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In light of massive public expenditure on the maintenance of infrastructure necessary for personal automobiles, not to mention the climate crisis, I've long thought that free commercial parking in cities is an abomination. If you happen to live in Toronto, you may wish to send a message to your councillor asking that the city implement a commercial parking levy for the support of the TTC.

TAKE ACTION: Tell your City Councillor and the Mayor to fund transit with a Commercial Parking Lot Levy
Act now: tell your Member of Parliament to step up and support a new funding deal for Toronto to help meet our climate goals, and make our city more liveable, affordable, and resilient for all.

Congress considers legislation to block DJI drones from running on US communication networks, effectively killing the Chinese company's US commercial business (Kate Kelly/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/…

A Chinese Firm Is America’s Favorite Drone Maker. Except in Washington.
U.S. authorities consider DJI a security threat. Congress is weighing legislation to ban it, prompting a lobbying campaign from the company, which dominates the commercial and consumer drone markets.

“Disruption” Doesn’t Cover It: 3 Ways GenAI is Upending Commercial Real Estate
#RealEstate #MoodysCRE #MA_CRESolutions

Christian group freaks out over male-presenting actors wearing pink in commercial - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/03/christian-group-freaks-out-over-male-presenting-actors-wearing-pink-in-commer…

Christian group freaks out over male-presenting actors wearing pink in commercial - LGBTQ Nation
The group is asking Hilton to pull the ad because it shows people "in obviously gender-confused roles."

us_air_traffic: U.S. air traffic
Yearly snapshots of flights among all commercial airports in the United States from 1990 to today. Metadata include passengers, distance, carrier, airport located city, state, and month of the flight.
This network has 2278 nodes and 6390340 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

RISAR: RIS-assisted Human Activity Recognition with Commercial Wi-Fi Devices
Junshuo Liu, Yunlong Huang, Wei Yang, Zhe Li, Rujing Xiong, Tiebin Mi, Xin Shi, Robert C. Qiu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17277

RISAR: RIS-assisted Human Activity Recognition with Commercial Wi-Fi Devices
Human activity recognition (HAR) is integral to smart homes, security, and healthcare. Existing systems face challenges such as the absence of line-of-sight links, insufficient details regarding the sensing subject, and inefficiencies in noise reduction and feature extraction from channel state information. To address these issues, this study builds a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted passive human activity recognition (RISAR) system, compatible with commercial Wi-Fi devices. RI…

"as the Hester episode shows, violent sentiments can be expressed by people very close to power, seemingly without serious consequences for their political and commercial activities. Meanwhile, peaceful protesters are increasingly sent to prison" -- Gaby Hinscliff
https://www.…

Sources: WBD is no longer pursuing a merger with Paramount, Skydance is doing due diligence, and Comcast is exploring commercial partnerships with Paramount (Alex Sherman/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/27/warner-bros-discovery-hal…

AI & beer 😃 (no LLMs involved)
#ai #beer

Predicting and improving complex beer flavor through machine learning - Nature Communications
Perception and appreciation of food flavour depends on many factors, posing a challenge for effective prediction. Here, the authors combine extensive chemical and sensory analyses of 250 commercial Belgian beers to train machine learning models that enable flavour and consumer appreciation prediction.

#Scotland is an interesting laboratory for #rewilding, some under community ownership.
Tarras Valley has most of the ingredients I'd expect for carbon sinks preservation, including a focus on peatland restoration and a pragmatic decision to cut down mature commercial forests. They delayed action on t…

i remember something about a moderately exotic computer architecture. it seems to be quite radical/minimalist in that it doesn't have have an add instruction so you have to implement additions yourself. as i understand it there was commercial hardware using it.
i'm pretty sure it was it was not: OISC, FPGA, and presumably more CPU-like than cellular automata, tag systems, Turing machines or the like.
do you have any idea what it might be? i think i didn't dream this 😅…

H5N1 in the US
"Andrew Bowman, a veterinary epidemiologist at Ohio State University, had a hunch.
"... he and a graduate student went on a road trip: They collected 150 commercial milk products from around the Midwest, representing dairy processing plants in 10 different states, including some where herds have tested positive for H5N1. Genetic testing found viral RNA in 58 samples"
I like how they didn't just wait for official news :-) Go scientists!
#H5N1 #science

