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Berlin-based Synthflow, a no-code service letting enterprises build and deploy customized voice AI customer service agents, raised a $20M Series A led by Accel (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/how-

How Synthflow AI is cutting through the noise in a loud AI voice category | TechCrunch
Synthflow AI was founded in 2023 and has amassed more than 1,000 customers and handled more than 45 million calls.

Aaron Rodgers is 'pretty sure' 2025 season will be last https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6448463/2025/06/24/aaron-rodgers-pittsburgh-steelers-retirement/

Russia frees Ukrainian journalist Vladislav Yesypenko, detained since March 2021, and Belarus frees Belarusian journalist Ihar Karnei, detained since July 2023 (Lauren Wolfe/Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/06/russia-and-bel

Russia and Belarus release two journalists who had been detained for years - Committee to Protect Journalists
Paris, June 23, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release of Ukrainian journalist Vladislav Yesypenko and Belarusian journalist Ihar Karnei, who had been unjustly detained for years by Russia and Belarus, respectively.   Russia freed Yesypenko on June 20 after he served a five-year prison sentence on charges of possessing and transporting explosives, which he denied. Karnei, detained for nearly 2...

#bibliocon25: Heute gegen 14:00 Uhr präsentieren @… und ich das metadaten.community-Forum in Halle 4.1/ Raum III in der Sitzung "Entschlossen zur Vernetzung".
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The joys of UNIX keyboards.
https://donatstudios.com/UNIX-Keyboards
saved 2023-08-04 https://do…

The Joys of UNIX Keyboards

https://timesofsandiego.com/crime/2025/06/18/sdpd-plate-reader-data-breach-early-days/
“San Diego’s settings were meant to bar other agencies from searching San Diego data, but there was a misconfiguration leading to almost three weeks where…

San Diego police admit license plate reader data breach in early days of program
The SDPD's license plate reader database was searched nearly 13,000 times during the early weeks of its use in 2023 and 2024.

Chrome for Android is rolling out a feature that lets users move the address bar to the bottom of the screen, after it launched for iOS users in 2023 (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/691718/google-android-chrome-address-bar-bottom

Google finally lets Android users put Chrome’s address bar on the bottom
Google is starting to roll out a feature for Chrome on Android that lets users move the address bar to the bottom of the screen. The feature is already available on iOS Chrome.

Podcast : La Secte OKC : ils racontent leur vie dans la secte bouddhiste belge
Presque 15 ans d'écart entre nos deux protagonistes et pourtant tellement de point commun quoi qu'en dise "l'évolution de l'éducation des enfants" selon la OKC
https://…

Lockheed Constellation sobre Santiago de Cuba https://archivo.kamasystems.nl/es/2023/07/31/lockheed-constellation-sobre-santiago-de-cuba/

Testing the Lense-Thirring Precession Origin of the QPO in Swift J1727.8$-$1613
Ruican Ma, Chris Done, Aya Kubota
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18857 https://…

Testing the Lense-Thirring Precession Origin of the QPO in Swift J1727.8$-$1613
We present a comprehensive spectral and timing analysis of the newly discovered black hole transient Swift J1727.8$-$1613, based on broadband (2$-$150 keV) observations from $Insight$-HXMT during its 2023 outburst. We use the flexible, energy-conserving SSsed model to model both the outer disc and inner, complex Comptonisation, using the expected disc emissivity to constrain the inner disc radius, $r_{cor}$. This decreases from 45 $R_{\rm g}$ to 9 $R_{\rm g}$ duing the transition from the hard …

Suspense and Surprise in European Football
Raphael Flepp, Tim Pawlowski, Travis Richardson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21253 https://a…

Suspense and Surprise in European Football
We propose utilizing match-level suspense and surprise - which capture the entertainment utility created by competitive balance and outcome uncertainty for sports spectators - as alternative policy targets for league organizers and managers. Through simulations, we derive a benchmark range for suspense and surprise based on a perfectly balanced match before analyzing over 25,000 men's matches (2010/11-2023/24) and 725 women's matches (2023/24) from Europe's top football leagues. Our findings re…

Activities of Women in Physics Group in Spain 2022 to 2023
Pascuala Garcia-Martinez, Carmen Ocal, Ana Xesus Lopez, Mariam Tortola, Milagros F. Morcillo-Arencibia, Alberto Martin-Molina, Sonia Estrade
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18816

