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Bilder-Leak: iPhone 17 Pro entfleucht?
Ein Leaker hat in San Francisco eine Person entdeckt, die offenbar ein Entwickler-iPhone der neuen Generation trug. Es entspricht bisherigen Gerüchten.
https://www.h…

Since when is knowing what you're doing a bad thing

Sources: TSMC is evaluating building a "gigafab" in the UAE and has discussed the possibility with MGX and officials in the Trump administration (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…

TSMC Is Said to Evaluate Building Advanced Chip Plant in the UAE
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is evaluating building an advanced production facility in the United Arab Emirates and has discussed the possibility with officials in President Donald Trump’s administration, according to people familiar with the matter, a potentially major bet on the Middle East that would only come to fruition with Washington’s approval.

it's really displeasing how everyone gets on musk's case because he's a drug addict. leave drug addicts out of this! getting high on ketamine doesn't make you a fascist; if you don't believe me, just try it, it's pretty nice

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #WordsAndMusic
Colleen:
🎵 Geometria del Universo
#Colleen
https://open.spotify.com/track/6OvCEZwjflnBPjyPT3SANc

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Cosmic Idren:
🎵 Compelled
#CosmicIdren
https://dennisbovell.bandcamp.com/track/compelled
https://open.spotify.com/track/4xLEFmcpKOyZ2E4SwgdnDP

from my link log —
UK Online Safety Act Notes for small sites.
https://russ.garrett.co.uk/2024/12/17/online-safety-act-guide/
saved 2024-12-17

Mela bucht ein Stadtmobil. Zum ersten Mal einen Fiat 500e.
Bernd disst das Auto mehrfach auf der Hinfahrt. Beim Einräumen der Taschen in den Kofferraum:
Bernd: "Ist das Ladekabel da Starkstrom oder ein normales Schuko-Kabel?"
Bernd: "Für den reicht doch sicher ein USB-Ladeport."
#SzenenEinerEhe

US officials accuse Europe of prolonging Russia's war in Ukraine, Axios reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/30/us-officials-accuse-europe-of.html

A provision in the recently passed Wisconsin state budget that diverts $2.2 million annually from schools to fund 12 Milwaukee County prosecutors may violate the Wisconsin Constitution.
The positions had previously been paid for with federal funding that is set to expire.
The budget act redirects all traffic fines and forfeiture revenues in Milwaukee County to the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office to fund 12 positions.

State Budget Shifts Money from Schools to Milwaukee Prosecutors
$2.2 million per year diverted from city schools could violate state constitution.

✅ Bikes back from maintenence

A wonderful description of how the technology works.

"ChatGPT generates realistic responses by making guesses about which fragments of text should follow other sequences, based on a statistical model that has ingested billions of examples of text pulled from all over the internet. In Mr. Mata’s case, the program appears to have discerned the labyrinthine framework of a written legal argument, but has populated it with names and facts from a bouillabaisse of existing cases."

VVD en CDA nu even groot in zetelpeiling: kiezers vinden Dilan Yeşilgöz 'premier-onwaardig' en Henri Bontenbal 'duidelijk en integer' | #EenVandaag

#GrindayFriday for this week is TRADING HANDS from the UK and their new EP 'I'm Going Out of My Mind, Does Anyone Want Anything?'
Trading Hands play a wild mix of powerviolence, grind & fastcore. This stuff is FAST, heavy, raw, tons of breakdowns. You can listen to this in no time at all. Blink and you might miss it. Weird, dynamic, I can't get enough. Easily one of my favo…

“The Many Tendrils of the Octopus Map” Via https://vis.social/@KhouryVis/114416512651837900
https://migurski.…

The official CP closure times for #TCRNo11:
CP1 closure: 0900CEST 30/7/25
CP2 closure: 2359CEST 1/8/25
CP 3 closure: 0900CEST 5/8/25
CP 4 closure: 2359CEST 9/8/25
CP 5 closure: 2359CEST 11/8/25
GC timecut: 23:59, Thursday 14th August
Source: Transcontinental Facebook group.

