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Europe boosts artillery ammunition production sixfold in 2 years, NATO chief says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/28/europe-boosts-artillery-ammunition-production.html

Filing: Disney's EMEA revenue rose 4.4% YoY to £3.97B in the year to September 2024 and profits rose 3% YoY to £589K after the launch of Disney ad tier (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/disney-ad-tier-boosts-overseas-revenue-1…

Disney+ Ad Tier Boosts Overseas Revenue, Offsetting Drop In Box Office Takings
Disney's revenues in Europe, the Middle East and Africa rose 4.4% to £3.97B last year following the launch of an ad tier on streaming.

Nvidia executives, including Jensen Huang, have sold $1B worth of company stock in the past 12 months, with $500M in share sales occurring in June 2025 alone (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/36f346ad-c649-42ac-a6b6-1a8cc881e0bb

Nvidia executives cash out $1bn worth of shares
Chief executive Jensen Huang leads wave of insider selling as AI demand boosts stock to record high

But look at the 4 on that! Don't these sundial makers know how to write Roman numerals? Where is the QC!?
https://social.lol/@adam/114880680239385409

Russia boosts oil exports following Ukrainian strikes on refineries, Reuters reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/27/russia-boosts-oil-exports-following.html

I'm going back to bed. Boosts lots of cats while I'm gone :3

"Hide boosts from [this account]" is an underrated but useful feature.
"Hide other people's boosts of [this account]" is sadly still missing.
#mastodon

The abso-bloody-lutely best thing about having a post go viral on Fedi (i.e. more than a couple of dozen likes or boosts) is finding so many new awesome accounts to follow.

🪴 New 'gene gun' design boosts efficiency of plant genetic modification
#plants

New 'gene gun' design boosts efficiency of plant genetic modification
Plant scientists have used a standard "gene gun" since 1988 to genetically modify crops for better yield, nutrition, pest resistance and other valuable traits.

Breakthrough tech boosts EV range with long-lasting lithium battery development. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Long-lasting lithium battery with breakthrough tech to boost EV range
Scientists' new mathematical x-framework allows unlimited customization of full concentration gradient (FCGs) with independent parameter control, leading to lithium-ion batteries with enhanced safety and stability.

New Artillery Brigade Boosts 8th Air Assault Corps: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/26/new-artillery-brigade-boosts-th.html

i love that posts on other platforms have deliberate misinformation so people point that out in the comments which boosts the post's engagement. very normal for a social network to behave this way

It's just one crazy day after another in cybersecurity lately, so check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--SharePoint attacks hit 400 organizations, campaign now includes ransomware.
--French cops bust xss.is admin and shutter the platform,
--Trump's AI action plan boosts Silicon Valley powerhouses,
--AZ state hackers likely behind other breach efforts,
--Hacker installed wiper software in Am…

SharePoint attacks hit 400 organizations, campaign now includes ransomware
French cops bust xss.is admin and shutter the platform, Trump's AI action plan boosts Silicon Valley powerhouses, AZ state hackers likely behind other breach efforts, Hacker installed wiper software in Amazon's AI Q assistant, Old Ivanti flaws plague Japan, much more

Quantum-geometric dipole: a topological boost to flavor ferromagnetism in flat bands
Lei Chen, Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi, Jennifer Cano, Valentin Cr\'epel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22417

Quantum-geometric dipole: a topological boost to flavor ferromagnetism in flat bands
Robust flavor-polarized phases are a striking hallmark of many flat-band moiré materials. In this work, we trace the origin of this spontaneous polarization to a previously overlooked quantum-geometric quantity: the quantum-geometric dipole. Analogous to how the quantum metric governs the spatial spread of wavepackets, we show that the quantum-geometric dipole sets the characteristic size of particle-hole excitations, e.g. magnons in a ferromagnet, which in turn boosts their gap and stiffness.…

YouTube rolls out Hype, which lets users boost creators with under 500K subscribers via a hype button that gives videos points, in the US and 38 other countries (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/26/youtubes-hype-fe…

YouTube's 'Hype' feature that boosts smaller creators launches globally | TechCrunch
Viewers have the opportunity to hype up to three videos per week for a favorite creator. This gives the video points, which helps it gain traction on a new, ranked leaderboard.

