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L’Opus Dei mis en cause dans une affaire de traite d’êtres humains en Argentine
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/07/17/l-opus-dei-mis-en-cause-dans-une-affaire-de-traite-…

L’Opus Dei mis en cause dans une affaire de traite d’êtres humains en Argentine
Suite à des plaintes de femmes affirmant avoir travaillé sans salaire et dans des conditions très difficiles pour l’institution catholique conservatrice, le numéro deux de l’organisation, basée à Rome, pourrait être mis en examen. Quatre responsables argentins ont déjà été mis en examen en 2024.

GFW Report: on August 20, China's Great Firewall blocked all TCP port 443 traffic, used for HTTPS, for 74 minutes, an unusual move; the cause may be accidental (Nathaniel Mott/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.

China's Great Firewall blocked all traffic to a common HTTPS port for over an hour — with no hint as to its intention
The cause of the incident could be intentional or accidental

Looky here, America
What you done done---
Let things drift
Until the riots come.
​
Now your policemen
Let your mobs run free.
I reckon you don't care
Nothing about me.
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You tell me that Hitler
Is a mighty bad man.
I guess he took lessons
From the Ku Klux Klan.
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You tell me Mussolini's
Got an evil heart.
Well, it mus-a been in Beaumont
That he had his start---
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Cause everything that Hitler
And Mussolini do,
Negro…

Y'know what rubs me weird? Open Source guys who are all into competing projects. Like sure sometimes you gotta fork 'cause people's desires really are incompatible, but here we are with a system that lets us join forces for the greater good and here you are making Yet Another Thingy instead of collaborating.
I kinda fundamentally don't trust you to behave well in your project if this is the foundation.
There's reasons for forks and alternatives but come on

GALA: Can Graph-Augmented Large Language Model Agentic Workflows Elevate Root Cause Analysis?
Yifang Tian, Yaming Liu, Zichun Chong, Zihang Huang, Hans-Arno Jacobsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12472

GALA: Can Graph-Augmented Large Language Model Agentic Workflows Elevate Root Cause Analysis?
Root cause analysis (RCA) in microservice systems is challenging, requiring on-call engineers to rapidly diagnose failures across heterogeneous telemetry such as metrics, logs, and traces. Traditional RCA methods often focus on single modalities or merely rank suspect services, falling short of providing actionable diagnostic insights with remediation guidance. This paper introduces GALA, a novel multi-modal framework that combines statistical causal inference with LLM-driven iterative reasonin…

u cant say poser anymore. u have to say gentrifier or appropriator, cause of woke 😔

"Why some ‘biodegradable’ wet wipes can be terrible for the environment"
#WetWipes #Environment

Why some ‘biodegradable’ wet wipes can be terrible for the environment
While non-plastic textiles are not as long-lived as plastics, they can last long enough to accumulate and cause damage to plants, animals and humans.

Trop de bruit avec Signal : les métadonnées en cause dans les messageries chiffrées
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/xcli/blog/160725/trop-de-bruit-avec-signal-les-metadonnees-en-cause-dans-les-messageries-chiffrees

Trop de bruit avec Signal : les métadonnées en cause dans les messageries chiffrées
Signal est régulièrement désigné comme LA meilleure application de messagerie sécurisée. Pour autant, cette supériorité universelle et présentée sans nuance relève d'un manque de finesse de l'analyse. Pire, elle met en danger les journalistes et leurs sources, les activistes et certaines minorités. Nous voyons pourquoi dans cet article.

It is going to be the end of the human race that we elect leaders whose overriding motive in life is to cause others pain.
That’s what set him apart from most of his electoral opponents in both parties. He doesn’t really have any affirmative ideas for helping anyone (other than his fellow billionaires.) He is entirely focused on punishing those whom he deems enemies.

Trump rants that Washington Commanders should change name back to ‘Redskins’
President Donald Trump apparently isn't done renaming things this year. After rebranding the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America earlier this year, …

Busy day ahead. Snatched an appointment to request a new ID card. Mine has expired two month ago 🙈. But first need to check on an old bike to get there. Because kiddo is using my bike for a summer camp. Then put the bike on the car and drive to Potsdam to pick up a friend we take care of from hospital and drive him home to the Uckermark. Then also do the grocery shopping for him and deliver back to him. Then bring said bike to our house in the countryside cause we don't need it in Berlin…

Dear Democratic National Committee. I pledge to send you $100 on the last day of each month. I will reduce that amount by $1 for every unsolicited communication (text, email, phone call, voice mail, physical mail piece) I receive from a left leaning candidate, cause, or PAC requesting a donation.
Although I am pledging up to $1,200 for the next year, I suspect my total donation under this pledge will be between $0 and $60.

behöver det se ut såhär varje gång Cory Doctorow släpper något? finns det inget bättre sätt att göra det på?

