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Capping off this week of #fungifriday (get it? capping? mushrooms?) these velvety question marks. I have no idea what they are. They appeared practically overnight in this peculiar pattern. The caps are soft to the touch, despite the pattern.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CV. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CV/new
[3/5]:
- 3D Hierarchical Panoptic Segmentation in Real Orchard Environments Across Different Sensors
Sodano, Magistri, Marks, Hosn, Zurbayev, Marcuzzi, Malladi, Behley, Stachniss

ESPN makes a minority investment in Premier Lacrosse League, marking a shift in the network's strategy as it looks to invest in areas beyond traditional TV (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/25/espn-premier-lacrosse-league-media-right…

ESPN takes minority stake in Premier Lacrosse League
This marks a shift in ESPN's strategy.

@…
I've found a photo of your long lost sibling.
Though I ate them in 2018.

High Temperature Quantum Emission from Covalently Functionalized van der Waals Heterostructures
S. Carin Gavin, Hsun-Jen Chuang, Anushka Dasgupta, Moumita Kar, Kathleen M. McCreary, Sung-Joon Lee, M. Iqbal Bakti Utama, Xiangzhi Li, George C. Schatz, Tobin J. Marks, Mark C. Hersam, Berend T. Jonker, Nathaniel P. Stern
https://arx…

High Temperature Quantum Emission from Covalently Functionalized van der Waals Heterostructures
Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are attractive nanomaterials for quantum information applications due to single photon emission (SPE) from atomic defects, primarily tungsten diselenide (WSe2) monolayers. Defect and strain engineering techniques have been developed to yield high purity, deterministically positioned SPE in WSe2. However, a major challenge in application of these techniques is the low temperature required to observe defect-bound TMD exciton emission, t…

A Ground-Based Transit Observation of the Long-Period Extremely Low-Density Planet HIP 41378 f
Juliana Garc\'ia-Mej\'ia, Zo\"e L. de Beurs, Patrick Tamburo, Andrew Vanderburg, David Charbonneau, Karen A. Collins, Khalid Barkaoui, Cristilyn N. Watkins, Chris Stockdale, Richard P. Schwarz, Raquel For\'es-Toribio, Jose A. Mu\~noz, Giovanni Isopi, Franco Mallia, Aldo Zapparata, Adam Popowicz, Andrzej Brudny, Eric Agol, Munazza K. Alam, Zouhair Benkhaldoun, Jehin Emmanuel, …

A Ground-Based Transit Observation of the Long-Period Extremely Low-Density Planet HIP 41378 f
We present a ground-based transit detection of HIP 41378 f, a long-period ($P = 542$ days), extremely low-density ($0.09 \pm 0.02$ g cm$^{-3}$) giant exoplanet in a dynamically complex system. Using photometry from Tierras, TRAPPIST-North, and multiple LCOGT sites, we constrain the transit center time to $T_{C,6} = 2460438.889 \pm 0.049$ BJD TDB. This marks only the second ground-based detection of HIP 41378 f, currently the longest-period and longest-duration transiting exoplanet observed from…

From Tiny Machine Learning to Tiny Deep Learning: A Survey
Shriyank Somvanshi, Md Monzurul Islam, Gaurab Chhetri, Rohit Chakraborty, Mahmuda Sultana Mimi, Swagat Ahmed Shuvo, Kazi Sifatul Islam, Syed Aaqib Javed, Sharif Ahmed Rafat, Anandi Dutta, Subasish Das
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18927…

From Tiny Machine Learning to Tiny Deep Learning: A Survey
The rapid growth of edge devices has driven the demand for deploying artificial intelligence (AI) at the edge, giving rise to Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML) and its evolving counterpart, Tiny Deep Learning (TinyDL). While TinyML initially focused on enabling simple inference tasks on microcontrollers, the emergence of TinyDL marks a paradigm shift toward deploying deep learning models on severely resource-constrained hardware. This survey presents a comprehensive overview of the transition from…

Restoring Rhythm: Punctuation Restoration Using Transformer Models for Bangla, a Low-Resource Language
Md Obyedullahil Mamun, Md Adyelullahil Mamun, Arif Ahmad, Md. Imran Hossain Emu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18448

Restoring Rhythm: Punctuation Restoration Using Transformer Models for Bangla, a Low-Resource Language
Punctuation restoration enhances the readability of text and is critical for post-processing tasks in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), especially for low-resource languages like Bangla. In this study, we explore the application of transformer-based models, specifically XLM-RoBERTa-large, to automatically restore punctuation in unpunctuated Bangla text. We focus on predicting four punctuation marks: period, comma, question mark, and exclamation mark across diverse text domains. To address the…

Removing Box-Free Watermarks for Image-to-Image Models via Query-Based Reverse Engineering
Haonan An, Guang Hua, Hangcheng Cao, Zhengru Fang, Guowen Xu, Susanto Rahardja, Yuguang Fang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18034

Removing Box-Free Watermarks for Image-to-Image Models via Query-Based Reverse Engineering
The intellectual property of deep generative networks (GNets) can be protected using a cascaded hiding network (HNet) which embeds watermarks (or marks) into GNet outputs, known as box-free watermarking. Although both GNet and HNet are encapsulated in a black box (called operation network, or ONet), with only the generated and marked outputs from HNet being released to end users and deemed secure, in this paper, we reveal an overlooked vulnerability in such systems. Specifically, we show that t…

After Marks and Spencer refused to say whether it paid a ransom, the UK's Home Office proposes that businesses will have to notify the government if they plan on paying a ransom to cyber criminals under new proposals.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-to-l

UK to lead crackdown on cyber criminals with ransomware measures
Measures to tackle the threat of ransomware and protect businesses and critical services will be taken forward with industry following public consultation.

