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Apple announces "studio-quality" audio recording and camera control features for AirPods 4, AirPods 4 with ANC, and AirPods Pro 2 (Ben Lovejoy/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/09/here-are-the-new-airpods-features-apple-just-anno…

Here are the new AirPods features Apple just announced - 9to5Mac
Apple has announced two new AirPods features coming to some existing models – including bringing back a feature from the...

AirPods: Diese neuen Features kommen mit iOS 26
Apple ergänzt den Funktionsumfang seiner Ohrstöpsel einmal mehr: Verbesserte Audioqualität für Anrufe, "Studio-Mikrofon" und Kamerafernsteuerung kommen bald.

WHEW! @… and I both are safe with our iPads for another year.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/06/ipa

Brettspiele in Virtual Reality: All on Board kündigt neue Lizenztitel an
All on Board erweitert seine VR-Brettspielplattform um "Aye, Dark Overlord!" und neue Social-Features für einfachere Spielplanung und bessere Lerntools.

FACT: the Features At Convergence Theorem for neural networks
Enric Boix-Adsera, Neil Mallinar, James B. Simon, Mikhail Belkin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05644

FACT: the Features At Convergence Theorem for neural networks
A central challenge in deep learning theory is to understand how neural networks learn and represent features. To this end, we prove the Features at Convergence Theorem (FACT), which gives a self-consistency equation that neural network weights satisfy at convergence when trained with nonzero weight decay. For each weight matrix $W$, this equation relates the "feature matrix" $W^\top W$ to the set of input vectors passed into the matrix during forward propagation and the loss gradients passed t…

Watching this episode I kept wondering how they recreated the Golden Globes so realistically. I assumed heavy use of CGI but nope. Just clever tactics and huge effort.
https://www.indiewire.com/features/craft/the-studio-recreated-golden-glo…

'The Studio': How the Apple Series Recreated the Golden Globes
Yes, ‘The Studio’ did restage the Golden Globes from Scratch. Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and team explain how.

PotentRegion4MalDetect: Advanced Features from Potential Malicious Regions for Malware Detection
Rama Krishna Koppanati, Monika Santra, Sateesh Kumar Peddoju
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06723

PotentRegion4MalDetect: Advanced Features from Potential Malicious Regions for Malware Detection
Malware developers exploit the fact that most detection models focus on the entire binary to extract the feature rather than on the regions of potential maliciousness. Therefore, they reverse engineer a benign binary and inject malicious code into it. This obfuscation technique circumvents the malware detection models and deceives the ML classifiers due to the prevalence of benign features compared to malicious features. However, extracting the features from the potential malicious regions enha…

A book excerpt details how the US animal agriculture industry helped create "ag-gag" laws criminalizing undercover journalism exposing factory farm abuses (Will Potter/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/poli

How Factory Farms Criminalized Journalism to Block Viral Videos of Animal Cruelty
A new book, “Little Red Barns: Hiding the Truth, from Farm to Fable,” reveals how the animal agriculture industry shielded itself from scrutiny.

Hi friends of research software 👋
The @… is running a free workshop on test-driven development on Monday.
https://events.digital-research.academ

A really easy video I have not seen is someone cover and showing off the new Mastodon features with each version release.
The core Mastodon org should do this but you really need a community of creators showing off the new features.
#Mastodon #youtube

I read this just to check they're not adding an LLM to bash.
Yet.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/bash-5-3-new-features

Bash 5.3 Release Adds 'Significant' New Features
A new version of the GNU project's Bourne Again SHell (better known to most as Bash) has been released with improvements and new features.

Before migrating an OmniFocus database to support the new features coming soon in the v4.7 public test (planned dates, mutually exclusive tags, end dates on repeats), all devices syncing with that database need to be updated so they can understand those features. For anyone using OmniFocus for the Web during the test period, this includes switching over to test.omnifocus.com (which we've just updated to understand those features, though it can't display or edit them yet).

On my way to Stuttgart to #jfs2025, where I'll give a talk with @… on where all those shiny new toys in Java come from.