Successive Halving with Learning Curve Prediction via Latent Kronecker Gaussian Processes
Jihao Andreas Lin, Nicolas Mayoraz, Steffen Rendle, Dima Kuzmin, Emil Praun, Berivan Isik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14818

Successive Halving with Learning Curve Prediction via Latent Kronecker Gaussian Processes
Successive Halving is a popular algorithm for hyperparameter optimization which allocates exponentially more resources to promising candidates. However, the algorithm typically relies on intermediate performance values to make resource allocation decisions, which can cause it to prematurely prune slow starters that would eventually become the best candidate. We investigate whether guiding Successive Halving with learning curve predictions based on Latent Kronecker Gaussian Processes can overcom…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
John Maus:
🎵 Because We Built It
#NowPlaying #JohnMaus
https://johnmaus.bandcamp.com/track/because-we-built-it
https://open.spotify.com/track/1xjy7eQG4S3D2mxBXEXyVW

They died trying: https://www.cracked.com/article_16760_6-people-who-died-in-order-to-prove-retarded-point.html

Precision over Noise: Tailoring S3 Public Access Detection to Reduce False Positives in Cloud Security Platforms
Dikshant, Geetika Verma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14402 https:/…

Precision over Noise: Tailoring S3 Public Access Detection to Reduce False Positives in Cloud Security Platforms
Excessive and spurious alert generation by cloud security solutions is a root cause of analyst fatigue and operational inefficiencies. In this study, the long-standing issue of false positives from publicly accessible alerts in Amazon S3, as generated by a licensed cloud-native security solution, is examined. In a simulated production test environment, which consisted of over 1,000 Amazon S3 buckets with diverse access configurations, it was discovered that over 80\% of the alerts generated by …

This reminds me of something I've idly wondered about for a while now: whether MAGA will cause veganism to flip like Tesla, from being left-coded to right-coded. (It's already adjacent to vax-deniers and horseshoe-ish.)

Raiders’ ‘Biggest Problem’ Should Be Major Cause for Concern https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/geno-smith-problem-bleacher-report/?adt_ei=[email]

CAST: Counterfactual Labels Improve Instruction Following in Vision-Language-Action Models
Catherine Glossop, William Chen, Arjun Bhorkar, Dhruv Shah, Sergey Levine
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13446

CAST: Counterfactual Labels Improve Instruction Following in Vision-Language-Action Models
Generalist robots should be able to understand and follow user instructions, but current vision-language-action (VLA) models struggle with following fine-grained commands despite providing a powerful architecture for mapping open-vocabulary natural language instructions to robot actions. One cause for this is a lack of semantic diversity and language grounding in existing robot datasets and, specifically, a lack of fine-grained task diversity for similar observations. To address this, we presen…

Incident Analysis for AI Agents
Carson Ezell, Xavier Roberts-Gaal, Alan Chan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14231 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14231

Incident Analysis for AI Agents
As AI agents become more widely deployed, we are likely to see an increasing number of incidents: events involving AI agent use that directly or indirectly cause harm. For example, agents could be prompt-injected to exfiltrate private information or make unauthorized purchases. Structured information about such incidents (e.g., user prompts) can help us understand their causes and prevent future occurrences. However, existing incident reporting processes are not sufficient for understanding age…

Colon Polyps Detection from Colonoscopy Images Using Deep Learning
Md Al Amin, Bikash Kumar Paul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13188 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Colon Polyps Detection from Colonoscopy Images Using Deep Learning
Colon polyps are precursors to colorectal cancer, a leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Early detection is critical for improving patient outcomes. This study investigates the application of deep learning-based object detection for early polyp identification using colonoscopy images. We utilize the Kvasir-SEG dataset, applying extensive data augmentation and splitting the data into training (80\%), validation (20\% of training), and testing (20\%) sets. Three variants of the YO…

"The root cause of Britain’s pay depression? Weak productivity."
Says The Resolution Foundation.
Well I don't think so.
https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/comment/resolution-at-20/

from my link log —
PostgreSQL LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale.
https://www.recall.ai/blog/postgres-listen-notify-does-not-scale
saved 2025-07-10

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale
Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY can cause severe performance issues under high write concurrency due to a global lock during commit. Learn why it doesn't scale and how to avoid outages.

Sitting on the porch at the cabin. A solitary loon calls out across the lake.
"What are you doing!?"
"Huh?" <dips cheese cube in the spinach dip>
"That's for the Vegetables!"
"You're not the boss of me!" <holds dip tighter>
"The vegan can't have it anyway cause it's not plant based so.... Stay. In your lane, loon."

Putin: "The root cause of the war in Ukraine must first be removed."
Putin is the root cause.