Ah the dulcet tones of Soul Limbo by Booker T. & the M.G.'s marks the beginning of summer for me!
#TMS
#cricket

Family Reunion
This weekend marks the 70th reunion of Albert Campbell Smith and Mary Susan Mallow's descendants in West Virginia. I take a nostalgic trip through familiar places, reflecting on family history and memories. I also wonder about my grandmother's estrangement from her relatives.
https://www.bobm…

Family Reunion – Bob Mueller
This weekend marks the 70th reunion of Albert Campbell Smith and Mary Susan Mallow's descendants in West Virginia. I take a nostalgic trip through familiar places, reflecting on family history and memories. I also wonder about my grandmother's estrangement from her relatives.

Discovery of a 0.8-mHz quasi-periodic oscillations in the transient X-ray pulsar SXP31.0 and associated timing transitions
Alexander Salganik, Sergey S. Tsygankov, Sergey V. Molkov, Igor Yu. Lapshov, Alexander A. Lutovinov, Alexey Yu. Tkachenko, Alexander A. Mushtukov, Juri Poutanen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19601

Discovery of a 0.8-mHz quasi-periodic oscillations in the transient X-ray pulsar SXP31.0 and associated timing transitions
We present the first broad-band spectral and timing study of the Be/X-ray pulsar XTE J0111.2$-$7317 (SXP31.0) during its first major outburst since its discovery in 1998. This giant Type II outburst, observed in April-June 2025, marks the source's return to activity after nearly three decades of quiescence. Utilizing our NuSTAR observations together with Swift/XRT and SRG/ART-XC ones, we trace the evolution of the outburst to a peak bolometric luminosity of $L_{\rm bol} = 3.6 \times 10^{38}$ er…

Upcoming Event – Nonconformity and Revolutions:
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When: June 21, 2025 in Bath, Somerset, England 2025 marks the 250th anniversaries which commemorate…
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Upcoming Event - Nonconformity and Revolutions: - American Society of Church History
When: June 21, 2025 in Bath, Somerset, England 2025 marks the 250th anniversaries which commemorate the American Revolution. Not only a period of geopolitical upheaval, it saw a transformation in the theologies and networks that had shaped eighteenth-century Dissent throughout the British Atlantic world. Notions of liberty and toleration were again brought into relief; events which were…

I think the National Space Operations Centre should have a public dashboard page, like the UKHSA dashboard, instead of monthly reports.
https://space.blog.gov.uk/2025/07/11/uk-space-safety-centre-marks-one-year-milestone/

Goldman Sachs CTO Marco Argenti says the bank is "going to start augmenting our workforce with Devin", Cognition's AI coding assistant, as Wall Street adopts AI (Hugh Son/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/11/goldman-sachs-auto…

Goldman Sachs is piloting its first autonomous coder in major AI milestone for Wall Street
The arrival of agentic AI at Goldman Sachs, in which programs don't just help with tasks but execute complex jobs, signals a shift on Wall Street.

I'd forgotten just how hilariously filthy this video is. Top marks! #TOTP

Been playing Transiruby and the exploration poetics are top-notch, like rivalling Super Metroid good, which is a distinct rarity among metroidvanias.
Something the original Super Metroid had was required secrets and the expectation that you'd actually read the map as a gameplay skill. Many many metroidvanias don't have that, including favorites like Ori, but it's one of the things that makes Hollow Knight stand out. Transiruby sadly doesn't have maps-as-rewards, but it does have moments where consulting the map is expected (water cog is a big one since it's in the middle of an already-explored area by the time you can access it). The game also requires revisits with the coin door mechanic, but marks the things you need on the map and structures revisits really nicely with a variety of shortcuts that open up as you gain abilities.
I was kinda sad when the first movement power was double jump (le sigh) but the second movement power is really neat and original, so I'm happy again.
Besides the big things, there are a lot of little moments where there's ludonarrative harmony between the choice structures and the area themes/plot points.
Haven't finished it yet, but so far it's headed into my top tier of metroidvanias, or very close, even despite fairly simple combat and easy (if fun) bosses.
#Transiruby #AmPlaying #Metroidvania

World Rainforest Day and the state of Earth’s most vital rainforests https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/06/world-rainforest-day-and-the-state-of-earths-most-vital-rainforests/

World Rainforest Day and the state of Earth’s most vital rainforests
June 22 marks World Rainforest Day, launched in 2017 by Rainforest Partnership to highlight the critical role of tropical forests. These ecosystems stabilize the climate, regulate rainfall, store vast amounts of carbon, and support most of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity. Yet despite their importance, 2024 proved to be a devastating year. Fires ravaged millions of […]

