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The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist https://sonicstate.com/news/2025/06/10/the-rise-of-spotify-and-the-costs-of…

The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist - 'Mood Machine' by Liz Pelly
Mood Machine' by Liz Pelly

Europe fights back against support for Russia – international tensions rise!: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/europe-fights-back-against-support.html

🍻 Fewer Americans are drinking alcohol as health concerns rise
#alcohol

Fewer Americans are drinking alcohol as health concerns rise
Fewer U.S. adults say they drink alcohol, and more now believe that even moderate drinking can harm their health, a new Gallup poll finds.

Some wear balaclavas. Some wearneck gators, sunglasses and hats. Some wear masks and casual clothes.
Across the country, armed federal immigration officers have increasingly hidden their identities while carrying out immigration raids, arresting protesters and roughing upprominent Democratic critics.
It’s a trend that has sparked alarm among civil rights and law enforcement experts alike.
Mike German, a former FBIagent, said officers’ widespread use of masks was unprecedent…

Engineering deterministic, tunable, and reversible folds in graphene with the use of ultrafast laser micro-patterned stretchable polymer substrate
A. F. Juarez Saborio, F. Bourquard, R. Galafassi, A. Claudel, L. Marty, A. Piednoir, M. Mercury, R. Fulcrand, C. Albin, V. Barnier, F. Garrelie, A. San-Miguel, F. Vialla
https://arxiv…

Engineering deterministic, tunable, and reversible folds in graphene with the use of ultrafast laser micro-patterned stretchable polymer substrate
The unique atomic monolayer structure of graphene gives rise to a broad range of remarkable mechanical folding properties. However, significant challenges remain in effectively harnessing them in a controllable and scalable manner. In this study, we introduce an innovative approach that employs micron-scale cavities, fabricated through ultrafast laser patterning, in a stretchable polymer substrate to locally modulate adhesion and strain transfer to a graphene monolayer. This technique enables t…

Mott Criticality as the Confinement Transition of a Pseudogap-Mott Metal
Abhirup Mukherjee, S. R. Hassan, Anamitra Mukherjee, N. S. Vidhyadhiraja, A. Taraphder, Siddhartha Lal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17201

Mott Criticality as the Confinement Transition of a Pseudogap-Mott Metal
The phenomenon of Mott insulation involves the localization of itinerant electrons due to strong local repulsion. Upon doping, a pseudogap (PG) phase emerges - marked by selective gapping of the Fermi surface without conventional symmetry breaking in spin or charge channels. A key challenge is understanding how quasiparticle breakdown in the Fermi liquid gives rise to this enigmatic state, and how it connects to both the Mott insulating and superconducting phases. Here, we develop a renormaliza…

Beyond Syntax: Action Semantics Learning for App Agents
Bohan Tang, Dezhao Luo, Jingxuan Chen, Shaogang Gong, Jianye Hao, Jun Wang, Kun Shao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17697

Beyond Syntax: Action Semantics Learning for App Agents
The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) enables the rise of App agents that interpret user intent and operate smartphone Apps through actions such as clicking and scrolling. While prompt-based solutions with closed LLM APIs show promising ability, they incur heavy compute costs and external API dependency. Fine-tuning smaller open-source LLMs solves these limitations. However, current fine-tuning methods use a syntax learning paradigm that forces agents to reproduce exactly the ground truth …

Perspective-Invariant 3D Object Detection
Ao Liang, Lingdong Kong, Dongyue Lu, Youquan Liu, Jian Fang, Huaici Zhao, Wei Tsang Ooi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17665 https://

Perspective-Invariant 3D Object Detection
With the rise of robotics, LiDAR-based 3D object detection has garnered significant attention in both academia and industry. However, existing datasets and methods predominantly focus on vehicle-mounted platforms, leaving other autonomous platforms underexplored. To bridge this gap, we introduce Pi3DET, the first benchmark featuring LiDAR data and 3D bounding box annotations collected from multiple platforms: vehicle, quadruped, and drone, thereby facilitating research in 3D object detection fo…

Fantasy football WR rankings 2025: Draft tiers and analysis https://www.nfl.com/news/fantasy-football-wr-rankings-2025-draft-tiers-and-analysis

Higher-Order Behavioural Conformances via Fibrations
Henning Urbat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18509 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18509

Higher-Order Behavioural Conformances via Fibrations
Coinduction is a widely used technique for establishing behavioural equivalence of programs in higher-order languages. In recent years, the rise of languages with quantitative (e.g.~probabilistic) features has led to extensions of coinductive methods to more refined types of behavioural conformances, most notably notions of behavioural distance. To guarantee soundness of coinductive reasoning, one needs to show that the behavioural conformance at hand forms a program congruence, i.e. it is suit…

Understanding the Supply Chain and Risks of Large Language Model Applications
Yujie Ma, Lili Quan, Xiaofei Xie, Qiang Hu, Jiongchi Yu, Yao Zhang, Sen Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18105

Understanding the Supply Chain and Risks of Large Language Model Applications
The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to the widespread deployment of LLM-based systems across diverse domains. As these systems proliferate, understanding the risks associated with their complex supply chains is increasingly important. LLM-based systems are not standalone as they rely on interconnected supply chains involving pretrained models, third-party libraries, datasets, and infrastructure. Yet, most risk assessments narrowly focus on model or data level, overlooking broader s…

Weak unitary symmetries of open quantum dynamics: beyond quantum master equations
Calum A. Brown, Robert L. Jack, Katarzyna Macieszczak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19814

Weak unitary symmetries of open quantum dynamics: beyond quantum master equations
We consider Markovian open quantum dynamics with weak unitary symmetries. Starting from the quantum master equation for the system alone, it is known that the joint dynamics of the system and its environment can be obtained by dilation, leading to a closed dynamics for a continuous matrix product state. Performing counting measurements on the environment gives rise to stochastic dynamics of quantum trajectories for the system, which when averaged yield back the quantum master equation. In this …

