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Future shuts down Laptop Mag, which started as a print magazine in 1991; Future shut down AnandTech in 2024 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/695969/laptop-mag-shutdown-future-plc

Laptop Mag is shutting down
Laptop Mag, the publication that shared in-depth information about laptops and other devices, is shutting down after almost 35 years.

Chinese companies' incentive is simple: "Don't lose market share, and future markets are included."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20250530-how-electric-scooters-are-driving-chinas-salt-battery-push…

How electric scooters are driving China's salt battery push
The country is racing ahead of the rest of the world in bringing sodium-ion batteries to the mass market. This time, through scooters.

Q&A with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on Airbnb Experiences, its push into services, OpenAI, AI agents, making decisions at Airbnb, cutting PMs, Jony Ive, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky wants to build the everything app
The head of Airbnb on expanding beyond travel, AI and design, and the future of real-world experiences.

1.21 Gigawatt: 40 Jahre "Zurück in die Zukunft"
Am 3. Juli 1985 startet "Back to the Future" in den amerikanischen Kinos. Er hat nichts von seiner Faszination und Frische verloren.
https:…

There's chatter today about #POX the little Englander Party of Xenophobes and Fascists high in the polls for a Scottish seat.
So how to fight them (and how not)?
https://ste…

The right wing threat and a viable future
A statement from Steady State Manchester Introduction With horror we see the electoral success of POX, The party of Xenophobes and Fascists (which, without irony, actually calls itself Reform UK1).…

Climate change may separate wild vanilla plants from pollinators, risking future supply
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-climate-wild-vanilla-pollinators-future.html

Agent's Take: What it will take for Chiefs to retain star guard Trey Smith for the foreseeable future

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/agents-…

Young Raiders Star’s Beef With a Future Hall of Famer Just Got Spicier https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/beef-with-future-hall-of-famer/?adt_ei=[email]

Democrats must embrace Mamdani as their party's future (Randall Schmollinger/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5379509-democrats-must-embrace-mamdani-as-the-partys-future/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p65#a250702p65

Taurus missiles and US support: what should Ukraine expect in the near future? | News Pulse: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/taurus-missiles-and-us-support.html

"Degrowth: a dead end or the way out? Capital’s future scam" –
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/05/31/degrowth-a-dead-end-or-the-way-out-capitals-future-scam/
New piece in our

Degrowth: a dead end or the way out? Capital’s future scam
Aurora Despierta In the series Prospects for Degrowth This article by the Spanish writer Aurora Despierta is her adaptation (highly summarised for translation into English), for the series Prospect…

"EV battery recycling key to easing future lithium supply constraints, modeling study shows"
#EV #ElectricVehicle #Cars

EV battery recycling key to easing future lithium supply constraints, modeling study shows
Lightweight, powerful lithium-ion batteries are crucial for the transition to electric vehicles, and global demand for lithium is set to grow rapidly over the next 25 years. A new analysis from the University of California, Davis, published May 29 in Nature Sustainability, looks at how new mining operations and battery recycling could meet that demand. Recycling could play a big role in easing supply constraints, the researchers found.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14457 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_…

Large Model Based Agents: State-of-the-Art, Cooperation Paradigms, Security and Privacy, and Future Trends
With the rapid advancement of large models (LMs), the development of general-purpose intelligent agents powered by LMs has become a reality. It is foreseeable that in the near future, LM-driven general AI agents will serve as essential tools in production tasks, capable of autonomous communication and collaboration without human intervention. This paper investigates scenarios involving the autonomous collaboration of future LM agents. We review the current state of LM agents, the key technologi…

Cowboys Headlines: Oxnard votes on camp's future; who are most important Cowboys in 2025? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/02/news-headlines…

Future Slot Prediction for Unsupervised Object Discovery in Surgical Video
Guiqiu Liao, Matjaz Jogan, Marcel Hussing, Edward Zhang, Eric Eaton, Daniel A. Hashimoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01882

Future Slot Prediction for Unsupervised Object Discovery in Surgical Video
Object-centric slot attention is an emerging paradigm for unsupervised learning of structured, interpretable object-centric representations (slots). This enables effective reasoning about objects and events at a low computational cost and is thus applicable to critical healthcare applications, such as real-time interpretation of surgical video. The heterogeneous scenes in real-world applications like surgery are, however, difficult to parse into a meaningful set of slots. Current approaches wit…

With so much hype and recent articles on "AI for coding" and how everyone not doing it is dumb maybe this is a good time to relink my article on "Vibe Coding".
Which I think focuses purely on "output" when developing or creating something is not just about the output.
https://tan…

This Zohran Mamdani video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? It is the blueprint.

