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The BBC didn't livestream Kneecap's Glastonbury set, but is facing backlash after airing Bob Vylan leading chants of "Free Palestine" and "Death to the IDF" (Andreas Wiseman/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/glastonbu

BBC Avoids Kneecap But Live Streams Another Act Leading Crowd Chants Of “Death To The IDF” & “Free Palestine”
BBC Refuses To Show Kneecap Live But Another Act, Bob Vylan, Leads Crowd Chants Of "Death To The IDF!" & "Free Palestine!"

Health and Human Services head RFK Jr threatens that publicly funded scientists may be stopped from publishing in leading medical journals.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/28/rfk-jr-medical-journals

Data-parallel leading-order event generation in MadGraph5_aMC@NLO
Stephan Hageb\"ock, Daniele Massaro, Olivier Mattelaer, Stefan Roiser, Andrea Valassi, Zenny Wettersten
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21039

Data-parallel leading-order event generation in MadGraph5_aMC@NLO
The CUDACPP plugin for MadGraph5_aMC@NLO aims to accelerate leading order tree-level event generation by providing the MadEvent event generator with data-parallel helicity amplitudes. These amplitudes are written in templated C++ and CUDA, allowing them to be compiled for CPUs supporting SSE4, AVX2, and AVX-512 instruction sets as well as CUDA- and HIP-enabled GPUs. Using SIMD instruction sets, CUDACPP-generated amplitudes are shown to speed up linearly with SIMD register size, and GPU offloadi…

A profile of London-based CloudNC, a leading provider of AI-powered CNC software that is helping US manufacturers overcome a shortage of trained operators (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/06/26/ai-manufacturing-parts-cnc-machines…

Can AI help America make stuff again? 
A British startup, CloudNC, is reshaping American manufacturing one precision part at a time.

This is outstanding news in the fight to prevent wrongful convictions of innocent people. Mistaken eyewitness identification as a leading cause for those cases. Well done, #Indiana.
#Innocence #JusticeReform

Indiana Passes First Eyewitness Identification Reform Bill
S.B. 141 introduces key protections to ensure more reliable identifications and a stronger criminal legal system.

Two leading Israeli human rights watchdogs:
Our examination leads to the unequivocal conclusion: "Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-first-two

Eliminating leading and subleading corrections to scaling in the three-dimensional XY universality class
Martin Hasenbusch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19265 https://

Eliminating leading and subleading corrections to scaling in the three-dimensional XY universality class
We study the $(q+1)$-state clock model on the simple cubic lattice by using Monte Carlo simulations. In addition to the nearest neighbor coupling we consider a next-to-next-to-nearest neighbor coupling. For a certain range of the parameters, the phase transition of the model shares the XY universality class. Leading corrections to scaling are studied by using finite size scaling of dimensionless quantities, such as the Binder cumulant $U_4$. The spatial unisotropy, which causes subleading corre…

Ukraine reports killing Russian colonel leading assaults in Kharkiv Oblast: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/26/ukraine-reports-killing-russian-colonel.html

Two of Israel’s best-known human rights groups said Monday
that Israel was committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
The two groups were B’Tselem, a rights monitor that documents the effects of Israeli policies on Palestinians,
and Physicians for Human Rights — Israel.
Their announcement was the first time major Israeli rights groups have publicly concluded that the Gaza war is a genocide,
an assessment previously reached by some organizations like Amnes…

In a First, Leading Israeli Rights Groups Accuse Israel of Gaza Genocide
Israel says it is fighting against Hamas, not Palestinians as a group. But two of Israel’s best-known rights groups — long critical of Israeli policy — now say they disagree.

Yesterday near Rossgundscharte, Allgäu High Alps
(Longest, most stunning & varied tour in a while, traversing Warmatsgundtal into Rappenalptal, Germany's southernmost valley — 21km, incl. 1450 hm grueling descent over loose gravel...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

How does everything corrupt in NYC somehow end up leading back to Eric Adams? https://masto.nyc/@EthanHarp/114593406205972506

Trump says Epstein ‘stole’ underage victim Virginia Giuffre from his Mar-a-Lago spa leading to feud | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-epstein-virginia-giuffre-mar-a-lago-b2798336.html

Trump says Epstein 'stole' underage victim Virginia Giuffre from his Mar-a-Lago spa leading to feud (Andrew Feinberg/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-epstein-virginia-giuffre-mar-a-lago-b2798336.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250729/p86#a250729p86

We have a working 2nd exit thanks to the ankle killer #Uckermark #project25 #weeding

Continuous helium absorption from the leading and trailing tails of WASP-107b
Vigneshwaran Krishnamurthy, Yann Carteret, Caroline Piaulet-Ghorayeb, Jared Splinter, Dhvani Doshi, Michael Radica, Louis-Philippe Coulombe, Romain Allart, Vincent Bourrier, Nicolas B. Cowan, David Lafreni\`ere, Lo\"ic Albert, Lisa Dang, Ray Jayawardhana, Doug Johnstone, Lisa Kaltenegger, Adam B. Langeveld, Stefan Pelletier, Jason F. Rowe, Pierre-Alexis Roy, Jake Taylor, Jake D. Turner

Continuous helium absorption from the leading and trailing tails of WASP-107b
The detection of helium escaping the atmosphere of exoplanets has revolutionized our understanding of atmospheric escape and exoplanetary evolution. Using high-precision spectroscopic observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NIRISS-SOSS mode, we report the detection of significant helium absorption during the pre-transit phase of WASP-107b (17$σ$), as well as in the transit and post-transit phases. This unique continuous helium absorption begins approximately 1.5 hours before th…

Passage leading out of the Chapter House, Wells Cathedral, Somerset, April 2025
#photography #heritagephotography #documentingplaces

Follow the user meaningfully and product growth will follow: A mixed methods case study tying UX Point of View & Growth leading to measurable impact
Neha Raghuvanshi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21195

Follow the user meaningfully and product growth will follow: A mixed methods case study tying UX Point of View & Growth leading to measurable impact
Have you wondered how cross-functional teams balance between maximizing value that users derive and business growth leading to win-win situations? This case study shows how User Experience Research (UXR) and Data Science teams used mixed methods research to strategically influence Product Led Growth (PLG) for a Password Manager used by million+ users, thus allowing our users, internal teams, and business to win. The audience will take away practical lessons/techniques related to leveraging mixe…

