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Manage Self, Lead Others: Emotional Intelligence And Leadership For Managers
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/manage-self-lead-others-nina-sunday-presents/

Eagles All-Quarter Century Team: Brian Dawkins, Jason Kelce, Jalen Hurts lead 53-man roster

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/eagles-

In 1994 the Pentium FDIV bug that caused 1 in 9,000,000,000 calculations to be slightly inaccurate lead to a massive recall after Intel downplayed it.
In 2025 it’s normal for tech companies to sell software that is just lying outright and half of the time fails at the simplest calculations.

Cowboys' o-line must lead team by helping in one desperate area https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-offensive-line-must-lead-helping-one-desperate-area

There are far more ways for an air strike on Iran to go wrong than for it to go the way it is being sold to Trump.
The illegal attack launched by Israel against Iran already set off a war that raises the stakes -- and brings the U.S. increasingly closer to getting directly involved -- even if it doesn’t strike.
But if it does strike, it sets off a series of consequences that likely lead to a long, drawn-out commitment with no clear exit strategy, again.
An American strike…

Can the United States Really Be Marching Toward This Madness Again?
The eerie echoes of Iraq and 2003 are numerous. But there are some key differences—and they make going into Iran an even greater act of folly.

Proposed Medicaid cuts could lead to thousands of deaths, study finds (Kaitlin Sullivan/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/proposed-medicaid-cuts-lead-thousands-deaths-study-finds-rcna213265
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p165#a250616p165

US lawyers set up own firms to lead legal fightback in face of Trump onslaught;
Several law firms have capitulated to Trump pressure leaving but some lawyers have left to fight government cuts
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/18/trump-administra…

Sources: senior BBC executives are considering charging US consumers for access to its journalism to boost revenues amid falling UK license fee incomes (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun

A note on P\'olya urns: the winner may lead all the time
Svante Janson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14859 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

A note on Pólya urns: the winner may lead all the time
Consider a Pólya urn where a drawn ball of colour $i$ is replaced together with a fixed number $m_i$ of balls of the same colour. We give a simple proof that if, for example, there are two colours and the urn starts with more balls of colour 1 than 2, and $m_1\ge m_2$, then there is a positive probability that there always will be more balls of colour 1 than colour 2.

Ned Mamula nominated to lead the U.S. Geological Survey - GreenMet (note: corporate PR) #geology #USGS

Mayor McTreason
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'We should lead [the NFL] in interceptions': Texans secondary hungry for more https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45746015/houston-texans-derek-stingley-jr-gardner-johnson-hungry-interceptions

instead of lead in the keel what if you filled it with a battery

OpenAI details why "emergent misalignment", where training on wrong answers in one area can lead to misalignment in others, happens and how it can be mitigated (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/18/open

OpenAI found features in AI models that correspond to different 'personas' | TechCrunch
OpenAI researchers say they've discovered hidden features inside AI models that correspond to misaligned "personas," according to new research published

Dual-Stage Value-Guided Inference with Margin-Based Reward Adjustment for Fast and Faithful VLM Captioning
Ankan Deria, Adinath Madhavrao Dukre, Feilong Tang, Sara Atito, Sudipta Roy, Muhammad Awais, Muhammad Haris Khan, Imran Razzak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15649

Dual-Stage Value-Guided Inference with Margin-Based Reward Adjustment for Fast and Faithful VLM Captioning
Despite significant advances in inference-time search for vision-language models (VLMs), existing approaches remain both computationally expensive and prone to unpenalized, low-confidence generations which often lead to persistent hallucinations. We introduce \textbf{Value-guided Inference with Margin-based Reward (ViMaR)}, a two-stage inference framework that improves both efficiency and output fidelity by combining a temporal-difference value model with a margin-aware reward adjustment. In th…

Charged-particle production in pp collisions at 13.6 TeV and Pb-Pb collisions at 5.36 TeV with ALICE
Tulika Tripathy (for the ALICE collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14989

