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Lead ammunition to be banned for hunting and shooting in England, Scotland and Wales https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/10/lead-ammunition-ban-hunting-shooting-england-scotland-wales

Trump's pick to lead NOAA pledges to restaff weather service (Eric Katz/GovExec.com)
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/07/trumps-pick-lead-noaa-pledges-restaff-weather-service/406614/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250710/p16#a250710p16

The US Senate confirms Jonathan Gould to lead the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency; Gould was previously the chief legal officer at Bitfury (Sarah Wynn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/362071/senate-confirm…

Bears rue opportunity lost in Johnson's debut https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46203931/caleb-williams-chicago-bears-see-lead-evaporate-mnf-loss

Computational and Experimental Investigation of Chiral and Achiral 2D Organic Lead Bromide Perovskites: Octahedral Distortions and Electronic and Optical Properties
Md Mehdi Masud, Jarek Viera, Azza Ben-Akacha, Biwu Ma, David A. Strubbe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07152

Computational and Experimental Investigation of Chiral and Achiral 2D Organic Lead Bromide Perovskites: Octahedral Distortions and Electronic and Optical Properties
We present a computational investigation, in conjunction with synthesis and experimental characterization, into the structural, electronic, and optical properties of layered 2D organic lead bromide perovskites. We contrast materials based on the chiral (R/S)-4-fluoro-$α$-methylbenzylammonium (R/S-FMBA), which have been shown to lead to bright room-temperature circularly polarized luminescence, with the similar achiral 4-fluorobenzylammonium (FBA). Using density functional theory (DFT) with van…

Commanders, Eagles off to early NFC East lead in 2025 https://insidethestar.com/commanders-eagles-off-to-early-nfc-east-lead-in-2025

Senate panel advances Trump's nominee to lead CDC (Sophie Gardner/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/09/congress/senate-panel-advances-trumps-nominee-to-lead-cdc-00442848
http://www.memeorandum.com/250709/p75#a250709p75

Kateryna is a brilliant scientist who I first got to know via @… - she works on internal wave breaking in the ocean and how that can lead to #ice melt. She has also been organising meet a scientist sessions for #Ukraine's school age diaspora since the invasion
https://fediscience.org/@OceanIceEU/114828392533900541
OceanIceEU - 🆕 Check out our latest 'Researcher in the Spotlight' feature on  Kateryna Terletska, a researcher in OCEAN ICE
🔎Learn more about Kateryna here: https://ocean-ice.eu/researcher-in-the-spotlight-kateryna-terletska/

This weekend, it was Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Flooding after up to 350 mm (14 inches) of rain within 24 hours. Way more than a used-to-be-1-in-1000-years event.
#ClimatechangeisWaterchange

Heavy Rains in Wisconsin Lead to Flooding and Early Closure of State Fair
Record-setting rainfall caused intense flooding in and around the Milwaukee area starting on Saturday night.

Hi friends of research software 👋
The @… is running a free workshop on test-driven development on Monday.
https://events.digital-research.academ

I just emailed JS Dewes to complain huffily that her books are too addictive and for her to hurry up and write more.
C'mon, authors, we need at least A BOOK A WEEK! Stop swinging the lead!
#TheDivideSeries

J.S. Dewes, Science Fiction Author
Welcome to the official website for science fiction author J.S. Dewes! Her debut novel THE LAST WATCH will be out April 20, 2021 from Tor Books.

Studies done with this stuff " have lead to major breakthroughs, including links between cigarettes and cardiovascular disease and alcohol consumption and breast cancer. The research also uncovered the dangers of trans fats, which the U.S. has now largely restricted."
Trump cuts threaten ‘irreplaceable’ Harvard stockpile of human feces, urine - masslive.com
https://www.masslive.com/news/2025/06/trump-cuts-threaten-irreplaceable-harvard-stockpile-of-human-feces-urine.html

If you save someone from having their face eaten by a leopard, you have their ear and the beliefs that lead you to save them suddenly have weight. If you abandon them, you have nothing at best and an enemy at worst.
It doesn't matter if they voted to release the leopards or were simply caught by them, the two possible outcomes are the same.
Anarchists build systems to save people. That will always be our advantage. We should use it.

