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Steelers HC Mike Tomlin will turn up heat with afternoon training camp practices: 'Wasn't hot enough last year' https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-hc-mike-tomlin-will-turn-up-heat-with-after…

How to secure your phone before joining a protest
✅ The Protesters' Guide to Smartphone Security
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/01/23/activists-guide-securing-your-smartphone/

The Protesters' Guide to Smartphone Security
Your phone is an essential tool, but it also represents a huge risk to your privacy and security. Understanding these best practices when it comes to securing your smartphone will help keep you and your data safe.

Join Kevin Liang at this year's Berlin Buzzwords, where he will discuss how Apache Solr/Lucene builds dense vector indexes and talk about how he and his team optimised their dense vector setup, sharing the challenges they faced and the best practices they learned along the way.
Learn more: https…

(De)composing Craft: An Elementary Grammar for Sharing Expertise in Craft Workflows
Ritik Batra, Lydia Kim, Ilan Mandel, Amritansh Kwatra, Jane L. E., Steven J. Jackson, Thijs Roumen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10891

(De)composing Craft: An Elementary Grammar for Sharing Expertise in Craft Workflows
Craft practices rely on evolving archives of skill and knowledge, developed through generations of craftspeople experimenting with designs, materials, and techniques. Better documentation of these practices enables the sharing of knowledge and expertise between sites and generations. However, most documentation focuses solely on the linear steps leading to final artifacts, neglecting the tacit knowledge necessary to improvise, or adapt workflows to meet the unique demands of each craft project.…

Raiders DT Adam Butler revealed why he missed OTA practices and it wasn't injury related https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/06/11/raiders-dt-adam-butlers-mis…

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On the Need to Monitor Continuous Integration Practices -- An Empirical Study
Continuous Integration (CI) encompasses a set of widely adopted practices that enhance software development. However, there are indications that developers may not adequately monitor CI practices. Hence, this paper explores developers' perceptions regarding the monitoring CI practices. To achieve this, we first perform a Document Analysis to assess developers' expressed need for practice monitoring in pull requests comments generated by developers during the development process. After that, we …

How to address questionable research practices, by considering why they come up?
Instead of thinking only of the bad ends of the scale (fraudulent behavior or incompetence) let's also consider the good ends. It can help us figure out what to do.
https://heidis…

Addressing Pitfalls in Auditing Practices of Automatic Speech Recognition Technologies: A Case Study of People with Aphasia
Katelyn Xiaoying Mei, Anna Seo Gyeong Choi, Hilke Schellmann, Mona Sloane, Allison Koenecke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08846

Addressing Pitfalls in Auditing Practices of Automatic Speech Recognition Technologies: A Case Study of People with Aphasia
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has transformed daily tasks from video transcription to workplace hiring. ASR systems' growing use warrants robust and standardized auditing approaches to ensure automated transcriptions of high and equitable quality. This is especially critical for people with speech and language disorders (such as aphasia) who may disproportionately depend on ASR systems to navigate everyday life. In this work, we identify three pitfalls in existing standard ASR auditing pro…

No such thing as a slow cybersecurity news day anymore, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Top cyber vendors hope to clean up crazy threat group naming practices,
--Coinbase knew of data leak in January,
--Prolific swatter pleads guilty,
--Cartier confirms data breach,
--Abilene gropes for recovery after rejecting ransom payment,
--North Face customers' data stolen in credential s…

Top cyber vendors hope to clean up crazy threat group naming practices
Coinbase knew of data leak in January, Prolific swatter pleads guilty, Cartier confirms data breach, Abilene gropes for recovery after rejecting ransom payment, North Face customers' data stolen in credential stuffing attacks, $11.5m stolen from BitoPro hot wallets, much more

Wow. https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2025/04/28/how-california-sent-residents-personal-health-data-to-linkedin My opinion of LinkedIn was already vanishingly low (one way to ensure I won't read something is to po…

2025 NFL offseason dates by team: OTAs schedule plus mandatory minicamps, practices for all 32 teams

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2025-nf

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Monitoring Continuous Integration Practices in Industry: A Case Study
In this paper, we study the benefits and challenges of monitoring Continuous Integration (CI) practices in software development. Our aim is to evaluate the impact of monitoring seven CI practices in industry using three organizations in Brazil as case studies. We developed a tool for monitoring CI practices and conducted a multiple case study, applying a mixed-methods strategy. We combined surveys, interviews, log data, and repositories data from software projects and their CI services.We gauge…

Quantifying Data Requirements for EEG Independent Component Analysis Using AMICA
Gwenevere Frank, Seyed Yahya Shirazi, Jason Palmer, Gert Cauwenberghs, Scott Makeig, Arnaud Delorme
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10156