I'm idly thinking about how I would design a shortlink service (I am not planning to implement a commercial shortlink service).
Is it bad if all the shortened links can be enumerated? e.g. start requesting at example.com/000 and then request /001 /002 and so on up to /ZZZ and you've dumped out all the links.
You can do this on tinyurl:
$ curl -sI tinyurl.com/00 |grep ^Location
Location:

China is planning a national record 100 orbital #launches in 2024, according to the country’s main space contractor: https://spacenews.com/chinas-2024-space-plans-include-100-launches-and-moon-sample-return-mission/ - the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) plans around 70 launches to send more than 290 spacecraft into orbit. The remaining launches will be performed by China’s growing commercial launch sector.

buncha fucking goobers
#ACAB #NYPD https://hellgatenyc.com/n…

NYPD Officer Learns How to Drive MTA Bus—While Transporting Arrested Protesters - Hell Gate
"A lot of people were commenting like, oh God, I don't know if he's gonna make this turn."

“I would argue that in some ways, MT in 2004 was better software than WordPress is TODAY.”
I have done a bunch of freelance work over the years and I’ve always stayed away from WordPress - a WP installation always ends with installing a bunch of plugins that don’t quite work together, and you get a fragile mess that breaks if you look at it wrong.
#WebDev

Jesus fuckin’ Christ, there’s nothing #Trump won’t scam his disciples with.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-god-bless-usa-bible-greenwoo…

Donald Trump is selling Bibles for $59.99 as he faces mounting legal bills
Former President Donald Trump is hawking Bibles as he runs to return to the White House. The presumptive Republican nominee Tuesday released a video on his Truth Social platform urging supporters to buy the “God Bless the USA Bible." The book is inspired by country singer Lee Greenwood’s patriotic ballad “God Bless the USA," which Trump takes the stage to at his rallies. The Bible is the latest commercial venture Trump has pursued during his 2024 campaign. Last month, he debuted a line of…

I wonder - do data centre providers move out of safe harbours for hosting/processing user content once they start to gain commercial advantage?
For example, imagine a user privately stores (but doesnt use) other's patent/copyright protected content or trade secrets. If a third party unilaterally changes their practice to use the stored content, surely the third party is liable for the damage.

Measuring the Foreclosure Risk in Commercial Real Estate Assets
First American - March 18
“Illiquidity and insolvency present different challenges for operators. Each ‘trigger’ is necessary, but insufficient on its own to force foreclosure and it’s worth bearing this distinction in mind.”

Measuring the Foreclosure Risk in Commercial Real Estate Assets
First American Senior Commercial Real Estate Economist, Xander Snyder, examines examines two types of CRE distress, how they’re different, and the unique implications of each.

🃏 eBay enters trading card commercial agreement with Collectors, acquires Goldin
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/10/ebay-enters-trading-card-commercial-agreement-with-collectors-acquires-goldin/

eBay enters trading card commercial agreement with Collectors, acquires Goldin | TechCrunch
As eBay continues to invest in the trading card space, the e-commerce company announced Wednesday three significant commercial transactions with eBay entered a series of commercial transactions with trading card authenticator Collectors.

The State Department is taking steps to impose visa restrictions on 13 individuals who have been involved in the development and sale of commercial spyware or who are immediate family members of those involved.
https://www.state.gov/promoting-accountability-for-the-misuse-of-commercial-spyware/

Lagos: drugs, firearms and youth unemployment are creating a lethal cocktail in Nigeria’s commercial capital
https://theconversation.com/lagos-drugs-firearms-and-youth-unemployment-are-cre…

Lagos: drugs, firearms and youth unemployment are creating a lethal cocktail in Nigeria’s commercial capital
Youth migration, unemployment, proliferation of small arms and drugs are some of the drivers of violent crimes in Lagos.

