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Some LGBTQ creators are seeing their brand partnership revenue for June's Pride Month dwindle in 2025, as advertisers pull back on their Pride marketing spend (Alexander Lee/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/pride-but-no-budget-lgbtq-creato…

Pride, but no budget: LGBTQ+ creators hit by ad spend drop
As brands pull back their spending on Pride Month marketing initiatives, LGBTQ+ creators are seeing their brand deals dwindle.

More Americans have a positive image of progressive Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, than they do of President Donald Trump and former Vice President Kamala Harris, according to new polling data.
Why It Matters
Ocasio-Cortez has been seen as a polarizing figure in politics and within the Democratic Party.
She has drawn backlash from moderate Democrats and Republicans alike since she surged onto the national stage after an upset primary victory aga…

AOC Viewed Positively by More Americans Than Trump and Harris—Poll
The New York progressive ranked third among politicians included in the survey, just behind the Obamas.

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SafeVLA: Towards Safety Alignment of Vision-Language-Action Model via Constrained Learning
Vision-language-action models (VLAs) show potential as generalist robot policies. However, these models pose extreme safety challenges during real-world deployment, including the risk of harm to the environment, the robot itself, and humans. How can safety constraints be explicitly integrated into VLAs? We address this by exploring an integrated safety approach (ISA), systematically modeling safety requirements, then actively eliciting diverse unsafe behaviors, effectively constraining VLA poli…

The understanding of the penetration and clusterization of 1-alkanol in bilayer membrane: An open outlook based on atomistic molecular dynamics simulation
Anirban Polley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24152

The understanding of the penetration and clusterization of 1-alkanol in bilayer membrane: An open outlook based on atomistic molecular dynamics simulation
1-alkanols are well known to have anesthetic and penetration properties, though the mode of operation remains enigmatic. We perform extensive atomistic molecular dynamics simulation to study the penetration of 1-alkanols of different chain lengths in the dioleoyl-phosphatidylcholine (DOPC) bilayer model membrane. Our simulations show that the depth of penetration of 1-alkanol increases with chain length, n, and the deuterium order of the DOPC tail increases with the chain length of the acyl-cha…

Greening AI-enabled Systems with Software Engineering: A Research Agenda for Environmentally Sustainable AI Practices
Lu\'is Cruz, Jo\~ao Paulo Fernandes, Maja H. Kirkeby, Silverio Mart\'inez-Fern\'andez, June Sallou, Hina Anwar, Enrique Barba Roque, Justus Bogner, Joel Casta\~no, Fernando Castor, Aadil Chasmawala, Sim\~ao Cunha, Daniel Feitosa, Alexandra Gonz\'alez, Andreas Jedlitschka, Patricia Lago, Ana Oprescu, Pooja Rani, Jo\~ao Saraiva, Federica Sarro, Raghavendra…

Greening AI-enabled Systems with Software Engineering: A Research Agenda for Environmentally Sustainable AI Practices
The environmental impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled systems is increasing rapidly, and software engineering plays a critical role in developing sustainable solutions. The "Greening AI with Software Engineering" CECAM-Lorentz workshop (no. 1358, 2025) funded by the Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire and the Lorentz Center, provided an interdisciplinary forum for 29 participants, from practitioners to academics, to share knowledge, ideas, practices, and current resul…

Yesterday, for the first time in the modern history of Spain, the whole country was left without electricity and with the communications of the end of the analog era.
Children had to play ball in the parks, families had to have barbecues in the parks and play board games... And I had to read a book. Going back to the 20th century was hell!
#spain

Aligning Protein Conformation Ensemble Generation with Physical Feedback
Jiarui Lu, Xiaoyin Chen, Stephen Zhewen Lu, Aur\'elie Lozano, Vijil Chenthamarakshan, Payel Das, Jian Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24203

Aligning Protein Conformation Ensemble Generation with Physical Feedback
Protein dynamics play a crucial role in protein biological functions and properties, and their traditional study typically relies on time-consuming molecular dynamics (MD) simulations conducted in silico. Recent advances in generative modeling, particularly denoising diffusion models, have enabled efficient accurate protein structure prediction and conformation sampling by learning distributions over crystallographic structures. However, effectively integrating physical supervision into these d…

The Promise of Spiking Neural Networks for Ubiquitous Computing: A Survey and New Perspectives
Hemanth Sabbella, Archit Mukherjee, Thivya Kandappu, Sounak Dey, Arpan Pal, Archan Misra, Dong Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01737

The Promise of Spiking Neural Networks for Ubiquitous Computing: A Survey and New Perspectives
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have emerged as a class of bio -inspired networks that leverage sparse, event- driven signaling to achieve low-power computation while inherently modeling temporal dynamics. Such characteristics align closely with the demands of ubiquitous computing systems, which often operate on resource- constrained devices while continuously monitoring and processing time - series sensor data. Despite their unique and promising features, SNNs have received limited attention an…

iRonCub 3: The Jet-Powered Flying Humanoid Robot
Davide Gorbani, Hosameldin Awadalla Omer Mohamed, Giuseppe L'Erario, Gabriele Nava, Punith Reddy Vanteddu, Shabarish Purushothaman Pillai, Antonello Paolino, Fabio Bergonti, Saverio Taliani, Alessandro Croci, Nicholas James Tremaroli, Silvio Traversaro, Bruno Vittorio Trombetta, Daniele Pucci
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iRonCub 3: The Jet-Powered Flying Humanoid Robot
This article presents iRonCub 3, a jet-powered humanoid robot, and its first flight experiments. Unlike traditional aerial vehicles, iRonCub 3 aims to achieve flight using a full-body humanoid form, which poses unique challenges in control, estimation, and system integration. We highlight the robot's current mechanical and software architecture, including its propulsion system, control framework, and experimental infrastructure. The control and estimation framework is first validated in simulat…