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Instant Pot Brands plans to offer a “45/47 Collaboration” featuring various products branded with those numbers and Trump’s signature “Make America Great Again” tagline. 🤮
https://bsky.app/profile/semafor.com/post/3lrq3syd56z2a

My main bugbear with OVH is that they *still* don't offer "failover IP" (where you can fairly quickly move an IP between different dedicated servers) for IPv4, not IPV6.
And, no, they don't offer "Bring Your Own IP" for IPv6 either, only for IPv4.
So when I recently migrated us to a new server I had to do the DNS TTL dance with the IPv6 side of things.
Oh, and it's still only a /64 per server. Not that anything stops you from just using <…

New study on the effects of LLM use (in this case on essay writing):
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
Quote:
"LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four month…

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed three sessions under the same condition. In a fourth session, LLM users were reassigned to Brain-only group (LLM-to-Brain), and Brain-only users were reassigned to LLM condition (Brain-to-LLM). A total of 54 participants took part in Sessions 1-3, with 18 completing session 4. We used electroencephalo…

Avoid #Krogers until they agree to pay their workers.
#UnionStrong
https://masto.nyc/@GetMisch/1146944853

It's not that I don't appreciate the offer but I can lubricate my own bicycle chain, thank you very much.

"Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task"
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.08872
"[…] While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four mont…

The Thing quadrant of the Fantastic Four tie-in pizza is Italian Sausage and Bacon, to reflect Ben Grimm's jewish heritage?
https://gizmodo.com/i-have-questions-about-the-official-fantastic-four-pizza-2000616477

I Have Questions About the Official 'Fantastic Four' Pizza
The food tie-ins with Marvel's next movie offer some very curious choices.

User Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Untraceability in Messaging Platforms
Carla F. Griggio, Boel Nelson, Zefan Sramek, Aslan Askarov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11212

User Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Untraceability in Messaging Platforms
Mainstream messaging platforms offer a variety of features designed to enhance user privacy, such as disappearing messages, password-protected chats, and end-to-end encryption (E2EE), which primarily protect message contents. Beyond contents, the transmission of messages generates metadata that can reveal who communicates with whom, when and how often. In this paper, we study user perceptions of "untraceability", i.e., preventing third parties from tracing who communicates with whom, with the g…

Auditory-Tactile Congruence for Synthesis of Adaptive Pain Expressions in RoboPatients
Saitarun Nadipineni, Chapa Sirithunge, Yue Xie, Fumiya Iida, Thilina Dulantha Lalitharatne
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11827

Auditory-Tactile Congruence for Synthesis of Adaptive Pain Expressions in RoboPatients
Misdiagnosis can lead to delayed treatments and harm. Robotic patients offer a controlled way to train and evaluate clinicians in rare, subtle, or complex cases, reducing diagnostic errors. We present RoboPatient, a medical robotic simulator aimed at multimodal pain synthesis based on haptic and auditory feedback during palpation-based training scenarios. The robopatient functions as an adaptive intermediary, capable of synthesizing plausible pain expressions vocal and facial in response to tac…

Querying Large Automotive Software Models: Agentic vs. Direct LLM Approaches
Lukasz Mazur, Nenad Petrovic, James Pontes Miranda, Ansgar Radermacher, Robert Rasche, Alois Knoll
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13171

Querying Large Automotive Software Models: Agentic vs. Direct LLM Approaches
Large language models (LLMs) offer new opportunities for interacting with complex software artifacts, such as software models, through natural language. They present especially promising benefits for large software models that are difficult to grasp in their entirety, making traditional interaction and analysis approaches challenging. This paper investigates two approaches for leveraging LLMs to answer questions over software models: direct prompting, where the whole software model is provided …

Enter: Graduated Realism: A Pedagogical Framework for AI-Powered Avatars in Virtual Reality Teacher Training
Judson Leroy Dean Haynes IV
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11890

Enter: Graduated Realism: A Pedagogical Framework for AI-Powered Avatars in Virtual Reality Teacher Training
Virtual Reality simulators offer a powerful tool for teacher training, yet the integration of AI-powered student avatars presents a critical challenge: determining the optimal level of avatar realism for effective pedagogy. This literature review examines the evolution of avatar realism in VR teacher training, synthesizes its theoretical implications, and proposes a new pedagogical framework to guide future design. Through a systematic review, this paper traces the progression from human-contro…

HarMoEny: Efficient Multi-GPU Inference of MoE Models
Zachary Douchet, Rishi Sharma, Martijn de Vos, Rafael Pires, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Oana Balmau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12417

HarMoEny: Efficient Multi-GPU Inference of MoE Models
Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models offer computational efficiency during inference by activating only a subset of specialized experts for a given input. This enables efficient model scaling on multi-GPU systems that use expert parallelism without compromising performance. However, load imbalance among experts and GPUs introduces waiting times, which can significantly increase inference latency. To address this challenge, we propose HarMoEny, a novel solution to address MoE load imbalance through t…

“…leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift.”
‭‭Matthew€ ‭5€:‭24€ ‭NRSV€€
https://bible.com/bible/2016/mat.5.24.NRSV

Matthew 5:24 leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift. | New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) | Download The Bible App Now
leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift.

@Snowshadow@mastodon.social
Would be a shame if the crazy red hat wearing health sites were reported
https://www.wtphealthcare.com/

We The People Health and Wellness Center | Primary Care | 959 East Venice Avenue, Venice, FL, USA
We The People Health and Wellness Center in Venice, Florida. Our DPC services offer transparent, affordable plans with unlimited telehealth visits for adults and pediatrics. Redefine your healthcare experience with IV Therapy, Red Light Therapy, Vitamin Shots, and Functional Medicine. Visit wtphealthcare.com for more. medical freedom, direct primary care, doctors that care, primary care, IV therapy, PRP therapy, massage therapy, red light therapy, pediatric care, vitamin shots, supplements.

