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Hugging Face begins taking orders for its $449 Reachy Mini Wireless and $299 Reachy Mini Lite open source robots, which come as kits for developers to build (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/hugging-fa…

Hugging Face opens up orders for its Reachy Mini desktop robots | TechCrunch
Hugging Face is releasing two versions of its desktop robot meant for designing and coding AI applications.

Those of you out there facing ICE/DHS - you may want to consider temporarily disabling face recognition login on your iPhone.
Here's from Apple:
Temporarily disable Face ID
You can temporarily prevent Face ID from unlocking your iPhone.
Press and hold the side button and either volume button for 2 seconds.
After the sliders appear, press the side button to immediately lock iPhone.
iPhone locks automatically if you don’t touch the screen for…

Ukraine's 2026 budget could face $19B shortfall as Europe weighs how to fill the gap, FT reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/08/ukraines-budget-could-face-b.html

“I do not design with Figma. He who designs with Figma has forgotten the face of his father. I design with my eye.
I do not code with an IDE. He who codes with his IDE has forgotten the face of his father. I code with my mind.
I do not push to staging. He who pushes to staging has forgotten the face of his father. I push to prod.”
--The Gunslinger, if Stephen King was full stack
#tech

Trump is spiraling. We face the consequences. Where are the other branches?
https://www.lawdork.com/p/trump-is-spiraling-we-face-the-consequences

« Face Š Trump et Š une direction démocrate dépassée, une poussée Š gauche se confirme aux Etats-Unis »
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2025/07/09/face-a-trump-…

« Face à Trump et à une direction démocrate dépassée, une poussée à gauche se confirme aux Etats-Unis »
Le 24 juin, Zohran Mamdani, un représentant de l’aile gauche du Parti démocrate, a remporté l’investiture pour la mairie de New York. Si son chemin vers la victoire sera sans doute escarpé, l’universitaire Mathieu Bonzom y voit, dans une tribune au « Monde », l’essor d’une gauche de plus en plus crédible.

New survey data out Friday shows that Republicans are wrong if they remain unconcerned about public sentiment as it relates to the evisceration of Medicaid or healthcare support systems that would result from passage of their colossal legislation now making its way through Congress
— a bill that, if passed, would see coverage stripped from an estimated 11-16 million people in the coming years.

Poll Shows GOP Senators Who Vote to Cut Medicaid Could Face Political Peril
A KFF Health Tracking Poll shows anxiety is high about looming Medicaid cuts among voters across the political spectrum.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
New Order:
🎵 Your Silent Face
#NewOrder
https://danielallen.bandcamp.com/track/new-order-your-silent-face-daniel-allens-tape-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/0eKRwDBVWxCXWpLYFYrbd1

⛓️‍💥 The ‘chain of favors’ that keeps Cubans afloat in the face of state abandonment
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-04-20/the-chain-of-favors-that-keeps-cubans-afloat-in-the-face-of-state-ab…

The ‘chain of favors’ that keeps Cubans afloat in the face of state abandonment
Tired of waiting for a government that has turned its back on them, millions of people suffering from hunger, homelessness and a lack of medicine in Cuba are relying on solidarity to survive

The problem of course is that our problems are complex.
“Advanced AI suffers ‘complete accuracy collapse’ in face of complex problems, study finds” - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/09/apple-artificial-intelligence…

Russian airlines face $254 million losses from just 2 days of Ukrainian drone strikes, Kremlin media reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/07/russian-airlines-face-million-losses.html

Europe's red line to China: Stop fueling Putin’s war machine or face policy reversal, Von der Leyen warns - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/08/europes-red-line-to-china-stop-fueling-putins-war-machine-or-face-policy-reversal-von-der-leyen-warns/

Trump complaining about the violence in LA is basically somebody punching themselves in the face and then saying they’re going to start punching everyone if the punching doesn’t stop.

The Raiders Will Face Stiff Competition This Season https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-denver-broncos-quinn-meinerz-ryan-kelly-will-fries

Check out my latest CSO piece, which examines how Trump’s nominees for national cyber director and CISA director will face shared challenges but different prospects in coping with unprecedented reductions in cyber personnel across the federal government.
Many thanks to Michael Daniel of the Cyber Threat Alliance and Mark Montgomery of FDD for their help and insight.
Daniel made a point about Trump's cutbacks on cyber spending, a situation that most cyber folks haven't see…

Top US cyber officials face divergent paths after Senate confirmation
Following their Senate confirmations, Sean Cairncross and Sean Plankey — Trump’s nominees for national cyber director and CISA director — will face shared challenges but different prospects in coping with unprecedented reductions in cyber personnel across the federal government.

If you image playground my face, thats a faux pas

Leaders We Deserve
invests in candidates who reflect our generation and its values
matching them with the resources they need to run strong campaigns,
win, and change the face of power.
Think EMILYs List for young, progressive courageous candidates.
Leaders We Deserve invests in young people, knocks down these barriers, and elects more young people to office.