He plans on driving around Kansas in a beat-up Ford with Ivanka.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-god-bless-usa-bible-greenwood-2713fda3efdfa297d0f024efb1ca3003?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=shar…

Donald Trump is selling Bibles for $59.99 as he faces mounting legal bills
Former President Donald Trump is hawking Bibles as he runs to return to the White House. The presumptive Republican nominee Tuesday released a video on his Truth Social platform urging supporters to buy the “God Bless the USA Bible." The book is inspired by country singer Lee Greenwood’s patriotic ballad “God Bless the USA," which Trump takes the stage to at his rallies. The Bible is the latest commercial venture Trump has pursued during his 2024 campaign. Last month, he debuted a line of…

Utility Con Edison to reward NYC EV charging operators for reducing demand at peak times
#RealEstate #UrbanDevelopment #SmartCitiesDive

What is happening in this miracle grow commercial? Is martha stewart a giant?

Atlantic Mackerel in #Canada have been in decline for some time and have been subject to a moratorium on fishing. This is partly the result of #ClimateChange, but #DFO also wanted to know about changes in pr…

Predators take big bite out of declining Atlantic mackerel population | CBC News
Predators ate at least twice as many Atlantic mackerel as commercial fishery landings in the decade leading up to Canada's region-wide moratorium, according to new research by Canadian and American scientists.

Sources: WBD is no longer pursuing a merger with Paramount, Skydance is doing due diligence, and Comcast is exploring commercial partnerships with Paramount (Alex Sherman/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/27/warner-bros-discovery-hal…

They got me with this one 😂

"Better heat pumps for commercial buildings are coming soon"
#HeatPumps #Energy

Better heat pumps for commercial buildings are coming soon
The Department of Energy is convening manufacturers and customers like IKEA and Amazon to get next-gen heat pumps ready for commercial rooftops by 2027.

Had the pleasure to leave and thus look at #Berlin in the early morning sun <3

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03788 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSE_…

Toward a Theory of Causation for Interpreting Neural Code Models
Neural Language Models of Code, or Neural Code Models (NCMs), are rapidly progressing from research prototypes to commercial developer tools. As such, understanding the capabilities and limitations of such models is becoming critical. However, the abilities of these models are typically measured using automated metrics that often only reveal a portion of their real-world performance. While, in general, the performance of NCMs appears promising, currently much is unknown about how such models ar…

Has anyone studied the frequency of software updates for 1) open source, 2) commercial licensed; 3) subscription based?
I’m starting to get the feeling that’s actually the order on how frequently each category releases. I know subscription provides steady income and is healthier for creators, but I’m wondering if the reason of “allows us to release frequently” argument is actually valid.

GÉANT & #NRENs play an instrumental role in unlocking the potential of commercial #cloud for European #Research & #Education

From the OCRE project to EOSC Future – lessons learned in commercial cloud procurement | GÉANT CONNECT Online
This interview is part of a section on commercial cloud procurement, published in the March 2024 issue of the GÉANT CONNECT Magazine (CONNECT45). We also suggest reading "How GÉANT Cloud Frameworks outline the cloudscape of European R&E". Since 2016, GÉANT and the European NRENs – both via GÉANT projects and other EC-funded projects – have

Will take a very compelling reason or use case for me to connect my Fediverse accounts to any federated commercial platform in any way. Given the significant downside I experienced from some pre-activity, I do not see such a reason now nor in the foreseeable future. Not that I'm anti-capitalist or anti-corporate; to the contrary, I made my living on commercial media concerns. It's that I know what's up with them. Every day I'm thankful that my host has preemptively blocked m…

‘Poisoned’ data could wreck AIs in wartime, warns Army software acquisition chief
“Any commercial LLM that is out there, that is learning from the internet, is poisoned today…but our main concern [is] those algorithms that are going to be informing battlefield decisions.”

‘Poisoned’ data could wreck AIs in wartime, warns Army software acquisition chief
“Any commercial LLM that is out there, that is learning from the internet, is poisoned today,” Jennifer Swanson said, “but our main concern [is] those algorithms that are going to be informing battlefield decisions.”

“UX pretends that capitalism can be coaxed into giving a shit. It chugs along as if UX designers and researchers are the ones who are going to cause a revolution of socialist CEOs who consider users beyond their money and their data.
But the inside secret of commercial UX is that the empathy is just a posture and the businesses benefit from the aura of care without having to entertain it.”
– @…

The Aura of Care.
The UX profession has an aura of empathy and care for the people who use tech products. Businesses capitalise on this aura without having to entertain it.

