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Patreon plans to consolidate its Pro and Premium plans starting August 5, taking a 10% commission, rather than the current 8% for Pro and 12% for Premium users (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/687570/patreon-standard-pr…

Patreon is raising its fees for new creators soon
Patreon is raising the rate it charges to most creators, but existing users won’t see an increase — nor will anyone who signs up by August 4th.

Patreon plans to consolidate its Pro and Premium plans starting August 5, taking a 10% commission, rather than the current 8% for Pro and 12% for Premium users (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/687570/patreon-standard-pr…

Patreon is raising its fees for new creators soon
Patreon is raising the rate it charges to most creators, but existing users won’t see an increase — nor will anyone who signs up by August 4th.

Machine Learning Acceleration of Neutron Star Pulse Profile Modeling
Preston G. Waldrop, Dimitrios Psaltis, Tong Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11194 http…

Machine Learning Acceleration of Neutron Star Pulse Profile Modeling
Ray tracing algorithms that compute pulse profiles from rotating neutron stars are essential tools for constraining neutron-star properties with data from missions such as NICER. However, the high computational cost of these simulations presents a significant bottleneck for inference algorithms that require millions of evaluations, such as Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods. In this work, we develop a residual neural network model that accelerates this calculation by predicting the observed flux …

Scaling of thin wire cylindrical compression after 100 fs Joule surface heating with material, diameter and laser energy
L. Yang, M. -L. Herbert, C. B\"ahtz, V. Bouffetier, E. Brambrink, T. Dornheim, N. Fefeu, T. Gawne, S. G\"ode, J. Hagemann, H. H\"oeppner, L. G. Huang, O. S. Humphries, T. Kluge, D. Kraus, J. L\"utgert, J. -P. Naedler, M. Nakatsutsumi, A. Pelka, T. R. Preston, C. Qu, S. V. Rahul, R. Redmer, M. Rehwald, L. Randolph, J. J. Santos, M. \v{S}m\'id, …

Scaling of thin wire cylindrical compression after 100 fs Joule surface heating with material, diameter and laser energy
We present the first systematic experimental validation of return-current-driven implosion scaling in micrometer-sized wires irradiated by femtosecond laser pulses. Employing XFEL-based imaging with sub-micrometer spatial and femtosecond temporal resolution, supported by hydrodynamic and particle-in-cell simulations, we reveal how return current density depends precisely on wire diameter, material properties, and incident laser energy. We identify deviations from simple theoretical predictions …

Finally saw the match last night. It must be said at the outset that Preston North End showed exquisite class as hosts. Really thoughtful & kind, striking all the right notes.
The two things I really wanted to see were 1) Bradley/Frimpong; and 2) Kerkez.
It seems to me that overlapping/underlapping fullbacks is a big part of what Slot wants to do, in combination with a movement/rotation in space to create numerical advantages or stress defenders. 1/n

Whoever has the goods on this guy, Please Leak it Now! Don't wait until after he's voted again! Just a LITTLE leak. Any kind. https://mstdn.science/@ChemicalEyeGuy/114658979114721633

Google plans to shut down Android's Instant Apps, which let users launch apps without installing them, later this year citing low usage and engagement (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/686573/google-android-instant-apps-shutdow…

Google is shutting down Android Instant Apps over ‘low’ usage
The installation-free Android Instant Apps will no longer be supported after December 2025.

Good Morning #Canada
I was going to post something about Preston Manning's birthday, but the related web surfing about how the parties he founded provided platforms for the worst Canadian politicians was too depressing. So instead, I'm starting a new feature called "Mercer Memories," where Rick Mercer gets centre stage on days where nothing interesting happened or topics don't pique my interest. You're welcome...
#CanadaIsAwesome #MercerMemories
https://youtu.be/yi1yhp-_x7A?si=dMmAuI2p0Sy_mXgO

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
David Preston:
🎵 Casablanca, 1913 (feat. Kit Downes, Seb Rochford, Kevin Glasgow)
#DavidPreston
https://open.spotify.com/track/7JQ0dL7dtXbD3zFmk4DKAC

DHS terminates temporary protected status for around 76K Honduran, Nicaraguan migrants (Preston Mizell/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dhs-terminates-temporary-protected-status-around-76k-honduran-nicaraguan-migrants
http://www.memeorandum.com/250707/p68#a250707p68

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Billy Preston With Sly Stone:
🎵 Can't She Tell
#BillyPrestonWithSlyStone
https://open.spotify.com/track/2FRMIMatamP7so7AgWPEYV

In Jason Henderson's 2013 book Street Fight he writes of SF transportation politics as a function of 3 factions: conservatives, neoliberals, progressives. How the street fights go depends on how those factions align. If you slot in YIMBYish urbanist types—those who are pro-bike, pro-business, believe that Dean Preston was blocking housing—as the neoliberals, this holds up surprisingly well today.

HMD says it will "scale back" US operations, citing "a challenging geopolitical and economic environment", and appears to have stopped US sales of Nokia devices (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/705046/hmd-gl…

HMD is ‘scaling back’ in the US, killing Nokia all over again
HMD Global, which sells its own phones as well as Nokia ones, has stopped selling phones on its US site, and confirms it will ‘scale back’ its US operation.

