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Betting platform Kalshi aired a fully AI-generated 30-second ad during the NBA Finals, reportedly made in 2-3 days with 300-400 generations using Google's Veo 3 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/686474/kalshi-ai-generated-a…

Here’s the $2,000 fully AI-generated ad that aired during the NBA Finals
Kalshi debuted an AI-generated ad during the NBA finals. The creator behind the ad said it only took two to three days to make using Google Veo 3.

Betting platform Kalshi aired a fully AI-generated 30-second ad during the NBA Finals, reportedly made in 2-3 days with 300-400 generations using Google's Veo 3 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/686474/kalshi-ai-generated-a…

Here’s the $2,000 fully AI-generated ad that aired during the NBA Finals
Kalshi debuted an AI-generated ad during the NBA finals. The creator behind the ad said it only took two to three days to make using Google Veo 3.

Online Posts Make Baseless Claim Linking Protesters to Craigslist Ad - FactCheck.org
https://www.factcheck.org/2025/06/online-posts-make-baseless-claim-linking-protesters-to-craigslist-ad/

Lyft ramps up its ad business with three new ad formats; CEO David Risher said that Lyft is on track to reach a $100M annualized ad revenue run rate by 2025 end (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/12/lyft-ads-sponsored-rides

Exclusive: Lyft launches new ad formats
Advertisers can brand the Lyft map and subsidize rides.

Lyft ramps up its ad business with three new ad formats; CEO David Risher said that Lyft is on track to reach a $100M annualized ad revenue run rate by 2025 end (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/12/lyft-ads-sponsored-rides

Exclusive: Lyft launches new ad formats
Advertisers can brand the Lyft map and subsidize rides.

Walmart heiress Christy Walton is facing backlash, and Walmart is facing some calls for a boycott from Trump supporters
after placing a full-page ad in The New York Times urging Americans to attend town halls and engage in civic discourse.
While the "No Kings Day" ad did not mention Donald Trump by name, its emphasis on values like honoring commitments to allies, defending against dictators, and respecting trading partners was widely interpreted as a critique of Trump…

Walmart Faces MAGA Boycott After Heiress Funds 'No Kings' Ad
While the "No Kings Day" ad did not mention Trump by name, its emphasis was widely interpreted as a critique of his agenda.

PvdA mastodonten (overigens niet op mastodon aanwezig) vrezen gebrek aan aandacht voor PvdA mastodonten.
De Speld.

»Erfolgreicher Widerstand – Wikipedia stoppt geplante KI-Zusammenfassungen:
Eigentlich wollte die Wikimedia Foundation - vorerst testweise - KI-generierte Zusammenfassungen in Wikipedia-Artikel integrieren. Doch diese Pläne sind jetzt überraschend schnell wieder ad acta gelegt worden. Was ist da passiert?«
Bei @… war Widerspruch schon immer vorhanden a…

Erfolgreicher Widerstand: Wikipedia stoppt geplante KI-Zusammenfassungen - t3n – digital pioneers
Eigentlich wollte die Wikimedia Foundation – vorerst testweise – KI-generierte Zusammenfassungen in Wikipedia-Artikel integrieren. Doch diese Pläne sind jetzt überraschend schnell wieder ad acta gelegt worden. Was ist da passiert? Manchem Fan erscheint Wikipedia wie der letzte Ort im World Wide Web, an dem es weder Werbung noch Bezahlschranken und auch keine KI-Integration gibt. Genau das scheinen […]

Mutter, Kutter, Kind
https://www.ardmediathek.de/film/mutter-kutter-kind-oder-tv-drama/Y3JpZDovL2Rhc2Vyc3RlLmRlL211dHRlci1rdXR0ZXIta2luZA(89min)
Leuke film.
Begon om 20:30, maar is g…

F.T.C. May Put Unusual Condition on Ad Mega-Merger: No Boycotting (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/business/ftc-omnicom-interpublic-merger.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OU8.n6Rb.0DJnT0vuw02y&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=g
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p164#a250612p164

I accidentally uninstalled "Microsoft Edge for Android" which also removed my extensions (UBlock Origin ad-blocker, for one) & when I reinstalled... OMG, certain sites are utterly UNUSUABLE.
Thank God for #Microsoft #Edge for

My favorite historical mystery is “what really happened in the 6th century???”
We have few clues. We know there were at least 2 big eruptions in the 530s, most likely in Iceland, Kamchatka, or Alaska: nowhere with a surviving writing culture. Then a wave of Plague. Then probably other shit no one bothered writing down. It shattered the recording of history for many decades. We will never have a comprehensive history of the “Dark Ages” because no one wrote the pieces.