Charged-particle production in pp collisions at 13.6 TeV and Pb-Pb collisions at 5.36 TeV with ALICE
The first measurements of the charged-particle pseudorapidity density, ${\rm d}N_{\rm{ch}}/{\rm d}η$, in proton-proton (pp) collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13.6 TeV and in lead-lead (Pb-Pb) collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}}} = $ 5.36 TeV are presented. The analysis is based on Run 3 data recorded in 2022 and 2023, using the upgraded ALICE detector at the LHC. The average charged-particle pseudorapidity density $\langle{\rm d}N_{\rm{ch}}/{\rm d}η\rangle$ in pp collisions was measured at midrapidity …

This is a very informative and, I think, balanced analysis of the Iran nuclear question and Israel's reckless attack.
How Israel and the U.S. manufactured a fake crisis with Iran that could lead to all-out war – Mondoweiss
https://

How Israel and the U.S. manufactured a fake crisis with Iran that could lead to all-out war
The long-dreaded war in the Persian Gulf between a U.S.-backed Israel and Iran appears imminent, and it is all based on a manufactured crisis aimed at undermining the Iran nuclear negotiations.

Minister proposes Ukrainian version of Trump's DOGE to 'reduce costs and evaluate efficiency': https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/18/minister-proposes-ukrainian-version-of.html

Chiral Symmetries and Multiparticle Entanglement
Sophia Denker, Satoya Imai, Otfried G\"uhne
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15609 https://

Chiral Symmetries and Multiparticle Entanglement
Bosons and fermions are defined by their exchange properties and the underlying symmetries determine the structure of the corresponding state spaces. For two particles there are two possible exchange symmetries, resulting in symmetric or antisymmetric behaviour, but when exploring multiparticle systems also quantum states with chiral symmetries appear. In this work we demonstrate that chiral symmetries lead to extremal forms of quantum entanglement. More precisely, we show that subspaces with t…

Raiders training camp preview: Young secondary needs to develop https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-training-camp-preview-young-secondary-needs-to-develop-3398651/

Aha, #gold. Sollte man weiter verfolgen https://home.cern/news/news/physics/alice-detects-conversion-lead-gold-lhc

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheCollection
Lead Belly:
🎵 Take this Hammer
#LeadBelly
https://thesoundofshellac.bandcamp.com/track/lead-belly-take-this-hammer-1942

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

I mean… protected bike lanes as a double win? Sure!
“We’ve taken a strong and visible approach to the problem of speeding and reckless driving... That’s also why we’ve installed so many protected bike lanes. One of the goals is to prevent speeders from passing on the right.”

Mayor Cavalier Johnson: ‘A leader has to stand up and lead even if some residents are not happy’
Nearly four years into the Milwaukee Mayor’s job, Cavalier Johnson, at only 38, wears the mayor’s mantle like a favorite pullover as he talks policing, crime and housing in Milwaukee.

Cowboys All-Quarter Century Team: Tony Romo, Dak Prescott, DeMarcus Ware, Jason Witten lead the way

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys

Next-User Retrieval: Enhancing Cold-Start Recommendations via Generative Next-User Modeling
Yu-Ting Lan, Yang Huo, Yi Shen, Xiao Yang, Zuotao Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15267 …

Next-User Retrieval: Enhancing Cold-Start Recommendations via Generative Next-User Modeling
The item cold-start problem is critical for online recommendation systems, as the success of this phase determines whether high-quality new items can transition to popular ones, receive essential feedback to inspire creators, and thus lead to the long-term retention of creators. However, modern recommendation systems still struggle to address item cold-start challenges due to the heavy reliance on item and historical interactions, which are non-trivial for cold-start items lacking sufficient ex…

"Floating platform to produce synthetic fuels using wind, seawater, and air"
#Energy #Renewables
https://

Floating platform to produce synthetic fuels using wind, seawater, and air
Off-grid, modular, and seaworthy: KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) and partners intend to produce synthetic fuels on a floating platform using wind energy, seawater, and ambient air. For this purpose, the "PtX-Wind" project was launched under the H2Mare lead project. A corresponding modular plant was installed on a barge and lies operational at anchor in Bremerhaven. Later this year, it will start producing synthetic fuel directly on the sea just off Helgoland Island.

