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I have mixed feelings about this…
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/01/cloudflare_creates_ai_crawler_toll/

1. It's CloudFlare
2. It should generate revenue for content scraped by AI
3. It's an interesting use of 402 Payment req…

Cloudflare creates AI crawler tollbooth to pay publishers
ai-pocalypse: The bargain between content makers and crawlers has broken down

Homeland Security’s list of ‘sanctuary cities’ pulled down after sheriffs object - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-administration-takes-down-sanctuary-city-list-following-law-enforcement-ba/

US won't send some weapons pledged to Ukraine following a Pentagon review of military aid
A Pentagon review determined that stocks were too low on some weapons previously pledged to Ukraine,
so pending shipments of some items won’t be sent,
according to a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity to provide information that has not yet been made public.

The Defense Department did not provide details on what specific weapons were being held back.

The…

US won't send some weapons pledged to Ukraine following a Pentagon review of military aid
The U.S. is halting some shipments of weapons to Ukraine amid concerns that its own stockpiles have declined too much

MaXIFE: Multilingual and Cross-lingual Instruction Following Evaluation
Yile Liu, Ziwei Ma, Xiu Jiang, Jinglu Hu, Jing Chang, Liang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01776

MaXIFE: Multilingual and Cross-lingual Instruction Following Evaluation
With the rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) in natural language processing, the ability to follow instructions has emerged as a key metric for evaluating their practical utility. However, existing evaluation methods often focus on single-language scenarios, overlooking the challenges and differences present in multilingual and cross-lingual contexts. To address this gap, we introduce MaXIFE: a comprehensive evaluation benchmark designed to assess instruction-following capabilities a…

The impact of the following vehicles behaviors on the car following behaviors of the ego-vehicle
Yang Liu, Jiahao Zhang, Yuxuan Ouyang, Huan Yu, Dengbo He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00452

The impact of the following vehicles behaviors on the car following behaviors of the ego-vehicle
Among all types of crashes, rear-end crashes dominate, which are closely related to the car-following (CF) behaviors. Traditional CF behavior models focused on the influence of the vehicle in front, but usually ignored the peer pressure from the surrounding road users, including the following vehicle (FV). Based on an open dataset, the highD dataset, we investigated whether the FV's states can affect the CF behavior of the ego-vehicle in CF events. Two types of CF events were extracted from hig…

Muckenhoupt-weighted $L_q(L_p)$ boundedness for time-space fractional nonlocal operators
Yong Zhen Yang, Yong Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01890 https:/…

Muckenhoupt-weighted $L_q(L_p)$ boundedness for time-space fractional nonlocal operators
Based on the $ϕ(Δ)$-type operator studied by Kim \cite[\emph{Adv.~Math.}]{Kim2}, where $ϕ$ is a Bernstein function, we establish weighted $L_{q}(L_{p})$ estimates for solutions to the following fractional evolution equation: $$ \partial_{t}^αw(t,x) = ϕ(Δ)w(t,x) + h(t,x), \quad t > 0, \; x \in \mathbb{R}^{d}, $$ where $\partial_{t}^α$ denotes the Caputo derivative of $0 < α< 1$. To be specific, for all $1 < p, q < \infty$, we demonstrate that $$ \int_{0}^{\infty} \left( \int_{\mathbb{R}^…

Fe contribution to the magnetic anisotropy of $L{1_0}$-ordered FePt thin films studied by angle-dependent x-ray magnetic circular dichroism
Goro Shibata, Keisuke Ikeda, Takeshi Seki, Shoya Sakamoto, Yosuke Nonaka, Zhendong Chi, Yuxuan Wan, Masahiro Suzuki, Tsuneharu Koide, Hiroki Wadati, Koki Takanashi, Atsushi Fujimori
https://…

Fe contribution to the magnetic anisotropy of $L{1_0}$-ordered FePt thin films studied by angle-dependent x-ray magnetic circular dichroism
Among magnetic thin films with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA), $L1_0$-ordered FePt has attracted significant attention because of its exceptionally strong PMA. However, the microscopic origin of its strong PMA has not been elucidated experimentally. We have investigated the contribution of the Fe $3d$ electrons to its magnetic anisotropy energy by angle-dependent x-ray magnetic circular dichroism at the Fe $L_{2,3}$ edge. By this technique, one can deduce the magnetic dipole moment $m_…

#KKR, the US company that has withdrawn from bidding for Thames Water is a pro-Zionist, fracking lobbier that is feeling the heat from BDS.
Good riddance and just #nationalise water now!
Economía | El fondo proisraelí KKR se hace con los grandes festivales españoles de música - El Salto - Edici…

El fondo proisraelí KKR se hace con los grandes festivales españoles de música
Controla eventos como Sónar, Viña Rock o Resurrection Fest mientras expande su negocio con la promoción inmobiliaria en territorios palestinos ocupados ilegalmente y la creación de centros de datos para las grandes tecnológicas.

1/ I'm feeling real pain at the cuts to Indiana public universities, especially IU, especially cogsci. These are some of the biggest brains in cogsci and edupsych in the world, but why do *I* care? I'll tell you what they've done *for me, personally*. ↵
https://www.i…

Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees
Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.

NAVER LABS Europe Submission to the Instruction-following Track
Beomseok Lee, Marcely Zanon Boito, Laurent Besacier, Ioan Calapodescu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01808

NAVER LABS Europe Submission to the Instruction-following Track
In this paper we describe NAVER LABS Europe submission to the instruction-following speech processing short track at IWSLT 2025. We participate in the constrained settings, developing systems that can simultaneously perform ASR, ST, and SQA tasks from English speech input into the following target languages: Chinese, Italian, and German. Our solution leverages two pretrained modules: (1) a speech-to-LLM embedding projector trained using representations from the SeamlessM4T-v2-large speech encod…