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250 years, wars on multiple continents, millions sworn to protect and uphold it, and Mango Zedong decides to Barbara Streisand Effect it by removing key sections.
At least the Seize-her Geezer is bad at being a monstrous dictator.

https://techcrunch.com…

Key sections of the US Constitution deleted from government's website | TechCrunch
Internet sleuths say the U.S. Constitution's website is now missing key sections from its website, including a key legal provision relating to habeas corpus, which protects citizens from unlawful detention.

Key sections of the US Constitution deleted from government’s website;
Changes in Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution: Large parts of Section 8 have been removed, and Sections 9 and 10 have been deleted altogether.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/key-

Key sections of the US Constitution deleted from government's website | TechCrunch
Internet sleuths say the U.S. Constitution's website is now missing key sections from its website, including a key legal provision relating to habeas corpus, which protects citizens from unlawful detention.

Several sections of Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution
appear to have been removed from the official U.S. government website,
as pointed out by sleuths on the internet and as seen by TechCrunch.
These sections largely relate to the powers that Congress has and does not have,
as well as limitations on the powers of individual states.
The removal includes sections relating to habeas corpus,
the powers that protect citizens from unlawful detention. 
S…

Key sections of the US Constitution deleted from government's website | TechCrunch
Internet sleuths say the U.S. Constitution's website is now missing key sections from its website, including a key legal provision relating to habeas corpus, which protects citizens from unlawful detention.

We have booked a stay in a self-catering cottage in Gloucestershire for a week over the summer. We've just been sent the welcome pack and it reads a little bit like solving an old school adventure game.
There is a keysafe at the cottage - located on the left pillar of the porch when you walk up the path. The key safe code is XXXX.
Use the small key in here to open the wooden box on your left as you walk in to the porch. Inside that you will find a large key which is for the main door.
Please make sure you leave this key in the wooden box on your departure as this is the only key to the property.

"Researchers identify 22 key areas for protecting struggling giant otters"
#Otters #Animals #Conservation

Researchers identify 22 key areas for protecting struggling giant otters
“They’re big, like an overweight Peruvian dog,” is how photographer Santiago Romaní describes giant otters (Pteronura brasiliensis). In 2022, on his trip to the Imiría Regional Conservation Area, a protected area in the Ucayali region of Peru’s east-central Amazon, he observed the aquatic river giants. That same year, the area’s administration confirmed the presence of […]

2025 NFL Calendar: Key dates to mark down for Cowboys in the season to come https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/2025-nfl-calendar-key-dates-to-mark-down-for-cowboys-in-the-season-to-come

Key dates for 2025 season https://www.raiders.com/news/key-dates-for-2025-nfl-season-raiders-training-camp-preseason-roster-trade-deadline

Diese Habsburger, ey. Seit Jahrhunderten nur Ärger. Der nächste will dann vermutlich auch das Schloss zurück ...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
The Black Tones:
🎵 The Key of Black (They Want Us Dead)
#TheBlackTones
https://theblacktones.bandcamp.com/track/the-key-of-black-they-want-us-dead
https://open.spotify.com/track/7qa2UrmuMCFRRVHwJH5JPC

Very distressing news about the Southern Meridional Overturning Circulation, the southern analog to the AMOC in the Arctic Atlantic. Where AMOC keeps Europe warm by moving Gulf of Mexico heat northward, SMOC keeps Antarctica cold. It has partially reversed, causing warm upwelling far enough south to be melting sea ice.
Seems to me like it also should mean more weird cold events in southern mid-latitudes but that’s just a hunch.

Cybersecurity of Quantum Key Distribution Implementations
Ittay Alfassi, Ran Gelles, Rotem Liss, Tal Mor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04669 https://arxiv.org…

Cybersecurity of Quantum Key Distribution Implementations
Practical implementations of Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) often deviate from the theoretical protocols, exposing the implementations to various attacks even when the underlying (ideal) protocol is proven secure. We present new analysis tools and methodologies for quantum cybersecurity, adapting the concepts of vulnerabilities, attack surfaces, and exploits from classical cybersecurity to QKD implementation attacks. We present three additional concepts, derived from the connection between clas…

Single-Family Rental Investment Snapshot — July 2025
Arbor Realty Trust - July 3, 2025
“The SFR sector continued showing strength in several key areas in the second quarter of 2025, even as residential housing market growth moderated.”

Single-Family Rental Investment Snapshot July 2025
The single-family rental (SFR) sector continued showing strength in several key areas in the second quarter of 2025, even as residential housing market growth moderated.

