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Azure cost reduction/optimization for hosted applications using Artificial Intelligence. And it's REPEATABLE. Interested? Read on...
✅ Daniel Meppiel's Project Post
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💥 What if AI could shrink your cloud bill by 80% in the time it takes to drink your coffee? | Daniel Meppiel
💥 What if AI could shrink your cloud bill by 80% in the time it takes to drink your coffee? 💥 I recently got it to happen—firsthand. What started as a quick experiment turned into something game-changing. Using VSCode's reusable prompts and the Azure MCP server, GitHub Copilot identified key optimizations for my app's infra in a predictable manner. Then, the Coding Agent implemented them. 📉 The result? An 80% smaller cloud bill. Just like that. In this 2-minute demo (linked below …

I agree with Luke Smith: we don’t actually need social media, the internet, or even computers to survive. Living below your means and simplifying your life is not only possible but straightforward if you choose to do it.
If you really care about Privacy, don't use the Internet!
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Quantifying Azure RBAC Wildcard Overreach
Christophe Parisel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10755 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10755…

Quantifying Azure RBAC Wildcard Overreach
Azure RBAC leverages wildcard permissions to simplify policy authoring, but this abstraction often obscures the actual set of allowed operations and undermines least-privilege guarantees. We introduce Belshazaar, a two-stage framework that targets both the effective permission set problem and the evaluation of wildcards permissions spread. First, we formalize Azure action syntax via a context free grammar and implement a compiler that expands any wildcard into its explicit action set. Second, w…

A cavity array microscope for parallel single-atom interfacing
Adam L. Shaw, Anna Soper, Danial Shadmany, Aishwarya Kumar, Lukas Palm, Da-Yeon Koh, Vassilios Kaxiras, Lavanya Taneja, Matt Jaffe, David I. Schuster, Jonathan Simon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10919

A cavity array microscope for parallel single-atom interfacing
Neutral atom arrays and optical cavity QED systems have developed in parallel as central pillars of modern experimental quantum science. While each platform has demonstrated exceptional capabilities-such as high-fidelity quantum logic in atom arrays, and strong light-matter coupling in cavities-their combination holds promise for realizing fast and non-destructive atom measurement, building large-scale quantum networks, and engineering hybrid atom-photon Hamiltonians. However, to date, experime…

Meta has completed a deal to acquire AI voice technology startup PlayAI, and the "entire PlayAI team" is set to join Meta next week, per an internal memo (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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Freiheit für Greta Thunberg, Yasemin Acar und alle Aktivist*innen der Freedom Flotilla - Online-Petition
Humanitäre Hilfe ist kein Verbrechen! Am 1. Juni 2025 wurde das zivile Hilfsschiff Madleen der Freedom Flotilla Coalition auf dem Weg nach Gaza in internationalen Gewässern gewaltsam von der israelischen Armee gestoppt, geentert und seine Besatzung verschleppt. An Bord befanden sich ausschließlich unbewaffnete Freiwillige und dringend für den Gazastreifen benötigte humanitäre Hilfsgüter wie Babynahrung, Medizin und Prothesen für verletzte Kinder. Unter den Festgehaltenen ist neben Greta…

Code-Switching in End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition: A Systematic Literature Review
Maha Tufail Agro, Atharva Kulkarni, Karima Kadaoui, Zeerak Talat, Hanan Aldarmaki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07741

Code-Switching in End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition: A Systematic Literature Review
Motivated by a growing research interest into automatic speech recognition (ASR), and the growing body of work for languages in which code-switching (CS) often occurs, we present a systematic literature review of code-switching in end-to-end ASR models. We collect and manually annotate papers published in peer reviewed venues. We document the languages considered, datasets, metrics, model choices, and performance, and present a discussion of challenges in end-to-end ASR for code-switching. Our …

Frankrikes president Emmanuel Macron kräver att de sex franska medborgare som förts bort från #Madleen av israeliska styrkor "ska få återvända till Frankrike så snart som möjligt", enligt Elyséepalatset, skriver Le Monde.

En direct, guerre à Gaza : après l’interception du « Madleen » par Israël, la France réclame le retour de ses ressortissants « dans les plus brefs délais »
Six ressortissants français, dont l’eurodéputée Rima Hassan, se trouvent à bord du bateau humanitaire qui faisait route vers Gaza et a été intercepté par les autorités israéliennes pendant la nuit. La diplomatie française a aussi demandé le « retour rapide » de ses citoyens ; l’Etat hébreu, de son côté, assure que les activistes « vont retourner dans leurs pays ».

Verification of the Release-Acquire Semantics
Parosh Abdulla, Elli Anastasiadi, Mohamed Faouzi Atig, Samuel Grahn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08238 https://…

Verification of the Release-Acquire Semantics
The Release-Acquire (RA) semantics and its variants are some of the most fundamental models of concurrent semantics for architectures, programming languages, and distributed systems. Several steps have been taken in the direction of testing such semantics, where one is interested in whether a single program execution is consistent with a memory model. The more general verification problem, i.e., checking whether all allowed program runs are consistent with a memory model, has still not been stu…