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Sources: KKR is in talks to buy ST Telemedia Global Data Centres in a deal that could value the Asian digital infrastructure provider at more than $5B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-26/kkr-said-in-ta…

KKR Said in Talks to Buy Data-Center Firm STT GDC in $5b Deal
KKR & Co. is in talks to buy ST Telemedia Global Data Centres in a deal that could value the Asian digital infrastructure provider at more than $5 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

🇺🇦In the center of KYIV! ZELENSKYY awarded KELLOG #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/24/in-the-center-of-kyiv.html

Kennedy Center's New Dance Director Criticized 'Woke' Ballet Culture (Julia Jacobs/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/arts/dance/kennedy-center-stephen-nakagawa.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250826/p3#a250826p3

Why Synthetic Isn't Real Yet: A Diagnostic Framework for Contact Center Dialogue Generation
Rishikesh Devanathan, Varun Nathan, Ayush Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18210 …

Why Synthetic Isn't Real Yet: A Diagnostic Framework for Contact Center Dialogue Generation
Synthetic transcript generation is critical in contact center domains, where privacy and data scarcity limit model training and evaluation. Unlike prior synthetic dialogue generation work on open-domain or medical dialogues, contact center conversations are goal-oriented, role-asymmetric, and behaviorally complex, featuring disfluencies, ASR noise, and compliance-driven agent actions. In deployments where transcripts are unavailable, standard pipelines still yield derived call attributes such a…

US Rep. LaMonica McIver pleads not guilty to assault charges stemming from immigration center visit | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/us-rep-lamonica-mciver-pleads-not-guilty-to-assault-charges-stemming-from-immigration-center-visit/

The Piano Taking Center Stage at the 2025 Verbier Festival https://www.pianostreet.com/blog/articles/the-piano-taking-center-stage-at-the-2025-verbier-festival-13705/

The Piano Taking Center Stage at the 2025 Verbier Festival
PIANO NEWS: An article about The Piano Taking Center Stage at the 2025 Verbier Festival from the Piano Street Magazine.

Early start today for two weeks in Aachen.
Today: talk at the Center for Computational Life Sciences (come by!)
Tue-Thu: #CoRDI2025 with a poster for the German Reproducibility Network @… and a Market Stall for the Digital Research Academy

40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead continue their 20th anniversary tour in #cincinnati, debuting at the new riverbend music center. early summer ’85, show #6, now on the “30 trips” box.
soundboard:

#catcontent meets #RDM: "A collection of AI generated images visualising various RDM aspects" https://zenodo.org/records/16925229

Dissipative quantum North-East-Center model: steady-state phase diagram, universality and nonergodic dynamics
Pietro Brighi, Alberto Biella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19011

Dissipative quantum North-East-Center model: steady-state phase diagram, universality and nonergodic dynamics
In this work we study the dissipative quantum North-East-Center (NEC) model: a two-dimensional spin-1/2 lattice subject to chiral, kinetically constrained dissipation and coherent quantum interactions. This model combines kinetic constraints and chirality at the dissipative level, implementing local incoherent spin flips conditioned by an asymmetric majority-vote rule. Through a cluster mean-field approach, we determine the steady-state phase diagram of the NEC model under different Hamiltonian…

CEO says they can only win on the experience. And yet every action they roll out makes it less and less possible for a professional to go in there and interact with someone knowledgeable.
https://www.guitarworld.com/music-industry/guitar-center-three-year-d…

Guitar Center secures three-year debt extension to ensure it can deliver on its business plan
The announcement comes amid increasing challenges for brick-and-mortar guitar stores and ongoing changes at Guitar Center to battle competition from digital retailers

Detectability of dark matter density distribution via gravitational waves from binary black holes in the Galactic center
Zhijin Li, Xiao Guo, Zhoujian Cao, Yun-Long Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19327

Detectability of dark matter density distribution via gravitational waves from binary black holes in the Galactic center
The fundamental nature of dark matter (DM) remains unknown, with significant uncertainties in its density profile. DM environments surrounding massive binary black holes (BBHs) modify their orbital dynamics, thereby altering gravitational wave (GW) emissions. For BBH systems at the Galactic Center, dynamical friction induced by DM spikes could produce detectable deviations in GW spectra, potentially observable by future space-based detectors. To address the uncertainties in the Galactic Center'…

Symmetries in zero and finite center-of-mass momenta excitons
Robin Bajaj, Namana Venkatareddy, H. R. Krishnamurthy, Manish Jain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16409 https://…

Symmetries in zero and finite center-of-mass momenta excitons
We present a symmetry-based framework for the analysis of excitonic states, incorporating both time-reversal and space-group symmetries. We demonstrate the use of time-reversal and space-group symmetries to obtain exciton eigenstates at symmetry-related center-of-mass momenta in the entire Brillouin zone from eigenstates calculated for center-of-mass momenta in the irreducible Brillouin zone. Furthermore, by explicitly calculating the irreducible representations of the little groups, we classif…

