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Silicon nitride on-chip C-band spontaneous emission generation based on lanthanide doped microparticles
Dmitry V. Obydennov, Ilya M. Asharchuk, Alexander M. Mumlyakov, Maxim V. Shibalov, Nikolay A. Vovk, Ivan A. Filippov, Lidiya S. Volkova, Michael A. Tarkhov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11189…

Silicon nitride on-chip C-band spontaneous emission generation based on lanthanide doped microparticles
The integration of active light-emitting elements into planar photonic circuits on a silicon nitride platform remains challenging due to material incompatibilities and high-temperature processing. Proposed hybrid method embeds monodisperse luminescent particles into lithographically defined wells above a 200 nm-thick silicon nitride taper coupler. A fabrication process involving wells etching, particle deposition, and planarization enables precise integration while maintaining waveguide integri…

Hamish McKenzie says WaPo approached Substack about hosting its writers, and there has been a "change in mindset" of traditional media about the platform (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun

Raiders TE ready for breakout year: ‘It’s time for me to do some things’ https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-te-ready-for-breakout-year-its-time-for-me-to-do-some-things-3421304/

Ukraine meldet mindestens einen Toten bei russischen Angriffen
Bei neuen russischen Angriffen in der Nacht ist nach ukrainischen Angaben mindestens ein Mensch getötet worden. Die Industrieregion Dnipropetrowsk sei mit Drohnen, Artillerie und Raketen angegriffen worden, teilte der Leiter der örtlichen Militärverwaltung, Mykola Lukaschuk, mit. Dabei seien Gebäude, darunter ein Kindergarten, und Stromleitungen zerstört worden.
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Selenskyj: Putin will totale Niederlage der Ukraine ++
Kremlchef Putin ist nach Meinung des ukrainischen Präsidenten Selenskyj nicht an einem Waffenstillstand interessiert. Bei russischen Angriffen wurde nach ukrainischen Angaben in der Region Dnipropetrowsk mindestens ein Mensch getötet. Der Liveblog vom Sonntag zum Nachlesen.

An Earth-Sized Planet in a 5.4h Orbit Around a Nearby K dwarf
Kaya Han Ta\c{s}, Gudmundur Stefansson, Syarief N. M. Fariz, Esha Garg, Juan I. Espinoza-Retamal, Elise Koo, David Bruijne, Jacob Luhn, Eric B. Ford, Suvrath Mahadevan, Sarah E. Logsdon, Caleb I. Ca\~nas, Te Han, Mark E. Everett, Jaime A. Alvarado-Montes, Cullen Blake, William D. Cochran, Jiayin Dong, Rachel B. Fernandes, Mark R. Giovinazzi, Samuel Halverson, Shubham Kanodia, Daniel Krolikowski, Michael McElwain, Joe Ninan, …

An Earth-Sized Planet in a 5.4h Orbit Around a Nearby K dwarf
We present the discovery and confirmation of the ultra-short period (USP) planet TOI-2431 b orbiting a nearby ($d\sim36$ pc) late K star ($T_{\mathrm{eff}}$ = $4109 \pm 28 \, {\rm K}$) using observations from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), precise radial velocities with the NEID and the Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF) spectrographs, as well as ground-based high contrast imaging from NESSI. TOI-2431 b has a period of 5 hours and 22 minutes, making it one of the shortest-per…

Quo Vadis, Code Review? Exploring the Future of Code Review
Michael Dorner, Andreas Bauer, Darja \v{S}mite, Lukas Thode, Daniel Mendez, Ricardo Britto, Stephan Lukasczyk, Ehsan Zabardast, Michael Kormann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06879

Quo Vadis, Code Review? Exploring the Future of Code Review
Code review has long been a core practice in collaborative software engineering. In this research, we explore how practitioners reflect on code review today and what changes they anticipate in the near future. We then discuss the potential long-term risks of these anticipated changes for the evolution of code review and its role in collaborative software engineering.