Late emergence of pathological oscillatory activity in the retina of the Retinitis pigmentosa model RCS (Royal College of Surgeons) rat https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0324345

Late emergence of pathological oscillatory activity in the retina of the Retinitis pigmentosa model RCS (Royal College of Surgeons) rat
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a leading cause of blindness. The best studied models of human RP are the rd1 and rd10 mouse and the RCS rat (Royal College of Surgeons). In many models after degeneration of the photoreceptors, a pathological rhythmic activity of the retina as well as lowered efficiency of electrical stimulation were observed. In rd10 retina, both events were shown to be intimately linked. Surprisingly, to our knowledge no retinal oscillations have been reported in RCS retina. As o…

Plastic bag bans linked to sharp decline in coastal litter, study finds https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/06/plastic-bag-bans-linked-to-sharp-decline-in-coastal-litter-study-finds/

Plastic bag bans linked to sharp decline in coastal litter, study finds
A new study finds that regional plastic bag bans in the U.S. significantly reduce coastal plastic bag litter compared with areas without such policies. Single-use plastic bags are one of the most ubiquitous forms of plastic litter. They are rarely recycled and degrade quickly into microplastics that are often ingested by wildlife, leading to injury, […]

I've seen #POTUS47 use the phrase "tapping me along" a couple of times in the 2 weeks regarding Putin. I've never heard that phrase before, but from context, it sounds like he means "leading me on".
I did a quick web search "tapping me along", and 2 of the top ranked results are web forum posts where people are asking what Turnip means when he says it. Th…

Latent Inter-User Difference Modeling for LLM Personalization
Yilun Qiu, Tianhao Shi, Xiaoyan Zhao, Fengbin Zhu, Yang Zhang, Fuli Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20849 https://

Latent Inter-User Difference Modeling for LLM Personalization
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into users' daily lives, leading to a growing demand for personalized outputs. Previous work focuses on leveraging a user's own history, overlooking inter-user differences that are crucial for effective personalization. While recent work has attempted to model such differences, the reliance on language-based prompts often hampers the effective extraction of meaningful distinctions. To address these issues, we propose Difference-aware Embe…

DEFNet: Multitasks-based Deep Evidential Fusion Network for Blind Image Quality Assessment
Yiwei Lou, Yuanpeng He, Rongchao Zhang, Yongzhi Cao, Hanpin Wang, Yu Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19418

DEFNet: Multitasks-based Deep Evidential Fusion Network for Blind Image Quality Assessment
Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) methods often incorporate auxiliary tasks to improve performance. However, existing approaches face limitations due to insufficient integration and a lack of flexible uncertainty estimation, leading to suboptimal performance. To address these challenges, we propose a multitasks-based Deep Evidential Fusion Network (DEFNet) for BIQA, which performs multitask optimization with the assistance of scene and distortion type classification tasks. To achieve a more…

Automated Catamorphism Synthesis for Solving Constrained Horn Clauses over Algebraic Data Types
Hiroyuki Katsura, Naoki Kobayashi, Ken Sakayori, Ryosuke Sato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20726

Automated Catamorphism Synthesis for Solving Constrained Horn Clauses over Algebraic Data Types
We propose a novel approach to satisfiability checking of Constrained Horn Clauses (CHCs) over Algebraic Data Types (ADTs). CHC-based automated verification has gained considerable attention in recent years, leading to the development of various CHC solvers. However, existing solvers for CHCs over ADTs are not fully satisfactory, due to their limited ability to find and express models involving inductively defined functions/predicates (e.g., those about the sum of list elements). To address thi…

Equivariant Volumetric Grasping
Pinhao Song, Yutong Hu, Pengteng Li, Renaud Detry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18847 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18847

Equivariant Volumetric Grasping
We propose a new volumetric grasp model that is equivariant to rotations around the vertical axis, leading to a significant improvement in sample efficiency. Our model employs a tri-plane volumetric feature representation -- i.e., the projection of 3D features onto three canonical planes. We introduce a novel tri-plane feature design in which features on the horizontal plane are equivariant to 90° rotations, while the sum of features from the other two planes remains invariant to the same tran…

Ethereum Conflicts Graphed
Dvir David Biton, Roy Friedman, Yaron Hay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20196 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.20196

Ethereum Conflicts Graphed
Ethereum, a leading blockchain platform, has revolutionized the digital economy by enabling decentralized transactions and the execution of smart contracts. Ethereum transactions form the backbone of its network, facilitating peer-to-peer exchanges and interactions with complex decentralized applications. Smart contracts extend Ethereum's capabilities by automating processes and enabling trustless execution of agreements. Hence, understanding how these smart contracts interact is important in o…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CR. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CR/new
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- Improving Count-Mean Sketch as the Leading Locally Differentially Private Frequency Estimator for...
Mingen Pan

Jerry Jones takes subtle jab at Micah Parsons for skipping practice https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-jerry-jones-takes-subtle-jab-micah-parsons-skipping-training-camp-practice

How does everything corrupt in NYC somehow end up leading back to Eric Adams? https://masto.nyc/@EthanHarp/114593406205972506

Fiducial observers and the thermal atmosphere in the black hole quantum throat
Thomas G. Mertens, Thomas Tappeiner, Bruno de S. L. Torres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20983 https:…

Fiducial observers and the thermal atmosphere in the black hole quantum throat
We propose a construction of fiducial observers in the throat region of near-extremal black holes within the framework of JT quantum gravity, leading to a notion of local observers in a highly quantum regime of the gravitational field. The construction is based on an earlier proposal for light-ray anchoring to the asymptotic boundary and is uniquely fixed at the semiclassical level by demanding that the notion of time translations for an observer at the asymptotic boundary of JT gravity should …

SLENet: A Novel Multiscale CNN-Based Network for Detecting the Rats Estrous Cycle
Qinyang Wang, Hoileong Lee, Xiaodi Pu, Yuanming Lai, Yiming Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19566

SLENet: A Novel Multiscale CNN-Based Network for Detecting the Rats Estrous Cycle
In clinical medicine, rats are commonly used as experimental subjects. However, their estrous cycle significantly impacts their biological responses, leading to differences in experimental results. Therefore, accurately determining the estrous cycle is crucial for minimizing interference. Manually identifying the estrous cycle in rats presents several challenges, including high costs, long training periods, and subjectivity. To address these issues, this paper proposes a classification network-…