Java gestern, heute und morgen - Java Forum Stuttgart
Java ist inzwischen 30 Jahre alt, und hat seit der Geburt viele Features dazubekommen. Die meisten davon wurden nicht vom JDK-Team erfunden, sondern aus anderen Programmiersprachen und Forschungsarbeiten angepasst übernommen. Durch die mittlerweile halbjährlichen Releases gibt es aktuell viel Bewegung im Java Ökosystem. Und die nächste tolle Funktion gibt es höchstwahrscheinlich schon irgendwo da draußen. Aber wisst Ihr eigentlich, woher die Features der Vergangenheit kommen? Und können …

#Jellyfin for #Roku 3.0.5 will be published on Tuesday, Jun 10, 2025 5:00 PM PT
🎉 New Features
* Add ability to play album starting from selected track on album screen using play button by michaelcresswell
* Add ability to play playlist starting from selected track on playlist sc…

From ID-based to ID-free: Rethinking ID Effectiveness in Multimodal Collaborative Filtering Recommendation
Guohao Li, Li Jing, Jia Wu, Xuefei Li, Kai Zhu, Yue He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05715

From ID-based to ID-free: Rethinking ID Effectiveness in Multimodal Collaborative Filtering Recommendation
Most existing multimodal collaborative filtering recommendation (MCFRec) methods rely heavily on ID features and multimodal content to enhance recommendation performance. However, this paper reveals that ID features are effective but have limited benefits in multimodal collaborative filtering recommendation. Therefore, this paper systematically deconstruct the pros and cons of ID features: (i) they provide initial embedding but lack semantic richness, (ii) they provide a unique identifier for e…

Features of the Spatial Distribution of Galaxy Clusters
Andrei I. Ryabinkov, Alexandr D. Kaminker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05847 https://

Features of the Spatial Distribution of Galaxy Clusters
A statistical analysis of anisotropic quasiperiodic features of the spatial distribution of galaxy clusters obtained on the basis of spectroscopic and photometric redshifts in the interval $0.1 \leq z \leq 0.47$ has been carried out. Based on data from the SDSS~III catalog, we show that the preferential direction previously detected in the northern hemisphere (a narrow cone of directions: $α_0=170^\circ \pm 5^\circ, \ δ_0= 29^\circ \pm 5^\circ$), along which the one-dimensional distribution o…

With the renewed interest in TUIs, I also upgraded TermKit to modern swift tooling and started adding a number of pending features.
Started also on a backend to swift-cross-ui- but the question is whether a backend is the right thing, or if I should just have a custom SwiftUI-like system that is completely adapted to TermKit.

Microsoft showcases a new fullscreen Xbox experience optimized for handhelds, coming first to the Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X and to other handhelds in 2026 (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/682011/microsof…

This is how Microsoft is combining Windows and Xbox for handheld PCs
Microsoft has worked with Asus to launch two new Xbox Ally devices. Both include improvements to Windows on handhelds with a full-screen Xbox experience.

Bilateral Collaboration with Large Vision-Language Models for Open Vocabulary Human-Object Interaction Detection
Yupeng Hu, Changxing Ding, Chang Sun, Shaoli Huang, Xiangmin Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06510

Bilateral Collaboration with Large Vision-Language Models for Open Vocabulary Human-Object Interaction Detection
Open vocabulary Human-Object Interaction (HOI) detection is a challenging task that detects all triplets of interest in an image, even those that are not pre-defined in the training set. Existing approaches typically rely on output features generated by large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to enhance the generalization ability of interaction representations. However, the visual features produced by VLMs are holistic and coarse-grained, which contradicts the nature of detect…

wayland is a governance failure https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/880

Mouse position portal · Issue #880 · flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal
Some apps (a small minority, I will admit) have features that pair with being able to track the mouse. One such app is the Virtual Puppet Project's mouse tracker plugin, which uses the mouse instea...

Here @… gets at something important: programming languages aren’t just a pile of syntax and features. They have context, motivations, idioms, expectations, communities. These things are all interrelated; in fact, they are all •part of the language•. And they are the things a language guide should communicate.
https://ddrake.prose.sh/why_i_hate_programming_language_intro_tutorials

Puzzling radial gradients of K-band absorption features in the giant elliptical galaxy M87
F. La Barbera, A. Vazdekis, A. Pasquali, J. Heidt, E. Eftekhari, M. A. Beasley, A. Gargiulo, S. Bisogni, C. Spiniello, L. P. Cassar\`a, M. Sarzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05986

Puzzling radial gradients of K-band absorption features in the giant elliptical galaxy M87
We present new K-band spectroscopy for the giant elliptical galaxy M87 in the Virgo cluster, taken with the LUCI spectrograph at the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT). The new data are used to study line-strengths of K-band absorption features from different chemical species, namely Fe, Mg, Ca, Na, and CO, as a function of galactocentric distance, out to 40arcsec from the center (about half of the galaxy effective radius). The radial trends of spectral indices are compared to those for the bulge …