Dan Adams, tech lead for Neuralink Blindsight brain implant development, reports that he is at the National Foundation of the Blind annual convention in New Orleans.
For those of you who happen to be there perhaps a great opportunity for a chat. #blind #blindness

Dan Adams (@Dan___Adams) on X
I’m thrilled to be at the annual convention of the National Foundation of the Blind in New Orleans. Learning from this incredible community at the largest gathering of blind people in the world is fascinating and inspiring! https://t.co/l3Ob4FaKBA #NFB_voice #Blindsight

LeAD: The LLM Enhanced Planning System Converged with End-to-end Autonomous Driving
Yuhang Zhang, Jiaqi Liu, Chengkai Xu, Peng Hang, Jian Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05754

LeAD: The LLM Enhanced Planning System Converged with End-to-end Autonomous Driving
A principal barrier to large-scale deployment of urban autonomous driving systems lies in the prevalence of complex scenarios and edge cases. Existing systems fail to effectively interpret semantic information within traffic contexts and discern intentions of other participants, consequently generating decisions misaligned with skilled drivers' reasoning patterns. We present LeAD, a dual-rate autonomous driving architecture integrating imitation learning-based end-to-end (E2E) frameworks with l…

Trump Administration Considers Longtime Critic to Lead Bureau of Labor Statistics (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-administration-considers-longtime-critic-to-lead-bureau-of-labor-statistics-5aea02ed
http://www.memeorandum.com/250810/p56#a250810p56

Ashton Jeanty's first NFL TD gives Raiders a 13-10 lead vs. Patriots https://www.nfl.com/videos/ashton-jeanty-s-first-nfl-td-gives-raiders-a-13-10-lead-vs-patriots

🧲 Coffee fortified with iron—new microparticles can be added to food and beverages to fight malnutrition
... who'd a thought metal organic frameworks could be edible?
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-coffee-fortified-iron-microparticles-added.html

Coffee fortified with iron—new microparticles can be added to food and beverages to fight malnutrition
Around the world, about 2 billion people suffer from iron deficiency, which can lead to anemia, impaired brain development in children, and increased infant mortality.

Chump in Chief
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"""
Once the distinctions had been made, and the first punishments applied, the venereal were accepted into the hospital. And they were crammed inside. In 1781, 138 men occupied 60 beds in the Saint-Eustache quarter of Bicêtre, and in the Miséricorde in the Salpêtrière there were 125 beds for 224 women. Patients in the terminal stages of the disease were simply left to die. 'Grand Remedies' were applied to the others: never more, and rarely less than six weeks of care, starting of course with blood-letting and purging, then a week of baths for two hours per day, then purging again, followed by a full and complete confession to bring this first part of the treatment to a close. Rubbing with mercury could then begin, with all its efficacy. Each course of treatment lasted one month, and was followed by two more purges and one final bleeding to chase out the remaining morbific humours. Fifteen days of convalescence were then granted. After he had definitively made his peace with God, the patient was declared cured and sent away.
This 'therapeutic' demonstrates a rich tapestry of fantasy, and above all a profound complicity between medicine and morality, which give their full meaning to these purification practices. For the classical age, venereal disease was less a sickness than an impurity to which physical symptoms are correlated. Accordingly, medical perception is ruled by ethical perception, and on occasion even effaced by it. The body must be treated to remove the contagion, but the flesh must be punished, for it is the flesh that attaches us to sin. Mere corporal punishment was not enough: the flesh was to be pummelled and bruised, and leaving painful traces was not to be feared, as good health, all too frequently, transformed the human body into another opportunity for sinful conduct. The sickness was to be treated, but the good health that could lead to temptation was to be destroyed.
"""
(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

"Global electricity demand to rise in 2026 as renewables lead, says IEA"
#Renewables #Energy

Global electricity demand to rise in 2026 as renewables lead, says IEA
Global electricity demand is set to rise more than 3% per year through 2026, driven by growth in Asia and greater use across industry, data centers, and transport, with renewables, gas, and nuclear meeting most of the increase, says the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Phase Stability and Transformations in Lead Mixed Halide Perovskites from Machine Learning Force Fields
Xia Liang, Johan Klarbring, Aron Walsh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07926

Phase Stability and Transformations in Lead Mixed Halide Perovskites from Machine Learning Force Fields
Lead halide perovskites (APbX$_3$) offer tunable optoelectronic properties but feature an intricate phase-stability landscape. Here we employ on-the-fly data collection and an equivariant message-passing neural-network potential to perform large-scale molecular dynamics of three prototypical perovskite systems: CsPbX$_3$, MAPbX$_3$, and FAPbX$_3$. Integrating these simulations with the PDynA analysis toolkit, we resolve both equilibrium phase diagrams and dynamic structural evolution under vary…

Meek Models Shall Inherit the Earth
Hans Gundlach, Jayson Lynch, Neil Thompson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07931 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Meek Models Shall Inherit the Earth
The past decade has seen incredible scaling of AI systems by a few companies, leading to inequality in AI model performance. This paper argues that, contrary to prevailing intuition, the diminishing returns to compute scaling will lead to a convergence of AI model capabilities. In other words, meek models (those with limited computation budget) shall inherit the earth, approaching the performance level of the best models overall. We develop a model illustrating that under a fixed-distribution n…

