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Characterizing FaaS Workflows on Public Clouds: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Varad Kulkarni, Nikhil Reddy, Tuhin Khare, Abhinandan S. Prasad, Chitra Babu, Yogesh Simmhan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23013

Characterizing FaaS Workflows on Public Clouds: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Function-as-a-service (FaaS) is a popular serverless computing paradigm for developing event-driven functions that elastically scale on public clouds. FaaS workflows, such as AWS Step Functions and Azure Durable Functions, are composed from FaaS functions, like AWS Lambda and Azure Functions, to build practical applications. But, the complex interactions between functions in the workflow and the limited visibility into the internals of proprietary FaaS platforms are major impediments to gaining…

Absorbing Markov Chain-Based Analysis of Age of Information in Discrete-Time Dual-Queue Systems
Yifan Feng, Nail Akar, Zhengchuan Chen, Mehul Motani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23360

Absorbing Markov Chain-Based Analysis of Age of Information in Discrete-Time Dual-Queue Systems
Status update systems require the timely collection of sensing information for which deploying multiple sensors/servers to obtain diversity gains is considered as a promising solution. In this work, we construct an absorbing Markov chain (AMC) to exactly model Age of Information (AoI) in a discretetime dual-queue (DTDQ) status update system with generate at will (GAW) status updates, discrete phase-type (DPH-type) distributed service times and transmission freezing. Specifically, transmission i…

Wow, Oracle Cloud sucks. You know it's bad when I find Azure and AWS easier to use.
Signed up thinking I'd use their "always free" tier and maybe pay the overages.
They lock you in a "home region" and I can't launch the free tier servers because they aren't available in any of the data centers in my home region. Of course you can't check capacity of servers when you're selecting your home region (that you can't change.) So, how are …

Another excellent thread from @… I especially agree with this bit:
"The EU needs to get the *hell* off US tech infrastructure. Under Trump, Big Tech and the US government have stopped even pretending that American tech companies are independent of the US government. We know (from China) that Apple will happily backdoor its cloud servers to assuage authoritarian governments"
Not easy for even a motivated person to achieve without a lot of help though. Yet.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115271300104707706
pluralistic@mamot.fr - Apple has threatened to stop selling iPhones and other devices in the European Union (home to over 500,000,000 affluent consumers) if the bloc doesn't rescind the Digital Markets Act, a democratically accountable anti-monopoly law that bans Apple from blocking third parties from offering services to iPhone owners:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/25/apple-calls-for-changes-to-anti-monopoly-laws-and-says-it-may-stop-shipping-to-the-eu
 
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»Web Traffic leidet unter KI-Crawlern und Bots:
Die Ergebnisse einer aktuellen Studie von Fastly besagen, dass Crawler und Fetcher allmählich den Web-Traffic übernehmen.«
Die Lösung dafür kenne ich auch nicht, ausser den Server möglichst gut vor Bots zu schützen, so gut es geht wie schon lange.
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Web Traffic leidet unter KI-Crawlern und Bots
Die Ergebnisse einer aktuellen Studie von Fastly besagen, dass Crawler und Fetcher allmählich den Web-Traffic übernehmen.

Towards Sharper Object Boundaries in Self-Supervised Depth Estimation
Aur\'elien Cecille, Stefan Duffner, Franck Davoine, R\'emi Agier, Thibault Neveu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15987

Towards Sharper Object Boundaries in Self-Supervised Depth Estimation
Accurate monocular depth estimation is crucial for 3D scene understanding, but existing methods often blur depth at object boundaries, introducing spurious intermediate 3D points. While achieving sharp edges usually requires very fine-grained supervision, our method produces crisp depth discontinuities using only self-supervision. Specifically, we model per-pixel depth as a mixture distribution, capturing multiple plausible depths and shifting uncertainty from direct regression to the mixture w…

I had to drive alone for a while and decided to listen to my own music and, surprisingly, I found it good (in its own weird, specific way).
If you like EBM and that kinda stuff, maybe have a listen. Perhaps you'll agree with me
https://pgcd.bandcamp.com/album/infernal…

"Une diminution du trafic autoroutier permet au canton de Vaud de revoir sa copie sur l'échangeur de Crissier
Des "Assises de la mobilité" pour le désengorgement de l'échangeur de Crissier ont eu lieu mardi matin Š Lausanne entre les syndics de l'Ouest lausannois et le canton, a appris la RTS. Elles ont donné lieu Š une "agréable surprise": le trafic autoroutier diminue tendanciellement et sera 25% inférieur aux estimations en 2030."

Une diminution du trafic autoroutier permet au canton de Vaud de revoir sa copie sur l'échangeur de Crissier
Des "Assises de la mobilité" pour le désengorgement de l'échangeur de Crissier ont eu lieu mardi matin à Lausanne entre les syndics de l'Ouest lausannois et le canton, a appris la RTS. Elles ont donné lieu à une "agréable surprise": le trafic autoroutier diminue tendanciellement et sera 25% inférieur aux estimations en 2030.

A minha verdadeira surpresa é: só agora?!
https://masto.pt/@tugatech/114976947994005648

«Selon ses calculs, le nombre de véhicules qui empruntera l'échangeur en 2030 devrait être 25% inférieur aux projections de 2016. Le trafic devrait donc se stabiliser, voire baisser Š l'avenir malgré l'augmentation de la population.»
M. Rösti ne sera pas content!