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Tegna adds 100 hours of new daily programming across 50 markets with dedicated 7am-9am streaming of local newscasts to meet increased demand on CTV platforms (Mark K. Miller/TVNewsCheck)
https://tvnewscheck.com/journalism/article/tegna-anno…

Tegna Announces Major Local News Expansion
Tegna Inc. today announced that its stations will be “significantly expanding” their local news programming by launching live and on-demand, local newscasts from 7 to 9 a.m. daily in 50-plus markets through streaming, connected TV apps and station websites.  Tegna said: “This unprecedented expansion of local news programming is designed to meet audiences’ growing demand for coverage of their communities wherever they want to watch and will deliver over 100 hours of daily breaking news,…

Emails Reveal the Casual Surveillance Alliance Between ICE and Local Police (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/emails-reveal-the-casual-surveillance-alliance-between-ice-and-local-police/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p66#a250616p66

Nextdoor unveils new features like an interactive neighborhood map called Alerts, partners with 3,500 local news outlets, and more, to revitalize its app (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/706618/nextdoor-redesign-ai-reco…

Can Nextdoor overhaul itself to be useful?
Neighborhood app Nextdoor is adding local news content, an AI-powered recommendations chatbot, and a map of emergency events.

Local and global approaches to the thermodynamics of pure decoherence processes in open quantum systems
Irene Ada Picatoste, Alessandra Colla, Heinz-Peter Breuer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11633

Local and global approaches to the thermodynamics of pure decoherence processes in open quantum systems
We study the nonequilibrium thermodynamics of pure decoherence processes in open quantum systems coupled to a thermal reservoir. We review various definitions of central quantities, such as internal energy, work, heat and entropy production, developed within local and global approaches to quantum thermodynamics. Within local approaches thermodynamic quantities only refer to the open system's degrees of freedom, while in the global approaches certain quantities are defined by referring explicitl…

Emails Reveal the Casual Surveillance Alliance Between ICE and Local Police https://www.404media.co/emails-reveal-the-casual-surveillance-alliance-between-ice-and-local-police/

New poll on "abundance agenda" shows majority still support local decision-making.
Do you support or oppose limiting local zoning rules to build more homes? Yes 28% No 43%
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-approval-at-42-democrats-up
BUT…

The $\ell$-modular local theta correspondence
Justin Trias
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11421 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.11421

The $\ell$-modular local theta correspondence
We study the validity of the local theta correspondence over a non-archimedean local field in the context of modular representation theory \textit{i.e.} for representations with coefficient fields of positive characteristic. For a symplectic-orthogonal or a unitary-unitary dual pair over a $p$-adic field, we obtain a bijective correspondence, as long as the characteristic of the coefficient field is large enough compared to the size of the dual pair, and call it the modular local theta correspo…

GOLFS: Feature Selection via Combining Both Global and Local Information for High Dimensional Clustering
Zhaoyu Xing, Yang Wan, Juan Wen, Wei Zhong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10956

GOLFS: Feature Selection via Combining Both Global and Local Information for High Dimensional Clustering
It is important to identify the discriminative features for high dimensional clustering. However, due to the lack of cluster labels, the regularization methods developed for supervised feature selection can not be directly applied. To learn the pseudo labels and select the discriminative features simultaneously, we propose a new unsupervised feature selection method, named GlObal and Local information combined Feature Selection (GOLFS), for high dimensional clustering problems. The GOLFS algori…

Bats Around our Home aka 16WW (2020) - Learn how I became active observing and recording the various local bats... - https://www.earth.org.uk/bats-at-16WW-1.html

Bats Around our Home aka 16WW (2020)
Learn how I became active observing and recording the various local bats...

The User Perspective on Island-Ready 6G Communication: A Survey of Future Smartphone Usage in Crisis-Struck Areas with Local Cellular Connectivity
Leon Janzen, Florentin Putz, Marc-Andr\'e Kaufhold, Kolja Straub, Matthias Hollick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13466

The User Perspective on Island-Ready 6G Communication: A Survey of Future Smartphone Usage in Crisis-Struck Areas with Local Cellular Connectivity
Using smartphone apps during crises is well-established, proving critical for efficient crisis response. However, such apps become futile without an Internet connection, which is a common issue during crises. The ongoing 6G standardization explores the capability to provide local cellular connectivity for areas cut off from the Internet in crises. This paper introduces to the HCI community the concept of cellular island connectivity in isolated areas, promising a seamless transition from normal…

The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array Local Group L-band Survey (LGLBS)
Eric W. Koch, Adam K. Leroy, Erik W. Rosolowsky, Laura Chomiuk, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Nickolas M. Pingel, Sumit K. Sarbadhicary, Sne\v{z}ana Stanimirovi\'c, Fabian Walter, Haylee N. Archer, Alberto D. Bolatto, Michael P. Busch, Hongxing Chen, Ryan Chown, Harrisen Corbould, Serena A. Cronin, Jeremy Darling, Thomas Do, Jennifer Donovan Meyer, Cosima Eibensteiner, Deidre Hunter, R\'emy Indebetouw, Preshanth Jag…

The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array Local Group L-band Survey (LGLBS)
We present the Local Group L-Band Survey (LGLBS), a Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) survey producing the highest quality 21-cm and 1-2 GHz radio continuum images to date for the six VLA-accessible, star-forming, Local Group galaxies. Leveraging the VLA's spectral multiplexing power, we simultaneously survey the 21-cm line at high 0.4 km/s velocity resolution, the 1-2 GHz polarized continuum, and four OH lines. For the massive spiral M31, the dwarf spiral M33, and the dwarf irregular galax…

Lee Enterprises adds a $4.99 per month "temporary" surcharge to its newspaper subscriptions, citing inflation and global tariffs (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/15/tariffs-local-newspapers-prices

Scoop: Dozens of local newspapers raise prices, blaming tariffs
Newsprint was exempted from recent tariffs on Canadian imports, raising questions about the price hikes.