Periodic equatorial orbits in a black bounce scenario
Anderson Bragado, Gonzalo J. Olmo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15600 https://arxi…

Periodic equatorial orbits in a black bounce scenario
We study equatorial closed orbits in a popular black bounce model to see if the internal structure of these objects could lead to peculiar observable features. Paralleling the analysis of the Schwarzschild and Kerr metrics, we show that in the black bounce case each orbit can also be associated with a triplet of integers which can then be used to construct a rational number characterizing each periodic orbit. When the black bounce solution represents a traversable wormhole, we show that the pre…

War is an unconscionable horror. The illusions of "international law" and "rules of war" have lead us to believe that war can be clean, managed, and "civilized."
But wars are fought by humans and humans are messy. Humans are not well suited to following orderly rules. Humans respond to their environment. Humans in extraordinary situations can be extraordinarily vindictive and brutal. Sufficiently traumatized humans can act without a conscience, spreading trauma like an infection. If humans respond to their situation, then there can be no "civilized" war because war is itself an situation outside of the society. It is a place that promotes antisocial behavior and punishes pro-social behavior. War cannot be expected to follow "international law" because it is what fills the void created by the failure of "international law" (so long as we rely on nations).
To call for war is to inflict atrocities on civilians. It is to kill the parents and children who serve, and to destroy the combatants who survive. It is to infect both sides with a trauma that will spread if untreated, when soldiers come home or when they become mercenaries in other wars.
And yet... there are times when the brutality, the incompetence, the evil becomes so unbearable that no other option exists, when taking up arms is simply bringing symmetry to an existing asymmetric conflict. There are times when the worst possible thing is inescapable, though it can never be justified.
In this new era of war, in the scramble of conflict under the collapsing of the (poorly named) "Pax Americana," I hope that we, the people, can understand that war is not a tool to fulfill an objective. It is not part of a larger strategy. It is not an extension of deplomacy.
War is a failure.
While it may be the only way to deal with the irrational - the genocidal, the slaver, the dictator - it is still a failure. It is a failure to build a world in which these people can't control armies and economies, can't turn populations in to cults and bend nations to their will.
And we will continue to have such wars until we unite against those who would use as as pawns, who would control our lives and lead us to our deaths. We will have these wars until we unite, as one world, against those rulers. This is what I mean, and what a lot of other people mean, when we say, "No War, but Class War."

Disruption of parkinsonian brain oscillations
C\'edric Join, Jakub Or{\l}owski, Antoine Chaillet, Madeleine Lowery, Hugues Mounier, Michel Fliess
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15384

Disruption of parkinsonian brain oscillations
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an advanced surgical treatment for the symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD), involving electrical stimulation of neurons within the basal ganglia region of the brain. DBS is traditionally delivered in an open-loop manner using fixed stimulation parameters, which may lead to suboptimal results. In an effort to overcome these limitations, closed loop DBS, using pathological subthalamic beta (13--30 Hz) activity as a feedback signal, offers the potential to adapt DB…

Random walk with multiple memory channels: a new paradigm
Surajit Saha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15145 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.15…

Random walk with multiple memory channels: a new paradigm
A new class of one-dimensional, discrete time random walk model with memory, termed "Random walk with $n$ memory channels" (RW$n$MC) is proposed. In this model the information of $n$ ($n\in \mathbb{Z}$) previous steps from the walker's entire history are needed to decide future step. Exact calculation of the mean and variance of position of the RW2MC ($n=2$) has been done which shows that it can lead to asymptotic diffusive and superdiffusive behavior in different parameter regimes. A connectio…

The study of electronic, structural, mechanical, and piezoelectric properties of bulk NbOX2 (X = Cl, Br, and I) using density functional theory
L. D. Tamang, B. Chettri, L. Celestine, R. Zosiamliana, S. Gurung, A. Laref, Shalika R. Bhandari, Tatyana Orlova, D. P. Rai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15574