2025 NFL Calendar: Key dates to mark down for Cowboys in the season to come https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/2025-nfl-calendar-key-dates-to-mark-down-for-cowboys-in-the-season-to-come

🌋 Deep life's survival secret: Crustal faulting generates key energy sources, study shows
#biology

Deep life's survival secret: Crustal faulting generates key energy sources, study shows
Chinese researchers have recently challenged the long-held belief that "all life depends on sunlight." In a study published in Science Advances, the researchers identified how microbes in deep subsurface areas can derive energy from chemical reactions driven by crustal faulting, offering critical insights into life deep below Earth's surface.

Key dates for 2025 season https://www.raiders.com/news/key-dates-for-2025-nfl-season-raiders-training-camp-preseason-roster-trade-deadline

Enhancing Satellite Quantum Key Distribution with Dual Band Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Muhammad Khalil, Ke Wang, Jinho Choi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03246

Enhancing Satellite Quantum Key Distribution with Dual Band Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
This paper presents a novel system architecture for hybrid satellite communications, integrating quantum key distribution (QKD) and classical radio frequency (RF) data transmission using a dual-band reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). The motivation is to address the growing need for global, secure, and reliable communications by leveraging the security of quantum optical links and the robustness of classical RF channels within a unified framework. By employing a frequency-selective RIS, …

GPT-5 hands-on: it exudes competence but doesn't feel like a dramatic leap ahead of other LLMs, and the pricing is aggressively competitive with other providers (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/7/gpt-5/

GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and model card
I’ve had preview access to the new GPT-5 model family for the past two weeks (see related video) and have been using GPT-5 as my daily-driver. It’s my new favorite …

Eight NFL teams that need preseason the most: Bears, Browns, Steelers among clubs with key questions to answer

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/eight-n…

Pentagon quietly diverts key anti-drone tech from Ukraine / The New Voice of Ukraine
https://english.nv.ua/nation/pentagon-quietly-diverts-key-anti-drone-tech-from-ukraine-50519683.html#goog_rewarded

Ice sublimation in the dynamic HD 100453 disk reveals a rich reservoir of inherited complex organics: #Disk: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/key-building-block-life-discovered-planet-forming-disk - CfA astronomers have helped discover rare types of methanol, a building block required for life as we know it to form.

Key-Augmented Neural Triggers for Knowledge Sharing
Alex Wolf, Marco Edoardo Palma, Pooja Rani, Harald C. Gall
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03340 https://arx…

Key-Augmented Neural Triggers for Knowledge Sharing
Repository-level code comprehension and knowledge sharing remain core challenges in software engineering. Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise by generating explanations of program structure and logic. However, these approaches still face limitations: First, relevant knowledge is distributed across multiple files within a repository, aka semantic fragmentation. Second, retrieval inefficiency and attention saturation degrade performance in RAG pipelines, where long, unaligned contexts…

I'm all for electrification of energy demand, e.g. for cars, home heating, and industrial processes.
But we shouldn't be betting the climate on it alone. The share of electricity in global final energy consumption reached 20% in 2023, up from 18% in 2015 (IEA, 2024):
https://www.iea.o…

I think it's not a coincidence that several of the key players on this Bumrah-less team (Gill, Siraj, Pant, even Washy) were part of that star-bereft, magnificent 20-21 Australia tour. I think that was a seminal learning experience. (And boy has Gill grown as a captain.) #cricket

Anyone have recommendations for a low-profile key light that can sit on top of a monitor. I want something for calls but not so huge that it’s for live streams or anything.

BVLSM: Write-Efficient LSM-Tree Storage via WAL-Time Key-Value Separation
Ming Li, Wendi Cheng, Jiahe Wei, Xueqiang Shan, Liu Weikai, Xiaonan Zhao, Xiao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04678

BVLSM: Write-Efficient LSM-Tree Storage via WAL-Time Key-Value Separation
Modern data-intensive applications increasingly store and process big-value items, such as multimedia objects and machine learning embeddings, which exacerbate storage inefficiencies in Log-Structured Merge-Tree (LSM)-based key-value stores. This paper presents BVLSM, a Write-Ahead Log (WAL)-time key-value separation mechanism designed to address three key challenges in LSM-Tree storage systems: write amplification, poor memory utilization, and I/O jitter under big-value workloads. Unlike state…

The South Coast Air Quality Management District will hold a public hearing Friday on two proposed regulations designed to limit key pollutants that form smog.
If adopted, the rules would phase out the sale of gas-powered furnaces and water heaters in the region.
Officials say the plan is crucial for reducing air pollution and improving public health, while opponents fear higher consumer costs.

Regulators seek to phase out gas-powered appliances in Southern California
The South Coast Air Quality Management District is poised to vote on regulations that would limit emissions of nitrogen oxides — the key pollutants that form smog.