Quantifying Data Requirements for EEG Independent Component Analysis Using AMICA
Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is an important step in EEG processing for a wide-ranging set of applications. However, ICA requires well-designed studies and data collection practices to yield optimal results. Past studies have focused on quantitative evaluation of the differences in quality produced by different ICA algorithms as well as different configurations of parameters for AMICA, a multimodal ICA algorithm that is considered the benchmark against which other algorithms are measure…

VerIF: Verification Engineering for Reinforcement Learning in Instruction Following
Hao Peng, Yunjia Qi, Xiaozhi Wang, Bin Xu, Lei Hou, Juanzi Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09942 …

VerIF: Verification Engineering for Reinforcement Learning in Instruction Following
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become a key technique for enhancing large language models (LLMs), with verification engineering playing a central role. However, best practices for RL in instruction following remain underexplored. In this work, we explore the verification challenge in RL for instruction following and propose VerIF, a verification method that combines rule-based code verification with LLM-based verification from a large reasoning model (e.g., QwQ-32B). …

"Good process improvement practices include:
- standardized improvement process (pdsa, or whatever)

- Going to the gemba – improvement is done where the work is done. You must go to the where the action is. Sitting in meeting rooms, or offices, reading reports and making decisions is not the way to improve effectively.
- evidence based decision making..."

We need to develop good practices for bots and crawlers that are acceptable for all parties involved. Otherwise AI will suffocate the open web.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/keeping-web-under-weight-ai-crawlers

Keeping the Web Up Under the Weight of AI Crawlers
If you run a site on the open web, chances are you've noticed a big increase in traffic over the past few months, whether or not your site has been getting more viewers, and you're not alone. Operators everywhere have observed a drastic increase in automated traffic—bots—and in most cases attribute...

rant on software dev practices
What is it with P5js and virtually all its ecosystem (like Q5js) that, still today, didn't manage to _properly_ package their libraries to be distributed and used via package managers?
Same with their insistence to push global resources and state everywhere... and of course virtually not documenting any of the truly delicate details, just the trivial stuff that could be auto-discovered by relying on auto-complete tools.
I kind of understand wanting to keep the vanilla experience alive, making it "easy" for novices... but that shouldn't be at odds with more "professionalized" production pipelines, at least *not that much*.
For example, with Q5js:
- The NPM packages could be mentioned in their documentation (they are not, even though they are official)
- The NPM packages could define proper exports (same for the JS modules themselves), not forcing us to rely on relative paths to files in node_modules... 🤦
- Globals could be at least namespaced... of course, it would be much, much better if they didn't exist at all.
I'm writing this in 2025, not 1993... and I'm... "triggered".
At this point I'll have to check if I have any other neuro-condition beyond ADHD that makes me "obsessed" with technical flaws, because it seems to be a "me problem" when either virtually nobody sees that as a huge collection of fatal design flaws... or they see it and don't care at all.

Don't Unwrap Options: There Are Better Ways #Rust
https://corrode.dev/blog/rust-option-handling-best-practices/

Intergenerational AI Literacy in Korean Immigrant Families: Interpretive Gatekeeping Meets Convenient Critical Deferment
Jeongone Seo, Ryan Womack, Tawfiq Ammari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10197

Intergenerational AI Literacy in Korean Immigrant Families: Interpretive Gatekeeping Meets Convenient Critical Deferment
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes deeply integrated into family life, immigrant families must navigate unique intergenerational, linguistic, and cultural challenges. This study examines how Korean immigrant families in the United States negotiate the use of AI tools such as ChatGPT and smart assistants in their homes. Through 20 semi-structured interviews with parents and teens, we identify two key practices that shape their engagement: interpretive gatekeeping, where parents mediate thei…

Filing: CrowdStrike says the DOJ and SEC have requested information about the July 2024 outage caused by an update and about its revenue recognition practices (Connor Hart/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

In this moment when equity & inclusion efforts are being hindered & erased, the DLF Committee on Equity & Inclusion is creating a Zotero library of related resources for the GLAM community. Let us know what topics would be most helpful to you: https://docs.google.com/f…

If you’re interested in the best current practices for securing #SPA apps, then you should tune into our livestream today. Applies to #react #angular

On The Impact of Merge Request Deviations on Code Review Practices
Samah Kansab, Francis Bordeleau, Ali Tizghadam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08860 https://…

On The Impact of Merge Request Deviations on Code Review Practices
Code review is a key practice in software engineering, ensuring quality and collaboration. However, industrial Merge Request (MR) workflows often deviate from standardized review processes, with many MRs serving non-review purposes (e.g., drafts, rebases, or dependency updates). We term these cases deviations and hypothesize that ignoring them biases analytics and undermines ML models for review analysis. We identify seven deviation categories, occurring in 37.02% of MRs, and propose a few-sh…

Inverse Design in Distributed Circuits Using Single-Step Reinforcement Learning
Jiayu Li, Masood Mortazavi, Ning Yan, Yihong Ma, Reza Zafarani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08029

