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Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Did you know some #copepods can "porpoise" out of the water, even though they are only mm sized? The forces required for them to break the significant surface tension of the water is enormous, 10x larger than other animals scaled to size. This requires swim…

Es wäre redlich, wenn DIE ZEIT bei Beiträgen zu strittigen Themen auch Zusatzinformationen liefern würde. So wirft ein Gastautor den Deutschen vor, dass die öffentliche Meinung wieder einmal gegen Israel sei, und unterstellt dabei zumindest moralisches Unrecht.
Nun muss man wissen, dass der Gastautor Philipp Peyman Engel Chefredakteur der "Jüdischen Allgemeinen" ist und ganz auf Linie der Propaganda des

Israels Angriff auf den Iran: Lieber schlechte Presse als schöne Nachrufe
Israel hat das Recht, sich gegen das iranische Atomprogramm zur Wehr zu setzen. Doch die öffentliche Meinung in Deutschland ist – wieder einmal – weitgehend gegen Israel.

Study of a giant Large Magellanic Cloud Supernova Remnant, Veliki (J0450.4-7050)
Z. J. Smeaton, M. D. Filipovi\'c, R. Z. E. Alsaberi, B. Arbutina, W. D. Cotton, E. J. Crawford, A. M. Hopkins, R. Kothes, D. Leahy, J. L. Payne, N. Rajabpour, H. Sano, M. Sasaki, D. Uro\v{s}evi\'c, J. Th. van Loon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.…

Study of a giant Large Magellanic Cloud Supernova Remnant, Veliki (J0450.4-7050)
We present a high-resolution radio-continuum view and a multi-frequency analysis of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) Supernova Remnant (SNR) J0450.4-7050, which we give the nickname Veliki. These high-resolution observations reveal a larger extent than previously measured, making J0450.4-7050 one of the largest SNRs that we know of. Additionally, we observe a higher than expected radio surface brightness and an unusually flat spectral index ($α= -0.26 \pm 0.02$), with little spectral variation…

'He definitely has an arm': Five things we know about J.J. McCarthy as he preps to be Vikings' starting QB https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45523859/nfl-minnesota-vikings-jj-mccarthy-quarterback

Interesting interview: Why a professor of fascism left the US: ‘The lesson of 1933 is – you get out’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/why-a-professor-of-fascism-left-the-us-the-lesson-of-1933-i…

Privacy-Preserving Chest X-ray Classification in Latent Space with Homomorphically Encrypted Neural Inference
Jonghun Kim, Gyeongdeok Jo, Shinyoung Ra, Hyunjin Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15258

Privacy-Preserving Chest X-ray Classification in Latent Space with Homomorphically Encrypted Neural Inference
Medical imaging data contain sensitive patient information requiring strong privacy protection. Many analytical setups require data to be sent to a server for inference purposes. Homomorphic encryption (HE) provides a solution by allowing computations to be performed on encrypted data without revealing the original information. However, HE inference is computationally expensive, particularly for large images (e.g., chest X-rays). In this study, we propose an HE inference framework for medical i…

2025 Harry Smith Prize awarded to œscar Romero-Bšez for landscape genomics work that “sets a new standard”
#science #MolecularEcology #genetics

Sur trois prises de position éthiques de Bibliosuisse
La récente prise de position de la commission Éthique professionnelle1 de Bibliosuisse concernant la neutralité des bibliothèques m'a rappelé l'existence de précédents documents du même type, et j'ai eu l'envie de les commenter en tant que professionnel et citoyen. Avant de commencer, je précise que la commission fait globalement du très bon travail, mais que certains détails suscitent chez moi des questions…

Sur trois prises de position éthiques de Bibliosuisse
La récente prise de position de la commission Éthique professionnelle1 de Bibliosuisse concernant la neutralité des bibliothèques m’a rappelé l’existence de précédents documents du même…

Der @derstandard.at behauptet, JJ habe in seinem Interview mit El País Israel mit Russland verglichen und beide Agressoren genannt, die Krieg provozieren.
Bloß: in El País steht das nicht. Dort sagt JJ nur, es sei "enttäuschend", "dass Israel noch am Wettbewerb teilnimmt".
https://elpais.com/television/2025-05-21/jj-tras-ganar-eurovision-2025-ojala-el-ano-que-viene-el-festival-se-celebre-en-viena-y-sin-israel.html

Rectifying Privacy and Efficacy Measurements in Machine Unlearning: A New Inference Attack Perspective
Nima Naderloui, Shenao Yan, Binghui Wang, Jie Fu, Wendy Hui Wang, Weiran Liu, Yuan Hong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13009

Rectifying Privacy and Efficacy Measurements in Machine Unlearning: A New Inference Attack Perspective
Machine unlearning focuses on efficiently removing specific data from trained models, addressing privacy and compliance concerns with reasonable costs. Although exact unlearning ensures complete data removal equivalent to retraining, it is impractical for large-scale models, leading to growing interest in inexact unlearning methods. However, the lack of formal guarantees in these methods necessitates the need for robust evaluation frameworks to assess their privacy and effectiveness. In this wo…