Each week, Metacurity offers our free and paid subscribers a run-down of the best infosec-related long reads.
This week's selection covers
--A twisted tale of how two men tortured someone for his crypto account passwords,
--Russia's cyber sector supports Putin's Ukraine war,
--A brain-reading implant requires a password,
--Social media algorithms didn't cause America's woes,
--The internet is really bad for children,
--More
…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 8/9/25
A twisted tale of how two men tortured someone for his crypto account passwords, Russia's cyber sector supports Putin's Ukraine war, A brain-reading implant requires a password, Social media algorithms didn't cause America's woes, The internet is really bad for children, more

Research on fault diagnosis and root cause analysis based on full stack observability
Jian Hou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12231 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.…

Research on fault diagnosis and root cause analysis based on full stack observability
With the rapid development of cloud computing and ultra-large-scale data centers, the scale and complexity of systems have increased significantly, leading to frequent faults that often show cascading propagation. How to achieve efficient, accurate, and interpretable Root Cause Analysis (RCA) based on observability data (metrics, logs, traces) has become a core issue in AIOps. This paper reviews two mainstream research threads in top conferences and journals over the past five years: FaultInsig…

The verbs are out of order.
EHLO
STARTTLS
EHLO (a 2nd time, inside the TLS session)
AUTH
MAIL FROM
RCPT TO
DATA
QUIT
#RandomPedantry #Email #Sysadminnery

h3artbl33d :openbsd: :ve: (@h3artbl33d@exquisite.social)
Attached: 2 images > "Slightly" mad Yeah, bit more than slightly in my case. But nevertheless, this is a real gem :flan_hearts: [The book](https://mwl.link/run-your-own-mail-server.html) is even better. And you should definitely [patronize mwl](https://mwl.io/about/patronize-me) cause we need moah books - SELFHOST ALL THE THINGS! #RYOMS #runyourownmailserver #selfhosting

Root Cause Analysis of Hydrogen Bond Separation in Spatio-Temporal Molecular Dynamics using Causal Models
Rahmat K. Adesunkanmi, Ashfaq Khokhar, Goce Trajcevski, Sohail Murad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12500

Root Cause Analysis of Hydrogen Bond Separation in Spatio-Temporal Molecular Dynamics using Causal Models
Molecular dynamics simulations (MDS) face challenges, including resource-heavy computations and the need to manually scan outputs to detect "interesting events," such as the formation and persistence of hydrogen bonds between atoms of different molecules. A critical research gap lies in identifying the underlying causes of hydrogen bond formation and separation -understanding which interactions or prior events contribute to their emergence over time. With this challenge in mind, we propose leve…

Did you know, President & CEO of CBS, which just bribed potus by settling a case and canceled Stephen Colbert's show, is named, not making this up, George Cheeks?
Sure they were bullied as a kid, but as CEO, George Cheeks laying down for fascists makes me theoretically ('cause violence is not a good answer) want to clap those cheeks (metaphorically slap him).
Stop returning Paramount & subsidiaries' (like CBS) calls. They wither w/no one to work for them. …

'cause every night, i will save your life
and every night i will be with you
'cause every night i still lay awake
and i dream, of the great earth changes

RE: https://mementomori.social/@rolle/115237433212128919
Just testing out quoting someone quoting someone else.
This Is A Test
Editing this post cause I forgot this isn't a "canon quote" because it's an image...
I guess…

“Specifically, InfoFlood: (1) uses linguistic transformations to rephrase malicious queries, (2) identifies the root cause of failure when an attempt is unsuccessful, and (3) refines the prompt’s linguistic structure to address the failure while preserving its malicious intent.”
#LLM #AI

When someone asks you to do something that's _part of your effin' job_, answer ASAP. Say 'yes' or say 'no' (if you can), but don't let the request sit for days or weeks. The time you spend ignoring the request might cause problems for the human(s) involved.

Les voitures deviennent de plus en plus dangereuses pour les piétons et les cyclistes. En cause: l'augmentation, ces 25 dernières années, des zones que le conducteur ne voit pas en raison de l'architecture de son véhicule, révèle une étude du département américain des Transports.

Matt Trout has passed away, aged just 42.
https://www.shadowcat.co.uk/2025/07/09/ripples-they-cause-in-the-world/

MastitisApp: a software for preventive diagnosis of mastitis in dairy cows
Italo Henrique Souza Mafra, Glauber da Rocha Balthazar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14124 https://

MastitisApp: a software for preventive diagnosis of mastitis in dairy cows
Dairy farming has great economic value in Brazil, however, during production, diseases such as mastitis can occur in animals, which can reduce productivity and, consequently, economic profitability. When mastitis is present in animals, it can cause physical and chemical changes in the milk, affecting its quality, market value and also compromising the health of the animal. MastiteApp is a tool to help producers prevent mastitis in their herds by checking the temperature taken from the four teat…

