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The overall goal at "A New Social"
is to shift the power of social networks back to the people,
not the platform makers,
by giving them tools that let them
move their account and their followings,
and leave if a platform ever fails them in some way.

Introducing Bounce, a tool to move your following between Bluesky and Mastodon | TechCrunch
The overall goal at A New Social is to shift the power of social networks back to the people, not the platform makers, by giving them tools that let them move their account, their followings, and leave if a platform ever fails them in some way.

Advertisers are shifting millions in ad budgets, particularly in CTV, from The Trade Desk's DSP to Amazon's, driven by lower fees, inventory access, and more (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/marketers-mov

EXCLUSIVE: Marketers Move Millions in Ad Spend from The Trade Desk to Amazon’s Ad Platform 
Sources say Amazon is gunning for The Trade Desk’s clients to win market share

BacPrep: An Experimental Platform for Evaluating LLM-Based Bacalaureat Assessment
Dumitran Adrian Marius, Dita Radu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04989 https:…

BacPrep: An Experimental Platform for Evaluating LLM-Based Bacalaureat Assessment
Accessing quality preparation and feedback for the Romanian Bacalaureat exam is challenging, particularly for students in remote or underserved areas. This paper introduces BacPrep, an experimental online platform exploring Large Language Model (LLM) potential for automated assessment, aiming to offer a free, accessible resource. Using official exam questions from the last 5 years, BacPrep employs one of Google's newest models, Gemini 2.0 Flash (released Feb 2025), guided by official grading sc…

Thread AI, which offers a composable infrastructure platform to help companies build AI workflows, raised a $20M Series A led by Greycroft (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/06/05/thread-ai-startup-palantir-infrastructure-series-a/

Exclusive: Two Palantir alums raise $20 million for infrastructure startup Thread AI
Two Palantir alumni raised $20 million for AI infrastructure startup Thread AI.

academia_edu: Academica.edu (2011)
Snapshot of the follower relationships among users of academia.edu, a platform for academics to share research papers, scraped in 2011. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) denotes that user i follows j.
This network has 200169 nodes and 1398063 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://

Just to clarify: this is not a complete list of things I want for the world. This is not even a complete political platform. It’s just a single simple, clear, core message that I suspect would work much better in elections than that fash-lite mush all the Newsomesque political consultants are oozing out of their pores right now.

It seems to me that MCP is a modern, cross-platform corollary to the Mac ecosystem’s AppleScript dictionaries. It's a great standard for discovering API endpoints and calling them in a standard way. (And as a bonus, it doesn't involve keeping track of four-byte codes.)
Because it's associated with the AI buzz, lots of developers are integrating it. But it's not limited to and doesn't have to be used with AI; there's a great opportunity to make it easy for humans…

Buried unstrained Ge channels: a lattice-matched platform for quantum technology
Davide Costa, Karina Hudson, Patrick Del Vecchio, Lucas E. A. Stehouwer, Alberto Tosato, Davide Degli Esposti, Mario Lodari, Stefano Bosco, Giordano Scappucci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04724

Buried unstrained Ge channels: a lattice-matched platform for quantum technology
Ge and Si strained quantum wells have enabled the most advanced spin-qubit quantum processors, but they are deposited on defective, metamorphic SiGe substrates, which may impact device performance and scaling. Here we introduce an alternative platform, based on a heterojunction between unstrained Ge and a strained SiGe barrier, which is lattice-matched to a Ge substrate. In a structure with a 52-nm-thick strained SiGe barrier, we demonstrate a low-disorder two-dimensional hole gas with a high-m…

"You should know Trump isn’t doing this on his own. The Hoover Institution has been plotting revenge against FDR since 1932. Groups like the Heritage Foundation and Heartland Foundation are generations old. The Federalist Society has been promising to overturn liberal justice since the 1960s. The Religious Right started working to overturn Roe v. Wade the day it was promulgated. All these groups have big money, and they play the long game.
What’s happening today is their platform, backed by their research. The fact it won’t work, that the 20th century won’t be put back into a bottle, that the Amendments put in place after 1865 somehow aren’t part of the “real” Constitution, is yet to be proven by events."
https://danafblankenhorn.substack.com/p/all-in-the-family

I would vote for Satan himself if he campaigned on a platform of making this sort of bullshit punishable by firing squad.

Organic Crystal Active Waveguide as an All-Angle Signal Receiver and Transmission Platform for Visible Light Communication
Ankur Khapre, Jyotisman Hazarika, Rajadurai Chandrasekar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04874

Organic Crystal Active Waveguide as an All-Angle Signal Receiver and Transmission Platform for Visible Light Communication
Organic crystal waveguides, known for excellent light-guiding and photonic versatility, present a promising alternative to conventional optical media in visible light communication (VLC) systems. In a novel approach, the high photoluminescence quantum yield organic crystal 2,2dash-((1E,1Edash)-hydrazine-1,2-diylidenebis(methaneylylidene))diphenol (SAA) is used as an optical waveguide medium for real-time data communication in the visible range, employing a microcontroller unit with on off keyin…

„Broken Mirror“ by Fairfax
Platform: Amiga
Released: 3 April 1994
Specification: 320x256px, 64 colors
Note: Picture used in Andromeda's Sequential demo that got a 1st in the The Gathering 1994 Amiga Demo competition.
#GFX_Fairfax #YR_1994

A highly scalable numerical framework for reservoir simulation on UG4 platform
Shuai Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04763 https://arxi…

A highly scalable numerical framework for reservoir simulation on UG4 platform
The modeling and simulation of multiphase fluid flow receive significant attention in reservoir engineering. Many time discretization schemes for multiphase flow equations are either explicit or semi-implicit, relying on the decoupling between the saturation equation and the pressure equation. In this study, we delve into a fully coupled and fully implicit framework for simulating multiphase flow in heterogeneous porous media, considering gravity and capillary effects. We utilize the Vertex-Cen…

Shield Technology Partners, which provides an AI-enabled managed IT service platform, launches with over $100M from Thrive Holdings and ZBS Partners (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/thrive-capital-is-bettin…

TikTok launches TikTok for Artists, which lets artists access data about their music and posts, and Pre-Release, a tool to promote upcoming album releases (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/03/tiktok-launches…

TikTok launches 'TikTok for Artists,' a new music insights platform | TechCrunch
TikTok is officially launching TikTok for Artists, a new music insights platform that is designed to help artists build their careers.

