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Users should be in control of what data their browser extensions can access, which is why Mozilla plans to build a data collection consent directly into Firefox's add-on installation flow
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2025/0

It’s exhilarating to hear Bernie Sanders speak to a crowd:
his zeal is reflected back in their faces,
his moral clarity is such a relief,
set against the cynicism and resignation of most of the Democratic party’s opposition to Trump and his administration.
Class war is as old as time, but it’s a peculiarity of this age that you rarely hear a politician name it.
“I do,” he tells me. “There is a class war going on. The people on top are waging that war.”
…

CrowdStrike and Microsoft Unite to Harmonize Cyber Threat Attribution
https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/crowdstrike-and-microsoft-unite-to-deconflict-cyber-threat-attribution/

CrowdStrike and Microsoft Unite to Deconflict Cyber Threat Attribution
A CrowdStrike and Microsoft collaboration aims to eliminate ambiguity in adversary naming to bring clarity. Learn more!

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Conceptualizing educational opportunity hoarding: the emergence of hoarding without hoarders
Social scientists increasingly use the concept of opportunity hoarding to explain the formation of Black-White educational inequalities. However, this concept is often loosely defined, leading to varied interpretations of the inequality-producing mechanisms it captures. To bring clarity to this valuable sociological concept, this theoretical paper, informed by the concept's original definition and existing empirical research, proposes a more precise definition of opportunity hoarding and formal…

Towards Temporally Explainable Dysarthric Speech Clarity Assessment
Seohyun Park, Chitralekha Gupta, Michelle Kah Yian Kwan, Xinhui Fung, Alexander Wenjun Yip, Suranga Nanayakkara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00454

Towards Temporally Explainable Dysarthric Speech Clarity Assessment
Dysarthria, a motor speech disorder, affects intelligibility and requires targeted interventions for effective communication. In this work, we investigate automated mispronunciation feedback by collecting a dysarthric speech dataset from six speakers reading two passages, annotated by a speech therapist with temporal markers and mispronunciation descriptions. We design a three-stage framework for explainable mispronunciation evaluation: (1) overall clarity scoring, (2) mispronunciation localiza…

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Efficient RAW Image Deblurring with Adaptive Frequency Modulation
Image deblurring plays a crucial role in enhancing visual clarity across various applications. Although most deep learning approaches primarily focus on sRGB images, which inherently lose critical information during the image signal processing pipeline, RAW images, being unprocessed and linear, possess superior restoration potential but remain underexplored. Deblurring RAW images presents unique challenges, particularly in handling frequency-dependent blur while maintaining computational effici…

HARNode: A Time-Synchronised, Open-Source, Multi-Device, Wearable System for Ad Hoc Field Studies
Philipp Lepold, Tobias R\"oddiger, Michael Beigl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03219

HARNode: A Time-Synchronised, Open-Source, Multi-Device, Wearable System for Ad Hoc Field Studies
Research into human activity recognition (HAR) suffers from a lack of comprehensive, freely available field data. Commercial systems are rarely open source, offer little expandability, and have shortcomings in node synchronisation, data throughput, placement clarity, setup complexity, and cost. As a result, only a few intuitively placed sensors are often used, and field trials are generally reduced. HARNode addresses these obstacles as a fully open-source hardware and software platform for rapi…

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$Δ$-Nets: Interaction-Based System for Optimal Parallel $λ$-Reduction
I present a model of universal parallel computation called $Δ$-Nets, and a method to translate $λ$-terms into $Δ$-nets and back. Together, the model and the method constitute an algorithm for optimal parallel $λ$-reduction, solving the longstanding enigma with groundbreaking clarity. I show that the $λ$-calculus can be understood as a projection of $Δ$-Nets -- one that severely restricts the structure of sharing, among other drawbacks. Unhindered by these restrictions, the $Δ$-Nets model…

This is some of what I've been doing for the past year or so: #Netrunner

Efficient RAW Image Deblurring with Adaptive Frequency Modulation
Wenlong Jiao, Binglong Li, Wei Shang, Ping Wang, Dongwei Ren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24407

Efficient RAW Image Deblurring with Adaptive Frequency Modulation
Image deblurring plays a crucial role in enhancing visual clarity across various applications. Although most deep learning approaches primarily focus on sRGB images, which inherently lose critical information during the image signal processing pipeline, RAW images, being unprocessed and linear, possess superior restoration potential but remain underexplored. Deblurring RAW images presents unique challenges, particularly in handling frequency-dependent blur while maintaining computational effici…

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AND THEN THERE ARE MOMENTS OF CLARITY

If you've had a grant from NSF or NIH suspended or modified because of recent executive orders, the American Institute of Biological Sciences is collecting documentation of changes to federal research grants — submit here, responses are confidential unless you say otherwise
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BAGELS: Benchmarking the Automated Generation and Extraction of Limitations from Scholarly Text
Ibrahim Al Azher, Miftahul Jannat Mokarrama, Zhishuai Guo, Sagnik Ray Choudhury, Hamed Alhoori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18207

BAGELS: Benchmarking the Automated Generation and Extraction of Limitations from Scholarly Text
In scientific research, limitations refer to the shortcomings, constraints, or weaknesses within a study. Transparent reporting of such limitations can enhance the quality and reproducibility of research and improve public trust in science. However, authors often a) underreport them in the paper text and b) use hedging strategies to satisfy editorial requirements at the cost of readers' clarity and confidence. This underreporting behavior, along with an explosion in the number of publications, …

My latest aspires-to-be-monthly newsletter went out the door this morning with an essay on banning words and some interesting reads from others. Click through if you're interested.
https://www.wordsbywes.ink/newsletter/notes-on-editing-17/

Notes on Editing 17
I’ve been churning this article around in my head for a few weeks now. While I have tried to avoid getting political in this newsletter, I can’t do that this time. The theme I planned for this issue is clarity, which often involves choosing which of a handful of choices is the most appropriate word — or words — to use to make our point. But that’s not really where I wound up with this piece.

My latest aspires-to-be-monthly newsletter went out the door this morning with an essay on banning words and some interesting reads from others. Click through if you're interested.
https://www.wordsbywes.ink/newsletter/notes-on-editing-17/

Notes on Editing 17
I’ve been churning this article around in my head for a few weeks now. While I have tried to avoid getting political in this newsletter, I can’t do that this time. The theme I planned for this issue is clarity, which often involves choosing which of a handful of choices is the most appropriate word — or words — to use to make our point. But that’s not really where I wound up with this piece.