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🪁 Non-native trees gain ground in eastern US, reducing native species diversity
(... blame Ben Franklin!)
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-native-trees-gain-ground-eastern.html

Non-native trees gain ground in eastern US, reducing native species diversity
In the largest study of its kind, researchers at the Florida Museum of Natural History have used data from a 120-year-old program managed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to quantify the effects of introduced species.

Mixpanel founder Suhail Doshi calls out Soham Parekh, who he says "works at 3-4 startups at the same time" and has "been preying on YC companies and more" (Bhavya Sukheja/NDTV)
https://www.ndtv.c…

AI Founder Accuses Indian Techie Soham Parekh Of Scamming Multiple Startups: "Fired This Guy In First Week"
A US-based AI founder has accused an Indian techie of working at multiple startups simultaneously under false pretences.

"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."

RoboEgo System Card: An Omnimodal Model with Native Full Duplexity
Yiqun Yao, Xiang Li, Xin Jiang, Xuezhi Fang, Naitong Yu, Aixin Sun, Yequan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01934

RoboEgo System Card: An Omnimodal Model with Native Full Duplexity
Humans naturally process real-world multimodal information in a full-duplex manner. In artificial intelligence, replicating this capability is essential for advancing model development and deployment, particularly in embodied contexts. The development of multimodal models faces two primary challenges: (1) effectively handling more than three modalities-such as vision, audio, and text; and (2) delivering full-duplex responses to rapidly evolving human instructions. To facilitate research on mode…

A whistleblower details Clothoff, an AI-powered nudify app that owns 10 similar services; Clothoff had 27M visitors in H1 2024 and produced 200K images daily (Spiegel Online)
https://www.spiegel.de/internationa…

Using AI to Humiliate Women: The Men Behind Deepfake Pornography
AI-generated naked images of real women is the business model behind Clothoff, a dubious "nudify" app that has millions of visitors. Now, a whistleblower has provided details of just how cynical the site's operators are.

Given my background around the funeral industry and writing thrillers, is anyone surprised that I'd like to see this? #TrueCrime
https://time.com/7290184/the-…

The Chilling True Story Behind HBO’s The Mortician
The documentary series examines the startling true story of a cremator who went to prison for mishandling human remains

ADA: Automated Moving Target Defense for AI Workloads via Ephemeral Infrastructure-Native Rotation in Kubernetes
Akram Sheriff, Ken Huang, Zsolt Nemeth, Madjid Nakhjiri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23805

ADA: Automated Moving Target Defense for AI Workloads via Ephemeral Infrastructure-Native Rotation in Kubernetes
This paper introduces the Adaptive Defense Agent (ADA), an innovative Automated Moving Target Defense (AMTD) system designed to fundamentally enhance the security posture of AI workloads. ADA operates by continuously and automatically rotating these workloads at the infrastructure level, leveraging the inherent ephemerality of Kubernetes pods. This constant managed churn systematically invalidates attacker assumptions and disrupts potential kill chains by regularly destroying and respawning AI …

https://medium.com/ticom/rss-in-mastodon-823042abb8a9
One of Mastodon’s features is native RSS integration
which is very easy to use:
For example let’s take the URL

RSS in Mastodon - TICOM Webcomics - Medium

SurgiSR4K: A High-Resolution Endoscopic Video Dataset for Robotic-Assisted Minimally Invasive Procedures
Fengyi Jiang, Xiaorui Zhang, Lingbo Jin, Ruixing Liang, Yuxin Chen, Adi Chola Venkatesh, Jason Culman, Tiantian Wu, Lirong Shao, Wenqing Sun, Cong Gao, Hallie McNamara, Jingpei Lu, Omid Mohareri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.002…

SurgiSR4K: A High-Resolution Endoscopic Video Dataset for Robotic-Assisted Minimally Invasive Procedures
High-resolution imaging is crucial for enhancing visual clarity and enabling precise computer-assisted guidance in minimally invasive surgery (MIS). Despite the increasing adoption of 4K endoscopic systems, there remains a significant gap in publicly available native 4K datasets tailored specifically for robotic-assisted MIS. We introduce SurgiSR4K, the first publicly accessible surgical imaging and video dataset captured at a native 4K resolution, representing realistic conditions of robotic-a…

Wireless AI Evolution: From Statistical Learners to Electromagnetic-Guided Foundation Models
Jian Xiao, Ji Wang, Kunrui Cao, Xingwang Li, Zhao Chen, Chau Yuen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00366

Wireless AI Evolution: From Statistical Learners to Electromagnetic-Guided Foundation Models
While initial applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in wireless communications over the past decade have demonstrated considerable potential using specialized models for targeted communication tasks, the revolutionary demands of sixth-generation (6G) networks for holographic communications, ubiquitous sensing, and native intelligence are propelling a necessary evolution towards AI-native wireless networks. The arrival of large AI models paves the way for the next phase of Wireless AI, dr…