Regression-Based Approach to Anxiety Estimation of Spider Phobics During Behavioural Avoidance Tasks
Florian Grensing, Vanessa Schm\"ucker, Anne Sophie Hildebrand, Tim Klucken, Maria Maleshkova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13795
What began as a silent infiltration into one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency mining pools has now been confirmed as
the biggest crypto theft in history.
The LuBian mining pool, once a dominant force in the Bitcoin network, quietly lost over 127,000 Bitcoins in 2020.
The breach was only uncovered in 2025 by Arkham Intelligence, revealing a staggering $14.5 billion worth of stolen assets that had remained untouched and undetected for half a decade
To whom did my vote go?
Andrew Conway, Michelle Blom, Alexander Ek, Peter Stuckey, Vanessa Teague, Damjan Vukcevic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13370 https://
Sources: OpenAI signed a contract with Oracle to purchase $300B in computing power, requiring 4.5 gigawatts of capacity, over roughly five years (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/openai-…
Language bubbles in online social networks
Alessandro Bellina, Donald Ruggiero Lo Sardo, Emanuele Brugnoli, Fabio Saracco, Pietro Gravino, Vittorio Loreto, Gabriele Di Bona
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13068
Machine-learning competition to grade EEG background patterns in newborns with hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy
Fabio Magarelli, Geraldine B. Boylan, Saeed Montazeri, Feargal O'Sullivan, Dominic Lightbody, Minoo Ashoori, Tamara Skoric Ceranic, John M. O'Toole
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09695
RIAA: US recorded music revenue hit $5.6B across all formats in H1 2025, up 1% YoY; streaming generated $4.68B, and paid subscriptions grew 5.7% YoY to $3.2B (Marc Schneider/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/riaa-2025-mid-year-report-recorded…
“Reuters published a story just a few days ago, 1 of many warnings: ‘In May, every living former director of NWS signed on to an open letter w/ a warning that, if continued, Trump’s cuts to fed weather forecasting would create needless loss of life. Despite bipartisan congressional pushback for a restoration in staffing & funding to NWS, sharp budget cuts remain on pace in projections for the 2026 budget for NOAA, the parent organization of NWS.”
Forty-five billion will build a lot of stuff.
As a point of comparison: In 2023, the United States budgeted $12.8 billion to build new affordable housing.
We’re about to spend nearly four times on detention centers as we spend on housing.
https://newrepublic.com/article/197619…
One Navy secretary and his allies in Congress fought to build more littoral combat ships even as they broke down at sea and their weapons systems failed. The Navy wound up with more ships than it wanted, at an estimated lifetime cost that could reach $100 billion or more.
The Navy’s haste to deliver ships took precedence over combat ability. Without functioning weapons systems the vessels are like a “box floating in the ocean,” one former officer said.
Sailors and officers complain…