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Moment, which offers fixed income portfolio management software to financial institutions, raised a $36M Series B led by Index, taking its total funding to $56M (PYMNTS.com)
https://www.pymnts.com/news/investment-tracker/2025…

Moment Raises $36 Million to Automate Fixed Income Investments
Moment has raised $36 million in new funding for its fixed income automation offering. The company’s Series B round, announced Wednesday (July 9), was led

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.LO. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LO/new
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- Feasibility-Guided Fair Adaptive Offline Reinforcement Learning for Medicaid Care Management
Basu, Patel, Sheth, Muralidharan, Elamaran, Kinra, Batniji

Two days after catastrophic floods roared through Central Texas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency still hadn't not answered nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.
The lack of responsiveness happened because the agency had fired hundreds of contractors at call centers.
The agency laid off the contractors on July 5 after their contracts expired and were not extended

FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that weren’t extended.

Extended Version: It Should Be Easy but... New Users Experiences and Challenges with Secret Management Tools
Lorenzo Neil, Deepthi Mungara, Laurie Williams, Yasemin Acar, Bradley Reaves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09036

Extended Version: It Should Be Easy but... New Users Experiences and Challenges with Secret Management Tools
Software developers face risks of leaking their software secrets, such as API keys or passwords, which can result in significant harm. Secret management tools (SMTs), such as HashiCorp Vault Secrets or Infisical, are highly recommended by industry, academia, and security guidelines to manage secrets securely. SMTs are designed to help developers secure their secrets in a central location, yet secrets leaks are still commonplace, and developers report difficulty in learning how to setup and use …

NASA’s Management of the #Dragonfly Project: https://oig.nasa.gov/office-of-inspector-general-oig/audit-reports/nasas-management-of-the-dragonfly-project/ -> After early struggles, NASA’s ambitious mission to Titan is “on track” for launch: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/09/after-early-struggles-nasas-ambitious-mission-to-titan-is-on-track-for-launch/ -> "A new independent report finds that although NASA's ambitious mission to fly across the surface of Titan is delayed and over budget, the fault is due to the space agency's management rather than the program itself."

Speculative politics
As an anarchist (okay, maybe not in practice), I'm tired of hearing why we have to suffer X and Y indignity to "preserve the rule of law" or "maintain Democratic norms." So here's an example of what representative democracy (a form of government that I believe is inherently flawed) could look like if its proponents had even an ounce of imagination, and/or weren't actively trying to rig it to favor a rich donor class:
1. Unicameral legislature, where representatives pass laws directly. Each state elects 3 statewide representatives: the three most-popular candidates in a statewide race where each person votes for one candidate (ranked preference voting would be even better but might not be necessary, and is not a solution by itself). Instead of each representative getting one vote in the chamber, they get N votes, where N is the number of people who voted for them. This means that in a close race, instead of the winner getting all the power, the power is split. Having 3 representatives trades off between leisure size and ensuring that two parties can't dominate together.
2. Any individual citizen can contact their local election office to switch or withdraw their vote at any time (maybe with a 3-day delay or something). Voting power of representatives can thus shift even without an election. They are limited to choosing one of the three elected representatives, or "none of the above." If the "none of the above" fraction exceeds 20% of eligible voters, a new election is triggered for that state. If turnout is less than 80%, a second election happens immediately, with results being final even at lower turnout until 6 months later (some better mechanism for turnout management might be needed).
3. All elections allow mail-in ballots, and in-person voting happens Sunday-Tuesday with the Monday being a mandatory holiday. (Yes, election integrity is not better in this system and that's a big weakness.)
4. Separate nationwide elections elect three positions for head-of-state: one with diplomatic/administrative powers, another with military powers, and a third with veto power. For each position, the top three candidates serve together, with only the first-place winner having actual power until vote switches or withdrawals change who that is. Once one of these heads loses their first-place status, they cannot get it again until another election, even if voters switch preferences back (to avoid dithering). An election for one of these positions is triggered when 20% have withdrawn their votes, or if all three people initially elected have been disqualified by losing their lead in the vote count.
5. Laws that involve spending money are packaged with specific taxes to pay for them, and may only be paid for by those specific revenues. Each tax may be opted into or out of by each taxpayer; where possible opting out of the tax also opts you out of the service. (I'm well aware of a lot of the drawbacks of this, but also feel like they'd not necessarily be worse than the drawbacks of our current system.) A small mandatory tax would cover election expenses.
6. I'm running out of attention, but similar multi-winner elections could elect panels of judges from which a subset is chosen randomly to preside in each case.
Now I'll point out once again that this system, in not directly confronting capitalism, racism, patriarchy, etc., is probably doomed to the same failures as our current system. But if you profess to want a "representative democracy" as opposed to something more libratory, I hope you'll at least advocate for something like this that actually includes meaningful representation as opposed to the current US system that's engineered to quash it.
Key questions: "Why should we have winner-take-all elections when winners-take-proportionately-to-votes is right there?" and "Why should elected officials get to ignore their constituents' approval except during elections, when vote-withdrawal or -switching is possible?"
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#Democracy