Speculative politics
As an anarchist (okay, maybe not in practice), I'm tired of hearing why we have to suffer X and Y indignity to "preserve the rule of law" or "maintain Democratic norms." So here's an example of what representative democracy (a form of government that I believe is inherently flawed) could look like if its proponents had even an ounce of imagination, and/or weren't actively trying to rig it to favor a rich donor class:
1. Unicameral legislature, where representatives pass laws directly. Each state elects 3 statewide representatives: the three most-popular candidates in a statewide race where each person votes for one candidate (ranked preference voting would be even better but might not be necessary, and is not a solution by itself). Instead of each representative getting one vote in the chamber, they get N votes, where N is the number of people who voted for them. This means that in a close race, instead of the winner getting all the power, the power is split. Having 3 representatives trades off between leisure size and ensuring that two parties can't dominate together.
2. Any individual citizen can contact their local election office to switch or withdraw their vote at any time (maybe with a 3-day delay or something). Voting power of representatives can thus shift even without an election. They are limited to choosing one of the three elected representatives, or "none of the above." If the "none of the above" fraction exceeds 20% of eligible voters, a new election is triggered for that state. If turnout is less than 80%, a second election happens immediately, with results being final even at lower turnout until 6 months later (some better mechanism for turnout management might be needed).
3. All elections allow mail-in ballots, and in-person voting happens Sunday-Tuesday with the Monday being a mandatory holiday. (Yes, election integrity is not better in this system and that's a big weakness.)
4. Separate nationwide elections elect three positions for head-of-state: one with diplomatic/administrative powers, another with military powers, and a third with veto power. For each position, the top three candidates serve together, with only the first-place winner having actual power until vote switches or withdrawals change who that is. Once one of these heads loses their first-place status, they cannot get it again until another election, even if voters switch preferences back (to avoid dithering). An election for one of these positions is triggered when 20% have withdrawn their votes, or if all three people initially elected have been disqualified by losing their lead in the vote count.
5. Laws that involve spending money are packaged with specific taxes to pay for them, and may only be paid for by those specific revenues. Each tax may be opted into or out of by each taxpayer; where possible opting out of the tax also opts you out of the service. (I'm well aware of a lot of the drawbacks of this, but also feel like they'd not necessarily be worse than the drawbacks of our current system.) A small mandatory tax would cover election expenses.
6. I'm running out of attention, but similar multi-winner elections could elect panels of judges from which a subset is chosen randomly to preside in each case.
Now I'll point out once again that this system, in not directly confronting capitalism, racism, patriarchy, etc., is probably doomed to the same failures as our current system. But if you profess to want a "representative democracy" as opposed to something more libratory, I hope you'll at least advocate for something like this that actually includes meaningful representation as opposed to the current US system that's engineered to quash it.
Key questions: "Why should we have winner-take-all elections when winners-take-proportionately-to-votes is right there?" and "Why should elected officials get to ignore their constituents' approval except during elections, when vote-withdrawal or -switching is possible?"
2/2
#Democracy

MotionSwap
Om Patil, Jinesh Modi, Suryabha Mukhopadhyay, Meghaditya Giri, Chhavi Malhotra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06430 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06430…

MotionSwap
Face swapping technology has gained significant attention in both academic research and commercial applications. This paper presents our implementation and enhancement of SimSwap, an efficient framework for high fidelity face swapping. We introduce several improvements to the original model, including the integration of self and cross-attention mechanisms in the generator architecture, dynamic loss weighting, and cosine annealing learning rate scheduling. These enhancements lead to significant …

Matrix-Driven Instant Review: Confident Detection and Reconstruction of LLM Plagiarism on PC
Ruichong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06309 https://arxiv.…

Matrix-Driven Instant Review: Confident Detection and Reconstruction of LLM Plagiarism on PC
In recent years, concerns about intellectual property (IP) in large language models (LLMs) have grown significantly. Plagiarizing other LLMs (through direct weight copying, upcycling, pruning, or continual pretraining) and claiming authorship without properly attributing to the original license, is a serious misconduct that can lead to significant financial and reputational harm to the original developers. However, existing methods for detecting LLM plagiarism fall short in key areas. They fail…

Receiver Noise Calibration in CV-QKD accounting for Noise Dynamics
Guillaume Ricard, Yves Jaou\"en, Romain All\'eaume
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07549 https://

Receiver Noise Calibration in CV-QKD accounting for Noise Dynamics
Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution (CV-QKD) relies on accurate noise calibration at the receiver to ensure the security of quantum communication. Traditional calibration methods often oversimplify noise characteristics, neglecting the impact of local oscillator (LO) noise and the critical role of noise spectral properties, which can lead to imprecise Shot Noise Calibration (SNC). Our contributions are threefold: 1) we propose an operational framework for calibration, relying on the no…

It's a Complete Haystack: Understanding Dependency Management Needs in Computer-Aided Design
Kathy Cheng, Alison Olechowski, Shurui Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05940 htt…

