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The NAACP intends to sue xAI over the natural gas turbines at its Memphis data center, which it claims are polluting nearby predominantly Black neighborhoods (Hiroko Tabuchi/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.…

Elon Musk’s AI Company Faces Lawsuit Over Gas-Burning Turbines
The company, xAI, has installed several dozen turbines in Memphis without proper permits, the group said, polluting a nearby community.

Tunable Hybrid-Mode Coupler Enabling Strong Interactions between Transmons at Centimeter-Scale Distance
Jianwen Xu, Xiang Deng, Wen Zheng, Wenchang Yan, Tao Zhang, Zhenchuan Zhang, Wanli Huang, Xiaoyu Xia, Xudong Liao, Yu Zhang, Jie Zhao, Shaoxiong Li, Xinsheng Tan, Dong Lan, Yang Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14128

Tunable Hybrid-Mode Coupler Enabling Strong Interactions between Transmons at Centimeter-Scale Distance
The transmon, a fabrication-friendly superconducting qubit, remains a leading candidate for scalable quantum computing. Recent advances in tunable couplers have accelerated progress toward high-performance quantum processors. However, extending coherent interactions beyond millimeter scales to enhance quantum connectivity presents a critical challenge. Here, we introduce a hybrid-mode coupler exploiting resonator-transmon hybridization to simultaneously engineer the two lowest-frequency mode, e…

I've almost certainly got frozen shoulder (adhesive capsulitis) so my GP sent me for an X-ray to rule out anything more serious. I went to West Middlesex University Hospital this morning, to their walk-in clinical imaging dept. There were about 21 people ahead of me. I was warned it might be an hour's wait. They actually saw me around 25 minutes later.
Thanks NHS!

MOSPA: Human Motion Generation Driven by Spatial Audio
Shuyang Xu, Zhiyang Dou, Mingyi Shi, Liang Pan, Leo Ho, Jingbo Wang, Yuan Liu, Cheng Lin, Yuexin Ma, Wenping Wang, Taku Komura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11949

MOSPA: Human Motion Generation Driven by Spatial Audio
Enabling virtual humans to dynamically and realistically respond to diverse auditory stimuli remains a key challenge in character animation, demanding the integration of perceptual modeling and motion synthesis. Despite its significance, this task remains largely unexplored. Most previous works have primarily focused on mapping modalities like speech, audio, and music to generate human motion. As of yet, these models typically overlook the impact of spatial features encoded in spatial audio sig…

Slanted light-sheet array microscopy for large volume imaging at rates exceeding 100 Hz
Kai Long, Wenkai Chen, Junming Zhou, Junyi Li, Shuhao Shen, Zhipeng Tai, Shifeng Xue, Anqi Qiu, Nanguang Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13664

Slanted light-sheet array microscopy for large volume imaging at rates exceeding 100 Hz
High-speed image acquisition in light microscopy is essential for a wide range of applications, including observing dynamic biological processes and enabling high-throughput sample analysis. However, traditional imaging speeds are often limited by the scanning mechanisms and the signal-to-noise ratio, and these constraints are further exacerbated by the need for volumetric imaging, optical sectioning, high spatial resolution, and large fields of view. To address these challenges, we have develo…

PSA: In case you run #Ubuntu 24.10 with #ZFS on Root, DO NOT TRY TO UPGRADE YET! You are very likely to run into a #Linux kernel deadlock mid-flight during the upgrade which leaves you with a broken system. …

System deadlock during Ubuntu upgrade 24.10→25.04 with ZFS root due to update-grub calling `ls /.zfs/snapshot/…` via `10_linux_zfs` causing kernel lock at mount.zfs · Issue #17337 · openzfs/zfs
System information Type Version/Name Distribution Name Ubuntu Distribution Version 24.10 Kernel Version 6.11.0-25-generic Architecture x86_64 OpenZFS Version zfs-2.2.6-1ubuntu1.1, zfs-kmod-2.2.6-1u...

Auditory-Tactile Congruence for Synthesis of Adaptive Pain Expressions in RoboPatients
Saitarun Nadipineni, Chapa Sirithunge, Yue Xie, Fumiya Iida, Thilina Dulantha Lalitharatne
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11827

Auditory-Tactile Congruence for Synthesis of Adaptive Pain Expressions in RoboPatients
Misdiagnosis can lead to delayed treatments and harm. Robotic patients offer a controlled way to train and evaluate clinicians in rare, subtle, or complex cases, reducing diagnostic errors. We present RoboPatient, a medical robotic simulator aimed at multimodal pain synthesis based on haptic and auditory feedback during palpation-based training scenarios. The robopatient functions as an adaptive intermediary, capable of synthesizing plausible pain expressions vocal and facial in response to tac…

FieldFormer: Self-supervised Reconstruction of Physical Fields via Tensor Attention Prior
Panqi Chen, Siyuan Li, Lei Cheng, Xiao Fu, Yik-Chung Wu, Sergios Theodoridis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11629

FieldFormer: Self-supervised Reconstruction of Physical Fields via Tensor Attention Prior
Reconstructing physical field tensors from \textit{in situ} observations, such as radio maps and ocean sound speed fields, is crucial for enabling environment-aware decision making in various applications, e.g., wireless communications and underwater acoustics. Field data reconstruction is often challenging, due to the limited and noisy nature of the observations, necessitating the incorporation of prior information to aid the reconstruction process. Deep neural network-based data-driven struct…

Generalised Rate Control Approach For Stream Processing Applications
Ziren Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11710 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Generalised Rate Control Approach For Stream Processing Applications
Distributed stream processing systems are widely deployed to process real-time data generated by various devices, such as sensors and software systems. A key challenge in the system is overloading, which leads to an unstable system status and consumes additional system resources. In this paper, we use a graph neural network-based deep reinforcement learning to collaboratively control the data emission rate at which the data is generated in the stream source to proactively avoid overloading scen…

The US DOD announces OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI have won DOD contracts, each with a $200M ceiling, aimed at enabling agentic AI workflows and more (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-trans…