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Terminei de imprimir todas as provas. Agora estou almoçando correndo e daqui a pouco sair daqui. Foi bom ter feito esses gabaritos e revisado, acabei trocando uma das questões.

Turkiye has revoked the operational licence ⁠for ⁠a top private university with liberal values,
effectively forcing it to close in the middle of the academic year,
after the institution was seized ⁠by the state in a criminal investigation last year.
In a presidential decree, published in the Official Gazette on Friday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan revoked the operating licence for Istanbul Bilgi University,
which has an estimated 20,000 students from Turkiye and acr…

Turkiye shutters liberal Istanbul university seized in criminal probe
Council of Higher Education promised to take measures to ensure Bilgi University students ‘suffer no harm’.

#GitHub disabled 73 #Microsoft repositories across four of its GitHub organizations — the entire #Azure Functions org, the whole

The Blight Reaches Microsoft: 73 Repos Disabled in 105 Seconds
GitHub disabled 73 Microsoft repositories across four of its GitHub organizations — the entire Azure Functions org, the whole Durable Task family, and a row of AI sample apps — in a 105-second sweep on June 5. The recompromised durabletask package sits at the center, and the fingerprints point at the open-sourced Miasma worm.

New paper alert!
"Disabled syntax: Using configurational thinking to capture the building experience of diverse body-minds" in collaboration with Nina Vollenbroker, Jos Boys and Mine Sak-Acur is now available to read:
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10224598/…

Vz-GAL Dusty Star-Forming Galaxies: Revisiting the CO-H2 Conversion Factor Tension
Prachi Prajapati, Axel Weiss, Dominik Riechers, Tom J. L. C. Bakx, Leindert A. Boogaard, Diana Ismail, Pierre Cox, Andrew J. Baker, Roberto Neri, Matthew Lehnert, Chentao Yang, Emilio Romano-Diaz, Hiddo S. B. Algera, Stefano Berta, Edoardo Borsato, Kirsty M. Butler, Asantha Cooray, Bethany Jones, Amelie Saintonge, Paul van der Werf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18440 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.18440 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.18440
arXiv:2607.18440v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The CO luminosity-to-H$_2$ mass conversion factor ($\alpha_{CO}$) remains a debated uncertainty in determining molecular gas masses of high-redshift dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs). Dynamical mass constraints have often favored $\alpha_{CO}=0.8$~$M_{\odot}~{(K~km~{s}^{-1}~{pc}^{2})}^{-1}$, whereas dust- and radiative-transfer-based methods imply higher values. We revisit this ``tension" using the largest homogeneous sample of 21 unlensed $z\sim1-4$ DSFGs, with securely measured \coonezero luminosities from the VLA \vzgal survey and resolved ($\sim{0.1}^{\prime\prime}$) ALMA 1~mm dust continuum imaging. For 12 galaxies with robust modeling constraints, we derive molecular gas masses using dust spectral energy distribution modeling and the TUNER LVG framework, adopting a solar-metallicity gas-to-dust mass ratio of 100. Although not fully independent due to shared assumptions on dust properties, these approaches yield mutually consistent gas masses corresponding to $\alpha_{CO}\sim1.5-11.5$, with a median near the Galactic $\alpha_{CO}=4.3$. Isotropic virial dynamical masses agree with these gas masses when realistic molecular gas sizes are adopted, while our proposed ``mixed" (rotating, pressure-supported, thick-disk) estimator systematically underestimates dynamical masses, producing low $\alpha_{CO}$ limits. Using GN20 ($z=4.055$) as a case study, we show that resolved gas geometry and kinematics reconcile the discrepancy with LVG-derived $\alpha_{CO}$. Our results suggest that current data do not require $\alpha_{CO}=0.8$, and intermediate to near-Galactic values remain dynamically viable given uncertainties in gas geometry, dust properties, and gas-to-dust ratios. Further progress in calibrating $\alpha_{CO}$ in the early universe will require resolved molecular gas observations, physically motivated ISM modeling, and stringent constraints on dust properties.
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A Splitting Architecture for Exact Reduced Coulomb Friction
Hongcheng Song, Ye Fan, Uri M. Ascher, Dinesh K. Pai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19599 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.19599 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.19599
arXiv:2607.19599v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Existing approaches to frictional contact dynamics typically either modify the Coulomb law to improve numerical robustness or solve the exact law in a fully coupled monolithic form. However, in its reduced form, exact Coulomb friction can be written as a cone complementarity problem with an augmented velocity, which reveals a natural split between a cone-constrained linear response and a scalar non-associated coupling induced by tangential velocity. We exploit this structure in the solver design. Our method uses an outer iteration to update the non-associated coupling explicitly, and an inner solve for a strongly convex cone-constrained quadratic program. This separation also makes the inner solver modular, so different numerical schemes can be used without changing the outer iteration. We evaluate the method on rigid-body benchmarks with stick-slip transitions and frictional stacking, and show that it reproduces exact Coulomb complementarity without smoothing or relaxing the friction law.
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#StuartAdams, who has been in the news several times for corruption like his Qatar junket and changing the law to protect his statutory rapist relative, is yet again in the news for corruption.
#utpol #Utah

Stuart Adams' PAC received $135,000 from MIDA-connected donors days after approving controversial data center
Utah Senate President Stuart Adams' political action committee collected $135,000 from five MIDA-connected donors in a single day — the five largest donations in the PAC's history — just days after Adams chaired the approval of Kevin O'Leary's controversial 40,000-acre data center in northern Utah.

NFL news roundup: Niners, Mac Jones agree to revised 2026 contract that adds $300K roster bonus https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-wednesday-may-27

Too Good to Be True: A Study on Modern Automatic Speech Recognition for the Evaluation of Speech Enhancement
Danilo de Oliveira, Tal Peer, Timo Gerkmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12107 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.12107 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.12107
arXiv:2605.12107v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Speech enhancement (SE) systems are typically evaluated using a variety of instrumental metrics. The use of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems to evaluate SE performance is common in literature, usually in terms of word error rate (WER). However, WER scores depend heavily on the choice of ASR system and text normalization pipeline. In this paper, we investigate how modern ASR models correlate with human recognition of enhanced speech. A listening experiment reveals that modern ASR models with large-scale noisy training and embedded language models correlate more with human WER than simpler ones, with a transducer model providing the most reliable transcriptions. Nevertheless, we also show that these models' robustness to noise and use of context can be uninformative to an acoustics-focused evaluation of enhancement performance.
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The US Congress has passed a 45-day extension of a law that grants US intelligence agencies warrantless spying powers.
Bitter infighting over section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in the Republican wing of Congress has repeatedly tanked conservative leaders’ plans to renew the controversial surveillance law for multiple years.
The deadlock continued on Thursday, as the Republican House speaker Mike Johnson refused to include key reforms pushed by hardliners in …