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New York City-based GovWell, which uses AI to streamline government processes like permitting and licensing, raised a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/05/…

Exclusive: GovWell raises $25M to streamline permitting, licensing
The new round was led Insight Partners.

There, I fixed the study title:
“[White Guy] Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights”
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00462
PDF:
https://…

AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights
As artificial intelligence (AI) tools become widely adopted, large language models (LLMs) are increasingly involved on both sides of decision-making processes, ranging from hiring to content moderation. This dual adoption raises a critical question: do LLMs systematically favor content that resembles their own outputs? Prior research in computer science has identified self-preference bias -- the tendency of LLMs to favor their own generated content -- but its real-world implications have not be…

This month on All Space Considered, Griffith Observatory welcomed Dr. Joel Leja, Associate Professor of astronomy & astrophysics at The Pennsylvania State University, to discuss his research on the processes of galaxy formation derived from a combination of statistics, machine learning, and deep galaxy surveys with telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope: #LittleRedDots

RE: #cybersecurity

"a recurring problem in technological culture is the blinded tendency to mistake technical processes for social processes. If you spend enough time around code, it becomes tempting to imagine that social problems can be reduced to technical ones... This is not a new mistake"
#GenAI
AI didn’t break the web. The dotcons did – AI just turned up the volume –

Audiovisual stimulation using wearable shutter glasses robustly evokes 40 Hz neuronal activity but does not modulate associative memory https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.09.737418v1

Audiovisual stimulation using wearable shutter glasses robustly evokes 40 Hz neuronal activity but does not modulate associative memory
Audiovisual stimulation is a promising approach for studying and modulating human neuronal gamma (>30 Hz) oscillations and associated memory processes. Portable setups can increase ecological validity and therapeutic potential, but options remain limited. See-through shutter glasses are a new mobile technology that adds a visual flicker effect to what the user naturally sees. Here, we validated this method in a multisensory, cognitively relevant setting. We leveraged a previous experimental des…

"You have reached the entry processes (the number of simultaneously running php and cgi scripts, as well as cron jobs and shell sessions) limit 151559 times"
This is the markings of a site under permanent DDoS attack by the fucking LLMs, rendering it useless.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@rene_mobile/116454517003134641
The application deadline has been extended to June 28th to better align with internal processes.
If you are interested in privacy-first digital identity, secure communication protocol…

A discrete Boltzmann model with state-dependent power-law relaxation time for nonequilibrium transport in compressible flows
Demei Li, Zhongyi He, Huilin Lai, Yanbiao Gan, Hailong Liu, Pengfei Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18216 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.18216 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.18216
arXiv:2605.18216v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Thermodynamic nonequilibrium effects play a central role in momentum and energy transport in compressible flows. In conventional BGK kinetic models, the relaxation time $\tau$ is taken as a constant, which neglects the dependence of the relaxation process on local macroscopic states. To overcome this limitation, we develop a discrete Boltzmann model with a density- and temperature-dependent power-law relaxation time, termed DTRT-DBM, in which $\tau=\tau_0(\rho/\rho_0)^a(T/T_0)^b$. This formulation extends the discrete Boltzmann framework to flows with spatially varying nonequilibrium intensity. The model is validated by the Sod shock tube and by analytical solutions for viscous stress and heat flux, demonstrating accurate recovery of both macroscopic wave structures and nonequilibrium quantities across shock waves, rarefaction waves, and contact discontinuities. On this basis, phase diagrams of viscous stress and heat flux are constructed to examine how these quantities depend on the power-law exponents $a$ and $b$. The extrema of these quantities depend exponentially on the model parameters and exhibit regime-dependent behaviour. The roles of $a$ and $b$ are not symmetric: the nonequilibrium response is more sensitive to $a$ when density gradients dominate, but more sensitive to $b$ when temperature gradients dominate. Within the parameter range and flow configurations examined here, higher-order viscous stress increases the growth rate of the total viscous-stress extremum, whereas higher-order heat flux reduces the growth rate of the total heat-flux extremum. These results show that the proposed model can capture different higher-order nonequilibrium responses in compressible flows and provides a framework for the modelling and analysis of multiscale nonequilibrium processes.
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Oh.
https://lemmy.world/comment/23699816

GitLab Act 2 - A letter to our customers and our investors. - Lemmy.World
Lots of layoffs (“re-evaluating our operational footprint”) and switching to “agentic” processes. Target user is AI. Anyone still hosting Gitlab?

