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KI-Zwang in Whatsapp alarmiert italienische Wettbewerbsbehörde
Whatsapp hat enorme Reichweite. Betreiber Meta Platforms baut ungefragt KI-Dienste ein. Das könnte den Wettbewerb am KI-Markt beeinträchtigen. Italien prüft.

Great find of the day:
RISC-V actually defines #platforms now! 🥳
https://github.com/riscv/riscv-profiles/…

riscv-profiles/src/profiles.adoc at 6aecbe43af5289676a87eee085380b75b8aa597e · riscv/riscv-profiles
RISC-V Architecture Profiles. Contribute to riscv/riscv-profiles development by creating an account on GitHub.

NYT and Amazon agree to a content licensing deal for use in Amazon's AI platforms and to bring the NYT's "content to a variety of Amazon customer experiences" (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/business/m…

The Times and Amazon Announce an A.I. Licensing Deal
In 2023, The Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. Now its editorial content will appear across Amazon platforms.

Sources: Amazon is paying $20M to $25M a year to use NYT's editorial content in a multi-year deal for its AI platforms, which is ~1% of NYT's total 2024 revenue (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

ego_social: Ego networks in social media (2012)
Ego networks associated with a set of accounts of three social media platforms (Facebook, Google , and Twitter). Datasets include node features (profile metadata), circles, and ego networks, and were crawled from public sources in 2012.
This network has 786 nodes and 14024 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

@… streaming platforms have some GNARLY ux — autoplay is another one that drives me bonkers

Ok, this is hilarious. https://www.yankodesign.com/2025/06/27/worlds-narrowest-fiat-panda-is-one-anorexic-19-inch-wide-ev-destined-for-the-record-books/

An NBC News and Get Real Security [analysis](https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news
/internet-thinks-video-gaza-ai-s-proved-isnt-rcna209617) found no evidence of AI generation or manipulation in the video of people waiting for food in Rafah.

Technology and Media News
Get the latest news on technology businesses and Internet media at NBCNews.com. Learn about the digital trends and platforms that are disrupting media and tech companies.

A while ago the media reported that most of the long-distance "suburban" trains between #Wrocław and #Poznań will be discontinued, and instead one will have to change trains midway. Irrespective of whether it's actually going to happen, let's consider it.
As you can probably tell by now, I'm not a stranger to changing trains. In fact, there are some direct connections that I do criticize. For example:
• Poznań — Szczecin — Świnoujście, where arriving at Szczecin Główny and turning back to leave the city is a waste of time. It's better to change trains at Szczecin Dąbie.
• Poznań — Krzyż — Kostrzyn, where instead of using a single railbus, you can use a larger EMU for the Poznań — Krzyż segment, and a smaller DMU for Krzyż — Kostrzyn (in fact, only recently the "direct" Poznań — Kostrzyn train involved just that, but it was supposed to be temporary).
However, good matches are the key. Say:
1. Max 10 minutes (when there are no delays) from one train to the other.
2. "Door-to-door" transfer — without having to carry all your luggage across platforms.
3. Reliable connection — if one train is delayed, the other train waits for it (or there are so many alternatives that it doesn't have to).
Can such a thing happen on Poznań — Wrocław route? I have my doubts.
I've been using these trains for years, and I can say this: there is no effort to match train from/to Poznań with other trains in Wrocław. Sometimes the trains depart 10 minutes before the first train from Poznań arrives, sometimes I need to transfer in 10 minutes, and sometimes I have to wait over an hour. And the same in the other direction.
Perhaps things would actually improve if the route is split. Perhaps people would actually care. Maybe even the trains would be fitted better to the timetable in Wrocław. But I find it hard to believe.
EDIT: One final thought — since there is no real reason to split these connections (except for profiteering), why make travellers' lives harder?
#rail

Involvement drives complexity of language in online debates
Eleonora Amadori, Daniele Cirulli, Edoardo Di Martino, Jacopo Nudo, Maria Sahakyan, Emanuele Sangiorgio, Arnaldo Santoro, Simon Zollo, Alessandro Galeazzi, Niccol\`o Di Marco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22098