Inverse Design in Distributed Circuits Using Single-Step Reinforcement Learning
The goal of inverse design in distributed circuits is to generate near-optimal designs that meet a desirable transfer function specification. Existing design exploration methods use some combination of strategies involving artificial grids, differentiable evaluation procedures, and specific template topologies. However, real-world design practices often require non-differentiable evaluation procedures, varying topologies, and near-continuous placement spaces. In this paper, we propose DCIDA, a …

Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos,
a pediatric infectious disease expert, was a co-leader of a working group on COVID-19 vaccines who advised experts on the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
She informed her ACIP colleagues of her resignation in an email on Tuesday.
"My career in public health and vaccinology started with a deep-seated desire to help the most vulnerable members of our population,
and that is not something I am able to continue…

Top CDC COVID vaccine expert resigns after RFK Jr. unilaterally restricts access
The expert said she could no longer help vulnerable people in her CDC role.

Aerial Shepherds: Enabling Hierarchical Localization in Heterogeneous MAV Swarms
Haoyang Wang, Jingao Xu, Chenyu Zhao, Yuhan Cheng, Xuecheng Chen, Chaopeng Hong, Xiao-Ping Zhang, Yunhao Liu, Xinlei Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08408

Aerial Shepherds: Enabling Hierarchical Localization in Heterogeneous MAV Swarms
A heterogeneous micro aerial vehicles (MAV) swarm consists of resource-intensive but expensive advanced MAVs (AMAVs) and resource-limited but cost-effective basic MAVs (BMAVs), offering opportunities in diverse fields. Accurate and real-time localization is crucial for MAV swarms, but current practices lack a low-cost, high-precision, and real-time solution, especially for lightweight BMAVs. We find an opportunity to accomplish the task by transforming AMAVs into mobile localization infrastruct…

A coalition of seven leading civil society organisations has called on the European Commission to revoke the United Kingdom's data adequacy status, citing what they describe as a sustained and systemic erosion of privacy and data protection standards in the UK.
https://www.

Europe urged to revoke UK's data adequacy status
Government's practices are increasingly diverging from the EU's data protection framework, argue civil society groups

Five questions to monitor ahead of Cowboys' mandatory minicamp https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/five-questions-to-monitor-ahead-of-cowboys-mandatory-minicamp

How Classroom Rituals Help Create Community
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_classroom_rituals_help_create_community?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content…

How Classroom Rituals Help Create Community
Small practices, repeated regularly and with intentionality, can help students feel a sense of belonging at school.

Bra och underhållande text kring begreppen statistisk signifikans och konfidensintervall.
How a Cup of Tea Laid the Foundations for Modern Statistical Analysis https://www.wired.com/story/how-a-cup-of-t…

How a Cup of Tea Laid the Foundations for Modern Statistical Analysis
Scientific experiments run today are based on research practices that evolved out of a British tea-tasting experiment in the 1920s.

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Bioptic B1: A Target-Agnostic Potency-Based Small Molecules Search Engine
Recent successes in virtual screening have been made possible by large models and extensive chemical libraries. However, combining these elements is challenging: the larger the model, the more expensive it is to run, making ultra-large libraries unfeasible. To address this, we developed a target-agnostic, efficacy-based molecule search model, which allows us to find structurally dissimilar molecules with similar biological activities. We used the best practices to design fast retrieval system, …

I wonder how many people understand that good organic farming practices do not contribute to this problem?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/climate-species-collapse-ecology-insects-nature-reserves-…

I wonder how many people understand that good organic farming practices do not contribute to this problem?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/climate-species-collapse-ecology-insects-nature-reserves-…

Understanding Community-Level Blocklists in Decentralized Social Media
Owen Xingjian Zhang, Sohyeon Hwang, Yuhan Liu, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Andr\'es Monroy-Hern\'andez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05522

Understanding Community-Level Blocklists in Decentralized Social Media
Community-level blocklists are key to content moderation practices in decentralized social media. These blocklists enable moderators to prevent other communities, such as those acting in bad faith, from interacting with their own -- and, if shared publicly, warn others about communities worth blocking. Prior work has examined blocklists in centralized social media, noting their potential for collective moderation outcomes, but has focused on blocklists as individual-level tools. To understand h…

The Effects of GitHub Copilot on Computing Students' Programming Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Processes in Brownfield Programming Tasks
Md Istiak Hossain Shihab, Christopher Hundhausen, Ahsun Tariq, Summit Haque, Yunhan Qiao, Brian Mulanda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10051

The Effects of GitHub Copilot on Computing Students' Programming Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Processes in Brownfield Programming Tasks
When graduates of computing degree programs enter the software industry, they will most likely join teams working on legacy code bases developed by people other than themselves. In these so-called brownfield software development settings, generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) coding assistants like GitHub Copilot are rapidly transforming software development practices, yet the impact of GenAI on student programmers performing brownfield development tasks remains underexplored. This paper i…

Design Didn't Prevent These Hazard Exposures
David. E Mertz (Fermilab)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03280 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Design Didn't Prevent These Hazard Exposures
Two recent electrical incidents demonstrate how the design of equipment encouraged electrical workers to take actions that violated NFPA 70E principles. The features that encouraged non-compliant work execution will be described, as well as how the equipment was improved to facilitate safe work practices. Design-stage processes that help identify features that will foster rather than compromise safe work practices will be identified as well.

