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A look at the annual Ethereum Community Conference, or EthCC, Ethereum's flagship European event, held in Cannes this year to showcase the network's growth (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/04/the-ethcc-

Ethereum is powering Wall Street's future. The crypto scene at Cannes shows how far it's come
Ethereum’s institutional adoption is accelerating, with BlackRock, Deutsche Bank, Coinbase, and Kraken all building directly on its rails.

Congratulations to YDS alum Toni Alimi '15 M.A.R. He has been appointed Assistant Professor in Religion at Princeton University! https://www.princeton.edu/news/2025/05/29/board-approves-14-new-faculty-appointments

Board approves 14 new faculty appointments
The Princeton University Board of Trustees has approved the appointment of 14 faculty members, including one full professor and 13 assistant professors.

Redefining Functionality and Construction-Defining Capacity: Functions as Principles of Syntactic and Semantic Generation
Yumiko Nishiyama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04278

Redefining Functionality and Construction-Defining Capacity: Functions as Principles of Syntactic and Semantic Generation
This study redefines the notion of functionality-traditionally understood as a property of mappings or structure preservation-from a more fundamental and generative perspective. Introducing the concept of a Construction-Defining function (CDF), we formalize functionality as a dual capacity to generate both syntactic terms and semantic interpretations. We provide an explicit axiomatization of CDF based on syntactic generativity and semantic compositionality, and further construct categorical mod…

“It would basically kill the AI industry overnight”
- that sounds good to me -
Nick Clegg thinks asking artists for use permission is a bad thing https://musictech.com/news/industry/nick-clegg-ai/?utm…

“It would basically kill the AI industry overnight”: Nick Clegg thinks asking artists for use permission is a bad thing
Nick Clegg says a requirement to ask artists for express permission to use their work to train AI models would “basically kill the AI industry in this country overnight”.

The American president wrote, “Vladimir, STOP!” on his Truth Social account in April,
-- but the Russian president did not halt his offensive in eastern Ukraine.
The Ukrainian president called for an unconditional cease-fire in May,
-- but the Russians did not agree to stop attacking Ukrainian civilians from the air.
Donald Trump repeatedly promised, during his campaign, that he would end the war “in one day,”
-- but the war is not over.
He spoke to Vla…

America's Great Realignment Toward Putin
Donald Trump is giving Vladimir Putin every incentive to keep killing Ukrainians.

Optical lever for broadband detection of fluid interface fluctuations
Sreelekshmi C. Ajithkumar, Vitor S. Barroso, Patrik \v{S}van\v{c}ara, Anthony J. Kent, Silke Weinfurtner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05275

Optical lever for broadband detection of fluid interface fluctuations
We exploit the optical lever principle to detect minute fluctuations of a liquid-air interface. Waves propagating on the interface deflect a specularly reflected laser beam, inducing angular deviations captured by a dual-element photodiode. We realise this principle in a compact set-up including a temperature-controlled fluid sample. Deflection angle fluctuations span five orders of magnitude in frequency, enabling detection of both low-frequency eigenmodes and high-frequency capillary waves dr…

Florida meteorologist halts forecast to give dire on-air warning against Trump - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/hurricane-season-

Florida meteorologist halts forecast to give dire on-air warning against Trump
Miami meteorologist John Morales‬ issued a dire warning Monday about hurricane season as it begins this month. He began with a clip of Hurricane Dorian slowly moving due west directly towards Florida in 2019. Morales promised it would turn north and dodge Florida landfall — and that's exactly what i...

CoP: Agentic Red-teaming for Large Language Models using Composition of Principles
Chen Xiong, Pin-Yu Chen, Tsung-Yi Ho
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00781 ht…

CoP: Agentic Red-teaming for Large Language Models using Composition of Principles
Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have spurred transformative applications in various domains, ranging from open-source to proprietary LLMs. However, jailbreak attacks, which aim to break safety alignment and user compliance by tricking the target LLMs into answering harmful and risky responses, are becoming an urgent concern. The practice of red-teaming for LLMs is to proactively explore potential risks and error-prone instances before the release of frontier AI technology. This …

Composite media, almost touching disks and the maximum principle
YanYan Li, Ben Weinkove
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02077 https://arx…

Composite media, almost touching disks and the maximum principle
We consider the setting of two disks in a domain in $\mathbb{R}^2$ which are almost touching and have finite and positive conductivities, giving rise to a divergence form elliptic equation with discontinuous coefficients. We use the maximum principle to give a new proof of a gradient bound of Li-Vogelius.

Trump took a victory lap during an event in Des Moines, Iowa,
that was officially billed as the start of a year-long celebration of America’s 250th anniversary, in 2026.
But Trump turned the potentially unifying moment into a campaign-style rally,
mocking Joe Biden’s speaking style,
repeating his lie of a stolen election
and lambasting the “fake news” media.
In a policy shift, he said he is willing to let migrant labourers stay in the US if the farmers the…