The study of electronic, structural, mechanical, and piezoelectric properties of bulk NbOX2 (X = Cl, Br, and I) using density functional theory
In this work, we have performed a comprehensive study of dielectric materials NbOX2 (X=Cl, Br, and I) within the framework of density functional theory, incorporating both conventional and hybrid functionals.Our studies focus on the structure, electronic, elastic, and piezoelectric properties. Piezoelectricity is an innovative avenue to extract energy by manipulating the material's structures via mechanical stress. The use of non-lead-based material for piezoelectricity added an advantage of a …

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/donald-trump-los-angeles-ice-protests-kristi-noem-alex-padilla/

Will Trump’s disinformation presidency lead to civil war?
He skews reality to bolster his authoritarian vision.

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Design of an all-facet illuminator for high NA EUV lithography exposure tool based on deep reinforcement learning
Tong Li, Yuqing Chen, Yanqiu Li, Lihui Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15558

Design of an all-facet illuminator for high NA EUV lithography exposure tool based on deep reinforcement learning
Using the illuminator for high numerical aperture (NA) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) exposure tool in EUV lithography can lead to support volume production of sub-2 nm logic nodes and leading-edge DRAM nodes. However, the typical design method of the illuminator has issues with the transmission owing to the limitation of optical structure that cannot further reduce process parameter k1, and uniformity due to the restriction of matching method that can only consider one factor affecting uniformity. …

Dismantling the sawmill motor to investigate an ignition failure. Changing the spark plug didn't help. It could be the HT lead but my local small engine guru says probably the coil.
Getting to the coil requires dismantling a whole lot of stuff...

LLM-Powered Swarms: A New Frontier or a Conceptual Stretch?
Muhammad Atta Ur Rahman, Melanie Schranz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14496 https://

LLM-Powered Swarms: A New Frontier or a Conceptual Stretch?
Swarm intelligence traditionally refers to systems of simple, decentralized agents whose local interactions lead to emergent, collective behavior. Recently, the term 'swarm' has been extended to describe AI systems like OpenAI's Swarm, where large language models (LLMs) act as collaborative agents. This paper contrasts traditional swarm algorithms with LLM-driven swarms exploring how decentralization, scalability, and emergence are redefined in modern artificial intelligence (AI). We implement …

"AI" product development is in a strategic falsifiability crisis
The crisis is shaped like the No True Scotsman fallacy, Sunk Cost fallacy, and conspiracy theories ALL AT THE SAME TIME
there is no possible accumulated evidence that would lead boosters to conclude that "an LLM isn't an appropriate artifact to address this problem"
I see them throwing LLMs at *already beyond-adequately solved problems* (units conversion! chess! constraint fitting!), ge…

Does $K$-fold CV based penalty perform variable selection or does it lead to $n^{1/2}$-consistency in Lasso?
Mayukh Choudhury, Debraj Das
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12457

Does $K$-fold CV based penalty perform variable selection or does it lead to $n^{1/2}$-consistency in Lasso?
Least absolute shrinkage and selection operator or Lasso, introduced by Tibshirani (1996), is one of the widely used regularization methods in regression. It is observed that the properties of Lasso vary wildly depending on the choice of the penalty parameter. The recent results of Lahiri (2021) suggest that, depending on the nature of the penalty parameter, Lasso can either be variable selection consistent or be $n^{1/2}-$consistent. However, practitioners generally implement Lasso by choosing…

Current episode of the Citations Needed podcast on the "Abundance" talking point is really good.
"Abundance" is Neoliberalism and trickle down economics with a new coat of (lead) paint.
https://pca.st/episode/c8a05dc1-3b04-4255-b978-cf76bf40e…

WE CAN ONLY HOPE… https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gvda6fem6r7selm4gzjjww4a/post/3lu6kat2usk2n

Atys: An Efficient Profiling Framework for Identifying Hotspot Functions in Large-scale Cloud Microservices
Jiaqi Sun, Dingyu Yang, Shiyou Qian, Jian Cao, Guangtao Xue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15523

