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Justin Jefferson on J.J. McCarthy: 'I want him to be just as confident as I am of him' https://www.nfl.com/news/justin-jefferson-on-j-j-mccarthy-i-want-him-to-be-just-as-confident-as-i-am-of-him

Tonight I had a dream involving meeting a (recovered) fefe. Highly unusual, don't recall ever having dreams involving him before. In any case, let's hope for his best recovery and hopefully the dream will become reality at some point #fefe

A single chip 1.024 Tb/s silicon photonics PAM4 receiver
Ali Pirmoradi, Han Hao, Kaisarbek Omirzakhov, Alexander J. Geers, Firooz Aflatouni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12452

A single chip 1.024 Tb/s silicon photonics PAM4 receiver
Energy-efficient high-bandwidth interconnects play a key role in computing systems. Advances in silicon photonic electro-optic modulators and wavelength selective components have enabled the utilization of wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) in integrated optical transceivers, offering a high data-rate operation while achieving enhanced energy efficiency, bandwidth density, scalability, and the reach required for data-centers. Here, we report the demonstration of a single chip optical WDM PA…

MECHA: Multithreaded and Efficient Cryptographic Hardware Access
Pratama Derry, Laksmono Agus Mahardika Ari, Iqbal Muhammad, Howon Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15034

MECHA: Multithreaded and Efficient Cryptographic Hardware Access
This paper presents a multithread and efficient cryptographic hardware access (MECHA) for efficient and fast cryptographic operations that eliminates the need for context switching. Utilizing a UNIX domain socket, MECHA manages multiple requests from multiple applications simultaneously, resulting in faster processing and improved efficiency. We comprise several key components, including the Server thread, Client thread, Transceiver thread, and a pair of Sender and Receiver queues. MECHA design…

Efficient Image-to-Image Schr\"odinger Bridge for CT Field of View Extension
Zhenhao Li, Long Yang, Xiaojie Yin, Haijun Yu, Jiazhou Wang, Hongbin Han, Weigang Hu, Yixing Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11211

Efficient Image-to-Image Schrödinger Bridge for CT Field of View Extension
Computed tomography (CT) is a cornerstone imaging modality for non-invasive, high-resolution visualization of internal anatomical structures. However, when the scanned object exceeds the scanner's field of view (FOV), projection data are truncated, resulting in incomplete reconstructions and pronounced artifacts near FOV boundaries. Conventional reconstruction algorithms struggle to recover accurate anatomy from such data, limiting clinical reliability. Deep learning approaches have been explor…

Quantize More, Lose Less: Autoregressive Generation from Residually Quantized Speech Representations
Yichen Han, Xiaoyang Hao, Keming Chen, Weibo Xiong, Jun He, Ruonan Zhang, Junjie Cao, Yue Liu, Bowen Li, Dongrui Zhang, Hui Xia, Huilei Fu, Kai Jia, Kaixuan Guo, Mingli Jin, Qingyun Meng, Ruidong Ma, Ruiqian Fang, Shaotong Guo, Xuhui Li, Yang Xiang, Ying Zhang, Yulong Liu, Yunfeng Li, Yuyi Zhang, Yuze Zhou, Zhen Wang, Zhaowen Chen

Quantize More, Lose Less: Autoregressive Generation from Residually Quantized Speech Representations
Text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis has seen renewed progress under the discrete modeling paradigm. Existing autoregressive approaches often rely on single-codebook representations, which suffer from significant information loss. Even with post-hoc refinement techniques such as flow matching, these methods fail to recover fine-grained details (e.g., prosodic nuances, speaker-specific timbres), especially in challenging scenarios like singing voice or music synthesis. We propose QTTS, a novel TTS fra…

I will try to use "Demon Copperhead" in my book club next spring here in Wiesbaden, Germany.
#books #acitivism

Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal - Neowin https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-bans-libreoffice-developers-account-without-warning-rejects-appeal/

Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal
A LibreOffice developer has shared his experience of having his Microsoft account banned, and how the company has been uncooperative in helping him recover it.

Wonderful, my new mini computer / home server also works as a remote peertube runner. Not the fastest of course but that's fine.
https://www.locked.de/how-to-use-a-lenovo-thinkcentre-m910q-as-a-powerful-home-server/

"Belkin Is Ending Support for Most Wemo Smart Home Gadgets
So you know how a few of us have been yelling for years that buying "cloud-enabled" devices is buying constant uncertainty?"
https://friendica.rogueproject.org/display/b71a4a1e-30…