It's a Complete Haystack: Understanding Dependency Management Needs in Computer-Aided Design
In today's landscape, hardware development teams face increasing demands for better quality products, greater innovation, and shorter manufacturing lead times. Despite the need for more efficient and effective processes, hardware designers continue to struggle with a lack of awareness of design changes and other collaborators' actions, a persistent issue in decades of CSCW research. One significant and unaddressed challenge is understanding and managing dependencies between 3D CAD (computer-aid…

Ukrainian businesses outraged as government blocks economic crimes bureau chief nominee: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/08/ukrainian-businesses-outraged-as-government.html

Higher-Order Harmonics Reduction in Reset-Based Control Systems: Application to Precision Positioning Systems
S. Ali Hosseini, Nima Karbasizadeh, S. Hassan HosseiniNia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04707

Higher-Order Harmonics Reduction in Reset-Based Control Systems: Application to Precision Positioning Systems
To address the limitations imposed by Bode's gain-phase relationship in linear controllers, a reset-based filter called the Constant in gain- Lead in phase (CgLp) filter has been introduced. This filter consists of a reset element and a linear lead filter. However, the sequencing of these two components has been a topic of debate. Positioning the lead filter before the reset element in the loop leads to noise amplification in the reset signal, whereas placing the lead filter after the reset ele…

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城市生活 101 🏙️
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🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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Hess-MC2: Sequential Monte Carlo Squared using Hessian Information and Second Order Proposals
Joshua Murphy, Conor Rosato, Andrew Millard, Lee Devlin, Paul Horridge, Simon Maskell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07461

Hess-MC2: Sequential Monte Carlo Squared using Hessian Information and Second Order Proposals
When performing Bayesian inference using Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) methods, two considerations arise: the accuracy of the posterior approximation and computational efficiency. To address computational demands, Sequential Monte Carlo Squared (SMC$^2$) is well-suited for high-performance computing (HPC) environments. The design of the proposal distribution within SMC$^2$ can improve accuracy and exploration of the posterior as poor proposals may lead to high variance in importance weights and …

J.J. McCarthy ready to lead the charge for 'stacked' Vikings in 2025: 'Between the lines, I flip a switch'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/j-j-mcc

Job, UK with Medact:
"The Campaign and Programme Lead: Climate & Health supports health workers to campaign for just and proportionate action on climate change."
Vacancy: Campaign & Programme Lead – Climate & Health (parental leave cover) - Medact

Vacancy: Campaign & Programme Lead – Climate & Health (parental leave cover) - Medact
Medact is looking for an experienced campaigner to lead our Climate Programme.

Do AI tutors empower or enslave learners? Toward a critical use of AI in education
Lucile Favero, Juan-Antonio P\'erez-Ortiz, Tanja K\"aser, Nuria Oliver
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06878

Do AI tutors empower or enslave learners? Toward a critical use of AI in education
The increasing integration of AI tools in education presents both opportunities and challenges, particularly regarding the development of the students' critical thinking skills. This position paper argues that while AI can support learning, its unchecked use may lead to cognitive atrophy, loss of agency, emotional risks, and ethical concerns, ultimately undermining the core goals of education. Drawing on cognitive science and pedagogy, the paper explores how over-reliance on AI can disrupt mean…

⭐️Honey bees vs. native pollinators
The damage does not stop with bees. The study highlights that honey bee pollination leads to poorer plant offspring quality compared to native bee pollination.
This happens because honey bees often visit many flowers on the same plant before moving to another.
This behavior increases the chances of self-pollination, which can lead to inbreeding depression in plants.
Such effects could ripple through ecosystems. Plants that rely on nat…

Honey bee invasion: A growing threat to native pollinators
Honey bees outcompete native bees, removing most pollen and threatening wild ecosystems in Southern California.

Battery lead; fucking battery lead....compare to my previous one, it's not drooping anywhere as much.
Neither are the original lead/connector.
Epson-HX20
#retrocomputing

As Trump's tariffs cut off the US from imports and as he deports the core of the US labor force, I think about the fact that tariffs and other import taxes were a major part of the lead up to the Revolutionary War. It's no coincidence that a bunch of the Founding Fathers were smugglers.
The logistics of the resistance and the logistics of the population were intertwined, meaning that it was not always possible to attack resistance logistics without alienating the population.
All this is worth keeping in mind right now.
#USPol

On MDS Convertible Codes in the Merge Regime
Vinayak Ramkumar, Xiangliang Kong, G. Yeswanth Sai, Myna Vajha, M. Nikhil Krishnan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06219 https://

On MDS Convertible Codes in the Merge Regime
In large-scale distributed storage systems, erasure coding is employed to ensure reliability against disk failures. Recent work by Kadekodi et al. demonstrates that adapting code parameters to varying disk failure rates can lead to significant storage savings without compromising reliability. Such adaptations, known as \emph{code conversions}, motivate the design of \emph{convertible codes}, which enable efficient transformations between codes of different parameters. In this work, we study t…

