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“This is the new model,”
the secretary of commerce, Howard Lutnick, said in an interview with CNBC last month,
“where you work in these kind of plants for the rest of your life and your kids work here and your grandkids work here.”
The reality is that this particular campaign
— this effort to de-skill the working population of the United States
— is more likely to immiserate the country and impoverish its residents than it is to inaugurate a golden age of prosp…

Opinion | Trump Is Waging War on the Future
We can contest the dark dreams of those in power.

Alas I've just ordered a WIFI enabled, AI washing machine; and the copyright doesn't even include CURL; I thought the 5 year warranty would enable be to ask @… for advice on getting my clothes cleaner.
Still, it seems to have everything else, NuttX and contiki low power OSs (neither of which I've come across), Uboot, wpa_supplicant, cJSON, FatFS

Effortless adjustments with an adaptive paste #visualstudio :visualstudio:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/effortless-adjust…

Sources: Mark Zuckerberg and his lieutenants have discussed "de-investing" in Llama in favor of AI models from competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/technology/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai.html

Mark Zuckerberg Ramps Up Meta’s A.I. Spending as Competition Heats Up
Unhappy with his company’s artificial intelligence efforts, Meta’s C.E.O. is on a spending spree as he reconsiders his strategy in the contest to invent a hypothetical “superintelligence.”

A Systematic Review of Human-AI Co-Creativity
Saloni Singh, Koen Hndriks, Drik Heylen, Kim Baraka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21333 https://

A Systematic Review of Human-AI Co-Creativity
The co creativity community is making significant progress in developing more sophisticated and tailored systems to support and enhance human creativity. Design considerations from prior work can serve as a valuable and efficient foundation for future systems. To support this effort, we conducted a systematic literature review of 62 papers on co-creative systems. These papers cover a diverse range of applications, including visual arts, design, and writing, where the AI acts not just as a tool …

Exoplanet exploration in the context of the PLATO mission: From detection to population studies
Amadeo Castro-Gonz\'alez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19898

Exoplanet exploration in the context of the PLATO mission: From detection to population studies
This thesis constitutes an observational effort to advance our understanding of planet formation and evolution across different regimes. To do so, we exploited Kepler/K2 and TESS data in combination with ground-based observations, serving as a preparation for the PLATO mission. This endeavour led to the discovery and statistical validation of four planets, the confirmation and characterisation of two other planets, the detection of 14 new planet candidates, and the revision of the properties of…

An adversary bound for quantum signal processing
Lorenzo Laneve
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20484 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.20484

An adversary bound for quantum signal processing
Quantum signal processing (QSP) and quantum singular value transformation (QSVT), have emerged as unifying frameworks in the context of quantum algorithm design. These techniques allow to carry out efficient polynomial transformations of matrices block-encoded in unitaries, involving a single ancilla qubit. Recent efforts try to extend QSP to the multivariate setting (M-QSP), where multiple matrices are transformed simultaneously. However, this generalization faces problems not encountered in t…

Multimodal Behaviour Trees for Robotic Laboratory Task Automation
Hatem Fakhruldeen, Arvind Raveendran Nambiar, Satheeshkumar Veeramani, Bonilkumar Vijaykumar Tailor, Hadi Beyzaee Juneghani, Gabriella Pizzuto, Andrew Ian Cooper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20399

Multimodal Behaviour Trees for Robotic Laboratory Task Automation
Laboratory robotics offer the capability to conduct experiments with a high degree of precision and reproducibility, with the potential to transform scientific research. Trivial and repeatable tasks; e.g., sample transportation for analysis and vial capping are well-suited for robots; if done successfully and reliably, chemists could contribute their efforts towards more critical research activities. Currently, robots can perform these tasks faster than chemists, but how reliable are they? Impr…

CCISolver: End-to-End Detection and Repair of Method-Level Code-Comment Inconsistency
Renyi Zhong, Yintong Huo, Wenwei Gu, Jinxi Kuang, Zhihan Jiang, Guangba Yu, Yichen Li, David Lo, Michael R. Lyu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20558

CCISolver: End-to-End Detection and Repair of Method-Level Code-Comment Inconsistency
Comments within code serve as a crucial foundation for software documentation, facilitating developers to communicate and understand the code effectively. However, code-comment inconsistency (CCI) can negatively affect software development, testing, and maintenance. Recent efforts to mitigate this issue have emerged, but existing studies often suffer from inaccurate datasets and inadequate solutions, weakening their practical effectiveness. In this study, we first conduct a quantitative analysi…