Tootfinder

Trump rages: Iran and Israel
‘don’t know what the f**k they’re doing’
after ceasefire halting 12-day war appears to immediately break down, with each side accusing the other of violating its terms
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl…

Trump says Iran and Israel ‘don’t know what the f*** they’re doing’ after ceasefire broken
President rages after ceasefire halting 12-day war appears to immediately break down, with each side accusing the other of violating its terms

‘This is about more than burgers and fries’: Boycott of McDonald’s to begin this week | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mcdonalds-boycott-2025-dei-taxes-price-gouging-when-b2775624.html

Azerbaijan gives eight journalists prison sentences ranging from 7.5 to 15 years, as part of a series of media trials set to obliterate independent reporting (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/06/8-journalists-g…

8 journalists given lengthy jail terms as Azerbaijan crushes free press - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, June 23, 2025— Eight Azerbaijani journalists have received prison sentences ranging from 7 ½ to 15 years, as part of an ongoing series of media trials likely to obliterate independent reporting in the Caucasus nation. In a closed-door trial on Monday, columnist and peace activist Bahruz Samadov was sentenced by a court in...

Republican lawmaker with ectopic pregnancy nearly died amid new Florida abortion laws – but blames the left | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kat-cammack-pregnancy-florida-abortion-ban-b2775051.html

Greedy Selection under Independent Increments: A Toy Model Analysis
Huitao Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17941 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Greedy Selection under Independent Increments: A Toy Model Analysis
We study an iterative selection problem over N i.i.d. discrete-time stochastic processes with independent increments. At each stage, a fixed number of processes are retained based on their observed values. Under this simple model, we prove that the optimal strategy for selecting the final maximum-value process is to apply greedy selection at each stage. While the result relies on strong independence assumptions, it offers a clean justification for greedy heuristics in multi-stage elimination se…

Zuckerberg’s political shift didn’t shock Meta staff*: ‘The whole time this was all one inch underneath’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mark-zuckerberg-meta-nickname-trump-b2774168.html

Zuckerberg’s political shift didn’t shock Meta staff: ‘The whole time this was all one inch underneath’
Meta has implemented policy shifts that are more closely aligned with the administration since Trump was elected

A GenAI System for Improved FAIR Independent Biological Database Integration
Syed N. Sakib, Kallol Naha, Sajratul Y. Rubaiat, Hasan M. Jamil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17934

A GenAI System for Improved FAIR Independent Biological Database Integration
Life sciences research increasingly requires identifying, accessing, and effectively processing data from an ever-evolving array of information sources on the Linked Open Data (LOD) network. This dynamic landscape places a significant burden on researchers, as the quality of query responses depends heavily on the selection and semantic integration of data sources --processes that are often labor-intensive, error-prone, and costly. While the adoption of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable,…

"This is only the latest failure by the #BBC to provide accurate, impartial and independent reporting on Israel’s siege in #Gaza and the appalling humanitarian crisis it has created"
#GazaGenocide

tl;dr Sheffield is nice https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/23/not-all-grassroots-venues-are-struggling-sheffields-leadmill-may-be-closing-but-the-citys-diy-hubs-are-thri…

WOOT '25 conference schedule has been announced!
I'm pleased to say that I have not one but two papers (one as first author) being presented there:
"Security through Transparency: Tales from the RP2350 Hacking Challenge", Marius Muench, University of Birmingham; Aedan Cullen and Kévin Courdesses, Independent; Thomas 'stacksmashing' Roth, Hextree; Andrew Zonenberg, IOActive
"Extraction of Secrets from 40nm CMOS Gate Dielectric Breakdown Antifus…

WOOT '25 Technical Sessions

«The original paper confidently and without discussion labelled millions of tweets based on what Dave (and some others) said about the website in the tweet, but the original authors have almost certainly never heard of Dave. […] Dave's opinions must take on a form totally independent of Dave, because the original authors would never have taken this dataset seriously had it been presented as "Dave's thoughts on media." This is the spectacle of computation.»
@…

https://theluddite.org/post/spectacle-of-computation.html

Musician Demian Licht on learning to go with the flow
https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/musician-demian-licht-on-learning-to…

Musician Demian Licht on learning to go with the flow – The Creative Independent
Musician Demian Licht discusses the feminine energy she's inspired by, teaching Ableton as a woman in Latin America, and identifying as an outsider in the music scene.