Im #Windpark Hohfleck bei #Sonnenbühl beginnt im Herbst die Montage von fünf #Windenergieanlagen des Typs

Windpark Hohfleck: Montage der fünf Windenergieanlagen bei Sonnenbühl beginnt im Herbst
Standortflächen vorbereitet | Schwertransporte ab September | Die Vorbereitungen am Standort des neuen Windparks Hohfleck der Stadtwerke Tübingen (swt) bei Sonnenbühl (Landkreis Reutlingen) sind in vollem Gange. Demnächst startet der Bau der Fundamente der fünf geplanten Windenergieanlagen. Im September kommen dann die verschiedenen Bauteile per Schwertransport an – unter anderem die 73,66 Meter langen Rotorblätter. Bis zum Jahresende sollen die Windenergieanlagen fertig aufge…

El día después. Columna de Paula Escobar
#Columnistas

Ma monture Skywatcher neq6. Ça faisait des mois qu'elle faisait tactactac, inutilisable. Ce matin avec mon voisin on a bricolé dedans (enfin surtout lui, j'y connais rien).
Depuis elle tourne comme une horloge. Ça sert aussi Š ça, les rencontres astronomiques, Š retrouver les copains, et les coups de mains!
Mise en station Š l'arrache, au pif, résultat, le soleil est toujours centré après plusieurs heures de suivi.

liebes tagebuch, ich habe heute zum ersten mal mit pivot-tabellen in #excel herumgespielt. bislang bin ich gut ohne ausgekommen, aber dann ist das level jetzt auch freigespielt. 🙃

Speaker Johnson open to Epstein vote, questions need
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5477192-epstein-files-vote-mike-johnson-ghislaine-maxwell/

Nice set, I'm convinved!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psFjLY9JDVc

Baby's First #AmateurRadio #FieldDay! I ran the GOTA station for a few minutes to warm it up, and again in the early morning after the night crew were done for a handful of QSOs, but I spent many hours in the CW tent. At the start I just froze up and needed lots of help from th…

Donald #Trump wird beim Golfen in Schottland beim Schummeln erwischt. Die Aufnahmen zeigen, wie sein Caddy den Ball austauscht und neu positioniert – ein klarer Regelverstoß. Das Video bestätigt, was Experten schon lange wissen: Trump betrügt regelmäßig beim #Golf.

Also see:
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:q3glmp5enr5gkuu2uaosjker/post/3lxk4bwvjxk2g

Verkehrte Welt

Two nights ago, I was at a big 30th birthday party. It wasn’t until today that we realized no one had a phone in their hand the entire evening – despite free Wi-Fi and good reception. Completely without any agreement or phone ban. It was so pleasant! How did we notice? There are no memory photos. 🙈
#Countrylife

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) brings Unix-style loose coupling to AI Agents.
I built a visual explainer (JSON-LD metadata included) using Google Gemini’s new Canvas feature—with an embedded Knowledge Graph to illustrate.
Check it out:
https://openlinksw.com//data/html/unix

