Tootfinder

"Gas flaring created 389m tonnes of carbon pollution last year, report finds"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

Bondi Takes Revenge on Family of Man Who Created ICEBlock App
https://www.yahoo.com/news/bondi-takes-revenge-family-man-180841002.html

Bondi Takes Revenge on Family of Man Who Created Anti-ICE App
Pam Bondi’s Justice Department has fired the wife of the man who developed a controversial “anti-ICE” warning system after far-right influencer Laura Loomer ...

Amazon is acquiring Bee, which sells a $50 device that resembles a Fitbit, is always listening, transcribes conversations, and serves up daily AI summaries (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/711621/amazon-bee-ai-wearable-acquisition

Amazon buys Bee AI wearable that listens to everything you say
Amazon is acquiring Bee, an AI startup that created a wrist-based device that listens to everything you say and creates AI-generated transcripts.

Trump's political operation has reportedly launched a new political action committee (PAC) to oust Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican.
On Sunday, Axios reported that Trump's team had created the Kentucky MAGA super PAC after Massie slammed Saturday's strike on Iran.
Senior Trump advisers Tony Fabrizio and Chris LaCivita were expected to run the organization.
According to the report, the PAC was in the works before Massie's criticism. LaCivita said the g…

Scoop: Trump launches MAGA PAC in effort to oust Rep. Massie from Congress
By going after Massie, Trump's team is looking to put wayward Republicans on notice that they're ready to play hardball.

Seems a reasonable response. Would probably get you killed, but that's the world the fascists have created.

The Waste Musk Created (Nicholas Kristof/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/opinion/waste-musk-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Qk8.MFa8.D83Zs5aWzLWg&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p76#a250621p76

For the last two weeks, I’ve kicked the tires of @…. At first, I created a recipe to move #Kotlin source files as per the official recommendations with a set package name. I then improved the recipe to compute the root automatically. In both versions, I thorough…

The near-total repeal of the #InflationReductionAct, as passed by the US House, would increase USA carbon emissions by 150 MtCO2eq/year by 2030 (for power generation alone) and 1 Gt/y by 2035. (While also increasing costs nearly everywhere.)
http…

Humankind has created many great works of art: David (Michelangelo), Girl with the Pearl Earring (Vermeer), the Parthenon. But I contend that none are greater than Jimmy Barnes appearance in the song "Big Enough". Truly an inspired performance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvrZJ5C_Nwg

We built a regulatory system for a reason - our history is replete with pipeline breaks resulting in leaks and explosions (natural gas, for example), oil well leaks and fires, chemical plant releases, exposure of workers to hazardous conditions. We have seen over and over again how industry's cost cutting ends up killing and injuring people. Yet the #GOP is bound and determined to gut the policies …

We built a regulatory system for a reason - our history is replete with pipeline breaks resulting in leaks and explosions (natural gas, for example), oil well leaks and fires, chemical plant releases, exposure of workers to hazardous conditions. We have seen over and over again how industry's cost cutting ends up killing and injuring people. Yet the #GOP is bound and determined to gut the policies …

I was a big Bucky fan as a kid.
Bring back the weirdest animated series of 1991
The fight against a hypercapitalist AI makes Bucky O’Hare still feel relevant today
https://share.google/G6KdAsfoScKPkydE8

The CryptoNeo Threat Modelling Framework (CNTMF): Securing Neobanks and Fintech in Integrated Blockchain Ecosystems
Serhan W. Bahar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14007

The CryptoNeo Threat Modelling Framework (CNTMF): Securing Neobanks and Fintech in Integrated Blockchain Ecosystems
The rapid integration of blockchain, cryptocurrency, and Web3 technologies into digital banks and fintech operations has created an integrated environment blending traditional financial systems with decentralised elements. This paper introduces the CryptoNeo Threat Modelling Framework (CNTMF), a proposed framework designed to address the risks in these ecosystems, such as oracle manipulation and cross-chain exploits. CNTMF represents a proposed extension of established methodologies like STRIDE…

A first look at License Variants in the PyPI Ecosystem
Weiwei Xu, Hengzhi Ye, Kai Gao, Minghui Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14594 https://

A first look at License Variants in the PyPI Ecosystem
Open-source licenses establish the legal foundation for software reuse, yet license variants, including both modified standard licenses and custom-created alternatives, introduce significant compliance complexities. Despite their prevalence and potential impact, these variants are poorly understood in modern software systems, and existing tools do not account for their existence, leading to significant challenges in both effectiveness and efficiency of license analysis. To fill this knowledge g…

The damage being done by the Republican party every week in the USA is enormous. There are the scandalous extremely bad major policies that are fairly well known.
But the depth and breath of the harm being caused is largely ignored. And the damage that will play out over years and decades is much greater and even more ignored.

