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Cowboys could face tough QB decision during minicamp https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-could-face-tough-qb-decision-during-minicamp/2b05abbd7813cd623f5a03e4

Jets' Johnson fired up for Week 1 Rodgers reunion https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45487606/jets-de-johnson-set-week-1-return-eager-face-rodgers

John Deere Must Face FTC Lawsuit Over Its Tractor Repair Monopoly, Judge Rules https://www.404media.co/john-deere-must-face-ftc-lawsuit-over-its-tractor-repair-monopoly-judge-rules/

Those of you out there facing ICE/DHS - you may want to consider temporarily disabling face recognition login on your iPhone.
Here's from Apple:
Temporarily disable Face ID
You can temporarily prevent Face ID from unlocking your iPhone.
Press and hold the side button and either volume button for 2 seconds.
After the sliders appear, press the side button to immediately lock iPhone.
iPhone locks automatically if you don’t touch the screen for…

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50 Years of Automated Face Recognition
Over the past 50 years, automated face recognition has evolved from rudimentary, handcrafted systems into sophisticated deep learning models that rival and often surpass human performance. This paper chronicles the history and technological progression of FR, from early geometric and statistical methods to modern deep neural architectures leveraging massive real and AI-generated datasets. We examine key innovations that have shaped the field, including developments in dataset, loss function, ne…

Mistral launches its first reasoning models: Magistral Small, on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license, and Magistral Medium, in preview on Mistral's Le Chat (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/10/mistral-releases-a-pai…

Mistral releases a pair of AI reasoning models | TechCrunch
Like other reasoning models, Magistral works through problems step-by-step for improved consistency and reliability across topics such as math and physics.

"The cult of goal-setting thrives in this illusion. It converts uncertainty into an illusion of progress. It demands specificity in exchange for comfort. And it replaces self-trust with the performance of future-planning."
(Original title: Smart People Don't Chase Goals; They Create Limits)

Smart People Don't Chase Goals; They Create Limits
A few years ago, I sat across from a friend at a late dinner. He was telling me about his new promotion, the big title, the bonus, the corner office. I remember watching his face as he described it. He looked like someone describing a story he’d once believed

“I do not design with Figma. He who designs with Figma has forgotten the face of his father. I design with my eye.
I do not code with an IDE. He who codes with his IDE has forgotten the face of his father. I code with my mind.
I do not push to staging. He who pushes to staging has forgotten the face of his father. I push to prod.”
--The Gunslinger, if Stephen King was full stack
#tech

If the Finder icon looks reversed to you in macOS 26, then my guess is that you aren’t using Dark Mode…

Marines are highly trained in combat and crisis response, with time in conflict zones like Syria and Afghanistan.
But that is starkly different from the role they will face now:
They could potentially be hit by L A hipsters carrying gas canisters and have to quickly decide how to respond
or face decisions about protecting an immigration enforcement agent from crowds.

Pentagon draws up rules for Marines deployed to LA protests
The Pentagon is scrambling to establish rules to guide U.S. Marines who could be faced with the rare and difficult prospect of using force against citizens on American soil, now that the Trump administration is deploying active duty troops to the immigration raid protests in Los Angeles. U.S. Northern Command said Monday that it's sending 700 Marines into the Los Angeles area to protect federal property and personnel. A U.S. official says troops will be armed with their normal service weapons b…

⛓️‍💥 The ‘chain of favors’ that keeps Cubans afloat in the face of state abandonment
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-04-20/the-chain-of-favors-that-keeps-cubans-afloat-in-the-face-of-state-ab…

The ‘chain of favors’ that keeps Cubans afloat in the face of state abandonment
Tired of waiting for a government that has turned its back on them, millions of people suffering from hunger, homelessness and a lack of medicine in Cuba are relying on solidarity to survive

From a 'day of love' to 'if they spit, we will hit': Trump's about-face on violence against police (Natasha Korecki/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-violence-police-jan-6-los-angeles-rcna211912
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p139#a250611p139

Dimitri is very curious about you for #caturday

Keep your kids out of the basement with this ONE WEIRD TRICK #parenting

Trump is spiraling. We face the consequences. Where are the other branches?
https://www.lawdork.com/p/trump-is-spiraling-we-face-the-consequences

Years ago, I moved to a place where I didn't speak the language. My initial strategy for dealing with interactions I didn't understand was to simply say "no." I figured this was safe - at least I wouldn't agree to something I didn't want. One day, as I was leaving my apartment with a friend, the guy across the hall asked me a question. "No," I said. He looked like I'd spit in his face then retreated to his apartment. My friend, dumbfounded, asked &quot…

The problem of course is that our problems are complex.
“Advanced AI suffers ‘complete accuracy collapse’ in face of complex problems, study finds” - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/09/apple-artificial-intelligence…

What, my family actually expects me to act "normal"? What kind of backwards sorcery is that? I’m an anarchist at heart and a syndicalist by choice, no apologies, no compromises.
https://nsf-iaa.org

Check out my latest CSO piece, which examines how Trump’s nominees for national cyber director and CISA director will face shared challenges but different prospects in coping with unprecedented reductions in cyber personnel across the federal government.
Many thanks to Michael Daniel of the Cyber Threat Alliance and Mark Montgomery of FDD for their help and insight.
Daniel made a point about Trump's cutbacks on cyber spending, a situation that most cyber folks haven't see…

Top US cyber officials face divergent paths after Senate confirmation
Following their Senate confirmations, Sean Cairncross and Sean Plankey — Trump’s nominees for national cyber director and CISA director — will face shared challenges but different prospects in coping with unprecedented reductions in cyber personnel across the federal government.