Sharing big R objects across processes shouldn’t mean copying them over and over.
mori uses shared memory ALTREP to give you zero-copy access—multiple processes, one underlying object.
Fast, memory-efficient, and built for modern parallel workflows.
👉 https://shikokuchuo.net/mori/

🧺 Was wäre, wenn alte Textilien nicht verschwinden, sondern sichtbar weiterleben? ♻️
«teXquarium» möchte genau das ins Quartier bringen:
einen gläsernen Ort für Textilien, Geschichten und Wiederverwertung 👕✨
🗳️ Abstimmen könnt ihr nur noch heute:
https://mitwirken…

"Study finds PV plants reshape land surface conditions, reducing wind speed and increasing soil moisture"
#SolarPower #Energy #Environment

Study finds PV plants reshape land surface conditions, reducing wind speed and increasing soil moisture
A China-based research team conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of 147 studies on how solar PV systems alter land surface processes, covering 609 installations worldwide and 11 key climate variables. The results show mixed but mostly significant environmental effects, including reduced wind speed, albedo, and land surface or soil temperatures, alongside increased soil moisture, while air temperature changes remained largely non-significant.

Hallo zusammen! 😎
wir brauchen eure Stimme 🙏
In den Quartieren Binz und Alt-Wiedikon in Zürich wird in den nächsten Jahren das PilotQuartier #NettoNull entstehen, bei dem Ideen von klima-engagierten Menschen und Organisationen mit Unterstützung der Stadt umgesetzt werden können.
Wir beteiligen uns mit der Idee monatlicher Linux-Workshops für die Bevölkerung.
👉 Ihr könnt…

Context-Aware Optimization of Follow-Up Intervals for Type 2 Diabetes Care Using Markov Decision Processes
Parisa Lotfibagha, Kristen Miller, William J. Gallagher, Elizabeth B. Selden, Muge Capan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19092

RE: https://haunted.computer/@netspooky/116938177858980756
Wild that this is even possible!
A reminder that all computation is a logical abstraction over physical processes — and every abstraction eventually leaks.

A ravenous black hole in our backyard could be our window into the ancient universe | Space
A ravenous black hole in our backyard could be our window into the ancient universe | Space https://www.space.com/astronomy/black-hole

SAP launches its new Autonomous Enterprise software suite, integrating data, cloud, AI, and automation features to streamline business processes (Mauro Orru/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sap-launches-unified-ai-automation-suite-b02ac784…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@burger_jaap/116727675563002233
US: Car seeks energy companies to partner on V2G
EU: Innovative energy companies seek cars to partner on V2G
Both: Standardisation of connection rules and (market) processes is need…

Any computer touchers willing to try this out?
I know I will
https://github.com/plbrault/youre-the-os

GitHub - plbrault/youre-the-os: A game where you are a computer's OS and you have to manage processes, memory and I/O events.
A game where you are a computer's OS and you have to manage processes, memory and I/O events. - plbrault/youre-the-os

This is the most detailed picture of a human cell ever made 🧪
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX1CGIZMKJs/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ

Sam Bousaba on Instagram: "This is a single human cell. The white filament-like structures are microtubules, and the small colored particles are ribosomes. Your body contains on the order of ~37 trillion cells. Each cell functions like a highly organized, self-regulating factory operating continuously. There is no central “supervisor”—yet thousands of processes run in parallel with remarkable coordination. Every ribosome is constantly building proteins by linking amino acids together. In eukaryotic (human) cells, a ribosome typically adds about 5–10 amino acids per second (not ~20). Since a single cell can contain millions of ribosomes, protein production is massive—resulting in millions to tens of millions of peptide bonds formed per second per cell. The microtubules act as an internal transport network. Motor proteins such as kinesin move along these tracks, carrying cellular cargo. They “walk” step by step using ATP, at speeds of roughly 500–1000 nanometers per second. Each cell contains a dense network of these filaments, with many motor proteins moving simultaneously. Just beneath the cell membrane lies the actin cortex, a dynamic meshwork that helps maintain cell shape and resist mechanical stress. This structure is continuously remodeled—assembled and disassembled—allowing the cell to adapt to its environment. Now scale this up. Across ~37 trillion cells, each containing millions of ribosomes and hundreds to thousands of mitochondria, your body is constantly producing energy in the form of ATP. Total ATP turnover is enormous—roughly equivalent to your body weight in ATP recycled every day. The DNA in a single human cell, if stretched out, measures about 2 meters. Across all your cells, this would span distances comparable to traveling from Earth to the Sun and back many times (the exact multiple depends on assumptions about cell count and DNA packing). None of these processes are under conscious control. They began when you were a single cell and have continued uninterrupted ever since."
62K likes, 2,387 comments - scienceoftheuniverse on May 2, 2026: "This is a single human cell. The white filament-like structures are microtubules, and the small colored particles are ribosomes. Your body contains on the order of ~37 trillion cells. Each cell functions like a highly organized, self-regulating factory operating continuously. There is no central “supervisor”—yet thousands of processes run in parallel with remarkable coordination. Every ribosome is constantly building prot…

Pro Se Guide for Motion to Change Hearing to WebEx
https://nipnlg.org/work/resources/pro-se-guide-motion-change-hearing-webex
The regime keeps arresting people that follow legal immigration processes, they have been racially profiling and abduct an…

The CEO of PLOS on What AI Asks of Open Access: 'The most interesting question isn’t how to make existing published articles more trustworthy for AI use, it’s whether the article itself is still the right unit of scientific communication, and whether the infrastructure we’ve built around it is actually serving science or just serving a publishing system that science has grown accustomed to.'

