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WhatsApp rolls out ads in its Updates tab, a first for the app, and will collect some data to target the ads, but says it has no plans to put ads in chats (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/technology/whatsapp-ads.html

WhatsApp Introduces Ads in Its App
They will appear in only one part of the Meta-owned messaging service, it said. The move is potentially lucrative, while raising questions about user privacy.

WhatsApp rolls out ads in its Updates tab, a first for the app, and will collect some data to target the ads, but says it has no plans to put ads in chats (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/technology/whatsapp-ads.html

WhatsApp Introduces Ads in Its App
They will appear in only one part of the Meta-owned messaging service, it said. The move is potentially lucrative, while raising questions about user privacy.

Amazon Ads and Roku sign a new ad initiative to give media buyers access to 80% of US connected-TV households, set to launch by Q4 2025, using Amazon's DSP (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/amazon-ads-roku-set…

Amazon Ads & Roku Set Landmark Pact Giving Brands Access To 80% Of Connected-TV Households
Amazon Ads and Roku are teaming on a landmark initiative that will give advertisers access to more than 80% of connected-TV households in the U.S.

Oh WhatsApp now brings Ads to the stories... Too bad that still so many people in my social environment use it
https://www.theverge.com/news/687519/whatsapp-launch-advertising-status-updates

WhatsApp is officially getting ads
WhatsApp is getting ads, as Meta has announced that it will now allow businesses to promote their products and services through its status feature.

Amazon Ads and Roku sign a new ad initiative to give media buyers access to 80% of US connected-TV households, set to launch by Q4 2025, using Amazon's DSP (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/amazon-ads-roku-set…

Amazon Ads & Roku Set Landmark Pact Giving Brands Access To 80% Of Connected-TV Households
Amazon Ads and Roku are teaming on a landmark initiative that will give advertisers access to more than 80% of connected-TV households in the U.S.

https://mastodon.social/@noybeu/114693494985013191

Non-conformal Line Defect (Shell Operator) in AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$: Spinning and Higher Point Correlators
Yuefeng Liu, Boyang Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12711

Non-conformal Line Defect (Shell Operator) in AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$: Spinning and Higher Point Correlators
Recently, a special type of non-conformal line defect, known as thin-shell operator, has played a key role in demonstrating the chaotic nature of the high energy sector in AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$. The chaotic nature was revealed concretely through a matching among the vacuum Virasoro block in holographic CFT$_2$, ETH analysis, and gravitational on-shell partition function in AdS$_3$ with nontrivial backreaction. In this work, we generalize this matching in two ways. First, we compute two-point correlat…

I love these bus stop ads Pasadena is running. And that they properly use “fewer” instead of “less” #pasadena

As the week's cyber news continues to heat up, check out today's Metacurity before you fall behind on the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Operation Deep Sentinel took down infamous darknet drug marketplace Archetyp Market,
--Minnesota political assassin used online data brokers to find victims,
--Scattered Spider's latest target is insurance sector,
--Thai cops arrest ransomware actors targeting China,
--$10m reward for Cybe…

Operation Deep Sentinel took down infamous darknet drug marketplace Archetyp Market
Minnesota political assassin used online data brokers to find victims, Scattered Spider's latest target is insurance sector, Thai cops arrest ransomware actors targeting China, $10m reward for CyberAv3ngers hackers, WhatsApp ads worry privacy experts, Yes24 apologizes for attack, much more

>> Die Einführung von gezielter Werbung durch #WhatsApp zeigt: "Wenn du nicht dafür bezahlst, bist du nicht der Kunde, sondern das Produkt." <<
From: @…

I’ve long been a fan of the Check My Ads people. Now they’re launching a really ambitious-looking “Policy Platform” aimed at cleaning up the online-advertising business. My belief is that anyone who’s had much exposure to that business or to “AdTech” probably agrees that cleanup is called for. Check it out: https://checkmyads.org/policy/

Block all ads

This is why people pirate https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114508154443493144

Your Ride, Your Rules: Psychology and Cognition Enabled Automated Driving Systems
Zhipeng Bao, Qianwen Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11842 https://

Your Ride, Your Rules: Psychology and Cognition Enabled Automated Driving Systems
Despite rapid advances in autonomous driving, current autonomous vehicles (AVs) lack effective bidirectional communication with occupants, limiting personalization and recovery from immobilization. This reduces comfort and trust, potentially slowing broader AV adoption. We propose PACE-ADS (Psychology and Cognition Enabled Automated Driving Systems), a human-centered autonomy framework that enables AVs to sense, interpret, and respond to both external traffic and internal occupant states. PACE-…

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.

