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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Curtis Harding:
🎵 True Love Can't Be Blind
#CurtisHarding
https://curtisharding.bandcamp.com/track/true-love-cant-be-blind
https://open.spotify.com/track/13XkT1WvbAFyDvltA9ubt6

The role of visual experience in haptic spatial perception: evidence from early blind, late blind, and sighted individuals #haptics

The role of visual experience in haptic spatial perception: evidence from early blind, late blind, and sighted individuals - Biology of Sex Differences
There is contradictory evidence on the effect that visual experience has on haptic abilities. Indeed, some studies have documented that a lack of vision (blindness) results in decreased haptic perception, whereas other studies report an enhanced haptic ability in blind individuals. To examine the role of vision in haptic spatial processing, we recruited early blind, late blind, and sighted participants. Each participant completed a haptic task in which they explored a two-piece LEGO model for e…

From Input Perception to Predictive Insight: Modeling Model Blind Spots Before They Become Errors
Maggie Mi, Aline Villavicencio, Nafise Sadat Moosavi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20065

From Input Perception to Predictive Insight: Modeling Model Blind Spots Before They Become Errors
Language models often struggle with idiomatic, figurative, or context-sensitive inputs, not because they produce flawed outputs, but because they misinterpret the input from the outset. We propose an input-only method for anticipating such failures using token-level likelihood features inspired by surprisal and the Uniform Information Density hypothesis. These features capture localized uncertainty in input comprehension and outperform standard baselines across five linguistically challenging d…

Shadow Escape 0-Click Attack in AI Assistants Puts Trillions of Records at Risk
Operant AI reveals Shadow Escape, a zero-click attack using the MCP flaw in ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude to secretly steal trillions of SSNs and financial data. Traditional security is blind to this new AI threat.
😶‍🌫️ https://

Shadow Escape 0-Click Attack in AI Assistants Puts Trillions of Records at Risk
Follow us on Bluesky, Twitter (X), Mastodon and Facebook at @Hackread

"The Oscar-winning director likened AI tech bros championing "natural stupidity" to the blind arrogance of Victor Frankenstein.
Guillermo del Toro on Generative AI: 'I'd Rather Die'
https://gizmodo.com/guillermo-del-toro-ai-frankenstein-netflix-2000676639

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Steven Wilson (25) Candelabro (23) Inspiral Carpets (22) Blind Melon (18) Fleetwood Mac (18). #myweekcounted 305 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

Blind-Spot Guided Diffusion for Self-supervised Real-World Denoising
Shen Cheng, Haipeng Li, Haibin Huang, Xiaohong Liu, Shuaicheng Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16091 https://…

Blind-Spot Guided Diffusion for Self-supervised Real-World Denoising
In this work, we present Blind-Spot Guided Diffusion, a novel self-supervised framework for real-world image denoising. Our approach addresses two major challenges: the limitations of blind-spot networks (BSNs), which often sacrifice local detail and introduce pixel discontinuities due to spatial independence assumptions, and the difficulty of adapting diffusion models to self-supervised denoising. We propose a dual-branch diffusion framework that combines a BSN-based diffusion branch, generati…

Understanding Accessibility Needs of Blind Authors on CMS-Based Websites
Guillermo Vera-Amaro, Jos\'e Rafael Rojano-C\'aceres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15045 https://…

Understanding Accessibility Needs of Blind Authors on CMS-Based Websites
This paper addresses the limited attention given to blind users as content creators in Content Management Systems (CMS), a gap that remains under-explored in web accessibility research. For blind authors, effective interaction with CMS platforms requires more than technical compliance; it demands interfaces designed with semantic clarity, predictable navigation, and meaningful feedback for screen reader users. This study investigates the accessibility barriers blind users face when performing k…

Proud to have my research featured alongside Sasha Luccione/Hugging Face Noman Bashir/MIT Marissa Loewen in this AP story on ways to reduce your AI climate impact—and a surprising blind spot most users have about their digital footprint.
https://abcnews.go.co…

I hate CSS. I really hate CSS. I hate all people who love CSS. If CSS was a person I'll punch him in the face without hesitation.

Type-II Band Alignment in the ${\beta}$-Ga$_2$O$_3$/Rutile GeO$_2$ Heterojunction toward Solar-Blind Photodetection: A first-principles study
D. Q. Fang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19948

Type-II Band Alignment in the $β$-Ga$_2$O$_3$/Rutile GeO$_2$ Heterojunction toward Solar-Blind Photodetection: A first-principles study
Semiconductor heterostructures capable of separating photogenerated electrons and holes have a wide range of optoelectronic applications, including photodetectors, solar cells, and photocatalysts. $β$-Ga$_2$O$_3$ and rutile GeO$_2$ are both ultrawide-bandgap semiconductors, with bandgaps of 4.85 eV and 4.68 eV, respectively. In this work, we employ first-principles calculations based on density functional theory to investigate the band alignment of the $β$-Ga$_2$O$_3$/rutile GeO$_2$ heterojun…

Almost wiped out by a car overtaking on a blind hill on our way to Bushmills today.
The brakes on the Boxster, while a bit noisy, do actually work quite well, as does the ABS, these Michelin tyres, and the horn (though only tested that *after* we'd escaped from danger)
We live to drive another day, without the substantial front end of a bloody VW Touran messing up my crumple zone, and us, obvs.

