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Anthropic releases preliminary results showing users who discuss emotional issues with Claude tend to grow more positive as conversations progress (Megan Morrone/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/26/anthropic-claude-companion-therapist-coach…

Exclusive: How Claude became an emotional support bot
The research shows users grow more positive while chatting with Claude.

The world's data centers already consume three times as much electricity as Dutch national consumption. And this is expected to grow to 8 times within five years.
https://mastodon.green/@solar_chase/114556281180000861

LBG Media's audience was 520M in the 12 months to March 31, 2025, with US audience up 11% to 145M; revenue grew 13% to £43.9M in the six months to March 31 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_busine…

Ladbible owner says revenue will grow by 10% this year
The owner of Ladbible now has 17 clients generating $1m or more in annual revenue who want to reach its young audiences.

Sonnet 140 - CXL
Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press
My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain;
Lest sorrow lend me words, and words express
The manner of my pity-wanting pain.
If I might teach thee wit, better it were,
Though not to love, yet, love to tell me so;
As testy sick men, when their deaths be near,
No news but health from their physicians know;
For, if I should despair, I should grow mad,
And in my madness might s…

Resonating Kagome Dimer coverings in Rydberg atom arrays
Xicheng Wang, Erich J Mueller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21255 https://arxiv…

Resonating Kagome Dimer coverings in Rydberg atom arrays
Motivated by experiments on Rydberg atom arrays, we explore the properties of uniform quantum superpositions of kagome dimer configurations and construct an efficient algorithm for experimentally producing them. We begin by considering the thin cylinder limit, where these states have simple descriptions. We then develop a matrix product representation of the states on arbitrary cylinders, which leads to a natural protocol to efficiently grow them. We explain how our approach can be adapted to o…

Americans grow uneasy about the economy | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/consumer-confidence-conference-board-economy-spending-1ef56ac698f194203848df1968567c85

"As Wind and Solar Grow, China Ships More Coal Overseas"
#China #FossilFuels #Renewables #Energy…

As Wind and Solar Grow, China Ships More Coal Overseas

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard:
🎵 Grow Wings and Fly
#KingGizzard #theLizardWizard
https://bootleggizzard.bandcamp.com/track/grow-wings-and-fly-live-in-new-orleans-24
https://open.spotify.com/track/6hQDM3GCZ1mxV0jLyUpoyd

Spiking Neural Networks for SAR Interferometric Phase Unwrapping: A Theoretical Framework for Energy-Efficient Processing
Marc Bara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20782

Spiking Neural Networks for SAR Interferometric Phase Unwrapping: A Theoretical Framework for Energy-Efficient Processing
We present the first theoretical framework for applying spiking neural networks (SNNs) to synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometric phase unwrapping. Despite extensive research in both domains, our comprehensive literature review confirms that SNNs have never been applied to phase unwrapping, representing a significant gap in current methodologies. As Earth observation data volumes continue to grow exponentially (with missions like NISAR expected to generate 100PB in two years) energy-effi…

Grow a Garden, a simple farming simulator game made within Roblox, hit 16.4M active players on June 14, surpassing other popular games' peak concurrent users (Kieran Press-Reynolds/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/arts/grow-garden-roblo…

Roblox’s Grow a Garden Surpasses Fortnite With 16.4 Million Players
On Saturday, more than 16 million people were planting seeds and collecting exotic pets within Grow a Garden at the same time. Many were not yet teenagers.

On the Role of Color Temperature and Color Rendering Index of White-Light LEDs on the Theoretical Efficiency Limit of Indoor Photovoltaics
Aditi Sharma, Alexander A. Guaman, Jason A. R\"ohr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20811

On the Role of Color Temperature and Color Rendering Index of White-Light LEDs on the Theoretical Efficiency Limit of Indoor Photovoltaics
As the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to grow, the demand for sustainable indoor power sources is increasing. Indoor photovoltaics (IPVs), which are currently in development, present a renewable solution but need to be designed to match specific light sources. While previous studies have emphasized the role of white-light LED color temperature (CT) in determining IPV efficiency and optimum bandgap energy, the role of color rendering index (CRI) remains less understood. In this study, we emp…

Generalised Time-Series Analysis of Fault Mechanics Using Explainable AI
Thomas King, Sergio Vinciguerra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21312 https://

Generalised Time-Series Analysis of Fault Mechanics Using Explainable AI
Understanding how faults nucleate and grow is a critical problem in earthquake science and hazard assessment. This study examines fault development in Alzo granite under triaxial pressures ranging from 5 to 40 MPa by applying a Time Delay Neural Network (TDNN) to multi-parameter acoustic emission (AE) data. The TDNN integrates waveform-derived attributes, including peak delay and scattering attenuation, with occurrence-based metrics such as time distributions, Gutenberg-Richter b-values, and sp…