Activities of Women in Physics Group in Spain 2022 to 2023
In this paper, we present the main actions of the Women in Physics Group of the Spanish Royal Physics Society over the period of 2022 to 2023, in which we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the group. We also outline relevant equality initiatives implemented during this period by the Spanish Government as well as analyse their impact on the status of women in Physics in our country. In 2023, our scientific society approved the Gender Equality Plan, thus becoming a pioneer scientific society in …

Counter-Streaming Velocities in a Quiescent Filament
Garima Karki, Brigitte Schmieder, Pascal Demoulin, Pooja Devi, Ramesh Chandra, Reetika Joshi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18115 …

Counter-Streaming Velocities in a Quiescent Filament
Filaments/prominences are cold plasma (~ 10000 K) embedded in the solar corona, two orders of magnitude hotter. Filament plasma is structured by the magnetic field in thin elongated threads. Counter-streaming flows have been observed. The aim of this paper is to characterize these flows. For that, we use high spatial resolution observations of spectral data obtained with THEMIS in H-alpha and with IRIS in Mg II k lines on 29 September 2023. We best detect counter-streaming flows in both the blu…

Amazon says it plans to invest £40B in the UK economy over the next three years, including opening four new warehouses; Amazon invested £12B in the UK in 2023 (Freya Jones/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

El Paso heat deaths hit record highs in 2023 and 2024. Advocates say the most vulnerable people are left unprotected
https://us2.campaign-archive.com/?e=fa4ac89bc1&u=7c733794100bcc7e083a163f0&id=72ef7d1ce0
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On Growth of Sobolev norms for cubic Schr\"odinger equation with harmonic potential in dimensions $d=2,3$
Yilin Song, Ruixiao Zhang, Jiqiang Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17731

On Growth of Sobolev norms for cubic Schrödinger equation with harmonic potential in dimensions $d=2,3$
In this article, we study the growth of higher-order Sobolev norms for solutions to the defocusing cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation with harmonic potential in dimensions $d=2,3$, \begin{align}\label{PNLS} \begin{cases}\tag{PNLS} i\partial_tu-Hu=|u|^{2}u,&(t,x)\in\mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{R}^d,\\ u(0,x)=u_0(x), \end{cases} \end{align} where $H=-Δ+|x|^2$. Motivated by Planchon-Tzvetkov-Visciglia [Rev. Mat. Iberoam., 39 (2023), 1405-1436], we first establish the bilinear St…

Ergodicity of the hard-core PCA with a random walk method
J\'er\^ome Casse, Ir\`ene Marcovici, Maxence Poutrel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18632 https:/…

Ergodicity of the hard-core PCA with a random walk method
The hard-core probabilistic cellular automaton has attracted a renewed interest in the last few years, thanks to its connection with the study of a combinatorial game on percolation configurations. We provide an alternative proof for the ergodicity of this PCA for a neighbourhood of size $2$ and $3$, using the notion of decorrelated islands introduced by Casse in 2023, together with some new ideas. This shortens the previous proofs and provides a more intuitive and unified approach.

Kantar: the share of Indians consuming media exclusively on mobile phones grew to 23% in Q1 2025, up from 15% in Q1 2023, as TVs stay unaffordable for many (Satviki Sanjay/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Prima Queen:
🎵 Butterknife (Glastonbury 2023)
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On Mar 24, 2023 I watched
𝗕𝗔𝗬𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗖𝗛 Season 6 Episode 16 “𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗳𝗮𝗹𝗹” 26 Feb 1996 with #PamelaAnderson #DavidHasselhoff #JennyMcCarthy

Berend Botje https://archivo.kamasystems.nl/es/2023/03/29/berend-botje/

A Short Drop or a Sudden Stop? Sanctions, Trade Shocks, and Firms’ Adjustment Margins: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/a-short-drop-or-a.html

OceanGate? More like Heaven's Gate
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jun/11/titan-sub-disaster-netflix-documentary

Zimní pneu – Nahšč
#alternative

Infinite lexicographic products of positional objectives
Antonio Casares, Pierre Ohlmann, Micha{\l} Skrzypczak, Igor Walukiewicz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14544