Simulation studies of the isovector reorientation effect of deuteron scattering on heavy target
Baiting Tian, Boyuan Zhang, Yijie Wang, Tadaaki Isobe, Hideaki Otsu, Li Ou, Zhigang Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15738

Simulation studies of the isovector reorientation effect of deuteron scattering on heavy target
The isovector reorientation (IVR) effect of deuteron scattering on heavy target provides a novel means to probe the nuclear isovector potential which gives rise to the nuclear symmetry energy. The simulations studies on the experimental measurement of IVR effect using SAMURAI terminal at RIKEN Nishina center have been performed to demonstrate the feasibility of the experiment. By introducing a well designed polarimeter to detect the $\mathrm{p}(\vec{\mathrm{d}}, \mathrm{d})\mathrm{p}$ elastic s…

Spin-polarized triplet excitonic insulators in Ta3X8 (X=I, Br) monolayers
Haohao Sheng, Jingyu Yao, Sheng Zhang, Quansheng Wu, Zhong Fang, Xi Dai, Hongming Weng, Zhijun Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18686

Spin-polarized triplet excitonic insulators in Ta3X8 (X=I, Br) monolayers
Bose-Einstein condensation of spin-polarized triplet excitons can give rise to an intriguing spin supercurrent, enabling experimental detection of exciton condensation. In this work, we predict that Ta3X8 (X=I, Br) ferromagnetic monolayers are spin-polarized triplet excitonic insulators (EIs), based on the systematic first-principles GW calculations coupled with the Bethe-Salpeter equation (GW+BSE). The single-particle calculations of spin-polarized band structures reveal that these monolayers …

Cowboys Stock Report: UDFA WR bubble may have bust, veteran edge undeniable, Milton shines https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/23/cowboys-falcons-stock-report-milton-…

Deep Research Agents: A Systematic Examination And Roadmap
Yuxuan Huang, Yihang Chen, Haozheng Zhang, Kang Li, Meng Fang, Linyi Yang, Xiaoguang Li, Lifeng Shang, Songcen Xu, Jianye Hao, Kun Shao, Jun Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18096

Deep Research Agents: A Systematic Examination And Roadmap
The rapid progress of Large Language Models (LLMs) has given rise to a new category of autonomous AI systems, referred to as Deep Research (DR) agents. These agents are designed to tackle complex, multi-turn informational research tasks by leveraging a combination of dynamic reasoning, adaptive long-horizon planning, multi-hop information retrieval, iterative tool use, and the generation of structured analytical reports. In this paper, we conduct a detailed analysis of the foundational technolo…

Apple raises the price of Apple TV in the US and some markets globally after previously raising the price in 2023; in the US, the price will rise $3 to $12.99 (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/08/21/apple-tv-subscription-price-increase/

Apple TV+ subscription price increasing to $12.99 per month from today - 9to5Mac
Apple today announced that the monthly price of Apple TV+ is rising in the United States and some international markets....

Identification and Characterization of a New Disruption Regime in ADITYA-U Tokamak
Soumitra Banerjee, Harshita Raj, Sk Injamul Hoque, Komal Yadav, Sharvil Patel, Ankit Kumar, Kaushlender Singh, Ashok Kumawat, Bharat Hegde, Subhojit Bose, Priyanka Verma, Kumudini Tahiliani, Asha Adhiya, Manoj Kumar, Rohit Kumar, Malay Bikash Chowdhuri, Nilam Ramaiya, Ananya Kundu, Suman Aich, Suman Dolui, K. A. Jadeja, K. M. Patel, Ankit Patel, Rakesh L. Tanna, Joydeep Ghosh

Identification and Characterization of a New Disruption Regime in ADITYA-U Tokamak
Disruptions continue to pose a significant challenge to the stable operation and future design of tokamak reactors. A comprehensive statistical investigation carried out on the ADITYA-U tokamak has led to the observation and characterization of a novel disruption regime. In contrast to the conventional Locked Mode Disruption (LMD), the newly identified disruption exhibits a distinctive two-phase evolution: an initial phase characterized by a steady rise in mode frequency with a nonlinearly satu…

Apple raises the price of Apple TV in the US and some markets globally after previously raising the price in 2023; in the US, the price will rise $3 to $12.99 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/apple-tv-plus-price-increa…

Apple TV+ Price Increase: Service Now Costs $13 per Month in U.S.
Apple TV+ is bumping up its price by 30%: For U.S. customers, it will now be $12.99 per month, up from $9.99.

"... abolishing Ofwat and replacing it with a shinier regulator won’t stop sewage dumping or profiteering if the finance and ownership structures stay the same."
Surfers Against Sewage.
Water companies to be overseen by new watchdog to 'prevent abuses of the past', government says - live updates - BBC News
https://www.…

Scrap Ofwat, says major report, as author warns water bills will rise by 30% in five years - live updates
Sir Jon Cunliffe's report into the water sector in England and Wales makes 88 recommendations - including making water meters mandatory.

