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Circular dichroism in the photoelectron angular distribution of achiral molecules
Christian S. Kern, Xiaosheng Yang, Giovanni Zamborlini, Simone Mearini, Matteo Jugovac, Vitaliy Feyer, Umberto De Giovannini, Angel Rubio, Serguei Soubatch, Michael G. Ramsey, F. Stefan Tautz, Peter Puschnig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12113

Circular dichroism in the photoelectron angular distribution of achiral molecules
Circular dichroism in the angular distribution (CDAD) is the effect that the angular intensity distribution of photoemitted electrons depends on the handedness of the incident circularly polarized light. A CDAD may arise from intrinsic material properties like chirality, spin-orbit interaction, or quantum-geometrical effects on the electronic structure. In addition, CDAD has also been reported for achiral organic molecules at the interface to metallic substrates. For this latter case, we invest…

Die ePetition 179709 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Informationsfreiheitsgesetz des Bundes (IFG) mit dem Titel
Erhalt des Informationsfreiheitsgesetzes (IFG) in seiner bestehenden Form
kann bis zum Dienstag 22. Juli 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird der Erhalt des Informationsfreiheitsgesetzes (IFG) in seiner bestehenden Form gefordert.
Aktuelle Berichte zeigen, dass in den Koalitionsverhandlungen der Vorschlag diskutiert wurde, da…

Techies are always chasing the mythical tool that will let them "focus on the work" and avoid tedious distractions like "talking to people." AI tools are only the latest to promise this impossible dream.
But talking to people IS the work. You can complain about it on the internet, or take responsibility and make your life a lot easier.
#LLM

Can Designers Avoid Meetings?
LLMs are not the first tool to promise that they can free us from having to talk to people so we can "focus on the work." But talking to people IS the work.

DirecTV strikes a distribution agreement with Paramount Global, and unveils a $20/month MyKids plan with content from Paramount, Disney, WBD, and more (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/06/directv-mykids-plan-paramount-global-channels/…

DirecTV launches kid-focused plan after integrating Paramount-owned channels into genre packs
CBS-owned broadcast stations and cable networks like MTV, Paramount Network, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon are joining DirecTV's streaming genre-based packages.

I am very disturbed to find that the latest beta of @… was randomly inserting ads for itself in my toots and using a "Rich Text" mode that I never asked for as the excuse, while hiding their ad from me in-app, as below. I apologize to my followers for the junk and despite paying for the "Mona Pro Max" license, I do not expect to run the app …

Reference-free Adversarial Sex Obfuscation in Speech
Yangyang Qu, Michele Panariello, Massimiliano Todisco, Nicholas Evans
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02295 https://

Reference-free Adversarial Sex Obfuscation in Speech
Sex conversion in speech involves privacy risks from data collection and often leaves residual sex-specific cues in outputs, even when target speaker references are unavailable. We introduce RASO for Reference-free Adversarial Sex Obfuscation. Innovations include a sex-conditional adversarial learning framework to disentangle linguistic content from sex-related acoustic markers and explicit regularisation to align fundamental frequency distributions and formant trajectories with sex-neutral cha…

Tried Wayland Plasma 6 on openSUSE on a ThinkPad P14s G5 AMD last night:
-Firefox doesn't render properly
-TrackPoint is nearly unusably twitchy and doesn't respond to speed/acceleration settings
-Input latency makes it difficult to control the mouse pointer accurately
That was enough for me to log out and return to an X session. Once they finish deleting X11 from all distros and removing any X support from modern DEs, I guess I'll just get a Mac. We had a …

Systematic Biases from ARM-Based Sensitivity and Imaging in Compton Cameras
Tomonori Ikeda, Tatsuya Sawano, Naomi Tsuji, Yoshitaka Mizumura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18659

Systematic Biases from ARM-Based Sensitivity and Imaging in Compton Cameras
The angular resolution measure (ARM) is widely used in Compton camera analyses to characterize angular uncertainty and to define event selection criteria. However, the ARM distribution is fundamentally different from the point spread function (PSF), which represents the true spatial imaging response of the system on the celestial sphere. In this study, motivated by applications in gamma-ray astrophysics, we investigated the consequences of using ARM-based definitions in sensitivity estimation a…