Independent vector analysis -- an introduction for statisticians
Miro Arvila, Klaus Nordhausen, Mika Sipil\"a, Sara Taskinen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16175

Independent vector analysis -- an introduction for statisticians
Blind source separation (BSS), particularly independent component analysis (ICA), has been widely used in various fields of science such as biomedical signal processing to recover latent source signals from the observed mixture. While ICA is typically applied to individual datasets, many real-world applications share underlying sources across datasets. Independent vector analysis (IVA) extends ICA to jointly analyze multiple datasets by exploiting statistical dependencies across them. While var…

Trump’s strikes on Iran have failed to destroy its path to a bomb, and may drag the U.S. into a quagmire, experts warn | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-iran-strikes-nuclear-bomb-fordow-b2775494.html

Cryptocurrency will never go away, because centralised payment providers do things like this:
"Fansly, a popular platform where independent creators—many of whom are making adult content—sell access to images and videos to subscribers and fans, announced sweeping changes to its terms of service on Monday, including effectively banning furries.
The changes blame payment processors for classifying “some anthropomorphic content as simulated bestiality.”"

Meanwhile, the #BBC World Service says it will launch a Polish service 😮
Or rather relaunch, as it was closed in Dec 2005.
And yet even that relaunch is really going to be made-up, as there'll be no radio (nor TV) programmes, just a website... an #AI translation of English news 😒
Now can&…

Replaced article(s) found for math.CO. https://arxiv.org/list/math.CO/new
[2/2]:
- Improved bounds for 1-independent percolation on $\mathbb{Z}^n$
Paul Balister, Tom Johnston, Michael Savery, Alex Scott

Two-dimensional classical superintegrable systems: polynomial algebra of integrals
A. M. Escobar-Ruiz, R. Azuaje, J. C. Gordiano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17519

Two-dimensional classical superintegrable systems: polynomial algebra of integrals
In this work, we investigate generic classical two-dimensional (2D) superintegrable Hamiltonian systems H, characterized by the existence of three functionally independent integrals of motion (I_0=H,I_1,I_2). Our main result, formulated and proved as a theorem, establishes that the set (I_0,I_1,I_2,I_12={I_1,I_2}) generates a four-dimensional polynomial algebra under the Poisson bracket. Unlike previous studies, this study describes a construction that neither depends on the additive separabili…

Scale AI emphasizes that it remains an independent company and says Meta will not have access to Scale's internal systems or customers' confidential information (Scale AI)
https://scale.com/blog/customer-trust-scale-meta-deal

Scale Remains Independent After Meta Investment | Scale
Customer trust and data security remain Scale’s top priorities.

WIMPs Below the Radar: Blind Spots and Benchmarks Beyond the Neutrino Floor
Giorgio Arcadi, Stefano Profumo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19062 https://

WIMPs Below the Radar: Blind Spots and Benchmarks Beyond the Neutrino Floor
We investigate benchmark scenarios for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) that naturally evade current direct detection constraints by featuring suppressed spin-independent cross-sections. Focusing on three representative models, the Singlet-Doublet fermion model, its extension to a Two-Higgs-Doublet plus pseudoscalar sector (2HDM$+a$), and a dark $SU(3)$ gauge model, we systematically analyze the interplay between thermal freeze-out, direct detection blind spots, and radiative correc…

Semi-discrete heat equations with variable coefficients and the parametrix method
Ulrik S. Fjordholm, Kenneth H. Karlsen, Peter H. C. Pang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18649

Semi-discrete heat equations with variable coefficients and the parametrix method
We develop a parametrix approach for constructing solutions and establishing grid-size independent estimates for semi-discrete heat equations with variable coefficients. While the classical continuous setting benefits from Gaussian estimates of the constant coefficient heat kernel, such estimates are not available in the semi-discrete context. To address this complication, we derive estimates involving products of heavy-tailed Lorentz (also known as Cauchy) probability densities. These Lorentzi…

Optimal Parallel Algorithms for Convex Hulls in 2D and 3D under Noisy Primitive Operations
Michael T. Goodrich, Vinesh Sridhar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17507

Optimal Parallel Algorithms for Convex Hulls in 2D and 3D under Noisy Primitive Operations
In the noisy primitives model, each primitive comparison performed by an algorithm, e.g., testing whether one value is greater than another, returns the incorrect answer with random, independent probability p < 1/2 and otherwise returns a correct answer. This model was first applied in the context of sorting and searching, and recent work by Eppstein, Goodrich, and Sridhar extends this model to sequential algorithms involving geometric primitives such as orientation and sidedness tests. However…

Cosmic Distance Duality Relation with DESI DR2 and Transparency
Xuwei Zhang, Xiaofeng Yang, Yunliang Ren, Shuangnan Chen, Yangjun Shi, Cheng Cheng, Xiaolong He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17926

