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Roblox partners with Persona to estimate user ages and verify they are 13 , renames Friends to Connections, and says 13 users can message Trusted Connections (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/708670/roblox-trusted-connections-age-est…

Roblox will require a facial scan or government ID to have unfiltered chats
Roblox will let people make “Trusted Connections” to chat more freely, but will require that they use a new age estimation tool to verify that they’re over 13.

budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 121755 edges.
Tags: Biol…

'International borders cannot be changed by force,' — von der Leyen says in Brussels ahead of Trump meeting: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/17/international-borders-cannot-be-changed.html

Constraint-Consistent Control of Task-Based and Kinematic RCM Constraints for Surgical Robots
Yu Li, Hamid Sadeghian, Zewen Yang, Valentin Le Mesle, Sami Haddadin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14075

Constraint-Consistent Control of Task-Based and Kinematic RCM Constraints for Surgical Robots
Robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RAMIS) requires precise enforcement of the remote center of motion (RCM) constraint to ensure safe tool manipulation through a trocar. Achieving this constraint under dynamic and interactive conditions remains challenging, as existing control methods either lack robustness at the torque level or do not guarantee consistent RCM constraint satisfaction. This paper proposes a constraint-consistent torque controller that treats the RCM as a rheonomic hol…

"Construction of the world's tallest #wind turbine is beginning this week in the Brandenburg municipality of Schipkau. [...] The center of the #WindTurbine currently under construction will be 300 meters above ground, and the tips of the rotor blades will reach a height of 365 meters.&quot…

The EU shouldn't allow Apple to take-over Mistral..
https://analyticsindiamag.com/ai-news-updates/apple-will-seriously-consider-buying-mistral-report/

Apple Will Seriously Consider Buying Mistral: Report | AIM
Are acquisitions the way forward for the company to resolve its AI issues?

Speaking of cursed USB...
What's the most cursed USB thing you have personally had a hand in creating (whether as an actual product or a one-off personal project or prototype)?
For me, it's probably this 4-port hub with male mini-B connectors (yes mini, not micro or C), intended to mate backplane-style directly to small devkits without using a cable.
The connector was incredibly hard to source because ~nobody ever made USB devices with PCB mount (rather than cable m…

A live blog of Meta Connect 2025, where "Hypernova" smart glasses with a display, new Meta Ray-Ban glasses, Meta AI updates, and more are expected (Devindra Hardawar/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ar-vr/meta-connec

Meta Connect 2025 live updates: Gearing up for 'Hypernova' smart glasses with displays
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is kicking off Meta Connect 2025 with a keynote tonight, where we'll likely hear more a ton more about his plans for smart frames...

Energy Efficient Multi Robot Package Delivery under Capacity-Constraints via Voronoi-Constrained Networks
Alkesh K. Srivastava, Jared Michael Levin, Philip Dames
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14127

Energy Efficient Multi Robot Package Delivery under Capacity-Constraints via Voronoi-Constrained Networks
We consider the problem of delivering multiple packages from a single pickup depot to distinct goal locations using a homogeneous fleet of robots with limited carrying capacity. We propose VCST-RCP, a Voronoi-Constrained Steiner Tree Relay Coordination Planning framework that constructs sparse relay trunks using Steiner tree optimization and then synthesizes robot-level pickup, relay, and delivery schedules. This framework reframes relays from incidental byproducts into central elements of coor…

TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says the company is speeding up construction of its second and third plants in Arizona "by several quarters" to meet robust US chip demand (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/…

TSMC to speed up construction of US chip plants by 'several quarters'
Taiwanese company to eventually make 30% of its most advanced chips in Arizona