Sources and docs: Amazon Prime Video ad load has increased to 4-6 minutes per hour, up from 2-3.5 minutes when ads were first introduced in January 2024 (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/amazon-doubles-prime-video-ad-load/

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Doubles Prime Video Ads to 6 Minutes Per Hour
The move could lower CPMs but potentially hurt performance.

Ja echt heel belangrijk
🤣

ستدرك يوما ما أن الحقيقة كانت الشيء الوحيد الذي لم تعرفه. تحية عربية برائحة القهوة. نحن حضارة العلم والعلماء وسنبقى كذلك. الجيل الجديد، بإرادة الحرية والتمرد، كفيل بتغيير الصورة النمطية المحدودة التي تفرضها السلطة والهيمنة.
الفوضى إلى الأبد
#الحرية_والتمرد

At first I was a bit angry about #youtube ’s any ad-block campaign.
But upon further thought I like it now a it helps me stay off of YouTube.
Thanks for the help👍

Anomaly Detection and Generation with Diffusion Models: A Survey
Yang Liu, Jing Liu, Chengfang Li, Rui Xi, Wenchao Li, Liang Cao, Jin Wang, Laurence T. Yang, Junsong Yuan, Wei Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09368

Anomaly Detection and Generation with Diffusion Models: A Survey
Anomaly detection (AD) plays a pivotal role across diverse domains, including cybersecurity, finance, healthcare, and industrial manufacturing, by identifying unexpected patterns that deviate from established norms in real-world data. Recent advancements in deep learning, specifically diffusion models (DMs), have sparked significant interest due to their ability to learn complex data distributions and generate high-fidelity samples, offering a robust framework for unsupervised AD. In this surve…

With Google, Meta, and Amazon developing AI tools for ad campaigns, agencies are under threat, but large brands may still rely on agencies for unique concepts (Patrick Coffee/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles…

Welkome gift uit opbrengst #winddelen voor volkstuinders in #Schiedam na inbraak https://www.

Welkome gift voor volkstuinders in Schiedam na inbraak
De stadstuinders van de Voedselbank in Schiedam hebben een gift van 750 euro gekregen van GroenLinks. Vlak na Hemelvaartsdag kreeg de volkstuin bezoek van inbrekers. Zij namen voor vijfduizend euro aan spullen mee.

Dzisiejsza noc zapowiada się sielankowo - tylko dźwięk górskiego potoku. Trzeba wszystko szczelnie pozasłaniać, bo jest trochę jasno jak na noc...

#norwegia #vanlife

TrioXpert: An automated incident management framework for microservice system
Yongqian Sun, Yu Luo, Xidao Wen, Yuan Yuan, Xiaohui Nie, Shenglin Zhang, Tong Liu, Xi Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10043

TrioXpert: An automated incident management framework for microservice system
Automated incident management plays a pivotal role in large-scale microservice systems. However, many existing methods rely solely on single-modal data (e.g., metrics, logs, and traces) and struggle to simultaneously address multiple downstream tasks, including anomaly detection (AD), failure triage (FT), and root cause localization (RCL). Moreover, the lack of clear reasoning evidence in current techniques often leads to insufficient interpretability. To address these limitations, we propose T…

An oil company ad bragging how many tons of glacier they could melt seemed innocent enough in 1962, but it's a bit more sinister in the climate change era.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/humble-oil-glacier-ad/

Did a 1960s Oil Company Ad Boast How Much Glacier It Could Melt?
An oil company ad bragging how many tons of glacier they could melt seemed innocent enough in 1962, but it's a bit more sinister in the climate change era.

