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Generation of Indoor Open Street Maps for Robot Navigation from CAD Files
Jiajie Zhang, Shenrui Wu, Xu Ma, S\"oren Schwertfeger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00552

Generation of Indoor Open Street Maps for Robot Navigation from CAD Files
The deployment of autonomous mobile robots is predicated on the availability of environmental maps, yet conventional generation via SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) suffers from significant limitations in time, labor, and robustness, particularly in dynamic, large-scale indoor environments where map obsolescence can lead to critical localization failures. To address these challenges, this paper presents a complete and automated system for converting architectural Computer-Aided Desi…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.13301 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGT_…

On Incentivizing Social Information Sharing Through Routing Games
Crowdsourcing services, such as Waze, leverage a mass of mobile users to learn massive point-of-interest (PoI) information while traveling and share it as a public good. Given that crowdsourced users mind their travel costs and possess various preferences over the PoI information along different paths, we formulate the problem as a novel non-atomic multi-path routing game with positive network externalities among users in social information sharing. In the absence of any incentive design, our p…

It’s frustrating and disappointing to see people, including governments, police, and others, misrepresent GrapheneOS and even Pixel phones.
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114784469162979608

Enhancing Open RAN Digital Twin Through Power Consumption Measurement
Ahmed Al-Tahmeesschi, Yi Chu, Josh Shackleton, Swarna Chetty, Mostafa Rahmani, David Grace, Hamed Ahmadi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00928

Enhancing Open RAN Digital Twin Through Power Consumption Measurement
The increasing demand for high-speed, ultra-reliable and low-latency communications in 5G and beyond networks has led to a significant increase in power consumption, particularly within the Radio Access Network (RAN). This growing energy demand raises operational and sustainability challenges for mobile network operators, requiring novel solutions to enhance energy efficiency while maintaining Quality of Service (QoS). 5G networks are evolving towards disaggregated, programmable, and intelligen…

Take, for example, permissions. We have an onerous permission model that stops a user acting as another, but sandboxing applications is mostly absent, except on mobile devices. This is because in the 1970s, you could trust the code, but you couldn’t trust the people! Now, computers are used by individuals, and we don’t trust the software, but the model hasn’t caught up.
I think the ideas in the essays are salient and really helpful in imagining what might have been, and what could be.

The European Court of Justice's advocate-general says the EU's €4.12B fine against Google over its dominance of Android should be upheld, a major blow to Google (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/cd63dd58-37a6-4af8-8050-40b7405da2bb

Google dealt blow at EU’s top court over record €4.12bn competition fine
Ruling supports Brussels regulators findings over dominance of tech giant’s Android mobile operating system

Client has to disable (some) MFA across their service, because the credit card on file for their MFA service provider expired, and the login for their MFA service provider requires a code sent to the mobile phone of an ex-staff member.
SECURITY!

Vice President JD Vance is set to travel to Los Angeles today (June 20) amid tensions in the city over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Vance will “tour a multi-agency Federal Joint Operations Center,
a Federal Mobile Command Center, meet with leadership and Marines, and deliver brief remarks,” according to a readout of the vice president’s travel plans.
The trip comes after Los Angeles had been rocked with significant anti-ICE protests for which Donald Trump…