Tri-Hybrid Beamforming for Radiation-Center Reconfigurable Antenna Array: Spectral Efficiency and Energy Efficiency
Yinchen Li, Chenhao Qi, Shiwen Mao, Octavia A. Dobre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15924

Tri-Hybrid Beamforming for Radiation-Center Reconfigurable Antenna Array: Spectral Efficiency and Energy Efficiency
In this paper, we propose a tri-hybrid beamforming (THBF) architecture based on the radiation-center (RC) reconfigurable antenna array (RCRAA), including the digital beamforming, analog beamforming, and electromagnetic (EM) beamforming, where the EM beamformer design is modeled as RC selection. Aiming at spectral efficiency (SE) maximization subject to the hardware and power consumption constraints, we propose a tri-loop alternating optimization (TLAO) scheme for the THBF design, where the digi…

'They're Not Breathing': Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-detention-center-911-emergencies/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p120#a250625p120

faa_routes: FAA Preferred Routes (2010)
A network of air traffic routes, from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) National Flight Data Center (NFDC) preferred routes database (www.fly.faa.gov). Date of extraction is prior to 2010. Nodes represent airports or service centers, and a directed edge is the preferred route between airport i and airport j.
This network has 1226 nodes and 2615 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted

If someone tries to convince me that data center water usage due to AI is okay because golf courses use more water all they've done is convinced me we also need to get rid of all the damn golf courses.
Tell me how shitty and wasteful something is (especially if it greatly benefits the Ruling Class) and I'm probably against it.

#Meta baut in #Louisiana ein riesiges #Rechenzentrum. Auf einer Fläche von etwa 50 Fußballfeldern werden ca. 2500 MW Energie benötigt. Das entspricht dem dreifachen Jahresverbrauch der Stadt New Orleans.

The HST-Gaia Near-Infrared Astrometric Reference Frame near the Milky Way Galactic Center
Matthew W. Hosek Jr., Tuan Do, Gregory D. Martinez, Rebecca Lewis-Merrill, Andrea M. Ghez, Jessica R. Lu, Shoko Sakai, Jay Anderson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19933

The HST-Gaia Near-Infrared Astrometric Reference Frame near the Milky Way Galactic Center
We present the first high-precision proper motion catalog, tied to the International Celestial Reference System (ICRS), of infrared astrometric reference stars within R $\leq$ 25" (1 pc) of the central supermassive black hole at the Galactic center (GC). This catalog contains $\sim$2,900 sources in a highly extinguished region that is inaccessible via Gaia. New astrometric measurements are extracted from HST observations (14 epochs, 2010 - 2023) and transformed into the ICRS using 40 stars in c…

Meta builds giant datacenter in rural Louisiana. Utility to add 2.3 GW of gas turbines to power it, if they can source the turbines in a sold-out global market.
And just to be sure, the Louisiana Legislature passed a new law that adds natural gas to the definition of green energy...
Climate anyone?
http…

Meta is sinking $10 billion into rural Louisiana to build the home of its wildest AI aspirations, setting the template for the nation’s grid buildout
The massive data center buildout is underway, requiring massive amounts of new power and, increasingly, more fossil fuels and gas plants.

How the Center for Investigative Reporting is handling the lawsuit against OpenAI as one of the few nonprofits with the resources to take on a yearslong suit (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/what-it-takes-to-sue-op…

The Trump administration is planning to change the visa system for skilled foreign workers,
a program at the center of a dispute between immigration hard-liners and tech industry leaders,
said the new director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Joseph Edlow, the director of U.S.C.I.S., said the test to become a U.S. citizen was "too easy" and should change.
“The test as it’s laid out right now, it’s not very difficult,”
Mr. Edlow said on Thur…

Trump Administration Plans Changes to H-1B Visas and U.S. Citizenship Tests
In an interview with The New York Times, the new director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said the test to become a U.S. citizen was too easy.

A website developed for the UK Home Office's 2022 "flop" anti-encryption campaign has seemingly been hijacked to push a payday loan scheme.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/25/home_office_antiencryption_campaign_website/?m…

UK govt dept website that campaigns against encryption hijacked to advertise ... payday loans
: Company at center of findings blamed SEO on outsourcer

I’ve generally disliked South Park — not because it is rude and raunchy, but because it made it seem like being a cynical asshole is somehow brave and countercultural. It made the case that it’s OK to be carelessly hurtful as long as you hurt •everyone•. It tried to make a virtue out of disaffection. Its compulsion never to be caught actually •caring• about anything or anyone robbed it of its capacity to have insights or a moral center. It flirted with satire, but always ended up just being trolling.
But who knows? It feels like trolling the fascists might be what we need right now. Maybe the show finally has its moment.

Salesforce launches Agentforce 3 with an observability tool called Command Center and MCP support, and says 8,000 customers have signed up to deploy Agentforce (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/i

Salesforce launches Agentforce 3, Command Center for visibility
Salesforce launched Agentforce 3, which features Agentforce Command Center, support for Model Context Protocol (MCP), and updated Atlas architecture to speed up reasoning and performance. The rollout maintains Salesforce's Agentforce cadence, which includes updates every few months as the company learns from enterprise use cases. In addition, Salesforce has added more than 30 partners to AgentExchange including AWS, Box, Cisco, Google Cloud, IBM and payments players such as PayPal and Stripe.