Commanders RB Austin Ekeler: Jayden Daniels 'exceeded expectations' in 2024, but will show 'more growth this year' https://www.nfl.com/news/commanders-rb-austin-ekeler-jayden-daniels-exceeded-expectations-in-2024…

Integrating Pair Programming as a Work Practice
Nina Haugland Andersen, Anastasiia Tkalich, Nils Brede Moe, Darja Smite, Asgaut Mj{\o}lne S\"oderbom, Ola Hast, Viktoria Stray
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19511

Integrating Pair Programming as a Work Practice
Context: Pair programming (PP) is more relevant than ever. As modern systems grow in complexity, knowledge sharing and collaboration across teams have become essential. However, despite well-documented benefits of PP, its adoption remains inconsistent across software teams. Objective: This study aims to understand the factors that facilitate or hinder team members' adoption as well as lasting engagement in PP. Method: We have conducted an exploratory single-case study in a mature agile company …

Gravitational Torques from a Lopsided Young Stellar Component Sustain High Black Hole Accretion in NGC 4593
Nico Winkel, Knud Jahnke, Juan Antonio Fern\'andez-Ontiveros, Timothy A. Davis, Fran\c{c}oise Combes, Massimo Gaspari, Justus Neumann, Mainak Singha, Jacob S. Elford, Vardha N. Bennert, Matthew A. Malkan
https://arxiv.…

Gravitational Torques from a Lopsided Young Stellar Component Sustain High Black Hole Accretion in NGC 4593
Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) grow primarily through gas accretion, observed as active galactic nuclei (AGNs). While mergers can drive luminous AGN episodes, secular processes may fuel a substantial portion of cosmic BH growth. Whether these mechanisms can sustain high BH accretion rates remains uncertain. This study aims to identify the secular mechanism driving high BH accretion rates, by targeting a galaxy with moderately massive SMBH, high central gas densities, accretion rates of a few …

Can adults grow new brain cells? https://www.livescience.com/health/neuroscience/can-adults-grow-new-brain-cells "Scientists are still debating whether the human brain is capable of growing new cells past childhood"

Can adults grow new brain cells?
Scientists are still debating whether the human brain is capable of growing new cells past childhood.

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Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and military against protesters in Los Angeles is widely being interpreted as
a display of intimidation and state power ahead of his birthday,
when Trump will oversee a military parade in Washington, D.C. in the style of a dictator.
The president has warned that protesters in D.C. will be
“met with very heavy force.”
Democrats and civil rights groups say the president is inflaming tensions to justify further repr…

Trump Is Rapidly Expanding the Surveillance State as Protests Grow
Immigrants are only the first target of a rapidly expanding digital dragnet that can track our individual movements.

Cats don't grow from trees.
That's silly.
They grow from stumps!

Look at my babies! They grow up so fast.

Att folk orkar 🤷🏼‍♂️🙂
Men are shaving off their eyelashes on TikTok. https://theconversation.com/men-are-shaving-off-their-eyelashes-on-tiktok-heres-why-that-might-be-a-bad-idea-256222

@… first, make sure the flex container has a min-height set (like 100vh). Second, set flex-grow to 0 on the header and footer.

How Trees on Atoms of Subset Algebras Define Minimal Forests and Their Growth
Vasily Buslov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17921 https://…

How Trees on Atoms of Subset Algebras Define Minimal Forests and Their Growth
A complete description is given of how minimal trees on atoms of the algebra of subsets $\mathfrak{A}_k$ generated by minimal spanning $k$-component forests of a weighted digraph $V$ determine the form of these forests and how forests grow with increasing number of arcs (that is with a decrease in the number of trees). Precise bounds are established on what can be extracted about the tree structure of the original graph if the minimal trees on the atoms of a single algebra $\mathfrak{A}_k$ are …

Good ideas and good research take years to incubate, grow, and realise.
You need *time*.
Time to think, to try, to talk, to throw up and out 'silly' ideas and theories - some which aren't so silly in the end - to be bored, to revisit, to connect.
"We are witnessing the dismantling of a system that once made space for pure curiosity."

Metric Poissonian pair correlation for real sequences and energy estimates
Bryce Kerr, Hongliang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17031 https://

Metric Poissonian pair correlation for real sequences and energy estimates
In this paper, we establish new conditions under which a sequence of real numbers has metric Poissonian pair correlation. Our conditions improve upon results of Aistleitner, El-Baz and Munsch, and resolve one of their open problems for sequences that grow faster than a quadratic polynomial. As applications, we show that quantitatively convex and polynomial sequences are metric Poissonian.