Reddit unveils two ad tools with "community intelligence": Reddit Insights and Conversation Summary Add-on, which lets brands show positive user posts under ads (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/16/reddit-ai-community-intelligence…

Exclusive: Reddit releases new "Community Intelligence" ad tools
The new insights tool and ad format draws from Reddit's 22 billion posts.

TikTok rolls out new AI ad features, including the ability for marketers to use text or images to create AI-generated video, as part of its Symphony ad suite (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

I think we should resume paying smart people to think about making computers better, instead of having them think about how to reliably serve ads

Topological A-Model for $AdS_5\times S^5$ Superstring and the Maldacena Conjecture
Nathan Berkovits (ICTP-SAIFR/IFT-UNESP, Sao Paulo)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10907

Topological A-Model for $AdS_5\times S^5$ Superstring and the Maldacena Conjecture
A topological A-model constructed from $CP^{3|4}$ supertwistor variables is proposed for the $AdS_5\times S^5$ superstring. At zero $AdS$ radius, free N=4 d=4 super-Yang-Mills amplitudes are reproduced by topological amplitudes of the corresponding gauged linear sigma model where the closed superstring vertex operator for a trace of $k$ super-Yang-Mills fields is described by a boundary state with U(1) worldsheet instanton number $k$. After turning on a Fayet-Iliopoulis term in the sigma m…

TikTok rolls out new AI ad features, including the ability for marketers to use text or images to create AI-generated video, as part of its Symphony ad suite (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Watched a little bit of Japanese woodworking on YT and now my ads are all like 𝑴𝒆𝒏, 𝑑𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝒃𝒖𝒍𝒌 𝒖𝒑?

Now OpenAI wants to buy Chrome, and Perplexity's CEO admits his new AI-powered browser will track your history to sell you ads. As with DOGE's migration of the government to the cloud, AI is a smokescreen for a wholesale data grab https://

Memo: Google offers voluntary buyouts to US staff in the knowledge and information organization, which includes core search and much of the ads organization (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-offers-buyouts-empl…

Google Offers Buyouts to Employees in Search and Ads Unit
Google is offering voluntary buyouts to employees in the knowledge and information organization, which includes the company’s core search and much of the ads organization, a senior executive told staff on Tuesday. The move comes as Google’s search business faces unprecedented threats from ...

Lock screen ads. Imagine that.
I will never regret swearing off #Samsung devices after being fleeced by them twice. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114626009365316134…

Ars Technica (@arstechnica@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads Glance AI is coming to numerous Samsung phones as an opt-in experience this month. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/samsung-teams-up-with-glance-to-use-your-face-in-ai-generated-lock-screen-ads/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Hard pass.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/perplexity-ceo-says-its-browser-will-track-everything-users-do-online-to-sell-hyper-personalized-ads/

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?

Last boost: And if you're old enough to remember that the lure of cable television was that in exchange for paying a monthly subscription fee there would be "no ads"...

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.

Near-extremal holographic charge correlators
Blaise Gout\'eraux, David M. Ramirez, Mikel Sanchez-Garitaonandia, Cl\'ement Supiot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11974

Near-extremal holographic charge correlators
We analytically compute the low-temperature charge correlators in near-extremal black holes with a planar horizon and an infrared $\mathrm{AdS}_2\times \Bbb{R}^2$ extremal geometry, finding excellent agreement with numerical calculations. The analytical result consistently describes the crossover between the hydrodynamic diffusive regime at low frequencies and wavenumbers, and the quantum, zero-temperature regime at high frequencies and wavenumbers. We analytically resolve the successive collis…