Dismantling Mafia connections triggers a surge in bank credit to legitimate businesses, lifts local output, and raises productivity – although it comes with a modest uptick in borrowing costs, research shows.
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/fightin…

📊 Die Top 4 Beiträge der letzten Woche mit den meisten Boosts sind:
1. #HVO100 aus #Altspeiseöl ist klimaschädlicher als fossiler #Diesel.

#ePetition_180389 hat mehr als 10000 mitzeichnungen. Weitere 20000 und die Petition wird im Bundestag in öffentlicher Sitzung diskutiert und der Hauptpetent kann vor dem Ausschuss reden.
:BoostOK: :boosts_ok:

#ePetition_180389 hat mehr als 10000 mitzeichnungen. Weitere 20000 und die Petition wird im Bundestag in öffentlicher Sitzung diskutiert und der Hauptpetent kann vor dem Ausschuss reden.
:BoostOK: :boosts_ok:

Mayra Flores ditches Cuellar to run against Gonzalez after Texas redistricting boosts odds (Rachel Schilke/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/congressional/3781961/mayra-flores-ditches-cuellar-run-against-gonzalez-texas-redistricting/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250825/p136#a250825p136

I would love to get some recommendations for shows to watch / binge. In an effort to get things started I have the following recommendation:
My wife and I are really enjoying Dept. Q on Netflix.
#BingeWorthy ✱ #TVRecs
It would be great to get one of these hashtags trending.
Boosts …

BingeWorthy for TV
Let's find the best TV series to binge.

So yesterday I made a single-file website, with an encouragement for others to grab a copy and host it themselves, sort of like a digital zine. Seems like the term for this is a "netzine", although I'm not sure how much the "host a copy yourself" idea is part of that.
Since it looks like I might end up putting together a "net zines" section of my website, has anyone else produced their own that I can host copies of, or know of good ones I should include?
Boosts appreciated for reach.
#NetZine

Free DraftKings best bets, odds for August 4: Model reveals Monday MLB picks for DraftKings boosts, promotions

https://www.cbssports.com/general/news…

Foxconn reports Q2 net operating profit up 27% YoY to ~$1.9B, beating estimates, on $59.73B revenue, on the strength of its growing AI server business (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/14/ai-demand-

AI demand boosts iPhone maker Foxconn's second-quarter profit by 27%, beating forecasts
Foxconn reported a second-quarter operating profit beat on strength of its growing artificial intelligence server business.

🥱 Study shows that social interaction boosts emotional vitality—but leads to delayed fatigue
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-social-interaction-boosts-emotional-vitality.html

Study shows that social interaction boosts emotional vitality—but leads to delayed fatigue
Social contact can lift our mood but later leave us drained. A new study has tracked this full emotional sequence in everyday life. Researchers found that being around others boosts emotional energy at the moment, yet contributes to rising fatigue a few hours later.

Finished my review and configuration guide of the Lilygo T-Deck Plus Meshtastic / LoRa radio. (This time with specs!)
All-in-all it's an interesting device, though the lack of a functional bluetooth radio while it's active is a real limiting factor in my use case, (as a personal radio that I can also use to remote admin other radios).
Anyway, see the full article if you're interested in more details; boosts/shares/comments are always welcome!

Review of Lilygo T-Deck Plus w/ Meshtastic
The Meshtastic project aims at offering text communication and low-bandwidth data across long distances without relying on any centralized third parties or corporate infrastructure, but most devices require a cell phone or laptop to actually interact with that network. The Lilygo T-Deck resolves this by offering an all-in-one product with a LoRa radio, GPS, and most importantly a full color touch screen and full QWERTY keyboard.