Sonnet 136 - CXXXVI
If thy soul check thee that I come so near,
Swear to thy blind soul that I was thy Will,
And will, thy soul knows, is admitted there;
Thus far for love, my love-suit, sweet, fulfil.
Will, will fulfil the treasure of thy love,
Ay, fill it full with wills, and my will one.
In things of great receipt with ease we prove
Among a number one is reckoned none:
Then in the number let me pass untold,
Though in thy store…

Will Anderson Jr. impressed with Texans rookie Aireontae Ersery: 'He has all the tools to be a great offensive lineman' https://www.nfl.com/news/will-anderson-jr-impressed-with-texans-rookie-aireon…

Ashley King went to a bar on a Bali vacation in 2011, and woke up blind just a few days later
— a result of drinks spiked with methanol.
"I woke up in my hostel and I wasn't able to breathe. And shortly after I wasn't able to see,"
said King, a 32-year-old Calgary woman who is sharing her story in a new podcast called Static: A Party Girl's Memoir.
King was 19 at the time, on her last night in Bali before flying to New Zealand the next day.
S…

This woman went blind after a night out in Bali. She's warning other tourists about methanol in their drinks | CBC Radio
Ashley King woke up blind after her drinks were tainted with methanol during a vacation in Bali. She’s warning others of the fatal consequences of methanol poisoning.

The Ranking Blind Spot: Decision Hijacking in LLM-based Text Ranking
Yaoyao Qian, Yifan Zeng, Yuchao Jiang, Chelsi Jain, Huazheng Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18575 https://

MARG: MAstering Risky Gap Terrains for Legged Robots with Elevation Mapping
Yinzhao Dong, Ji Ma, Liu Zhao, Wanyue Li, Peng Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20036 https://

MARG: MAstering Risky Gap Terrains for Legged Robots with Elevation Mapping
Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) controllers for quadrupedal locomotion have demonstrated impressive performance on challenging terrains, allowing robots to execute complex skills such as climbing, running, and jumping. However, existing blind locomotion controllers often struggle to ensure safety and efficient traversal through risky gap terrains, which are typically highly complex, requiring robots to perceive terrain information and select appropriate footholds during locomotion accurately.…

PRISM: Probabilistic and Robust Inverse Solver with Measurement-Conditioned Diffusion Prior for Blind Inverse Problems
Yuanyun Hu, Evan Bell, Guijin Wang, Yu Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16106

PRISM: Probabilistic and Robust Inverse Solver with Measurement-Conditioned Diffusion Prior for Blind Inverse Problems
Diffusion models are now commonly used to solve inverse problems in computational imaging. However, most diffusion-based inverse solvers require complete knowledge of the forward operator to be used. In this work, we introduce a novel probabilistic and robust inverse solver with measurement-conditioned diffusion prior (PRISM) to effectively address blind inverse problems. PRISM offers a technical advancement over current methods by incorporating a powerful measurement-conditioned diffusion mode…

Blind Source Separation of Radar Signals in Time Domain Using Deep Learning
Sven Hinderer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15603 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.15603…

Blind Source Separation of Radar Signals in Time Domain Using Deep Learning
Identification and further analysis of radar emitters in a contested environment requires detection and separation of incoming signals. If they arrive from the same direction and at similar frequencies, deinterleaving them remains challenging. A solution to overcome this limitation becomes increasingly important with the advancement of emitter capabilities. We propose treating the problem as blind source separation in time domain and apply supervisedly trained neural networks to extract the und…

Wir lernen die Tastatur kennen und schreiben einen Bibeltext Herzlich willkommen zum neuen Jahrgang der AG Reli digital. Heute geht es los, indem wir die Tastatur an den Laptops ausprobieren. Wie kommt man eigentlich an all die schönen Zeichen wie @, €, ^ oder ° heran? Wie schreibt man GROSS und klein? Warum schreibt der Computer immer groß, obwohl ich das nicht will? Und wie kann man lernen, sogar blind zu schreiben Vollständiger Beitrag:

John Fahey - "The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death" (1965)
#NowPlaying #JohnFahey #GuitarSoli

(SFGATE flashback, January 17, 2000) Blind man 'sees' shapes in artificial vision test / Treatment involved brain implant, computers https://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Blind-Man-Sees-Shapes-In-Artificial-Vision-Test-2783204.php

I am the eye in the sky, looking at you
I can read your mind
I am the maker of rules, dealing with fools
I can cheat you blind
And I don't need to see any more
To know that
I can read your mind (looking at you)
I can read your mind (looking at you)
I can read your mind (looking at you)
I can read your mind
_____________________________________
Who knew Alan Parsons wrote about Facebook, decades before Zuckerberg went to college……

CFP: The Lessing Yearbook
https://ift.tt/NY6fj7E
Summer 2026 Vietnamese Language Study with Indiana University Kathleen Evans 09/19/2025 - 9:31am …
via Input 4 RELCFP https://

'Flying Blind': Trump Strips Government of Expertise at a High-Stakes Moment (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/us/politics/trump-government-expertise.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250822/p1#a250822p1

Less Redundancy: Boosting Practicality of Vision Language Model in Walking Assistants
Chongyang Li, Yuan Zhiqiang, Jiapei Zhang, Ying Deng, Hanbo Bi, Zexi Jia, Xiaoyue Duan, Peixiang Luo, Jinchao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16070