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Social Learning under Platform Influence: Consensus and Persistent Disagreement
Individuals increasingly rely on social networking platforms to form opinions. However, these platforms typically aim to maximize engagement, which may not align with social good. In this paper, we introduce an opinion dynamics model where agents are connected in a social network, and update their opinions based on their neighbors' opinions and on the content shown to them by the platform. We focus on a stochastic block model with two blocks, where the initial opinions of the individuals in dif…

Which #project should I prioritize or #focus on?
Please boost, that would really help, thanks!
To those who don't know one or more of those projects:
https://

Construction of Urban Greenland Resources Collaborative Management Platform
Dongyang Lyu, Xiaoqi Li, Zongwei Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03830 https://…

Construction of Urban Greenland Resources Collaborative Management Platform
Nowadays, environmental protection has become a global consensus. At the same time, with the rapid development of science and technology, urbanisation has become a phenomenon that has become the norm. Therefore, the urban greening management system is an essential component in protecting the urban environment. The system utilises a transparent management process known as" monitoring - early warning - response - optimisation," which enhances the tracking of greening resources, streamlines mainte…

Reddit sues AI company Anthropic for allegedly ‘scraping’ user comments to train chatbot Claude
https://apnews.com/article/reddit-sues-ai-company-anthropic-claude-chatbot-f5ea042beb253a3f05a091e70531692d

Reddit sues Anthropic, accusing the AI company of illegally scraping data from its site
Social media platform Reddit has sued the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, alleging that it is illegally “scraping” the comments of Reddit users to train its chatbot Claude. Reddit claims that Anthropic has used automated bots to access Reddit’s content despite being asked not to do so. Anthropic didn’t immediately return a request for comment Wednesday.

EMBER2024 -- A Benchmark Dataset for Holistic Evaluation of Malware Classifiers
Robert J. Joyce, Gideon Miller, Phil Roth, Richard Zak, Elliott Zaresky-Williams, Hyrum Anderson, Edward Raff, James Holt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05074

EMBER2024 -- A Benchmark Dataset for Holistic Evaluation of Malware Classifiers
A lack of accessible data has historically restricted malware analysis research, and practitioners have relied heavily on datasets provided by industry sources to advance. Existing public datasets are limited by narrow scope - most include files targeting a single platform, have labels supporting just one type of malware classification task, and make no effort to capture the evasive files that make malware detection difficult in practice. We present EMBER2024, a new dataset that enables holisti…

According to @…'s newsletter this morning, the Citizen's Advice Bureau is now requiring #Trans employees (? and clients?) to use toilets according to their gender assigned at birth, which, if true, is not a good look at all. Journalist is Steph Paton, who I sli…

Scots charity in trans rights row after announcing change to bathroom access
A Scottish charity may be discriminating against transgender staff after announcing a change to bathroom access following the recent UK Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act, say legal experts.

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Multi-Event Triggers for Serverless Computing
Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is an event-driven serverless cloud computing model in which small, stateless functions are invoked in response to events, such as HTTP requests, new database entries, or messages. Current FaaS platform assume that each function invocation corresponds to a single event. However, from an application perspective, it is desirable to invoke functions in response to a collection of events of different types or only with every n\textsuperscript{th} event. To implement thi…

Novel Experimental Platform to realize One-dimensional Quantum Fluids
Stephanie McNamara, Prabin Parajuli, Sutirtha Paul, Garfield Warren, Adrian Del Maestro, Paul E. Sokol
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03200

Novel Experimental Platform to realize One-dimensional Quantum Fluids
Templated porous materials, such as MCM-41, due to the uniformity of their onedimensional structure and scalability in synthesis, have emerged as an attractive medium for studying one-dimensional quantum fluids. However, the experimental challenge of synthesizing these materials with pore radii smaller than 15 Angstroms hinders the realization of a one-dimensional quantum liquid of helium within such systems, as the coherence length of helium is shorter than the pore radius. Recently, DelMaestr…

Yep, seems like different parts of the Fosstodon mod team just keep doubling down on "we are apolitical" – as if that was a real thing and not just reinforcing the existing power and abuse…
And in true fashion for FOSS priorities, the admin can't seem to get a statement out as it's more important to first pick a blogging platform.
This could fit into a FOSS-centric reboot of that Silicon Valley comedy show if it wasn't so sad 😅
#fosstodon

Noise-Driven AI Sensors: Secure Healthcare Monitoring with PUFs
Christiana Chamon, Abhijit Sarkar, A. Lynn Abbott
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05135 https://…

Noise-Driven AI Sensors: Secure Healthcare Monitoring with PUFs
Wearable and implantable healthcare sensors are pivotal for real-time patient monitoring but face critical challenges in power efficiency, data security, and signal noise. This paper introduces a novel platform that leverages hardware noise as a dual-purpose resource to enhance machine learning (ML) robustness and secure data via Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs). By integrating noise-driven signal processing, PUFbased authentication, and ML-based anomaly detection, our system achieves secur…