Series A, Episode 05 - The Web
GEELA: [Touches Avon's hand with her weapon. She releases his hand.] Minimum power. A full charge would cut you in half.
NOVARA: Understand. Your lives are totally unimportant to us.
BLAKE: All right.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/105/484…

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

"The disconnection between designers and users has let user interfaces to drift off to a space where only designers are satisfied by them. It is time to remember the users trying to find those buttons, trying to bend those spoons, and to take their satisfaction into account, too."
https://d…

The Button And The Spoon
As my father approaches his 80th birthday, his first contacts with the latest technologies become ever more interesting. As a pen-and-pencil architect and entrepreneur with 50 years of experience, technology is not a necessity; rather, just another useful tool. He setup his first fax machine at the end of the 90s, and got his first computer a decade after that. At some point in the 2010s he bought a smartphone, and one day asked me for help to finish some task on it. I remember his face when I …

The only jury I've ever been on faced a question about resisting arrest. The defendant was tackled by an officer and initially fought back (or so the officer claimed). The officer was wearing a police uniform, but we acquitted on the charge, because the defendant was tackled from behind and there was reasonable doubt as to whether the officer actually identified themselves verbally in a way that made it clear to the defendant they weren't being tackled by some random dude.
This ain't legal advice, but in situations where a kidnapper refuses to identify themselves, show a warrant, or even a badge number, I suspect a sufficiently white bystander might not be convicted on interference charges if they did something like a citizen's arrest of a suspicious out-of-town paramilitary type who was in the process of an extrajudicial kidnapping. If there are multiple kidnappers, to be effective you might need multiple people willing to face jail time for such interventions to be successful...
#resist #ICE #kidnapping
Just thinking about this in light of the recent kidnapping in the next town over where some fools called the city police thinking they might actually protect the community from an unlawful assault. Can't blame the fools too much because of how deep positive portrayals of cops are embedded in our media diet though...

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Turb-L1: Achieving Long-term Turbulence Tracing By Tackling Spectral Bias
Accurately predicting the long-term evolution of turbulence is crucial for advancing scientific understanding and optimizing engineering applications. However, existing deep learning methods face significant bottlenecks in long-term autoregressive prediction, which exhibit excessive smoothing and fail to accurately track complex fluid dynamics. Our extensive experimental and spectral analysis of prevailing methods provides an interpretable explanation for this shortcoming, identifying Spectral …

Sources - Cachemire de Mongolie : Enquête sur la face cachée de nos vêtements - Regarder le documentaire complet | ARTE
#mongolie

Sources - Cachemire de Mongolie : Enquête sur la face cachée de nos vêtements - Regarder le documentaire complet | ARTE
C’est la reine des laines. Le cachemire. Mais l’afflux sur le marché mondial de pulls plus abordables a des conséquences sur tout un pays… Que font les marques pour limiter leur impact ?

The Las Vegas Raiders Face a Significant Question https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-devin-white-pete-carroll-jeremy-chinn-ashton-jeanty

CLONE: Closed-Loop Whole-Body Humanoid Teleoperation for Long-Horizon Tasks
Yixuan Li, Yutang Lin, Jieming Cui, Tengyu Liu, Wei Liang, Yixin Zhu, Siyuan Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08931

CLONE: Closed-Loop Whole-Body Humanoid Teleoperation for Long-Horizon Tasks
Humanoid teleoperation plays a vital role in demonstrating and collecting data for complex humanoid-scene interactions. However, current teleoperation systems face critical limitations: they decouple upper- and lower-body control to maintain stability, restricting natural coordination, and operate open-loop without real-time position feedback, leading to accumulated drift. The fundamental challenge is achieving precise, coordinated whole-body teleoperation over extended durations while maintain…

If you image playground my face, thats a faux pas

A Framework for Creating Non-Regressive Test Cases via Branch Consistency Analysis Driven by Descriptions
Yuxiang Zhang, Pengyu Xue, Zhen Yang, Xiaoxue Ren, Xiang Li, Linhao Wu, Jiancheng Zhao, Xingda Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07486

A Framework for Creating Non-Regressive Test Cases via Branch Consistency Analysis Driven by Descriptions
Automated test-generation research overwhelmingly assumes the correctness of focal methods, yet practitioners routinely face non-regression scenarios where the focal method may be defective. A baseline evaluation of EvoSuite and two leading Large Language Model (LLM)-based generators, namely ChatTester and ChatUniTest, on defective focal methods reveals that despite achieving up to 83% of branch coverage, none of the generated tests expose defects. To resolve this problem, we first construct …