Cosmic Distance Duality Relation with DESI DR2 and Transparency
The Cosmic Distance Duality Relation (CDDR), a fundamental assumption in modern cosmology, posits a direct link between angular diameter distance and luminosity distance. This study presents a comprehensive, model-independent, and data-driven test of the CDDR using a combination of cosmological observations, including Supernovae (SN), Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO), and Hubble parameter ($H(z)$) measurements. We employ both Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) and a novel Compressed Point (CPI…

Optimal Operating Strategy for PV-BESS Households: Balancing Self-Consumption and Self-Sufficiency
Jun Wook Heo, Raja Jurdak, Sara Khalifa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17268

Optimal Operating Strategy for PV-BESS Households: Balancing Self-Consumption and Self-Sufficiency
High penetration of Photovoltaic (PV) generation and Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) in individual households increases the demand for solutions to determine the optimal PV generation power and the capacity of BESS. Self-consumption and self-sufficiency are essential for optimising the operation of PV-BESS systems in households, aiming to minimise power import from and export to the main grid. However, self-consumption and self-sufficiency are not independent; they share a linear relations…

"Conspirituality is a kind of crowd-sourced knowledge, where the spread of a belief is taken to be support for its content."
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/wellness-right-wing-conspiracy-conspirituality-b27…

A Hyperlogic for Strategies in Stochastic Games (Extended Version)
Lina Gerlach (RWTH Aachen University), Christof L\"oding (RWTH Aachen University), Erika \'Abrah\'am (RWTH Aachen University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16775

A Hyperlogic for Strategies in Stochastic Games (Extended Version)
We propose a probabilistic hyperlogic called HyperSt$^2$ that can express hyperproperties of strategies in turn-based stochastic games. To the best of our knowledge, HyperSt$^2$ is the first hyperlogic for stochastic games. HyperSt$^2$ can relate probabilities of several independent executions of strategies in a stochastic game. For example, in HyperSt$^2$ it is natural to formalize optimality, i.e., to express that some strategy is better than all other strategies, or to express the existence …

Deuteron-induced reactions on natural Zr from threshold to 50 MeV: production of $^{86}$Y
E. M. Martinsen, A. S. Voyles, K. C. W. Li, M. S. Basunia, L. A. Bernstein, H. L. O. Ekeberg, M. Hussain, J. T. Morrell, S. M. Qaim, S. Siem, M. S. Uddin, H. Zaneb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19012

Deuteron-induced reactions on natural Zr from threshold to 50 MeV: production of $^{86}$Y
Two stacks of thin Zr foils were irradiated with 30 and 50 MeV deuterons, respectively, using the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory $88$-Inch Cyclotron, to investigate this production pathway for the promising PET tracer $^{86}$Y. Nineteen excitation functions for $^{\text{nat}}$Zr($d$,$x$) reactions were measured over a beam energy range of $6.3$--$47.64$ MeV, where the independent cross sections for $^{\text{nat}}$Zr($d$,$x$)$^{88}$Nb and $^\text{nat}$Zr($d$,$x$)$^{86\text{m, g}}$Y were m…

I see that Mike Huckabee is off of his meds again.
He kinda forgot the lost his presidential bid and is, now, pretending that he is the font of US foreign policy.
"US ambassador to Israel says US no longer pursuing goal of independent Palestinian state"
https://www.

Local media: a Turkish court arrested independent journalist Fatih Altayli over his comments on social media allegedly threatening President Tayyip Erdogan (Tuvan Gumrukcu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Florida sheriff warns protesters ahead of nationwide rallies: 'We will kill you dead' (Madeline Sherratt/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/florida-sheriff-warning-protestors-we-will-kill-you-b2769410.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p77#a250613p77

Kroger to close over 60 locations by end of 2026 | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kroger-grocery-store-closing-location-b2774501.html

$N=1$ Supersymmetry invariance of the Abelian Stueckelberg model
M. A. L. Capri, D. R. Granado, I. F. Justo, L. S. S. Mendes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17021

$N=1$ Supersymmetry invariance of the Abelian Stueckelberg model
In this paper we investigate the invariance of the Abelian Stueckelberg-like model under gauge and $N=1$ supersymmetric (SUSY) transformations in (3+1) spacetime. We show that the Stueckelberg-like mass term explicitly breaks $N=1$ supersymmetry under the Wess-Zumino (WZ) gauge condition. Nevertheless, we demonstrate that the WZ gauge is not needed in order to construct an action independent of compensating fields, manifestly supersymmetric and gauge invariant.

