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PitchBook: AI startups received 53% of all global VC dollars invested in H1 2025, rising to 64% in the US, and accounted for 29% of all global startups funded (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/03/ai-startups-vc-investments

AI is eating venture capital, or at least its dollars
AI startups received 53% of all global VC dollars invested in the first half of 2025.

🎉 Happy 10th anniversary to In The Field - the initiative showcasing the global #impact of #NRENs!
Now counting more than 480 stories from over 100 NRENs across the globe, #InTheField highlights the divers…

UK-based BBC Persian journalists say their families in Iran are being terrorised and punished by the Iranian regime, with a sharp escalation in 2025 (Tom Levitt/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/global-dev…

World Genealogy: Knowledge, Kinship and Ancestors in Global and Historical Perspective (June 2026 / Hamburg, Germany) https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20069800/world-genealogy-knowledge-kinship-and-ancestor…

"Fast-growing, global-south cities are ‘strikingly underrepresented’ in climate research"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Fast-growing, global-south cities are ‘strikingly underrepresented’ in climate research - Carbon Brief
Climate change research in urban areas is skewed towards large, well-established global north cities, says analysis of over 50,000 studies.

La ultraderecha global. Columna de Oscar Contardo.
#Columnistas

DM-SegNet: Dual-Mamba Architecture for 3D Medical Image Segmentation with Global Context Modeling
Hangyu Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05297 https://

DM-SegNet: Dual-Mamba Architecture for 3D Medical Image Segmentation with Global Context Modeling
Accurate 3D medical image segmentation demands architectures capable of reconciling global context modeling with spatial topology preservation. While State Space Models (SSMs) like Mamba show potential for sequence modeling, existing medical SSMs suffer from encoder-decoder incompatibility: the encoder's 1D sequence flattening compromises spatial structures, while conventional decoders fail to leverage Mamba's state propagation. We present DM-SegNet, a Dual-Mamba architecture integrating direct…

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On the asymptotics of elementary-abelian extensions of local and global function fields
We determine the distribution of discriminants of wildly ramified elementary-abelian extensions of local and global function fields in characteristic $p$. For local and rational function fields, we also give precise formulae for the number of elementary-abelian extensions with a fixed discriminant divisor, which describe a local-global principle.

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Global Optimization Algorithm through High-Resolution Sampling
We present an optimization algorithm that can identify a global minimum of a potentially nonconvex smooth function with high probability, assuming the Gibbs measure of the potential satisfies a logarithmic Sobolev inequality. Our contribution is twofold: on the one hand we propose a global optimization method, which is built on an oracle sampling algorithm producing arbitrarily accurate samples from a given Gibbs measure. On the other hand, we propose a new sampling algorithm, drawing inspirati…

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
While less discussed, there is a similar circulation to the AMOC in the #Antarctic called the Southern Meridional Overturning Circulation (SMOC). This is also vital to deep circulation, algal productivity, ecosystem function, and the global

foursquare_global: Foursquare global check-ins (2013)
A bipartite network of users and locations, representing check-in events worldwide on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. Metadata include country, city name, city type (e.g. national capital), and vender's latitude and longitude.
This network has 3935215 nodes and 22809624 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata, Timestamps

Global Kinetic Simulations of Monster Shocks and Their Emission
Dominic Bernardi, Yajie Yuan, Alexander Y. Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04175 https://…

Global Kinetic Simulations of Monster Shocks and Their Emission
Fast magnetosonic waves are one of the two low-frequency plasma modes that can exist in a neutron star magnetosphere. It was recently realized that these waves may become nonlinear within the magnetosphere and steepen into some of the strongest shocks in the universe. These shocks, when in the appropriate parameter regime, may emit GHz radiation in the form of precursor waves. We present the first global Particle-in-Cell simulations of the nonlinear steepening of fast magnetosonic waves in a di…

Tibetan leaders in Tokyo expose China's oppression, call for global support - IndiaPost NewsPaper
https://indiapost.com/tibetan-leaders-in-tokyo-expose-chinas-oppression-call-for-global-support/

Well well well...

Counterpoint has revised its 2025 global smartphone shipment growth forecast to 1.9% YoY, down from 4.2%, citing "renewed uncertainties surrounding US tariffs" (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/04/apple-sams

Apple and Samsung smartphone growth to take hit from tariff uncertainty: Counterpoint Research
Counterpoint Research revised down its 2025 global smartphone shipment growth forecast to 1.9% year-on-year from 4.2%.

