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See How Marine Heat Waves Are Spreading Across the Globe https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/climate/see-how-marine-heat-waves-are-spreading-across-the-globe.html

Ocean Temperatures Are Increasing Around the World. See Where.
Sea surface temperatures in 2024 broke records and about a quarter of the world’s oceans are experiencing temperatures that qualify as a marine heat wave.

The proposed sell-off of federal lands in the Senate budget bill includes a LOT of Joshua tree habitat—the trees grow in some of the largest areas of undeveloped land in the lower 48 states
The place where eastern and western Joshua trees hybridize, north of Creech AFB, is included
#JoshuaTree #USpolitics

Multiplier, which acquires accounting services firms and scales them with AI, raised $27.5M across a seed and Series A, with the latter led by Lightspeed (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/18/mult

Multiplier, founded by ex-Stripe exec, nabs $27.5M to fuel AI-powered accounting roll-ups | TechCrunch
Multiplier raised Series A and seed funding from Lightspeed and Ribbit Capital.

"Analysis: Reform-led councils threaten 6GW of solar and battery schemes across England"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Solar #SolarPower

Analysis: Reform-led councils threaten 6GW of solar and battery schemes across England - Carbon Brief
Reform UK’s local-election victories in May 2025 could put 6 gigawatts (GW) of new clean-energy capacity at risk, according to Carbon Brief analysis.

So this is how it ends, not with a bang, but with six fingers holding a bacon icecream cone and only two r's in our strawberries.
But I can hear the blaring KA-CHING! KA-CHING! now.
G7 agrees to increase use of artificial intelligence in public sector | #CanPoli | thecanadianpressnews
https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/g7-agrees-to-increase-use-of-artificial-intelligence-in-public-sector/article_7a49ae0e-d038-5387-bc65-9c4dfc7cd666.html

Nippon Steel’s $14.9bn acquisition of US Steel closed on Wednesday,
confirming an unusual degree of power for the Trump administration after the Japanese company’s 18-month struggle to close the purchase.
Under the deal terms, Nippon bought 100% of US Steel shares at $55 a share, as it first laid out in its December 2023 offer for the well-known and struggling steelmaker.
A press release on the filing also discloses details of a national security agreement inked with the Tr…

Inhibiting Alzheimer's Disease by Targeting Aggregation of Beta-Amyloid
Ananya Joshi, George Khoury, Christodoulas Floudas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14052

Inhibiting Alzheimer's Disease by Targeting Aggregation of Beta-Amyloid
Alzheimer's disease is characterized by dangerous amyloid plaques formed by deposits of the protein Beta-Amyloid aggregates in the brain. The specific amino acid sequence that is responsible for the aggregates of Beta-Amyloid is lys-leu-val-phe-phe (KLVFF). KLVFF aggregation inhibitors, which we design in this paper, prevent KLVFF from binding with itself to form oligomers or fibrils (and eventually plaques) that cause neuronal death. Our binder-blocker peptides are designed such that, on one s…

Probabilistic Aggregation and Targeted Embedding Optimization for Collective Moral Reasoning in Large Language Models
Chenchen Yuan, Zheyu Zhang, Shuo Yang, Bardh Prenkaj, Gjergji Kasneci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14625

Probabilistic Aggregation and Targeted Embedding Optimization for Collective Moral Reasoning in Large Language Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive moral reasoning abilities. Yet they often diverge when confronted with complex, multi-factor moral dilemmas. To address these discrepancies, we propose a framework that synthesizes multiple LLMs' moral judgments into a collectively formulated moral judgment, realigning models that deviate significantly from this consensus. Our aggregation mechanism fuses continuous moral acceptability scores (beyond binary labels) into a collective probability,…

Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: A Study of Neural and Behavioural Variability Across Different Recommendation Categories
Georgios Koutroumpas, Sebastian Idesis, Mireia Masias Bruns, Carlos Segura, Joemon M. Jose, Sergi Abadal, Ioannis Arapakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13409

Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: A Study of Neural and Behavioural Variability Across Different Recommendation Categories
Traditionally, Recommender Systems (RS) have primarily measured performance based on the accuracy and relevance of their recommendations. However, this algorithmic-centric approach overlooks how different types of recommendations impact user engagement and shape the overall quality of experience. In this paper, we shift the focus to the user and address for the first time the challenge of decoding the neural and behavioural variability across distinct recommendation categories, considering more…

May 2025 recap | The latest edition of the GÉANT School of Software Engineering, hosted by PCSS, brought together developers and experts from across Europe to explore generative #AI tools, risks, secure coding practices.
Highlights:
🔹#GenAI Buzz-Free Programming with LLMs – training by Maciej Łabędzki…

Responsible AI in Practice: Shaping a Safer Future for AI-Powered Software Development | GÉANT CONNECT Online
Poznań, 20–22 May 2025 — The latest edition of the GÉANT School of Software Engineering, held at the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC), brought together top-tier developers and experts from across Europe for a deep-dive into generative AI tools, risks, and secure coding practices. At the core of the event was the acclaimed training