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Synthesizer Arturia MiniFreak: Firmware-Update macht ihn zum Vocoder
Arturia spendiert dem MiniFreak das Update auf Version 4.0.0. Damit wird der "algorithmische Synthesizer" zum Vocoder.

BlackRock halted Ukraine recovery fund following Trump victory, France working on replacement, Bloomberg reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/05/blackrock-halted-ukraine-recovery-fund.html

BlackRock halted Ukraine recovery fund following Trump victory, France working on replacement, Bloomberg reports
https://kyivindependent.com/blackrock-halted-ukraine-recovery-fund-following-trump-victory-france-working-on-replacement-bloomberg-reports-06-2025/

Cybersec information overload got you down? Then don't miss today's Metacurity for a concise run-down of the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--1,000 CISA employees have decamped from the agency since January
--Victoria's Secret postpones earnings release after cyberattack,
--New security fixes for Qualcomm chips,
--AFP nabs nearly two dozen in sextortion sting,
--Marriott can't be sued for breach,
--Trump dumps …

1,000 CISA employees have left the agency since January
Victoria's Secret postpones earnings release after cyberattack, New security fixes for Qualcomm chips, AFP nabs nearly two dozen in sextortion sting, Marriott can't be sued for breach, Trump dumps AI Safety Institute, Indian grocery delivery startup wiped out by hack, so much more

Quake: Adaptive Indexing for Vector Search
Jason Mohoney, Devesh Sarda, Mengze Tang, Shihabur Rahman Chowdhury, Anil Pacaci, Ihab F. Ilyas, Theodoros Rekatsinas, Shivaram Venkataraman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03437

Quake: Adaptive Indexing for Vector Search
Vector search, the task of finding the k-nearest neighbors of high-dimensional vectors, underpins many machine learning applications, including recommendation systems and information retrieval. However, existing approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) methods perform poorly under dynamic, skewed workloads where data distributions evolve. We introduce Quake, an adaptive indexing system that maintains low latency and high recall in such environments. Quake employs a hierarchical partitioning scheme th…

STAR: Learning Diverse Robot Skill Abstractions through Rotation-Augmented Vector Quantization
Hao Li, Qi Lv, Rui Shao, Xiang Deng, Yinchuan Li, Jianye Hao, Liqiang Nie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03863

STAR: Learning Diverse Robot Skill Abstractions through Rotation-Augmented Vector Quantization
Transforming complex actions into discrete skill abstractions has demonstrated strong potential for robotic manipulation. Existing approaches mainly leverage latent variable models, e.g., VQ-VAE, to learn skill abstractions through learned vectors (codebooks), while they suffer from codebook collapse and modeling the causal relationship between learned skills. To address these limitations, we present \textbf{S}kill \textbf{T}raining with \textbf{A}ugmented \textbf{R}otation (\textbf{STAR}), a f…

Toward Understanding Bugs in Vector Database Management Systems
Yinglin Xie, Xinyi Hou, Yanjie Zhao, Shenao Wang, Kai Chen, Haoyu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02617

Toward Understanding Bugs in Vector Database Management Systems
Vector database management systems (VDBMSs) play a crucial role in facilitating semantic similarity searches over high-dimensional embeddings from diverse data sources. While VDBMSs are widely used in applications such as recommendation, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and multimodal search, their reliability remains underexplored. Traditional database reliability models cannot be directly applied to VDBMSs because of fundamental differences in data representation, query mechanisms, and s…

VChatter: Exploring Generative Conversational Agents for Simulating Exposure Therapy to Reduce Social Anxiety
Han Zhang, KaWing Tsang, Zhenhui Peng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03520

VChatter: Exploring Generative Conversational Agents for Simulating Exposure Therapy to Reduce Social Anxiety
Many people struggle with social anxiety, feeling fear, or even physically uncomfortable in social situations like talking to strangers. Exposure therapy, a clinical method that gradually and repeatedly exposes individuals to the source of their fear and helps them build coping mechanisms, can reduce social anxiety but traditionally requires human therapists' guidance and constructions of situations. In this paper, we developed a multi-agent system VChatter to explore large language models(LLMs…

»Hacker greifen Kundendaten bei Adidas, Victoria's Secret und Cartier ab:
Hacker haben es auf Firmen mit kaufkräftigen Kunden abgesehen. Nach Datenabgriffen bei The North Face sowie Marks & Spencer werden jetzt drei weitere namhafte Unternehmen Opfer. Die Cyberkriminellen haben große Datensätze gesammelt, aber keine Zahlungsinformationen erhalten«
Die wievielten Konzerne sind das, die sich einen Quatsch um Kundendaten kümmern?
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Hacker greifen Kundendaten bei Adidas, Victoria's Secret und Cartier ab
Hacker haben es auf Firmen mit kaufkräftigen Kunden abgesehen. Nach Datenabgriffen bei The North Face sowie Marks & Spencer werden jetzt drei weitere namhafte Unternehmen Opfer. Die Cyberkriminellen haben große Datensätze gesammelt, aber keine Zahlungsinformationen erhalten.

8 million drones a year: how Ukraine is arming for victory: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/05/million-drones-a-year-how.html