Sources and docs: Amazon Prime Video ad load has increased to 4-6 minutes per hour, up from 2-3.5 minutes when ads were first introduced in January 2024 (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/amazon-doubles-prime-video-ad-load/

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Doubles Prime Video Ads to 6 Minutes Per Hour
The move could lower CPMs but potentially hurt performance.

Behind the Blog: Advertising and Aircraft https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-advertising-and-aircraft/

Self-gravity in thin protoplanetary discs: 1. The smoothing-length approximation versus the exact self-gravity kernel
S. Rendon Restrepo, T. Rometsch, U. Ziegler, O. Gressel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10812

Self-gravity in thin protoplanetary discs: 1. The smoothing-length approximation versus the exact self-gravity kernel
Planet-forming discs often contain structures like spiral arms, typically linked to the disc's gravitational forces. In 2D models, an ad hoc softening prescription is commonly used for self-gravity, but this overlooks the vertical structure's impact, suppresses the Newtonian nature of gravity at short distances and doesn't respect Newton's third law. To address these issues, associated with a Plummer potential approximation, we developed an exact self-gravity kernel for thin, hydrostatically …

A Common Interface for Automatic Differentiation
Guillaume Dalle, Adrian Hill
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05542 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

A Common Interface for Automatic Differentiation
For scientific machine learning tasks with a lot of custom code, picking the right Automatic Differentiation (AD) system matters. Our Julia package DifferentiationInterface.jl provides a common frontend to a dozen AD backends, unlocking easy comparison and modular development. In particular, its built-in preparation mechanism leverages the strengths of each backend by amortizing one-time computations. This is key to enabling sophisticated features like sparsity handling without putting addition…

Annd youtube is doing this again for me.

Airbnb attacks New York mayoral candidates in $1M digital ad spend (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/09/airbnb-attacks-new-york-mayoral-candidates-in-1m-ad-spend-00395669
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p159#a250609p159

WPP Media expects ad revenue from user-generated content and platforms like YouTube and TikTok to surpass that from traditional media for the first time in 2025 (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun

Yaw, Google if you block me then I just ignore you, your videos and guess what? You get nothing from me!
https://www.ghacks.net/2025/06/09/googles-fight-against-ad-blockers-on-youtube-enters-another-round/

Adv-BMT: Bidirectional Motion Transformer for Safety-Critical Traffic Scenario Generation
Yuxin Liu, Zhenghao Peng, Xuanhao Cui, Bolei Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09485

Adv-BMT: Bidirectional Motion Transformer for Safety-Critical Traffic Scenario Generation
Scenario-based testing is essential for validating the performance of autonomous driving (AD) systems. However, such testing is limited by the scarcity of long-tailed, safety-critical scenarios in existing datasets collected in the real world. To tackle the data issue, we propose the Adv-BMT framework, which augments real-world scenarios with diverse and realistic adversarial interactions. The core component of Adv-BMT is a bidirectional motion transformer (BMT) model to perform inverse traffic…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.07694 has been replaced.
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Unified Origin of Curvature Perturbation and Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe
We propose a unified framework that describes both the curvaton mechanism for generating primordial density fluctuations and the Affleck-Dine (AD) mechanism for baryogenesis. By introducing a complex scalar field (AD field) carrying a baryon/lepton number and its potential consisting of quadratic and quartic terms with a small baryon/lepton-number-violating mass term, we investigate the evolution of the scalar field during the radiation-dominated era following inflation. We set the initial cond…

DoorDash acquires adtech company Symbiosys for $175M, as part of a major update to its ad business that now generates $1B annually (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-11/doorda…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Bad Bunny:
🎵 CYBERTRUCK
#BadBunny
https://kunamusic.bandcamp.com/track/bad-bunny-cybertruck-kuna-remix

Sequence Modeling for N-Agent Ad Hoc Teamwork
Caroline Wang, Di Yang Shi, Elad Liebman, Ishan Durugkar, Arrasy Rahman, Peter Stone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05527

Sequence Modeling for N-Agent Ad Hoc Teamwork
N-agent ad hoc teamwork (NAHT) is a newly introduced challenge in multi-agent reinforcement learning, where controlled subteams of varying sizes must dynamically collaborate with varying numbers and types of unknown teammates without pre-coordination. The existing learning algorithm (POAM) considers only independent learning for its flexibility in dealing with a changing number of agents. However, independent learning fails to fully capture the inter-agent dynamics essential for effective colla…