Crikey, just (finally) nailed the 'family photo gallery in a frame' functionality for my mum (with failing memory, in an assisted living situation) across the world. Can control it from here in Aotearoa (via screen share or ssh) with the extraordinarily handy 'RaspberryPi Connect' functionality. The key technologies are:
- Firefox (in kiosk mode),
- Immich (

Singularity Blockchain Key Management via non-custodial key management
Sumit Vohra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02282 https://arxiv.org…

Singularity Blockchain Key Management via non-custodial key management
web3 wallets are key to managing user identity on blockchain. The main purpose of a web3 wallet application is to manage the private key for the user and provide an interface to interact with the blockchain. The key management scheme ( KMS ) used by the wallet to store and recover the private key can be either custodial, where the keys are permissioned and in custody of the wallet provider or noncustodial where the keys are in custody of the user. The existing non-custodial key management schem…

The Trump Administration Wants to Close Down Key Weather Labs Across the Country (NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/health-science/trump-administration-weather-labs
http://www.memeorandum.com/250707/p28#a250707p28

Anarchism and Linux share key similarities in decentralization. Anarchism puts power back into the hands of the people through democratic, decentralized communities and bottom-up unions that organize collectively without hierarchy. Similarly, Linux operates as a decentralized system where no single entity controls the whole; instead, development and decision-making happen through collaborative, distributed contributions from a global community.
They also align in the principle of mutua…

"What works in #India will scale better everywhere else. Naturally, the country is a battleground for #AI search."
This is fishing for data and the next #enshittification to roll ou…

Google vs. Perplexity fight plays out in India as AI battle intensifies
Google and Perplexity are offering free access to their AI-powered search in India, a key testing ground and source of training data for AI models.

Analysis: Mail Online is among major news brands most-impacted by Google's AI Overviews, with 68.8% of the top 100 keyword searches resulting in no site visits (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://press…

How Google AI Overviews is fuelling zero-click searches for top publishers
New Similarweb data shows likes of Mail Online and People see high proportion of AI Overviews for their key search terms.

The Hashed Fractal Key Recovery (HFKR) Problem: From Symbolic Path Inversion to Post-Quantum Cryptographic Keys
Mohamed Aly Bouke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04383

The Hashed Fractal Key Recovery (HFKR) Problem: From Symbolic Path Inversion to Post-Quantum Cryptographic Keys
Classical cryptographic systems rely heavily on structured algebraic problems, such as factorization, discrete logarithms, or lattice-based assumptions, which are increasingly vulnerable to quantum attacks and structural cryptanalysis. In response, this work introduces the Hashed Fractal Key Recovery (HFKR) problem, a non-algebraic cryptographic construction grounded in symbolic dynamics and chaotic perturbations. HFKR builds on the Symbolic Path Inversion Problem (SPIP), leveraging symbolic tr…

The Italian bibliography of 16th century prints (#EDIT16) has a REST API that provides JSON data - which is great (apart from the somewhat cumbersome API key). The JSON, however, is less structured than the Unimarc. So the date of publication is given as structured info in Unimarc but unstructured (and therefore often ambiguous) in the JSON representation. Not ideal as there appears to beno way…

Still amazes me that people are this clueless.
https://gothamist.com/news/how-do-nj-beachgoers-feel-about-the-governors-race-gothamist-hit-the-shore

More Belgian (Flemish?) households with solar panels, batteries or electric vehicles will be able to benefit from the flexibility they can offer the energy system as energy retailers Bolt and Trevion collaborate with VPP operator Powernaut.
https://powernaut.io/press/powernaut-a

Powernaut, Bolt, Trevion and Partners launch Belgium’s first energy contracts that pay consumers for grid support - Powernaut
Using Powernaut’s smart software, households with solar panels, home batteries, or EVs can now earn money by allowing their energy retailer to manage their devices intelligently. For example, devices may charge or reduce output during peak times to avoid grid overload. Retailers like Bolt and Trevion are offering these new contracts, allowing customers to benefit financially without sacrificing comfort. Partners such as Qbus and Innovoltus support the initiative, which is seen as a key step …

Good article summarizing a lot of things relevant to continued COVID'19 caution:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/beyond-long-covid-1.7485888
Key points:
COVID'19 weakens the immune system:
"""
So it's not just about infecting you and causing respiratory illness and fever and all of the things that we usually get with the viral infection. This virus also specifically causes your immune system to become weaker.
"""
It damages blood vessels:
"""
In addition to SARS-CoV-2's ability to dysregulate the immune system and suppress the immune system, the spike protein itself is very damaging to blood vessel structures as well as red blood cells and platelets themselves.
"""
The folk idea that infections make our immune system stronger and stronger like a muscle just isn't true (or at least, doesn't apply to COVID'19 because of how, unlike most other viruses, it damages the immune system):
"""
For the longest time in the field of immunology, there was the sort of adage that your immune system needs to be tested every now and again to stay strong. That's an old-fashioned idea.
The more new-fashioned and evidence-based idea is that, although your immune system can take on [a COVID] infection, you want to avoid testing it as much as possible because your body is sustaining damage with each infection that it survives.
"""