It's so weird that the Brexit UK government in buying OneWeb, after blocking UK companies from Galileo, has ended up in a tech partnership with France that became more valuable as counties started looking at non-US communications services.
https://www.…

UK Gov Boosts Eutelsat's OneWeb LEO Broadband Satellites by £140m
The UK Government has agreed to commit a further £140m (€163.3) of public investment to help Eutelsat grow and expand its constellation of OneWeb ultrafast b

📊 Die Top 4 Beiträge der letzten Woche mit den meisten Boosts sind:
1. #Paris bereitet sich auf #Hitzewellen mit bis zu 50 Grad vor.
https://

Schade, dass Boosts nicht als Teil des Personal Feeds bei den RSS-Feeds mit enthalten sind. Ebenso nicht beim Konten-"Alarm". Die gehören für mich schon dazu. Und wenn ich Boosts von jmd. nicht will (warum auch immer), kann ich es ja generell abschalten.
#mastodon #rss

This is a very good article regardless, but it makes a point widely ignored in the age of GenAI:
"While our results point to real growth in students’ intellectual abilities and dispositions, they do not capture everything philosophers mean by “intellectual virtue.” Intellectual virtue is not just a matter of possessing certain abilities but of using those abilities well: at the right times, for the right reasons, and in the right ways.
Our measures do not tell us whether phi…

Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads
Philosophers are fond of saying that their field boosts critical thinking. Two of them decided to put that claim to the test.

I love being online when @… is online.
I watch the toots, and boosts, and favourites roll in live.
Its like people watching, but cyber. cyber people watching.

Have y'all who are into anime seen Kinnikuman Perfect Origin Arc on Netflix? Kinda reminds me of Dragonball, but with more wrestling - and I'm not really into either of those things, but I love Kinnikuman. Go figure. It's based on the manga by Yudetamago (ゆでたまご) and some of the character designs were used by Bandai and then Mattel for the M.U.S.C.L.E. figures in the 80s. As they say, boosts appreciated for reach. I'm super curious.

Lorentz transformations in time and two space dimensions
C. J. McKinstrie, M. V. Kozlov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17002 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.17002…

Lorentz transformations in time and two space dimensions
In this article, matrix and vector formalisms for Lorentz transformations in time ($t$) and two space dimensions ($x$ and $y$) are developed and discussed. Lorentz transformations conserve the squared interval $t^2 - x^2 - y^2$. Examples of Lorentz transformations include boosts in arbitrary directions, which mix time ansd space, and rotations in space, which do not. Lorentz transformations can be described by matrices and coordinate vectors. Lorentz matrices comprise the special unitary group …

The kids just had me go through all my old CatsOfMastodon posts. Pretty decent documentation of our past foster cats.
Also the reason for a few of my self-boosts 😉

I don’t agree in one respect:
Neither OOP nor FP (nor 4GLs nor IDEs nor SOAs nor any of the other new hotnesses past) had anything remotely resembling the current money behind them. None led to companies speculatively laying off tens of thousands of employees for imagined productivity boosts that had not actually arrived yet. None shaped whole election cycles, or led to national proposals for preemptive deregulation. None led to the construction of nuclear power plants or the draining of rivers. None sent oligarchs or fascists into spasmodic wet dreams of world domination. None started quasi-religious cults like EA.
All •that• is the part that feels like blockchain — but even worse, if such a thing is possible.
@…
2/2

What’s in Trump’s major tax bill? Extended cuts, deportations and more
Donald Trump’s sweeping legislation boosts the wealthy, funds a border wall and risks $3tn deficit before his term ends
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/01/what-is-in-bi…

Uma sondagem de mais de 35 mil pessoas, iniciada hš quase 3 anos, terminou agora. Pergunto a mim mesmo que percentagem destas contas continua ativa.
https://fosstodon.org/@MattTheQuick/109321444143425443
Mas mesmo deprimente? África: 1%.

Raiders' Addition of Smith Boosts More than Just Their Offense https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-geno-smith-afc-west-pete-carroll-denver-broncos

Confidence Boosts Trust-Based Resilience in Cooperative Multi-Robot Systems
Luca Ballotta, \'Aron V\'ek\'assy, Stephanie Gil, Michal Yemini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08807

Confidence Boosts Trust-Based Resilience in Cooperative Multi-Robot Systems
Wireless communication-based multi-robot systems open the door to cyberattacks that can disrupt safety and performance of collaborative robots. The physical channel supporting inter-robot communication offers an attractive opportunity to decouple the detection of malicious robots from task-relevant data exchange between legitimate robots. Yet, trustworthiness indications coming from physical channels are uncertain and must be handled with this in mind. In this paper, we propose a resilient prot…

🪣 These VA Tech scientists are building a better fog harp
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/these-va-tech-scientists-are-building-a-better-fog-harp/

These VA Tech scientists are building a better fog harp
Combining vertical “strings” with periodic horizontal wires stops clogging and clumping, boosts efficiency.