Face the future
#StreetArt #face #photography

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Walrus: An Efficient Decentralized Storage Network
Decentralized storage systems face a fundamental trade-off between replication overhead, recovery efficiency, and security guarantees. Current approaches either rely on full replication, incurring substantial storage costs, or employ trivial erasure coding schemes that struggle with efficient recovery especially under high storage-node churn. We present Walrus, a novel decentralized blob storage system that addresses these limitations through multiple technical innovations. At the core of Walru…

Deepfake Technology Unveiled: The Commoditization of AI and Its Impact on Digital Trust
Claudiu Popa, Rex Pallath, Liam Cunningham, Hewad Tahiri, Abiram Kesavarajah, Tao Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07363

Deepfake Technology Unveiled: The Commoditization of AI and Its Impact on Digital Trust
Deepfake Technology Unveiled: The Commoditization of AI and Its Impact on Digital Trust. With the increasing accessibility of generative AI, tools for voice cloning, face-swapping, and synthetic media creation have advanced significantly, lowering both financial and technical barriers for their use. While these technologies present innovative opportunities, their rapid growth raises concerns about trust, privacy, and security. This white paper explores the implications of deepfake technology, a…

And now an older male boarded he train, and looking at his face, I was like: "Gargamel!"
And now I can't stop smiling. And the young 'uns these days probably don't even know Gargamel!

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RetinaLogos: Fine-Grained Synthesis of High-Resolution Retinal Images Through Captions
The scarcity of high-quality, labelled retinal imaging data, which presents a significant challenge in the development of machine learning models for ophthalmology, hinders progress in the field. To synthesise Colour Fundus Photographs (CFPs), existing methods primarily relying on predefined disease labels face significant limitations. However, current methods remain limited, thus failing to generate images for broader categories with diverse and fine-grained anatomical structures. To overcome …

Learned Off-Grid Imager for Low-Altitude Economy with Cooperative ISAC Network
Yixuan Huang, Jie Yang, Shuqiang Xia, Chao-Kai Wen, Shi Jin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07799

Learned Off-Grid Imager for Low-Altitude Economy with Cooperative ISAC Network
The low-altitude economy is emerging as a key driver of future economic growth, necessitating effective flight activity surveillance using existing mobile cellular network sensing capabilities. However, traditional monostatic and localizationbased sensing methods face challenges in fusing sensing results and matching channel parameters. To address these challenges, we model low-altitude surveillance as a compressed sensing (CS)-based imaging problem by leveraging the cooperation of multiple bas…

CoQMoE: Co-Designed Quantization and Computation Orchestration for Mixture-of-Experts Vision Transformer on FPGA
Jiale Dong, Hao Wu, Zihao Wang, Wenqi Lou, Zhendong Zheng, Lei Gong, Chao Wang, Xuehai Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08496

CoQMoE: Co-Designed Quantization and Computation Orchestration for Mixture-of-Experts Vision Transformer on FPGA
Vision Transformers (ViTs) exhibit superior performance in computer vision tasks but face deployment challenges on resource-constrained devices due to high computational/memory demands. While Mixture-of-Experts Vision Transformers (MoE-ViTs) mitigate this through a scalable architecture with sub-linear computational growth, their hardware implementation on FPGAs remains constrained by resource limitations. This paper proposes a novel accelerator for efficiently implementing quantized MoE models…

NR4DER: Neural Re-ranking for Diversified Exercise Recommendation
Xinghe Cheng, Xufang Zhou, Liangda Fang, Chaobo He, Yuyu Zhou, Weiqi Luo, Zhiguo Gong, Quanlong Guan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06341

NR4DER: Neural Re-ranking for Diversified Exercise Recommendation
With the widespread adoption of online education platforms, an increasing number of students are gaining new knowledge through Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Exercise recommendation have made strides toward improving student learning outcomes. However, existing methods not only struggle with high dropout rates but also fail to match the diverse learning pace of students. They frequently face difficulties in adjusting to inactive students' learning patterns and in accommodating individuali…

Impostor Among $\nu$s: Dark Radiation Masquerading as Self-Interacting Neutrinos
Anirban Das, P. S. Bhupal Dev, Christina Gao, Subhajit Ghosh, Taegyun Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08085

Impostor Among $ν$s: Dark Radiation Masquerading as Self-Interacting Neutrinos
Multiple cosmological observations hint at neutrino self-interactions beyond the Standard Model, yet such interactions face severe constraints from terrestrial experiments. We resolve this tension by introducing a model where active neutrinos resonantly convert to self-interacting dark radiation after BBN but before CMB epoch. This exploits the fact that cosmological observables cannot distinguish between neutrinos and dark radiation with the same abundance and free-streaming properties. Our me…

Heating Mechanisms and Radio Response from the Solar Chromosphere to Corona
Baolin Tan, Jing Huang, Yin Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07444 https://