CB Insights: the number of AI unicorns reached 498 with a combined value of $2.7T, 100 founded since 2023, and over 1,300 AI startups valued above $100M (Robert Frank/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/10/ai-artificial-intelligence-billionaires-wealth.html…

AI is creating new billionaires at a record pace
With time, and IPOs, many of today's private AI fortunes will eventually become more liquid, providing a historic opportunity for wealth management firms

Towards A High-Performance Quantum Data Center Network Architecture
Yufeng Xin, Liang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09653 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.096…

Towards A High-Performance Quantum Data Center Network Architecture
Quantum Data Centers (QDCs) are needed to support large-scale quantum processing for both academic and commercial applications. While large-scale quantum computers are constrained by technological and financial barriers, a modular approach that clusters small quantum computers offers an alternative. This approach, however, introduces new challenges in network scalability, entanglement generation, and quantum memory management. In this paper, we propose a three-layer fat-tree network architectur…

UTM Performance Under Stressing Scenarios
Ian Jessen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08124 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08124

UTM Performance Under Stressing Scenarios
Proliferation of new classes of airspace participants, including uncrewed and advanced aerial mobility vehicles, necessitates the development and deployment of novel airspace management solutions, such as the Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) system and the Provider of Services to UAM (PSU) Network. The efficacy of such systems has been demonstrated on multiple occasions via real-world deployments in limited test environments, however exploration of system behavior under stressing conditions re…

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- Quantifying socio-temporal effects of loan delinquency drivers in microfinance
Cedric H. A. Koffi, Viani Biatat Djeundje, Olivier Menoukeu Pamen

The White House is singing a different tune these days.
Administration officials say abolishing the FEMA outright is not on the agenda -- with one senior official telling the Post that “changes in the agency will probably amount to a ‘rebranding’ that will emphasize state leaders’ roles in disaster response.”
Noem, who apparently had not received the new White House talking points, was still talking about scrapping FEMA this week,
when she claimed the agency is “slower to ge…

Trump and Noem’s attacks on FEMA make Texas floods all the more devastating
For months before the Texas flash floods, President Donald Trump and his administration floated the idea of abolishing the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Replaced article(s) found for q-fin.PM. https://arxiv.org/list/q-fin.PM/new
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- Optimal investment with insider information using Skorokhod & Russo-Vallois integration
Mauricio Elizalde, Carlos Escudero, Tomoyuki Ichiba

Taming Cold Starts: Proactive Serverless Scheduling with Model Predictive Control
Chanh Nguyen, Monowar Bhuyan, Erik Elmroth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07640 https://

Taming Cold Starts: Proactive Serverless Scheduling with Model Predictive Control
Serverless computing has transformed cloud application deployment by introducing a fine-grained, event-driven execution model that abstracts away infrastructure management. Its on-demand nature makes it especially appealing for latency-sensitive and bursty workloads. However, the cold start problem, i.e., where the platform incurs significant delay when provisioning new containers, remains the Achilles' heel of such platforms. This paper presents a predictive serverless scheduling framework b…