Bridging the Gap: From Ad-hoc to Proactive Search in Conversations
Chuan Meng, Francesco Tonolini, Fengran Mo, Nikolaos Aletras, Emine Yilmaz, Gabriella Kazai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00983

Bridging the Gap: From Ad-hoc to Proactive Search in Conversations
Proactive search in conversations (PSC) aims to reduce user effort in formulating explicit queries by proactively retrieving useful relevant information given conversational context. Previous work in PSC either directly uses this context as input to off-the-shelf ad-hoc retrievers or further fine-tunes them on PSC data. However, ad-hoc retrievers are pre-trained on short and concise queries, while the PSC input is longer and noisier. This input mismatch between ad-hoc search and PSC limits retr…

Pentagon City mall, shot and chaser

WPP Media expects ad revenue from user-generated content and platforms like YouTube and TikTok to surpass that from traditional media for the first time in 2025 (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun

I bought Rosemary's Baby (eBook). I've always wondered 🤷‍♂️ I've never seen the movie either. The funny thing is, it came as a connection after browsing through the Beastie Boys Wikipedia page, following the path:
Beasty Boys -> Ad-Rock -> Molly Ringwald -> Tempest (1982 film) -> John Cassavetes (1929 - 1989) -> Rosemary's Baby (1968 film) -> Ira Levin (1929 - 2007).
...and then finding out there's a pricier, DRM-ed EPUB2 (2011) vs a little b…

I’d love to know who tf YouTube’s targeted ad system thinks I am.
How am I getting Jerkmate and porn ads and also getting ads geared towards kids?

MAGA turns on Walmart after heiress takes out full-page NYT ad - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/walmart-maga-boycott-2672344965/

DoorDash acquires adtech company Symbiosys for $175M, as part of a major update to its ad business that now generates $1B annually (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-11/doorda…

Memory cost of quantum contextuality with Pauli observables
Stefan Trandafir, Colm Kelleher, Ad\'an Cabello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06869 https://…

Memory cost of quantum contextuality with Pauli observables
Classically simulating the quantum contextual correlations produced by sequences of ideal measurements of compatible observables requires the measured system to have an internal memory. Computing the minimum amount of memory needed is, in general, challenging. Here, building upon the work of Kleinmann et al. [New J. Phys. 13, 113011 (2011)], we prove that the memory cost for simulating the contextuality produced by the $10$ three-qubit observables of Mermin's pentagram is only $\log_2(5) \appro…

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LoRaConnect: Unlocking HTTP Potential on LoRa Backbones for Remote Areas and Ad-Hoc Networks
The minimal infrastructure requirements of LoRa make it suitable for deployments in remote and disaster-stricken areas. Concomitantly, the modern era is witnessing the proliferation of web applications in all aspects of human life, including IoT and other network services. Contemporary IoT and network solutions heavily rely on web applications to render services. However, despite the recent research and development pivoted around LoRa, there is still a lack of studies focusing on web applicatio…

PVV-minister wilde op ‘Trump-achtige’ wijze weer overal naar 130 kilometer per uur | Politiek | AD.nl
https://www.ad.nl/article/~a1e4e24b/
Ahh ... Van die 1e, 2e en 3e prioriteit om overal weer (eventjes) 130 km/u te mogen rijden is ook al vrijwel niets terecht gekomen... 😂

The future's so bright, I gotta wear 😎
#work #future cc: @…

Ich will nicht alleine leiden. Deswegen müsst ihr jetzt mal ganz stark sein.
1/2

Advertisers are shifting millions in ad budgets, particularly in CTV, from The Trade Desk's DSP to Amazon's, driven by lower fees, inventory access, and more (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/marketers-mov

EXCLUSIVE: Marketers Move Millions in Ad Spend from The Trade Desk to Amazon’s Ad Platform 
Sources say Amazon is gunning for The Trade Desk’s clients to win market share

and, 50 years ago today, following the dead session at ace’s, #JerryGarcia & merl saunders in #berkeley with a mystery drummer, presumably the same as the previous show. bob menke/louis falenga audience tape:

Amazon's Ad Video Generator, a free tool to create gen AI ads and depict items as they would be used in the real world, is now available for sellers in the US (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/685160/amazon-ads-…

Amazon is about to be flooded with AI-generated video ads
Amazon Ad’s Video Generator has some new tricks and is now generally available in the US to create “photorealistic video assets” in five minutes or less.