NuSeC: A Dataset for Nuclei Segmentation in Breast Cancer Histopathology Images
Refik Samet, Nooshin Nemati, Emrah Hancer, Serpil Sak, Bilge Ayca Kirmizi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14272

NuSeC: A Dataset for Nuclei Segmentation in Breast Cancer Histopathology Images
The NuSeC dataset is created by selecting 4 images with the size of 1024*1024 pixels from the slides of each patient among 25 patients. Therefore, there are a total of 100 images in the NuSeC dataset. To carry out a consistent comparative analysis between the methods that will be developed using the NuSeC dataset by the researchers in the future, we divide the NuSeC dataset 75% as the training set and 25% as the testing set. In detail, an image is randomly selected from 4 images of each patient…

A Risk Assessment Framework for Digital Identification Systems
Allison Woodruff, Dirk Balfanz, Will Drewry, Mariana Raykova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14755

A Risk Assessment Framework for Digital Identification Systems
We introduce a risk assessment framework for digital identification systems, as well as recommended best practices to enhance privacy, security, and other desirable properties in these systems. To generate these resources, we created a casebook of a wide range of digital identification systems, and we then applied expert analysis and critique to identify patterns. We piloted the framework on several reviews within our organization over a period of approximately one year, and found it to be robu…

I continue to maintain that Biden was one of the worst presidents in my lifetime - mostly due to an accident of timing. If he had been president in 2016 or 2000, he obviously would've been a huge improvement over Trump or Cheney, respectively. Heck, even in 2008 or 2012 or 1996 he would've been.. fine.
But after covid, BLM, 4 years of Trump 1.0 abuses, & subsequent open insurrection by literal fascism, he was the wrong person for the job. He gave the fash 4 years to prep

"How Apple Created a Custom iPhone Camera for F1
Mounted on Formula One cars and used at real events, the special module used an iPhone camera sensor and A-series chip to help capture the new movie's racing scenes."
via @…

I think that "chatbot" is a bad design paradigm for most problems. It's actually the refusal to to design work.
https://tante.cc/2025/06/19/chatbot-is-bad-design/

"ChatBot" is bad design
As anyone who has every seen anything I created knows: I am not a designer. So take my reasoning and thinking here with a grain of salt. I do have many designers amongst my friends and I do think that a lot of software engineering falls within the domain of design to a certain degree. […]

W przypadku #PyPy, przyczyną jest zawsze jakiś wyciek zasobów…
https://github.com/vutran1710/PyrateLimiter/pull/205

AI would have done the patterns slightly wrong, relative to the mathematically perfect patterns that nature produces deterministically. https://ecoevo.social/@danmccullough/114698742002848774

Dan McCullough (@danmccullough@ecoevo.social)
Attached: 1 image Contrary to first glance, this was not created by AI. No, this was created by gardening. 😁 Sempervivum aka Hens & Chicks #Gardens #Plants #Succulents

Ok hear me out on this next #Nintendo #switch2 hit:
- Doctor Mario
- Open world
- Running through the streets of the Mushroom Kingdom
...
But it's "They Live":
- he's got a gun
- he's the only one who can see The Infected
- thanks to the Medicine he's created and takes
It can be the first Mario open world zombie shooter

Simulating Partial Sky Cosmic Microwave Background Maps with 3D Fast Fourier Transforms
Mariona Giner Mascarell, Emory F. Bunn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15703

Simulating Partial Sky Cosmic Microwave Background Maps with 3D Fast Fourier Transforms
Simulated maps of the microwave background (CMB) radiation are generally created using one of two methods: all-sky simulations use the spherical harmonic transform, while maps covering small areas approximate the sky as flat, allowing the use of fast Fourier transforms (FFTs). Current and near-future experiments, particularly ones like CMB S4, will cover areas too large for the flat-sky approximation but significantly less than the full sky. In this regime, it can be more efficient to simulate …

Yup. I do this.
https://snabelen.no/@Uglesett/114838896907663340

Thomas Fuglseth (@Uglesett@snabelen.no)
Attached: 1 image Public service announcement. (Created by https://bsky.app/profile/campfireharve.st )

