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Optimizing entanglement distribution via noisy quantum channels
Piotr Masajada, Marco Fellous-Asiani, Alexander Streltsov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06089 …

Optimizing entanglement distribution via noisy quantum channels
Entanglement distribution is a crucial problem in quantum information science, owing to the essential role that entanglement plays in enabling advanced quantum protocols, including quantum teleportation and quantum cryptography. We investigate strategies for distributing quantum entanglement between two distant parties through noisy quantum channels. Specifically, we compare two configurations: one where the entanglement source is placed at the midpoint of the communication line, and another wh…

"A new report lists the world’s 25 most endangered primates. Most people have never heard of them."
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A new report lists the world’s 25 most endangered primates. Most people have never heard of them.
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. A new report, “Primates in Peril: The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates,” catalogs the species closest to the brink. Compiled by more than 100 scientists and conservationists, it’s a stark warning: without urgent action, some of our closest […]

You won't want to miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Trump cyber EO reverses some parts of Biden, Obama orders
--Starlink endangers WH security,
--Nigeria convicts Chinese cybercriminals,
--US sentences Nigerian hacker,
--ICE arrests Oz hacker,
--Italy ends contract with spyware company Paragon,
--Supreme Ct. gives DOGE social security data,
--BADBOX 2.0 …

Trump cyber EO reverses some parts of Biden, Obama orders
Starlink endangers WH security, Nigeria convicts Chinese cybercriminals, US sentences Nigerian hacker, ICE arrests Oz hacker, Italy ends contract with spyware company Paragon, Supreme Ct. gives DOGE our social security data, BADBOX 2.0 infects 1m+ devices, EU issues cyber blueprint, much more

Habitat protections at risk in proposed Endangered Species Act changes
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/5337058-endangered-species-act-habitat-protections/

Neural Responses to Affective Sentences Reveal Signatures of Depression
Aditya Kommineni, Woojae Jeong, Kleanthis Avramidis, Colin McDaniel, Myzelle Hughes, Thomas McGee, Elsi Kaiser, Kristina Lerman, Idan A. Blank, Dani Byrd, Assal Habibi, B. Rael Cahn, Sudarsana Kadiri, Takfarinas Medani, Richard M. Leahy, Shrikanth Narayanan
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Neural Responses to Affective Sentences Reveal Signatures of Depression
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a highly prevalent mental health condition, and a deeper understanding of its neurocognitive foundations is essential for identifying how core functions such as emotional and self-referential processing are affected. We investigate how depression alters the temporal dynamics of emotional processing by measuring neural responses to self-referential affective sentences using surface electroencephalography (EEG) in healthy and depressed individuals. Our results r…

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A new report lists the world’s 25 most endangered primates. Most people have never heard of them. https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/06/a-new-report-lists-the-worlds-25-most-endangered-primate…

A new report lists the world’s 25 most endangered primates. Most people have never heard of them.
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. A new report, “Primates in Peril: The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates,” catalogs the species closest to the brink. Compiled by more than 100 scientists and conservationists, it’s a stark warning: without urgent action, some of our closest […]

CO-VADA: A Confidence-Oriented Voice Augmentation Debiasing Approach for Fair Speech Emotion Recognition
Yun-Shao Tsai, Yi-Cheng Lin, Huang-Cheng Chou, Hung-yi Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06071

CO-VADA: A Confidence-Oriented Voice Augmentation Debiasing Approach for Fair Speech Emotion Recognition
Bias in speech emotion recognition (SER) systems often stems from spurious correlations between speaker characteristics and emotional labels, leading to unfair predictions across demographic groups. Many existing debiasing methods require model-specific changes or demographic annotations, limiting their practical use. We present CO-VADA, a Confidence-Oriented Voice Augmentation Debiasing Approach that mitigates bias without modifying model architecture or relying on demographic information. CO-…

"Critically endangered chameleon discovered outside its known habitat in Madagascar"
#Madagascar #Animals

Critically endangered chameleon discovered outside its known habitat in Madagascar
ANTANANARIVO — At the end of April, a team of researchers scouring a scarred area of spiny forest in southwestern Madagascar came across three individuals of a critically endangered chameleon species. Furcifer belalandaensis had not previously been recorded outside of a tiny, 4-square-kilometer (1.5-square-mile) area near the village of Belalanda after which it’s named, so […]

Design Tradeoffs in Photonically Linked Qubit Networks
Ely Novakoski, Jungsang Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06268 https://arxiv.org…

Design Tradeoffs in Photonically Linked Qubit Networks
Quantum networking can be realized by distributing pairs of entangled qubits between remote quantum processing nodes. Devoted communication qubits within each node can naturally interface with photons which bus quantum information between nodes. With the introduction of CQED to enhance interactions between communication qubits and photons, advanced protocols capable of achieving high entanglement distribution rates with high fidelity become feasible. In this paper, we consider two such protocol…