Towards Industrial Convergence : Understanding the evolution of scientific norms and practices in the field of AI
Antoine Houssard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17945

Towards Industrial Convergence : Understanding the evolution of scientific norms and practices in the field of AI
In the field of artificial intelligence (AI) research, there seems to be a rapprochement between academics and industrial forces. The aim of this study is to assess whether and to what extent industrial domination in the field as well as the ever more frequent switch between academia and industry resulted in the adoption of industrial norms and practices by academics. Using bibliometric information and data on scientific code, we aimed to understand academic and industrial researchers' practice…

Deep Dive into #uv #Dockerfiles by #Astral: Image Size, Performance & Best Practices

Beware! The AI Act Can Also Apply to Your AI Research Practices
Alina Wernick, Kristof Meding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03218 https://

Beware! The AI Act Can Also Apply to Your AI Research Practices
The EU has become one of the vanguards in regulating the digital age. A particularly important regulation in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) domain is the EU AI Act, which entered into force in 2024. The AI Act specifies -- due to a risk-based approach -- various obligations for providers of AI systems. These obligations, for example, include a cascade of documentation and compliance measures, which represent a potential obstacle to science. But do these obligations also apply to AI researcher…

There is an open letter on BlueSky moderation practices as they apply to Gazans which I was invited to sign.
I have been feeling pretty helpless so I read the letter. It was very balanced and reasonable. The asks are not- as I saw them being misrepresented as immediately- to allow anyone who says they are in Gaza to post anything.

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Demystifying Cost-Efficiency in LLM Serving over Heterogeneous GPUs
Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to increasingly diverse requests, accompanied with varying resource (compute and memory) demands to serve them. However, this in turn degrades the cost-efficiency of LLM serving as common practices primarily rely on homogeneous GPU resources. In response to this problem, this work conducts a thorough study about serving LLMs over heterogeneous GPU resources on cloud platforms. The rationale is that different GPU types exhibit distinct…

A small victory on the data retention front. #Czechia https://www.expats.cz/czech-news/article/court-rules-that-czechia-co…

Docker under Siege: Securing Containers in the Modern Era
Gogulakrishnan Thiyagarajan, Prabhudarshi Nayak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02043 https://

Docker under Siege: Securing Containers in the Modern Era
Containerization, driven by Docker, has transformed application development and deployment by enhancing efficiency and scalability. However, the rapid adoption of container technologies introduces significant security challenges that require careful management. This paper investigates key areas of container security, including runtime protection, network safeguards, configuration best practices, supply chain security, and comprehensive monitoring and logging solutions. We identify common vulner…

Five questions to monitor ahead of Cowboys' mandatory minicamp https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/five-questions-to-monitor-ahead-of-cowboys-mandatory-minicamp

Parsons at Cowboys minicamp, extension in limbo https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45487664/cowboys-micah-parsons-minicamp-extension-limbo

#7 🔍 Run regular security audits using #Larastan, #PHPStan and security checkers
https://

An abomination. Truly.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c05768jmm11o

Trump administration ends Harvard's ability to enrol international students - BBC News
The move escalates the administration's row with America's oldest university over hiring, admissions and teaching practices.

Congrats on the EU petition against conversion practices reaching 1M! 🎉 Impressive finish.
While we are signing EU petitions, this one on #airQuotas looks important/interesting, to limit flying: https://eci.ec.e…

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Curate, Connect, Inquire: A System for Findable Accessible Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) Human-Robot Centered Datasets
Xingru Zhou, Sadanand Modak, Yao-Cheng Chan, Zhiyun Deng, Luis Sentis, Maria Esteva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00220

Curate, Connect, Inquire: A System for Findable Accessible Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) Human-Robot Centered Datasets
The rapid growth of AI in robotics has amplified the need for high-quality, reusable datasets, particularly in human-robot interaction (HRI) and AI-embedded robotics. While more robotics datasets are being created, the landscape of open data in the field is uneven. This is due to a lack of curation standards and consistent publication practices, which makes it difficult to discover, access, and reuse robotics data. To address these challenges, this paper presents a curation and access system wi…

Stakeholder Participation for Responsible AI Development: Disconnects Between Guidance and Current Practice
Emma Kallina, Thomas Bohn\'e, Jat Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09873

Stakeholder Participation for Responsible AI Development: Disconnects Between Guidance and Current Practice
Responsible AI (rAI) guidance increasingly promotes stakeholder involvement (SHI) during AI development. At the same time, SHI is already common in commercial software development, but with potentially different foci. This study clarifies the extent to which established SHI practices are able to contribute to rAI efforts as well as potential disconnects -- essential insights to inform and tailor future interventions that further shift industry practice towards rAI efforts. First, we analysed 56…