What AI Asks of Open Access - The Scholarly Kitchen
As AI systems increasingly reason from the scientific literature, the integrity signals that make research trustworthy - open data, structured metadata, robust retraction processes - matter more than ever. PLOS CEO Alison Mudditt on why open access publishers have a different set of obligations in an AI world.

Whatever discord did in this update hanging was so bad that it somehow took the Dock and Finder processes with it, I had to reboot 😒
What worked in the end was a VPN with Tailscale that they don’t know is a VPN IP ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Enterprise Role Play (ERP), sometimes also Enterprise Resource Play: A unique form of fetish role play.
Unlike more popular fantasies such as boss/secretary focused on power relationships in an office environment, in ERP the business processes themselves are central to the scenario.
ERP participants can create elaborate scenarios involving fictional purchasing departments, legal teams, contract negotiations, and more. Large group ERP scenarios sometimes even extend to the point o…

The Interview Insider with Brooke Bullock
The go-to podcast for ambitious healthcare professionals who want to put their best foot forward through recruitment processes...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-interview-insider…

Crosslisted article(s) found for math.SP. https://arxiv.org/list/math.SP/new
[1/1]:
- Analytic local resolution of Medvedev's Morse index conjecture for the critical hyperbolic cateno...
Alexander Pigazzini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13562 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/116571915012742224
- Determinantal point processes associated with the Bochner-Schr\"odinger operator
Yuri A. Kordyukov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13575 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/116571924843260732
- Spectral instability and non-uniqueness of mild solutions for the Keller-Segel system
Eliseo Luongo, Umberto Pappalettera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13592 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathAP_bot/116571934281016744
- Quantum Fractional Revival and Entanglement Entropy in Unitary Cayley Graphs
Duaa Abdullah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13645 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathCO_bot/116571957678938731
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I no longer think E-Methanol is a good idea ⚡⚗️
I am not saying this lightly. But it's hard to argue with thermodynamics, and making energy-rich molecules from nothing but CO₂, water🌊, electricity⚡ faces some hard truths.
Recently, a significant project developers for E-Methanol⚡⚗️, Liquid Wind💧💨, filed for bankruptcy.
E-Methanol⚡⚗️ & other CCU/E-Fuels/PtX/PtL processes all have one problem: they need so much clean electricity that it's questionable if this is pl…

Should we give up on E-Methanol and CO₂ utilization?
Liquid Wind, a Swedish developer of E-Methanol projects, filed for bankruptcy. While Green Methanol is an important climate solution, is it time to ask whether making it from nothing but CO₂, Water, and Electricity is the right approach?

🚨Job Alert !!🚨 Univ Iowa
Structural #geology and tectonics faculty position; teaching structural, field courses/camp, etc. Expertise: ‘Hard-rock’ Earth and planetary processes, petrology, geo(thermo) chronology, geochemistry, critical minerals, etc.
🧪⚒️ (h/t ts.egu.eu on bsky)

Statistical inference of dynamical processes on networks
Javier Ure\~na-Carrion, Tiago P. Peixoto, Gerardo I\~niguez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.08672 https://

ASML's stock is up 64% YTD, but trails the broader US chip sector as the industry focuses spending on processes outside of lithography like advanced packaging (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-0…

TIL¹: witr² – Why is this running?
An interactive TUI that shows all the details about processes, their resources, environment, parents and children. Like ps, htop, lsof, ss etc. combine for a process-centered view.
I installed the forky Debian package³ on Debian trixie and it just works.
I played around with it and immediately liked id.
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¹ok, technically it was yesterday. Thanks to @…

GitHub - pranshuparmar/witr: Why is this running?
Why is this running? Contribute to pranshuparmar/witr development by creating an account on GitHub.

Paris-based Audion, which offers a platform for planning and optimizing ad campaigns for audio, raised a $15M Series B, bringing its total funding to $22.6M (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/27/audion-audio-adtech-raises-us

Exclusive: Audion raises $15M, plans U.S. expansion
The ad tech platform processes 500,000 hours of audio a week.

Just discovered `earlyoom` that kills out-of-memory processes on #Linux early (before extensive page shuffling and system freeze happens).
The automatic service can be installed easily on recent @… @…

RE: https://c.im/@AndyHab/116493992098603491
Aging can't be reversed!
Do I get a year off on my next birthday? So what do they mean? That all the processes that change with me aging can be reversed?