And yet more Masana slides about the 2026 Total #SolarEclipse - which largely hits a sparsely populated region of Spain. Which has a lot to offer besides the eclipse, of course. Also a helpful matrix comparing the five zones of the eclipse in Spain. 12/n

On the High-Rate FDPC Codes: Construction, Encoding, and a Generalization
Mohsen Moradi, Sheida Rabeti, Hessam Mahdavifar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11345 …

On the High-Rate FDPC Codes: Construction, Encoding, and a Generalization
Recently introduced Fair-Density Parity-Check (FDPC) codes, targeting high-rate applications, offer superior error-correction performance (ECP) compared to 5G Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) codes, given the same number of message-passing decoding iterations. In this paper, we present a novel construction method for FDPC codes, introduce a generalization of these codes, and propose a low-complexity encoding algorithm. Numerical results demonstrate the fast convergence of the message-passing dec…

Exploring the Effectiveness of Deep Features from Domain-Specific Foundation Models in Retinal Image Synthesis
Zuzanna Skorniewska, Bartlomiej W. Papiez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11753

Exploring the Effectiveness of Deep Features from Domain-Specific Foundation Models in Retinal Image Synthesis
The adoption of neural network models in medical imaging has been constrained by strict privacy regulations, limited data availability, high acquisition costs, and demographic biases. Deep generative models offer a promising solution by generating synthetic data that bypasses privacy concerns and addresses fairness by producing samples for under-represented groups. However, unlike natural images, medical imaging requires validation not only for fidelity (e.g., Fréchet Inception Score) but also…

Leveraging Reference Documents for Zero-Shot Ranking via Large Language Models
Jieran Li, Xiuyuan Hu, Yang Zhao, Shengyao Zhuang, Hao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11452

Leveraging Reference Documents for Zero-Shot Ranking via Large Language Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance in the task of text ranking for information retrieval. While Pointwise ranking approaches offer computational efficiency by scoring documents independently, they often yield biased relevance estimates due to the lack of inter-document comparisons. In contrast, Pairwise methods improve ranking accuracy by explicitly comparing document pairs, but suffer from substantial computational overhead with quadratic complexity ($O(n^2)…

Hunting for Dark Photon-Photon Tridents
Thong T. Q. Nguyen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12153 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.12153

Hunting for Dark Photon-Photon Tridents
Dark photons, hypothesized to be sufficiently light and/or weakly interacting, offer a compelling candidate for dark matter. Their decay into three photons, referred to as the "dark photon trident" process, becomes the dominant channel when the dark photon mass lies below the electron pair production threshold. This decay channel produces a significant flux of x-rays, presenting an opportunity for indirect detection. In this study, we analyze 16 years of x-ray data from INTEGRAL/SPI to investig…

Will Apple macOS 15.5 Spotlight offer me CuteFTP (which is installed)? NO.
Will Apple macOS 15.5 Spotlight offer me 'cute white women'? APPARENTLY YES. wtf
Also a 'cute colorful hydrogen bomb', because why the hell not?

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

A simplified and robust proxy-based approach for overcoming unmeasured confounding in EHR studies
Haley Colgate Kottler, Amy Cochran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12177

A simplified and robust proxy-based approach for overcoming unmeasured confounding in EHR studies
Electronic health records (EHR) are used to study treatment effects in clinical settings, yet unmeasured confounding remains a persistent challenge. Indirect measurements of the unmeasured confounder (proxies) offer a potential solution, but existing approaches -- such as proximal inference or full joint modeling -- can be difficult to implement. We propose a two-stage, proxy-based method that is practical, broadly applicable, and robust. In the first stage, we apply factor analysis to proxy an…

Real-Time Capable, Low-latency Upstream Scheduling in Multi-Tenant, SLA Compliant TWDM PON
Arijeet Ganguli, Marco Ruffini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12118 …

Real-Time Capable, Low-latency Upstream Scheduling in Multi-Tenant, SLA Compliant TWDM PON
Virtualized Passive Optical Networks (vPONs) offer a promising solution for modern access networks, bringing enhanced flexibility, reduced capital expenditures (CapEx), and support for multi-tenancy. By decoupling network functions from physical infrastructure, vPONs enable service providers to efficiently share network resources among multiple tenants. In this paper, we propose a novel merging DBA algorithm, called the Dynamic Time and Wavelength Allocation (DTWA) algorithm, for a virtualized …

Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--How the SEC missed the likely culprits in its 2017 hack,
--How a quiet engineer controls Telegram,
--When a Canadian teen spied for Russia,
--Cybercrime group document shows that Russia doubts China,
--Modern militaries rely on li…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 6/7/25
How the SEC missed the likely culprits in its 2017 hack, How a quiet engineer controls Telegram, When a Canadian teen spied for Russia, Cybercrime group document shows that Russia doubts China, Modern militaries rely on lightweight tools and superior spycraft, AI's delusional rabbit holes

Why Chris Godwin spurned Patriots' $30 million offer, signed for less money with Buccaneers

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/why-chr

Inner disc and circumplanetary material in the PDS 70 system
Daniele Fasano, Myriam Benisty, Pietro Curone, Stefano Facchini, Francesco Zagaria, Tomohiro C. Yoshida, Kiyoaki Doi, Anibal Sierra, Sean Andrews, Jaehan Bae, Andrea Isella, Nicol\'as T. Kurtovic, Laura M. P\'erez, Paola Pinilla, Luna Rampinelli, Richard Teague
https://

Inner disc and circumplanetary material in the PDS 70 system
The two giant protoplanets directly imaged in the dust-depleted cavity of PDS 70 offer a unique opportunity to study ongoing planet formation. Both planets have been detected in infrared thermal emission and in H$α$, indicating active accretion. We calibrate and analyse archival ALMA Band 6 and 7 observations of PDS 70 from 2019, 2021, and 2023 to search for circumplanetary material and assess its motion. Using 2D visibility modelling of the high-resolution (~0.11"x0.08" in Band 6; ~0.05"x0.05…

Using gridpoint relaxation for forecast error diagnostics in neural weather models
Uros Perkan, Ziga Zaplotnik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11987 https://

Using gridpoint relaxation for forecast error diagnostics in neural weather models
Deep-learning (DL) weather prediction models offer notable advantages over traditional physics-based models, including auto-differentiability and low computational cost, enabling detailed diagnostics of forecast errors. Using our convolutional encoder-decoder model, ConvCastNet, we systematically relax selected subdomains of the forecast fields towards "true" weather states (ERA5 analyses) and monitor the forecast skill gain in other regions. Our results show that an 8-day midlatitude forecast …