International Trade and Intellectual Property
Gaetan de Rassenfosse
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18929 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.18929…

International Trade and Intellectual Property
Intellectual property (IP) rules have the potential to shape cross-border trade far more than their legalistic origins might suggest. Drawing on three decades of evidence, this review shows that stronger IP rights simultaneously create market-power forces that raise prices and market-expansion forces that broaden demand, while dynamic incentives spur quality upgrading and new export varieties. Micro-data and quasi-natural experiments after TRIPS reveal that IP most often boosts trade along the …

Slept through it. Catch-up couldn't go beyond 2 AM (#WWDC25 was at 1 AM SGT) because reached the 800 limit on Mastodon 🤦‍♂️
Maybe Mastodon should limit it by time duration or something instead.

Hey, #Milwaukee! The neighbor across the street said that she would trap the yard cat and her kittens for me, but I need somewhere for them to go and supposedly all of the shelters in Metro Milwaukee are either full or close.
Is anybody interested in fostering three cats?
(Boosts would be appreciated)

Trying to find someone who knows about responsible AI policies and higher education in Europe, but all the interesting people I can think of are in the US. Any suggestions? Boosts appreciated.

Comparative Analysis of Deep Learning Strategies for Hypertensive Retinopathy Detection from Fundus Images: From Scratch and Pre-trained Models
Yanqiao Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12492

Comparative Analysis of Deep Learning Strategies for Hypertensive Retinopathy Detection from Fundus Images: From Scratch and Pre-trained Models
This paper presents a comparative analysis of deep learning strategies for detecting hypertensive retinopathy from fundus images, a central task in the HRDC challenge~\cite{qian2025hrdc}. We investigate three distinct approaches: a custom CNN, a suite of pre-trained transformer-based models, and an AutoML solution. Our findings reveal a stark, architecture-dependent response to data augmentation. Augmentation significantly boosts the performance of pure Vision Transformers (ViTs), which we hypo…

Antitrust and the Anti-Vaxxers -- The Justice Department boosts a theory claiming that similar editorial judgments are collusive. (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/childrens-health-defense-v-wp-company-trusted-health-initiative-doj-antitrust-vaccines-b84135b7?st=PmkYuy
http://www.memeorandum.com/250720/p53#a250720p53

A profile of prediction market Kalshi, which is using its federal financial license to open up sports gambling across the US, even in states where it is illegal (Justina Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

Kalshi Pushes Sports Betting as Trump, Deregulation Boosts Prediction Market
Armed with a federal license and allies in Trumpworld, the tech start-up is pushing prediction markets across America into a legal gray zone: sports betting.

Surface Reduction Boosts Free Electron Concentration in MXene for Enhanced Photothermal Performance
Haoming Ding, Xiao Tong, Yong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05741

Surface Reduction Boosts Free Electron Concentration in MXene for Enhanced Photothermal Performance
The photothermal properties of MXenes originate from their high free electron concentration, which drives localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR). However, their intrinsic electron concentration is limited by suboptimal d-orbital occupancy, while electronegative surface terminations actively deplete free electrons through orbital-selective withdrawal. Herein, we report a sodium (Na)-mediated surface reduction strategy in molten salts to transform Ti3C2Clx into electronically tunable Ti3C2. S…

CoQuIR: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Code Quality-Aware Information Retrieval
Jiahui Geng, Fengyu Cai, Shaobo Cui, Qing Li, Liangwei Chen, Chenyang Lyu, Haonan Li, Derui Zhu, Walter Pretschner, Heinz Koeppl, Fakhri Karray
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11066

