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Evaluating the robustness and readiness of large frontier models in health #AI applications: not ready for prime time https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04501-8 "considerable gaps between…

Evaluating the robustness and readiness of large frontier models in health AI applications - Nature Medicine
Adversarial evaluation of leading AI models uncovers gaps between benchmark success and robustness, highlighting limitations in current health AI benchmarks and their ability to capture clinically relevant performance.

The EPA plans to eliminate a federal rule that US states must publicize and solicit public input on air pollution permit applications for data centers (Maxine Joselow/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/climate/epa-data-centers-public-comment.ht…

E.P.A. Moves to Curb Public Input on Air Pollution Permits for Data Centers
Under the proposal, states would no longer need to provide public notice or solicit comments on air pollution permits for data centers and other projects.

NASA: Providing Active Fire Data for Near-Real Time Monitoring and Applications
The Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) distributes Near Real-Time (NRT) active fire data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Aqua and Terra satellites, and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) aboard S-NPP, NOAA 20 and NOAA 21 (formally known as JPSS-1 and JPSS-2).
🔥

NASA-FIRMS
Fire Information for Resource Management System

Processing error could disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters in Texas
A massive backlog of voter registration applications in Texas could affect the outcome of local and state elections,
including a contentious election involving a U.S. Senate seat.
Public officials in the Republican-controlled state have not yet acknowledged what the error actually is.
It’s also possible that the error could have affected elections from before the primary elections in March 202…

Processing error could disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters in Texas
The deadline to register to vote in Texas is October 5.

Laura Pye: 'Imagine what could be achieved if every museum committed to the simple but powerful goal of 100% inventory-level documentation. Imagine the research opportunities, the increased public access and the ability to share collections nationally and internationally. The sector talks a great deal about transformation. Perhaps one of the most transformative things we could do is return to the fundamentals of knowing what we hold, where it is and why it matters.'

Getting to grips with our collections - Museums Association
Museums must commit to 100% inventory-level documentation ahead of their next NPO applications, says Laura Pye

"“We had about 8,000 applications for the 1,800 slots over the last two days, roughly four times oversubscribed"
Japan enlists 1,800 people to drag a 360-tonne castle keep using ropes and rollers | Japan | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.c…

Japan enlists 1,800 people to drag a 360-tonne castle keep using ropes and rollers
After repairs to Hirosaki Castle in Aomori prefecture, officials employed a technique known as hikiya to move the structure more than two metres

"The UI Toolkit for React contains components for KVM and Serial over LAN (SOL) for integration into React based web applications."
https://github.com/device-management-toolkit/ui-toolkit-react

GitHub - device-management-toolkit/ui-toolkit-react: The UI Toolkit for React contains components for KVM and Serial over LAN (SOL) for integration into React based web applications.
The UI Toolkit for React contains components for KVM and Serial over LAN (SOL) for integration into React based web applications. - device-management-toolkit/ui-toolkit-react

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⚡ cuda.core provides objects for devices, streams and buffers in the CUDA runtime, usable for custom kernels or to optimize existing applications
🔗 The object model enables interference-free shared access: objects can be managed across library and application boundaries, including latency-privileged kernels (Green Context)

Business managers design a vr headset: look better meetings
Engineers design a vr headset: we ship with GCC, cmake and renderdoc installed by default. Usable desktop with all your Linux applications running.

Buzz to Boom: Detecting Message Progression Vulnerabilities in Electron Applications via Segmented Directed Fuzzing
Jianjia Yu, Zhengyu Liu, Ziyang Li, Yu Sun, Yinzhi Cao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20698 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20698 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.20698
arXiv:2607.20698v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Electron is a popular framework for building cross-platform desktop applications using web technologies. Such applications consist of multiple processes with different privilege levels that communicate via message passing. When inter-process messages carry attacker-controlled inputs, they can propagate across processes and reach privileged APIs, e.g., command execution. Such a message propagation behavior is characterized as Message Progression Vulnerabilities (MPVs). The exploitation of MPVs is challenging because it often requires multiple steps, e.g., first arbitrary code execution in one process via message passing, and then command injection in another process using another message crafted in the first process. To our knowledge, existing works on Electron security only study unsafe configurations and malicious Document Object Model (DOM) content, i.e., they cannot detect or exploit these vulnerabilities that need to be triggered by complex cross-process exploits via message passing. We present Proton, a segmented directed fuzzing framework for detecting MPVs. Our key insight is to decompose end-to-end fuzzing into per-process segments along message-passing boundaries, where the goals of fuzzing each segment are either: (i) reaching a sink in the current process or (ii) propagating the payload to the next process, to enable the exploration of another process. In the second case, the messages seed the corpus of the next segment. Finally, Proton synthesizes crash inputs from each process to validate end-to-end exploits. We evaluate Proton against 589 real-world Electron applications, resulting in 23 zero-day MPVs. Among them, 22 lead to OS command execution, including projects with over 50k GitHub stars. We responsibly disclosed all findings. To date, we have received 13 acknowledgments, 11 fixes, and 11 CVEs, including a bug bounty from Vercel.
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"Onshore windfarm applications hit 10-year high in England"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy #Renewables

