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Justin Sun-linked BiT Global dismisses with prejudice its lawsuit against Coinbase for delisting wBTC; the delisting followed Coinbase launching rival cbBTC (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/06/07…

Coinbase, BiT Global End Legal Fight Over WBTC Delisting
BiT Global agreed to dismiss its lawsuit against Coinbase, with each party covering its own legal expenses.

A Framework for Auditing Chatbots for Dialect-Based Quality-of-Service Harms
Emma Harvey, Rene F. Kizilcec, Allison Koenecke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04419

A Framework for Auditing Chatbots for Dialect-Based Quality-of-Service Harms
Increasingly, individuals who engage in online activities are expected to interact with large language model (LLM)-based chatbots. Prior work has shown that LLMs can display dialect bias, which occurs when they produce harmful responses when prompted with text written in minoritized dialects. However, whether and how this bias propagates to systems built on top of LLMs, such as chatbots, is still unclear. We conduct a review of existing approaches for auditing LLMs for dialect bias and show tha…

Anybody here gonna be at WOOT '25 in Seattle next week?
I'll be presenting my team's paper "Extraction of Secrets from 40nm CMOS Gate Dielectric Breakdown Antifuses by FIB Passive Voltage Contrast" there.
A sneak peek of this was presented at the HARRIS workshop in Germany earlier this year but HARRIS doesn't publish proceedings or full papers, this is the full peer-reviewed conference paper based on the same work.

LA CHIEF OF POLICE ISSUES "VERIFY CREDENTIALS" DIRECTIVE FOR LAPD OFFICERS ENCOUNTERING PURPORTED IMMIGRATION ACTIONS The LAPD has issued a policy that says that LAPD officers responding to the scene of potential federal immigration enforcement actions should a) request an immigration enforcement supervisor if one is not already present, b) verify credentials of the supervisor or federal agent in charge if the agents are not clearly identifiable, and... 1/2
https://www.threads.com/@annepmitchellesq/post/DL0oCtTS-yb/los-angeles-chief-of-police-issues-verify-credentials-directive-for-lapd-officer

Dielectric Substrate Dependence of Thermoelectric Transport in BLG-GaAs-BLG Heterostructures
Vo Van Tai, Truong Van Tuan, Tran Trong Tai, Le Tri Dat, Nguyen Duy Vy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03035

Dielectric Substrate Dependence of Thermoelectric Transport in BLG-GaAs-BLG Heterostructures
We theoretically study the thermoelectric transport S in a double-layer bilayer graphene (BLG-GaAs-BLG) system on dielectric substrates (h-BN, Al2O3, HfO2). Electrons interact with GaAs acoustic phonons via both the deformation potential (acDP) and piezoelectric (acPE) scattering. Results show that piezoelectric scattering dominates the total transport, especially at low carrier density and high dielectric constant. Substrate dielectric constant significantly influences thermopower S, and the t…

Why Netflix's 'Quarterback' fit Joe Burrow's delicate balance of public life and privacy https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6459325/2025/07/07/joe-burrow-bengals-netflix-quarterback/

I'm absolutely delighted to see that Gary Davies did indeed stuff the shoulder pads onto his shoulders! #TOTP

Exciton-polaritons in a monolayer semiconductor coupled to van der Waals dielectric nanoantennas on a metallic mirror
Yadong Wang, Charalambos Louca, Sam Randerson, Xuerong Hu, Panaiot G. Zotev, Oscar Palma Chaundler, Paul Bouteyre, Casey K. Cheung, Roman Gorbachev, Yue Wang, Alexander I. Tartakovskii
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.…

Exciton-polaritons in a monolayer semiconductor coupled to van der Waals dielectric nanoantennas on a metallic mirror
Polaritons in nanophotonic structures have attracted long-standing interest owing to their fundamental importance and potential for applications in nonlinear and quantum optics. Nanoantennas (NAs) made from high refractive index dielectrics offer a suitable platform for polariton physics thanks to the strongly confined optical Mie resonances and low optical losses in contrast to metallic NAs. However, Mie modes are mainly confined within the NA, making inefficient their coupling with excitons i…

Deltog i OSSEs parlamentariska församling i Porto på inbjudan av ukrainska delegationen kring hybridkrigföring. Att lyssna till kollegor från frontlinjen i det kognitiva kriget gav skärpa. Systematisk rysk påverkan testas i Ukraina, används mot oss.
https://carlheath.se/reflektioner-…

Voxlect: A Speech Foundation Model Benchmark for Modeling Dialects and Regional Languages Around the Globe
Tiantian Feng, Kevin Huang, Anfeng Xu, Xuan Shi, Thanathai Lertpetchpun, Jihwan Lee, Yoonjeong Lee, Dani Byrd, Shrikanth Narayanan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01691

Voxlect: A Speech Foundation Model Benchmark for Modeling Dialects and Regional Languages Around the Globe
We present Voxlect, a novel benchmark for modeling dialects and regional languages worldwide using speech foundation models. Specifically, we report comprehensive benchmark evaluations on dialects and regional language varieties in English, Arabic, Mandarin and Cantonese, Tibetan, Indic languages, Thai, Spanish, French, German, Brazilian Portuguese, and Italian. Our study used over 2 million training utterances from 30 publicly available speech corpora that are provided with dialectal informati…