Rest in Peace, Matt S Trout (MST). This makes me sad. 😢
#perl

Fair-GPTQ: Bias-Aware Quantization for Large Language Models
Irina Proskurina, Guillaume Metzler, Julien Velcin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15206 https://ar…

Fair-GPTQ: Bias-Aware Quantization for Large Language Models
High memory demands of generative language models have drawn attention to quantization, which reduces computational cost, memory usage, and latency by mapping model weights to lower-precision integers. Approaches such as GPTQ effectively minimize input-weight product errors during quantization; however, recent empirical studies show that they can increase biased outputs and degrade performance on fairness benchmarks, and it remains unclear which specific weights cause this issue. In this work, …

Homan: "ICE Doesn't Need Probable Cause" For Arrests - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/07/homan-ice-doesnt-need-probable-cause-for-arrests/

Driven-Dissipative Interpretation of Measurement-Induced State Transitions Beyond Semiclassical Predictions
Bo-Syun Pan, Yen-Hsiang Lin, Chiao-Hsuan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13150

Driven-Dissipative Interpretation of Measurement-Induced State Transitions Beyond Semiclassical Predictions
Dispersive readout plays a central role in superconducting quantum computing, enabling quantum nondemolition (QND) measurements of qubits through a coupled microwave resonator. However, under strong readout drives, multi-photon resonances can cause measurement-induced state transition (MIST), resulting in qubit leakage out of the computational subspace and compromising the QND character. We present a driven-dissipative interpretation of MIST using a reduced quantum model that captures the dynam…

3 Raiders who helped their cause, and 3 who didn’t in Saturday’s loss https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/3-raiders-who-helped-their-cause-and-3-who-didnt-in-saturdays-loss-3422792/

A Novel APVD Steganography Technique Incorporating Pseudorandom Pixel Selection for Robust Image Security
Mehrab Hosain, Rajiv Kapoor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13367

A Novel APVD Steganography Technique Incorporating Pseudorandom Pixel Selection for Robust Image Security
Steganography is the process of embedding secret information discreetly within a carrier, ensuring secure exchange of confidential data. The Adaptive Pixel Value Differencing (APVD) steganography method, while effective, encounters certain challenges like the "unused blocks" issue. This problem can cause a decrease in security, compromise the embedding capacity, and lead to lower visual quality. This research presents a novel steganographic strategy that integrates APVD with pseudorandom pixel …

This is powerful stuff and good on Auckland councillor Julie Fairey for writing it. https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/08-07-2025/as-a-councillor-ive-always-advocated-for-improved-road-safety-then-i-got-hit-by-a-car

Base your ideology on wanting to rid society of the undesirables, yet defend the system that will always cause there to be a relevant amount of them until your last breath. That is how you stay in power indefinitely.

I'm wondering if a dog would be a good idea when Mum's gone, partly as company for Dad but also because we would have capacity. I love this guy (should read his bio - he's perfect) and at least he's not called Max unlike half the other dogs available. That would cause big confusion in our house.

🫀 Simulations of beating heart may inform treatments for atrial fibrillation
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-simulations-heart-treatments-atrial-fibrillation.html

Simulations of beating heart may inform treatments for atrial fibrillation
You may have heard the phrase "my heart skipped a beat" when someone was talking about a romantic encounter. In truth, hearts that beat irregularly are dangerous for your health. Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common type of irregular heartbeat, and over time, it can worsen and become a permanent condition, a severe disorder that's the leading preventable cause of ischemic stroke, according to the NIH.

Enhancement of Weak Interactions in Phase Transitions
V. V. Flambaum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14701 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.14701

Enhancement of Weak Interactions in Phase Transitions
Weak interactions cause small parity-violating energy differences between left- and right-handed chiral systems. Although normally tiny, these effects may be significantly enhanced during collective phenomena such as phase transitions. We propose a theoretical model describing the enhancement of weak interactions in phase transitions. The enhancement factor is proportional to the critical number of atoms, $N_c$, in the nucleus of the new phase. After the nucleus reaches its critical size, it gr…

Chris Hedge on Kirk death “Martyrs are the lifeblood of violent movements. Any flinching over the use of violence, any talk of compassion or understanding, any effort to mediate or discuss, is a betrayal of the martyr and the cause the martyr died defending.”
Read Full Article https://scheerp…

Chris Hedges: The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk
Martyrs are used by messianic movements to sanctify violence. To show any mercy or understanding toward the enemy is to betray the martyr and the cause the martyr died defending.