One loop corrections to the thermodynamics of near-extremal Kerr-(A)dS black holes from Heun equation
Paolo Arnaudo, Giulio Bonelli, Alessandro Tanzini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08959

One loop corrections to the thermodynamics of near-extremal Kerr-(A)dS black holes from Heun equation
We compute one-loop corrections to the euclidean gravitational path integral of near-extremal (anti-)de Sitter-Kerr black hole in terms of the connection coefficients of the Heun equation describing the black hole linear perturbations in the Teukolsky formalism. We show that different near-extremal limits lead to distinct physical properties of the gravitational configuration, as they get described by distinct limiting differential equations. As a result, the light modes emerging in the limit d…

DKFNet: Differentiable Kalman Filter for Field Inversion and Machine Learning
Yuan Wu, Sicheng He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07474 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

DKFNet: Differentiable Kalman Filter for Field Inversion and Machine Learning
The Kalman filter is a fundamental tool for state estimation in dynamical systems. While originally developed for linear Gaussian settings, it has been extended to nonlinear problems through approaches such as the extended and unscented Kalman filters. Despite its broad use, a persistent limitation is that the underlying approximate model is fixed, which can lead to significant deviations from the true system dynamics. To address this limitation, we introduce the differentiable Kalman filter (D…

Graney: Raiders follow Carroll’s lead in opening win over Patriots https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sports-columns/ed-graney/graney-raiders-follow-carrolls-lead-in-opening-win-over-patriots-3439061/

Reviving WIMP dark matter with temperature-dependent couplings
Debasish Borah, Arnab Dasgupta, Tong Arthur Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07070 https://arxi…

Reviving WIMP dark matter with temperature-dependent couplings
The persistent null results at dark matter (DM) direct detection experiments have pushed the popular weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) DM to tight corners. Generic WIMP models with direct detection rate below the current upper limits often lead to thermally overproduced relic abundance after freeze-out. To resolve this conundrum, we propose a novel scenario where DM has temperature-dependent couplings with the standard model (SM) bath. A scalar field having a large vacuum expectation v…

Rapid cardiac activation prediction for cardiac resynchronization therapy planning using geometric deep learning
Ehsan Naghavi, Haifeng Wang, Vahid Ziaei Rad, Julius Guccione, Ghassan Kassab, Vishnu Boddeti, Seungik Baek, Lik-Chuan Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08987

Rapid cardiac activation prediction for cardiac resynchronization therapy planning using geometric deep learning
Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is a common intervention for patients with dyssynchronous heart failure, yet approximately one-third of recipients fail to respond due to suboptimal lead placement. Identifying optimal pacing sites remains challenging, largely due to patient-specific anatomical variability and the limitations of current individualized planning strategies. In a step towards constructing an in-silico approach to help address this issue, we develop two geometric deep learnin…

The Daily Mail names Greta Lawn to the newly created position of president for North America to lead revenue growth (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/media-jobs-uk-news/daily-mail…

Daily Mail names first president for North America to lead revenue growth
Daily Mail has created the role of president, North America to lead revenue growth in the world's largest media market. Greta Lawn appointed

Making congestion control robust to per-packet load balancing in datacenters
Barak Gerstein, Mark Silberstein, Isaac Keslassy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07907 https://

Making congestion control robust to per-packet load balancing in datacenters
Per-packet load-balancing approaches are increasingly deployed in datacenter networks. However, their combination with existing congestion control algorithms (CCAs) may lead to poor performance, and even state-of-the-art CCAs can collapse due to duplicate ACKs. A typical approach to handle this collapse is to make CCAs resilient to duplicate ACKs. In this paper, we first model the throughput collapse of a wide array of CCAs when some of the paths are congested. We show that addressing duplica…

HyPV-LEAD: Proactive Early-Warning of Cryptocurrency Anomalies through Data-Driven Structural-Temporal Modeling
Minjung Park, Gyuyeon Na, Soyoun Kim, Sunyoung Moon, HyeonJeong Cha, Sangmi Chai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03260

HyPV-LEAD: Proactive Early-Warning of Cryptocurrency Anomalies through Data-Driven Structural-Temporal Modeling
Abnormal cryptocurrency transactions - such as mixing services, fraudulent transfers, and pump-and-dump operations -- pose escalating risks to financial integrity but remain notoriously difficult to detect due to class imbalance, temporal volatility, and complex network dependencies. Existing approaches are predominantly model-centric and post hoc, flagging anomalies only after they occur and thus offering limited preventive value. This paper introduces HyPV-LEAD (Hyperbolic Peak-Valley Lead-ti…

Planet-disc interactions around eccentric binaries and misaligned ring formation
Rebecca G. Martin, Stephen H. Lubow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06675 https…