Heating Mechanisms and Radio Response from the Solar Chromosphere to Corona
Heating mechanism in the solar atmosphere (from chromosphere to corona) is one of the top-challenges in modern astronomy. The classic mechanisms can be divided into two categories: wave heating (W) and magnetic reconnection heating (X). Both of them still face some problems currently difficult to overcome. Recently, we proposed a new mechanism, called magnetic-gradient pumping heating (MGP, or P) which seems to overcome those difficulties, but still lacks sufficient observational evidence. Whic…

Hardware Limitations and Optimization Approach in 1-Bit RIS Design at 28 GHz
Hossein Rezaei, Mehmet Emin Arslan, George Yammine, Niels Neumann, Norman Franchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08930

Hardware Limitations and Optimization Approach in 1-Bit RIS Design at 28 GHz
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have emerged as a transformative technology for electromagnetic (EM) wave manipulation, offering unprecedented control over wave reflections compared to traditional metallic reflectors. By utilizing an array of tunable elements, RIS can steer and shape electromagnetic waves to enhance signal quality in wireless communication and radar systems. However, practical implementations face significant challenges due to hardware limitations and phase quantizati…

Trump complaining about the violence in LA is basically somebody punching themselves in the face and then saying they’re going to start punching everyone if the punching doesn’t stop.

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AlphaAgent: LLM-Driven Alpha Mining with Regularized Exploration to Counteract Alpha Decay
Alpha mining, a critical component in quantitative investment, focuses on discovering predictive signals for future asset returns in increasingly complex financial markets. However, the pervasive issue of alpha decay, where factors lose their predictive power over time, poses a significant challenge for alpha mining. Traditional methods like genetic programming face rapid alpha decay from overfitting and complexity, while approaches driven by Large Language Models (LLMs), despite their promise,…

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Stability analysis of discrete Boltzmann simulation for supersonic flows: Influencing factors, coupling mechanisms and optimization strategies
Supersonic flow simulations face challenges in trans-scale modeling, numerical stability, and complex field analysis due to inherent nonlinear, nonequilibrium, and multiscale characteristics. The discrete Boltzmann method (DBM) provides a multiscale kinetic modeling framework and analysis tool to capture complex discrete/nonequilibrium effects. While the numerical scheme plays a fundamental role in DBM simulations, a comprehensive stability analysis remains lacking. Similar to LBM, complexity m…

33 pharmaceutical companies have told Ursula to change tack – or face exodus to US
#Trump, not UVD, that needs to change. Pharma can go fuck itself if it starts threatening Europe to drive Trump's daft demands.
#pharma and #ireland can't be proxy agents for Trump.
Pick a side.

Research on Aerodynamic Performance Prediction of Airfoils Based on a Fusion Algorithm of Transformer and GAN
MaolinYang, Yaohui Wang, Pingyu Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06979

Research on Aerodynamic Performance Prediction of Airfoils Based on a Fusion Algorithm of Transformer and GAN
Predicting of airfoil aerodynamic performance is a key part of aircraft design optimization, but the traditional methods (such as wind tunnel test and CFD simulation) have the problems of high cost and low efficiency, and the existing data-driven models face the challenges of insufficient accuracy and strong data dependence in multi-objective prediction. Therefore, this study proposes a deep learning model, Deeptrans, based on the fusion of improved Transformer and generative Adversarial networ…

Excitonic Properties and Optical Signatures in Quasi-1D Metal-Halide Perovskites with Tunable Octahedral Connectivity
Kostas Fykouras, Linn Leppert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07762

Excitonic Properties and Optical Signatures in Quasi-1D Metal-Halide Perovskites with Tunable Octahedral Connectivity
Reducing the dimensionality of metal-halide perovskites enhances quantum and dielectric confinement, enabling tunable excitonic properties. In one dimension, the arrangement of metal-halide octahedra in chains with corner-, edge-, or face-sharing connectivity allows for additional structural flexibility. This not only expands material design possibilities but also reflects quasi-one-dimensional motifs that arise during perovskite formation but are poorly understood. Using first-principles many-…

New survey data out Friday shows that Republicans are wrong if they remain unconcerned about public sentiment as it relates to the evisceration of Medicaid or healthcare support systems that would result from passage of their colossal legislation now making its way through Congress
— a bill that, if passed, would see coverage stripped from an estimated 11-16 million people in the coming years.

Poll Shows GOP Senators Who Vote to Cut Medicaid Could Face Political Peril
A KFF Health Tracking Poll shows anxiety is high about looming Medicaid cuts among voters across the political spectrum.

BELIEVE in YOURSELF

Eau potable : des scientifiques pointent le manque de rigueur de la Wallonie face aux résidus de pesticides.
#Wallonie #santé #pesticides

Ein humanoider Open-Source-Roboter für 3000 US-Dollar
Hugging Face stellt einen humanoiden Roboter für 3000 US-Dollar vor, der gehen und mit Objekten interagieren können soll.
https://www.