Rachael Maskell, the Labour MP for York Central, who is one of the leading opponents of the bill, said: “They are going to have to go back to the negotiating table … deaf and disabled people’s organisations [DDPOs] are rejecting these changes as it fails to address future need and gives no security for people with fluctuating conditions, for instance where people are in remission.”
Starmer still facing Labour anger over fears of ‘two-tier’ welfare system

Analysis of the Pion Electromagnetic Form Factor with Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order QCD Corrections
Sheng-Quan Wang, Zuo-Fen Liao, Jian-Ming Shen, Hua Zhou, Jia-Wei Zhang, Jiang Yan, Xing-Gang Wu, Leonardo Di Giustino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20479

Analysis of the Pion Electromagnetic Form Factor with Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order QCD Corrections
NNLO QCD corrections for the pion electromagnetic form factor at large momentum transfer have been recently performed in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 201901 (2024); Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 221901 (2025)], revealing that the NLO and NNLO contributions are positive and sizeable. Unfortunately, these predictions have been obtained using the conventional scale-setting method and thus they are plagued by large renormalization scale ambiguities. In this paper, we analyze the pion electromagnetic form factor …

An Image Noise Level Estimation Based on Tensor T-Product
Hanxin Liu, Yisheng Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20515 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.20515…

An Image Noise Level Estimation Based on Tensor T-Product
Currently, the noise level of color images is estimated by many algorithms through separate selection of each page of the third-order tensor using sliding blocks of size ${M_1} \times {M_1}$. The data structure of the tensor is disrupted by this method, leading to errors in the estimation results. In order not to disrupt the data structure of the tensor, we directly select the tensor using a sliding block of size ${M_1} \times {M_1} \times 3$ and then re-arrange it. The newly obtained tensor is…

One thing I liked about #Greenpeace was that they always made an effort to include social factors in their reports or research, and not have it just be about #climate or #environment.
Yet, in this rep…

Leading Battery Makers Fall Short on Climate Commitments - Greenpeace East Asia
HONG KONG – Most of the world’s top EV battery manufacturers have yet to set targets for both 100% renewable electricity and supply chain emission reductions, according to a new…

Titans EDGE retiring at age 29, leading to more concerns about Tennessee's pass rush unit

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/titans-edge-r…

From the article: "Gregory E. Sterling, dean of Yale Divinity School, recently said that Christians do not have to agree on all aspects of what the teachings of Jesus Christ mean, but we can apply the test given in the Fourth Gospel..."
https://www.churchleadership.c…

Why Are So Many Christians So Cruel? - Lewis Center for Church Leadership
Many Christians today feel tension between faith and politics, often confusing partisan allegiance with discipleship. Lovett Weems warns that Christianity’s credibility suffers when political power replaces Christlike love. True patriotism, rooted in Jesus’ teachings, values compassion, diversity, humility, and love. Why, indeed, are so many Christians so cruel? This is the question David French said Lovett Weems writes Christians risk losing credibility when politics eclipse Christlike lov…

An Immune Infiltration-Based Risk Scoring System for Prognostic Stratification in Colorectal Adenocarcinoma
Oluwafemi Ogundare
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18832 https://

An Immune Infiltration-Based Risk Scoring System for Prognostic Stratification in Colorectal Adenocarcinoma
Background: Colorectal adenocarcinoma (CRC) remains a leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, with variable patient outcomes despite treatment advances. Traditional prognostic methods based on clinicopathological variables alone do not fully capture the biological complexity of the disease. This study aims to develop a risk scoring system based on genes associated with tumor-infiltrating immune cells (TIIC-associated genes) to improve prognostic assessment in CRC. Methods: RNA-se…

An Explainable Equity-Aware P2P Energy Trading Framework for Socio-Economically Diverse Microgrid
Abhijan Theja, Mayukha Pal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18738 https://

An Explainable Equity-Aware P2P Energy Trading Framework for Socio-Economically Diverse Microgrid
Fair and dynamic energy allocation in community microgrids remains a critical challenge, particularly when serving socio-economically diverse participants. Static optimization and cost-sharing methods often fail to adapt to evolving inequities, leading to participant dissatisfaction and unsustainable cooperation. This paper proposes a novel framework that integrates multi-objective mixed-integer linear programming (MILP), cooperative game theory, and a dynamic equity-adjustment mechanism driven…

Printing a Death Star pot plant tonight! 🚀🪴 Get ready for some out-of-this-world greenery in the galaxy far, far away (my living room). #StarWars

Pressure-mediated crystalline g-C3N4 with enhanced spatial charge transport for solar H2 evolution and photocathodic protection of 304 stainless steels
Xiaochun Gao, Shaoqi Hou, Dawei Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18914

Pressure-mediated crystalline g-C3N4 with enhanced spatial charge transport for solar H2 evolution and photocathodic protection of 304 stainless steels
Conjugated polymeric g-C3N4 has emerged as a leading semiconductor for solar-to-chemical energy conversion due to its unique electronic band structure, robust physicochemical stability, and environmental benignity. However, defect engineering-while effective at enhancing visible-light absorption and charge separation-often introduces excessive dangling bonds and lattice disorder, which exacerbate carrier recombination and impair light harvesting. High crystallinity offers a complementary route …

Large Language Model-Based Task Offloading and Resource Allocation for Digital Twin Edge Computing Networks
Qiong Wu, Yu Xie, Pingyi Fan, Dong Qin, Kezhi Wang, Nan Cheng, Khaled B. Letaief
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19050

Large Language Model-Based Task Offloading and Resource Allocation for Digital Twin Edge Computing Networks
In this paper, we propose a general digital twin edge computing network comprising multiple vehicles and a server. Each vehicle generates multiple computing tasks within a time slot, leading to queuing challenges when offloading tasks to the server. The study investigates task offloading strategies, queue stability, and resource allocation. Lyapunov optimization is employed to transform long-term constraints into tractable short-term decisions. To solve the resulting problem, an in-context lear…

Implementation and Basis Construction for Smooth Finite Element Spaces
Chunyu Chen, Long Chen, Tingyi Gao, Xuehai Huang, Huayi Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19732 https://

Implementation and Basis Construction for Smooth Finite Element Spaces
The construction of $C^m$ conforming finite elements on simplicial meshes has recently advanced through the groundbreaking work of Hu, Lin, and Wu (Found. Comput. Math. 24, 2024). Their framework characterizes smoothness via moments of normal derivatives over subsimplices, leading to explicit degrees of freedom and unisolvence, unifying earlier constructions. However, the absence of explicit basis functions has left these spaces largely inaccessible for practical computation. In parallel, multi…

