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Please join me on July 7th for next month's MediaEd Club webinar for the Media Education Lab: "Privacy, Power, and Platforms"
https://mediaeducationlab.com/index.php/events/privacy-power-and-platforms
If you missed today's / this month…

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

Wegwerfnummern: Einleitung und Tipps
Nächste Woche geht es richtig los mit drei umfangreichen Testartikeln zu Wegwerfnummern: Damit man regelmäßig und einfach eine neue zweite Handynummer für neugierige Shops und Plattformen erhalten kann.
Heute starten wir als Teaser aber schon mit einer Einleitung und den allgemeinen Tipps.
Darin unter anderem:
🔹 Warum empfehle ich mittlerweile eine Wegwerfnummer?
🔹 Wie oft soll man die Nummer wechseln?
🔹 Was ist die …

Einleitung und Tipps – Wegwerfnummern Teil 1
Du brauchst eine Wegwerfnummer für Registrierungen? Im ersten Teil der Serie beantworten wir allgemeinen Fragen zu Sinn, Anbietern und Verifizierung.

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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

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

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…

Harmoknight: completed!
Harmoknight is best described as a rhythm platformer, although the platforming is basic at best and the rhythms are simple. You have two buttons - a jump, and an attack - and you have to either jump or attack in time with the music's beat. In most cases it's sufficient to react in time to seeing the gap or enemy, but on occasion the screen zooms in and reaction times are just too long; it's at this point that you'll lose too many lives and have…

Super-additivity of quantum capacity in simple channels
Zhen Wu, Qi Zhao, Zhihao Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24661 https://arxiv.or…

Super-additivity of quantum capacity in simple channels
The super-additivity of quantum channel capacity is an important feature of quantum information theory different from classical theory, which has been attracting attention. Recently a special channel called ``platypus channel'' exhibits super-additive quantum capacity when combined with qudit erasure channels. Here we consider the ``generalized platypus channel'', prove that it has computable channel capacities, such as both private and classical capacity equal to $1$, and in particular, the ge…

Synopsis: Secure and private trend inference from encrypted semantic embeddings
Madelyne Xiao, Palak Jain, Micha Gorelick, Sarah Scheffler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23880

Synopsis: Secure and private trend inference from encrypted semantic embeddings
WhatsApp and many other commonly used communication platforms guarantee end-to-end encryption (E2EE), which requires that service providers lack the cryptographic keys to read communications on their own platforms. WhatsApp's privacy-preserving design makes it difficult to study important phenomena like the spread of misinformation or political messaging, as users have a clear expectation and desire for privacy and little incentive to forfeit that privacy in the process of handing over raw data…

How the delivery app Fantuan grew its US presence to 50 cities since 2019 by focusing on Asian cuisines, with an app design reminiscent of Chinese platforms (Alex Harring/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/31/under-the-

Under-the-radar delivery apps are gaining ground in the U.S. by courting Asian restaurants
Asian restaurants are utilizing delivery apps like Fantuan and HungryPanda instead of or in addition to bigger-name options.