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HMS Endeavour confirmed found in Rhode Island!
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/discovery-of-hms-endeavor-wreck-confirmed/

Discovery of HMS Endeavour wreck confirmed
“The timbers are British timbers. The size of all the timber scantlings are almost identical to Endeavour.”…

Ooo, I received notification that I qualify for compensation due to Facebook's Cambridge Analytica incident. I don't know how much we'll all get, but I'll submit!
Info: https://www.oaic.gov.au/news/med…

Landmark settlement of $50m from Meta for Australian users impacted by Cambridge Analytica incident
The Australian Information Commissioner has agreed to a $50 million payment program as part of an enforceable undertaking received from Meta to settle civil penalty proceedings.

Volumetric segmentation of muscle compartments using in vivo imaging and architectural validation in human finger flexors
Yang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20206

Volumetric segmentation of muscle compartments using in vivo imaging and architectural validation in human finger flexors
Segmenting muscle compartments and measuring their architecture can facilitate movement function assessment, accurate musculoskeletal modeling, and synergy-based electromyogram simulation. Here, we presented a novel method for volumetric segmentation of muscle compartments using in vivo imaging, focusing on the independent compartments for finger control of flexor digitorum superficialis (FDS). Besides, we measured the architectural properties of FDS compartments and validated the segmentation.…

What are the Dallas Cowboys worth in 2025 and how it compares to other NFL teams https://insidethestar.com/what-are-the-dallas-cowboys-worth-in-2025-and-how-it-compares-to-other-nfl-teams

I'm skimming this year's #OSDI's proceedings because operating systems are 🆒.
https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi25/technical-sessions

OSDI '25 Technical Sessions
OSDI brings together professionals from academic and industrial backgrounds in what has become a premier forum for discussing the design, implementation, and implications of systems software. The symposium emphasizes innovative research as well as quantified or insightful experiences in systems design and implementation.

Convergence of discrete conformal mappings on surfaces
David Glickenstein, Lee Sidbury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17037 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.17037

Convergence of discrete conformal mappings on surfaces
Discrete conformal mappings based on circle packing, vertex scaling, and related structures has had significant activity since Thurston proposed circle packing as a way to approximate conformal maps in the 1980s. The first convergence result of Rodin-Sullivan (1987) proved that circle packing maps do indeed converge to conformal maps to the disk. Recent results have shown convergence of maps of other discrete conformal structures to conformal maps as well. We give a general theorem of convergen…

Convergence of Mean Shift Algorithms for Large Bandwidths and Simultaneous Accurate Clustering
Susovan Pal, Praneeth Vepakomma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19837

Convergence of Mean Shift Algorithms for Large Bandwidths and Simultaneous Accurate Clustering
The mean shift (MS) is a non-parametric, density-based, iterative algorithm that has prominent usage in clustering and image segmentation. A rigorous proof for its convergence in full generality remains unknown. Two significant steps in this direction were taken in the paper \cite{Gh1}, which proved that for \textit{sufficiently large bandwidth}, the MS algorithm with the Gaussian kernel always converges in any dimension, and also by the same author in \cite{Gh2}, proved that MS always converge…

Here's the #CFP for the 2025 #ICS #Cybersecurity Conference. The conference is Oct 27-30 at InterContinental Buckhead Atlanta.

2025 ICS Cybersecurity Conference: Call for Presentations
About the Conference - Know Your AudienceSecurityWeek’s ICS Cybersecurity Conference is the conference where ICS users, ICS vendors, system security p...

A few weeks ago, GDC'25 (https://globaldigitalcollaboration.org/agenda?day=2025-07-02) was hosted in Geneva, and we got together to discuss many different aspects of digital identity. I was very happy that consensus seems to converge on unlinkability as a non-negotiable…

Global Digital Collaboration Conference (GDC25)
Join the Global Digital Collaboration Conference (GDC25) on July 1-2, 2025 in Geneva, Switzerland. Uniting the world for the future of digital public infrastructure.

Chainlink and Mastercard announce a partnership to enable card users to buy crypto "directly onchain through a secure fiat-to-crypto conversion" (RT Watson/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/359461/mastercard-chainlink-onchai…