About Us | Leaders We Deserve
Young Progressive candidates face systemic barriers. At every level of government, the average politician is older than the average American. Our political system is stacked against young people – in favor of those who are older, …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Les Négresses Vertes:
🎵 Face À La Mer (Massive Attack Remix)
#LesNégressesVertes
https://vangelislolos.bandcamp.com/track/les-negresses-vertes-face-a-la-mer-vangelis-lolos-redrum-mix-2021
https://open.spotify.com/track/3J4rpz1xmakhuWoJFk3rj6

"Nations Must Act to Face Climate Crisis, Top Regional Court Says"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Nations Must Act to Face Climate Crisis, Top Regional Court Says - Inside Climate News
An advisory opinion from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights also concluded that governments have special obligations to protect and support environmental defenders.

A look at the threats and harassment local reporters covering US extremism face and the importance of coverage of how extremists interact with their communities (Liam Scott/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/local-reporters-dangers…

How Local Reporters Manage the Dangers of Covering Extremism
The extremism beat has gone mainstream—but in local markets, it’s still intensely personal.

Shuttered Venue Operators Grant Recipients Face Surprise Rescissions—Is the SBA Ombudsman Your Next Step?
https://musictechpolicy.com/2025/07/01…

Shuttered Venue Operators Grant Recipients Face Surprise Rescissions—Is the SBA Ombudsman Your Next Step?
If you’ve received a rescission letter from the SBA demanding repayment of SVOG funds, you’re not alone. This post explains why it’s happening, what your options are—including the SBA Ombudsman—and…

Longitudinal magnon transport properties in the easy-axis XXZ Heisenberg ferromagnet on the face-centered cubic lattice
M. R. Parymuda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04082

Longitudinal magnon transport properties in the easy-axis XXZ Heisenberg ferromagnet on the face-centered cubic lattice
We present a detailed investigation of longitudinal magneto-thermal transport in the $S=1/2$ ferromagnetic XXZ model with easy-axis exchange anisotropy ($Δ>1$) on a face-centered cubic lattice consisting of four sublattices. We employ linear spin-wave theory and the Kubo formalism to evaluate the longitudinal spin and thermal conductivities, both of which exhibit activated temperature dependence in the low-temperature regime, and to determine their magnetic-field dependence. Our analysis indic…

In these trying times, let me offer an Atlantic puffin, Fratercula arctica, swimming near the Petit Manan breeding colony off the coast of Maine
#naturalist #wildlife #bird

And now an older male boarded he train, and looking at his face, I was like: "Gargamel!"
And now I can't stop smiling. And the young 'uns these days probably don't even know Gargamel!

"#Permaculture: how do we live in place, sustainably, in time?"
Yes, actually, that IS my project: what I'm doing with my life, right now. Building community with the people around me, to build resilience in the face of #ClimateEmergency
Planet: Critical: Resilien…

Sources - Cachemire de Mongolie : Enquête sur la face cachée de nos vêtements - Regarder le documentaire complet | ARTE
#mongolie

Sources - Cachemire de Mongolie : Enquête sur la face cachée de nos vêtements - Regarder le documentaire complet | ARTE
C’est la reine des laines. Le cachemire. Mais l’afflux sur le marché mondial de pulls plus abordables a des conséquences sur tout un pays… Que font les marques pour limiter leur impact ?

Credit to "SykkelMafiaen" for this. It is hosted on Instagram but given many here are adverse to that site I do not feel too bad re-hosting. Plus it is a video of me. 🤷
Also thanks to @… for tracking it down.

Texas officials face scrutiny over response to catastrophic and deadly flooding (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/06/texas-officials-face-scrutiny-over-response-to-catastrophic-and-deadly-flooding-00440035
http://www.memeorandum.com/250706/p8#a250706p8

In Germany there are three pleas to assault: guilty, not guilty, and he had a punchable face.

@… J’enseigne mon cours de propé BA en automne, je présume que ce sera le moment quand il me faudra faire face Š ce phénomène aussi…

@… J’enseigne mon cours de propé BA en automne, je présume que ce sera le moment quand il me faudra faire face Š ce phénomène aussi…

Europe's red line to China: Stop fueling Putin’s war machine or face policy reversal, Von der Leyen warns - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/08/europes-red-line-to-china-stop-fueling-putins-war-machine-or-face-policy-reversal-von-der-leyen-warns/

This is a thoroughly well-deserved slap in the face: #Xbox

Madleen Gaza flotilla live tracker: Greta Thunberg, crew near Gaza | Gaza News | Al Jazeera
https://aje.io/p6b8m7?update=3762371
UN rights expert says Israeli speedboats surrounding Madleen
(Via @…

