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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

This story in The Onion from 1997 is now official policy of the Trump administration
https://theonion.com/u-s-offers-platinumplus-preferred-citizenship-1819564488/

U.S. Offers PlatinumPlus Preferred Citizenship
WASHINGTON, DC—In an 86-14 vote, the Senate approved legislation Monday establishing PlatinumPlus Preferred citizenship, an exciting new program offering special benefits and discounts to select members of the U.S.

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…

faa_routes: FAA Preferred Routes (2010)
A network of air traffic routes, from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) National Flight Data Center (NFDC) preferred routes database (www.fly.faa.gov). Date of extraction is prior to 2010. Nodes represent airports or service centers, and a directed edge is the preferred route between airport i and airport j.
This network has 1226 nodes and 2615 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted

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

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…

NFL Week 3 Team of the Week: Caleb Williams Highlights Sunday's Top Performers https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-week-3-team-week-caleb-williams-highlights-sundays-top-performers

Subjective Behaviors and Preferences in LLM: Language of Browsing
Sai Sundaresan, Harshita Chopra, Atanu R. Sinha, Koustava Goswami, Nagasai Saketh Naidu, Raghav Karan, N Anushka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15474

Subjective Behaviors and Preferences in LLM: Language of Browsing
A Large Language Model (LLM) offers versatility across domains and tasks, purportedly benefiting users with a wide variety of behaviors and preferences. We question this perception about an LLM when users have inherently subjective behaviors and preferences, as seen in their ubiquitous and idiosyncratic browsing of websites or apps. The sequential behavior logs of pages, thus generated, form something akin to each user's self-constructed "language", albeit without the structure and grammar imbu…

NFL Week 3 Team of the Week: Caleb Williams Highlights Sunday's Top Performers https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-week-3-team-week-caleb-williams-highlights-sundays-top-performers