CoQuIR: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Code Quality-Aware Information Retrieval
Code retrieval is essential in modern software development, as it boosts code reuse and accelerates debugging. However, current benchmarks primarily emphasize functional relevance while neglecting critical dimensions of software quality. Motivated by this gap, we introduce CoQuIR, the first large-scale, multilingual benchmark specifically designed to evaluate quality-aware code retrieval across four key dimensions: correctness, efficiency, security, and maintainability. CoQuIR provides fine-gra…

AnatoMaskGAN: GNN-Driven Slice Feature Fusion and Noise Augmentation for Medical Semantic Image Synthesis
Zonglin Wu, Yule Xue, Qianxiang Hu, Yaoyao Feng, Yuqi Ma, Shanxiong Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11375

AnatoMaskGAN: GNN-Driven Slice Feature Fusion and Noise Augmentation for Medical Semantic Image Synthesis
Medical semantic-mask synthesis boosts data augmentation and analysis, yet most GAN-based approaches still produce one-to-one images and lack spatial consistency in complex scans. To address this, we propose AnatoMaskGAN, a novel synthesis framework that embeds slice-related spatial features to precisely aggregate inter-slice contextual dependencies, introduces diverse image-augmentation strategies, and optimizes deep feature learning to improve performance on complex medical images. Specifical…

📊 Die Top 4 Beiträge der letzten Woche mit den meisten Boosts sind:
1. #DUH Erfolge gegen #BurgerKing, #Burgermeister,

Normalerweise kommen am Sonntagmorgen hier die Boosts meiner eigenen Beiträge der vergangenen Woche. Heute habe ich aber gar nichts - die #DnD Woche war sehr ruhig. Ich habe nur Kleinigkeiten in den #typst Charakterbögen von @…

Don’t Be Ashamed to Say "I Don’t Know"
https://www.thecoder.cafe/p/i-dont-know

This month's digest/newsletter is on the way to the age-verified kosher normal people who signed up for it in their email.
The rest of you unverified anarchists can use your VPN and access it here.
#digest #newsletter

Spatial Optimization of Autonomous Vehicle Assignment Based on Distance-Driven Demand and Customer Patience
Niloufar Mirzavand Boroujeni, Nasim Mirzavand Boroujeni, Nima Moradi, Saeed Jamalzadeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12671

Spatial Optimization of Autonomous Vehicle Assignment Based on Distance-Driven Demand and Customer Patience
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) can improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance road safety. They optimize traffic flow, minimize congestion, and support sustainability through shared mobility and reduced fuel consumption. A key challenge in AV deployment is allocating vehicles to parking lots across regions to meet fluctuating demand. Proper allocation reduces delays, lowers costs, and boosts user satisfaction by ensuring timely vehicle availability. This paper explores the impact of customer wait…

Nottingham, short visit rent or housesit, anyone know a place?
Nottingham-related #AskFedi: anyone know of a Nottingham-area house or flat that's going to be empty over part or all of the summer? and that's potentially rentable for not too much for a few days, or wants house-sitting for a while?
It would be so that me and a friend/colleague could go and use the space to do some writing work together. We are reliable conscientious old(ish) people who'd leave it clean and not be any bother :-)
Boosts very welcome.
#Nottingham #AskFedi

Now that I’ve fully wound things down on my YT channel, would folks like me to do a video on @… even though it’s not technically the 13th yet?
(Boosts appreciated, it helps visibility!)

Well, shit. Whenever I write up a little #TimeTrivia on my peronal account @… on my self hosted instance slows to a fucking crawl because of the boosts and likes. It is now unusable so if I don't reply to you there for a while, you now know why.

📊 Die Top 4 Beiträge der vorletzten Woche mit den meisten Boosts sind:
1. Die #Übergangsfrist für den Betrieb des #LNG-Terminals #Rügen ohne

Enhancing Food-Domain Question Answering with a Multimodal Knowledge Graph: Hybrid QA Generation and Diversity Analysis
Srihari K B, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06571

Enhancing Food-Domain Question Answering with a Multimodal Knowledge Graph: Hybrid QA Generation and Diversity Analysis
We propose a unified food-domain QA framework that combines a large-scale multimodal knowledge graph (MMKG) with generative AI. Our MMKG links 13,000 recipes, 3,000 ingredients, 140,000 relations, and 14,000 images. We generate 40,000 QA pairs using 40 templates and LLaVA/DeepSeek augmentation. Joint fine-tuning of Meta LLaMA 3.1-8B and Stable Diffusion 3.5-Large improves BERTScore by 16.2\%, reduces FID by 37.8\%, and boosts CLIP alignment by 31.1\%. Diagnostic analyses-CLIP-based mismatch det…