Today we lose our sweet li’l hairy snausage, Tia Marie. She’s the last of the Tiny OGs—the 3 Ts: Tibby, Tink, & Tia—& I don’t know what I’m going to do without her. My heart is breaking. I probably won’t be online for a while. #MySweetGirl #ChiweeniesOfMastodon

Yep, I’m rolling with Debian and demolishing pizza like a pro on my birthday, August 22. Tech and toppings, the perfect combo!
#Linux #Pizza #Debian

Input-Sensitive Reconfiguration of Sliding Cubes
Hugo Akitaya, Matias Korman, Frederick Stock
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04170 https://

Input-Sensitive Reconfiguration of Sliding Cubes
A configuration of $n$ unit-cube-shaped \textit{modules} (or \textit{robots}) is a lattice-aligned placement of the $n$ modules so that their union is face-connected. The reconfiguration problem aims at finding a sequence of moves that reconfigures the modules from one given configuration to another. The sliding cube model (in which modules are allowed to slide over the face or edge of neighboring modules) is one of the most studied theoretical models for modular robots. In the sliding cubes …

Time to get rid of the monarchs birthday holiday and associated honours list. When someone like Scott Morrison makes the list it's just a slap in the face of people who deserve recognition.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-08/sco

Scott Morrison receives country's highest honour for leading Australia through COVID crisis
The 30th prime minister has been appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia for his "eminent service" to the country and direction during the COVID-19 pandemic.

I'd like to see what @… will think of this photo. This is me circa 2000 performing a Rock Bottom, The Rock's signature wrestling move, on one of my friends.
Back when we didn't take "Don't try this at home" too seriously.
#Wrestling

BELIEVE in YOURSELF

Robust Power System State Estimation using Physics-Informed Neural Networks
Solon Falas, Markos Asprou, Charalambos Konstantinou, Maria K. Michael
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05874

Robust Power System State Estimation using Physics-Informed Neural Networks
Modern power systems face significant challenges in state estimation and real-time monitoring, particularly regarding response speed and accuracy under faulty conditions or cyber-attacks. This paper proposes a hybrid approach using physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) to enhance the accuracy and robustness, of power system state estimation. By embedding physical laws into the neural network architecture, PINNs improve estimation accuracy for transmission grid applications under both normal …

Aaron Rodgers revenge tour will be happening: New Steelers QB to face Packers and Jets in 2025

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/aaron-r

Il y a cette sensation, parfois, face Š certaines photographies. On tombe nez Š nez avec une image, et il se passe quelque chose. Pas besoin qu’elle soit l’œuvre d’un grand photographe, ni de tout savoir ou de connaître l’artiste. Il suffit de la regarder, et aussitôt elle nous plonge dans un souvenir, un vieux rêve ou une sensation intime.
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Marines are highly trained in combat and crisis response, with time in conflict zones like Syria and Afghanistan.
But that is starkly different from the role they will face now:
They could potentially be hit by L A hipsters carrying gas canisters and have to quickly decide how to respond
or face decisions about protecting an immigration enforcement agent from crowds.

Pentagon draws up rules for Marines deployed to LA protests
The Pentagon is scrambling to establish rules to guide U.S. Marines who could be faced with the rare and difficult prospect of using force against citizens on American soil, now that the Trump administration is deploying active duty troops to the immigration raid protests in Los Angeles. U.S. Northern Command said Monday that it's sending 700 Marines into the Los Angeles area to protect federal property and personnel. A U.S. official says troops will be armed with their normal service weapons b…

HyperGaussians: High-Dimensional Gaussian Splatting for High-Fidelity Animatable Face Avatars
Gent Serifi, Marcel C. B\"uhler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02803

HyperGaussians: High-Dimensional Gaussian Splatting for High-Fidelity Animatable Face Avatars
We introduce HyperGaussians, a novel extension of 3D Gaussian Splatting for high-quality animatable face avatars. Creating such detailed face avatars from videos is a challenging problem and has numerous applications in augmented and virtual reality. While tremendous successes have been achieved for static faces, animatable avatars from monocular videos still fall in the uncanny valley. The de facto standard, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), represents a face through a collection of 3D Gaussian pr…

Sonnet 127 - CXXVII
In the old age black was not counted fair,
Or if it were, it bore not beauty's name;
But now is black beauty's successive heir,
And beauty slandered with a bastard shame:
For since each hand hath put on Nature's power,
Fairing the foul with Art's false borrowed face,
Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy bower,
But is profaned, if not lives in disgrace.
Therefore my mistress' eyes are raven black,

Sources: OpenAI plans to launch an open-weight model as soon as next week on Hugging Face and other platforms, its first open-weight release since GPT-2 in 2019 (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft

OpenAI’s open language model is imminent
OpenAI is ready to launch its new open AI model. The release could come as soon as next week, according to sources familiar with OpenAI’s plans.

https://www.highereddive.com/news/higher-ed-reaction-reconciliation-bill-obba-passage/752380/

‘One big mistake’: Higher ed sounds warning over GOP budget law
From higher endowment taxes to student loan limits, colleges and students will face a dramatically new landscape with the passage of a new spending law.