Just read this post by @… on an optimistic AGI future, and while it had some interesting and worthwhile ideas, it's also in my opinion dangerously misguided, and plays into the current AGI hype in a harmful way.
https://social.coop/@eloquence/114940607434005478
My criticisms include:
- Current LLM technology has many layers, but the biggest most capable models are all tied to corporate datacenters and require inordinate amounts of every and water use to run. Trying to use these tools to bring about a post-scarcity economy will burn up the planet. We urgently need more-capable but also vastly more efficient AI technologies if we want to use AI for a post-scarcity economy, and we are *not* nearly on the verge of this despite what the big companies pushing LLMs want us to think.
- I can see that permacommons.org claims a small level of expenses on AI equates to low climate impact. However, given current deep subsidies on place by the big companies to attract users, that isn't a great assumption. The fact that their FAQ dodges the question about which AI systems they use isn't a great look.
- These systems are not free in the same way that Wikipedia or open-source software is. To run your own model you need a data harvesting & cleaning operation that costs millions of dollars minimum, and then you need millions of dollars worth of storage & compute to train & host the models. Right now, big corporations are trying to compete for market share by heavily subsidizing these things, but it you go along with that, you become dependent on them, and you'll be screwed when they jack up the price to a profitable level later. I'd love to see open dataset initiatives SBD the like, and there are some of these things, but not enough yet, and many of the initiatives focus on one problem while ignoring others (fine for research but not the basis for a society yet).
- Between the environmental impacts, the horrible labor conditions and undercompensation of data workers who filter the big datasets, and the impacts of both AI scrapers and AI commons pollution, the developers of the most popular & effective LLMs have a lot of answer for. This project only really mentions environmental impacts, which makes me think that they're not serious about ethics, which in turn makes me distrustful of the whole enterprise.
- Their language also ends up encouraging AI use broadly while totally ignoring several entire classes of harm, so they're effectively contributing to AI hype, especially with such casual talk of AGI and robotics as if embodied AGI were just around the corner. To be clear about this point: we are several breakthroughs away from AGI under the most optimistic assumptions, and giving the impression that those will happen soon plays directly into the hands of the Sam Altmans of the world who are trying to make money off the impression of impending huge advances in AI capabilities. Adding to the AI hype is irresponsible.
- I've got a more philosophical criticism that I'll post about separately.
I do think that the idea of using AI & other software tools, possibly along with robotics and funded by many local cooperatives, in order to make businesses obsolete before they can do the same to all workers, is a good one. Get your local library to buy a knitting machine alongside their 3D printer.
Lately I've felt too busy criticizing AI to really sit down and think about what I do want the future to look like, even though I'm a big proponent of positive visions for the future as a force multiplier for criticism, and this article is inspiring to me in that regard, even if the specific project doesn't seem like a good one.

Replaced article(s) found for hep-ex. https://arxiv.org/list/hep-ex/new
[1/1]:
- Test of lepton flavor universality with measurements of $R(D^{ })$ and $R(D^{* })$ using semilept...
Belle II Collaboration, et al.

Replaced article(s) found for cond-mat.soft. https://arxiv.org/list/cond-mat.soft/new
[1/1]:
- Theory of Microphase Separation in Elastomers
Manu Mannattil, Haim Diamant, David Andelman

Local news matters more than ever.
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Jako osoba, która nie planuje mieć dzieci, *moje zdanie w kwestii wychowania dzieci jest bardzo ważne*.

Kinematic misalignment as a driver of black hole activity in galaxies with external interactions
Sandra I. Raimundo, Rogerio Riffel, Song-lin Li, Cristina Ramos Almeida, Sandro Rembold, Rogemar A. Riffel, Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann, Marianne Vestergaard, Jos\'e L. Tous
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21749

Kinematic misalignment as a driver of black hole activity in galaxies with external interactions
The process of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) fuelling relies on the transport of gas across several orders of magnitude in physical scale until the gas reaches the supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy. This work explores the role of kinematically misaligned gas in the fuelling of AGN in a sample of 4769 local galaxies from the MaNGA survey. We investigate for the first time the relative role of external interactions and the presence of kinematic misalignment as mechanisms to explain…

Evaluation of gamma-ray response of the AstroPix4 HV-CMOS active pixel sensor
Yusuke Suda, Regina Caputo, Daniel Violette, Grant Sommer, Nicolas Striebig, Manoj Jadhav, Yasushi Fukazawa, Carolyn Kierans, Richard Leys, Jessica Metcalfe, Norito Nakano, Ivan Peri\'c, Jeremy S. Perkins, Hiroyasu Tajima
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21618

Evaluation of gamma-ray response of the AstroPix4 HV-CMOS active pixel sensor
AstroPix is a novel high-voltage CMOS active pixel sensor being developed for a next generation gamma-ray space telescope, AMEGO-X. To meet AMEGO-X instrument requirements, AstroPix must achieve full depletion of its $500~\rm{μm}$ thick, $500~\rm{μm}$-pitch pixels. It must be sensitive to gamma rays in the range of $25-700$ keV, with the energy resolution at 122 keV of $<10$%. Furthermore, given the space-based nature of AMEGO-X, the power consumption of AstroPix needs to be lower than $1.5~\…

