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“Anyone who claims to rely on the best scientific consensus today must report the current death toll in the Gaza genocide as ‘more than 115,000’ violent deaths or ‘more than 460,000’ overall.
Here, in detail, is why.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/202…

The Real Gaza Death Toll is Impossible to Know Today, But the Minimum Isn’t
The problem with leaving this sentiment at “we have no idea how many people have been killed” is that we do have a very clear idea of the minimum, based on the most rigorous, detailed analyses that statisticians, epidemiologists, and experts on urban warfare, working together under stringent peer review in the world’s leading research forums, agree on. And that minimum number is indeed much higher than the Ministry’s count. That minimum scientifically plausible number of traumatic death…

As we prepare for the ngscopeclient v0.1 release, I'd like to actually commission a proper application icon.
We're in initial talks with one designer but they're just a general icon/branding shop and have no specific EE experience so they'll need somewhat specific guidelines of what we want the icon to depict.
Does anyone have suggestions on what the icon should look like? Sketches, concepts, text descriptions, whatever are all very much of interest.

"What do you expect? You're part of the internet": Analyzing Celebrities' Experiences as Usees of Deepfake Technology
John Twomey, Sarah Foley, Sarah Robinson, Michael Quayle, Matthew Peter Aylett, Conor Linehan, Gillian Murphy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13065

"What do you expect? You're part of the internet": Analyzing Celebrities' Experiences as Usees of Deepfake Technology
Deepfake technology is often used to create non-consensual synthetic intimate imagery (NSII), mainly of celebrity women. Through Critical Discursive Psychological analysis we ask; i) how celebrities construct being targeted by deepfakes and ii) how they navigate infrastructural and social obstacles when seeking recourse. In this paper, we adopt Baumers concept of Usees (stakeholders who are non-consenting, unaware and directly targeted by technology), to understand public statements made by eig…

Ars Technica author Ashley Belanger presents both consumer rights advocacy group Public Citizen's position against the use of AI in toys, and toy maker Mattel's and Open AI's. Public Citizen's tone is baselessly alarmist, given that "Both companies [have] emphasized that safety, privacy, and age-appropriateness would be front of mind in designing Mattel's AI products."
"Toy-maker Mattel accused of planning 'reckless' AI social experiment on k…

Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques: a game-changer in Digital marketing for shop
Suzan abbas Abdullah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11705 https://arxiv.o…

Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques: a game-changer in Digital marketing for shop
The quick growth of shops using artificial intelligence (AI) techniques has changed digital marketing activities and changed how businesses interact and reach their consumers. (AI) techniques are reshaping digital interactions between shops and consumers interact digitally by providing a more efficient and customized experience, fostering deeper engagement and more informed decision-making. This study investigates how (AI) techniques affect consumer interaction and decision-making over purchase…

HapticCap: A Multimodal Dataset and Task for Understanding User Experience of Vibration Haptic Signals
Guimin Hu, Daniel Hershcovich, Hasti Seifi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13318 …

HapticCap: A Multimodal Dataset and Task for Understanding User Experience of Vibration Haptic Signals
Haptic signals, from smartphone vibrations to virtual reality touch feedback, can effectively convey information and enhance realism, but designing signals that resonate meaningfully with users is challenging. To facilitate this, we introduce a multimodal dataset and task, of matching user descriptions to vibration haptic signals, and highlight two primary challenges: (1) lack of large haptic vibration datasets annotated with textual descriptions as collecting haptic descriptions is time-consum…

Choosing the Better Bandit Algorithm under Data Sharing: When Do A/B Experiments Work?
Shuangning Li, Chonghuan Wang, Jingyan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11891

Choosing the Better Bandit Algorithm under Data Sharing: When Do A/B Experiments Work?
We study A/B experiments that are designed to compare the performance of two recommendation algorithms. Prior work has shown that the standard difference-in-means estimator is biased in estimating the global treatment effect (GTE) due to a particular form of interference between experimental units. Specifically, units under the treatment and control algorithms contribute to a shared pool of data that subsequently train both algorithms, resulting in interference between the two groups. The bias …

#Spearhead's #MichaelFranti played a concert last night at #SDSU as online rumblings grew about allegations from a female artist casting some unusually dark shadows over the positive vibes associated with ex-

AI is already transforming Hollywood, as studios and production companies experiment with AI tools and labor groups warn of job losses and other consequences (Steven Zeitchik/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digi…

"I Cannot Write This Because It Violates Our Content Policy": Understanding Content Moderation Policies and User Experiences in Generative AI Products
Lan Gao, Oscar Chen, Rachel Lee, Nick Feamster, Chenhao Tan, Marshini Chetty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14018

"I Cannot Write This Because It Violates Our Content Policy": Understanding Content Moderation Policies and User Experiences in Generative AI Products
While recent research has focused on developing safeguards for generative AI (GAI) model-level content safety, little is known about how content moderation to prevent malicious content performs for end-users in real-world GAI products. To bridge this gap, we investigated content moderation policies and their enforcement in GAI online tools -- consumer-facing web-based GAI applications. We first analyzed content moderation policies of 14 GAI online tools. While these policies are comprehensive i…