Tootfinder

Oppo launches €999 Find X9 and €1,299 Find X9 Pro in the UK and EU, with 7,025mAh and 7,500mAh silicon-carbon batteries and a MediaTek Dimensity 9500 chip (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/808187/oppo-find-x9-pros-massi…

Oppo Find X9 Pro’s massive 7,500mAh battery arrives in Europe
The two new Oppo phones bring some of the biggest batteries around.

Review of Honor Magic V5, the world's thinnest foldable phone at 8.8mm thick when folded, as it launches in Europe for €1,999, following a July launch in China (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/phone-review/766712/honor-magic…

Honor’s Magic V5 is the thinnest foldable yet, but that’s not why it matters
Thin is in, but the big battery is the Honor Magic V5’s real magic trick.

Modular analogs of character formulas and minimal lifts of modular forms
Patrick B. Allen, Preston Wake
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21426 https://arxiv.org/…

Modular analogs of character formulas and minimal lifts of modular forms
If $f$ is a mod-$3$ eigenform of weight 2 and level $Γ_0(\ell^2)$ for a prime $\ell$ such that $\ell \equiv -1 \pmod{3}$, and $\ell$ is a vexing prime for $f$, we show that there is no obstruction to finding a minimal lift of $f$, but that there is an obstruction to finding a nonminimal lift. The key new ingredient that we prove is a modular analog of the standard character formula for a cuspidal representation of $\mathrm{GL}_2(\mathbb{F}_\ell)$, an enhancement that allows us to easily comput…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Billy Preston:
🎵 Nothing From Nothing
#BillyPreston
https://djgizmo1.bandcamp.com/track/billy-preston-nothing-from-nothing-dj-gizmo-redrum
https://open.spotify.com/track/5n9QhVJS3XSjSc9kNJNEIU

Crosslisted article(s) found for math.RT. https://arxiv.org/list/math.RT/new
[1/1]:
- Modular analogs of character formulas and minimal lifts of modular forms
Patrick B. Allen, Preston Wake

Replaced article(s) found for physics.plasm-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.plasm-ph/new
[1/1]:
- HEART: A New X-Ray Tracing Code for Mosaic Crystal Spectrometers
Gawne, Schwalbe, Chuna, Acosta, Preston, Dornheim

MATRIX: Multi-Agent simulaTion fRamework for safe Interactions and conteXtual clinical conversational evaluation
Ernest Lim, Yajie Vera He, Jared Joselowitz, Kate Preston, Mohita Chowdhury, Louis Williams, Aisling Higham, Katrina Mason, Mariane Melo, Tom Lawton, Yan Jia, Ibrahim Habli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19163

MATRIX: Multi-Agent simulaTion fRamework for safe Interactions and conteXtual clinical conversational evaluation
Despite the growing use of large language models (LLMs) in clinical dialogue systems, existing evaluations focus on task completion or fluency, offering little insight into the behavioral and risk management requirements essential for safety-critical systems. This paper presents MATRIX (Multi-Agent simulaTion fRamework for safe Interactions and conteXtual clinical conversational evaluation), a structured, extensible framework for safety-oriented evaluation of clinical dialogue agents. MATRIX …

Think before you fit: parameter identifiability, sensitivity and uncertainty in systems biology models
Simon P. Preston, Richard D. Wilkinson, Richard H. Clayton, Mike J. Chappell, Gary R. Mirams
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18853

Think before you fit: parameter identifiability, sensitivity and uncertainty in systems biology models
Reliable predictions from systems biology models require knowing whether parameters can be estimated from available data, and with what certainty. Identifiability analysis reveals whether parameters are learnable in principle (structural identifiability) and in practice (practical identifiability). We introduce the core ideas using linear models, highlighting how experimental design and output sensitivity shape identifiability. In nonlinear models, identifiability can vary with parameter values…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalMixtape
George Frideric Handel, Arleen Augér, Lynne Dawson, Choir of Westminster Abbey, Orchestra of Westminster Abbey & Simon Preston:
🎵 De torrente in via bibet (Dixit Dominus HWV.232)
#GeorgeFridericHandel #ArleenAugér