Atys: An Efficient Profiling Framework for Identifying Hotspot Functions in Large-scale Cloud Microservices
To handle the high volume of requests, large-scale services are comprised of thousands of instances deployed in clouds. These services utilize diverse programming languages and are distributed across various nodes as encapsulated containers. Given their vast scale, even minor performance enhancements can lead to significant cost reductions. In this paper, we introduce Atys1, an efficient profiling framework specifically designed to identify hotspot functions within large-scale distributed servi…

The Courage To Lead Interview Series
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Source: Meta is in advanced talks to hire Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross to work on its AI efforts (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-talks-hire-former-github-ceo-nat-friedman-daniel-gro…

Meta in Talks to Hire AI Investors Friedman and Gross, Partially Buy Out Their Venture Fund
Meta Platforms is in advanced talks to hire the prominent artificial intelligence investors Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross to help lead its AI efforts, according to a person familiar with the discussions. As part of those talks, Meta is in discussions about partially buying out Friedman and Gross ...

Bidirectional Biometric Authentication Using Transciphering and (T)FHE
Joon Soo Yoo, Tae Min Ahn, Ji Won Yoon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12802 https://

Bidirectional Biometric Authentication Using Transciphering and (T)FHE
Biometric authentication systems pose privacy risks, as leaked templates such as iris or fingerprints can lead to security breaches. Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) enables secure encrypted evaluation, but its deployment is hindered by large ciphertexts, high key overhead, and limited trust models. We propose the Bidirectional Transciphering Framework (BTF), combining FHE, transciphering, and a non-colluding trusted party to enable efficient and privacy-preserving biometric authentication. T…

I'm glad to see this - I think #GeorgeHornedo nailed it:
"In one phrase: how do we align the scale of our solutions to the scale of our challenges?” Hornedo said. “I don’t care if a solution is up into the left, up into the center, up into the right. I just care that we’re moving up and actually doing a better job of trying to meet people’s needs in solving these challenges.”

I'm glad to see this - I think #GeorgeHornedo nailed it:
"In one phrase: how do we align the scale of our solutions to the scale of our challenges?” Hornedo said. “I don’t care if a solution is up into the left, up into the center, up into the right. I just care that we’re moving up and actually doing a better job of trying to meet people’s needs in solving these challenges.”

Mobile Application Review Summarization using Chain of Density Prompting
Shristi Shrestha, Anas Mahmoud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14192 https://

Mobile Application Review Summarization using Chain of Density Prompting
Mobile app users commonly rely on app store ratings and reviews to find apps that suit their needs. However, the sheer volume of reviews available on app stores can lead to information overload, thus impeding users' ability to make informed app selection decisions. To address this challenge, we leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) to summarize mobile app reviews. In particular, we use the Chain of Density (CoD) prompt to guide OpenAI GPT-4 to generate abstractive, semantically dense, and easil…

Mamdani Narrows Cuomo's Lead in N.Y.C. Mayor's Race, New Poll Finds (Nicholas Fandos/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/nyregion/mamdani-cuomo-marist-poll.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250618/p73#a250618p73

Report: David Rhodes, Sky News executive chairman and former CBS News president, is in talks to lead CBS News if the Skydance/Paramount merger goes through (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

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Local control of parity and charge in nanoscale superconducting lead islands
Stefano Trivini, Jon Ortuzar, Katerina Vaxevani, Beatriz Vi\~na-Baus\'a, F. Sebastian Bergeret, Jose Ignacio Pascual
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12150

Local control of parity and charge in nanoscale superconducting lead islands
Small superconducting islands can exhibit charge quantization, where Coulomb interactions compete with Cooper pairing. Using scanning tunneling spectroscopy, we probe this interplay by measuring the charging energy ($E_C$) and the pairing energy ($Δ$) of individual nano-islands. Below a critical island size, where $E_C > Δ$, we observe a crossover between even and odd parity ground states. By applying controlled voltage pulses, we continuously tune the island's electrostatic potential and map…