Cowboys' $13.5 million offensive weapon will see backfield opportunities grow https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/14/kavontae-turpin-cowboys-backfield-usage/84188147007/

Lamar Jackson helping to find ways to bring the Ravens closer, grow chemistry https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45569080/baltimore-ravens-qb-lamar-jackson-bonding-teammates

Krugman continues:
❝While there is a cadre of Trumpist true believers who will obey the Leader under any circumstances, most of those doing the dirty work of undermining democracy and the rule of law are cowards and opportunists. They’re willing to participate in the destruction of America as we know it because they believe that many others will do the same. As a result, they believe that they are unlikely to face any personal consequences for their actions and may even be rewarded for their lawbreaking.
And what of those who oppose Trumpism? While there are heroes willing to take a stand against tyranny whatever the personal cost, most anti-Trumpists are reluctant to stick their necks out unless they believe that they are part of a widespread resistance that will grant them some measure of safety in numbers.
In other words, the victory or defeat of competitive authoritarianism will depend to a large extent on which side ordinary people believe will win. If Trump looks unstoppable, resistance will wither away and democracy will be lost. On the other hand, if he appears weak and stymied, resistance will grow and — just maybe — American democracy will survive.❞
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"Green roofs shown to capture nearly all microplastics from rainwater"
#Microplastics #Plastic #Plastics

Green roofs shown to capture nearly all microplastics from rainwater
A small team of researchers at Tongji University, working with a colleague from the Shanghai Academy of Landscape Architecture Science and Planning, both in China, has found that growing plants on roofs can serve as an effective way to remove microplastics from the air. In their study, published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, the group measured the amounts of microplastics found on plants and the soil in which they grow.

The Caring CEO. For Leaders Who Want To Grow Teams Who Are More Caring, Fun Filled And Productive. For Leaders Who Care.
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-caring-ceo/

Super-Earth formation in systems with cold giants
Claudia Danti, Michiel Lambrechts, Sebastian Lorek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17091 https://

Super-Earth formation in systems with cold giants
Around our Sun, terrestrial planets did not grow beyond Earth in mass, while super-Earths are found to orbit approximately every other solar-like star. It remains unclear what divides these super-Earth systems from those that form terrestrial planets, and what role wide-orbit gas giants play in this process. Here, we show that the key uncertainty is the degree of viscous heating in the inner disc, which regulates the pebble accretion efficiency. In this parameter study, we assume pebble sizes l…

"Despite good-faith efforts by DSI [dense street imagery] providers to protect individual privacy through blurring faces and license plates, these measures fail to address broader privacy concerns. In this work, we find that increased data density and advancements in artificial intelligence enable harmful group membership inferences from supposedly anonymized data."
via @…

Privacy of Groups in Dense Street Imagery
Spatially and temporally dense street imagery (DSI) datasets have grown unbounded. In 2024, individual companies possessed around 3 trillion unique images of public streets. DSI data streams are only set to grow as companies like Lyft and Waymo use DSI to train autonomous vehicle algorithms and analyze collisions. Academic researchers leverage DSI to explore novel approaches to urban analysis. Despite good-faith efforts by DSI providers to protect individual privacy through blurring faces and l…

Burnout leave, day negative 13:
‣ Half of me wants to rip myself to shreds with self-criticism for things I could have done better
‣ Half of me resents that, through my life so far (independent of recent events), the world hasn't been the best place for me to grow and be the best person I can be
‣ Half of me wants to accept both of the above and find the most realistic (and inevitably imperfect) path forward (ACT therapy style)
‣ Half of me is grumbling that these are…

Managing Technical Debt in a Multidisciplinary Data Intensive Software Team: an Observational Case Study
Ulrike M. Graetsch, Rashina Hoda, Hourieh Khalazjadeh, Mojtaba Shahin, John Grundy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18219

Managing Technical Debt in a Multidisciplinary Data Intensive Software Team: an Observational Case Study
Context: There is an increase in the investment and development of data-intensive (DI) solutions, systems that manage large amounts of data. Without careful management, this growing investment will also grow associated technical debt (TD). Delivery of DI solutions requires a multidisciplinary skill set, but there is limited knowledge about how multidisciplinary teams develop DI systems and manage TD. Objective: This research contributes empirical, practice based insights about multidisciplina…

Did Nick Heywood grow up to become Nigel Farage? #totp

I wish my family could see how much I care about anarchism, syndicalism, and especially anarcho-syndicalism, and how serious I am about building a different kind of world.
They still hold on to the image of me as someone who just spends all day gaming, like that’s all I ever was. But people change, grow, and find new paths.
If they can’t accept that, then they don’t really know who I am now, and it’s painful to realize that the people closest to me can’t see the person I’ve beco…

#permaculture

2 hours a week
I skite that I grow nearly all the fruit, veggies, flowers, eggs, herbs we eat for less than two hours work a week, with almost no bought inputs, and that this stares down the meme about home grown…

Coolest part of this: it somehow escaped Dutch Elm Disease and they are gathering its seeds to propagate what *may* be naturally resistant genetics. https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/top-stories-01r3k2ttz/-/a-CoiPb3nXRaK1lwOlyr7ZwA:a%3…