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

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e-GPU: An Open-Source and Configurable RISC-V Graphic Processing Unit for TinyAI Applications
Graphics processing units (GPUs) excel at parallel processing, but remain largely unexplored in ultra-low-power edge devices (TinyAI) due to their power and area limitations, as well as the lack of suitable programming frameworks. To address these challenges, this work introduces embedded GPU (e-GPU), an open-source and configurable RISC-V GPU platform designed for TinyAI devices. Its extensive configurability enables area and power optimization, while a dedicated Tiny-OpenCL implementation pro…

My Linux box is ready for galactic conquest! Streaming SWTOR tonight – come see the Old Republic in action on an open-source rig. #SWTORonLinux

AliBoost: Ecological Boosting Framework in Alibaba Platform
Qijie Shen, Yuanchen Bei, Zihong Huang, Jialin Zhu, Keqin Xu, Boya Du, Jiawei Tang, Yuning Jiang, Feiran Huang, Xiao Huang, Hao Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00954

AliBoost: Ecological Boosting Framework in Alibaba Platform
Maintaining a healthy ecosystem in billion-scale online platforms is challenging, as users naturally gravitate toward popular items, leaving cold and less-explored items behind. This ''rich-get-richer'' phenomenon hinders the growth of potentially valuable cold items and harms the platform's ecosystem. Existing cold-start models primarily focus on improving initial recommendation performance for cold items but fail to address users' natural preference for popular content. In this paper, we intr…

„Freedom Comes Back“ by Critikill
Platform: Amiga
Released: 10 September 2022
Specification: 320x256px, 32 colors
Note: 1st in the Function 2022 Oldschool Graphics competition
#GFX_Critikill #YR_2022

Synergy-Informed Design of Platform Trials for Combination Therapies
Nan Miles Xi, Man Mandy Jin, Lin Wang, Xin Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03086 http…

Synergy-Informed Design of Platform Trials for Combination Therapies
Combination drug therapies hold significant promise for enhancing treatment efficacy, particularly in fields such as oncology, immunotherapy, and infectious diseases. However, designing clinical trials for these regimens poses unique statistical challenges due to multiple hypothesis testing, shared control groups, and overlapping treatment components that induce complex correlation structures. In this paper, we develop a novel statistical framework tailored for early-phase translational combina…

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Interactive OT Gym: A Reinforcement Learning-Based Interactive Optical tweezer (OT)-Driven Microrobotics Simulation Platform
Optical tweezers (OT) offer unparalleled capabilities for micromanipulation with submicron precision in biomedical applications. However, controlling conventional multi-trap OT to achieve cooperative manipulation of multiple complex-shaped microrobots in dynamic environments poses a significant challenge. To address this, we introduce Interactive OT Gym, a reinforcement learning (RL)-based simulation platform designed for OT-driven microrobotics. Our platform supports complex physical field sim…

@… Sure, but when was the last time you saw someone with an actual platform learn that?

An interview with Runway CEO Cris Valenzuela on expediting the movie-making process, copyright cases, why using Runway is like using a camera, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w

Runway CEO Cris Valenzuela wants Hollywood to embrace AI video
The head of the AI video generation platform on copyright and the future of filmmaking.

Lattice Mismatch Driven In Plane Strain Engineering for Enhanced Upper Critical Fields in Mo2N Superconducting Thin Films
Aditya Singh, Divya Rawat, Victor Hjort, Abhisek Mishra, Arnaud le Febvrier, Subhankar Bedanta, Per Eklund, Ajay Soni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04750

Lattice Mismatch Driven In Plane Strain Engineering for Enhanced Upper Critical Fields in Mo2N Superconducting Thin Films
Transition metal nitrides are a fascinating class of hard coating material that provide an excellent platform for investigating superconductivity and fundamental electron phonon interactions. In this work the structural morphological and superconducting properties have been studied for Mo2N thin films deposited via direct current magnetron sputtering on cplane Al2O3 and MgO substrates to elucidate the effect of internal strain on superconducting properties. High resolution X Ray diffraction and…

An interview with Runway CEO Cris Valenzuela on expediting the movie-making process, copyright cases, why using Runway is like using a camera, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w

Runway CEO Cris Valenzuela wants Hollywood to embrace AI video
The head of the AI video generation platform on copyright and the future of filmmaking.

Polish engineer Piotr Ostapowicz has created what may be the world's smallest 8-bit Atari computer recreation, the "Atarino". The entire system—processor, graphics chips, sound hardware, and memory controllers—fits on a module measuring just 2×1.5 centimeters (about 0.79×0.59 inches), roughly the size of a postage stamp:

Polish engineer creates postage stamp-sized 1980s Atari computer
Hobby project shrinks 1980s computer platform that pierced the Iron Curtain.

An Integrated Platform for LEED Certification Automation Using Computer Vision and LLM-RAG
Jooyeol Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00888 https://

An Integrated Platform for LEED Certification Automation Using Computer Vision and LLM-RAG
The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification process is characterized by labor-intensive requirements for data handling, simulation, and documentation. This paper presents an automated platform designed to streamline key aspects of LEED certification. The platform integrates a PySide6-based user interface, a review Manager for process orchestration, and multiple analysis engines for credit compliance, energy modeling via EnergyPlus, and location-based evaluation. Key c…

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Construction of Urban Greenland Resources Collaborative Management Platform
Nowadays, environmental protection has become a global consensus. At the same time, with the rapid development of science and technology, urbanisation has become a phenomenon that has become the norm. Therefore, the urban greening management system is an essential component in protecting the urban environment. The system utilises a transparent management process known as" monitoring - early warning - response - optimisation," which enhances the tracking of greening resources, streamlines mainte…

I started a conversion tool today for Plan 9 a.out to ELF.
https://github.com/platform-system-interface/p9aout2elf
The corresponding ELF I was given with an a.out has some differences in memory sizs for some reason.
I will see about trabslating the symbol table…

GitHub - platform-system-interface/p9aout2elf: Parse and convert Plan 9 a.out binaries
Parse and convert Plan 9 a.out binaries. Contribute to platform-system-interface/p9aout2elf development by creating an account on GitHub.