"We are building a religion
We are building it bigger
We are widening the corridors
And adding more lanes
We are building a religion
A limited edition
We are now accepting callers
For these pendant key chains"

TransLink and the City of New Westminster have completed major upgrades to a 737-metre stretch of the BC Parkway along Stewardson Way, between River Drive and 14th Street. These enhancements are designed to improve safety, comfort, and accessibility along this vital active transportation corridor.
Key upgrades include:
A widened pathway with separate lanes for cyclists and pedestrians making it comfortable and convenient for all modes of active transportation

Series A, Episode 03 - Cygnus Alpha
BLAKE: Listen, I've got a ship. I can take you and the others off this planet.
GAN: We can't leave here.
BLAKE: What are you talking about?
GAN: The sickness. We're all infected.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/103/389 B7B4

Bill Atkinson, a pioneering Apple engineer and key member of the original Macintosh team, died on June 5, at age 74 from pancreatic cancer (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/07/bill-atkinson-rip

Bill Atkinson Dies From Cancer at 74
Link to: https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10238073579963378&id=1378467145&_rdr

AgentSME for Simulating Diverse Communication Modes in Smart Education
Wen-Xi Yang, Tian-Fang Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03109 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

AgentSME for Simulating Diverse Communication Modes in Smart Education
Generative agent models specifically tailored for smart education are critical, yet remain relatively underdeveloped. A key challenge stems from the inherent complexity of educational contexts: learners are human beings with various cognitive behaviors, and pedagogy is fundamentally centered on personalized human-to-human communication. To address this issue, this paper proposes AgentSME, a unified generative agent framework powered by LLM. Three directional communication modes are considered i…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02120 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csNE_…

Random-key genetic algorithms
A random-key genetic algorithm is an evolutionary metaheuristic for discrete and global optimization. Each solution is encoded as a vector of N random keys, where a random key is a real number randomly generated in the continuous interval [0, 1). A decoder maps each vector of random keys to a solution of the optimization problem being solved and computes its cost. The benefit of this approach is that all genetic operators and transformations can be maintained within the unitary hypercube, regar…

Prenormal categories
Sandra Mantovani, Mariano Messora
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03459 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.03459

Prenormal categories
In this paper we introduce the notion of (pointed) prenormal category, modelled after regular categories, but with the key notions of coequaliser and kernel pair replaced by those of cokernel and kernel. This framework provides a natural setting for extending certain classical results in algebra. We study the fundamental properties of prenormal categories, including a characterisation in terms of a factorisation system involving normal epimorphisms, and a categorical version of Noether's so-cal…

EmbedGrad: Gradient-Based Prompt Optimization in Embedding Space for Large Language Models
Xiaoming Hou, Jiquan Zhang, Zibin Lin, DaCheng Tao, Shengli Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03533

EmbedGrad: Gradient-Based Prompt Optimization in Embedding Space for Large Language Models
Effectively adapting powerful pretrained foundation models to diverse tasks remains a key challenge in AI deployment. Current approaches primarily follow two paradigms:discrete optimization of text prompts through prompt engineering, or continuous adaptation via additional trainable parameters. Both exhibit limitations-discrete methods lack refinement precision while parameter-based techniques increase complexity and reduce interpretability. To address these constraints, we propose EmbedGrad, a…

LongVie: Multimodal-Guided Controllable Ultra-Long Video Generation
Jianxiong Gao, Zhaoxi Chen, Xian Liu, Jianfeng Feng, Chenyang Si, Yanwei Fu, Yu Qiao, Ziwei Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03694

LongVie: Multimodal-Guided Controllable Ultra-Long Video Generation
Controllable ultra-long video generation is a fundamental yet challenging task. Although existing methods are effective for short clips, they struggle to scale due to issues such as temporal inconsistency and visual degradation. In this paper, we initially investigate and identify three key factors: separate noise initialization, independent control signal normalization, and the limitations of single-modality guidance. To address these issues, we propose LongVie, an end-to-end autoregressive fr…

If-T: A Benchmark for Type Narrowing
Hanwen Guo (University of Utah, USA), Ben Greenman (University of Utah, USA)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03830 https://…

If-T: A Benchmark for Type Narrowing
**Context:** The design of static type systems that can validate dynamically-typed programs (**gradually**) is an ongoing challenge. A key difficulty is that dynamic code rarely follows datatype-driven design. Programs instead use runtime tests to narrow down the proper usage of incoming data. Type systems for dynamic languages thus need a **type narrowing** mechanism that refines the type environment along individual control paths based on dominating tests, a form of flow-sensitive typing. In …

What is SMB? @… has these fantastic storyboards explaining key parts of the project. I suppose more wil be added later too.
https://polarres.github.io/Storyboards/smb