Alle Menschen werden Brüder,
Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt?
What's the goal of this staged deployment of border control police by helicopter at one of the hundreds of border crossings between Germany and the Netherlands, ostensibly for 'random' checks other than a pissing contest?

Met heli’s op zoek naar illegale migranten bij Nederlandse grens: Duitsland wil ‘onvoorspelbaar’ zijn
Terwijl Geert Wilders in Nederland pleit voor fors meer grenscontroles, voert Duitsland de strijd tegen ‘illegale migratie’ steeds verder op. Om de controles nóg onvoorspelbaarder en effectiever te maken, worden langs de grens met Nederland zelfs helikopters ingezet. De kritiek op die massale politie-inzet zwelt aan.

Oh the irony of this free airport wifi forcing me to watch an ad for Chrome.. in order for me to get online so that I can release a Debian security update for Chromium.

Baffles me that Italy has adopted the US(?) notion of Outlet Malls with free buses to and fro, all to go sit in a place that is…basically what city center looks like. In the US, only malls look like this. So that they can imitate an…Italian city! #Italy25

#Google is making me single-handedly not want to use #YouTube anymore. When I get an ad I am more likely to close my tab than sit through it nowadays

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02463 has been replaced.
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Click Without Compromise: Online Advertising Measurement via Per User Differential Privacy
Online advertising is a cornerstone of the Internet ecosystem, with advertising measurement playing a crucial role in optimizing efficiency. Ad measurement entails attributing desired behaviors, such as purchases, to ad exposures across various platforms, necessitating the collection of user activities across these platforms. As this practice faces increasing restrictions due to rising privacy concerns, safeguarding user privacy in this context is imperative. Our work is the first to formulate …

I'm not going to use AI to make a video but, if I were going to do that, I'd start sending videos to politicians and celebrities and whatnots.
And all those videos would be themselves talking to a camera and beginning with "hi, I'm you. You won't remember recording this because your memory was wiped".
And then sort of ad-libbing from there, you know.

Ad on the tube says 'Humans were the beta test. The era of AI employees is here'.
I can't *imagine* why people are a bit resistant to AI! At least offshoring never advertised on the tube. The enshittification of 21st century life continues.

2 PhD positions at CWI/UvA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: The curriculum of sight - How visual processing develops in brains and machines https://academicpositions.nl/ad/centrum-wiskunde-informatica-cwi/2…

Spannende Themen wurden wieder diskutiert beim heutigen #fediverseModerationsTreff
Danke besonders an @… für die Vorstellung der föderierenden Plattform #Flohmarkt

flohmarkt instances
federated decentral classified ad software using activitypub

I am noticing that many websites are no longer giving cookie choices, rather they merely say "we are spying on you" (they use nicer words, but that is the meaning) with only one option:
"I Understand".
To my mind that knocks out the last prop underneath website operators' argument that those of us with ad blockers (and more) are somehow on the wrong side of the ethical fence.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16322 has been replaced.
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On the Within-class Variation Issue in Alzheimer's Disease Detection
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) detection employs machine learning classification models to distinguish between individuals with AD and those without. Different from conventional classification tasks, we identify within-class variation as a critical challenge in AD detection: individuals with AD exhibit a spectrum of cognitive impairments. Therefore, simplistic binary AD classification may overlook two crucial aspects: within-class heterogeneity and instance-level imbalance. In this work, we found usi…

"When this beer is done, you're next."
What other threatening ad copy could have accompanied this image?