Involvement drives complexity of language in online debates
Language is a fundamental aspect of human societies, continuously evolving in response to various stimuli, including societal changes and intercultural interactions. Technological advancements have profoundly transformed communication, with social media emerging as a pivotal force that merges entertainment-driven content with complex social dynamics. As these platforms reshape public discourse, analyzing the linguistic features of user-generated content is essential to understanding their broad…

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Auditing for Bias in Ad Delivery Using Inferred Demographic Attributes
Auditing social-media algorithms has become a focus of public-interest research and policymaking to ensure their fairness across demographic groups such as race, age, and gender in consequential domains such as the presentation of employment opportunities. However, such demographic attributes are often unavailable to auditors and platforms. When demographics data is unavailable, auditors commonly infer them from other available information. In this work, we study the effects of inference error …

MoFRR: Mixture of Diffusion Models for Face Retouching Restoration
Jiaxin Liu, Qichao Ying, Zhenxing Qian, Sheng Li, Runqi Zhang, Jian Liu, Xinpeng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19770

MoFRR: Mixture of Diffusion Models for Face Retouching Restoration
The widespread use of face retouching on social media platforms raises concerns about the authenticity of face images. While existing methods focus on detecting face retouching, how to accurately recover the original faces from the retouched ones has yet to be answered. This paper introduces Face Retouching Restoration (FRR), a novel computer vision task aimed at restoring original faces from their retouched counterparts. FRR differs from traditional image restoration tasks by addressing the co…

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Two-sided Assortment Optimization: Adaptivity Gaps and Approximation Algorithms
To address efficiency and design challenges in choice-based matching platforms, we introduce a two-sided assortment optimization framework under general choice preferences. The goal in this problem is to maximize the expected number of matches by deciding which assortments are displayed to the agents and the order in which they are shown. In this context, we identify several classes of policies that platforms can use in their design. Our goals are: (1) to measure the value that one class of pol…

Advancing Shared and Multi-Agent Autonomy in Underwater Missions: Integrating Knowledge Graphs and Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Michele Grimaldi, Carlo Cernicchiaro, Sebastian Realpe Rua, Alaaeddine El-Masri-El-Chaarani, Markus Buchholz, Loizos Michael, Pere Ridao Rodriguez, Ignacio Carlucho, Yvan R. Petillot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.2…

Advancing Shared and Multi-Agent Autonomy in Underwater Missions: Integrating Knowledge Graphs and Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Robotic platforms have become essential for marine operations by providing regular and continuous access to offshore assets, such as underwater infrastructure inspection, environmental monitoring, and resource exploration. However, the complex and dynamic nature of underwater environments, characterized by limited visibility, unpredictable currents, and communication constraints, presents significant challenges that demand advanced autonomy while ensuring operator trust and oversight. Central t…

Does Editing Improve Answer Quality on Stack Overflow? A Data-Driven Investigation
Saikat Mondal, Chanchal K. Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21329 https://…

Does Editing Improve Answer Quality on Stack Overflow? A Data-Driven Investigation
High-quality answers in technical Q&A platforms like Stack Overflow (SO) are crucial as they directly influence software development practices. Poor-quality answers can introduce inefficiencies, bugs, and security vulnerabilities, and thus increase maintenance costs and technical debt in production software. To improve content quality, SO allows collaborative editing, where users revise answers to enhance clarity, correctness, and formatting. Several studies have examined rejected edits and ide…

Emotionally Aware Moderation: The Potential of Emotion Monitoring in Shaping Healthier Social Media Conversations
Xiaotian Su, Naim Zierau, Soomin Kim, April Yi Wang, Thiemo Wambsganss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21089

Emotionally Aware Moderation: The Potential of Emotion Monitoring in Shaping Healthier Social Media Conversations
Social media platforms increasingly employ proactive moderation techniques, such as detecting and curbing toxic and uncivil comments, to prevent the spread of harmful content. Despite these efforts, such approaches are often criticized for creating a climate of censorship and failing to address the underlying causes of uncivil behavior. Our work makes both theoretical and practical contributions by proposing and evaluating two types of emotion monitoring dashboards to users' emotional awareness…