Homological invariant properties under cleft extensions
Li Liang, Yajun Ma, Gang Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02691 https://arxiv.…

Homological invariant properties under cleft extensions
We study the behavior of the Gorenstein weak global dimension and Gorenstein flat-cotorsion global dimension under a cleft extension of rings; we prove that under some mild conditons the finiteness of the Gorenstein weak global dimension and that of the Gorenstein flat-cotorsion global dimension are both invariant. Moreover, we compare the relative singularity categories with respect to flat-cotorsion modules under a cleft extension of rings. Some applications to θ-extensions and Morita contex…

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Global Balance and Systemic Risk in Financial Correlation Networks
The global balance index is used in the network literature to quantify how balanced a signed network is. In this paper we show that the global balance index of financial correlation networks can be used as a systemic risk measure. We define the global balance index of a network starting from a diffusive process that describes how the information spreads across nodes in a network, providing an alternative derivation to the usual combinatorial one. The steady state of this process is the solution…

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MultiDLO: Simultaneous Shape Tracking of Multiple Deformable Linear Objects with Global-Local Topology Preservation
MultiDLO is a real-time algorithm for estimating the shapes of multiple, intertwining deformable linear objects (DLOs) from RGB-D image sequences. Unlike prior methods that track only a single DLO, MultiDLO simultaneously handles several objects. It uses the geodesic distance in the Global-Local Topology Preservation algorithm to define both inter-object identity and intra-object topology, ensuring entangled DLOs remain distinct with accurate local geometry. The MultiDLO algorithm is demonstrat…

slip inside last night's frow show, 3 hours of new music, global zones, jazz departures, cosmic arrivals, etc., via the @… archive. https://wfmu.org/playlists/JJ/250603

Data collected by Mauna Loa from 1958 onward let us clearly see the evidence of climate change for the first time.
The station samples the air and measures global CO₂ levels.
Charles Keeling and his successors used this data to produce the famous Keeling curve – a graph showing carbon dioxide levels increasing year after year.
But this precious record is in peril.
Donald Trump has decided to defund the observatory recording the data -- as well as the widespread US gre…

Mauna Loa Observatory captured the reality of climate change. The US plans to shut it down
Cutting data climate collection – as the Trump administration is now trying to do – is like breaking a thermometer to avoid knowing you’ve got a fever.

LongAnimation: Long Animation Generation with Dynamic Global-Local Memory
Nan Chen, Mengqi Huang, Yihao Meng, Zhendong Mao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01945

LongAnimation: Long Animation Generation with Dynamic Global-Local Memory
Animation colorization is a crucial part of real animation industry production. Long animation colorization has high labor costs. Therefore, automated long animation colorization based on the video generation model has significant research value. Existing studies are limited to short-term colorization. These studies adopt a local paradigm, fusing overlapping features to achieve smooth transitions between local segments. However, the local paradigm neglects global information, failing to maintai…

Recent droughts are 'slow-moving global catastrophe' - UN report #environment

Recent droughts are 'slow-moving global catastrophe' - UN report
It says drought has compounded poverty, hunger, and energy insecurity worldwide.

Calamus 23 This moment as I sit alone
A promise of global unity, Whitman sharing his adulation for men in other countries.
I guess this is an antidote to Whitman's nationalism? His celebrations of America seem sweet and sincere but they are very American-centric. Here he's explicitly saying men of other lands can be just as wise, beautiful, or benevolent as American men. It seems unusual that he feels he has to say it explicitly.
As for the queer reading, his conclusion is
I know we should be brethren and lovers
There's that word, "lovers". It's so brash it's hard to understand. It seems uncharacteristically direct even understanding Whitman as a gay poet. Maybe this is some 19th century romantic language, mixing what feels very gay in with a more general celebration of brotherhood? Or maybe it is literally what it says, Whitman eroticizing international men.

‘Legal bullying’: global protest rights on line in Dutch court case https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/04/protest-rights-dutch-court-case-slapps-eu-greenpeace?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Acreed infostealer poised to replace Lumma after global crackdown https://therecord.media/acreed-infostealer-arises-after-lumma-takedown

Exclusive: China's global favorability rising, views of the U.S. turn negative (Emily Peck/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/02/china-us-global-opinions
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p21#a250602p21

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Global monopole in a Ricci-coupled Kalb-Ramond bumblebee gravity
In this paper, we investigate black hole solutions in Einstein-Kalb-Ramond (EKR) bumblebee gravity sourced by a global monopole characterized by the charge $η$. This modified theory of gravity possesses the notable feature of incorporating local Lorentz symmetry breaking (LSB) via a spontaneous symmetry-breaking mechanism. We solve the field equations for a static and spherically symmetric metric with the Kalb-Ramond (KR) field fixed at its VEV, thereby obtaining new black hole solutions. Thes…

CFP> World Genealogy: Knowledge, Kinship and Ancestors in Global and Historical Perspective (June 2026 / Hamburg, Germany) https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20069799/world-genealogy-knowledge-kinship-and-…

I still see people repeating the lie that the liberals "at least stopped sending weapons to Israel"
This is not true, this has been documented again and again
We keep giving weapons to a state committing genocide
https://www.readthemaple.com/c…

Journalism in times of global challenges: what was discussed at the 11th Lviv Media Forum: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/journalism-in-times-of-global.html

Global well-posedness for the ILW equation in $H^s(\mathbb{T})$ for $s>-\frac12$
Louise Gassot, Thierry Laurens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05149 https:/…

Global well-posedness for the ILW equation in $H^s(\mathbb{T})$ for $s>-\frac12$
We prove that the intermediate long wave (ILW) equation is globally well-posed in the Sobolev spaces $H^s(\mathbb{T})$ for $s > -\frac12$. The previous record for well-posedness was $s\geq 0$, and the system is known to be ill-posed for $s<-\frac12$. We then demonstrate that the solutions of ILW converge to those of the Benjamin--Ono equation in $H^s(\mathbb{T})$ in the infinite-depth limit. Our methods do not rely on the complete integrability of ILW, but rather treat ILW as a perturbation o…

Waiting for my #rave to start outside a global #investment #bank, drinking with the traders, as one does...