InfiniPot-V: Memory-Constrained KV Cache Compression for Streaming Video Understanding
Minsoo Kim, Kyuhong Shim, Jungwook Choi, Simyung Chang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15745

InfiniPot-V: Memory-Constrained KV Cache Compression for Streaming Video Understanding
Modern multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can reason over hour-long video, yet their key-value (KV) cache grows linearly with time--quickly exceeding the fixed memory of phones, AR glasses, and edge robots. Prior compression schemes either assume the whole video and user query are available offline or must first build the full cache, so memory still scales with stream length. InfiniPot-V is the first training-free, query-agnostic framework that enforces a hard, length-independent memory c…

Solving Zero-Sum Convex Markov Games
Fivos Kalogiannis, Emmanouil-Vasileios Vlatakis-Gkaragkounis, Ian Gemp, Georgios Piliouras
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16120

Solving Zero-Sum Convex Markov Games
We contribute the first provable guarantees of global convergence to Nash equilibria (NE) in two-player zero-sum convex Markov games (cMGs) by using independent policy gradient methods. Convex Markov games, recently defined by Gemp et al. (2024), extend Markov decision processes to multi-agent settings with preferences that are convex over occupancy measures, offering a broad framework for modeling generic strategic interactions. However, even the fundamental min-max case of cMGs presents signi…

ROS 2 Agnocast: Supporting Unsized Message Types for True Zero-Copy Publish/Subscribe IPC
Takahiro Ishikawa-Aso, Shinpei Kato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16882

ROS 2 Agnocast: Supporting Unsized Message Types for True Zero-Copy Publish/Subscribe IPC
Robot applications, comprising independent components that mutually publish/subscribe messages, are built on inter-process communication (IPC) middleware such as Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2). In large-scale ROS 2 systems like autonomous driving platforms, true zero-copy communication -- eliminating serialization and deserialization -- is crucial for efficiency and real-time performance. However, existing true zero-copy middleware solutions lack widespread adoption as they fail to meet three…

Formation of multiple Black Holes from Cauchy data
Dawei Shen, Jingbo Wan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16117 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506…

Formation of multiple Black Holes from Cauchy data
We construct a family of asymptotically flat Cauchy initial data for the Einstein vacuum equations that contain no trapped surfaces, yet whose future development admits multiple causally independent trapped surfaces. Assuming the weak cosmic censorship conjecture, this implies the formation of multiple black holes in finite time. The initial data are obtained by surgically modifying a vacuum geometrostatic manifold equipped with the Brill-Lindquist metric: the data agree exactly with the Brill-…

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg‘s recent public support for Donald Trump did not come as a shock to those who know or have closely worked with him.
Dozens of people who have either worked with or known Zuckerberg told the Financial Times that the CEO’s more public shift toward Trump is just Zuckerberg displaying the more “authentic” version of himself to the world,
even though he was once known to support liberal ideology and voiced opposition to Trump’s policies during the first admini…

Zuckerberg’s political shift didn’t shock Meta staff: ‘The whole time this was all one inch underneath’
Meta has implemented policy shifts that are more closely aligned with the administration since Trump was elected

Charmed baryon decays: $SU(3)_F$ breaking and CP violation
Chang Yang, Xiao-Gang He, Chia-Wei Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19005 https://

Charmed baryon decays: $SU(3)_F$ breaking and CP violation
We present a comprehensive study of anti-triplet charmed baryon decays into octet baryons and pseudoscalar mesons using the $SU(3)_F$ flavor symmetry framework. By decomposing the flavor structure, all decay amplitudes are parametrized with a minimal set of irreducible amplitudes, and the Körner-Pati-Woo theorem further reduces the number of independent parameters from the original 35 to 19 under exact symmetry when small terms proportional to $λ_b = V_{cb}^*V_{ub}$ are neglected. The indepen…

Breakdown of the thermodynamic limit in quantum spin and dimer models
Jeet Shah, Laura Shou, Jeremy Shuler, Victor Galitski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15769

Breakdown of the thermodynamic limit in quantum spin and dimer models
The thermodynamic limit is foundational to statistical mechanics, underlying our understanding of many-body phases. It assumes that, as the system size grows infinitely at fixed density of particles, unambiguous macroscopic phases emerge that are independent of the system's boundary shape. We present explicit quantum spin and dimer Hamiltonians whose ground states violate this principle. Our construction relies on the previous mathematical work on classical dimers on the Aztec diamond and the s…

Weighted Multiplier Method for Source-Independent Waveform Inversion
Ali Gholami, Kamal Aghazade
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15689 https://

Weighted Multiplier Method for Source-Independent Waveform Inversion
The Lagrangian multiplier method has proven highly effective in addressing the ill-conditioning of full waveform inversion (FWI). It enables the development of robust and computationally efficient algorithms capable of converging to accurate velocity models, even from poor initial estimates. Traditionally, these methods optimize an Augmented Lagrangian (AL) function, using a scalar penalty parameter to weight the quadratic penalty term for wave-equation constraint violations. This penalty balan…