Ach sehr schön, das @… streamt die Veranstaltung heute abend mit @… zum Buch "The AI Con" von ihr und @…

Generative AI and the future of scientometrics: current topics and future questions
Benedetto Lepori, Jens Peter Andersen, Karsten Donnay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00783

Generative AI and the future of scientometrics: current topics and future questions
The aim of this paper is to review the use of GenAI in scientometrics, and to begin a debate on the broader implications for the field. First, we provide an introduction on GenAI's generative and probabilistic nature as rooted in distributional linguistics. And we relate this to the debate on the extent to which GenAI might be able to mimic human 'reasoning'. Second, we leverage this distinction for a critical engagement with recent experiments using GenAI in scientometrics, including topic lab…

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
– Maurice Switzer https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/114789191589954642

European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)
Attached: 1 image As temperatures soar, here is something cool for Europe’s future. ⚛️ Introducing the Quantum Europe Strategy: A plan to bring together EU countries, industry, academia and society to unlock the full power of quantum tech. Europe is well-positioned to lead the ongoing quantum revolution, focusing our strategy on: 🔬 R&I 🏗️ Infrastructures 🛰️ Space and Dual-use 🎓 Skills 🌐 Quantum ecosystem Quantum will transform key sectors and Europe will lead the…

A look at Walmart's use of automation to grow sales without adding staff, as analysts say its efforts raise questions about the future of US retail labor (Gregory Meyer/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5be70b28-018d-42d7-af8d-ea5a4bed4d44

Walmart is supercharging revenue — but with fewer workers
Growth in ecommerce and automation sparks questions about future of retail sector’s labour force

https://aphyr.com/posts/388-the-future-of-comments-is-lies-i-guess
Tl;dr: Spam LLM is a combo that’s hard to deal with.

Design, performance and future prospects of vertex detectors at the FCC-ee
Armin Ilg, Fabrizio Palla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02675 https://

Design, performance and future prospects of vertex detectors at the FCC-ee
The CERN proposed $e^+e^-$ Future Circular Collider (FCC-ee) is an electroweak, flavour, Higgs and top factory with unprecedented luminosities. Many measurements at the FCC-ee will rely on precisely determining the particle production vertices using dedicated vertex detectors. All vertex detector designs use Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) with a single-hit resolution of $\approx$ 3 $μ$m and a material budget as low as 0.3% of a radiation length per detection layer, which is within spec…

Yes, yes, yes, yes, @…! 👏
“For now, I’m planning on continuing to roll up my sleeves. I want to make things because I’m human and alive. I want to go on journeys and grow. I’m not always looking for an easy path, I want the friction. Because if I give up the journey, what am I really making? What do I actually learn?”

AI and Remote Sensing for Resilient and Sustainable Built Environments: A Review of Current Methods, Open Data and Future Directions
Ubada El Joulani, Tatiana Kalganova, Stergios-Aristoteles Mitoulis, Sotirios Argyroudis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01547

AI and Remote Sensing for Resilient and Sustainable Built Environments: A Review of Current Methods, Open Data and Future Directions
Critical infrastructure, such as transport networks, underpins economic growth by enabling mobility and trade. However, ageing assets, climate change impacts (e.g., extreme weather, rising sea levels), and hybrid threats ranging from natural disasters to cyber attacks and conflicts pose growing risks to their resilience and functionality. This review paper explores how emerging digital technologies, specifically Artificial Intelligence (AI), can enhance damage assessment and monitoring of trans…

I may need to get back to doing illustrations again since it's been about a year that I took a break...
Hand drawn stuff (even if digitally) might be the future of human art with all this AI bullshit going on.
➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/projects/illustrations/

Illustrations
In March 2024 I started doing sketches on an iPad using Procreate and an Apple Pencil. As of writing this it's May 2024 and I'm still doing it. I'll try to keep this page updated with new illustrations as they are completed. Each illustration links to a page with more info about it, and some [...]

"Why Libraries Should Invest in Visual Design" @ Katina Magazine: https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/future-of-work/2025/why-librarians-should-invest-in-visual-design
"As libraries face f…

What if we find nothing? Bayesian analysis of the statistical information of null results in future exoplanet habitability and #biosignature surveys: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06779 -> interview with the first author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbnmxiTlBUo

The BBC says future music performances deemed high risk won't be aired or streamed live; Bob Vylan and six others had been labeled high risk before Glastonbury (Steven McIntosh/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czjkmlj1348o

BBC staff to 'step back' from duties over Glastonbury Bob Vylan row
No "high risk" music acts will be broadcast live in the future after Bob Vylan's Glastonbury set.