When I wrote my last blog post, I noticed an minor issue, so fixed it and got a new release of Markdown Master CMS released.
https://markdownmaster.com/pages/home.html
Full list of changes this release:
### New Features
* Add support for custom form submit …

MarkdownMaster Content Management Software
Flat-file and client-side content management software utilizing simple markdown files for publishing to the web

Bridging the Gap Between Binary and Source Based Package Management in Spack
John Gouwar, Gregory Becker, Tamara Dahlgren, Nathan Hanford, Arjun Guha, Todd Gamblin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07728

Bridging the Gap Between Binary and Source Based Package Management in Spack
Binary package managers install software quickly but they limit configurability due to rigid ABI requirements that ensure compatibility between binaries. Source package managers provide flexibility in building software, but compilation can be slow. For example, installing an HPC code with a new MPI implementation may result in a full rebuild. Spack, a widely deployed, HPC-focused package manager, can use source and pre-compiled binaries, but lacks a binary compatibility model, so it cannot mix …

The new window management in iPadOS beta is so good. We should have been doing it this way for 10 years.

Good Morning #Canada
Day #8 of The Dirt on Canadian Farming takes us back east to New Brunswick, which is not that "new" BTW. If it seems like we're jumping around the country in this series, with no logic, well, congratulations, you're paying attention.
New Brunswick's agricultural and agri-food sector reached a record of $1.23 billion in farm cash receipts in 2023, with potatoes, blueberries, maple syrup, and dairy all key products. Within that number lies good and bad news. The province had one of the largest decreases in farm operators in the country, but profits per farm have increased. Blueberry farms increased, and the province is 2nd in Canada in production. In 2024, New Brunswick announced the Agricultural Sustainability Program to assist farmers with reducing tillage, maintaining ponds and wetlands, and protecting pollinator habitat, critical and marginal landscapes, trees, riparian areas and crop management.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Farming
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/95-640-x/2016001/article/14803-eng.htm

Replaced article(s) found for q-fin.RM. https://arxiv.org/list/q-fin.RM/new
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- Risk sharing, measuring variability, and distortion riskmetrics
Jean-Gabriel Lauzier, Liyuan Lin, Ruodu Wang

Crosslisted article(s) found for q-fin.PM. https://arxiv.org/list/q-fin.PM/new
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- Optimal Investment and Consumption in a Stochastic Factor Model
Florian Gutekunst, Martin Herdegen, David Hobson

:mastodon: Mastodon version 4.4.0 has been released!
The update includes many new features, changes and bug fixes.
For more information, check out the blog posts & detailed changelog on GitHub.
Update steps can be found at the end of the changelog.
UPDATE: Mastodon 4.4.1 has been released. It addresses some issues in version 4.4.0.
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Mastodon 4.4
Improved profile features, enhanced list management, refreshed navigation, and the initial part of our Quote Posts implementation. All of these and more, in our latest release.

VaxPulse: Monitoring of Online Public Concerns to Enhance Post-licensure Vaccine Surveillance
Muhammad Javed, Sedigh Khademi, Joanne Hickman, Jim Buttery, Hazel Clothier, Gerardo Luis Dimaguila
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04656

VaxPulse: Monitoring of Online Public Concerns to Enhance Post-licensure Vaccine Surveillance
The recent vaccine-related infodemic has amplified public concerns, highlighting the need for proactive misinformation management. We describe how we enhanced the reporting surveillance system of Victoria's vaccine safety service, SAEFVIC, through the incorporation of new information sources for public sentiment analysis, topics of discussion, and hesitancies about vaccinations online. Using VaxPulse, a multi-step framework, we integrate adverse events following immunisation (AEFI) with sentime…

"The old-school traditional software engineering approach featured managers trying to get more productivity (measured in function points per day) from their over-stretched workforce. The new-school, post-Agile approach features managers trying to get more productivity from their over-stretched workforce, but now we measure in story points per day so that is progress, right?"