«UX needs to make clear distinctions between commercial design work and design as a social good so the aura of care is not just an aura. Until that happens we’ll continue to see the worst companies hire the best people to help them make the worst things.»
https://fasterandworse.com/the-aura-of-care/

I gave up on Instagram some time back for my commercial work, but I've decided to create a new account purely for my Ko-fi stuff.
It would be nice to make some contacts on there!
https://instagram.com/andycarolan_kofi

Microsoft Q3: revenue up 17% YoY to $61.9B, net income up 20% to $21.9B, Office Commercial revenue up 13%, LinkedIn revenue up 10%; stock is up 5% after hours (Microsoft)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-2024-Q3/press-release-…

BBC Director General Tim Davie calls for license fee reform as part of a broader strategy to turn the national broadcaster into a more commercial operation (Daria Mosolova/Financial Times)
https://t.co/6ywtPXdGKe

Lagos: drugs, firearms and youth unemployment are creating a lethal cocktail in Nigeria’s commercial capital
https://theconversation.com/lagos-drugs-firearms-and-youth-unemployment-are-cre…

Lagos: drugs, firearms and youth unemployment are creating a lethal cocktail in Nigeria’s commercial capital
Youth migration, unemployment, proliferation of small arms and drugs are some of the drivers of violent crimes in Lagos.

Hi friends!
Met a lot of people in the office today and the weather finally turned well for a cool view.
#office

Enabling pulse shape discrimination with commercial ASICs
John Leland, Ming Fang, Satwik Pani, Yuri Venturini, Marco Locatelli, Angela Di Fulvio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16927 <…

Enabling pulse shape discrimination with commercial ASICs
Fast electronic readout for high-channel density scintillator-based systems is needed for radiation tracking and imaging in a wide range of applications, including nuclear physics, nuclear security and nonproliferation. Programmable electronics, like FPGAs and ASICs, provide a fast way of conditioning and processing the signal in real time. In this paper, we present a pulse shape discrimination (PSD) method based on the shaping circuit of a commercially available ASIC, the Citiroc1A by CAEN Tec…

Innovative Grid Deployment - Pathways to Commercial Liftoff https://liftoff.energy.gov/innovative-grid-deployment/

Innovative Grid Deployment - Pathways to Commercial Liftoff
Learn more about the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pathways to Commercial Liftoff Report on Grid Deployment

Apparently I have reached the age when not only do I know the 48-year-old hit single now serving as a bed for a commercial, but also the previous hit version of the same song from a decade before that. 🙄

More Mirrors (and a Little Audio) Mean More Laser Power
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-a9550c46-30987854622ae68c
More Mirrors (and a Little Audio) Mean More Laser Power Lasers are pretty much magic — it’s all done with mirrors. Not every las…

BBC Director General Tim Davie calls for license fee reform as part of a broader strategy to turn the national broadcaster into a more commercial operation (Daria Mosolova/Financial Times)
https://t.co/6ywtPXdGKe

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday announced that genetic fragments from the highly-pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1 have been detected in the pasteurized, commercial milk supply.
However, the testing completed so far
—using quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR)
—only detects the presence of viral genetic material
and cannot tell whether the genetic material is from live and infectious viral particles or merely remnants of dead ones killed by the p…

Fragments of bird flu virus genome found in pasteurized milk, FDA says
The test cannot tell if the virus is live. The FDA still assess milk supply as safe.

Lattice dynamics of LiNb$_{\text{1-x}}$Ta$_{\text{x}}$O$_{\text{3}}$ solid solutions: Theory and experiment
Felix Bernhardt, Soham Gharat, Alexander Kapp, Florian Pfeiffer, Robin Buschbeck, Franz Hempel, Oleksiy Pashkin, Susanne C. Kehr, Michael R\"using, Simone Sanna, Lukas M. Eng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17594

Lattice dynamics of LiNb$_{\text{1-x}}$Ta$_{\text{x}}$O$_{\text{3}}$ solid solutions: Theory and experiment
Lithium niobate (LNO) and lithium tantalate (LTO) see widespread use in fundamental research and commercial technologies reaching from electronics over classical optics to integrated quantum communication. In recent years, the mixed crystal system lithium niobate tantalate (LNT) allows for the dedicate engineering of material properties by combining the advantages of the two parental materials LNO and LTO. Vibrational spectroscopies such as Raman spectroscopy or (Fourier transform) infrared spe…