I’ve been thinking about how we stay sane in the constant unfolding crisis and dizzying spectacle — what practices help us stay true to our own minds and hearts?
One possibility is the alchemy of turning news into poetry, like fairytale straw into gold.
#poetry #news

(AI peers) are people learning from the same standpoint: Perception of AI characters in a Collaborative Science Investigation
Eunhye Grace Ko, Soo Hyoung Joo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06165

(AI peers) are people learning from the same standpoint: Perception of AI characters in a Collaborative Science Investigation
While the complexity of 21st-century demands has promoted pedagogical approaches to foster complex competencies, a persistent gap remains between in-class learning activities and individualized learning or assessment practices. To address this, studies have explored the use of AI-generated characters in learning and assessment. One attempt is scenario-based assessment (SBA), a technique that not only measures but also fosters the development of competencies throughout the assessment process. SB…

"America Is Becoming the World’s Largest Tax Haven"
By Joseph E. Stiglitz
https://rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/largest-tax-haven/

QB Maye 'starting to find a stride' in new offense https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45482037/patriots-drake-maye-starting-find-stride-new-offense

The optimization of crop response to climatic stress through modulation of plant stress response mechanisms. Opportunities for biostimulants and plant hormones to meet climate challenges
Jing Li, Giulia Forghieri, Danny Geelen, Patrick du Jardin, Patrick H. Brown
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01714

The optimization of crop response to climatic stress through modulation of plant stress response mechanisms. Opportunities for biostimulants and plant hormones to meet climate challenges
Climate change is a major threat to crop potential and is characterized by both long-term shifts in temperature and precipitation patterns as well as increased occurrence of extreme weather events, these extreme weather events are the most immediate and intractable threat to agriculture. Crop resilience in the face of stress depends upon the speed and effectiveness with which plants and cropping systems sense and respond to that stress. A variety of agronomic practices including breeding, exoge…

RewardBench 2: Advancing Reward Model Evaluation
Saumya Malik, Valentina Pyatkin, Sander Land, Jacob Morrison, Noah A. Smith, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Nathan Lambert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01937

RewardBench 2: Advancing Reward Model Evaluation
Reward models are used throughout the post-training of language models to capture nuanced signals from preference data and provide a training target for optimization across instruction following, reasoning, safety, and more domains. The community has begun establishing best practices for evaluating reward models, from the development of benchmarks that test capabilities in specific skill areas to others that test agreement with human preferences. At the same time, progress in evaluation has not…

On the Practices of Autonomous Systems Development: Survey-based Empirical Findings
Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova, Denny Hood, Johann Schumann, Noble Nkwocha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04438

On the Practices of Autonomous Systems Development: Survey-based Empirical Findings
Autonomous systems have gained an important role in many industry domains and are beginning to change everyday life. However, due to dynamically emerging applications and often proprietary constraints, there is a lack of information about the practice of developing autonomous systems. This paper presents the first part of the longitudinal study focused on establishing state-of-the-practice, identifying and quantifying the challenges and benefits, identifying the processes and standards used, an…

STRATUS: A Multi-agent System for Autonomous Reliability Engineering of Modern Clouds
Yinfang Chen, Jiaqi Pan, Jackson Clark, Yiming Su, Noah Zheutlin, Bhavya Bhavya, Rohan Arora, Yu Deng, Saurabh Jha, Tianyin Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02009

STRATUS: A Multi-agent System for Autonomous Reliability Engineering of Modern Clouds
In cloud-scale systems, failures are the norm. A distributed computing cluster exhibits hundreds of machine failures and thousands of disk failures; software bugs and misconfigurations are reported to be more frequent. The demand for autonomous, AI-driven reliability engineering continues to grow, as existing humanin-the-loop practices can hardly keep up with the scale of modern clouds. This paper presents STRATUS, an LLM-based multi-agent system for realizing autonomous Site Reliability Engine…

A Novel Multilevel Taxonomical Approach for Describing High-Dimensional Unlabeled Movement Data
Yashat Tavakoli, Amilcar Soares, Lourdes Pena
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20174

I can't believe it, but the Trump regime is actually using its abusive legal practices to do the right thing, for once!
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/breaking-trump-doj-launches-criminal-35260670

Trump DOJ launches criminal probe into Andrew Cuomo over 'COVID cover-up'
The Trump DOJ has launched a criminal probe into former New York governor and NYC mayoral front-runner Andrew Cuomo over allegations he lied to Congress about decisions made during the COVID-19 pandemic

Conversational Alignment with Artificial Intelligence in Context
Rachel Katharine Sterken (University of Hong Kong), James Ravi Kirkpatrick (University of Oxford,Magdalen College, Oxford)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22907