Modelado y gemelos digitales en el contexto fotovoltaico
Franco Bertani Matung, Juan Cruz Esquembre Santamar\'ia, Ricardo R. Palma, Fabricio Orlando Sanchez Varretti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12102

Modelado y gemelos digitales en el contexto fotovoltaico
The photovoltaic industry faces the challenge of optimizing the performance and management of its systems in an increasingly digitalized environment. In this context, digital twins offer an innovative solution: virtual models that replicate in real time the behavior of solar installations. This technology makes it possible to anticipate failures, improve operational efficiency and facilitate data-driven decision-making. This report analyzes its application in the photovoltaic sector, highlighti…

Internal docs: Fidelity, TPG, Sequoia, and others are buying ~$250M worth of shares in xAI under a tender offer valuing it at $113B; Fidelity is purchasing $20M (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/business/xai-elon-musk-investors.html

Elon Musk’s xAI Is Getting $250 Million in Investments From TPG, Sequoia and Others
Two dozen venture capital firms and other investors are investing in xAI, the artificial intelligence and social media company.

Tunable Photodetectors Based on 2D Hybrid Structures from Transition Metal Dichalcogenides and Photochromic Molecules
Sewon Park, Jaehoon Ji, Joakim Andreasson, Jeong Ho You, Jong Hyun Choi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11249

Tunable Photodetectors Based on 2D Hybrid Structures from Transition Metal Dichalcogenides and Photochromic Molecules
This article reviews recent progress in two-dimensional (2D) hybrid structures that integrate transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) with photochromic molecules for photodetector applications. Atomically thin TMD semiconductors offer strong light-matter interaction, tunable bandgaps, and efficient carrier transport, making them suitable for photodetectors. Photochromic molecules, capable of reversible structural changes in response to external light, can modulate their chemical, optical, and e…

From over-reliance to smart integration: using Large-Language Models as translators between specialized modeling and simulation tools
Philippe J. Giabbanelli, John Beverley, Istvan David, Andreas Tolk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11141

From over-reliance to smart integration: using Large-Language Models as translators between specialized modeling and simulation tools
Large Language Models (LLMs) offer transformative potential for Modeling & Simulation (M&S) through natural language interfaces that simplify workflows. However, over-reliance risks compromising quality due to ambiguities, logical shortcuts, and hallucinations. This paper advocates integrating LLMs as middleware or translators between specialized tools to mitigate complexity in M&S tasks. Acting as translators, LLMs can enhance interoperability across multi-formalism, multi-semantics, and multi…

Regulating Next-Generation Implantable Brain-Computer Interfaces: Recommendations for Ethical Development and Implementation
Renee Sirbu, Jessica Morley, Tyler Schroder, Mariarosaria Taddeo, Raghavendra Pradyumna Pothukuchi, Muhammed Ugur, Abhishek Bhattacharjee, Luciano Floridi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12540

Regulating Next-Generation Implantable Brain-Computer Interfaces: Recommendations for Ethical Development and Implementation
Brain-computer interfaces offer significant therapeutic opportunities for a variety of neurophysiological and neuropsychiatric disorders and may perhaps one day lead to augmenting the cognition and decision-making of the healthy brain. However, existing regulatory frameworks designed for implantable medical devices are inadequate to address the unique ethical, legal, and social risks associated with next-generation networked brain-computer interfaces. In this article, we make nine recommendatio…

SoK: The Privacy Paradox of Large Language Models: Advancements, Privacy Risks, and Mitigation
Yashothara Shanmugarasa, Ming Ding, M. A. P Chamikara, Thierry Rakotoarivelo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12699

SoK: The Privacy Paradox of Large Language Models: Advancements, Privacy Risks, and Mitigation
Large language models (LLMs) are sophisticated artificial intelligence systems that enable machines to generate human-like text with remarkable precision. While LLMs offer significant technological progress, their development using vast amounts of user data scraped from the web and collected from extensive user interactions poses risks of sensitive information leakage. Most existing surveys focus on the privacy implications of the training data but tend to overlook privacy risks from user inter…

It’s sad it’s come to having to offer this as travel advice, but if you need to fly to the US and are apprehensive, pre clearance through at the US borders in Irish airports is a great idea. You arrive at a domestic terminal.
https://metro.co.uk/2025/06/06/a-us-border-dub…

There's a US border at Dublin airport — here's why
Donald Trump's travel ban is stoking fears but did you know there's a US border where you can clear immigration on Irish soil?

hey SF, join us on our next Slow Ride, May 25th!!
everybody loves safer bike infrastructure and our new park, Sunset Dunes! we'll check out new roadway reallocation and lane narrowing on Lake Merced Boulevard, enjoying great parks and slow streets the west side has to offer.
https://www.sa…

When we set CDFC up in 2008, the sole purpose was for it to become the club that it has. Now, they need some help to keep going - every pound helps to ensure that they are able to continue to offer inclusive and safe community sport in South Wales.
https://gofund.me/383429e5

@Snowshadow@mastodon.social
Would be a shame if the crazy red hat wearing health sites were reported
https://www.wtphealthcare.com/

We The People Health and Wellness Center | Primary Care | 959 East Venice Avenue, Venice, FL, USA
We The People Health and Wellness Center in Venice, Florida. Our DPC services offer transparent, affordable plans with unlimited telehealth visits for adults and pediatrics. Redefine your healthcare experience with IV Therapy, Red Light Therapy, Vitamin Shots, and Functional Medicine. Visit wtphealthcare.com for more. medical freedom, direct primary care, doctors that care, primary care, IV therapy, PRP therapy, massage therapy, red light therapy, pediatric care, vitamin shots, supplements.