How Software Engineers Engage with AI: A Pragmatic Process Model and Decision Framework Grounded in Industry Observations
Vahid Garousi, Zafar Jafarov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17930

How Software Engineers Engage with AI: A Pragmatic Process Model and Decision Framework Grounded in Industry Observations
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform Software Engineering (SE) by enhancing productivity, efficiency, and decision support. Tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT have given rise to "vibe coding"-an exploratory, prompt-driven development style. Yet, how software engineers engage with these tools in daily tasks, especially in deciding whether to trust, refine, or reject AI-generated outputs, remains underexplored. This paper presents two complementary contributions. First, …

Atomic-scale Frustrated Josephson Coupling and Multi-condensate Visualization in FeSe
Nileema Sharma, Matthew Toole, James McKenzie, Sheng Ran, Xiaolong Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16758

Atomic-scale Frustrated Josephson Coupling and Multi-condensate Visualization in FeSe
In a Josephson junction involving multi-band superconductors, competition between inter-band and inter-junction Josephson coupling gives rise to frustration and spatial disjunction of superfluid densities among superconducting condensates. Such frustrated coupling manifests as quantum interference of Josephson currents from different tunneling channels and becomes tunable if channel transparency can be varied. To explore these unconventional effects in the prototypical $s^\pm$-wave superconduct…

Graphs Meet AI Agents: Taxonomy, Progress, and Future Opportunities
Yuanchen Bei, Weizhi Zhang, Siwen Wang, Weizhi Chen, Sheng Zhou, Hao Chen, Yong Li, Jiajun Bu, Shirui Pan, Yizhou Yu, Irwin King, Fakhri Karray, Philip S. Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18019

Graphs Meet AI Agents: Taxonomy, Progress, and Future Opportunities
AI agents have experienced a paradigm shift, from early dominance by reinforcement learning (RL) to the rise of agents powered by large language models (LLMs), and now further advancing towards a synergistic fusion of RL and LLM capabilities. This progression has endowed AI agents with increasingly strong abilities. Despite these advances, to accomplish complex real-world tasks, agents are required to plan and execute effectively, maintain reliable memory, and coordinate smoothly with other age…

This was a very nice loop between #ohlstadt and #garmischpartenkirchen!
Beautiful views to the #mountains, an excellent way, almost no major roads and we also escaped a little rain…

As exotic pet demands rise, invertebrates need trade protections too: Study https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/07/as-exotic-pet-demands-rise-invertebrates-need-trade-protections-too-study/

As exotic pet demands rise, invertebrates need trade protections too: Study
As the demand for butterflies, spiders, ants and other terrestrial invertebrates grows worldwide, researchers in a recent study say better policy and regulation coverage can help ensure sustainability. The researchers reviewed existing scientific studies that mention the trade in terrestrial invertebrates and found that most research focuses on the exotic pet trade, specifically of spiders […]

Belief Alignment vs Opinion Leadership: Understanding Cross-linguistic Digital Activism in K-pop and BLM Communities
Yuheun Kim, Joshua Introne
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16046

Belief Alignment vs Opinion Leadership: Understanding Cross-linguistic Digital Activism in K-pop and BLM Communities
The internet has transformed activism, giving rise to more organic, diverse, and dynamic social movements that transcend geo-political boundaries. Despite extensive research on the role of social media and the internet in cross-cultural activism, the fundamental motivations driving these global movements remain poorly understood. This study examines two plausible explanations for cross-cultural activism: first, that it is driven by influential online opinion leaders, and second, that it results…

Why a 'Paleo-Confederate' Pastor Is on the Rise (David French/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/opinion/douglas-wilson-evangelical-hegseth.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250814/p44#a250814p44

Tilting theoretic approach to quasi-hereditary structures
Takahide Adachi, Aaron Chan, Yuta Kimura, Mayu Tsukamoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16575 https:/…

Tilting theoretic approach to quasi-hereditary structures
A quasi-hereditary algebra is an algebra equipped with a certain partial order $\unlhd$ on its simple modules. Such a partial order -- called a quasi-hereditary structure -- gives rise to a characteristic tilting module $T_{\unlhd}$ by a classical result due to Ringel. A fundamental question is to determine which tilting modules can be realised as characteristic tilting modules. We answer this question by using the notion of IS-tilting module, which is a pair $(T,\unlhd)$ of a tilting module $T…

Oil price sharply up. Nice for Trump's shale oil, Saudi, and Russian friends. Not so nice for the MAGA crowd which will see their gasoline prices going up too.

A profile of LA-based Whatnot, a livestream marketplace valued at ~$5B, which has raised $700M since 2019 and expects its GMV to grow 100% YoY to $6B in 2025 (Jason Del Rey/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/06/16/whatnot

Inside the rise of Whatnot, the wildly-entertaining, FOMO-inducing, $5 billion shopping app you’ve never heard of
Inside the rapid rise of Whatnot, the wildly-entertaining, FOMO-inducing, most popular shopping app you’ve never heard of

This is comparable to the rise of totalitarian regimes in the 1920s and 1930s,
when Mussolini said even a teacher of mathematics must be a fascist.
Now all who do not take positions on American politics, policies and history that comply with the administration’s views
are in danger of being denied funding, subjected to lawsuits, and derided by the White House in ways that can inspire violent private attacks.
All this has precedents, but not in America’s peacetime hist…

K-rings of smooth toric varieties via piecewise-exponential functions
Melody Chan, Emily Clader, Caroline Klivans, Dustin Ross
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13610

K-rings of smooth toric varieties via piecewise-exponential functions
We describe an explicit presentation of the ring of integral piecewise-exponential functions on a unimodular fan as a quotient of the Stanley-Reisner ring of the fan. This gives rise to a presentation of K-rings of smooth toric varieties that is parallel to the well-known presentation of integral Chow rings as quotients of Stanley-Reisner rings.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Chatham Rise:
🎵 Here She Comes
#ChathamRise
https://open.spotify.com/track/0yvowNrm9kUkxo82q1rljP

Amazon's 2024 sustainability report says it emitted 68.25M metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, up 6% from 2023 and the first rise in three years (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-16/a…

Amazon’s (AMZN) Carbon Emissions Climbed 6% in 2024 on Data Center Buildout
Amazon.com Inc.’s carbon emissions rose for the first time in three years in 2024, driven by data center construction and fuel consumption by its delivery providers.