One of Toronto's oldest elm trees is on its last legs. Researchers are racing to re-grow copies
One of the largest old elm trees in Toronto — possibly in all of southern Ontario — is on its last legs. But as the city finalizes plans to take down …

A Critical Relationship on the Raiders' Offense Continues to Grow https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-kolton-miller-jackson-powers-johnson-oregon-ducks

Character.AI hires Karandeep Anand, former Meta VP of Business Products, as CEO, 10 months after Google hired away the startup's co-founder and CEO Noam Shazeer (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/20/charact…

Character.AI taps Meta's former VP of business products as CEO | TechCrunch
Character.AI appointed Karandeep Anand to be the company's new CEO, helping it grow its platform and fight child safety concerns.

I nearly missed the fact it's been a year since I translated @… Meta in Myanmar series to Polish.
A year later, I can confidently say that series radicalized me quite a bit.
I've hated Meta products for a while, so not much has changed in that department.
However, re-reading the story of Rohingya ethnic cleansing over and over again made me grow plenty of sheer anger within me.
Anger over general injustice in the world and stuff.
My third 'era' of photography, involving documenting local activism, with particular attention to oppressed or marginalized groups (tenants, Palestinians, Belarusians - to name just a few) wouldn't have happened if I hadn't had my moment of disillusionment about the whole system we live in.
All of that because I started noticing familiar patterns I haven't been aware before. All stories that involve oppression, genocide, ethnic cleansing or any other kind of systemic cruelty started rhyming to me. Only the context and the environment kept changing.
Literally everything about my current life has changed around April 2024 and only now I'm ready to take a look at that.
Anyway. To all of you who want to read that once again:
Full series in Polish:
https://blog.lukaszwojcik.net/pl/meta-w-mjanmie/
Web Archive copy of the above:
https://archive.org/details/meta-w-mjanmie-pl
Original in English:
https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-full-series

Governments that want to make the switch to Linux should actively contribute. They shouldn't rush into anything. They should figure out possible technical difficulties beforehand and even fund open source software to help deal with those issues.
They need to plan for pushback from employees. Change is difficult and people will complain about stuff that they will grow to appreciate over time.

Just finished "As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow" by Zoulfa Katouh. It puts to shame every other book I've ever thought was gripping, but it still took me two days to read because I also had to put it down to process. A hurricane of a book that's left behind sorrow, anger, wisdom, and joy.
Read it.
#AmReading

Is goth something you grow out of? Or are you stuck with it, like a tattoo?

The Rise of AI Companions: How Human-Chatbot Relationships Influence Well-Being
Yutong Zhang, Dora Zhao, Jeffrey T. Hancock, Robert Kraut, Diyi Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12605

The Rise of AI Companions: How Human-Chatbot Relationships Influence Well-Being
As large language models (LLMs)-enhanced chatbots grow increasingly expressive and socially responsive, many users are beginning to form companionship-like bonds with them, particularly with simulated AI partners designed to mimic emotionally attuned interlocutors. These emerging AI companions raise critical questions: Can such systems fulfill social needs typically met by human relationships? How do they shape psychological well-being? And what new risks arise as users develop emotional ties t…

This is why people pirate https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114508154443493144

A profile of LA-based Whatnot, a livestream marketplace valued at ~$5B, which has raised $700M since 2019 and expects its GMV to grow 100% YoY to $6B in 2025 (Jason Del Rey/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/06/16/whatnot

Inside the rise of Whatnot, the wildly-entertaining, FOMO-inducing, $5 billion shopping app you’ve never heard of
Inside the rapid rise of Whatnot, the wildly-entertaining, FOMO-inducing, most popular shopping app you’ve never heard of

“If you think this doesn’t happen in nature you need to grow up” Via https://bsky.app/profile/brendelbored.bsky.social/post/3lqljqpxmbk2f

Over five years now I'm programming on the JVM. Started out with #Java, moved to #Kotlin as my daily driver, dipped my toes into #Scala and once in a while enjoy experimenting with

Computational Attestations of Polynomial Integrity Towards Verifiable Machine-Learning
Dustin Ray, Caroline El Jazmi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11458 https…

Computational Attestations of Polynomial Integrity Towards Verifiable Machine-Learning
Machine-learning systems continue to advance at a rapid pace, demonstrating remarkable utility in various fields and disciplines. As these systems continue to grow in size and complexity, a nascent industry is emerging which aims to bring machine-learning-as-a-service (MLaaS) to market. Outsourcing the operation and training of these systems to powerful hardware carries numerous advantages, but challenges arise when privacy and the correctness of work carried out must be ensured. Recent advance…

Empirically-Calibrated H100 Node Power Models for Reducing Uncertainty in AI Training Energy Estimation
Alex C. Newkirk, Jared Fernandez, Jonathan Koomey, Imran Latif, Emma Strubell, Arman Shehabi, Constantine Samaras
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14551

Empirically-Calibrated H100 Node Power Models for Reducing Uncertainty in AI Training Energy Estimation
As AI's energy demand continues to grow, it is critical to enhance the understanding of characteristics of this demand, to improve grid infrastructure planning and environmental assessment. By combining empirical measurements from Brookhaven National Laboratory during AI training on 8-GPU H100 systems with open-source benchmarking data, we develop statistical models relating computational intensity to node-level power consumption. We measure the gap between manufacturer-rated thermal design pow…

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?”

