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“#Montreal police arrest 13 suspected of extorting restaurant owners”
The local mafia is going to be *cheesed* about this.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mo

Montreal police arrest 13 suspected of extorting restaurant owners for money | CBC News
The alleged crimes include one in February where a restaurant’s glass facade was shot on Ste-Catherine Street West, near De Bleury Street. Another restaurant owned by the victims was also targeted, as was the residence of one of the co-owners, the SPVM says.

Mass FAA Staff Departures Aren’t Making a $31 Billion Air Safety Overhaul Any Easier https://airguide.info/mass-faa-staff-departures-arent-making-a-31-billion-air-safety-overhaul-any-easier/

Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Comprehensive Survey of Architectures, Enhancements, and Robustness Frontiers
Chaitanya Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00054

Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Comprehensive Survey of Architectures, Enhancements, and Robustness Frontiers
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a powerful paradigm to enhance large language models (LLMs) by conditioning generation on external evidence retrieved at inference time. While RAG addresses critical limitations of parametric knowledge storage-such as factual inconsistency and domain inflexibility-it introduces new challenges in retrieval quality, grounding fidelity, pipeline efficiency, and robustness against noisy or adversarial inputs. This survey provides a comprehensive s…

Spectroscopic Observations of Supra-Arcade Downflows
Ryan J. French, Maria D. Kazachenko, Teodora Mihailescu, Katharine K. Reeves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22624

Spectroscopic Observations of Supra-Arcade Downflows
Despite their somewhat-frequent appearance in EUV imaging of off-limb flares, the origins of Supra-Arcade Downflows (SADs) remain a mystery. Appearing as dark, tendril-like downflows above growing flare loop arcades, SADs themselves are yet to be tied into the standard model of solar flares. The uncertainty of their origin is, in part, due to a lack of spectral observations, with the last published SAD spectral observations dating back to the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory / Solar Ultraviol…

My Bartlett School of Architecture colleague Nina Vollenbroker is organising a session on 'Environments of Disability' at this year's AHRA conference in Liverpool (22-24 Nov 2025), based on the premise that architectural processes are central producers of disability
Abstracts are due 2nd June, call for papers and more info:

Puh. #HomeAssistant wirft native Installationen und 32Bit-Systeme (incl. ARM) ausm Support. Sehr schade. Jetzt geht nur noch VM oder Container, also noch mehr Abstraktion und Rumpaketiere zwischen HA und dem System, was kaputt gehen kann. Alles sehr unschön, da HAOS viele Geräte nicht sauber unterstützt und Container viele Einschränkungen bei Netzwerk und Sicherheit hat. :/

State-aware protein-ligand complex prediction using AlphaFold3 with purified sequences
Enming Xing, Junjie Zhang, Shen Wang, Xiaolin Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00147

State-aware protein-ligand complex prediction using AlphaFold3 with purified sequences
Deep learning-based prediction of protein-ligand complexes has advanced significantly with the development of architectures such as AlphaFold3, Boltz-1, Chai-1, Protenix, and NeuralPlexer. Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) has been a key input, providing coevolutionary information critical for structural inference. However, recent benchmarks reveal a major limitation: these models often memorize ligand poses from training data and perform poorly on novel chemotypes or dynamic binding events inv…

Plant Bioelectric Early Warning Systems: A Five-Year Investigation into Human-Plant Electromagnetic Communication
Peter A. Gloor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04132

Plant Bioelectric Early Warning Systems: A Five-Year Investigation into Human-Plant Electromagnetic Communication
We present a comprehensive investigation into plant bioelectric responses to human presence and emotional states, building on five years of systematic research. Using custom-built plant sensors and machine learning classification, we demonstrate that plants generate distinct bioelectric signals correlating with human proximity, emotional states, and physiological conditions. A deep learning model based on ResNet50 architecture achieved 97% accuracy in classifying human emotional states through …

Variations of the Near-Surface Electric field measured at Aragats during Geomagnetic Storms
A. Chilingarian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.16271 https://

Variations of the Near-Surface Electric field measured at Aragats during Geomagnetic Storms
At least two mechanisms effectively transfer interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) disturbances into the atmosphere. First, the inflow of solar wind into the ionosphere at low latitudes significantly enhances the total vertical electron content, increasing atmospheric conductivity. Second, Forbush decreases (FD) reduce the cosmic ray flux by a few percent, lowering ionization levels at middle latitudes and decreasing conductivity. Changes in atmospheric conductivity affect the global electric cir…