Fraudulent research is 'destroying trust in science' – DW – 08/10/2025
https://www.dw.com/en/fake-studies-on-the-rise-destroying-trust-in-science/a-73533918

The Rise of AI Teammates in Software Engineering (SE) 3.0: How Autonomous Coding Agents Are Reshaping Software Engineering
Hao Li, Haoxiang Zhang, Ahmed E. Hassan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15003

The Rise of AI Teammates in Software Engineering (SE) 3.0: How Autonomous Coding Agents Are Reshaping Software Engineering
The future of software engineering--SE 3.0--is unfolding with the rise of AI teammates: autonomous, goal-driven systems collaborating with human developers. Among these, autonomous coding agents are especially transformative, now actively initiating, reviewing, and evolving code at scale. This paper introduces AIDev, the first large-scale dataset capturing how such agents operate in the wild. Spanning over 456,000 pull requests by five leading agents--OpenAI Codex, Devin, GitHub Copilot, Cursor…

«Ricochet», el décimo Album de estudio de Rise Against publicado hoy.
#RiseAgainst

The Open Championship is underway; MLB trade deadline buyers, sellers; Red Sox rise in Power Rankings

https://www.cbssports.com/golf/news/the-op

Enhancement of first-order phase transitions through a mass-acquiring scalar field
Yuan-Jie Li, Jing Liu, Zong-Kuan Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14665 https://

Enhancement of first-order phase transitions through a mass-acquiring scalar field
Phase transitions in the early Universe give rise to effective masses for massless fields in the symmetry-broken phase. We use the lattice simulations to investigate the impact of a spectator scalar field with mass generation on the dynamics of first-order phase transitions and the generation of gravitational waves. In addition to the well-known friction effects, we identify a novel effect that significantly enhances the strength of first-order phase transitions. The amplitude of the mass-acqui…

Can’t pay, won’t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/14/cant-pay-wont-pay-impoverished-streaming-service…

Assinei isto.
https://stopreturnfascism.org/portugues/
Não faz mal nenhum assinar, bem pelo contršrio. Mas que ninguém julgue que vai ser suficiente.
Dar a carta a ler a muita gente é mais importante do que assinar, de resto. Portanto leiam-na.

This is comparable to the rise of totalitarian regimes in the 1920s and 1930s,
when Mussolini said even a teacher of mathematics must be a fascist.
Now all who do not take positions on American politics, policies and history that comply with the administration’s views
are in danger of being denied funding, subjected to lawsuits, and derided by the White House in ways that can inspire violent private attacks.
All this has precedents, but not in America’s peacetime hist…

Opinion | The Mind-Boggling Intrusiveness of Donald J. Trump
The president is driving the tentacles of the federal government deep into the nation’s economy, culture and legal system.

The AFC West Team the Raiders Are Likeliest to Surpass https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/news/the-afc-west-team-the-raiders-are-likeliest-to-surpass-01k0gkkdyf1f

Playing telephone with generative models: "verification disability," "compelled reliance," and accessibility in data visualization
Frank Elavsky, Cindy Xiong Bearfield
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12192

Playing telephone with generative models: "verification disability," "compelled reliance," and accessibility in data visualization
This paper is a collaborative piece between two worlds of expertise in the field of data visualization: accessibility and bias. In particular, the rise of generative models playing a role in accessibility is a worrying trend for data visualization. These models are increasingly used to help author visualizations as well as generate descriptions of existing visualizations for people who are blind, low vision, or use assistive technologies such as screen readers. Sighted human-to-human bias has a…

Survey of Genetic and Differential Evolutionary Algorithm Approaches to Search Documents Based On Semantic Similarity
Chandrashekar Muniyappa, Eunjin Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11751

Survey of Genetic and Differential Evolutionary Algorithm Approaches to Search Documents Based On Semantic Similarity
Identifying similar documents within extensive volumes of data poses a significant challenge. To tackle this issue, researchers have developed a variety of effective distributed computing techniques. With the advancement of computing power and the rise of big data, deep neural networks and evolutionary computing algorithms such as genetic algorithms and differential evolution algorithms have achieved greater success. This survey will explore the most recent advancements in the search for docume…

Die US-Regierung unter #DonaldTrump plant laut Haushaltsentwurf die Schließung des Mauna Loa Observatoriums auf Hawaii – dem Ort, an dem seit 1958 die global führenden #CO2-Messungen durchgeführt werden.
Die berühmte

Trump admin tries to kill the most indisputable evidence of human-caused climate change by shuttering observatory
The Mauna Loa laboratory in Hawaii has measured atmospheric carbon dioxide, which — along with other planet-warming pollution — has led directly to climate change, driving sea level rise, supercharging weather and destroying food systems.

Software innovation might be freezing in place—and AI could be to blame. Theo Browne points out that Copilot and ChatGPT often return React-style code even for Solid or Elixir projects. Why? Because they’ve seen React a million times more. Python 3 took a decade to overtake Python 2. If that transition had to happen today, would our dependence on AI suggestions keep us from making the jump?