Verifying International Agreements on AI: Six Layers of Verification for Rules on Large-Scale AI Development and Deployment
Mauricio Baker, Gabriel Kulp, Oliver Marks, Miles Brundage, Lennart Heim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15916

Verifying International Agreements on AI: Six Layers of Verification for Rules on Large-Scale AI Development and Deployment
The risks of frontier AI may require international cooperation, which in turn may require verification: checking that all parties follow agreed-on rules. For instance, states might need to verify that powerful AI models are widely deployed only after their risks to international security have been evaluated and deemed manageable. However, research on AI verification could benefit from greater clarity and detail. To address this, this report provides an in-depth overview of AI verification, inte…

Collinear limit of the energy-energy correlator in $e^ e^-$ collisions: transition from perturbative to non-perturbative regimes
Enrico Herrmann, Zhong-Bo Kang, Jani Penttala, Congyue Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17704

Collinear limit of the energy-energy correlator in $e^+ e^-$ collisions: transition from perturbative to non-perturbative regimes
We study the collinear limit of the energy-energy correlator (EEC) in $e^+e^-$ collisions, focusing on the transition from the perturbative QCD regime at relatively large angles to the non-perturbative region at small angles. To describe this transition, we introduce a non-perturbative jet function and perform a global analysis at NNLO+NNLL accuracy using experimental data spanning center-of-mass energies from $Q = 29.0$ to $91.2$ GeV. This marks the first accurate description of the EEC across…

#Norway is ending #coal #mining

Visited my 95-year-old Mom in Saskatchewan and came away with Prairie pictures and thoughts on memory and topography and Google color science and healthcare economics. https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/07/09/Saskatchewan

Memory in Saskatchewan

I just saw an all-caps instruction file that someone uses to 'instruct' an LLM to help with coding, and it's just "don't hallucinate", "check your work", "don't say you did something when you didn't" with multiple exclamation marks.
So, basically the whole 'vibe coding,' or having "AI" "help" with coding just devolves into shouting at your computer.
Which reminded me of something, and then it hit me!
#ai #llm #vibecoding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8SWMAQYQf0

Looks like EU funding of #FLOSS will continue: "Open digital infrastructure, from search and identity to cloud and software governance, is now a strategic European priority."

NGI Forum 2025 marks a strategic shift from Next Generation Internet toward the Open Internet Stack
The Next Generation Internet (NGI) Forum 2025, the flagship event of the European Commission’s NGI initiative, took place in Brussels on 19-20 June, with over 200 on-site participants and many more via web stream. The Forum focused on accelerating the shift from research and experimentation to the deployment of sovereign, open digital infrastructures.

Trash panda update: they're not gone but seem to be starting to learn we don't like them. The super soaker is the weapon of choice - they hate it but it doesn't do any permanent damage.
I had one pop out in broad daylight earlier and pummeled it with the super soaker until it climbed up a tree out of range.
Another one showed up after dark and froze when I walked out the back door, maybe it thought I couldn't see it?
It thought wrong.
EDIT: The one in…

»Hacker greifen Kundendaten bei Adidas, Victoria's Secret und Cartier ab:
Hacker haben es auf Firmen mit kaufkräftigen Kunden abgesehen. Nach Datenabgriffen bei The North Face sowie Marks & Spencer werden jetzt drei weitere namhafte Unternehmen Opfer. Die Cyberkriminellen haben große Datensätze gesammelt, aber keine Zahlungsinformationen erhalten«
Die wievielten Konzerne sind das, die sich einen Quatsch um Kundendaten kümmern?
🙄

Hacker greifen Kundendaten bei Adidas, Victoria's Secret und Cartier ab
Hacker haben es auf Firmen mit kaufkräftigen Kunden abgesehen. Nach Datenabgriffen bei The North Face sowie Marks & Spencer werden jetzt drei weitere namhafte Unternehmen Opfer. Die Cyberkriminellen haben große Datensätze gesammelt, aber keine Zahlungsinformationen erhalten.

Random marked nested tessellations applied to the modelling of deformation twinning in polycrystalline materials
Oleksandr Kornij\v{c}uk, Lud\v{e}k Heller, Zbyn\v{e}k Pawlas, Viktor Bene\v{s}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14405

Random marked nested tessellations applied to the modelling of deformation twinning in polycrystalline materials
Stochastic geometry provides a powerful framework for modelling complex random structures, with applications in physics, materials science, biology, and other fields. The three-dimensional microstructure of polycrystalline materials is usually modeled by a randomly marked tessellation, where the marks correspond to crystallographic orientations. The purpose of this study is to extend the modelling approach to a finer scale, focusing on the subcells that emerge when a material specimen is expose…

Functional limit theorems for edge counts in dynamic random connection hypergraphs
Christian Hirsch, Benedikt Jahnel, P\'eter Juh\'asz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16270

Functional limit theorems for edge counts in dynamic random connection hypergraphs
We introduce a dynamic random hypergraph model constructed from a bipartite graph. In this model, both vertex sets of the bipartite graph are generated by marked Poisson point processes. Vertices of both vertex sets are equipped with marks representing their weight that influence their connection radii. Additionally, we also assign the vertices of the first vertex set a birth-death process with exponential lifetimes and the vertices of the second vertex set a time instant representing the occur…

Why don't post composers in social media apps show (at least optionally) non-printing characters like spaces or paragraph marks?