Just playing a bit of Dwarf Fortress in a biome where it rains poisonous mucus, so the surface is kind of tricky.
All my grazing animals died before I could reach a cavern layer (my incompetence).
Traders came but brought no food.
The only thing my dwarves have eaten for 2 years is turkey eggs.
Hopefully I can sort this out before they are all clad head to toe only in turkey leather.
Got some pigs but they take ages to grow to adulthood.
Spirits are amazing…

Elon Musk calls Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ tax bill
a ‘disgusting abomination’
The former head of Doge said the ‘outrageous’ tax bill will cause the deficit to grow to $2.5tn
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

ALIA in partnership with the Office of Community Cohesion is looking to work with public libraries across the country on an exciting new community engagement initiative. Participating libraries will receive a payment of $9,900 incl GST in order to host a range of programs that strengthen, grow, and protect community cohesion in diverse ways.
Information session on Wednesday 25 June, 12:30pm AEST. This is your opportunity to find out more and ask questions before putting in your expres…

Self Promo time!
Decorate you home with LOVE (get it? Because the pillow has a lot of hearts on it)
Anyway, support small artists! This let's me continue to create and grow as a creator.
#selfpromo #redbubble

If you ever find yourself in Sofia, Bulgaria, during a hot summer, ask your guide to take you to one of the residential district streets where trees on both sides grow as high as a 5-story building and the thick leaf canopy transform the street into a 100-200 m long green tunnel of blissful shade and sounds of birds chirping. There's plenty of coffeehouses, wine bars, eateries and restaurants to make it worth your while.

A look at China's efforts to grow its "low-altitude economy", or airspace below 1,000 meters, by leveraging its strengths in drone production and R&D (William Langley/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/65e4bb30-b04c-4f0e-8686-effb96398999…

China made millions of drones. Now it has to find uses for them
Authorities bet ‘low-altitude economy’ will be next driver of growth

There are lots of elements of scaffolding, and as we change and grow and progress, our needs change. Knowing when to get input and what systems to set up is tricky, but so worth it. Here, Dr Jan Eppingstall and I talk through some of that

Automatic Generation of Explicit Quadratic Programming Solvers
Maximilian Schaller, Daniel Arnstr\"om, Alberto Bemporad, Stephen Boyd
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11513

Automatic Generation of Explicit Quadratic Programming Solvers
We consider a family of convex quadratic programs in which the coefficients of the linear objective term and the righthand side of the constraints are affine functions of a parameter. It is well known that the solution of such a parametrized quadratic program is a piecewise affine function of the parameter. The number of (polyhedral) regions in the solution map can grow exponentially in problem size, but when the number of regions is moderate, a so-called explicit solver is practical. Such a so…

🌼 Flowers unfold with surprising precision, despite unruly genes
#flowers

Flowers unfold with surprising precision, despite unruly genes
Flowers grow stems, leaves and petals in a perfect pattern again and again. A new Cornell study shows that even in this precise, patterned formation in plants, gene activity inside individual cells is far more chaotic than it appears from the outside.

Hay grown for cattle consumes nearly half the water drawn from Colorado River, study finds https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-03-28/alfalfa-hay-beef-water-colorado-river

Hay consumes a vast share of the Colorado River's water
Much of the Colorado River's water is used for agriculture. A new study shows 46% of the water that is diverted is used to grow hay to feed cattle.

It's time for the #EV industry to hold itself to a higher standard when it comes to roaming. You can't have your cake and eat it. Make the cake bigger!
https://www.linkedin.com/…

I fully agree with Christian Weinberger's call here: Isn't it time we stop… | Jaap Burger
I fully agree with Christian Weinberger's call here: Isn't it time we stop pretending roaming works and start holding the ecosystem to a higher standard? As a fossil in this industry, I remember how EV roaming took off 15 years ago – it was a no-brainer from a user perspective and a logical step to ensure that the EV charging market could grow, benefiting everyone in the sector. As an early electric car driver eager to travel abroad, I spent a lot of time getting the right passes for local n…

2/3
🔹 Pros:
✅ Higher earning potential than gig work
✅ Full control over pricing, clients & schedule
✅ Opportunity to grow into a full-time business
🔹 Cons:
❌ Still time-dependent – if you don’t work, you don’t earn
❌ Business management skills required
❌ Can be stressful if not systemized