Using CPI in Loss Given Default Forecasting Models for Commercial Real Estate Portfolio
Ying Wu, Garvit Arora, Xuan Mei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15498 ht…

Using CPI in Loss Given Default Forecasting Models for Commercial Real Estate Portfolio
Forecasting the loss given default (LGD) for defaulted Commercial Real Estate (CRE) loans poses a significant challenge due to the extended resolution and workout time associated with such defaults, particularly in CCAR and CECL framework where the utilization of post-default information, including macroeconomic variables (MEVs) such as unemployment (UER) and various rates, is restricted. The current environment of persistent inflation and resultant elevated rates further compounds the uncertai…

trump, commercial real estate
something I didn't consider.
the former president won't just be bankcrupted by having to sell off assets to settle court fees
having to sell off property puts the buyers in an advantage, they know he has to sell so they can go for a lower price
and that fire sale might significantly discount his assets.
muahahahaha
(now I wish that would happen for commercial real-estate)

Microsoft Q3: revenue up 17% YoY to $61.9B, net income up 20% to $21.9B, Office Commercial revenue up 13%, LinkedIn revenue up 10%; stock is up 5% after hours (Microsoft)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-2024-Q3/press-release-…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11850 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Open Continuum Robotics -- One Actuation Module to Create them All
Experiments on physical continuum robot are the gold standard for evaluations. Currently, as no commercial continuum robot platform is available, a large variety of early-stage prototypes exists. These prototypes are developed by individual research groups and are often used for a single publication. Thus, a significant amount of time is devoted to creating proprietary hardware and software hindering the development of a common platform, and shifting away scarce time and efforts from the main r…

With the other #SuperbOwl ads focusing on irrational "Make money fast" and "spend money faster", #MattDamon is refreshingly based.
PS: Nice second pun at the end 😊
#MakeMoneyFast

Finland, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Poland, and the Republic of Korea have joined the international commitment to work collectively to counter the proliferation and misuse of commercial spyware,
Joint Statement on Efforts to Counter the Proliferation and Misuse of Commercial Spyware
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/03/18/joint-statement-on-efforts-to-counter-the-proliferation-and-misuse-of-commercial-spyware/

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.01921 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

A Machine Learning Approach Towards SKILL Code Autocompletion
As Moore's Law continues to increase the complexity of electronic systems, Electronic Design Automation (EDA) must advance to meet global demand. An important example of an EDA technology is SKILL, a scripting language used to customize and extend EDA software. Recently, code generation models using the transformer architecture have achieved impressive results in academic settings and have even been used in commercial developer tools to improve developer productivity. To the best of our knowled…

us_air_traffic: U.S. air traffic
Yearly snapshots of flights among all commercial airports in the United States from 1990 to today. Metadata include passengers, distance, carrier, airport located city, state, and month of the flight.
This network has 2278 nodes and 6390340 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

“There are writers who are interested in story, writers who are interested in character, writers who are interested in place and writers who are interested in voice,” said Jake Morrissey, McBride’s editor and an executive editor at Riverhead. “He manages, either by intention or by some other alchemy, to be able to hold all four of those strains in his hands at once.”

His Novel Sold a Million Copies. James McBride Isn’t Sure How He Feels About That.
“The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store” has been a runaway critical and commercial success. When you’ve been David all your life, everything changes “when you become Goliath.”