Refugees' path to legal stability is long and systematically unequal
Ola Ali, Elma Dervic, Guillermo Prieto-Viertel, Carsten K\"allner, Rainer St\"utz, Andrea Vismara, Rafael Prieto-Curiel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07916

Refugees' path to legal stability is long and systematically unequal
Legal systems shape not only the recognition of migrants and refugees but also the pace and stability of their integration. Refugees often shift between multiple legal classifications, a process we refer to as the "legal journey". This journey is frequently prolonged and uncertain. Using a network-based approach, we analyze legal transitions for over 350,000 migrants in Austria (2022 to 2024). Refugees face highly unequal pathways to stability, ranging from two months for Ukrainians to nine mon…

Sonnet 127 - CXXVII
In the old age black was not counted fair,
Or if it were, it bore not beauty's name;
But now is black beauty's successive heir,
And beauty slandered with a bastard shame:
For since each hand hath put on Nature's power,
Fairing the foul with Art's false borrowed face,
Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy bower,
But is profaned, if not lives in disgrace.
Therefore my mistress' eyes are raven black,

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Harnessing On-Device Large Language Model: Empirical Results and Implications for AI PC
The increasing deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) on edge devices, driven by model advancements and hardware improvements, offers significant privacy benefits. However, these on-device LLMs inherently face performance limitations due to reduced model capacity and necessary compression techniques. To address this, we introduce a systematic methodology -- encompassing model capability, development efficiency, and system resources -- for evaluating on-device LLMs. Our comprehensive evaluat…

A late addition to stroke awareness month (May).
From my article: #health #stroke

Self-seeded photon acceleration by electron beam-driven transition radiation
Chaolu Ding, Xuesong Geng, Liangliang Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06531 http…

Self-seeded photon acceleration by electron beam-driven transition radiation
Photon acceleration (PA) driven by ultra-relativistic electron beams offers a promising approach to generating high-power, high-frequency coherent radiation sources. While current methods typically rely on external optical laser pulses injected into beam-driven plasma wakefields, they face significant challenges in synchronization and alignment between electron accelerators and laser systems. We propose utilizing transition radiation (TR) generated by the drive electron bunch transversing the v…

What's the angle here? California belongs to Mexico? In Communism, we will drive our own taxis? Baiting the people who love Evola with the defeat of martial order by the unwashed and unchecked proletariat? Kali Yuga fashion show? Just there for the violence? Strange times we live in.

@… J’enseigne mon cours de propé BA en automne, je présume que ce sera le moment quand il me faudra faire face Š ce phénomène aussi…

@… J’enseigne mon cours de propé BA en automne, je présume que ce sera le moment quand il me faudra faire face Š ce phénomène aussi…

Limits of Disclosure in Search Markets
Raphael Boleslavsky, Silvana Krasteva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06319 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Limits of Disclosure in Search Markets
This paper examines competitive information disclosure in search markets with a mix of savvy consumers, who search costlessly, and inexperienced consumers, who face positive search costs. Savvy consumers incentivize truthful disclosure; inexperienced consumers, concealment. With both types, equilibrium features partial disclosure, which persists despite intense competition: in large markets, firms always conceal low valuations. Inexperienced consumers may search actively, but only in small mark…

Hugging Face unveils two open-source humanoid robots, the $3,000 full-sized HopeJR and a $250-$300 Reachy Mini desktop unit, expected to ship by the end of 2025 (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/29/hugging-face-unveils-two-…

Hugging Face unveils two new humanoid robots | TechCrunch
Hugging Face hopes to start shipping two new open-source humanoid robots by the end of 2025.

Hybrid Stabilization Protocol for Cross-Chain Digital Assets Using Adaptor Signatures and AI-Driven Arbitrage
Shengwei You, Andrey Kuehlkamp, Jarek Nabrzyski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05708

Hybrid Stabilization Protocol for Cross-Chain Digital Assets Using Adaptor Signatures and AI-Driven Arbitrage
Stablecoins face an unresolved trilemma of balancing decentralization, stability, and regulatory compliance. We present a hybrid stabilization protocol that combines crypto-collateralized reserves, algorithmic futures contracts, and cross-chain liquidity pools to achieve robust price adherence while preserving user privacy. At its core, the protocol introduces stabilization futures contracts (SFCs), non-collateralized derivatives that programmatically incentivize third-party arbitrageurs to cou…

Madleen Gaza flotilla live tracker: Greta Thunberg, crew near Gaza | Gaza News | Al Jazeera
https://aje.io/p6b8m7?update=3762371
UN rights expert says Israeli speedboats surrounding Madleen
(Via @…

Self Portrait Study 🖼️
自我小像研究 🖼️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Yiding Cao Geld mit PayPal.Me senden
Folgen Sie dem Link PayPal.Me/dingsterdingster und geben Sie den Betrag ein. Es ist bequem und sicher. Sie haben noch kein PayPal-Konto? Kein Problem.