With moving my calendar away from Google I was looking for a Caldev solution, but ...
Interesting take on CalDev and encryption on Cryptpad's github page.
No chance that that will happen encrypted.
It's waiting for an solution in the Caldev protocol. 😇
[Feature request] Possibility to have CalDAV for the Calendar · Issue #823 · cryptpad/cryptpad

A Neural Network-aided Low Complexity Chase Decoder for URLLC
Enrico Testi, Enrico Paolini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10513 https://a…

A Neural Network-aided Low Complexity Chase Decoder for URLLC
Ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) demand decoding algorithms that simultaneously offer high reliability and low complexity under stringent latency constraints. While iterative decoding schemes for LDPC and Polar codes offer a good compromise between performance and complexity, they fall short in approaching the theoretical performance limits in the typical URLLC short block length regime. Conversely, quasi-ML decoding schemes for algebraic codes, like Chase-II decoding, exhibit …

Calamus 31 What ship, puzzled at sea
Just when I'm beginning to think I have some facility reading Whitman I meet a head-scratcher like this. Taken literally this is a poem about Whitman offering to guide a boat at sea, or to offer military troops to a besieged city.
But presumably it's a metaphor. Whitman offering to guide and help those in need. It's a little strange?
Hard-pressed for a gay reading here but I'll focus on this:
Here, sailor! Here, ship! take aboard the most perfect pilot.
Here Whitman is offering himself to a sailor, naming himself the most perfect pilot. I could imagine that being a metaphor of sexual mentorship. But honestly that's a stretch.

Empirical Evaluation of Large Language Models in Automated Program Repair
Jiajun Sun, Fengjie Li, Xinzhu Qi, Hongyu Zhang, Jiajun Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13186

Empirical Evaluation of Large Language Models in Automated Program Repair
The increasing prevalence of software bugs has made automated program repair (APR) a key research focus. Large language models (LLMs) offer new opportunities for APR, but existing studies mostly rely on smaller, earlier-generation models and Java benchmarks. The repair capabilities of modern, large-scale LLMs across diverse languages and scenarios remain underexplored. To address this, we conduct a comprehensive empirical study of four open-source LLMs, CodeLlama, LLaMA, StarCoder, and DeepSeek…

„I wasn’t allowed to speak or offer legal advice to M in the courtroom, so without looking down for too long, I wrote in my notebook:
Ils vont essayer de terminer ton case—tu vas dire NON. Tu as besoin de temps pour trouver un avocat.“
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/on

Fusion of multi-source precipitation records via coordinate-based generative model
Sencan Sun, Congyi Nai, Baoxiang Pan, Wentao Li, Xin Li, Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, Yanluan Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11698

Fusion of multi-source precipitation records via coordinate-based generative model
Precipitation remains one of the most challenging climate variables to observe and predict accurately. Existing datasets face intricate trade-offs: gauge observations are relatively trustworthy but sparse, satellites provide global coverage with retrieval uncertainties, and numerical models offer physical consistency but are biased and computationally intensive. Here we introduce PRIMER (Precipitation Record Infinite MERging), a deep generative framework that fuses these complementary sources t…

#Vietnam amid an unsustainable rush.
"The race to get out of China has gathered so much pace in recent weeks that a social media genre of fixers has surfaced to offer tips on how to reroute goods through not only Vietnam, but places like Thailand and Malaysia too."

With the 5th #AAS246 presser come the paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07262 (ALMA-JELLY I: High Resolution CO(2-1) Observations of Ongoing Ram Pressure Stripping in NGC 4858 Reveal Asymmetrical Gas Tail Formation and Fallback), the press release https://news.arizona.edu/news/belly-beast-massive-clumps-reveal-star-factories-bygone-era-cosmos (In the belly of the beast: massive clumps reveal star factories from a bygone era of the cosmos) and the papers https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ada8a6 (UNCOVERing the Faint End of the z ∼ 7 [O iii] Luminosity Function with JWST's F410M Medium Bandpass Filter) with the press release https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-uncovers-galaxy-population-driving-cosmic-renovation/ and https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06198 (The "Dark-Matter Dominated" Galaxy Segue 1 Modeled with a Black Hole and no Dark Halo) with the press release https://www.utsa.edu/today/2025/06/story/researchers-offer-alternative-to-dark-matter-model.html

Hm das Claimen und Anmelden scheint bei der OWI-Beta (OpenWebIndex) #owi #OpenWebIndex

Apparently, the way to get to a human on the #Simplifi support chat instead of the Artificial Stupidity bot is to be rude to the Artificial Stupidity bot. Then it will figure out you're frustrated and offer to refer you to a human.
This is, of course, not what the bot or the written instructions say you need to do, but it's what works.

A profile of Airwallex co-founder Jack Zhang, who turned down Stripe's $1.2B offer seven years ago; the fintech is now valued at $6.2B and plans an IPO in 2026 (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

MCTS-Refined CoT: High-Quality Fine-Tuning Data for LLM-Based Repository Issue Resolution
Yibo Wang, Zhihao Peng, Ying Wang, Zhao Wei, Hai Yu, Zhiliang Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12728

MCTS-Refined CoT: High-Quality Fine-Tuning Data for LLM-Based Repository Issue Resolution
LLMs demonstrate strong performance in auto-mated software engineering, particularly for code generation and issue resolution. While proprietary models like GPT-4o achieve high benchmarks scores on SWE-bench, their API dependence, cost, and privacy concerns limit adoption. Open-source alternatives offer transparency but underperform in complex tasks, especially sub-100B parameter models. Although quality Chain-of-Thought (CoT) data can enhance reasoning, current methods face two critical flaws:…

Podcast: Final Observations from Raiders Final Minicamp Practice https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-minicamp-pete-carroll-tommy-mellott-tom-mcmahon

Efficient Implementation of a Quantum Algorithm with a Trapped Ion Qudit
Xiaoyang Shi, Jasmine Sinanan-Singh, Timothy J. Burke, John Chiaverini, Isaac L. Chuang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09371

Efficient Implementation of a Quantum Algorithm with a Trapped Ion Qudit
Demonstration of quantum advantage remains challenging due to the increased overhead of controlling large quantum systems. While significant effort has been devoted to qubit-based devices, qudits ($d$-level systems) offer potential advantages in both hardware efficiency and algorithmic performance. In this paper, we demonstrate multi-tone control of a single trapped ion qudit of up to eight levels, as well as the first implementation of Grover's search algorithm on a qudit with dimension five a…

So some Democratic politicians actually got the memo, but clearly others are flailing. To help them out, I’d like to offer my sage political wisdom. Try the following message:
1. Kick Trump out.
2. Tax the living shit out of billionaires.
3. Use the money to get folks back on their feet and clean up this mess.
Just that. Simple and direct, no fussing around. Give that a try and see how it lands. Float a trial balloon in some minor swing district election and see what happens.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14049 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_…