No sum types at Studierendenwerk Berlin.
https://chaos.social/@dpk/115253048174407250

Yarns With Linda And Preston
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Titans could target former Steelers EDGE Preston Smith in free agency, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/titans-could-target-former-steel…

"Polanski calls for sports boycott of Israel."
Ayoub Khan also called it correctly in a BBC interview: it (the Aston Villa decision) is both a safety issue and a matter of opposing genocide.
But depressing that the Canary can't write an article without citing Twitter and contributing to its SEO rankings.
And yes Preston is a third rate political commentator who can't string a thought together.

Zack Polanski says kick Israel out of all sports
Polanski has establishment media rattled as he endorses a 'general boycott of Israeli sports teams' - just like the cultural boycott of Russia

A Survey of Recent Advancements in Secure Peer-to-Peer Networks
Raj Patel, Umesh Biswas, Surya Kodipaka, Will Carroll, Preston Peranich, Maxwell Young
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19539

A Survey of Recent Advancements in Secure Peer-to-Peer Networks
Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks are a cornerstone of modern computing, and their security is an active area of research. Many defenses with strong security guarantees have been proposed; however, the most-recent survey is over a decade old. This paper delivers an updated review of recent theoretical advances that address classic threats, such as the Sybil and routing attacks, while highlighting how emerging trends -- such as machine learning, social networks, and dynamic systems -- pose new challen…

Xiaomi unveils 17, 17 Pro, and 17 Pro Max, available September 27 in China; Pro phones feature a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset and a back screen (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/785693/xiaomi-17-pro-max-china-launch-sp…

Xiaomi 17 series arrives with secondary screens and enormous batteries
The Xiaomi 17, 17 Pro, and 17 Pro Max may have Apple-y names, but you’d never see an iPhone quite like this.

Maybe it’s the craziness of the world, but I’ve been dreaming of still life painting. I keep imagining spending my days arranging and rearranging small objects on a tabletop, then drawing or painting them. Nothing much: cups and bottles, flowers and fruit. Just the idea of it calms and brings me joy.
#Art #Painting

Ways of Seeing: Still Life
The still life flower paintings of Australian artist Margaret Preston (1875-1963) along with excerpts of Sal Randolph's book The Uses of Art.

Incentives and Outcomes in Bug Bounties
Serena Wang, Martino Banchio, Krzysztof Kotowicz, Katrina Ligett, R. Preston McAfee, Eduardo' Vela'' Nava
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16655

Incentives and Outcomes in Bug Bounties
Bug bounty programs have contributed significantly to security in technology firms in the last decade, but little is known about the role of reward incentives in producing useful outcomes. We analyze incentives and outcomes in Google's Vulnerability Rewards Program (VRP), one of the world's largest bug bounty programs. We analyze the responsiveness of the quality and quantity of bugs received to changes in payments, focusing on a change in Google's reward amounts posted in July, 2024, in which …

Compute-Optimal Scaling for Value-Based Deep RL
Preston Fu, Oleh Rybkin, Zhiyuan Zhou, Michal Nauman, Pieter Abbeel, Sergey Levine, Aviral Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14881

Compute-Optimal Scaling for Value-Based Deep RL
As models grow larger and training them becomes expensive, it becomes increasingly important to scale training recipes not just to larger models and more data, but to do so in a compute-optimal manner that extracts maximal performance per unit of compute. While such scaling has been well studied for language modeling, reinforcement learning (RL) has received less attention in this regard. In this paper, we investigate compute scaling for online, value-based deep RL. These methods present two pr…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Billy Preston:
🎵 Nothing From Nothing
#BillyPreston
https://djgizmo1.bandcamp.com/track/billy-preston-nothing-from-nothing-dj-gizmo-redrum
https://open.spotify.com/track/5n9QhVJS3XSjSc9kNJNEIU

the early citations here ⬇️ lead me to suspect this was a slogan for advertising the selectric typewriter
https://chaos.social/@dpk/115131325942797887

