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A lot to celebrate in the lab at the end of the school year — students at commencement, and a campus award for our paper presenting a reconstruction of Joshua tree flowering activity since the early 20th century
https://lab.jbyoder.org/2025/05/22/com

Ein Foto und ein Rätsel (mit Auflösung):
Im Jahr 2013 gab es im Haus der Geschichte in Stuttgart eine Ausstellung über die RAF. Ich war dort und habe Fotos gemacht. Ein Foto zeigt dabei ein "Waffenversteck". Die Anwälte der RAF hatten, zumindest nimmt man das an, in Akten Waffen geschmuggelt, mit denen sich am Ende einige der RAF-Gefangenen selbst töteten.
Das Foto hatte ich auf Wikimedia Commons hcohgeladen:

File:RAF-Versteck-Pistole.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

"If anything, this author firmly believes that programming skills are second to those related to communication; most engineers coming out of colleges these days are unable to express themselves in public, to teach their peers, to write an essay or a blog post, to communicate their ideas to stakeholders, or to put together a simple documentation bundle without suffering a seizure in the process."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/banning-adopting-reckoning/

Hacker who breached communications app used by Trump aide stole data from across US government - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/hacker-who-breached-communications-app-used-by-trump-aide-stole-data-across-us-20…

MASC: Integrated Sensing and Communications for the Martian Internet of Space
Haofan Dong, Ozgur B. Akan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16198 https://

MASC: Integrated Sensing and Communications for the Martian Internet of Space
Mars exploration missions increasingly demand reliable communication systems, yet harsh environmental conditions -- particularly frequent dust storms, extreme Doppler effects, and stringent resource constraints -- pose unprecedented challenges to conventional communication approaches. This paper presents the Martian Adaptive Sensing and Communication (MASC) system specifically designed for the Martian environment. MASC establishes a physically interpretable channel model and develops three key …

MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0
"Developers, coders, nerds, even regular users — we have power. We can demand that the platforms we use give us access to control our experiences using code."
https://anildash.com/2025/05/20/mcp-web20-20/

Leaders of House, Senate briefed on attacks (Dennis Romero/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/middle-east/live-blog/israel-iran-conflict-rcna214241/rcrd82924?canonicalCard=true
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p73#a250621p73

Creative Commons 4.0 Has Arrived on Flickr! (Flickr, 18 Jun 2025)
#MediaLit

Statement by Dean Greg Sterling.
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Like many around the world, I am deeply saddened by the death of Pope Francis. I am grateful, too, for all he did to advance currents of Christianity that are too seldom seen today...
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Yale Divinity School
Statement by Dean Greg Sterling. ------ Like many around the world, I am deeply saddened by the death of Pope Francis. I am grateful, too, for all he did to advance currents of Christianity that...

Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces for THz Communications: Fundamentals, Key Solutions, and System Prototyping
Qingqing Wu, Yanze Zhu, Qiaoyan Peng, Wanming Hao, Yanzhao Hou, Fengyuan Yang, Wencai Yan, Guoning Wang, Wen Chen, Chi Qiu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17200

Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces for THz Communications: Fundamentals, Key Solutions, and System Prototyping
Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have emerged as a cost-effective technology for terahertz (THz) communications by enabling programmable control of the wireless environment. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of IRSs-aided THz communications, covering hardware designs, advanced signal processing techniques, and practical deployment strategies. It first examines key THz reconfigurable metasurface architectures, including electronic, optical, phase-change material, and micro-elect…