WBD renames Max as HBO Max on its website and apps; max.com now redirects to hbomax.com, and users won't need to download a new app, unlike the 2023 Max rollout (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/702261/hbo-max-rebrand-official-…

HBO Max is officially HBO Max again
The Max app switched back to HBO Max today, as Warner Bros. officially reverts to its original streaming brand.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.ET. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.ET/new
[1/1]:
- Hedge Funds on a Swamp: Analyzing Patterns, Vulnerabilities, and Defense Measures in Blockchain B...
Poupak Azad, Jiahua Xu, Yebo Feng, Preston Strowbridge, Cuneyt Akcora

Preston Damsky is a law student at the University of Florida.
He is also a white nationalist and antisemite.
Last fall, he took a seminar taught by a federal judge on “originalism,”
the legal theory favored by many conservatives that seeks to interpret the Constitution based on its meaning when it was adopted.
In his capstone paper for the class, Mr. Damsky argued that the framers had intended for the phrase “We the People,” in the Constitution’s preamble, to refer exc…

A White Nationalist at University of Florida Wrote a Paper Promoting Racist Views. It Won Him an Award.
The University of Florida student won an academic honor after he argued in a paper that the Constitution applies only to white people. From there, the situation spiraled.

Apple renames its OSes, shifting to a year-based system; the next iOS is iOS 26, alongside macOS Tahoe 26, iPadOS 26, watchOS 26, tvOS 26, and visionOS 26 (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/679221/apple-ios-macos-watchos-ipados-26…

Apple renames its operating systems
iOS, macOS, watchOS, and more now have matching version numbers, as Apple brings all its operating systems to version 26 at WWDC.

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…

OnePlus launches five products: the midrange €449 Nord 5 smartphone, the €349 Nord CE 5, a smaller €299 Watch 3 wearable, the €119 Buds 4, and the €229 Pad Lite (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/700339/oneplus-watch-3-4…

OnePlus launches five new products, including Buds 4 and smaller Watch 3 for the US
The Nord 5 and Nord CE 5 phones and Pad Lite tablet are all headed to Europe and India.

Judo: A User-Friendly Open-Source Package for Sampling-Based Model Predictive Control
Albert H. Li, Brandon Hung, Aaron D. Ames, Jiuguang Wang, Simon Le Cleac'h, Preston Culbertson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17184

Judo: A User-Friendly Open-Source Package for Sampling-Based Model Predictive Control
Recent advancements in parallel simulation and successful robotic applications are spurring a resurgence in sampling-based model predictive control. To build on this progress, however, the robotics community needs common tooling for prototyping, evaluating, and deploying sampling-based controllers. We introduce Judo, a software package designed to address this need. To facilitate rapid prototyping and evaluation, Judo provides robust implementations of common sampling-based MPC algorithms and s…

Hedge Funds on a Swamp: Analyzing Patterns, Vulnerabilities, and Defense Measures in Blockchain Bridges [Experiment, Analysis \& Benchmark]
Poupak Azad, Jiahua Xu, Yebo Feng, Preston Strowbridge, Cuneyt Akcora
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06156

Hedge Funds on a Swamp: Analyzing Patterns, Vulnerabilities, and Defense Measures in Blockchain Bridges [Experiment, Analysis \& Benchmark]
Blockchain bridges have become essential infrastructure for enabling interoperability across different blockchain networks, with more than $24B monthly bridge transaction volume. However, their growing adoption has been accompanied by a disproportionate rise in security breaches, making them the single largest source of financial loss in Web3. For cross-chain ecosystems to be robust and sustainable, it is essential to understand and address these vulnerabilities. In this study, we present a com…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ChoralEvensong
Simon Preston & Richard Moore:
🎵 Alleluyas
#SimonPreston #RichardMoore

Perceptual Ratings Predict Speech Inversion Articulatory Kinematics in Childhood Speech Sound Disorders
Nina R. Benway, Saba Tabatabaee, Dongliang Wang, Benjamin Munson, Jonathan L. Preston, Carol Espy-Wilson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01888

Perceptual Ratings Predict Speech Inversion Articulatory Kinematics in Childhood Speech Sound Disorders
Purpose: This study evaluated whether articulatory kinematics, inferred by Articulatory Phonology speech inversion neural networks, aligned with perceptual ratings of /r/ and /s/ in the speech of children with speech sound disorders. Methods: Articulatory Phonology vocal tract variables were inferred for 5,961 utterances from 118 children and 3 adults, aged 2.25-45 years. Perceptual ratings were standardized using the novel 5-point PERCEPT Rating Scale and training protocol. Two research ques…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Georg Philipp Telemann, Stephen Preston, Clare Shanks, Monica Huggett, Academy of Ancient Music & Christopher Hogwood:
🎵 Triple Concerto in E major for flute, oboe d'amore and viola, TWV 53 E1
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ujVNxRNAbsrKXtfddcH8R

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Preston Pfanz & The Seaton Sands:
🎵 Ginchy
#PrestonPfanz #TheSeatonSands

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Johann Sebastian Bach & Simon Preston:
🎵 Fugue in G major 'A la gigue', BWV.577
#JohannSebastianBach #SimonPreston