@… Hi there,
(I tried the email route but got an automated response, so I’m trying this instead.) :)
I just got notified that my friend Iman’s account (@emanahmed@mastodon.social) has been suspended with cause due to private messages being sent from her account to ask for donations. (One of the people who was upset about this contacted me directly to let …

Gaza Verified
I’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and I verify that their accounts are genuine. – Aral Balkan

Texans' Jimmie Ward's domestic violence case dismissed by Montgomery County grand jury

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/texans-jimmie-w…

'Unbearable' — EU's Kallas raises alarm over Russia's escalating chemical warfare in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/unbearable-eus-kallas-raises-alarm.html

A Severity-Aware Reliability Index for Risk-Informed Structural Design
Moussa Leblouba, Samer Barakat, Raghad Awad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12068 https://

A Severity-Aware Reliability Index for Risk-Informed Structural Design
Classical measures of structural reliability, such as the probability of failure and the related reliability index, are still widely applied in practice. However, these measures are frequency-based only, and they do not give information about the severity of failure once it happens. This missing aspect can cause underestimation of risks, in particular when rare events produce very undesirable consequences. In this paper, a new reliability framework is proposed to address this issue. The framewo…

"Texas study reveals heat waves can cause more polluted air"
#US #USA #America #Heatwave

Texas study reveals heat waves can cause more polluted air
Heat waves are becoming more common, severe and long-lasting. These prolonged periods of hot weather are especially dangerous in already hot places like Texas. In 2023, more than 300 people in Texas died from heat, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services, the most since the state began tracking such deaths in 1989. Researchers found it may not only be temperatures that make heat waves unsafe but also the heat-related increase in airborne pollutants.

Ultrafast controlling net magnetization in g-wave altermagnets via laser fields
Zhaobo Zhou, Sangeeta Sharma, Junjie He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14991 https://

Ultrafast controlling net magnetization in g-wave altermagnets via laser fields
The diverse nodal spin structures in d/g/i-wave altermagnets (AM) may cause distinct light-induced spin responses yet remain poorly understood. Using time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT), we reveal that laser induced ultrafast demagnetization dynamics in the g-wave AM CrSb are strongly governed by the laser incidence direction. Under normal incidence along the [0001] axis, two Cr sublattices exhibit symmetric temporal demagnetization but with different amplitudes, preserving the net…

On the Late-Time Instability of MOT solution to the Time-Domain PMCHWT Equation
Van Chien Le, Viviana Giunzioni, Pierrick Cordel, Francesco P. Andriulli, Kristof Cools
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14995 …

On the Late-Time Instability of MOT solution to the Time-Domain PMCHWT Equation
This paper investigates the late-time instability of marching-on-in-time solution to the time-domain PMCHWT equation. The stability analysis identifies the static solenoidal nullspace of the time-domain electric field integral operator as the primary cause of instability. Furthermore, it reveals that the instability mechanisms of the time-domain PMCHWT equation are fundamentally different from those of the time-domain electric field integral equation. In particular, the PMCHWT's instability is …

A Computational Picture of Hydride Formation and Dissipation In Nb SRF Cavities
Aiden Harbick, Mark Transtrum, Nathan Sitaraman, Tom\'as Arias, Matthias Liepe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13555

A Computational Picture of Hydride Formation and Dissipation In Nb SRF Cavities
Research linking surface hydrides to Q-disease, and the subsequent development of methods to eliminate surface hydrides, is one of the great successes of SRF cavity R&D. We use time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau to extend the theory of hydride dissipation to sub-surface hydrides. Just as surface hydrides cause Q-disease behavior, we show that sub-surface hydrides cause high-field Q-slope (HFQS) behavior. We find that the abrupt onset of HFQS is due to a transition from a vortex-free state to a vort…

No, weather modification did not cause the deadly flash floods in Texas #Texas

No, weather modification did not cause the deadly flash floods in Texas
As authorities search for victims of the flash floods in Texas that killed more than 100 people over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, social media users are spreading false claims that the devastation was caused by weather modification.

Electron Inertia and Magnetic Reconnection
Allen H Boozer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14400 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.14400

Electron Inertia and Magnetic Reconnection
The finite electron mass can cause magnetic reconnection even in the absence of any other non-ideal effect in a magnetic evolution. It will be shown that when electron inertia is the only non-ideal effect in the evolution of the magnetic field $\vec{B}$, there is a related field that evolves ideally. This field is $\vec{\mathcal{B}} \equiv \vec{B} + \vec{\nabla}\times \left( (m_e/n e^2) \vec{j} \right)$ with $m_e$ the electron mass, $n$ the electron number density, and $\vec{j}$ the current den…

Crash Report Enhancement with Large Language Models: An Empirical Study
S M Farah Al Fahim (Peter), Md Nakhla Rafi (Peter), Zeyang Ma (Peter), Dong Jae Kim (Peter), Tse-Hsun (Peter), Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13535

Crash Report Enhancement with Large Language Models: An Empirical Study
Crash reports are central to software maintenance, yet many lack the diagnostic detail developers need to debug efficiently. We examine whether large language models can enhance crash reports by adding fault locations, root-cause explanations, and repair suggestions. We study two enhancement strategies: Direct-LLM, a single-shot approach that uses stack-trace context, and Agentic-LLM, an iterative approach that explores the repository for additional evidence. On a dataset of 492 real-world cras…

Not me having to explain to a coworker why AI is terrible to the environment again because they think I'm making it up cause I hate it.

