Tootfinder

Une étude récente vient de confirmer que l'interdiction en Allemagne du recours Š du personnel sous-traitant dans les abattoirs a conduit Š des améliorations substantielles des conditions de travail.
https://www.socialeurope.eu/germanys-su…

Inside Ukraine’s drone industry: opportunities and challenges for Western partners: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/inside-ukraines-drone-industry-opportunities.html

'A slap in the face’: EU leaders, industry reel from Trump's tariff shock - Euractiv
https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/news/a-slap-in-the-face-eu-leaders-industry-reel-from-trumps-tariff-shock/

Protest the Weapons Industry Gala night of the year
5:00pm Thursday July 10
National Convention Centre
27 Constitution Ave, Canberra
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/protest-weapons-industry-gala-night-year

Protest the Weapons Industry Gala night of the year
War and genocide are good for business. That’s what the Defence Industry Awards 2025 are celebrating: war, death, destruction —and how best to profit from them. Join us to protest genocide and the war profiteers. And let’s tell the Albanese government to end two-way arms trade with Israel, dump AUKUS, impose full sanctions and close US bases in Australia. The Australian government and defence industries MUST • STOP ARMING ISRAEL • Stop the two-way arms trade with Israel • FULL sanct…

I’ve long been a fan of the Check My Ads people. Now they’re launching a really ambitious-looking “Policy Platform” aimed at cleaning up the online-advertising business. My belief is that anyone who’s had much exposure to that business or to “AdTech” probably agrees that cleanup is called for. Check it out: https://checkmyads.org/policy/

Parspec, whose AI-powered workflow tool automates procurement processes in the construction supply chain, raised a $20M Series A led by Threshold Ventures (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/construction-supply-chain-startup-parspec/

Exclusive: AI-Powered Construction Procurement Startup Lands $20M Series A 
Parspec, a startup using artificial intelligence to improve efficiency in the construction industry supply chain to help sales agents and wholesale distributors “efficiently bid and supply” construction products, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding, the company told Crunchbase News exclusively.

Assessing the Impact of Refactoring Energy-Inefficient Code Patterns on Software Sustainability: An Industry Case Study
Rohit Mehra, Priyavanshi Pathania, Vibhu Saujanya Sharma, Vikrant Kaulgud, Sanjay Podder, Adam P. Burden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09370

Assessing the Impact of Refactoring Energy-Inefficient Code Patterns on Software Sustainability: An Industry Case Study
Advances in technologies like artificial intelligence and metaverse have led to a proliferation of software systems in business and everyday life. With this widespread penetration, the carbon emissions of software are rapidly growing as well, thereby negatively impacting the long-term sustainability of our environment. Hence, optimizing software from a sustainability standpoint becomes more crucial than ever. We believe that the adoption of automated tools that can identify energy-inefficient p…

The TV industry is poised for a makeover; source: if the Paramount merger closes, Skydance will likely try to buy more local stations to boost its CBS network (Joe Flint/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/the-med

This is of historical interest on so many levels.
When the notion of AI first appeared, chess was considered the epitome of intelligence (before that it was calculating)—which, of course, it isn’t. Now AI is all about pattern recognition, which certainly covers more of what we associate with human intelligence, but go figure, it’s not *just* pattern recognition either. ⇢

"the additional expenditure on the NHS is not about improving our living standards, but about correcting the physical consequences of the appalling food that the neoliberal food supply industry is delivering to us, which is grossly detrimental to our health. We are not, in other words, better off as a consequence of this additional expenditure" -- @…

Neoliberalism is consuming our well-being
As The Guardian has noted: Britain is on track to become a “National Health State” where half of all public spending is allocated to the NHS and social care by the end of the decade, according to a leading thinktank. They added: As the chancellor came under pressure on Thursday to defend her...

»The layers of the electronics industry chain are heavily interdependent and long-term strategic advantages can only be achieved when all layers are available and provide state-of-the-art products. Increasing foreign penetration into the European industry chain, accomplished for instance by offering instant profits, decreases its strengths and creates undesirable dependencies.«
–Egon Hörbst, then executive director at Siemens AG Corporate Research, in IEEE Micro, August 1992.

Ransomware attack on ticketing platform upends South Korean entertainment industry https://therecord.media/yes24-south-korea-ransomware-attack

General Manager of Azure AI at Microsoft Don Scott shares a second consecutive year win in this post on the AI and Machine Learning portion of the official Azure blog. Gartner Group has identified Microsoft as a industry leader in data science and machine learning platforms.
"Microsoft recognized for second consecutive year as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms"

"2025: A landmark year for solar energy"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

2025: A landmark year for solar energy
The IEA-PVPS 2025 Snapshot of Global PV Markets reveals a pivotal moment for solar power: global PV capacity surpassed 2.2 TW, with more than 600 GW installed in 2024 alone. As module prices fell due to oversupply, installation volumes continued to grow, highlighting both the strength and volatility of the global PV industry.