Onshore windfarm applications hit 10-year high in England
Surge in proposals follows Labour’s lifting of de facto ban, with about 45 plans submitted in the year to March

Development of Neutron Transmutation Doped Germanium (NTD-Ge) for Cryogenic Applications
Kangkang Zhao, Mingxuan Xue, Haiping Peng, Deyong Duan, Yunlong Zhang, Yi Li, Junfeng Yang, Xintan Deng, Hongjun Zhang, Huaichang Ran, Sicheng Wen, Xiaolian Wang, Zizong Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21392

Industry group TechNet files a comment with the US DHS urging the White House to withdraw its proposal to charge $103,265 for most new H-1B visa applications (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/poli…

Reading throu hundreds of user applications each week for this instance, I can (probably) spot AI generated texts within 1-2 seconds.
I would say, that almost 90-97% of all user applications to this instance is bots nowadays.

Rapp turns ordinary R scripts into command-line tools and generates arguments and help from the structure of the script: #rstats

GitHub - r-lib/Rapp: Build CLI applications in R
Build CLI applications in R. Contribute to r-lib/Rapp development by creating an account on GitHub.

Closed-loop neuromodulation: a paradigm shift in precision neuroscience for clinical and cognitive applications https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2026.1943905/full "Paradigm shift" is a big word;…

Frontiers | Closed-loop neuromodulation: a paradigm shift in precision neuroscience for clinical and cognitive applications
Closed-loop neuromodulation systems are critically synthesized here with respect to their foundational principles, mechanistic underpinnings, and systematic ...

IBM says it is developing a dual-architecture processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE systems that can natively execute both IBM's z/OS workloads and Arm applications (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/infrastructure

Airbus & the cloud.
"European aerospace giant Airbus has lined up on the runway and is pushing the throttles forward as it prepares to evict apps from America. Airbus has named French cloud services provider Scaleway as the destination for some 900 applications, with an initial 70 getting priority onboarding, as it seeks to put critical systems and data under European control."

Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical
Which way to the Land of the Free again?

I hate to say it but the #grokpedia #qemu write-up: https://grokipedia.com/page/QEMU is better than the

QEMU — Grokipedia
QEMU is a free and open-source machine emulator and virtualizer capable of emulating complete systems or individual user-mode applications across a wide range of CPU architectures. Developed by French

RE: https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/116951656558788471
Maybe just check what kind of dependencies you have in your applications, and once a year consider donating a bit of money to them.

Ambient Pressure-Driven Actuators and Shape-Morphing Metamaterials
Benjamin Holdstock, Robert Trowbridge, Alexander W. Powell, Julian Monsalve Londono
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18982 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.18982 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.18982
arXiv:2607.18982v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Actuators which change shape in response to ambient pressure have great potential for use in extreme environments, from space to the deep ocean. Bi-layer actuators have so far not been explored to this end, despite their lightness and mechanical simplicity (there is no requirement for a separate power source or pump, for example) making them ideal for applications where transport and maintenance are difficult. In this paper, foam-based bilayer actuators powered by ambient pressure change have been constructed, modelled mathematically, characterised in terms of their actuating force, and built into deployable devices and metamaterial structures to showcase properties such as negative pressure expansivity. Actuators such as these are ideally suited for a range of applications, from deploying solar panels and sensors in space and extra-terrestrial atmospheres, to under-sea expandable structures and sensing.
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from my link log —
Fixing memory leaks in JavaScript in a web browser.
https://nolanlawson.com/2020/02/19/fixing-memory-leaks-in-web-applications/
saved 2020-02-21

Fixing memory leaks in web applications
Update: I’ve written a tool to automate many of the steps described in this post. Part of the bargain we struck when we switched from building server-rendered websites to client-rendered SPAs…

Created by Congress in 1996,
the Alien Terrorist Removal Court,
has five federal judges appointed by the Chief Justice,
“to review applications for the removal from the United States of alien terrorists.”
The attorney general submits applications for removal to the court under seal.
According to the Federal Judicial Center, it has never received an application since its founding.
-- Until this week.
According to a court order posted on the newly-cr…

Alien Terrorist Removal Court Has Its First Case
Created in 1996, the Alien Terrorist Removal Court has never reviewed an application. Until now

@… I don't use Windows, but I guess that the issue is that you need to call pandoc from the command line.
You may want to look at applications that integrate pandoc in a more accessible fashion, e.g., @….

@… I don't use Windows, but I guess that the issue is that you need to call pandoc from the command line.
You may want to look at applications that integrate pandoc in a more accessible fashion, e.g., @….

I wonder where I might buy a pair of those cool new gloves? #askingforafriend I bet #EagleTactical has them. It’d be cool if there was a dial where you could ramp down the jolt, purely for personal pleasure applications, and then ramp up the juice for actual tactical use.

The Data Science Institute at Brown invites applications for an 18-month postdoc position in civic science and AI-human interaction. The successful candidate will be hosted by ARIA (the NSF AI Research Institute on Interaction with AI Assistants, which I'm tangentially a part of). See:
https://apply.interfolio.com/188112

RE: https://wisskomm.social/@wissenschaftimdialog/117331187337381645
Hands-on exhibits about spaceflight (or space research) sought ... to be used on a boat cruising German rivers next year - deadline for applications in three days!