It may appear to be looking empty and quiet at the MPS Göttingen right now - but we have been bustling about and are very busy getting everything ready for our visitors at the Night of Science tomorrow! Care for a few sneak previews in today's thread?
@…
#ndwgoe

internet_as: Internet AS graph (2006)
A symmetrized snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from BGP tables posted by the University of Oregon Route Views Project. This snapshot was created on 22 July 2006.
This network has 22963 nodes and 48436 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted

Albion EU is down?
- Still down, in maintenance...could not log in moments ago...
I got another character called MastodonFediAsia which I play on AlbionAsia. Unfortunately I already created a guild with 100 tax in it...that was a mistake...but I can fix this mistake by changing tax to 0% and then adding that only during special events for brief moments tax may be higher than 0%
#AlbionOnline

As my first vacation project I started to write my own "meta search engine".
The project is inspired by #Kagi and The custom search engine that "matdoesdev" created: https://matdoes.dev/metasearch

If my bio didn’t make it obvious, I’m an anarcho-syndicalist who’s bisexual, gender-fluid, and autistic!
#Anarchism #Syndicalism #AnarchoSyndicalism

#LouisRossmann Investigation Reveals Shocking Past Behind #PlayStation Repair Software Scandal 🔍🎮 #BetterWayElectronics created software to read secret

OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent System Card outlines how its red team helped implement key security features like "Watch Mode Activation" and "Terminal Restrictions" (Louis Columbus/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/security/openais…

How OpenAI’s red team made ChatGPT agent into an AI fortress
Discover OpenAI's red team blueprint: How 110 coordinated attacks and 7 exploit fixes created ChatGPT Agent's revolutionary 95% security defense system.

This piece was created while the apartheid government of South Africa was forcibly removing Coloured families from their homes as part of the destruction of District Six.
#mannenberg #southafrica #amf

Abdullah Ibrahim - Mannenberg - African Music Forum
Abdullah Ibrahim - Mannenberg - The instrumental later became identified with the struggle against apartheid in South Africa.

Scientists '3D Print' Material Deep Inside The Body Using Ultrasound
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-3d-print-material-deep-inside-the-body-using-ultrasound

Scientists '3D Print' Material Deep Inside The Body Using Ultrasound
Scientists in the US have created a way to 3D print materials inside the body using ultrasound.

MiDeSeC: A Dataset for Mitosis Detection and Segmentation in Breast Cancer Histopathology Images
Refik Samet, Nooshin Nemati, Emrah Hancer, Serpil Sak, Bilge Ayca Kirmizi, Zeynep Yildirim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14271

MiDeSeC: A Dataset for Mitosis Detection and Segmentation in Breast Cancer Histopathology Images
The MiDeSeC dataset is created through H&E stained invasive breast carcinoma, no special type (NST) slides of 25 different patients captured at 40x magnification from the Department of Medical Pathology at Ankara University. The slides have been scanned by 3D Histech Panoramic p250 Flash-3 scanner and Olympus BX50 microscope. As several possible mitosis shapes exist, it is crucial to have a large dataset to cover all the cases. Accordingly, a total of 50 regions is selected from glass slides fo…

Memoirs of the CP/M creator released:
“Our father, Gary Kildall, was one of the founders of the personal computer industry, but you probably don’t know his name. Those who have heard of him may recall the myth that he ‘missed’ the opportunity to become Bill Gates by going flying instead of meeting with IBM. Unfortunately, this tall tale paints Gary as a ‘could-have-been,’ ignores his deep contributions, and overshadows his role as an inventor of key technologies that define how compute…

In His Own Words: Gary Kildall
Gary Kildall was a pioneer of personal computer software. He wrote programming language tools, including assemblers (Intel 4004), interpreters (BASIC), and compilers (PL/M). He created a widely-used disk operating system (CP/M). He and his wife, Dorothy McEwen, started a successful company called Digital Research to develop and market CP/M, which for years was the dominant operating system for personal microcomputers. Thousands of programs were written to run under it, and a million or more peo…

Hey @… - I had a couple of mapping nerds (I include myself in that category) ask about how the hexagon electoral map is created. Is there an explanation anywhere? Loved it in https://www.

Where the election will be won and lost — or maybe left hanging
The electoral maths on Saturday seems simple — win 76 seats and you win government. But that's not all there is to it.

