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A profile of Kari Lake, a former TV anchor who won two regional Emmy Awards for her work in Cambodia and is now tasked with dismantling the USAGM (Scott Nover/Washington Post)

Kari Lake won awards for overseas reporting. Now she has the job of cutting it.
Kari Lake won TV news Emmys years ago for work she did in Cambodia, one of the countries affected by sweeping layoffs at Voice of America and Radio Free Asia.

RiOSWorld: Benchmarking the Risk of Multimodal Compter-Use Agents
Jingyi Yang, Shuai Shao, Dongrui Liu, Jing Shao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00618 https://…

RiOSWorld: Benchmarking the Risk of Multimodal Compter-Use Agents
With the rapid development of multimodal large language models (MLLMs), they are increasingly deployed as autonomous computer-use agents capable of accomplishing complex computer tasks. However, a pressing issue arises: Can the safety risk principles designed and aligned for general MLLMs in dialogue scenarios be effectively transferred to real-world computer-use scenarios? Existing research on evaluating the safety risks of MLLM-based computer-use agents suffers from several limitations: it ei…

New blog post by a colleague: Will quantum computing topple SAML?
https://trustandidentity.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/05/16/will-quantum-computing-topple-saml/

Will quantum computing topple SAML? - Trust and Identity
  The UK federation is arguably one of the largest SAML federations in the Research and Education sector, with over 1200 member organisations spanning Higher Education (HE) and Further Education (FE), and with significant representation from the research and commercial sectors. We are a trust broker. A level playing field. We help people securely access […]

Competition at the IHSA boys track and field state meet https://www.dailyherald.com/20250531/article/competition-at-the-ihsa-boys-track-and-field-state-meet/

Self-ensemble: Mitigating Confidence Distortion for Large Language Models
Zicheng Xu, Guanchu Wang, Guangyao Zheng, Yu-Neng Chuang, Alexander Szalay, Xia Hu, Vladimir Braverman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01951

Self-ensemble: Mitigating Confidence Distortion for Large Language Models
Although Large Language Models (LLMs) perform well in general fields, they exhibit a confidence distortion problem on multi-choice question-answering (MCQA), particularly as the number of answer choices increases. Specifically, on MCQA with many choices, LLMs suffer from under-confidence in correct predictions and over-confidence in incorrect ones, leading to a substantially degraded performance. To solve this problem, we propose Self-ensemble in this work. Our method splits the choices into se…

@… I wouldn’t object to renting a server, but I currently run everything on a little computer on my desk (except an S3-compatible bucket on Digital Ocean).
Everything runs in a Docker container, but I’m curious about Incus.

IBM has announced the dismissal of approximately 8,000 employees, with its HR department bearing the brunt of the cuts.
LinkedIn also cutting jobs.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ibm-cuts-8-000-jobs

IBM cuts 8,000 jobs amid AI expansion
IBM has announced the dismissal of approximately 8,000 employees, with its HR department bearing the brunt of the cuts.

Energy-Oriented Computing Architecture Simulator for SNN Training
Yunhao Ma (Pengcheng Laboratory, Southern University of Science and Technology), Wanyi Jia (Pengcheng Laboratory, Southern University of Science and Technology), Yanyu Lin (Pengcheng Laboratory), Wenjie Lin (Pengcheng Laboratory), Xueke Zhu (Pengcheng Laboratory), Huihui Zhou (Pengcheng Laboratory), Fengwei An (Southern University of Science and Technology)

Energy-Oriented Computing Architecture Simulator for SNN Training
With the growing demand for intelligent computing, neuromorphic computing, a paradigm that mimics the structure and functionality of the human brain, offers a promising approach to developing new high-efficiency intelligent computing systems. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), the foundation of neuromorphic computing, have garnered significant attention due to their unique potential in energy efficiency and biomimetic neural processing. However, current hardware development for efficient SNN train…

Researchers in France are working on creating a French network of researchers to organize interaction, communication and training in #computationalneuroscience
If you are a CompNeuro working in France, consider joining, and registering to our mailing list:

Michael Irvin blown away by competition created by Cowboys coaching staff https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/michael-irvin-blown-away-competition-created-dallas-cowboys-coaching-staff