Pugh's global linearization for the nonautonomous unbounded system with $\mu$-dichotomy via Lyapunov theory
Lu Weijie, Xia Yonghui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02855

Pugh's global linearization for the nonautonomous unbounded system with $μ$-dichotomy via Lyapunov theory
The classical global linearization theorem for autonomous system given in [C. Pugh, Amer. J. Math., 91 (1969) 363-367] requires that nonlinear system with hyperbolicity satisfies boundedness and Lipschitz continuity.In this paper, we establish an {\em unbounded} global linearization theorem for nonautonomous systems subject to unbounded Lipschitz perturbations, under the assumption that the linear system admits a nonuniform $μ$-dichotomy (more general than classical exponential dichotomy). To …

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Sonic: Shifting Focus to Global Audio Perception in Portrait Animation
The study of talking face generation mainly explores the intricacies of synchronizing facial movements and crafting visually appealing, temporally-coherent animations. However, due to the limited exploration of global audio perception, current approaches predominantly employ auxiliary visual and spatial knowledge to stabilize the movements, which often results in the deterioration of the naturalness and temporal inconsistencies.Considering the essence of audio-driven animation, the audio signal…

Party Ideologies and Political Polarization-Driven Conflicts: A Study of the Global South
Shreyansh Padarha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02004 https://

Party Ideologies and Political Polarization-Driven Conflicts: A Study of the Global South
Post-World War II armed conflicts have often been viewed with higher scrutiny in order to avoid a full-scale global war. This scrutiny has led to the establishment of determinants of war such as poverty, inequalities, literacy, and many more. There is a gap that exists in probing countries in the Global South for political party fragmentation and examining ideology-driven polarization's effect on armed conflicts. This paper fills this gap by asking the question: How does political identity-indu…

Chern insulators in two and three dimensions: A global perspective
Jason G. Kattan, J. E. Sipe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04466 https://

Chern insulators in two and three dimensions: A global perspective
We introduce a second-quantized continuum model for bulk Chern insulators wherein the Hamiltonian features a static magnetic field that has the periodicity of the crystal's lattice and spontaneously breaks time-reversal symmetry even in the electronic ground state at zero temperature. The topological invariants characterizing the bulk band structure of Chern insulators in both two and three dimensions are written entirely in terms of the quantities in this Hamiltonian and are globally defined a…

Israeli soldiers on Monday blocked an international media tour organized by No Other Land directors in the West Bank, citing the need to maintain order (Nick Vivarelli/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/global/no-…

'No Other Land' Press Tour of West Bank Village Halted by Israeli Army
The Israeli army has blocked journalists from visiting the village featured in Palestinian Oscar winner 'No Other Land' amid escalating violence.

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Multiplex Nodal Modularity: A novel network metric for the regional analysis of amnestic mild cognitive impairment during a working memory binding task
Modularity is a well-established concept for assessing community structures in various single and multi-layer networks, including those in biological and social domains. Brain networks are known to exhibit community structure at local, meso, and global scale. However, modularity is limited as a metric to a global scale describing the overall strength of community structure, overlooking important variations in community structure at node level. To address this limitation, we extended modularity …

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Object Centric Concept Bottlenecks
Developing high-performing, yet interpretable models remains a critical challenge in modern AI. Concept-based models (CBMs) attempt to address this by extracting human-understandable concepts from a global encoding (e.g., image encoding) and then applying a linear classifier on the resulting concept activations, enabling transparent decision-making. However, their reliance on holistic image encodings limits their expressiveness in object-centric real-world settings and thus hinders their abilit…

CORA: Coalitional Rational Advantage Decomposition for Multi-Agent Policy Gradients
Mengda Ji, Genjiu Xu, Liying Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04265 http…

CORA: Coalitional Rational Advantage Decomposition for Multi-Agent Policy Gradients
This work focuses on the credit assignment problem in cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). Sharing the global advantage among agents often leads to suboptimal policy updates as it fails to account for the distinct contributions of agents. Although numerous methods consider global or individual contributions for credit assignment, a detailed analysis at the coalition level remains lacking in many approaches. This work analyzes the over-updating problem during multi-agent policy…

A global urban road network self-adaptive simplification workflow from traffic to spatial representation
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-05164-9
Data for 35 cities. Looks similar to the neatnet method