Vooral werkenden betalen de kosten van de samenleving. Bedrijven kunnen een stuk meer belasting betalen. De overheidspot van 425 miljard wordt voor 240 miljard opgebracht door werkenden en voor 53 miljard door bedrijven
#VVD
#TK2025

Why am I in the (#)Neurodiversity Community?
1. Why do I belong here and
2. Why do I choose to be here?
1. I'm always interested in going "deep"(as in "Deep Thinking" / "Deep Analysis") of anything I go into.
I think a bit extra before I delve into any territory.
I belong here because I've found a "Neurodiversity System" that is pretty bold and can lead to Neurodiverse understanding that hasn't happened yet.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.MM. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.MM/new
[1/1]:
- EEmo-Bench: A Benchmark for Multi-modal Large Language Models on Image Evoked Emotion Assessment
Lancheng Gao, Ziheng Jia, Yunhao Zeng, Wei Sun, Yiming Zhang, Wei Zhou, Guangtao Zhai, Xiongkuo Min

Microsoft hires ex-Biden administration lawyer Lisa Monaco as president of global affairs and promotes ex-Trump official C.J. Mahoney to general counsel (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/30/microsoft-policy-promotes-trump-official…

Exclusive: Microsoft promotes former Trump official, hires ex-Biden lawyer
C.J. Mahoney and Lisa Monaco join the company's policy and legal leadership.

Russia’s Rosneft profit plunges 68% in first half of 2025 amid sanctions, high rates and tariff pressures: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/30/russias-rosneft-profit-plunges-in.html

If you have a green card and get a single pot conviction, you have to either naturalize or never travel internationally.
Here's the relevant section from a legal practice advisory on this issue.
https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lv47…

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
Yep, but he travelled abroad, which is what got him. That made him "inadmissible," not "deportable." So if you have a green card and get a single pot conviction, you have to either naturalize or never travel internationally. Here's the relevant section from a legal practice advisory on this issue. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

New King of the Hill episodes August 4. Hilarious
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/05/hulu-drops-new-king-of-the-hill-opening-sequence-premiere-date

Hulu Drops New 'King of the Hill' Opening Sequence & Premiere Date
Following up on the reveal of the resurrected series' new key art earlier this month, Hulu has unveiled the opening credit sequence for the 14th season of Kin

iPhone 17 Pro: Verschiedene neue Kamera-Funktionen geleakt
In etwas mehr als einem Monat ist die iPhone-17-Baureihe auf dem Markt. Bei den Pro-Modellen will Apple stärker an der Kamera schrauben.
https://www.

Trump threatens funding for NYC if Mamdani is elected
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/29/trump-federal-funding-zohran-mamdani.html

Crosslisted article(s) found for hep-ex. https://arxiv.org/list/hep-ex/new
[1/1]:
- Pinpointing Physical Solutions in Y(4230) Decays
Jie Yuan, Yadi Wang, Kai Zhu

Crosslisted article(s) found for cond-mat.soft. https://arxiv.org/list/cond-mat.soft/new
[1/1]:
- Boson peak in covalent network glasses: Isostaticity and marginal stability
Hideyuki Mizuno, Tatsuya Mori, Giacomo Baldi, Emi Minamitani

Prepared, which offers AI tools to modernize emergency response systems, raised a $80M Series C led by General Catalyst, bringing its total funding to ~$135.2M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/05/30/pr…

Prepared raises $80M to expand AI-powered emergency response platform - SiliconANGLE
Prepared raises $80M to expand AI-powered emergency response platform - SiliconANGLE

AGN with massive black holes have closer galactic neighbors: k-Nearest-Neighbor statistics of an unbiased sample of AGN at z~0.03
A. Mhatre, M. C. Powell, S. Yuan, S. W. Allen, T. Caglar, M. Koss, I. del Moral-Castro, K. Oh, A. Peca, C. Ricci, F. Ricci, A. Rojas, M. Signorini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21705

