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Microsoft and AMD announce a "strategic, multi-year partnership" to design custom silicon for a number of devices, including next-generation Xbox consoles (Jez Corden/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox

Microsoft and AMD have officially entered a new multi-year partnership for first-party Xbox hardware
Xbox President Sarah Bond shared an update on Xbox consoles today, confirming their ongoing partnership with AMD for first-party hardware, while committing to supporting your existing console library on next-gen systems.

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Donald Trump urged Iranians to evacuate Tehran,
citing what he said was the country's rejection of a deal to curb nuclear weapons development.
Trump was due to leave the Group of Seven summit in Canada later on Monday -- a day early -- due to the Middle East situation, the White House said.
Fox News reported Trump would convene his National Security Council.

On international SMS code validation and spying. Somewhere in this spider web, probably not too far from the center, Swiss outfit Fink Telecom.
«Ganot eventually concluded that a global title registered to SMSRelay, another company founded by Fink, had manipulated telecom traffic in Israel to gain access to the investors’ login codes. Ganot reported his findings to Swiss authorities but says he didn’t receive any follow-up.»

Robotic System for Chemical Experiment Automation with Dual Demonstration of End-effector and Jig Operations
Hikaru Sasaki, Naoto Komeno, Takumi Hachimine, Kei Takahashi, Yu-ya Ohnishi, Tetsunori Sugawara, Araki Wakiuchi, Miho Hatanaka, Tomoyuki Miyao, Hiroharu Ajiro, Mikiya Fujii, Takamitsu Matsubara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.…

Robotic System for Chemical Experiment Automation with Dual Demonstration of End-effector and Jig Operations
While robotic automation has demonstrated remarkable performance, such as executing hundreds of experiments continuously over several days, it is challenging to design a program that synchronizes the robot's movements with the experimental jigs to conduct an experiment. We propose a concept that enables the automation of experiments by utilizing dual demonstrations of robot motions and jig operations by chemists in an experimental environment constructed to be controlled by a robot. To verify t…

“The proposal would reduce the more than $47 billion budget of the NIH to $27 billion — a roughly 40 percent cut. It would consolidate NIH’s 27 institutes and centers into just eight.”
https://wapo.st/42gLz0Z

Mobility to Campus -- a Framework to Evaluate and Compare Different Mobility Modes
Helena Fehler, Marco Pruckner, Marie Schmidt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13574

Mobility to Campus -- a Framework to Evaluate and Compare Different Mobility Modes
The transport sector accounts for about 20% of German CO2 emissions, with commuter traffic contributing a significant part. Particularly in rural areas, where public transport is inconvenient to use, private cars are a common choice for commuting and most commuters travel alone in their cars. Consolidation of some of these trips has the potential to decrease CO2 emissions and could be achieved, e.g., by offering ridesharing (commuters with similar origin-destination pairs share a car) or ridepo…

SUSEP-Net: Simulation-Supervised and Contrastive Learning-based Deep Neural Networks for Susceptibility Source Separation
Min Li, Chen Chen, Zhenghao Li, Yin Liu, Shanshan Shan, Peng Wu, Pengfei Rong, Feng Liu, G. Bruce Pike, Alan H. Wilman, Hongfu Sun, Yang Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13293

SUSEP-Net: Simulation-Supervised and Contrastive Learning-based Deep Neural Networks for Susceptibility Source Separation
Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) provides a valuable tool for quantifying susceptibility distributions in human brains; however, two types of opposing susceptibility sources (i.e., paramagnetic and diamagnetic), may coexist in a single voxel, and cancel each other out in net QSM images. Susceptibility source separation techniques enable the extraction of sub-voxel information from QSM maps. This study proposes a novel SUSEP-Net for susceptibility source separation by training a dual-br…

Noise-induced stabilization in a chemical reaction network without boundary effects
Andrea Agazzi, Lucie Laurence
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12163 https://…

Noise-induced stabilization in a chemical reaction network without boundary effects
We present a chemical reaction network that is unstable under deterministic mass action kinetics, exhibiting finite-time blow-up of trajectories in the interior of the state space, but whose stochastic counterpart is positive recurrent. This provides an example of noise-induced stabilization of the model's dynamics arising due to noise perturbing transversally the divergent trajectories of the system that is independently of boundary effects. The proof is based on a careful decomposition of the…

Molecular Control of Floquet Topological Phase in Non-adiabatic Thouless Pumping
Ruiyi Zhou, Yosuke Kanai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12147 https://

Molecular Control of Floquet Topological Phase in Non-adiabatic Thouless Pumping
Nonadiabatic Thouless pumping of electrons is studied in the framework of topological Floquet engineering, particularly focused on how changes to chemical moieties can control the emergence of the Floquet topological phase. We employ real-time time-dependent density functional theory to investigate the extent to which the topological invariant, the winding number, is impacted by molecular-level changes to trans-polyacetylene. In particular, several substitutions to trans-polyacetylene are studi…