OpenCCA: An Open Framework to Enable Arm CCA Research
Andrin Bertschi, Shweta Shinde
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05129 https://arxiv.o…

OpenCCA: An Open Framework to Enable Arm CCA Research
Confidential computing has gained traction across major architectures with Intel TDX, AMD SEV-SNP, and Arm CCA. Unlike TDX and SEV-SNP, a key challenge in researching Arm CCA is the absence of hardware support, forcing researchers to develop ad-hoc performance prototypes on non-CCA Arm boards. This approach leads to duplicated efforts, inconsistent performance comparisons, and high barriers to entry. To address this, we present OpenCCA, an open research platform that enables the execution of CC…

#PlatformEngineering: Evolution or Rebranding? #DevOps
https://www.pulumi.com/blog/platform-eng-r

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Value Compass Leaderboard: A Platform for Fundamental and Validated Evaluation of LLMs Values
As Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve remarkable breakthroughs, aligning their values with humans has become imperative for their responsible development and customized applications. However, there still lack evaluations of LLMs values that fulfill three desirable goals. (1) Value Clarification: We expect to clarify the underlying values of LLMs precisely and comprehensively, while current evaluations focus narrowly on safety risks such as bias and toxicity. (2) Evaluation Validity: Existing …

Trump says Elon Musk "went CRAZY" and that canceling his government contracts is "the easiest way to save money", as their One Big Beautiful bill feud escalates (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/05/trump-musk-crazy-…

Trump says Musk went 'CRAZY,' suggests cutting government contracts for his companies
Musk is the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and founded The Boring Company, xAI and Neuralink. He also owns the social media platform X.

Robust Moment Identification for Nonlinear PDEs via a Neural ODE Approach
Shaoxuan Chen, Su Yang, Panayotis G. Kevrekidis, Wei Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05245

Robust Moment Identification for Nonlinear PDEs via a Neural ODE Approach
We propose a data-driven framework for learning reduced-order moment dynamics from PDE-governed systems using Neural ODEs. In contrast to derivative-based methods like SINDy, which necessitate densely sampled data and are sensitive to noise, our approach based on Neural ODEs directly models moment trajectories, enabling robust learning from sparse and potentially irregular time series. Using as an application platform the nonlinear Schrödinger equation, the framework accurately recovers govern…

So Builder . ai Mechanical Turked things and Microsoft (and others) were none the wiser.
Due diligence: boring stuff that when you skip it with catch up with you fast.
“Builder . ai’s platform relied on around 700 engineers based in India who manually wrote code based on customer requests. Despite the company marketing it as AI-generated, most of the work was done by humans behind the scenes.”

London AI startup Builder.ai collapses after 'human-powered' tech revelation
London AI startup Builder.ai collapses after 'human-powered' tech revelation

If I were running for President, the cornerstone of my platform would be the Stop Evil Folks Act. 95% income tax, no deductions, on any income for anybody with over $1 billion in assets. 50% for anyone with over $100 million in assets. This will eliminate a substantial amount of the annual deficit.

X changes its developer agreement to prevent third parties from using "the X API or X Content to fine-tune or train a foundation or frontier model" (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/x-changes-i…

X changes its terms to bar training of AI models using its content | TechCrunch
Social network X has changed its developer agreement to prevent third parties from using the platform's content to train large language models.

#ReleaseMonday — New version (v0.27.0) of https://thi.ng/genart-api, a platform-independent extensible API for browser-based computational/algorithmic/generative art projects:
This version feature…

thi.ng/genart-api

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Imprints of extra dimensions in eccentric eccentric extreme-mass-ratio inspirals gravitational waveforms
Studies regarding extra-dimensions have been of great interest in modern theoretical physics, including their observational consequences from future gravitational wave (GW) observatories. In this direction, extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), attracting considerable interest in GW astronomy and fundamental physics, can potentially provide a useful platform for the search of extra dimensions. In this paper, we examine a rotating braneworld black hole in the context of equatorial eccentric EMRI…

DistMLIP: A Distributed Inference Platform for Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials
Kevin Han, Bowen Deng, Amir Barati Farimani, Gerbrand Ceder
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02023

DistMLIP: A Distributed Inference Platform for Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials
Large-scale atomistic simulations are essential to bridge computational materials and chemistry to realistic materials and drug discovery applications. In the past few years, rapid developments of machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have offered a solution to scale up quantum mechanical calculations. Parallelizing these interatomic potentials across multiple devices poses a challenging, but promising approach to further extending simulation scales to real-world applications. In this…

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Spatially Encoded Polaritonic Ultra-Strong Coupling in Gradient Metasurfaces with Epsilon-Near-Zero Modes
We introduce a platform to achieve ultra-strong coupling (USC) between light and matter using widely available materials. USC is a light-matter interaction regime characterized by coupling strengths exceeding 10% of the ground state energy. It gives rise to novel physical phenomena, such as efficient single-photon coupling and quantum gates, with applications in quantum sensing, nonlinear optics, and low-threshold lasing. Although early demonstrations in plasmonic systems have been realized, ac…