Status of the W boson mass and the future of the electroweak fit in the next decades
Giuseppe Bozzi, Matthias Schott
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01887 https…

Status of the W boson mass and the future of the electroweak fit in the next decades
A precise determination of the W boson mass is an essential test for the Standard Model of particle physics: the comparison of experimental value and theoretical prediction allows to probe the internal consistency of the electroweak sector and could possibly highlight signals of New Physics. We provide a concise and up-to-date summary of past and recent measurements at lepton and hadron colliders, a discussion of the known perturbative and non-perturbative theoretical ingredients used to provid…

#LLM tech is about to kill anything where people are able to contribute:
The Future of #Comments is Lies, I Guess
https://

I wouldn't mind an RZE UTD-8000 (specifically the yellow one) but in Norway with taxes and everything that comes out at 2800kr… so yeah, I will probably save the money and keep it for future cycle purchaes.
https://www.rzewatches.com/pages/utd-8000-launch

UTD-8000 Launch
Built for the everyday adventurer, RZE Watches is a brand born out of the passion for perfecting the craft of titanium watches that fuse together durability, versatility and sustainability.

Paramount said late Tuesday that it had agreed to pay Trump $16 million to settle his lawsuit over the editing of an interview on the CBS News program “60 Minutes,” an extraordinary bribe to a sitting president by a major media organization.
Paramount said its payment included Trump’s legal fees and costs and that the money, minus the legal fees, would be paid to Mr. Trump’s future presidential library. (wink, wink)
The deal is the clearest sign yet that Trump’s ability to intimi…

Paramount to Pay Trump $16 Million to Settle ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit
President Trump had sued over an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris. The company needs federal approval for a multibillion-dollar sale.

lol! Hochul actually just sent this out in an email blast.
We truly are on the cutting edge of the 1950s.

Your Future In Sales & Marketing
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

pizza #sourdough #pretzel batch is done - and the pretzel dog is _definitely_ going on future bake nights

And so it begins.
https://blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/we-are-announcing-sparkasse-as-our-first-national-credential-partner-for-eu-age-assurance/

We are announcing Sparkasse as our first national credential partner for EU age assurance.
The lack of a reliable standard for safe, effective age checks across sites and apps online has long frustrated parents and companies. Google’s Credential Manager API — backed by Google Wallet and zero-knowledge proof cryptography — has proven that it’s possible. What’s needed now is collaboration and initiative to bring about the future of digital identity.That begins now. At the Global Digital Collaboration Conference today in Geneva, Germany’s Sparkasse, a trusted network of 343 …

Like fusion and flying cars, quantitative #DnD encounter balance is always 40 years in the future. #ttrpg https://mstdn.social/@peterdra…

The Washington Post reports: "CBS owner Paramount settles Trump lawsuit over Harris interview for $16M"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2025/07/02/paramount-cbs-settlement-trump-harris-interview/

CBS owner Paramount settles Trump lawsuit over Harris interview for $16M
The money will go to Trump’s future presidential library, not to him directly, according to the agreement. Paramount will not apologize as part of the settlement.

It's official! I'm speaking again at the International PHP Conference in Munich! 🎉
My talks:
"Content Management in the Age of AI: A Headless Approach" - How Headless CMS and AI are shaping the future of content
"Digital Souvereignity: Where to Put My Kubernetes?" - Practical experience with K8s on European infrastructure
Also looking forward to @…

Program | International PHP Conference 2025 | Munich or Online
Check out the program at International PHP Conference, Oct. 27 ‒ 31, 2025 | ✓ Sessions ✓ Workshops ✓ Keynotes — All you need to know!

Raiders star Brock Bowers has future NFL Hall of Famer downright giddy https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-brock-bowers-future-nfl-hall-famer-downright-giddy/848…

From Tyson to TikTok: the boxing fan generational gap is widening
#sports

Bridging Physical and Digital Worlds: Embodied Large AI for Future Wireless Systems
Xinquan Wang, Fenghao Zhu, Zhaohui Yang, Chongwen Huang, Xiaoming Chen, Zhaoyang Zhang, Sami Muhaidat, M\'erouane Debbah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.24009

Bridging Physical and Digital Worlds: Embodied Large AI for Future Wireless Systems
Large artificial intelligence (AI) models offer revolutionary potential for future wireless systems, promising unprecedented capabilities in network optimization and performance. However, current paradigms largely overlook crucial physical interactions. This oversight means they primarily rely on offline datasets, leading to difficulties in handling real-time wireless dynamics and non-stationary environments. Furthermore, these models often lack the capability for active environmental probing. …

FPF Launches Major Initiative to Study Economic and Policy Implications of AgeTech
https://fpf.org/press-releases/fpf-launches-major-initiative-to-study-economic-and-policy-implications-of-agetech/

We've been pacing ourselves watching #blackmirror because there is only so much bleak dystopian sci-fi we can absorb in one go. Last night's episode was "Hotel Reverie" which was actually semi-uplifting in the end. Combined with the happy-ish ending of "Bête Noir" we might even get to the end of the season not totally depressed about the future of humanity.