The National Archives welcomes Laidlaw Education to Kew https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/the-national-archives-welcomes-laidlaw-education-to-kew/

The National Archives welcomes Laidlaw Education to Kew  - The National Archives
We are delighted to announce a new commercial collaboration with Laidlaw Education who will be leasing part of our building. Laidlaw Education LLP is an Education Consultancy offering individualised teaching for children of all ages, both during the day and after school, including those with Dyslexia who come for specific support as part of their […]

DC delegate introduces bill to expand commercial filming at the Capitol (Lauren Irwin/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/4530188-dc-delegate-introduces-bill-to-expand-commercial-filming-at-the-capitol/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240313/p72#a240313p72

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.17516 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

MMA-Diffusion: MultiModal Attack on Diffusion Models
In recent years, Text-to-Image (T2I) models have seen remarkable advancements, gaining widespread adoption. However, this progress has inadvertently opened avenues for potential misuse, particularly in generating inappropriate or Not-Safe-For-Work (NSFW) content. Our work introduces MMA-Diffusion, a framework that presents a significant and realistic threat to the security of T2I models by effectively circumventing current defensive measures in both open-source models and commercial online serv…

"Enshittification" is not the answer to every issue with the digital world, not even with every issue with the commercial/capitalist digital world.
When all you have's a hammer, all you see are nails. Maybe get another tool added to your tool belt?

“Really the only other dinosaurs howling into the wind about the latest fax machine going extinct due to the internet are [commercial real estate] bagholders, who are of course upset they (god forbid) have to reinvest or change strategies, and continue to clutch pearls hoping the world would revert to a previous state. They of course don’t believe Earth can change (something it’s literally defined by). We’re a free capitalist society and so everyone has to go through the ringer of disruption…

Remote work won, don't let anyone gaslight you to believe otherwise
Bad managers and CRE bagholders lost, competent employees and internet-savvy teams won ...arbitrary authoritarian control over your work-life is so 1900s

"Comprising the newly developed anode and cathode, the assembled full cell forms a high-performance hybrid sodium-ion energy storage device, which crosses the energy density of commercial lithium-ion batteries available in the market. According to researchers, the device exhibits the characteristics of supercapacitors’ power density."
#EV

i know that supporting development means supporting developers, but god that is really really hard sometimes https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hoffmandev_maine-avenue-at-the-wharf-has-suppl…

"Am I missing something? It feels like this new commercial is just whistling past the single biggest shortcoming in the Apple ecosystem."
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/09/dont-let-me-go-commercial
is

Apple’s New iPhone Ad: ‘Don’t Let Me Go’
Link to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bks2zGnssMY

I just heard a commercial for washing machine pods that said liquid detergent is 80% water. Why isn't this an ad for soap flakes?

I was reading about the work of some artists that was deemed a "Commercial Failure" and well, yeah, whatever, fuck that idea...
#art #printMaking #commercial

My sexuality would best be described as "Mentos commercial."

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.10743 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

A Unified Framework for Multi-Domain CTR Prediction via Large Language Models
Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is a crucial task in online recommendation platforms as it involves estimating the probability of user engagement with advertisements or items by clicking on them. Given the availability of various services like online shopping, ride-sharing, food delivery, and professional services on commercial platforms, recommendation systems in these platforms are required to make CTR predictions across multiple domains rather than just a single domain. However, multi-do…

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7bk3v/commercial-flights-are-experiencing-unthinkable-gps-attacks-and-nobody-knows-what-to-do - Commercial flights driven off course by GPS spoofing attacks.

Enabling pulse shape discrimination with commercial ASICs
John Leland, Ming Fang, Satwik Pani, Yuri Venturini, Marco Locatelli, Angela Di Fulvio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16927 <…

Enabling pulse shape discrimination with commercial ASICs
Fast electronic readout for high-channel density scintillator-based systems is needed for radiation tracking and imaging in a wide range of applications, including nuclear physics, nuclear security and nonproliferation. Programmable electronics, like FPGAs and ASICs, provide a fast way of conditioning and processing the signal in real time. In this paper, we present a pulse shape discrimination (PSD) method based on the shaping circuit of a commercially available ASIC, the Citiroc1A by CAEN Tec…

We are excited to announce the publication of the #OCRE2024 Tender for the large-scale procurement of commercial #cloud services offerings for our pan-European #Research and

GÉANT announces publication of OCRE 2024 tender for pan-European cloud services procurement | GÉANT CONNECT Online
21 March 2024. GÉANT is delighted to announce the publication of the OCRE 2024 Tender for the large-scale procurement of commercial cloud services offerings for its pan-European Research and Education community. The tender aims to procure the OCRE 2024 Cloud framework agreements - the third iteration of GÉANT’s flagship cloud frameworks that since 2016 have

