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Linus Tech Tips, accused in August 2023 of theft, ethical lapses, and sexual harassment, says an outside investigation found the claims were "largely unfounded" (Jeremy Gan/Dexerto)
https://www.dexerto.com/tech/linus-tech-ti

Linus Tech Tips reveals allegations from ex-employee “were false” following investigation
Linus Tech Tips has released the findings from an investigations into allegations levied upon them in 2023, denying any wrongdoing.

Linus Tech Tips, accused in August 2023 of theft, ethical lapses, and sexual harassment, says an outside investigation found the claims were "largely unfounded" (Jeremy Gan/Dexerto)
https://www.dexerto.com/tech/linus-tech-ti

Linus Tech Tips reveals allegations from ex-employee “were false” following investigation
Linus Tech Tips has released the findings from an investigations into allegations levied upon them in 2023, denying any wrongdoing.

Linus Tech Tips, accused in August 2023 of theft, ethical lapses, and sexual harassment, says an outside investigation found the claims were "largely unfounded" (Jeremy Gan/Dexerto)
https://www.dexerto.com/tech/linus-tech-ti

Linus Tech Tips reveals allegations from ex-employee “were false” following investigation
Linus Tech Tips has released the findings from an investigations into allegations levied upon them in 2023, denying any wrongdoing.

Reminder as the #Pontevedra #Degrowth Conference begins:
Degrowthers in the UK can join our #DegrowthUK email list to connect with others in the network. See

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If you are working on, or interested in, degrowth, then you might like to join the degrowthUK mailing list to connect with academics and activists. To join, send an email to the following address. …

From weak to strong-coupling superconductivity tuned by substrate in TiN films
Yixin Liu, Zulei Xu, Aobo Yu, Xiaoni Wang, Wei Peng, Yu Wu, Gang Mu, Zhi-Rong Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16469

From weak to strong-coupling superconductivity tuned by substrate in TiN films
The interplay between substrates and superconducting thin films has attracted increasing attention. Here, we report an in-depth investigation on superconducting properties of the epitaxial TiN thin films grown on two different substrates by dc reactive magnetron sputtering. The TiN films grown on (0001) sapphire exhibit (111) crystal orientation, while that grown on (100) Si substrates exhibit (100) orientation. Moreover, the samples grown on Si reveal a relatively lower level of disorder, acco…

Sun City Girls – “Sun City Girls” (1984)
First run pressing of 1000 copies on Placebo Records
Desert landscapes, weather, people, and culture are so unique. One of the quietest places on Earth, deserts tend to produce a lot of introspection. I assume this is why some of the weirdest and most creative art, particularly music, comes out of such regions.
I could never keep up with all the output from the Sun City Girls and the two brothers that constituted its core. But that’s…

DiscreteSLU: A Large Language Model with Self-Supervised Discrete Speech Units for Spoken Language Understanding
Suwon Shon, Kwangyoun Kim, Yi-Te Hsu, Prashant Sridhar, Shinji Watanabe, Karen Livescu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09345

DiscreteSLU: A Large Language Model with Self-Supervised Discrete Speech Units for Spoken Language Understanding
The integration of pre-trained text-based large language models (LLM) with speech input has enabled instruction-following capabilities for diverse speech tasks. This integration requires the use of a speech encoder, a speech adapter, and an LLM, trained on diverse tasks. We propose the use of discrete speech units (DSU), rather than continuous-valued speech encoder outputs, that are converted to the LLM token embedding space using the speech adapter. We generate DSU using a self-supervised spee…

$\alpha_i$-Metric Graphs: Hyperbolicity
Feodor F. Dragan, Guillaume Ducoffe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14792 https://arxiv.org/pdf/24…

$α_i$-Metric Graphs: Hyperbolicity
A graph is called $α_i$-metric ($i \in {\cal N}$) if it satisfies the following $α_i$-metric property for every vertices $u, w, v$ and $x$: if a shortest path between $u$ and $w$ and a shortest path between $x$ and $v$ share a terminal edge $vw$, then $d(u,x) \ge d(u,v) + d(v,x) - i$. The latter is a discrete relaxation of the property that in Euclidean spaces the union of two geodesics sharing a terminal segment must be also a geodesic. Recently in (Dragan & Ducoffe, WG'23) we initiated the …

Check out today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Coffee County shut down access to state voter registration system following cyberattack
--Okta warns of unprecedented spike in credential stuffing attacks,
---Spy.pet crumbles after Discord ban,
--Ukraine hacking group claims attack on Russian telecom provider,
--Belarus hacktivists claim attack on country's security agency,
--UK bans devices that come with weak passwords,
--Canada's London Drugs temporarily shutters 79 stores following cyber incident,
--much more
https://www.metacurity.com/p/coffee-county-shut-access-state-voter-registration-system-following-cyberattack