Infinite lexicographic products of positional objectives
This paper contributes to the study of positional determinacy of infinite duration games played on potentially infinite graphs. Recently, [Ohlmann, TheoretiCS 2023] established that positionality of prefix-independent objectives is preserved by finite lexicographic products. We propose two different notions of infinite lexicographic products indexed by arbitrary ordinals, and extend Ohlmann's result by proving that they also preserve positionality. In the context of one-player positionality, th…

Pressure-Driven Metallicity in {\AA}ngstr\"om-Thickness 2D Bismuth and Layer-Selective Ohmic Contact to MoS2
Shuhua Wang, Shibo Fang, Qiang Li, Yunliang Yue, Zongmeng Yang, Xiaotian Sun, Jing Lu, Chit Siong Lau, L. K. Ang, Lain-Jong Li, Yee Sin Ang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05133

Pressure-Driven Metallicity in Ångström-Thickness 2D Bismuth and Layer-Selective Ohmic Contact to MoS2
Recent fabrication of two-dimensional (2D) metallic bismuth (Bi) via van der Waals (vdW) squeezing method opens a new avenue to ultrascaling metallic materials into the ångström-thickness regime [Nature 639, 354 (2025)]. However, freestanding 2D Bi is typically known to exhibit a semiconducting phase [Nature 617, 67 (2023), Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236801 (2023)], which contradicts with the experimentally observed metallicity in vdW-squeezed 2D Bi. Here we show that such discrepancy originates f…

Inverted Classroom in der Einf\"uhrungsveranstaltung Programmierung
Ulrich von Zadow, Natalie Kiesler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10057 https://…

Inverted Classroom in der Einführungsveranstaltung Programmierung
Traditionally, the introductory programming course for computer science students at Nuremberg Tech had been implemented as a combination of lectures and exercise sessions. Due to high failure rates in the winter semester 2023/24, an experimental teaching concept based on the inverted classroom was implemented for one cohort in the winter semester 2024/25. Students had to prepare themselves through literature work and activating teaching and learning methods. The course was accompanied by a seri…

Aus irgendeinem Grund ist gerade die Sonos-Radio-Station "The Lighthouse", über die Brian Eno jede Menge unveröffentlichte Tracks abspielen läßt, gratis (man braucht halt ein Sonos-Gerät dazu), und ich höre mich da nun etwas durch.
DJ Food hat das ein paar Monate lang gemacht übrigens, und mitgeschrieben (Stand 2023):
ht…

Brian Eno – The Lighthouse, what’s on it?
I’ve been compiling this, off and on, all year, while listening to the 340+ unreleased tracks on Brian Eno‘s Sonos HD radio station, The Lighthouse. If I had the phone nearby I’d check what’s playing, make a note of the track number and year and write a short description. I was intrigued to see how often tracks repeated (not very often), how long it would take me to hear all of them (over 6 months) and what the ratio of good to average to bad was. It became quite addictive as I’d fill…

A new equilibrium: COVID-19 lockdowns and WFH persistence
Laura Ketter, Todd Morris, Lizi Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16671 https://

A new equilibrium: COVID-19 lockdowns and WFH persistence
This paper documents a robust link between COVID-19 lockdowns and the uptake and persistence of working from home (WFH) practices. Exploiting rich longitudinal data, we use a difference-in-differences strategy to compare office workers in three heavily locked-down Australian states to similar workers in less affected states. Locked-down workers sustain 43% higher WFH levels through 2023 - 0.5 days per week - with a monotonic dose-response relationship. Persistence is driven by adjustments on bo…

Temporal Dynamics of Emotions in Italian Online Soccer Fandoms
Salvatore Citraro, Giovanni Mauro, Emanuele Ferragina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11934 https…

Temporal Dynamics of Emotions in Italian Online Soccer Fandoms
This study investigates the emotional dynamics of Italian soccer fandoms through computational analysis of user-generated content from official Instagram accounts of 83 teams across Serie A, Serie B, and Lega Pro during the 2023-24 season. By applying sentiment analysis to fan comments, we extract temporal emotional patterns and identify distinct clusters of fan bases with similar preseason expectations. Drawing from complex systems theory, we characterize joy as displaying anti-bursty temporal…