Merge Hijacking: Backdoor Attacks to Model Merging of Large Language Models
Zenghui Yuan, Yangming Xu, Jiawen Shi, Pan Zhou, Lichao Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23561

Merge Hijacking: Backdoor Attacks to Model Merging of Large Language Models
Model merging for Large Language Models (LLMs) directly fuses the parameters of different models finetuned on various tasks, creating a unified model for multi-domain tasks. However, due to potential vulnerabilities in models available on open-source platforms, model merging is susceptible to backdoor attacks. In this paper, we propose Merge Hijacking, the first backdoor attack targeting model merging in LLMs. The attacker constructs a malicious upload model and releases it. Once a victim user …

An open-source Modular Online Psychophysics Platform (MOPP)
Yuval Samoilov-Kats, Matan Noach, Noam Beer, Yuval Efrati, Adam Zaidel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23137

An open-source Modular Online Psychophysics Platform (MOPP)
In recent years, there is a growing need and opportunity to use online platforms for psychophysics research. Online experiments make it possible to evaluate large and diverse populations remotely and quickly, complementing laboratory-based research. However, developing and running online psychophysics experiments poses several challenges: i) a high barrier-to-entry for researchers who often need to learn complex code-based platforms, ii) an uncontrolled experimental environment, and iii) questi…

Shteyngart’s novel, we come to realise, plays out a decade from now, in a “post-democracy” USA
where red state officials monitor menstrual cycles,
self-driving cars shop their owners to the feds
and the news platforms are abuzz with Russian disinformation.
Desperate to redeem herself at school, Vera prepares to debate in support of the proposed “Five-Three Amendment”,
a piece of racist legislation that would grant added voting weight to those “exceptional Amer…

i love that posts on other platforms have deliberate misinformation so people point that out in the comments which boosts the post's engagement. very normal for a social network to behave this way

Analytics company founder: Hosters demands over server costs are unworkable
„The hosting platforms will just have to give us servers for free“ Daniel said in an interview, while wearing a onesie Pyjama in the form of an octopus. https://mastodon.social/@jensscholz/114573315…

Jens Scholz ⍟ (@jensscholz@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Ok, kill it then. If your business is not feasable if you have to pay for the ressources you need for your product, it's not a business anyway.

SealOS : A Sealos-based Approach for Adaptive Resource Optimization Under Dynamic Workloads for Securities Trading System
Haojie Jia, Zhenhao Li, Gen Li, Minxian Xu, Kejiang Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23258

SealOS+: A Sealos-based Approach for Adaptive Resource Optimization Under Dynamic Workloads for Securities Trading System
As securities trading systems transition to a microservices architecture, optimizing system performance presents challenges such as inefficient resource scheduling and high service response delays. Existing container orchestration platforms lack tailored performance optimization mechanisms for trading scenarios, making it difficult to meet the stringent 50ms response time requirement imposed by exchanges. This paper introduces SealOS+, a Sealos-based performance optimization approach for securi…

The Daily Mail consolidates its digital platforms under the name Daily Mail and renames its digital subscription package, which has 325K subscribers, DailyMail (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

Daily Mail sets 1m digital subscriber target amid major rebrand
The Daily Mail has set a target of reaching one million digital subscribers by October 2028 as it undergoes a global rebrand.

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Learning Cascade Ranking as One Network
Cascade Ranking is a prevalent architecture in large-scale top-k selection systems like recommendation and advertising platforms. Traditional training methods focus on single-stage optimization, neglecting interactions between stages. Recent advances have introduced interaction-aware training paradigms, but still struggle to 1) align training objectives with the goal of the entire cascade ranking (i.e., end-to-end recall of ground-truth items) and 2) learn effective collaboration patterns for d…

2D semiconductors as integrated light sources for plasmonic waveguides
Christian Frydendahl, Torgom Yezekyan, Vladimir Zenin, Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21806

2D semiconductors as integrated light sources for plasmonic waveguides
2D materials are compatible with many material platforms as they adhere to other materials strictly by van der Waals interactions. This, together with the variety of band gaps found among transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), makes them uniquely interesting to study for on-chip light sources, as the photonic integrated circuit (PIC) industry is developing into several material platforms depending on the application (gold, silicon, silicon nitride, indium phosphide, etc). 2D materials could …