What's the angle here? California belongs to Mexico? In Communism, we will drive our own taxis? Baiting the people who love Evola with the defeat of martial order by the unwashed and unchecked proletariat? Kali Yuga fashion show? Just there for the violence? Strange times we live in.

Intrinsic Fingerprint of LLMs: Continue Training is NOT All You Need to Steal A Model!
Do-hyeon Yoon, Minsoo Chun, Thomas Allen, Hans M\"uller, Min Wang, Rajesh Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03014

Intrinsic Fingerprint of LLMs: Continue Training is NOT All You Need to Steal A Model!
Large language models (LLMs) face significant copyright and intellectual property challenges as the cost of training increases and model reuse becomes prevalent. While watermarking techniques have been proposed to protect model ownership, they may not be robust to continue training and development, posing serious threats to model attribution and copyright protection. This work introduces a simple yet effective approach for robust LLM fingerprinting based on intrinsic model characteristics. We d…

Efficient Detection of Intermittent Job Failures Using Few-Shot Learning
Henri A\"idasso, Francis Bordeleau, Ali Tizghadam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04173

Efficient Detection of Intermittent Job Failures Using Few-Shot Learning
One of the main challenges developers face in the use of continuous integration (CI) and deployment pipelines is the occurrence of intermittent job failures, which result from unexpected non-deterministic issues (e.g., flaky tests or infrastructure problems) rather than regular code-related errors such as bugs. Prior studies developed machine-learning (ML) models trained on large datasets of job logs to classify job failures as either intermittent or regular. As an alternative to costly manual …

Unveiling the Potential of Diffusion Large Language Model in Controllable Generation
Zhen Xiong, Yujun Cai, Zhecheng Li, Yiwei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04504

Unveiling the Potential of Diffusion Large Language Model in Controllable Generation
Diffusion models, originally developed for image generation, have emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive large language models (LLMs). We present a theoretical analysis comparing autoregressive and masked diffusion LLMs, revealing that the intrinsic bidirectional attention mechanism of diffusion LLMs (dLLMs) enables superior context modeling and generation controllability. However, existing dLLM applications face significant challenges in controllable generation: the native multi-…

The Las Vegas Raiders Face a Significant Question https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-devin-white-pete-carroll-jeremy-chinn-ashton-jeanty

Nearly 3,000 North Face website customer accounts breached as retail incidents continue https://therecord.media/north-face-customer-accounts-data-breach-notification

Self Portrait Study 🖼️
自我小像研究 🖼️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Yiding Cao Geld mit PayPal.Me senden
Folgen Sie dem Link PayPal.Me/dingsterdingster und geben Sie den Betrag ein. Es ist bequem und sicher. Sie haben noch kein PayPal-Konto? Kein Problem.

Three Former Cowboys Busted in Separate Violent Incidents in Four Day Period https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/greg-hardy-adam-pacman-jones-kelvin-joseph/?adt_ei=[email]

Insights from Designing Context-Aware Meal Preparation Assistance for Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and Their Care Partners
Szeyi Chan, Jiachen Li, Siman Ao, Yufei Wang, Ibrahim Bilau, Brian Jones, Eunhwa Yang, Elizabeth D Mynatt, Xiang Zhi Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05663…

Insights from Designing Context-Aware Meal Preparation Assistance for Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and Their Care Partners
Older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) often face challenges during meal preparation, such as forgetting ingredients, skipping steps, or leaving appliances on, which can compromise their safety and independence. Our study explores the design of context-aware assistive technologies for meal preparation using a user-centered iterative design process. Through three iterative phases of design and feedback, evolving from low-tech lightbox to a digital screen, we gained insights into manag…

AI-washing: The Asymmetric Effects of Its Two Types on Consumer Moral Judgments
Greg Nyilasy, Harsha Gangadharbatla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04352 https:…

AI-washing: The Asymmetric Effects of Its Two Types on Consumer Moral Judgments
As AI hype continues to grow, organizations face pressure to broadcast or downplay purported AI initiatives - even when contrary to truth. This paper introduces AI-washing as overstating (deceptive boasting) or understating (deceptive denial) a company's real AI usage. A 2x2 experiment (N = 401) examines how these false claims affect consumer attitudes and purchase intentions. Results reveal a pronounced asymmetry: deceptive denial evokes more negative moral judgments than honest negation, whil…