Less Redundancy: Boosting Practicality of Vision Language Model in Walking Assistants
Approximately 283 million people worldwide live with visual impairments, motivating increasing research into leveraging Visual Language Models (VLMs) to develop effective walking assistance systems for blind and low vision individuals. However, existing VLMs in walking assistant task often have outputs that contain considerable redundancy and extraneous details, adversely affecting users' ability to accurately assess their surroundings. Moreover, these models typically lack the capability to pr…

Benchmarking PDF Accessibility Evaluation A Dataset and Framework for Assessing Automated and LLM-Based Approaches for Accessibility Testing
Anukriti Kumar, Tanushree Padath, Lucy Lu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18965

Inert dark matter in three Higgs doublet model: a blind spot narrative
Amit Dutta Banik, Tapoja Jha, Eija Tanskanen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13583 https://

Inert dark matter in three Higgs doublet model: a blind spot narrative
We explore the phenomenology of three Higgs doublet scenario, where the scalar potential is augmented by $\mathbb{Z}_{3} \times \mathbb{Z}_{2}$ symmetry making one doublet inert. Thus in effect, our model of interest is two Higgs plus inert Higgs doublet model charged under $\mathbb{Z}_3$ ((2+I)HDM-$\mathbb{Z}_3$) symmetry. We observe a blind spot feature for dark matter direct detection, as the tree-level dark matter-nucleon scattering cross-section vanishes depending on the mass splitting of …

Rec-RIR: Monaural Blind Room Impulse Response Identification via DNN-based Reverberant Speech Reconstruction in STFT Domain
Pengyu Wang, Xiaofei Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15628

Rec-RIR: Monaural Blind Room Impulse Response Identification via DNN-based Reverberant Speech Reconstruction in STFT Domain
Room impulse response (RIR) characterizes the complete propagation process of sound in an enclosed space. This paper presents Rec-RIR for monaural blind RIR identification. Rec-RIR is developed based on the convolutive transfer function (CTF) approximation, which models reverberation effect within narrow-band filter banks in the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) domain. Specifically, we propose a deep neural network (DNN) with cross-band and narrow-band blocks to estimate the CTF filter. The …

Finished "I See You've Called in Dead" by John Kenney and loved it.
Bud Stanley is an obituary writer, adrift after his divorce. After a particularly brutal blind date, Bud has a bit too much to drink and accidentally publishes his own joke obituary. Chaos ensues.
Manages to be witty and funny without being over the top. Really great characters & dialogue, which reveal deep emotional questions about really living & caring for each other.
5/5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐…

I See You've Called in Dead
“Razor-sharp, darkly comedic, and emotionally piercing.…

»Clickbait führt bei KI-Modellen zu kognitivem Rückbau«
Dies ist nicht neu und schon gar nicht unvorhersehbar. Dass die KI sich selber betrügt (aus der Sicht der Menschen) ist nun mal seit jeher. Ich möchte hier nicht permanent KI-Kritik eusern aber zu viele Menschen folgen dem Marketing leichtgläubig so wie blind.
P.S. Der KI Kognition zu zuordnen ist schon Propaganda der Tech-Macht.
🤖

Clickbait führt bei KI-Modellen zu kognitivem Rückbau
Eine Studie beleuchtet die Auswirkungen von Clickbait auf KI-Modelle. Hohe Datenqualität ist entscheidend für die Leistung der Modelle.

He was able to do so because he's color blind...
Community gathers to celebrate diver who uncovered ancient Native American canoes - The B-Town (Burien) Blog
https://b-townblog.com/community-gathers-at-angle-lake-to-celebrate-diver-who-uncovered-ancient-native-canoes/

Study: brain-computer interface company Science's PRIMA device, which includes a retinal implant and special glasses, restored vision in some blind patients (Antonio Regalado/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/2

This retina implant lets people with vision loss do a crossword puzzle
Competition to deploy commercial brain-computer interfaces is heating up.

(Nimer's blog) Beyond the verbal descriptions: My dreams for a multisensory future #blind

VERIRAG: Healthcare Claim Verification via Statistical Audit in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Shubham Mohole, Hongjun Choi, Shusen Liu, Christine Klymko, Shashank Kushwaha, Derek Shi, Wesam Sakla, Sainyam Galhotra, Ruben Glatt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17948

VERIRAG: Healthcare Claim Verification via Statistical Audit in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems are increasingly adopted in clinical decision support, yet they remain methodologically blind-they retrieve evidence but cannot vet its scientific quality. A paper claiming "Antioxidant proteins decreased after alloferon treatment" and a rigorous multi-laboratory replication study will be treated as equally credible, even if the former lacked scientific rigor or was even retracted. To address this challenge, we introduce VERIRAG, a framework that mak…

Wir lernen die Tastatur kennen und schreiben einen Bibeltext Herzlich willkommen zum neuen Jahrgang der AG Reli digital. Heute geht es los, indem wir die Tastatur an den Laptops ausprobieren. Wie kommt man eigentlich an all die schönen Zeichen wie @, €, ^ oder ° heran? Wie schreibt man GROSS und klein? Warum schreibt der Computer immer groß, obwohl ich das nicht will? Und wie kann man lernen, sogar blind zu schreiben Vollständiger Beitrag:

Good reminder that, like any community, the opinion of one member should probably not be extrapolated to be that of the group:
https://tweesecake.social/@pixelate/115124657274396868
Skills, experience, comfort, etc. are as varied as in the larger population.