@…
1. core web vitals are the only web perf metrics that matter
2. react is fast enough
3. how to use toxic masculinity as a leadership tactic to avoid self reflection and personal growth, a guide to online community building
4. how to actively circumvent the web platform until it affects you personally, a hero’s journey

Politics and polarization on Bluesky
Ali Salloum, Dorian Quelle, Letizia Iannucci, Alexandre Bovet, Mikko Kivel\"a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03443 ht…

Politics and polarization on Bluesky
Online political discourse is increasingly shaped not by a few dominant platforms but by a fragmented ecosystem of social media spaces, each with its own user base, target audience, and algorithmic mediation of discussion. Such fragmentation may fundamentally change how polarization manifests online. In this study, we investigate the characteristics of political discourse and polarization on the emerging social media site Bluesky. We collect all activity on the platform between December 2024 an…

HARNode: A Time-Synchronised, Open-Source, Multi-Device, Wearable System for Ad Hoc Field Studies
Philipp Lepold, Tobias R\"oddiger, Michael Beigl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03219

HARNode: A Time-Synchronised, Open-Source, Multi-Device, Wearable System for Ad Hoc Field Studies
Research into human activity recognition (HAR) suffers from a lack of comprehensive, freely available field data. Commercial systems are rarely open source, offer little expandability, and have shortcomings in node synchronisation, data throughput, placement clarity, setup complexity, and cost. As a result, only a few intuitively placed sensors are often used, and field trials are generally reduced. HARNode addresses these obstacles as a fully open-source hardware and software platform for rapi…

Diff-FlowFSI: A GPU-Optimized Differentiable CFD Platform for High-Fidelity Turbulence and FSI Simulations
Xiantao Fan, Xinyang Liu, Meng Wang, Jian-Xun Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23940

Diff-FlowFSI: A GPU-Optimized Differentiable CFD Platform for High-Fidelity Turbulence and FSI Simulations
Turbulent flows and fluid-structure interactions (FSI) are ubiquitous in scientific and engineering applications, but their accurate and efficient simulation remains a major challenge due to strong nonlinearities, multiscale interactions, and high computational demands. Traditional CFD solvers, though effective, struggle with scalability and adaptability for tasks such as inverse modeling, optimization, and data assimilation. Recent advances in machine learning (ML) have inspired hybrid modelin…

Microsoft is now allowing developers to sign up for a private preview of what it calls the Windows Update orchestration platform, that will enable Windows Update to support any update for apps or drivers in the future.
https://www.theverge.com/news/675446/micro

Microsoft wants Windows Update to handle all apps
Microsoft is starting to open up Windows Update to third-party apps. A new preview is designed to let any app developer use Windows Update.

Interesting… Canadian GitHub competitor: https://about.worktree.ca

If I ever create a microblogging platform, I'd call it "The Void".
Posts would be "shouts". Comments would be permanently disabled. Likes would just add an ever increasing number of eyes around the edge, staring at what you wrote from every angle 👀

Reminder: YouTube is a capitalist garbage platform designed to commodify dissent. It allows anti-capitalist voices only to monitor, control, and neutralize them.
This process turns genuine resistance into another product for consumption. The system profits from rebellion while stripping it of its power.
YouTube does not free us. Instead, it keeps us bound within its mechanisms of control, maintaining the very structures we seek to dismantle.

More than $12 million stolen from crypto platform Cork Protocol https://therecord.media/cork-protocol-defi-12million-crypto-theft

Hmm, this first CFP in this new journal of Future Studies is weirdly or wilfully oblivious to the insights abounding about how those who wish to maintain an unequal status quo use doomerism and frame utopia/hope/possibility as naive.
"In this way, persistent hope can sometimes blind us to reality, impeding our capacity for proactive measures. Moreover, it can feel artificial to focus solely on hopeful outcomes when there is plenty of reason to be angry, sad, or scared."

Magnetic field-free braiding and nontrivial fusion of Majorana bound states in high-temperature planar Josephson junctions
Pankaj Sharma, Narayan Mohanta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04338

Magnetic field-free braiding and nontrivial fusion of Majorana bound states in high-temperature planar Josephson junctions
Demonstration of non-Abelian statistics of zero-energy Majorana bound states (MBS) is crucial for long-sought-after decoherence-free topological quantum computing. The ability to move the MBS on a two-dimensional platform such as a planar Josephson junction is practically constrained by a fixed direction of applied magnetic field. In addition, the detrimental effects of the magnetic field on proximity-induced superconductivity in semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures is an outstanding p…

Optimal Dynamic Fees in Automated Market Makers
Leonardo Baggiani, Martin Herdegen, Leandro S\'anchez-Betancourt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02869 https…

Optimal Dynamic Fees in Automated Market Makers
Automated Market Makers (AMMs) are emerging as a popular decentralised trading platform. In this work, we determine the optimal dynamic fees in a constant function market maker. We find approximate closed-form solutions to the control problem and study the optimal fee structure. We find that there are two distinct fee regimes: one in which the AMM imposes higher fees to deter arbitrageurs, and another where fees are lowered to increase volatility and attract noise traders. Our results also show…

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Observation of vortices in a dipolar supersolid
Supersolids are states of matter that spontaneously break two continuous symmetries: translational invariance due to the appearance of a crystal structure and phase invariance due to phase locking of single-particle wave functions, responsible for superfluid phenomena. While originally predicted to be present in solid helium, ultracold quantum gases provided a first platform to observe supersolids, with particular success coming from dipolar atoms. Phase locking in dipolar supersolids has been …

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Social Learning with Limited Attention: Negative Reviews Persist under Newest First
We study a model of social learning from reviews where customers are computationally limited and make purchases based on reading only the first few reviews displayed by the platform. Under this limited attention, we establish that the review ordering policy can have a significant impact. In particular, the popular Newest First ordering induces a negative review to persist as the most recent review longer than a positive review. This phenomenon, which we term the Cost of Newest First, can make t…

Character.AI rolls out features like AvatarFX for video generation, plus Streams and Scenes for creating and sharing videos with characters on a new social feed (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/02/chat

Chatbot platform Character.AI unveils video generation, social feeds | TechCrunch
Character.AI is rolling out its AvatarFX tool, which allow users to create animated, customizable videos featuring their AI chat bots.