I have a couple of images promoted to featured picture status on the English #Wikipedia. But I had not explored similar processes on #WikimediaCommons.
Well, I tried nominating my photo of a historical marker for the quality images guidelines and it just got promoted! 🎉

RE: https://chaos.social/@dpk/116635131761203187
I agree! I really need to read about "internal representations and computational processes of these systems" in the original Latin!

Call for Panelists and Discussants at AAS 2027: Negotiating Orthodoxy: Canon Formation, Intellectual Lineage, and Boundary-Making in Chinese Religions
https://ift.tt/jrgAOXK
H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable Review 15-16 on Levine, _Allies and Rivals_ H-Diplo | Robert…
via Input 4 RELCFP

SDSS J110546.07 145202.4 - The First Long-duration Radio Changing-look NLS1 Galaxy: #BlackHole at the centre of a nearby galaxy is growing exceptionally fast, and is producing a burst of radio emission that has never been observed before: https://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pressreleases/2026/a-nearby-black-hole-as-a-window-into-the-early-universe - with characteristics that are expected in the early Universe, this unique galaxy provides important insights into the processes that governed the growth of the first black holes.

Analyzing spatial point processes degraded by displacement and imperfect detection
Kevin M. Collins, Erin M. Schliep, Alan E. Gelfand, Tina M. Yack, Christopher W. Clark, Robert S. Schick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05374

“The project does not involve field research, laboratory experiments, or resource-intensive physical processes. The project-related activities are primarily computer-based and organizational in nature, and focus on the analysis and testing of data-driven infrastructures. Ecological sustainability aspects are therefore only marginally relevant.”
Well, the environmental impact of academic IT projects is indeed marginal compared to commercial operations, but…
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“The project does not involve field research, laboratory experiments, or resource-intensive physical processes. The project-related activities are primarily computer-based and organizational in nature, and focus on the analysis and testing of data-driven infrastructures. Ecological sustainability aspects are therefore only marginally relevant.”
Well, the environmental impact of academic IT projects is indeed marginal compared to commercial operations, but…
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“The project does not involve field research, laboratory experiments, or resource-intensive physical processes. The project-related activities are primarily computer-based and organizational in nature, and focus on the analysis and testing of data-driven infrastructures. Ecological sustainability aspects are therefore only marginally relevant.”
Well, the environmental impact of academic IT projects is indeed marginal compared to commercial operations, but…
⇢

Career Choice in the AI Age: What Next for Privacy and Data Professionals?
https://fpf.org/blog/career-choice-in-the-ai-age-what-next-for-privacy-and-data-professionals/
@…

Success in online business knows no age limits! The secret? Dive into a niche that ignites your passion. Instead of spreading yourself too thin, embrace tools that boost efficiency and streamline processes. Implementing automated solutions is VITAL for growth and preventing burnout. #SmartSolutions #OnlineBusinessInsights

❔ How can climate mobility function as a proactive strategy for women and marginalised groups? What influences decision-making processes to migrate or to stay? What do governments and stakeholders need to do to increase women's agency?
📝 New Paper Published:
Human mobility as a climate and disaster risk management strategy: Addressing intersectional vulnerability and enhancing women's agency
🔗

📏 128,000-token context window — processes entire legal documents, long email threads or large codebases in a single pass. No need to chunk text before filtering. #privacy #DataEngineering
🛠️ Built for high-throughput workflows: CLI tool (opf), GPU & CPU support, interactive …

about:processes ging echt an mir vorbei bisher. #firefox kann man aber eigentlich schon ganz gut brauchen

Frontal cortex organization supporting audiovisual processing during naturalistic viewing https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-73947-8 "ventral division primarily processes auditory information and the dorsal division processes visual inputs", "this cortical orga…

Frontal cortex organization supporting audiovisual processing during naturalistic viewing - Nature Communications
This study employed neurosurgical EEG recordings directly from the surface of the brain to reveal a dynamic ventral–dorsal gradient in the human frontal cortex that tracks the transition from auditory to visual processing during naturalistic viewing.

So much focus on drinking, but if you take a step back, the entire working culture of Parliament is absolutely broken. The long hours and late night votes are almost always the result of its own processes rather than some external factor.
And a culture of gentlemen's club tradition, mixed with karoshi machismo, that has been resistant to change.

Hannah Spencer riles fellow MPs with attack on parliament’s drinking culture
Byelection winner Hannah Spencer says ‘you can smell the alcohol when people are in-between votes’

I rarely block people but just blocked a rude 'renewables' simplist.
I'm for '#renewables' but recognise their limitations: impossible resource demands if it were to try and replace current levels of primary energy; waste and ecosystem impacts from the same; unfortunately can't replace all fossil fuel uses (e.g. very high temperature industrial processes, heavy frei…

This stage of capitalism where we've let companies become so big they can buy everyone around them to get even bigger is absolutely exhausting.
> As of April 1, 2026, EssilorLuxottica Canada Inc. acquired the eyebuydirect.ca website from EyeBuyDirect Inc. As a result, EssilorLuxottica Canada Inc. now holds and processes your personal information.

