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122nd Airmobile Battalion Disbanded After Decade of Service: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/12/nd-airmobile-battalion-disbanded-after.html

A bottleneck model with shared autonomous vehicles: Scale economies and price regulations
Koki Satsukawa, Yuki Takayama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08848 https://

A bottleneck model with shared autonomous vehicles: Scale economies and price regulations
This study examines how scale economies in the operation of shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs) affect the efficiency of a transportation system where SAVs coexist with normal vehicles (NVs). We develop a bottleneck model where commuters choose their departure times and mode of travel between SAVs and NVs, and analyze equilibria under three SAV-fare scenarios: marginal-cost pricing, average-cost pricing, and unregulated monopoly pricing. Marginal-cost pricing reduces commuting costs but results i…

Boosting Action-Information via a Variational Bottleneck on Unlabelled Robot Videos
Haoyu Zhang, Long Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08743 https://arxiv.…

Boosting Action-Information via a Variational Bottleneck on Unlabelled Robot Videos
Learning from demonstrations (LfD) typically relies on large amounts of action-labeled expert trajectories, which fundamentally constrains the scale of available training data. A promising alternative is to learn directly from unlabeled video demonstrations. However, we find that existing methods tend to encode latent actions that share little mutual information with the true robot actions, leading to suboptimal control performance. To address this limitation, we introduce a novel framework tha…

In August I visited four parks with my daughter on a cross-country trip: Zion, Grand Teton, Yellowstone and Badlands.
It was clear that staffing has taken a serious hit.
Experienced rangers were noticeably absent. Many hikes had been canceled,
and the few rangers we did encounter were young, primarily park interpreters;
even they were in short supply.
In contrast, the visitor centers and gift shops seemed well staffed.

Opinion | Trump’s Painful Cuts to National Parks
Readers discuss the damage to America’s parks. Also: Racial profiling in immigrant sweeps; the 9/11 memorial; phones in the classroom.

Dutch army to deploy hackers to front lines to gain battlefield advantage
https://nltimes.nl/2025/09/13/dutch-army-deploy-hackers-front-lines-gain-battlefield-advantage

Dutch army to deploy hackers to front lines to gain battlefield advantage
The Royal Netherlands Army is deploying hackers to the front lines as part of the newly formed 101 CEMA Battalion, officials said Thursday. According to De Telegraaf, the unit, officially established in Stroe, merges companies specialized in electronic warfare and cyber operations.

A deep dive on Huawei's Ascend AI chip production, SMIC, TSMC, US export controls, HBM bottlenecks, China's HBM issues, Huawei's data center chips, and more (SemiAnalysis)
https://semianalysis.com/2025/09/08/hu

Huawei Ascend Production Ramp: Die Banks, TSMC Continued Production, HBM is The Bottleneck
Compute is the lifeblood of AI. He who controls the spice controls the universe the compute will control the production of tokens and reap the benefits of AI. Without compute you do not have a seat…

An Experimental Exploration of In-Memory Computing for Multi-Layer Perceptrons
Pedro Carrinho, Hamid Moghadaspour, Oscar Ferraz, Jo\~ao Dinis Ferreira, Yann Falevoz, Vitor Silva, Gabriel Falcao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07317

An Experimental Exploration of In-Memory Computing for Multi-Layer Perceptrons
In modern computer architectures, the performance of many memory-bound workloads (e.g., machine learning, graph processing, databases) is limited by the data movement bottleneck that emerges when transferring large amounts of data between the main memory and the central processing unit (CPU). Processing-in-memory is an emerging computing paradigm that aims to alleviate this data movement bottleneck by performing computation close to or within the memory units, where data resides. One example of…

Territorial Battalion Transformed into Tank Unit: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/11/territorial-battalion-transformed-into-tank.html

OISMA: On-the-fly In-memory Stochastic Multiplication Architecture for Matrix-Multiplication Workloads
Shady Agwa, Yihan Pan, Georgios Papandroulidakis, Themis Prodromakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08822

OISMA: On-the-fly In-memory Stochastic Multiplication Architecture for Matrix-Multiplication Workloads
Artificial Intelligence models are currently driven by a significant up-scaling of their complexity, with massive matrix multiplication workloads representing the major computational bottleneck. In-memory computing architectures are proposed to avoid the Von Neumann bottleneck. However, both digital/binary-based and analogue in-memory computing architectures suffer from various limitations, which significantly degrade the performance and energy efficiency gains. This work proposes OISMA, a nove…

Thousands fall ill as mosquito fever explodes across southern China #China

Thousands fall ill as mosquito fever explodes across southern China
China’s Guangdong Province is battling its worst-ever chikungunya outbreak, with thousands of infections spreading across major cities and nearby regions. Transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, the disease underscores how climate change, urbanization, and global travel are fueling mosquito-borne threats.