This. Please read, share, and act. 
@StandUpForScience
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rentzhog_makesciencegre…

#makesciencegreatagain #standupforscience #decency #resistance | Ingmar Rentzhog | 32 comments
⚠️ This is what we’re up against. The anti-science movement is no longer hiding its intentions. If we lose science, we lose democracy—and with it, our future. But it’s not too late to stop this. ✊ Join the resistance. Help us #MakeScienceGreatAgain → https://lnkd.in/dDYhYRfR 💚 I’m proud we launched our defense of science in Paris—a country that still honors truth, knowledge, and reason. 🎥 Watch our science panel from ChangeNOW featuring representatives from the Frenc…

World Models for Cognitive Agents: Transforming Edge Intelligence in Future Networks
Changyuan Zhao, Ruichen Zhang, Jiacheng Wang, Gaosheng Zhao, Dusit Niyato, Geng Sun, Shiwen Mao, Dong In Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00417

World Models for Cognitive Agents: Transforming Edge Intelligence in Future Networks
World models are emerging as a transformative paradigm in artificial intelligence, enabling agents to construct internal representations of their environments for predictive reasoning, planning, and decision-making. By learning latent dynamics, world models provide a sample-efficient framework that is especially valuable in data-constrained or safety-critical scenarios. In this paper, we present a comprehensive overview of world models, highlighting their architecture, training paradigms, and a…

#ScribesAndMakers for July 3: When (and if) you procrastinate, what do you do? If you don't, what do you do to avoid it?
I'll swap right out of programming to read a book, play a video game, or watch some anime. Often got things open in other windows so it's as simple as alt-tab.
I've noticed recently I tend to do this more often when I have a hard problem to solve that I'm not 100% sure about. I definitely have cycles of better & worse motivation and I've gotten to a place where I'm pretty relaxed about it instead of feeling guilty. I work how I work, and that includes cycles of rest, and that's enough (at least, for me it has been so far, and I'm in a comfortable career, married with 2 kids).
Some projects ultimately lose steam and get abandoned, and I've learned to accept that too. I learn a lot and grow from each project, so nothing is a true waste of time, and there remains plenty of future ahead of me to achieve cool things.
The procrastination does sometimes impact my wife & kids, and that's something I do sometimes feel bad about, but I think I keep that in check well enough, and for things my wife worries about, I usually don't procrastinate those too much (used to be worse about this).
Right now I'm procrastinating a big work project by working on a hobby project instead. The work project probably won't get done by the start of the semester as a result. But as I remind myself, my work doesn't actually pay me to work during the summer, and things will be okay without the work project being finished until later.
When I want to force myself into a more productive cycle, talking to people about project details sometimes helps, as does finding some new tech I can learn about by shoehorning it into a project. Have been thinking about talking to a rubber duck, but haven't motivated myself to try that yet, and I'm not really in doldrums right now.

It's interesting how the "I use AI and it's great and the future" blog posts have escaped LinkedIn and now just pour fire on an overheated discourse.
Question is a bit: Why now?

I would say that's about it so far. I'm pretty happy with it overall, have supported the development, and use it every day with no issue. The initial setup took me some time as a newbie, but the PiMyLife blog really helped.
I love how many different apps I can connect my server to, how configurable it is, and I'm looking forward to seeing what the future holds for Navidrome. The dev also seems pretty nice and responsive.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19669 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…

Zero-Shot Streaming Text to Speech Synthesis with Transducer and Auto-Regressive Modeling
Zero-shot streaming text-to-speech is an important research topic in human-computer interaction. Existing methods primarily use a lookahead mechanism, relying on future text to achieve natural streaming speech synthesis, which introduces high processing latency. To address this issue, we propose SMLLE, a streaming framework for generating high-quality speech frame-by-frame. SMLLE employs a Transducer to convert text into semantic tokens in real time while simultaneously obtaining duration align…

Supervised Quantum Machine Learning: A Future Outlook from Qubits to Enterprise Applications
Srikanth Thudumu, Jason Fisher, Hung Du
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24765