Long-distance device-independent quantum key distribution with standard optics tools
Makoto Ishihara, Anthony Brendan, Wojciech Roga, Masahiro Takeoka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02262

Long-distance device-independent quantum key distribution with standard optics tools
Device-independent quantum key distribution (DI-QKD) enables information-theoretically secure key distribution between remote parties without any assumptions on the internal workings of the devices used for its implementation. However, its communication distance is strictly limited since the loophole-free Bell violation is required to guarantee its security. Therefore, in this paper, we propose two long-distance DI-QKD protocols which use a heralding scheme based on single-photon interference. …

Density of States (Gate) - Controlled Andreev Molecule and Sensor
Xiaofan Shi, Ziwei Dou, Guoan Li, Dong Pan, Yuxiao Song, Anqi Wang, Zhiyuan Zhang, Xingchen Guo, Xiao Deng, Ruixuan Zhang, Liangqian Xu, Xiao Chen, Yupeng Li, Bingbing Tong, Xiaohui Song, Zhaozheng Lyu, Peiling Li, Fanming Qu, Guangtong Liu, Jianhua Zhao, Li Lu, Jie Shen
https://

Density of States (Gate) - Controlled Andreev Molecule and Sensor
Topological quantum computing typically relies on topological Andreev bound states (ABSs) engineered in hybrid superconductor-semiconductor devices, where gate control offers key advantages. While strong Zeeman fields can induce such states, an alternative approach emerges through Andreev molecules -- closely spaced, coupled ABSs, also key building-block for Kitaev chain -- that enable topological behavior without high magnetic fields. However, existing Andreev molecules are controlled via magn…

Constraint-Preserving Data Generation for Visuomotor Policy Learning
Kevin Lin, Varun Ragunath, Andrew McAlinden, Aaditya Prasad, Jimmy Wu, Yuke Zhu, Jeannette Bohg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03944

Constraint-Preserving Data Generation for Visuomotor Policy Learning
Large-scale demonstration data has powered key breakthroughs in robot manipulation, but collecting that data remains costly and time-consuming. We present Constraint-Preserving Data Generation (CP-Gen), a method that uses a single expert trajectory to generate robot demonstrations containing novel object geometries and poses. These generated demonstrations are used to train closed-loop visuomotor policies that transfer zero-shot to the real world and generalize across variations in object geome…

Turns out #synology 's home folders are set to chmod 777 by default!
https://blog.aaronlenoir.com/2018/05/06/ssh-into-synology-nas-with-ssh-key/

The highlight would be if key parts of SpaceX (not just StarLink) were nationalized for national security reasons.

Metric Learning in an RKHS
Gokcan Tatli, Yi Chen, Blake Mason, Robert Nowak, Ramya Korlakai Vinayak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04476 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Metric Learning in an RKHS
Metric learning from a set of triplet comparisons in the form of "Do you think item h is more similar to item i or item j?", indicating similarity and differences between items, plays a key role in various applications including image retrieval, recommendation systems, and cognitive psychology. The goal is to learn a metric in the RKHS that reflects the comparisons. Nonlinear metric learning using kernel methods and neural networks have shown great empirical promise. While previous works have a…

Towards interpretable emotion recognition: Identifying key features with machine learning
Yacouba Kaloga, Ina Kodrasi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04230 https://

Towards interpretable emotion recognition: Identifying key features with machine learning
Unsupervised methods, such as wav2vec2 and HuBERT, have achieved state-of-the-art performance in audio tasks, leading to a shift away from research on interpretable features. However, the lack of interpretability in these methods limits their applicability in critical domains like medicine, where understanding feature relevance is crucial. To better understand the features of unsupervised models, it remains critical to identify the interpretable features relevant to a given task. In this work, …

On integrable structure of the null string in (anti-)de Sitter space
D. V. Uvarov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04158 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.04158

On integrable structure of the null string in (anti-)de Sitter space
Presently integrability turned the key property in the study of duality between superconformal gauge theories and strings in anti-de Sitter superspaces. Complexity of the study of integrable structure in string theory is caused by complicated dependence of background fields of the Type II supergravity multiplets, with which strings interact, on the superspace coordinates. This explains an interest to study of limiting cases, in which superstring equations simplify. In the present work considere…

Trump megabill gives the oil industry everything it wants and ends key support for solar and wind (Spencer Kimball/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/energy/trump-megabill-gives-oil-industry-everything-wants-ends-key-support-so-rcna216777
http://www.memeorandum.com/250704/p48#a250704p48

Henry Chu named interim curator of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard once Ann Marie Lipinski steps down on July 1 after 14 years leading the institution (Nieman Foundation)
https://nieman.harvard.edu/henry-chu-named-int…