Once again, the headline is "<government> to ban driving". Then you look at the details, and it's "oh wait actually cars/driving *will* be allowed, it's just certain type of cars/driving will be restricted. but there will still be cars/driving"
And that's why we say #BanCars, because media editors are so fucking ridiculous; they've been huffin…

Brent Toderian (@BrentToderian@mastodon.online)
Attached: 1 image NEW: This year, Dublin will become the latest European capital to bar thru-traffic from its city centre. Private cars & commercial trucks will be allowed access only if their final destination is downtown. The goal is a 60% traffic reduction in the centre. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-17/dublin-takes-aim-at-traffic-congestion-with-a-car-ban-on-certain-trips

Ethiopia's central bank says "a glitch" let Commercial Bank customers withdraw more cash than was in the account for hours; local media says $40M was withdrawn (Kalkidan Yibeltal/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-68599027

Commercial Bank of Ethiopia glitch lets customers withdraw millions
Clients at Ethiopia's biggest commercial bank are being urged to return any money that isn't theirs.

AM Radio Broadcast Uses Phasor To Let Eight Towers Spray One Big Signal
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-c9df4d9a-8b8fe334535d3f2d
AM Radio Broadcast Uses Phasor To Let Eight Towers Spray One Big Signal If you’re in the commercial AM radio bus…

Ethiopia's central bank says "a glitch" let Commercial Bank customers withdraw more cash than was in the account for hours; local media says $40M was withdrawn (Kalkidan Yibeltal/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-68599027

Commercial Bank of Ethiopia glitch lets customers withdraw millions
Clients at Ethiopia's biggest commercial bank are being urged to return any money that isn't theirs.

And it already tastes like chicken!
This Unusual Superfood Is Good for the Climate and Incredibly High in Protein
https://scitechdaily.com/this-unusual-superfood-is-good-for-the-climate-and-incredibly-high-in-protein/…

This Unusual Superfood Is Good for the Climate and Incredibly High in Protein
New research has revealed that pythons are an efficient, low-emission, and climate-resilient source of food, demonstrating superior feed-to-protein conversion rates compared to chickens or cattle. New research published in Scientific Reports conducted in two South-East Asian commercial python far

A Digital Twinning Platform for Integrated Sensing, Communications and Robotics
Vlad C. Andrei, Xinyang Li, Maresa Fees, Andreas Feik, Ullrich J. M\"onich, Holger Boche
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15191

A Digital Twinning Platform for Integrated Sensing, Communications and Robotics
In this paper, a digital twinning framework for indoor integrated sensing, communications, and robotics is proposed, designed, and implemented. Besides leveraging powerful robotics and ray-tracing technologies, the framework also enables integration with real-world sensors and reactive updates triggered by changes in the environment. The framework is designed with commercial, off-the-shelf components in mind, thus facilitating experimentation in the different areas of communication, sensing, an…

Does the EU's proposal to ban cryptocurrency payments to anonymous hosted wallets also pertain to hosted wallets that are not anonymous, e.g. have gone through full AML/KYC checks?
If so then at @… we'd probably have to stop accepting bitcoin payments. I don't like bitcoin but some customers do rely on it to pay so I keep it working for them.

Commercial Bridge Loans: Fast, Flexible Financing for Multifamily Investors
#RealEstate #CRE #Multifamily #SFR #Arbor

His Novel Sold a Million Copies. James McBride Isn’t Sure How He Feels About That. - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/23/books/booksupdate/james-mcbride-heaven-and-earth-grocery-store.html

His Novel Sold a Million Copies. James McBride Isn’t Sure How He Feels About That.
“The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store” has been a runaway critical and commercial success. When you’ve been David all your life, everything changes “when you become Goliath.”

🏭 Commercial Chiplet Ecosystem May Be A Decade Away
#semiconductors

Commercial Chiplet Ecosystem May Be A Decade Away
Technology and business hurdles must be addressed before widespread adoption.

