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A look at seven UX issues in the Fediverse web experience, including complex onboarding, the lack of a dedicated DM UI wrapper, and fragmented user discovery (Tim Chambers)
https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/18/113327.html

The Seven Deadly UX Sins of the Fediverse Web Experience (To Fix)
So, confession time: I was recently helping a new client get set up on the Fediverse—guiding them through their first steps into our glorious decentralized galaxy. And seeing it all again through fresh eyes? Reader, it was brutal. So much of what should be table stakes for any social media UX in the year of our Lord 2025 still is missing or deeply broken still. I know progress has been made and a good fight, fought.

GRaD-Nav : Vision-Language Model Enabled Visual Drone Navigation with Gaussian Radiance Fields and Differentiable Dynamics
Qianzhong Chen, Naixiang Gao, Suning Huang, JunEn Low, Timothy Chen, Jiankai Sun, Mac Schwager
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14009

GRaD-Nav++: Vision-Language Model Enabled Visual Drone Navigation with Gaussian Radiance Fields and Differentiable Dynamics
Autonomous drones capable of interpreting and executing high-level language instructions in unstructured environments remain a long-standing goal. Yet existing approaches are constrained by their dependence on hand-crafted skills, extensive parameter tuning, or computationally intensive models unsuitable for onboard use. We introduce GRaD-Nav++, a lightweight Vision-Language-Action (VLA) framework that runs fully onboard and follows natural-language commands in real time. Our policy is trained …

#KI automatisiert Routine, beschleunigt Recruiting und macht #HR zum strategischen Treiber. Doch die größte Herausforderung bleibt: Mitarbeitende qualifizieren, Ängste abbauen und ethische Leitplanken setzen. Die Zukunft gehört dem ausbalancierten Zusammenspiel von Mensch und Maschine. (Holger Schmidt)

Wie KI die Arbeit der Personalabteilungen umwälzt
Stellenausschreibung – Onboarding – Weiterbildung: Innerhalb eines Jahres hat sich generative KI von ersten Pilotprojekten zur strategischen Priorität vieler HR-Abteilungen entwickelt.

https://decorrespondent.nl/16046/israel-gijzelt-duizenden-palestijnen-in-martelkampen-amin-overleefde-dat-zeven-keer/884a244d-cda4-03ff-0aa3-169489cf19ee

Towards Employing FPGA and ASIP Acceleration to Enable Onboard AI/ML in Space Applications
Vasileios Leon, George Lentaris, Dimitrios Soudris, Simon Vellas, Mathieu Bernou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12970

Towards Employing FPGA and ASIP Acceleration to Enable Onboard AI/ML in Space Applications
The success of AI/ML in terrestrial applications and the commercialization of space are now paving the way for the advent of AI/ML in satellites. However, the limited processing power of classical onboard processors drives the community towards extending the use of FPGAs in space with both rad-hard and Commercial-Off-The-Shelf devices. The increased performance of FPGAs can be complemented with VPU or TPU ASIP co-processors to further facilitate high-level AI development and in-flight reconfigu…

For extremely generous definitions of “pretty soon.”
Evolution is bound by the mutation rate and the length of generational cycles. Humans are essentially unchanged genetically by the past hundred centuries, despite substantial climate change and social evolution from omnivore hunter-gatherers thru nomadic herders and farmers to city-dwellers.

Scheduling Agile Earth Observation Satellites with Onboard Processing and Real-Time Monitoring
Antonio M. Mercado-Mart\'inez, Beatriz Soret, Antonio Jurado-Navas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11556

Scheduling Agile Earth Observation Satellites with Onboard Processing and Real-Time Monitoring
The emergence of Agile Earth Observation Satellites (AEOSs) has marked a significant turning point in the field of Earth Observation (EO), offering enhanced flexibility in data acquisition. Concurrently, advancements in onboard satellite computing and communication technologies have greatly enhanced data compression efficiency, reducing network latency and congestion while supporting near real-time information delivery. In this paper, we address the Agile Earth Observation Satellite Scheduling …

Cold gas in a post-starburst pair at z ~ 1.4: major mergers as a pathway to quenching in the HeavyMetal survey
Katherine A. Suess, Aliza G. Beverage, Mariska Kriek, Justin S. Spilker, Rachel Bezanson, Vincenzo R. D'Onofrio, Jenny E. Greene, Jamie Lin, Yuanze Luo, Desika Narayanan, Imad Pasha, Sedona H. Price, David J. Setton, Margaret E. Verrico, Yunchong Zhang

Cold gas in a post-starburst pair at z ~ 1.4: major mergers as a pathway to quenching in the HeavyMetal survey
Recent observations at low redshift have revealed that some post-starburst galaxies retain significant molecular gas reservoirs despite low ongoing star formation rates, challenging theoretical predictions for galaxy quenching. To test whether this finding holds during the peak epoch of quenching, here we present ALMA CO(2-1) observations of five spectroscopically confirmed post-starburst galaxies at z ~ 1.4 from the HeavyMetal survey. While four galaxies are undetected in CO emission, we detec…

Towards Perception-based Collision Avoidance for UAVs when Guiding the Visually Impaired
Suman Raj, Swapnil Padhi, Ruchi Bhoot, Prince Modi, Yogesh Simmhan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14857

Towards Perception-based Collision Avoidance for UAVs when Guiding the Visually Impaired
Autonomous navigation by drones using onboard sensors combined with machine learning and computer vision algorithms is impacting a number of domains, including agriculture, logistics, and disaster management. In this paper, we examine the use of drones for assisting visually impaired people (VIPs) in navigating through outdoor urban environments. Specifically, we present a perception-based path planning system for local planning around the neighborhood of the VIP, integrated with a global plann…

A Cooperative Contactless Object Transport with Acoustic Robots
Narsimlu Kemsaram, Akin Delibasi, James Hardwick, Bonot Gautam, Diego Martinez Plasencia, Sriram Subramanian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13957

A Cooperative Contactless Object Transport with Acoustic Robots
Cooperative transport, the simultaneous movement of an object by multiple agents, has been widely observed in biological systems such as ant colonies, which improve efficiency and adaptability in dynamic environments. Inspired by these natural phenomena, we present a novel acoustic robotic system for the transport of contactless objects in mid-air. Our system leverages phased ultrasonic transducers and a robotic control system onboard to generate localized acoustic pressure fields, enabling pre…