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Polynomial 2D Green Coordinates for High-order Cages
We propose conformal polynomial coordinates for 2D closed high-order cages, which consist of polynomial curves of any order. The coordinates enable the transformation of the input polynomial curves into polynomial curves of any order. We extend the classical 2D Green coordinates to define our coordinates, thereby leading to cage-aware conformal harmonic deformations. We extensively test our method on various 2D deformations, allowing users to manipulate the \Bezier control points to easily gene…

Superhorizon fluctuations and the cosmic dipole problem
Ge Chen, Chengcheng Han, Linwei Qiu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20462 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.204…

Superhorizon fluctuations and the cosmic dipole problem
Recent observations have identified a significant 4.9$σ$ tension between the cosmic dipole inferred from galaxy number counts and that derived from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), suggesting a potential deviation from the cosmological principle. This work investigates whether superhorizon isocurvature perturbations in cold dark matter (CDM) can account for this discrepancy. We demonstrate that, unlike adiabatic modes which cancel at leading order, superhorizon isocurvature modes can gen…

A Theory of $\theta$-Expectations
Qian Qi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20353 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.20353

A Theory of $θ$-Expectations
The canonical theory of stochastic calculus under ambiguity, founded on sub-additivity, is insensitive to non-convex uncertainty structures, leading to an identifiability impasse. This paper develops a mathematical framework for an identifiable calculus sensitive to non-convex geometry. We introduce the $θ$-BSDE, a class of backward stochastic differential equations where the driver is determined by a pointwise maximization over a primitive, possibly non-convex, uncertainty set. The system's t…

Do male leading authors retract more articles than female leading authors?
Er-Te Zheng, Hui-Zhen Fu, Mike Thelwall, Zhichao Fang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17127 https://…

Do male leading authors retract more articles than female leading authors?
Scientific retractions reflect issues within the scientific record, arising from human error or misconduct. Although gender differences in retraction rates have been previously observed in various contexts, no comprehensive study has explored this issue across all fields of science. This study examines gender disparities in scientific misconduct or errors, specifically focusing on differences in retraction rates between male and female first authors in relation to their research productivity. U…

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Bayesian optimisation of poloidal field coil positions in tokamaks
The tokamak is a world-leading concept for producing sustainable energy via magnetically-confined nuclear fusion. Identifying where to position the magnets within a tokamak, specifically the poloidal field (PF) coils, is a design problem which requires balancing a number of competing economic, physical, and engineering objectives and constraints. In this paper, we show that multi-objective Bayesian optimisation (BO), an iterative optimisation technique utilising probabilistic machine learning m…

IKMo: Image-Keyframed Motion Generation with Trajectory-Pose Conditioned Motion Diffusion Model
Yang Zhao, Yan Zhang, Xubo Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21146

IKMo: Image-Keyframed Motion Generation with Trajectory-Pose Conditioned Motion Diffusion Model
Existing human motion generation methods with trajectory and pose inputs operate global processing on both modalities, leading to suboptimal outputs. In this paper, we propose IKMo, an image-keyframed motion generation method based on the diffusion model with trajectory and pose being decoupled. The trajectory and pose inputs go through a two-stage conditioning framework. In the first stage, the dedicated optimization module is applied to refine inputs. In the second stage, trajectory and pose …

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Preliminary experimental investigation on the interaction of a subaqueous dune like granular structure with a turbulent open channel flow
We study the interaction of a subaqueous dune like granular structure with a turbulent open channel flow experimentally using optical diagnostics in the Shields and Froude parameter space ($0.05{\leq}θ{\leq}0.32$, $0.1{\leq}Fr{\leq}0.4$). Interactions between the turbulent flow and the granular structure give rise to transient erosion-deposition dynamics leading to various types of particle transport. The subaqueous structures in the channel bed evolves due to shear-stress-induced erosion, gra…

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Proof of principle for a light dark matter search with low-energy positron beams at NA64
Thermal light dark matter (LDM) with particle masses in the 1 MeV - 1 GeV range could successfully explain the observed dark matter abundance as a relic from the primordial Universe. In this picture, a new feeble interaction acts as a "portal" between the Standard Model and LDM particles, allowing for the exploration of this paradigm at accelerator experiments. In the last years, the "missing energy" experiment NA64e at CERN SPS (Super Proton Synchrotron) has set world-leading constraints in th…

Online platforms offering astrological advice are thriving in India, with the leading app Astrotalk claiming about 84% of its 70M users are under the age of 35 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…

Star Charts and Stock Tips: Venture Capital Bets on Financial Astrology
An age-old belief in astrology has snowballed into a $7 billion industry as a younger generation seeks celestial guidance.

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Irrational Random Utility Models
The Random Utility Model (RUM) is the leading model to represent the aggregate choices of a heterogeneous population of preference maximizers. We show that if (and only if) preferences are sufficiently uncorrelated, RUM choices can also be generated by a population of decision makers who do not maximize any preference. In proving this result, we also characterize the general class of choices generated by such irrational populations, with applications beyond the RUM framework. We discuss the rel…

Extreme value theory for singular subspace estimation in the matrix denoising model
Junhyung Chang, Joshua Cape
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19978 https://ar…

Extreme value theory for singular subspace estimation in the matrix denoising model
This paper studies fine-grained singular subspace estimation in the matrix denoising model where a deterministic low-rank signal matrix is additively perturbed by a stochastic matrix of Gaussian noise. We establish that the maximum Euclidean row norm (i.e., the two-to-infinity norm) of the aligned difference between the leading sample and population singular vectors approaches the Gumbel distribution in the large-matrix limit, under suitable signal-to-noise conditions and after appropriate cent…

hBN alignment orientation controls moir\'e strength in rhombohedral graphene
Matan Uzan, Weifeng Zhi, Matan Bocarsly, Junkai Dong, Surajit Dutta, Nadav Auerbach, Niladri Sekhar Kander, Mikhail Labendik, Yuri Myasoedov, Martin E. Huber, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Daniel E. Parker, Eli Zeldov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20647

hBN alignment orientation controls moiré strength in rhombohedral graphene
Rhombohedral multilayer graphene hosts a rich landscape of correlated symmetry-broken phases, driven by strong interactions from its flat band edges. Aligning to hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) creates a moiré pattern, leading to recent observations of exotic ground states such as integer and fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects. Here, we show that the moiré effects and resulting correlated phase diagrams are critically influenced by a previously underestimated structural choice: the hBN a…