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Breaking Barriers: Investigating Gender Dynamics in Introductory Physics Lab Classes
The persistent underrepresentation of women and other gender minorities in physical science fields has been an ongoing concern. This study investigates gender dynamics in introductory physics laboratory courses, focusing on whether students of different gender identities exhibit equal inclination and confidence in conducting lab experiments, and whether they face barriers that impact their participation. Conducted across three institutions and involving non-physics STEM students enrolled in alg…

Insights from Designing Context-Aware Meal Preparation Assistance for Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and Their Care Partners
Szeyi Chan, Jiachen Li, Siman Ao, Yufei Wang, Ibrahim Bilau, Brian Jones, Eunhwa Yang, Elizabeth D Mynatt, Xiang Zhi Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05663…

Insights from Designing Context-Aware Meal Preparation Assistance for Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and Their Care Partners
Older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) often face challenges during meal preparation, such as forgetting ingredients, skipping steps, or leaving appliances on, which can compromise their safety and independence. Our study explores the design of context-aware assistive technologies for meal preparation using a user-centered iterative design process. Through three iterative phases of design and feedback, evolving from low-tech lightbox to a digital screen, we gained insights into manag…

Face to face with solar telescopes, meteorites and exoplanets: For the 6th Night of Science on June 21st 2025 in Göttingen, the MPI for Solar System Research is offering a full program of hands-on activities, lectures, guided tours, and unique exhibits.
Infos by MPS: https://www.mps.mpg.de/night-of-science-20

»Hacker greifen Kundendaten bei Adidas, Victoria's Secret und Cartier ab:
Hacker haben es auf Firmen mit kaufkräftigen Kunden abgesehen. Nach Datenabgriffen bei The North Face sowie Marks & Spencer werden jetzt drei weitere namhafte Unternehmen Opfer. Die Cyberkriminellen haben große Datensätze gesammelt, aber keine Zahlungsinformationen erhalten«
Die wievielten Konzerne sind das, die sich einen Quatsch um Kundendaten kümmern?
🙄

Hacker greifen Kundendaten bei Adidas, Victoria's Secret und Cartier ab
Hacker haben es auf Firmen mit kaufkräftigen Kunden abgesehen. Nach Datenabgriffen bei The North Face sowie Marks & Spencer werden jetzt drei weitere namhafte Unternehmen Opfer. Die Cyberkriminellen haben große Datensätze gesammelt, aber keine Zahlungsinformationen erhalten.

DOJ Discovers It CAN Actually Bring Abrego Garcia Back… To Face Sketchy, Trumped Up Criminal Charges | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/06/doj-discovers-it-can-actually-bring-abrego-garcia-back-to-face-sketchy-trumped-up-criminal-charges/

the sheer gall of a guy calling his fork "something libre" to claim that it's apolitical
not only this is wilfully ignorant, but it also, on its face, entirely dismisses the value of FOSS as a political project

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Wanna hear your voice? A sample is all we need!
Research on audio clue-based target speaker extraction (TSE) has focused on modeling mixtures and reference speech, achieving strong results in English due to abundant datasets. However, cross-lingual properties remain underexplored, as low-resource languages face challenges from limited annotated data and linguistic resources. To bridge this gap, we propose WHYV (Wanna Hear Your Voice), a cross-lingual TSE framework enabling zero-shot adaptation without fine-tuning. WHYV employs a frequency-mo…

Lock screen ads. Imagine that.
I will never regret swearing off #Samsung devices after being fleeced by them twice. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114626009365316134…

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Join the 2025 Maine AI 'unconference' on June 13 in Orono for face-to-face discussions whose topics will be democratically chosen by the attenders. (We've got expert panels too.) Register by this Friday—more at https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonippolito

Aaron Rodgers revenge tour will be happening: New Steelers QB to face Packers and Jets in 2025

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/aaron-r

I’ve been researching this story for years and Elon just… tweeted it out.

The Trump administration’s
“border czar” warned that
immigration enforcement will continue
“every day” in Los Angeles,
hinting that even elected officials
could face arrest
if they interfere with agents on the ground.
Tom Homan appeared undeterred
by the volatile protests
against federal agents
in Los Angeles
who were carrying out
immigration raids.
Enforcement will be daily,
he said late Saturday
in an …

Trump's border czar threatens arrest for immigration interference, warns Newsom and Bass not to 'cross that line'
LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration’s “border czar” warned that immigration enforcement will continue “every day” in Los Angeles, hinting that even elected officials could face arrest if they interfere with agents on the ground

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00533 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…

Test-time Correlation Alignment
Deep neural networks often degrade under distribution shifts. Although domain adaptation offers a solution, privacy constraints often prevent access to source data, making Test-Time Adaptation (TTA, which adapts using only unlabeled test data) increasingly attractive. However, current TTA methods still face practical challenges: (1) a primary focus on instance-wise alignment, overlooking CORrelation ALignment (CORAL) due to missing source correlations; (2) complex backpropagation operations for…

En Lettonie, le conflit en Ukraine ravive la guerre des mémoires entre russophones et lettophones
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2022/05/09/en-le…

En Lettonie, le conflit en Ukraine ravive la guerre des mémoires entre russophones et lettophones
Pour les uns, le 9 mai 1945 représente la défaite de l’Allemagne nazie face à l’Armée rouge, pour les autres, le début de « l’occupation » par l’URSS. En avril, le Parlement a interdit les rassemblements célébrant la victoire soviétique.