Apple unveils iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, with an aluminum unibody design, vapor chamber thermal management, Ceramic Shield 2 glass, and three 48MP rear cameras (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/09/09/iphone-17-pro-specs-price-pre-order-release-date/…

Apple unveils iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max: cosmic orange color, unibody design, biggest battery, 8x zoom - 9to5Mac
Apple has officially unveiled the new iPhone 17 Pro. It comes in a bold new orange color, features an aluminum...

Crosslisted article(s) found for q-fin.RM. https://arxiv.org/list/q-fin.RM/new
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- Machine Learning with Multitype Protected Attributes: Intersectional Fairness through Regularisation
Ho Ming Lee, Katrien Antonio, Benjamin Avanzi, Lorenzo Marchi, Rui Zhou

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- Mean--Variance Portfolio Selection by Continuous-Time Reinforcement Learning: Algorithms, Regret ...
Yilie Huang, Yanwei Jia, Xun Yu Zhou

New paper published! ➡️ Climate change adaptation preferences of small enterprises
Vulnerable entrepreneurs’ preferences for climate risk management: A discrete choice experiment with micro-enterprises in the Philippines
Authors: #AnnKristin_Becker @…

Because I'm setting up materials again, and my blog on "Taming Brightspace for Linux" is serving as an aide-memoire, here are some details on using BrightSpace from Linux, bypassing as much as possible of its user interface by using webdav: https://brendanhalpin.net/blog/posts/wo…

Crosslisted article(s) found for q-fin.RM. https://arxiv.org/list/q-fin.RM/new
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- Optimal Risk Sharing Without Preference Convexity: An Aggregate Convexity Approach
Vasily Melnikov

Replaced article(s) found for q-fin.PM. https://arxiv.org/list/q-fin.PM/new
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- Optimal vs naive diversification in cryptocurrencies market: The role of transaction costs and ti...
Heming Chen

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.DB. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DB/new
[1/1]:
- Design and Development of a Web Platform for Blood Donation Management
Fatima Zulfiqar Ali, Atrooba Ilyas

GoldMind: A Teacher-Centered Knowledge Management System for Higher Education -- Lessons from Iterative Design
Gloria Fern\'andez-Nieto, Lele Sha, Yuheng Li, Yi-Shan Tsai, Guanliang Chen, Yinwei Wei, Weiqing Wang, Jinchun Wen, Shaveen Singh, Ivan Silva, Yuanfang Li, Dragan Gas\v{e}vi\'c, Zachari Swiecki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.0…

GoldMind: A Teacher-Centered Knowledge Management System for Higher Education -- Lessons from Iterative Design
Designing Knowledge Management Systems (KMSs) for higher education requires addressing complex human-technology interactions, especially where staff turnover and changing roles create ongoing challenges for reusing knowledge. While advances in process mining and Generative AI enable new ways of designing features to support knowledge management, existing KMSs often overlook the realities of educators' workflows, leading to low adoption and limited impact. This paper presents findings from a two…

AFGE | OPM’s New Performance Management Rules Are Illegal, Violate Labor Contracts
https://www.afge.org/article/opms-new-performance-management-rules-are-illegal-violate-labor-contracts/

Quite annoyed that i18next has many versions of its own JSON format (now v4) https://www.i18next.com/misc/json-format — every time there's a new version, devs have to convert existing translation files to the new format *and* ensure that their translation management platform (e.g. Crowdin) already…

JSON Format | i18next documentation

➤ Our newest OpenOlat release 20.1 is now ready for download
20.1 adds improvements to the new Course Planner module, features a redesigned Coaching Tool and adds overall new features and improvement, e.g. in the topic broker, the assessment scheduling, the catalog management, the blog comment subscription, the digital signing of badges and much more.

From my LinkedIn post: “Telling your dev team to use AI coding tools is like telling your 2010 ops team to use AWS. They didn’t know how to code, they were ticket and click-it VMware people… developers who don’t have product management mindset or have never managed a dev team will fail by trying to micromanage the output of the tool rather than specifying the outcome of the product and managing the agent team to deliver that outcome.”