Spelling reform gone awry. #English
The radical 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet – and left thousands of children unable to spell | Education | The Guardian

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#SundayFeature
- Nu Yorica
Exploring the history art and politics of the Latin music scene of New York's Spanish Harlem, and the era that created salsa.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001n267

First time I like what I see from an AI video.
*This video summary was created by AI from the original DW script. It was edited by a journalist before publication.
How hackers could take down Europe’s power supply
https://www.dw.com/en/how-hackers-could-ta

How hackers could take down Europe’s power supply – DW – 07/17/2025
Hackers can hijack solar energy installations and disrupt the grid. As threats grow, can attacks from China, Russia, or elsewhere be prevented?

God to a European: “I’ve created the marvel of the universe and everything in it, how would you rate my work?”
European: “7 out of 10”

LEGO is officially doing a Godzilla set- this one's gonna be tough to avoid wanting to grab. I usually don't go for new LEGO (too pricey). But I already have a bit of a zilla collection. And wow, damn.
More: https://www.fangoria.com/official-godzilla-lego-set-d…

An Official GODZILLA LEGO Set Is Coming Our Way
The LEGO Ideas team has confirmed that a fan-created GODZILLA set is becoming an official product that you will soon be able to get your hands on.

To the genocide-loving German from mastodon.social who reported @… for being antisemitic:
Fuck you, you genocide-loving piece of shit, opposing genocide isn’t antisemitism. What you’re doing – conflating being anti-genocide with being antisemitic – is the greatest antisemitism as you’re de facto stating that all Jews are pro-genocide.

New York Public Radio CEO LaFontaine Oliver is stepping down from the position and stepping into the newly created position of executive chair (Tyler Falk/Current)
https://current.org/2025/07/lafontaine-oliver-to-step-down-as-new-york-public-radio-ceo…

As expected, they've fallen for it, again.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/18/this-is-a-much-better-place-wsj-bombshell-unites-a-frayed-maga-00464182

SANGAM: SystemVerilog Assertion Generation via Monte Carlo Tree Self-Refine
Adarsh Gupta, Bhabesh Mali, Chandan Karfa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13983 http…

SANGAM: SystemVerilog Assertion Generation via Monte Carlo Tree Self-Refine
Recent advancements in the field of reasoning using Large Language Models (LLMs) have created new possibilities for more complex and automatic Hardware Assertion Generation techniques. This paper introduces SANGAM, a SystemVerilog Assertion Generation framework using LLM-guided Monte Carlo Tree Search for the automatic generation of SVAs from industry-level specifications. The proposed framework utilizes a three-stage approach: Stage 1 consists of multi-modal Specification Processing using Sign…

Was anyone else taught this? I learnt ITA in my earliest education. Unlike the people profiled in the article I've never had any trouble with spelling or any aspect of learning or using English and I'd wondered if that was *because* I'd been taught ITA but judging by this article I was just lucky!

#Upcoming Twelve years in the making, “The Formless Irregular” chronicles the art of Babs Santini over 5 decades. Contains many never before seen pieces and illuminating commentary in this unique catalogue of (almost) everything Steven Stapleton has created visually! Preorders available via Timeless Edition, July 19th.

I had a bitbuy account long time ago (back when there might have been legit reasons for #crypto) and I guess I never closed it.
But wtf. We're going after the youth market now are we? Yes, I choose my currency and investments based on how cute/fun the mascot is. :(

Trump’s ‘gas-guzzling’ parade will produce planet-heating pollution costs, analysis says https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/13/trump-military-parade-pollution-emissions

In the ISE2025 lecture today, our students learned about unsupervised learning on the example of k-Means clustering. One nice hands-on example is image colour reduction based on k-means clustering, as demonstrated in a colab notebook (based on the Python DataScience Handbook by Vanderplus)
colab notebook: https://…

What is this bullshit system that claims to evoke and champion freedom and liberty while at the same time constructing a surveillance and police state the likes of which the world has never seen before?
This is fucking mental and the pretence is over now. This is what neoliberalism has created.

The Trump administration claims to be fighting an existential battle against insurrectionary forces in Los Angeles.
In truth, it created this cynical spectacle itself,
deploying troops and inflaming tensions to distract from its policy failures.
https://jacobin.com/2025/06/la-immigr…

Donald Trump Manufactured the Crisis in Los Angeles
The Trump administration claims to be fighting an existential battle against insurrectionary forces in Los Angeles. In truth, it created this cynical spectacle itself, deploying troops and inflaming tensions to distract from its policy failures.

