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ICE says its officers use a “minimum amount of force” when making arrests.
You can judge for yourself.
WHAT WE’RE SEEING
🆘Agents break car windows even when sobbing children or pregnant women
https://projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-smashed-w…

“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself.

US sanctions Russian IT company Aeza Group over ransomware operations: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/us-sanctions-russian-it-company.html

Sanctioning Officials of the Palestinian Authority and Members of the Palestine Liberation Organization (United States Department of State)
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/07/sanctioning-officials-of-the-palestinian-authority-and-members-of-the-palestine-liberation-organization/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250731/p104#a250731p104

#Maryland's top election official balks at #Drumpf #DOJ demand for complete trove of sensitive personal voter information.
“This is a new era for the DOJ, it seems,” said a

https://projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-smashed-windows-deportation-arrests

Density-functional theory study of the interaction between NV$^{-}$ centers and native defects in diamond
Gabriel I. L\'opez-Morales, Joanna M. Zajac, Tom Delord, Carlos A. Meriles, Cyrus E. Dreyer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22683

Density-functional theory study of the interaction between NV$^{-}$ centers and native defects in diamond
The NV$^{-}$ color center in diamond has been demonstrated as a nanoscale sensor for quantum metrology. However, the properties that make it ideal for measuring, e.g., minute electric and magnetic fields also make it sensitive to imperfections in the diamond host. In this work, we quantify the impact of nearby native defects on the many-body states of NV$^{-}$. We combine previous quantum embedding results of strain and electric-field susceptibilities of NV$^{-}$ with density-functional theory …

Origin of the ~150 kpc radio filament in galaxy ESO 137-006
Toushif Alam, Kunal P. Mooley, Kartick C. Sarkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23026 https://arxiv…

Origin of the ~150 kpc radio filament in galaxy ESO 137-006
Sensitive wide-field radio surveys have started uncovering many filamentary structures associated with the jets and lobes of radio galaxies, radio relics in galaxy clusters, and tailed galaxies. Although limited theoretical investigations on the origin of the filamentary structures have associated these filaments with astrophysical shocks and interactions with intracluster magneto-ionic media, more quantitative studies are needed to ascertain their precise nature and origin. Recent MeerKAT obse…

Decision Transformer-Based Drone Trajectory Planning with Dynamic Safety-Efficiency Trade-Offs
Chang-Hun Ji, SiWoon Song, Youn-Hee Han, SungTae Moon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21506

Decision Transformer-Based Drone Trajectory Planning with Dynamic Safety-Efficiency Trade-Offs
A drone trajectory planner should be able to dynamically adjust the safety-efficiency trade-off according to varying mission requirements in unknown environments. Although traditional polynomial-based planners offer computational efficiency and smooth trajectory generation, they require expert knowledge to tune multiple parameters to adjust this trade-off. Moreover, even with careful tuning, the resulting adjustment may fail to achieve the desired trade-off. Similarly, although reinforcement le…

Schön war die heutige äh gestrige #CriticalMass in #Zürich. Und mit 25km auch etwas länger als sonst. Mit An- und Abreise waren's für mich 33.5km, die wegen Home-Office heute gut aufs #BikeToWork…

Way: ‪Überlandpark‬ (‪1386852445‬)
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ArgRAG: Explainable Retrieval Augmented Generation using Quantitative Bipolar Argumentation
Yuqicheng Zhu, Nico Potyka, Daniel Hern\'andez, Yuan He, Zifeng Ding, Bo Xiong, Dongzhuoran Zhou, Evgeny Kharlamov, Steffen Staab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20131

ArgRAG: Explainable Retrieval Augmented Generation using Quantitative Bipolar Argumentation
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances large language models by incorporating external knowledge, yet suffers from critical limitations in high-stakes domains -- namely, sensitivity to noisy or contradictory evidence and opaque, stochastic decision-making. We propose ArgRAG, an explainable, and contestable alternative that replaces black-box reasoning with structured inference using a Quantitative Bipolar Argumentation Framework (QBAF). ArgRAG constructs a QBAF from retrieved documents a…