Nearly 3,000 North Face website customer accounts breached as retail incidents continue https://therecord.media/north-face-customer-accounts-data-breach-notification

Abrego Garcia Charged With Illegally Transporting Migrants in US (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-06/abrego-garcia-returning-to-us-to-face-charges-abc-reports
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p111#a250606p111

Numerical modeling of isochoric heating experiments using the TROLL code in the warm dense matter regime
S\'ebastien Rassou, Marie Bonneau, Christophe Rousseaux, Xavier Vaisseau, Witold Cayzac, Adrien Denoeud, Fr\'ed\'eric Perez, Tom Beaumont, Morris Demoulins, Jean-Christophe Pain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08912

Numerical modeling of isochoric heating experiments using the TROLL code in the warm dense matter regime
Experiments of isochoric heating by protons of solid material were recently performed at LULI laser facilities. In these experiments, protons, produced from target normal sheath acceleration (TNSA) of Au foil with the PICO2000 laser, deposit their energy into an aluminum or copper foil initially at room temperature and solid density. The heated material reaches the warm dense matter regime with temperature in the rear face of the material between 1 and 5 eV. The temperature is inferred by strea…

$\text{C}^{2}\text{BNVAE}$: Dual-Conditional Deep Generation of Network Traffic Data for Network Intrusion Detection System Balancing
Yifan Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05844

$\text{C}^{2}\text{BNVAE}$: Dual-Conditional Deep Generation of Network Traffic Data for Network Intrusion Detection System Balancing
Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) face challenges due to class imbalance, affecting their ability to detect novel and rare attacks. This paper proposes a Dual-Conditional Batch Normalization Variational Autoencoder ($\text{C}^{2}\text{BNVAE}$) for generating balanced and labeled network traffic data. $\text{C}^{2}\text{BNVAE}$ improves the model's adaptability to different data categories and generates realistic category-specific data by incorporating Conditional Batch Normalization (C…

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Treefera, which uses satellite imagery, drone imagery, and AI to provide real-time insights into supply chains, raised a $30M Series B led by Notion Capital (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/06/03/treefera-secure…

Treefera secures $20M Series B for AI-driven supply chain resilience solutions
Supply chain resilience startup Treeferachas secured $20 million in its Series B funding round, led by Notion Capital with participation from other investors.  In the face of growing economic uncertainty, a stringent regulatory landscape, and increasing environmental risk, Treefera’s platform utilises satellite imagery, drone imagery, and adaptive AI in order to provide real-time, tailored insights into supply chains.  This is especially significant within the first mile of supply chains,…

No such thing as a slow cybersecurity news day anymore, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Top cyber vendors hope to clean up crazy threat group naming practices,
--Coinbase knew of data leak in January,
--Prolific swatter pleads guilty,
--Cartier confirms data breach,
--Abilene gropes for recovery after rejecting ransom payment,
--North Face customers' data stolen in credential s…

Top cyber vendors hope to clean up crazy threat group naming practices
Coinbase knew of data leak in January, Prolific swatter pleads guilty, Cartier confirms data breach, Abilene gropes for recovery after rejecting ransom payment, North Face customers' data stolen in credential stuffing attacks, $11.5m stolen from BitoPro hot wallets, much more

London Blue Light Collaboration Evaluation: A Comparative Analysis of Spatio temporal Patterns on Emergency Services by London Ambulance Service and London Fire Brigade
Fangyuan Li, Yijing Li, Luke Edward Rogerson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06011

London Blue Light Collaboration Evaluation: A Comparative Analysis of Spatio temporal Patterns on Emergency Services by London Ambulance Service and London Fire Brigade
With rising demand for emergency services, the London Ambulance Service, LAS, and the London Fire Brigade, LFB, face growing challenges in resource coordination. This study investigates the temporal and spatial similarities in their service demands to assess potential for routine cross-agency collaboration. Time series analysis revealed aligned demand peaks in summer, on Fridays, during daytime hours, and were highly sensitive to high temperature weather conditions. Bivariate mapping and Moran …

FACE: A Fine-grained Reference Free Evaluator for Conversational Recommender Systems
Hideaki Joko, Faegheh Hasibi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00314 https://…

FACE: A Fine-grained Reference Free Evaluator for Conversational Recommender Systems
A systematic, reliable, and low-cost evaluation of Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) remains an open challenge. Existing automatic CRS evaluation methods are proven insufficient for evaluating the dynamic nature of recommendation conversations. This work proposes FACE: a Fine-grained, Aspect-based Conversation Evaluation method that provides evaluation scores for diverse turn and dialogue level qualities of recommendation conversations. FACE is reference-free and shows strong correlatio…

How do Pre-Trained Models Support Software Engineering? An Empirical Study in Hugging Face
Alexandra Gonz\'alez, Xavier Franch, David Lo, Silverio Mart\'inez-Fern\'andez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03013

How do Pre-Trained Models Support Software Engineering? An Empirical Study in Hugging Face
Open-Source Pre-Trained Models (PTMs) provide extensive resources for various Machine Learning (ML) tasks, yet these resources lack a classification tailored to Software Engineering (SE) needs. To address this gap, we derive a taxonomy encompassing 147 SE tasks and apply an SE-oriented classification to PTMs in a popular open-source ML repository, Hugging Face (HF). Our repository mining study began with a systematically gathered database of PTMs from the HF API, considering their model card de…