Local perturbations of block Toeplitz matrices
Lars Koekenbier, Hermann Schulz-Baldes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12757 https://arxiv.…

Local perturbations of block Toeplitz matrices
This work is about the asymptotic spectral theory of tridiagonal Toeplitz matrices with matrix entries, with periodicity broken on a finite number of entries. Varying the ranks of these perturbations allow to interpolate between open boundary and circulant Toeplitz matrices. While the continuous part of the limit spectrum only depends on these ranks and no other aspect of the perturbation, the outliers of the spectrum depend continuously on the local perturbation. The proof is essentially based…

Improving Reinforcement Learning Sample-Efficiency using Local Approximation
Mohit Prashant, Arvind Easwaran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12383 https://

Improving Reinforcement Learning Sample-Efficiency using Local Approximation
In this study, we derive Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) bounds on the asymptotic sample-complexity for RL within the infinite-horizon Markov Decision Process (MDP) setting that are sharper than those in existing literature. The premise of our study is twofold: firstly, the further two states are from each other, transition-wise, the less relevant the value of the first state is when learning the $ε$-optimal value of the second; secondly, the amount of 'effort', sample-complexity-wise, ex…

The fundamental theorem of the local theory for non-smooth curves
Domenico Mucci, Alberto Saracco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12564 https://

The fundamental theorem of the local theory for non-smooth curves
We extend the classical fundamental theorem of the local theory of smooth curves to a wider class of non-smooth data. Curvature and torsion are prescribed in terms of the distributional derivative measures of two given functions of bounded variation. The essentially unique non-smooth curve solution has both finite total curvature and total absolute torsion. In case of continuous data, we preliminarly discuss a more general problem involving a linear system of distributional derivative equations.

Impact of local foreground radiations on Very High Energy observations of extragalactic sources
Alberto Franceschini, Giorgio Galanti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11190

Impact of local foreground radiations on Very High Energy observations of extragalactic sources
In the framework of exploiting Very High Energy (VHE) gamma-ray observations of extragalactic sources to infer constraints on the intensity of cosmological background radiations, as well as on deviations from the standard model of particles and physical interactions (like violations of Lorentz invariance and axion-like particles -- LIV and ALPs), we discuss here possible contaminant effects due to the presence of radiations fields from local sources. We specifically model and analyze the foregr…

All 5 SF YIMBY endorsed supervisors—Sauter, Engardio, Mahmood, Dorsey, and Melgar—voted to take $34 to $53 million away from building permanent affordable housing, *and* to ban RVs from all city streets.
So much for "legalize housing." With YIMBYs like this, who needs NIMBYs? #sfPol

Local Clustering in Hypergraphs through Higher-Order Motifs
Giuseppe F. Italiano, Athanasios L. Konstantinidis, Anna Mpanti, Fariba Ranjbar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10570

Local Clustering in Hypergraphs through Higher-Order Motifs
Hypergraphs provide a powerful framework for modeling complex systems and networks with higher-order interactions beyond simple pairwise relationships. However, graph-based clustering approaches, which focus primarily on pairwise relations, fail to represent higher-order interactions, often resulting in low-quality clustering outcomes. In this work, we introduce a novel approach for local clustering in hypergraphs based on higher-order motifs, small connected subgraphs in which nodes may be lin…

Computing and compressing local vertex functions in imaginary and real frequencies from the multipoint numerical renormalization group using quantics tensor cross interpolation
Markus Frankenbach, Marc Ritter, Mathias Pelz, Nepomuk Ritz, Jan von Delft, Anxiang Ge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13359

Computing and compressing local vertex functions in imaginary and real frequencies from the multipoint numerical renormalization group using quantics tensor cross interpolation
The multipoint numerical renormalization group (mpNRG) is a powerful impurity solver that provides accurate spectral data useful for computing local, dynamic correlation functions in imaginary or real frequencies non-perturbatively across a wide range of interactions and temperatures. It gives access to a local, non-perturbative four-point vertex in imaginary and real frequencies, which can be used as input for subsequent computations such as diagrammatic extensions of dynamical mean--field the…

Crypto-Assisted Graph Degree Sequence Release under Local Differential Privacy
Xiaojian Zhang, Junqing Wang, Kerui Chen, Peiyuan Zhao, Huiyuan Bai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10627

Crypto-Assisted Graph Degree Sequence Release under Local Differential Privacy
Given a graph $G$ defined in a domain $\mathcal{G}$, we investigate locally differentially private mechanisms to release a degree sequence on $\mathcal{G}$ that accurately approximates the actual degree distribution. Existing solutions for this problem mostly use graph projection techniques based on edge deletion process, using a threshold parameter $θ$ to bound node degrees. However, this approach presents a fundamental trade-off in threshold parameter selection. While large $θ$ values intro…

Bounding the asymptotic quantum value of all multipartite compiled non-local games
Matilde Baroni, Dominik Leichtle, Sini\v{s}a Jankovi\'c, Ivan \v{S}upi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12408

Bounding the asymptotic quantum value of all multipartite compiled non-local games
Non-local games are a powerful tool to distinguish between correlations possible in classical and quantum worlds. Kalai et al. (STOC'23) proposed a compiler that converts multipartite non-local games into interactive protocols with a single prover, relying on cryptographic tools to remove the assumption of physical separation of the players. While quantum completeness and classical soundness of the construction have been established for all multipartite games, quantum soundness is known only in…

Oopsie
„Tensions erupted at the Rafah crossing as local Egyptians confronted far-left Western activists— described as "Greta Thunberg types" —who had gathered to "march on Gaza" and protest against Israel.
The mostly European demonstrators, accusing Israel of
"genocide," were met with fierce opposition from Egyptian locals, who pelted them with clubs and water bottles, forcing them back and halting their advance toward the border.“