Ab initio functional-independent calculations of the clamped Pockels tensor of tetragonal barium titanate
Virginie de Mestral, Lorenzo Bastonero, Michele Kotiuga, Marko Mladenovic, Nicola Marzari, Mathieu Luisier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13209

Ab initio functional-independent calculations of the clamped Pockels tensor of tetragonal barium titanate
We present an ab initio method to calculate the clamped Pockels tensor of ferroelectric materials from density-functional theory, the modern theory of polarization exploiting the electric-enthalpy functional, and automated first- and second-order finite-difference derivatives of the polarizations and the Hellmann-Feynman forces. Thanks to the functional-independent capabilities of our approach, we can determine the Pockels tensor of tetragonal barium titanate (BTO) beyond the local density appr…

“Bray Air Display has dropped US defence and aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin as a sponsor for this year’s event over the company’s supply of arms support to Israel in the Gaza war.”
https://m.independent.ie/regionals/…

Bray Air Display drops US sponsor over Israel support in Gaza war
Bray Air Display has dropped US defence and aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin as a sponsor for this year’s event over the company's supply of arms support to Israel in the Gaza war.

Reframing Spatial Dependence as Geographic Feature Attribution
Chuan Chen, Peng Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16996 https://arxiv.or…

Reframing Spatial Dependence as Geographic Feature Attribution
Spatial dependence, referring to the correlation between variable values observed at different geographic locations, is one of the most fundamental characteristics of spatial data. The presence of spatial dependence violates the classical statistical assumption of independent and identically distributed observations and implies a high degree of information redundancy within spatial datasets. However, this redundancy can also be interpreted as structured information, which has been widely levera…

Regularized Learning for Fractional Brownian Motion via Path Signatures
Ali Mohaddes, Francesco Iafrate, Johannes Lederer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16156 …

Regularized Learning for Fractional Brownian Motion via Path Signatures
Fractional Brownian motion (fBm) extends classical Brownian motion by introducing dependence between increments, governed by the Hurst parameter $H\in (0,1)$. Unlike traditional Brownian motion, the increments of an fBm are not independent. Paths generated by fractional Brownian motions can exhibit significant irregularity, particularly when the Hurst parameter is small. As a result, classical regression methods may not perform effectively. Signatures, defined as iterated path integrals of cont…

Ladybird
#browsers

Asymptotic Expansions of Gaussian and Laguerre Ensembles at the Soft Edge III: Generating Functions
Folkmar Bornemann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18673 http…

Asymptotic Expansions of Gaussian and Laguerre Ensembles at the Soft Edge III: Generating Functions
We conclude our work [arXiv:2403.07628, arXiv:2503.12644] on asymptotic expansions at the soft edge for the classical $n$-dimensional Gaussian and Laguerre ensembles, now studying the gap-probability generating functions. We show that the correction terms in the asymptotic expansion are multilinear forms of the higher-order derivatives of the leading-order term, with certain rational polynomial coefficients that are independent of the dummy variable. In this way, the same multilinear structure,…

https://medium.com/@marisajporto/we-are-at-a-cliff-ukrainian-journalists-warn-of-local-news-collapse-without-funding-8c5c08a34b1e

Device Independent Quantum Key Activation
Bora Ulu, Nicolas Brunner, Mirjam Weilenmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09772 https://arxiv…

Device Independent Quantum Key Activation
Device-independent quantum key distribution (DIQKD) allows two distant parties to establish a secret key, based only on the observed Bell nonlocal distribution. It remains however, unclear what the minimal resources for enabling DIQKD are and how to maximize the key rate from a given distribution. In the present work, we consider a scenario where several copies of a given quantum distribution are jointly processed via a local and classical wiring operation. We find that, under few assumptions, …

Learning Heat Transport Kernels Using a Nonlocal Heat Transport Theory-Informed Neural Network
Mufei Luo, Charles Heaton, Yizhen Wang, Daniel Plummer, Mila Fitzgerald, Francesco Miniati, Sam M. Vinko, Gianluca Gregori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16619

Learning Heat Transport Kernels Using a Nonlocal Heat Transport Theory-Informed Neural Network
We present a data-driven framework for the modeling of nonlocal heat transport in plasmas using a nonlocal theory informed neural network trained on kinetic Particle-in-Cell simulations that span both local and nonlocal regimes. The model learns spatiotemporal heat flux kernels directly from simulation data, capturing dynamic transport behaviors beyond the reach of classical formulations. Unlike time-independent kernel models such as Luciani Mora Virmont and Schurtz Nicolaï Busquet models, our…

#Prez push for 3000 detainees a day has also pushed #ICE billion over #budget, so far, with three months left in the fiscal year. #KristiNoem run agency …