Distribution-Level AirComp for Wireless Federated Learning under Data Scarcity and Heterogeneity
Jun-Pyo Hong, Hyowoon Seo, Kisong Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06090

Distribution-Level AirComp for Wireless Federated Learning under Data Scarcity and Heterogeneity
The conventional FL methods face critical challenges in realistic wireless edge networks, where training data is both limited and heterogeneous, often leading to unstable training and poor generalization. To address these challenges in a principled manner, we propose a novel wireless FL framework grounded in Bayesian inference. By virtue of the Bayesian approach, our framework captures model uncertainty by maintaining distributions over local weights and performs distribution-level aggregation …

The Trump administration’s deployment of national guard troops to Los Angeles
to intervene in civilian protests in the face of opposition from the Californian governor
is a major escalation that risks the politicisation of the US military, armed service veterans are warning.
Former top military figures have told the Guardian that the decision to put up to 2,000 troops under federal control and send them into the streets of LA
is a violation of the military’s commitmen…

Republicans face new pressure to extend expiring Obamacare tax credits (Sahil Kapur/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-face-new-pressure-extend-expiring-obamacare-tax-credits-rcna209281
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p12#a250602p12

"Trump says Elon Musk will face 'very serious consequences' if he funds Democratic candidates" - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=150276

AMPED: Adaptive Multi-objective Projection for balancing Exploration and skill Diversification
Geonwoo Cho, Jaemoon Lee, Jaegyun Im, Subi Lee, Jihwan Lee, Sundong Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05980

AMPED: Adaptive Multi-objective Projection for balancing Exploration and skill Diversification
Skill-based reinforcement learning (SBRL) enables rapid adaptation in environments with sparse rewards by pretraining a skill-conditioned policy. Effective skill learning requires jointly maximizing both exploration and skill diversity. However, existing methods often face challenges in simultaneously optimizing for these two conflicting objectives. In this work, we propose a new method, Adaptive Multi-objective Projection for balancing Exploration and skill Diversification (AMPED), which expli…

Filipino workers in Taiwan's chip industry report struggling with overwork and discrimination, citing overnight shifts of up to 16 hours and abusive treatment (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/filipino-workers-taiwan-chip-industry/

Workers describe abusive treatment in Taiwan’s semiconductor factories
A record number of people are leaving the Philippines to work in Taiwanese factories, where they face long shifts, low pay, and unequal treatment.

Packers QB Jordan Love 'can't wait' for Week 8 Steelers showdown against Aaron Rodgers

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/packers

Now is when it really matters
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DF6WJLZttlN/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ

Leigh McGowan on Instagram: "Kendrick Lamar showed more courage in the face of rising American tyranny than we’ve seen from ANY former American leader. If you swore an oath to protect this nation, where are you now?"
190K likes, 15K comments - iampoliticsgirl on February 10, 2025: "Kendrick Lamar showed more courage in the face of rising American tyranny than we’ve seen from ANY former American leader. If you swore an oath to protect this nation, where are you now?".

Beyond Musk, Senators face another budget bill foe -- callers (Adam Klasfeld/All Rise News)
https://www.allrisenews.com/p/budget-bill-reps
http://www.memeorandum.com/250607/p66#a250607p66

Towards Lifecycle Unlearning Commitment Management: Measuring Sample-level Unlearning Completeness
Cheng-Long Wang, Qi Li, Zihang Xiang, Yinzhi Cao, Di Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06112

Towards Lifecycle Unlearning Commitment Management: Measuring Sample-level Unlearning Completeness
Growing concerns over data privacy and security highlight the importance of machine unlearning--removing specific data influences from trained models without full retraining. Techniques like Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) are widely used to externally assess successful unlearning. However, existing methods face two key limitations: (1) maximizing MIA effectiveness (e.g., via online attacks) requires prohibitive computational resources, often exceeding retraining costs; (2) MIAs, designed f…

With fewer than 900 American students in China at a time of unprecedented bilateral tensions,
Chinese classmates continually ask her to explain President Donald Trump’s decisions,
while American friends and family ask her to translate the intricacies of Chinese politics.
https://www.

American students in China face a barrage of questions about Trump
The number of U.S. students in China has plummeted, but those who are there now say it’s more important than ever for Americans to understand the country.

Trump says Elon Musk will face 'very serious consequences' if he funds Democratic candidates (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-elon-musk-consequences-funds-democratic-candidates-rcna211605
http://www.memeorandum.com/250607/p32#a250607p32

Google quietly released an Android app called Google AI Edge Gallery on GitHub, letting users run some AI models from Hugging Face locally on their phones (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/31/goog

Google quietly released an app that lets you download and run AI models locally | TechCrunch
Last week, Google quietly released an app, Google AI Edge Gallery, that lets users run a range of openly available AI models from the AI dev platform Hugging Face on their phones.