Planet-disc interactions around eccentric binaries and misaligned ring formation
We explore the evolution of a giant planet that interacts with a circumbinary disc that orbits a misaligned binary by means of analytic models and hydrodynamical simulations. Planet-disc interactions lead to mutual tilt oscillations between the planet and the disc. Even if circumbinary gas discs form with an isotropic mutual misalignment to the binary, planet-disc interactions can cause giant planets to evolve towards coplanar or polar alignment. For a low-mass disc, the binary dominates the dy…

Hitler's Herpe
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Conservation laws, a new class of group invariant solutions, and its applications for the Whitham Broer Kaup model
Sougata Mandal, Sukhendu Ghosh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06369

Conservation laws, a new class of group invariant solutions, and its applications for the Whitham Broer Kaup model
The Whitham Broer Kaup (WBK) equations provide a fundamental framework for modeling shallow water wave dynamics, effectively capturing both nonlinear and dispersive effects. In this study, we construct a new class of analytical and numerical solutions for the WBK system using Lie symmetry analysis. By determining an optimal system of one-dimensional subalgebras, we obtain symmetry reductions that lead to new kinds of exact wave solutions expressed in hyperbolic, trigonometric, and rational form…

Modeling Multistability and Hysteresis in Urban Traffic Dynamics
Jung-Hoon Jung, Young-Ho Eom
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06659 https://

Modeling Multistability and Hysteresis in Urban Traffic Dynamics
Growing evidence suggests that the macroscopic functional states of urban road networks exhibit multistability and hysteresis, but microscopic mechanisms underlying these phenomena remain elusive. Here, we demonstrate that in real-world road networks, the recovery process of congested roads is not spontaneous, as assumed in existing models, but is hindered by connected congested roads, and such hindered recovery can lead to the emergence of multistability and hysteresis in urban traffic dynamic…

GOTO065054 593624 - an 8.5 mag amplitude dwarf nova identified in real time via Kilonova Seekers: #Kilonova Seekers - the GOTO project for real-time citizen science in time-domain astrophysics: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/533/2/2113/7735340?login=false -> A citizen science project has already identified 20 new astronomical discoveries: https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/news/citizen-science-project-identifies-20-new-astronomical-discoveries

Bills stun Ravens late; Aaron Rodgers gets revenge on Jets; Brewers, Phillies lead MLB Power Rankings

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bills-s

Former Avon basketball coach Drew Schauss hired at Kokomo https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/high-school/2025/07/09/ihsaa-basketball-kokomo-hires-former-avon-coach-drew-schauss-indiana-hig…

Red states lead push for MAHA soda bans (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5443705-gop-led-soda-candy-snap/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250810/p66#a250810p66

It's not enough.
On Epstein Files, Women Lead the G.O.P. Resistance to Trump - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/lrXg0

ASLSL: Adaptive shared latent structure learning with incomplete multi-modal physiological data for multi-dimensional emotional feature selection
Xueyuan Xu, Tianze Yu, Wenjia Dong, Fulin Wei, Li Zhuo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05934

ASLSL: Adaptive shared latent structure learning with incomplete multi-modal physiological data for multi-dimensional emotional feature selection
Recently, multi-modal physiological signals based emotion recognition has garnered increasing attention in the field of brain-computer interfaces. Nevertheness, the associated multi-modal physiological features are often high-dimensional and inevitably include irrelevant, redundant, and noisy representation, which can easily lead to overfitting, poor performance, and high computational complexity in emotion classifiers. Feature selection has been widely applied to address these challenges. Howe…

Daddy Dumpy Pants
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Sources: Meta picks Pimco and Blue Owl to lead a $29B financing for its Louisiana data center expansion, providing $26B in debt and $3B in equity, respectively (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-08/met…

SKR Analysis of MIMO FSO Systems with One- and Two-way CV-QKD Protocols in Hybrid Quantum Noise Environment
Sushil Kumar, Soumya P. Dash, George C. Alexandropoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07408

SKR Analysis of MIMO FSO Systems with One- and Two-way CV-QKD Protocols in Hybrid Quantum Noise Environment
A multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) free-space optical (FSO) communication system is considered in this paper, which supports the secret key transmission between two legitimate users, Alice and Bob, by employing continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD). The wireless channels are subjected to the effects of atmospheric turbulence that lead to beam spreading, pointing error, and turbulence-induced fading, which, along with the presence of hybrid quantum noise, negatively impact t…

Trump and Vance lead well-wishers after Charlie Kirk shot at Utah university: 'We must all pray for Charlie Kirk' (Asher Notheis/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3801483/charlie-kirk-tributes-prayers-trump-vance-utah-university/
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Nucleon Decays into Light New Particles in Neutrino Detectors
Julian Heeck, Ian M. Shoemaker
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Nucleon Decays into Light New Particles in Neutrino Detectors
Proton and neutron decays into light new particles $X$ can drastically change the experimental signatures and benefit from the complementarity of large water-Cherenkov neutrino detectors such as Super/Hyper-Kamiokande and tracking detectors such as JUNO and DUNE. The proton decays $p\to \ell^+ X$ and $p\to π^+ X$ with $m_X$ near phase-space closure lead to charged particles below Cherenkov threshold, rendering them practically invisible in Super- and Hyper-Kamiokande but not in JUNO and DUNE, …

😵 Rigid and negative thought patterns linked to increasing political polarization online
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Rigid and negative thought patterns linked to increasing political polarization online
The ideological divide between opposing political groups has been drastically increasing in various countries worldwide. This phenomenon, known as political polarization, can lead to greater social division, extremism and political violence.