Good news for creators.
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/industry-video-game-actors-pass-agreement-with-studios-ai-security-2025-07-10/

I've finished reading Glass Houses by Madeline Ashby today. I liked it very much. It drips of loathing for tech bros, TED conferences, misogyny in the tech industry and so on. The blurb on the back cover says it best: "perfect for fans of Severance, The White Lotus, and Black Mirror".
#bookstodon

Putting a crypto insider in charge of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is like putting a drug lord in charge of the DEA.
Industry insiders shouldn’t be regulators, but this is even worse.
Crypto isn’t even a legitimate industry, just one good at playing the catch-me-if-you-can game with the regulators it’s about to own.
-- Kristen Simplicio

The Blockchain Association Just Bought the CFTC
The revolving door isn’t just corrupting the CFTC—it may end the pretense of a Commission altogether.

Exclusive: Global egg industry investigation reveals widespread abuse of caged hens amid bird-flu pandemic
https://www.france24.com/en/environment/20250616-exclusive-global-egg-industry-investigation-reveals-widespread-abuse-of-caged-hens-amid-bird-flu-pandemic

Wife and I are the only non-horse industry people at this soirée. This must be what normies feel like at a tech conference.

Agent-based Condition Monitoring Assistance with Multimodal Industrial Database Retrieval Augmented Generation
Karl L\"owenmark, Daniel Str\"ombergsson, Chang Liu, Marcus Liwicki, Fredrik Sandin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09247

Agent-based Condition Monitoring Assistance with Multimodal Industrial Database Retrieval Augmented Generation
Condition monitoring (CM) plays a crucial role in ensuring reliability and efficiency in the process industry. Although computerised maintenance systems effectively detect and classify faults, tasks like fault severity estimation, and maintenance decisions still largely depend on human expert analysis. The analysis and decision making automatically performed by current systems typically exhibit considerable uncertainty and high false alarm rates, leading to increased workload and reduced effici…

I'm heading to London for Games Transformed: Smash the Fash event.
I'll be on a panel titled "What Can the Left Learn From Struggles in the Games Industry?" & speaking on our @gwuireland.bsky.social union organising with game workers in Ireland.
It's this weekend! Tickets here: https://www.

This is a great article about what's happening to #CartoonNetwork (and the US animation industry in general)
https://www.bloomberg.co…

Communicating Through Avatars in Industry 5.0: A Focus Group Study on Human-Robot Collaboration
Stina Klein, Pooja Prajod, Katharina Weitz, Matteo Lavit Nicora, Dimitra Tsovaltzi, Elisabeth Andr\'e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08805

Communicating Through Avatars in Industry 5.0: A Focus Group Study on Human-Robot Collaboration
The integration of collaborative robots (cobots) in industrial settings raises concerns about worker well-being, particularly due to reduced social interactions. Avatars - designed to facilitate worker interactions and engagement - are promising solutions to enhance the human-robot collaboration (HRC) experience. However, real-world perspectives on avatar-supported HRC remain unexplored. To address this gap, we conducted a focus group study with employees from a German manufacturing company tha…

“It would basically kill the AI industry overnight”
- that sounds good to me -
Nick Clegg thinks asking artists for use permission is a bad thing https://musictech.com/news/industry/nick-clegg-ai/?utm…

“It would basically kill the AI industry overnight”: Nick Clegg thinks asking artists for use permission is a bad thing
Nick Clegg says a requirement to ask artists for express permission to use their work to train AI models would “basically kill the AI industry in this country overnight”.

Securing Open RAN: A Survey of Cryptographic Challenges and Emerging Solutions for 5G
Ryan Barker, Fatemeh Afghah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09418 https://…

Securing Open RAN: A Survey of Cryptographic Challenges and Emerging Solutions for 5G
The advent of Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN) introduces modularity and flexibility into 5G deployments but also surfaces novel security challenges across disaggregated interfaces. This literature review synthesizes recent research across thirteen academic and industry sources, examining vulnerabilities such as cipher bidding-down attacks, partial encryption exposure on control/user planes, and performance trade-offs in securing O-RAN interfaces like E2 and O1. The paper surveys key cryptogr…

The data industry is consolidating, with Databricks' $1B Neon purchase, Salesforce's $8B Informatica deal, and more, fueled by the need for quality data for AI (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/ai-i

AI is forcing the data industry to consolidate — but that's not the whole story | TechCrunch
While AI may be the catalyst behind the recent wave of data company M&A, the market was ripe for consolidation.