Henry Chu named interim curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard - Nieman Foundation
Henry Chu has been named interim curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Currently Nieman’s deputy curator, Chu will start his new role when Curator Ann Marie Lipinski steps down on July 1 after 14 years as head of the foundation. Chu has played a key role at Nieman, strengthening the foundation’s publications, overseeing […]

An in-depth look at the US SEC's EDGAR system breach that was disclosed in 2017, as one of the key hackers, Olga Kuprina, says EDGAR remains a soft target (Liam Vaughan/Bloomberg)

"FEMA had not been told and, in fact, they learned the news from those news stories. They didn't get official word from the White House about that disaster declaration for more than four days, which meant the money that was supposed to go out the door to those hard-hit communities was delayed."
'Quite a statement': CNN host stunned by Trump 'trauma' inflicted on key agency - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/fema-trump-administration-concerns-mount/

lol that's quite the caption https://gothamist.com/news/staten-islands-lost-city-of-wild-beaches-is-a-spiritual-refuge-for-new-yorkers

Staten Island's 'lost city' of wild beaches is a spiritual refuge for New Yorkers
Many of the borough's beaches are secluded and lack lifeguards. For many visitors, that’s key to their appeal.

Jack Jones Still One of Raiders' Key Departures https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-jack-jones-pete-carroll-john-spytek

Why film study is so important to young NFL QBs like the Bears' Caleb Williams https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45458808/nfl-caleb-williams-bears-quarterback-film-study-ben-johnson

Staff shortages at weather service offices in might have complicated Texas forecasters’ ability to coordinate responses with local emergency management officials.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/us/poli

As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas
Some experts say staff shortages might have complicated forecasters’ ability to coordinate responses with local emergency management officials.

[Technical Report] ArceKV: Towards Workload-driven LSM-compactions for Key-Value Store Under Dynamic Workloads
Junfeng Liu, Haoxuan Xie, Siqiang Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03565

[Technical Report] ArceKV: Towards Workload-driven LSM-compactions for Key-Value Store Under Dynamic Workloads
Key-value stores underpin a wide range of applications due to their simplicity and efficiency. Log-Structured Merge Trees (LSM-trees) dominate as their underlying structure, excelling at handling rapidly growing data. Recent research has focused on optimizing LSM-tree performance under static workloads with fixed read-write ratios. However, real-world workloads are highly dynamic, and existing workload-aware approaches often struggle to sustain optimal performance or incur substantial transitio…

Deuce Vaughn, Conor Riley reunion a key storyline in Cowboys' RB battle: 'He believed in me' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/deuce-vaughn-conor-riley-reunion-a-key-storyline-in-cowboys-rb-b…

An interview with ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet, as the company navigates political instability in The Netherlands and abroad and the impacts of Trump's trade war (Adam Satariano/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.co…

How ASML, a Key Supplier to the Chip Industry, Is Navigating Trump’s Trade War
ASML, the Dutch company that makes multimillion-dollar tools to manufacture advanced semiconductors, is grappling with the repercussions of a tech trade war.

OmniShape: Zero-Shot Multi-Hypothesis Shape and Pose Estimation in the Real World
Katherine Liu, Sergey Zakharov, Dian Chen, Takuya Ikeda, Greg Shakhnarovich, Adrien Gaidon, Rares Ambrus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03669

OmniShape: Zero-Shot Multi-Hypothesis Shape and Pose Estimation in the Real World
We would like to estimate the pose and full shape of an object from a single observation, without assuming known 3D model or category. In this work, we propose OmniShape, the first method of its kind to enable probabilistic pose and shape estimation. OmniShape is based on the key insight that shape completion can be decoupled into two multi-modal distributions: one capturing how measurements project into a normalized object reference frame defined by the dataset and the other modelling a prior …

"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.

Large Language Model-based Data Science Agent: A Survey
Peiran Wang, Yaoning Yu, Ke Chen, Xianyang Zhan, Haohan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02744 https://

Large Language Model-based Data Science Agent: A Survey
The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has driven novel applications across diverse domains, with LLM-based agents emerging as a crucial area of exploration. This survey presents a comprehensive analysis of LLM-based agents designed for data science tasks, summarizing insights from recent studies. From the agent perspective, we discuss the key design principles, covering agent roles, execution, knowledge, and reflection methods. From the data science perspective, we identify key …

Industrial Robot Motion Planning with GPUs: Integration of cuRobo for Extended DOF Systems
Luai Abuelsamen, Harsh Rana, Ho-Wei Lu, Wenhan Tang, Swati Priyadarshini, Gabriel Gomes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04146

Industrial Robot Motion Planning with GPUs: Integration of cuRobo for Extended DOF Systems
Efficient motion planning remains a key challenge in industrial robotics, especially for multi-axis systems operating in complex environments. This paper addresses that challenge by integrating GPU-accelerated motion planning through NVIDIA's cuRobo library into Vention's modular automation platform. By leveraging accurate CAD-based digital twins and real-time parallel optimization, our system enables rapid trajectory generation and dynamic collision avoidance for pick-and-place tasks. We demon…

