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Looks like today should be the last day of NES work as the NESRGB mod is coming in today. Even better, the EuroSCART cable is coming in so I can test out the composite, S-Video, and RGB output from the console as well. I'm genuinely curious to see how different the PPU's composite output compares to the NESRGB's version. After everything is done, I'll get the blog post updated and published. Should be a fun day.

Interference Mitigation for OFDM-based Integrated Sensing and Communications with Arbitrary Modulation Formats
Felix Artmann, Daniel Gil Gaviria, Benedikt Geiger, Laurent Schmalen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07754

Interference Mitigation for OFDM-based Integrated Sensing and Communications with Arbitrary Modulation Formats
Integrated sensing and communication will be a key feature of future mobile networks, enabling highly efficient systems and numerous new applications by leveraging communication signals for sensing. In this paper, we analyze the impact of arbitrary modulation alphabets on the sensing performance of communication-centric OFDM systems as expected in the next-generation 6G networks. We evaluate existing interference mitigation techniques, such as coherent successive target cancellation, and propos…

Calls coming in are reports of homeless encampments, mental health crises and people sleeping on sidewalks.
Those calls will now be directed to Los Angeles County’s Emergency Centralized Response Center,
a new department designed to consolidate over 150 outreach teams across 88 cities, all under one roof.
The department soft-launched in January of this year following a motion that was introduced by LA County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath back in September 2024
Officials…

A look inside LA County's new emergency dispatch center for homelessness
The department hopes to increase accountability and deliver results

"In a Tough Environment, How Should We Make—and Communicate—Collections Decisions?"
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/resource-reviews/2025/how-should-we-communicate-collections-decisions
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Heterogeneously integrated lithium tantalate-on-silicon nitride modulators for high-speed communications
Jiachen Cai, Alexander Kotz, Hugo Larocque, Chengli Wang, Xinru Ji, Junyin Zhang, Daniel Drayss, Xin Ou, Christian Koos, Tobias J. Kippenberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06265

Heterogeneously integrated lithium tantalate-on-silicon nitride modulators for high-speed communications
Driven by the prospects of higher bandwidths for optical interconnects, integrated modulators involving materials beyond those available in silicon manufacturing increasingly rely on the Pockels effect. For instance, wafer-scale bonding of lithium niobate films onto ultralow loss silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits provides heterogeneous integrated devices with low modulation voltages operating at higher speeds than silicon photonics. However, in spite of its excellent electro-optic mo…

Information and Communication Theoretical Foundations of the Internet of Plants, Principles, Challenges, and Future Directions
Ahmet B. Kilic, Ozgur B. Akan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08434

Information and Communication Theoretical Foundations of the Internet of Plants, Principles, Challenges, and Future Directions
Plants exchange information through multiple modalities, including chemical, electrical, mycorrhizal, and acoustic signaling, which collectively support survival, defense, and adaptation. While these processes are well documented in biology, their systematic analysis from an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) perspective remains limited. To address this gap, this article is presented as a tutorial with survey elements. It provides the necessary biological background, reformulates in…

Free-Space Optical Communication-Driven NMPC Framework for Multi-Rotor Aerial Vehicles in Structured Inspection Scenarios
Giuseppe Silano, Daniel Bonilla Licea, Hajar El Hammouti, Martin Saska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04443

Free-Space Optical Communication-Driven NMPC Framework for Multi-Rotor Aerial Vehicles in Structured Inspection Scenarios
This paper introduces a Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) framework for communication-aware motion planning of Multi-Rotor Aerial Vehicles (MRAVs) using Free-Space Optical (FSO) links. The scenario involves MRAVs equipped with body-fixed optical transmitters and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) acting as mobile relays, each outfitted with fixed conical Field-of-View (FoV) receivers. The controller integrates optical connectivity constraints into the NMPC formulation to ensure beam alignm…

Lilith: Developmental Modular LLMs with Chemical Signaling
Mohid Farooqi, Alejandro Comas-Leon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04575 https://

Lilith: Developmental Modular LLMs with Chemical Signaling
Current paradigms in Artificial Intelligence rely on layers of feedforward networks which model brain activity at the neuronal level. We conjecture that expanding to the level of multiple brain regions with chemical signaling may be a productive step toward understanding the emergence of consciousness. We propose LILITH, a novel architecture that combines developmental training of modular language models with brain-inspired token-based communication protocols, mirroring chemical signaling in th…

Adam Dorr concluded that the current AI wave will not just convulse -- but obliterate the labour market by 2045.
What cars did to horses and carts, and electricity to gas lamps, and digital cameras to Kodak, are templates for the coming shock, he says.
“Technology has a new target in its crosshairs – and that’s us. That’s our labour.”
Some sectors will have an interregnum during which humans can work effectively alongside robots
– just like the period when chess gr…

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface aided Integrated-Navigation-and-Communication in Urban Canyons: A Satellite Selection Approach
Tianwei Hou, Da Guan, Xin Sun, Anna Li, Wenqiang Yi, Yuanwei Liu, Arumugam Nallanathan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01766

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface aided Integrated-Navigation-and-Communication in Urban Canyons: A Satellite Selection Approach
This study investigates the application of a simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS)-aided medium-Earth-orbit (MEO) satellite network for providing both global positioning services and communication services in the urban canyons, where the direct satellite-user links are obstructed. Superposition coding (SC) and successive interference cancellation (SIC) techniques are utilized for the integrated navigation and communication (INAC) networks, and th…