A global urban road network self-adaptive simplification workflow from traffic to spatial representation - Scientific Data
Urban road network is crucial for understanding and revealing the spatial logic of urban organization and evolution. However, existing urban road network datasets like OpenStreetMap are designed for traffic studies, treating each lane as a distinct spatial unit of mobility, which may not align with urban studies considering each road as an integration space for social and cultural dynamics. This study established a novel workflow to self-adaptively transform the global urban road network from t…

This #oil & #gas financing/production analysis is interesting in many ways.
▶️ #China is actually ranked fourth, but not mentioned anywhere in the report.
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Planet Wreckers: Top Global North Countries Responsible for nearly 70% of projected new oil and gas expansion to 2035 - Oil Change International
Four Global North countries are responsible for nearly 70% of projected new oil and gas expansion from 2025 to 2035.

Extending near-axis equilibria in DESC
Dario Panici, Eduardo Rodriguez, Rory Conlin, Daniel Dudt, Egemen Kolemen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05170 https://

Extending near-axis equilibria in DESC
The near-axis description of optimised stellarator fields has proven to be a powerful tool both for design and understanding of this magnetic confinement concept. The description consists of an asymptotic model of the equilibrium in the distance from its centermost axis, and is thus only approximate. Any practical application therefore requires the eventual construction of a global equilibrium. This paper presents a novel way of constructing global equilibria using the \texttt{DESC} code that g…

Xerox is one of the three big players in a shrinking market for print. This uncomfortable position means it is having to reinvent itself, pushing for growth through a new global business services organisation and pursuing novel revenue streams.
https://www.computing.co…

Exclusive: Why Xerox chose SAP over Oracle to support its global reinvention
SVP architecture Warren Birch on what gave SAP the edge over its core tech rival

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Ordering the topological order in the fractional quantum Hall effect
We discuss the possible topological order/topological quantum field theory of different quantum Hall systems. Given the value of the Hall conductivity, we constrain the global symmetry of the low-energy theory and its anomaly. Specifically, the one-form global symmetry and its anomaly are presented as the organizing principle of these systems. This information is powerful enough to lead to a unique minimal topological order (or a small number of minimal topological orders). Almost all of the kn…

"104 companies linked to 20% of global environmental conflicts, study finds"
#Business #Environment

104 companies linked to 20% of global environmental conflicts, study finds
A recent study has found that just 104 companies, mostly multinational corporations from high-income countries, are involved in a fifth of the more than 3,000 environmental conflicts it analyzed. The study examined 3,388 conflicts, involving 5,589 companies, recorded in the Global Atlas of Environmental Justice (EJAtlas) as of October 2024. The atlas is the world’s […]

"While crop seed vaults are common around the world, nurseries for wild and native plants are rare, and many plant species quietly become extinct. This marks #Gurukula out as a Noah’s ark for endangered plant species."

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Balancing Profit and Fairness in Risk-Based Pricing Markets
Dynamic, risk-based pricing can systematically exclude vulnerable consumer groups from essential resources such as health insurance and consumer credit. We show that a regulator can realign private incentives with social objectives through a learned, interpretable tax schedule. First, we provide a formal proposition that bounding each firm's \emph{local} demographic gap implicitly bounds the \emph{global} opt-out disparity, motivating firm-level penalties. Building on this insight we introduce …

A Frequentist Simulation-Based Inference Treatment of Sterile Neutrino Global Fits
Joshua Villarreal, Julia Woodward, John Hardin, Janet Conrad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01153

A Frequentist Simulation-Based Inference Treatment of Sterile Neutrino Global Fits
A critical challenge in particle physics is combining results from diverse experimental setups that measure the same physical quantity to enhance precision and statistical power, a process known as a global fit. Global fits of sterile neutrino searches, hunts for additional neutrino oscillation frequencies and amplitudes, present an intriguing case study. In such a scenario, the key assumptions underlying Wilks' theorem, a cornerstone of most classic frequentist analyses, do not hold. The metho…

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Combining Threat Intelligence with IoT Scanning to Predict Cyber Attack
While the Web has become a global platform for communication, malicious actors, including hackers and hacktivist groups, often disseminate ideological content and coordinate activities through the "Dark Web", an obscure counterpart of the conventional web. Presently, challenges such as information overload and the fragmented nature of cyber threat data impede comprehensive profiling of these actors, thereby limiting the efficacy of predictive analyses of their online activities. Concurrently, t…

Bridging Global Frameworks: Governance Strategies Behind Cisco Common Control Framework v4.0 for Scalable Cloud Compliance
Nishant Sonkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01984

Bridging Global Frameworks: Governance Strategies Behind Cisco Common Control Framework v4.0 for Scalable Cloud Compliance
CCF v4.0 provides a standard way to ensure that Cisco's cloud products comply with the many quickly evolving requirements worldwide. To cope with increasing demands brought by ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST, FedRAMP, EU CRA, DORA, and NIS2, CCF v4.0 introduces reliable governance by grouping controls using modules mapped across many frameworks. In this document, I discuss the governance structure controlling the framework's progress, noting how the CAB helped and the relevant steps for mapping and vali…