HouseTS: A Large-Scale, Multimodal Spatiotemporal U.S. Housing Dataset
Shengkun Wang, Yanshen Sun, Fanglan Chen, Linhan Wang, Naren Ramakrishnan, Chang-Tien Lu, Yinlin Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00765

HouseTS: A Large-Scale, Multimodal Spatiotemporal U.S. Housing Dataset
Accurate house-price forecasting is essential for investors, planners, and researchers. However, reproducible benchmarks with sufficient spatiotemporal depth and contextual richness for long horizon prediction remain scarce. To address this, we introduce HouseTS a large scale, multimodal dataset covering monthly house prices from March 2012 to December 2023 across 6,000 ZIP codes in 30 major U.S. metropolitan areas. The dataset includes over 890K records, enriched with points of Interest (POI),…

A Decidable Bundled Fragment of First-Order Modal Logic Without Finite Model Property
Varad Joshi, Anantha Padmanabha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01421 http…

A Decidable Bundled Fragment of First-Order Modal Logic Without Finite Model Property
The satisfiability problem for First-order Modal Logic (\FOML) is undecidable even for simple fragments like having only unary predicates, two variables etc. Recently a new way to identify decidable fragments of \FOML has been introduced called the "bundled fragments", where the quantifiers and modalities are restricted to appear together. Since there are many ways to bundle the quantifiers together, some of them lead to (un)decidable fragments. In (Liu et.al, 2023) the authors prove a `trichot…

Extracting Information About Publication Venues Using Citation-Informed Transformers
Brian D. Zimmerman, Joshua Folkins, Olga Vechtomova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08199

Extracting Information About Publication Venues Using Citation-Informed Transformers
Scientific document embeddings contain a variety of rich features which can be harnessed for downstream tasks such as recommendation, ranking, and clustering. We explore which tangible insights can be drawn from scientific document embeddings to understand trends in computer science research featured across nine well-known venues. We collect approximately 60,000 scientific documents published between 2015 and 2023 and analyze their embeddings, which we produce with the SPECTER pre-trained langu…

A survey of UK academic integrity violations finds nearly 7,000 proven AI cheating cases in 2023-24, or 5.1 per 1,000 students, up from 1.6 per 1,000 in 2022-23 (Michael Goodier/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.co…

Es muss in Deutschland möglich sein, den grausamen Terroranschlag der Hamas vom 7. Oktober 2023 mit 1.200 Todesopfern und 250 Geiseln zu verurteilen und sich gleichzeitig für ein Ende der Kriegsverbrechen in Gaza und dem Westjordanland einzusetzen.
https://innn.it/gaza-hilfe
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Latitudinal dependence of the solar wind during periods of high and low activity through interplanetary scintillation
A. Waszewski, J. S. Morgan, R. Ekers, M. Johnston-Hollitt, M. C. M. Cheung, N. D. R. Bhat, R. Chhetri, S. C. Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14155

Latitudinal dependence of the solar wind during periods of high and low activity through interplanetary scintillation
We present a study of the solar wind over different periods of the solar cycle, specifically focussing on the minimum between solar cycles 24 and 25, and the active, ascending phase of solar cycle 25. With the use of interplanetary scintillation (IPS) data taken by the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) from mid-2019 and early 2023, we have sampled over a wide range of solar latitudes and elongations, probing a large section of the surrounding heliosphere from $\sim$90 to 140R$_\odot$. The MWA obs…

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Near-Optimal Nonconvex-Strongly-Convex Bilevel Optimization with Fully First-Order Oracles
In this work, we consider bilevel optimization when the lower-level problem is strongly convex. Recent works show that with a Hessian-vector product (HVP) oracle, one can provably find an $ε$-stationary point within ${\mathcal{O}}(ε^{-2})$ oracle calls. However, the HVP oracle may be inaccessible or expensive in practice. Kwon et al. (ICML 2023) addressed this issue by proposing a first-order method that can achieve the same goal at a slower rate of $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(ε^{-3})$. In this pap…

Speeding Up Hyper-Heuristics With Markov-Chain Operator Selection and the Only-Worsening Acceptance Operator
Abderrahim Bendahi, Benjamin Doerr, Adrien Fradin, Johannes F. Lutzeyer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01107