ROS-related Robotic Systems Development with V-model-based Application of MeROS Metamodel
Tomasz Winiarski, Jan Kaniuka, Daniel Gie{\l}dowski, Jakub Ostrysz, Krystian Radlak, Dmytro Kushnir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08706

ROS-related Robotic Systems Development with V-model-based Application of MeROS Metamodel
As robotic systems grow increasingly complex, heterogeneous, and safety-critical, the need for structured development methodologies becomes paramount. Although frameworks like the Robot Operating System (ROS) and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) offer foundational tools, they often lack integration when used together. This paper addresses that gap by aligning the widely recognized V-model development paradigm with the MeROS metamodel SysML-based modeling language tailored for ROS-based sy…

"The RDBMS field is so young, we can actually see it grow through the pages of computer magazines of the 1980s. BYTE Magazine had its first issue dedicated to databases in November 1981, and then another one in October 1984. Dr. Dobb’s Journal did not feature an article about databases until 1984 and did not have many more throughout the decade; actually most of them were authored by Gene Head, and talk about dBASE."

The Elephant In The Room
We have often highlighted in the pages of this magazine the seemingly never-ending sequence of fashion waves hitting the software industry. We have discussed in 2020 the one impacting type systems, and more recently, another one concerning object-oriented programming. What is important in both cases is not the details of the technologies per se, but the social mechanisms at play in both situations. In this edition, we will encounter yet another example of such a clash, this time concerning rela…

It's our daughter's last day at school today. They do grow up fast.

Allotmenteer friends, at this time of the year when my plot is looking pretty full, I think I should have planned better what I planted. What do you prioritise on: high value crops, varieties you cannot gain the shops or just easy to grow? #allotment #GrowYourOwn

Cowboys likely delaying this $40 million annual investment for a reason https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/19/cowboys-delaying-40-million-investment-micah-parsons/842733…

Structure-Dynamics Correlation and Its Link to Fragility and Dynamic Heterogeneity
Mohit Sharma, Srikanth Sastry, Sarika Maitra Bhattacharyya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12773

Structure-Dynamics Correlation and Its Link to Fragility and Dynamic Heterogeneity
Understanding the connection between structure, dynamics, and fragility (the rate at which relaxation times grow with decreasing temperature) is central to unraveling the glass transition. Fragility is often linked to dynamic heterogeneity, and thus it is commonly assumed that if structure influences dynamics, more fragile systems should exhibit stronger structure--dynamics correlations. In this study, we test the generality of this assumption using three model systems: Lennard-Jones (LJ) and W…

Wave your flags and waive your fate
The freedom you claim is the one you hate
The victory you seek will never come
Brutal views through brutal eyes
See no future, hear no lies
Speak no truth to me or the people I love
When I grow up I want to be
All the things you've never been
And your opinion will count for none <-- #StyleCouncilForevah

I had a bad day and made a mistake, but I chose to do the right thing and move forward.
Proud bisexual, gender-fluid, autistic anarchist committed to building a world based on mutual aid, solidarity, and freedom for all.
If you believe in challenging power and creating change from the ground up, let’s connect and let’s grow this movement together.
Now, here I am, feeling stronger and ready for better days ahead.

Re: #StarWars 'fans' raging against #Andor
I honestly can't tell if they have zero self-awareness, are just alt-right freakshows, or click-whores rage baiting for YouTube views.
Andrew does synopsize their rants hilariously though. 😜
▶️ Star Wars fans cannot grow up
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Resilient-native and Intelligent NextG Systems
Mehdi Bennis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12795 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.12795

Resilient-native and Intelligent NextG Systems
Just like power, water and transportation systems, wireless networks are a crucial societal infrastructure. As natural and human-induced disruptions continue to grow, wireless networks must be resilient to unforeseen events, able to withstand and recover from unexpected adverse conditions, shocks, unmodeled disturbances and cascading failures. Despite its critical importance, resilience remains an elusive concept, with its mathematical foundations still underdeveloped. Unlike robustness and rel…

Statista expects the global influencer marketing industry to grow 36% between 2024 and 2025, reaching $33B, as brands tighten overall ad budgets (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-14/influen…

Jailbreak-R1: Exploring the Jailbreak Capabilities of LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
Weiyang Guo, Zesheng Shi, Zhuo Li, Yequan Wang, Xuebo Liu, Wenya Wang, Fangming Liu, Min Zhang, Jing Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00782