Oh god, the picture invokes some very mousetrap-adjacent vibes, in the @… sense of the word. https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114440131512138899

Scalable Analysis and Design Using Automatic Differentiation
Julian Andrej, Tzanio Kolev, Boyan Lazarov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00746 https://

Scalable Analysis and Design Using Automatic Differentiation
This article aims to demonstrate and discuss the applications of automatic differentiation (AD) for finding derivatives in PDE-constrained optimization problems and Jacobians in non-linear finite element analysis. The main idea is to localize the application of AD at the integration point level by combining it with the so-called Finite Element Operator Decomposition. The proposed methods are computationally effective, scalable, automatic, and non-intrusive, making them ideal for existing serial…

Amazon's Ad Video Generator, a free tool to create gen AI ads and depict items as they would be used in the real world, is now available for sellers in the US (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/685160/amazon-ads-…

Amazon is about to be flooded with AI-generated video ads
Amazon Ad’s Video Generator has some new tricks and is now generally available in the US to create “photorealistic video assets” in five minutes or less.

How ad agency WPP is embracing AI tools, despite the threat to its creative business, as its stock falls 50% in seven years; its WPP Open platform has 50K users (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4d1d939c-23e3-491f-9a5e-58532fdc82cb…

WPP races to harness AI before the technology kills its business
Chief executive Mark Read pushed to adopt artificial intelligence but is set to exit with the share price languishing

€750 voor Voedselbanktuinieren | #GroenLinksSchiedam #Windddelen https://schieda…

Heute also „auf ad hoc Stausee“-Meldungen starren #Blatten

Ayo, since when did #Spotify (free) start placing ads over cover art???
(Sidenote: Since switching to a self-hosted music streaming server, I only use Spotify to bookmark new songs, so I'm not on there much. This is another good reason to ditch streaming services)

Any greybeards out there have a memory of magnetic card data storage media "for word processing systems?" New to me!

If you’re an ad person at Taco Bell and you’re not seriously ramping up a chicken taco campaign right now (hint: use the orange dorito shell), you’re not doing your job.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Sinéad O’Connor:
🎵 Nothing Compares 2 U
#SinéadOConnor 🖤
https://vkgoeswild.bandcamp.com/track/sin-ad-o-connor-nothing-compares-2-u
https://open.spotify.com/track/5GHY1DFWKz3Prg2V0Iodqo

- I found my love in Portofino / Dalida
I found my love in Portofino
Perché nei sogni credo ancor
Lo strano gioco del destino
A Portofino m'ha preso il cuor

Nel dolce incanto del mattino
Il mare ti ha portato a me
Socchiudo gli occhi e a me vicino
A Portofino rivedo te
Ricordo un angolo di cielo
Dove ti stavo ad aspettar
Ricordo il volto tanto amato
E la tua bocca da baciar

From the Committee to Protect Journalists:
Pig’s head, rats sent to Indonesian news outlet as president attacks foreign-funded media
#FreePress #Journalism

Kid is explaining to me advertising for the Australian election, as seen on YouTube. A lot of reprehensible dog whistling plus a weird ad comparing Labor to leftists in Iran, from the perspective of an Iranian-Australian man. Has anyone else seen the Iran-focused ad? WTF was that all about?! #auspol

Identifying Alzheimer's Disease Prediction Strategies of Convolutional Neural Network Classifiers using R2* Maps and Spectral Clustering
Christian Tinauer, Maximilian Sackl, Stefan Ropele, Christian Langkammer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03890

Identifying Alzheimer's Disease Prediction Strategies of Convolutional Neural Network Classifiers using R2* Maps and Spectral Clustering
Deep learning models have shown strong performance in classifying Alzheimer's disease (AD) from R2* maps, but their decision-making remains opaque, raising concerns about interpretability. Previous studies suggest biases in model decisions, necessitating further analysis. This study uses Layer-wise Relevance Propagation (LRP) and spectral clustering to explore classifier decision strategies across preprocessing and training configurations using R2* maps. We trained a 3D convolutional neural net…

I have to say I was pleasantly surprised to see how easy Pirate Ship is for getting shipping labels at reduced rates. Their customer service is top-notch. My work had been paying for a shipping provider and I was able to drop their prices considerably.
Not an ad, just a fan of how easy they made #shipping.

