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A Scenario-based Model Predictive Control Scheme for Pandemic Response through Non-pharmaceutical Interventions
Domagoj Herceg, Marco DellOro, Riccardo Bertollo, Fuminari Miura, Paul de Klaver, Valentina Breschi, Dinesh Krishnamoorthy, Mauro Salazar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17972

A Scenario-based Model Predictive Control Scheme for Pandemic Response through Non-pharmaceutical Interventions
This paper presents a scenario-based model predictive control (MPC) scheme designed to control an evolving pandemic via non-pharmaceutical intervention (NPIs). The proposed approach combines predictions of possible pandemic evolution to decide on a level of severity of NPIs to be implemented over multiple weeks to maintain hospital pressure below a prescribed threshold, while minimizing their impact on society. Specifically, we first introduce a compartmental model which divides the population …

Good Morning Canada
One half of our move is complete and in 4 days we move to our new home. We're in good company as almost 1/3 of Canadians move once every 5 years. And like us, some are downsizing to a smaller home in their retirement years.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Moving
https://www.statcan.gc.ca/o1/en/plus/7309-moving-canada-good-bad-and-ugly

Jerusalem Demsas left The Atlantic in recent weeks to launch The Argument,
a new publication that aims to push back against the populist right by strengthening the ideas and arguments of modern liberalism and convincing readers of their legitimacy.
“To move out of this post-liberal, populist moment towards a better future
— one with equal rights, material prosperity, and commitment to human progress
— will require our government, culture, politics, and people to recom…

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Xpheno: Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Google, and their affiliates grew their combined India headcount by 16% over the past year, adding 28K jobs (Himanshi Lohchab/The Economic Times)
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Big Tech continues to hire in India even as local majors downsize
Despite global layoffs, FAAMNG companies are expanding their India headcount, growing by 16% in the past year, driven by demand for AI, cloud, and cybersecurity skills. While Indian IT firms face workforce reductions due to skills mismatch, Big Tech's India-based global capability centers are increasing hiring for high-end work and innovation.

Combining Fault Tolerance Techniques and COTS SoC Accelerators for Payload Processing in Space
Vasileios Leon, Elissaios Alexios Papatheofanous, George Lentaris, Charalampos Bezaitis, Nikolaos Mastorakis, Georgios Bampilis, Dionysios Reisis, Dimitrios Soudris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12971…

Combining Fault Tolerance Techniques and COTS SoC Accelerators for Payload Processing in Space
The ever-increasing demand for computational power and I/O throughput in space applications is transforming the landscape of on-board computing. A variety of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) accelerators emerges as an attractive solution for payload processing to outperform the traditional radiation-hardened devices. Towards increasing the reliability of such COTS accelerators, the current paper explores and evaluates fault-tolerance techniques for the Zynq FPGA and the Myriad VPU, which are two…

Ecuador: Stop land grabbing and racial discrimination for palm oil! https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1270/ecuador-stop-land-grabbing-and-racial-discrimination-for-palm-oil

#petition Ecuador: Stop land grabbing and racial discrimination for palm oil!
Communities in northern Ecuador are fighting back against land grabbing and deforestation by the palm oil industry. Yet instead of ensuring law and order, the Ecuadorian authorities are siding with the companies – the courts are working to break the resistance of the people by ordering them to pay damages for their protests.

The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest newspaper by circulation, sues Perplexity, alleging unauthorized reproduction of its articles, and seeks $14.7M in damages (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/japans-l

Japan’s largest newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun, sues AI startup Perplexity for copyright violations
The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest newspaper by circulation, has sued the generative AI startup Perplexity for copyright infringement. The lawsuit, filed in Tokyo District Court on August 7, marks the first copyright challenge by a major Japanese news publisher against an AI company. The fil…

A US jury finds Tesla partially liable for Autopilot's role in a fatal 2019 crash in Florida, and orders the company to pay $200M in punitive damages (Washington Post)
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Tesla found partially liable for fatal 2019 crash, hit with $243 million in damages
The outcome is a stunning rebuke for Tesla, which for years has fought to absolve itself of responsibility when its technology is involved in a crash.

Magnetization-induced reordering of ground states phase diagram in a two-component Bose-Hubbard model
Oskar Stachowiak, Hubert Dunikowski, Emilia Witkowska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06442

Magnetization-induced reordering of ground states phase diagram in a two-component Bose-Hubbard model
We investigate the influence of non-zero magnetization on the ground-state phase diagram of the two-component Bose-Hubbard model. Employing a mean-field theoretical framework, both analytically and numerically, we demonstrate that positions and sizes of specific phases on the diagram are magnetization dependent. In particular, non-zero magnetization introduces different Mott insulator phase boundaries for each of the two components. This effect leads to the emergence of a hybrid phase character…

The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest newspaper by circulation, sues Perplexity, alleging unauthorized reproduction of its articles, and seeks $14.7M in damages (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/japans-l

Japan’s largest newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun, sues AI startup Perplexity for copyright violations
The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest newspaper by circulation, has sued the generative AI startup Perplexity for copyright infringement. The lawsuit, filed in Tokyo District Court on August 7, marks the first copyright challenge by a major Japanese news publisher against an AI company. The fil…