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"The overall life expectancy of a programming language has dwindled in the past 56 years. A COBOL developer in the 1960s most probably retired in the 2000s, still writing COBOL. As a former professional VBScript, then C#, then Objective-C, later Swift, and finally Go developer, I can only see this trend accelerating. We should expect our favorite programming language to be replaced and removed from the market in a relatively shorter time every decade."

Alan Perlis And The Evolution Of Programming Languages
Alan Jay Perlis knew a thing or two about programming languages, both as an early pioneer of our industry and as one of the designers of ALGOL. The language that has inspired the one you, dear reader of this magazine, probably use every day to earn a living.

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Some LGBTQ creators are seeing their brand partnership revenue for June's Pride Month dwindle in 2025, as advertisers pull back on their Pride marketing spend (Alexander Lee/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/pride-but-no-budget-lgbtq-creato…

Pride, but no budget: LGBTQ+ creators hit by ad spend drop
As brands pull back their spending on Pride Month marketing initiatives, LGBTQ+ creators are seeing their brand deals dwindle.

A Private Smart Wallet with Probabilistic Compliance
Andrea Rizzini, Marco Esposito, Francesco Bruschi, Donatella Sciuto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04853 h…

A Private Smart Wallet with Probabilistic Compliance
We propose a privacy-preserving smart wallet with a novel invitation-based private onboarding mechanism. The solution integrates two levels of compliance in concert with an authority party: a proof of innocence mechanism and an ancestral commitment tracking system using bloom filters for probabilistic UTXO chain states. Performance analysis demonstrates practical efficiency: private transfers with compliance checks complete within seconds on a consumer-grade laptop, and overall with proof gener…

Europium, we have a problem. Modelling r-process enrichment across Local Group galaxies
Marco Palla, Marta Molero, Donatella Romano, Alessio Mucciarelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04066

Europium, we have a problem. Modelling r-process enrichment across Local Group galaxies
Context: Europium (Eu) serves as a crucial tracer to understand the origin of rapid neutron-capture process (r-process) elements. An extensive effort was made in the last decade to model the chemical evolution of this element in the Galaxy. However, less attention was reserved to Eu in different galaxies of the Local Group (LG). Aims: By employing detailed and well-tested chemical evolution models, we investigate Eu enrichment across LG dwarf spheroidal galaxies, allowing for a direct compariso…

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Expanding Over-the-Air Computation with Frequency Modulations
In this study we introduce Logarithmic Frequency Shift Keying (Log-FSK), a novel frequency modulation for over-the-air computation (AirComp). Log-FSK leverages non-linear signal processing to produce AirComp in the frequency domain, this is, the maximum frequency of the received signal corresponds to the sum of the individual transmitted frequencies. The demodulation procedure relies on the inverse Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and the extraction of the maximum frequency component. Log-FSK en…

Ukraine intelligence: Russia deploys Soviet-era tanks as modern reserves dwindle amid massive losses - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/06/28/ukraine-intelligence-russia-deploys-soviet-era-tanks-as-modern-reserves-dwindle-amid-massive-losses/

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Error-Free Demodulation of Pixelated Interferograms: Updated review and circumstantial evidence of plagiarism by 4D Technology Corporation
This paper examines the historical development that led to error-free phase demodulation of pixelated spatial-carrier interferograms between 2004 and 2010. It also evaluates evidence suggesting that 4D Technology Corporation (4DTC), in their SPIE 7790 publication [18], may have adopted key concepts from a manuscript submitted by Servin and collaborators, which at that time was still under peer review [17]. We analyze 4DTC algorithms based on 2x2 and 3x3 spatial convolution phase shifting method…