State Similarity in Modular Superconducting Quantum Processors with Classical Communications
Bujiao Wu, Changrong Xie, Peng Mi, Zhiyi Wu, Zechen Guo, Peisheng Huang, Wenhui Huang, Xuandong Sun, Jiawei Zhang, Libo Zhang, Jiawei Qiu, Xiayu Linpeng, Ziyu Tao, Ji Chu, Ji Jiang, Song Liu, Jingjing Niu, Yuxuan Zhou, Yuxuan Du, Wenhui Ren, Youpeng Zhong, Tongliang Liu, Dapeng Yu

State Similarity in Modular Superconducting Quantum Processors with Classical Communications
As quantum devices continue to scale, distributed quantum computing emerges as a promising strategy for executing large-scale tasks across modular quantum processors. A central challenge in this paradigm is verifying the correctness of computational outcomes when subcircuits are executed independently following circuit cutting. Here we propose a cross-platform fidelity estimation algorithm tailored for modular architectures. Our method achieves substantial reductions in sample complexity compar…

Is there a cross-platform utility that allows you set up domain aliases locally and keep track of them. I just don't want to keep opening and closin the /etc/hosts file.

Collaborative Last-Mile Delivery: A Multi-Platform Vehicle Routing Problem With En-route Charging
Sumbal Malik, Majid Khonji, Khaled Elbassioni, Jorge Dias
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23584

Collaborative Last-Mile Delivery: A Multi-Platform Vehicle Routing Problem With En-route Charging
The rapid growth of e-commerce and the increasing demand for timely, cost-effective last-mile delivery have increased interest in collaborative logistics. This research introduces a novel collaborative synchronized multi-platform vehicle routing problem with drones and robots (VRP-DR), where a fleet of $\mathcal{M}$ trucks, $\mathcal{N}$ drones and $\mathcal{K}$ robots, cooperatively delivers parcels. Trucks serve as mobile platforms, enabling the launching, retrieving, and en-route charging of…

MythTriage: Scalable Detection of Opioid Use Disorder Myths on a Video-Sharing Platform
Hayoung Jung, Shravika Mittal, Ananya Aatreya, Navreet Kaur, Munmun De Choudhury, Tanushree Mitra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00308

MythTriage: Scalable Detection of Opioid Use Disorder Myths on a Video-Sharing Platform
Understanding the prevalence of misinformation in health topics online can inform public health policies and interventions. However, measuring such misinformation at scale remains a challenge, particularly for high-stakes but understudied topics like opioid-use disorder (OUD)--a leading cause of death in the U.S. We present the first large-scale study of OUD-related myths on YouTube, a widely-used platform for health information. With clinical experts, we validate 8 pervasive myths and release …

Newsweek acquires adtech firm Adprime, a demand-side platform focused on healthcare marketers, to strengthen its health vertical and grow B2B revenue (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/newsweek-adtech-firm-adprime-health-expansion/

Newsweek Snaps Up Adtech Firm Adprime to Fuel Health Expansion
The tie-up is part of a broader bid from the publisher to diversify its advertising

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Exciton--hyperbolic-phonon-polariton Hybridization in Biased Bilayer Graphene
Tomer Eini, N. M. R. Peres, Yarden Mazor, Itai Epstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04796

Exciton--hyperbolic-phonon-polariton Hybridization in Biased Bilayer Graphene
Excitons in biased bilayer graphene are electrically tunable optical excitations residing in the mid-infrared (MIR) spectral range, where intrinsic optical transitions are typically scarce. Such a tunable material system with an excitonic response offer a rare platform for exploring light-matter interactions and optical hybridization of quasiparticles residing in the long wavelength spectrum. In this work, we demonstrate that when the bilayer is encapsulated in hexagonal-boron-nitride (hBN)-a m…

StARS DCM: A Sleep Stage-Decoding Forehead EEG Patch for Real-time Modulation of Sleep Physiology
William G. Coon, Preston Peranich, Griffin Milsap
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03442

StARS DCM: A Sleep Stage-Decoding Forehead EEG Patch for Real-time Modulation of Sleep Physiology
The System to Augment Restorative Sleep (StARS) is a modular hardware/software platform designed for real-time sleep monitoring and intervention. Utilizing the compact DCM biosignal device, StARS captures electrophysiological signals (EEG, EMG, EOG) and synchronizes sensor data using the ezmsg real-time software framework. StARS supports interventions such as closed-loop auditory stimulation and dynamic thermal modulation guided by sleep-stage decoding via advanced neural network models and tra…

AMC signs a deal with Runway to use its AI tech to generate marketing images and pre-visualize unproduced shows, the first cable player to work with Runway (Steven Zeitchik/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

AMC Networks Inks Deal With AI Company Runway (Exclusive)
The ‘Mad Men’ and 'The Walking Dead' platform is the latest Hollywood company to sign a pact with the generative AI firm.