Anisotropic Anderson localization in higher-dimensional nonreciprocal lattices
Jinyuan Shang, Haiping Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14523 https://

Anisotropic Anderson localization in higher-dimensional nonreciprocal lattices
Nonreciprocity breaks the symmetry between forward and backward propagation, giving rise to a range of peculiar wave phenomena. In this work, we investigate Anderson localization in higher-dimensional nonreciprocal lattices. Focusing on the two-dimensional Hatano-Nelson model, we uncover anisotropic hybrid modes (HMs) that exhibit skin localization along one direction and Anderson localization along the other. We determine the Anderson transition along different directions via the transfer matr…

By-the-way, it is clear that we are experiencing the end of Democracy and rise of Dictatorship in the US.
We have long observed the rise of large corporations as a class of privileged nobility.
And now we are watching the onset of governance by artificial "intelligence".
Perhaps we will resume democracy, but unless we change our ground rules - such as our Constitution - the power of corporations and, now, AI's will remain a serious problem.
So I will men…

Prediction of Spotify Chart Success Using Audio and Streaming Features
Ian Jacob Cabansag, Paul Ntegeka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11632 https://arxiv.org/…

Prediction of Spotify Chart Success Using Audio and Streaming Features
Spotify's streaming charts offer a real-time lens into music popularity, driving discovery, playlists, and even revenue potential. Understanding what influences a song's rise in ranks on these charts-especially early on-can guide marketing efforts, investment decisions, and even artistic direction. In this project, we developed a classification pipeline to predict a song's chart success based on its musical characteristics and early engagement data. Using all 2024 U.S. Top 200 Spotify Daily Cha…

Laser-Driven Annular Shock Waves as Laboratory Analogues of $w$CDM Cosmologies and Cosmological Gravitational Waves
Felipe A. Asenjo, Felipe Veloso, Julio C. Valenzuela
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15493

Laser-Driven Annular Shock Waves as Laboratory Analogues of $w$CDM Cosmologies and Cosmological Gravitational Waves
We demonstrate that the experimental evolution of an annular, laser-driven plasma shock wave, expanding over time and undergoing self-interaction gives rise to multiple shock structures that evolve analogously to a multicomponent cosmological universe. Different propagation trajectories along the shock surface correspond to various forms of $w$CDM cosmologies, enabling the study of scenarios ranging from simple radiation- or matter-dominated universes to those including dark energy. We further …

Why “Wayfaring Stranger”? Why now?
The story of the only cover song on my upcoming album, "How To Rise and Keep Rising"
#CoverSong #FolkSong

Why "Wayfaring Stranger"? Why now?
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Differential Space of Feynman Integrals: Annihilators and $\mathcal{D}$-module
Vsevolod Chestnov, Wojciech Flieger, Pierpaolo Mastrolia, Saiei-Jaeyeong Matsubara-Heo, Nobuki Takayama, William J. Torres Bobadilla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10456

Differential Space of Feynman Integrals: Annihilators and $\mathcal{D}$-module
We present a novel algorithm for constructing differential operators with respect to external variables that annihilate Feynman-like integrals and give rise to the associated $\mathcal{D}$-modules, based on Griffiths-Dwork reduction. By leveraging the Macaulay matrix method, we derive corresponding relations among partial differential operators, including systems of Pfaffian equations and Picard-Fuchs operators. Our computational approach is applicable to twisted period integrals in projective …

I took a dumb picture this morning and now you have to look at it

Cosmic Strings in Multi-Step Symmetry Breaking
Akifumi Chitose, Masahiro Ibe, Satoshi Shirai, Yaxuan Wen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15194 https://

Cosmic Strings in Multi-Step Symmetry Breaking
We investigate cosmic strings arising from a hierarchical gauge symmetry breaking sequence, $\mathrm{SU}(2) \times \mathrm{U}(1) \rightarrow \mathrm{U}(1) \times \mathrm{U}(1) \rightarrow \mathrm{U}(1)' \rightarrow \text{Nothing}$. This pattern gives rise to two distinct classes of cosmic strings: light, stable strings formed at a later stage, and heavy, metastable strings originating from an earlier stage. Our focus is on the heavy strings, which may decay either before or after the final $\ma…

"Heatwave: Anti-Climate Reform Politicians Represent Areas at ‘High Risk’ from Extreme Temperatures"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate

Heatwave: Anti-Climate Reform Politicians Represent Areas at ‘High Risk’ from Extreme Temperatures
Nigel Farage and his fellow Reform UK MPs, many of whom deny basic climate science, represent constituencies exposed to the worst effects of extreme heat, studies show. The UK has this week entered its fourth heatwave of 2025, with temperatures expected to rise to 33C on Thursday in what scientists have warned could become the […]

Massive stars exploding in a He-rich circumstellar medium. XI. Diverse evolution of five Ibn SNe 2020nxt, 2020taz, 2021bbv, 2023utc and 2024aej
Z. -Y. Wang, A. Pastorello, Y. -Z. Cai, M. Fraser, A. Reguitti, W. -L. Lin, L. Tartaglia, D. Andrew Howell, S. Benetti, E. Cappellaro, Z. -H. Chen, N. Elias-Rosa, J. Farah, A. Fiore, D. Hiramatsu, E. Kankare, Z. -T. Li, P. Lundqvist, P. A. Mazzali, C. McCully, J. Mo, S. Moran, M. Newsome, E. Padilla Gonzalez, C. Pellegrino, Z. -H. Peng, S. J. S…

Massive stars exploding in a He-rich circumstellar medium. XI. Diverse evolution of five Ibn SNe 2020nxt, 2020taz, 2021bbv, 2023utc and 2024aej
We present the photometric and spectroscopic analysis of five Type Ibn supernovae (SNe): SN 2020nxt, SN 2020taz, SN 2021bbv, SN 2023utc, and SN 2024aej. These events share key observational features and belong to a family of objects similar to the prototypical Type Ibn SN 2006jc. The SNe exhibit rise times of approximately 10 days and peak absolute magnitudes ranging from $-$16.5 to $-$19 mag. Notably, SN 2023utc is the faintest Type Ibn supernova discovered to date, with an exceptionally low r…

Asymmetric Diffusion of Chiral Skyrmions
X. Zhang, C. Reichhardt, C. J. O. Reichhardt, Y. Zhou, Y. Xu, M. Mochizuki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14090 https:…