Jewish Breaking News on Instagram: "🇪🇬😱Chaos Erupts in Egypt as Locals Clash with Western Pro-Ham@s Activists Near Gaza Border BREAKING: Tensions erupted at the Rafah crossing as local Egyptians confronted far-left Western activists—described as “Greta Thunberg types”—who had gathered to “march on Gaza” and protest against Israel. The mostly European demonstrators, accusing Israel of “genocide,” were met with fierce opposition from Egyptian locals, who pelted them with clubs and water bottles, forcing them back and halting their advance toward the border. Many of the activists have since taken to social media claiming they were beaten, had their passports stolen, and are now stranded in Egypt. Several are pleading online for help from their embassies. One Egyptian pundit remarked: “There’s a reason Egypt has a huge wall and doesn’t let any Gazans in. What made these people think they could just ‘march to Gaza’ via Egypt?” Egyptian authorities have yet to issue an official statement."
12K likes, 1,023 comments - jewishbreakingnews on June 13, 2025: "🇪🇬😱Chaos Erupts in Egypt as Locals Clash with Western Pro-Ham@s Activists Near Gaza Border BREAKING: Tensions erupted at the Rafah crossing as local Egyptians confronted far-left Western activists—described as “Greta Thunberg types”—who had gathered to “march on Gaza” and protest against Israel. The mostly European demonstrators, accusing Israel of “genocide,” were met with fierce opposition from Egyptia…

Greed is slow on sparse graphs of oriented valued constraints
Artem Kaznatcheev, Sofia Vazquez Alferez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11662 https://

Greed is slow on sparse graphs of oriented valued constraints
Greedy local search is especially popular for solving valued constraint satisfaction problems (VCSPs). Since any method will be slow for some VCSPs, we ask: what is the simplest VCSP on which greedy local search is slow? We construct a VCSP on 6n Boolean variables for which greedy local search takes 7(2^n - 1) steps to find the unique peak. Our VCSP is simple in two ways. First, it is very sparse: its constraint graph has pathwidth 2 and maximum degree 3. This is the simplest VCSP on which some…

Regularizing effects of absorption terms in local-nonlocal mild singular problems
Stefano Biagi, Enzo Maria Merlino, Eugenio Vecchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11656

Regularizing effects of absorption terms in local-nonlocal mild singular problems
In this paper we prove existence and uniqueness of energy solutionns for singular problems with absorption driven by local-nonlocal operators. Moreover, we establish a comparison principle à la Talenti, leading to a gain of summability result for the solutions of these problems.

The Rapid Response Network of Kern is a collaborative of local organizations, community leaders, and immigrant rights advocates supporting our immigrant communities.
The Rapid Response Network of Kern was established in February of 2018 to respond to the needs and challenges of our immigrant communities who are targeted by increased immigration enforcement activities.
Call our hotline to receive rapid help against ICE, including in person support, legal help, grocery delivery, …

US-founded extremist group claims killing of Ukrainian security service colonel in Kyiv: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/usfounded-extremist-group-claims-killing.html

Local Malls Are Sitting Empty, and Becoming a Headache for Small Towns - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/business/malls-empty-small-towns.html

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...

Distributed Algorithms for Potential Problems
Alkida Balliu, Thomas Boudier, Francesco d'Amore, Dennis Olivetti, Gustav Schmid, Jukka Suomela
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12038 …

Distributed Algorithms for Potential Problems
In this work we present a fast distributed algorithm for local potential problems: these are graph problems where the task is to find a locally optimal solution where no node can unilaterally improve the utility in its local neighborhood by changing its own label. A simple example of such a problem is the task of finding a locally optimal cut, i.e., a cut where for each node at least half of its incident edges are cut edges. The distributed round complexity of locally optimal cut has been wide …

Local empirical Bayes correction for Bayesian modeling
Yoshiko Hayashi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11424 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.11…

Local empirical Bayes correction for Bayesian modeling
The James-Stein estimator has attracted much interest as a shrinkage estimator that yields better estimates than the maximum likelihood estimator. The James-Stein estimator is also very useful as an argument in favor of empirical Bayesian methods. However, for problems involving large-scale data, such as differential gene expression data, the distribution is considered a mixture distribution with different means that cannot be considered sufficiently close. Therefore, it is not appropriate to a…

Integral Operators on Generalized Weighted Central Morrey Spaces over Local Fields
Salman Ashraf, Humberto Rafeiro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11494 https:/…

Integral Operators on Generalized Weighted Central Morrey Spaces over Local Fields
We introduce generalised weighted central Morrey spaces over local fields and obtain a quantitative estimate for the boundedness of the Hardy--Hilbert-type integral operator on these newly introduced spaces, albeit specifically in the context of power-weighted spaces. A similar estimate is also obtained for the Hardy--Littlewood--Pólya operator.

Comcast IPv6 decided to bork itself again. Nothing I've tried (restarting DHCPv6 client, power cycling the modem) works.
My router gets a v6 address, can hit the internet without issues.
Router makes a DHCPv6 request, gets a delegated /59 out of my static /56.
But when I try to use an address out of the /59 on the local network (via radvd handing out /64's) it gets nowhere, traceroutes stop at the CPE/CMTS.

New poll on "abundance agenda" shows majority still support local decision-making.
Do you support or oppose limiting local zoning rules to build more homes? Yes 28% No 43%
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-approval-at-42-democrats-up
BUT…

Gannett says the Detroit Free Press' joint operating agreement with The Detroit News, signed in 1989, will be dissolved at the start of 2026 (Neal Rubin/Detroit Free Press)
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/mic

Detroit Free Press, Detroit News to end joint operating agreement at end of 2025
The Detroit Free Press and Detroit News’ joint operating agreement combined the two newspapers’ business operations since 1989.

Interesting French government analysis on alternatives to diesel trucks. Battery-electric superior to alternatives on many points (energy efficiency, CO2 reduction, local value creation in production 100% French energy). Upfront TCO costs still higher.
https://www.

If one would have reported the (sad) Munich decision years ago to abort the attempt to use Linux and Open Source in local administration the same way that the Denmark thing now is reported by the fanboy press, the headlines would have been "Germany bans Linux".