WBD plans to shut down its linear multiplex channels HBO Family, ThrillerMax, MovieMax, and OuterMax on August 15, 2025; HBO Family launched in December 1996 (Luke Bouma/Cord Cutters News)
https://cordcuttersnews.com/hbo-is-shutting-do…

HBO Is Shutting Down Multiple Channels Including HBO Family & More | Cord Cutters News
In a significant shakeup for the television industry, HBO, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery, has confirmed plans to shut down several of its linear channels, including HBO Family, ThrillerMax, MovieMax, and OuterMax. The announcement, verified by Spectrum on August 15, 2025, marks a strategic pivot for the premium network as it continues to adapt […]

CarbonSet: A Dataset to Analyze Trends and Benchmark the Sustainability of CPUs and GPUs
Jiajun Hu, Chetan Choppali Sudarshan, Vidya A. Chhabria, Aman Arora
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10373

CarbonSet: A Dataset to Analyze Trends and Benchmark the Sustainability of CPUs and GPUs
Over the years, the chip industry has consistently developed high-performance processors to address the increasing demands across diverse applications. However, the rapid expansion of chip production has significantly increased carbon emissions, raising critical concerns about environmental sustainability. While researchers have previously modeled the carbon footprint (CFP) at both system and processor levels, a holistic analysis of sustainability trends encompassing the entire chip lifecycle r…

This spin reminds me when we looked at the script kiddies trying to hack our Dec-cluster with copied linux exploits 😅
https://mastodon.social/@dw_innovation/114663563572107178

From Domain Documents to Requirements: Retrieval-Augmented Generation in the Space Industry
Chetan Arora, Fanyu Wang, Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, Aldeida Aleti, Shaun Kenyon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07689

From Domain Documents to Requirements: Retrieval-Augmented Generation in the Space Industry
Requirements engineering (RE) in the space industry is inherently complex, demanding high precision, alignment with rigorous standards, and adaptability to mission-specific constraints. Smaller space organisations and new entrants often struggle to derive actionable requirements from extensive, unstructured documents such as mission briefs, interface specifications, and regulatory standards. In this innovation opportunity paper, we explore the potential of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) m…

Dynamic Less-Than-Truckload Transportation Planning in Hyperconnected Hub Networks with Multi-Carrier Operations
Tiankuo Zhang, Jingze Li, Benoit Montreuil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10290

Dynamic Less-Than-Truckload Transportation Planning in Hyperconnected Hub Networks with Multi-Carrier Operations
Less-than-truckload (LTL) shipment is vital in modern freight transportation yet is in dire need of more efficient usage of resources, higher service responsiveness and velocity, lower overall shipping cost across all parties, and better quality of life for the drivers. The industry is currently highly fragmented, with numerous small to medium-sized LTL carriers typically operating within dedicated regions or corridors, mostly disconnected from each other. This paper investigates the large-scal…

@… @… And it shows how desperate they are to come up with something NEW and EXCITING. Fixing bugs is boring, let’s put all of our energy into making things different!
Of course, it’s an industry-wide problem, and why they’re going all i…

@… @… And it shows how desperate they are to come up with something NEW and EXCITING. Fixing bugs is boring, let’s put all of our energy into making things different!
Of course, it’s an industry-wide problem, and why they’re going all i…

Microsoft layoffs of even long-time industry vets signal video game industry brain drain #gaming

Microsoft Layoffs Signal Video Game Industry Brain Drain - Aftermath
Multiple industry veterans have left Xbox in the wake of layoffs

I grew up on a peanut farm near Tolga in FNQ. Sad to see the remnants of the industry declining. # peanuts
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-09/bega-to-close-peanut-processing-plants-kingaroy-tolga/105512476

150 jobs in doubt as Bega winds down peanut processing plants in Queensland
Bega Group says Australia's peanut industry faces increased competition from imports and declining production.

Volle Fahrt voraus im Rückwärtsgang!
[Full speed ahead in reverse gear!]
What this TV report opens with seems to be a new motto for the German automotive industry.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaapburger_

MDR SACHSEN-ANHALT HEUTE: Rückwärts-Weltrekord: Die Fahrt ging noch weiter… | Jaap Burger
Volle Fahrt voraus im Rückwärtsgang! [Full speed ahead in reverse gear!] What this TV report opens with seems to be a new motto for the German automotive industry. This week, a German manufacturer set a new world record for reversing in an electric truck. The German automotive industry as a whole is also attempting to reverse in electric mode: it has presented a 10-point plan to postpone, water down, weaken, undermine, regret, delay, reduce, replace, backtrack on and ridicule European CO2 re…

corporate_directors: Global corporate directors (2016)
Bipartite network of directors and the companies on whose boards they sit, spanning 54 countries worldwide, constructed from data collected by the Financial Times (c. Sept. 2016). Person nodes are annotated with age and gender. Company nodes are annotated with their country, sector, industry, and number of employees.
This network has 356638 nodes and 377060 edges.
Tags: Economic, Governance, Unweighted, Metadata

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
RUSSIAN ENERGY INDUSTRY CRISIS: DEBTS AND SABOTAGE Vlog 1101: War in #Ukraine
While Russian propaganda paints the country as an "#energy

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.