Speeding Up Hyper-Heuristics With Markov-Chain Operator Selection and the Only-Worsening Acceptance Operator
The move-acceptance hyper-heuristic was recently shown to be able to leave local optima with astonishing efficiency (Lissovoi et al., Artificial Intelligence (2023)). In this work, we propose two modifications to this algorithm that demonstrate impressive performances on a large class of benchmarks including the classic Cliff$_d$ and Jump$_m$ function classes. (i) Instead of randomly choosing between the only-improving and any-move acceptance operator, we take this choice via a simple two-state…

Search for millicharged particles in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13.6$ TeV
S. Alcott, Z. Bhatti, J. Brooke, C. Campagnari, M. Carrigan, M. Citron, R. De Los Santos, A. De Roeck, C. Dorofeev, T. Du, J. Goldstein, F. Golf, N. Gonzalez, A. Haas, J. Heymann, C. S. Hill, D. Imani, M. Joyce, K. Larina, R. Loos, S. Lowette, H. Mei, D. W. Miller, B. Peng, S. N. Santpu, I. Reed, E. Schaffer, R. Schmitz, J. Steenis, D. Stuart, J. S. Tafoya Vargas, D. Vannerom, T. Wybouw, Z. Xiao, H. …

Search for millicharged particles in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13.6$ TeV
We report on a search for elementary particles with charges much smaller than the electron charge using a data sample of proton-proton collisions provided by the CERN Large Hadron Collider in 2023--24, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 124.7~fb$^{-1}$ at a center-of-mass energy of 13.6~TeV. The analysis presented uses the completed Run 3 milliQan bar detector to set the most stringent constraints to date for particles with charges $\leq0.24~\rm{e}$ and masses $\geq0.45~\rm{GeV}$.

Identifying Radio Active Galactic Nuclei with Machine Learning and Large-Area Surveys
Xu-Liang Fan, Jie Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01596 https://arxiv.o…

Identifying Radio Active Galactic Nuclei with Machine Learning and Large-Area Surveys
Context. Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and star forming galaxies (SFGs) are the primary sources of extragalactic radio sky. But it is difficult to distinguish the radio emission produced by AGNs from that by SFGs, especially when the radio sources are faint. Best et al. (2023) classified the radio sources in LoTSS Deep Fields DR1 through multiwavelength SED fitting. With the classification results of them, we perform a supervised machine learning to distinguish radio AGNs and radio SFGs. Aims…

Campfire, which offers AI-powered ERP and accounting services, raised a $35M Series A led by Accel (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/30/tiny-ai-erp-startup-campfire-is-winning-s…

Tiny AI ERP startup Campfire is winning so many startups from NetSuite, Accel led a $35M Series A  | TechCrunch
Campfire was launched in 2023 to upend 1990s-era enterprise resource planning accounting software (ERP) like Netsuite with an LLM-powered alternative. 

Spatiotemporal evolution of UV pulsations and their connection to 3D magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration
Stefan Purkhart, Hannah Collier, Laura A. Hayes, Astrid M. Veronig, Miho Janvier, S\"am Krucker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03825

Spatiotemporal evolution of UV pulsations and their connection to 3D magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration
Quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) are a common feature of impulsive solar flare emissions, yet their driving mechanism(s) remain unresolved. We study long-period (3.4 min) QPPs in the M3.7 flare on Feb 24, 2023, using SDO/AIA and Solar Orbiter/STIX to pinpoint their source and driver. We analyzed UV and HXR emissions from four subregions covering the flare ribbons and footpoints of the erupting filament. We find the QPP characteristics varied significantly across these regions. The strongest UV …

Can fractal dimension distinguish between grand-design and flocculent spiral arms?
Biju Saha, Subhadip Dutta, Arunima Banerjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04411 https://

Can fractal dimension distinguish between grand-design and flocculent spiral arms?
About two-thirds of disk galaxies host spiral arms, ranging from well-delineated grand-design spirals to fragmented flocculent spiral galaxies. We introduce fractal dimension $D_B$ as a non-parametric measure to distinguish between grand-designs and flocculents. We calculate the $D_B$ of 197 grand-designs and 322 flocculents from SDSS DR18, using the samples of \citet{Buta..2015} and \citet{Sarkar..2023}. Our calculated median values of $D_B$ are $1.29^{+0.06}_{-0.04}$ and $1.38^{+0.05}_{-0.06}…