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Trump is attending the U.S. Open on Sunday as a guest of Rolex despite imposing steep tariffs on the Swiss watchmaker’s home country
-- and with organizers seeking to keep any audience booing of him from being seen on the TV broadcast.
Trump has built the bulk of his second term’s domestic travel around attending major sports events rather than hitting the road to make policy announcements or address the kind of large rallies he so relished as a candidate
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Trump's US Open visit lead to boos, long security lines
President Donald Trump attended the U.S. Open on Sunday, drawing boos from the crowd. His presence delayed the men's final due to heightened security, causing long lines for many people who didn't make it in before play started. Trump briefly appeared before the event, receiving mixed reactions from the then-mostly empty Arthur Ashe Stadium. During the National Anthem, he was shown on the big screen, which increased the volume of boos. Boos got more intense later in the match. Organizers delaye…

One task to rule them all: A closer look at traffic classification generalizability
Elham Akbari, Zihao Zhou, Mohammad Ali Salahuddin, Noura Limam, Raouf Boutaba, Bertrand Mathieu, Stephanie Moteau, Stephane Tuffin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06430

One task to rule them all: A closer look at traffic classification generalizability
Existing website fingerprinting and traffic classification solutions do not work well when the evaluation context changes, as their performances often heavily rely on context-specific assumptions. To clarify this problem, we take three prior solutions presented for different but similar traffic classification and website fingerprinting tasks, and apply each solution's model to another solution's dataset. We pinpoint dataset-specific and model-specific properties that lead each of them to overpe…

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Dak Prescott among favorites to lead NFL in passing for 2025 season https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dak-prescott-among-favorites-lead-nfl-passing-yards-2025-season

Senate Confirms Bryan Bedford to Lead F.A.A. (Karoun Demirjian/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/us/politics/bedford-faa-senate-confirmation.html
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Secure Cooperative Gradient Coding: Optimality, Reliability, and Global Privacy
Shudi Weng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07565 https://a…

Secure Cooperative Gradient Coding: Optimality, Reliability, and Global Privacy
This paper studies privacy-sensitive federated learning (FL) with unreliable communication, focusing on secure aggregation and straggler mitigation. While secure aggregation cryptographically reconstructs the global model without exposing client updates, random link failures disrupt its key coordination, degrading model accuracy. Moreover, unreliable communication can lead to objective inconsistency, causing the global model to converge to arbitrary, sub-optimal points far from the intended opt…

Lead Bank, a 97-year-old Missouri bank rebuilt to serve fintech and crypto firms, raised $70M from a16z, Khosla Ventures, and others at a $1.47B valuation (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)
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Stabilization of the first-order phase transition character and Enhancement of the Electrocaloric Effect by NBT substitution in BaTiO$_3$ ceramics
M. Karakaya, I. Gurbuz, L. Fulanovic, U. Adem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07290

Stabilization of the first-order phase transition character and Enhancement of the Electrocaloric Effect by NBT substitution in BaTiO$_3$ ceramics
The electrocaloric properties of BaTiO$_3$-based lead-free ferroelectric materials have been widely investigated. One approach to achieving a large electrocaloric response is to exploit the substantial polarization change associated with the first-order phase transition at the Curie temperature. Following this strategy, we investigated the electrocaloric response of (1$-x$)BaTiO$_3$-$x$Na$_{0.5}$Bi$_{0.5}$TiO$_3$ (BT-NBT) ceramics for x = 0.05, 0.10, 0.20, and 0.30. In this BT-rich region of th…

🪭 Previously unknown protein 'folding factories' discovered
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Previously unknown protein 'folding factories' discovered
In order to fulfill their many functions, proteins must be folded into the correct shape. Researchers at the University of Basel have now discovered tiny "folding factories" in cells that enable efficient and accurate protein folding. A lack of these structures can lead to diseases such as diabetes and neurodegenerative disorders.