Criminalizing poverty is just the most cynical thing western societies do
(Original title: Let’s Outlaw Being Homeless! That’ll Work!)
https://leftycartoons.com/2024/03/20/lets-outlaw-being-homeless-thatll-work/

Let’s Outlaw Being Homeless! That’ll Work!
A cartoon by me and R.E. Ryan. TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels. All the panels show a gritty commercial doorway – the kind that’s recessed a few feet into the buildin…

AMD unveils Ryzen Pro 8040 series for commercial laptops and mobile workstations and Ryzen Pro 8000 series for desktops, adding a neural processing unit for AI (Paul Alcorn/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.

AMD unveils Ryzen Pro 8000-series processors — Zen 4 and AI engines come to the commercial market
AMD is the first with a Pro desktop PC chip with an NPU for AI workloads.

They've been using Supertramp to get me to watch ten seconds more of an Apple commercial than I normally would.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.14790 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@ar…

Production and optical characterisation of blended Polyethylene Tethraplate (PET)/Polyethylene Naphtalate (PEN) scintillator samples
In Particle and Nuclear Physics research and related applications, organic scintillators provide a cost-effective technology for the detection of ionising radiation. The next generation of experiments in this field is driving fundamental research and development on these materials, demanding improved light yield, radiation hardness, and fast response. Common materials such as PEN and PET have been found to offer scintillation properties competitive to commercial alternatives without the use of …

Don't miss today's Metacurity for the top infosec developments you should know, including
--US imposes visa restrictions on commercial spyware abusers
--UK and nearly three dozen other nations sign int'l pact against hackers-for-hire,
--Chicago children's hospital suffering under week-long cyber incident,
--PA court system out due to DDoS,
--much more

US Imposes Visa Restrictions on Commercial Spyware Abusers
UK and nearly three dozen other nations sign int'l pact against hackers-for-hire, Chicago children's hospital suffering under week-long cyber incident, PA court system out due to DDoS, much more

DC updates strategy to reach ‘zero waste’ by 2040, including many policy proposals
#RealEstate #UrbanDevelopment #SmartCitiesDive

Does the EU's proposal to ban cryptocurrency payments to anonymous hosted wallets also pertain to hosted wallets that are not anonymous, e.g. have gone through full AML/KYC checks?
If so then at @… we'd probably have to stop accepting bitcoin payments. I don't like bitcoin but some customers do rely on it to pay so I keep it working for them.

Reddit announces that its Dynamic Product Ads, which use "shopping signals" to automatically show relevant ads to users, are entering public beta globally (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04…

Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed
Reddit says its "communities are naturally commercial."

Reddit announces that its Dynamic Product Ads, which use "shopping signals" to automatically show relevant ads to users, are entering public beta globally (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04…

Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed
Reddit says its "communities are naturally commercial."

Riding on his family's more famous members' coattails, that:
#RFK Jr. Super Bowl ad: The Kennedy 1960 commercial copy angered his family. He apologized, sort of.
https://

Why RFK Jr.’s Family May Not Accept His Apology for That Super Bowl Ad
It’s pretty clear why they’re peeved about the $7 million spot.

Google's TAG publishes a report on commercial spyware, detailing ~40 vendors, and says global governments should take more aggressive steps to combat spyware (AJ Vicens/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/google-governments-need-to-do-mor…

Google: Governments need to do more to combat commercial spyware
The commercial spyware industry continues to supply highly advanced surveillance capabilities despite efforts to better regulate it.

The UK government sets a panel to assess the BBC's current licensing model, examine alternate funding options, and find ways to grow commercial income (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2024/03/bbc-licence-fee-peter-bazalgette-itv-123586…

Former ITV & Channel 5 Bosses To Examine Future Funding At The BBC
BBC funding license fee will be examined By Peter Bazalgette and David Elstein on an expert panel.

Waymo plans to debut its Waymo One robotaxi service in LA on March 14, gradually onboarding from a 50K waitlist, and in Austin commercially by the end of 2024 (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/13/waym

Waymo to launch commercial robotaxi service in Austin by end of the year | TechCrunch
Waymo will have a robotaxi service in four cities by the end of 2024 with Austin and Los Angeles coming next.

The US State Department announces a new policy allowing "the imposition of visa restrictions on individuals involved in the misuse of commercial spyware" (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/02/05/spyware-visa-restrictions-us-state-…

Biden admin to restrict visas for individuals abusing commercial spyware
It's an escalation in the Biden administration's effort to squash abuses of commercial spyware.