Asymmetric Diffusion of Chiral Skyrmions
Brownian dynamics of chiral matter in chiral environment may give rise to emergent phenomena that could not be observed in achiral environment. Here, we report the asymmetric diffusion of chiral skyrmions in two chambers separated by a chiral gate. The topology-determined Brownian gyromotion of skyrmions could lead to effective interactions between skyrmions and chamber walls with a sense of clockwise or counter-clockwise rotation. By fabricating a chiral gate separating two chambers, skyrmions…

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Evolution of Cooperation in LLM-Agent Societies: A Preliminary Study Using Different Punishment Strategies
The evolution of cooperation has been extensively studied using abstract mathematical models and simulations. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLM) and the rise of LLM agents have demonstrated their ability to perform social reasoning, thus providing an opportunity to test the emergence of norms in more realistic agent-based simulations with human-like reasoning using natural language. In this research, we investigate whether the cooperation dynamics presented in Boyd and Richerson's m…

Cornfield supporting dairy farm in the valley connecting Dryden and Richford, NY -- we're looking at the hills of Hammond Hill State Forest
#photo #photography #landscape

MRI-CORE: A Foundation Model for Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Haoyu Dong, Yuwen Chen, Hanxue Gu, Nicholas Konz, Yaqian Chen, Qihang Li, Maciej A. Mazurowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12186

MRI-CORE: A Foundation Model for Magnetic Resonance Imaging
The widespread use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and the rise of deep learning have enabled the development of powerful predictive models for a wide range of diagnostic tasks in MRI, such as image classification or object segmentation. However, training models for specific new tasks often requires large amounts of labeled data, which is difficult to obtain due to high annotation costs and data privacy concerns. To circumvent this issue, we introduce MRI-CORE (MRI COmprehensive Representat…

Listen to The Briefing Room. @DAaronovitch on the really important question. Why has the rise in people claiming disability benefits been so much higher in UK than elsewhere? This is much more interesting than journos harping on about "humiliation".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002f9fz

The Briefing Room - Why is there a row about disability benefits? - BBC Sounds
David Aaronovitch and guests discuss why the benefits bill for disability has ballooned.

Benchmarking Classical and Quantum Models for DeFi Yield Prediction on Curve Finance
Chi-Sheng Chen, Aidan Hung-Wen Tsai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02685 https://

Benchmarking Classical and Quantum Models for DeFi Yield Prediction on Curve Finance
The rise of decentralized finance (DeFi) has created a growing demand for accurate yield and performance forecasting to guide liquidity allocation strategies. In this study, we benchmark six models, XGBoost, Random Forest, LSTM, Transformer, quantum neural networks (QNN), and quantum support vector machines with quantum feature maps (QSVM-QNN), on one year of historical data from 28 Curve Finance pools. We evaluate model performance on test MAE, RMSE, and directional accuracy. Our results show …

Cowboys top list of most valuable NFL franchises with valuation over $12 billion as all teams see major rise

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.DC. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DC/new
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- Rise and Shine Efficiently! Tight Bounds for Adversarial Wake-up
Peter Robinson, Ming Ming Tan

After stabilizing around 2000-2005, atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gas methane started to rise again, accelerating until a few years ago.
At least the increase seems to be slowing down since 2021.
From the @NOAA ESRL site, now threatened by the Trump regime.
#emissions #methane

In America, we don’t do kings
They’ve defied our courts, deported Americans, disappeared people off the streets, attacked our civil rights, and slashed our services. The corruption has gone too. far. No thrones. No crowns. No kings.
On June 14th, we rise up.
https://www.nokings.org/

No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. It rises up everywhere else.

Exponential asymptotics of dark and bright solitons in the discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation
Farrell Theodore Adriano, Abrari Noor Hasmi, Rudy Kusdiantara, Hadi Susanto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13643

Exponential asymptotics of dark and bright solitons in the discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation
We investigate the existence and linear stability of solitons in the nonlinear Schrödinger lattices in the strong coupling regime. Focusing and defocusing nonlinearities are considered, giving rise to bright and dark solitons. In this regime, the effects of lattice discreteness become exponentially small, requiring a beyond-all-orders analysis. To this end, we employ exponential asymptotics to derive soliton solutions and examine their stability systematically. We show that only two symmetry-r…

"In Empire of #AI, journalist Karen Hao writes about the rise of #OpenAI and the impacts of AI around the world. Below is an extract from the book on the effects on Chile's mineral reserves and water resources."

Fact-Checking at Scale: Multimodal AI for Authenticity and Context Verification in Online Media
Van-Hoang Phan, Tung-Duong Le-Duc, Long-Khanh Pham, Anh-Thu Le, Quynh-Huong Dinh-Nguyen, Dang-Quan Vo, Hoang-Quoc Nguyen-Son, Anh-Duy Tran, Dang Vu, Minh-Son Dao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08592

Fact-Checking at Scale: Multimodal AI for Authenticity and Context Verification in Online Media
The proliferation of multimedia content on social media platforms has dramatically transformed how information is consumed and disseminated. While this shift enables real-time coverage of global events, it also facilitates the rapid spread of misinformation and disinformation, especially during crises such as wars, natural disasters, or elections. The rise of synthetic media and the reuse of authentic content in misleading contexts have intensified the need for robust multimedia verification to…

Unveiling orbital optical chirality through multipolar chiral light-matter interaction
Shun Hashiyada, An'an Wu, Yoshito Y. Tanaka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08902 https://

Unveiling orbital optical chirality through multipolar chiral light-matter interaction
Chiral light-matter interactions have traditionally been understood in terms of electric-magnetic dipolar interference driven by light with spin angular momentum. Here, we show that optical chirality can also originate from the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light, giving rise to higher-order multipolar chiral responses. Using a twisted gold nanorod dimer and tightly focused circularly polarized optical vortex beams carrying spin and orbital angular momenta of the same sign, we measure spect…