Legendre-Gauss-Lobatto Collocation Method for Optimal Control via Polynomial Approximations of Differential Equation Vector Fields
Gabriela Abadia-Doyle, William W. Hager, Anil V. Rao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13938

Legendre-Gauss-Lobatto Collocation Method for Optimal Control via Polynomial Approximations of Differential Equation Vector Fields
A new method is described for solving optimal control problems using direct collocation at Legendre-Gauss-Lobatto points. The approach of this paper employs a polynomial approximation of the right-hand side vector field of the differential equations and leads to the following important outcomes. First, the first-order optimality conditions of the LGL integral form are derived, which lead to a full-rank transformed adjoint system and novel costate estimate. Next, a derivative-like form of the LG…

Does the Expansion of Medicaid Lead to Income Adjustment -- Evidence from SIPP
Mingjian Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12976 https://a…

Does the Expansion of Medicaid Lead to Income Adjustment -- Evidence from SIPP
This study examines whether Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) led to strategic income reductions to qualify for coverage. Using monthly data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (2013 to 2019) and a regression discontinuity design, this paper finds that childless households in expansion states with earnings just above the eligibility threshold reduced their lowest monthly earnings by 39 percentage points of the Federal Poverty Level (roughly 700 dollars for a…

RegCL: Continual Adaptation of Segment Anything Model via Model Merging
Yuan-Chen Shu, Zhiwei Lin, Yongtao Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12297 https://…

RegCL: Continual Adaptation of Segment Anything Model via Model Merging
To address the performance limitations of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) in specific domains, existing works primarily adopt adapter-based one-step adaptation paradigms. However, some of these methods are specific developed for specific domains. If used on other domains may lead to performance degradation. This issue of catastrophic forgetting severely limits the model's scalability. To address this issue, this paper proposes RegCL, a novel non-replay continual learning (CL) framework designe…

Every year between 40,000 and 60,000 women leave their technology jobs in UK.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/leadership-strategy/2025-lovelace-report-reveals-billions-lost-by-women-leaving-tech

Lovelace Report reveals £2-3.5 billion annual loss from women leaving UK tech
2025 Lovelace Report sets out just how much female attrition from tech is costing, why it happens and what companies can do to stem the ...

Spherically Symmetric Potentials in Quadratic $f(R)$ Gravity
Roger Anderson Hurtado
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15123 https://arxiv.or…

Spherically Symmetric Potentials in Quadratic $f(R)$ Gravity
We study the gravitational potential arising from static, spherically symmetric sources in a modified gravity theory described by a quadratic $f(R)$ model. The linearized field equations lead to a fourth-order differential equation, whose solution includes Newtonian and Yukawa-like terms. Imposing regularity at the origin and asymptotic flatness fixes all integration constants, making the potential fully determined by the mass distribution. We analyze classical profiles such as Plummer, Hernqui…

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07d2dyx19zo
The firm says it aims to reduce "accent discrimination" experienced by workers when callers fail to understand them.
But it can also lead to a range of more convincing deepfakes, no?

New AI voice tool trained to copy British regional accents
A UK company says it is better at reproducing a range of accents compared with US or Chinese rivals.

Revealing tensions in neutron star observations with pressure anisotropy
Peter T. H. Pang, Stephanie M. Brown, Thibeau Wouters, Chris Van Den Broeck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13039

Revealing tensions in neutron star observations with pressure anisotropy
Pressure isotropy, i.e., radial pressure equal to tangential pressure, is often assumed when studying neutron stars. However, multiple physical mechanisms, including pion/kaon condensation, magnetic fields, superfluidity, dark matter clustering, and violations of general relativity, can lead to a pressure anisotropy. This work presents a comprehensive measurement of pressure anisotropy in neutron stars. Our analysis incorporates both an extensive set of nuclear experimental constraints and mult…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Stateless:
🎵 Bloodstream
#NowPlaying #Stateless
https://ras5502.bandcamp.com/track/stateless-bloodstream-cover-lead-guitar
https://open.spotify.com/track/5I2UElY0XPnPhQhBTxBcq3

Not-quite-primordial black holes
Wenzer Qin, Soubhik Kumar, Priyamvada Natarajan, Neal Weiner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13858 https://