Hmong are victims of discrimination in Laos to the point that they have to hide their ethnic identity. Hmong people are in Minnesota because they helped the USA in the Vietnam War. They are valuable and contributing members of the community.
https://www.startribune.com/…

Eau potable : des scientifiques pointent le manque de rigueur de la Wallonie face aux résidus de pesticides.
#Wallonie #santé #pesticides

The Trump administration’s
“border czar” warned that
immigration enforcement will continue
“every day” in Los Angeles,
hinting that even elected officials
could face arrest
if they interfere with agents on the ground.
Tom Homan appeared undeterred
by the volatile protests
against federal agents
in Los Angeles
who were carrying out
immigration raids.
Enforcement will be daily,
he said late Saturday
in an …

Trump's border czar threatens arrest for immigration interference, warns Newsom and Bass not to 'cross that line'
LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration’s “border czar” warned that immigration enforcement will continue “every day” in Los Angeles, hinting that even elected officials could face arrest if they interfere with agents on the ground

Archetype-Aware Predictive Autoscaling with Uncertainty Quantification for Serverless Workloads on Kubernetes
Guilin Zhang, Srinivas Vippagunta, Raghavendra Nandagopal, Suchitra Raman, Jeff Xu, Marcus Pfeiffer, Shree Chatterjee, Ziqi Tan, Wulan Guo, Hailong Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05653

Archetype-Aware Predictive Autoscaling with Uncertainty Quantification for Serverless Workloads on Kubernetes
High-performance extreme computing (HPEC) platforms increasingly adopt serverless paradigms, yet face challenges in efficiently managing highly dynamic workloads while maintaining service-level objectives (SLOs). We propose **AAPA**, an archetype-aware predictive autoscaling system that leverages weak supervision to automatically classify 300\,000\,+ workload windows into four archetypes (PERIODIC, SPIKE, RAMP, STATIONARY\_NOISY) with 99.8\% accuracy. Evaluation on publicly available Azure Func…

FindRec: Stein-Guided Entropic Flow for Multi-Modal Sequential Recommendation
Maolin Wang, Yutian Xiao, Binhao Wang, Sheng Zhang, Shanshan Ye, Wanyu Wang, Hongzhi Yin, Ruocheng Guo, Zenglin Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04651

FindRec: Stein-Guided Entropic Flow for Multi-Modal Sequential Recommendation
Modern recommendation systems face significant challenges in processing multimodal sequential data, particularly in temporal dynamics modeling and information flow coordination. Traditional approaches struggle with distribution discrepancies between heterogeneous features and noise interference in multimodal signals. We propose \textbf{FindRec}~ (\textbf{F}lexible unified \textbf{in}formation \textbf{d}isentanglement for multi-modal sequential \textbf{Rec}ommendation), introducing a novel "info…

I’ve been researching this story for years and Elon just… tweeted it out.

Distribution-Level AirComp for Wireless Federated Learning under Data Scarcity and Heterogeneity
Jun-Pyo Hong, Hyowoon Seo, Kisong Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06090

Distribution-Level AirComp for Wireless Federated Learning under Data Scarcity and Heterogeneity
The conventional FL methods face critical challenges in realistic wireless edge networks, where training data is both limited and heterogeneous, often leading to unstable training and poor generalization. To address these challenges in a principled manner, we propose a novel wireless FL framework grounded in Bayesian inference. By virtue of the Bayesian approach, our framework captures model uncertainty by maintaining distributions over local weights and performs distribution-level aggregation …

Treefera, which uses satellite imagery, drone imagery, and AI to provide real-time insights into supply chains, raised a $30M Series B led by Notion Capital (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/06/03/treefera-secure…

Treefera secures $20M Series B for AI-driven supply chain resilience solutions
Supply chain resilience startup Treeferachas secured $20 million in its Series B funding round, led by Notion Capital with participation from other investors.  In the face of growing economic uncertainty, a stringent regulatory landscape, and increasing environmental risk, Treefera’s platform utilises satellite imagery, drone imagery, and adaptive AI in order to provide real-time, tailored insights into supply chains.  This is especially significant within the first mile of supply chains,…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Sea Lemon:
🎵 Change Your Face
#SeaLemon
https://sealemonmusic.bandcamp.com/track/change-your-face
https://open.spotify.com/track/3LA7czDrVh4lhylb822K5M

Face the future
#StreetArt #face #photography

Packers QB Jordan Love 'can't wait' for Week 8 Steelers showdown against Aaron Rodgers

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/packers

AMPED: Adaptive Multi-objective Projection for balancing Exploration and skill Diversification
Geonwoo Cho, Jaemoon Lee, Jaegyun Im, Subi Lee, Jihwan Lee, Sundong Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05980