Supervised Quantum Machine Learning: A Future Outlook from Qubits to Enterprise Applications
Supervised Quantum Machine Learning (QML) represents an intersection of quantum computing and classical machine learning, aiming to use quantum resources to support model training and inference. This paper reviews recent developments in supervised QML, focusing on methods such as variational quantum circuits, quantum neural networks, and quantum kernel methods, along with hybrid quantum-classical workflows. We examine recent experimental studies that show partial indications of quantum advantag…

An interview with Henry Blodget on BI's layoffs, media market changes in the past five years, why the future is direct distribution and subscriptions, and more (Andy Meek/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andymeek/2025

Henry Blodget On Business Insider Layoffs: 'The Market Has Changed'
Business Insider co-founder Henry Blodget weighs in on the site's layoffs and how AI is reshaping the future of journalism.

In the future, “they took us on buses, soldiers. When we arrived I was surprised: didn’t smell like I remember Everglades smelling. Wasn’t that wet rain smell. Was…different. Piles, sinking, of what had been people…my stomach turned.
I turned to the soldier with a different flag patch on their sleeve and tried to explain, ‘I didn’t do this, this wasn’t me.’
In lightly accented English, soldier said, ‘yes you did, you voted for this,’ punctuated with a rifle gesture to start carry…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02817 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSE_…

Open Source at a Crossroads: The Future of Licensing Driven by Monetization
The widespread adoption of open source libraries and frameworks can be attributed to their licensing. Open Source Software Licenses (OSS licenses) ensure that software can be sold or distributed as part of aggregate programs from various sources without requiring a royalty or fee. The quality of such code rivals that of commercial software, with open source libraries forming large parts of the supply chain for critical commercial systems in industry. Despite this, most open source projects rely…

The more I think about those, the more I want #PGP Web of Trust for everything: cryptographically autographed content where I decide the degree if trust for the author.
It failed for a reason, but still better than #WorldCoin…

Sparse Imagination for Efficient Visual World Model Planning
Junha Chun, Youngjoon Jeong, Taesup Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01392 https://

Sparse Imagination for Efficient Visual World Model Planning
World model based planning has significantly improved decision-making in complex environments by enabling agents to simulate future states and make informed choices. However, ensuring the prediction accuracy of world models often demands substantial computational resources, posing a major challenge for real-time applications. This computational burden is particularly restrictive in robotics, where resources are severely constrained. To address this limitation, we propose a Sparse Imagination fo…

Good article on some of the UK developments enabling aggregators (virtual lead parties) to unlock more demand side flexibility, including residential (heat pumps, batteries, EVs).
https://www.greenexecutives.com/post/unlocking-th…

Unlocking the Future of Energy: How UK Flex Markets Are Reshaping the Grid
With more renewable energy—especially wind and solar—being integrated than ever before, maintaining balance between supply and demand in real time is a growing challenge. That’s where flex markets come in - and everyone from business to consumers is invited to have a seat at the table.

Why does the past of live coding look like what the future of live coding should be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSBfFV42Qlk @…

Face the future
#StreetArt #face #photography

AI bots playing music for other bots. A signpost along the way to our Matrix-like future
https://futurism.com/ai-band-spotify-streams

An "Indie Rock Band" That Appears to Be Entirely AI-Generated Is Making Alarming Amounts of Money on Spotify
While real artists struggle to earn money on Spotify, a seemingly AI-generated band has garnered enough streams to actually make a buck. 

#AI impact on work force: killing jobs, enhancing jobs or what?
Interesting read: https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/b…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Garbage:
🎵 There's No Future In Optimism
#Garbage
https://officialgarbage.bandcamp.com/track/theres-no-future-in-optimism
https://open.spotify.com/track/6cNr04UeJaxfRXPjxWOt6U

FERC skimps on winter storm details as staffing cuts threaten future reporting | Utility Dive
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/ferc-winter-storm-report-staffing-cuts-ucs/749586/

Distributionally Robust Optimization for Aerial Multi-access Edge Computing via Cooperation of UAVs and HAPs
Ziye Jia, Can Cui, Chao Dong, Qihui Wu, Zhuang Ling, Dusit Niyato, Zhu Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01972

Distributionally Robust Optimization for Aerial Multi-access Edge Computing via Cooperation of UAVs and HAPs
With an extensive increment of computation demands, the aerial multi-access edge computing (MEC), mainly based on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and high altitude platforms (HAPs), plays significant roles in future network scenarios. In detail, UAVs can be flexibly deployed, while HAPs are characterized with large capacity and stability. Hence, in this paper, we provide a hierarchical model composed of an HAP and multi-UAVs, to provide aerial MEC services. Moreover, considering the errors of c…