Jailbreak-R1: Exploring the Jailbreak Capabilities of LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
As large language models (LLMs) grow in power and influence, ensuring their safety and preventing harmful output becomes critical. Automated red teaming serves as a tool to detect security vulnerabilities in LLMs without manual labor. However, most existing methods struggle to balance the effectiveness and diversity of red-team generated attack prompts. To address this challenge, we propose \ourapproach, a novel automated red teaming training framework that utilizes reinforcement learning to ex…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard:
🎵 Grow Wings and Fly
#KingGizzard #theLizardWizard
https://bootleggizzard.bandcamp.com/track/grow-wings-and-fly-live-in-new-orleans-24
https://open.spotify.com/track/6hQDM3GCZ1mxV0jLyUpoyd

Evaluating Learned Indexes in LSM-tree Systems: Benchmarks,Insights and Design Choices
Junfeng Liu, Jiarui Ye, Mengshi Chen, Meng Li, Siqiang Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08671 …

Evaluating Learned Indexes in LSM-tree Systems: Benchmarks,Insights and Design Choices
LSM-tree-based data stores are widely used in industry due to their exceptional performance. However, as data volumes grow, efficiently querying large-scale databases becomes increasingly challenging. To address this, recent studies attempted to integrate learned indexes into LSM-trees to enhance lookup performance, which has demonstrated promising improvements. Despite this, only a limited range of learned index types has been considered, and the strengths and weaknesses of different learned i…

A profile of LA-based Whatnot, a livestream marketplace valued at ~$5B, which has raised $700M since 2019 and expects its GMV to grow 100% YoY to $6B in 2025 (Jason Del Rey/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/06/16/whatnot

Inside the rise of Whatnot, the wildly-entertaining, FOMO-inducing, $5 billion shopping app you’ve never heard of
Inside the rapid rise of Whatnot, the wildly-entertaining, FOMO-inducing, most popular shopping app you’ve never heard of

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Catastrophic Liability: Managing Systemic Risks in Frontier AI Development
As artificial intelligence systems grow more capable and autonomous, frontier AI development poses potential systemic risks that could affect society at a massive scale. Current practices at many AI labs developing these systems lack sufficient transparency around safety measures, testing procedures, and governance structures. This opacity makes it challenging to verify safety claims or establish appropriate liability when harm occurs. Drawing on liability frameworks from nuclear energy, aviati…

"as dense urban neighborhoods grow more costly, lower- and moderate-income renters, the very people most likely to ride the bus, are pushed out and replaced by a more affluent set who, on the whole, tend to favor getting around by car."
This finding should temper expectations that building lots of market-rate, i.e., expensive, housing will automagically bring about some kind of transit renaissance.

"2025: A landmark year for solar energy"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

2025: A landmark year for solar energy
The IEA-PVPS 2025 Snapshot of Global PV Markets reveals a pivotal moment for solar power: global PV capacity surpassed 2.2 TW, with more than 600 GW installed in 2024 alone. As module prices fell due to oversupply, installation volumes continued to grow, highlighting both the strength and volatility of the global PV industry.

Defining the Game Producer: A Mapping of Key Characteristics and Differentiators of the Professional Behind Digital Game Production
Rafael C. Lopes, Danilo M. Ribeiro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14409

Defining the Game Producer: A Mapping of Key Characteristics and Differentiators of the Professional Behind Digital Game Production
Introduction: As digital games grow in complexity, the role of the Game Producer becomes increasingly relevant for aligning creative, technical, and business dimensions. Objective: This study aimed to identify and map the main characteristics, skills, and competencies that define the Digital Game Producer profile. Methodology: A qualitative investigation was conducted with 11 semi-structured interviews, analyzed through Grounded Theory to build categories grounded in professional practice. Resu…

2/3
🔹 Pros:
✅ Higher earning potential than gig work
✅ Full control over pricing, clients & schedule
✅ Opportunity to grow into a full-time business
🔹 Cons:
❌ Still time-dependent – if you don’t work, you don’t earn
❌ Business management skills required
❌ Can be stressful if not systemized

Multi-FPGA Synchronization and Data Communication for Quantum Control and Measurement
Yilun Xu, Abhi D. Rajagopala, Neelay Fruitwala, Gang Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09856

Multi-FPGA Synchronization and Data Communication for Quantum Control and Measurement
In the last decade, quantum computing has grown from novel physics experiments with a few qubits to commercial systems with hundreds of qubits. As quantum computers continue to grow in qubit count, the classical control systems must scale correspondingly. While a few expensive multi-board commercial solutions exist, most open-source solutions are limited to single-board radio frequency system-on-chip (RFSoC). The essential requirements for a multi-board solution are clock synchronization among …

Statista: the global influencer marketing industry is projected to grow 36% between 2024 and 2025, reaching $33B, as brands tighten overall ad budgets (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-14/i…

Bivariate asymptotics via random walks: application to large genus maps
Andrew Elvey Price, Wenjie Fang, Baptiste Louf, Michael Wallner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06924

Bivariate asymptotics via random walks: application to large genus maps
We obtain bivariate asymptotics for the number of (unicellular) combinatorial maps (a model of discrete surfaces) as both the size and the genus grow. This work is related to two research topics that have been very active recently: multivariate asymptotics and large genus geometry. Our method consists in studying a linear recurrence for these numbers, and in fact it can be applied to many other linear recurrences. We discuss briefly the generality of our method and future research directions.