Conversational Alignment with Artificial Intelligence in Context
The development of sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) conversational agents based on large language models raises important questions about the relationship between human norms, values, and practices and AI design and performance. This article explores what it means for AI agents to be conversationally aligned to human communicative norms and practices for handling context and common ground and proposes a new framework for evaluating developers' design choices. We begin by drawing on th…

Watermarking Without Standards Is Not AI Governance
Alexander Nemecek, Yuzhou Jiang, Erman Ayday
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23814 https://

Watermarking Without Standards Is Not AI Governance
Watermarking has emerged as a leading technical proposal for attributing generative AI content and is increasingly cited in global governance frameworks. This paper argues that current implementations risk serving as symbolic compliance rather than delivering effective oversight. We identify a growing gap between regulatory expectations and the technical limitations of existing watermarking schemes. Through analysis of policy proposals and industry practices, we show how incentive structures di…

Greening AI-enabled Systems with Software Engineering: A Research Agenda for Environmentally Sustainable AI Practices
Lu\'is Cruz, Jo\~ao Paulo Fernandes, Maja H. Kirkeby, Silverio Mart\'inez-Fern\'andez, June Sallou, Hina Anwar, Enrique Barba Roque, Justus Bogner, Joel Casta\~no, Fernando Castor, Aadil Chasmawala, Sim\~ao Cunha, Daniel Feitosa, Alexandra Gonz\'alez, Andreas Jedlitschka, Patricia Lago, Ana Oprescu, Pooja Rani, Jo\~ao Saraiva, Federica Sarro, Raghavendra…

Greening AI-enabled Systems with Software Engineering: A Research Agenda for Environmentally Sustainable AI Practices
The environmental impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled systems is increasing rapidly, and software engineering plays a critical role in developing sustainable solutions. The "Greening AI with Software Engineering" CECAM-Lorentz workshop (no. 1358, 2025) funded by the Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire and the Lorentz Center, provided an interdisciplinary forum for 29 participants, from practitioners to academics, to share knowledge, ideas, practices, and current resul…

Fluent but Culturally Distant: Can Regional Training Teach Cultural Understanding?
Dhruv Agarwal, Anya Shukla, Sunayana Sitaram, Aditya Vashistha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21548 …

Fluent but Culturally Distant: Can Regional Training Teach Cultural Understanding?
Large language models (LLMs) are used around the world but exhibit Western cultural tendencies. To address this cultural misalignment, many countries have begun developing "regional" LLMs tailored to local communities. Yet it remains unclear whether these models merely speak the language of their users or also reflect their cultural values and practices. Using India as a case study, we evaluate five Indic and five global LLMs along two key dimensions: values (via the Inglehart-Welzel map and Gl…

"The waste of having processes that create defects and then use inspection to catch them is certainly something to avoid. A significant part of the effort in code reviews should be geared toward capturing learning that can be applied to current processes to improve them so fewer bugs are created in the future.
..."

Micah Parsons’ Change of Heart Grabs Attention Amid Cowboys Rumors https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/micah-parsons-news-rumors-holdout-contract/?adt_ei=[email]

Do Generative AI Tools Ensure Green Code? An Investigative Study
Samarth Sikand, Rohit Mehra, Vibhu Saujanya Sharma, Vikrant Kaulgud, Sanjay Podder, Adam P. Burden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08790

Do Generative AI Tools Ensure Green Code? An Investigative Study
Software sustainability is emerging as a primary concern, aiming to optimize resource utilization, minimize environmental impact, and promote a greener, more resilient digital ecosystem. The sustainability or "greenness" of software is typically determined by the adoption of sustainable coding practices. With a maturing ecosystem around generative AI, many software developers now rely on these tools to generate code using natural language prompts. Despite their potential advantages, there is a …

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A Framework for Ethical Judgment of Smart City Applications
Weichen Shi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05172 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.0…

A Framework for Ethical Judgment of Smart City Applications
As modern cities increasingly adopt a variety of sensors and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to collect and analyze data about residents, environments, and public services, they are fostering greater interactions among smart city applications, residents, governments, and businesses. This trend makes it essential for regulators to focus on these interactions to manage smart city practices effectively and prevent unethical outcomes. To facilitate ethical analysis for smart city applications…

Evaluating LLMs Effectiveness in Detecting and Correcting Test Smells: An Empirical Study
E. G. Santana Jr, Jander Pereira Santos Junior, Erlon P. Almeida, Iftekhar Ahmed, Paulo Anselmo da Mota Silveira Neto, Eduardo Santana de Almeida
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07594

Evaluating LLMs Effectiveness in Detecting and Correcting Test Smells: An Empirical Study
Test smells indicate poor development practices in test code, reducing maintainability and reliability. While developers often struggle to prevent or refactor these issues, existing tools focus primarily on detection rather than automated refactoring. Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong potential in code understanding and transformation, but their ability to both identify and refactor test smells remains underexplored. We evaluated GPT-4-Turbo, LLaMA 3 70B, and Gemini-1.5 Pro on Pyth…