Sources detail how X has used threats of lawsuits and high pressure tactics to motivate companies such as Amazon and Verizon to resume advertising on the site (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/x-twitt…

HARNode: A Time-Synchronised, Open-Source, Multi-Device, Wearable System for Ad Hoc Field Studies
Philipp Lepold, Tobias R\"oddiger, Michael Beigl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03219

HARNode: A Time-Synchronised, Open-Source, Multi-Device, Wearable System for Ad Hoc Field Studies
Research into human activity recognition (HAR) suffers from a lack of comprehensive, freely available field data. Commercial systems are rarely open source, offer little expandability, and have shortcomings in node synchronisation, data throughput, placement clarity, setup complexity, and cost. As a result, only a few intuitively placed sensors are often used, and field trials are generally reduced. HARNode addresses these obstacles as a fully open-source hardware and software platform for rapi…

Puja Vohra, former EVP of marketing for Paramount , is joining Fox Corporation in the newly created role of chief marketing officer and EVP of ad sales (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/puja-vohra-foix-cmo-advertising-sal…

Fox Taps Paramount Marketing Veteran Puja Vohra As CMO, Ad Sales
Fox Corp. named Puja Vohra, formerly a senior marketing executive at Paramount Global, as CMO of ad sales

Big Bird: Privacy Budget Management for W3C's Privacy-Preserving Attribution API
Pierre Tholoniat, Alison Caulfield, Giorgio Cavicchioli, Mark Chen, Nikos Goutzoulias, Benjamin Case, Asaf Cidon, Roxana Geambasu, Mathias L\'ecuyer, Martin Thomson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05290

Big Bird: Privacy Budget Management for W3C's Privacy-Preserving Attribution API
Privacy-preserving advertising APIs like Privacy-Preserving Attribution (PPA) are designed to enhance web privacy while enabling effective ad measurement. PPA offers an alternative to cross-site tracking with encrypted reports governed by differential privacy (DP), but current designs lack a principled approach to privacy budget management, creating uncertainty around critical design decisions. We present Big Bird, a privacy budget manager for PPA that clarifies per-site budget semantics and in…

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NNN: Next-Generation Neural Networks for Marketing Measurement
We present NNN, an experimental Transformer-based neural network approach to marketing measurement. Unlike Marketing Mix Models (MMMs) which rely on scalar inputs and parametric decay functions, NNN uses rich embeddings to capture both quantitative and qualitative aspects of marketing and organic channels (e.g., search queries, ad creatives). This, combined with its attention mechanism, potentially enables NNN to model complex interactions, capture long-term effects, and improve sales attributi…

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Optimizing hypergraph product codes with random walks, simulated annealing and reinforcement learning
Hypergraph products are quantum low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes constructed from two classical LDPC codes. Although their dimension and distance depend only on the parameters of the underlying classical codes, optimizing their performance against various noise channels remains challenging. This difficulty partly stems from the complexity of decoding in the quantum setting. The standard, ad hoc approach typically involves selecting classical LDPC codes with large girth. In this work, we fo…

Sources detail how X has used threats of lawsuits and high pressure tactics to motivate companies such as Amazon and Verizon to resume advertising on the site (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/x-twitt…

F.T.C. Investigates Ad Groups and Watchdogs, Alleging Boycott Collusion (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/technology/ftc-investigation-advertising-boycotts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.L08.Zm0E.vxArA9JuHVMK&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p132#a250602p132

F.T.C. Investigates Ad Groups and Watchdogs, Alleging Boycott Collusion - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/technology/ftc-investigation-advertising-boycotts.html

Functionality Assessment Framework for Autonomous Driving Systems using Subjective Networks
Stefan Orf, Sven Ochs, Valentin Marotta, Oliver Conder, Marc Ren\'e Zofka, J. Marius Z\"ollner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02922

Functionality Assessment Framework for Autonomous Driving Systems using Subjective Networks
In complex autonomous driving (AD) software systems, the functioning of each system part is crucial for safe operation. By measuring the current functionality or operability of individual components an isolated glimpse into the system is given. Literature provides several of these detached assessments, often in the form of safety or performance measures. But dependencies, redundancies, error propagation and conflicting functionality statements do not allow for easy combination of these measures…

How AppLovin, which lets advertisers use IP addresses to track users, began eroding Google's ad market share and pushed Google to loosen its privacy stance (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/applovin-scared-google

How AppLovin Scared Google
In 2023, Google ad executives noticed something alarming about one aspect of their business. Once-red hot revenue growth from selling ads promoting mobile apps, a business worth double-digit billions of dollars for Google, had slowed, a former employee said. When staffers discussed what was ...