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

Elon Musk Claimed the Art This Man Painstakingly Created Was Generated by Grok https://www.404media.co/elon-musk-claimed-the-art-this-man-painstakingly-created-was-generated-by-grok/

Mark Zuckerberg has created the saddest place on the internet with Meta AI's public feed https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerber…

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta AI is one of the most depressing places online
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta AI app has become the saddest place on the internet with its public feed of personal overshares.

War is an unconscionable horror. The illusions of "international law" and "rules of war" have lead us to believe that war can be clean, managed, and "civilized."
But wars are fought by humans and humans are messy. Humans are not well suited to following orderly rules. Humans respond to their environment. Humans in extraordinary situations can be extraordinarily vindictive and brutal. Sufficiently traumatized humans can act without a conscience, spreading trauma like an infection. If humans respond to their situation, then there can be no "civilized" war because war is itself an situation outside of the society. It is a place that promotes antisocial behavior and punishes pro-social behavior. War cannot be expected to follow "international law" because it is what fills the void created by the failure of "international law" (so long as we rely on nations).
To call for war is to inflict atrocities on civilians. It is to kill the parents and children who serve, and to destroy the combatants who survive. It is to infect both sides with a trauma that will spread if untreated, when soldiers come home or when they become mercenaries in other wars.
And yet... there are times when the brutality, the incompetence, the evil becomes so unbearable that no other option exists, when taking up arms is simply bringing symmetry to an existing asymmetric conflict. There are times when the worst possible thing is inescapable, though it can never be justified.
In this new era of war, in the scramble of conflict under the collapsing of the (poorly named) "Pax Americana," I hope that we, the people, can understand that war is not a tool to fulfill an objective. It is not part of a larger strategy. It is not an extension of deplomacy.
War is a failure.
While it may be the only way to deal with the irrational - the genocidal, the slaver, the dictator - it is still a failure. It is a failure to build a world in which these people can't control armies and economies, can't turn populations in to cults and bend nations to their will.
And we will continue to have such wars until we unite against those who would use as as pawns, who would control our lives and lead us to our deaths. We will have these wars until we unite, as one world, against those rulers. This is what I mean, and what a lot of other people mean, when we say, "No War, but Class War."

Recent Advances and Future Directions in Literature-Based Discovery
Andrej Kastrin, Bojan Cestnik, Nada Lavra\v{c}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12385 https:/…

Recent Advances and Future Directions in Literature-Based Discovery
The explosive growth of scientific publications has created an urgent need for automated methods that facilitate knowledge synthesis and hypothesis generation. Literature-based discovery (LBD) addresses this challenge by uncovering previously unknown associations between disparate domains. This article surveys recent methodological advances in LBD, focusing on developments from 2000 to the present. We review progress in three key areas: knowledge graph construction, deep learning approaches, an…

One of only a few games I vividly played on my Commodore C64 back in the times was Boulder Dash. Here is an interview for you with Peter Liepa, creator of the game. Enjoy: https://spillhistorie.no/2025/06/06/how-boulder-dash-was-created/

The story of how Boulder Dash was created
We spoke with Boulder Dash creator Peter Liepa about his classic action-/puzzle game.

"Starmer had a chance to thwart the smuggling gangs – with ‘one in, one out’, he has bottled it.
This messy policy won’t deter desperate asylum seekers. It’s more likely to have been created to appease the likes of Nigel Farage."
Diane Taylor in the Guardian.
https://www.

From @… - False UFO stories created by military... sometimes intentionally terrorizing their own soldiers https://n…

How False UFO Stories Were Created - Sometimes Deliberately - by the US Military - Slashdot
Last year's Pentagon report reviewing UFO reports "left out the truth behind some of the foundational myths about UFOs," reports the Wall Street Journal. "The Pentagon itself sometimes deliberately fanned the flames, in what amounted to the U.S. government targeting its own citizens with disinforma...

How Convective Mass Flux Responds to Environmental Humidity
Seth D. Seidel, Nathan P. Arnold, Brandon Wolding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14962 https://

How Convective Mass Flux Responds to Environmental Humidity
Our goal in this study is to characterize the relationship between lower tropospheric environmental humidity and convective mass flux in the tropics. To do so, we have created gridded convective mass flux datasets from five global storm-resolving models (GSRMs). We have three principal findings. First, in humid environments, mass flux increases with height from the surface through the depth of the lower free troposphere, forming a ``deep-inflow". In dry environments, mass flux decreases with he…

