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OpenLight, which designs custom application-specific silicon photonic chips, raised a $34M Series A as it targets the data center interconnect market (Dan Swinhoe/DatacenterDynamics)
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/silicon-pho…

It is hard to imagine that the ultra right white supremacists aren't already happier than clams with the maga-klan. But I guess not....
"Alarm as US far-right extremists eye drones for use in domestic attacks"
"Experts say extremists openly talking of how home-built drones will be critical tool in so-called second civil war"

Presenting a classifier to detect research contributions in OpenAlex
Nick Haupka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22479 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.22479

Presenting a classifier to detect research contributions in OpenAlex
This paper introduces a document type classifier with the purpose to optimise the distinction between research and non-research journal publications in OpenAlex. Based on open metadata, the classifier can detect non-research or editorial content within a set of classified articles and reviews (e.g. paratexts, abstracts, editorials, letters). The classifier achieves an F1-score of 0,95, indicating a potential improvement in the data quality of bibliometric research in OpenAlex when applying the …

"The new agreement is openly unequal. From what is known so far, the United States is imposing 15% tariffs on all European imports, with exceptions including steel and aluminium (which could remain at 50%) and certain products deemed strategic by the U.S. and necessary at a low cost (such as critical minerals). In return, the European Union commits to applying no tariffs on U.S. exports."
#USA

USA–EU: The Treaty of Atlantic Humiliation
From Free Trade to Forced Deals: How Washington Uses Power Politics and Economic Pressure to Bend Europe to Its Rules in the New Global Order

OpenAlpha: A Community-Led Adversarial Strategy Validation Mechanism for Decentralised Capital Management
Arman Abgaryan, Utkarsh Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21809

OpenAlpha: A Community-Led Adversarial Strategy Validation Mechanism for Decentralised Capital Management
We propose \textit{OpenAlpha}, a community-led strategy validation framework for decentralised capital management on a host blockchain network, which integrates game-theoretic validation, adversarial auditing, and market-based belief aggregation. This work formulates treasury deployment as a capital optimisation problem under verification costs and strategic misreporting, and operationalises it through a decision waterfall that sequences intention declaration, strategy proposal, prediction-mark…

Again, if this is news to anyone, they haven't been paying attention...
#news

detta e doikait

This seems kind of BAD, am I right? 😬
I am afraid for Canada, sharing the world's longest common border with these tech terrorists.

"Adherents to QAnon believe the globe is controlled by Satan-worshipping pedophiles who have infiltrated American life, politics and the entertainment industry. Trump was considered a savior to QAnon believers as he openly embraced the group at rallies and in social media posts."
Someone explain to me in what way is Trump not exactly "pedophile who has infiltrated American life"?

Jan. 6 Rioter Killed As She Stormed Capitol Will Receive Military Funeral Honors
The Babbitt family also received a settlement of $5 million earlier this year.

Understanding discrepancies in the coverage of OpenAlex: the case of China
Mengxue Zheng, Lili Miao, Yi Bu, Vincent Lariviere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19302 https://

Understanding discrepancies in the coverage of OpenAlex: the case of China
Citation indexes play a crucial role for understanding how science is produced, disseminated, and used. However, these databases often face a critical trade-off: those offering extensive and high-quality coverage are typically proprietary, whereas publicly accessible datasets frequently exhibit fragmented coverage and inconsistent data quality. OpenAlex was developed to address this challenge, providing a freely available database with broad open coverage, with a particular emphasis on non-Engl…