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(PDF) Guiding sightless people one dimension at a time: how the strategy used in spontaneous voice instructions benefits sonification-based guidance https://hal.science/hal-05165934v1 On sensory substitution for the blind

So jealous of Word users. You want to write something: you fire up Word, you start writing.
Me, I first spend months on my authoring tool and whether it can give me all the abstractions I want. No two of my books have used the same tool. Nearly exhausted before I even begin!

SFNet: Fusion of Spatial and Frequency-Domain Features for Remote Sensing Image Forgery Detection
Ji Qi, Xinchang Zhang, Dingqi Ye, Yongjia Ruan, Xin Guo, Shaowen Wang, Haifeng Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20599

SFNet: Fusion of Spatial and Frequency-Domain Features for Remote Sensing Image Forgery Detection
The rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence is producing fake remote sensing imagery (RSI) that is increasingly difficult to detect, potentially leading to erroneous intelligence, fake news, and even conspiracy theories. Existing forgery detection methods typically rely on single visual features to capture predefined artifacts, such as spatial-domain cues to detect forged objects like roads or buildings in RSI, or frequency-domain features to identify artifacts from up-sampling …

I increasingly think that we need mandatory formal training for PhD students in “research as a profession” (as it exists in other countries, apparently).
Yes, submitting a paper to a conference (in particular as a first author) constitutes an commitment to present the paper if it’s accepted. When working with coauthors, no, you can’t tacitly assume that they’ll take care of it.
And yes, a workshop on Monday from 09:00 to 12:30 takes place during “normal working hours.”

Update on my depression. I’m finally starting to feel like myself again and slowly landing back on earth!
I spent today reflecting and figuring out why I got severely depressed after the Pride party Saturday night. Honestly, that night was the most insanely incredible, mind-blowingly spectacular night I have ever experienced in my entire existence. It was an explosion of joy and queerness unlike anything I’ve ever felt, pure, radiant, overwhelming happiness that hit me with the force o…

SAVANT: Vulnerability Detection in Application Dependencies through Semantic-Guided Reachability Analysis
Wang Lingxiang, Quanzhi Fu, Wenjia Song, Gelei Deng, Yi Liu, Dan Williams, Ying Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17798

SAVANT: Vulnerability Detection in Application Dependencies through Semantic-Guided Reachability Analysis
The integration of open-source third-party library dependencies in Java development introduces significant security risks when these libraries contain known vulnerabilities. Existing Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools struggle to effectively detect vulnerable API usage from these libraries due to limitations in understanding API usage semantics and computational challenges in analyzing complex codebases, leading to inaccurate vulnerability alerts that burden development teams and delay c…

Holy fuck this guitar is my goddamn spirit animal
#guitar #gearsquad #PRS

“We spent more than four years in research and development, working closely with Herman to get everything exactly right”: PRS activates total shred mode for the launch of Herman Li’s feature-packed Chleo signature electric
Available in Orchid Dusk and Charcoal Purple Burst, limited to 200 units, we've got 13 unique tone combinations from its HSH Fishman pickups, a Gotoh floating vibrato and Eclipse Dragon inlays too

An Exact Solver for Maximizing a Submodular Function Subject to a Knapsack Constraint
Sabine M\"unch, Stephen Raach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16149 h…

An Exact Solver for Maximizing a Submodular Function Subject to a Knapsack Constraint
We study the problem of maximizing a monotone increasing submodular function over a set of weighted elements subject to a knapsack constraint. Although this problem is NP-hard, many applications require exact solutions, as approximate solutions are often insufficient in practice. To address this need, we propose an exact branch-and-bound algorithm tailored for the submodular knapsack problem and introduce several acceleration techniques to enhance its efficiency. We evaluate these technique…

On Gy\'arf\'as' Path-Colour Problem
Ben Cameron, Alexander Clow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19100 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

On Gyárfás' Path-Colour Problem
In their 1997 paper titled ``Fruit Salad", Gyárfás posed the following conjecture: there exists a constant $k$ such that if each path of a graph spans a $3$-colourable subgraph, then the graph is $k$-colourable. It is noted that $k=4$ might suffice. Let $r(G)$ be the maximum chromatic number of any subgraph $H$ of $G$ where $H$ is spanned by a path. The only progress on this conjecture comes from Randerath and Schiermeyer in 2002, who proved that if $G$ is an $n$ vertex graph, then $χ(G) \le…

A new bill championed by President Trump calls for cutting $295 billion in federal spending over the next decade from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, better known as SNAP or food stamps, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
“What are we supposed to do?” Ms. Williams said. “I know he doesn’t need it, but the rest of us do

‘An Existential Threat’: Food Banks Brace for Fallout From Trump Cuts
New York City food banks aren’t sure how they will survive the administration’s funding cuts, which could also affect the programs they turn to for help.