Towards Autonomous Riding: A Review of Perception, Planning, and Control in Intelligent Two-Wheelers
Mohammed Hassanin, Mohammad Abu Alsheikh, Carlos C. N. Kuhn, Damith Herath, Dinh Thai Hoang, Ibrahim Radwan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11852

Towards Autonomous Riding: A Review of Perception, Planning, and Control in Intelligent Two-Wheelers
The rapid adoption of micromobility solutions, particularly two-wheeled vehicles like e-scooters and e-bikes, has created an urgent need for reliable autonomous riding (AR) technologies. While autonomous driving (AD) systems have matured significantly, AR presents unique challenges due to the inherent instability of two-wheeled platforms, limited size, limited power, and unpredictable environments, which pose very serious concerns about road users' safety. This review provides a comprehensive a…

Newfluence: Boosting Model interpretability and Understanding in High Dimensions
Haolin Zou, Arnab Auddy, Yongchan Kwon, Kamiar Rahnama Rad, Arian Maleki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11895

Newfluence: Boosting Model interpretability and Understanding in High Dimensions
The increasing complexity of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) models has created a pressing need for tools that help scientists, engineers, and policymakers interpret and refine model decisions and predictions. Influence functions, originating from robust statistics, have emerged as a popular approach for this purpose. However, the heuristic foundations of influence functions rely on low-dimensional assumptions where the number of parameters $p$ is much smaller than the …

🏗️ 3D chip stacking method created to overcome traditional semiconductor limitations
#3d

First real test of the new cluster: encoding AV1 video. I created three Sisyphus encoding workers and decided to run some Blurays across all the servers. Wrote some Ansible to build the encoding workers because it's a pain in the ass, but right now I'm working through the first 3 videos in a queue of 12. Also, these are so much more efficient...
#homelab

Search for Z/2 eigenfunctions on the sphere using machine learning
Andriy Haydys, Willem Adriaan Salm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13122 https://

Search for Z/2 eigenfunctions on the sphere using machine learning
We use machine learning to search for examples of Z/2 eigenfunctions on the 2-sphere. For this we created a multivalued version of a feedforward deep neural network, and we implemented it using the JAX library. We found Z/2 eigenfunctions for three cases: In the first two cases we fixed the branch points at the vertices of a tetrahedron and at a cube respectively. In a third case, we allowed the AI to move the branch points around and, in the end, it positioned the branch points at the vertices…

Google Calendar: I found an event in my calendar for this Thursday, without a title or description, but a specific time (12:20-13:05). It is my private calendar, so I know I created it. So I am probably going to miss something this Thursday, but I don't know what.
What I found interesting is that when I asked Gemini it was able to tell me when I *created* that event, a piece of metadata that is not visible in the Google Calendar UX in any way.

White House and DHS Share Image Apparently Created by White Nationalist – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/dhs-x-account-report-all-foreign-invaders-nazi-n-word-mr-robert/

I created this Viper mascot for Turquoise Health's Design System, Pit Viper. I supplied a few versions including full body, and just the face/goggles for use as a smaller symbol, both with and without the Viper's tongue showing. The Turquoise Health's logo is shown on the arm of the Goggles.
#Illustration #Design #Mascot #PitViper

Somebody at Apple had a meeting and came out of it saying, “Yes. Put Freeform in the dock by default. On every Mac.” #imaginethemeeting

The Perception of Phase Intercept Distortion and its Application in Data Augmentation
Venkatakrishnan Vaidyanathapuram Krishnan, Nathaniel Condit-Schultz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14571

The Perception of Phase Intercept Distortion and its Application in Data Augmentation
Phase distortion refers to the alteration of the phase relationships between frequencies in a signal, which can be perceptible. In this paper, we discuss a special case of phase distortion known as phase-intercept distortion, which is created by a frequency-independent phase shift. We hypothesize that, though this form of distortion changes a signal's waveform significantly, the distortion is imperceptible. Human-subject experiment results are reported which are consistent with this hypothesis.…

Source: the CEO and the chief people officer of Astronomer were put on leave after a video of them cuddling on a kiss cam at a Coldplay concert went viral (Eleanor Hawkins/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/18/coldplay-kiss-cam-astronomer

Scoop: Astronomer execs on leave after viral Coldplay concert scandal
The company's slow response created space for spoof accounts, phony statements and memes.