The proportion of the U.S. population who are Latino or Asian American is expected to rise to 33% by 2050,
and will number over 135 million people.
Understanding rates of Age Related Macular Degeneration, #AMD, in these groups is imperative,
so that clinicians can have better insight into who is most at risk for developing this disease and health policy-makers can use this information to he…

Racial Differences in Age-Related Macular Degeneration Rates in the United States: A Longitudinal Analysis of a Managed Care Network

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Chatham Rise:
🎵 Here She Comes
#ChathamRise
https://open.spotify.com/track/0yvowNrm9kUkxo82q1rljP

Remagine Ventures: 342 Israeli startups are focused on generative AI in 2025, up by 198 since May 2024, and they have collectively raised $20B to date (Elihay Vidal/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/s1yl6mlulx

Mapping Israel’s $20B GenAI boom: 342 startups and counting
New Remagine Ventures report charts explosive growth and the rise of agentic AI systems.

Oil markets are spooked as Iran-Israel tensions escalate | Oil and Gas News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/6/13/oil-markets-are-spooked-as-iran-israel-tensions-escalate?traffic_source=rss…

Oil markets are spooked as Iran-Israel tensions escalate
Israel’s strike on Iran, and Tehran’s subsequent retaliation fuel fears of Strait of Hormuz trade disruptions.

NFL scouts pick 10 early sleepers for the 2026 draft: Which prospects could rise quickly? https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2026/story/_/id/45485614/2026-nfl-draft-sleepers-scouts-pick-radar-prospects-risers

Is it too “early” to tell? Another album preview.
"Early" is the first original song from my upcoming album, "How To Rise and Keep Rising"
#SingerSongwriter #RecordingStudio

Is it too "early" to tell? Another album preview.
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

The Roots of International Perceptions: Simulating US Attitude Changes Towards China with LLM Agents
Nicholas Sukiennik, Yichuan Xu, Yuqing Kan, Jinghua Piao, Yuwei Yan, Chen Gao, Yong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08837

The Roots of International Perceptions: Simulating US Attitude Changes Towards China with LLM Agents
The rise of LLMs poses new possibilities in modeling opinion evolution, a long-standing task in simulation, by leveraging advanced reasoning abilities to recreate complex, large-scale human cognitive trends. While most prior works focus on opinion evolution surrounding specific isolated events or the views within a country, ours is the first to model the large-scale attitude evolution of a population representing an entire country towards another -- US citizens' perspectives towards China. To t…

The BBC reports 2024-25 revenue up 9% YoY to £5.9B, £3.8B license fee income after an inflationary price rise, and a £132M deficit, down from £263M in 2023-24 (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b221217d-1f95-41b1-92d3-d8626caedf24

Tyler Smith on revamped Cowboys' offensive line: 'It's important we rise to the occasion' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/tyler-smith-on-revamped-cowboys-offensive-line-it-s-important-we-rise-to-…

😳 Heat impairs teamwork more than individual performance, researchers find
#heat

Heat impairs teamwork more than individual performance, researchers find
As global temperatures rise, a new study from the University of California San Diego's School of Global Policy and Strategy reveals that even mild heat exposure can significantly hinder team performance, while leaving individual productivity largely unaffected.

A Torus Remnant Revealed by the Infrared Echo of TDE AT2019qiz: Implications for the Missing Energy and QPE Formation
Mingxin Wu, Ning Jiang, Jiazheng Zhu, Di Luo, Liming Dou, Tinggui Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13251

A Torus Remnant Revealed by the Infrared Echo of TDE AT2019qiz: Implications for the Missing Energy and QPE Formation
AT2019qiz is the first standard optical tidal disruption event (TDE) with detection of X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs), providing strong evidence for TDE-QPE association. Moreover, it belongs to the rare subset of optical TDEs with prominent infrared (IR) echoes revealed by the multi-epoch photometry from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The IR light curve shows an early bump, followed by a steady rise until the second-to-last epoch, after which it appears to enter a platea…

Unified Construction of Genuine Multipartite Entanglement Measures Based on Geometric Mean and its Applications
Zong Wang, Zhihao Ma, Lin Chen, Chengjie Zhang, Shao-Ming Fei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10301

Unified Construction of Genuine Multipartite Entanglement Measures Based on Geometric Mean and its Applications
Genuine multipartite entanglement (GME) is an important resource in quantum information processing. We systematically study the measures of GME based on the geometric mean of bi-partition entanglements and present a unified construction of GME measures, which gives rise to the widely used GME measures including GME concurrence, the convex-roof extended negativity of GME, the geometric measure of entanglement of GME. Our GME measures satisfy the desirable conditions such as scalability and smoot…

Why is Wall Street brushing off Trump’s escalating tariff threats?
Investors feel free to continue bidding up stock prices because they assume TACO Trump will always back down from his most costly tariff plans, market analysts said.
But Trump views stocks’ steady rise as a license to intensify his trade threats,
acting out the economic policy equivalent of his 2016 quip that he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” without paying a price.
His…

Why Wall Street is brushing off Trump’s escalating tariff threats
President Donald Trump’s escalating tariff threats have not deterred Wall Street, with the stock market continuing to rise despite trade policy uncertainty.