The JPEG XL Image Coding System: History, Features, Coding Tools, Design Rationale, and Future
Jon Sneyers, Jyrki Alakuijala, Luca Versari, Zolt\'an Szabadka, Sami Boukortt, Amnon Cohen-Tidhar, Moritz Firsching, Evgenii Kliuchnikov, Tal Lev-Ami, Eric Portis, Thomas Richter, Osamu Watanabe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05987

The JPEG XL Image Coding System: History, Features, Coding Tools, Design Rationale, and Future
JPEG XL is a new image coding system offering state-of-the-art compression performance, lossless JPEG recompression, and advanced features. It aims to replace JPEG, PNG, GIF, and other formats with a single universal codec. This article provides an overview of JPEG XL, including its history, design rationale, coding tools, and future potential. It can be used as a companion document to the standard (ISO/IEC 18181), or as a standalone article to better understand JPEG XL, either at a high level …

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#USpol

iPadOS 26: Fast ein Mac – aber nur fast
Apple gönnt seinem Tablet mehr Desktop-Features als je zuvor. In der Praxis gibt es aber zumindest in der Beta noch Fußangeln.
https://www.heise.de/news/iPadOS-26-F…

🤩 The latest Safari 26 Beta does not disappoint in terms of #CSS features:
⚓️ Anchor Positioning!
🪄 Scroll-driven animations!
🌯 text-wrap: pretty!
🌈 contrast-color()!
⏲️ progress()!
and more!
And this sentence: “We value the principles of progressive enhancement and separation of concerns.” 😉
Great work, @…

News from WWDC25: WebKit in Safari 26 beta
Welcome to WWDC25!

Sigh, well I was feeling good about getting an ebike but I stopped by a local shop and the model I was looking at is pretty much sold out everywhere. They do have newer models ($more expensive$) and some other modes so I may need to do up that whole spreadsheet of features to compare things.
#bikeTooter #biking

What is the purpose of news?
Air pollution kills 10 million people each year and causes untold additional illness and suffering.
It kills at least 100,000 people in the United States alone annually
— about five times the number of police-reported homicides.
But it rarely features in daily news stories.
Police and prosecutors ignore pollution, much of which is criminal,
and so do most journalists.
For example, federal prosecutors charged 23 people…

Media Panics About “Crime Waves” — But Downplays Crime Committed by Corporations
The news emphasizes low-level theft instead of corporate crime, pollution, and other predatory behavior.

X-ray transferable polyrepresentation learning
Weronika Hryniewska-Guzik, Przemyslaw Biecek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06264 https://…

X-ray transferable polyrepresentation learning
The success of machine learning algorithms is inherently related to the extraction of meaningful features, as they play a pivotal role in the performance of these algorithms. Central to this challenge is the quality of data representation. However, the ability to generalize and extract these features effectively from unseen datasets is also crucial. In light of this, we introduce a novel concept: the polyrepresentation. Polyrepresentation integrates multiple representations of the same modality…

Exploration of features in the black hole mass spectrum inspired by non-parametric analyses of gravitational wave observations
Stefano Rinaldi, Yajie Liang, Gabriele Demasi, Michela Mapelli, Walter Del Pozzo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05929

Exploration of features in the black hole mass spectrum inspired by non-parametric analyses of gravitational wave observations
Current gravitational-wave data reveal structures in the mass function of binary compact objects. Properly modelling and deciphering such structures is the ultimate goal of gravitational-wave population analysis: in this context, non-parametric models are a powerful tool to infer the distribution of black holes from gravitational waves without committing to any specific functional form. Here, we aim to quantitatively corroborate the findings of non-parametric methods with parametrised models in…

:mastodon: Mastodon version 4.4.0 has been released!
The update includes many new features, changes and bug fixes.
For more information, check out the blog posts & detailed changelog on GitHub.
Update steps can be found at the end of the changelog.
UPDATE: Mastodon 4.4.1 has been released. It addresses some issues in version 4.4.0.
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Mastodon 4.4
Improved profile features, enhanced list management, refreshed navigation, and the initial part of our Quote Posts implementation. All of these and more, in our latest release.