“a Roman mosaic (first century BCE) from Pompeii, now in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, showing the wheel of fate which oscillates between wealth and poverty (represented by the cloth suspended on either side). The skull in the center on which the scales balance is a reminder that death in this balance is universal and never far off.” Via

This is utterly unacceptable. The international Dance community must condemn this loudly and publicly.

The Real Reasons Doug Ford Closed the Science Center
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Lw7TgM4nOpQ&si=xVCv0hpjf0y58r_2

Two Staffers at Ontario Surgery Center Charged in Federal Complaint Alleging They Assaulted and Interfered with ICE Investigation (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/two-staffers-ontario-surgery-center-charged-federal-complaint-alleging-they-assaulted
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p101#a250725p101

"Extreme Weather Events are the New Frontline of Online Climate Denial – Report"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Extreme Weather Events are the New Frontline of Online Climate Denial – Report
Climate science deniers are flooding social media with false claims during extreme weather events, drowning out reliable information and putting lives at risk. A new report by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), which researches and campaigns against online hatred and disinformation, finds that anti-climate figures are increasingly spreading false information about wildfires and hurricanes […]

Putin visits center for nuclear weapons research day after Trump says Ukraine can't win without striking Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/22/putin-visits-center-for-nuclear.html

'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community https://www.404media.co/a-black-hole-of-energy-use-metas-massive-ai-data-center-is-stressing-out-a-louis…

Purple coneflowers are everywhere in the mid-summer; I caught these on July 17th -- I took enough pictures of them that I'll still have some to show all winter! One of their many virtues is being native to North America
#photo #photography

Choosing the Right Battery Model for Data Center Simulations
Paul Kilian, Philipp Wiesner, Odej Kao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17739 https://

Choosing the Right Battery Model for Data Center Simulations
As demand for computing resources continues to rise, the increasing cost of electricity and anticipated regulations on carbon emissions are prompting changes in data center power systems. Many providers are now operating compute nodes in microgrids, close to renewable power generators and energy storage, to maintain full control over the cost and origin of consumed electricity. Recently, new co-simulation testbeds have emerged that integrate domain-specific simulators to support research, devel…

As #PrideMonth comes to an end, I wanted to share some AI-generated images created by my friend. 🏳️‍🌈
Although I’m generally skeptical of AI, I found this extremely queer! 🏳️‍🌈
#Pride #LGBTQIA

From the article: "Gregory E. Sterling, dean of Yale Divinity School, recently said that Christians do not have to agree on all aspects of what the teachings of Jesus Christ mean, but we can apply the test given in the Fourth Gospel..."
https://www.churchleadership.c…

Why Are So Many Christians So Cruel? - Lewis Center for Church Leadership
Many Christians today feel tension between faith and politics, often confusing partisan allegiance with discipleship. Lovett Weems warns that Christianity’s credibility suffers when political power replaces Christlike love. True patriotism, rooted in Jesus’ teachings, values compassion, diversity, humility, and love. Why, indeed, are so many Christians so cruel? This is the question David French said Lovett Weems writes Christians risk losing credibility when politics eclipse Christlike lov…

I’m finally free!

Search for $e^ e^- \to \gamma\chi_{bJ}$ ($J$ = 0, 1, 2) near $\sqrt{s} = 10.746$ GeV at Belle II
Collaboration, Abumusabh, Adachi, Aggarwal, Ahmed, Ahn, Aihara, Akopov, Alghamdi, Alhakami, Aloisio, Althubiti, Amos, Ky, Asner, Atmacan, Aushev, Aushev, Ayad, Babu, Bae, Baghel, Bahinipati, Bambade, Banerjee, Barrett, Bartl, Baudot, Baur, Beaubien, Becherer, Becker, Bennett, Bernlochner, Bertacchi, Bertemes, Bertholet, Bessner, Bettarini, Bhardwaj, Bhuyan, Bianchi, Bilka, Biswas, Bobrov, …

Search for $e^+ e^- \to γχ_{bJ}$ ($J$ = 0, 1, 2) near $\sqrt{s} = 10.746$ GeV at Belle II
We search for the $e^+ e^- \to γχ_{bJ}$ ($J$ = 0, 1, 2) processes at center-of-mass energies $\sqrt{s}$ = 10.653, 10.701, 10.746, and 10.804 GeV. These data were collected with the Belle II detector at the SuperKEKB collider and correspond to 3.5, 1.6, 9.8, and 4.7 fb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity, respectively. We set upper limits at the 90\% confidence level on the Born cross sections for $e^+ e^- \to γχ_{bJ}$ at each center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s}$ near 10.746 GeV. The upper limits at…

Steelers adding Ben, Pouncey, Porter to team hall https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45829303/steelers-adding-roethlisberger-pouncey-porter-hall-honor