Spirals, vortices, and helicity entanglements in dynamical Sauter-Schwinger pair creation
M. M. Majczak, K. Krajewska, A. Bechler, J. Z. Kami\'nski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08720

Spirals, vortices, and helicity entanglements in dynamical Sauter-Schwinger pair creation
We study helicity correlations of electron-positron pairs created by a homogeneous time-dependent electric field in the Sauter-Schwinger scenario. Our analysis is based on solving the Dirac equation with the Feynman or anti-Feynman boundary conditions, which is equivalent to the scattering matrix approach widely used in high energy physics. Most importantly, both these methods allow to fully account for the helicity (or, more generally, spin) correlations of created particles. The influence of …

A good friend of mine was railing against the Baby Boomers what they've created for us and this was my response:
Keep in mind it's the Ruling Class who runs things, not your average Baby Boomer. Just think about your average Gen X or Millennials, and what power they possess to create huge societal change. (Sure, some do... but most do not.)
That isn't to say we can't do good things, and keep trying, and keep fighting.
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Solitonic Andreev Spin Qubit
Pablo San-Jose, Elsa Prada
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15502 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.15502

Solitonic Andreev Spin Qubit
We propose a novel type of superconducting spin qubit, dubbed solitonic Andreev spin qubit (SASQ), that combines features of Andreev spin qubits and geometric spin qubits. The two SASQ states are the degenerate spin orientations of an Andreev bound state trapped in a circular Josephson junction with a Corbino disk geometry, created on a 2DEG. The junction is subjected to a weak magnetic flux that induces a fluxoid mismatch between the inner disk and outer ring superconductors. The fluxoid misma…

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After nuclear weapons testing began in 1945, atmospheric radiation contaminated new steel production worldwide.
For decades, scientists needing radiation-free metal for sensitive instruments had to salvage steel from pre-war shipwrecks.
Scientists called this steel
"low-background steel."
Graham-Cumming sees a parallel with today's web, where AI-generated content increasingly mingles with human-created material and contaminates it.
With the advent o…

Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel; now we’re hoarding pre-AI content
Newly announced catalog collects pre-2022 sources untouched by ChatGPT and AI contamination.

Apple sues Jon Prosser and Michael Ramacciotti over iOS 26 leaks, alleging a plot to access Apple employee's iPhone for trade secrets; Prosser denies the claim (Eric Slivka/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/07/17/apple-sues-jon-prosser-ios-26-leaks/

Apple Sues Jon Prosser Over iOS 26 Leaks
Earlier this year, YouTuber Jon Prosser shared multiple videos showing off what he claimed to be re-created renderings of what was then presumed to...

This comment from a Microsoft announcement post is a vibe

internet_as: Internet AS graph (2006)
A symmetrized snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from BGP tables posted by the University of Oregon Route Views Project. This snapshot was created on 22 July 2006.
This network has 22963 nodes and 48436 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted

Fox News will license the Ruthless podcast, hosted by veteran Republican staffers, and creates a "new media" division to house its opinion and non-news podcasts (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/15/fox-news-ruthless-podcast

Fox News to license "Ruthless" podcast as part of digital expansion
ox News has created a "new media" division that will house all of its opinion and non-news podcasts.

The Case for Contextual Copyleft: Licensing Open Source Training Data and Generative AI
Grant Shanklin, Emmie Hine, Claudio Novelli, Tyler Schroder, Luciano Floridi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12713

The Case for Contextual Copyleft: Licensing Open Source Training Data and Generative AI
The proliferation of generative AI systems has created new challenges for the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community, particularly regarding how traditional copyleft principles should apply when open source code is used to train AI models. This article introduces the Contextual Copyleft AI (CCAI) license, a novel licensing mechanism that extends copyleft requirements from training data to the resulting generative AI models. The CCAI license offers significant advantages, including enhan…

"How women are confronting climate change by challenging the systems that created it"
#Women #Climate #ClimateChange

How women are confronting climate change by challenging the systems that created it
A growing global movement led by women is linking environmental harm with gender-based violence and inequality, calling for systemic change beyond traditional climate solutions.Katie Surma reports for Inside Climate News.In short:Ecofeminist leaders argue that climate change, environmental destructi...

This week, we were discussing the central question Can we "predict" a word? as the basis for statistical language models in our #ISE2025 lecture. Of course, I wasx trying Shakespeare quotes to motivate the (international) students to complement the quotes with "predicted" missing words ;-)
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely...."

