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Virtual Interviewers, Real Results: Exploring AI-Driven Mock Technical Interviews on Student Readiness and Confidence
Nathalia Gomez, S. Sue Batham, Mathias Volonte, Tiffany D. Do
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16542

Virtual Interviewers, Real Results: Exploring AI-Driven Mock Technical Interviews on Student Readiness and Confidence
Technical interviews are a critical yet stressful step in the hiring process for computer science graduates, often hindered by limited access to practice opportunities. This formative qualitative study (n=20) explores whether a multimodal AI system can realistically simulate technical interviews and support confidence-building among candidates. Participants engaged with an AI-driven mock interview tool featuring whiteboarding tasks and real-time feedback. Many described the experience as realis…

4 rolki filmów poszły do wywołania i skanowania 😅
🎞️ Kodak Portra 160 35mm @ 100-160
🎞️ Harman Phoenix 200 35mm @ 100
🎞️ Kodak Gold 200 120 @ 100-200
🎞️ Lomography 800 120 @ 400
#fotografia #photography @…

Verifying International Agreements on AI: Six Layers of Verification for Rules on Large-Scale AI Development and Deployment
Mauricio Baker, Gabriel Kulp, Oliver Marks, Miles Brundage, Lennart Heim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15916

Verifying International Agreements on AI: Six Layers of Verification for Rules on Large-Scale AI Development and Deployment
The risks of frontier AI may require international cooperation, which in turn may require verification: checking that all parties follow agreed-on rules. For instance, states might need to verify that powerful AI models are widely deployed only after their risks to international security have been evaluated and deemed manageable. However, research on AI verification could benefit from greater clarity and detail. To address this, this report provides an in-depth overview of AI verification, inte…

A US federal jury gives five Nevada men varying prison sentences for their roles in running Jetflicks, one of the largest illegal TV streaming services (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
https://therecord.media/five-sentenced-for-running-piracy-streaming-site

5 Nevada men sentenced to prison for running Jetflicks pirated content site
The Justice Department said it ended “the largest internet privacy case… ever to go to trial as well as the first illegal streaming case ever to go to trial.”

Fire season has started in Catalunya
#catalunya #wildfire #Spain

The Republican Majority on the Senate Banking Committee released a press release Friday confirming that they were intentionally eliminating
the “duplicative Office of Financial Research (OFR)”.
According to sources I’ve talked to in the Senate, Republican committee members have shown little concern with the elimination of the Office of Financial Research.
They also seem aware of the concerns over SOFR, because both their “one pager” and “section by section” documents clai…

The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” Eliminates the Office of Financial Research—Threatening the Stability of the Treasury Market
Early last week I started working on a piece on why the Federal Reserve didn’t step in during the Trump Tariff Financial Panic. The basic idea of that piece is simply that “repo rates”- the interest rate at which you can, in essence, borrow funds with treasury securities

Crowdsourcing Ubiquitous Indoor Localization with Non-Cooperative Wi-Fi Ranging
Emerson Sie, Enguang Fan, Federico Cifuentes-Urtubey, Deepak Vasisht
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18317

Crowdsourcing Ubiquitous Indoor Localization with Non-Cooperative Wi-Fi Ranging
Indoor localization opens the path to potentially transformative applications. Although many indoor localization methods have been proposed over the years, they remain too impractical for widespread deployment in the real world. In this paper, we introduce PeepLoc, a deployable and scalable Wi-Fi-based solution for indoor localization that relies only on pre-existing devices and infrastructure. Specifically, PeepLoc works on any mobile device with an unmodified Wi-Fi transceiver and in any indo…

Dynamic Knowledge Exchange and Dual-diversity Review: Concisely Unleashing the Potential of a Multi-Agent Research Team
Weilun Yu, Shixiang Tang, Yonggui Huang, Nanqing Dong, Li Fan, Honggang Qi, Wei Liu, Xiaoli Diao, Xi Chen, Wanli Ouyang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18348

Dynamic Knowledge Exchange and Dual-diversity Review: Concisely Unleashing the Potential of a Multi-Agent Research Team
Scientific progress increasingly relies on effective collaboration among researchers, a dynamic that large language models (LLMs) have only begun to emulate. While recent LLM-based scientist agents show promise in autonomous scientific discovery, they often lack the interactive reasoning and evaluation mechanisms essential to real-world research. We propose IDVSCI (Internal Discussion and Vote SCIentists), a multi-agent framework built on LLMs that incorporates two key innovations: a Dynamic Kn…

"Restoring sea floor after mining may not be possible, researchers warn"
#Sea #Oceans #Mining

Restoring sea floor after mining may not be possible, researchers warn
Scientists present at the latest effort to hash out international rules for deep-sea mining say it's unclear if it's possible to restore damaged seafloor ecosystems—or how long it would take.

Mechanisms to Verify International Agreements About AI Development
Aaron Scher, Lisa Thiergart
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15867 https://

Mechanisms to Verify International Agreements About AI Development
International agreements about AI development may be required to reduce catastrophic risks from advanced AI systems. However, agreements about such a high-stakes technology must be backed by verification mechanisms--processes or tools that give one party greater confidence that another is following the agreed-upon rules, typically by detecting violations. This report gives an overview of potential verification approaches for three example policy goals, aiming to demonstrate how countries could …