I've been bitten by the Bingo for the local GAA club over Zoom bug.
3 weeks now.
Haven't won anything yet... I just needed 2 numbers this and I could have won €100

Minnesota shootings spotlight growing safety risks facing lawmakers (Kyle Stokes/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/local/twin-cities/2025/06/15/minnesota-melissa-hortman-shootings-political-threats
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p77#a250615p77

Extractivism comes back to Europe as mineral demands are set to rocket.
The only way is to use far less energy.
#degrowth
Europe’s lithium rush leaves mineral-rich communities in the dark

Europe’s lithium rush leaves mineral-rich communities in the dark
Some local residents say they haven't been adequately consulted before the rollout of Europe's lithium plans and fear for their incomes

I don't mind working, but not when decisions are made over our heads and the value we create gets siphoned off elsewhere. Work should be about democratic control, where we all have a direct say in the workplace, and our efforts strengthen our local community, not when profits and power leave our hands.
#Anarchism

The proposed sell-off of federal lands in the Senate budget bill includes a LOT of Joshua tree habitat—the trees grow in some of the largest areas of undeveloped land in the lower 48 states
The place where eastern and western Joshua trees hybridize, north of Creech AFB, is included
#JoshuaTree #USpolitics

Probing Dark Matter's Gravitational Effects Locally with TianQin
Zheng-Cheng Liang, Fa-Peng Huang, Xuefeng Zhang, Yi-Ming Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13035

Probing Dark Matter's Gravitational Effects Locally with TianQin
In this study, we explore the potential of using TianQin missions to probe the local gravitational effects of dark matter. The TianQin project plans to launch satellites at both low and high orbits. High-precision orbit determination is expected to assist in the Earth's gravity or gravitational waves detection. By comparing the derived masses in low and high orbits, it is possible to constrain the amount of dark matter between the two spheres, hence placing a local constraint on dark matter's g…

It bothers me big time that many Reddit threads are auto-translated to my native language and indexed in search engines.
As someone who frequently searches for highly local knowledge, I find this annoying.
If I search anything in my native language, it usually means "I want to know what my fellows think", and not "I want to read what English-speaking community says, just translated to Polish".
Outside of a few specific exceptions, Reddit in general is such a waste of time and data.

I dreamt last night that I was in Glasgow for a concert and a massive power failure occurred. There was no electricity and all electronics were fried - radio, phones, internet, nothing working except some very old cars with no electronic systems.
We heard rumours that either the Earth had been hit by an EMP pulse from a cosmic event, or maybe this was more local and was caused by a weapon of some kind.
Police were out on horseback telling us to stay calm but had no info. /1

Semi-empirical Pseudopotential Method for Monolayer Transitional-Metal Dichalcogenides
Raj Kumar Paudel, Chung-Yuan Ren, Yia-Chung Chang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11360

Semi-empirical Pseudopotential Method for Monolayer Transitional-Metal Dichalcogenides
We present a Semiempirical Pseudopotential Method for accurately computing the band structures and Bloch states of monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), including MoS2, MoSe2, WS2, and WSe2. Our approach combines local and non-local pseudopotentials, carefully fitted to replicate fully self-consistent density-functional theory results, while using only a minimal set of empirical parameters. By expressing the total potential as a sum of a few separable components, we achieve both a…

Emergent Heterogeneous Swarm Control Through Hebbian Learning
Fuda van Diggelen, Tugay Alperen Karag\"uzel, Andres Garcia Rincon, A. E. Eiben, Dario Floreano, Eliseo Ferrante
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11566

Emergent Heterogeneous Swarm Control Through Hebbian Learning
In this paper, we introduce Hebbian learning as a novel method for swarm robotics, enabling the automatic emergence of heterogeneity. Hebbian learning presents a biologically inspired form of neural adaptation that solely relies on local information. By doing so, we resolve several major challenges for learning heterogeneous control: 1) Hebbian learning removes the complexity of attributing emergent phenomena to single agents through local learning rules, thus circumventing the micro-macro prob…

Adaptive FEM with explicit time integration for the wave equation
Marcus J. Grote, Omar Lakkis, Carina S. Santos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11193 https://

Adaptive FEM with explicit time integration for the wave equation
Starting from a recent a posteriori error estimator for the finite element solution of the wave equation with explicit time-stepping [Grote, Lakkis, Santos, 2024], we devise a space-time adaptive strategy which includes both time evolving meshes and local time-stepping [Diaz, Grote, 2009] to overcome any overly stringent CFL stability restriction on the time-step due to local mesh refinement. Moreover, at each time-step the adaptive algorithm monitors the accuracy thanks to the error indicators…

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…

British Columbians Could Enjoy Better City Elections
If the province would let them.
From Sightline Institute
In municipal elections across British Columbia, voters are stuck using bloc voting or ward voting, methods that can overrepresent one party or ideology at the expense of all others.
If not for a few lines of provincial law, local governments could adopt single transferable vote, a gold-standard form of proportional representation.

Statement from AFM International President on Trump Attacking Members Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift
https://www.afm.org/2025/05/afm-statement-on-trump-attacking-members-bruce-springsteen-and-taylor-swift/

Statement from AFM International President on Trump Attacking Members Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift
American Federation of Musicians International President Tino Gagliardi issued the following statement in response to Donald Trump’s attacks on members Bruce Springsteen, member of Local 47 (Los…

“attends ICE raid” https://ktla.com/news/local-news/dhs-secretary-kristi-noem-attends-ice-raid-at-home-of-pregnant-l-a-county-mother/amp/

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem attends ICE raid at home of pregnant L.A. County mother
A pregnant Huntington Park mother of four was shocked to see around a half-dozen vehicles carrying heavily armed, masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents outside her home Thursday mo…

Local Government News Roundup
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Testing the local supervoid solution to the Hubble tension with direct distance tracers
Richard Stiskalek, Harry Desmond, Sergij Mazurenko, Indranil Banik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10518

Testing the local supervoid solution to the Hubble tension with direct distance tracers
Several observational studies suggest that the local few hundred Mpc around the Local Group are significantly underdense based on source number counts in redshift space across much of the electromagnetic spectrum, particularly in near-infrared galaxy counts. This ``Keenan--Barger--Cowie (KBC) void'', ``Local Hole'', or ``local supervoid'', would have significant ramifications for the Hubble tension by generating outflows that masquerade as an enhanced local expansion rate. We evaluate models fo…