Temperature Dependence of Heavy Quark Diffusion from (2 1)-flavor Lattice QCD
Dennis Bollweg, Jorge Luis Dasilva Gol\'an, Olaf Kaczmarek, Rasmus Norman Larsen, Guy D. Moore, Swagato Mukherjee, Peter Petreczky, Hai-Tao Shu, Simon Stendebach, Johannes Heinrich Weber
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11958

Temperature Dependence of Heavy Quark Diffusion from (2+1)-flavor Lattice QCD
We present a lattice determination of the heavy-quark diffusion coefficient in (2+1)-flavor QCD with almost physical quark masses. The momentum and spatial diffusion coefficients are extracted for a wide temperature range, from $T=163$ MeV to $10$ GeV. The results are in agreement with previous works from the HotQCD collaboration, and show fast thermalization of the heavy quark inside the QGP. Near the chiral crossover temperature $T_c\simeq150$ MeV, our results are close to the AdS/CFT estimat…

[OT] Extensions to reduce Google AI-generated search clutter in Chrome and Edge (on Windows) https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/bye-bye-google-ai-turn-of/imllolhfajlbkpheaapjocclpppchggc or Firefox

Bye Bye, Google AI: Turn off Google AI Overviews, Discussions and Ads - Chrome Web Store
Filter Google search results to hide AI overviews, ads, discussions or videos. You choose.

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.

Assessing a Safety Case: Bottom-up Guidance for Claims and Evidence Evaluation
Scott Schnelle, Francesca Favaro, Laura Fraade-Blanar, David Wichner, Holland Broce, Justin Miranda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09929

Assessing a Safety Case: Bottom-up Guidance for Claims and Evidence Evaluation
As Automated Driving Systems (ADS) technology advances, ensuring safety and public trust requires robust assurance frameworks, with safety cases emerging as a critical tool toward such a goal. This paper explores an approach to assess how a safety case is supported by its claims and evidence, toward establishing credibility for the overall case. Starting from a description of the building blocks of a safety case (claims, evidence, and optional format-dependent entries), this paper delves into t…

The Holography of Spread Complexity: A Story of Observers
Zhehan Li, Jia Tian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13481 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

The Holography of Spread Complexity: A Story of Observers
We propose a holographic description of spread complexity and its rate in 2D CFTs, building on the pioneering work \cite{Caputa:2024sux}. By exploiting the $SL(2,\mathbb{R})$ symmetry, we construct the Krylov basis and demonstrate that its non-uniqueness gives rise to ambiguities analogous to those in quantum complexity. Within the AdS/CFT correspondence, we identify the spread complexity as the energy measured by a bulk observer, with its rate corresponding to the radial momentum. These result…

Byron Allen settles with McDonald's over his $10B 2021 lawsuit accusing the fast food chain of racial stereotyping in its ads budget; terms were not disclosed (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sus…

(2017) If Milk Commercials Were Honest - Honest Ads #AnimalRights #milk

3-dimensional charged black holes in $f({Q})$ gravity
G. G. L. Nashed, Emmanuel N. Saridakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10046 https://

3-dimensional charged black holes in $f({Q})$ gravity
We present new exact charged black hole solutions in (2+1) dimensions within the framework of $f({Q})$ gravity, where ${Q}$ denotes the non-metricity scalar. By considering a cubic $f({Q})$ form we derive classes of charged and uncharged spherically symmetric solutions, and we identify conditions under which these reduce to the well-known Banados-Teitelboim-Zanelli (BTZ) black hole. Notably, our analysis reveals a novel charged solution that is asymptotically Anti-de Sitter (AdS) but cannot be …

Annd youtube is doing this again for me.

How Tech Company Recruiters Sidestep Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-immigration-h1b-visas-perm-tech-jobs-recruitment

The Tech Recruitment Ruse That Has Avoided Trump’s Crackdown on Immigration
Every Sunday, newspapers are full of ads for tech jobs that aren't really looking for applicants. They reveal an aspect of U.S. immigration law that hurts both domestic and foreign workers — yet has endured for decades.

Random thought: if browsers are going to implement AI and all the agent stuff, might as well use it to block ads, skip video ads, cookie banners, pop-ups, trackers, and all those annoyances? 🤔

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.