On the Energy Distribution of the Galactic Center Excess' Sources
Florian List, Yujin Park, Nicholas L. Rodd, Eve Schoen, Florian Wolf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17804 https…

On the Energy Distribution of the Galactic Center Excess' Sources
The Galactic Center Excess (GCE) remains one of the defining mysteries uncovered by the Fermi $γ$-ray Space Telescope. Although it may yet herald the discovery of annihilating dark matter, weighing against that conclusion are analyses showing the spatial structure of the emission appears more consistent with a population of dim point sources. Technical limitations have restricted prior analyses to studying the point-source hypothesis purely spatially. All spectral information that could help d…

'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community
https://www.404media.co/a-black-hole-of-energy-use-metas-massive-ai-data-center-is-stressing-out-a-louisiana-community/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

Data Center Map - Colocation, Cloud and Connectivity
Do you want to check where your data is geographically located or which providers are your "neighbors"? Here you can watch it online worldwide – in other words: virtual reality in real world gegography.
🗺️ https://www.datacentermap.com

Good time for Xi to create a crisis around Taiwan.
https://apnews.com/article/taiwan-china-planes-center-line-british-ship-b1618804e7a4bc66c411cb3cb171480a

China sends scores of planes across central line in Taiwan Strait
China has sent 74 warplanes toward Taiwan between late Thursday and early Friday, 61 of which crossed the central line in the Taiwan Strait unofficially dividing the sides. China considers Taiwan its own territory and uses such deployments to advertise its threat to encircle and possibly invade the self-governing island. It wasn't clear why so many planes were scrambled between late Thursday and early Friday, as tabulated by Taiwan's Defense Ministry. The planes were sent in two separate tranch…

Armada, whose mobile AI data centers for use in remote environments have been used by the US Navy, raised $131M, bringing its total funding to $200M (Cal Biesecker/Defense Daily)
https://www.defensedaily.com/armada-announ

Armada Announces $131 Million Funding Raise To Scale Relocatable Data Center
Armada, a developer and manufacturer of mobile and relocatable data centers that provide computing power to remote and challenged areas, has raised $131

I shop at the Petco there and can confirm it's incredibly dangerous... to make the left turn into the parking lot on your bike. Somehow that's not what this article is about, though.
https://missionlocal.org/2025/06/sf-potrero-center-drugs-16th-missi…

Georgia State University’s Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array is marking the 20th anniversary of its first scientific results, published in July 2005: #CHARA interferometer enabled the discoveries.

🐘
#PurdueFortWayne

Purdue Fort Wayne professor weaves math into everyday life | Purdue University Fort Wayne
Hanan Alyami, M.S. ’14, likes to use uncommon ways to look at and teach math. Last semester, she taught three classes at Purdue University Fort Wayne, primarily to elementary education majors learning to be math instructors.

40 years ago today, the #GratefulDead outside #cleveland. early summer ’85, show #7.
soundboard: https://

Select Raiders training camp practices open to fans for the first time https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-training-camp-practices-open-to-fans-henderson-las-vegas-nevada-nfl-2025

CT Radiomics-Based Explainable Machine Learning Model for Accurate Differentiation of Malignant and Benign Endometrial Tumors: A Two-Center Study
Tingrui Zhang, Honglin Wu, Zekun Jiang, Yingying Wang, Rui Ye, Huiming Ni, Chang Liu, Jin Cao, Xuan Sun, Rong Shao, Xiaorong Wei, Yingchun Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18106

CT Radiomics-Based Explainable Machine Learning Model for Accurate Differentiation of Malignant and Benign Endometrial Tumors: A Two-Center Study
Aimed to develop and validate a CT radiomics-based explainable machine learning model for diagnosing malignancy and benignity specifically in endometrial cancer (EC) patients. A total of 83 EC patients from two centers, including 46 with malignant and 37 with benign conditions, were included, with data split into a training set (n=59) and a testing set (n=24). The regions of interest (ROIs) were manually segmented from pre-surgical CT scans, and 1132 radiomic features were extracted from the pr…

Designing Doable and Locally-adapted Action Cards for an Interactive Tabletop Game To Support Bottom-Up Flood Resilience
Linda Hirsch, James Fey, Katherine Isbister
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16480

Designing Doable and Locally-adapted Action Cards for an Interactive Tabletop Game To Support Bottom-Up Flood Resilience
Serious games can support communities in becoming more flood resilient. However, the process of identifying and integrating locally relevant and doable actions into gameplay is complex and underresearched. We approached the challenge by collaborating with a community-led education center and applying an iterative and participatory design process of identifying and defining actions that may increase local applicability and relevance. The process comprised a field observation, two expert focus gr…

Microsoft erinnert an Ende des klassischen Outlooks für Mac
Im Microsoft365-Admin-Center erinnert der Hersteller aktuell an das kommende Support-Ende für klassisches Outlook auf Macs.
https://www.