Physics constrained learning of stochastic characteristics
Pardha Sai Krishna Ala, Ameya Salvi, Venkat Krovi, Matthias Schmid
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12661

Physics constrained learning of stochastic characteristics
Accurate state estimation requires careful consideration of uncertainty surrounding the process and measurement models; these characteristics are usually not well-known and need an experienced designer to select the covariance matrices. An error in the selection of covariance matrices could impact the accuracy of the estimation algorithm and may sometimes cause the filter to diverge. Identifying noise characteristics has long been a challenging problem due to uncertainty surrounding noise sourc…

Outpace Reality: A Novel Augmented-Walking Technique for Virtual Reality Games
Sebastian Cmentowski, Fabian Kievelitz, Jens Kr\"uger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11314 https:…

Outpace Reality: A Novel Augmented-Walking Technique for Virtual Reality Games
The size of most virtual environments exceeds the tracking space available for physical walking. One solution to this disparity is to extend the available walking range by augmenting users' actual movements. However, the resulting increase in visual flow can easily cause cybersickness. Therefore, we present a novel augmented-walking approach for virtual reality games. Our core concept is a virtual tunnel that spans the entire travel distance when viewed from the outside. However, its interior i…

Seeing through randomness with topological light
Cade Peters, Kelsey Everts, Tatjana Kleine, Pedro Ornelas, Andrew Forbes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12305 https://

Seeing through randomness with topological light
Transmitting structured light robustly through complex random media is crucial in many applications, from sensing to communication. Unfortunately, the spatial structure of light is distorted in such media due to refractive index inhomogeneities that cause multiple scattering, requiring mitigating strategies such as iterative optimisation and adaptive optics. Here, we use topological light to see through random media without the need for any corrective measures. Using skyrmions as our optical to…

Even if “AI” worked (it doesn’t), there’s many reasons why you shouldn’t use it:
1. It’s destroying Internet sites that you love as you use chat bots instead of actually going to sources of information—this will cause them to be less active and eventually shut down.
2. Pollution and water use from server farms cause immediate harm; often—just like other heavy industry—these are built in underprivileged communities and harming poor people. Without any benefits as the big tech companies get tax breaks and don’t pay for power, while workers aren’t from the community but commute in.
3. The basic underlying models of any LLM rely on stolen data, even when specific extra data is obtained legally. Chatbots can’t learn to speak English just by reading open source code.
4. You’re fueling a speculation bubble that is costing many people their jobs—because the illusion of “efficiency” is kept up by firing people and counting that as profit.
5. Whenever you use the great cheat machine in the cloud you’re robbing yourself from doing real research, writing or coding—literally atrophying your brain and making you stupider.
It’s a grift, through and through.

After having looked at eIDAS and the dutch implementation of digital identity, it is very interesting to read this paper, a proposal that tries to improve on various aspects from eiDAS.
"An Architecture for Distributed Digital Identities in the Physical World"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10185

An Architecture for Distributed Digital Identities in the Physical World
Digital identities are increasingly important for mediating not only digital but also physical service transactions. Managing such identities through centralized providers can cause both availability and privacy concerns: single points of failure and control are ideal targets for global attacks on technical, organizational, or legal fronts. We design, analyze, and build a distributed digital identity architecture for physical world transactions in common scenarios like unlocking doors, public t…

Monetary Policy and Exchange Rate Fluctuations
Yongheng Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15169 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.15169…

Monetary Policy and Exchange Rate Fluctuations
In this paper, we model USD-CNY bilateral exchange rate fluctuations as a general stochastic process and incorporate monetary policy shock to examine how bilateral exchange rate fluctuations affect the Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) index. Numerical simulations indicate that as the mean of bilateral exchange rate fluctuations increases, i.e., currency devaluation, the RCA index rises. Moreover, smaller bilateral exchange rate fluctuations after the policy shock cause the RCA index to grad…

The Justice Department is accelerating its efforts to undo decades of civil service protections intended to insulate the work of law enforcement officials from political interference.
A new batch of more than 20 career employees at the department and its component agencies were fired on Friday,
including the attorney general’s own ethics adviser, Joseph W. Tirrell.
Others who were dismissed included a handful of senior officials at the U.S. Marshals Service, as well as pros…

Dismissals at Justice Dept. Would Bypass Civil Service and Whistle-Blower Laws
In court filings and dismissal letters, the Justice Department’s political leadership claims sweeping authority to fire career law enforcement officials without cause.