Bias Analysis for Synthetic Face Detection: A Case Study of the Impact of Facial Attribute
Asmae Lamsaf, Lucia Cascone, Hugo Proen\c{c}a, Jo\~ao Neves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19705

Bias Analysis for Synthetic Face Detection: A Case Study of the Impact of Facial Attribute
Bias analysis for synthetic face detection is bound to become a critical topic in the coming years. Although many detection models have been developed and several datasets have been released to reliably identify synthetic content, one crucial aspect has been largely overlooked: these models and training datasets can be biased, leading to failures in detection for certain demographic groups and raising significant social, legal, and ethical issues. In this work, we introduce an evaluation framew…

Global Water Supplies Threatened by Overmining of Aquifers: New Study — @…
https://www.propublica.org/article/water-aquifers…

Mitigating Geospatial Knowledge Hallucination in Large Language Models: Benchmarking and Dynamic Factuality Aligning
Shengyuan Wang, Jie Feng, Tianhui Liu, Dan Pei, Yong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19586

Mitigating Geospatial Knowledge Hallucination in Large Language Models: Benchmarking and Dynamic Factuality Aligning
Large language models (LLMs) possess extensive world knowledge, including geospatial knowledge, which has been successfully applied to various geospatial tasks such as mobility prediction and social indicator prediction. However, LLMs often generate inaccurate geospatial knowledge, leading to geospatial hallucinations (incorrect or inconsistent representations of geospatial information) that compromise their reliability. While the phenomenon of general knowledge hallucination in LLMs has been w…

Efficient Neural Network Verification via Order Leading Exploration of Branch-and-Bound Trees
Guanqin Zhang, Kota Fukuda, Zhenya Zhang, H. M. N. Dilum Bandara, Shiping Chen, Jianjun Zhao, Yulei Sui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17453

Efficient Neural Network Verification via Order Leading Exploration of Branch-and-Bound Trees
The vulnerability of neural networks to adversarial perturbations has necessitated formal verification techniques that can rigorously certify the quality of neural networks. As the state-of-the-art, branch and bound (BaB) is a "divide-and-conquer" strategy that applies off-the-shelf verifiers to sub-problems for which they perform better. While BaB can identify the sub-problems that are necessary to be split, it explores the space of these sub-problems in a naive "first-come-first-serve" manner…

Chiral-odd generalized parton distributions in the large-$N_{c}$ limit of QCD: Next-to-leading-order contributions
June-Young Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21013

Chiral-odd generalized parton distributions in the large-$N_{c}$ limit of QCD: Next-to-leading-order contributions
We investigate the nucleon's chiral-odd generalized parton distribution functions (GPDs) in the large-$N_c$ limit of QCD. Extending previous work on the leading-order contribution in the $1/N_c$ expansion, we focus on the next-to-leading-order contributions and provide a complete set of flavor-singlet and flavor-non-singlet chiral-odd GPDs. This study includes the derivation of the spin-flavor structure of the baryon matrix element of the chiral-odd operator, the proof of the polynomiality prop…

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Universal Approximation of Mean-Field Models via Transformers
This paper investigates the use of transformers to approximate the mean-field dynamics of interacting particle systems exhibiting collective behavior. Such systems are fundamental in modeling phenomena across physics, biology, and engineering, including opinion formation, biological networks, and swarm robotics. The key characteristic of these systems is that the particles are indistinguishable, leading to permutation-equivariant dynamics. First, we empirically demonstrate that transformers are…

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of irreversible vision loss in the elderly population.
AMD is characterized in its late form by neovascularization (wet type)
or geographic atrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium cell layer (dry type).
Regarding the latter type, there is growing evidence supporting an association between the pathophysiology of dry AMD and key proteins in the complement cascade.
The complement cascade works as a central …

Targeting the Complement Cascade for Treatment of Dry Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of irreversible vision loss in the elderly population. AMD is characterized in its late form by neovascularization (wet type) or geographic atrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium cell ...

Meson spectroscopy of exotic symmetries of Ising criticality in Rydberg atom arrays
Joseph Vovrosh, Julius de Hond, Sergi Juli\`a-Farr\'e, Johannes Knolle, Alexandre Dauphin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21299

Meson spectroscopy of exotic symmetries of Ising criticality in Rydberg atom arrays
The Ising model serves as a canonical platform for exploring emergent symmetry in quantum critical systems. The critical point of the 1D Ising chain is described by a conformal Ising field theory, which remains integrable in the presence of a magnetic perturbation leading to massive particles associated with the exceptional Lie algebra $E_8$. Coupling two Ising chains in a ladder leads to an even richer $\mathcal{D}^{(1)}_8$ symmetry. Experimental signatures of the associated particle excitatio…

A few months ago, ReVision Implant announced on LinkedIn that they have entered a research partnership with Cochlear Inc. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7307520278517932032 There seems to be no official press release;

We're thrilled to announce that we've entered our first research partnership with a world-leading medtech company, Cochlear Inc. | ReVision Implant
We're thrilled to announce that we've entered our first research partnership with a world-leading medtech company, Cochlear Inc. Cochlear's implants have helped over 750.000 profoundly deaf people reconnect to the world of sound. As a forward-thinking company, they are constantly striving to further improve their technology in order to even better help patients. We are truly honored to be allowed to contribute to this mission!