Cowboys Legend Sends Heartfelt Message to Raiders Rookie https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/cowboys-legend-sends-heartfelt-message/?adt_ei=[email]

Why is no one in the press asking the Manhattan DA or NY State AG what they are gonna do about this
-- cause we know Trump’s SEC and US DOJ aren’t going to do anything about this,

Construction workers are putting in the landscaping for the new Computer Science building across the street from my office
#photo #photography #building

Stats Sunday!
Today marks 100 days that I’ve met my step goals in a row.
Yesterday, I broke 2 million steps for 2025. That’s about 1500km (~930 miles). At this rate, I’ll easily pass 4 million steps for the year (last year: 3.2 million).
I’ve also made my step count 153/165 days so far.

The House passes the GENIUS Act, sending the first-ever regulatory framework for issuers of stablecoins to President Trump for his signature (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/17/house-passes-genius-act-stablecoins-trump

Stablecoin regulation bill heads to Trump's desk
The GENIUS Act marks the first cryptocurrency bill to clear both chambers of Congress,

A Year Later, Butler Shooting Marks the Defining Moment of Trump's Political Comeback (Eric Cortellessa/Time)
https://time.com/7301662/donald-trump-butler-pa-assassination/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p84#a250711p84

#rsyslog is dead: https://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-goes-ai-first-a-new-chapter-begins/ 🤢

rsyslog Goes AI First — A New Chapter Begins - rsyslog
After 24 months of focused evaluation and careful experimentation, we’re excited to announce a major shift in the evolution of rsyslog: we’re going AI First. This marks the beginning of a strategic transformation in how we design, develop, and support rsyslog and its ecosystem. While today’s post is just a short announcement, it lays the […]

Hyperfixiation Joy, Stay if You Love It, Scroll if You Don’t!
Next year marks a decade since I first heard Loin d’ici by Zoë Straub. Ten years of the same song looping in my mind, ten years of clinging to every word, every note, as if it’s the only thing keeping me afloat. I remember May 14, 2016, like it’s a scar, the day my hyperfixation began. Time keeps slipping past me, but the song stays, haunting and comforting at once, as if Zoë herself is quietly following me through the endle…

OpenAI’s New Browser Could Be the Biggest Threat Google Has Faced in a Decade (YNETNEWS, 11 Jul 2025)
#BigTech

OpenAI’s new browser could be the biggest threat Google has faced in a decade
 OpenAI is launching a browser powered by generative AI, aiming to transform how users browse and interact with the web The move could undermine Google’s ad model and marks a bold step in the escalating battle over the future of browsing

5-Month Forecast: What to watch from Cowboys in September https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/5-month-forecast-what-to-watch-from-cowboys-in-september

from my link log —
EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/10/ebcdic-is-incompatible-with-gdpr/
saved 2024-10-28

EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR
Welcome to acronym city! The Court of Appeal of Brussels has made an interesting ruling. A customer complained that their bank was spelling the customer's name incorrectly. The bank didn't have support for diacritical marks. Things like á, è, ô, ü, ç etc. Those accents are common in many languages. So it was a little surprising that the bank didn't support them. The bank refused to spell their c…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
The Maccabees:
🎵 Marks to Prove It (6 Music Session, 20 Jul 2025)
#TheMaccabees

Ktoś tu używa #Rsyslog? Możecie chcieć rozważyć tę decyzję ponownie.
"rsyslog Goes AI First — A New Chapter Begins"
https://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-goes-ai-fi

Managed to repair my digital piano. Two of the c's stopped working. Turns out the fix was easy: I used some 9B pencil to rub the connectors on the piano, as they apparently work with graphite. There was a silicone bit I could take off to get to the connector.
Opening the piano up was by far the hardest part of this repair.
#RightToRepair

NFL's unluckiest players: Diving into best 'bad luck' stats of 2024 in honor of Friday the 13th https://www.nfl.com/news/friday-the-13th-unluckiest-players-bad-luck-stats-2024

The first MS-A2 node is up and it only took the entire day. After fixing a ton of networking issues across the homelab I've got all the VMs running on the new node. The old nodes have been decomissioned which kinda marks a milestone. Still need to get the other two new nodes into the cluster, but should be fairly straightforward and can wait until tomorrow.
#homelab

Is this the same New York Times that is covering Mamdani's college application as a scandal?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/science/ivar-giaever-dead.html

Candle Media co-CEO Kevin Mayer says Candle plans to sell or IPO its individual brands rather than the overall company, marking a shift from its original plan (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/17/moonbug-candle-media-kevin-mayer

Candle Media's Kevin Mayer eyes exits for Moonbug and other brands
The strategy marks a departure from Candle's original plan.