When Genocide Denial Is the Norm https://jacobin.com/2025/08/genocide-israel-west-us-ties/

When Genocide Denial Is the Norm
Genocide scholar Martin Shaw argues that ending Israel’s genocide in Gaza and isolating Israel on the international stage must become the cause of every country that claims to represent human values.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Sinéad O’Connor:
🎵 You Cause as Much Sorrow
#SinéadOConnor 🖤
https://sinadoconnor.bandcamp.com/track/you-cause-as-much-sorrow-2009-remaster-5
https://open.spotify.com/track/4FxlzZf3N8FBGe40WumxpH

"...military expansion will play a significant role in breaching the Paris climate target of curtailing planetary warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels."
Rising Nato military spending to cause huge spike in emissions, report warns | Climate crisis | The Guardian
https://www.

Just cause you reply to me does not mean I will reply back.

CBD, ingen evidens för att det gör något bra som tillskott, men massor av reklam och rekommendationer från influensers då de tjänar en fin summa per försäljning.
Och folk tror till sist det fungerar för "alla influensers säger ju att det hjälper mot x, y och z" 🤷🏼‍♂️
Low doses of CBD may cause harm to the liver, FDA study finds

Low doses of CBD may cause harm to the liver, FDA study finds
From capsules, gummies and other edibles, to oils and lotions, CBD products have become increasingly popular in the United States.

Today #mst passed away. I really enjoyed meeting him at conferences, listeing to his weird & wonderful (and thus very Perlish) talks and chatting with him during the social track. I guess I use some of his code every day. :-( #Perl

A warehouse full of goods, a gas plant, a fertilizer plant - what's to say these aren't related?
Officials are still investigating the cause of a Pennsylvania steel plant explosion that killed 2 | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/officials-are-still-investigating-the-cause-of-a-pennsylvania-steel-plant-explosion-that-killed-2

Predicting and Explaining Traffic Crash Severity Through Crash Feature Selection
Andrea Castellani, Zacharias Papadovasilakis, Giorgos Papoutsoglou, Mary Cole, Brian Bautsch, Tobias Rodemann, Ioannis Tsamardinos, Angela Harden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11504

Predicting and Explaining Traffic Crash Severity Through Crash Feature Selection
Motor vehicle crashes remain a leading cause of injury and death worldwide, necessitating data-driven approaches to understand and mitigate crash severity. This study introduces a curated dataset of more than 3 million people involved in accidents in Ohio over six years (2017-2022), aggregated to more than 2.3 million vehicle-level records for predictive analysis. The primary contribution is a transparent and reproducible methodology that combines Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) and explain…

LAVA: Language Model Assisted Verbal Autopsy for Cause-of-Death Determination
Yiqun T. Chen, Tyler H. McCormick, Li Liu, Abhirup Datta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09602 https://

LAVA: Language Model Assisted Verbal Autopsy for Cause-of-Death Determination
Verbal autopsy (VA) is a critical tool for estimating causes of death in resource-limited settings where medical certification is unavailable. This study presents LA-VA, a proof-of-concept pipeline that combines Large Language Models (LLMs) with traditional algorithmic approaches and embedding-based classification for improved cause-of-death prediction. Using the Population Health Metrics Research Consortium (PHMRC) dataset across three age categories (Adult: 7,580; Child: 1,960; Neonate: 2,438…

🎶 Noninvasive ultrasound technique can spot bad batteries before they malfunction
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-06-noninvasive-ultrasound-technique-bad-batteries.html

Noninvasive ultrasound technique can spot bad batteries before they malfunction
A recent uptick in battery-related fires has drawn attention to the challenge of identifying defects that can cause these catastrophic malfunctions, but are rarely obvious to the naked eye. In hopes of preventing the dangerous glitches that can cause batteries to overheat and catch fire, researchers from Drexel University have developed a standard testing process to give manufacturers a better look at the internal workings of batteries.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
John Maus:
🎵 Because We Built It
#NowPlaying #JohnMaus
https://johnmaus.bandcamp.com/track/because-we-built-it
https://open.spotify.com/track/1xjy7eQG4S3D2mxBXEXyVW

Quantum Simulation of Collective Neutrino Oscillations in Dense Neutrino Environment
Shvetaank Tripathi, Sandeep Joshi, Garima Rajpoot, Prashant Shukla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11610

Quantum Simulation of Collective Neutrino Oscillations in Dense Neutrino Environment
Inside dense neutrino gases, such as neutron star mergers or core-collapse supernovae, collective neutrino effects cause the transformation of one neutrino flavour into another. Due to strong neutrino self-interactions in these environments, there is prevalence of flavour swapping. Considering these environments to be isotropic and homogeneous, we present a study of collective neutrino oscillations by simulating such a system on a noisy quantum simulator (Qiskit AerSimulator) and a quantum proc…

A Regression Testing Framework with Automated Assertion Generation for Machine Learning Notebooks
Yingao Elaine Yao, Vedant Nimje, Varun Viswanath, Saikat Dutta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13656