Improving the lifetime of aluminum-based superconducting qubits through atomic layer etching and deposition
Neha Mahuli (AWS Center for Quantum Computing, Pasadena, CA, USA), Joaquin Minguzzi (AWS Center for Quantum Computing, Pasadena, CA, USA), Jiansong Gao (AWS Center for Quantum Computing, Pasadena, CA, USA), Rachel Resnick (Google Research), Sandra Diez (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Cosmic Raj (AWS Center for Quantum Computing, Pasadena, CA, USA), Guillaume Mar…

Improving the lifetime of aluminum-based superconducting qubits through atomic layer etching and deposition
We present a dry surface treatment combining atomic layer etching and deposition (ALE and ALD) to mitigate dielectric loss in fully fabricated superconducting quantum devices formed from aluminum thin films on silicon. The treatment, performed as a final processing step prior to device packaging, starts by conformally removing the native metal oxide and fabrication residues from the exposed surfaces through ALE before \textit{in situ} encapsulating the metal surfaces with a thin dielectric laye…

Among US adults who have ever encountered paywalled articles, only 1% said they paid for access, 53% looked elsewhere, and 32% gave up on accessing the info (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…

Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls
Among adults who have not paid for news in the past year, the most common reason they cite is that they can find plenty of other news articles for free.

Does anyone else see this in their #PACER account?
«There is currently an issue with your PACER account. For additional information, contact the PACER Service Center at (800) 676-6856 or by email at pacer@psc.uscourts.gov. You do not have search privileges and can not search the PCL.»
(I had not logged in for a while.)
EDIT: probably just an automatic account deactivation for inactivity…

An alternative interpretation of the Grioli gyroscope suspension points
Alexei A. Deriglazov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19819 https://

An alternative interpretation of the Grioli gyroscope suspension points
We present a detailed analysis of all possible regular precessions of a heavy asymmetric body with a fixed point not coinciding with the center of mass. The calculations are done in terms of the rotation matrix, by writing the Euler-Poisson equations with all involved vectors parameterized in the Laboratory frame. It is shown that a regular precession is possible if the suspension point is chosen on the straight lines (lying in the principal plane) which are frontiers of the regions where, as t…

Replaced article(s) found for math.OC. https://arxiv.org/list/math.OC/new
[1/2]:
- A Global Optimization Algorithm for K-Center Clustering of One Billion Samples
Jiayang Ren, Ningning You, Kaixun Hua, Chaojie Ji, Yankai Cao

Frequently Used References For Atomic Data In X-ray Spectroscopy
N. Hell (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), G. V. Brown (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), M. E. Eckart (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), A. J. Fairchild (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), C. A. Kilbourne (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), M. A. Leutenegger (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), F. S. Porter (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), M. C. Witthoeft (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

Frequently Used References For Atomic Data In X-ray Spectroscopy
Accurate atomic physics reference data are a crucial requirement for analysis and interpretation of observed spectra, even more so for observations with high spectral resolution. This document provides a curated list of atomic physics references frequently used for plasma diagnostics in X-ray spectroscopy, outside of comprehensive plasma models that typically come with their own underlying atomic databases. The list includes references to physical constants, laboratory benchmarks, transition en…

V2P: From Background Suppression to Center Peaking for Robust GUI Grounding Task
Jikai Chen, Long Chen, Dong Wang, Leilei Gan, Chenyi Zhuang, Jinjie Gu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13634

V2P: From Background Suppression to Center Peaking for Robust GUI Grounding Task
Precise localization of GUI elements is crucial for the development of GUI agents. Traditional methods rely on bounding box or center-point regression, neglecting spatial interaction uncertainty and visual-semantic hierarchies. Recent methods incorporate attention mechanisms but still face two key issues: (1) ignoring processing background regions causes attention drift from the desired area, and (2) uniform labeling fails to distinguish between center and edges of the target UI element, leadin…

The unusual spectrum of the X-ray transient source XRISM J174610.8-290021 near the Galactic center
A. Yoshimoto, S. Yamauchi, M. Nobukawa, H. Uchiyama, K. K. Nobukawa, Y. Aoki, M. Ishida, Y. Kanemaru, M. Shidatsu, T. Hayashi, Y. Maeda, H. Matsumoto, Y. Tsuboi, H. Suzuki, H. Nakajima, Q. D. Wang, S. Eguchi, T. Yoneyama, T. Dotani, E. Behar, Y. Terada, N. Suzuki, M. Yoshimoto

The unusual spectrum of the X-ray transient source XRISM J174610.8-290021 near the Galactic center
The Galactic center region was observed with the XRISM X-ray observatory during the performance verification phase in 2024 and a point-like X-ray source was detected with the X-ray imager Xtend at a position of (RA, Dec)=(17h46m10.8s, -29°00'21''), which is thus named XRISM J174610.8-290021. This source was bright in February to March and showed time variations in count rate by more than one order of magnitude in one week. The 2-10 keV X-ray luminosity was ~$10^{35}$ erg/s for the assumed dist…

It’s the fucking rainbows, moron.
Gift article.
Kennedy Center drops family that made Honors medallions for 47 years
“It is unclear what changes the center hopes to make to the medallions”
https://wapo.st/4oDMnG8

Kennedy Center drops family that made Honors medallions for 47 years
The arts center has contacted the jeweler Tiffany & Company to redesign the award.