Local persistence exponent and its log-periodic oscillations
Yilin Ye, Denis S. Grebenkov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08628 https://ar…

Local persistence exponent and its log-periodic oscillations
We investigate the local persistence exponent of the survival probability of a particle diffusing near an absorbing self-similar boundary. We show by extensive Monte Carlo simulations that the local persistence exponent exhibits log-periodic oscillations over a broad range of timescales. We determine the period and mean value of these oscillations in a family of Koch snowflakes of different fractal dimensions. The effect of the starting point and its local environment on this behavior is analyz…

Beautiful porphyritic granodiorite, part of the Variscan basement, on the Costa Brava, Mediterranean Spain. #geology

Quantized local reduced-order modeling in time (ql-ROM)
Antonio Colanera, Luca Magri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13738 https://arxiv.o…

Quantized local reduced-order modeling in time (ql-ROM)
Spatiotemporally chaotic systems, such as the solutions of some nonlinear partial differential equations, are dynamical systems that evolve toward a lower dimensional manifold. This manifold has an intricate geometry with heterogeneous density, which makes the design of a single (global) nonlinear reduced-order model (ROM) challenging. In this paper, we turn this around. Instead of modeling the manifold with one single model, we partition the manifold into clusters within which the dynamics are…

DuetGraph: Coarse-to-Fine Knowledge Graph Reasoning with Dual-Pathway Global-Local Fusion
Jin Li, Zezhong Ding, Xike Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11229 h…

I saw our local grid voltage dip down to 213.6V today. Everything is fine, nobody worry, European power grid is healthy and stronk like bull!

Back in November, a fuel-starved Cessna 310 crashed into a T-33 on static display at the local airport. They just today had the trainer picked up and shipped back to USAF. The airport authority called it a mid-air collision.
The T-33 was indeed ten feet in the air. On girders. #WordMeanThings

Critical Sudo Vulnerabilities Let Local Users Gain Root Access on Linux, Impacting Major Distros
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two security flaws in the Sudo command-line utility for Linux and Unix-like operating systems that could enable local attackers to escalate their privileges to root on susceptible machines.
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Critical Sudo Vulnerabilities Let Local Users Gain Root Access on Linux, Impacting Major Distros
Two critical vulnerabilities in Sudo command-line tool allow privilege escalation for local attackers on Linux systems

Would you let a 90-year-old grandma drive a Ferrari? I have no clue how anyone could come up with such an idea 😏
Running #ClaudeCode with a Local #LLM: A Step-by-Step Guide

Fossil fuels are stupid.
https://bsky.app/profile/davidrvetter.bsky.social/post/3ltubfjws2s2h
Note that highways are built using fossil fuels (both the building equipment used to create them, as well as asphalt which is made using bitumen, a b…

Cloudflare starts blocking access to pirate sites in the UK; previously, blocking was almost entirely done by local ISPs (Andy Maxwell/TorrentFreak)
https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-starts-blocking-pirate-sites-for-uk-users-tha…

"Alibaba Cloud will be discontinuing services in the Nanjing - Local Region Zone A (cn-nanjing-a) And Fuzhou - Local Region Zone A (cn-fuzhou-a) regions."
New orders end 2025-08-15, service fully discontinued 2026-07-14.
#AS37963

Toxicity-Aware Few-Shot Prompting for Low-Resource Singlish Translation
Ziyu Ge, Gabriel Chua, Leanne Tan, Roy Ka-Wei Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11966 …

Toxicity-Aware Few-Shot Prompting for Low-Resource Singlish Translation
As online communication increasingly incorporates under-represented languages and colloquial dialects, standard translation systems often fail to preserve local slang, code-mixing, and culturally embedded markers of harmful speech. Translating toxic content between low-resource language pairs poses additional challenges due to scarce parallel data and safety filters that sanitize offensive expressions. In this work, we propose a reproducible, two-stage framework for toxicity-preserving translat…

An explicit local geometric Langlands for supercuspidal representations: the toral case
Lingfei Yi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13179 https://

An explicit local geometric Langlands for supercuspidal representations: the toral case
We formulate a conjecture on local geometric Langlands for supercuspidal representations using Yu's data and Feigin-Frenkel isomorphism. We refine our conjecture for a large family of regular supercuspidal representations defined by Kaletha, and then confirm the conjecture for toral supercuspidal representations of Adler whose Langlands parameters turn out to be exactly all the irreducible isoclinic connections. As an application, we establish the conjectural correspondence between global Airy …

Enhancing the Clique Local Decoder to Correct Length-2 Space Errors in the Surface Code
Zikang Jia, Shravan Veerapaneni, Gokul Subramanian Ravi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11481

Enhancing the Clique Local Decoder to Correct Length-2 Space Errors in the Surface Code
The growing demand for fault-tolerant quantum computing drives the need for efficient, scalable Quantum Error Correction (QEC) strategies. Conventional decoders designed for worst-case error scenarios incur significant overhead, prompting the development of local decoders, that leverage the sparse and often trivial nature of many quantum errors, to support the conventional decoders. The previously proposed Clique decoder addresses this by handling isolated, length-1 space and time errors within…

Branch, or Layer? Zeroth-Order Optimization for Continual Learning of Vision-Language Models
Ziwei Liu, Borui Kang, Wei Li, Hangjie Yuan, Yanbing Yang, Wenbin Li, Jun Luo, Yifan Zhu, Tao Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12409

Branch, or Layer? Zeroth-Order Optimization for Continual Learning of Vision-Language Models
Continual learning in vision-language models (VLMs) faces critical challenges in balancing parameter efficiency, memory consumption, and optimization stability. While First-Order (FO) optimization (e.g., SGD) dominate current approaches, their deterministic gradients often trap models in suboptimal local minima and incur substantial memory overhead. This paper pioneers a systematic exploration of Zeroth-Order (ZO) optimization for vision-language continual learning (VLCL). We first identify the…

Stackification via adjunction
Zheng Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12050 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.12050

Stackification via adjunction
We establish a form of 2-adjunction (tentatively termed the *fundamental 2-adjunction*), building on the fundamental adjunction proposed by Olivia Caramello and Riccardo Zanfa, which provides a constructive method for the associated stack functor. Additionally, we investigate 2-local homeomorphisms through the lens of indexed fibrations.