"AI Applications, Tools, and Algorithms for Advancing Library Sciences"
https://www.igi-global.com/book/applications-tools-algorithms-advancing-library/389596
leider zu teuer, um es "auf verdacht" für unseren bestand f…

Semiconductor cram schools are flourishing in Seoul as applications to Samsung and SK Hynix surge, fuelled by record earnings and eye-catching worker bonuses (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/0c9c66a6-339a-420e-9e73-178195382259

UK non-academic researchers!
UK Research and Innovation have one research funding programme - 'Future Leaders Fellowships' - which allow and support applications from non-academic researchers, i.e. those hosted by business including non-profits. It's well funded, over 4 years, extendable to 7 years. I was lucky enough to get one of these, hosted by the lovely non-profit organisation @…

Come to #D3A @ Nyborg on Oct 8 - We are organizing the workshop Data Science of Human-centric Mobility! https://d3aconference.dk/data-science-of-human-centric-mobility/
Sh…

Signs you're looking at a datasheet for The Good Stuff

cooool, Hashi Nomad 2.0.4 broke half of our cluster in a fucking point release again 🥲
i'm really gonna have to learn kubernetes don't i
https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/28224

Issue · hashicorp/nomad
Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and...

"The cause of ⁠the outage is understood - we have no reason to believe ​it is ​due to ​a cyberattack - and ‌our IT team is working to bring all systems back online."
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/boeing-says-o…

Boeing says IT outage affected computer systems, applications
Boeing said on Tuesday that an unplanned ‌IT outage affected some of ‌its computer systems and applications. The outage "significantly disrupted" ​the aeros...

University of Texas study, for blind or low vision participants: Living in an AI-filtered reality: Participant recruitment & eligibility screening form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfrJaZokMcnv7t0ExHT1hdVZ8dEsgV-AymJxguendMqTKxEZA…

Living in an AI-Filtered Reality: Participant Recruitment & Eligibility Screening Form
Thank you for your interest in participating in this research study. We are researchers from the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UT San Antonio). This study explores how blind and low-vision (BLV) individuals experience AI-powered assistive technologies, including scene description applications, wearable AI assistants, and generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Seeing AI, Be My Eyes AI, Gemini, and similar systems. We are particularly interested in situat…

Trump Rejected Nearly 6,000 Clemency Applications Amid Hope of Pardon Wave (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/us/politics/trump-rejected-clemency-applications.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zVA.SlCd.DcjKH8NhctwT&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260720/p135#a260720p135

Preventing quart-NaI adhesion in Bridgman growth using ammonium iodide
Lam Tan Truc, N. T. Luan, Gul Rooh, O. Gileva, K. A. Shin, H. S. Lee, A. Iltis, C. R. Byeon, C. H. Lee, H. J. Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21171 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.21171 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.21171
arXiv:2608.21171v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Adhesion between NaI(Tl) single crystals and the walls of quartz ampoules remains a major limitation for Bridgman growth under sealed conditions, particularly for applications requiring ultra-radiopure scintillators for dark matter searches, where sealed handling is essential. In this study, ammonium iodide (NH4I) was used as an additive to generate HI in situ, thereby suppressing the NaOH-SiO2 reaction that forms adhesive sodium silicate phases. Small-diameter crystals (8 mm) were first grown to determine the NH4I concentration required to eliminate adhesion. The optimized condition was then applied to the growth of a large NaI(Tl) crystal. A crack-free and bubble-free NaI(Tl) crystal with dimensions of 3 inches in diameter by 3 inches in length was successfully grown. The crystal exhibited a light output of 59,000 photons/MeV, which is higher than that of the commercial NaI(Tl) crystals used as references in this study.
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@… Well, it's a paper for a computer science conference… The audience is generally familiar with developer tools and the command line, but I agree that the general public isn't. For most people, applications such as Zettlr, which present a more familiar interface, and which I do mention in the paper, are likely to be the better choice…

@… Well, it's a paper for a computer science conference… The audience is generally familiar with developer tools and the command line, but I agree that the general public isn't. For most people, applications such as Zettlr, which present a more familiar interface, and which I do mention in the paper, are likely to be the better choice…

Chipmaker NXP Semiconductors is introducing post-quantum cryptography (PQC) into its products, prioritising devices aimed at automotive, industrial IoT and identity applications.
https://www.

A chipmaker’s post-quantum cryptography strategy
Chipmaker NXP Semiconductors is introducing post-quantum cryptography (PQC) into its products, prioritising devices aimed at automotive, industrial IoT and identity applications.