Share Your Attention: Transformer Weight Sharing via Matrix-based Dictionary Learning
Magauiya Zhussip, Dmitriy Shopkhoev, Ammar Ali, Stamatios Lefkimmiatis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04581

Share Your Attention: Transformer Weight Sharing via Matrix-based Dictionary Learning
Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized AI applications, yet their high computational and memory demands hinder their widespread deployment. Existing compression techniques focus on intra-block optimizations (e.g. low-rank approximation, attention head pruning), while the repetitive layered structure of transformers implies significant inter-block redundancy - a dimension largely unexplored beyond key-value (KV) caching. Inspired by dictionary learning in CNNs, we propose a framework f…

Analyzing Prominent LLMs: An Empirical Study of Performance and Complexity in Solving LeetCode Problems
Everton Guimaraes, Nathalia Nascimento, Chandan Shivalingaiah, Asish Nelapati
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03931

Analyzing Prominent LLMs: An Empirical Study of Performance and Complexity in Solving LeetCode Problems
Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and DeepSeek are transforming software engineering by automating key tasks, including code generation, testing, and debugging. As these models become integral to development workflows, a systematic comparison of their performance is essential for optimizing their use in real world applications. This study benchmarks these four prominent LLMs on one hundred and fifty LeetCode problems across easy, medium, and hard difficulties, generati…

Britain said it will start work within days to implement a deal to return some migrants who arrive on small boats to France -- a key part of its plans to cut illegal migration,
after a treaty on the arrangement was ratified on Tuesday.
Under the new
⭐️ "one in, one out" pilot scheme agreed in principle last month,
👉 France will accept the return of undocumented people arriving in Britain by small boats,
in exchange for Britain agreeing to accept an equ…

Smart Car Privacy: Survey of Attacks and Privacy Issues
Akshay Madhav Deshmukh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03413 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.03413

Smart Car Privacy: Survey of Attacks and Privacy Issues
Automobiles are becoming increasingly important in our day to day life. Modern automobiles are highly computerized and hence potentially vulnerable to attack. Providing many wireless connectivity for vehicles enables a bridge between vehicles and their external environments. Such a connected vehicle solution is expected to be the next frontier for automotive revolution and the key to the evolution to next generation intelligent transportation systems. Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) are emer…

On-the-job learning in fields like law and banking faces a dual threat as hybrid work limits juniors' exposure to seniors and gen AI replaces key routine tasks (Emma Jacobs/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/071089b8-839a-4f96-af79-394c08a146d1

Deuce Vaughn, Conor Riley reunion a key storyline in Cowboys' RB battle: 'He believed in me' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/deuce-vaughn-conor-riley-reunion-a-key-storyline-in-cowboys-rb-b…

NFC South 2025 preview, plus https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6478575/2025/07/07/nfl-preview-2025-nfc-south-panthers-buccaneers-saints-falcons-scoop-city/

Archaeologists have announced the discovery of a 3,500-year-old city in Peru's northern Barranca province.
The city, named Peñico, is believed to have served as a key trading hub connecting early Pacific coast communities with those living in the Andes mountains and Amazon basin.
Located some 200km north of Lima, the site lies about 600 metres (1,970 feet) above sea level
and is thought to have been founded between 1,800 and 1,500 BC
- around the same time that ea…

Archaeologists discover 3,500-year-old city in Peru
Researchers believe Peñico served as a trading hub linking ancient Pacific coast communities with those living in the Andes and Amazon.

LRQ-DiT: Log-Rotation Post-Training Quantization of Diffusion Transformers for Text-to-Image Generation
Lianwei Yang, Haokun Lin, Tianchen Zhao, Yichen Wu, Hongyu Zhu, Ruiqi Xie, Zhenan Sun, Yu Wang, Qingyi Gu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03485

LRQ-DiT: Log-Rotation Post-Training Quantization of Diffusion Transformers for Text-to-Image Generation
Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have achieved impressive performance in text-to-image generation. However, their high computational cost and large parameter sizes pose significant challenges for usage in resource-constrained scenarios. Post-training quantization (PTQ) is a promising solution to reduce memory usage and accelerate inference, but existing PTQ methods suffer from severe performance degradation under extreme low-bit settings. We identify two key obstacles to low-bit post-training quan…

Efficient detection of spectrally multimode squeezed light through optical parametric amplification
Mahmoud Kalash, Ui-Nyung Han, Young-Sik Ra, Maria V. Chekhova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04502