Probing Top Quark - Electron Interactions at Future Colliders
Luigi Bellafronte, Sally Dawson, Pier Paolo Giardino, Hongkai Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02039

Probing Top Quark - Electron Interactions at Future Colliders
Top quark interactions offer a window into possible new high scale physics and many models of new physics predict that the top quark interactions will deviate significantly from those predicted by the Standard Model (SM). We present an analysis of the experimental restrictions on anomalous 4-fermion $e^+e^- t {\overline{t}}$ operators that is accurate to next-to-leading order (NLO) in both the electroweak and QCD interactions within the Standard Model Effective Field Theory framework. At NLO, t…

"A Saltier Southern Ocean Could Cause More Melting Ice in Antarctica"
#Antarctica #Oceans

A Saltier Southern Ocean Could Cause More Melting Ice in Antarctica
Learn why a surge in the Southern Ocean’s salinity is an alarming sign for the future of Antarctic ice.

'Devastating.' NIH cancels future funding plans for HIV vaccine consortia (Jon Cohen/Science)
https://www.science.org/content/article/devasting-nih-cancels-future-funding-plans-hiv-vaccine-consortia
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p7#a250531p7

Samsung's One UI 8 build animation files show its future tri-fold phone, with three rear panels and two inward-folding hinges, rumored to be the Galaxy G Fold (Aamir Siddiqui/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-g…

Exclusive: One UI 8 gives us our first look at Samsung's upcoming tri-fold phone
One UI 8 includes animation files that show off Samsung's first tri-fold, likely to be called the Galaxy G Fold. Check it out!

Beware diluted, fake, scam "degrowth". Insist on the real thing.
New piece in our #ProspectsForDegrowth series.
"Degrowth: a dead end or the way out? Capital’s future scam" – #degrowthUK

Degrowth: a dead end or the way out? Capital’s future scam
Aurora Despierta In the series Prospects for Degrowth This article by the Spanish writer Aurora Despierta is her adaptation (highly summarised for translation into English), for the series Prospect…

Budda Baker 'excited' for Cardinals' future despite 'more losing than winning' over first eight seasons https://www.nfl.com/news/budda-baker-excited-for-cardinals-future-despite-more-losing-t…

Temporal variation in the cloud-top temperature of #Venus revealed by meteorological satellites: https://earth-planets-space.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40623-025-02223-8 -> Meteorological satellites observe temperatures on Venus: https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press/z0508_00415.html - the forecast is bright for future, long-term multiband monitoring of planets.

A quantum internet is much closer to reality thanks to the world's first operating system for quantum computers - https://www.livescience.com/technology/computing/worlds-…

An interview with Jony Ive and Laurene Powell Jobs on tech's next chapter, meeting in 1997, Steve Jobs, Apple, Powell Jobs' io investment in 2019, AI, and more (Matthew Garrahan/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7f0a45b0-a3cc-4e1c-be71-1b7b42958d4…

‘Humanity deserves better’: Jony Ive and Laurene Powell Jobs on tech’s next chapter
After Apple, the Silicon Valley visionaries are looking to artificial intelligence to shape the future again

Cowboys set to lose $16.4 million in future cap space Tuesday thanks to accounting quirk https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/01/cowboys-zack-martin-dead-money-june-1-rule/839780370…

Beware diluted, fake, scam "degrowth".  Insist on the real thing.
New piece in our #ProspectsForDegrowth series.
"Degrowth: a dead end or the way out? Capital’s future scam" – #degrowthUK

Degrowth: a dead end or the way out? Capital’s future scam
Aurora Despierta In the series Prospects for Degrowth This article by the Spanish writer Aurora Despierta is her adaptation (highly summarised for translation into English), for the series Prospect…

“This is the new model,”
the secretary of commerce, Howard Lutnick, said in an interview with CNBC last month,
“where you work in these kind of plants for the rest of your life and your kids work here and your grandkids work here.”
The reality is that this particular campaign
— this effort to de-skill the working population of the United States
— is more likely to immiserate the country and impoverish its residents than it is to inaugurate a golden age of prosp…

Opinion | Trump Is Waging War on the Future
We can contest the dark dreams of those in power.