Identifiable Autoregressive Variational Autoencoders for Nonlinear and Nonstationary Spatio-Temporal Blind Source Separation
Mika Sipil\"a, Klaus Nordhausen, Sara Taskinen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11962

Identifiable Autoregressive Variational Autoencoders for Nonlinear and Nonstationary Spatio-Temporal Blind Source Separation
The modeling and prediction of multivariate spatio-temporal data involve numerous challenges. Dimension reduction methods can significantly simplify this process, provided that they account for the complex dependencies between variables and across time and space. Nonlinear blind source separation has emerged as a promising approach, particularly following recent advances in identifiability results. Building on these developments, we introduce the identifiable autoregressive variational autoenco…

Vivani subsidiary Cortigent (which took over the visual prosthesis technology of Second Sight Medical Products) claims that "Argus II has been discontinued due to the small population of patients with RP" https://www.cortigent.com/argus-ii after 350 blind people had received the Argus II retinal …

vashTimer: A Multi-Purpose, Multimodal Mobile App For Maintaining Passage of Time by means of Visual, Auditory, Speech, and Haptic Alerts
Aziz N Zeidieh, Sanchita S. Kamath, JooYoung Seo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19600

vashTimer: A Multi-Purpose, Multimodal Mobile App For Maintaining Passage of Time by means of Visual, Auditory, Speech, and Haptic Alerts
Effective time management during presentations is challenging, particularly for Blind and Low-Vision (BLV) individuals, as existing tools often lack accessibility and multimodal feedback. To address this gap, we developed vashTimer: a free, open-source, and accessible iOS application. This paper demonstrates the design and functionality of vashTimer, which provides presenters with a robust tool for temporal awareness. The application delivers highly customizable alerts across four distinct moda…

On Tuesday, Santa Barbara County supervisors turned their attention to vaccination rates,
responding to a May 29 grand jury report that praised strong coverage in local schools but pointed to troubling blind spots.
The report
— “Do Vaccination Rates in Santa Barbara County Create a Public Health Risk?” 
— noted that while more than 95 percent of county students are vaccinated,
officials lack reliable data on two groups:
homeschooled children
and incar…

Santa Barbara Supervisors Weigh Vaccine Gaps as Federal Policy Unravels
Supervisors respond to grand jury report revealing lack of reliable data on homeschooled children and incarcerated people.

Tom Brady's twin roles as commentator and minority team owner is one in a long line of conflicts of interest in sports media, including the NFL's stake in ESPN (Oliver Connolly/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/sep/18/tom-bradys-…

CSI-IBBS: Identity-Based Blind Signature using CSIDH
Soumya Bhoumik, Sarbari Mitra, Rohit Raj Sharma, Kuldeep Namdeo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06127 https://

CSI-IBBS: Identity-Based Blind Signature using CSIDH
Identity-based cryptography (IBC), proposed by Adi Shamir, revolutionized public key authentication by eliminating the need for certificates, enabling a more efficient and scalable approach to cryptographic systems. Meanwhile, in \cite{Katsumata2024group}, Katsumata et al. were the first to present the blind signature protocol based on the hardness assumption of isogeny with provable security, which resembles the Schnorr blind signature. Building upon these foundational concepts, we propose an …

Dear Infosec people who have looked at XML and XXE before: I am trying to get an understanding of Blind XXE.
Many of the descriptions I find are lacking an important detail which makes the attack much less practical. Blind XXE works by building an URL which contains content of a file, allowing to exfiltrate content. However, in all my tests, that *only* works if the file contains no newlines, as those are not allowed in URLs. Am I missing something?
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Click-baity title: Your camera sensor is mostly blind, but that could be about to change https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/your-camera-sensor-is-mostly-blind-but-that-could-be-about-to-change/ar-AA1EqKao …

Single-click protocols for remote state preparation using weak coherent pulses
Janice van Dam, Emil R. Hellebek, Tzula B. Propp, Junior R. Gonzales-Ureta, Anders S. S{\o}rensen, Stephanie D. C. Wehner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14857

Single-click protocols for remote state preparation using weak coherent pulses
Remote state preparation (RSP) allows one party to remotely prepare a known quantum state on another party's qubit using entanglement. This can be used in quantum networks to perform applications such as blind quantum computing or long-distance quantum key distribution (QKD) with quantum repeaters. Devices to perform RSP, referred to as a client, ideally have low hardware requirements, such as only sending photonic qubits. A weak coherent pulse source offers a practical alternative to true sing…

Digital Twin-based Cooperative Autonomous Driving in Smart Intersections: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach
Taoyuan Yu, Kui Wang, Zongdian Li, Tao Yu, Kei Sakaguchi, Walid Saad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15099

Digital Twin-based Cooperative Autonomous Driving in Smart Intersections: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach
Unsignalized intersections pose safety and efficiency challenges due to complex traffic flows and blind spots. In this paper, a digital twin (DT)-based cooperative driving system with roadside unit (RSU)-centric architecture is proposed for enhancing safety and efficiency at unsignalized intersections. The system leverages comprehensive bird-eye-view (BEV) perception to eliminate blind spots and employs a hybrid reinforcement learning (RL) framework combining offline pre-training with online fi…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Chase & Status:
🎵 Blind Faith (feat. Liam Bailey)
#Chase #Status
https://anthonyatcherley.bandcamp.com/track/chase-status-blind-faith-anthony-atcherley-rmx
https://open.spotify.com/track/2zXO4MgEdOhhILUaLLverR