“If the same person keeps appearing in architecture debates, delivery risks, historical explanations, escalation paths, and cross-team translation, that is no longer just a compliment.
This is a system smell.”
I strongly resonate with this post!
There are bugs in our organization and processes that you can't discover in an IDE.

When Too Many Maps Overlap on One Person | Yusuf Aytas
Why engineering teams turn one trusted person into a decision bottleneck. How informal authority, hidden context, and single points of failure slow delivery

🪲 Soil microbes. Birds. Pollinators. Trees.
Climate solutions grow in living systems.
Biodiversity is resilience.
#BiodiversityDay #NatureBasedSolutions

International Day for Biological Diversity | United Nations
Biological diversity — or biodiversity — is the term given to the variety of life on Earth and the natural patterns it forms. The biodiversity we see today is the fruit of billions of years of evolution, shaped by natural processes and, increasingly, by the influence of humans. It forms the web of life of which we are an integral part and upon which we so fully depend.

GNStor: Design of GPU-Native High-Performance Remote All-Flash Array
Shushu Yi, Wenbo Wu, Guoci Chen, Junrong Zhu, Shengwen Liang, Mao Bo, Chenying Huan, Chen Tian, Jie Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04908 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.04908 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04908
arXiv:2606.04908v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: GPU has become the leading computing device for a wide range of data-intensive applications, which tightly collaborates with remote all-flash array (AFA) to accommodate ever-expanding datasets, facilitate multi-client data sharing, and guarantee fault tolerance. Although GPU is the center of computation, all I/O processes in existing GPU-AFA systems are still CPU-centric. CPU orchestrates remote I/O requests and executes a centralized AFA engine to take charge of AFA-level functionalities (e.g., access control and metadata persistence). This design disparity suffers from substantial CPU-GPU interaction overhead and I/O traffic amplification, compromising end-to-end I/O performance.
In this work, we present \emph{GNStor}, a GPU-native AFA system that enables GPU to directly access remote AFA without CPU intervention in the I/O path, thereby fully exploiting the performance of AFA. Specifically, GNStor first proposes a GPU-centric NVMe over RDMA (NoR) software stack (named \emph{GNoR}), paving a fast path for GPUs to directly initiate NoR I/O requests to SSDs within remote AFA. GNoR employs an atomic-operation-based I/O orchestration design and follows the single-instruction-multiple-thread (SIMT) execution model of GPU, fully exploiting the massive parallelism of GPU architectures. To facilitate essential AFA functionalities in a CPU-bypass I/O path, GNStor further designs \emph{deEngine}, a decentralized AFA engine that seamlessly decomposes and integrates AFA-level tasks into each SSD firmware, thereby achieving efficient AFA access at low cost. Evaluation results show that GNStor achieves 3.2$\times$ higher I/O throughput and reduces application execution time by 31.1\%, compared to state-of-the-art AFA systems.
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🚨Job Alert!!🚨 W3-Professur für Mineralogie; Full professorship (W3) in #Mineralogy at Heidelberg : igneous and metamorphic processes, geochemistry, geochronology, planetary sciences/cosmochemistry, environmental. ⚒️🧪

Extract tables from pdfs with {tabulapdf} #rstats #datasciece

Extract Tables from PDF Documents
Bindings for the Tabula Java library, which can extract tables from PDF files. This tool can reduce time and effort in data extraction processes in fields like investigative journalism. It allows for automatic and manual table extraction, the latter facilitated through a Shiny interface, enabling manual areas selection\ with a computer mouse for data retrieval.

Several major insurance carriers have begun to back away from providing cybersecurity and other insurance to companies using AI to run internal processes, insiders say.
While there’s no standard response to customer use of AI in the insurance market,
many carriers are now quietly declining to write policies for claims related to AI-generated outputs in cybersecurity and errors and omissions (E&O) coverage, these observers say.
Other insurance carriers are jacking up pric…

Insurance carriers quietly back away from covering AI outputs
Many insurers have begun to exempt AI workloads from cybersecurity and errors and omissions coverage, saying their outputs are too unpredictable to write policies around.

Impact of visual impairment severity on working memory and executive function in children and adolescents https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1827656/full

Frontiers | Impact of visual impairment severity on working memory and executive function in children and adolescents
ObjectiveVisual impairment (VI) affects millions of children worldwide and may influence neurodevelopmental processes beyond sensory functioning. Although cr...

SDSS J110546.07 145202.4 - The First Long-duration Radio Changing-look NLS1 Galaxy: #BlackHole as a Window into the Early Universe: https://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pressreleases/2026/a-nearby-black-hole-as-a-window-into-the-early-universe - the black hole at the centre of a nearby galaxy is growing exceptionally fast, and is producing a burst of radio emission that has never been observed before; with characteristics that are expected in the early Universe, this unique galaxy provides important insights into the processes that governed the growth of the first black holes.