I'm Linuxing my pizza 🙂
#linux #pizza

Embedding physical symmetries into machine-learned reduced plasma physics models via data augmentation
Madox C. McGrae-Menge, Jacob R. Pierce, Frederico Fiuza, E. Paulo Alves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14048

Embedding physical symmetries into machine-learned reduced plasma physics models via data augmentation
Machine learning is offering powerful new tools for the development and discovery of reduced models of nonlinear, multiscale plasma dynamics from the data of first-principles kinetic simulations. However, ensuring the physical consistency of such models requires embedding fundamental symmetries of plasma dynamics. In this work, we explore a symmetry-embedding strategy based on data augmentation, where symmetry-preserving transformations (e.g., Lorentz and Galilean boosts) are applied to simulat…

Palantir reports Q2 revenue up 48% YoY to $1B, vs. $940M expected, and boosts full-year outlook guidance to $4.14B-$4.15B, up from $3.89B-$3.90B (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/04/palantir-pltr-q2-earnings-2025.html

Palantir tops $1 billion in revenue for the first time, boosts guidance
Palantir surpassed Wall Street's estimates and lifted its full-year outlook.

📊 Die Top 4 Beiträge der letzten Woche mit den meisten Boosts waren alles Petitions-Tröts. Und es bringt tatsächlich etwas. 🤓 🥳
1. #Petition „Erhalt des freien Zugangs zur #Psychotherapie“

ENG (Deutsch unten):
Last year I started to read all books written by Jules Verne. As I'm half way through it now I'm looking for books to read afterwards. It should be some of the great ones. The ones you should have read before it's over. Or simply books I find interesting.
I already have a short list (see below) .. So... What else should be in this list? Pls make recommendations!
Boosts appreciated!
DEU:
Letztes Jahr habe ich angefangen alle Büc…

Indirect Detection of Dark Matter Around a Supermassive Black Hole with High Energy-Resolution Gamma-Ray Telescopes
Yu Watanabe, Alexander Kusenko, Shigeki Matsumoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07009

Indirect Detection of Dark Matter Around a Supermassive Black Hole with High Energy-Resolution Gamma-Ray Telescopes
We explore whether the unprecedented energy resolution of upcoming gamma-ray telescopes can uncover relativistic effects in photon spectra resulting from dark matter (DM) annihilation or decay near the supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the Galactic Center (GC), specifically, gravitational redshift, Doppler broadening due to Lorentz boosts, and kinetic energy enhancements arising from high DM velocities. By modeling DM density and velocity profiles under various SMBH formation scenarios and DM p…

Benefit from Rich: Tackling Search Interaction Sparsity in Search Enhanced Recommendation
Teng Shi, Weijie Yu, Xiao Zhang, Ming He, Jianping Fan, Jun Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04145

Benefit from Rich: Tackling Search Interaction Sparsity in Search Enhanced Recommendation
In modern online platforms, search and recommendation (S&R) often coexist, offering opportunities for performance improvement through search-enhanced approaches. Existing studies show that incorporating search signals boosts recommendation performance. However, the effectiveness of these methods relies heavily on rich search interactions. They primarily benefit a small subset of users with abundant search behavior, while offering limited improvements for the majority of users who exhibit only s…

Integrating Movable Antennas and Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (MA-IRS): Fundamentals, Practical Solutions, and Opportunities
Qingqing Wu, Ziyuan Zheng, Ying Gao, Weidong Mei, Xin Wei, Wen Chen, Boyu Ning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14636

Integrating Movable Antennas and Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (MA-IRS): Fundamentals, Practical Solutions, and Opportunities
Movable antennas (MAs) and intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) enable active antenna repositioning and passive phase-shift tuning for channel reconfiguration, respectively. Integrating MAs and IRSs boosts spatial degrees of freedom, significantly enhancing wireless network capacity, coverage, and reliability. In this article, we first present the fundamentals of MA-IRS integration, involving clarifying the key design issues, revealing performance gain, and identifying the conditions where MA…