The court’s decision to block the Trump administration from including a “loyalty question” on federal job applications
was a win not only for the nonpartisan civil service,
but also for the communities public employees serve, said one labor leader whose union was among the plaintiffs in the case against the Office of Personnel Management.
Patrick Moran, president of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) union, said Friday that
the …

Federal Court Blocks Trump's 'Loyalty Question' on Civil Service Job Applications | Common Dreams
Court blocks Trump admin's loyalty question on job apps, a win for nonpartisan civil service & communities served. Was it right to prioritize loyalty over qualifications? Should public servants be hired based on allegiance to an administration or merit alone? #ProtectTheConstitution

If AI were a nation, the increased economic activity it promises to stimulate would become the fifth largest CO2 emitter, just behind Russia—study.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/11/ai-will-do-more-to-boost…

Weekend Reads
* ICMP tunnel bypass in LTE nets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.04783
* Abuse in the standards process

Ghost Traffic: ICMP Tunneling-Based Billing Bypass in LTE Networks
Cellular data billing is a core operational mechanism for mobile Internet service providers (ISPs), and a policy gap that excludes a specific protocol from usage accounting can lead to a practical security threat. Some cellular ISPs treat ICMP echo traffic as control traffic rather than user data and exclude it from billing. At the same time, Android allows ordinary applications to create ICMP echo sockets without root privileges because of an unsafe default configuration, and the combination o…

Someone lied 30 years ago. Beosbible.com is for sale, so no updates for me.
Fortunately the author @… , is now hosting these at https://birdhouse.org/beos/bible/

In the Opener Initiative, we collaborate on implementing the #DectNRPlus standard.
The standard provides license-free radio (no cellular operators) in the 1.9GHz band, with all bells and whistles of a 5G radio standard for #IoT applications.
In Opener, we are working on a portable

Opener Initiative
Building Opener, an open reference implementation of the NR+ protocol stack.

An Overview of Potential Medical Applications of Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors
C\'athal McAleer, Gary Donegan, Colm Bracken, Ois\'in Creaner, Mario De Lucia, Tom Ray, Gerhard Ulbricht
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19918 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.19918 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.19918
arXiv:2608.19918v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs) have proven to be a versatile detector technology and are very promising for several applications in medical imaging. Deep imaging into human tissues often requires detectors with low background noise, high detection efficiency, broad wavelength sensitivity or single-pixel energy resolution. MKIDs offer a unique combination of valuable features for medical imaging but have so far not been discussed much for modern medical instrumentation. This represents an exciting opportunity to investigate the potentially powerful advantages MKIDs could offer for clinical studies in several areas. The most promising fields for MKIDs in medical imaging include fluorescence microscopy, near-infrared spectroscopy, energy-resolved medical X-ray imaging and synchrotron X-ray microscopy. We present the respective advantages MKIDs offer for these fields and compare them to current detector state-of-the-art.
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This article is utter nonsense. The planning system does not prevent building.
1) The NPPF has a presumption for sustainable development, where 'sustainable' is nothing of the sort.
2) Sure councils can refuse planning applications but a) if they are the sponsors, why would they, and b) if they do then the planning inspectorate / Secretary of State will overturn the decision.
/contd.

Without radical planning reform, Burnham cannot build the houses he’s promising | LSE British Politics
Governments keep promising more houses, and keep failing to build them. If Burnham is to keep his promise, there needs to be a radical reform to planning rules.

Sources: OpenAI is developing features to counter SpaceX's Grok Bot "teammates", and has discussed creating a personal AI assistant to compete with Meta's Muse (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI Develops Features to Counter Grok Bot, Mulls Response to Meta’s Muse
OpenAI pioneered AI that can take over web browsers and other applications on people’s behalf, and its ChatGPT app brought generative AI to consumers. Now that rivals like SpaceX and Meta are pushing the boundaries by launching personal AI agents that handle multistep tasks, OpenAI is playing ...

Replaced article(s) found for math.DG. https://arxiv.org/list/math.DG/new
[2/3]:
- Parabolic Bogomolov--Gieseker Inequality and Pluriharmonic Metrics on Regular Parabolic Higgs She...
Tianshu Jiang, Jiayu Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23787 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/117160767810848599
- Reduction of symmetric time-dependent Hamiltonian systems I: presymplectic principal $\mathbb{R}$...
C. Ben\'itez, D. Iglesias Ponte, J. C. Marrero, E. Padr\'on
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.28278 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/117189027246895257
- Under Ricci flow, a 3-torus goes flat
John Lott
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.30027 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/117194823420486908
- Hypersurfaces of constant higher order mean curvature in hyperbolic space with prescribed asympto...
Bin Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.01565 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/117200534171643350
- The Weyl Law Meets Large-Scale Regularity on Ricci Shrinkers
Junrong Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.08206 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/117240420437174751
- On the Ohsawa-Takegoshi $L^2$ extension theorem and removable singularities of plurisubharmonic f...
Xieping Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11007 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathCV_bot/110252413374260126
- Upper semicontinuity of algebraic dimension
Sheng Rao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.02022
- On functoriality of Baum-Bott residues
Maur\'icio Corr\^ea, Tatsuo Suwa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15133 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathCV_bot/113904709987174443
- Lindblad Quantum Dynamics as Euler-Poincar\'e Reduction on Adjoint-Coupled Semidirect Products
Leonardo Colombo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.21967 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathph_bot/115643261956162076
- Edgewise Envelopes Between Balanced Forman and Ollivier-Ricci Curvature
Giorgio Micaletto, Tebe Nigrelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.13535 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statCO_bot/116243444434809142
- Capillary John ellipsoid theorem with applications to capillary curvature problems
Jinrong Hu, Yingxiang Hu, Bo Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27252 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathAP_bot/116322830418360820
- Busemann G-spaces with convex balls
Tadashi Fujioka, Shijie Gu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.20800 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathMG_bot/117149407794925161
- Monotonicity formulas in positively curved settings with applications to two-phase free boundary ...
Johannes Hosle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.05107 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathAP_bot/117228712585560297
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For me this age of AI is the time we should appreciate less polished handwritten texts for their authenticity. I see this happening during selection of job applications.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026…