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Curtis Harding:
🎵 True Love Can't Be Blind
#CurtisHarding
https://curtisharding.bandcamp.com/track/true-love-cant-be-blind
https://open.spotify.com/track/13XkT1WvbAFyDvltA9ubt6

Raiders GM John Spytek Secures The Blind Side—Kolton Miller Gets His Payday https://raiderramble.com/2025/07/31/raiders-gm-john-spytek-secures-the-blind-side-kolton-miller-gets-his-payday/

The genocidal war criminals in the Israeli Government just double-tapped a hospital in order to kill journalists and first-responders in addition to the injured civilians and medical workers they killed with the first bombing run.
The ‘western world' frets about calling a spade a spade... and cowers at US and Israeli pressure to continue turning a blind eye and re-arming the genocidal army.
I am embarrassed and shocked as both a Canadian and Spanish citizen at our flacid response to blatant murder of innocents.
#Israel #Hamas #Palestine #Genocide #Famine #WarCrimes #Gaza

Secure Blind Graph Signal Recovery and Adversary Detection Using Smoothness Maximization
Mahdi Shamsi, Hadi Zayyani, Hasan Abu Hilal, Mohammad Salman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14449

Secure Blind Graph Signal Recovery and Adversary Detection Using Smoothness Maximization
In this letter, we propose a secure blind Graph Signal Recovery (GSR) algorithm that can detect adversary nodes. Some unknown adversaries are assumed to be injecting false data at their respective nodes in the graph. The number and location of adversaries are not known in advance and the goal is to recover the graph signal in the presence of measurement noise and False Data Injection (FDI) caused by the adversaries. Consequently, the proposed algorithm would be a perfect candidate to solve this…

@… https://darkforcesswing.substack.com/

Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches | Hank Shteamer | Substack
Hank Shteamer writes about music. Click to read Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches, by Hank Shteamer, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

ZPD-SCA: Unveiling the Blind Spots of LLMs in Assessing Students' Cognitive Abilities
Wenhan Dong, Zhen Sun, Yuemeng Zhao, Zifan Peng, Jun Wu, Jingyi Zheng, Yule Liu, Xinlei He, Yu Wang, Ruiming Wang, Xinyi Huang, Lei Mo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14377

ZPD-SCA: Unveiling the Blind Spots of LLMs in Assessing Students' Cognitive Abilities
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated potential in educational applications, yet their capacity to accurately assess the cognitive alignment of reading materials with students' developmental stages remains insufficiently explored. This gap is particularly critical given the foundational educational principle of the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD), which emphasizes the need to match learning resources with Students' Cognitive Abilities (SCA). Despite the importance of this alignment,…

The "omg-AI-is-nothing-but-evil-trash" crowd aren't just simple luddites any more: Many have become blind, irrational extremists.
AI saves me hours of research daily, relentlessly automates drudgerous workflows in the background, summarizes email/chats & optimizes formatting.
It's a lifesaver.

»Veraltete Chromium-Basis — Beliebte KI-Coding-IDEs gefährden Millionen Entwickler:
Forscher schlagen Alarm: Die KI-Coding-IDEs Cursor und Windsurf enthalten eine uralte Chromium-Version mit mindestens 94 bekannten Sicherheitslücken.«
Mensch sollte doch nicht jeglichen Hype blind glauben und doch tun dies sogenannte Fachmenschen andauernd. Von deren blindem Vertrauen vieler Entwickler toote ich noch nicht.
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Veraltete Chromium-Basis: Beliebte KI-Coding-IDEs gefährden Millionen Entwickler - Golem.de
Forscher schlagen Alarm: Die KI-Coding-IDEs Cursor und Windsurf enthalten eine uralte Chromium-Version mit mindestens 94 bekannten Sicherheitslücken.

Shadow of Intent - The Facets of Propaganda (Lyric Video) (HQ)
"Through the hands of the blind
The sightless open the gates
Meticulously evolving
The facets of propaganda"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBju1BZ95fI

No More Blind Spots: Learning Vision-Based Omnidirectional Bipedal Locomotion for Challenging Terrain
Mohitvishnu S. Gadde, Pranay Dugar, Ashish Malik, Alan Fern
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11929

No More Blind Spots: Learning Vision-Based Omnidirectional Bipedal Locomotion for Challenging Terrain
Effective bipedal locomotion in dynamic environments, such as cluttered indoor spaces or uneven terrain, requires agile and adaptive movement in all directions. This necessitates omnidirectional terrain sensing and a controller capable of processing such input. We present a learning framework for vision-based omnidirectional bipedal locomotion, enabling seamless movement using depth images. A key challenge is the high computational cost of rendering omnidirectional depth images in simulation, m…

Beyond Blanket Masking: Examining Granularity for Privacy Protection in Images Captured by Blind and Low Vision Users
Jeffri Murrugarra-LLerena, Haoran Niu, K. Suzanne Barber, Hal Daum\'e III, Yang Trista Cao, Paola Cascante-Bonilla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09245