AMPED: Adaptive Multi-objective Projection for balancing Exploration and skill Diversification
Skill-based reinforcement learning (SBRL) enables rapid adaptation in environments with sparse rewards by pretraining a skill-conditioned policy. Effective skill learning requires jointly maximizing both exploration and skill diversity. However, existing methods often face challenges in simultaneously optimizing for these two conflicting objectives. In this work, we propose a new method, Adaptive Multi-objective Projection for balancing Exploration and skill Diversification (AMPED), which expli…

$\varphi$-Adapt: A Physics-Informed Adaptation Learning Approach to 2D Quantum Material Discovery
Hoang-Quan Nguyen, Xuan Bac Nguyen, Sankalp Pandey, Tim Faltermeier, Nicholas Borys, Hugh Churchill, Khoa Luu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05184

$φ$-Adapt: A Physics-Informed Adaptation Learning Approach to 2D Quantum Material Discovery
Characterizing quantum flakes is a critical step in quantum hardware engineering because the quality of these flakes directly influences qubit performance. Although computer vision methods for identifying two-dimensional quantum flakes have emerged, they still face significant challenges in estimating flake thickness. These challenges include limited data, poor generalization, sensitivity to domain shifts, and a lack of physical interpretability. In this paper, we introduce one of the first Phy…

Hybrid Stabilization Protocol for Cross-Chain Digital Assets Using Adaptor Signatures and AI-Driven Arbitrage
Shengwei You, Andrey Kuehlkamp, Jarek Nabrzyski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05708

Hybrid Stabilization Protocol for Cross-Chain Digital Assets Using Adaptor Signatures and AI-Driven Arbitrage
Stablecoins face an unresolved trilemma of balancing decentralization, stability, and regulatory compliance. We present a hybrid stabilization protocol that combines crypto-collateralized reserves, algorithmic futures contracts, and cross-chain liquidity pools to achieve robust price adherence while preserving user privacy. At its core, the protocol introduces stabilization futures contracts (SFCs), non-collateralized derivatives that programmatically incentivize third-party arbitrageurs to cou…

Abrego Garcia Charged With Illegally Transporting Migrants in US (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-06/abrego-garcia-returning-to-us-to-face-charges-abc-reports
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p111#a250606p111

En Lettonie, le conflit en Ukraine ravive la guerre des mémoires entre russophones et lettophones
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2022/05/09/en-le…

En Lettonie, le conflit en Ukraine ravive la guerre des mémoires entre russophones et lettophones
Pour les uns, le 9 mai 1945 représente la défaite de l’Allemagne nazie face à l’Armée rouge, pour les autres, le début de « l’occupation » par l’URSS. En avril, le Parlement a interdit les rassemblements célébrant la victoire soviétique.

Exploring React Library Related Questions on Stack Overflow: Answered vs. Unanswered
Vanesya Aura Ardity, Yusuf Sulistyo Nugroho, Syful Islam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04390

Exploring React Library Related Questions on Stack Overflow: Answered vs. Unanswered
React is a popular JavaScript framework in modern web application development. Due to its high performance and efficiency, many developers use this framework. Although React library offers many advantages, it is not without its challenges. When using React library, developers often face problems where they often seek solutions through question-and-answer forums, such as Stack Overflow (SO). However, despite its high popularity, many React-related questions on SO remain unanswered. Thus, this st…

Democrats push bill that would ban face masks for ICE agents and force them to ID themselves | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/democrats-immigration-law-enforcement-identification-b2784771.html

London Blue Light Collaboration Evaluation: A Comparative Analysis of Spatio temporal Patterns on Emergency Services by London Ambulance Service and London Fire Brigade
Fangyuan Li, Yijing Li, Luke Edward Rogerson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06011

London Blue Light Collaboration Evaluation: A Comparative Analysis of Spatio temporal Patterns on Emergency Services by London Ambulance Service and London Fire Brigade
With rising demand for emergency services, the London Ambulance Service, LAS, and the London Fire Brigade, LFB, face growing challenges in resource coordination. This study investigates the temporal and spatial similarities in their service demands to assess potential for routine cross-agency collaboration. Time series analysis revealed aligned demand peaks in summer, on Fridays, during daytime hours, and were highly sensitive to high temperature weather conditions. Bivariate mapping and Moran …

ZettaLith: An Architectural Exploration of Extreme-Scale AI Inference Acceleration
Kia Silverbrook
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02871 https://

ZettaLith: An Architectural Exploration of Extreme-Scale AI Inference Acceleration
The high computational cost and power consumption of current and anticipated AI systems present a major challenge for widespread deployment and further scaling. Current hardware approaches face fundamental efficiency limits. This paper introduces ZettaLith, a scalable computing architecture designed to reduce the cost and power of AI inference by over 1,000x compared to current GPU-based systems. Based on architectural analysis and technology projections, a single ZettaLith rack could potential…