ICE could ‘run out of money next month’ and is already $1bn over budget to carry out Trump’s deportation plans
The Department of Homeland Security has requested an extra $2 billion to meet its needs by the end of September

Compressibility measurement of the thermal MI--BG transition in an optical lattice
Phil Russ, Mi Yan, Nicholas Kowalski, Laura Wadleigh, Vito W. Scarola, Brian DeMarco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16466

Compressibility measurement of the thermal MI--BG transition in an optical lattice
Disorder can be applied to transform conducting to insulating states by localizing individual quantum particles. The interplay between disorder and interactions in many-particle systems leads to a richer tapestry of quantum phase transitions. Here, we report the measurement in an ultracold lattice gas of a disorder-induced transition from a state with small disorder-independent compressibility to a state for which compressibility increases with disorder. At zero temperature this is the transiti…

Exact static linear response of excited states from ensemble density functional theory
Lucien Dupuy, Emmanuel Fromager
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16363 htt…

Exact static linear response of excited states from ensemble density functional theory
Following a recent work [E. Fromager, J. Phys. Chem. A 2025, 129, 4, 1143-1155] on the ensemble density functional theory (DFT) of excited electronic energy levels, we derive in this paper the ensuing static linear response theory, thus allowing for an in-principle exact evaluation of excited-state density-density linear response functions in a completely frequency-independent setting. Once individual-state components of the inverse ensemble linear response function have been introduced, a work…

Move to unseat Mike Lee gains steam after Utah senator’s tweets mock Minnesota political shootings | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mike-lee-senate-term-minnesota-shooting-b2774183.html

'Shoot a couple, the rest will go home': Far-right groups are sharing scary messages ahead of 'No Kings' protests (Rhian Lubin/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-protests-no-kings-far-right-b2769812.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p146#a250613p146

Independent increments and group sequential tests
Anastasios A. Tsiatis, Marie Davidian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15599 https://arxi…

Independent increments and group sequential tests
Widely used methods and software for group sequential tests of a null hypothesis of no treatment difference that allow for early stopping of a clinical trial depend primarily on the fact that sequentially-computed test statistics have the independent increments property. However, there are many practical situations where the sequentially-computed test statistics do not possess this property. Key examples are in trials where the primary outcome is a time to an event but where the a…

An interview with Mexican reporter Jorge Ramos, who returns with a new independent daily news program on social media six months after leaving TelevisaUnivision (Andrea Flores/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/delos/story/2025-0

Jorge Ramos on his new digital show, 'Así Veo las Cosas': 'I have a few pending battles left'
Six months after leaving TelevisaUnivision, the renowned Mexican journalist turns to social media programming with 'Así Veo las Cosas

Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, has said that the US is no longer pursuing the goal of an independent Palestinian state,
marking what analysts describe as the most explicit abandonment yet of a cornerstone of US Middle Eastdiplomacy.
https://www.

CNN guest claims Republicans Mike Johnson and Ted Cruz support Israel because ‘they’re rapture preppers’ | News | Independent TV
https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/cnn-mike-johnson-ted-cruz-israel-video-b2773221.html

Partial independent transversals in multipartite graphs
Penny Haxell, Arpit Mittal, Yi Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09515 https://…

Partial independent transversals in multipartite graphs
Given integers $r>d\ge 0$ and an $r$-partite graph, an independent $(r-d)$-transversal or $(r-d)$-IT is an independent set of size $r-d$ that intersects each part in at most one vertex. We show that every $r$-partite graph with maximum degree $Δ$ and parts of size $n$ contains an $(r-d)$-IT if $n> 2Δ(1-\frac{1}{q})$, provided $q= \lfloor \frac{r}{d+1}\rfloor\ge \frac{4r}{4d+5}$. This is tight when $q$ is even and extends a classical result of Haxell in the $d=0$ case. When $q= \lfloor \frac{r…

Dynamical Phase Diagram of the REM under independent spin-flips
Chokri Manai, Simone Warzel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15353 https://…

Dynamical Phase Diagram of the REM under independent spin-flips
We study the energy landscape of the Random Energy model (REM) integrated along trajectories of the simple random walk on the hypercube. We show that the quenched cumulant generating function of the time integral of the REM energy undergoes phase transitions in the large $N$ limit for trajectories of any time extent, and identify phases distinguished by the activity and value of the time integral. This is achieved by relating the dynamical behavior to the spectral properties of Hamiltonians ass…

'All of Ukraine is ours' -- Putin on Russia's territorial ambitions in Ukraine (The Kyiv Independent)
https://kyivindependent.com/all-of-ukraine-is-ours/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p121#a250620p121

The Supreme court ruled
in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States
that the Constitution did not grant the president an “illimitable power of removal,”
at least over certain types of officials.
This included the head of the Federal Trade Commission, whose firing by President Franklin Roosevelt had sparked the case.
Humphrey’s Executor stood basically untouched for decades, until Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito – both of whom had previously served in the exe…

Supreme Court ignores precedent instead of overruling it in allowing president to fire officials whom Congress tried to make independent
Can the president fire leaders of more than 50 independent agencies overseen by Congress because he wants to? The Supreme Court may say yes, upending decades of constitutional law.