Kanbara - Evening Snow
Utagawa Hiroshige, about 1833-5
#SilentSunday

Had the post done Friday. Forgot to schedule it last night. I'm traveling for a #family #reunion.
https://www.bobmuellerwrit…

Family Reunion – Bob Mueller
This weekend marks the 70th reunion of Albert Campbell Smith and Mary Susan Mallow's descendants in West Virginia. I take a nostalgic trip through familiar places, reflecting on family history and memories. I also wonder about my grandmother's estrangement from her relatives.

Clothes from UK brands found discarded in Ghana wetland dumps – video https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2025/jun/18/clothes-from-uk-brands-found-discarded-in-ghana-wetland-dumps-video

"Two months ago, we decided that [AI] is finally mature enough to take center stage in rsyslog development. Since then, we’ve:
Upgraded the repository for AI agent compatibility (automated review and more)
Restructured key parts of the codebase
Built new functionality with heavy AI assistance
Developed a full base strategy for AI integration
Identified high-impact areas where AI will support log processing and observability"

Let’s be clear:
The people saying “Alligator Auschwitz” are not blowing things out of proportion. They are not putting words in MAGA’s mouth. This is a clear and explicit endorsement of the mass murder of an entire identity group in the US.
And yes, obviously she is “joking.” Of course she is “joking.” But with quotation marks. She is not joking.

"While crop seed vaults are common around the world, nurseries for wild and native plants are rare, and many plant species quietly become extinct. This marks #Gurukula out as a Noah’s ark for endangered plant species."

The spectrum of open confining strings in the large-Nc limit
Alireza Sharifian, Andreas Athenodorou, Pedro Bicudo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16342 https://…

The spectrum of open confining strings in the large-Nc limit
In this study, we conduct a thorough examination of the spectrum of the open confining string in 3+1 dimensions, commonly referred to as the open flux-tube, across various gauge groups of $SU(N_c)$. Our primary objective is to explore its behaviour as we approach the large-$N_c$ limit and the identification of possible world-sheet axion states. Specifically, we undertake a detailed analysis of the associated spectrum for $N_c=3, 4, 5, 6$. This marks the first systematic investigation of the ope…

Two related news stories that hint of the destruction of US assets and infrastructure that are critical to the safety of all of us:
"Severe weather hits the US hard as key forecast offices reel from Trump cuts"
"Trump delays plan to cut satellite data access crucial to hurricane forecasting"

🎉 Happy 10th anniversary to In The Field - the initiative showcasing the global #impact of #NRENs!
Now counting more than 480 stories from over 100 NRENs across the globe, #InTheField highlights the divers…

The UK government’s intention to proscribe Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act 2000 marks a significant escalation in the treatment of civil disobedience. It elevates a group known for throwing red paint at buildings and military aircraft into the same legal category as al-Qaida and Islamic State. If there’s a serious threat from these activists, we’ve yet to see it – just a ministerial statement discussing civil disobedience in the language of counterinsurgency.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/23/the-guardian-view-on-palestine-action-if-red-paint-is-terrorism-what-isnt?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

When it's too hot to turn on the oven, we use the barbecue instead.
#baking #cooking

Discovery of an HI 21 cm absorption system at z=2.327 with CHIME
CHIME Collaboration, Mandana Amiri, Arnab Chakraborty, Simon Foreman, Mark Halpern, Alex S. Hill, Gary Hinshaw, Carolin Hofer, Albin Joseph, Joshua MacEachern, Kiyoshi W. Masui, Juan Mena-Parra, Arash Mirhosseini, Ue-Li Pen, Tristan Pinsonneault-Marotte, Alex Reda, J. Richard Shaw, Seth R. Siegel, Yukari Uchibori, Rik van Lieshout, Haochen Wang, Dallas Wulf

Discovery of an HI 21 cm absorption system at z=2.327 with CHIME
We report the detection of a new HI absorption system associated with the radio source NVSS J164725+375218 at a redshift of z=2.327, identified through a blind survey conducted by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME). This marks the fifth detection of an associated system at z > 2. By analyzing a subset of available data, we conducted a blind survey for HI absorption systems within the redshift range of 0.78 to 2.55 along 202 lines of sight in the declination range of 35 t…

Trump’s latest letter imposing a 50 percent tariff on Brazil, marks a new departure,
and I think it’s both evil and megalomaniacal.
Trump barely even pretends that there’s an economic justification for this action.
This is all about punishing Brazil for putting Jair Bolsonaro on trial.
Bolsonaro, is Brazil’s previous president, who lost the last election — but tried to stay in power through a coup overturning that election.
Of course that sounds familiar.