Remember when YouTube only showed ads on your videos if you were a YouTube Partner or if you specifically allowed them to on a per-video basis? I remember when I finally reached the criteria to start making money off my videos and then they changed the criteria, so no more chance for money, but I still have ads on my videos that I can't turn off. I like creating videos to share but it kinda kills the vibe when I know I'm basically an unpaid YouTube employee, and my videos will only e…

Every day I use the #Internet it gets more crap. First we had ads popping up everywhere. Then Google came in and crushed all the good stuff. Now we’re stuck with this AI slop no one asked for.
Remember when pages actually loaded fast? Not bloated with trackers and nonsense. When forums were real communities, not spam factories. When you could browse without being followed by cookies.…

I downloaded a bunch of podcasts before leaving Italy. An unexpected consequence is that I'm still getting hit with ads in Italian. AmEx and Shopify come really hard at you! #Italy25

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.

I just caught myself opening #Instagram with the intent to see the ads of some outdoor / bike brands. 🤔
And it's okay to me.

Towards more efficient quantitative safety validation of residual risk for assisted and automated driving
Daniel Betschinske, Malte Schrimpf, Steven Peters, Kamil Klonecki, Jan Peter Karch, Moritz Lippert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10363

Towards more efficient quantitative safety validation of residual risk for assisted and automated driving
The safety validation of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Automated Driving Systems (ADS) increasingly demands efficient and reliable methods to quantify residual risk while adhering to international standards such as ISO 21448. Traditionally, Field Operational Testing (FOT) has been pivotal for macroscopic safety validation of automotive driving functions up to SAE automation level 2. However, state-of-the-art derivations for empirical safety demonstrations using FOT often result …

There was somebody fussing in my replies to my last link to my blog post about Medium (I don’t see them now; they probably blocked me, but their specific words don’t really matter), and the gist of their message was that they didn’t like that site. On the modern internet, if you have an issue with content written by humans, with no surveillance ads, that doesn’t allow AI scraping or AI slop content, with a business model that makes money… I don’t know how to help you. Honestly.

I'll test it on Apples.
I use the Orion browser on Apple computers. EFF's attempting to tell advertisers to USE EXPLICIT METHODS to control ads, and our privacy.
The Orion browser has its own "advanced" blockers.
But because it has Firefox extensions, it should "work" in Orion (the free browser by search engine company Kagi). Also, on iPads and iPhones, extensions work in Orion, but not Safari.
Privacy is a Human Right.

So erster Tag mit #Medikinet , mal schauen was wird, was wird
#ADS #adhs

Chrome extensions, short-form content, Substack clips, and tech ethics — it’s all in #EdTechSR 343 “Clickbait & Chrome!” from 1 Jan 2025!
on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/live/JnYFfkf0eAA
…

Hmmm, one downside. It seems NewsBlur was the service converting YouTube subscriptions into embeds (which don’t set cookies and don’t show ads), not the NetNewsWire client as I assumed.
I will have to see if I can accomplish the same thing with FreshRSS.

Trump White House puts preschool funding first on its list of "woke programs" to be eliminated.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Cuts-to-Woke-Programs-Fact-Sheet.pdf

Nice (laudatory) hairpin work #N672CP

Hi, it's former Social Security Commissioner Martin O’Malley.
I have some exciting news. 
My organization,
Win Back Our Country,
is ramping up our efforts to protect Social Security.
And I want you to be a part of it!
Here’s our plan:
✅ Fact-check Trump and Musk’s lies and shine a spotlight on their actions. 
📢 Organize local grassroots and earned media events to hold Trump accountable. 
🎯 Target ads to persuadable voters explaining w…

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NGA: Non-autoregressive Generative Auction with Global Externalities for Advertising Systems
Zuowu Zheng, Ze Wang, Fan Yang, Wenqing Ye, Weihua Huang, Wenqiang He, Teng Zhang, Xingxing Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05685

NGA: Non-autoregressive Generative Auction with Global Externalities for Advertising Systems
Online advertising auctions are fundamental to internet commerce, demanding solutions that not only maximize revenue but also ensure incentive compatibility, high-quality user experience, and real-time efficiency. While recent learning-based auction frameworks have improved context modeling by capturing intra-list dependencies among ads, they remain limited in addressing global externalities and often suffer from inefficiencies caused by sequential processing. In this work, we introduce the Non…

A look at Nintendo's US marketing, from targeting young boys in the 1980s to avant-garde GameCube ads in 2001, as its Switch 2 ads focus on online communal play (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/04/arts/ninten…

Nintendo Has Something to Sell You
The marketing campaigns for the Switch 2 and its previous video game consoles provide a window into the company’s business strategy.