Intermediate-state Coulomb-corrected strong-field approximation for rescattering processes
Chunli Miao, Jiarui Qin, Chan Li, Xiaolei Hao, Weidong Li, Jing Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.27386

Verification of a sequential thermo-poroelasticity formulation in PFLOTRAN
J. Al Kubaisy, G. E. Hammond, S. Karra, J. Burghardt, L. Murdoch, T. Johnson, K. M. Rosso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01156 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.01156 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.01156
arXiv:2607.01156v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present the verification of a thermo--hydrologic--mechanical capability implemented within the PFLOTRAN framework, with emphasis on benchmark-based assessment of the THM implementation. The thermal--hydrologic (TH) equations for mass and energy balance are solved on control-volume blocks or Voronoi cells, while the quasi-static momentum balance is solved on an element-based dual mesh. The coupling is achieved using a strictly sequential, non-iterative fixed-stress split strategy in which the TH system is solved implicitly for pressure and temperature, followed by a mechanics update for the displacement unknowns. Several verification problems are set up against poroelastic and thermo-poroelastic benchmarks, demonstrating agreement with analytical or semi-analytical benchmark responses for pressure diffusion, the temperature field, and mechanical deformation. In addition, we propose a treatment for discontinuities (e.g., fractures) based on mapping between mechanical and flow degrees of freedom, and validate the approach by comparison to an analytical solution. This work establishes the basis for thermo-poroelastic coupling in PFLOTRAN and provides a solid modeling foundation for a range of applications (e.g., enhanced geothermal systems and other subsurface energy storage) involving coupled thermal--hydrologic--mechanical (THM) processes in geologic porous media.
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"Switzerland to fund research on PV module, battery, heat pump recycling"
#Switzerland #SolarPower #Energy

Switzerland to fund research on PV module, battery, heat pump recycling
The Swiss federal government has launched a funding call for research projects on energy and resource-efficient industrial processes, including the circular economy related to solar modules, batteries, heat pumps and electrolyzers. The deadline to submit pre-proposals is June 30.

Neuronal electricality founded in murburn-thermodynamic principles: 1. Background and basic theoretical formulation
Kelath Murali Manoj, Nagamani Sukumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24772 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.24772 https://arxiv.org/html/2604.24772
arXiv:2604.24772v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Trans-membrane gradients and fluxes of cations (H , Na , K , etc.) were deemed to be the rationale of electrical activities of aerobic cells/organelles, as per classical perceptions. Murburn concept (an umbrella of theorization based in stochastic redox processes) has afforded novel models for various metabolic, bioenergetic and electrophysiological outcomes. Herein, the foundational mechanistic formalisms for the electrical activities of neurons that lead signal relay along the axonal length are provided. Electron Holding potential (EHP), a dimensionless field/state variable (related logarithmically to electron chemical potential) is used to explain neuronal activity. By combining local redox relaxation dynamics with spatial transport driven by thermodynamic gradients, we derive a unified reaction-transport-relaxation equation that captures resting potential, excitability, waveform generation, and signal propagation within a single framework. Nonlinear local redox kinetics naturally give rise to threshold behavior, all-or-none responses, and stable spike waveforms. The framework accommodates known physiological variability and provides a direct bridge between metabolic/redox state and electrophysiological behavior. This work establishes a chemically grounded, non-circular alternative to ion-centric models and offers testable predictions for neuronal dynamics across biological systems. In the second part of this work, we compare the new theory with existing systems, provide further evidence, simulations and describe elaborate agendas for falsification and validation.
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just tweaked/upped web concurrrency and max threads settings in my .env.production settings for Mastodon to give #footiMac a few more processes to handle requests and things are humming along nicely.
I think a big takeway for me on this #selfhost journey is that except on the very smallest one person and minimal followers instance, the database (and possibly redis) function should always be on a different machine or container from mastodon.
#footiMac was clearly having real trouble handling the database activity once it got busy. Even with an SSD now with two bad blocks (which may have been caused by that over-activity), it is way more stable.
#newOldiMac #docker #mastoAdmin #colima #iMac

Bengaluru-based Snabbit, an on-demand home services startup, raised a $56M Series D, a source says at a ~$350M valuation, up from $180M in October 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/27/indi

India's Snabbit closes $56M round as investor interest in on-demand home services heats up | TechCrunch
Snabbit now processes over 40,000 daily jobs and has cut costs sharply as it expands across cities and services.