Baton: Compensate for Missing Wi-Fi Features for Practical Device-free Tracking
Yiming Zhao, Xuanqi Meng, Xinyu Tong, Xiulong Liu, Xin Xie, Wenyu Qu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05597

Baton: Compensate for Missing Wi-Fi Features for Practical Device-free Tracking
Wi-Fi contact-free sensing systems have attracted widespread attention due to their ubiquity and convenience. The integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) technology utilizes off-the-shelf Wi-Fi communication signals for sensing, which further promotes the deployment of intelligent sensing applications. However, current Wi-Fi sensing systems often require prolonged and unnecessary communication between transceivers, and brief communication interruptions will lead to significant performance d…

'They're Gonna Be So Mad': Trump Admin Braces for MAGA Revolt Over Epstein Memo (Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/epstein-memo-justice-department-maga-1235380042/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250707/p105#a250707p105

Yep, I’m rolling with Debian and demolishing pizza like a pro on my birthday, August 22. Tech and toppings, the perfect combo!
#Linux #Pizza #Debian

We've Issued Our First IP Address Certificate
#LetsEncrypt

No matter what features Apple announces:
#WWDC25 #WWDC

Rhythm Features for Speaker Identification
Nick Mehlman, Thomas Thebaud, Dani Byrd, Shri Narayanan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06834 https://

Rhythm Features for Speaker Identification
While deep learning models have demonstrated robust performance in speaker recognition tasks, they primarily rely on low-level audio features learned empirically from spectrograms or raw waveforms. However, prior work has indicated that idiosyncratic speaking styles heavily influence the temporal structure of linguistic units in speech signals (rhythm). This makes rhythm a strong yet largely overlooked candidate for a speech identity feature. In this paper, we test this hypothesis by applying d…

Quote Posts are almost here!
Finally! A feature that has been held back for a long time but that really brings life to a social network: the ability to share, add, etc.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/07/mastodon-4.4/

Full Moon Rising / Neil #Halstead
Palindrome Hunches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8brjvcOK2A

At this year's Berlin Buzzwords, Uwe Schindler discussed the new features of Java 21 and how they can be used in Lucene 10, including the challenges and limitations.
Watch the full session: https://youtu.be/4RxkahnUBvg?si=o1cDJz-qym51oOVm

It's not a security alert, my dear Google. It's by design.
@…
#Proton #degoogleAdventures

Flares on TRAPPIST-1 reveal the spectrum of magnetic features on its surface
Valeriy Vasilyev, Nadiia Kostogryz, Alexander I. Shapiro, Astrid M. Veronig, Benjamin V. Rackham, Christoph Schirninger, Julien de Wit, Ward Howard, Jeff Valenti, Adina D. Feinstein, Olivia Lim, Sara Seager, Laurent Gizon, Sami K. Solanki
https://arxiv.org/abs/250…

Flares on TRAPPIST-1 reveal the spectrum of magnetic features on its surface
TRAPPIST-1 is an M8 dwarf hosting seven known exoplanets and is currently one of the most frequently observed targets of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). However, it is notoriously active, and its surface is believed to be covered by magnetic features that contaminate the planetary transmission spectra. The radiative spectra of these magnetic features are needed to clean transmission spectra, but they currently remain unknown. Here, we develop a new approach for measuring these spectra us…

As I feared, ongoing development of Firefox's own inferior vertical tabs feature has made the TreeStyleTab plugin unstable and the author himself does not recommend hiding the native Firefox tabs due to features he cannot emulate in his plugin.
So with a heavy heart and after almost 18 years of use, I disable it, and wave goodbye to nice trees of vertical tabs. 😢

Alle brauchen sie!
https://www.telepolis.de/features/Seltene-Erden-Chinas-Exportkontrollen-bringen-globale-Lieferketten-ins-Stocken-10425353.html

Seltene Erden: Chinas Exportkontrollen bringen globale Lieferketten ins Stocken
Exportkontrollen für seltene Erden treffen die Industrie hart. Erste Autobauer in Europa müssen ihre Produktion drosseln. Die Zeit drängt, denn die Lager sind fast leer.

In "dealing with Electron apps" news: troubleshooting blurry _Visual Studio Code_ under Wayland. Culprit? Fractional scaling. That was a lot of fun...
The new command:
```
/usr/share/code --unity-launch --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland --disable-features=WaylandFractionalScaleV1
```
#linux

An #infosec drama, in two screenshots.

