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Do I know any #accordion or #concertina folks in #Belfast who might be up to attending this auction and shipping me an instrument if I’m fool enough to win one?
The Ken Hopkin's Accordion…

The Ken Hopkin's Accordion Collection at Ross's Online Auctions
The Ken Hopkin's Accordion Collection Bidding will take place via the-saleroom.com. You can bid by clicking here. Ross's Auctions is proud to present this landmark sale of Northern Ireland's lar

Sources: Meta's talks with Scale AI started in mid-April, with Zuckerberg floating a $5B investment in early May, which Alexandr Wang later countered with $20B (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-agreed-pay…

Meta Agreed to Pay up for Scale AI but Then Wanted More for Its Money
The negotiations started as just one billionaire tech founder talking to another. Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg approached Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang in mid-April about a potentially industry-shaking deal. Zuckerberg wanted Wang to join Meta and was willing to pay billions of dollars to ...

Entretanto, enquanto estamos todos distraídos, o genocídio continua no campo de extermínio de Gaza.
https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/114687443440556688

Accretion of Dark Energy Candidates Following Redshift Parametrization Type Equation of State : Horava-Lifshitz Gravity
Promila Biswas, Sukanya Dutta, Ritabrata Biswas, Farook Rahaman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11173

Accretion of Dark Energy Candidates Following Redshift Parametrization Type Equation of State : Horava-Lifshitz Gravity
In this article, accretion of particular dark energy candidates is studied. These dark energy models possess equation of state dependent on redshift and some free parameters. Central gravitating object for this accretion model is chosen to be the Kehagias Sfetsos black hole sitting in Horava Gravity. Four special redshift parametrization models, viz. Chevallier-Polarski-Linder, Jassal-Bagala-Padmanabhan, Barboza-Alcaniz and Barboza-Alcaniz-Zhu-Silva are picked to study different accretion prope…

HANS-Net: Hyperbolic Convolution and Adaptive Temporal Attention for Accurate and Generalizable Liver and Tumor Segmentation in CT Imaging
Arefin Ittesafun Abian, Ripon Kumar Debnath, Md. Abdur Rahman, Mohaimenul Azam Khan Raiaan, Md Rafiqul Islam, Asif Karim, Reem E. Mohamed, Sami Azam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11325

HANS-Net: Hyperbolic Convolution and Adaptive Temporal Attention for Accurate and Generalizable Liver and Tumor Segmentation in CT Imaging
Accurate liver and tumor segmentation on abdominal CT images is critical for reliable diagnosis and treatment planning, but remains challenging due to complex anatomical structures, variability in tumor appearance, and limited annotated data. To address these issues, we introduce Hyperbolic-convolutions Adaptive-temporal-attention with Neural-representation and Synaptic-plasticity Network (HANS-Net), a novel segmentation framework that synergistically combines hyperbolic convolutions for hierar…

Trump wields his ‘secret weapon’: College accreditation
Trump and his allies are using college accreditation to exert pressure on colleges and universities,
an effort that threatens the independence of accreditors and the stability of the institutions they approve.

Accrediting agencies, which have existed for more than a century, determine whether colleges meet standards of quality
by evaluating every aspect of their finances, operations and student achievement.

Trump wields his ‘secret weapon’: College accreditation
The administration is trying to make good on Trump’s campaign promise to use accreditation, a critical stamp of approval for colleges, to remake higher education.

An LLM's Apology: Outsourcing Awkwardness in the Age of AI
Twm Stone, Anna Soligo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13685 https://arxiv.…

An LLM's Apology: Outsourcing Awkwardness in the Age of AI
A key part of modern social dynamics is flaking at short notice. However, anxiety in coming up with believable and socially acceptable reasons to do so can instead lead to 'ghosting', awkwardness, or implausible excuses, risking emotional harm and resentment in the other party. The ability to delegate this task to a Large Language Model (LLM) could substantially reduce friction and enhance the flexibility of user's social life while greatly minimising the aforementioned creative burden and mora…

Doctor Approved: Generating Medically Accurate Skin Disease Images through AI-Expert Feedback
Janet Wang, Yunbei Zhang, Zhengming Ding, Jihun Hamm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12323

Doctor Approved: Generating Medically Accurate Skin Disease Images through AI-Expert Feedback
Paucity of medical data severely limits the generalizability of diagnostic ML models, as the full spectrum of disease variability can not be represented by a small clinical dataset. To address this, diffusion models (DMs) have been considered as a promising avenue for synthetic image generation and augmentation. However, they frequently produce medically inaccurate images, deteriorating the model performance. Expert domain knowledge is critical for synthesizing images that correctly encode clin…

New York-based Talos, which develops digital asset trading infrastructure, says it acquired blockchain data provider Coin Metrics, a source says for over $100M (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/07/16/talos-crypto…

Exclusive: Crypto infrastructure giant Talos acquires Coin Metrics for more than $100 million
The deal is the latest in a flurry of M&A activity in the crypto sector.

Multi-service messaging app Beeper relaunches, introducing premium offerings and the option to switch to an on-device model; Automattic acquired Beeper in 2024 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/beep

Beeper's all-in-one messaging app relaunches with an on-device model and premium upgrades | TechCrunch
Multi-service messaging app Beeper, which allows people to connect to all their chat apps from one interface, is relaunching its app on Wednesday to offer a more secure version that no longer requires use of its own cloud services.