Not-quite-primordial black holes
We propose a new mechanism for the formation of seeds of supermassive black holes at early cosmic epochs. Enhanced density fluctuations with amplitudes that are not large enough to form primordial black holes post-inflation can still lead to collapsed dark matter halos at very early times. For halos forming prior to $1+z \approx 200$, the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is energetic enough to suppress the formation of molecular hydrogen, hence preventing cooling and fragmentation, as a conseq…

Flint's lead pipe replacement marks the end of a 10-year crisis. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Flint finally replaced its lead pipes
The contamination in Flint, Michigan, sparked a national dialogue about the harms of lead pipes and the country’s aging water infrastructure.

The US commerce department has launched two national security probes that could lead to tariffs on drones and a raw material used for chips and solar panels.
In notices published on Monday evening, the commerce department said it would examine imports of unmanned aircraft systems and their parts and components,
and would separately carry out a study of polysilicon supply chains.
US officials would study the impact of foreign subsidies, “predatory trade practices”
a…

US probes imports of drones and critical material in chips and solar panels
Investigations could lead to tariffs on unmanned aircraft systems and polysilicon

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MidnightInAPerfectWorld
Shalamar:
🎵 Why Lead Me On
#Shalamar
https://open.spotify.com/track/4uu1ekvtXLkQOX8JzAkfcu

Big Daddy Poopy Pants
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Ranking top 10 offseason moves by impact they'll have in 2025: Can Aaron Rodgers lead Steelers to playoff win?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ran…

$\pi^3$: Scalable Permutation-Equivariant Visual Geometry Learning
Yifan Wang, Jianjun Zhou, Haoyi Zhu, Wenzheng Chang, Yang Zhou, Zizun Li, Junyi Chen, Jiangmiao Pang, Chunhua Shen, Tong He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13347

$π^3$: Scalable Permutation-Equivariant Visual Geometry Learning
We introduce $π^3$, a feed-forward neural network that offers a novel approach to visual geometry reconstruction, breaking the reliance on a conventional fixed reference view. Previous methods often anchor their reconstructions to a designated viewpoint, an inductive bias that can lead to instability and failures if the reference is suboptimal. In contrast, $π^3$ employs a fully permutation-equivariant architecture to predict affine-invariant camera poses and scale-invariant local point maps …

Sources: Kate Phillips, the BBC's director of unscripted, will replace Charlotte Moore as the BBC's Chief Content Officer; Moore announced her exit in February (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/bbc-conte…

BBC Content Chief: Kate Phillips Set To Replace Charlotte Moore In Top Job
The BBC content chief job has gone to Kate Phillips, who replaces Charlotte Moore and will lead the corporation's TV, radio and sport output.

Landbase, whose GPT-4o-based AI tool automates outreach marketing, raised a $30M Series A co-led by Ashton Kutcher's Sound Ventures and Picus Capital (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/how-

How AI sales startup Landbase nabbed Ashton Kutcher’s Sound Ventures to lead its $30M Series A | TechCrunch
A concept Landbase's CEO calls "digital trust" led nearly 130 VCs to pursue the "vibe GTM" startup.

Will a rookie, or a veteran, running back lead Cowboys to glory in 2025? https://insidethestar.com/will-a-rookie-or-a-veteran-running-back-lead-cowboys-to-glory-in-2025

New Raiders linebacker ready to lead defense: ‘The standard is there’ https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/new-raiders-linebacker-ready-to-lead-defense-the-standard-is-there-3382680/

Extreme heat could lead to 30,000 deaths a year in England and Wales by 2070s, say scientists https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/10/extreme-heat-death-rate-england-wales-by-2070-climate-change

Big Tech acquihiring AI startups, like Meta's Scale AI deal, gives VCs only modest returns compared to traditional exits and may entrench Big Tech's dominance (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles

Meta, Google AI Talent Grab May Spur a Silicon Valley Rethink
Meta and Google’s AI talent grab may lead to more sustainable tech companies.