How AI is changing language
As allegations of LLM use rock the literary and media worlds, linguists explain what really distinguishes human and machine writing, while novelists including Jennifer Egan and Jeanette Winterson reflect on the future of fiction in an age of ChatGPT

from my link log —
Reducing the size of a Rust GStreamer plugin.
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2020/04/28/reducing-size-rust-gstreamer-plugin/
saved 2020-04-29

Reducing the size of a Rust GStreamer plugin
With Rust gaining traction among the GStreamer community as an alternative to C to write applications and plugins, we began wondering, could the size of such Rust plugins be a problem for embedded systems?

Gorgeous collection of macOS drag-to-applications-to-install Windows:
https://unsung.aresluna.org/as-a-windows-user-its-a-very-surreal-way-to-install-a-program/

“As a Windows user, it’s a very surreal way to install a program.” – Unsung
A blog about software craft and quality

"Fossil fuel gains outweigh AI’s climate benefits, study finds"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #FossilFuels

Fossil fuel gains outweigh AI’s climate benefits, study finds
According to new analysis, fossil fuel productivity gains enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) will outweigh any emissions reductions the technology generates across renewable energy applications – a huge carbon reporting blind spot.

This week on #ProFed: the web client now has RSS feeds. Not everywhere yet – authenticated feeds are a harder problem. Every approach I've considered so far is either tooc unsafe, too complicated for regular users, or not supported by most RSS readers.
Ideas very welcome. Are you maybe aware, how other applications do that? Are there any other applications at all, that do that?

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.DS. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DS/new
[1/1]:
- A Cheeger Inequality for Hypergraphs and Its Applications
Raj Kamal, Amitabha Bagchi

There are frameworks like {golem} and {rhino} to make shiny development more robust, but I like the concept of {shinytest2} in providing a testing framework for pure shiny. https://rstudio.github.io/shinytest2/index.html

Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.app-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.app-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Double anticrossings induced by nonlinear magnon interactions
Geil Emdi, Tomosato Hioki, Koujiro Hoshi, Takahiko Makiuchi, Aoi Yamauchi, Eiji Saitoh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18807 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatmeshall_bot/116962591627994984
- Fast reconstruction of tensor tomographic X-ray scattering data for real-time applications
Andr\'e M. Antunes, Dani\"el M. Pelt, K. Joost Batenburg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19124 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessIV_bot/116962490567366309
- Direct Spatiotemporal Imaging of Charge Carrier Dynamics in Operative Semiconductor Devices
Adriano Cola, Antonio Valletta, Isabella Farella, Vaclav D\v{e}di\v{c}, Lorenzo Dominici
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19157 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsoptics_bot/116962621513823888
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🚨Job Alert !‼️🚨
Museum Curator / tenure-track Assistant Professor in Vertebrate #Paleontology at Idaho State University ⚒️🧪
(h/t gondwannabe on bsky)
https://isu.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite

Curator/Assistant Professor, Idaho Museum of Natural History & Biological Sciences (3756)
Job DescriptionThe Idaho Museum of Natural History and the Department of Biological Sciences at Idaho State University invite applications for a joint...

Microsoft has released a public preview of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) containers, adding a built-in command-line tool and API for running Linux containers directly inside Windows applications without third-party software.
That's cool bro. I'm proud of you!
You did it all by yourself or Claude helped you?

Fast Wave-optics Rendering of Multiplane Images for 3D Holographic Displays
Brian Chao, Dario Seyb, Nathan Matsuda, Oliver Cossairt, Yang Zhou, Douglas Lanman, Gordon Wetzstein, Grace Kuo, Changwon Jang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19731 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.19731 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.19731
arXiv:2607.19731v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent advances in neural rendering have unlocked unprecedented capabilities in 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis, giving rise to applications such as virtual fly-throughs of a 3D scene reconstructed from a set of sparse, casually captured images. However, these renderings are viewed on a computer screen or conventional VR headsets as 2D images, greatly limiting the perceptual realism and immersiveness of such experiences. The rapid development in novel 3D scene representations calls for dedicated rendering algorithms that convert these readily-available 3D contents into formats that are compatible with emerging 3D display technologies, such as holographic displays. In this paper, we propose a wave-optics rendering pipeline that works with multiplane images (MPIs) for efficient and high-quality hologram synthesis. Our MPI-based computer-generated holography algorithm greatly outperforms state-of-the-art primitive-based CGH algorithms in terms of runtime, achieving speedups up to 250,000x while achieving comparable image quality, and significantly outperforms conventional layer-based CGH algorithms in terms of image quality. We validate our method extensively on a wide variety of 3D scene datasets both in simulation and through experimentally captured results, showing exceptional 3D focal stack and 4D light field reconstruction performance without sacrificing efficiency.
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Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Japanese Buddhism — Ca' Foscari University of Venice
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Wrote a driver for osmo-trx to run on the PlutoSDR.
PlutoSDR is a relatively inexpensive Zynq (FPGA ARM) and AD9361 SDR device.
It runs Linux and can run smaller applications directly on device.
I'm now using it to run a 2G/GSM base station setup. The transceiver runs directly on device, the rest of the network needs to be external.
Made possible through 3rd party timestamping FPGA gateware written by Phil Greenland.