Growing up in Chicago, Chakena D. Perry knew not to trust the water coming out of her tap.
“It was just one of these unspoken truths within households like mine
— low-income, Black households
— that there was some sort of distrust with the water,” said Perry,
who later learned that Chicago is the city with the most lead service lines in the country.
“No one really talked about it, but we never used our tap for just regular drinking.”
Now, as a senior polic…

Chicago residents risk daily lead exposure from toxic pipes. Replacing them will take decades.
The city with the most lead service lines in the country doesn’t plan to finish replacing them until 2076.

'Always the best feeling': Raiders' explosive plays lead to Week https://www.raiders.com/video/maxx-crosby-isaiah-pola-mao-postgame-recap-win-nfl-week-1-patriots-2025

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Amid Russian economy warnings, Lavrov says NATO's increased defense spending will lead to 'collapse' of alliance: https://benborges.xyz/2025/06/30/amid-russian-economy-warnings-lavrov.html

Super Bowl LX picks, predictions: Baltimore Ravens lead eight NFL favorites to hoist Lombardi Trophy https://www.nfl.com/news/super-bowl-lx-picks-predictions-baltimore-ravens-lead-eight-nfl-favorites-to-hoist-lombardi-trop…

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Large unconventional anomalous Hall effect far above room temperature in epitaxial Fe$_3$Ga$_4$ films
Jing Meng, Huali Yang, Yu Shen, Kun Zheng, Hongru Wang, Yuhao Wang, Keqi Xia, Bocheng Yu, Xiaoyan Zhu, Baiqing Lv, Yaobo Huang, Jie Ma, Dariusz Jakub Gawryluk, Toni Shiroka, Zhenzhong Yang, Yang Xu, Qingfeng Zhan, Tian Shang
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Large unconventional anomalous Hall effect far above room temperature in epitaxial Fe$_3$Ga$_4$ films
Noncoplanar spin textures usually exhibit a finite scalar spin chirality (SSC) that can generate effective magnetic fields and lead to additional contributions to the Hall effect, namely topological or unconventional anomalous Hall effect (UAHE). Unlike topological spin textures (e.g., magnetic skyrmions), materials that exhibit fluctuation-driven SSC and UAHE are rare. So far, their realization has been limited to either low temperatures or high magnetic fields, both of which are unfavorable f…

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“You can’t begin to understand why one party would pass a bill that is unbelievably unpopular for stripping health care from poor people unless you understand Citizens United,”
said Robert Weissman, co-president of the watchdog group Public Citizen, in an interview.
The case that the Supreme Court agreed to hear calls on the First Amendment in an attempt to dismantle one of the last remaining pillars of campaign finance law.
With Trump appointees among a solid conservative …

A New Supreme Court Case Could Give the Wealthy Even More Political Power
A GOP court challenge could lead to the biggest erosion in campaign spending limitations since “Citizens United.”…

Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue says open-source AI is vital for US innovation and the US risks losing the AI race to China if it falls behind in open source (Clément Delangue/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/why-open-source-ai-became-an-american-…

Why open-source AI became an American national priority
To reflect democratic principles, AI must be built in the open. If the U.S. wants to lead the AI race, it must lead the open-source AI race.

Dallas Cowboys lead NFL in major stat that rubs salt in fan base's wounds https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-lead-nfl-major-stat-that-rubs-salt-in-fan-bases-wounds

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Vacuum Dealloyed Brass as Li-Metal Battery Current Collector: Effect of Zinc and Porosity
Eric V Woods, Xinren Chen, Shaolou Wei, Alisson Kwiatkowski da Silva, Ayman A El-Zoka, J Manoj Prabhakar, Tim M Schwarz, Yongqiang Kang, Leonardo S Aota, Mahander P Singh, Katja Angenendt, Ozge Ozgun, Matic Jovivcevic-Klug, Patricia Jovivcevic-Klug, Christian Bross, Jian Liu, Rene de Kloe, Gerhard Dehm, Stefan Zaefferer, Yug Joshi, Baptiste Gault

Vacuum Dealloyed Brass as Li-Metal Battery Current Collector: Effect of Zinc and Porosity
"Anode-free" lithium-metal batteries promise significantly higher energy density than conventional graphite-based lithium-ion batteries; however, lithium dendrite growth can lead to internal short circuits with associated safety risks. While porous current collectors can suppress dendrite growth, optimal porosity and composition remain unknown. Here, we show that the temperature during vapor phase dealloying (VPD) of alpha-brass (Cu63Zn37) controls the surface Zn concentration, decreasing from …

Mamdani Holds Huge Lead in Mayor's Race, Times/Siena Poll Finds (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/nyregion/mayor-poll-mamdani-cuomo.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kk8.W-uS.xj_ZeOmF0w2S&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250909/p15#a250909p15

Week 1 NFL QB Power Rankings: Four AFC stars lead the way; where does Aaron Rodgers debut with Steelers?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/week-1-

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Conspiracy Theories About the Texas Floods Lead to Death Threats (Wired)
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J.J. McCarthy makes NFL history while leading the Vikings to a shocking win over the Bears

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