Information-theoretic Estimation of the Risk of Privacy Leaks
Kenneth Odoh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12328 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Information-theoretic Estimation of the Risk of Privacy Leaks
Recent work~\cite{Liu2016} has shown that dependencies between items in a dataset can lead to privacy leaks. We extend this concept to privacy-preserving transformations, considering a broader set of dependencies captured by correlation metrics. Specifically, we measure the correlation between the original data and their noisy responses from a randomizer as an indicator of potential privacy breaches. This paper aims to leverage information-theoretic measures, such as the Maximal Information Coe…

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

BREAKING: Zelensky announces next prime minister, launches government reshuffle: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/breaking-zelensky-announces-next-prime.html

Cowboys could cut ties with former 2nd-round pick to make room for Shavon Revel https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-could-cut-ties-former-2nd-round-pick-make-…

2025 NFL All-Breakout Team, Offense: Rome Odunze, Xavier Worthy to lead Bears, Chiefs passing attacks https://www.nfl.com/news/2025-nfl-all-breakout-team-offense-rome-odunze-xavier-worthy-to-lead-bears-chiefs-passing-attack…

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Multiple Object Tracking in Video SAR: A Benchmark and Tracking Baseline
Haoxiang Chen, Wei Zhao, Rufei Zhang, Nannan Li, Dongjin Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12105

Multiple Object Tracking in Video SAR: A Benchmark and Tracking Baseline
In the context of multi-object tracking using video synthetic aperture radar (Video SAR), Doppler shifts induced by target motion result in artifacts that are easily mistaken for shadows caused by static occlusions. Moreover, appearance changes of the target caused by Doppler mismatch may lead to association failures and disrupt trajectory continuity. A major limitation in this field is the lack of public benchmark datasets for standardized algorithm evaluation. To address the above challenges,…

Area-charge inequalities and rigidity of time-symmetric initial data sets
Tiarlos Cruz, Abra\~ao Mendes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13040 https://

Area-charge inequalities and rigidity of time-symmetric initial data sets
In this paper, we establish new area-charge inequalities for the boundary of time-symmetric Einstein-Maxwell initial data sets, in both compact and noncompact cases, under the dominant energy condition. These inequalities lead to novel rigidity theorems with no analogues in the uncharged setting. In the noncompact case, our result is obtained by applying Gromov's $μ$-bubble technique in a new geometric context.

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.

Bidirectional Biometric Authentication Using Transciphering and (T)FHE
Joon Soo Yoo, Tae Min Ahn, Ji Won Yoon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12802 https://

Bidirectional Biometric Authentication Using Transciphering and (T)FHE
Biometric authentication systems pose privacy risks, as leaked templates such as iris or fingerprints can lead to security breaches. Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) enables secure encrypted evaluation, but its deployment is hindered by large ciphertexts, high key overhead, and limited trust models. We propose the Bidirectional Transciphering Framework (BTF), combining FHE, transciphering, and a non-colluding trusted party to enable efficient and privacy-preserving biometric authentication. T…

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

Reflection, co-founded by ex-Google researchers, unveils Asimov, an AI agent that reads a company's codebase, docs, and more to help software engineering teams (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/former-top-google-researchers-have-m…

Former Top Google Researchers Have Made a New Kind of AI Agent
The mission? Teaching models to better understand how to build code will lead to superintelligent AI.

Pacers rally past Thunder to take 2-1 lead; Kevin Durant trade frontrunners emerge

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/pacers-rally-past-t…

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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

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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…

Panthers topple Oilers to take 2-1 lead in Stanley Cup Final; U.S. Open preview; NFL minicamp news

https://www.cbssports.com/nhl/news/panther

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Bears, Jets, Raiders among most improved teams heading into 2025 NFL season https://www.nfl.com/news/bears-jets-raiders-among-most-improved-teams-heading-into-2025-nfl-season

2025 NFL season: Ranking all eight candidates to go from worst to first in division races https://www.nfl.com/news/2025-nfl-season-ranking-all-eight-candidates-to-go-from-worst-to-first-in-division-races

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