NASP: Network Slice as a Service Platform for 5G Networks
Felipe Hauschild Grings, Gustavo Zanatta Bruno, Lucio Rene Prade, Cristiano Bonato Both, Jos\'e Marcos Camara Brito
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24051

NASP: Network Slice as a Service Platform for 5G Networks
With 5G's rapid global uptake, demand for agile private networks has exploded. A defining beyond-5G capability is network slicing. 3GPP specifies three core slice categories, massive Machine-Type Communications (mMTC), enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB), and Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications (URLLC), while ETSI's Zero-Touch Network and Service Management (ZSM) targets human-less operation. Yet existing documents do not spell out end-to-end (E2E) management spanning multiple domains and su…

Prepared, which offers AI tools to modernize emergency response systems, raised a $80M Series C led by General Catalyst, bringing its total funding to ~$135.2M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/05/30/pr…

Prepared raises $80M to expand AI-powered emergency response platform - SiliconANGLE
Prepared raises $80M to expand AI-powered emergency response platform - SiliconANGLE

Exciton-polaritons in a monolayer semiconductor coupled to van der Waals dielectric nanoantennas on a metallic mirror
Yadong Wang, Charalambos Louca, Sam Randerson, Xuerong Hu, Panaiot G. Zotev, Oscar Palma Chaundler, Paul Bouteyre, Casey K. Cheung, Roman Gorbachev, Yue Wang, Alexander I. Tartakovskii
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.…

Exciton-polaritons in a monolayer semiconductor coupled to van der Waals dielectric nanoantennas on a metallic mirror
Polaritons in nanophotonic structures have attracted long-standing interest owing to their fundamental importance and potential for applications in nonlinear and quantum optics. Nanoantennas (NAs) made from high refractive index dielectrics offer a suitable platform for polariton physics thanks to the strongly confined optical Mie resonances and low optical losses in contrast to metallic NAs. However, Mie modes are mainly confined within the NA, making inefficient their coupling with excitons i…

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Yambda-5B -- A Large-Scale Multi-modal Dataset for Ranking And Retrieval
We present Yambda-5B, a large-scale open dataset sourced from the Yandex.Music streaming platform. Yambda-5B contains 4.79 billion user-item interactions from 1 million users across 9.39 million tracks. The dataset includes two primary types of interactions: implicit feedback (listening events) and explicit feedback (likes, dislikes, unlikes and undislikes). In addition, we provide audio embeddings for most tracks, generated by a convolutional neural network trained on audio spectrograms. A key…

Bridging the Narrative Divide: Cross-Platform Discourse Networks in Fragmented Ecosystems
Patrick Gerard, Hans W. A. Hanley, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21729

Bridging the Narrative Divide: Cross-Platform Discourse Networks in Fragmented Ecosystems
Political discourse has grown increasingly fragmented across different social platforms, making it challenging to trace how narratives spread and evolve within such a fragmented information ecosystem. Reconstructing social graphs and information diffusion networks is challenging, and available strategies typically depend on platform-specific features and behavioral signals which are often incompatible across systems and increasingly restricted. To address these challenges, we present a platform…

The National Research Platform: Stretched, Multi-Tenant, Scientific Kubernetes Cluster
Derek Weitzel, Ashton Graves, Sam Albin, Huijun Zhu, Frank W\"urthwein, Mahidhar Tatineni, Dmitry Mishin, John Graham, Elham E Khoda, Mohammad Firas Sada, Larry Smarr, Thomas DeFanti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22864

The National Research Platform: Stretched, Multi-Tenant, Scientific Kubernetes Cluster
The National Research Platform (NRP) represents a distributed, multi-tenant Kubernetes-based cyberinfrastructure designed to facilitate collaborative scientific computing. Spanning over 75 locations in the U.S. and internationally, the NRP uniquely integrates varied computational resources, ranging from single nodes to extensive GPU and CPU clusters, to support diverse research workloads including advanced AI and machine learning tasks. It emphasizes flexibility through user-friendly interfaces…

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Data Monetization through Strategic Coordination of Privately Informed Agents
We consider linear-quadratic games of incomplete information with Gaussian uncertainty, in which players' payoffs depend both on a privately observed type and an unknown but common state. A monopolist data platform observes the state, elicits the players' types, and sells information back to them via (possibly correlated) action recommendations. We fully characterize the class of all such implementable Gaussian mechanisms (where the joint distribution of actions and signals is multivariate norm…

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Imprints of extra dimensions in eccentric eccentric extreme-mass-ratio inspirals gravitational waveforms
Studies regarding extra-dimensions have been of great interest in modern theoretical physics, including their observational consequences from future gravitational wave (GW) observatories. In this direction, extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), attracting considerable interest in GW astronomy and fundamental physics, can potentially provide a useful platform for the search of extra dimensions. In this paper, we examine a rotating braneworld black hole in the context of equatorial eccentric EMRI…

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Combining Threat Intelligence with IoT Scanning to Predict Cyber Attack
While the Web has become a global platform for communication, malicious actors, including hackers and hacktivist groups, often disseminate ideological content and coordinate activities through the "Dark Web", an obscure counterpart of the conventional web. Presently, challenges such as information overload and the fragmented nature of cyber threat data impede comprehensive profiling of these actors, thereby limiting the efficacy of predictive analyses of their online activities. Concurrently, t…

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The CASE Framework -- A New Architecture for Participatory Research and Digital Health Surveillance
We present the CASE framework, an open-source platform for adaptive, context-aware participatory research, and pandemic preparedness. CASE implements an event-driven architecture that enables dynamic survey workflows, allowing real-time adaptation based on participant responses, external data, temporal conditions, and evolving user states. The framework supports a broad range of research needs, from simple one-time questionnaires to complex longitudinal studies with advanced conditional logic. …