Context-Aware Deep Learning for Robust Channel Extrapolation in Fluid Antenna Systems
Yanliang Jin, Runze Yu, Yuan Gao, Shengli Liu, Xiaoli Chu, Kai-Kit Wong, Chan-Byoung Chae
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04435

Context-Aware Deep Learning for Robust Channel Extrapolation in Fluid Antenna Systems
Fluid antenna systems (FAS) offer remarkable spatial flexibility but face significant challenges in acquiring high-resolution channel state information (CSI), leading to considerable overhead. To address this issue, we propose CANet, a robust deep learning model for channel extrapolation in FAS. CANet combines context-adaptive modeling with a cross-scale attention mechanism and is built on a ConvNeXt v2 backbone to improve extrapolation accuracy for unobserved antenna ports. To further enhance …

With fewer than 900 American students in China at a time of unprecedented bilateral tensions,
Chinese classmates continually ask her to explain President Donald Trump’s decisions,
while American friends and family ask her to translate the intricacies of Chinese politics.
https://www.

American students in China face a barrage of questions about Trump
The number of U.S. students in China has plummeted, but those who are there now say it’s more important than ever for Americans to understand the country.

Ranking the opposing offenses the Raiders will face this season https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/ranking-the-opposing-offenses-the-raiders-will-face-this-season-3393100/

Towards Lifecycle Unlearning Commitment Management: Measuring Sample-level Unlearning Completeness
Cheng-Long Wang, Qi Li, Zihang Xiang, Yinzhi Cao, Di Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06112

Towards Lifecycle Unlearning Commitment Management: Measuring Sample-level Unlearning Completeness
Growing concerns over data privacy and security highlight the importance of machine unlearning--removing specific data influences from trained models without full retraining. Techniques like Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) are widely used to externally assess successful unlearning. However, existing methods face two key limitations: (1) maximizing MIA effectiveness (e.g., via online attacks) requires prohibitive computational resources, often exceeding retraining costs; (2) MIAs, designed f…

MoDiT: Learning Highly Consistent 3D Motion Coefficients with Diffusion Transformer for Talking Head Generation
Yucheng Wang, Dan Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05092

MoDiT: Learning Highly Consistent 3D Motion Coefficients with Diffusion Transformer for Talking Head Generation
Audio-driven talking head generation is critical for applications such as virtual assistants, video games, and films, where natural lip movements are essential. Despite progress in this field, challenges remain in producing both consistent and realistic facial animations. Existing methods, often based on GANs or UNet-based diffusion models, face three major limitations: (i) temporal jittering caused by weak temporal constraints, resulting in frame inconsistencies; (ii) identity drift due to ins…

PROTEAN: Federated Intrusion Detection in Non-IID Environments through Prototype-Based Knowledge Sharing
Sara Chennoufi, Yufei Han, Gregory Blanc, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Christophe Kiennert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05524

PROTEAN: Federated Intrusion Detection in Non-IID Environments through Prototype-Based Knowledge Sharing
In distributed networks, participants often face diverse and fast-evolving cyberattacks. This makes techniques based on Federated Learning (FL) a promising mitigation strategy. By only exchanging model updates, FL participants can collaboratively build detection models without revealing sensitive information, e.g., network structures or security postures. However, the effectiveness of FL solutions is often hindered by significant data heterogeneity, as attack patterns often differ drastically a…

Hugging Face unveils two open-source humanoid robots, the $3,000 full-sized HopeJR and a $250-$300 Reachy Mini desktop unit, expected to ship by the end of 2025 (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/29/hugging-face-unveils-two-…

Hugging Face unveils two new humanoid robots | TechCrunch
Hugging Face hopes to start shipping two new open-source humanoid robots by the end of 2025.

The Trump administration’s deployment of national guard troops to Los Angeles
to intervene in civilian protests in the face of opposition from the Californian governor
is a major escalation that risks the politicisation of the US military, armed service veterans are warning.
Former top military figures have told the Guardian that the decision to put up to 2,000 troops under federal control and send them into the streets of LA
is a violation of the military’s commitmen…

DOJ Discovers It CAN Actually Bring Abrego Garcia Back… To Face Sketchy, Trumped Up Criminal Charges | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/06/doj-discovers-it-can-actually-bring-abrego-garcia-back-to-face-sketchy-trumped-up-criminal-charges/

Beyond Musk, Senators face another budget bill foe -- callers (Adam Klasfeld/All Rise News)
https://www.allrisenews.com/p/budget-bill-reps
http://www.memeorandum.com/250607/p66#a250607p66

Robust Incomplete-Modality Alignment for Ophthalmic Disease Grading and Diagnosis via Labeled Optimal Transport
Qinkai Yu, Jianyang Xie, Yitian Zhao, Cheng Chen, Lijun Zhang, Liming Chen, Jun Cheng, Lu Liu, Yalin Zheng, Yanda Meng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04999

