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Using a mix of colored pencil, pen, paint, and digital tools,
Ashley Percival dreams up cheeky patterns and palettes for common animals,
presenting collections of the same species in endlessly alluring grids
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/09/ashl…

Playful Patterns Adorn Ashley Percival's Collections of Creatures
Ashley Percival imagines fanciful menagerie in which poodles, rotund birds, and boot-wearing insects try on a vast array of vibrant costumes.

Anthropic launches Enterprise Frontier Safeguards to let businesses control how their data is reviewed, stored, and managed, after pushback from customers (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/01/anthropic-data-retention.html

Anthropic changes data retention policy after pushback from customers
Anthropic's Enterprise Frontier Safeguards are a response to customer feedback.

Fast 20 Jahre Zeitsprung bei Telstra: ein starkes Indiz für ein GPS-Week-Number-Rollover bzw. ein Epoch-Problem. Das zeigt einmal mehr, welche realen Ausfälle Zeit-Rollover auslösen können – und warum Y2K38 ernst genommen werden muss.
Guardian: https://www.thegu…

Es zeigt sich bei der Diskussion um die Nachbesetzung von Uno-#Generalsekretär António #Guterres, dass den #USA ebenso wenig wie #Russland demokratische Prinzipien wichtig sind. Sie klüngeln lieber im Hinterzimmer und m…

»Kompetenzüberschreitung«, »Heuchelei«: USA und Russland attackieren Baerbock massiv
Annalena Baerbock will die Uno-Generalversammlung stärker in die Auswahl des nächsten Generalsekretärs einbinden. Bei Russland und den USA sorgt das für Irritationen. Die Folge: Persönliche Attacken gegen die Grüne.

Once hailed as an AI visionary, Satya Nadella faces pressure as a compute crunch forces Microsoft to prioritize its own AI products over Azure cloud customers (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-nadella-hardest…

Inside Nadella's hardest year
Microsoft bet everything on AI. Is its North Star now a noose?

Bei Direktoren-Wahl - ORF-Chef Pig gibt ZiB-Moderatorin Bernhard Korb #News #Nachrichten

AI-based single-shot structured-light depth reconstruction for real-time laparoscopic surgical guidance
Wayne Wonseok Rodgers, Xiangyi Le, Seonghoon Jang, Shuwen Wei, Justin Opfermann, Michael Kam, Axel Krieger, Jin U. Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05109 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.05109 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.05109
arXiv:2608.05109v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Significance. Accurate intraoperative depth perception is important for autonomous and semi-autonomous robotic laparoscopic surgery. Conventional fringe projection profilometry can achieve millimeter-scale accuracy but often requires multi-shot acquisition, digital-micromirror-device projection, and projector-camera synchronization, complicating integration into compact laparoscopic systems.
Aim. To develop a synchronization-free, single-shot depth-sensing platform using a passive LED-illuminated binary mask and a VQ-VAE prior with a custom U-Net depth head.
Approach. A compact projection module was coupled to one channel of a dual-channel laparoscope, while the second channel imaged the fringe-illuminated target. A Zivid 3D camera acquired reference depth for 722 paired phantom images. Zivid depth maps were reprojected into the SSLE image frame for supervised training and evaluation. The VQ-VAE encoded each input into a discrete latent representation, and a latent-space U-Net predicted depth without a separate mask-prediction branch.
Results. Using a fixed train/validation/test split, the proposed model achieved an MAE of 3.70 mm, AbsRel of 0.0326, delta=1.1 accuracy of 0.962, and delta=1.1^2 accuracy of 0.970. It achieved lower MAE than the dual U-Net MaskNet DepthNet baseline and outperformed off-the-shelf monocular depth models in MAE, AbsRel, and threshold accuracy. The pipeline operated at 26.0 Hz over 301 consecutive frames on an NVIDIA A100 GPU.
Conclusions. The LED-illuminated binary-pattern platform with latent-space depth reconstruction enables synchronization-free, video-rate endoscopic depth estimation. Results demonstrate Zivid-referenced phantom reconstruction without an explicit segmentation stage, while emphasizing the importance of dataset size and SSLE-Zivid calibration accuracy.
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Small (~1.25mm) wasp that I've been finding in large numbers on yarrow growing in my yard. I'll probably never be sure, but my guess is that it's Aprostocetus anodaphus (Eulophidae), an endoparasite of Ozirhincus millefolii (Cecidomyiidae), which I've found on the same inflorescences in equally large numbers. As far as I know it has never been reported in North America. Please go out and check for them if you have yarrow and a macro lens. #wasps #hymenoptera #yarrow #achillea #flies #parasite #nature #insects #macrophotography