Learning Concept-Driven Logical Rules for Interpretable and Generalizable Medical Image Classification
The pursuit of decision safety in clinical applications highlights the potential of concept-based methods in medical imaging. While these models offer active interpretability, they often suffer from concept leakages, where unintended information within soft concept representations undermines both interpretability and generalizability. Moreover, most concept-based models focus solely on local explanations (instance-level), neglecting the global decision logic (dataset-level). To address these li…

What Does Information Science Offer for Data Science Research?: A Review of Data and Information Ethics Literature
Brady D. Lund, Ting Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03165

What Does Information Science Offer for Data Science Research?: A Review of Data and Information Ethics Literature
This paper reviews literature pertaining to the development of data science as a discipline, current issues with data bias and ethics, and the role that the discipline of information science may play in addressing these concerns. Information science research and researchers have much to offer for data science, owing to their background as transdisciplinary scholars who apply human-centered and social-behavioral perspectives to issues within natural science disciplines. Information science resea…

DCE-LLM: Dead Code Elimination with Large Language Models
Minyu Chen, Guoqiang Li, Ling-I Wu, Ruibang Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11076 https://

DCE-LLM: Dead Code Elimination with Large Language Models
Dead code introduces several challenges in software development, such as increased binary size and maintenance difficulties. It can also obscure logical errors and be exploited for obfuscation in malware. For LLM-based code-related tasks, dead code introduces vulnerabilities that can mislead these models, raising security concerns. Although modern compilers and IDEs offer dead code elimination, sophisticated patterns can bypass these tools. A universal approach that includes classification, loc…

Raising a Glass to the Bronze Age Vinters Who Domesticated the Grape 3,200 Years Ago https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/raising-a-glass-to-the-bronze-age-vinters-who-domesticated-the-grape-3200-years-ago/

Raising a Glass to the Bronze Age Vinters Who Domesticated the Grape 3,200 Years Ago
The results offer insight into the ancient practice of vinting, and tell the tale of a gradual transition from wild to domesticated types

Constraining the lensing dispersion from the angular clustering of binary black hole mergers
Fumihiro Chuman, Masamune Oguri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10469

Constraining the lensing dispersion from the angular clustering of binary black hole mergers
Gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries provide direct measurements of luminosity distances and serve as a powerful probe of the high-redshift Universe. In addition to their role as standard sirens, they offer an opportunity to constrain small-scale density fluctuations through the dispersion in the distance-redshift relation induced by gravitational lensing. We propose a method to constrain this lensing dispersion without requiring the redshift information by analyzing the angula…

Open clusters in the outer disc studied with MEGARA@GTC Auner 1 and Berkeley 102
J. Carbajo-Hijarrubia, R. Carrera, F. Anders, C. Jordi, L. Casamiquela, L. Balaguer-N\'u\~nez, A. Gil de Paz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10512

Open clusters in the outer disc studied with MEGARA@GTC Auner 1 and Berkeley 102
Open clusters offer crucial insights into stellar nucleosynthesis and the chemical evolution of the Galactic disc, as their ages and distances can be determined with higher accuracy compared to field stars. In this study, we investigate the outermost regions of the Milky Way disc using two previously unstudied open clusters -Auner 1 and Berkeley 102- located at Galactocentric distances of approximately 14 kpc in largely uncharted areas of the Galaxy. We obtained medium-resolution spectra (R > 1…

OmniFluids: Unified Physics Pre-trained Modeling of Fluid Dynamics
Rui Zhang, Qi Meng, Han Wan, Yang Liu, Zhi-Ming Ma, Hao Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10862

OmniFluids: Unified Physics Pre-trained Modeling of Fluid Dynamics
High-fidelity and efficient simulation of fluid dynamics drive progress in various scientific and engineering applications. Traditional computational fluid dynamics methods offer strong interpretability and guaranteed convergence, but rely on fine spatial and temporal meshes, incurring prohibitive computational costs. Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) and neural operators aim to accelerate PDE solvers using deep learning techniques. However, PINNs require extensive retraining and careful…

FPGA-Based Multiplier with a New Approximate Full Adder for Error-Resilient Applications
Ali Ranjbar, Elham Esmaeili, Roghayeh Rafieisangari, Nabiollah Shiri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09596

FPGA-Based Multiplier with a New Approximate Full Adder for Error-Resilient Applications
Electronic devices primarily aim to offer low power consumption, high speed, and a compact area. The performance of very large-scale integration (VLSI) devices is influenced by arithmetic operations, where multiplication is a crucial operation. Therefore, a high-speed multiplier is essential for developing any signal-processing module. Numerous multipliers have been reviewed in existing literature, and their speed is largely determined by how partial products (PPs) are accumulated. To enhance t…

Vulnerability-Based Optimal Grid Defense Strategies for Enhancing Cyber-Physical Energy System Resilience
Eric T\"onges, Philipp H\"artel, Martin Braun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09766

Vulnerability-Based Optimal Grid Defense Strategies for Enhancing Cyber-Physical Energy System Resilience
An approach is proposed to identify optimal asset protection strategies based on vulnerability assessment outcomes. Traditional bilevel attacker-defender models emphasize worstcase scenarios but offer limited defensive guidance. In contrast, trilevel models introduce high computational complexity and rely on fixed network configurations. The proposed critical-components method leverages vulnerability assessment results to determine protection strategies, effectively outsourcing the upper-level …

Continuity of the superpotentials and slices of tropical currents
Farhad Babaee, Tien Cuong Dinh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09828 https://

Continuity of the superpotentials and slices of tropical currents
We study the question of the continuity of slices of currents and explain how it relates to several seemingly unrelated problems in tropical geometry. On the one hand, through this lens, we show that the continuity of superpotentials constitutes a very general instance of stable intersection theory in tropical geometry. On the other hand, questions concerning tropicalisation with respect to a non-trivial valuation and the commutativity of tropicalisation with intersections offer insights to the…

Immersive Fantasy Based on Digital Nostalgia: Environmental Narratives for the Korean Millennials and Gen Z
Yerin Doh, Joonhyung Bae
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10013