A Regression Testing Framework with Automated Assertion Generation for Machine Learning Notebooks
Notebooks have become the de-facto choice for data scientists and machine learning engineers for prototyping and experimenting with machine learning (ML) pipelines. Notebooks provide an interactive interface for code, data, and visualization. However, notebooks provide very limited support for testing. Thus, during continuous development, many subtle bugs that do not lead to crashes often go unnoticed and cause silent errors that manifest as performance regressions. To address this, we introd…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/14/russian-hackers-control-norwegian-dam-norway
Russian hackers seized control of Norwegian dam, spy chief says

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OKC Cult Leader Robert Spatz Faces Renewed Legal Pressure Over Abuse Claims Since 2019, six survivors brought forward allegations of severe abuse, including ...

Tonight is a remaindered chocolate doughnut kind of a night. Yes I'm trying to lose weight but chocolate doughnut nights are sufficiently rare as not to be the cause of my flubber. I have perimenopause to thank for that 😒

Deconstructing Intraocular Pressure: A Non-invasive Multi-Stage Probabilistic Inverse Framework
Md Rezwan Jaher, Abul Mukid Mohammad Mukaddes, A. B. M. Abdul Malek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14167

Deconstructing Intraocular Pressure: A Non-invasive Multi-Stage Probabilistic Inverse Framework
Many critical healthcare decisions are challenged by the inability to measure key underlying parameters. Glaucoma, a leading cause of irreversible blindness driven by elevated intraocular pressure (IOP), provides a stark example. The primary determinant of IOP, a tissue property called trabecular meshwork permeability, cannot be measured in vivo, forcing clinicians to depend on indirect surrogates. This clinical challenge is compounded by a broader computational one: developing predictive model…

"A Saltier Southern Ocean Could Cause More Melting Ice in Antarctica"
#Antarctica #Oceans

A Saltier Southern Ocean Could Cause More Melting Ice in Antarctica
Learn why a surge in the Southern Ocean’s salinity is an alarming sign for the future of Antarctic ice.

SafeConstellations: Steering LLM Safety to Reduce Over-Refusals Through Task-Specific Trajectory
Utsav Maskey, Sumit Yadav, Mark Dras, Usman Naseem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11290

SafeConstellations: Steering LLM Safety to Reduce Over-Refusals Through Task-Specific Trajectory
LLMs increasingly exhibit over-refusal behavior, where safety mechanisms cause models to reject benign instructions that superficially resemble harmful content. This phenomena diminishes utility in production applications that repeatedly rely on common prompt templates or applications that frequently rely on LLMs for specific tasks (e.g. sentiment analysis, language translation). Through comprehensive evaluation, we demonstrate that LLMs still tend to refuse responses to harmful instructions wh…

💗 Forest expansion increases agricultural output, new study shows
#india

Forest expansion increases agricultural output, new study shows
Agriculture is the largest cause of deforestation. So, it follows that forest expansion efforts would displace agriculture—but new research from Georgia Tech's School of Economics reports that that's not necessarily the case. And not only that, forest expansion actually increased agricultural output in the study.

Trump is deporting so many immigrants that it could cause inflation to hit 4% next year, top economist says | Fortune
https://archive.ph/i0NfD

In line with my longtime pet issue of cascading #SystemicFailure in complex systems which we've created and come to depend upon, yet have seemingly forgotten how to maintain.
We saw a hint of what's possible in the early years of Covid when shortages rolled across the economy in unpredictable ways. I fear what might happen as the Fash keep dismantling all forms of systemic in…

Simulating Clinical AI Assistance using Multimodal LLMs: A Case Study in Diabetic Retinopathy
Nadim Barakat, William Lotter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13234 https://

Simulating Clinical AI Assistance using Multimodal LLMs: A Case Study in Diabetic Retinopathy
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of blindness worldwide, and AI systems can expand access to fundus photography screening. Current FDA-cleared systems primarily provide binary referral outputs, where this minimal output may limit clinical trust and utility. Yet, determining the most effective output format to enhance clinician-AI performance is an empirical challenge that is difficult to assess at scale. We evaluated multimodal large language models (MLLMs) for DR detection and thei…

"Even moderate warming could cause irreversible damage to Mediterranean ecosystems, experts warn"
#Mediterranean #Environment #Climate

Warming Mediterranean Sea poses growing threat to marine life
Warming seas, acidification, and sea level rise threaten biodiversity, fish stocks, and key coastal ecosystems across the Mediterranean.

couple that argues endlessly cause their voices are soothing and beautiful and they know it

"Global Warming Is Fueling Dengue Fever Outbreaks"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Health

Global Warming Is Fueling Dengue Fever Outbreaks - Inside Climate News
Rising temperatures have caused as many as 4.6 million extra dengue cases each year, and will cause many more by 2050, a new study finds.