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Pistorius: Manifest zu Russland "Realitätsverweigerung"
Verteidigungsminister Boris Pistorius hat Forderungen prominenter Politiker aus seiner SPD nach einer Kehrtwende in der Russland-Politik scharf zurückgewiesen. "Dieses Papier ist Realitätsverweigerung. Es missbraucht den Wunsch der Menschen in unserem Land nach Ende des furchtbaren Krieges in der Ukraine. Nach Frieden", sagte er.
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Vorstoß aus der SPD zu Außenpolitik: Auch die SPD-Fraktion geht auf Distanz
Das Positionspapier von mehr als 100 SPD-nahen Personen zu einer anderen Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik und Gesprächen mit Russland sorgt für Wirbel. Reaktionen aus der Partei fallen teils sehr scharf aus.

Celebrity haunt that made ‘Chinese chicken salad a household name’ to close this summer
Sweet-crunchy, crispy-wonton-laced Chinese chicken salad was most likely created by Madame Sylvia Wu at her Santa Monica restaurant Madame Wu’s Garden,
but a large share of the dish’s popularity across L.A. in the 1980s and ’90s can be credited to Chin Chin.
“Owner and founder Bob Mandler is the man responsible for making Chinese chicken salad a household name in Los Angeles County, …

West Hollywood's Chin Chin will serve its last Chinese chicken salad in July
The West Hollywood restaurant that helped popularize Chinese American cuisine will close in late July after more than 40 years in business.

Distributionally-Constrained Adversaries in Online Learning
Mo\"ise Blanchard, Samory Kpotufe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10293 https://

Distributionally-Constrained Adversaries in Online Learning
There has been much recent interest in understanding the continuum from adversarial to stochastic settings in online learning, with various frameworks including smoothed settings proposed to bridge this gap. We consider the more general and flexible framework of distributionally constrained adversaries in which instances are drawn from distributions chosen by an adversary within some constrained distribution class [RST11]. Compared to smoothed analysis, we consider general distributional classe…

Robust copula estimation for one-shot devices with correlated failure modes
E. Castilla, P. J. Chocano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10152 https://

Robust copula estimation for one-shot devices with correlated failure modes
This paper presents a robust method for estimating copula models to evaluate dependence between failure modes in one-shot devices-systems designed for single use and destroyed upon activation. Traditional approaches, such as maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), often produce unreliable results when faced with outliers or model misspecification. To overcome these limitations, we introduce a divergence-based estimation technique that enhances robustness and provides a more reliable characterizati…

I used to fantasize about video games wowing audiences by using AI to do things previously impossible.
Voiceovers using your chosen character name.
A “teleport in” effect using a latent space walk for a unique look.
Fighting game CPU opponents that feel human.
Pokémon games with all 1,025 mons and dozens of animations each.
But my fantasy will never come true. The features might appear, but anything AI will produce more controversy than wowing.
Justifiabl…

What do you do with a news organization like ABC that is frightened to the point of being cowardly of the very institutions it's supposed to report on?
✅ ABC News Parts Ways With Terry Moran After Trump Social Media Post
https://deadline.com/2025/06/terry-mor

ABC News Parts Ways With Terry Moran Over His Social Media Post About Trump And Aide Stephen Miller
ABC News says that it has chosen not to renew the contract of Terry Moran after he posted, then deleted, an attack on Donald Trump and his top aide Stephen Miller. ABC News suspended Moran on Sunday. “We are at the end of our agreement with Terry Moran and based on his recent post – […]

The Rabin cryptosystem over number fields
Alessandro Cobbe, Andreas Nickel, Akay Schuster
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09569 https://ar…

The Rabin cryptosystem over number fields
We extend Rabin's cryptosystem to general number fields. We show that decryption of a random plaintext is as hard as the integer factorisation problem, provided the modulus in our scheme has been chosen carefully. We investigate the performance of our new cryptosystem in comparison with the classical Rabin scheme and a more recent version over the Gaussian integers.

One happy white #stork (Ciconia ciconia) family in #Bochum, Germany, photographed - often with digital zoom at the limit - from the approriate distance: one adult and four youngsters, one pretty big already. A lot of interesting behavior observed in one hour: more pictures in #BirdsOfMastodon

The VMC Survey -- LIV. Anomalous Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds Period-Luminosity relations in the near-infrared bands
Teresa Sicignano, Vincenzo Ripepi, Marina Rejkuba, Martino Romaniello, Marcella Marconi, Roberto Molinaro, Anupam Bhardwaj, Giulia De Somma, Maria-Rosa Cioni, Felice Cusano, Gisella Clementini, Richard de Grijs, Valentin Ivanov, Jesper Storm, Martin Groenewegen

The VMC Survey -- LIV. Anomalous Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds Period-Luminosity relations in the near-infrared bands
Anomalous Cepheids (ACs) are less studied metal-poor pulsating stars ([Fe/H]<-1.5) compared to Classical Cepheids (CCs) and RR Lyrae stars. They follow distinct Period-Luminosity (PL) and Period-Wesenheit (PW) relations and pulsate in either the fundamental (F) or first overtone (1O) mode. Our goal is to assess the precision and accuracy of AC-based distances and evaluate their potential for establishing an independent distance scale. We derive new PL and PW relations for F-mode, 1O-mode, and, …

Fiona Hill’s argument is that
in a time of profound uncertainty,
Britain needs greater internal cohesion if it is to protect itself.
“We can’t rely exclusively on anyone any more,” she said,
arguing that Britain needed to have “a different mindset” based as much on traditional defence as on social resilience.
Some of that, Hill said, was about a greater recognition of the level of external threat and initiatives for greater integration,
by teaching first a…