Beyond Blanket Masking: Examining Granularity for Privacy Protection in Images Captured by Blind and Low Vision Users
As visual assistant systems powered by visual language models (VLMs) become more prevalent, concerns over user privacy have grown, particularly for blind and low vision users who may unknowingly capture personal private information in their images. Existing privacy protection methods rely on coarse-grained segmentation, which uniformly masks entire private objects, often at the cost of usability. In this work, we propose FiGPriv, a fine-grained privacy protection framework that selectively mask…

Residual gaze behavior during navigation in blindness and low vision https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11530v1

Residual Gaze Behavior During Navigation in Blindness and Low Vision
Background: Outdoor navigation poses significant challenges for people with blindness or low vision, yet the role of gaze behavior in supporting mobility remains underexplored. Fully sighted individuals typically adopt consistent scanning strategies, whereas those with visual impairments rely on heterogeneous adaptations shaped by residual vision and experience. Methods: We conducted a comparative eye-tracking study of fully sighted, low vision, blind, and fully blind participants navigating …

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Las Pecadoras (45) The Chameleons (26) Los Prisioneros (21) Stereolab (18) Blind Melon (17). #myweekcounted 590 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

Recognizing a Palestinian state is a limited but welcome step that addresses an enduring blind spot: Palestinian rights cannot be conditioned on Israeli interests. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/20…

The technology offers hope to people with an advanced form of dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD), called geographic atrophy (GA),
which affects more than 250,000 people in the UK and five million worldwide.
In those with the condition - which is more common in older people - cells in a tiny area of the retina at the back of the eye gradually become damaged and die,
resulting in blurred or distorted central vision.
Colour and fine detail are often lost.
T…

Life-changing eye implant helps blind patients read again
The results are astounding and a major advance, say surgeons involved in international research using the pioneering technology.

TIL: The Japanese Blind ICT Network (JBICT) runs AT surveys (kind of like WebAIM’s).
#accessibility

Sensing the Shape of Data: Non-Visual Exploration of Statistical Concepts in Histograms with Blind and Low-Vision Learners
Sanchita S. Kamath, Omar Khan, Aziz N Zeidieh, JooYoung Seo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14452

Sensing the Shape of Data: Non-Visual Exploration of Statistical Concepts in Histograms with Blind and Low-Vision Learners
Statistical concepts often rely heavily on visual cues for comprehension, presenting challenges for individuals who face difficulties using visual information, such as the blind and low-vision (BLV) community. While prior work has explored making data visualizations accessible, limited research examines how BLV individuals conceptualize and learn the underlying statistical concepts these visualizations represent. To better understand BLV individuals' learning strategies for potentially unfamili…

Verifiable blind observable estimation: A composably secure protocol for near-term quantum advantage tasks
Bo Yang, Elham Kashefi, Harold Ollivier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08548

Verifiable blind observable estimation: A composably secure protocol for near-term quantum advantage tasks
The rapid advance of quantum hardware is spotlighting pre-fault-tolerant tasks that may no longer be efficiently validated by classical means and are likely to run on potentially untrusted remote quantum servers. This motivates problem-independent verification protocols with rigorous guarantees. The Verifiable Blind Quantum Computation (VBQC) protocol provides delegated computation where the composable security spans the confidentiality and integrity of the computation. However, the success o…

Wicab's BrainPort Vision Pro web page for their 394-electrode tongue display now includes a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) https://www.wicab.com/brainport-vision-pro "Is this vision? No"

CFP: The Lessing Yearbook
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Summer 2026 Vietnamese Language Study with Indiana University Kathleen Evans 09/19/2025 - 9:31am …
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Bench-RNR: Dataset for Benchmarking Repetitive and Non-repetitive Scanning LiDAR for Infrastructure-based Vehicle Localization
Runxin Zhao, Chunxiang Wang, Hanyang Zhuang, Ming Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15583

Bench-RNR: Dataset for Benchmarking Repetitive and Non-repetitive Scanning LiDAR for Infrastructure-based Vehicle Localization
Vehicle localization using roadside LiDARs can provide centimeter-level accuracy for cloud-controlled vehicles while simultaneously serving multiple vehicles, enhanc-ing safety and efficiency. While most existing studies rely on repetitive scanning LiDARs, non-repetitive scanning LiDAR offers advantages such as eliminating blind zones and being more cost-effective. However, its application in roadside perception and localization remains limited. To address this, we present a dataset for infrast…

BIR-Adapter: A Low-Complexity Diffusion Model Adapter for Blind Image Restoration
Cem Eteke, Alexander Griessel, Wolfgang Kellerer, Eckehard Steinbach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06904

BIR-Adapter: A Low-Complexity Diffusion Model Adapter for Blind Image Restoration
This paper introduces BIR-Adapter, a low-complexity blind image restoration adapter for diffusion models. The BIR-Adapter enables the utilization of the prior of pre-trained large-scale diffusion models on blind image restoration without training any auxiliary feature extractor. We take advantage of the robustness of pretrained models. We extract features from degraded images via the model itself and extend the self-attention mechanism with these degraded features. We introduce a sampling guida…