Cowboys legend Deion Sanders reveals cancer diagnosis, removal of bladder over offseason https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/28/cowboys-deion-sanders-cancer-diagnosis-bladder-remo…

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Do Betting Markets Sense a Goal Coming? Evidence from the German Bundesliga
David Winkelmann, Christian Deutscher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21275 https://…

Do Betting Markets Sense a Goal Coming? Evidence from the German Bundesliga
We use the fertile ground of betting markets to study the anticipation of major news in financial markets. While there is a considerable body of literature on the accuracy and efficiency of betting markets after important in-match events, there are no studies dealing with the anticipation of such events. This paper tracks bookmaker odds and betting stakes to provide insights into the movement of both prior to goals. Utilising high-resolution (1 Hz) data from a leading European bookmaker for a f…

Environmental (in)considerations in the Design of Smartphone Settings
Thomas Thibault, L\'ea Mosesso, Camille Adam, Aur\'elien Tabard, Ana\"elle Beignon, Nolwenn Maudet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19094

Environmental (in)considerations in the Design of Smartphone Settings
Designing for sufficiency is one of many approaches that could foster more moderate and sustainable digital practices. Based on the Sustainable Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) literature, we identify five environmental settings categories. However, our analysis of three mobile OS and nine representative applications shows an overall lack of environmental concerns in settings design, leading us to identify six pervasive anti-patterns. Environ…

Frequency-Histogram Coarse Graining in Elementary Cellular Automata and 2D CA
Sanyam Jain, Stefano Nichele
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18674 https://arxiv.o…

Frequency-Histogram Coarse Graining in Elementary Cellular Automata and 2D CA
Cellular automata and other discrete dynamical systems have long been studied as models of emergent complexity. Recently, neural cellular automata have been proposed as models to investigate the emerge of a more general artificial intelligence, thanks to their propensity to support properties such as self-organization, emergence, and open-endedness. However, understanding emergent complexity in large scale systems is an open challenge. How can the important computations leading to emergent comp…

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Optimal Scalogram for Computational Complexity Reduction in Acoustic Recognition Using Deep Learning
The Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT) is an effective tool for feature extraction in acoustic recognition using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), particularly when applied to non-stationary audio. However, its high computational cost poses a significant challenge, often leading researchers to prefer alternative methods such as the Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT). To address this issue, this paper proposes a method to reduce the computational complexity of CWT by optimizing the length o…

MTASet: A Tree-based Set for Efficient Range Queries in Update-heavy Workloads
Daniel Manor, Mor Perry, Moshe Sulamy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20041 https://

MTASet: A Tree-based Set for Efficient Range Queries in Update-heavy Workloads
In concurrent data structures, the efficiency of set operations can vary significantly depending on the workload characteristics. Numerous concurrent set implementations are optimized and fine-tuned to excel in scenarios characterized by predominant read operations. However, they often perform poorly when confronted with workloads that heavily prioritize updates. Additionally, current leading-edge concurrent sets optimized for update-heavy tasks typically lack efficiency in handling atomic rang…

I strongly object (with peace to @…!) to that first sentence.
This is self-destruction. This is NOT how the US “ensures the US maintains a leading role in the AI race.” Please. It is no such thing. Even if you are all roses and rainbows about AI, this isn’t how any kind of leadership or innovation works.
This — every part of this, the top-down ideological policing, the war on inclusion, the authoritarian jag, all of it — is destroying the very things that put the US in its tech leadership position in the first place. “Leadership role?!” Spare me.
1/2 https://toad.social/@KimPerales/114908466460356102

Time for another "review". This one's hard. While the book was quite interesting, it required me to be quite open-minded. Still, I think it's worth mentioning:
Robert Wright — Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
The book basically focused on a thesis that both biological evolution and cultural evolution are a thing, they are directional and this directionality can be explained together using game theory — as eventually leading to more non-zero sum games.
It consists of three chapters. The first one is is focused on the history of civilization. It features many examples from different parts of the world, which makes it quite interesting. The author argues that the culture inevitably is evolving as information processing techniques improve — from writing to the Internet.
The second chapter is focused on biological evolution. Now, the argument is that it's not quite random, but actually directed towards greater complexity — eventually leading to the development of highly intelligent species, and a civilization.
The third chapter is quite speculative and metaphysical, and I'm just going to skip it.
The book is full of optimism. Capitalism creates freedom — because people are more productive when they're working for their own gain, so the free market eliminates slavery. Globalisation creates networks of interdependence that make wars uneconomic. Increased contacts between different cultures makes people more tolerant. And eventually, the humanity may be able to unite facing a common "external" enemy — the climate change.
What can I say? The examples are quite interesting, the whole theory seems self-consistent. Still, I repeatedly looked at the publication date (it's 1999), and wondered if author would write the same thing today (yes, I know I can search for his current opinions).
#books #bookstodon @…

Any second now... #LLM #AGI #GenAI #AI

Pre-exposure prophylaxis and syphilis in men who have sex with men: a network analysis
Esteban Vargas Bernal, Morgan Spahnie, William Miller, Abigail Turner, Joseph Tien
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19711

Pre-exposure prophylaxis and syphilis in men who have sex with men: a network analysis
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has been established as an effective tool for preventing HIV infection among men who have sex with men (MSM). However, there is the possibility of PrEP usage leading to increased sexual partners and increased transmission of non-HIV sexually transmitted infections such as syphilis. We take here a network perspective to examine this possibility using data on sexual partnerships, demographic data, PrEP usage, and syphilis among MSM in Columbus, Ohio. We use a recen…

Electroweak corrections to Higgs jet production in gluon fusion
Long-Bin Chen, Hai Tao Li, Wen-Long Sang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20882 https://arxiv.org…

Electroweak corrections to Higgs+jet production in gluon fusion
We present the calculation of complete next-to-leading order electroweak corrections to the Higgs boson production in $gg\to g H$ channel. We apply the method of differential equations combined with the selection of optimized master integrals to accomplish the calculation of master integrals. We consider three distinct $α$ schemes. At leading order, the differential distributions and the total cross section differ among them. However, these discrepancies are considerably suppressed once electr…

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Sensitivity analysis-guided model reduction of a mathematical model of pembrolizumab therapy for de novo metastatic MSI-H/dMMR colorectal cancer
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide and the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in adults under 55, involving a complex interplay of biological processes such as dendritic cell (DC) maturation and migration, T cell activation and proliferation, cytokine production, and T cell and natural killer (NK) cell-mediated cancer cell killing. Microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) CRC and deficient mismatch repair (dMMR) CRC constitute 15% of all CRC, and 4%…

Plug and Play Splitting Techniques for Poisson Image Restoration
Alessandro Benfenati
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19378 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19378

Plug and Play Splitting Techniques for Poisson Image Restoration
Plug and Play (PnP) methods achieve remarkable results in the framework of image restoration problems for Gaussian data. Nonetheless, the theory available for the Gaussian case cannot be extended to the Poisson case, due to the non-Lipschitz gradient of the fidelity function, the Kullback-Leibler functional, or the absence of closed-form solution for the proximal operator of such term, leading to employ iterative solvers for the inner subproblem. In this work we extend the idea of PIDSplit+ alg…