Pivotal moments in US history shaped by confrontational street protest include:
– Unionization of the auto industry 1936
– Passing the Fair Housing Act 1968
– Ending the US invasion of Cambodia 1970

Yah, that is going to go over so well. About half my career is now supporting old stuff where the 'experts' claimed that it will replace programmers. Most of what I work on to be charitable is unmaintainable and inefficient code unless we use the developer package from the vendor. It has the potential to be a good tool that generates parts of the boring code, but needs someone who knows what the hell they are doing to make it secure and efficient! It also needs great (or a least …

Trump megabill gives the oil industry everything it wants and ends key support for solar and wind (Spencer Kimball/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/energy/trump-megabill-gives-oil-industry-everything-wants-ends-key-support-so-rcna216777
http://www.memeorandum.com/250704/p48#a250704p48

Skill-Driven Certification Pathways: Measuring Industry Training Impact on Graduate Employability
Anatoli Kovalev, Narelle Stefanac, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04588

Skill-Driven Certification Pathways: Measuring Industry Training Impact on Graduate Employability
Australia faces a critical technology skills shortage, requiring approximately $52,000$ new technology professionals annually by 2030, while confronting a widening gap between employer requirements and graduate capabilities. With only $1\%$ of technology graduates considered immediately work-ready, traditional educational pathways alone prove insufficient to meet industry demands. This research examines how industry certifications, such as Microsoft's AI-900 (Azure AI Fundamentals), can bridge …

ROS Help Desk: GenAI Powered, User-Centric Framework for ROS Error Diagnosis and Debugging
Kavindie Katuwandeniya, Samith Rajapaksha Jayasekara Widhanapathirana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07846

ROS Help Desk: GenAI Powered, User-Centric Framework for ROS Error Diagnosis and Debugging
As the robotics systems increasingly integrate into daily life, from smart home assistants to the new-wave of industrial automation systems (Industry 4.0), there's an increasing need to bridge the gap between complex robotic systems and everyday users. The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a flexible framework often utilised in writing robot software, providing tools and libraries for building complex robotic systems. However, ROS's distributed architecture and technical messaging system create b…

TrendFolios: A Portfolio Construction Framework for Utilizing Momentum and Trend-Following In a Multi-Asset Portfolio
Joseph Lu, Randall R Rojas, Fiona C. Yeung, Patrick D. Convery
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09330

TrendFolios: A Portfolio Construction Framework for Utilizing Momentum and Trend-Following In a Multi-Asset Portfolio
We design a portfolio construction framework and implement an active investment strategy utilizing momentum and trend-following signals across multiple asset classes and asset class risk factors. We quantify the performance of this strategy to demonstrate its ability to create excess returns above industry standard benchmarks, as well as manage volatility and drawdown risks over a 22+ year period.

I mean, nothing yet beats the Brazilian Institute of Oriental Studies bit the trend is there and it fits
https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes

In the Air - Outside of the Window ✈️ ☁️
在空中 - 窗外 ✈️ ☁️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️FOMAPAN Action 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

"AI Industry Purity Test" by Paige Bailey.
I'm at about 64-65, which seems pretty benign.
https://its-sentient.lol/

"Stephen Fry and Theo James to star in film about marine bottom trawling"
#Oceans #Environment

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Noga Erez:
🎵 Industry Baby
#NowPlaying #NogaErez
https://open.spotify.com/track/0ypcpkYOckOLxySl4m69gM

Evaluating Learned Indexes in LSM-tree Systems: Benchmarks,Insights and Design Choices
Junfeng Liu, Jiarui Ye, Mengshi Chen, Meng Li, Siqiang Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08671 …

Evaluating Learned Indexes in LSM-tree Systems: Benchmarks,Insights and Design Choices
LSM-tree-based data stores are widely used in industry due to their exceptional performance. However, as data volumes grow, efficiently querying large-scale databases becomes increasingly challenging. To address this, recent studies attempted to integrate learned indexes into LSM-trees to enhance lookup performance, which has demonstrated promising improvements. Despite this, only a limited range of learned index types has been considered, and the strengths and weaknesses of different learned i…

RIS-assisted ISAC Systems for Industrial Revolution 6.0: Exploring the Near-field and Far-field Coexistence
Seonghoon Yoo, Jaemin Jung, Seongah Jeong, Jinkyu Kang, Markku Juntti, Joonhyuk Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07643

RIS-assisted ISAC Systems for Industrial Revolution 6.0: Exploring the Near-field and Far-field Coexistence
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has emerged as a key technology for realizing the vision of Industry 6.0, requiring the seamless integration of diverse connected devices. In particular, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) plays a critical role in supporting real-time control and automation within IIoT systems. In this paper, we explore reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted ISAC systems for IIoT in the coexistence of near-field and far-field regions. The system consi…