Interesting piece on the #Arctic #SeaIce and it's (improving) representation in global climate models by Gavin Schmidt over on @realclimate, I'm not entirely sure all of the improvement is for the right reasons, there are probably compensating biases, it would be interesting to see if the models get the regional signal correct in different parts of the Arctic, but overall I agree with this piece, there have been some big steps forward in global models, the regional level is often not very well represented though.
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2025/05/predicted-arctic-sea-ice-trends-over-time/

Switzerland was invented by the king of Sweden to control global financial systems using mind control through the audio frequency of yodeling ☝️#SwitzerlandIsFake

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WikiGap: Promoting Epistemic Equity by Surfacing Knowledge Gaps Between English Wikipedia and other Language Editions
With more than 11 times as many pageviews as the next, English Wikipedia dominates global knowledge access relative to other language editions. Readers are prone to assuming English Wikipedia as a superset of all language editions, leading many to prefer it even when their primary language is not English. Other language editions, however, comprise complementary facts rooted in their respective cultures and media environments, which are marginalized in English Wikipedia. While Wikipedia's user i…

#idw New Study: Significant Global #Glacier Loss Inevitable
If global temperatures rise by 2.7 degrees Celsius – in line with current #climate policy – only a quarter of the glacier masses will be left. This is the …

New Study: Significant Global Glacier Loss Inevitable

Construction of Urban Greenland Resources Collaborative Management Platform
Dongyang Lyu, Xiaoqi Li, Zongwei Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03830 https://…

Construction of Urban Greenland Resources Collaborative Management Platform
Nowadays, environmental protection has become a global consensus. At the same time, with the rapid development of science and technology, urbanisation has become a phenomenon that has become the norm. Therefore, the urban greening management system is an essential component in protecting the urban environment. The system utilises a transparent management process known as" monitoring - early warning - response - optimisation," which enhances the tracking of greening resources, streamlines mainte…

"A new aviation solidarity coalition on premium flyers (first- and business- class tickets, and private jets) has been launched today at FFD4 by France, Kenya, Barbados, Spain, Somalia, Benin, Sierra Leone and Antigua & Barbuda. It will be supported by the European Commission"
Eight countries launch solidarity coalition for levies on premium flyers | Global Solidarity Levies Task Force

Eight countries launch solidarity coalition for levies on premium flyers | Global Solidarity Levies Task Force
The Global Solidarity Levies Task Force brings together countries from around the world to advance options for international levelies that will raise much needed revenue for the fight against climate change, and to support development and nature.

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Large charge operators at large spin from relativistically rotating vortices
We study the ground states of CFTs with a global $U(1)$ symmetry on $\mathbb{R}\times S^2$ in the regime of large charge $Q$ and large angular momentum $J$, using large charge EFT. We find that in the range $Q \ll J \ll Q^2$, the ground state solution is a superfluid densely populated with vortices rotating at a constant angular velocity $Ω$. This is a relativistic generalization of the known (non-relativistic) rigid rotation phase, which corresponds to the small $Ω$ limit of our solution. In…

corporate_directors: Global corporate directors (2016)
Bipartite network of directors and the companies on whose boards they sit, spanning 54 countries worldwide, constructed from data collected by the Financial Times (c. Sept. 2016). Person nodes are annotated with age and gender. Company nodes are annotated with their country, sector, industry, and number of employees.
This network has 356638 nodes and 377060 edges.
Tags: Economic, Governance, Unweighted, Metadata

Catholic bishops from Global South call for ambitious climate action ahead of COP30
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/07/catholic-bishops-from-global-south-call-for-ambitious-climate-action-ahead-of-cop30/

An Apple-funded study says the global App Store drove $1.3T in developer billings and sales in 2024, with developers paying no commission on 90% of sales (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/appl

Apple says its App Store helped generate $1.3T in billings and sales, most without a commission | TechCrunch
Apple said developers generated $1.3 trillion in sales in 2024 through its App Store, of which 90% did not involve paying the company a commission.

The rise of China, along with regional powers such as Turkey, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia, has disrupted the unipolar dominance of the U.S.
These would-be regional hegemons bring with them their own means of imposing influence through economic incentives and coercion.
In China’s case, infrastructure and trade development through the Belt and Road Initiative is counterbalanced with shows of military strength in the South China Sea.
As the global order becomes increasingly fragm…

Are hegemonies a relic of the past? The role of coercion and consent in global domination
From Athens to the British Empire and on to the US – dominant powers have used might and consent to exert influence.

