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A US federal judge orders the USAGM to immediately disburse RFE/RL's May funding of ~$12M, following a similar order last month for its April funding (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
https://www.rferl.org/a/rfe-rl-order-lamberth-court-funding-/33429…

US Court Orders Agency Overseeing RFE/RL To Pay May Funding
A US district judge on May 30 granted Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL)’s third request for a temporary restraining order (TRO) in its lawsuit against the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) and ordered the agency to immediately disburse RFE/RL's May funding.

Vivodyne, which uses AI and robots to grow human tissues in the lab for drug discovery and development, raised a $40M Series A, taking its total funding to $78M (Katherine Davis/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/biotech-deals/2025/05…

Vivodyne raises $40M for human tissue drug testing
It's seeing heightened demand following the FDA's plans to phase out animal testing requirements.

Coherent coupling of YBCO superconducting resonators and 100-nm-thick YIG films
Alberto Ghirri, Mattia Cavani, Claudio Bonizzoni, Marco Affronte
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22240

Coherent coupling of YBCO superconducting resonators and 100-nm-thick YIG films
In cavity magnonics, magnon-photon hybridization has been widely investigated for both fundamental studies and applications. Planar superconducting resonators operating at microwave frequencies have demonstrated the possibility to achieve high couplings with magnons by exploiting the confinement of the microwave field in a reduced volume. Here we report a study of the coupling of high-Tc YBCO superconducting waveguides with 100-nm-thick YIG magnetic films. We study the evolution of mode frequen…

PBS and one of its local affiliates sue the Trump administration, saying his executive order to cut federal funding violated PBS' First Amendment rights (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/30/pbs-funding-sue-trump

PBS sues Trump administration over funding cuts
The filing argues the president's executive order violates PBS' First Amendment rights.

Faster exponential algorithms for cut problems via geometric data structures
L\'aszl\'o Kozma, Junqi Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22281 https://

Faster exponential algorithms for cut problems via geometric data structures
For many hard computational problems, simple algorithms that run in time $2^n \cdot n^{O(1)}$ arise, say, from enumerating all subsets of a size-$n$ set. Finding (exponentially) faster algorithms is a natural goal that has driven much of the field of exact exponential algorithms (e.g., see Fomin and Kratsch, 2010). In this paper we obtain algorithms with running time $O(1.9999977^n)$ on input graphs with $n$ vertices, for the following well-studied problems: - $d$-Cut: find a proper cut in wh…

Resurrecting a dead #torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers
https://kianbradley.com/2025/06/15/resurrecting-a-dead-tracker.html

A Robust Method for Pitch Tracking in the Frequency Following Response using Harmonic Amplitude Summation Filterbank
Sajad Sadeghkhani, Maryam Karimi Boroujeni, Hilmi R. Dajani, Saeid R. Seydnejad, Christian Gigu\`ere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19253

A Robust Method for Pitch Tracking in the Frequency Following Response using Harmonic Amplitude Summation Filterbank
The Frequency Following Response (FFR) reflects the brain's neural encoding of auditory stimuli including speech. Because the fundamental frequency (F0), a physical correlate of pitch, is one of the essential features of speech, there has been particular interest in characterizing the FFR at F0, especially when F0 varies over time. The standard method for extracting F0 in FFRs has been the Autocorrelation Function (ACF). This paper investigates harmonic-structure-based F0 estimation algorithms,…

Shield AI has emerged as a lead contender in the increasingly crowded race against competitors like Anduril and AeroVironment
to outfit the U.S. military with killer drones.
The $5 billion-valued startup, founded in 2015 by brothers Ryan and Brandon Tseng,
sells a suite of hardware and products, including autonomous piloting software that has been used to fly fighter jets.
In March, it raised $240 million in a funding round led by Korean conglomerate Hanwha and Amer…

How A Grisly Injury Threw $5 Billion Drone Startup Shield AI Off Course
Shield AI executives overlooked its V-BAT drone’s safety hazards. With sales falling short and the CEO stepping down, the company is trying to win back military customers.

Distinguishing Filling Invariants Associated to Conjugacy in Groups
Conan Gillis, Timothy Riley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19264 https://

Distinguishing Filling Invariants Associated to Conjugacy in Groups
Brick and Corson introduced annular Dehn functions in 1998 to quantify the conjugacy problem for finitely generated groups and gave the fundamental relationships between it, the Dehn function, and the conjugator length function. We furnish the theory with diverse examples groups. In particular, we show that these three invariants are independent -- no two of the three functions determine the other.

Wisconsin Public Radio announces layoffs and ends four shows, citing funding pressure; report: 15 people were cut and WPR won't be filling several vacancies (Mike Janssen/Current)
https://current.org/2025/06/wisconsin-public-radi…