Insights into the role of dynamical features in protein complex formation: the case of SARS-CoV-2 spike binding with ACE2
Greta Grassmann, Mattia Miotto, Francesca Alessandrini, Leonardo Bo', Giancarlo Ruocco, Edoardo Milanetti, Andrea Giansanti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05549

Insights into the role of dynamical features in protein complex formation: the case of SARS-CoV-2 spike binding with ACE2
The functionality of protein-protein complexes is closely tied to the strength of their interactions, making the evaluation of binding affinity a central focus in structural biology. However, the molecular determinants underlying binding affinity are still not fully understood. In particular, the entropic contributions, especially those arising from conformational dynamics, remain poorly characterized. In this study, we explore the relationship between protein motion and binding stability and i…

Decentralized Optimization with Amplified Privacy via Efficient Communication
Wei Huo, Changxin Liu, Kemi Ding, Karl Henrik Johansson, Ling Shi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07102

Decentralized Optimization with Amplified Privacy via Efficient Communication
Decentralized optimization is crucial for multi-agent systems, with significant concerns about communication efficiency and privacy. This paper explores the role of efficient communication in decentralized stochastic gradient descent algorithms for enhancing privacy preservation. We develop a novel algorithm that incorporates two key features: random agent activation and sparsified communication. Utilizing differential privacy, we demonstrate that these features reduce noise without sacrificing…

from my link log —
Portability of tar features.
https://cdrtools.sourceforge.net/private/portability-of-tar-features.html
saved 2025-07-03

Some features in 4-level generation in LIPLs
Lev Nagli, Kirill Kulikov, Dima Cheskis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07220 https://arxiv.o…

Some features in 4-level generation in LIPLs
This paper shows that in Laser-Induced Plasma Lasers (LIPL), the collisionally assisted transitions that lead to the inversion population on an upper-generation level E_up may be partly forbidden. The spin-orbit coupling may increase the oscillator strength of such transitions. It also demonstrates that collisions between electrons and excited atoms can strongly increase the atoms' energy, creating a population inversion at the E_up level, which may lie about 1 eV above the …

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
PLAXTON: What's the matter with your main drive?
TARRANT: It's a museum piece.
PLAXTON: Standard fiber optic control connections?
AVON: Very standard.
https://blake.t…

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tvOS 26: Neue Funktionen auch für Apple TV HD, aber ohne Liquid Glass
Apple hat seinem tvOS eine ganze Reihe neuer Features spendiert. Zudem gibt es einen neuen Look, aber nicht für alle Geräte.

Accept-Reject Lasso
Yanxin Liu, Yunqi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04646 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.04646

Accept-Reject Lasso
The Lasso method is known to exhibit instability in the presence of highly correlated features, often leading to an arbitrary selection of predictors. This issue manifests itself in two primary error types: the erroneous omission of features that lack a true substitutable relationship (falsely redundant features) and the inclusion of features with a true substitutable relationship (truly redundant features). Although most existing methods address only one of these challenges, we introduce the A…

Bright ring features and polarization structures in Kerr-Sen black hole images illuminated by radiatively inefficient accretion flows
Hao Yin, Songbai Chen, Jiliang Jing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03857

Bright ring features and polarization structures in Kerr-Sen black hole images illuminated by radiatively inefficient accretion flows
We have investigated the bright ring-like features and polarization structures in the Kerr-Sen black hole's images based on general relativistic radiative transfer (GRRT) simulations, which are illuminated by the 230 GHz thermal synchrotron emission from the radiatively inefficient accretion flows (RIAF). Using the REx method, we extracted the bright ring from the black hole images and found that both the bright ring and black hole shadow shrink as the dilation parameter increases. Combing wi…

'Madden NFL 26' trailer packed with snowstorm highlights, Travis Hunter as a Jaguar, new game features https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6403239/2025/06/04/madden-nfl-26-trailer-highlights-game-features/

When I wrote my last blog post, I noticed an minor issue, so fixed it and got a new release of Markdown Master CMS released.
https://markdownmaster.com/pages/home.html
Full list of changes this release:
### New Features
* Add support for custom form submit …

MarkdownMaster Content Management Software
Flat-file and client-side content management software utilizing simple markdown files for publishing to the web

When Better Features Mean Greater Risks: The Performance-Privacy Trade-Off in Contrastive Learning
Ruining Sun, Hongsheng Hu, Wei Luo, Zhaoxi Zhang, Yanjun Zhang, Haizhuan Yuan, Leo Yu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05743

When Better Features Mean Greater Risks: The Performance-Privacy Trade-Off in Contrastive Learning
With the rapid advancement of deep learning technology, pre-trained encoder models have demonstrated exceptional feature extraction capabilities, playing a pivotal role in the research and application of deep learning. However, their widespread use has raised significant concerns about the risk of training data privacy leakage. This paper systematically investigates the privacy threats posed by membership inference attacks (MIAs) targeting encoder models, focusing on contrastive learning framew…