On the new BC Ferries being built in China.
Do we all remember the last time the BC NDP went down the road of “building a shipbuilding industry to build ferries”?
It has its own Wiki, of course.
"In addition to major delays and cost overruns, the ferries never fully met their original specifications, and only operated briefly in a reduced capacity, before being auctioned off at a substantial loss by the subsequently elected BC Liberal Party government.”
No, I'm not thrilled that China, an authoritarian state, is going to be building these ferries. But no BC or Canadian firms bid on the contract. And right now, the expertise in ship building is in China and Europe (the Island and Salish class vessels were built in Europe).
I don't blame the NDP for not repeating the same mistake 30 years later.
And the ferries will still be refit and maintained for their full service life within BC.
#BCPoli #BCNDP #FastFerry #Shipbuilding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_ferry_scandal

Compression of executable QR codes or sQRy for Industry: an example for Wi-Fi access points
Stefano Scanzio, Gabriele Formis, Pietro Chiavassa, Lukasz Wisniewski, Gianluca Cena
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06100

Compression of executable QR codes or sQRy for Industry: an example for Wi-Fi access points
Executable QR codes, or sQRy, is a technology dated 2022 that permits to include a runnable program inside a QR code, enabling interaction with the user even in the absence of an Internet connection. sQRy are enablers for different practical applications, including network equipment configuration, diagnostics, and enhanced smart manuals in industrial contexts. Many other non-industry-related fields can also benefit from this technology. Regardless of where sQRy are used, text strings are among …

This is of historical interest on so many levels.
When the notion of AI first appeared, chess was considered the epitome of intelligence (before that it was calculating)—which, of course, it isn’t. Now AI is all about pattern recognition, which certainly covers more of what we associate with human intelligence, but go figure, it’s not *just* pattern recognition either. ⇢

This is of historical interest on so many levels.
When the notion of AI first appeared, chess was considered the epitome of intelligence (before that it was calculating)—which, of course, it isn’t. Now AI is all about pattern recognition, which certainly covers more of what we associate with human intelligence, but go figure, it’s not *just* pattern recognition either. ⇢

Ab 2026 verstärkt #Boskalis seine Flotte mit der #Windpiper, dem laut Unternehmen größten #Spezialschiff zur Unterwasser-Felsinstallation.
Das 227 Meter lange Schiff verdoppelt die

'Largest subsea rock installation vessel in industry' to join Boskalis' fleet in 2026
Boskalis is set to welcome a new subsea rock installation vessel to its fleet in 2026, described as the largest such vessel in the industry.

How funny would it be if this turned in to a second Silicon Valley industry-wide wage fixing scandal https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-07/apple-loses-its-top-ai-models-executive-to-meta-s-hiring-spree

PHandover: Parallel Handover in Mobile Satellite Network
Jiasheng Wu, Shaojie Su, Wenjun Zhu, Xiong Wang, Jingjing Zhang, Xingqiu He, Yue Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07437

PHandover: Parallel Handover in Mobile Satellite Network
The construction of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations has recently attracted tremendous attention from both academia and industry. The 5G and 6G standards have identified LEO satellite networks as a key component of future mobile networks. However, due to the high-speed movement of satellites, ground terminals often experience frequent and high-latency handovers, which significantly deteriorate the performance of latency-sensitive applications. To address this challenge, we propose…

The current stage of #AI writing: use AI to humanize AI to trick AI detection.
Or how “semiconductor” turns into a “0.5 conductor.” Brilliant.
Time to rethink the university
ht…

Chinese students are using AI to beat AI detectors
As Chinese universities crack down on AI use, some students report false positives — and a booming industry of work-around tools is emerging.

Microservices and Real-Time Processing in Retail IT: A Review of Open-Source Toolchains and Deployment Strategies
Aaditaa Vashisht (Department of Information Science,Engineering, RV College of Engineering, India), Rekha B S (Department of Information Science,Engineering, RV College of Engineering, India)
https://arxiv.org/abs/25…

Microservices and Real-Time Processing in Retail IT: A Review of Open-Source Toolchains and Deployment Strategies
With the rapid pace of digital transformation, the retail industry is increasingly depending on real-time, scalable, and resilient systems to manage financial transactions, analyze customer behavior, and streamline order processing. This literature review explores how modern event-driven and microservices-based architectures, particularly those leveraging Apache Kafka, Spring Boot, MongoDB, and Kubernetes are transforming retail and financial systems. By systematically reviewing academic public…

Now might be the perfect opportunity for American companies to reshore the critical industry of “Waifu body pillows”. Just sayin’ https://mastodon.social/@verge/114813606999192389

Health secretary RFK Jr has used peer pressure to persuade food makers to nix synthetic dyes.
The candy industry is holding out, arguing American consumers like bright sweets.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/us/poli

RFK Jr.’s Battle Against Food Dyes Hits a Roadblock: M&M’s
The health secretary has used peer pressure to persuade food makers to nix synthetic dyes. The candy industry is holding out, arguing American consumers like bright sweets.