🚀 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗱𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 0.2.0 is here. As before, you are getting nicely formatted Open Mobility Big Data released by the Spanish Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility (MITMS) in a reproducible way. #rstats #opendata

Get Spanish Origin-Destination Data
Gain seamless access to origin-destination (OD) data from the Spanish Ministry of Transport, hosted at . This package simplifies the management of these large datasets by providing tools to download zone boundaries, handle associated origin-destination data, and process it efficiently with the duckdb database interface. Local caching minimizes repeated downloads, streamlining wo…

International promotion patterns in the smart city literature: Exploring the role of geography in affecting local drivers and smart cities' outcomes
Filippo Marchesani, Francesca Masciarelli, Andrea Bikfalvi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12281

International promotion patterns in the smart city literature: Exploring the role of geography in affecting local drivers and smart cities' outcomes
The rise of smart cities represents a significant trend in urban development. However, only in recent years has attention shifted toward the international promotion of these cities. Despite ongoing academic discussions on the impact of smart city development on urban environments, the global recognition of smart cities remains uncertain due to their multidisciplinary nature. To address this, we conducted a systematic literature review of articles published in top-tier peer-reviewed journals fro…

The Discovery of Little Red Dots in the Local Universe: Signatures of Cool Gas Envelopes
Xiaojing Lin, Xiaohui Fan, Zheng Cai, Fuyan Bian, Hanpu Liu, Fengwu Sun, Yilun Ma, Jenny E. Greene, Michael A. Strauss, Richard Green, Jianwei Lyu, Jaclyn B. Champagne, Andy D. Goulding, Kohei Inayoshi, Xiangyu Jin, Gene C. K. Leung, Mingyu Li, Yichen Liu, Junjie Mao, Maria Anne Pudoka, Wei Leong Tee, Ben Wang, Feige Wang, Yunjing Wu, Jinyi Yang, Haowen Zhang, Yongda Zhu

The Discovery of Little Red Dots in the Local Universe: Signatures of Cool Gas Envelopes
JWST observations have revealed a population of high-redshift "little red dots" (LRDs) that challenge conventional AGN models. We report the discovery of three local LRDs at $z = 0.1-0.2$, initially selected from the SDSS database, with follow-up optical/near-IR spectroscopy and photometry. They exhibit properties fully consistent with those of high-redshift LRDs, including broad hydrogen and helium emission lines, compact morphologies, V-shaped UV-optical SED, declining near-IR continua, and n…

Weakening NEPA without replaciing it with something better is no abundance agenda.
This highway widening would foreclose future transit expansion and probably make traffic worse for most drivers.It is opposed by both local governments it goes through. NEPA is the only veto point.
A transit project with the same local opposition would be dead on arrival.

Alexandria asks VDOT to delay adding express lanes to Woodrow Wilson Bridge | ALXnow
Alexandria Mayor Alyia Gaskins and city staff are asking that the Virginia Department of Transportation delay approval of a preferred alternative on a plan to add express lanes from the Springfield Interchange across the Woodrow Wilson Bridge. In an April letter to VDOT, Gaskins wrote that the project will bring "Alexandria "substantial consequences to our

The Gierer-Meinhardt system in the entire space with non-local proliferation rates
Marius Ghergu, Nikos I. Kavallaris, Yasuhito Miyamoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12426

The Gierer-Meinhardt system in the entire space with non-local proliferation rates
In this work, we present a novel stationary Gierer-Meinhardt system incorporating non-local proliferation rates, defined as follows: $$ \begin{cases} \displaystyle -Δu+λu=\frac{J*u^p}{v^q}+ρ(x) &\quad\mbox{ in }\mathbb{R}^N\, , N\geq 1,\\[0.1in] \displaystyle -Δv+μv=\frac{J*u^m}{v^s} &\quad\mbox{ in }\mathbb{R}^N.\\[0.1in] \end{cases} $$ This system emerges in various contexts, such as biological morphogenesis, where two interacting chemicals, identified as an activator and an inhibitor, a…

RFK Jr. says his new vaccine panel has a GW University professor. The school says he doesn't work there (Aimee Cho/NBC4 Washington)
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/rfk-jr-says-his-new-vaccine-panel-has-a-gw-university-professor-the-school-says-he-doesnt-work-there/3935974/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p72#a250615p72

Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning against Malicious Clients Based on Verifiable Functional Encryption
Nina Cai, Jinguang Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12846

Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning against Malicious Clients Based on Verifiable Functional Encryption
Federated learning is a promising distributed learning paradigm that enables collaborative model training without exposing local client data, thereby protect data privacy. However, it also brings new threats and challenges. The advancement of model inversion attacks has rendered the plaintext transmission of local models insecure, while the distributed nature of federated learning makes it particularly vulnerable to attacks raised by malicious clients. To protect data privacy and prevent malici…

The Trump administration on Monday took another step to make it harder to find major, legally mandated scientific assessments of how climate change is endangering the nation and its people.
Earlier this month, the official government websites that hosted the authoritative, peer-reviewed national climate assessments went dark.
Such sites tell state and local governments and the public what to expect in their backyards from a warming world and how best to adapt to it.
At the …

NASA website won't publish major climate change reports
The Trump administration has made it harder for people, local and state governments to find critical climate change reports. On Monday, NASA announced it would not host the National Climate Assessments, reversing earlier plans. These reports detail climate impacts across the U.S. and were previously available on government websites that went offline earlier this month. NASA stated it has no legal obligation to host the data. Critics, including scientists, accuse the administration of trying to …

Nextdoor unveils a redesign and a partnership with 3,500 local news providers across the US, the UK, and Canada that will contribute material to the app (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/nextdoor-social-media-news-ai-c7e12d6…