COMS-Integrated Atomic Vapor Cells with Ultra-long Optical Access for Highly Sensitive and Scalable Quantum Sensors
Yintao Ma, Yao Chen, Mingzhi Yu, Yanbin Wang, Ju Guo, Ping Yang, Qijing Lin, Yang Lv, Libo Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05993

COMS-Integrated Atomic Vapor Cells with Ultra-long Optical Access for Highly Sensitive and Scalable Quantum Sensors
The most appealing features of chip-scale quantum sensors are their capability to maintain extreme sensitivity while enabling large-scale batch manufacturing. This necessitates high-level integration and wafer-level fabrication of atomic vapor cells. In this paper, we describe a micromachining paradigm for wafer-level atomic vapor cells functionalized by CMOS-compatible non-magnetic heaters and temperature sensors and demonstrate several innovative applications. Leveraging standard micro-nanofa…

twitter_higgs: Twitter, Higgs boson (2012)
Data on tweets related to the announcement of the discovery of a new fundamental particle with the features of the Higgs boson on 4th July 2012. Data covers 1-7 July 2012, and includes four types of networks: followers, retweets, replies, and mentions.
This network has 116408 nodes and 150818 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Multilayer

Man, that WWDC is crazy. I would know, because I am totally watching it. They really used that app out there. You know, with the features.

Man, that WWDC is crazy. I would know, because I am totally watching it. They really used that app out there. You know, with the features.

‘We do this to survive’: Harvesting opium poppies in Myanmar’s Shan State | Drugs News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/6/7/we-do-this-to-survive-harvesting-opium-poppies-in-myanmars-shan-state?traffic_source=rss

In last week's roadmap update, I mentioned that we were just about ready for folks to take OmniFocus 4.7 through its paces in public test builds.
Well, now we're ready! The OmniFocus 4.7 public test introduces Planned dates, mutually exclusive tags, repeat counts and end dates, time-sensitive notifications, and more.
We look forward to your feedback!

Google adds new AI and gaming features to Android's Circle to Search, and Gemini Live support for foldables and third-party apps, starting with Samsung devices (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/702291/android-google-a…

Android’s Circle to Search feature gets AI and gaming upgrades
Google is adding AI Mode to Android’s Circle to Search tool and expanding Gemini Live support for Samsung devices.

Donald Trump Is Destroying the Economy and Waging War on the Poor (Paul Krugman/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/donald-trump-is-destroying-the-economy-and-waging-war-on-the-poor-an-1235356280/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250608/p17#a250608p17

Chime Oblivion - “Kiss Her or Be Her” (2025)
This album has a cool modern-retro sound. The singer’s voice on this track (H.L. Nelly from Naked Lights and FKA Smiley) reminds me of the LA band French Vanilla, and the guitars sound like some of my favorite late 80’s indie bands (e.g. Live Skull).
This is a John Dwyer project (from The Osees), so not surprised I love it. Also features David Barbarossa on drums (Adam & The Ants, Bow Wow Wow, Fine Young Cannibals).
Good st…

Which Way You Goin’ Billy?
#VAG #Art

I don’t care what people think or say. I stand in solidarity with the @… and share their vision for a free, self-organized workers’ movement in Norway. Even if syndicalists are few, we’re here, and I proudly support their struggle for worker control and direct action.
I identify as a syndicalist because I actually enjoy working, but only when labor is organized…

Schon mal was von ihr gehört, von der durchwachsenen Silphie?
https://www.telepolis.de/features/Silphie-bluehendes-Multitalent-auf-dem-Acker-10397187.html

Silphie – blühendes Multitalent auf dem Acker
Mais dominiert bisher deutsche Äcker, doch Dürreperioden setzen ihm zu. Die Durchwachsene Silphie könnte eine Alternative sein. Doch was macht diese gelb blühende Pflanze so besonders?

Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
CALLY: [V.O. telepathy] Avon, listen. The enemy are on board. Avon.
AVON: Are they maintaining formation?
ZEN: Affirmative.
AVON: When will they be in range?
ZEN: They have been in range for one minute, eight seconds.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/303/413

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Apple unveils iPadOS 26 with new features to help users manipulate windows, including fluidly resizing them and opening more at once, a new Files app, and more (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/apple/679420/apple-ipados-wwdc-2025

Apple launches iPadOS 26 with a new look and way better multitasking
Is the iPad more Mac, or more iPhone? Apple’s still trying to figure that out.