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)

Realizing one reason I'm finding ChatGPT useful right now is it's (so far) relatively unsullied by ads. It makes all sorts of terrible mistakes but at least there's not a human adversary trying to trick me into buying things I don't want.

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.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.13633 has been replaced.
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Open AdS/CFT via a Double Trace Deformation
A concrete model of extracting the physics from the bulk of a gravitational universe is important to the study of quantum gravity and its possible relationship with experiments. Such a model can be constructed in the AdS/CFT correspondence by gluing a bath on the asymptotic boundary of the bulk anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime. This bath models a laboratory and is described by a quantum field theory. In the dual conformal field theory (CFT) description this coupling is achieved by a double-trace …

Tensor perturbations in higher derivative gravity theories in $D$ dimensions
Ercan Kilicarslan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10563 https://

Tensor perturbations in higher derivative gravity theories in $D$ dimensions
We study tensor perturbations of the ghost-free generic non-local gravity theory constructed infinite series of higher derivative terms in $D$ dimensions. The infinite series of higher derivative terms are encoded by form factors, the forms of which can be restricted by requiring that the action remains perturbatively free of ghosts and tachyons around maximally symmetric backgrounds for transverse traceless fluctuations. To demonstrate this, we obtain field equations for AdS plane wave metric …

Free Solitaire on Steam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3330280/Free_Solitaire/

Causality-aware Safety Testing for Autonomous Driving Systems
Wenbing Tang, Mingfei Cheng, Renzhi Wang, Yuan Zhou, Chengwei Liu, Yang Liu, Zuohua Ding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08688

Causality-aware Safety Testing for Autonomous Driving Systems
Simulation-based testing is essential for evaluating the safety of Autonomous Driving Systems (ADSs). Comprehensive evaluation requires testing across diverse scenarios that can trigger various types of violations under different conditions. While existing methods typically focus on individual diversity metrics, such as input scenarios, ADS-generated motion commands, and system violations, they often fail to capture the complex interrelationships among these elements. This oversight leads to ga…

Random thought: if browsers are going to implement AI and all the agent stuff, might as well use it to block ads, skip video ads, cookie banners, pop-ups, trackers, and all those annoyances? 🤔

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20233 has been replaced.
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Resonances in Lifetimes of AdS Oscillon
Oscillons are classical oscillatory solutions with very long but finite lifetimes in real scalar field theories with appropriate potentials. An interesting feature is that resonances appear in the lifetimes of the oscillon for the initial size of the oscillon core $R_0$, which was discovered by Honda and Choptuik in the case of Minkowski space. In a previous work, oscillons in the global anti-de Sitter (AdS) space have been constructed, which we abbreviate as AdS oscillons. We present new reson…

A probe found hundreds of ads for "nudify" apps on Meta platforms; Meta removed the ads, and says those behind the apps constantly evolve to avoid detection (Emmet Lyons/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meta-instagra

Altman's iris-scanning orbs may have us in a privacy tizzy, but let's not forget that Zuck is hoping to recoup the $60B he lost on VR by gathering data in Meta's Ray-Bans—for AI, yes, but probably also to personalize ads you won't be able to look away from https://www.

#Plex, stop! I only have so much popcorn to eat while I watch all these new changes play out🍿
https://lemmy.ml/post/30839839

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23455 has been replaced.
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Pion Phenomenology from the Thermal Soft-Wall Model of Holographic QCD
This work investigates the temperature dependence of the electromagnetic form factor of the pion, its generalized parton distribution $H_π(T)$, effective mass $m_π(T)$, radius $r_π(T)$, electromagnetic charge density $ρ_π(b, T)$, pion-nucleon coupling constant $g_{πNN}(T)$ and the pion-$Δ$ coupling $g_{πΔΔ}(T)$ within the thermal soft-wall model of AdS/QCD. The thermal pion form factor is extrapolated from the zero-temperature case, and based on this, the generalized parton distributi…

Bruh damn fjord tour ads...