Nextdoor is partnering with local news providers
The neighborhood social site Nextdoor is hoping for a revival by turning to local news providers. As part of a redesign of the social media site, Nextdoor is partnering with more than 3,500 local news outlets to use their material. Publishers are hoping more people seeing their work will help an industry that has suffered for more than two decades. Nextdoor wants more of its users, who they call “neighbors,” to view the site as essential and visit more often. Nextdoor also is beefing up its…

POPQC: Parallel Optimization for Quantum Circuits (Extended Version)
Pengyu Liu, Jatin Arora, Mingkuan Xu, Umut A. Acar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13720 ht…

POPQC: Parallel Optimization for Quantum Circuits (Extended Version)
Optimization of quantum programs or circuits is a fundamental problem in quantum computing and remains a major challenge. State-of-the-art quantum circuit optimizers rely on heuristics and typically require superlinear, and even exponential, time. Recent work proposed a new approach that pursues a weaker form of optimality called local optimality. Parameterized by a natural number $Ω$, local optimality insists that each and every $Ω$-segment of the circuit is optimal with respect to an extern…

Diffuse gamma-ray and neutrino emission from the Milky Way and the local knee in the cosmic ray spectrum
C. Prevotat, Zh. Zhu, S. Koldobskiy, A. Neronov, D. Semikoz, M. Ahlers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10823

Diffuse gamma-ray and neutrino emission from the Milky Way and the local knee in the cosmic ray spectrum
The LHAASO observatory has recently measured details of the cosmic-ray (CR) spectrum in the knee region (1 -- 10 PeV) with unprecedented precision, including its average CR mass composition and the spectrum of the proton component. We use these precision measurements, combined with direct measurements of CRs by space-based detectors, to derive predictions for the spectrum of diffuse gamma-ray and neutrino emission from the interstellar medium under the assumption that the CR spectrum is univers…

It's great to see car OEMs integrating smart charging solutions directly into their EVs. ev.energy’s platform allows users to automatically optimise for a range of smart and dynamic tariffs and on-site solar, while responding to local and (inter)national grid needs in flex markets.
https://t…

JLR collaborates with ev.energy
Luxury vehicle firm JLR is collaborating with ev.energy on piloting a smart charging solution.

Weakening NEPA without replaciing it with something better is no abundance agenda.
This highway widening would foreclose future transit expansion and probably make traffic worse for most drivers.It is opposed by both local governments it goes through. NEPA is the only veto point.
A transit project with the same local opposition would be dead on arrival.

Tokopedia sellers say Tokopedia's strengths have eroded since its TikTok Shop merger in Indonesia, driving thousands of sellers to join rivals, including Toco (Michelle Anindya/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/tiktok-indonesia-tokopedia-merger-problems…

TikTok’s messy merger in Indonesia could be a preview of what’s to come in the U.S.
A year after merging with local giant Tokopedia, TikTok’s business model is alienating sellers, forcing many to join rival platforms.

Morse index, topological degree and local uniqueness of multi-spikes solutions to the Lane-Emden problem in dimension two
Isabella Ianni, Peng Luo, Shusen Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12905

Morse index, topological degree and local uniqueness of multi-spikes solutions to the Lane-Emden problem in dimension two
We consider multi-spike positive solutions to the Lane-Emden problem in any bounded smooth planar domain and compute their Morse index, extending to the dimension $N=2$ classical theorems due to Bahri-Li-Rey (1995) and Rey (1999) when $N\geq 4$ and $N=3$, respectively. Furthermore, by deeply investigating their concentration behavior, we also derive the total topological degree. The Morse index and the degree counting formula yield a new local uniqueness result.

Optimizers Qualitatively Alter Solutions And We Should Leverage This
Razvan Pascanu, Clare Lyle, Ionut-Vlad Modoranu, Naima Elosegui Borras, Dan Alistarh, Petar Velickovic, Sarath Chandar, Soham De, James Martens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12224

Optimizers Qualitatively Alter Solutions And We Should Leverage This
Due to the nonlinear nature of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), one can not guarantee convergence to a unique global minimum of the loss when using optimizers relying only on local information, such as SGD. Indeed, this was a primary source of skepticism regarding the feasibility of DNNs in the early days of the field. The past decades of progress in deep learning have revealed this skepticism to be misplaced, and a large body of empirical evidence shows that sufficiently large DNNs following stand…

People who entered the US legally
and have no criminal charges
are being held in the Everglades camp,
according to records obtained by the Miami Herald.
Maybe that’s why the government won’t release the names of those being detained.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/…

MS-UMamba: An Improved Vision Mamba Unet for Fetal Abdominal Medical Image Segmentation
Caixu Xu, Junming Wei, Huizhen Chen, Pengchen Liang, Bocheng Liang, Ying Tan, Xintong Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12441

MS-UMamba: An Improved Vision Mamba Unet for Fetal Abdominal Medical Image Segmentation
Recently, Mamba-based methods have become popular in medical image segmentation due to their lightweight design and long-range dependency modeling capabilities. However, current segmentation methods frequently encounter challenges in fetal ultrasound images, such as enclosed anatomical structures, blurred boundaries, and small anatomical structures. To address the need for balancing local feature extraction and global context modeling, we propose MS-UMamba, a novel hybrid convolutional-mamba mo…

Google Search's AI Mode gets Gemini 2.5 Pro and new deep research capabilities; Google also expands an AI-powered business calling feature to all users in US (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/goog

Google rolls out AI-powered business-calling feature, brings Gemini 2.5 Pro to AI Mode | TechCrunch
The new business calling feature uses AI to call local businesses on your behalf, for information about availability and pricing.