How DOGE's reckless cuts created chaos at the Social Security Administration (Zeeshan Aleem/MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/social-security-administration-phone-benefits-wait-doge-trump-rcna218252
http://www.memeorandum.com/250713/p25#a250713p25

Virtually all of the most important parts of the U.S. government that were created to protect the U.S. from the greatest risks we face
are being shut down, gutted, or marginalized.
What is more, plans and statements of the president and his advisers suggest further cuts are contemplated
that increase the likelihood that one or more crises will catch us unawares
🔥and that when that happens, we will be much less equipped to handle it than we have been in decades.

We Better Pray That No Unexpected Crisis Hits While Trump Is President
It’s a world exploding with crises waiting to happen. Donald Trump has made us less prepared for every one of them.

Trump signed an executive order decrying so-called anti-Christian bias in February,
and a hotline was created in April to encourage State Department workers to call in and snitch on their colleagues who might be acting with any kind of “anti-Christian bias.”
The Religious Liberty Commission was established via another executive order on May 1 during a flashy White House event.
Trump has even established his own Christian “faith” office in the White House, seemingly further…

Trump’s ‘anti-Christian bias’ taskforce reveals its propagandistic agenda in first meeting
Even though Christians are the dominant religious group in the country, Trump and his allies are desperate to portray persecution where there is none

Analysis: Community Notes submissions on X fell from a high of 120,000 in January to fewer than 60,000 in May; Musk now rarely mentions the feature (Joe Murphy/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/x-twitter-community-not…

Use of Community Notes on Elon Musk's X has plummeted in 2025
Half as many crowdsourced Community Notes were created in May than were created in January.

dbpedia_producer: DBpedia producer network (2014)
A bipartite network of producers and the works they created, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 187677 nodes and 207268 edges.
Tags: Economic, Production, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dbpedia

Donald Trump’s attempt to take credit for the additional weapons headed to Ukraine at Europe’s expense has created some friction in EU-US relations.
“If we pay for these weapons, it’s our support,”
said Kaja Kallas, the EU foreign policy chief, on Wednesday.
“So it’s European support,
and we are doing as much as we can to help Ukraine …
If you promise to give the weapons but say that somebody else is going to pay for it,
it’s not really given by …

Analysis: Community Notes submissions on X fell from a high of 120,000 in January to fewer than 60,000 in May; Musk now rarely mentions the feature (Joe Murphy/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/x-twitter-community-not…

Use of Community Notes on Elon Musk's X has plummeted in 2025
Half as many crowdsourced Community Notes were created in May than were created in January.

In May, Microsoft launched Signal, a 120-page print magazine focused on its tech and distributed to business leaders every few months, to counter digital noise (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft

Why Microsoft has created its own print magazine
Microsoft has created its own print magazine, named Signal. It’s a reaction to the digital noise and ephemeral content.

internet_as: Internet AS graph (2006)
A symmetrized snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from BGP tables posted by the University of Oregon Route Views Project. This snapshot was created on 22 July 2006.
This network has 22963 nodes and 48436 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted

In May, Microsoft launched Signal, a 120-page print magazine focused on its tech and distributed to business leaders every few months, to counter digital noise (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft

Why Microsoft has created its own print magazine
Microsoft has created its own print magazine, named Signal. It’s a reaction to the digital noise and ephemeral content.

A White House memo says David Sacks and Craft Ventures are divesting holdings in AI companies and hyperscalers like xAI and Meta (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/13/david-sacks-xai-meta-ai

David Sacks selling stakes in xAI, Meta and other AI companies
Sacks entered the Trump administration with a slew of investments that could have created conflicts of interest.

HP unveils Dimension, the first hardware built with Google's 3D video conferencing tech, featuring a 65-inch light field display, launching in 2025 for $25,000 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/684859/hp-dimension-google-b…

HP reveals $24,999 hardware created just for Google Beam
HP has revealed the first third-party hardware built using Google’s 3D video conferencing technology, Beam. The HP Dimension costs $24,999 and features a 65-inch light field display to create a “true-to-life” 3D video of your caller.

Memo: Google appoints a new chief AI architect, DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu, who will coordinate future AI-powered product development (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/11/2025/google-names-new-ch…

Google names new chief AI architect to advance developments
DeepMind’s tech chief, Koray Kavukcuoglu, was named to the newly created position, where he will work alongside Sundar Pichai to help speed up production.

Google adds an image-to-video generation feature to Veo 3 in its Gemini app, says users created 40M videos with Veo 3 since its May launch (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/google-adds-image-to-video-generation-…

Google adds image-to-video generation capability to Veo 3 | TechCrunch
Google said on Thursday it's adding an image-to-video generation feature to its Veo 3 AI video generator through its Gemini app.