Back in 2010 when we first started using AWS to run Netflix, the AWS services were very incomplete, somewhat unreliable, had scaling issues, but were super fast to provision compared to filing… | Adrian Cockcroft
Back in 2010 when we first started using AWS to run Netflix, the AWS services were very incomplete, somewhat unreliable, had scaling issues, but were super fast to provision compared to filing tickets and waiting for data center ops teams to do what we need. We worked around the issues, built a new cloud native developer driven architecture and scaled Netflix at speed. At the time many people said we were crazy to run a large enterprise on cloud and would be back in datacenters when it failed. …

Replaced article(s) found for cs.OS. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.OS/new
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- Breaking the Boundaries of Long-Context LLM Inference: Adaptive KV Management on a Single Commodi...
He Sun, Li Li, Mingjun Xiao, Chengzhong Xu

Interference Management for Integrated Sensing and Communications: A Multiple Access Perspective
Kexin Chen, Yijie Mao, Wonjae Shin, Bruno Clerckx, Christos Masouros
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02352

Interference Management for Integrated Sensing and Communications: A Multiple Access Perspective
The integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) technique has been considered a key enabler for 6G radio access networks. ISAC fulfills a brand new paradigm shift in wireless networks via the seamless interplay between communication and sensing within a unified network. However, the tight integration of these functionalities inevitably gives rise to various types of interference, posing significant challenges to existing ISAC waveform designs and rendering interference management a critical con…

AI infrastructure company Pinecone's CEO Edo Liberty will step aside and into a new role as chief scientist; ex-Google executive Ash Ashutosh will become CEO (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/data-managemen…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
[5/5]:
- Frontier AI Risk Management Framework in Practice: A Risk Analysis Technical Report
Shanghai AI Lab, et al.

Energy management and flexibility quantification in a discrete event distribution grid simulation
Sebastian Peter, Daniel Feismann, Johannes Bao, Thomas Oberlie{\ss}en, Christian Rehtanz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23396

Energy management and flexibility quantification in a discrete event distribution grid simulation
Distribution grid operation faces new challenges caused by a rising share of renewable energy sources and the introduction of additional types of loads to the grid. With the increasing adoption of distributed generation and emerging prosumer households, Energy Management Systems, which manage and apply flexibility of connected devices, are gaining popularity. While potentially beneficial to grid capacity, strategic energy management also adds to the complexity of distribution grid operation and…

Los Padres National Forest Faces New Threat with Rollback of ‘Roadless Rules’

The Trump Administration’s Plan Would Open 600,000 Acres to Commercial Logging, Possible Infrastructure Development
https://www.independent.com/2025/06/2…

Los Padres National Forest Faces New Threat with Rollback of ‘Roadless Rules’
The Trump administration’s plan would open 600,000 acres of roadless areas to commercial logging, vegetation management, and possible infrastructure development.

Noninvasive Focused Ultrasound Spinal Cord Stimulation in Humans: A Computational Feasibility Study
Koharu Isomura, Wenwei Yu, Jose Gomez-Tames
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05702

Noninvasive Focused Ultrasound Spinal Cord Stimulation in Humans: A Computational Feasibility Study
Background: Trans-spinal FUS (tsFUS) has recently been shown promise in modulating spinal reflexes in rodents, opening new avenues for spinal cord interventions in motor control and pain management. However, anatomical differences between rodents and human spinal cords require careful targeting strategies and transducer design adaptations for human applications. Aim: This study aims to computationally explore the feasibility of tsFUS in the human spinal cord by leveraging the intervertebral aco…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[6/9]:
- Optimizing the Design of an Artificial Pancreas to Improve Diabetes Management
Ashok Khanna, Olivier Francon, Risto Miikkulainen

Replaced article(s) found for cs.DL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DL/new
[1/1]:
- HERITRACE: A User-Friendly Semantic Data Editor with Change Tracking and Provenance Management fo...
Arcangelo Massari, Silvio Peroni