Cowboys hold open practices this week at Ford Center https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-hold-open-practices-this-week-at-ford-center

This increasingly reminds me of the 19th-century “we can solve all problems by building bigger guns” proto-bros that appear in several of Jules Vernes’s stories.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/16/zuckerberg-meta-data-center-ai-manh…

Open Data from LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA through the First Part of the Fourth Observing Run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18079

Open Data from LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA through the First Part of the Fourth Observing Run
LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA form a network of gravitational-wave observatories. Data and analysis results from this network are made publicly available through the Gravitational Wave Open Science Center. This paper describes open data from this network, including the addition of data from the first part of the fourth observing run (O4a) and selected periods from the preceding engineering run, collected from May 2023 to January 2024. The public data set includes calibrated strain time series for each…

Floating data center completion anticipated in 2027 with "[p]lans to connect to IX (Internet Exchange) on land and submarine cables" https://www.mol.co.jp/en/pr/2025/25061.html

no one is home so i'm cranking it up and ... uh oh ... that sounds BAD. do i need new speakers? sob! i've had these fishers since 1986. I don't think they were anything special back then, but they have grown on me. and oh no, new speakers are expensive. 😭
oh wait the balance settings all screwed up here ⚙️ just a sec 🛠️ and 🔊 ok everything is fine. phew.
my stereo is ok — just ok — but i don't care because all i do is play scratchy old LPs anyway.

Cross-sections and experimental signatures for detection of a well-defined dark matter WIMP
Bailey Tallman, Jehu Martinez, Rohan Shankar, Kane Rylander, Roland E. Allen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19719

Cross-sections and experimental signatures for detection of a well-defined dark matter WIMP
We report the following calculations for a recently proposed bosonic dark matter WIMP with well-defined interactions: (1)~the mass as determined by fitting to the relic abundance; (2)~the current annihilation cross-section for indirect detection; (3)~cross-sections for pair production accompanied by jets in proton colliders with center-of-mass energies ranging from 13 to 100 TeV; (4)~for the high-luminosity LHC, and planned 100 TeV proton collider, detailed plots of experimentally accessible qu…

🏨 As inmate population declines, Norco prison will close. Will it be a luxury hotel again?
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-05/norco-riverside-county-prison-to-close-fall-2026

Norco prison will close. Will it be restored to its former glory?
The 3,000-inmate California Rehabilitation Center in Riverside County is set to close in fall 2026, continuing a wave of recent correctional facility shutdowns.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered that no more immigrant detainees be sent to a center in the Florida Everglades,
and that much of the facility be dismantled.
The ruling rebuked the state and federal governments for failing to consider potential environmental harms before building the facility, known as Alligator Alcatraz.
The judge gave both branches of the government 60 days to move out existing detainees
and begin to remove fencing, lighting, power generators and…

Judge Orders ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center in Florida to Shut Down for Now
A judge ruled that the state and federal governments acted illegally by not conducting an environmental review before building the center in the Florida Everglades.

Shout-out an Münsteraner Studierende: Das Münster Center for Open Science (MüCOS) sucht studentische Hilfskräfte!
Bei Interesse beim @… melden!
https://www.uni-muenster.de/MueCOS/

National Homelessness Law Center condemns Trump’s misguided Executive Order on homelessness : Indybay
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/07/24/18878339.php

Inside Amazon's Indiana data center complex: built for Anthropic with plans for ~30 centers, consuming 2.2GW of power and millions of gallons of water per year (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/technology/amazon-ai-data-centers.html

At Amazon’s Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I.
On 1,200 acres of cornfield in Indiana, Amazon is building one of the largest computers ever for work with Anthropic, an artificial intelligence start-up.

Because who needs salespeople when you've got this
https://www.guitarworld.com/music-industry/guitar-center-rig-advisor

“Like having a professional gear consultant in the palm of your hand”: Guitar Center introduces Rig Advisor, the guitar world’s first-ever AI shopping assistant
Rig Advisor leverages artificial intelligence in a bid to enhance the in-store shopping experience

faa_routes: FAA Preferred Routes (2010)
A network of air traffic routes, from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) National Flight Data Center (NFDC) preferred routes database (www.fly.faa.gov). Date of extraction is prior to 2010. Nodes represent airports or service centers, and a directed edge is the preferred route between airport i and airport j.
This network has 1226 nodes and 2615 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted

Ben Folds on What It Would Take for Him to Return to the Kennedy Center
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/arts/ben-folds-slams-…

Ben Folds on What It Would Take for Him to Return to the Kennedy Center
You know, now that it’s all messed up.