Efficient detection of spectrally multimode squeezed light through optical parametric amplification
Multimode squeezed light is a key resource for high-dimensional photonic quantum technologies, enabling applications in quantum-enhanced sensing, quantum communication, and quantum computing. Efficient detection of such a multimode squeezed state is essential for unlocking its full potential. Optical parametric amplification (OPA) has recently gained attention as a powerful technique offering loss-tolerant, direct broadband detection, and multimode operation. While OPA has been used to characte…

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Why Johnny Signs with Next-Generation Tools: A Usability Case Study of Sigstore
Software signing is the most robust method for ensuring the integrity and authenticity of components in a software supply chain. However, traditional signing tools place key management and signer identification burdens on practitioners, leading to both security vulnerabilities and usability challenges. Next-generation signing tools such as Sigstore have automated some of these concerns, but little is known about their usability and adoption dynamics. This knowledge gap hampers the integration o…

Stabilizer R\'enyi Entropy for Translation-Invariant Matrix Product States
Lei-Yi-Nan Liu, Su Yi, Jian Cui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03534 https://arx…

Stabilizer Rényi Entropy for Translation-Invariant Matrix Product States
Magic, capturing the deviation of a quantum state from the stabilizer formalism, is a key resource underpinning the quantum advantage. The recently introduced stabilizer Rényi entropy (SRE) offers a tractable measure of magic, avoiding the complexity of conventional methods. We study SRE in translation-invariant matrix product states (MPS), deriving exact expressions for representative states and introducing a numerically stable algorithm, named bond-DMRG, to compute the SRE density in infinit…

Prompt Engineering Guidelines for Using Large Language Models in Requirements Engineering
Krishna Ronanki, Simon Arvidsson, Johan Axell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03405

Prompt Engineering Guidelines for Using Large Language Models in Requirements Engineering
The rapid emergence of generative AI models like Large Language Models (LLMs) has demonstrated its utility across various activities, including within Requirements Engineering (RE). Ensuring the quality and accuracy of LLM-generated output is critical, with prompt engineering serving as a key technique to guide model responses. However, existing literature provides limited guidance on how prompt engineering can be leveraged, specifically for RE activities. The objective of this study is to expl…

Characterizing and Mitigating Flux Crosstalk in Superconducting Qubits-Couplers System
Chen-Hsun Ma, Myrron Albert Callera Aguila, Nien-Yu Li, Li-Chieh Hsiao, Yi-Shiang Huang, Yen-Chun Chen, Teik-Hui Lee, Chin-Chia Chang, Jyh-Yang Wang, Ssu-Yen Huang, Hsi-Sheng Goan, Chiao-Hsuan Wang, Cen-Shawn Wu, Chii-Dong Chen, Chung-Ting Ke
https://arx…

Characterizing and Mitigating Flux Crosstalk in Superconducting Qubits-Couplers System
Superconducting qubits have achieved exceptional gate fidelities, exceeding the error-correction threshold in recent years. One key ingredient of such improvement is the introduction of tunable couplers to control the qubit-to-qubit coupling through frequency tuning. Moving toward fault-tolerant quantum computation, increasing the number of physical qubits is another step toward effective error correction codes. Under a multiqubit architecture, flux control (Z) lines are crucial in tuning the f…

House GOP leaders announce a regulatory Crypto Week from July 14 to July 18 to consider three key crypto bills, including the Senate-led GENIUS Act (Jesse Coghlan/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-republicans-declare-crypto-w…

Cowboys need dramatic improvement as top NFL offenses prove run-pass balance matters https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/07/top-offenses-nfl-cowboys-run-pass-balance/84486103007/

Senior State Department staffer Darren Beattie,
a passionate Putin supporter behind the move to dismantle a key agency fighting Russian propaganda,
is married to a Russian woman whose uncle is a longtime Kremlin ally, according to The Telegraph.
Yulia Kirillova grew up in Moscow, studied abroad in North America, and married Beattie in 2021 in Florida.
She moved to D.C. in January.
Her uncle Sergei Cherniko is a drinks magnate who had an estimated net worth of $1…

Trump Official Behind Controversial Russia Decision Has Kremlin Ties
Darren Beattie dismantled a key agency fighting Russian propaganda. There’s a reason why.

Efficient classical computation of the neural tangent kernel of quantum neural networks
Anderson Melchor Hernandez, Davide Pastorello, Giacomo De Palma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04498

Efficient classical computation of the neural tangent kernel of quantum neural networks
We propose an efficient classical algorithm to estimate the Neural Tangent Kernel (NTK) associated with a broad class of quantum neural networks. These networks consist of arbitrary unitary operators belonging to the Clifford group interleaved with parametric gates given by the time evolution generated by an arbitrary Hamiltonian belonging to the Pauli group. The proposed algorithm leverages a key insight: the average over the distribution of initialization parameters in the NTK definition can …

Sources: Intel's 18A process is facing significant yield challenges, with only ~5% of chips meeting its specifications in late 2024 and ~10% by summer 2025 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/…