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Encouraging - and important.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/19/leading-us-economists-urge-peers-to-fight-trumps-attack-on-environment?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Encouraging - and important.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/19/leading-us-economists-urge-peers-to-fight-trumps-attack-on-environment?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Google researchers say Android's early-warning system detected and issued alerts for 1,200 earthquakes since 2021, sometimes giving up to 15-60 seconds' notice (Kasha Patel/Washington Post)

Your Android phone is getting better at warning you about earthquakes
An early-warning system on Android phones has detected more than 1,000 earthquakes worldwide since 2021, sometimes giving people 15 to 60 seconds’ notice

‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/19/a-climate-of-unparalleled-malevolence-are-we-on-our-way-…

Nonequilibrium steady states in multi-bath quantum collision models
Ronan McElvogue, Andrew K. Mitchell, Gabriel T. Landi, Steve Campbell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13860

Nonequilibrium steady states in multi-bath quantum collision models
Collision models provide a simple and versatile setting to capture the dynamics of open quantum systems. The standard approach to thermalisition in this setting involves an environment of independent and identically-prepared thermal qubits, interacting sequentially for a finite duration $Δt$ with the system. We compare this to a two-bath scenario in which collisional qubits are prepared in either their ground or excited states and the environment temperature is encoded in system-environment co…

ISAC: From Human to Environmental Sensing
Kai Wu, Zhongqin Wang, Shu-Lin Chen, J. Andrew Zhang, Y. Jay Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13766 https://…

ISAC: From Human to Environmental Sensing
Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) is poised to become one of the defining capabilities of the sixth generation (6G) wireless communications systems, enabling the network infrastructure to jointly support high-throughput communications and situational awareness. While recent advances have explored ISAC for both human-centric applications and environmental monitoring, existing research remains fragmented across these domains. This paper provides the first unified review of ISAC-enabled…

Lmao what the actual fuck??
Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips | THE CITY — NYC News
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/winnie-greco-eric-adams-aide-attempted-cash-katie-honan-…

Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips
THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office.

Multi-Robot Navigation in Social Mini-Games: Definitions, Taxonomy, and Algorithms
Rohan Chandra, Shubham Singh, Abhishek Jha, Dannon Andrade, Hriday Sainathuni, Katia Sycara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13459

Multi-Robot Navigation in Social Mini-Games: Definitions, Taxonomy, and Algorithms
The ``Last Mile Challenge'' has long been considered an important, yet unsolved, challenge for autonomous vehicles, public service robots, and delivery robots. A central issue in this challenge is the ability of robots to navigate constrained and cluttered environments (e.g., doorways, hallways, corridor intersections), often while competing for space with other robots and humans. We refer to these environments as ``Social Mini-Games'' (SMGs). SMGs are tightly coupled, high-agency interactions …

Sources: Anthropic refused federal law enforcement requests to use its AI models for some tasks, such as the surveillance of US citizens, irking the White House (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/17/2025

Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use
The AI company declined to allow requests by contractors working with federal law enforcement.