Some LGBTQ creators are seeing their brand partnership revenue for June's Pride Month dwindle in 2025, as advertisers pull back on their Pride marketing spend (Alexander Lee/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/pride-but-no-budget-lgbtq-creato…

Pride, but no budget: LGBTQ+ creators hit by ad spend drop
As brands pull back their spending on Pride Month marketing initiatives, LGBTQ+ creators are seeing their brand deals dwindle.

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https://opaledit.bandcamp.com/track/adamski-killer-opal-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5jhDeobWatA1XAHWKOWPh2

OpenCCA: An Open Framework to Enable Arm CCA Research
Andrin Bertschi, Shweta Shinde
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05129 https://arxiv.o…

OpenCCA: An Open Framework to Enable Arm CCA Research
Confidential computing has gained traction across major architectures with Intel TDX, AMD SEV-SNP, and Arm CCA. Unlike TDX and SEV-SNP, a key challenge in researching Arm CCA is the absence of hardware support, forcing researchers to develop ad-hoc performance prototypes on non-CCA Arm boards. This approach leads to duplicated efforts, inconsistent performance comparisons, and high barriers to entry. To address this, we present OpenCCA, an open research platform that enables the execution of CC…

Cloudflare open sourced an OAuth library mostly written by Claude, showing how AI handles mechanical implementation while humans guide with context and judgment (Max Mitchell)
https://www.maxemitchell.com/writings/i-read-all-of-cloudflares…

Max Mitchell's Personal Portfolio Website
Max Mitchell's personal portfolio website showcasing his photography, YouTube videos, coding projects, and work history.

Online Performance Assessment of Multi-Source-Localization for Autonomous Driving Systems Using Subjective Logic
Stefan Orf, Sven Ochs, Marc Ren\'e Zofka, J. Marius Z\"ollner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02932

Online Performance Assessment of Multi-Source-Localization for Autonomous Driving Systems Using Subjective Logic
Autonomous driving (AD) relies heavily on high precision localization as a crucial part of all driving related software components. The precise positioning is necessary for the utilization of high-definition maps, prediction of other road participants and the controlling of the vehicle itself. Due to this reason, the localization is absolutely safety relevant. Typical errors of the localization systems, which are long term drifts, jumps and false localization, that must be detected to enhance s…

Sources: the FTC is investigating whether roughly a dozen advertising and advocacy groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/…

F.T.C. Investigates Ad Groups and Watchdogs, Alleging Boycott Collusion
The regulator is looking into whether roughly a dozen groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers.

Sensor Tower: daily US users of PDD Holdings' Temu fell by 58% in May; the US closed the "de minimis" loophole on May 2, and Temu then slashed its ad spending (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co

Creatify, an AI video ad platform that reached $9M in ARR just 18 months after launch, raised a $15.5M Series A led by Jeffrey Katzenberg's WndrCo and Kindred (Victor Dey/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91344416/jeffr

Jeffrey Katzenberg bets big on AI video ads with a $15.5 million investment in Creatify
The DreamWorks legend joined Creatify’s board as the fast-growing startup powers a new era of video advertising with AI avatars, real-time testing, and over one million users.

Sources: Meta aims to help brands fully create and target ads using AI by the end of 2026, including images and budgetary goals, building on its current tools (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-aims-to-f

Sources: the FTC is investigating whether roughly a dozen advertising and advocacy groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/…

F.T.C. Investigates Ad Groups and Watchdogs, Alleging Boycott Collusion
The regulator is looking into whether roughly a dozen groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers.

Sources: Meta aims to help brands fully create and target ads using AI by the end of 2026, including images and budgetary goals, building on its current tools (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-aims-to-f