Trump's Dictator Protection Program
Using tariffs to fight democracy

Phonikud: Hebrew Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion for Real-Time Text-to-Speech
Yakov Kolani, Maxim Melichov, Cobi Calev, Morris Alper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12311

Phonikud: Hebrew Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion for Real-Time Text-to-Speech
Real-time text-to-speech (TTS) for Modern Hebrew is challenging due to the language's orthographic complexity. Existing solutions ignore crucial phonetic features such as stress that remain underspecified even when vowel marks are added. To address these limitations, we introduce Phonikud, a lightweight, open-source Hebrew grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) system that outputs fully-specified IPA transcriptions. Our approach adapts an existing diacritization model with lightweight adaptors, incurring ne…

5-Month Forecast: What to watch from Cowboys in September https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/5-month-forecast-what-to-watch-from-cowboys-in-september

Petty Assifer Hegseth orders #HarveyMilk name to be removed from US Naval vessel
https://apnews.com/article/harvey-milk-navy-ship-rename…

Pete Hegseth orders Harvey Milk's name scrubbed from US Navy ship
U.S. officials say Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to rename the USNS Harvey Milk in a highly rare move. The ship was named after the slain gay rights activist who served as a sailor during the Korean War. The officials say Navy Secretary John Phelan put together a small team to rename the replenishment oiler, and that a new name is expected this month. It marks the latest move by Hegseth to purge diversity, equity and inclusion references, and it comes during Pride Month. T…

This would be a major change to our understanding of the prehistory of the Americas: a 130,000 year old site of stone-tool-using people in southern California
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature22065

A 130,000-year-old archaeological site in southern California, USA - Nature
Evidence of mastodon bone modifications for marrow extraction and/or tool production, found in the presence of hammerstones and anvils that showed use-wear and impact marks, suggest the presence of Homo in North America around 130 thousand years ago.

Dus bij dezen heb ik Telegram verlaten.
Het was een fijne chat-client.
https://techstartups.com/2025/03/26/elon-musks-grok-ai-joins-telegram-gaining-access-to-over-1-billion-users-a-new-era-for-…

Elon Musk’s Grok AI lands on Telegram, gaining access to over 1 billion users: A new era for search and chat - Tech Startups
Elon Musk’s chatbot, Grok—built by his AI company xAI—has officially landed on Telegram. That gives it access to a messaging platform with more than 1 billion monthly active users. The move, announced in March 2025, marks Grok’s most ambitious expansion yet, taking it beyond X (formerly Twitter) and directly into the hands of Telegram users.

UK retailer M&S begins accepting online orders again, seven weeks after disclosing a sustained cyberattack that cost it up to £300M in this financial year (Laura Onita/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/82861589-ea5c-44f1-a1ce-cb3907e84eee

Marks and Spencer resumes online orders as it recovers from cyber attack
Retailer says it will take ‘weeks’ to restore some online services as fashion ranges return

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

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

Advances in Intelligent Hearing Aids: Deep Learning Approaches to Selective Noise Cancellation
Haris Khan, Shumaila Asif, Hassan Nasir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07043

Advances in Intelligent Hearing Aids: Deep Learning Approaches to Selective Noise Cancellation
The integration of artificial intelligence into hearing assistance marks a paradigm shift from traditional amplification-based systems to intelligent, context-aware audio processing. This systematic literature review evaluates advances in AI-driven selective noise cancellation (SNC) for hearing aids, highlighting technological evolution, implementation challenges, and future research directions. We synthesize findings across deep learning architectures, hardware deployment strategies, clinical …

A feature request came in asking to allow users to enable/disable the watched check mark individually for each library.
Here's what I came up with.
A new setting button in the top left that opens the library settings menu. Currently, only 1 setting, but gives us room to expand in the future.
#jellyfin

Protriever: End-to-End Differentiable Protein Homology Search for Fitness Prediction
Ruben Weitzman, Peter M{\o}rch Groth, Lood Van Niekerk, Aoi Otani, Yarin Gal, Debora Marks, Pascal Notin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08954

Protriever: End-to-End Differentiable Protein Homology Search for Fitness Prediction
Retrieving homologous protein sequences is essential for a broad range of protein modeling tasks such as fitness prediction, protein design, structure modeling, and protein-protein interactions. Traditional workflows have relied on a two-step process: first retrieving homologs via Multiple Sequence Alignments (MSA), then training models on one or more of these alignments. However, MSA-based retrieval is computationally expensive, struggles with highly divergent sequences or complex insertions &…

New Raiders LB Germaine Pratt Is No Stranger To Success Vs AFC West Clubs https://raiderramble.com/2025/06/16/new-raiders-lb-germaine-pratt-no-stranger-success-vs-afc-west/

Galaxy Cluster Mass Estimation Through The Splashback Radius
Lucas Gabriel-Silva, Laerte Sodr\'e Jr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07425 https://

Galaxy Cluster Mass Estimation Through The Splashback Radius
We present an analysis of the splashback radius ($R_{\text{sp}}$) and the associated splashback mass ($M_{\text{sp}}$) for a sample of galaxy clusters using SDSS spectroscopic data and mock simulations. $R_{\text{sp}}$ marks a physical boundary between the virialized core and the outer infall regions of clusters, providing a robust measure of cluster mass accretion history without being affected by pseudo-evolution. We model the cumulative galaxy number profile of clusters, testing different ha…

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WBD plans to shut down its linear multiplex channels HBO Family, ThrillerMax, MovieMax, and OuterMax on August 15, 2025; HBO Family launched in December 1996 (Luke Bouma/Cord Cutters News)
https://cordcuttersnews.com/hbo-is-shutting-do…