Beyond Ground States: Physics-Inspired Optimization of Excited States of Classical Hamiltonians
Erik Altelarrea-Ferr\'e, J\'ulia Barber\`a-Rodr\'iguez, David Jansen, Antonio Ac\'in
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12394

Beyond Ground States: Physics-Inspired Optimization of Excited States of Classical Hamiltonians
We introduce excited local quantum annealing (ExcLQA), a classical, physics-inspired algorithm that extends local quantum annealing (LQA) to identify excited states of classical Ising Hamiltonians. LQA simulates quantum annealing while constraining the quantum state to remain in a product state and uses a gradient-based approach to find approximate solutions to large-scale quadratic unconstrained binary optimization problems. ExcLQA extends this framework by adding a penalty term in the cost fu…

Here’s what tourists visiting during protests had to say about LA – NBC Los Angeles
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/tourism-los-angeles-protests-location/3723920/

Defect-Mediated Pairing and Dissociation of Strongly Correlated Electrons in Low Dimensional Lattices: The Quantum Taxi Effect
Vincent Pouthier, Saad Yalouz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12487

Defect-Mediated Pairing and Dissociation of Strongly Correlated Electrons in Low Dimensional Lattices: The Quantum Taxi Effect
We study the quantum dynamics of a strongly correlated electron pair in a one-dimensional lattice, focusing on the occurrence of local dissociation/pairing mechanisms induced by a site energy defect. To this end, we simulate the time evolution of two interacting electrons on a finite-size chain governed by an extended Hubbard Hamiltonian including on-site Coulomb repulsion $ U $ and nearest-neighbor interaction $V$, along with single-electron hopping $J$. By introducing a local site energy defe…

BASS. XLIX. Characterization of highly luminous and obscured AGNs: local X-ray and [NeV]$\lambda$3426 emission in comparison with the high-redshift Universe
Alessandro Peca, Michael J. Koss, Kyuseok Oh, Claudio Ricci, Benny Trakhtenbrot, Richard Mushotzky, Ezequiel Treister, C. Megan Urry, Andrealuna Pizzetti, Kohei Ichikawa, Alessia Tortosa, Federica Ricci, Matilde Signorini, Darshan Kakkad, Chin-Shin Chang, Giovanni Mazzolari, Turgay Caglar, Macon Magno, Ignacio del Moral-Castro, Pet…

BASS. XLIX. Characterization of highly luminous and obscured AGNs: local X-ray and [NeV]$λ$3426 emission in comparison with the high-redshift Universe
We present a detailed analysis of the most luminous and obscured Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) detected in the ultra-hard X-ray band (14-195 keV) by Swift/BAT. Our sample comprises 21 X-ray luminous (log $L_X/{\rm erg\,s^{-1}}>44.6$, 2-10 keV) AGNs at $z<0.6$, optically classified as Seyfert 1.9-2. Using NuSTAR, XMM-Newton, Suzaku, and Chandra, we constrain AGN properties such as absorption column density $N_H$, photon index $Γ$, intrinsic $L_X$, covering factor, and iron K$α$ equivalent widt…

Measurement-based quantum computation with variable-range interacting systems
Debkanta Ghosh, Keshav Das Agarwal, Pritam Halder, Aditi Sen De
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11909

Measurement-based quantum computation with variable-range interacting systems
We demonstrate that weighted graph states (WGS) generated via variable-range interacting Ising spin systems where the interaction strength decays with distance as a power law, characterized by the fall-off rate, can successfully implement single- and two-qubit gates with fidelity exceeding classical limits by performing suitable measurements. In the regime of truly long-range interactions (small fall-off rate), optimizing over local unitary operations, while retaining the local measurement sche…

Feature Complementation Architecture for Visual Place Recognition
Weiwei Wang, Meijia Wang, Haoyi Wang, Wenqiang Guo, Jiapan Guo, Changming Sun, Lingkun Ma, Weichuan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12401

Feature Complementation Architecture for Visual Place Recognition
Visual place recognition (VPR) plays a crucial role in robotic localization and navigation. The key challenge lies in constructing feature representations that are robust to environmental changes. Existing methods typically adopt convolutional neural networks (CNNs) or vision Transformers (ViTs) as feature extractors. However, these architectures excel in different aspects -- CNNs are effective at capturing local details. At the same time, ViTs are better suited for modeling global context, mak…

Cloudflare starts blocking access to pirate sites in the UK; previously, blocking was almost entirely done by local ISPs (Andy Maxwell/TorrentFreak)
https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-starts-blocking-pirate-sites-for-uk-users-tha…

Press Forward announces $22.7M in grants to 22 newsroom projects, after announcing $20M in grants to 205 small local newsrooms last fall (Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/press-forward-grants-22-7-million-to-22-newsr…

Analysis: YC picked just four Indian startups in 2024 vs. 66 in 2021, amid a growing trend of startups shifting their parent entities to India for domestic IPOs (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.…

From 66 to 4: Why Y Combinator backed fewer Indian startups in 2024
Y Combinator's selection of Indian startups has decreased significantly. This decline is attributed to factors like YC's US incorporation requirement and the rise of domestic IPOs. Indian startups are shifting focus to local funding options. They find domestic markets favorable for listing. YC is also prioritizing AI-focused startups. This shift impacts Indian participation. Domestic capital is growing with regulatory support.

The US Senate votes narrowly early Thursday morning to strip $1.1B in funding from the CPB, in a severe blow to 1,500 local TV and radio stations, PBS, and NPR (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/politics/news/senate-strips-billion-pub…

Senate Strips $1.1 Billion From Public Broadcasting
The Senate voted early Thursday to strip $1.1 billion in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in a severe blow to NPR and PBS.

Conclusive Local State Marking: More Nonlocality With No Entanglement
Samrat Sen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09415 https://arxiv.org/p…

Conclusive Local State Marking: More Nonlocality With No Entanglement
Nonlocality exhibited by ensembles of composite quantum states, wherein local operations and classical communication (LOCC) yield suboptimal discrimination probabilities compared to global strategies, is one of the striking nonclassical features of quantum theory. A variant of this phenomenon arises in conclusive local state discrimination, where the correct state must be identified with zero error, albeit allowing for inconclusive outcomes. More recently, the notion of local state marking has …

A look at the threats and harassment local reporters covering US extremism face and the importance of coverage of how extremists interact with their communities (Liam Scott/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/local-reporters-dangers…

How Local Reporters Manage the Dangers of Covering Extremism
The extremism beat has gone mainstream—but in local markets, it’s still intensely personal.