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Steam bekommt ein neues Overlay für Performance-Messungen
Bislang konnte man sich über Steam lediglich die fps anzeigen lassen – nicht immer die beste Metrik. Im Beta-Client gibt es nun einen neuen Performance-Monitor.

In a UK tribunal filing, ex-Meta employee Samujjal Purkayastha alleges Meta misled advertisers by inflating Shops ads' performance and bypassed Apple's ATT (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/whistleblower-alleges-m…

Whistleblower Alleges Meta Artificially Boosted Shops Ads Performance
Ex-Meta employee alleges the company inflated ad results to mask poor performance

Source: Fox has officially closed its upfront discussions, reaching $2B for core sports properties, excluding the World Cup, for the first time (Saleah Blancaflor/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/convergent-tv/fox-wraps-upfront-2-billion-sports-properties/…

Fox Wraps Upfront, Reaches $2 Billion for Core Sports Properties
Fox closed its upfront talks with double-digit volume growth across its portfolio.

Managing level of detail through peripheral degradation: Effects on search performance with a head-mounted display
Benjamin Watson, Neff Walker, Larry F Hodges, Aileen Worden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13660

Managing level of detail through peripheral degradation: Effects on search performance with a head-mounted display
Two user studies were performed to evaluate the effect of level-of-detail (LOD) degradation in the periphery of head-mounted displays on visual search performance. In the first study, spatial detail was degraded by reducing resolution. In the second study, detail was degraded in the color domain by using grayscale in the periphery. In each study, 10 subjects were given a complex search task that required users to indicate whether or not a target object was present among distracters. Subjects us…

Preference Models assume Proportional Hazards of Utilities
Chirag Nagpal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13189 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.13189

Preference Models assume Proportional Hazards of Utilities
Approaches for estimating preferences from human annotated data typically involves inducing a distribution over a ranked list of choices such as the Plackett-Luce model. Indeed, modern AI alignment tools such as Reward Modelling and Direct Preference Optimization are based on the statistical assumptions posed by the Plackett-Luce model. In this paper, I will connect the Plackett-Luce model to another classical and well known statistical model, the Cox Proportional Hazards model and attempt to s…

Big talent, small garage: Welcome to the Garage for the Performing Arts https://www.startribune.com/big-talent-small-garage-welcome-to-the-garage-for-the-performing-arts/601385494

From Croatia:
'Stories of expanded solidarity: the personal and the political in the degrowth perspective from the European periphery' – Mladen Domazet
In the series #ProspectsForDegrowth

Stories of expanded solidarity: the personal and the political in the degrowth perspective from the European periphery
by Mladen Domazet1 When Mark asked me to contribute to this series, there was an instruction to try to point to any good prospects for degrowth in this conjuncture, and a lingering implication to u…

Single-click protocols for remote state preparation using weak coherent pulses
Janice van Dam, Emil R. Hellebek, Tzula B. Propp, Junior R. Gonzales-Ureta, Anders S. S{\o}rensen, Stephanie D. C. Wehner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14857

Single-click protocols for remote state preparation using weak coherent pulses
Remote state preparation (RSP) allows one party to remotely prepare a known quantum state on another party's qubit using entanglement. This can be used in quantum networks to perform applications such as blind quantum computing or long-distance quantum key distribution (QKD) with quantum repeaters. Devices to perform RSP, referred to as a client, ideally have low hardware requirements, such as only sending photonic qubits. A weak coherent pulse source offers a practical alternative to true sing…

EU to Prepare Retaliation Plan as US Trade Stance Seen to Harden (Alberto Nardelli/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-20/eu-to-prepare-retaliation-plan-as-us-trade-stance-seen-to-harden?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1MzAxMjYwMSwiZXhwIjoxNzUzNjE3NDAxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTWk9SREZHUFFRN0gwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJFNDNBODZGMTM2MEQ0QTYzQURDREY5MzhBMUU0NzIzNCJ9.fjgETkTcJ_ybUTFDhNjBYNbUTohxlzCfNKyH6UDRXjE
http://www.memeorandum.com/250720/p10#a250720p10

Zusammen 478 Euro: Sony stellt seine erste Maus und Tastatur vor
Sony bringt seine erste PC-Peripherie. Die Preise sprechen für hohes Selbstbewusstsein: Die Inzone Mouse-A und KBD-H75 sind teuer.
https://www…