#MattPocock open-sourced his personal #ClaudeCode skills — 17 structured AI workflow definitions. Not prompts. Real dev processes encoded as runbooks for your AI coding agent.
#AI

Can someone explain to me how the argument “ #LLMs only produce stochastically reasonable output ” is relevant or convincing?
Like… how do you think a human brain forms a sentence? Is this a straight-forward deterministic process? Does it matter?
I use tools and processes to verify my output and so does a coding agent.
I just don't get how this is an argument that would…

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116791186138113299
Climate journalism relies on a narrow visual filter:
images that are urgent, dramatic and human-centred,
reducing vast slow environmental processes into events that can be seen and felt.
In doing so, w…

Volador 1.0: A Data-Driven Air-Sea Full-Coupling Regional Forecast Model with Submesoscale-Permitting Based on MOE-Swin-Transformer Framework
Yuhang Zhu, Jianxin Wang, Yu-kun Qian, Yineng Li, Yahui Liu, Yankun Gong, Shilin Tang, Shiqiu Peng, Tao Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24032 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.24032 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.24032
arXiv:2605.24032v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A data-driven air-sea full-coupling regional forecast model with submesoscale-permitting, named "Volador 1.0", is developed for the South China Sea (SCS). The model features a Swin-Transformer framework integrated with a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) system, a latent space interaction architecture based on Cross-Grid Bidirectional Cross-Attention, and a fast-slow dual-branch architecture. Both the three-month hindcast test and the 15-day operational real-time forecasting demonstrate that Volador 1.0 has a very encouraging and promising performance in 0-72h forecasting of temperature and salinity in the 0-500m upper ocean as well as the sea surface height with root-mean-square-error (RMSE) or mean absolute error (MAE) smaller than or at least comparable to those from the reanalysis datasets REDOS V2.0 and GLORYS12 and the state-of-the-art regional numerical model Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS). In particular, Volador 1.0 demonstrates its capability of capturing/forecasting submesoscale processes including internal waves, with an energy spectrum well representing sub- to mesoscale energy cascade as expected by the classical turbulence theory. Further analysis based on ablation experiments shows that the air-sea full-coupling framework, which takes into account the dynamic exchanges of momentum and heat fluxes between the atmosphere and the ocean, indeed helps improve the model's performance compared to the non-full-coupling one. Volador 1.0, though still subject to refinement in the coming future with a large space for improvement, blazes a path for an accurate, fine and fast marine environment forecasting, and thus could help promote our capability of disaster prevention and mitigation in the SCS as well as in other coastal regions where these innovative techniques can be applied.
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OpenRouter raised $113M led by CapitalG, a source says at a $1.3B valuation, and now processes 25T tokens across 400 models weekly, up from 5T six months ago (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/business/dealb…

OpenRouter, an Exchange for A.I. Models, Raises $113 Million
An investment arm of Alphabet is backing OpenRouter, which helps companies choose among hundreds of models for different software tasks.

Are you an MSc student looking for a thesis topic? Interested in Greenland/Antarctica atmosphere and ice sheet processes? Background in meteorology, geography, earth science or physics (or other quantitative discipline?
Then do I have the project for you...
I have just updated my list of open research ideas here:
#MScThesis #AcademicChatter #Greenland #Antarctica #ClimateChange #Meteorology #Wx #Glaciology #MachineLearning #ClimateModelling

IMA Webinar: “Native #Copper in the Munich Subsurface: A Natural Laboratory for Unusual Redox Chemistry under Low-Temperature, Alkaline Conditions”
Dr. Donjš Aßbichler, LMU München.
"The formation of native copper in a remarkable low-temperature geological setting beneath Munich, highlighting its broader relevance to ore mineralogy, redox processes, and subsurface geochemistry."

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Navigating committor landscape of biomolecules with a general pairwise interaction model
Jintu Zhang, Zichang Jin, Huifeng Zhao, Kai Zhu, Bowei Zhao, Xujun Zhang, Peilin Kang, Tingjun Hou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.31832 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.31832 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.31832
arXiv:2606.31832v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Sampling rare conformation transitions between metastable states is a central challenge in atomistic simulations. While the committor function serve as an ideal reaction coordinate for driving enhanced sampling, their high-dimensional inputs and complex functional forms limit the efficacy of standard feedforward neural networks in modeling them. Inspired by recent breakthroughs in biomolecular structure prediction, we propose a novel committor learning framework grounded in the AlphaFold 3 paradigm. By integrating a lightweight, differentiable atom-level embedding with a simplified Pairformer architecture, our method inherently captures intricate dynamical features of diverse biosystems without requiring specialized prior knowledge. We demonstrate the superior expressiveness and accuracy of the proposed framework across multiple atomistic processes. For the folding of the chignolin mini-protein, our model reveals the finer-grained structure of its transition state ensemble (TSE) and a detailed bifurcated reaction mechanism. Furthermore, for calixarene host-guest systems, we develop a unified committor model that elucidates how ligand substituents regulate the ratio between distinct binding pathways, offering new perspectives for structure-based drug design.
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I really dislike that even if you choose not to use "AI" you'll be affected by it, for example software quality will go down even more because interface design will get lazier as "AI" is added instead of designing processes in the software better.
Already seeing this is in various consumer-facing software when it delegates you to a chatbot to find a function instead of making things easily discoverable.
It's sort of like driving a car and instead of a lever to put it in reverse you have to type on a keyboard "please put in the reverse gear".