AGN with massive black holes have closer galactic neighbors: k-Nearest-Neighbor statistics of an unbiased sample of AGN at z~0.03
The large-scale environments of active galactic nuclei (AGN) reveal important information on the growth and evolution of supermassive black holes (SMBHs). Previous AGN clustering measurements using 2-point correlation functions have hinted that AGN with massive black holes preferentially reside in denser cosmic regions than AGN with less-massive SMBHs. At the same time, little to no dependence on the accretion rate is found. However, the significance of such trends have been limited. Here we pr…

I hope I didn't have a Wikidata account cause I just created one.
Felon Musk did not turn up any results, it must have been vandalism.
https://mastodon.social/@shoppingtonz/114064628708667157

Efficient Sub-pixel Motion Compensation in Learned Video Codecs
Th\'eo Ladune, Thomas Leguay, Pierrick Philippe, Gordon Clare, F\'elix Henry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21926

Efficient Sub-pixel Motion Compensation in Learned Video Codecs
Motion compensation is a key component of video codecs. Conventional codecs (HEVC and VVC) have carefully refined this coding step, with an important focus on sub-pixel motion compensation. On the other hand, learned codecs achieve sub-pixel motion compensation through simple bilinear filtering. This paper offers to improve learned codec motion compensation by drawing inspiration from conventional codecs. It is shown that the usage of more advanced interpolation filters, block-based motion info…

Merz: Germany is already in conflict with Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/30/merz-germany-is-already-in.html

Trump continues to profit off of his office in increasingly blatant — and costly — ways
He used your tax dollars to open his new Scottish golf course
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-opens-sc…

Trump Used Your Tax Dollars to Open His New Scottish Golf Course
Donald Trump inaugurated a new, private golf course in Scotland during an official state trip funded by taxpayers.

Retired Supreme Court justice gripes about the hot mess he helped create
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/29/2330486/-Retired-Supreme-Court-justice-gripes-about-the-hot-mess-he-helped-create

System size and event shape dependence of particle-identified balance functions in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV
Subash Chandra Behera, Arvind Khuntia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21030

System size and event shape dependence of particle-identified balance functions in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV
We investigate charge balance functions for identified hadron pairs (pions, kaons, and protons) in proton-proton (pp) collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$~TeV, using transverse spherocity to classify event topology and charged particle multiplicity to select system size. Simulations with PYTHIA8 and EPOS-LHC reveal that balance function widths in rapidity and azimuthal angle depend on multiplicity and event shape. In PYTHIA8, widths decrease monotonically with multiplicity, consistent with local charge …

My "Who To Follow"s are:
Lisa Melton
Steve Troughton-Smith
Dan Gillmor
BrianKrebs
Kashmir Hill
Ok, thanks ALGO...
My interest is, are any of these in Wikipedia?
Pressed on "View All" and suddenly
* Lisa Melton
* Steve Troughton-Smith
* Dan Gillmor
* Kashmir Hill
Don't show up.
Brian Krebs did show up though as a popular account.
I like this feature of:
* Popular
CONTINUIN…

PC-JND: Subjective Study and Dataset on Just Noticeable Difference for Point Clouds in 6DoF Virtual Reality
Chunling Fan, Yun Zhang, Dietmar Saupe, Raouf Hamzaoui, Weisi Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21557

PC-JND: Subjective Study and Dataset on Just Noticeable Difference for Point Clouds in 6DoF Virtual Reality
The Just Noticeable Difference (JND) accounts for the minimum distortion at which humans can perceive a difference between a pristine stimulus and its distorted version. The JND concept has been widely applied in visual signal processing tasks, including coding, transmission, rendering, and quality assessment, to optimize human-centric media experiences. A point cloud is a mainstream volumetric data representation consisting of both geometry information and attributes (e.g. color). Point clouds…

Former Ukrainian parliament speaker Andriy Parubiy shot dead in Lviv: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/30/former-ukrainian-parliament-speaker-andriy.html

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.

