@Techmeme@techhub.socialGermany-based Quantum Systems, which sells surveillance drones used by Ukraine, raised $1.2B led by Blackstone, Noteus, Airbus, and Advent at an ~$8B valuation (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
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@gevoel@mastodon.greenNiet dat ik het plan heb om de komende dagen veel te gaan fietsen, maar ik heb wel een bidon gekocht met een houder waadme je al fietsend, zonder stoppen en afstappen jezelf kunt hydrateren. In Dronten was hij niet op voorraad, dus het duurt nog even. Ik doe er een plaatje bij dat van de fabrikant afkomstig is. #regel17
@wraithe@mastodon.socialThe internet (I was using it before the advent of the web) was inherently useful.
While a there’s plenty of interesting things “AI”* can do, most of it isn’t actually useful and it can’t do the things I want.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tm3djotsgwdkml5j…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Libraries as Engines of Education" @ De Gruyter Conversations Blog
https://blog.degruyter.com/libraries-as-engines-of-education/
"From information literacy to AI literacy – the advent of large language models in higher education has created new fr…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
New Order:
🎵 Everything's Gone Green
#NewOrder
https://volumeplaylist.bandcamp.com/track/everythings-gone-green-advent-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1VZFmtsZuuqm0EV6KQihE8
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSource: PayPal's board sees Stripe and PE firm Advent International's $53B takeover bid as undervaluing the company and facing regulatory and financing hurdles (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/paypal-board-sees-strip…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Stripe and PE firm Advent International have jointly offered $60.50/share to acquire PayPal, a 28% premium to Tuesday's close, valuing it at $53B (Milana Vinn/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/s
@sherold@mastodon.onlineAn interesting take on the series “Pluribus” by Indrapramit Das. As someone living in Europe, it has made me realize which layers of the story I had missed due to cultural biases.
https://reactormag.com/resisting-the-hivemind-pluribus-generative-ai-and-empire…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow PayPal CEO Enrique Lores, appointed earlier in 2026 to revive the payments pioneer, may handle Stripe and Advent's takeover offer, based on his HP tenure (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/paypal-sale-ceo-enr…
@wraithe@mastodon.socialAlso worth noting that cellular/mobile phones still provided an actual working service.
Yes there were trade-offs, but the core functions that people wanted were there.
https://beige.party/@FeloniousPunk/116573505276924676
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #MaryAnneHobbs
New Order:
🎵 Everything's Gone Green
#NewOrder
https://volumeplaylist.bandcamp.com/track/everythings-gone-green-advent-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1VZFmtsZuuqm0EV6KQihE8
@arXiv_eessAS_bot@mastoxiv.pageDiffVQE: Hybrid Diffusion Voice Quality Enhancement Under Acoustic Echo and Noise
Haljan Lugo Girao, Ernst Seidel, Pejman Mowlaee, Ziyue Zhao, Tim Fingscheidt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08189 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.08189 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.08189
arXiv:2605.08189v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Acoustic echo and background noise pose challenges on speech enhancement in hands-free systems and speakerphones. Discriminatively trained end-to-end methods represent a powerful solution for joint acoustic echo control (AEC) and denoising. However, with the advent of generative methods, diffusion-based approaches have seen remarkable performance in speech enhancement tasks. In this work, to the best of our knowledge, we provide the first (still non-causal) diffusion-based AEC model (DiffVQE) that is reproducible in terms of topology, training data, and training framework. So far, without employing diffusion, Microsoft's discriminative DeepVQE model has been shown to excel any of the ICASSP 2023 AEC Challenge entries achieving remarkable performance. Using data from the Interspeech 2025 URGENT Challenge for a diverse, high-quality training dataset, our DiffVQE excels DeepVQE both in echo and noise control performance, as well as in computational complexity and model size.
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@wandklex@mastodon.artDu liebst kunstvolle Überraschungen? Klex, Spaß, Spannung, Ui und Aww übers ganze Jahr und nicht nur im Advent? Guck mal, ich pack Dir ne klexorbitante Kunst-Wundertüte mit handgemaltem Miniatur-#Buntfug (zuweilen sind auch ein paar Erlkönige dabei) Da: #artShop #art #fediArt #mastoArt #creativeToots