This sounds important: Electrophysiological responses reveal a dedicated learning mechanism to process salient consonant sounds in human newborns https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-026-02911-w

This sounds important: Electrophysiological responses reveal a dedicated learning mechanism to process salient consonant sounds in human newborns - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Isolating relevant sounds in the auditory stream is a crucial feat accomplished by human infants and a pivotal ability for language acquisition. It is therefore reasonable to postulate the existence of early mechanisms that reorient attention toward salient acoustic stimuli. Previous studies suggest that infants tend to allocate more attention to consonant sounds because they resemble human vocalizations. However, systematic evidence on the neural processes underlying consonance tuning in newbo…

upgrade complete!
(#footimac is so much faster without the database and redis processes on it! It's nearly full up on disk space though so I need to find a solution that isn't going to break the bank)

Throughout computing history, there’s an endless, endless parade of attempts to make it possible for non-programmers to do things that are essentially programming. This goes back to COBOL: the original plan was for businessmen (all men, of course, though I like to imagine Grace Hopper envisioned a more equitable future) to be able to automate their business processes without having to rely on programmers!
I will not even attempt to enumerate here all the attempts since COBOL to make programming not be programming.
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So for companies AI doesn’t improve productivity but you have to fire people to be able to afford paying for it and you need to give it your proprietary processes, computer code and also your customer’s data—
…sounds like an amazing deal!

Embarking on an online business journey is full of opportunities! With a solid strategy, you can overcome the initial hurdles. Start by crafting a website that offers genuine value. Automate processes for Efficiency WITH A CAPITAL E. Success online? ABSOLUTELY achievable! #DigitalSuccess #OnlineBusinessExpert

"Arctic marine heat waves surge since 1980s, with record event lasting 480 days"
#Arctic #Heatwave #Climate #ClimateChange

Arctic marine heat waves surge since 1980s, with record event lasting 480 days
In recent years, marine heat waves have been taking an ever-greater toll on the world's oceans and their ecosystems. Amplified by increasing global warming, these events are occurring more frequently and lasting longer. The Arctic is not spared from this trend, as it is warming faster than any other region on our planet. However, due to local processes and conditions, marine heat waves in the Arctic differ fundamentally from those in nonpolar oceans. A recent study led by the Alfred Wegener Ins…

At least one person says the original QP is satire, which I can easily believe:
https://hellinger.wtf/@holger/116829396745060640
The real evidence here is not “ha, this one company did a stupid, look at the screenshot;” it’s that, satire or not, when people see that listing, the common reaction is “oh, ha, yeah, that totally happens.” (I remember a listing that required 5 years of Swift experience just 1 year after the language was released.)
I do wish our hiring processes were more humane. But they’re not really for humans, are they?
/end

"Recycling Glass into Sand Helps Protect Louisiana’s Coast from Erosion"
#US #USA #America #Louisiana

Recycling Glass into Sand Helps Protect Louisiana’s Coast from Erosion | Happy Eco News
Recycling glass into sand by New Orleans startup Glass Half Full processes 100,000 pounds monthly to restore Louisiana's eroding coastline, creating disaster relief materials and supporting wetland protection while diverting bottles from landfills.

Judith Curry is possibly the most confusing and infuriating scientist in the entire climatological arena. She contributed to major understandings around the changes in the jet stream, the Arctic, and other processes that helped explain the impact climate change has already had on our day to day weather.
But then she left academia and essentially became a mouthpiece for Neo-denialism, claiming others were being “alarmist” and that while CO2 was the main cause, we really shouldn’t be spending money on reducing emissions.
Her final blog announcing its retirement is an interesting combination of declaring victory, mostly thanks to Trump and his acolytes (like Carney) who have pivoted fully into the arms of the fossil fuel industry, and declaring she was tired of it all and just wants to be in her garden and stop the flow of now $16,000 (!!) to maintain her Wordpress blog for the past 15 years.
She has done real damage to efforts to stop CO2 emissions. But another part of me wonders if this is an admission of guilt. Very often people come to a point, even subconsciously, where they realize they’re in with the wrong crowd.
I wonder if she has had that moment with Trump. She probably thinks it’s all irrelevant and out of her hands now. Other players, namely the oil industry, Trump, Putin, etc. will decide what happens and scientists like her will have no impact.
I am glad she is tapping out, as so many deniers inevitably do, but it is clear she is doing it because she thinks she’s won, and that is very very bad for the world.
#climateChange #carney #cdnpoli #canpoli #climateEmergency #climateDenial #science #JudithCurry #theAmericanFascist