Spotify says it is updating prices across South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific; an example email had a €1/month rise (Olivia Solon/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08…

Magnon-polaron control in a surface magnetoacoustic wave resonator
Kevin K\"unstle, Yannik Kunz, Tarek Moussa, Katharina Lasinger, Kei Yamamoto, Philipp Pirro, John F. Gregg, Akashdeep Kamra, Mathias Weiler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09717

Magnon-polaron control in a surface magnetoacoustic wave resonator
Strong coupling between distinct quasiparticles in condensed matter systems gives rise to hybrid states with emergent properties. We demonstrate the hybridization of confined phonons and finite-wavelength magnons, forming a magnon-polaron cavity with tunable coupling strength and spatial confinement controlled by the applied magnetic field direction. Our platform consists of a low-loss, single-crystalline yttrium iron garnet (YIG) film coupled to a zinc oxide (ZnO)-based surface acoustic wave (…

Resistive diffusion and radiative cooling effects in magnetized oblique shocks
R. Datta, E. Neill, E. Freeman, E. S. Lavine, S. Chowdhry, L. Horan IV, W. M. Potter, D. A. Hammer, B. R. Kusse, J. D. Hare
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13310

Resistive diffusion and radiative cooling effects in magnetized oblique shocks
Magnetized oblique shocks are of interest in various plasmas, including in astrophysical systems, magneto-inertial confinement fusion experiments, and in aerospace applications. Through experiments on the COBRA pulsed power facility (Cornell University, 1~MA peak current, 100~ns rise time), we investigate oblique shock formation in a system with a magnetic field, and where both radiative cooling and resistive diffusion are important. Compared to previous pulsed power experiments, which have inv…

#SilentSunday

Uncovering Intention through LLM-Driven Code Snippet Description Generation
Yusuf Sulistyo Nugroho, Farah Danisha Salam, Brittany Reid, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Kazumasa Shimari, Kenichi Matsumoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15453

Uncovering Intention through LLM-Driven Code Snippet Description Generation
Documenting code snippets is essential to pinpoint key areas where both developers and users should pay attention. Examples include usage examples and other Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), which are especially important for third-party libraries. With the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs), the key goal is to investigate the kinds of description developers commonly use and evaluate how well an LLM, in this case Llama, can support description generation. We use NPM Code Snippets, co…

Tyler Smith on revamped Cowboys' offensive line: 'It's important we rise to the occasion' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/tyler-smith-on-revamped-cowboys-offensive-line-it-s-important-we-rise-to-…

Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to memorialize the dead, as critics worry about AI's impact on how people remember one another (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die
Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?

Elon Musk, JD Vance, and Peter Thiel are executing a long-planned agenda to take over the government.
Donald Trump is a dementia-addled old man along for the ride.
Hopefully, the chaos makes a little more sense now.
I told you you weren't gonna like it.

Democracy Is Done: The Rise of Corporate Monarchy
The Real Agenda Behind Elon's Coup & Trump's Chaotic First Weeks

How Does LLM Reasoning Work for Code? A Survey and a Call to Action
Ira Ceka, Saurabh Pujar, Irene Manotas, Gail Kaiser, Baishakhi Ray, Shyam Ramji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13932

How Does LLM Reasoning Work for Code? A Survey and a Call to Action
The rise of large language models (LLMs) has led to dramatic improvements across a wide range of natural language tasks. These advancements have extended into the domain of code, facilitating complex tasks such as code generation, translation, summarization, and repair. However, their utility for real-world deployment in-the-wild has only recently been studied, particularly on software engineering (SWE) tasks such as GitHub issue resolution. In this study, we examine the code reasoning techniqu…

A look at the tensions between the BBC and the UK Foreign Office over World Service funding; sources: the BBC wants funding to rise from ~£137M to £200M in 2026 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/eb141afe-1f86-4d43-95d2-82030efaeb39

BBC World Service faces Foreign Office funding cut
Executives argue broadcaster is key to efforts in countering Russian and Chinese propaganda

6 trends to watch for fantasy football: Preseason Week 2 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6555862/2025/08/16/fantasy-football-trends-to-watch-rice-kupp/

Quantifying Resolution Limits in Pedestal Profile Measurements with Gaussian Process Regression
Norman M. Cao, David R. Hatch, Craig Michoski, Todd A. Oliver, David Eldon, Andrew Oakleigh Nelson, Matthew Waller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05067

Quantifying Resolution Limits in Pedestal Profile Measurements with Gaussian Process Regression
Edge transport barriers (ETBs) in magnetically confined fusion plasmas, commonly known as pedestals, play a crucial role in achieving high confinement plasmas. However, their defining characteristic, a steep rise in plasma pressure over short length scales, makes them challenging to diagnose experimentally. In this work, we use Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) to develop first-principles metrics for quantifying the spatiotemporal resolution limits of inferring differentiable profiles of temper…

Electricity bills may rise 20% in parts of PJM Interconnection's 13-state territory as the largest US power grid struggles to meet AI and data center demand (Laila Kearney/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/bo…

Mutual-Supervised Learning for Sequential-to-Parallel Code Translation
Changxin Ke, Rui Zhang, Shuo Wang, Li Ding, Guangli Li, Yuanbo Wen, Shuoming Zhang, Ruiyuan Xu, Jin Qin, Jiaming Guo, Chenxi Wang, Ling Li, Qi Guo, Yunji Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11153

Mutual-Supervised Learning for Sequential-to-Parallel Code Translation
The rise of GPU-based high-performance computing (HPC) has driven the widespread adoption of parallel programming models such as CUDA. Yet, the inherent complexity of parallel programming creates a demand for the automated sequential-to-parallel approaches. However, data scarcity poses a significant challenge for machine learning-based sequential-to-parallel code translation. Although recent back-translation methods show promise, they still fail to ensure functional equivalence in the translate…

A look at the rise of $5B unicorns, which make up 13% of ~1,600 unicorns but hold $3.5T of $6T total valuation; 17 startups joined the $5B club in H1 2025 (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/ultra-unicorn-startups…

The Rise Of The Ultra-Unicorns: $5B+ Startups Are Leading The Private-Market Herd In 2025
Of the nearly 1,600 companies on The Crunchbase Unicorn Board, a small but ultra-elite club of private companies valued at $5 billion or more is growing across multiple metrics, an analysis of the data shows. We take a look at them, their valuations and which sectors — and countries — rank the highest.