@… I was just out this morning and it is all over all the trains. I did not spot any ads that were not for this crap.

Wormhole Solutions and pre-inflationary in $F(R, T)$ Gravity with Axion Fields
Guo-He Li, Yeqi Fang, Yuchi Wu, Jun Tao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09310 htt…

Wormhole Solutions and pre-inflationary in $F(R, T)$ Gravity with Axion Fields
In this study, we investigate wormhole solutions and inflationary initial conditions in the coupled axion-inflaton/scalar field system within $F(R,T)$ gravity. Notably, the Euclidean action is reduced by approximately $10^5$ compared with the GR case. In Euclidean AdS spacetime, we construct Euclidean (semi-)wormhole geometries that naturally set inflationary initial conditions. To enhance the probability of sustained inflation and address the short inflation duration issue in the no-boundary p…

Meta sues Joy Timeline, which makes nudify app CrushAI, in Hong Kong to "prevent them from advertising CrushAI apps on Meta platforms"; CrushAI had run 5K ads (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/meta-sues-nudify-app-that…

Meta Sues Nudify App That Keeps Advertising on Instagram
As part of what it claims is a new crackdown, Meta is suing a nudify app and "strengthening" its enforcement.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03290 has been replaced.
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Holographic reconstruction for AdS Wilson line networks and scalar Witten diagrams
We find a holographic reconstruction formula for gravitational Wilson line network operators in AdS$_2$ evaluated between Ishibashi states of the algebra $sl(2,\mathbb{R})$. It is given in integral form where the integrand is the global conformal block multiplied by a smearing function which is the product of the scalar bulk-to-boundary propagators. The integral can be explicitly calculated as multidimensional series of which arguments are rational functions of endpoint coordinates. In the case…

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: FTC is discussing a consent decree on the Omnicom-Interpublic merger, prohibiting the combined company from boycotting platforms over political content (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/business/ftc-omnicom-interpublic-mer…

FTC May Impose Political Bias Rule on Omnicom and Interpublic Merger
The Federal Trade Commission is considering restrictions on Omnicom and Interpublic to prevent the combined company from refusing to place ads on platforms for political reasons.

Sources: FTC is discussing a consent decree on the Omnicom-Interpublic merger, prohibiting the combined company from boycotting platforms over political content (New York Times)
https://www.

FTC May Impose Political Bias Rule on Omnicom and Interpublic Merger
The Federal Trade Commission is considering restrictions on Omnicom and Interpublic to prevent the combined company from refusing to place ads on platforms for political reasons.

A holographic connection between strings and causal diamonds
Bercel Boldis, P\'eter L\'evay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06428 https://

A holographic connection between strings and causal diamonds
In this paper we explore ideas of holography and strings living in the $d+1$ dimensional Anti-de Sitter space $AdS_{d+1}$ in a unified framework borrowed from twistor theory. In our treatise of correspondences between geometric structures of the bulk $AdS_{d+1}$, its boundary and the moduli space of boundary causal diamonds aka the kinematic space ${\mathbb K}$, we adopt a perspective offered by projective geometry. From this viewpoint certain lines in the $d+1$ dimensional real projective spac…

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One Model to Rank Them All: Unifying Online Advertising with End-to-End Learning
Modern industrial advertising systems commonly employ Multi-stage Cascading Architectures (MCA) to balance computational efficiency with ranking accuracy. However, this approach presents two fundamental challenges: (1) performance inconsistencies arising from divergent optimization targets and capability differences between stages, and (2) failure to account for advertisement externalities - the complex interactions between candidate ads during ranking. These limitations ultimately compromise s…

Bango: subscription providers are reducing their reliance on direct acquisition strategies like social media ads due to rising costs and diminishing returns (Daniel Frankel/StreamTV Insider)
https://www.streamtvinsider.com/advertisin…

Bango: Subscription providers turn to bundling as direct acquisition marketing falters
Marketers of subscription services including those themed around streaming video and music are cutting back on once reliable direct acquisition strategies, including display and social media advert | A new Bango study concludes that subscription service providers are cutting back on once reliable direct acquisition strategies, including display and social media advertising, for customer growth and are turning to indirect marketing mechanisms like bundling.