Immersive Fantasy Based on Digital Nostalgia: Environmental Narratives for the Korean Millennials and Gen Z
This study introduces the media artwork Dear Passenger, Please Wear a Mask, designed to offer a layered exploration of single-use mask waste, which escalated during the COVID-19 pandemic. The piece reframes underappreciated ecological concerns by interweaving digital nostalgia and airline travel recollections of Millennials and Gen Z with a unique fantasy narrative. Via a point-and-click game and an immersive exhibition, participants traverse both virtual and real domains, facing ethical and en…

The estate of David Lynch is currently being auctioned off and I got curious and went through all the things on offer so you don't have to (ok I was just bored but). The stuff I found most intriguing turned out to be his self-made or self-restored furniture, like these:
https://www.…

Artificial intelligence-enabled precision medicine for inflammatory skin diseases
Alice Tang, Maria Wei, Anna Haemel, Cindy La, Marina Sirota, Ernest Y. Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09527

Artificial intelligence-enabled precision medicine for inflammatory skin diseases
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and multimodal data collection are revolutionizing dermatology. Generative AI and machine learning approaches offer opportunities to enhance the diagnosis and treatment of inflammatory skin diseases, including atopic dermatitis, psoriasis, hidradenitis suppurativa, and autoimmune connective tissue disease. This review examines the current landscape of AI applications for inflammatory skin diseases and explores how generative AI and machine learnin…

Politically driven "focus on special features over ensuring affordable housing money is stretched as far as possible" is one part of this, and same thing happens in transit:
* Electric buses don't work as well as electric cars, yet we make bus riders pay for electrification with less service, and don't require drivers to use electric cars.
* Fancy stops for "BRT" buses that offer infrequent service.
Etc Etc

These publicly funded homes for the poor cost $1.2 million each to build
Costs to house the poor are approaching, and sometimes exceeding, $1 million per unit in cities across the country, including D.C., L.A., and Chicago.

My JS Krups is resisting netbooting. I see it doing a DHCP discover, and I see Kea responding with an offer, but then it just sends another Discover. Hmph. I can get to the serial console and doing boot net from there doesn't help; none of the keyboard shortcuts for network diag etc seem to work (except the one that displays the help for it...). So I took the flash SIM out and now it boots to Net rather than flash by default; alas with the same DHCP behaviour. Time to try isc-dhcp.…

Sources: CoreWeave will provide computing capacity to Google as part of Google's cloud deal with OpenAI; Google will also supply its own compute to OpenAI (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/coreweave

Can I just say how much I love* opening up a PDF of my book manuscript for the purposes of proofreading it, to have Adobe offer to summarise this "long document"?
#AI #AdobeSucks

Months after detaining 47 people accused of being Tren de Aragua in Austin, authorities offer no evidence of gang ties (Alejandro Serrano/The Texas Tribune)
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/04/texas-immigration-raid-hays-county-austin-venezuelan-gang/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p116#a250604p116

I think I need to figure out how to make these.
I don’t have great #luck with VTTs, but my rolls with RL math rocks are TERRIBLE. I had one Irish GM offer to mail #dice to me in Australia, and a Mexican GM advised—straight-faced, no less—I seek out a santero.
I feel my

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Bias-Switchable Row-Column Array Imaging using Fast Orthogonal Row-Column Electronic Scanning (FORCES) Compared with Conventional Row-Column Array Imaging
Randy Palamar, Mohammad Rahim Sobhani, Darren Dahunsi, Negar Majidi, Afshin Kashani Ilkhechi, Joy Wang, Jeremy Brown, Roger Zemp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10958

Bias-Switchable Row-Column Array Imaging using Fast Orthogonal Row-Column Electronic Scanning (FORCES) Compared with Conventional Row-Column Array Imaging
Row-Column Arrays (RCAs) offer an attractive alternative to fully wired 2D-arrays for 3D-ultrasound, due to their greatly simplified wiring. However, conventional RCAs face challenges related to their long elements. These include an inability to image beyond the shadow of the aperture and an inability to focus in both transmit and receive for desired scan planes. To address these limitations, we recently developed bias-switchable RCAs, also known as Top Orthogonal to Bottom Electrode (TOBE) arr…

Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
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--Bashar al-Assad was toppled by spyware,
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Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 5/31/25
Bashar al-Assad was toppled by spyware, Facial recognition threatens us all with deportation, VC money fuels worker surveillance, Will Trump launch offensive cyber ops on US networks?, The Pall Mall Process and commercial cyber intrusions, Self-confidence leads to GenAI skepticism, more

Finding it a little hard to believe that the Venice Biennale still exists. Why? What does it have to offer anybody anymore?

Upper Bound on Quantum Fisher Information in Pseudo-Hermitian Systems
Ievgen I. Arkhipov, F. Nori, \c{S}. K. \"Ozdemir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09763

Upper Bound on Quantum Fisher Information in Pseudo-Hermitian Systems
Non-Hermitian systems have attracted considerable interest over the last few decades due to their unique spectral and dynamical properties not encountered in Hermitian counterparts. An intensely debated question is whether non-Hermitian systems, described by pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians with real spectra, can offer enhanced sensitivity for parameter estimation when they are operated at or close to exceptional points. However, much of the current analysis and conclusions are based on mathematic…

Light Dark Matter Detection with Sub-eV Transition-Edge Sensors
Muping Chen, Volodymyr Takhistov, Kazunori Nakayama, Kaori Hattori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10070

Light Dark Matter Detection with Sub-eV Transition-Edge Sensors
We present a comprehensive analysis of high-resolution transition-edge sensors (TESs) as a quantum sensing platform for detecting dark matter (DM). Operating near the thermodynamic noise limit with sub-eV energy resolution, TESs offer a powerful approach for probing light DM in the sub-GeV mass range. Optical TESs, realized on superconducting films with critical temperatures below 150 mK, achieve energy thresholds below 100 meV and enable precise calorimetric detection of individual energy depo…

Attention-Based Map Encoding for Learning Generalized Legged Locomotion
Junzhe He, Chong Zhang, Fabian Jenelten, Ruben Grandia, Moritz B\"Acher, Marco Hutter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09588