Audacy says it will close its Pineapple Street podcast studio, exiting the business of distributing shows for outside parties and leading to job cuts (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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Reconstruction and identification of pairs of collimated $τ$-leptons decaying hadronically using $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV $pp$ collision data with the ATLAS detector
This paper describes an algorithm for reconstructing and identifying a highly collimated hadronically decaying $τ$-lepton pair with low transverse momentum. When two $τ$-leptons are highly collimated, their visible decay products might overlap, degrading the reconstruction performance for each of the $τ$-leptons. This requires a dedicated treatment that attempts to tag it as a single object. The reconstruction algorithm is based on a large radius jet and its associated two leading subjets, a…

TiVy: Time Series Visual Summary for Scalable Visualization
Gromit Yeuk-Yin Chan, Luis Gustavo Nonato, Themis Palpanas, Cl\'audio T. Silva, Juliana Freire
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18972

TiVy: Time Series Visual Summary for Scalable Visualization
Visualizing multiple time series presents fundamental tradeoffs between scalability and visual clarity. Time series capture the behavior of many large-scale real-world processes, from stock market trends to urban activities. Users often gain insights by visualizing them as line charts, juxtaposing or superposing multiple time series to compare them and identify trends and patterns. However, existing representations struggle with scalability: when covering long time spans, leading to visual clut…

Radiated Angular Momentum from Spinning Black Hole Scattering Trajectories
Gustav Mogull, Jan Plefka, Kathrin Stoldt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20643 https…

Radiated Angular Momentum from Spinning Black Hole Scattering Trajectories
Using the worldline quantum field theory approach we derive solutions to the equations of motion for spinning massive bodies up to quadratic order in spins. At leading post-Minkowskian (PM) order these trajectories are obtained in the time domain, and at sub-leading order in the frequency domain. Our approach incorporates diagrammatic techniques and modern Feynman integration technologies, and includes a new family of loop integrals different to those seen in asymptotic PM calculations. Our res…

Oranits: Mission Assignment and Task Offloading in Open RAN-based ITS using Metaheuristic and Deep Reinforcement Learning
Ngoc Hung Nguyen, Nguyen Van Thieu, Quang-Trung Luu, Anh Tuan Nguyen, Senura Wanasekara, Nguyen Cong Luong, Fatemeh Kavehmadavani, Van-Dinh Nguyen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19712…

Oranits: Mission Assignment and Task Offloading in Open RAN-based ITS using Metaheuristic and Deep Reinforcement Learning
In this paper, we explore mission assignment and task offloading in an Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN)-based intelligent transportation system (ITS), where autonomous vehicles leverage mobile edge computing for efficient processing. Existing studies often overlook the intricate interdependencies between missions and the costs associated with offloading tasks to edge servers, leading to suboptimal decision-making. To bridge this gap, we introduce Oranits, a novel system model that explicitl…

Or worse: "Let’s be clear: no one is enjoying 3% inflation. Not if you’re struggling to stretch your paycheck. Not if you’ve lost hours, lost a job, or been forced to pick up a third one just to survive [or are on a fixed income]. The only people “enjoying” this are the ones who can sip $1,200 bottles of tequila like Lutnick bragged about just a week ago."
**Trump’s Economic Gaslighting Is Leading Us Straight Into Recession**
https://michaelpopok.substack.com/p/trumps-economic-gaslighting-is-leading

SPA: Towards More Stealth and Persistent Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning
Chengcheng Zhu, Ye Li, Bosen Rao, Jiale Zhang, Yunlong Mao, Sheng Zhong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20931

SPA: Towards More Stealth and Persistent Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning
Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a leading paradigm for privacy-preserving distributed machine learning, yet the distributed nature of FL introduces unique security challenges, notably the threat of backdoor attacks. Existing backdoor strategies predominantly rely on end-to-end label supervision, which, despite their efficacy, often results in detectable feature disentanglement and limited persistence. In this work, we propose a novel and stealthy backdoor attack framework, named SPA, whi…

Microsoft says it is testing a new aggregated gaming library in the Xbox PC app for Windows 11 with Xbox Insiders, integrating "leading PC storefronts" (Jez Corden/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/pc-g

Starting this week, the Xbox PC app will integrate 'leading PC gaming stores' for Xbox Insiders — with no mention of Steam
Although the blog post doesn't say which PC stores are going to be integrated, at the very least, you'll be able to access Battle.net games directly from the Xbox PC app from next week.

Trade Networks and the Rise of a Global Currency
Tomoo Kikuchi, Lien Pham
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22080 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505…

Trade Networks and the Rise of a Global Currency
We develop a model of strategic competition between global currencies. Issuers choose their commitment levels for currency internationalization, while users -- interconnected in a trade network -- choose their usage of each currency for trade settlement. Our theoretical findings highlight not only the advantage of the status-quo issuer in maintaining dominance, but also the conditions under which an emerging issuer can attract users, potentially leading to a multi-currency payment system. The n…

Alone[1] enjoying the peace & quiet at the end of the valley, in the cirque below The Great Wall (Grubenkarspitze, Karwendel)...
[1] Alone, apart from some adders in the grass...
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography

Robust and Flexible Microtransit Design: Chance-Constrained Dial-a-Ride Problem with Soft Time Windows
Hongli Li (Purdue University IN, USA), Zengxiang Lei (Purdue University IN, USA), Xinwu Qian (Rice University USA), Satish V. Ukkusuri (Purdue University IN, USA)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20788

Robust and Flexible Microtransit Design: Chance-Constrained Dial-a-Ride Problem with Soft Time Windows
Microtransit offers a promising blend of rideshare flexibility and public transit efficiency. In practice, it faces unanticipated but spatially aligned requests, passengers seeking to join ongoing schedules, leading to underutilized capacity and degraded service if not properly managed. At the same time, it must accommodate diverse passenger needs, from routine errands to time-sensitive trips such as medical appointments. To meet these expectations, incorporating time flexibility is essential. …

On Tuesday, roughly two dozen scientists gathered in the lobby of the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill for what resembled a science fair — but with a twist.
Instead of students presenting class projects, the event featured leading researchers from across the country standing in front of posters outlining their work — and the federal cuts that now threaten it.
The event, which was organized by Democrats on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, showcas…

G$^{2}$D: Boosting Multimodal Learning with Gradient-Guided Distillation
Mohammed Rakib, Arunkumar Bagavathi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21514 https://