Observational Astrophysics Research through Cross Institutional Research Partnerships
Kristen C. Dage, Linda Strubbe, Rhianna Taub, Amna Khalyleh, Malu Sudha, Teresa Panurach, Muhammad Ridha Aldhalemi, Zainab Bustani, Dominic DeYonker, Mariam Ismail Fawaz, Hans J. Harff, Timothy McBride, Jesse Mason, Anthony Preston, Cortney Rinehart, Ethan Vinson, Vanessa Wilson, Edward M. Cackett, William I. Clarkson

Observational Astrophysics Research through Cross Institutional Research Partnerships
Undergraduate research in STEM can be a transformative experience, especially for Community College students, many of whom come from under-represented backgrounds. However, undergraduate research at Community Colleges is relatively rare, due in part to their focus on teaching excellence. Research partnerships with four year colleges about exciting and accessible science topics, facilitated by researchers such as postdoctoral fellows, can be a powerful path forward. We describe our program, the …

Categorical Tiling Theory: Constructing Directed Planar Tilings via Edge Reversal
Catherine DiLeo, Preston Sessoms, Brandon T. Shapiro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06363 https://

Categorical Tiling Theory: Constructing Directed Planar Tilings via Edge Reversal
Tilings of the plane resemble the simplicial and other complexes from algebraic topology, but have not been studied from this perspective. We construct finite categories corresponding to polygons with labeled directed edges, and introduce the problem of modeling tilings of the Euclidean or hyperbolic plane as presheaves over such a category. Combinatorially, this amounts to choosing an ``alignment'' for a tiling: a direction for every edge and consistent labels for the edges of each polygonal t…

Ricci curvature for hydrodynamics on the sphere
Leandro Lichtenfelz, Klas Modin, Stephen C. Preston
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09833 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Ricci curvature for hydrodynamics on the sphere
The geometric description of incompressible hydrodynamics, as geodesic motion on the infinite-dimensional group of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms, enables notions of curvature in the study of fluids in order to study stability. Formulas for Ricci curvature are often simpler than those for sectional curvature, which typically takes both signs, but the drawback is that Ricci curvature is rarely well-defined in infinite-dimensional spaces. Here we suggest a definition of Ricci curvature in the …

Eight #Lancashire Lads

Nothing launches Ear 3, with a Super Mic system activated by a Talk button on the case, available on September 25 for $179 (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/779345/nothing-ear-3-super-mic-price-launch

Nothing wants you to talk to your earbuds’ charging case
Nothing’s Ear 3 earbuds pack a ‘Super Mic’ in the charging case that you can use for calls, voice notes, and (sometimes) videos.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Billy Preston:
🎵 Will It Go Round in Circles
#BillyPreston
https://oldschoolscoundrels.bandcamp.com/track/billy-preston-will-it-go-round-in-circles-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/0iifjjuozo6r5fh2GWI6Pq

Honor teases the "Robot Phone", with an AI-enabled, gimbal-mounted camera that unfolds from the phone's rear and can capture photos and video in any direction (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/799944/honor-robot-phone-tease-anno…

Honor’s Robot Phone concept features a fold-out camera arm
The Honor Robot Phone is a concept that builds an AI-enabled gimbal camera right into the back of the phone.