Complexity equals anything for multi-horizon black holes
Hong-Yue Jiang, Yu-Xiao Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10398 https://arxiv.o…

Complexity equals anything for multi-horizon black holes
We investigate the ``complexity equals anything" proposal with codimension-one and codimension-zero gravitational observables for multi-horizon black holes, using the Bardeen-AdS class black hole as an example. In particular, we compare the results with the ``complexity equals volume" (CV) proposal and find that the ``complexity equals anything" ($\mathcal{C}_{\text{gen}}$) enables the probing of a more complete black hole interior, that is, all spacetime regions where the blackening factor $f(…

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Determining Absence of Unreasonable Risk: Approval Guidelines for an Automated Driving System Deployment
This paper provides an overview of how the determination of absence of unreasonable risk can be operationalized. It complements previous theoretical work published by existing developers of Automated Driving Systems (ADS) on the overall engineering practices and methodologies for readiness determination. Readiness determination is, at its core, a risk assessment process. It is aimed at evaluating the residual risk associated with a new deployment. The paper proposes methodological criteria to g…

D1-brane correction to a line operator index
Yosuke Imamura, Akihiro Sei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05788 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.…

D1-brane correction to a line operator index
Wilson line operators in the rank $k$ totally symmetric tensor representation of ${\cal N}=4$ $U(N)$ sypersymmetric Yang-Mills theories are expected to be realized as D3-branes expanded in $AdS_5$. Although there is a mismatch between the corresponding line operator indices even in the large $N$ and large $k$ limit, it is possible to calculate the finite $k$ correction on the AdS side as the contribution from D1-branes. We analyze D1-brane fluctuation modes and calculate the leading finite $k$ …

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The thermodynamic profile of AdS black holes in Lorentz-violating Bumblebee and Kalb-Ramond gravity
Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) is a topic of significant interest in quantum gravity and in extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics. Recently, new classes of black hole solutions have been proposed, involving vector fields and rank-two antisymmetric tensor fields that acquire nontrivial vacuum expectation values, resulting in the Bumblebee and Kalb-Ramond (KR) gravity models, respectively. These models exhibit novel geometric structures and differ in notable ways from standard …

Holographic D-brane constructions with dynamical gauge fields
Yongjun Ahn, Matteo Baggioli, Hyun-Sik Jeong, Masataka Matsumoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09461

Holographic D-brane constructions with dynamical gauge fields
Holographic D-brane constructions, governed by the Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) action, play a central role in the AdS/CFT correspondence, particularly in applications to quantum chromodynamics and condensed matter systems. In this work, we demonstrate how to equip these bottom-up holographic models with dynamical boundary gauge fields, thereby introducing electromagnetic interactions into their dual field theory descriptions. As a direct application of this formalism, we compute the dispersion rela…

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

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On the CFT dual of superstring on AdS$_3$
In this work, we study the proposed duality between superstring on AdS$_3\times$S$^3\times\mathbb{T}^4$ with pure NS-NS flux and a deformed symmetric orbifold CFT. We extract the residues of 3-point string correlators at their next-to-leading poles, which can be expressed as integrals. Because of picture changing, the integrand is not unique. We make an ansatz for its proper form which linearly combines three different picture choices. On the CFT side, we obtain the corresponding residues by do…

AMC Entertainment has reached an agreement with National CineMedia to run ads right before the start of a film, starting July 1 (Thomas Buckley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-03/amc-theater…

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 ...