HBO Is Shutting Down Multiple Channels Including HBO Family & More | Cord Cutters News
In a significant shakeup for the television industry, HBO, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery, has confirmed plans to shut down several of its linear channels, including HBO Family, ThrillerMax, MovieMax, and OuterMax. The announcement, verified by Spectrum on August 15, 2025, marks a strategic pivot for the premium network as it continues to adapt […]

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10 years of stable Rust: an infrastructure story.
https://rustfoundation.org/media/10-years-of-stable-rust-an-infrastructure-story/
saved 2025-05-15

10 Years of Stable Rust: An Infrastructure Story - The Rust Foundation
A note from the Rust Foundation: Today, May 15, 2025, marks 10 years since the first stable release of Rust. To commemorate this milestone, we are excited to share the following guest blog contributed by Graydon Hoare, initial author of the Rust programming language.   Rust turns 10 today, or at…

Rashod Bateman believes Zay Flowers could 'easily' get 1,300 receiving yards but that isn't Ravens' goal https://www.nfl.com/news/rashod-bateman-believes-zay-flowers-could-easily-get-1-300-receiving-yard…

The United States has reached its highest annual measles case tally in 33 years,
hitting at least 1,277 confirmed cases across 38 states and the District of Columbia.

The milestone marks a public health reversal in defeating a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease
as the anti-vaccine movement gains strength.

U.S. measles cases reach 33-year high as outbreaks spread
Johns Hopkins University data reflects the public health reversal in defeating the vaccine-preventable disease since measles was officially eliminated from the U.S. in 2000.

Inhomogeneous mark correlation functions for general marked point processes
Mehdi Moradi, Matthias Eckardt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24501 https://…

Inhomogeneous mark correlation functions for general marked point processes
Spatial phenomena in environmental and biological contexts often involve events that are unevenly distributed across space and carry attributes, whose associations/variations are space-dependent. In this paper, we introduce the class of inhomogeneous mark correlation functions, capturing mark associations/variations, while explicitly accounting for the spatial inhomogeneity of events. The proposed functions are designed to quantify how, on average, marks vary or associate with one another as a …

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Upcoming Event - Nonconformity and Revolutions: - American Society of Church History
When: June 21, 2025 in Bath, Somerset, England 2025 marks the 250th anniversaries which commemorate the American Revolution. Not only a period of geopolitical upheaval, it saw a transformation in the theologies and networks that had shaped eighteenth-century Dissent throughout the British Atlantic world. Notions of liberty and toleration were again brought into relief; events which were…

Ducks Stabbed and Legs Hacked Off – Urge These Companies to Ditch Down #AnimalRights

Urge These Companies to Ditch Down
Ducks are stabbed in the neck so their feathers can be used by suppliers of Marks & Spencer, Gap Inc, Lacoste, and Guess – urge them to drop down now.

3DGEER: Exact and Efficient Volumetric Rendering with 3D Gaussians
Zixun Huang, Cho-Ying Wu, Yuliang Guo, Xinyu Huang, Liu Ren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24053

3DGEER: Exact and Efficient Volumetric Rendering with 3D Gaussians
3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) marks a significant milestone in balancing the quality and efficiency of differentiable rendering. However, its high efficiency stems from an approximation of projecting 3D Gaussians onto the image plane as 2D Gaussians, which inherently limits rendering quality--particularly under large Field-of-View (FoV) camera inputs. While several recent works have extended 3DGS to mitigate these approximation errors, none have successfully achieved both exactness and high effi…

Burnside rings for racks and quandles
Nadia Mazza, Markus Szymik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01425 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.01425

Burnside rings for racks and quandles
We restructure and advance the classification theory of finite racks and quandles by employing powerful methods from transformation groups and representation theory, especially Burnside rings. These rings serve as universal receptacles for those invariants of racks and quandles that are additive with respect to decompositions. We present several fundamental results regarding their structure, including additive bases and multiplicative generators. We also develop a theory of marks, which is anal…

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Deep Learning and Model Independence
Martin King
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03438 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.03438

Deep Learning and Model Independence
The lack of evidence in favor of any new physics models means that the search for new physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM) is wide open, with no direction clearly more promising than any other. This marks a turn towards what can be called `model-independent' methods-strategies that reduce the influence of modelling assumptions by performing minimally-biased precision measurements, using effective field theories, or using Deep Learning methods (DL). In this paper, I present the novel and prom…

XRISM Spectroscopy of the Stellar-Mass Black Hole 4U 1630-472 in Outburst
Jon M. Miller (Univ. of Michigan), Misaki Mizumoto (Univ. of Teacher Education Fukuoka), Megumi Shidatsu (Ehime University), Ralf Ballhausen (Univ. of Maryland, College Park, NASA/GSFC, CRESST), Ehud Behar (Technion), Maria Diaz Trigo (ESO), Chris Done (Univ. of Durham), Tadayasu Dotani (ISAS), Javier Garcia (Caltech), Timothy Kallman (NASA/GSFC), Shogo B. Kobayashi (Tokyo Univ. of Science), Aya Kubota (Shibaura …

