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SPOT: Bridging Natural Language and Geospatial Search for Investigative Journalists
Lynn Khellaf, Ipek Baris Schlicht, Tilman Mirass, Julia Bayer, Tilman Wagner, Ruben Bouwmeester
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13188

SPOT: Bridging Natural Language and Geospatial Search for Investigative Journalists
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a vital resource for investigative journalists doing geolocation verification. However, existing tools to query OSM data such as Overpass Turbo require familiarity with complex query languages, creating barriers for non-technical users. We present SPOT, an open source natural language interface that makes OSM's rich, tag-based geographic data more accessible through intuitive scene descriptions. SPOT interprets user inputs as structured representations of geospatial objec…

Next-Gen-SSDs schaffen 28 GByte/s und viel mehr IOPS
Silicon Motion enthüllt die Eckdaten seines ersten PCIe-6.0-Controllers für Server-SSDs. Mit 4-nm-Technik soll der SM8466 effizient bleiben.
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Nice,
"Europe Launches Its First Federated AI Factory Based on a Sovereign Multi-Cloud Infrastructure"
#ai #cloud #eu

IBEX: Information-Bottleneck-EXplored Coarse-to-Fine Molecular Generation under Limited Data
Dong Xu, Zhangfan Yang, Jenna Xinyi Yao, Shuangbao Song, Zexuan Zhu, Junkai Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10775

IBEX: Information-Bottleneck-EXplored Coarse-to-Fine Molecular Generation under Limited Data
Three-dimensional generative models increasingly drive structure-based drug discovery, yet it remains constrained by the scarce publicly available protein-ligand complexes. Under such data scarcity, almost all existing pipelines struggle to learn transferable geometric priors and consequently overfit to training-set biases. As such, we present IBEX, an Information-Bottleneck-EXplored coarse-to-fine pipeline to tackle the chronic shortage of protein-ligand complex data in structure-based drug de…

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Optimizing Districting Plans to Maximize Majority-Minority Districts via IPs and Local Search
Daniel Brous, David Shmoys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07446 https://

Optimizing Districting Plans to Maximize Majority-Minority Districts via IPs and Local Search
In redistricting litigation, effective enforcement of the Voting Rights Act has often involved providing the court with districting plans that display a larger number of majority-minority districts than the current proposal (as was true, for example, in what followed Allen v. Milligan concerning the congressional districting plan for Alabama in 2023). Recent work by Cannon et al. proposed a heuristic algorithm for generating plans to optimize majority-minority districts, which they called short…

CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) Sensitivity Estimation and Performance Optimization using Geant4
Abhay Kumar (INAF-IAPS, Rome, Italy), Giovanni Lombardi (INAF-IAPS, Rome, Italy), Giovanni De Cesare (INAF-OAS Bologna, Bologna, Italy), Nicolas De Angelis (INAF-IAPS, Rome, Italy), Sergio Fabiani (INAF-IAPS, Rome, Italy), Ettore Del Monte (INAF-IAPS, Rome, Italy), Andrea Alimenti (INAF-IAPS, Rome, Italy), Riccardo Campana (INAF-OAS Bologna, Bologna, Italy), Enrico Costa (INAF-IAPS, Rome, …

CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) Sensitivity Estimation and Performance Optimization using Geant4
The CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) aims to measure the linear polarization of solar flares in the 25-100 keV X-ray band using a Compton scattering polarimeter. CUSP will allow us to study the magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration in the flaring magnetic structures of our star by providing high-sensitivity polarization measurements. CUSP is a project in the framework of the Alcor Program of the Italian Space Agency aimed to develop innovative CubeSat technologies and missions. As par…

iVisa.com: Verbraucherzentrale warnt vor Abzocke bei UK-Reisegenehmigung
Großbritannien-Reisende sollten die elektronische Reisegenehmigung nur auf der offiziellen Seite beantragen, raten Verbraucherschützer. Sonst drohe Wucher.

When the number of vulnerable IPs ticks up by a small number, I'm assuming they're honeypots?
(Graph is vulnerable Citrix NetScaler endpoints in the UK.)

Comparing lifetime and annual fitness measures reveals differences in selection outcomes
F. Stephen Dobson (IPHC), Claire Saraux (IPHC), David W. Coltman (IPHC), Shirley Raveh (IPHC), Vincent A. Viblanc (IPHC)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04763

Comparing lifetime and annual fitness measures reveals differences in selection outcomes
Selection analyses of long-term field data frequently use annual comparisons from longlived species with overlapping generations to measure fitness differences with respect to phenotypic characteristics, such as annual phenological timing. An alternative approach applies lifetime estimates of fitness that encompass several annual events. We studied selection on emergence date from hibernation in male and female Columbian ground squirrels, Urocitellus columbianus (Ord 1915). From 32 years of rec…