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Dynamical dark energy and gravitational coupling from moving geometries
We introduce the notion of moving Cartan geometries described by quotients of Lie groups and Lie algebras with spacetime dependant structure constants and construct associated deformed topological gauge action functionals for Lorentzian (including dS and AdS) and Lorentz$\times$Weyl moving geometries. The actions feature a generalization of the Nieh-Yan topological term for a varying coupling constant. We compute the equations of motion of the gauge $+$ matter actions and show that they dictate…

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Wedge Holographic Complexity in Karch-Randall Braneworld
We investigate holographic complexities in the context of wedge holography, focusing specifically on black string geometry in AdS$_3$. The wedge spacetime is bounded by two end-of-the-world (EOW) branes with intrinsic Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati (DGP) gravity. In line with this codimension-two holography, there are three equivalent perspectives: bulk perspective, brane perspective, and boundary perspective. Using both the ''Complexity=Volume'' (CV) and ''Complexity=Action'' (CA) proposals, we analy…

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Two-point tree-level string amplitudes as AdS transition amplitudes
We compute the two-point open string and closed string amplitudes at tree level and show that, in a 't Hooft-like limit, they take a form structurally analogous to boundary-to-boundary transition amplitudes of a scalar field in Euclidean AdS space. Interestingly, while both amplitudes yield equivalent expressions, the associated 't Hooft couplings are defined by different worldsheet curvatures-geodesic for the disk and Gaussian for the sphere-suggesting a possible geometric aspect of open/close…

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

Angular $k$-uniformity and the Hyperinvariance of Holographic Codes
Wanli Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06577 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Angular $k$-uniformity and the Hyperinvariance of Holographic Codes
Holographic quantum error-correcting codes, often realized through tensor network architectures, have emerged as compelling toy models for exploring bulk-boundary duality in AdS-CFT. By encoding bulk information into highly entangled boundary degrees of freedom, they capture key features of holography such as subregion duality, operator reconstruction, and complementary recovery. Among them, hyperinvariant tensor networks-characterized by the inclusion of edge tensors and the enforcement of mul…

Coulomb Branch and Integrability
Frank Coronado, Shota Komatsu, Konstantin Zarembo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07222 https://arxiv.org…

Coulomb Branch and Integrability
We study one-point functions of non-BPS single-trace operators on the Coulomb branch of planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Holography relates them to overlaps between on-shell closed string states and a boundary state describing a probe D3-brane in $AdS_5\times S^{5}$. Assuming that the D-brane preserves integrability, we formulate and solve integrable bootstrap equations satisfied by the boundary state at finite 't Hooft coupling. This leads to a closed-form determinant e…

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Thermal Product Formula for Shear Modes
We investigate the validity of the thermal product formula proposed in [arXiv:2304.12339], for the shear channel fluctuations of R-charged black branes in five-dimensional AdS where the shear mode is coupled with charge diffusion mode at non-zero momentum. When these modes are suitably decoupled, we are able to obtain an exact formula for the two point functions of the boundary current and energy-momentum tensor in terms of the quasinormal modes of this channel. This exact formula is a simple m…

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Random Circuits in the Black Hole Interior
In this paper, we present a quantitative holographic relation between a microscopic measure of randomness and the geometric length of the wormhole in the black hole interior. To this end, we perturb an AdS black hole with Brownian semiclassical sources, implementing the continuous version of a random quantum circuit for the black hole. We use the random circuit to prepare ensembles of states of the black hole whose semiclassical duals contain Einstein-Rosen (ER) caterpillars: long cylindrical w…

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A Perturbatively Stable Non-Supersymmetric String Model with AdS Vacuum
We present a construction of a perturbatively stable non-supersymmetric type II closed string model in four dimensions. It is based on a freely acting Scherk-Schwarz Z2-deformation of a supersymmetric construction which is recovered in appropriate decompactification limits. The model exhibits also the so-called misaligned supersymmetry with alternating signs for the number difference between bosons and fermions at successive mass levels. The tree-level spectrum is tachyon free for any value of …

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High-Energy Fixed-Angle Meson Scattering and the Constituent Counting Rule in Holographic QCD
We investigate the high-energy fixed-angle scattering of pions and $ρ$-mesons in a bottom-up holographic QCD model. To this end, we generalise the approach of Polchinski and Strassler arXiv:hep-th/0109174 to write an ansatz for meson scattering amplitudes based on superstring scattering amplitudes in asymptotically AdS space. We demonstrate that our generalisation of the Polchinski--Strassler proposal is necessary to describe $ρ$-meson scattering consistently with the Nambu--Goldstone boson e…