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At Microsoft, we’re advancing quantum computing at every level. With our newly developed family of 4D geometric codes, and our co-designed quantum work with Atom Computing
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Microsoft advances quantum error correction with a family of novel four-dimensional codes - Microsoft Azure Quantum Blog
Learn how we're advancing quantum computing by developing 4D error-correction codes that are applicable to many types of qubits.

Series A, Episode 08 - Duel
BLAKE: [To Travis] We could agree not to fight.
TRAVIS: [Chuckles slightly] Could we?
GIROC: If you trusted one another.
SINOFAR: There is another matter: a lesson you must learn about death.
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The Rich Get Richer in Bitcoin Mining Induced by Blockchain Forks
Akira Sakurai, Kazuyuki Shudo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13360 https://

The Rich Get Richer in Bitcoin Mining Induced by Blockchain Forks
Bitcoin is a representative decentralized currency system. For the security of Bitcoin, fairness in the distribution of mining rewards plays a crucial role in preventing the concentration of computational power in a few miners. Here, fairness refers to the distribution of block rewards in proportion to contributed computational resources. If miners with greater computational resources receive disproportionately higher rewards, i.e., if the Rich Get Richer (TRGR) phenomenon holds in Bitcoin, it …

ECFA Higgs, electroweak, and top Factory Study
Abidi, Aguilar-Saavedra, Airen, Ajmal, Al-Thakeel, Alberghi, Maestre, Alimena, Alshamaily, Altmann, Altmannshofer, Amhis, Amiri, Andreazza, Antusch, Arnaez, Assamagan, Aumiller, Azizi, Azzi, Azzurri, Bagnaschi, Baharyioon, Bahl, Balagura, Barducci, Basso, Bechtle, Bellagamba, Berggren, Bernardi, Bhom, Biermann, Blekman, Bliewert, Bordone, Boudry, Boye, Bozovic, Braathen, Brient, Brodbek, Brost, Bruckman, Brudnowski, Bulliri, Bulyak, Burrid…

ECFA Higgs, electroweak, and top Factory Study
The ECFA Higgs, electroweak, and top Factory Study ran between 2021 and 2025 as a broad effort across the experimental and theoretical particle physics communities, bringing together participants from many different proposed future collider projects. Activities across three main working groups advanced the joint development of tools and analysis techniques, fostered new considerations of detector design and optimisation, and led to a new set of studies resulting in improved projected sensitivit…

WhisperKit: On-device Real-time ASR with Billion-Scale Transformers
Atila Orhon, Arda Okan, Berkin Durmus, Zach Nagengast, Eduardo Pacheco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10860

WhisperKit: On-device Real-time ASR with Billion-Scale Transformers
Real-time Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is a fundamental building block for many commercial applications of ML, including live captioning, dictation, meeting transcriptions, and medical scribes. Accuracy and latency are the most important factors when companies select a system to deploy. We present WhisperKit, an optimized on-device inference system for real-time ASR that significantly outperforms leading cloud-based systems. We benchmark against server-side systems that deploy a diverse s…

A Far-Infrared Search for Planet Nine Using AKARI All-Sky Survey
Amos Y. -A. Chen, Tomotsugu Goto, Issei Yamamura, Takao Nakagawa, Cossas K. -W. Wu, Terry Long Phan, Tetsuya Hashimoto, Yuri Uno, Simon C. -C. Ho, Seong Jin Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12854

A Far-Infrared Search for Planet Nine Using AKARI All-Sky Survey
An unusual orbital element clustering of Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) has been observed. The most promising dynamic solution is the presence of a giant planet in the outer Solar system, Planet Nine. However, due to its extreme distance, intensive searches in optical have not been successful. We aim to find Planet Nine in the far-infrared, where it has the peak of the black body radiation, using the most sensitive all-sky far-infrared survey to date, AKARI. In contrast to optical searches, where t…

Formation Channels of Gravitationally Resolvable Double White Dwarf Binaries Inside Globular Clusters
Lucas Hellstr\"om, Miros{\l}aw Giersz, Abbas Askar, Arkadiusz Hypki, Yuetong Zhao, Youjun Lu, Siqi Zhang, Ver\'onica V\'azquez-Aceves, Grzegorz Wiktorowicz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13122

Formation Channels of Gravitationally Resolvable Double White Dwarf Binaries Inside Globular Clusters
Current gravitational wave detectors are sensitive to coalescing black holes and neutron stars. However, double white dwarfs (DWDs) have long been recognized as promising sources of gravitational waves, and upcoming detectors like LISA will be able to observe these systems in abundance. DWDs are expected to be the dominant gravitational wave (GW) sources in parts of the LISA frequency range, making it crucial to understand their formation for future detections. The Milky Way contains many white…

Microsoft has once again been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning (DSML) Platforms.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog

Microsoft recognized for second consecutive year as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms | Microsoft Azure Blog
Find out how Microsoft Azure Machine Learning can help you optimize business processes, improve customer experiences, and drive innovation.

The Rich Get Richer in Bitcoin Mining Induced by Blockchain Forks
Akira Sakurai, Kazuyuki Shudo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13360 https://

The Rich Get Richer in Bitcoin Mining Induced by Blockchain Forks
Bitcoin is a representative decentralized currency system. For the security of Bitcoin, fairness in the distribution of mining rewards plays a crucial role in preventing the concentration of computational power in a few miners. Here, fairness refers to the distribution of block rewards in proportion to contributed computational resources. If miners with greater computational resources receive disproportionately higher rewards, i.e., if the Rich Get Richer (TRGR) phenomenon holds in Bitcoin, it …

Alphabet Index Mapping: Jailbreaking LLMs through Semantic Dissimilarity
Bilal Saleh Husain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12685 https://…

Alphabet Index Mapping: Jailbreaking LLMs through Semantic Dissimilarity
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, yet their susceptibility to adversarial attacks, particularly jailbreaking, poses significant safety and ethical concerns. While numerous jailbreak methods exist, many suffer from computational expense, high token usage, or complex decoding schemes. Liu et al. (2024) introduced FlipAttack, a black-box method that achieves high attack success rates (ASR) through simple prompt manipulation. This paper investigates the underly…