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Sonic: Shifting Focus to Global Audio Perception in Portrait Animation
The study of talking face generation mainly explores the intricacies of synchronizing facial movements and crafting visually appealing, temporally-coherent animations. However, due to the limited exploration of global audio perception, current approaches predominantly employ auxiliary visual and spatial knowledge to stabilize the movements, which often results in the deterioration of the naturalness and temporal inconsistencies.Considering the essence of audio-driven animation, the audio signal…

Linear Attention with Global Context: A Multipole Attention Mechanism for Vision and Physics
Alex Colagrande, Paul Caillon, Eva Feillet, Alexandre Allauzen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02748

Linear Attention with Global Context: A Multipole Attention Mechanism for Vision and Physics
Transformers have become the de facto standard for a wide range of tasks, from image classification to physics simulations. Despite their impressive performance, the quadratic complexity of standard Transformers in both memory and time with respect to the input length makes them impractical for processing high-resolution inputs. Therefore, several variants have been proposed, the most successful relying on patchification, downsampling, or coarsening techniques, often at the cost of losing the f…

CFP> World Genealogy: Knowledge, Kinship and Ancestors in Global and Historical Perspective (June 2026 / Hamburg, Germany)
https://ift.tt/3R79DJV
When did aliens become a problem? The Mediterranean Association for Marine Biology and Oceanology in…
via Input 4 RELCFP

A look at India's push to compete in the global AI race, as the country's vast linguistic diversity poses a core challenge to building foundational AI models (Shadma Shaikh/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/0

Inside India’s scramble for AI independence
Structural challenges and the nation’s many languages have made it tough to develop foundational AI models. But the government is keen not to be left behind.

Thermodynamics and Shadows of Kerr black holes endowed with a global monopole charge
Balendra Pratap Singh, Md Sabir Ali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02653 h…

Thermodynamics and Shadows of Kerr black holes endowed with a global monopole charge
In this article, we present the thermodynamic and shadow properties of rotating black holes with global monopole charge. The angular diameter of Sgr A$^{*}$ black hole is 48.7 $\pm$ 7 $μas$, which is 8 $kps$ far away having a mass of $M = 4.0_{-0.6}^{+1.1} \times 10^6 M\odot$ as observed by Event Horizon Telescope and for the M87 black hole, the observed angular diameter is $θ_d = 42 \pm 3 μ$as, which is almost $16$ $Mpc$ far away with a mass of $M = (6.5 \pm 0.7) \times 10^9 M_\odot$. The g…

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Positively closed $Sh(B)$-valued models
We study positively closed and strongly positively closed topos-valued models of coherent theories. Positively closed is a global notion (it is defined in terms of all possible outgoing homomorphisms), while strongly positively closed is a local notion (it only concerns the definable sets inside the model). For $\mathbf{Set}$-valued models of coherent theories they coincide. We prove that if $\mathcal{E}=Sh(X)$ for an extremally disconnected Stone space (or equivalently $\mathcal{E}=Sh(B,τ_{…

The New European rebrands as The New World, expands its coverage, and moves to a magazine format; the title made £2.6M in 2024 revenue and had 35K subscribers (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
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‘Remainer’ paper New European rebrands to push beyond Brexit roots
Title formed after 2016 UK vote is relaunching as The New World to reflect coverage of global politics and culture

Global Existence and Incompressible Limit for Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations in Bounded Domains with Large Bulk Viscosity Coefficient and Large Initial Data
Qinghao Lei, Chengfeng Xiong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02462

Global Existence and Incompressible Limit for Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations in Bounded Domains with Large Bulk Viscosity Coefficient and Large Initial Data
We investigate the barotropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations with the Navier-slip boundary conditions in a general two-dimensional bounded simply connected domain. For initial density that is allowed to vanish, we establish the global existence and exponential decay of weak, strong, and classical solutions when the bulk viscosity coefficient is suitably large, without any restrictions on the size of the initial data. Furthermore, we prove that when the bulk viscosity coefficient tends to …

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Enhancing Fourier Neural Operators with Local Spatial Features
Partial Differential Equation (PDE) problems often exhibit strong local spatial structures, and effectively capturing these structures is critical for approximating their solutions. Recently, the Fourier Neural Operator (FNO) has emerged as an efficient approach for solving these PDE problems. By using parametrization in the frequency domain, FNOs can efficiently capture global patterns. However, this approach inherently overlooks the critical role of local spatial features, as frequency-domain…

Recent Droughts Are 'Slow-Moving Global Catastrophe' - UN Report - Slashdot
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A Hybrid Approach to Indoor Social Navigation: Integrating Reactive Local Planning and Proactive Global Planning
Arnab Debnath, Gregory J. Stein, Jana Kosecka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02593

A Hybrid Approach to Indoor Social Navigation: Integrating Reactive Local Planning and Proactive Global Planning
We consider the problem of indoor building-scale social navigation, where the robot must reach a point goal as quickly as possible without colliding with humans who are freely moving around. Factors such as varying crowd densities, unpredictable human behavior, and the constraints of indoor spaces add significant complexity to the navigation task, necessitating a more advanced approach. We propose a modular navigation framework that leverages the strengths of both classical methods and deep rei…

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Construction of Urban Greenland Resources Collaborative Management Platform
Nowadays, environmental protection has become a global consensus. At the same time, with the rapid development of science and technology, urbanisation has become a phenomenon that has become the norm. Therefore, the urban greening management system is an essential component in protecting the urban environment. The system utilises a transparent management process known as" monitoring - early warning - response - optimisation," which enhances the tracking of greening resources, streamlines mainte…