You only have a copper 'industry' if you have copper in the ground. US has a lot in Arizona. It mines it. But it's not enough. Even a 200% tariff isn't going to change the reality of where we get our commodities."
'RIP home renovations': Trump’s massive copper tariff buried in mockery - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-tariffs-2673043468/

Dentsu: the video game industry attracts less than 5% of global ad spend despite 3.4B gamers worldwide; 60 game-based productions were in development in 2024 (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/video-g…

Video Game Industry Draws Less Than 5% of Ad, Marketing Spend
According to a new report from Dentsu Gaming, less than 5% of global media investment goes toward the the video game industry.

We in Game Workers Unite Ireland stand in solidarity with Animation Workers of Ireland, and the international trade union coalition happening to organise against the threat of AI in the animation industry, and we support their call to acton.
Join them Thursday 12 June at 14:00 at the Pâquier in Annecy!!
#Animation

Sources: JPMorgan Chase told fintech companies it will start charging fees for access to customers' account data, which could drastically reshape the industry (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

"Scientists in Japan Develop Non-Toxic Plastic That Dissolves in Seawater Within Hours"
#Japan #Plastic #Plastics

Scientists in Japan Develop Non-Toxic Plastic That Dissolves in Seawater Within Hours
Japanese scientists were thrilled to receive significant interest from the packaging industry over their new seawater-degradable plastic.

Former Mexican president investigated over allegedly taking bribes from spyware industry https://therecord.media/former-mexican-president-investigated-spyware-bribes

Under a new cybersecurity blueprint, the European Union will work more closely with national militaries and the NATO defense alliance to respond to large-scale cyberattacks.
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-arms-cyber-council-military-c…

Europe arms itself against cyber catastrophe
EU to train with militaries, industry and NATO to better fend off large-scale cyberattacks.

The Effects of GitHub Copilot on Computing Students' Programming Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Processes in Brownfield Programming Tasks
Md Istiak Hossain Shihab, Christopher Hundhausen, Ahsun Tariq, Summit Haque, Yunhan Qiao, Brian Mulanda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10051

The Effects of GitHub Copilot on Computing Students' Programming Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Processes in Brownfield Programming Tasks
When graduates of computing degree programs enter the software industry, they will most likely join teams working on legacy code bases developed by people other than themselves. In these so-called brownfield software development settings, generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) coding assistants like GitHub Copilot are rapidly transforming software development practices, yet the impact of GenAI on student programmers performing brownfield development tasks remains underexplored. This paper i…

What does the DEI rollback mean for the music technology industry? https://musictech.com/features/intervi

What does the DEI rollback mean for the music technology industry?
As DEI becomes a toxic term in the corporate world, we talk to advocacy groups and music professionals about what it means for music

OUP hasn’t suddenly turned evil, this has been going on for years now.
Here’s another reason why not to publish in DSH.
https://www.alpsp.org/news-publications/industry-news/oxford-university-pre…

The Measurement Imbalance in Agentic AI Evaluation Undermines Industry Productivity Claims
Kiana Jafari Meimandi, Gabriela Ar\'anguiz-Dias, Grace Ra Kim, Lana Saadeddin, Mykel J. Kochenderfer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02064

The Measurement Imbalance in Agentic AI Evaluation Undermines Industry Productivity Claims
As industry reports claim agentic AI systems deliver double-digit productivity gains and multi-trillion dollar economic potential, the validity of these claims has become critical for investment decisions, regulatory policy, and responsible technology adoption. However, this paper demonstrates that current evaluation practices for agentic AI systems exhibit a systemic imbalance that calls into question prevailing industry productivity claims. Our systematic review of 84 papers (2023--2025) reve…

It's time for the #EV industry to hold itself to a higher standard when it comes to roaming. You can't have your cake and eat it. Make the cake bigger!
https://www.linkedin.com/…

I fully agree with Christian Weinberger's call here: Isn't it time we stop… | Jaap Burger
I fully agree with Christian Weinberger's call here: Isn't it time we stop pretending roaming works and start holding the ecosystem to a higher standard? As a fossil in this industry, I remember how EV roaming took off 15 years ago – it was a no-brainer from a user perspective and a logical step to ensure that the EV charging market could grow, benefiting everyone in the sector. As an early electric car driver eager to travel abroad, I spent a lot of time getting the right passes for local n…

corporate_directors: Global corporate directors (2016)
Bipartite network of directors and the companies on whose boards they sit, spanning 54 countries worldwide, constructed from data collected by the Financial Times (c. Sept. 2016). Person nodes are annotated with age and gender. Company nodes are annotated with their country, sector, industry, and number of employees.
This network has 356638 nodes and 377060 edges.
Tags: Economic, Governance, Unweighted, Metadata

Really cool video about why the video games industry is struggling: everybody has to compete with addictive social media for eyeballs and time. And unless whole new markets are opened up (humans are not born quickly enough) there's just no longer a way to create exponential growth. But billionaire investors need that. That's why they are rather investing in AI.
By the way, this is the same reason that cinemas have gotten in trouble (and now even streaming services...)