In the first federal lawsuit challenging shield laws,
a Texas man has sued a California doctor
over allegedly sending abortion pills to his partner.
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/07/28/repub/texas-man-sues-califo…

FBI: Making America Great Means Lowering The Bar For New Hires | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/29/fbi-making-america-great-means-lowering-the-bar-for-new-hires/

Search for heavy neutral leptons in decays of W bosons produced in 13 TeV pp collisions using prompt signatures in the ATLAS detector
ATLAS Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20929

Search for heavy neutral leptons in decays of W bosons produced in 13 TeV pp collisions using prompt signatures in the ATLAS detector
The existence of right-handed neutrinos with Majorana masses below the electroweak scale could help address the origins of neutrino masses, the matter-antimatter asymmetry, and dark matter. In this paper, leptonic decays of W bosons from 140 fb$^{-1}$ of 13 TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHC, reconstructed in the ATLAS experiment, are used to search for heavy neutral leptons produced through their mixing with muon or electron neutrinos in a scenario with lepton number violation. The search…

Sync-TVA: A Graph-Attention Framework for Multimodal Emotion Recognition with Cross-Modal Fusion
Zeyu Deng, Yanhui Lu, Jiashu Liao, Shuang Wu, Chongfeng Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21395

Sync-TVA: A Graph-Attention Framework for Multimodal Emotion Recognition with Cross-Modal Fusion
Multimodal emotion recognition (MER) is crucial for enabling emotionally intelligent systems that perceive and respond to human emotions. However, existing methods suffer from limited cross-modal interaction and imbalanced contributions across modalities. To address these issues, we propose Sync-TVA, an end-to-end graph-attention framework featuring modality-specific dynamic enhancement and structured cross-modal fusion. Our design incorporates a dynamic enhancement module for each modality and…

DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/30/nx-s1-5445398/denaturalization-trump-immigration-enforcement

Heavy quarkonia and new hadrons with two heavy quarks
Yuping Guo, Chang-Zheng Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20667 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.20667…

Heavy quarkonia and new hadrons with two heavy quarks
We give a pedagogical introduction to heavy quarkonia -- bound states of a heavy quark and its antiquark (e.g., charmonium $c\bar{c}$, bottomonium $b\bar{b}$) -- as well as to the exotic hadrons containing two heavy quarks that have been discovered since 2003. The review covers the foundational discoveries ($J/ψ$ and $Υ$), basic properties, spectroscopy interpreted via potential models, production mechanisms at colliders, and decay modes. A significant focus is placed on the so-called ``$XYZ$…

"President Blabbermouth gave Iran enough advance warning they had time to move all their enriched uranium to a secret location — and now we have no idea where it is."
Iran taunts Donny: “your mother was a hamster”
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/iran-taunts-donny-your-mother-was

Machine-learning based particle-flow algorithm in CMS
Farouk Mokhtar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20541 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.20541

Machine-learning based particle-flow algorithm in CMS
The particle-flow (PF) algorithm provides a global event description by reconstructing final-state particles and is central to event reconstruction in CMS. Recently, end-to-end machine learning (ML) approaches have been proposed to directly optimize physical quantities of interest and to leverage heterogeneous computing architectures. One such approach, machine-learned particle flow (MLPF), uses a transformer model to infer particles directly from tracks and clusters in a single pass. We presen…

ACLU Fires Back: New Lawsuit and TRO Filed to Defend Birthright Citizenship After SCOTUS Sides with Trump
https://michaelpopok.substack.com/p/aclu-fires-back-new-lawsuit-and-tro

SBND-PRISM: Sampling Off-Axis Neutrino Fluxes with the Short-Baseline Near Detector
P. Abratenko, R. Acciarri, C. Adams, L. Aliaga-Soplin, O. Alterkait, R. Alvarez-Garrote, D. Andrade Aldana, C. Andreopoulos, A. Antonakis, L. Arellano, J. Asaadi, S. Balasubramanian, A. Barnard, V. Basque, J. Bateman, A. Beever, E. Belchior, M. Betancourt, A. Bhat, M. Bishai, A. Blake, B. Bogart, D. Brailsford, A. Brandt, S. Brickner, M. B. Brunetti, L. Camilleri, D. Caratelli, D. Carber, B. Carlson, M.…