The Folly of AI for Age Verification
Reid McIlroy-Young
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00038 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.00038

The Folly of AI for Age Verification
In the near future a governmental body will be asked to allow companies to use AI for age verification. If they allow it the resulting system will both be easily circumvented and disproportionately misclassify minorities and low socioeconomic status users. This is predictable by showing that other very similar systems (facial recognition and remote proctoring software) have similar issues despite years of efforts to mitigate their biases. These biases are due to technical limitations both of th…

Quantum Agents
Eldar Sultanow, Madjid Tehrani, Siddhant Dutta, William J Buchanan, Muhammad Shahbaz Khan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01536 https://

Quantum Agents
This paper explores the intersection of quantum computing and agentic AI by examining how quantum technologies can enhance the capabilities of autonomous agents, and, conversely, how agentic AI can support the advancement of quantum systems. We analyze both directions of this synergy and present conceptual and technical foundations for future quantum-agentic platforms. Our work introduces a formal definition of quantum agents and outlines potential architectures that integrate quantum computing…

Humanoid World Models: Open World Foundation Models for Humanoid Robotics
Muhammad Qasim Ali, Aditya Sridhar, Shahbuland Matiana, Alex Wong, Mohammad Al-Sharman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01182

Humanoid World Models: Open World Foundation Models for Humanoid Robotics
Humanoid robots have the potential to perform complex tasks in human centered environments but require robust predictive models to reason about the outcomes of their actions. We introduce Humanoid World Models (HWM) a family of lightweight open source video based models that forecast future egocentric observations conditioned on actions. We train two types of generative models Masked Transformers and FlowMatching on 100 hours of humanoid demonstrations. Additionally we explore architectural var…

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Descriptor: C++ Self-Admitted Technical Debt Dataset (CppSATD)
In software development, technical debt (TD) refers to suboptimal implementation choices made by the developers to meet urgent deadlines and limited resources, posing challenges for future maintenance. Self-Admitted Technical Debt (SATD) is a sub-type of TD, representing specific TD instances ``openly admitted'' by the developers and often expressed through source code comments. Previous research on SATD has focused predominantly on the Java programming language, revealing a significant gap in …

A look at AIFF 2025, Runway's third annual AI Film Festival featuring 10 shorts, as the film and TV industry remains divided over the role of AI in its future (Samuel Axon/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/0

Curated realities: An AI film festival and the future of human expression
We saw 10 AI films and interviewed Runway’s CEO as well as Hollywood pros.

"Where Next for Academic Social Media? How Scholars Are Rethinking the Platforms They Use – and Why" @ DeGruyter Conversations
https://blog.degruyter.com/where-next-for-academic-social-media-how-s…

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The Evolution and Future Perspectives of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content
Artificial intelligence generated content (AIGC), a rapidly advancing technology, is transforming content creation across domains, such as text, images, audio, and video. Its growing potential has attracted more and more researchers and investors to explore and expand its possibilities. This review traces AIGC's evolution through four developmental milestones-ranging from early rule-based systems to modern transfer learning models-within a unified framework that highlights how each milestone co…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Garbage:
🎵 There's No Future In Optimism
#Garbage
https://officialgarbage.bandcamp.com/track/theres-no-future-in-optimism
https://open.spotify.com/track/6cNr04UeJaxfRXPjxWOt6U

An interview with Gaia Marcus, director of the UK-based think tank Ada Lovelace Institute, on AI regulation in the UK and Europe, AI safety, bias, and more (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)

Ada Lovelace Institute’s Gaia Marcus: regulation would increase people’s comfort with AI
The head of the UK-based think-tank talks about her hopes and fears for future oversight of AI

Panthers' Taylor Moton has 'another contract' in him, thrilled to return entire OL group https://www.nfl.com/news/panthers-taylor-moton-has-another-contract-in-him-thrilled-to-return-entire-ol-group

Paramount says its settlement does not include a statement of apology or regret and 60 Minutes will release transcripts of presidential candidates in the future (David Folkenflik/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/02/nx-s1-5290171/tr…

An Intriguing Option for the Raiders' Future https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-draft-rueben-bain-maxx-crosby-pete-carroll

Few would label Mace kind or gentle
As she engages in a relentless crusade against trans rights, she is more one-trick pony than “caucus of one."
https://newrepublic.com/article/196207/nancy-mace-future-republican-party

Nancy Mace Is the Future of the Republican Party
The South Carolina representative isn’t just a bigot and a laughing stock. She’s pioneering a media strategy that her GOP colleagues will follow.