Strolch's website has been vastly extended with documentation, including the repository! Go check it out:
#java

A High-Order Flux Reconstruction Actuator-Line Framework for Rotating-Blade Aerodynamics on Fixed Cartesian Grids
Abdullah Al Imran, Meilin Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20347 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20347 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.20347
arXiv:2607.20347v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This work couples a high-order flux reconstruction/correction procedure via reconstruction (FR/CPR) solver with a rotating actuator-line model (ALM) to simulate rotating-blade aerodynamics on fixed Cartesian grids. Blade loading is represented by volumetric body force source terms projected through an isotropic Gaussian kernel in a blade-attached frame, eliminating the need to resolve blade geometry. Vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs) serve as the demonstration configuration, with a modified Boeing-Vertol dynamic stall model incorporated to capture unsteady lift and drag. A mesh-resolution criterion for the Gaussian projection kernel on reasonably coarse meshes is derived. It shows that cost-effective coarse meshes can operate in a mesh-controlled regime with negligible induction feedback, motivating a Double Multiple Streamtube (DMST) correction to recover the physical inflow. Simulations are carried out over a range of tip-speed ratios at a chord-based Reynolds number of Re_c ~ 3.6 x 10^5. The framework is validated against experimental near-wake measurements and previously reported LES-ALM results, and the mean wake profile shows good agreement. The predicted power-coefficient curve matches high-fidelity three-dimensional LES-ALM data to within 6% around the optimal VAWT operation conditions. The framework also captures the regime-dependent influence of dynamic stall, azimuthal blade loading, lift hysteresis, and characteristic wake structures. These results demonstrate that the FR/CPR-ALM framework provides an accurate and computationally efficient geometry-free approach for VAWT analysis, making it well suited for parametric studies and large-scale wind energy applications.
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I can't stop saying the NVRAM vars are a tough #UEFI attack surface, and if processed wrong, may undermine all #security:
https://kb.cert.org/vuls…

Basically what I want from a wm. No frills, just a bar, a bg, a couple of workspaces, some applications and a bit of color.
River-classic gives me just that.
#slackware #riverwm

i'm currently trying to learn #linear_logic. i made less serious attempts to understand it ages ago.
i picked out "Linear Logic for Linguists" which is still more focussed on types and proofs that i would like, but the applications to grammar seem kinda interesting.
really i would prefer "linear logic for babies" that just focusses on the operators and const…

Velaura AI, which is developing low-power chips for data centers and physical AI applications, like robotics, raised a $110M Series A at a $1B valuation (Prathik Jayaprakash/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactiona

⚡ Projects keep a target's traffic, browser state, cookies, notes and results together, and survive between prompts
🎯 A persistent managed #Chromium session lets agents browse authenticated applications while cookies and site storage survive restarts

Data centers powering the AI boom have been spewing out a staggering amount of pollution by relying on fossil fuel-powered generators.
And given the industry’s unrelenting appetite for more infrastructure supporting ever-more-resource-intensive AI models,
the trend is only going to get worse from here.
It’s reached the point that AI is giving the fossil fuel industry a substantial leg up,
as a new paper published in the journal NPJ Climate Action details.
The au…

AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model - npj Climate Action
The net climate impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) depend largely on how its applications propagate through competing energy pathways. Predominant analyses examine the relationship between datacenter energy demand, renewables optimization, and demand-side efficiencies, but insufficiently address how AI also reshapes fossil fuel supply economics. We instead model AI as a bidirectional productivity amplifier in a global computable general equilibrium model, quantifying both enabled emissions…

"AI’s potential climate benefits outweighed by role in boosting fossil fuels, study finds"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #FossilFuels

AI’s potential climate benefits outweighed by role in boosting fossil fuels, study finds
Modelling finds AI-driven productivity gains in coal, oil and gas enable more emissions than applications in renewables avoid

An Overview of Potential Medical Applications of Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors
C\'athal McAleer, Gary Donegan, Colm Bracken, Ois\'in Creaner, Mario De Lucia, Tom Ray, Gerhard Ulbricht
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19918

Chat Control 1.0 has passed, a shameful affair, literally every scientist or expert can explain why this is a bad idea. The next step is clear , everybody should move to E2EE applications where possible. Also check if the provider uses opensource, is transparant.
#chatcontrol #eu

My fucking home app has shown me a tiktock ad. Fuck off.
Any home applications that are good? I'm on the market for a good one. Only f-droid ones, because anything else cannot be trusted.

Last August, the Trump administration issued an executive order intended to fundamentally alter how grant funding is handled by the US government.
Under the system that had made the US a scientific superpower, peer reviewers rated the scientific quality and feasibility of grant applications,
and subject-matter experts within the funding agencies used these ratings to determine which grants got funded.
Under the proposed rules, political appointees would have the final say,…

Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time
Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics.

