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Cowboys Tyler Booker can't even turn off the aggression during youth camp https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/cowboys-tyler-booker-can-t-even-turn-off-the-aggression-during-youth-camp

US enters first major heat wave of 2025 #UnitedStates #USA

US enters first major heat wave of 2025
The United States is experiencing its first significant heat wave of the year, beginning Friday across the Great Plains and expanding into parts of the Midwest and Great Lakes over the weekend, according to the National Weather Service (NWS).

FARFETCH'D: A Side-Channel Analysis Framework for Privacy Applications on Confidential Virtual Machines
Ruiyi Zhang, Albert Cheu, Adria Gascon, Daniel Moghimi, Phillipp Schoppmann, Michael Schwarz, Octavian Suciu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15924

FARFETCH'D: A Side-Channel Analysis Framework for Privacy Applications on Confidential Virtual Machines
Confidential virtual machines (CVMs) based on trusted execution environments (TEEs) enable new privacy-preserving solutions. Yet, they leave side-channel leakage outside their threat model, shifting the responsibility of mitigating such attacks to developers. However, mitigations are either not generic or too slow for practical use, and developers currently lack a systematic, efficient way to measure and compare leakage across real-world deployments. In this paper, we present FARFETCH'D, an ope…

Beginning later this year, the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory will create the ultimate movie of the night sky,
repeatedly scanning the sky for a decade to create an ultra-wide, ultra-high-definition, time-lapse record of our Universe across space and over time.
The resulting dataset, called the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), will be the largest ever amassed for optical astronomy.
This enormous, all-purpose dataset will bring the night sky to life,
enabli…

Contribution of expert aggregation to temperature prediction part II: Second order bounds with sleeping experts
L\'eo Pfitzner (GMAP), Olivier Wintenberger (SU), Olivier Mestre (GMAP)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15216

Contribution of expert aggregation to temperature prediction part II: Second order bounds with sleeping experts
In this paper we improve on the temperature predictions made with (online) Expert Aggregation (EA) [Cesa-Bianchi and Lugosi, 2006] in Part I. In particular, we make the aggregation more reactive, whilst maintaining at least the same root mean squared error and reducing the number of large errors. We have achieved this by using the Sleeping Expert Framework (SEF) [Freund et al., 1997, Devaine et al., 2013], which allows the more efficient use of biased experts (bad on average but which may be go…

This is bad: #Mercury has reached #toxic levels in the #Arctic

«GitHub is Leaking Trump’s Plans to 'Accelerate' AI Across Government»
Don't tell the UK government, otherwise Starmer and his AI lackies will just copy and paste that playbook 😂
https://www.404media.co/github-is-leaking-trumps-plans-to-accelerate-ai-across-government/

I noticed that OpenStreetMaps somehow lost Lake Michigan, so I went investigating. Apparently back in April somebody accidentally changed it from a "lake" to a "school" and it's taking months to be fixed across all regions/renderers.
https:/…

Contribution of expert aggregation to temperature prediction part I
L\'eo Pfitzner (GMAP), Olivier Wintenberger (SU), Olivier Mestre (GMAP), Marion Riverain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15217

Contribution of expert aggregation to temperature prediction part I
Many Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models and their associated Model Output Statistics (MOS) are available. Combining all of these predictions in an optimal way is however not straightforward. This can be achieved thanks to Expert Aggregation (EA) [Cesa-Bianchi and Lugosi, 2006, Gaillard et al., 2014, Wintenberger, 2024] which has many advantages, such as being online, being adaptive to model changes and having theoretical guarantees. Hence, in this paper, we propose a method for making de…

Brazil & China megarailway raises deforestation warnings in the Amazon https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/brazil-china-megarailway-raises-deforestation-warnings-in-the-amazon/

Brazil & China megarailway raises deforestation warnings in the Amazon
From Lucas do Rio Verde, a major agricultural hub in the state of Mato Grosso, the railway would be built from scratch, advancing into the Amazon’s Arc of Deforestation.