Attention-Based Map Encoding for Learning Generalized Legged Locomotion
Dynamic locomotion of legged robots is a critical yet challenging topic in expanding the operational range of mobile robots. It requires precise planning when possible footholds are sparse, robustness against uncertainties and disturbances, and generalizability across diverse terrains. While traditional model-based controllers excel at planning on complex terrains, they struggle with real-world uncertainties. Learning-based controllers offer robustness to such uncertainties but often lack preci…

Site-resolved magnon and triplon dynamics on a programmable quantum dot spin ladder
Pablo Cova Fari\~na, Daniel Jirovec, Xin Zhang, Elizaveta Morozova, Stefan D. Oosterhout, Stefano Reale, Tzu-Kan Hsiao, Giordano Scappucci, Menno Veldhorst, Lieven M. K. Vandersypen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08663

Site-resolved magnon and triplon dynamics on a programmable quantum dot spin ladder
Quasi-particle dynamics in interacting systems in the presence of disorder challenges the notion of internal thermalization, but proves difficult to investigate theoretically for large particle numbers. Engineered quantum systems may offer a viable alternative, as witnessed in experimental demonstrations in a variety of physical platforms, each with its own capabilities and limitations. Semiconductor gate-defined quantum dot arrays are of particular interest since they offer both a direct mappi…

Online trading platform Webull will now allow US retail investors to bet on the future prices of bitcoin and ethereum through a partnership with Kalshi (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

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BiggerGait: Unlocking Gait Recognition with Layer-wise Representations from Large Vision Models
Large vision models (LVM) based gait recognition has achieved impressive performance. However, existing LVM-based approaches may overemphasize gait priors while neglecting the intrinsic value of LVM itself, particularly the rich, distinct representations across its multi-layers. To adequately unlock LVM's potential, this work investigates the impact of layer-wise representations on downstream recognition tasks. Our analysis reveals that LVM's intermediate layers offer complementary properties a…

EdgeProfiler: A Fast Profiling Framework for Lightweight LLMs on Edge Using Analytical Model
Alyssa Pinnock, Shakya Jayakody, Kawsher A Roxy, Md Rubel Ahmed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09061

EdgeProfiler: A Fast Profiling Framework for Lightweight LLMs on Edge Using Analytical Model
This paper introduces EdgeProfiler, a fast profiling framework designed for evaluating lightweight Large Language Models (LLMs) on edge systems. While LLMs offer remarkable capabilities in natural language understanding and generation, their high computational, memory, and power requirements often confine them to cloud environments. EdgeProfiler addresses these challenges by providing a systematic methodology for assessing LLM performance in resource-constrained edge settings. The framework pro…

Spectral Efficiency Maximization for DMA-enabled Multiuser MISO with Statistical CSI
Hao Xu, Boyu Ning, Chongjun Ouyang, Hongwen Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09570

Spectral Efficiency Maximization for DMA-enabled Multiuser MISO with Statistical CSI
Dynamic metasurface antennas (DMAs) offer the potential to achieve large-scale antenna arrays with low power consumption and reduced hardware costs, making them a promising technology for future communication systems. This paper investigates the spectral efficiency (SE) of DMA-enabled multiuser multiple-input single-output (MISO) systems in both uplink and downlink transmissions, using only statistical channel state information (CSI) to maximize the ergodic sum rate of multiple users. For the u…

Beyond Compliance: A User-Autonomy Framework for Inclusive and Customizable Web Accessibility
Lalitha A R
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10324 https://

Beyond Compliance: A User-Autonomy Framework for Inclusive and Customizable Web Accessibility
This paper proposes a shift from compliance-centered web accessibility to a care-driven model that prioritizes user autonomy, using neurodivergent users as a catalyst case for broader personalization needs. While accessibility standards offer a flexible framework, they are often interpreted and implemented as static compliance checklists, our approach reframes it as a flexible, user-centered process. We introduce a customizable Comfort Mode framework that allows users to adapt interface setting…

Universal roughness and the dynamics of urban expansion
Ulysse Marquis, Oriol Artime, Riccardo Gallotti, Marc Barthelemy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10656 h…

Universal roughness and the dynamics of urban expansion
We present a new approach to quantity urban sprawl using tools from surface growth physics. Analyzing built-up area expansion in 19 cities (1985-2015), we uncover anisotropic growth with branch-like extensions and a piecewise linear relation between area and population. A universal local roughness exponent $α_{\text{loc}} \approx 0.54$ coexists with variable exponents $β$, $z$. As modeling urban sprawl remains an open problem, these results offer a necessary empirical basis for theory.

A Multi-Armed Bandit Framework for Online Optimisation in Green Integrated Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks
Henri Alam, Antonio de Domenico, Tareq Si Salem, Florian Kaltenberger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09268

A Multi-Armed Bandit Framework for Online Optimisation in Green Integrated Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks
Integrated terrestrial and non-terrestrial network (TN-NTN) architectures offer a promising solution for expanding coverage and improving capacity for the network. While non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) are primarily exploited for these specific reasons, their role in alleviating terrestrial network (TN) load and enabling energy-efficient operation has received comparatively less attention. In light of growing concerns associated with the densification of terrestrial deployments, this work aims …

What is the Cost of Differential Privacy for Deep Learning-Based Trajectory Generation?
Erik Buchholz, Natasha Fernandes, David D. Nguyen, Alsharif Abuadbba, Surya Nepal, Salil S. Kanhere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09312

What is the Cost of Differential Privacy for Deep Learning-Based Trajectory Generation?
While location trajectories offer valuable insights, they also reveal sensitive personal information. Differential Privacy (DP) offers formal protection, but achieving a favourable utility-privacy trade-off remains challenging. Recent works explore deep learning-based generative models to produce synthetic trajectories. However, current models lack formal privacy guarantees and rely on conditional information derived from real data during generation. This work investigates the utility cost of e…

Generalist Models in Medical Image Segmentation: A Survey and Performance Comparison with Task-Specific Approaches
Andrea Moglia (Politecnico di Milano), Matteo Leccardi (Politecnico di Milano), Matteo Cavicchioli (Politecnico di Milano), Alice Maccarini (Universit\`a di Pavia), Marco Marcon (Politecnico di Milano), Luca Mainardi (Politecnico di Milano), Pietro Cerveri (Politecnico di Milano, Universit\`a di Pavia)

