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"In coming weeks, proposed job cuts and restructures will be released for the Academic Portfolio, Research and Innovation Portfolio, the College of Science and Medicine, and the College of Arts and Social Sciences."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025…

Australian National University announces first round of job cuts as part of effort to turn around financial issues
As the Australian National University grapples with its dire financial position, the first of several rounds of job cuts has been announced as the institution seeks to save $250 million by the end of the year, including $100 million from salaries.

'Tell Her We're Coming for Her': Country Singer Goes In on Beyoncé During Profanity-Laced Rant for Dominating the Country Charts
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/07/02/country-singer-gavin-adcock-goes-on-rant-about-beyonces-cowboy-carter-album/

Long-distance device-independent quantum key distribution with standard optics tools
Makoto Ishihara, Anthony Brendan, Wojciech Roga, Masahiro Takeoka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02262

Long-distance device-independent quantum key distribution with standard optics tools
Device-independent quantum key distribution (DI-QKD) enables information-theoretically secure key distribution between remote parties without any assumptions on the internal workings of the devices used for its implementation. However, its communication distance is strictly limited since the loophole-free Bell violation is required to guarantee its security. Therefore, in this paper, we propose two long-distance DI-QKD protocols which use a heralding scheme based on single-photon interference. …

Ocior: Ultra-Fast Asynchronous Leaderless Consensus with Two-Round Finality, Linear Overhead, and Adaptive Security
Jinyuan Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01118 https://…

Ocior: Ultra-Fast Asynchronous Leaderless Consensus with Two-Round Finality, Linear Overhead, and Adaptive Security
In this work, we propose Ocior, a practical asynchronous Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) consensus protocol that achieves the optimal performance in resilience, communication, computation, and round complexity. Unlike traditional BFT consensus protocols, Ocior processes incoming transactions individually and concurrently using parallel instances of consensus. While leader-based consensus protocols rely on a designated leader to propose transactions, Ocior is a leaderless consensus protocol that …

Remote Rendering for Virtual Reality: performance comparison of multimedia frameworks and protocols
Daniel Mej\'ias, Inhar Yeregui, Roberto Viola, Miguel Fern\'andez, Mario Montagud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00623

Remote Rendering for Virtual Reality: performance comparison of multimedia frameworks and protocols
The increasing complexity of Extended Reality (XR) applications demands substantial processing power and high bandwidth communications, often unavailable on lightweight devices. Remote rendering consists of offloading processing tasks to a remote node with a powerful GPU, delivering the rendered content to the end device. The delivery is usually performed through popular streaming protocols such as Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC), offering a data channel for interactions, or Dynamic Adapt…

Is It Safe To Learn And Share? On Psychological Safety and Social Learning in (Agile) Communities of Practice
Christiaan Verwijs, Evelien Acun-Roos, Daniel Russo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01065

Is It Safe To Learn And Share? On Psychological Safety and Social Learning in (Agile) Communities of Practice
As hybrid, distributed, and asynchronous work models become more prevalent, continuous learning in Agile Software Development (ASD) gains renewed importance. Communities of Practice (CoPs) are increasingly adopted to support social learning beyond formal education, often relying on virtual communication. Psychological safety, a prerequisite for effective learning, remains insufficiently understood in these settings. This mixed-methods study investigates psychological safety within Agile CoPs th…

Starting off another promising week

AoI-based Scheduling of Correlated Sources for Timely Inference
Md Kamran Chowdhury Shisher, Vishrant Tripathi, Mung Chiang, Christopher G. Brinton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01926

AoI-based Scheduling of Correlated Sources for Timely Inference
We investigate a real-time remote inference system where multiple correlated sources transmit observations over a communication channel to a receiver. The receiver utilizes these observations to infer multiple time-varying targets. Due to limited communication resources, the delivered observations may not be fresh. To quantify data freshness, we employ the Age of Information (AoI) metric. To minimize the inference error, we aim to design a signal-agnostic scheduling policy that leverages AoI wi…