A New Family of Thread to Core Allocation Policies for an SMT ARM Processor
Marta Navarro, Josu\'e Feliu, Salvador Petit, Mar\'ia E. G\'omez, Julio Sahuquillo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00855

A New Family of Thread to Core Allocation Policies for an SMT ARM Processor
Modern high-performance servers commonly integrate Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) processors, which efficiently boosts throughput over single-threaded cores. Optimizing performance in SMT processors faces challenges due to the inter-application interference within each SMT core. To mitigate the interference, thread-to-core (T2C) allocation policies play a pivotal role. State-of-the-art T2C policies work in two steps: i) building a per-application performance stack using performance counters …

I've been using phanpy for a couple years now, but mastodon 4.4's web interface is such an improvement that it doesn't feel painful to use any more. The boosts carousel is a big missing feature, though.

Google launches its AI-powered ad tools in India; the country repealing its so-called "Google Tax" boosts its appeal to global tech companies selling online ads (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/goog

Google brings its AI-powered marketing tools to India after 'Google tax' repeal | TechCrunch
Google has launched a suite of its AI-powered advertising tools in India, which debuted in the U.S. in May, as the repeal of the so-called "Google tax"

China releases draft guidelines on cross-border transmission of automobile data, which could pave the way for the wider rollout of Tesla's FSD in the country (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

DraftKings NFL parlay, odds for Friday, August 8: Expert reveals DK parlay with 6-1 payout

https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/draftkin…

📊 Die Top 4 Beiträge der letzten Woche mit den meisten Boosts sind:
1. #Petition zum Erhalt des freien Zugangs zur #Psychotherapie
https:…

Trump Boosts Tariffs Across World, Reshaping Global Commerce (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-31/trump-sets-tariffs-ahead-of-deadline-with-10-baseline-rate
http://www.memeorandum.com/250801/p66#a250801p66

Couple of follows for #FollowFriday
First off: the follow Friday bot! @…
Second: this other bot, it boosts intro posts into your timeline so you can meet new folks! @…

@…
Today in #WhatsMissing
The option to mute other people's boosts of posts of an account you follow.
(For cases where you follow an account that is very popular with people in your bubble and where you already read every post anyway.…

Google launches its AI-powered ad tools in India; the country repealing its so-called "Google Tax" boosts its appeal to global tech companies selling online ads (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/goog

Google brings its AI-powered marketing tools to India after 'Google tax' repeal | TechCrunch
Google has launched a suite of its AI-powered advertising tools in India, which debuted in the U.S. in May, as the repeal of the so-called "Google tax"

Generating Moving Field Initial Conditions with Spatially Varying Boost
Siyang Ling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23020 https://arxiv.or…

Generating Moving Field Initial Conditions with Spatially Varying Boost
We introduce a novel class of algorithms, the ``spatially varying boost'', for generating dynamical field initial conditions with prescribed bulk velocities. Given (non-moving) initial field data, the algorithm generates new initial data with the given velocity profile by performing local Lorentz boosts. This algorithm is generic, with no restriction on the type of the field, the equation of motion, and can endow fields with ultra-relativistic velocities. This algorithm enables new simulations …

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#AskFedi: meeting-booking software like Calendly or SimplyMeet.me
I need to set up one of those things where other people can pick a time for us to meet.
I only need it for a few meetings on a few days, so I don't want to have to maintain an entire online calendar up-to-date just so that it can see where the gaps are. I want one which is easy to use as follows: I go into the thing itself and select a few chunks of time which _are_ available, it turns those into bookable slots.
I'd also like it to be easy to remove unbooked slots manually without messing up any adjacent booked ones.
Previously I've not even used this type of software the other way round, as the person booking someone _else's_ available time - so I'm starting fresh with looking into it!
I've got my eye on SimplyMeet.me, because the below Zapier article said it was a nicely customisable one and can do intake questions, which would be nice. Has anyone else used that?
Any other recommendations or pointers?
Thanks in advance for clues!
(boosts very welcome)
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