"Arms spending is an inefficient way to create employment, since the industry is in Marxist terms, weighted towards constant rather than variable capital, investing in high-tech equipment rather than labour.
Moreover, as Rutte revealed last week, much of the money will be spent on US firms which, already geared to the enormous Pentagon budget, can outbid British rivals for most applications and contracts."
Arms spending plan is a threat to our future | Morning Star
…

Cavitation Acoustic Perturbation Equations: A Computational Framework for Source-Resolved Multiphase Hydroacoustics
Zhi Cheng, Rajeev K. Jaiman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19567 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.19567 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.19567
arXiv:2607.19567v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This work develops a cavitation-consistent acoustic perturbation framework for predicting sound generation and propagation in cavitating flows. Unlike conventional acoustic perturbation equations for single-phase or weakly compressible flows, the proposed formulation embeds cavitation physics directly into the acoustic equations. The cavitation acoustic perturbation equations (CAPE) incorporate vapor mass transfer, mixture compressibility, and pressure-rate effects within a unified formulation, allowing cavitation-induced noise sources to be resolved in the computational domain. The numerical framework is verified using one-dimensional wave-propagation problems. The solutions become insensitive to further mesh and time-step refinement, the perfectly matched layer suppresses boundary reflections, and the predicted attenuation over a range of source frequencies follows Stokes' sound attenuation law. The framework is then applied to cavitating flow past a circular cylinder and a NACA hydrofoil. The non-cavitating benchmark shows dipole-like radiation associated with unsteady loading, whereas cavitating cases exhibit monopole-like or geometry-modulated radiation caused by volumetric phase change. Source-term analyses identify tonal frequencies associated with vortex shedding, cavity shedding, and collapse-induced excitation. The phase-change terms provide a direct volumetric contribution to the monopole-like source, while localized collapse events appear through amplification of the pressure-rate source. The proposed framework extends acoustic perturbation methods to cavitating multiphase flows and provides an efficient tool for hydroacoustic prediction, source localization, and mechanism analysis in marine and hydraulic applications.
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from my link log —
BorrowSanitizer: a dynamic analysis tool for detecting Rust-specific aliasing bugs in multi-language applications.
https://borrowsanitizer.com/
saved 2026-08-04

Do you have a long running calculation freezing up your shiny app? {callr} or {crew} might help: https://discindo.org/post/asynchronous-execution-in-shiny/

Dynatrace agrees to acquire Arize, which specializes in AI observability and the AI development lifecycle, for $915M, including ~$815M in cash (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
https://www.constellationr.com/insights/news/dynatra…

Dynatrace acquires Arize, accelerates AI observability efforts | Constellation Research
Dynatrace acquired Arize, which specializes in AI observability and the AI development lifecycle, in a deal worth $915 million. The acquisition is just the latest data point indicating Dynatrace has momentum. Arize has a strong open source community and works across all major AI frameworks. Dynatrace, a leading observability platform, said Arize will give it the ability to continuously improve AI applications across the lifecycle and connect them to infrastructure health and business processes.

📋 The PHP Foundation looks at how European public administrations run their #digitalsovereignty strategies on #PHP applications #opensource

Serenity-S1, a CMS Tracker Readout and Data Processing Card for HL-LHC
G. Fedi, L. E. Ardila-Perez, M. Balzer, M. Fuchs, M. Holmberg, A. Howard, G. M. Iles, H. A. Krause, T. Mehner, D. Parker, M. Pesaresi, A. Rose, K. Whalen, T. Williams, J. Zhao, for the CMS Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19226 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.19226 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.19226
arXiv:2608.19226v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The CERN Large Hadron Collider will be upgraded to the High-Luminosity LHC, increasing the particle-collision rate and the demands on detector readout. A key element of this upgrade is the new CMS Tracker, whose silicon sensors will generate data at an aggregate rate of about 10 TB/s. This data must be routed efficiently to processing systems and filtered before storage. Serenity-S1 is an ATCA readout and data-processing card based on an AMD Virtex UltraScale VU13P FPGA with 128 high-speed serial transceivers. Twenty 12-channel Samtec FireFly optical modules provide up to 120 transmit and 120 receive channels at line rates of up to 25 Gb/s, while an additional optical module supports CMS Tracker links at up to 10 Gb/s per channel. The modular optical layout, combined with the large FPGA, makes Serenity-S1 suitable for several applications within and beyond CMS. ATCA provides the power and cooling required for operation in the CMS service cavern. Low-level management and the IPMI interface are provided by an OpenIPMC mezzanine, while an AMD Kria K26 system-on-module running AlmaLinux 9 performs higher-level board management and application control. Firmware and software frameworks provide common infrastructure so that users can focus on application-specific logic. The paper describes the hardware, firmware and software architecture of Serenity-S1 and its deployment in CMS Tracker integration and R&D activities.
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A look at Bending Spoons' hiring process: the company, which owns Vimeo, AOL, and Evernote, received 800,000 job applications last year and made only 286 hires (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/bending-spoon

The Brain and The Chip 2026, October 26-28, Spain #BCI

🇪🇺 The European Commission's Europa Web Publishing Platform serves 770 live sites for 44 Commission services, with 700 million visits and 2.2 billion page views per year on #Drupal
🏛️ The German shortlist for the federal standard CMS contained only PHP applications: Drupal and #TYPO3. T…

from my link log —
ChatGPT is bullshit.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5
saved 2024-06-29 https://