Stakeholder Participation for Responsible AI Development: Disconnects Between Guidance and Current Practice
Emma Kallina, Thomas Bohn\'e, Jat Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09873

Stakeholder Participation for Responsible AI Development: Disconnects Between Guidance and Current Practice
Responsible AI (rAI) guidance increasingly promotes stakeholder involvement (SHI) during AI development. At the same time, SHI is already common in commercial software development, but with potentially different foci. This study clarifies the extent to which established SHI practices are able to contribute to rAI efforts as well as potential disconnects -- essential insights to inform and tailor future interventions that further shift industry practice towards rAI efforts. First, we analysed 56…

5G Aero: A Prototyping Platform for Evaluating Aerial 5G Communications
Matteo Bordin, Madhukara S. Holla, Sakthivel Velumani, Salvatore D'Oro, Tommaso Melodia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08386

5G Aero: A Prototyping Platform for Evaluating Aerial 5G Communications
The application of small-factor, 5G-enabled Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has recently gained significant interest in various aerial and Industry 4.0 applications. However, ensuring reliable, high-throughput, and low-latency 5G communication in aerial applications remains a critical and underexplored problem. This paper presents the 5th generation (5G) Aero, a compact UAV optimized for 5G connectivity, aimed at fulfilling stringent 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) requirements. We co…

Musk tried and failed to enact systemic change across the entire government.
Many tech executives and investors who support Trump have narrower goals that focus on creating a regulatory climate favorable to themselves.
While Trump and Musk traded barbs on their respective social networks,
a cryptocurrency company whose business had been hamstrung by the Biden administration went public on the New York Stock Exchange,
its share price popping 200 percent.
An art…

Musk and Trump are over. Silicon Valley is just getting started.
The Tech-Trump alliance has always had tensions. But its lucrative nature has outweighed the ideological differences.

From Fads to Classics -- Analyzing Video Game Trend Evolutions through Steam Tags
Nicolas Grelier, Johannes Pfau, Nicolas Mathieu, St\'ephane Kaufmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08881

From Fads to Classics -- Analyzing Video Game Trend Evolutions through Steam Tags
The video game industry deals with a fast-paced, competitive and almost unpredictable market. Trends of genres, settings and modalities change on a perpetual basis, studios are often one big hit or miss away from surviving or perishing, and hitting the pulse of the time has become one of the greatest challenges for industrials, investors and other stakeholders. In this work, we aim to support the understanding of video game trends over time based on data-driven analysis, visualization and inter…

A profile of DoorDash CEO Tony Xu, who has transformed the once-scrappy delivery startup into a ~$90B industry consolidator through an acquisition spree (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/31/doordash-ceo-tony-…

DoorDash CEO Tony Xu is taking on the role of industry consolidator in food delivery
DoorDash CEO Tony Xu has spent 12 years building his food delivery company from an upstart into a big acquirer.

Jim Shooter, who revitalized the comics industry as the EIC of Marvel from 1978 to 1987, died at age 73 (Clay Risen/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/arts/jim-shooter-dead.html

Jim Shooter, Editor Who ‘Saved the Comics Industry,’ Dies at 73
He brought order and profits to Marvel in the 1980s and helped establish the genre as a popular-culture tent pole for decades to come.

Sources: some AI researchers rejected Meta's offers to stay at jobs that align with their values; far fewer defected from Anthropic and DeepMind than OpenAI (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

Meta is trying to win the AI race with money — but not everyone can be bought
The AI industry is full of people motivated by a true belief in what they’re doing, but Meta is betting that at a certain price, anyone can be bought — it’s casting its net across Silicon Valley to do it. And what’s the best weapon OpenAI, its biggest target, has to fight it? That’s money, too.

One lawsuit just helped melt the fossil fuel industry's defense against being held accountable for climate change
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-lawsuit-fossil-fuel-industry-defense.html

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02610 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSE_…

Monitoring Continuous Integration Practices in Industry: A Case Study
In this paper, we study the benefits and challenges of monitoring Continuous Integration (CI) practices in software development. Our aim is to evaluate the impact of monitoring seven CI practices in industry using three organizations in Brazil as case studies. We developed a tool for monitoring CI practices and conducted a multiple case study, applying a mixed-methods strategy. We combined surveys, interviews, log data, and repositories data from software projects and their CI services.We gauge…

SAG-AFTRA says Hollywood video game voice and motion capture actors signed a new contract with game studios, including AI protections like consent requirements (Danielle Broadway/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

"UN rapporteur calls for ban on fossil fuel ads and criminalizing of disinformation"
#UN #UnitedNations #FossilFuels

UN rapporteur calls for ban on fossil fuel ads and criminalizing of disinformation
A United Nations expert is calling for an urgent shift away from fossil fuels by the global economy, including a ban on advertisements or promotions, and the criminalization of misinformation from the industry. Elisa Morgera, the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights and climate change, who presented her 23-page report at the U.N. Human Rights […]

The music industry is developing tools to detect AI-generated music across the music pipeline, with a focus on licensing and control rather than takedowns (Jack Buehrer/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

The music industry is building the tech to hunt down AI songs
With no way to stop the onslaught of AI music, the industry is taking a different approach: figuring out how to make money off of it.