From Description to Detection: LLM based Extendable O-RAN Compliant Blind DoS Detection in 5G and Beyond
Thusitha Dayaratne, Ngoc Duy Pham, Viet Vo, Shangqi Lai, Sharif Abuadbba, Hajime Suzuki, Xingliang Yuan, Carsten Rudolph
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06530

From Description to Detection: LLM based Extendable O-RAN Compliant Blind DoS Detection in 5G and Beyond
The quality and experience of mobile communication have significantly improved with the introduction of 5G, and these improvements are expected to continue beyond the 5G era. However, vulnerabilities in control-plane protocols, such as Radio Resource Control (RRC) and Non-Access Stratum (NAS), pose significant security threats, such as Blind Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. Despite the availability of existing anomaly detection methods that leverage rule-based systems or traditional machine lea…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Culture Club:
🎵 Miss Me Blind
#CultureClub
https://flamingomix.bandcamp.com/track/culture-club-miss-me-blind-flamingo-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/56SnVQVuJuqnYA6rLdcg32

Inclusive by design: Developing Barrier-Free Authentication for Blind and Low Vision Users through the ALIAS Project
Clara Toussaint (CeRCA), Benjamin Chateau (CeRCA), Pierre-Guillaume Gourio-Jewell (CeRCA), Emilie Bonnefoy (CeRCA), Nicolas Louveton (CeRCA)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10043

Inclusive by design: Developing Barrier-Free Authentication for Blind and Low Vision Users through the ALIAS Project
Authentication is the cornerstone of information security in our daily lives. However, disabled users such as Blind and Low-Vision (BLV) ones are left behind in digital services due to the lack of accessibility. According to the World Health Organization, 36 million people are blind worldwide. It is estimated that there will be 115 million by 2050, due to the ageing of the population. Yet accessing digital services has become increasingly essential. At the same time, cyber threats targeting ind…

(2015) "Visual" cortex responds to spoken language in blind children https://www.jneurosci.org/content/35/33/11674 Now what will the "visual" cortex of blind children do once trained with live imagery (camera views) encoded in sound by The vOICe?

“Visual” Cortex Responds to Spoken Language in Blind Children
Plasticity in the visual cortex of blind individuals provides a rare window into the mechanisms of cortical specialization. In the absence of visual input, occipital (“visual”) brain regions respond to sound and spoken language. Here, we examined the time course and developmental mechanism of this plasticity in blind children. Nineteen blind and 40 sighted children and adolescents (4–17 years old) listened to stories and two auditory control conditions (unfamiliar foreign speech, and musi…

CFP: The Lessing Yearbook (15.01.2026)
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Summer 2026 Vietnamese Language Study with Indiana University Kathleen Evans 09/19/2025 - 9:31am …
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Communication-Optimal Blind Quantum Protocols
Ethan Davies, Alastair Kay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07112 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07112

Communication-Optimal Blind Quantum Protocols
A user, Alice, wants to get server Bob to implement a quantum computation for her. However, she wants to leave him blind to what she's doing. What are the minimal communication resources Alice must use in order to achieve information-theoretic security? In this paper, we consider a single step of the protocol, where Alice conveys to Bob whether or not he should implement a specific gate. We use an entropy-bounding technique to quantify the minimum number of qubits that Alice must send so that B…

Resource-sensitive but language-blind: Community size and not grammatical complexity better predicts the accuracy of Large Language Models in a novel Wug Test
Nikoleta Pantelidou, Evelina Leivada, Paolo Morosi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12463

Resource-sensitive but language-blind: Community size and not grammatical complexity better predicts the accuracy of Large Language Models in a novel Wug Test
The linguistic abilities of Large Language Models are a matter of ongoing debate. This study contributes to this discussion by investigating model performance in a morphological generalization task that involves novel words. Using a multilingual adaptation of the Wug Test, six models were tested across four partially unrelated languages (Catalan, English, Greek, and Spanish) and compared with human speakers. The aim is to determine whether model accuracy approximates human competence and whethe…

Early blind user of The vOICe vision BCI today:
"This past weekend I went exploring some caves using The vOICe. I used the Android app since I had it already loaded on my phone, and there was no service once inside. I was able to see where the other people were even though I had someone with me. I was also able to see the differing textures of the stalactite and stalagmite formations. I hadn't used the software in a few years and was surprised how quickly everything came back…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Blind Melon:
🎵 Galaxie
#BlindMelon
https://dressrehearsal.bandcamp.com/track/galaxie-blind-melon
https://open.spotify.com/track/7iggXRD8XULv2nw4NjkIjZ

Multi-path sensory substitution device navigates the blind and visually impaired individuals https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0141938225002379

CFP: The Lessing Yearbook https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20125656/cfp-lessing-yearbook

»Reality check: Microsoft Azure CTO pushes back on AI vibe coding hype, sees 'upper limit'«
Blind trust is never good, but unfortunately too many people are mentally blind.
🧑‍💻 https://www.geekwire.com/2025/reality-chec

Creation, Critique, and Consumption: Exploring Generative AI Descriptions for Supporting Blind and Low Vision Professionals with Visual Tasks
Lucy Jiang, Lotus Zhang, Leah Findlater
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08991

Creation, Critique, and Consumption: Exploring Generative AI Descriptions for Supporting Blind and Low Vision Professionals with Visual Tasks
Many blind and low vision (BLV) people are excluded from professional roles that may involve visual tasks due to access barriers and persisting stigmas. Advancing generative AI systems can support BLV people through providing contextual and personalized visual descriptions for creation, critique, and consumption. In this workshop paper, we provide design suggestions for how visual descriptions can be better contextualized for multiple professional tasks. We conclude by discussing how these desi…