ChatGPT is bullshit - Ethics and Information Technology
Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are often called “AI hallucinations”. We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall activity of large language models, is better understood as bullshit in the sense explored by Frankfurt (On Bullshit, Princeton, 2005): the models are in an important way…

BRIDGE-STIM 2027: Probing sensorimotor circuits and perception across species with microstimulation workshop, Pittsburgh, May 17-19, 2027 #BCI

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Replaced article(s) found for physics.ins-det. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.ins-det/new
[1/1]:
- Flow-dependent tagging of $^{214}$Pb decays in the LZ dark matter detector
J. Aalbers, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19117 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsinsdet_bot/115099888730207431
- Experimental Characterization of Bulk Micromegas for Development of Active Target Time Projection...
Pralay Kumar Das, Nayana Majumdar, Supratik Mukhopadhyay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21238 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsinsdet_bot/116135916399290266
- An AI-based Detector Simulation and Reconstruction Model for the ALEPH Experiment at LEP
Ya-Feng Lo, Dmitrii Kobylianskii, Benjamin Nachman, Eilam Gross
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.11834 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsinsdet_bot/116407678561282432
- New Spallation Background Rejection Techniques to Greatly Improve the Solar Neutrino Sensitivity ...
Obada Nairat, John F. Beacom, Shirley Weishi Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12873 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hepph_bot/115382755693449240
- Quantization Effects of Artificial Neural Networks for Embedded Edge-Computing Applications
Aksoy, Bekman, Dimitrov, Dorosti, Eguzo, Fleitmann, Hader, Zambanini, van Waasen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.05479 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csNE_bot/115524263599389339
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Gaining precise control of gene expression is crucial in biomedical applications.
However, spatiotemporal precision remains challenging.
Here, we present a remotely controlled in vivo gene switch responsive to electromagnetic fields (EMFs)
that enables precise spatiotemporal activation of target genes.
We uncovered the EMF-inducible gene switch activation mechanism via a CRISPR-Cas9 screen,
identifying cytochrome b5 type B (Cyb5b) as an essential mediator like…

Materials in lithium-ion battery cathodes have continuously evolved since the 1990s,
but anodes have stubbornly remained graphite.
Now, finally, there’s some innovation on that side: silicon anodes,
which engineers have struggled to master for a decade,
are finally coming into wide commercialization.
They enable up to five times the energy density of graphite anodes,
charge many times faster,
and are poised to revolutionize the battery market

The Transition to Lithium-Silicon Batteries
Understand how silicon battery technology will impact EVs, consumer electronics, aerospace, grid storage, and other battery applications.

Bistable haptic textiles for immersive somatosensory augmentation and sensory substitution https://www.nature.com/articles/s44460-026-00120-5

Bistable haptic textiles for immersive somatosensory augmentation and sensory substitution - Nature Sensors
A textile-based bistable soft-pneumatic haptic interface enables full-body multimodal tactile feedback for immersive virtual environments, tactile communication and assistive sensory substitution applications.

Chinese state media: Xi Jinping called for more defense applications using autonomous and AI technologies, as he pushes to build an advanced fighting force (Josh Xiao/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-31…

Source: OpenAI's Astra model uses "recurrent depth", a technique that improves cost and performance but obscures the AI's reasoning, making it harder to monitor (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/se

OpenAI Technique in ‘Astra’ Model Sparks Security Concerns
OpenAI says its forthcoming AI model Astra marks a step up in capabilities such as coding and operating applications on a computer. But an innovative technique that improved the model’s performance also means that the model, and others like it, will reveal less of their “thinking,” making them ...

Your Tax Dollars at Work:
The Trump administration has begun arresting foreign citizens with expired U.S. visas as they travel through airports,
including spouses of Americans,
according to documents obtained by The New York Times and interviews with immigration lawyers
— a tactic that opens up a vast new pool of people for deportation.
Immigration agents in plain clothes have whisked away targets at check-in counters and arrival gates,
with enforcement a…

ICE Arrests Surge at Airports, Opening New Front in Deportation Drive
Federal agents are arresting spouses of Americans, tech workers and others whose visas have expired, including many who have active applications to stay in the country.

An opaque White House office staffed largely by veterans of Elon Musk’s
“department of government efficiency”
(Doge) has quietly rebuilt some of the federal government’s most sensitive websites
– for passport applications, voter registration, prescription-drug pricing and children’s savings
– in ways critics say appear to violate federal law.
The National Design Studio (NDS)
was established by a Donald Trump executive order last August,
and is led by…

‘It’s dangerous and it’s going to erode trust’: redesign of US government websites stokes surveillance fears
The National Design Studio, staffed by Doge veterans, installed visitor-tracking software on vital federal websites

Internal docs: Meta places strict limits on how staff in its applied AI division can use Claude Code and Codex, fearing inadvertently engaging in distillation (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/in

Internal Docs Show Meta Putting Limits on Claude and Codex, Fearing Distillation
As Meta Platforms tries to wean itself off expensive AI coding applications from Anthropic and OpenAI, it is confronting a difficult challenge: keeping employees from relying too much on those outside tools to build in-house replacements. Internal guidelines reviewed by The Information show Meta ...