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Is Your Training Pipeline Production-Ready? A Case Study in the Healthcare Domain
Daniel Lawand (University of S\~ao Paulo), Lucas Quaresma (University of S\~ao Paulo), Roberto Bolgheroni (University of S\~ao Paulo), Alfredo Goldman (University of S\~ao Paulo), Renato Cordeiro Ferreira (University of S\~ao Paulo, Jheronimus Academy of Data Science, Technical University of Eindhoven, Tilburg University)

Is Your Training Pipeline Production-Ready? A Case Study in the Healthcare Domain
Deploying a Machine Learning (ML) training pipeline into production requires robust software engineering practices. This differs significantly from experimental workflows. This experience report investigates this challenge in SPIRA, a project whose goal is to create an ML-Enabled System (MLES) to pre-diagnose insufficiency respiratory via speech analysis. The first version of SPIRA's training pipeline lacked critical software quality attributes. This paper presents an overview of the MLES, then…

techno-political rant
Say what you want about using the right tool for each problem, but there are tools that suck no matter what.
I'm tired of people portraying legit technical criticism as "biased" and "religious", while at the same time they present themselves as tolerant and open-minded (spoiler: for the most part, they aren't).
Almost every day of my life I have to deal with the nasty consequences of ultra-dumb decisions made by the very same people who are obsessed with productivity and criticise all day long whoever pushes for any design that shows any minim amount of care and/or deep thought (mostly via strawmen arguments).
And, of course, unironically: this has a lot to do with capitalism, as many of our other social and economic problems.
They arrive, have a strike of super-productivity for a few weeks/months and then use that as a trampoline to raise through the ranks or abandon ship before having to face the consequences of their technical crimes.
Then others arrive and are obviously slower at that same job... so the uneducated observers start believing that these newcomers aren't as good as the class traitors who wrote the initial nasty code.
To make things worse, if any of these newcomers dare to speak openly about introducing good practices... this ends up creating a new mental association (in the minds of uneducated observers) between "good engineering" and "lack of productivity".
The ones trying to fix the mess are indeed slower, not because they try to do things the right way though, but because they have to waste vasts amounts of time fixing what is objectively broken besides doing the "visible" work.
Most of today's established "super-productive" ones, if they were starting today, would be probably "vibe coders", certainly not what we commonly understand as a programmer. Not because AI-coding is the future, but because they never cared about the trade at all. They were here only for the grift.

Mathematical Modelling and Optimisation of Athletic Performance: Tapering and Periodisation
David Ceddia, Howard Bondell, Peter Taylor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20859

Mathematical Modelling and Optimisation of Athletic Performance: Tapering and Periodisation
We conduct a mathematical optimisation of the training load to maximise performance for two seminal athletic performance models: the Banister et al. 1975 Fitness-Fatigue Impulse Response Model and the Busso 2003 Variable Dose-Response Model. We discuss discrepancies in the general trends of the optimised training loads compared to common training practices recommended in the sports science literature, such as tapering and periodisation. We then propose a set of interpretable nonlinear modificat…

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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Translation of Enterprise Architecture Concept to Facilitate Digital Transformation Initiatives in Vietnam: Processes, Mechanisms and Impacts
Duong Dang, Quang Bui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20247

Translation of Enterprise Architecture Concept to Facilitate Digital Transformation Initiatives in Vietnam: Processes, Mechanisms and Impacts
Governments around the world have increasingly adopted digital transformation (DT) initiatives to increase their strategic competitiveness in the global market. To support successful DT, governments have to introduce new governance logics and revise IT strategies to facilitate DT initiatives. In this study, we report a case study of how Enterprise Architecture (EA) concepts were introduced and translated into practices in Vietnamese government agencies over a span of 15 years. This translation …

The Measurement Imbalance in Agentic AI Evaluation Undermines Industry Productivity Claims
Kiana Jafari Meimandi, Gabriela Ar\'anguiz-Dias, Grace Ra Kim, Lana Saadeddin, Mykel J. Kochenderfer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02064

The Measurement Imbalance in Agentic AI Evaluation Undermines Industry Productivity Claims
As industry reports claim agentic AI systems deliver double-digit productivity gains and multi-trillion dollar economic potential, the validity of these claims has become critical for investment decisions, regulatory policy, and responsible technology adoption. However, this paper demonstrates that current evaluation practices for agentic AI systems exhibit a systemic imbalance that calls into question prevailing industry productivity claims. Our systematic review of 84 papers (2023--2025) reve…

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AIMSCheck: Leveraging LLMs for AI-Assisted Review of Modern Slavery Statements Across Jurisdictions
Adriana Eufrosina Bora, Akshatha Arodi, Duoyi Zhang, Jordan Bannister, Mirko Bronzi, Arsene Fansi Tchango, Md Abul Bashar, Richi Nayak, Kerrie Mengersen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01671

