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Ashby, which offers an AI-powered talent platform combining applications, CRM, search, and more, raised a $50M Series D, following a $30M Series C in 2024 (Judy Rider/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/ai-powered-hr-platform-ashby-raise/

Exclusive: With OpenAI and Shopify As Customers, Ashby Raises $50M Series D For AI-Powered Talent Platform
In a Crunchbase News exclusive, San Francisco-based Ashby, provider of an “all-in-one” AI-powered HR platform, says it has raised $50 million in a Series D round of funding, just over a year after raising its $30 million Series C.

BREAKTHROUGH: Belgian Authorities Arrest and Interrogate Israeli War Crimes Suspects Following Complaint by Hind Rajab Foundation and GLAN - THE HIND RAJAB FOUNDATION
https://www.hindr…

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Trump is set to remove Erik Siebert, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia,
for being faithful to facts, evidence, and guidelines governing good prosecutorial conduct, rather than fully corrupting his office to target Trump’s enemies.
That’s not a rhetorical cheap shot. It’s what Trump is actually doing, per ABC:
"President Donald Trump is expected to fire the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia after his office was unable to find incrimin…

Trump Firing Top Prosecutor for Failing to Invent Fake Crimes by Foes
A U.S. attorney in Virginia is finding no evidence that Letitia James broke the law. In America, that’s justice. In Trumpworld, it’s a firing offense.

Ukraine’s economic crimes bureau remains leaderless amid government interference: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/ukraines-economic-crimes-bureau-remains.html

GenTune: Toward Traceable Prompts to Improve Controllability of Image Refinement in Environment Design
Wen-Fan Wang, Ting-Ying Lee, Chien-Ting Lu, Che-Wei Hsu, Nil Ponsa Campany, Yu Chen, Mike Y. Chen, Bing-Yu Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15227

GenTune: Toward Traceable Prompts to Improve Controllability of Image Refinement in Environment Design
Environment designers in the entertainment industry create imaginative 2D and 3D scenes for games, films, and television, requiring both fine-grained control of specific details and consistent global coherence. Designers have increasingly integrated generative AI into their workflows, often relying on large language models (LLMs) to expand user prompts for text-to-image generation, then iteratively refining those prompts and applying inpainting. However, our formative study with 10 designers su…

Trump diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency following leg swelling (Betsy Klein/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/17/politics/trump-leg-swelling-chronic-venous-insufficiency
http://www.memeorandum.com/250717/p138#a250717p138

Beyond Random Masking: A Dual-Stream Approach for Rotation-Invariant Point Cloud Masked Autoencoders
Xuanhua Yin, Dingxin Zhang, Yu Feng, Shunqi Mao, Jianhui Yu, Weidong Cai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14975

Beyond Random Masking: A Dual-Stream Approach for Rotation-Invariant Point Cloud Masked Autoencoders
Existing rotation-invariant point cloud masked autoencoders (MAE) rely on random masking strategies that overlook geometric structure and semantic coherence. Random masking treats patches independently, failing to capture spatial relationships consistent across orientations and overlooking semantic object parts that maintain identity regardless of rotation. We propose a dual-stream masking approach combining 3D Spatial Grid Masking and Progressive Semantic Masking to address these fundamental l…

Spin decoherence dynamics of Er$^{3 }$ in CeO$_2$ film
Sagar Kumar Seth, Jonah Nagura, Vrindaa Somjit, Aneesh Bapat, Xinhao Li, Gregory D. Grant, Ignas Masiulionis, Xu Han, F. Joseph Heremans, Giulia Galli, David D. Awschalom, Supratik Guha, Jiefei Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12429

Spin decoherence dynamics of Er$^{3+}$ in CeO$_2$ film
Developing telecom-compatible spin-photon interfaces is essential towards scalable quantum networks. Erbium ions (Er$^{3+}$) exhibit a unique combination of a telecom (1.5 $μ$m) optical transition and an effective spin-$1/2$ ground state, but identifying a host that enables heterogeneous device integration while preserving long optical and spin coherence remains an open challenge. We explore a new platform of Er$^{3+}$:CeO$_2$ films on silicon, offering low nuclear spin density and the potenti…

I’ve been doing an unholy amount of weeding recently and keep seeing these little spiders fleeing my progress. Many are carrying a tiny white ball and so I looked them up out of curiosity.
Apparently they are “Rabid Wolf Spiders”, which sounds like they themselves got to pick it out and sought something impressively terrifying so that humans would leave them alone. It’s certainly a misnomer since spiders cannot be rabid.
The white ball is an egg sac.