Generalist Models in Medical Image Segmentation: A Survey and Performance Comparison with Task-Specific Approaches
Following the successful paradigm shift of large language models, leveraging pre-training on a massive corpus of data and fine-tuning on different downstream tasks, generalist models have made their foray into computer vision. The introduction of Segment Anything Model (SAM) set a milestone on segmentation of natural images, inspiring the design of a multitude of architectures for medical image segmentation. In this survey we offer a comprehensive and in-depth investigation on generalist models…

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Metainformation in Quantum Guessing Games
Quantum guessing games offer a structured approach to analyzing quantum information processing, where information is encoded in quantum states and extracted through measurement. An additional aspect of this framework is the influence of partial knowledge about the input on the optimal measurement strategies. This kind of side information can significantly influence the guessing strategy and earlier work has shown that the timing of such side information, whether revealed before or after the mea…

“Time to drop the really big bomb,” Elon Musk wrote on social media.
Donald Trump, he said, “is in the Epstein files. That is why they have not been made public.”
Musk did not offer any evidence, but soon added,
“The truth will come out.”
https…

Elon Musk Suggests Trump Is in Epstein Files, a Source of Conspiracy Theories
In a spat with President Trump, Elon Musk invokes the Epstein files, a source of endless speculation and conspiracy.

Energy Correlators: A Journey From Theory to Experiment
Ian Moult, Hua Xing Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09119 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Energy Correlators: A Journey From Theory to Experiment
Collider experiments offer a unique opportunity to explore the Standard Model (SM), and to search for new physics, new interactions, and new principles of nature. The theoretical abstraction of a collider, namely the study of correlations in asymptotic fluxes, provides one of the most basic examples of an observable in quantum field theory (QFT) and quantum gravity. Energy flux is described in QFT by energy flow operators, a particular example of light-ray operators. In addition to their centra…

ROS-related Robotic Systems Development with V-model-based Application of MeROS Metamodel
Tomasz Winiarski, Jan Kaniuka, Daniel Gie{\l}dowski, Jakub Ostrysz, Krystian Radlak, Dmytro Kushnir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08706

ROS-related Robotic Systems Development with V-model-based Application of MeROS Metamodel
As robotic systems grow increasingly complex, heterogeneous, and safety-critical, the need for structured development methodologies becomes paramount. Although frameworks like the Robot Operating System (ROS) and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) offer foundational tools, they often lack integration when used together. This paper addresses that gap by aligning the widely recognized V-model development paradigm with the MeROS metamodel SysML-based modeling language tailored for ROS-based sy…

Light-induced Floquet spin-triplet Cooper pairs in unconventional magnets
Pei-Hao Fu, Sayan Mondal, Jun-Feng Liu, Jorge Cayao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10590

Light-induced Floquet spin-triplet Cooper pairs in unconventional magnets
The recently predicted unconventional magnets offer a new ground for exploring the formation of nontrivial spin states due to their inherent nonrelativistic momentum-dependent spin splitting. In this work, we consider unconventional magnets with $d$- and $p$-wave parities and investigate the effect of time-periodic light drives for inducing the formation of spin-triplet phases in the normal and superconducting states. In particular, we consider unconventional magnets without and with convention…

An interview with Leah Belsky, OpenAI's VP of Education, as the startup competes with Google and others to offer premium AI tools to universities and students (Natasha Singer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/technol…

Inside OpenAI’s Plan to Embed ChatGPT Into College Students’ Lives
OpenAI, the firm that helped spark chatbot cheating, wants to embed A.I. in every facet of college. First up: 460,000 students at Cal State.

The Everyday Security of Living with Conflict
Jessica McClearn, Reem Talhouk, Rikke Bjerg Jensen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09580 https://

The Everyday Security of Living with Conflict
When `cyber' is used as a prefix, attention is typically drawn to the technological and spectacular aspects of war and conflict -- and, by extension, security. We offer a different approach to engaging with and understanding security in such contexts, by foregrounding the everyday -- mundane -- experiences of security within communities living with and fleeing from war. We do so through three vignettes from our field research in Colombia, Lebanon and Sweden, respectively, and by highlighting th…

Random Exclusion Codes: Quantum Advantages of Single-Shot Communication
Joonwoo Bae, Kieran Flatt, Teiko Heinosaari, Oskari Kerppo, Karthik Mohan, Andr\'es Mu\~noz-Moller, Ashutosh Rai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07701

Random Exclusion Codes: Quantum Advantages of Single-Shot Communication
Identifying information tasks that offer advantages over their classical counterparts by exploiting quantum resources finds the usefulness of quantum information technologies. In this work, we introduce a two-party communication primitive, Random Exclusion Code (REC), which is a single-shot prepare-and-measure protocol where a sender encodes a random message into a shorter sequence and a receiver attempts to exclude a randomly chosen letter in the original message. We present quantum advantages…

Walmart's Flipkart secures a lending license from the RBI, letting the e-commerce company offer loans directly to Indian customers and sellers on its platform (Ashwin Manikandan/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/w

Evaluating the Performance and Efficiency of Sentence-BERT for Code Comment Classification
Fabian C. Pe\~na, Steffen Herbold
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08581

Evaluating the Performance and Efficiency of Sentence-BERT for Code Comment Classification
This work evaluates Sentence-BERT for a multi-label code comment classification task seeking to maximize the classification performance while controlling efficiency constraints during inference. Using a dataset of 13,216 labeled comment sentences, Sentence-BERT models are fine-tuned and combined with different classification heads to recognize comment types. While larger models outperform smaller ones in terms of F1, the latter offer outstanding efficiency, both in runtime and GFLOPS. As result…

Reddit now lets users hide posting and commenting history on their profile via a Content and Activity setting, as part of a new "Curate your profile" section (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/03/redd

Reddit now lets you hide content, like posts and comments, from your user profile | TechCrunch
Reddit has announced a new feature that will offer its users more privacy when it comes to what's shared on their user profiles.

Sources: JPMorgan aims to let clients use some crypto-linked assets as collateral for loans in the coming weeks, starting with BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20