Check out my latest CSO piece that examines how Trump's civilian agency cyber budget cuts for FY2026 could weaken federal defenses, shrink the cyber talent pipeline, and strip state and local governments of vital grant funding.
Thanks to Michael Daniel of the Cyber Threat Alliance, Mark Montgomery of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Munish Walther-Puri of NYU's Center for Global Affairs, and former US cyber official Amélie Koran for their insights.
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Trump seeks unprecedented $1.23 billion cut to federal cyber budget
Trump’s 2026 budget would slash cyber spending by over $1 billion from 2024 levels, a move that could weaken federal defenses, shrink the cyber talent pipeline, and strip state and local governments of vital grant funding.

« La transformation de notre empreinte industrielle en Suisse a commencé en 2015 quand la Banque nationale suisse a décidé de découpler l’euro et le franc. En dix ans, nous avons eu le covid, la guerre en Ukraine qui a fait exploser les coûts de l’énergie, l’initiative de l’UDC sur la Suisse Š 10 millions… La politique de Donald Trump s’ajoute Š tout cela. Avec ces éléments combinés, nous investissons naturellement moins en Suisse. » ~ Simon Michel
https://www.letemps.ch/economie/simon-michel-directeur-d-ypsomed-je-ne-crois-pas-que-ces-taxes-disparaitront-durant-les-huit-prochaines-annees?shouldPreventPurchase=true&inAppView=3.18.1&didomiConfig.user.externalConsent.value={"purposes":{"consent":{"enabled":["audiencem-hJxaeGrR","cookies","create_ads_profile","create_content_profile","device_characteristics","geolocation_data","improve_products","market_research","measure_ad_performance","measure_content_performance","parselyne-Ya2EC4dG","select_basic_ads","select_personalized_ads","select_personalized_content","use_limited_data_to_select_content"],"disabled":[]},"legitimate_interest":{"enabled":[],"disabled":[]}},"vendors":{"consent":{"enabled":["amazon","c:aws-cloudfront","c:bannerwise-EeHwBjLT","c:chartbeat","c:cloudflare","c:echobox-GqD96L9K","c:forecast-ZRJPAUT7","c:googleana-4TXnJigR","c:hotjar","c:jsdelivr-xdD77X6w","c:jw-player","c:keycdn","c:linkedin","c:magnitein-ePEpbCQ7","c:meta-43HDmFRa","c:microsoft","c:nonli-jnWf8kqD","c:pianohybr-R3VKC2r4","c:pinterest","c:spyri-XAtBPx3i","c:tapadinc-VDTUUcKw","c:tiktok-KZAUQLZ9","c:unrulygro-nKyLqdKi","c:youtube","facebook","google","twitter",1,10,1020,1021,1046,1069,108,109,11,1126,12,120,128,13,130,131,1310,132,136,137,138,142,143,154,156,16,164,202,209,21,211,23,238,24,241,243,25,253,264,28,284,290,30,301,32,36,39,4,412,422,45,469,475,493,50,519,52,559,58,61,612,617,68,684,69,73,76,77,783,790,793,80,81,811,84,85,855,898,91,92,95,965,98],"disabled":[]},"legitimate_interest":{"enabled":[],"disabled":[]}},"user_id":"36B03261-8BC8-4FB4-A026-0543FF748710","created":"2025-05-28T08:36:56.058Z","updated":"2025-07-29T18:14:07.251Z","source":{"type":"app","domain":"ch.letemps.LT"},"action":"webview"}

Sources: Apple lost around a dozen of its AI staff, including top researchers, to rivals in recent months; its core foundation models team has ~50 to 60 people (Michael Acton/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/6b9ce8ce-a327-40c1-a8a1-579c2727fc60

Coinbase says its new "everything exchange" will include tokenized assets, stocks, derivatives, prediction markets, and more, for US users in the coming months (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/31/coinbase-t

Coinbase says it's launching tokenized stocks, predictions markets for U.S. users in coming months
The expansion puts Coinbase in even closer competition with Robinhood, Gemini and Kraken, all of whom have tokenized equity offerings for users outside the U.S.