AIMSCheck: Leveraging LLMs for AI-Assisted Review of Modern Slavery Statements Across Jurisdictions
Modern Slavery Acts mandate that corporations disclose their efforts to combat modern slavery, aiming to enhance transparency and strengthen practices for its eradication. However, verifying these statements remains challenging due to their complex, diversified language and the sheer number of statements that must be reviewed. The development of NLP tools to assist in this task is also difficult due to a scarcity of annotated data. Furthermore, as modern slavery transparency legislation has bee…

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Catastrophic Liability: Managing Systemic Risks in Frontier AI Development
As artificial intelligence systems grow more capable and autonomous, frontier AI development poses potential systemic risks that could affect society at a massive scale. Current practices at many AI labs developing these systems lack sufficient transparency around safety measures, testing procedures, and governance structures. This opacity makes it challenging to verify safety claims or establish appropriate liability when harm occurs. Drawing on liability frameworks from nuclear energy, aviati…

RAGOps: Operating and Managing Retrieval-Augmented Generation Pipelines
Xiwei Xu, Hans Weytjens, Dawen Zhang, Qinghua Lu, Ingo Weber, Liming Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03401

RAGOps: Operating and Managing Retrieval-Augmented Generation Pipelines
Recent studies show that 60% of LLM-based compound systems in enterprise environments leverage some form of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), which enhances the relevance and accuracy of LLM (or other genAI) outputs by retrieving relevant information from external data sources. LLMOps involves the practices and techniques for managing the lifecycle and operations of LLM compound systems in production environments. It supports enhancing LLM systems through continuous operations and feedback …

Systematic Hazard Analysis for Frontier AI using STPA
Simon Mylius
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01782 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.01782

Systematic Hazard Analysis for Frontier AI using STPA
All of the frontier AI companies have published safety frameworks where they define capability thresholds and risk mitigations that determine how they will safely develop and deploy their models. Adoption of systematic approaches to risk modelling, based on established practices used in safety-critical industries, has been recommended, however frontier AI companies currently do not describe in detail any structured approach to identifying and analysing hazards. STPA (Systems-Theoretic Process A…

Generating Automotive Code: Large Language Models for Software Development and Verification in Safety-Critical Systems
Sven Kirchner, Alois C. Knoll
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04038

Generating Automotive Code: Large Language Models for Software Development and Verification in Safety-Critical Systems
Developing safety-critical automotive software presents significant challenges due to increasing system complexity and strict regulatory demands. This paper proposes a novel framework integrating Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) into the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). The framework uses Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate code generation in languages such as C++, incorporating safety-focused practices such as static verification, test-driven development and iterative refi…

Evaluating the Contextual Integrity of False Positives in Algorithmic Travel Surveillance
Alina Wernick, Alan Medlar, Sofia S\"oderholm, Dorota G{\l}owacka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00218

Evaluating the Contextual Integrity of False Positives in Algorithmic Travel Surveillance
International air travel is highly surveilled. While surveillance is deemed necessary for law enforcement to prevent and detect terrorism and other serious crimes, even the most accurate algorithmic mass surveillance systems produce high numbers of false positives. Despite the potential impact of false positives on the fundamental rights of millions of passengers, algorithmic travel surveillance is lawful in the EU. However, as the system's processing practices and accuracy are kept secret by l…

#DevOps people, Is there any well known good approach to combine #Terraform / #OpenTofu with #Ansible ?
I suppose most #cloud environments have relatively good & complete providers and perhaps that makes it easy to have single sources of truth and all that jazz... but I'm using #Hetzner's cloud and there are some things that can't be exported through datasources outputs (for example private IP addresses).
I had to script my way around, adding Moonrepo and Deno on top of that... but my setup is extremely custom and probably not taking advantage of some common practices in the field.

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Determining Absence of Unreasonable Risk: Approval Guidelines for an Automated Driving System Deployment
This paper provides an overview of how the determination of absence of unreasonable risk can be operationalized. It complements previous theoretical work published by existing developers of Automated Driving Systems (ADS) on the overall engineering practices and methodologies for readiness determination. Readiness determination is, at its core, a risk assessment process. It is aimed at evaluating the residual risk associated with a new deployment. The paper proposes methodological criteria to g…

Toward Effective AI Governance: A Review of Principles
Danilo Ribeiro, Thayssa Rocha, Gustavo Pinto, Bruno Cartaxo, Marcelo Amaral, Nicole Davila, Ana Camargo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23417

Toward Effective AI Governance: A Review of Principles
Artificial Intelligence (AI) governance is the practice of establishing frameworks, policies, and procedures to ensure the responsible, ethical, and safe development and deployment of AI systems. Although AI governance is a core pillar of Responsible AI, current literature still lacks synthesis across such governance frameworks and practices. Objective: To identify which frameworks, principles, mechanisms, and stakeholder roles are emphasized in secondary literature on AI governance. Method: We…