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Fears of racial profiling rise as Border Patrol conducts ‘roving patrols,’ and detain U.S. citizens
video: “These guys, literally based off of skin color! My homie was born here!” The friend said Gavidia was being questioned “just because of the way he looks.”
U.S. Border Patrol Sector Chief Greg Bovino,
who oversaw raids that included picking people up at Home Depot
and stopping them on the highway,
has emerged as a key figure in L.A.
He stood alongside…

Fears of racial profiling rise as Border Patrol conducts 'roving patrols,' detains U.S. citizens
Border Patrol agents on 'roving patrol' arrest U.S. citizen on assault charges. Fear of widespread racial profiling gains momentum as Home Depots and car washes raided.

Filing: WBD says it plans to "significantly reduce" CEO David Zaslav's annual pay, including his cash bonus, after shareholders rejected his 2024 pay package (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/warne

Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav Pay to Drop After Company Split
WBD CEO David Zaslav will see his pay package take a haircut after the proposed separation of Warner Bros. Discovery in 2026. The company granted him $225 million in stock option awards.

So, deciding on a possible domain for my new home for my articles and blogging.
My main site is https://www.davidaugust.com/
And I own davidaugust.net
But maybe that gets confusing, so not great.
Maybe a subdomain?
I think ghost.davidaugust.com would be highlighting the tech runnin…

TRAN-D: 2D Gaussian Splatting-based Sparse-view Transparent Object Depth Reconstruction via Physics Simulation for Scene Update
Jeongyun Kim, Seunghoon Jeong, Giseop Kim, Myung-Hwan Jeon, Eunji Jun, Ayoung Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11069

TRAN-D: 2D Gaussian Splatting-based Sparse-view Transparent Object Depth Reconstruction via Physics Simulation for Scene Update
Understanding the 3D geometry of transparent objects from RGB images is challenging due to their inherent physical properties, such as reflection and refraction. To address these difficulties, especially in scenarios with sparse views and dynamic environments, we introduce TRAN-D, a novel 2D Gaussian Splatting-based depth reconstruction method for transparent objects. Our key insight lies in separating transparent objects from the background, enabling focused optimization of Gaussians correspon…

Quirk SUEP
David Curtin, Sascha Dreyer, Max Fust\'e Costa, Sarah Heim, Gregor Kasieczka, Louis Moureaux, David Rousso, David Shih, Manuel Sommerhalder
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11192

Quirk SUEP
We propose searching for physics beyond the Standard Model in the low-transverse-momentum tracks accompanying hard-scatter events at the LHC. TeV-scale resonances connected to a dark QCD sector could be enhanced by selecting events with anomalies in the track distributions. As a benchmark, a quirk model with microscopic string lengths is developed, including a setup for event simulation. For this model, strategies are presented to enhance the sensitivity compared to inclusive resonance searches…

Thermal electrons in the radio afterglow of relativistic tidal disruption event ZTF22aaajecp/AT2022cmc
Lauren Rhodes, Ben Margalit, Joe S. Bright, Hannah Dykaar, Rob Fender, David A. Green, Daryl Haggard, Assaf Horesh, Alexander J. van der Horst, Andrew Hughes, Kunal Mooley, Itai Sfaradi, David Titterington, David WIlliams-Baldwin
https://

Thermal electrons in the radio afterglow of relativistic tidal disruption event ZTF22aaajecp/AT2022cmc
A tidal disruption event (TDE) occurs when a star travels too close to a supermassive black hole. In some cases, accretion of the disrupted material onto the black hole launches a relativistic jet. In this paper, we present a long term observing campaign to study the radio and sub-millimeter emission associated with the fifth jetted/relativistic TDE: AT2022cmc. Our campaign reveals a long lived counterpart. We fit three different models to our data: a non-thermal jet, a spherical outflow consis…

Working on my new home (#blogging, I am realizing that unlike in the past, it might not make sense to use feedburner anymore.
M…

David August
Stories, serious articles, satire, tech trends, how to guides and ideas from David August. Actor. Writer. Acting coach.

FBI can’t hide behind supremacy clause to defeat lawsuit for wrongly storming ‘quiet family home’ in search of gang members, Supreme Court rules
https://lawandcrime.com/supreme-court/fbi-cant-hide-behind-supremacy-clause-to-defeat-lawsuit-for-wrongly-storming-quiet-family-home-in-search-of-gang-members-supreme-court-rules/

Can the Oxygen $2p$ Band Be Hole Doped?
Thi Ngoc Huyen Vu, Yu Kumagai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11619 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.116…

Can the Oxygen $2p$ Band Be Hole Doped?
The development of $p$-type oxide semiconductors remains impeded by the inherently low-lying valence-band maximum (VBM) dominated by O-2$p$ states. A prevailing approach to mitigate this limitation is to elevate the VBM by introducing cation states that hybridize with O-2$p$ orbitals or lie energetically above the O-2$p$ level. Nevertheless, the $p$-type oxides reported to date exhibit limited hole mobilities. To expand the search space, it is essential to accurately understand the intrinsic di…

A Roadmap for Climate-Relevant Robotics Research
Alan Papalia, Charles Dawson, Laurentiu L. Anton, Norhan Magdy Bayomi, Bianca Champenois, Jung-Hoon Cho, Levi Cai, Joseph DelPreto, Kristen Edwards, Bilha-Catherine Githinji, Cameron Hickert, Vindula Jayawardana, Matthew Kramer, Shreyaa Raghavan, David Russell, Shide Salimi, Jingnan Shi, Soumya Sudhakar, Yanwei Wang, Shouyi Wang, Luca Carlone, Vijay Kumar, Daniela Rus, John E. Fernandez, Cathy Wu, George Kantor, Derek Young, Hanumant Sin…

A Roadmap for Climate-Relevant Robotics Research
Climate change is one of the defining challenges of the 21st century, and many in the robotics community are looking for ways to contribute. This paper presents a roadmap for climate-relevant robotics research, identifying high-impact opportunities for collaboration between roboticists and experts across climate domains such as energy, the built environment, transportation, industry, land use, and Earth sciences. These applications include problems such as energy systems optimization, construct…