Nintendo launches the Switch 2 globally, with long queues outside stores and midnight openings; analysts expect Nintendo to sell 15M to 20M Switch 2 units (David Keohane/Financial Times)
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Nintendo sells out Switch 2 console at global launch
Mario fans queue at midnight store openings after games company apologises for failing to meet pre-order demand

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Eisenstein Series on Metaplectic Covers and Multiple Dirichlet Series
We computed the first Whittaker coefficient of an Eisenstein series on a global metaplectic group induced from the torus and related the result with a Weyl group multiple Dirichlet series attached to the (dual) root system of the group under a mild assumption on the root system and the degree of the metaplectic cover. This confirms a conjecture of Brubaker-Bump-Friedberg.

Affine-Invariant Global Non-Asymptotic Convergence Analysis of BFGS under Self-Concordance
Qiujiang Jin, Aryan Mokhtari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00361 ht…

Affine-Invariant Global Non-Asymptotic Convergence Analysis of BFGS under Self-Concordance
In this paper, we establish global non-asymptotic convergence guarantees for the BFGS quasi-Newton method without requiring strong convexity or the Lipschitz continuity of the gradient or Hessian. Instead, we consider the setting where the objective function is strictly convex and strongly self-concordant. For an arbitrary initial point and any arbitrary positive-definite initial Hessian approximation, we prove global linear and superlinear convergence guarantees for BFGS when the step size is …

Medea Benjamin in the Star:
"We need to flip the script. That means cutting military budgets, withdrawing from endless wars, and beginning a serious conversation about dismantling Nato. The alliance, born of the cold war, is now a stumbling block to global peace and an active participant in war-making. Its latest summit only reinforces that reality."
#Nato’s 5 per cent pledge: an o…

"China ramps up solar and wind power as clean energy output shatters global records"
#China #SolarPower #WindTurbines

China ramps up solar and wind power as clean energy output shatters global records
China installed enough solar and wind power between January and May to match the total electricity use of countries like Indonesia or Turkey, even as its clean energy industry faces deep financial strain.Amy Hawkins reports for The Guardian.In short:China installed 198 gigawatts of solar and 46 giga...

Puja Vohra, former EVP of marketing for Paramount , is joining Fox Corporation in the newly created role of chief marketing officer and EVP of ad sales (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/puja-vohra-foix-cmo-advertising-sal…

Fox Taps Paramount Marketing Veteran Puja Vohra As CMO, Ad Sales
Fox Corp. named Puja Vohra, formerly a senior marketing executive at Paramount Global, as CMO of ad sales

Chinese startups and tech giants are racing to create AI agents for both local and global consumers, following the popularity of Butterfly Effect's Manus (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/05/1117958/china-ai-a…

Manus has kick-started an AI agent boom in China
A stampede of contenders and copycats has followed the launch of the general AI agent, but China’s internet restrictions have so far made it easier to cater to overseas users.

Global existence of the solution of the modified Camassa-Holm equation with step-like boundary conditions
I. Karpenko, D. Shepelsky, G. Teschl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02100

Global existence of the solution of the modified Camassa-Holm equation with step-like boundary conditions
We consider the Cauchy problem for the modified Camassa-Holm equation \[ u_t+\left((u^2-u_x^2)m\right)_x=0,\quad m\coloneqq u-u_{xx}, \quad t>0,\ \ -\infty

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Secure and Private Federated Learning: Achieving Adversarial Resilience through Robust Aggregation
Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative machine learning across decentralized data sources without sharing raw data. It offers a promising approach to privacy-preserving AI. However, FL remains vulnerable to adversarial threats from malicious participants, referred to as Byzantine clients, who can send misleading updates to corrupt the global model. Traditional aggregation methods, such as simple averaging, are not robust to such attacks. More resilient approaches, like the Krum algorithm…

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GETReason: Enhancing Image Context Extraction through Hierarchical Multi-Agent Reasoning
Publicly significant images from events hold valuable contextual information, crucial for journalism and education. However, existing methods often struggle to extract this relevance accurately. To address this, we introduce GETReason (Geospatial Event Temporal Reasoning), a framework that moves beyond surface-level image descriptions to infer deeper contextual meaning. We propose that extracting global event, temporal, and geospatial information enhances understanding of an image's significanc…

TikTok expands Manage Topics, a feature that lets users customize how often specific topics appear in the For You feed, and adds AI-powered keyword filtering (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/678779/tiktok-for-you-feed-manage-…

TikTok gives everyone more control over what’s on their For You page
TikTok is rolling out Manage Topics globally, a feature that lets you control how often you see certain kinds of videos in your For You feed, such as those related to sports, travel, humor, or dance.

