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Twenty-seven states and DC sue 23andMe to oppose the sale of DNA data from its customers without their direct consent (Rylee Kirk/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/business/23andme-data-lawsuit.html

23andMe Customers Did Not Expect Their DNA Data Would Be Sold, Lawsuit Claims
The genetic-testing company, which collected DNA data from users, is for sale in bankruptcy court. Now, 27 states and the District of Columbia oppose selling the data without express consent.

Replaced article(s) found for quant-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/quant-ph/new
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- Heisenberg Scaling Quantum Microscopy: Experiment and Theory
Zhe He, Yide Zhang, Xin Tong, Lei Li, Lihong V. Wang

Decay and Strichartz estimates for critical electromagnetic wave equations on conic manifolds
Qiuye Jia, Junyong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09635 htt…

Decay and Strichartz estimates for critical electromagnetic wave equations on conic manifolds
We establish the decay and Strichartz estimates for the wave equation with large scaling-critical electromagnetic potentials on a conical singular space $(X,g)$ with dimension $n\geq3$, where the metric $g=dr^2+r^2 h$ and $X=C(Y)=(0,\infty)\times Y$ is a product cone over the closed Riemannian manifold $(Y,h)$ with metric $h$. The decay assumption on the magnetic potentials is scaling critical and includes the decay of Coulomb type. The main technical innovation lies in proving localized pointw…

“I fall in the baffled camp that thinks better designs are possible.” … “I don’t expect my calls to be heard. Selling sci-fi is way too effective. And as long as the AI is perceived as the engine of a new industrial revolution, decision-makers will imagine it can do so, and task people to make it so.”
https://ferd.ca/the-gap-through-which-we-praise-the-machine.html
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The Predictive Brain: Neural Correlates of Word Expectancy Align with Large Language Model Prediction Probabilities
Nikola K\"olbl, Konstantin Tziridis, Andreas Maier, Thomas Kinfe, Ricardo Chavarriaga, Achim Schilling, Patrick Krauss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08511

The Predictive Brain: Neural Correlates of Word Expectancy Align with Large Language Model Prediction Probabilities
Predictive coding theory suggests that the brain continuously anticipates upcoming words to optimize language processing, but the neural mechanisms remain unclear, particularly in naturalistic speech. Here, we simultaneously recorded EEG and MEG data from 29 participants while they listened to an audio book and assigned predictability scores to nouns using the BERT language model. Our results show that higher predictability is associated with reduced neural responses during word recognition, as…

Nach Trump-Gespräch: Selenskyj will Botschafterin wechseln
Der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj kommt US-Präsident Donald Trump einem Medienbericht zufolge offenbar bei einer wichtigen Personalentscheidung entgegen. Die "Financial Times" berichtete unter Berufung auf zwei mit der Angelegenheit vertraute Personen, die beiden Staatschefs hätten in einem Telefonat die Ablösung der ukrainischen Botschafterin in den USA, …
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Steinmeier fordert mehr gemeinsame Rüstung ++
Bundespräsident Steinmeier hat sich für mehr europäische Zusammenarbeit in der Rüstungsindustrie ausgesprochen. US-Präsident Trump hat angekündigt, der Ukraine nach kurzem Stopp wieder Waffen zu liefern.

"Whatever" is a brilliant essay on "AI" by @…:
"But I think the core of what pisses me off is that selling this magic machine requires selling the idea that doing things is worthless. Because if doing something has some value, then it must be somehow better than pushing a button and receiving Whatever for essentially no cost."

The rise of Whatever
This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of events in recent history. Let me back up a bit.

Ha, great news. One of the rather embarrassing points about nixos, to my mind, is that it doesn't work with SELinux. But it seems like things are beginning to move. https://tristanxr.com/post/selinux-on-nixos/

ScaleRTL: Scaling LLMs with Reasoning Data and Test-Time Compute for Accurate RTL Code Generation
Chenhui Deng, Yun-Da Tsai, Guan-Ting Liu, Zhongzhi Yu, Haoxing Ren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05566

ScaleRTL: Scaling LLMs with Reasoning Data and Test-Time Compute for Accurate RTL Code Generation
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled near-human performance on software coding benchmarks, but their effectiveness in RTL code generation remains limited due to the scarcity of high-quality training data. While prior efforts have fine-tuned LLMs for RTL tasks, they do not fundamentally overcome the data bottleneck and lack support for test-time scaling due to their non-reasoning nature. In this work, we introduce ScaleRTL, the first reasoning LLM for RTL coding that scal…

Tokyo-based Sakana AI details a new Monte Carlo tree search-based technique that lets multiple LLMs cooperate on a single task, outperforming individual models (Ben Dickson/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/sakana-ais-

Sakana AI’s TreeQuest: Deploy multi-model teams that outperform individual LLMs by 30%
Sakana AI's new inference-time scaling technique uses Monte-Carlo Tree Search to orchestrate multiple LLMs to collaborate on complex tasks.