO Elon Musk said that his company was committed to buying graphics processing units from Nvidia only.

MazzikaAI: A knowledge-based performance-to-prompt compiler for real-time Arabic maqam accompaniment with a streaming text-to-music model
Jiaxin Du, Boulbaba Abdeljaouad, Yong Zhuang, Haoyu Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10360 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10360 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.10360
arXiv:2608.10360v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Arabic maqam music microtonal, modal, and built on ornamented call and response is among the traditions most underserved by generative music models, whose training frameworks remain predominantly Western and equaltempered. Real time accompaniment sharpens this gap: an AI partner must listen, adapt dynamically, and respect idiomatic microtonal structures. Streaming text to music models provide strong generative capabilities but lack precise control interfaces. We present MazzikaAI, a knowledge based system that uses natural language as the actuator of a realtime control loop. By compiling live MIDI, gesture, and inferred harmony into continuously updated text prompts, MazzikaAI steers an unmodified streaming generator, Google Lyria RealTime, without requiring model finetuning. The system embeds expert knowledge of six core maqamat, characteristic ornaments, and ensemble dynamics, maintaining realtime responsiveness with subsecond keytoaudibleupdate latency. Empirical evaluations demonstrate that dynamic prompt compilation reliably grounds generation in microtonal scales, significantly increasing offgrid quartertone content over baseline generation. Beyond its core implementation, MazzikaAI illustrates how deterministic knowledgebased rules can effectively bridge expert, nonWestern musical traditions and unfinetuned foundation models. This architecture establishes a scalable paradigm for realtime humanAI cocreation, offering a generalizable blueprint for interactive accompaniment, adaptive music education, and culturally inclusive generative audio across diverse global idioms.
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Onetime Cowboys DE arrested on domestic battery allegations, released on bond https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/07/06/cowboys-marcellus-wiley-arrested-domestic-battery-alleg…

Wie houdt die idioot tegen?
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/spacex-is-set-to-acquire-130000-acres-of-marshland-in-southern-louisiana/

Mitch McConnell's Office Won't Confirm If He's Conscious
A spokesperson for Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
would not say Monday whether he is conscious in the hospital,
where he's been since June 14
after someone at his house was reportedly found unconscious and received CPR for cardiac arrest.

Mitch McConnell's Office Won't Confirm If He's Conscious

Visual-to-Haptic Augmentation in XR: A Wearable Glove for Perceptual Grounding in Multimodal Interaction
Faisal Mohd, Hamdi Elsaddik, Erhan Baturay Onural, Jihong Zhang, Fedwa Laamarti, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10368 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10368 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.10368
arXiv:2608.10368v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Extended Reality (XR) systems increasingly deliver high-fidelity visual and auditory experiences, yet tactile perception remains comparatively underutilized as a modality for enriching embodied interaction. This work presents a visual-to-haptic wearable glove and a feature-based visual-to-haptic mapping algorithm that translates spatial and temporal visual features from images and videos into distributed vibrotactile patterns. The proposed method extracts motion, edge, and brightness cues and fuses them into actuator-level intensity maps aligned with a 29-actuator glove arranged in a five-by-seven layout.
The system is implemented through a modular four-layer architecture comprising the XR environment, media content handling, visual-to-haptic processing, and embedded haptic hardware. A within-subject user study (N = 20) compared visual-only interaction with visual-plus-haptic augmentation across texture-based and dynamic video scenarios. Results indicate that tactile augmentation significantly improves perceived realism in dynamic video scenarios and enhances immersion and visual-tactile correspondence across conditions, with stronger and more consistent effects observed for dynamic visual events.
While the current implementation operates in a single-user, offline-synchronized configuration, the findings demonstrate that vision-driven tactile augmentation can function as a perceptual enhancement layer within multimodal XR systems. Such a layer may provide a foundation for future socially enriched XR environments where coherent multisensory grounding supports higher-level interaction and communication.
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Former Cowboys QB Tony Romo 'accepts full responsibility' for arrest, says spokesperson https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/08/28/cowboys-tony-romo-full-responsi…