(YouTube, Chinese w/o captions but graphical English subtitles) Blind patient treated with ZM-02 optogenetic gene therapy #RP

"They Aren't Built For Me": An Exploratory Study of Strategies for Measurement of Graphical Primitives in Tactile Graphics
Areen Khalaila, Lane Harrison, Nam Wook Kim, Dylan Cashman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14289

"They Aren't Built For Me": An Exploratory Study of Strategies for Measurement of Graphical Primitives in Tactile Graphics
Advancements in accessibility technologies such as low-cost swell form printers or refreshable tactile displays promise to allow blind or low-vision (BLV) people to analyze data by transforming visual representations directly to tactile representations. However, it is possible that design guidelines derived from experiments on the visual perception system may not be suited for the tactile perception system. We investigate the potential mismatch between familiar visual encodings and tactile perc…

ChatGPT: "Here's a direct, technical, and respectful argument you might present to Elon Musk to explain why the Neuralink "Blindsight" brain implant is unlikely to restore meaningful vision in people born blind" https://chatgpt.com/share/681baf6f-157c-8004-b2…

ChatGPT - Neuralink Blindness Challenge
A conversational AI system that listens, learns, and challenges

Does spatialized audio enhance the creation of mental representations? Spoiler: No (for their SnapStick-based setup) https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2025.1660373/full "seven blind individuals and se…

Frontiers | Does spatialized audio enhance the creation of mental representations?
Navigating unfamiliar environments without vision is a considerable challenge for blind individuals, as it requires constructing accurate cognitive maps. Bin...

Congenitally blind user of The vOICe: "I cannot feel the vehicle with the large diesel engine moving next to me but with The vOICe, I can see that it has many windows so is a bus as opposed to a truck."
What would a congenitally blind Neuralink Blindsight brain implant recipient see? #BCI #blindness

(YouTube) Still no Neuralink Blindsight videos of a blind(ed) monkey performing basic reaching & grasping tasks is a bad omen for blind human volunteers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ1xigijrxQ This single-shot video shows a blind user of The vOICe non-invasive vision glasses;

#NOA: Live AI mobility companion on your shoulders https://www.biped.ai "NOA is a revolutionary vest worn like a backpack that guides people with blindness and low vision in complement to canes & dogs." YouTube

Asking ChatGPT about expected effective resolution and frame rate for late-blind recipients of a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant with tens of thousands of electrodes https://chatgpt.com/share/689f4b3d-adc8-8004-a78a-9cbc1ce74542

Before long, blind people and sighted people will all be spoon-fed by AI-generated information. In the mean-time, blind people will be at the forefront in deciding how much visual input processing to delegate to AI while keeping agency and the ability to "see for themselves".
ChatGPT: https://cha…

ChatGPT - AI and sensory autonomy
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Neural representation of nouns and verbs in congenitally blind and sighted individuals https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63423-0 "In blind individuals, language processing activates not only classic language networks, but also the 'visual' cortex."

Neural representation of nouns and verbs in congenitally blind and sighted individuals - Nature Communications
In blind individuals, language processing activates the brain visual areas. Here, researchers show that these activations might primarily reflect physical parameters of objects and actions, retrieved from linguistic meaning.

To ChatGPT 5: Will The vOICe visual-to-auditory sensory substitution for the blind disrupt the market for invasive visual prostheses such as the Neuralink Blindsight brain implant? https://chatgpt.com/share/68c33028-95a4-8004-80f4-d83ecd843546 "Short answer: yes - if…

Connecting the blind to groundbreaking #BCI vision restoration technology through Science Corporation's patient registry for retinal diseases https://science.xyz/news/science-patient-registry-a…

Connecting the Blind to Groundbreaking BCI Vision Restoration Technology Through Science Corporation’s Patient Registry for Retinal Diseases | Science Corporation
Science Corporation is a clinical-stage medical technology company.

There's a really thin line between fighting windmills (Elon Musk's Neuralink Blindsight brain implant hype) and annoying blind people who are serious about functional vision. Sorry to those blind people, sorry to you! It is impossible to reach everybody with the right "tone".

HUN-REN RCNS and its consortium receive prestigious European funding for the first human testing of a prosthesis designed to restore vision https://www.ttk.hun-ren.hu/en/recent-news/

HUN-REN RCNS and its Consortium Receive Prestigious European Funding for the First Human Testing of a Prosthesis Designed to Restore Vision
Over the past five years, the Belgian startup ReVision Implant has been developing a groundbreaking brain prosthesis that aims to partially restore vision to the blind. A consortium was formed to carry out the first human testing of the technology, consisting of the manufacturing startup and three research groups, including the

Should the Neuralink Blindsight Informed Consent Form for a brain implant mention noninvasive alternatives such as The vOICe vision BCI? #BCI #ethics #NeuroEthics

Space travel is bad for human eyesight - blind people traveling to Mars would be less affected https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WbQcFgfz__Y Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for already-blind astronauts?

#RAVEN: Realtime Accessibility in Virtual ENvironments for blind and low-vision people https://arxiv.org/html/2510.06573v1