Impedance-tuned microwave loop for fast, homogeneous Rabi oscillations of a dense ensemble of NV-diamond electronic spins
Han Sae Jung, Johannes Cremer, Aoyang Zhang, Sangha Kim, Guang Yang, Ronald L. Walsworth, Donhee Ham
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17689

Impedance-tuned microwave loop for fast, homogeneous Rabi oscillations of a dense ensemble of NV-diamond electronic spins
Obtaining a high Rabi oscillation frequency homogeneously across a spatially-extended population of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center electronic spins in diamond is useful for efficient spin-state manipulation of the NV ensemble and in using NVs to detect ensembles of other spin species. Here, we achieve a high, homogeneous Rabi frequency for a dense NV ensemble by enhancing the microwave magnetic fields in the center region of a diamond-coupled planar metallic loop via systematic engineering that i…

Cybersecurity plays a significant role in the new White House AI plan, but experts say the cyber provisions lack teeth and burden agencies already facing budget cuts.
For more on this, check out my latest CSO piece.
Many thanks to Arnie Bellini of ConnectSecure, Daniel Bardenstein of Manifest Cyber, Jenny Marron of the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy, and Heather West of the Center for Cybersecurity Policy and Law.

White House AI plan heavy on cyber, light on implementation
Well-received for its cybersecurity provisions, Trump’s AI action plan could face hurdles in practice due to a lack of implementation hooks and the burden it adds to agencies navigating budget cuts, experts say.

Quarterback Report Card Reviews Raiders' Geno Smith https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-oregon-chip-kelly-ashton-jeanty-ohio-state-geno-smith

University of Michigan medical center halts gender-affirming care for patients under 19 (Brooke Migdon/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/5470692-michigan-medicine-halts-puberty-blockers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250826/p94#a250826p94

PowerTrip: Exploiting Federated Heterogeneous Datacenter Power for Distributed ML Training
Talha Mehboob, Luanzheng Guo, Nathan Tallent, Michael Zink, David Irwin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17904

PowerTrip: Exploiting Federated Heterogeneous Datacenter Power for Distributed ML Training
The exponential growth of large-scale AI models has led to computational and power demands that can exceed the capacity of a single data center. This is due to the limited power supplied by regional grids that leads to limited regional computational power. Consequently, distributing training workloads across geographically distributed sites has become essential. However, this approach introduces a significant challenge in the form of communication overhead, creating a fundamental trade-off betw…

NFL news roundup: Browns starting center Ethan Pocic exits preseason game with knee injury https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-saturday-aug-23

Staining normalization in histopathology: Method benchmarking using multicenter dataset
Umair Khan, Jouni H\"ark\"onen, Marjukka Friman, Leena Latonen, Teijo Kuopio, Pekka Ruusuvuori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19106

Staining normalization in histopathology: Method benchmarking using multicenter dataset
Hematoxylin and Eosin (H&E) has been the gold standard in tissue analysis for decades, however, tissue specimens stained in different laboratories vary, often significantly, in appearance. This variation poses a challenge for both pathologists' and AI-based downstream analysis. Minimizing stain variation computationally is an active area of research. To further investigate this problem, we collected a unique multi-center tissue image dataset, wherein tissue samples from colon, kidney, and skin …

✴️ Dark dwarfs lurking at the center of our galaxy might hint at the nature of dark matter
#astronomy

Dark dwarfs lurking at the center of our galaxy might hint at the nature of dark matter
Celestial objects known as dark dwarfs may be hiding at the center of our galaxy and could offer key clues to uncover the nature of one of the most mysterious and fundamental phenomena in contemporary cosmology: dark matter.

Deportation flights from Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' detention center have begun, DeSantis says (John Seewer/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/alligator-alcatraz-desantis-immigration-264b9d3cf49be876ed6bcb32c07e23bb
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p75#a250725p75

Observation of period doubling and higher multiplicities in a driven single-spin system
Dhruv Deshmukh, Ra\'ul B. Gonz\'alez, Roberto Sailer, Fedor Jelezko, Ressa S. Said, Joachim Ankerhold
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18387

Observation of period doubling and higher multiplicities in a driven single-spin system
One of the prime features of quantum systems strongly driven by external time-periodic fields is the subharmonic response with integer multiples of the drive period $k\, T_d$. Here we demonstrate experimentally based on a careful theoretical analysis period doubling and higher multiplicities ($k=2,\ldots 5$) for one of the most fundamental systems, namely, an individual spin-$1/2$. Realized as a nitrogen vacancy center in diamond, the particular coherence properties under ambient conditions, st…

Israel is accelerating its efforts to cement its permanent control over the West Bank
through a number of sweeping legal and institutional changes,
according to a new report from Adalah, The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel.
The 87-page report, 
"Legal Structures of Distinction, Separation, and Territorial Domination", describes the ways in which the Netanyahu government is rapidly building on a long-standing legal matrix that further threatens…

Israel is changing the legal system governing the West Bank to accelerate annexation: report
Netanyahu’s government is building on a long-standing legal matrix to accelerate Israel’s de facto annexation in the West Bank

local coverage of the dead’s return to blossom music center, where they’re not welcome back. [3/6]

