Azerbaijan gives eight journalists prison sentences ranging from 7.5 to 15 years, as part of a series of media trials set to obliterate independent reporting (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/06/8-journalists-g…
"What is different, is that before what were largely fringe anti-Semitic and white supremacist theories floating around the far corners of the Alt-Right, have now become the backbone of the Republican party. 'The Great Replacement,' once a conspiracy pushed by only hardline neo-Nazis and white supremacists, is now being touted by everyone from pharma billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy, Swason frozen foods heir and Twitter troll Tucker Carlson, to the billionaire backed Turning Point US…
NEAR$^2$: A Nested Embedding Approach to Efficient Product Retrieval and Ranking
Shenbin Qian, Diptesh Kanojia, Samarth Agrawal, Hadeel Saadany, Swapnil Bhosale, Constantin Orasan, Zhe Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19743
After Marks and Spencer refused to say whether it paid a ransom, the UK's Home Office proposes that businesses will have to notify the government if they plan on paying a ransom to cyber criminals under new proposals.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-to-l
This is the first FPGA (Trion T20) I've ever seen where the bitstream size depends on the package!
The BGA324 and BGA400 include a hard DDR PHY while the smaller parts don't. I wonder if some/most of the extra 2.5 Mbits of data is firmware for some kind of hard processor that does PHY initialization?
The other deltas are likely related to the MIPI DPHY core, although I'm not sure why the Q10 or F256 packages would be larger than the Q144 since they don't have MIPI…
AbRank: A Benchmark Dataset and Metric-Learning Framework for Antibody-Antigen Affinity Ranking
Chunan Liu, Aurelien Pelissier, Yanjun Shao, Lilian Denzler, Andrew C. R. Martin, Brooks Paige, Mariia Rodriguez Martinez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17857
ANTIHEROES-PRODIGE: Quantifying the connection from envelope to disk with the IRAM 30m telescope and NOEMA I. Attack of the streamers: L1448N's fight for order in the chaos
C. Gieser, P. Caselli, D. M. Segura-Cox, J. E. Pineda, L. A. Busch, M. T. Valdivia-Mena, M. J. Maureira, Y. Lin, T. H. Hsieh, Y. R. Chou, L. Bouscasse, P. C. Cort\'es, N. Cunningham, A. Dutrey, A. Fuente, Th. Henning, A. Lopez-Sepulcre, J. Miranzo-Pastor, R. Neri, D. Semenov, M. Tafalla, S. E. van Terwisga
Temporal pattern generation with tunable repetition rate using semiconductor laser periodic dynamics
Apostolos Argyris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18570 htt…
Fanfiction in the Age of AI: Community Perspectives on Creativity, Authenticity and Adoption
Roi Alfassi, Angelora Cooper, Zoe Mitchell, Mary Calabro, Orit Shaer, Osnat Mokryn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18706
LLM-based Embedders for Prior Case Retrieval
Damith Premasiri, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Ruslan Mitkov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18455 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…