XRISM Spectroscopy of the Stellar-Mass Black Hole 4U 1630-472 in Outburst
We report on XRISM/Resolve spectroscopy of the recurrent transient and well-known black hole candidate 4U 1630$-$472 during its 2024 outburst. The source was captured at the end of a disk-dominated high/soft state, at an Eddington fraction of $λ_\mathrm{Edd} \sim 0.05~(10 M_{\odot}/M_\mathrm{BH})$. A variable absorption spectrum with unprecedented complexity is revealed with the Resolve calorimeter. This marks one of the lowest Eddington fractions at which highly ionized absorption has been de…

Uncertainty quantification of a multi-component Hall thruster model at varying facility pressures
Thomas A. Marks, Joshua D. Eckels, Gabriel E. Mora, Alex A. Gorodetsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08113

Uncertainty quantification of a multi-component Hall thruster model at varying facility pressures
Bayesian inference is applied to calibrate and quantify prediction uncertainty in a coupled multi-component Hall thruster model at varying facility background pressures. The model, consisting of a cathode model, discharge model, and plume model, is used to simulate two thrusters across a range of background pressures in multiple vacuum test facilities. The model outputs include thruster performance metrics, one-dimensional plasma properties, and the angular distribution of the current density i…

Cowboys Tabbed a Landing Spot for $84 Million Star https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-tabbed-a-landing-spot-for-84-million-star/?adt_ei=[email]

Paramount faces a backlash for settling with Trump; Democrat FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez says it "marks a dangerous precedent for the First Amendment" (Meg James/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/entertain…

Paramount faces backlash over its $16-million Trump settlement
Journalists and others said the payoff will embolden attacks by Trump and his allies on news outlets. Some called the settlement a stain on the proud legacy of CBS News.

The Spheroidal Bulge of the Milky Way: Chemodynamically Distinct from the Inner-Thick Disc and Bar
Samir Nepal, Cristina Chiappini, Angeles P\'erez-Villegas, Anna B. Queiroz, Stefano Souza, Matthias Steinmetz, Friedrich Anders, Arman Khalatyan, Beatriz Barbuy, Guillaume Guiglion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06863

The Spheroidal Bulge of the Milky Way: Chemodynamically Distinct from the Inner-Thick Disc and Bar
Studying the composition and origin of the inner region of our Galaxy -- the "Galactic bulge" -- is crucial for understanding the formation and evolution of the Milky Way and other galaxies. We present new observational constraints based on a sample of around 18,000 stars in the inner Galaxy, combining Gaia DR3 RVS and APOGEE DR17 spectroscopy. Gaia-RVS complements APOGEE by improving sampling of the metallicity, [Fe/H] in the -2.0 to -0.5 dex range. This work marks the first application of Gai…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to rename the
USNS Harvey Milk,
a highly rare move that will strip the ship of the moniker of a slain gay rights activist who served as a sailor during the Korean War.
The change was laid out in an internal memo that officials said defended the action as a move to align with Trump and Hegseth’s objectives to
“re-establish the warrior culture

Pete Hegseth orders Harvey Milk's name scrubbed from US Navy ship
U.S. officials say Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to rename the USNS Harvey Milk in a highly rare move. The ship was named after the slain gay rights activist who served as a sailor during the Korean War. The officials say Navy Secretary John Phelan put together a small team to rename the replenishment oiler, and that a new name is expected this month. It marks the latest move by Hegseth to purge diversity, equity and inclusion references, and it comes during Pride Month. T…

CFP: British Nonconformity in the Long Eighteenth Century Working Group
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CFP: British Nonconformity in the Long Eighteenth Century Working Group - American Society of Church History
When: June 21, 2025 in Bath Submit abstract and brief bio by: March 31, 2025 2025 marks the 250th anniversaries which commemorate the American Revolution. Not only a period of geopolitical upheaval, it saw a transformation in the theologies and networks that had shaped eighteenth-century Dissent throughout the British Atlantic world. Notions of liberty and…

Texans CB Damon Arnette took 'look in the mirror,' feels he's made 'complete turnaround' before second chance in NFL https://www.nfl.com/news/texans-cb-damon-arnette-took-look-in…

Cowboys predicted to address cornerback concerns by signing former Bengals stalwart https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/cincinnati-bengals/news/cowboys-predicted-address-cornerbac…

Spatially Resolving the Fundamental Elements of Reionization in Galaxies
Xinfeng Xu, Stephan McCandliss, Allison Strom, Yumi Choi, Annalisa Citro, H{\aa}kon Dahle, Matthew J. Hayes, Anne Jaskot, Logan Jones, Gagandeep Kaur, Themiya Nanayakkara, Alexandra Le Reste
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01312

Spatially Resolving the Fundamental Elements of Reionization in Galaxies
Cosmic reionization marks a critical epoch when the first galaxies ionized the intergalactic medium through the escape of Lyman continuum (LyC) radiation. Young, massive star clusters are believed to be the primary LyC sources, yet the physical mechanisms enabling LyC escape remain poorly understood. Most existing studies rely on spatially integrated observations, which lack the resolution to resolve internal galaxy structure and pinpoint where and how LyC photons escape. To address this, we pr…

NFC East safety groups have a wide range of possible 2025 combinations and outcomes https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/05/31/nfc-east-rankings-safeties-2025/83892453007/

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