G$^{2}$D: Boosting Multimodal Learning with Gradient-Guided Distillation
Multimodal learning aims to leverage information from diverse data modalities to achieve more comprehensive performance. However, conventional multimodal models often suffer from modality imbalance, where one or a few modalities dominate model optimization, leading to suboptimal feature representation and underutilization of weak modalities. To address this challenge, we introduce Gradient-Guided Distillation (G$^{2}$D), a knowledge distillation framework that optimizes the multimodal model wit…

An analytic result for the $0 \to ggHHH$ amplitude
John M. Campbell, Giuseppe De Laurentis, R. Keith Ellis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19313 https://arxiv.o…

An analytic result for the $0 \to ggHHH$ amplitude
We present a fully analytic calculation of the leading-order one-loop amplitude for triple Higgs production via gluon fusion, $gg \to HHH$, retaining full dependence on the mass of the heavy quark circulating in the loop. This amplitude provides a direct probe of the triple and quartic Higgs self-couplings, the measurement of which is a central goal of current and future colliders. The amplitude can be presented in compact form thanks to the use of analytic reconstruction techniques, based on f…

Nonlinear Gravitational Memory in the Post-Minkowskian Expansion
Alessandro Georgoudis, Vasco Goncalves, Carlo Heissenberg, Julio Parra-Martinez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20733

Nonlinear Gravitational Memory in the Post-Minkowskian Expansion
We present the first computation of the nonlinear gravitational memory waveform for the scattering of two compact objects in General Relativity at leading order in the post-Minkowskian expansion. We use the scattering-amplitudes-based representation of the gravitational waveform, which naturally expresses the nonlinear memory as the contribution of soft gravitons emitted by the gravitational waves themselves. We perform the calculation by applying a multipolar decomposition to the waveform and …

DirecTV experiments with discontinuing satellite TV subscriptions for new customers in several US regions and directing subscribers toward its streaming option (Luke Bouma/Cord Cutters News)
https://cordcuttersnews.com/directv-stop…

DIRECTV Stops Selling Satellite TV for New Customers in Select Areas | Cord Cutters News
DIRECTV, a leading provider of television entertainment, has announced a significant shift in its service offerings, discontinuing satellite TV subscriptions for new customers in several regions across the United States. The company is now directing new subscribers toward its streaming option, as part of a broader strategy to adapt to evolving consumer preferences and technological […]

Can WIMPs Survive a Magnetized Early Universe?
Malcolm Fairbairn, Mar\'ia Olalla Olea-Romacho, Pranjal Ralegankar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18692 https://

Can WIMPs Survive a Magnetized Early Universe?
Primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) can seed additional small-scale matter fluctuations, leading to the formation of dense, early-collapsing dark matter structures known as minihalos. These minihalos may dramatically amplify the dark matter annihilation signal if dark matter is composed of self-annihilating thermal relic particles such as WIMPs. In this work, we explore the viability of this scenario by analysing the annihilation signal from minihalos with prompt central cusps, $ρ\propto r^{-3/2…

Recent grads and PhDs are being recruited by AI companies like Handshake to provide specialized training data in fields like music and law for $30-$160 per hour (Emma Haidar/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-24/col…

College Grads Are Finding Jobs Training AI Models
Ever since he picked up a trombone in middle school, Jackson Spellman has wanted to pursue a career in music.“It's 100% going to be a part of my life for the rest of my life,” said the 22-year-old from Wellington, Florida, who graduated in June from Northwestern University with a double major in music and cognitive science.Along with his degree, Spellman finished school with a new gig to add to his resume: artificial intelligence trainer. In the weeks leading up to graduation, Spellman said…

In this book, Theoharis introduces us to the people leading the movement to end poverty, including:
multiracial groups of homeless people rising up from the streets and seizing empty, federally-owned homes;
mothers on welfare shutting down entire city blocks and going toe-to-toe with some of the most powerful people in the country;
farmworkers busting modern-day slave rings and winning living wages from multinational fast-food companies; and
coal miners, veterans,…

$J/\psi$ Polarization and $p_T$ distribution in $c\ \!\bar{c}$ associated hadroproduction at $\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^5)$
Qi-Ming Feng, Cong-Feng Qiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20654

$J/ψ$ Polarization and $p_T$ distribution in $c\ \!\bar{c}$ associated hadroproduction at $\mathcal{O}(α_s^5)$
The quarkonium production in association with a heavy-quark pair of the same flavor was found plays an important role in various production schemes, let alone it provides a distinctive signature that could be studied in experiment. Within the NRQCD framework, we perform the first complete calculation of the hadroproduction process $gg\to J/ψ+c\bar{c}$ at the next-to-leading order (NLO) in the expansion of strong coupling constant $α_s$. The result tells that the NLO corrections substantially …

SFNet: Fusion of Spatial and Frequency-Domain Features for Remote Sensing Image Forgery Detection
Ji Qi, Xinchang Zhang, Dingqi Ye, Yongjia Ruan, Xin Guo, Shaowen Wang, Haifeng Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20599

SFNet: Fusion of Spatial and Frequency-Domain Features for Remote Sensing Image Forgery Detection
The rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence is producing fake remote sensing imagery (RSI) that is increasingly difficult to detect, potentially leading to erroneous intelligence, fake news, and even conspiracy theories. Existing forgery detection methods typically rely on single visual features to capture predefined artifacts, such as spatial-domain cues to detect forged objects like roads or buildings in RSI, or frequency-domain features to identify artifacts from up-sampling …

OpenAI details how its tools have boosted US worker productivity and says its chief economist is leading a 12-month study to assess AI's impact on productivity (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/global-affairs/new-economic-analysis

Leading bounds on micro- to picometer fifth forces from neutron star cooling
Damiano F. G. Fiorillo, Alessandro Lella, Ciaran A. J. O'Hare, Edoardo Vitagliano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19906

Leading bounds on micro- to picometer fifth forces from neutron star cooling
The equivalence principle and the inverse-square law of gravity could be violated at short distances ($10^{-6}$ to $10^{-12}$ meters) by scalars sporting a coupling $g_N$ to nucleons and mass $\mathrm{eV}\lesssim m_ϕ\lesssim\rm MeV$. We show for the first time that stringent bounds on the existence of these scalars can be derived from the observed cooling of nearby isolated neutron stars (NSs). Although NSs can only be used to set limits comparable to the classic SN 1987A cooling bound in the …