An extension of the SM with vector-like quarks and hypothetical heavy bosons: model independent parametrisation at NLO order
Chahra Rekaik, Mohamed Sadek Zidi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14663

An extension of the SM with vector-like quarks and hypothetical heavy bosons: model independent parametrisation at NLO order
A model independent parameterization of an extension of the Standard Model including vector-like quarks, new heavy gauge bosons and an extra scalar, involving a minimal number of free parameters, is introduced. Theoretical constraints on the model couplings and hypothetical particle masses are established by making use of perturbative unitarity. The production of heavy charged and neutral gauge bosons which subsequently decay to vector-like quarks at the LHC are investigated at both leading-ord…

Optimal matchings of randomly perturbed lattices
Dor Elboim, Yinon Spinka, Oren Yakir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16873 https://arxiv.…

Optimal matchings of randomly perturbed lattices
Consider a point process in Euclidean space obtained by perturbing the integer lattice with independent and identically distributed random vectors. Under mild assumptions on the law of the perturbations, we construct a translation-invariant perfect matching between this point process and the lattice, such that the matching distance has the same tail behavior as the hole probability of the point process, which is a natural lower bound.

The discovery of a massive amount of lithium under the Salton Sea could make the U.S. lithium independent.
The metal is key for batteries in electric vehicles and solar panels.
But the area is also a delicate ecosystem.
We go to southern California to hear what hangs in the balance of the ballooning lithium industry,
and also how we extract other crucial substances  
– such as sand, copper and iron
– and turn them into semiconductors, circuitry and other …

Trump U-turn on deporting farm workers came after fury from Noem and Miller, report claims | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-deporting-farm-workers-noem-miller-b2771836.html

How a Democrat turned independent could shake up a key governor's race (Dan Merica/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/09/how-democrat-turned-independent-could-shake-up-key-governors-race/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p8#a250609p8

Stochastic heat flow is a black noise
Yu Gu, Li-Cheng Tsai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16484 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.16484

Stochastic heat flow is a black noise
We prove that the stochastic heat flow Caravenna Sun Zygouras (2023), Tsai (2024) is a black noise in the sense of Tsirelson (2004). As a corollary, the 2d stochastic heat equation driven by a mollified spacetime white noise becomes asymptotically independent of that noise in the scaling limit.

Taboola rolls out DeeperDive, its generative AI search engine for its publishing partners, starting with Gannett/USA Today and The Independent (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/11/taboola-gen-ai-search

Exclusive: Taboola launches gen AI search engine for publishers called DeeperDive
Its debut publishing partners are Gannett/USA Today and The Independent.

Roommate claims suspected Minnesota shooter was ‘down’ and security business ‘wasn’t a reality’ | The Independent
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/minnesota-shooting-vance-boelter-roommate-b2770512.html

Kash Patel dragged for 'hit a cop, you're going to jail' threat to LA anti-ICE protesters: 'Unless it's for Trump' (Mike Bedigan/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kash-patel-mocked-la-ice-protests-b2765847.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250608/p19#a250608p19

Two-dimensional Rademacher walk
Satyaki Bhattacharya, Stanislav Volkov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16259 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.16…

Two-dimensional Rademacher walk
We study a generalisation of the one-dimensional Rademacher random walk introduced in Bhattacharya and Volkov (2023) to $\mathbb{Z}^2$ (for $d\ge 3$, the Rademacher random walk is always transient, as follows from Theorem 8.8 in Englander and Volkov (2025)). This walk is defined as the sum of a sequence of independent steps, where each step goes in one of the four possible directions with equal probability, and the size of the $n$th step is $a_n$ where $\{a_n\}$ is a given sequence of positive …

"Musk — who amplified conspiracy theories surrounding the 2022 hammer attack on Paul Pelosi, the husband of Nancy Pelosi — again waded into the fray.
“**The far left is murderously violent,” he wrote on X the same day he said he was working to reprogram X’s AI program Grok because it was spreading “leftist indoctrination.**”
How the ‘politically motivated’ shooting of Minnesota lawmakers unleashed right-wing conspiracy theories | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/conspiracy-theories-minnesota-shooting-suspect-b2770561.html