CancerGUIDE: Cancer Guideline Understanding via Internal Disagreement Estimation
Alyssa Unell, Noel C. F. Codella, Sam Preston, Peniel Argaw, Wen-wai Yim, Zelalem Gero, Cliff Wong, Rajesh Jena, Eric Horvitz, Amanda K. Hall, Ruican Rachel Zhong, Jiachen Li, Shrey Jain, Mu Wei, Matthew Lungren, Hoifung Poon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07325…

CancerGUIDE: Cancer Guideline Understanding via Internal Disagreement Estimation
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) provides evidence-based guidelines for cancer treatment. Translating complex patient presentations into guideline-compliant treatment recommendations is time-intensive, requires specialized expertise, and is prone to error. Advances in large language model (LLM) capabilities promise to reduce the time required to generate treatment recommendations and improve accuracy. We present an LLM agent-based approach to automatically generate guideline-con…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThisClassicalLife
Benjamin Britten, Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya, The Bach Choir, Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau, Highgate School Choir, London Symphony Chorus, Simon Preston, Melos Ensemble, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten:
🎵 Let us sleep now...In paradisum from War Requiem
https://open.spotify.com/track/5nmuuYOEMPpQofh2Ltiq69

Orientational Effects in the Low Pair Continuum of Aluminium
Thomas Gawne, Zhandos A Moldabekov, Oliver S Humphries, Motoaki Nakatsutsumi, Sebastian Schwalbe, Jan Vorberger, Ulf Zastrau, Tobias Dornheim, Thomas R Preston
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02251

Orientational Effects in the Low Pair Continuum of Aluminium
We compare the predictions of the dynamic structure factor (DSF) of ambient polycrystalline aluminium from time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) in the pair continuum regime to recent ultrahigh resolution x-ray Thomson scattering measurements, collected at the European XFEL. TDDFT predicts strong anisotropy in the DSF at the wavenumber examined here, even with $q$-blurring accounted for. The experimental spectrum has more than sufficient resolution and signal-to-noise levels to resol…

Crosslisted article(s) found for math.MG. https://arxiv.org/list/math.MG/new
[1/1]:
- Categorical Tiling Theory: Constructing Directed Planar Tilings via Edge Reversal
Catherine DiLeo, Preston Sessoms, Brandon T. Shapiro

Honor unveils its flagships Magic8, with a 7,000mAh battery, and Magic8 Pro, with 7,200mAh, both featuring an AI button, launching in China for ~$630 and ~$800 (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/799808/honor-magic-8-pro-launch-chi…

Honor’s Magic 8 phones have huge batteries and oodles of AI
The Honor Magic 8 Pro fits in a 7,200mAh battery, but only in its Chinese release, with smaller batteries for international markets.

Classifying Compact Radio Emission in Nearby Galaxies: a 10GHz Study of Active Galactic Nuclei, Supernovae, Anomalous Microwave Emission and Star Forming Regions
Kristen C. Dage, Eric W. Koch, Evangelia Tremou, Kwangmin Oh, Susmita Sett, Cosima Eibensteiner, Sean T. Linden, Angiraben D. Mahida, Eric J. Murphy, Muhammad Ridha Aldhalemi, Zainab Bustani, Mariam Ismail Fawaz, Hans J. Harff, Amna Khalyleh, Timothy McBride, Jesse Mason, Anthony Preston, Cortney Rinehart, Ethan Vinson, Teresa…

Classifying Compact Radio Emission in Nearby Galaxies: a 10GHz Study of Active Galactic Nuclei, Supernovae, Anomalous Microwave Emission and Star Forming Regions
We present 115 compact radio point sources in three galaxies, NGC 5474, NGC 4631 and M51, taken in the most extended (A-)configuration of the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array at 10GHz. Several of these compact radio point sources have diffuse counterparts identified in previous multi-band studies of resolved radio continuum emission. We find compact counterparts to eight star forming regions, four anomalous microwave emission candidates, and one supernova remnant (SN 2011dh). Nine of the compact…

Probing ultrafast heating and ionization dynamics in solid density plasmas with time-resolved resonant X-ray absorption and emission
Lingen Huang, Mikhail Mishchenko, Michal \v{S}m\'id, Oliver Humphries, Thomas R. Preston, Xiayun Pan, Long Yang, Johannes Hagemann, Thea Engler, Yangzhe Cui, Thomas Kluge, Carsten Baehtz, Erik Brambrink, Alejandro Laso Garcia, Sebastian G\"ode, Christian Gutt, Mohamed Hassan, Hauke H\"oppner, Michaela Kozlova, Josefine Metzkes-Ng, Masruri Ma…