Saints unveil new white alternative helmets ahead of 2025 season https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45702805/new-orleans-saints-new-white-alternate-helmets

Scalable unsupervised feature selection via weight stability
Xudong Zhang, Renato Cordeiro de Amorim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06114 https://

Scalable unsupervised feature selection via weight stability
Unsupervised feature selection is critical for improving clustering performance in high-dimensional data, where irrelevant features can obscure meaningful structure. In this work, we introduce the Minkowski weighted $k$-means++, a novel initialisation strategy for the Minkowski Weighted $k$-means. Our initialisation selects centroids probabilistically using feature relevance estimates derived from the data itself. Building on this, we propose two new feature selection algorithms, FS-MWK++, whic…

CoMemo: LVLMs Need Image Context with Image Memory
Shi Liu, Weijie Su, Xizhou Zhu, Wenhai Wang, Jifeng Dai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06279 https://…

CoMemo: LVLMs Need Image Context with Image Memory
Recent advancements in Large Vision-Language Models built upon Large Language Models have established aligning visual features with LLM representations as the dominant paradigm. However, inherited LLM architectural designs introduce suboptimal characteristics for multimodal processing. First, LVLMs exhibit a bimodal distribution in attention allocation, leading to the progressive neglect of middle visual content as context expands. Second, conventional positional encoding schemes fail to preser…

‘Open prison’: The forced labour driving India’s $5 trillion economy dream | Labour Rights | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/6/7/open-prison-the-forced-labour-driving-indias-5-trillion-economy-dream?traffic_source=rss

Jailed by Trump's ICE, Children's Hospital Chaplain Was Thrown Into 'Solitary' (Asawin Suebsaeng/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/childrens-hosptial-chaplain-isolation-ice-deport-1235403224/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250807/p128#a250807p128

I am he as you are he, as you are me and I am all together
See how they run like pigs from a goon, see how they fly
I'm tariffing
Sitting at the whitehouse, waiting for the moolah to come
Corporation tee-shirt, stupid TACO Tuesday
Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your deficits grow long
I am the organge man, they are the grifted
I am the organge man, goo-goo g'joob

Wenn Konzerne Kontrolle über viel Land erlangen. Internationales Landgrabbing nimmt zu, auch in Deutschland.
https://www.telepolis.de/features/Landgrabbing-Wenn-Konzerne-Laender-schlucken-10424005.html

Landgrabbing: Wenn Konzerne Länder schlucken
Von Benetton bis Shell: Transnationaler Landbesitz nimmt rasant zu. Bedrohungen für Menschenrechte weltweit. Nun regt sich Widerstand.

Apple unveils a standalone Games app, offering games from the App Store, a dedicated section for Apple Arcade, and Game Center social features like leaderboards (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/09/apple-unveils-new-apple-games-app/

Apple unveils new Apple Games app - 9to5Mac
Apple today announced a new Apple Games app, a new destination for all the games on your iPhone and iPad....

Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
VILA: Minefield, what minefield?
AVON: Perhaps the intergalactic drive has been developed. Question is, by whom.
BLAKE: A defence zone to keep mankind in, or something else out.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/213/231 B7B5

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

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[3/6]:
- Integrating Spatiotemporal Features in LSTM for Spatially Informed COVID-19 Hospitalization Forec...
Zhongying Wang, Thoai D. Ngo, Hamidreza Zoraghein, Benjamin Lucas, Morteza Karimzadeh

Mask6D: Masked Pose Priors For 6D Object Pose Estimation
Yuechen Xie, Haobo Jiang, Jin Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06486 https://a…

Mask6D: Masked Pose Priors For 6D Object Pose Estimation
Robust 6D object pose estimation in cluttered or occluded conditions using monocular RGB images remains a challenging task. One reason is that current pose estimation networks struggle to extract discriminative, pose-aware features using 2D feature backbones, especially when the available RGB information is limited due to target occlusion in cluttered scenes. To mitigate this, we propose a novel pose estimation-specific pre-training strategy named Mask6D. Our approach incorporates pose-aware 2D…

Apple unveils macOS 26 Tahoe, available to M-series models, with an overhauled design using Liquid Glass, a big update to Spotlight, new AI features, and more (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/678268/macos-version-wwdc-2025…

Apple announces macOS 26 Tahoe with new design
Apple is announcing its new macOS version, named Tahoe, for the Mac Pro, Studio, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air.

what a day what a night ...ends at 8pm or 10 ;-)

New features in ESPN Fantasy app: Easier navigation, improved personalization https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/45844949/2025-fantasy-football-where-play-new-features-espn

Sources: Apple may announce new features for AirPods at WWDC, including iPhone camera control, new head gestures, and sleep detection for pausing playback (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/04/exclusive-airpods-ios-26-wwdc-features/…

Exclusive: AirPods to get camera control, sleep detection, new gestures - 9to5Mac
Today, we are sharing a five previously unreported AirPods features that may be announced as early as Monday, during the WWDC25 keynote.