Tech industry fears Musk-Trump rift fallout as some downplay its permanence, and sources say, try to stop Musk from appearing on an emergency All-In episode (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/df15f13d-310f-47a5-89ed-330a6a379068

Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s allies urge reconciliation after damaging split
Tech industry fears commercial and political damage from breakdown in relationship between Tesla boss and US president

"This startup turns steel and aluminum waste into usable metals"
#US #USA #America #Chicargo

This start-up turns steel and aluminum waste into usable metals
Chicago-area Sun Metalon removes gunk and grime from metal slivers normally thrown away, helping to reduce emissions from aluminum and steel production.

Towards an Engineering Workflow Management System for Asset Administration Shells using BPMN
Sten Gr\"uner, Nafise Eskandani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07468

Towards an Engineering Workflow Management System for Asset Administration Shells using BPMN
The integration of Industry 4.0 technologies into engineering workflows is an essential step toward automating and optimizing plant and process engineering processes. The Asset Administration Shell (AAS) serves as a key enabler for creating interoperable Digital Twins that facilitate engineering data exchange and automation. This paper explores the use of AAS within engineering workflows, particularly in combination with Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) to define structured and automa…

CEO Mark Read plans to leave WPP by the end of 2025 after 30 years, as the firm faces a near five-year share price low and industry upheaval driven by AI (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/789d3da2-6c75-4ada-ba57-35631876c7d0

WPP boss Mark Read steps down as advertisers struggle with rise of AI
Market cap of UK’s largest advertising group has halved during his seven-year period at top

Savvy Wealth, a digital wealth management service for financial advisors, raised a $72M Series B led by Industry Ventures, taking its total funding to $100M (Davis Janowski/Wealth Management)
https://www.wealthmanagement.com/ria-news/

Savvy Wealth Raises $72M, Adds Mark Casady to Board of Directors
Savvy Wealth, a technology platform provider to RIAs, announced the closing of a $72 million Series B funding round led by venture capital firm Industry Ventures.

In a wide-ranging report, the BFI says AI companies are plundering 130K UK film and TV scripts to train AI models in a "direct threat" to the industry's future (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technolog…

The music industry is developing tools to detect AI-generated music across the music pipeline, with a focus on licensing and control rather than takedowns (Jack Buehrer/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

The music industry is building the tech to hunt down AI songs
With no way to stop the onslaught of AI music, the industry is taking a different approach: figuring out how to make money off of it.

"Rachel Reeves Promised Oil Industry ‘Quid Pro Quo’ Over Windfall Tax in Private Meeting"
#UK #UnitedKigdom #Climate

Rachel Reeves Promised Oil Industry ‘Quid Pro Quo’ Over Windfall Tax in Private Meeting
Chancellor Rachel Reeves told a fossil fuel giant that the industry would receive a “quid pro quo” in return for higher taxes on its windfall profits, DeSmog can reveal. In a meeting with the Norwegian state energy company Equinor on 27 August last year, Reeves suggested that the government’s carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) […]

Proceedings of the 23rd International Overture Workshop
Hugo Daniel Macedo, Ken Pierce
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08680 https://arxiv…

Proceedings of the 23rd International Overture Workshop
This volume contains the papers presented at the 23rd International Overture Workshop, held on the 11th of June 2025. This event was the latest in a series of workshops around the Vienna Development Method (VDM), the open-source project Overture, and related tools and formalisms. VDM is one of the longest established formal methods for systems development. A lively community of researchers and practitioners has grown up in academia and industry has grown around the modelling languages (VDM-SL, …

Defense tech firm Leidos acquires VA-based Kudu Dynamics, which provides AI-enabled cyber defense and offense tools to the US DOD and other customers, for $300M (Courtney Albon/Defense News)
https://www.defensenews.com/industry/2025/05/…

Leidos acquires cyber company Kudu Dynamics
The finalized deal comes as Leidos is implementing a new “NorthStar” strategy that identifies cyber as one of five primary growth areas for the company.

Experts detail how the Trump administration has seriously weakened the public-private partnerships that protect US critical infrastructure from cyberattacks (Eric Geller/Cybersecurity Dive)
https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/n…

‘Suspended animation’: US government upheaval has frayed partnerships with critical infrastructure
Recent federal cuts, reorganizations and other disruptions have alarmed industry leaders, who say the government is a less reliable partner even as cyber threats increase.