Hybrid Classical-Quantum Supercomputing: A demonstration of a multi-user, multi-QPU and multi-GPU environment
Mateusz Slysz, Piotr Rydlichowski, Krzysztof Kurowski, Omar Bacarezza, Esperanza Cuenca Gomez, Zohim Chandani, Bettina Heim, Pradnya Khalate, William R. Clements, James Fletcher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16297

Hybrid Classical-Quantum Supercomputing: A demonstration of a multi-user, multi-QPU and multi-GPU environment
Achieving a practical quantum advantage for near-term applications is widely expected to rely on hybrid classical-quantum algorithms. To deliver this practical advantage to users, high performance computing (HPC) centers need to provide a suitable software and hardware stack that supports algorithms of this type. In this paper, we describe the world's first implementation of a classical-quantum environment in an HPC center that allows multiple users to execute hybrid algorithms on multiple quan…

A former employee with Voice of America is accused of threatening to harm U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., her staff and her family, the Department of Justice said Thursday
https://www.newsbreak.com/the-center-squar

Justice Department accuses man of threatening Greene - NewsBreak
(The Center Square) – A former employee with Voice of America is accused of threatening to harm U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., her staff and her

AI infrastructure provider Crusoe acquires Israeli startup Atero, whose tech optimizes GPUs for AI workloads, in a cash and stock deal estimated at ~$150M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rkdw11antlx

Rising AI unicorn Crusoe buys one-year-old Israeli startup Atero in $150M deal
The US AI infrastructure company is acquiring the GPU management firm in a cash-and-stock deal. 25 Atero employees will become the company’s development center in Israel. 

Republicans want to rename Kennedy Center's opera house after Melania Trump (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/22/congress/kennedy-center-melania-trump-00467996
http://www.memeorandum.com/250722/p122#a250722p122

At its Discover 2025 conference, HPE unveiled HPE CloudOps Software, GreenLake Intelligence, which can deploy AI agents across its hybrid cloud stack, and more (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
https://www.constellationr.com/…

HPE launches GreenLake Intelligence, adds AI agents throughout hybrid cloud stack
HPE launched new CloudOps Software, layered AI agents throughout its hybrid cloud stack, unveiled GreenLake Intelligence and expanded its AI factory. In addition, Digital Realty said it would standardize its data center footprint on HPE. At its flagship Discover 2025 conference, HPE showcased its new branding as well as play for AI workloads. The big picture from HPE is that hybrid IT operations, networking, storage and AI operations can be largely turnkey via AI agents.

A special experiential presentation
August 24, 2025 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Cambria Center for the Arts Theatre & Green Room
https://cambriaarts.org/academy-program/#E351

Amazon's 2024 sustainability report says it emitted 68.25M metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, up 6% from 2023 and the first rise in three years (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-16/a…

Amazon’s (AMZN) Carbon Emissions Climbed 6% in 2024 on Data Center Buildout
Amazon.com Inc.’s carbon emissions rose for the first time in three years in 2024, driven by data center construction and fuel consumption by its delivery providers.

Army base used for WWII Japanese internment now nation's largest ICE detention center (USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/08/23/texas-army-base-japanese-internment-ice-detention/85767850007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250823/p57#a250823p57

Austin-based Aalo Atomics, which is building a modular nuclear reactor and data center, set to finish construction in 2026, raised a $100M Series B led by Valor (Julia Hornstein/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/aalo-atomi

Aalo Atomics lands $100 million to launch nuclear reactors to power AI
Aalo Atomics raises $100 million to mass-produce nuclear reactors to power data centers amid the growing energy demand from AI.

This weekend, lawmakers got their first look inside “Alligator Alcatraz,”
-- the makeshift immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., called the conditions
“disturbing and vile,”
a description Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem challenged
…

A look at the controversy around ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention center
This weekend, lawmakers got their first look inside “Alligator Alcatraz,” the makeshift immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., called the conditions “disturbing and vile,” a description Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem challenged. John Yang speaks with Miami Herald reporter Ana Ceballos about the controversy surrounding the facility.

Sources: Crusoe is discussing raising $1B at a $10B valuation; the company, which is helping build OpenAI's first Stargate facility, had $250M revenue in 2024 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/crusoe-talks-raise-money-10-bill…

OpenAI’s Data Center Provider in Talks to Raise Money at $10 Billion Valuation
Crusoe, the developer behind OpenAI’s first Stargate data center, is discussing raising funds at a $10 billion valuation—more than three times its valuation less than a year ago, according to two people with direct knowledge of the fundraising talks. The seven-year-old company wants to raise at ...

Mike Novogratz's Galaxy says it has secured $1.4B in debt financing to expand its Helios data center in West Texas, aiming to boost AI and HPC capabilities (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/08/15/galaxy-secur…

GLXY News: Galaxy Lands $1.4B for Helios Data Center Expansion as CoreWeave Commits to 800 MW
The firm, led by Mike Novogratz, projected its deal with AI cloud firm CoreWeave could generate $1 billion annual revenue over 15 years.