TopoNav: Topological Graphs as a Key Enabler for Advanced Object Navigation
Peiran Liu, Qiang Zhang, Daojie Peng, Lingfeng Zhang, Yihao Qin, Hang Zhou, Jun Ma, Renjing Xu, Yiding Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01364

TopoNav: Topological Graphs as a Key Enabler for Advanced Object Navigation
Object Navigation (ObjectNav) has made great progress with large language models (LLMs), but still faces challenges in memory management, especially in long-horizon tasks and dynamic scenes. To address this, we propose TopoNav, a new framework that leverages topological structures as spatial memory. By building and updating a topological graph that captures scene connections, adjacency, and semantic meaning, TopoNav helps agents accumulate spatial knowledge over time, retrieve key information, …

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We had the pleasure of presenting at FIRST.org 2025, showcasing the Vulnerability-Lookup and GCVE.eu initiatives.
Slides are now available.
#cybersecurity #vulnerability #cve

Site of Midtown Shooting Is Owned by Rudin Management and Houses NFL and Blackstone https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/nyregion/midtown-shooting-nyc-blackstone-nfl-rudin.html

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Long; central Massachusetts colonial history
Today on a whim I visited a site in Massachusetts marked as "Huguenot Fort Ruins" on OpenStreetMaps. I drove out with my 4-year-old through increasingly rural central Massachusetts forests & fields to end up on a narrow street near the top of a hill beside a small field. The neighboring houses had huge lawns, some with tractors.
Appropriately for this day and this moment in history, the history of the site turns out to be a microcosm of America. Across the field beyond a cross-shaped stone memorial stood an info board with a few diagrams and some text. The text of the main sign (including typos/misspellings) read:
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Town Is Formed
Early in the 1680's, interest began to generate to develop a town in the area west of Natick in the south central part of the Commonwealth that would be suitable for a settlement. A Mr. Hugh Campbell, a Scotch merchant of Boston petitioned the court for land for a colony. At about the same time, Joseph Dudley and William Stoughton also were desirous of obtaining land for a settlement. A claim was made for all lands west of the Blackstone River to the southern land of Massachusetts to a point northerly of the Springfield Road then running southwesterly until it joined the southern line of Massachusetts.
Associated with Dudley and Stoughton was Robert Thompson of London, England, Dr. Daniel Cox and John Blackwell, both of London and Thomas Freak of Hannington, Wiltshire, as proprietors. A stipulation in the acquisition of this land being that within four years thirty families and an orthodox minister settle in the area. An extension of this stipulation was granted at the end of the four years when no group large enough seemed to be willing to take up the opportunity.
In 1686, Robert Thompson met Gabriel Bernor and learned that he was seeking an area where his countrymen, who had fled their native France because of the Edict of Nantes, were desirous of a place to live. Their main concern was to settle in a place that would allow them freedom of worship. New Oxford, as it was the so-named, at that time included the larger part of Charlton, one-fourth of Auburn, one-fifth of Dudley and several square miles of the northeast portion of Southbridge as well as the easterly ares now known as Webster.
Joseph Dudley's assessment that the area was capable of a good settlement probably was based on the idea of the meadows already established along with the plains, ponds, brooks and rivers. Meadows were a necessity as they provided hay for animal feed and other uses by the settlers. The French River tributary books and streams provided a good source for fishing and hunting. There were open areas on the plains as customarily in November of each year, the Indians burnt over areas to keep them free of underwood and brush. It appeared then that this area was ready for settling.
The first seventy-five years of the settling of the Town of Oxford originally known as Manchaug, embraced three different cultures. The Indians were known to be here about 1656 when the Missionary, John Eliott and his partner Daniel Gookin visited in the praying towns. Thirty years later, in 1686, the Huguenots walked here from Boston under the guidance of their leader Isaac Bertrand DuTuffeau. The Huguenot's that arrived were not peasants, but were acknowledged to be the best Agriculturist, Wine Growers, Merchant's, and Manufacter's in France. There were 30 families consisting of 52 people. At the time of their first departure (10 years), due to Indian insurrection, there were 80 people in the group, and near their Meetinghouse/Church was a Cemetery that held 20 bodies. In 1699, 8 to 10 familie's made a second attempt to re-settle, failing after only four years, with the village being completely abandoned in 1704.
The English colonist made their way here in 1713 and established what has become a permanent settlement.
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All that was left of the fort was a crumbling stone wall that would have been the base of a higher wooden wall according to a picture of a model (I didn't think to get a shot of that myself). Only trees and brush remain where the multi-story main wooden building was.
This story has so many echoes in the present:
- The rich colonialists from Boston & London agree to settle the land, buying/taking land "rights" from the colonial British court that claimed jurisdiction without actually having control of the land. Whether the sponsors ever actually visited the land themselves I don't know. They surely profited somehow, whether from selling on the land rights later or collecting taxes/rent or whatever, by they needed poor laborers to actually do the work of developing the land (& driving out the original inhabitants, who had no say in the machinations of the Boston court).
- The land deal was on condition that there capital-holders who stood to profit would find settlers to actually do the work of colonizing. The British crown wanted more territory to be controlled in practice not just in theory, but they weren't going to be the ones to do the hard work.
- The capital-holders actually failed to find enough poor suckers to do their dirty work for 4 years, until the Huguenots, fleeing religious persecution in France, were desperate enough to accept their terms.
- Of course, the land was only so ripe for settlement because of careful tending over centuries by the natives who were eventually driven off, and whose land management practices are abandoned today. Given the mention of praying towns (& dates), this was after King Phillip's war, which resulted in at least some forced resettlement of native tribes around the area, but the descendants of those "Indians" mentioned in this sign are still around. For example, this is the site of one local band of Nipmuck, whose namesake lake is about 5 miles south of the fort site: #LandBack.