AOC takes victory lap as Trump-Elon nuclear breakup confirms everything she and Bernie Sanders warned (Eric Garcia/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/aoc-bernie-sanders-trump-elon-breakup-b2765219.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250607/p7#a250607p7

RFK Jr team forced Medicaid officials to reveal the immigration status on millions of enrollees to DHS: report | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rfk-medicaid-deportations-homeland-security-sanctuary-b2769684.html

Stay frosty: "Accounts associated with extremist groups are sharing detailed information about protest organizers, including names and where they work"
‘Shoot a couple, the rest will go home’: Far-right groups are sharing scary messages ahead of ‘No Kings’ protests | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-protests-no-kings-far-right-b2769812.html

LA man faces 8 years in prison for ‘spitting at an ICE agent’ after being charged with assaulting a federal employee | The Independent
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/los-angeles-arrest-spitting-ice-agent-face-b2768986.html

Protests over Trump’s ICE raids continue spreading to other major cities | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/anti-trump-ice-immigration-raid-protests-map-b2768518.html

Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano erupts again with lava reaching more than 330 feet | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/hawaii-kilauea-volcano-erupts-lava-b2768499.html

‘Apocalyptic’ video shows hundreds of Palestinians rushing to aid site | News | Independent TV
https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/video-palestinians-rushing-aid-site-gaza-b2768394.html

UN to vote on resolution demanding Gaza ceasefire, hostage release and aid access | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/gaza-hamas-israeli-united-states-spain-b2768533.html

Drag stars are set to attend, then protest, Trump’s appearance at Les Miserables | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/drag-stars-plan-trump-protest-les-miserables-b2768391.html

Elon Musk issues groveling apology to Trump saying that his posts ‘went too far’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-trump-apology-b2767799.html

Dan Bongino wants to move FBI training program from iconic Quantico HQ to Alabama: report | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/fbi-quantico-huntsville-alabama-training-b2768335.html

Pope Leo plans to give a virtual address in his hometown of Chicago – at the same time as Trump’s military parade | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/pope-leo-address-chicago-trump-parade-b2768103.html

Jesse Watters, who said Comey’s ‘86’ post was a ‘hit’ on Trump, celebrates that ABC ‘86’d Terry Moran’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jesse-watters-terry-moran-comey-86-b2768369.html

Saint Sophia Cathedral: UNESCO site damaged in Russian attack | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-russia-saint-sophia-damage-b2767246.html

Trump preparing to send thousands of immigrants including Europeans to Guantanamo military prison: reports | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-immigrants-guantanamo-bay-prison-b2767628.html

Three inmates to be executed in three states this week, amid an uptick nationwide | The Independent
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/execution-alabama-florida-south-carolina-oklahoma-b2766905.html

Pentagon draws up rules on use of force against protesters by US Marines as Gavin Newsom slams ‘dictatorial’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/us-marines-los-angeles-protests-b2766898.html

Trump and Rubio stumble on steps up to Air Force One | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-stumbles-air-force-one-marco-rubio-b2766091.html

Russel Vought meets my definition of pure evil, through and through.
"Russell Vought, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, told appropriators last week that the administration is seeking to take “an analytical look” at Aids prevention and instead prioritize funding for “life-saving treatment” for sufferers as part of its scaling back of PEPFAR."
White House says it will spare some Aids programs that were on the chopping block | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/white-house-aids-prevention-funding-b2767327.html

Trump orders law enforcement to ‘liberate’ LA from ‘migrant invasion’ amid clashes over ICE raids | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-la-protests-liberate-migrant-invasion-b2766104.html

Musk shares footage of Trump partying with Jeffrey Epstein in 1992 | News | Independent TV
https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/elon-musk-donald-trump-partying-jeffrey-epstein-video-b2765067.html

Seattle area: Man charged with targeting MLB and NFL stars in home burglary spree | The Independent
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/nfl-mlb-stars-burglarly-arrest-seattle-b2765736.html

Palestinian paramedic who survived Israeli attack that killed 15 says soldiers shot colleagues calling for help | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/palestinian-red-crescent-medic-attack-israel-b2763456.html

Kash Patel dragged for ‘hit a cop, you’re going to jail’ threat to LA anti-ICE protesters: ‘Unless it’s for Trump’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kash-patel-mocked-la-ice-protests-b2765847.html

Supreme Court to hear Alabama appeal in push to execute intellectually disabled man | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/supreme-court-execute-intellectually-disabled-joseph-clifton-smith-b2765542.html

Starving Palestinians fear being shot dead for a bag of lentils as Gaza aid points close | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/gaza-humanitarian-foundation-israel-rafah-b2764590.html