SBND-PRISM: Sampling Off-Axis Neutrino Fluxes with the Short-Baseline Near Detector
The Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND), the near detector in the Short-Baseline Neutrino Program at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, is located just 110 m from the Booster Neutrino Beam target. Thanks to this close proximity, relative to its 4 m $\times$ 4 m front face, neutrinos enter SBND over a range of angles from $0^{\circ}$ to approximately $1.6^{\circ}$, enabling the detector to sample variations in the neutrino flux as a function of angle-a technique known as PRISM, referred to h…

BREAKING: Donald Trump Just Lifted Sanctions on Russia’s War Banks
https://levremembers.substack.com/p/breaking-donald-trump-just-lifted

Two-particle number and transverse momentum balance function with event-topology in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV
Subash Chandra Behera, Arvind Khuntia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20198

Two-particle number and transverse momentum balance function with event-topology in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV
The first study of charge-dependent two-particle differential number ($B$) and momentum balance functions ($P_{2}^{CD}$) with respect to an event shape variable, transverse spherocity, is reported. Results are presented from PYTHIA8 and EPOS-LHC model calculations in proton-proton (pp) collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV. To distinguish between back-to-back jet-like topologies and isotropic events, low and high transverse spherocity values are chosen. The correlation functions are measured as a f…

RFK Jr. says medical journals are ‘corrupt.’ As former NEJM editors, we know he’s wrong
https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/30/rfk-jr-medical-journals-nejm-jama-lancet-editors-respond-medical-journals-ethics/?utm_campaign=rss

Inclusive $B$-meson flavour-tagging algorithm at LHCb
LHCb collaboration, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20180 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.20180

Inclusive $B$-meson flavour-tagging algorithm at LHCb
A new algorithm is developed to identify the flavour of neutral $B$ mesons at production in $pp$ collisions by utilising all tracks from the hadronisation process. The algorithm is calibrated separately for $B^0$ and $B^{0}_{s}$ mesons using $B^{0}\to J/ψK^{+}π^-$ and $B^{0}_{s}\to D_{s}^{-}π^+$ decays from $pp$ collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at a centre-of-mass energy of 13\,TeV. This new algorithm improves the tagging power by 35\% for $B^{0}$ mesons and 20\% for $B^{0}_{s…

How Viability Limits End Up Criminalizing Pregnancy – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/pregnancy-justice-karen-thompson-viability-limits-fetal-personhood-criminalizing-pregnancy/

[2025-08-29 Fri (UTC), 7 new articles found for hep-ex High Energy Physics - Experiment]
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Hundreds of Brother printer models have an unpatchable security flaw | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/news/694877/brother-printers-security-flaw-password-vulnerability

Replaced article(s) found for hep-ex. https://arxiv.org/list/hep-ex/new
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- Measurement of Spin-Density Matrix Elements in $\phi(1020)\to K_S^0K_L^0$ Photoproduction with a ...
GlueX Collaboration

Starmer urges bodies to implement Supreme Court trans ruling
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/06/30/keir-starmer-supreme-court-trans-ehrc-single-sex-spaces/

Probing Partonic Evolution and Hadronization via Balance Functions and Correlations of Charmed Hadrons
Oveis Sheibani, Claude Pruneau, Victor Gonzalez, Sumit Basu, Alexandru Florin Dobrin, Yash Patley, Basanta Nandi, Sadhana Dash
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21014

Probing Partonic Evolution and Hadronization via Balance Functions and Correlations of Charmed Hadrons
Predictions of charm correlation functions and more specifically balance functions are presented in proton--proton (pp) collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 13 TeV based on the PYTHIA 8.3 event generator. Correlations are computed for identical and cross-species charmed hadrons in both minimum bias and high-pT biased collisions. We study the strength of correlations as a function of the number of balanced flavors and investigate the impact of variations of PYTHIA parameters controlling the Lund string fr…

Work on parts of Trump’s elections executive order is getting underway - Votebeat
https://www.votebeat.org/2025/06/30/trump-executive-order-elections-voluntary-voting-system-guidelines-barcode-qr-code/