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Spiking Neural Networks for Resource Allocation in UAV-Enabled Wireless Networks
Vasileios Kouvakis, Stylianos E. Trevlakis, Ioannis Arapakis, Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03279

Spiking Neural Networks for Resource Allocation in UAV-Enabled Wireless Networks
This work presents a new spiking neural network (SNN)-based approach for user equipment-base station (UE-BS) association in non-terrestrial networks (NTNs). With the introduction of UAV's in wireless networks, the system architecture becomes heterogeneous, resulting in the need for dynamic and efficient management to avoid congestion and sustain overall performance. The presented framework compares two SNN-based optimization strategies. Specifically, a top-down centralized approach with complet…

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19 states sue the Energy Department over new funding caps on sustainable energy projects - Government Executive
https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/08/19-states-sue-energy-department-over-new-funding-caps-sustainable-energy-projects/407557/

Trump administration is launching a new private health tracking system with Big Tech’s help
The system
-- spearheaded by an administration that has already freely shared highly personal data about Americans in ways that have tested legal bounds
-- could put patients’ desires for more convenience at their doctor’s office on a collision course with their expectations that their medical information be kept private.
“There are enormous ethical and legal concerns,”
…

Trump administration announces new private health tracking system with Big Tech’s help
The Trump administration is pushing for Americans to upload personal health data to new apps run by private tech companies. This initiative aims to make accessing health records and monitoring wellness easier. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump is expected to discuss this at an event with leaders from companies like Google and Amazon. The system will focus on diabetes, weight management, and digital tools for patient check-ins. While officials say patients must opt in and data will be secure,…

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New York City-based cybersecurity company Axonius acquires Cynerio, which offers healthcare IoT cybersecurity and asset management services, for $180M (Golan Hazani/CTech)
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Cyber unicorn Axonius acquires Cynerio in $180M deal to expand into healthcare security
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“Water has long been a tool of warfare,
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Tel Aviv-based Seemplicity, whose AI-based tech automates enterprise vulnerability and exposure management, raised a $50M Series B led by Sienna Venture Capital (Rick Whiting/CRN)
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