ABC-FHE : A Resource-Efficient Accelerator Enabling Bootstrappable Parameters for Client-Side Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Sungwoong Yune, Hyojeong Lee, Adiwena Putra, Hyunjun Cho, Cuong Duong Manh, Jaeho Jeon, Joo-Young Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08461

ABC-FHE : A Resource-Efficient Accelerator Enabling Bootstrappable Parameters for Client-Side Fully Homomorphic Encryption
As the demand for privacy-preserving computation continues to grow, fully homomorphic encryption (FHE)-which enables continuous computation on encrypted data-has become a critical solution. However, its adoption is hindered by significant computational overhead, requiring 10000-fold more computation compared to plaintext processing. Recent advancements in FHE accelerators have successfully improved server-side performance, but client-side computations remain a bottleneck, particularly under boo…

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Modeling and Optimizing User Preferences in AI Copilots: A Comprehensive Survey and Taxonomy
AI copilots, context-aware, AI-powered systems designed to assist users in tasks such as software development and content creation, are becoming integral to modern workflows. As these systems grow in capability and adoption, personalization has emerged as a cornerstone for ensuring usability, trust, and productivity. Central to this personalization is preference optimization: the ability of AI copilots to detect, interpret, and align with individual user preferences. While personalization techn…

Developing a Risk Identification Framework for Foundation Model Uses
David Piorkowski, Michael Hind, John Richards, Jacquelyn Martino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02066

Developing a Risk Identification Framework for Foundation Model Uses
As foundation models grow in both popularity and capability, researchers have uncovered a variety of ways that the models can pose a risk to the model's owner, user, or others. Despite the efforts of measuring these risks via benchmarks and cataloging them in AI risk taxonomies, there is little guidance for practitioners on how to determine which risks are relevant for a given foundation model use. In this paper, we address this gap and develop requirements and an initial design for a risk iden…

Why Raiders Rookie Ashton Jeanty Must Ignore the Hype https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-ashton-jeanty-geno-smith-pete-carroll-marshawn-lynch

Quantum mixture-density network for multimodal probabilistic prediction
Jaemin Seo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09497 https://arxiv.org…

Quantum mixture-density network for multimodal probabilistic prediction
Multimodal probability distributions are common in both quantum and classical systems, yet modeling them remains challenging when the number of modes is large or unknown. Classical methods such as mixture-density networks (MDNs) scale poorly, requiring parameter counts that grow quadratically with the number of modes. We introduce a Quantum Mixture-Density Network (Q-MDN) that employs parameterized quantum circuits to efficiently model multimodal distributions. By representing an exponential nu…

Newsweek acquires adtech firm Adprime, a demand-side platform focused on healthcare marketers, to strengthen its health vertical and grow B2B revenue (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/newsweek-adtech-firm-adprime-health-expansion/

Newsweek Snaps Up Adtech Firm Adprime to Fuel Health Expansion
The tie-up is part of a broader bid from the publisher to diversify its advertising

Why NFL flag football participation at the 2028 Olympics risks sport's future https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45454287/why-nfl-flag-football-2028-olympics-risks-future

MultiCoSim: A Python-based Multi-Fidelity Co-Simulation Framework
Quinn Thibeault, Giulia Pedrielli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10869 https://

MultiCoSim: A Python-based Multi-Fidelity Co-Simulation Framework
Simulation is a foundational tool for the analysis and testing of cyber-physical systems (CPS), underpinning activities such as algorithm development, runtime monitoring, and system verification. As CPS grow in complexity and scale, particularly in safety-critical and learning-enabled settings, accurate analysis and synthesis increasingly rely on the rapid use of simulation experiments. Because CPS inherently integrate hardware, software, and physical processes, simulation platforms must suppor…

"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.

How Vox built a huge YouTube presence, becoming an incubator that invented its own visual language, as ex-staffers like Johnny Harris grow their own channels (Simon Owens/The Long Story with Simon Owens)
https://thelongstory.substack.com/p/why-the-best-jour…

Why the best journalists on YouTube are all former Vox employees
The company became a skunk works incubator that invented its own language of visual storytelling.

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

Grow a Garden, a hit game on Roblox, has spawned a market where in-game items are sold for real money on sites like eBay, potentially violating Roblox's ToS (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Vivodyne, which uses AI and robots to grow human tissues in the lab for drug discovery and development, raised a $40M Series A, taking its total funding to $78M (Katherine Davis/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/biotech-deals/2025/05…

Vivodyne raises $40M for human tissue drug testing
It's seeing heightened demand following the FDA's plans to phase out animal testing requirements.