"Vancouver has 22 civic libraries. Victoria has 12. The streets of these two cities, however, have well over 1,000 unincorporated “little libraries”. You’ve seen them, of course. Those quaint little bird-house structures, placed along sidewalks, usually with a glassed-in front to keep the contents safe from the elements. Inside these little boxes there is always the oddest selection of books, and almost always something that will pique your interest. "

MCA-RG: Enhancing LLMs with Medical Concept Alignment for Radiology Report Generation
Qilong Xing, Zikai Song, Youjia Zhang, Na Feng, Junqing Yu, Wei Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06992

MCA-RG: Enhancing LLMs with Medical Concept Alignment for Radiology Report Generation
Despite significant advancements in adapting Large Language Models (LLMs) for radiology report generation (RRG), clinical adoption remains challenging due to difficulties in accurately mapping pathological and anatomical features to their corresponding text descriptions. Additionally, semantic agnostic feature extraction further hampers the generation of accurate diagnostic reports. To address these challenges, we introduce Medical Concept Aligned Radiology Report Generation (MCA-RG), a knowled…

Microsoft will phase out its Lens scanner app, launched in 2014 as Office Lens, starting in September; users can create new scans in the app only until December (Rishaj Upadhyay/Windows Report)
https://windowsreport.com/microsoft-is-killing-microsoft-lens-after-…

Microsoft is killing "Microsoft Lens" after 11 years
Microsoft Lens will be retired by December 15, 2025, with scanning features moving to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app.

From Motion to Meaning: Biomechanics-Informed Neural Network for Explainable Cardiovascular Disease Identification
Comte Valentin, Gemma Piella, Mario Ceresa, Miguel A. Gonzalez Ballester
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05783

From Motion to Meaning: Biomechanics-Informed Neural Network for Explainable Cardiovascular Disease Identification
Cardiac diseases are among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, which requires accurate and timely diagnostic strategies. In this study, we introduce an innovative approach that combines deep learning image registration with physics-informed regularization to predict the biomechanical properties of moving cardiac tissues and extract features for disease classification. We utilize the energy strain formulation of Neo-Hookean material to model cardiac tissue deformations, opti…

Govt. Website 'Glitch' Removes Trump's Least Favorite Part of Constitution (Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-least-favorite-part-constitution-deleted-1235401874/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250806/p67#a250806p67

Apple unveils several changes to CarPlay in iOS 26, including a Liquid Glass re-design, a dashboard for Live Activities, and broad support for widgets (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/09/ios-26-upgrades-carplay-in-five-ways/

iOS 26 Upgrades CarPlay in Five Ways
Apple today announced iOS 26, and the upcoming software update includes several new features and changes for CarPlay in vehicles. The first iOS 26...

Samsung unveils $349 Galaxy Watch 8 in 40mm and 44mm sizes and $499 Watch 8 Classic in 46mm, with Gemini and an Antioxidant Index to measure carotenoid levels (Andrew Romero/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/07/09/galaxy-watch-8…

Galaxy Watch 8 and Watch 8 Classic go official with new design & Gemini for $349
The Galaxy Watch 8 series is finally official. Amongst some serious design changes, Samsung has added a slew of features...

Q&A with British Library CEO Rebecca Lawrence on dealing with the aftermath of a major October 2023 cyberattack, AI scraping, AI for text analysis, and more (Mishal Husain/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-rebecca-lawrence-weekend-i…

Nintendo says it didn't send any Switch 2 review units to outlets as "important features and updates" will only be available via an update on its June 5 launch (Andy Robinson/Video Games Chronicle)
https://www.

It’s official: There are no Nintendo Switch 2 reviews. Here’s what that means for us, and you | VGC
Nintendo’s decision not to facilitate pre-launch Switch 2 reviews is disappointing news for everyone…

The Browser Company launches a $20-per-month Dia Pro subscription plan, providing unlimited access to the web browser's AI-powered chat and skills features (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/the-b…

The Browser Company launches a $20 monthly subscription for its AI-powered browser | TechCrunch
The Browser Company has its first paid plan in form of $20 per month Dia Pro.

An in-depth look at the US SEC's EDGAR system breach that was disclosed in 2017, as one of the key hackers, Olga Kuprina, says EDGAR remains a soft target (Liam Vaughan/Bloomberg)