Robust Incomplete-Modality Alignment for Ophthalmic Disease Grading and Diagnosis via Labeled Optimal Transport
Multimodal ophthalmic imaging-based diagnosis integrates color fundus image with optical coherence tomography (OCT) to provide a comprehensive view of ocular pathologies. However, the uneven global distribution of healthcare resources often results in real-world clinical scenarios encountering incomplete multimodal data, which significantly compromises diagnostic accuracy. Existing commonly used pipelines, such as modality imputation and distillation methods, face notable limitations: 1)Imputat…

Via jessica@substack.com (Abortion, Every Day on Substack) e-mail:
**Indiana** will maintain a state registry called the Database Registration of Indiana’s Vital Events (“DRIVE”). In it, you’ll find birth and death records, and—you guessed it—*abortion reports.*
Any doctor or hospital that doesn’t hand over women’s abortion information will face fines and disciplinary action. The IDOH says it will increase collaboration with the state’s licensing agency to speed up those punishments.

$\text{C}^{2}\text{BNVAE}$: Dual-Conditional Deep Generation of Network Traffic Data for Network Intrusion Detection System Balancing
Yifan Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05844

$\text{C}^{2}\text{BNVAE}$: Dual-Conditional Deep Generation of Network Traffic Data for Network Intrusion Detection System Balancing
Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) face challenges due to class imbalance, affecting their ability to detect novel and rare attacks. This paper proposes a Dual-Conditional Batch Normalization Variational Autoencoder ($\text{C}^{2}\text{BNVAE}$) for generating balanced and labeled network traffic data. $\text{C}^{2}\text{BNVAE}$ improves the model's adaptability to different data categories and generates realistic category-specific data by incorporating Conditional Batch Normalization (C…

Trump says Elon Musk will face 'very serious consequences' if he funds Democratic candidates (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-elon-musk-consequences-funds-democratic-candidates-rcna211605
http://www.memeorandum.com/250607/p32#a250607p32

Filipino workers in Taiwan's chip industry report struggling with overwork and discrimination, citing overnight shifts of up to 16 hours and abusive treatment (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/filipino-workers-taiwan-chip-industry/

Workers describe abusive treatment in Taiwan’s semiconductor factories
A record number of people are leaving the Philippines to work in Taiwanese factories, where they face long shifts, low pay, and unequal treatment.

RVISmith: Fuzzing Compilers for RVV Intrinsics
Yibo He, Cunjian Huang, Xianmiao Qu, Hongdeng Chen, Wei Yang, Tao Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03773 https…

RVISmith: Fuzzing Compilers for RVV Intrinsics
Modern processors are equipped with single instruction multiple data (SIMD) instructions for fine-grained data parallelism. Compiler auto-vectorization techniques that target SIMD instructions face performance limitations due to insufficient information available at compile time, requiring programmers to manually manipulate SIMD instructions. SIMD intrinsics, a type of built-in function provided by modern compilers, enable programmers to manipulate SIMD instructions within high-level programmin…

Up close, the aging visages of the moai are riddled with signs of erosion and staining.
They are gradually wearing away to dust.
Tuki, who works in Rapa Nui's tourism industry, is essentially watching these stunning figures slowly disappear.
"My father told me that the moai would go back into the ocean one day," she says.
Tuki's father, who died in 2020, was a famed contemporary moai sculptor.
The original statues, mostly carved between 110…

Is this the end for Easter Island's moai statues?
Easter Island's famous moai statues are crumbling into the sea, forcing locals to face urgent decisions about how best to protect their heritage.

This Weird Pyramid Always Lands on the Same Face, Confirming 40-Year-Old Theory
https://gizmodo.com/this-weird-pyramid-always-lands-on-the-same-face-confirming-40-year-old-theory-2000623838

Now is when it really matters
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DF6WJLZttlN/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ

Leigh McGowan on Instagram: "Kendrick Lamar showed more courage in the face of rising American tyranny than we’ve seen from ANY former American leader. If you swore an oath to protect this nation, where are you now?"
190K likes, 15K comments - iampoliticsgirl on February 10, 2025: "Kendrick Lamar showed more courage in the face of rising American tyranny than we’ve seen from ANY former American leader. If you swore an oath to protect this nation, where are you now?".

"Trump says Elon Musk will face 'very serious consequences' if he funds Democratic candidates" - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=150276

More than a dozen summer camps dot the banks of the Guadalupe River and its tributaries,
a vast network of waterways twisting through the hills of Kerr County, Texas.
But many of the camps’ idyllic locales also face the danger of severe flooding,
since much of the land near the river is designated as a high-risk area by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
In the most affected area, on the upper Guadalupe River in Kerr County, at least 13 summer camps lie next to…

See how FEMA maps reveal camps’ flood risks
Many camps in the Guadalupe river region are adjacent or are partially inside high-risk flood zones, according to maps from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.