Understanding Underrepresented Groups in Open Source Software
Reydne Santos, Rafa Prado, Ana Paula de Holanda Silva, Kiev Gama, Fernando Castor, Ronnie de Souza Santos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00142

Understanding Underrepresented Groups in Open Source Software
Context: Diversity can impact team communication, productivity, cohesiveness, and creativity. Analyzing the existing knowledge about diversity in open source software (OSS) projects can provide directions for future research and raise awareness about barriers and biases against underrepresented groups in OSS. Objective: This study aims to analyze the knowledge about minority groups in OSS projects. We investigated which groups were studied in the OSS literature, the study methods used, their im…

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AdaWorld: Learning Adaptable World Models with Latent Actions
World models aim to learn action-controlled future prediction and have proven essential for the development of intelligent agents. However, most existing world models rely heavily on substantial action-labeled data and costly training, making it challenging to adapt to novel environments with heterogeneous actions through limited interactions. This limitation can hinder their applicability across broader domains. To overcome this limitation, we propose AdaWorld, an innovative world model learni…

A look at AIFF 2025, Runway's third annual AI Film Festival featuring 10 shorts, as the film and TV industry remains divided over the role of AI in its future (Samuel Axon/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/0

Curated realities: An AI film festival and the future of human expression
We saw 10 AI films and interviewed Runway’s CEO as well as Hollywood pros.

Will Agents Replace Us? Perceptions of Autonomous Multi-Agent AI
Nikola Balic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02055 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Will Agents Replace Us? Perceptions of Autonomous Multi-Agent AI
Autonomous multi-agent AI systems are poised to transform various industries, particularly software development and knowledge work. Understanding current perceptions among professionals is crucial for anticipating adoption challenges, ethical considerations, and future workforce development. This study analyzes responses from 130 participants to a survey on the capabilities, impact, and governance of AI agents. We explore expected timelines for AI replacing programmers, identify perceived barri…

Degrowth: a dead end or the way out? Capital’s future scam
Aurora Despierta In the series Prospects for Degrowth This article by the Spanish writer Aurora Despierta is her adaptation (highly summarised for translation into English), for the series Prospects for Degrowth, of the original article: Decrecer ¿callejón o salida? La futura estafa del capital’ (2-5-2025) Translated by Mark Burton and Anna Gregoletto For a radically anti-capitalist degrowth that cannot be…

Degrowth: a dead end or the way out? Capital’s future scam
Aurora Despierta In the series Prospects for Degrowth This article by the Spanish writer Aurora Despierta is her adaptation (highly summarised for translation into English), for the series Prospect…

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Towards Data Governance of Frontier AI Models
Data is essential to train and fine-tune today's frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models and to develop future ones. To date, academic, legal, and regulatory work has primarily addressed how data can directly harm consumers and creators, such as through privacy breaches, copyright infringements, and bias and discrimination. Our work, instead, focuses on the comparatively neglected question of how data can enable new governance capacities for frontier AI models. This approach for "frontier …

An mRNA-based seasonal flu vaccine from Moderna was 27 percent more effective at preventing influenza infections than a standard flu shot, the company announced this week.
Moderna noted that the new shot, dubbed "mRNA-1010", hit the highest efficacy target that it set for the trial,
which included nearly 41,000 people aged 50 and above.
Participants were randomly assigned to receive either mRNA-1010 or a standard shot and were then followed for about six months du…

Moderna says mRNA flu vaccine sailed through trial, beating standard shot
Moderna hailed the results, but the shot’s future under RFK Jr. is murky.

Michael Moritz's The San Francisco Standard buys Charter, a digital outlet focused on the future of work; Charter founder Kevin Delaney will be EIC of both pubs (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/busines

He Made Billions on Google and PayPal. Now, He’s Betting on News.
Michael Moritz co-founded The San Francisco Standard, a local news organization. It is acquiring Charter, a start-up focused on the future of work.

The Automated but Risky Game: Modeling Agent-to-Agent Negotiations and Transactions in Consumer Markets
Shenzhe Zhu, Jiao Sun, Yi Nian, Tobin South, Alex Pentland, Jiaxin Pei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00073

The Automated but Risky Game: Modeling Agent-to-Agent Negotiations and Transactions in Consumer Markets
AI agents are increasingly used in consumer-facing applications to assist with tasks such as product search, negotiation, and transaction execution. In this paper, we explore a future scenario where both consumers and merchants authorize AI agents to fully automate negotiations and transactions. We aim to answer two key questions: (1) Do different LLM agents vary in their ability to secure favorable deals for users? (2) What risks arise from fully automating deal-making with AI agents in consum…

Paramount agrees to pay Trump $16M to settle his 60 Minutes lawsuit, stating the money will go to his future presidential library, without offering an apology (Meg James/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts

Paramount agrees to pay $16 million to settle Trump CBS ‘60 Minutes' lawsuit
President Trump had filed a $20 billion lawsuit claiming a ‘60 Minutes' interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris was manipulated to show her in a flattering light. Trump alleged the news interview was "election-threatening."