Probing ultrafast heating and ionization dynamics in solid density plasmas with time-resolved resonant X-ray absorption and emission
Heating and ionization are among the most fundamental processes in ultra-short, relativistic laser-solid interactions. However, capturing their spatiotemporal evolution experimentally is challenging due to the inherently transient and non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (NLTE) nature. Here, time-resolved resonant X-ray emission spectroscopy, in conjunction with simultaneous X-ray absorption imaging, is employed to investigate such complex dynamics in a thin copper wire driven by an optical high…

Modular analogs of character formulas and multiplicities of induced representations
Patrick Allen, Preston Wake, Robin Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06657 https://

Modular analogs of character formulas and multiplicities of induced representations
Let $G$ be a finite group, $k$ a characteristic-$p$ field, and $π$ be a simple $k[G]$-module. We show that if $π$ is in a $p$-nilpotent block with cyclic defect group, then $π$ appears with multiplicity at most one in the socle and cosocle of induced $k[G]$-modules that are multiplicity-free in characteristic zero and satisfy some additional hypotheses. We show that this applies, in particular, to certain Deligne--Lusztig modules $π$. As an application, we prove that well-known character fo…

Odontoceti: Ultra-Fast DAG Consensus with Two Round Commitment
Preston Vander Vos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01216 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01216

Odontoceti: Ultra-Fast DAG Consensus with Two Round Commitment
Users of blockchains value scalability, expecting fast confirmations and immediate transaction processing. Odontoceti, the latest in DAG-based consensus, addresses these concerns by prioritizing low latency and high throughput, making a strategic trade-off in security by operating with a 20% fault tolerance instead of the established 33% level. It is the first DAG-based protocol to achieve commitment in just two communication rounds, delivering median latency of 300 milliseconds while processin…

Replaced article(s) found for physics.atom-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.atom-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Global isotopic analysis of hyperfine-resolved rotational spectroscopic data for barium monofluor...
Alex Preston, Graceson Aufderheide, Will Ballard, Richard Mawhorter, Jens…

The iPhone 17 Pro starts at $1,099 and the Pro Max at $1,199, both with 256GB of storage, and for the first time, the Pro Max offers up to 2TB (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/772666/apple-iphone-17-pro-specs-features-price-…

Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro has the biggest battery of any iPhone
Apple’s new flagship iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max have been revealed, with bigger batteries, aluminum bodies, and a whole new design.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Billy Preston:
🎵 Space Race
#BillyPreston
https://open.spotify.com/track/4z2fha9ZhIjU2PisUO1v1v

A live blog of Apple's "Awe dropping" event, where major iPhone design upgrades, an ultrathin iPhone 17 Air, and three Apple Watch models are expected (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/772434/apple-iphone-17-event-news

Everything announced at Apple’s iPhone 17 event
Apple is expected to unveil the slim iPhone 17 Air along with redesigned regular and Pro models, plus new Apple Watches and AirPods Pro.

OnePlus ends its five-year partnership with camera company Hasselblad and plans to develop its own imaging engine called DetailMax Engine for upcoming phones (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/772369/oneplus-and-hasselblad-are-parting-ways

OnePlus and Hasselblad are parting ways
But Oppo and Hasselblad seemingly aren’t.

Adobe plans to launch a free version of its Premiere video editor for iPhone later this month, with one-tap exporting to TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/771236/adobe-premiere-iphone-ios-video-…

Adobe’s Premiere video editor is coming to iPhone for free
The free Adobe Premiere mobile video editor launches on iOS this month, and an Android version is coming later.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Johann Sebastian Bach & Simon Preston:
🎵 Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542: Fugue
#JohannSebastianBach #SimonPreston #newRelease 🆕 single

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #MusicMatters
George Gershwin, Simon Preston & Howard Cable:
🎵 The Brothers Gershwin (excerpt)
#GeorgeGershwin #SimonPreston #HowardCable