"One-fifth of global ocean has become darker, shrinking vital photic zones"
#Oceans #Environment
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One-fifth of global ocean has become darker, shrinking vital photic zones
More than one-fifth of the global ocean—an area spanning more than 75 million sq km—has been the subject of ocean darkening over the past two decades, according to new research.

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LEMON-Mapping: Loop-Enhanced Large-Scale Multi-Session Point Cloud Merging and Optimization for Globally Consistent Mapping
Multi-robot collaboration is becoming increasingly critical and presents significant challenges in modern robotics, especially for building a globally consistent, accurate map. Traditional multi-robot pose graph optimization (PGO) methods ensure basic global consistency but ignore the geometric structure of the map, and only use loop closures as constraints between pose nodes, leading to divergence and blurring in overlapping regions. To address this issue, we propose LEMON-Mapping, a loop-enha…

CFP: Global Asias 2026
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ClinBench-HPB: A Clinical Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs in Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Diseases
Hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) disorders represent a global public health challenge due to their high morbidity and mortality. Although large language models (LLMs) have shown promising performance in general medical question-answering tasks, the current evaluation benchmarks are mostly derived from standardized examinations or manually designed questions, lacking HPB coverage and clinical cases. To address these issues, we systematically eatablish an HPB disease evaluation benchmark comprising…

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OpenS2V-Nexus: A Detailed Benchmark and Million-Scale Dataset for Subject-to-Video Generation
Subject-to-Video (S2V) generation aims to create videos that faithfully incorporate reference content, providing enhanced flexibility in the production of videos. To establish the infrastructure for S2V generation, we propose OpenS2V-Nexus, consisting of (i) OpenS2V-Eval, a fine-grained benchmark, and (ii) OpenS2V-5M, a million-scale dataset. In contrast to existing S2V benchmarks inherited from VBench that focus on global and coarse-grained assessment of generated videos, OpenS2V-Eval focuses …

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Damping Effects on Global Existence and Scattering for an Inhomogeneous NLS Equation with Inverse-Square Potential
This work explores the global existence and scattering behavior of solutions to a damped, inhomogeneous nonlinear Schrodinger equation featuring a time-dependent damping term, an inverse-square potential, and an inhomogeneous nonlinearity. We establish global well-posedness in the energy space for subcritical, mass-critical, and energy-critical regimes, using Strichartz estimates, Hardy inequalities, and Gagliardo-Nirenberg-type estimates. For sufficiently large damping, we highlight how the in…

Dentsu: the video game industry attracts less than 5% of global ad spend despite 3.4B gamers worldwide; 60 game-based productions were in development in 2024 (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/video-g…

Video Game Industry Draws Less Than 5% of Ad, Marketing Spend
According to a new report from Dentsu Gaming, less than 5% of global media investment goes toward the the video game industry.

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ClinBench-HPB: A Clinical Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs in Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Diseases
Hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) disorders represent a global public health challenge due to their high morbidity and mortality. Although large language models (LLMs) have shown promising performance in general medical question-answering tasks, the current evaluation benchmarks are mostly derived from standardized examinations or manually designed questions, lacking HPB coverage and clinical cases. To address these issues, we systematically eatablish an HPB disease evaluation benchmark comprising…

OWMM-Agent: Open World Mobile Manipulation With Multi-modal Agentic Data Synthesis
Junting Chen, Haotian Liang, Lingxiao Du, Weiyun Wang, Mengkang Hu, Yao Mu, Wenhai Wang, Jifeng Dai, Ping Luo, Wenqi Shao, Lin Shao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04217

OWMM-Agent: Open World Mobile Manipulation With Multi-modal Agentic Data Synthesis
The rapid progress of navigation, manipulation, and vision models has made mobile manipulators capable in many specialized tasks. However, the open-world mobile manipulation (OWMM) task remains a challenge due to the need for generalization to open-ended instructions and environments, as well as the systematic complexity to integrate high-level decision making with low-level robot control based on both global scene understanding and current agent state. To address this complexity, we propose a …

"Global temperatures could break heat record in next five years"
#Climate #ClimateChange

World Genealogy: Knowledge, Kinship and Ancestors in Global and Historical Perspective (June 2026 / Hamburg, Germany)
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Global existence for a fractionally damped nonlinear Jordan--Moore--Gibson--Thompson equation
Mostafa Meliani, Belkacem Said-Houari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01538

Global existence for a fractionally damped nonlinear Jordan--Moore--Gibson--Thompson equation
In nonlinear acoustics, higher-order-in-time equations arise when taking into account a class of thermal relaxation laws in the modeling of sound wave propagation. In the literature, these families of equations came to be known as Jordan--Moore--Gibson--Thompson (JMGT) models. In this work, we show the global existence of solutions relying only on minimal assumptions on the nonlocal damping kernel. In particular, our result covers the until-now open question of global existence of solutions for…

Niural, whose AI agents help companies automate payroll, benefits, vendor payments, and compliance, raised a $31M Series A led by Marathon Management Partners (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/06/25/niural-31-milli…

Exclusive: Niural lands $31M to streamline global payroll
Its AI simplifies cross-border pay, benefits and compliance.