Search for the decay $B^0 \rightarrow \phi \phi$
LHCb collaboration, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20945 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.20945

Search for the decay $B^0 \rightarrow ϕϕ$
A search for the decay $B^0 \rightarrow ϕϕ$ is made using $pp$ collision data collected with the LHCb detector at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8 and 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $9$ fb$^{-1}$. No significant signal is observed, and an upper limit on the branching fraction of $1.3~(1.4)\times 10^{-8}$ at $90 ~(95) \%$ confidence level is set. This result supersedes the previous LHCb study and improves the upper limit by a factor of two.

US Weighs Defunding Hospitals Doing Sex Changes on Minors | Thomson/Reuters
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/hospitals-sex-changes/2025/06/30/id/1216970/

Precise Measurement of Chromo-Electric Dipole Moment of the Charm Quark
BESIII Collaboration, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20618 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Precise Measurement of Chromo-Electric Dipole Moment of the Charm Quark
The combined symmetry of charge conjugation and parity ($C\!P$) is tested in the hadronic transition $ψ(3686)\toπ^+π^{-}J/ψ$, utilizing a dataset of 2.7 billion $ψ(3686)$ events collected by the BESIII detector at the BEPCII collider. The resulting asymmetry observable is $A_{cp} = (0.6\pm1.8_{\rm stat}\pm0.1_{\rm sys})\times10^{-4}$ by combining the two channels $J/ψ\to e^+e^-$ and $J/ψ\toμ^+μ^-$ with unprecedented precision. Meanwhile, by considering the relationship between the chro…

"The UK’s only out transgender judge has called for independent genocide prevention groups to investigate the “systemic oppression” of trans people."
Victoria McCloud calls for review into UK's trans rights rollback
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/06/30/trans-rights-uk-rollback-victoria-mccloud/

Understanding neutrino pion production with the GiBUU model
Qiyu Yan, Kaile Wen, Kai Gallmeister, Xianguo Lu, Ulrich Mosel, Yangheng Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20539 https…

Understanding neutrino pion production with the GiBUU model
Pion production is a major source of systematic uncertainty in neutrino oscillation measurements. We report a systematic investigation of neutrino-induced pion production using MINERvA and MicroBooNE data within the GiBUU theoretical framework. The analysis begins by establishing baseline model parameters using inclusive and pionless data from MINERvA, MicroBooNE, and T2K experiments. We then examine the role of in-medium effects, including resonance broadening and nucleon-nucleon final-state i…

Noem took an $80,000 payout from her own political network - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/06/30/noem-took-an-80000-payout-from-her-own-political-network/

[2025-07-29 Tue (UTC), 4 new articles found for hep-ex High Energy Physics - Experiment]
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The Stepford Supporters: Inside MAGA's scripted response to literally everything - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/maga-supporters-brainwashed/

Russia pays young Ukrainians to be unwitting suicide bombers in shadow war | Ukraine | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/30/russia-pays-ukrainians-suicide-bombers-shadow-war-you-now

FBI may have pictures of Trump and Epstein with young girls: biographer - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/2672359300/

"DOGE secured the power to view records that contain competitors’ trade secrets, nonpublic details about government contracts, and sensitive regulatory actions or other information."
'Vulnerable': New alarm as Musk's 'God tier access' to damaging data revealed - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/musk-private-data/

Last week's Supreme Court rulings show just how fragile marriage equality may be - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/last-weeks-supreme-court-rulings-show-just-how-fragile-marriage-equality-may-be/

DHS Presses Other States To Copy Alligator Alcatraz - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/dhs-presses-other-states-to-copy-alligator-alcatraz/

Exclusive | Harvard Violated Students’ Civil Rights, Trump Administration Finds - WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-violated-students-civil-rights-trump-administration-finds-4a0ed7aa

Video: Israeli drone kills Palestinian carrying sack of flour | Crime | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/6/30/video-israeli-drone-kills-palestinian-carrying-sack-of-flour?traffic_source=rss