Improving Regulatory Oversight in Online Content Moderation
Benedetta Tessa, Denise Amram, Anna Monreale, Stefano Cresci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04145 h…

Improving Regulatory Oversight in Online Content Moderation
The European Union introduced the Digital Services Act (DSA) to address the risks associated with digital platforms and promote a safer online environment. However, despite the potential of components such as the Transparency Database, Transparency Reports, and Article 40 of the DSA to improve platform transparency, significant challenges remain. These include data inconsistencies and a lack of detailed information, which hinder transparency in content moderation practices. Additionally, the ab…

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High-resolution urban air pollution and thermal comfort mapping: an application of drive mobile sensing platform for smart city services
Air pollutant exposure exhibits significant spatial and temporal variability, with localized hotspots, particularly in traffic microenvironments, posing health risks to commuters. Although widely used for air quality assessment, fixed-site monitoring stations are limited by sparse distribution, high costs, and maintenance needs, making them less effective in capturing on-road pollution levels. This study utilizes a fleet of 314 taxis equipped with sensors to measure NO\textsubscript{2}, PM\text…

A look at Australian startup Cortical Labs' CL1, billed as the first code-deployable biological computer, with 115 units shipping this summer at $35K each (Shannon Cuthrell/IEEE Spectrum)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/biological-computer-for-sale

Human Brain Cells on a Chip for Sale

World-first biocomputing platform hits the market

Versatile Lithium Niobate Platform for Photoacoustic/Thermoelastic Gas Sensing and Photodetection
Haoyang Lin, Wenguo Zhu, Yongchun Zhong, Huihui Lu, Jianhui Yu, Huadan Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24276

Versatile Lithium Niobate Platform for Photoacoustic/Thermoelastic Gas Sensing and Photodetection
We present a lithium niobate multi-functional platform (LN-MFP) that integrates photoacoustic and thermoelastic spectroscopy with photodetection on a single chip. Utilizing LN's piezoelectric and thermoelastic properties and an optimized design, it achieves high sensitivity across visible to long-wave infrared wavelengths. We demonstrate photoacoustic/thermoelastic gas sensing and photodetection using LN-MFP. The compact, integrated system with custom packaging and direct wire bonding reduces c…

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Public versus Less-Public News Engagement on Facebook: Patterns Across Bias and Reliability
The rapid growth of social media as a news platform has raised significant concerns about the influence and societal impact of biased and unreliable news on these platforms. While much research has explored user engagement with news on platforms like Facebook, most studies have focused on publicly shared posts. This focus leaves an important question unanswered: how representative is the public sphere of Facebook's entire ecosystem? Specifically, how much of the interactions occur in less-publi…

SubMIT: A Physics Analysis Facility at MIT
Josh Bendavid (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CERN), Mariarosaria D'Alfonso (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Jan Eysermans (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Chad Freer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Maxim Goncharov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Matthew Heine (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Luca Lavezzo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Marianne Moore (Massachusetts Institute of Te…

SubMIT: A Physics Analysis Facility at MIT
The recently completed SubMIT platform is a small set of servers that provide interactive access to substantial data samples at high speeds, enabling sophisticated data analyses with very fast turnaround times. Additionally, it seamlessly integrates massive processing resources for large-scale tasks by connecting to a set of powerful batch processing systems. It serves as an ideal prototype for an Analysis Facility tailored to meet the demanding data and computational requirements anticipated d…

Creatify, an AI video ad platform that reached $9M in ARR just 18 months after launch, raised a $15.5M Series A led by Jeffrey Katzenberg's WndrCo and Kindred (Victor Dey/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91344416/jeffr

Jeffrey Katzenberg bets big on AI video ads with a $15.5 million investment in Creatify
The DreamWorks legend joined Creatify’s board as the fast-growing startup powers a new era of video advertising with AI avatars, real-time testing, and over one million users.

AMC signs a deal with Runway to use its tech to generate marketing images and pre-visualize unproduced shows, the first cable player to work with Runway (Steven Zeitchik/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

AMC Networks Inks Deal With AI Company Runway (Exclusive)
The ‘Mad Men’ and 'The Walking Dead' platform is the latest Hollywood company to sign a pact with the generative AI firm.

Netic, which sells an AI platform that helps home services firms automate client outreach and handle calls, raised $20M from Greylock, Founders Fund, and others (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Usability Evaluation of Cloud for HPC Applications
Vanessa Sochat, Daniel Milroy, Abhik Sarkar, Aniruddha Marathe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02709 https://…

Usability Evaluation of Cloud for HPC Applications
The rise of AI and the economic dominance of cloud computing have created a new nexus of innovation for high performance computing (HPC), which has a long history of driving scientific discovery. In addition to performance needs, scientific workflows increasingly demand capabilities of cloud environments: portability, reproducibility, dynamism, and automation. As converged cloud environments emerge, there is growing need to study their fit for HPC use cases. Here we present a cross-platform usa…

NYC-based Empathy, which runs an online platform providing on-demand tools and guidance for bereaving families, raised a $72M Series C led by Adams Street (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/05/29/exclusi

Exclusive: Empathy raises $72 million Series C to tackle the agonizing logistics of death
Founded in 2020, Empathy has raised a $72 million Series C, with Adams Street Partners leading the round, Fortune has exclusively learned.

Google quietly released an Android app called Google AI Edge Gallery on GitHub, letting users run some AI models from Hugging Face locally on their phones (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/31/goog

Google quietly released an app that lets you download and run AI models locally | TechCrunch
Last week, Google quietly released an app, Google AI Edge Gallery, that lets users run a range of openly available AI models from the AI dev platform Hugging Face on their phones.