Revisiting Graph Analytics Benchmark
Lingkai Meng, Yu Shao, Long Yuan, Longbin Lai, Peng Cheng, Xue Li, Wenyuan Yu, Wenjie Zhang, Xuemin Lin, Jingren Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21811

Revisiting Graph Analytics Benchmark
The rise of graph analytics platforms has led to the development of various benchmarks for evaluating and comparing platform performance. However, existing benchmarks often fall short of fully assessing performance due to limitations in core algorithm selection, data generation processes (and the corresponding synthetic datasets), as well as the neglect of API usability evaluation. To address these shortcomings, we propose a novel graph analytics benchmark. First, we select eight core algorithm…

When you get the option to `Sign in with Google/Microsoft/Facebook` you're really using #OAuth. Aside from those platforms knowing what you're doing everywhere all the time, there are compelling reasons for both 3rd party services and users. (not many, but a few).
But if you DO link your #Microsoft /

Poor Software Product Management Chronicles: E-Auth, I-Auth, OAuth, Fuck Off
From the This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things department. When you are registering or logging into an online or app service and they ...

SLTarch: Towards Scalable Point-Based Neural Rendering by Taming Workload Imbalance and Memory Irregularity
Xingyang Li, Jie Jiang, Yu Feng, Yiming Gan, Jieru Zhao, Zihan Liu, Jingwen Leng, Minyi Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21499

SLTarch: Towards Scalable Point-Based Neural Rendering by Taming Workload Imbalance and Memory Irregularity
Rendering is critical in fields like 3D modeling, AR/VR, and autonomous driving, where high-quality, real-time output is essential. Point-based neural rendering (PBNR) offers a photorealistic and efficient alternative to conventional methods, yet it is still challenging to achieve real-time rendering on mobile platforms. We pinpoint two major bottlenecks in PBNR pipelines: LoD search and splatting. LoD search suffers from workload imbalance and irregular memory access, making it inefficient on …

19.3 GHz Acoustic Filter with High Close-in Rejection in Tri-layer Thin-Film Lithium Niobate
Omar Barrera, Sinwoo Cho, Jack Kramer, Vakhtang Chulukhadze, Tzu-Hsuan Hsu, Ruochen Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22411

19.3 GHz Acoustic Filter with High Close-in Rejection in Tri-layer Thin-Film Lithium Niobate
Acoustic filters are preferred front-end solutions at sub-6 GHz due to their superior frequency selectivity compared to electromagnetic (EM) counterparts. With the ongoing development of 5G and the evolution toward 6G, there is a growing need to extend acoustic filter technologies into frequency range 3 (FR3), which spans 7 to 24 GHz to accommodate emerging high-frequency bands. However, scaling acoustic filters beyond 10 GHz presents significant challenges, as conventional platforms suffer fro…

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DeSocial: Blockchain-based Decentralized Social Networks
Web 2.0 social platforms are inherently centralized, with user data and algorithmic decisions controlled by the platform. However, users can only passively receive social predictions without being able to choose the underlying algorithm, which limits personalization. Fortunately, with the emergence of blockchain, users are allowed to choose algorithms that are tailored to their local situation, improving prediction results in a personalized way. In a blockchain environment, each user possesses …

Spherical Pendulum with Quad-Rotor Thrust Vectoring Actuation -- A Novel Mechatronics and Control Benchmark Platform
Yuchen Li, Omar Curiel, Sheng-Fan Wen, Tsu-Chin Tsao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22410

Spherical Pendulum with Quad-Rotor Thrust Vectoring Actuation -- A Novel Mechatronics and Control Benchmark Platform
Motor-actuated pendulums have been established as arguably the most common laboratory prototypes used in control system education because of the relevance to robot manipulator control in industry. Meanwhile, multi-rotor drones like quadcopters have become popular in industrial applications but have not been broadly employed in control education laboratory. Platforms with pendulums and multi-rotor copters present classical yet intriguing multi-degree of freedom (DoF) dynamics and coordinate syst…

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Hybrid Wave-wind System Power Optimisation Using Effective Ensemble Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolutionary Algorithm
Floating hybrid wind-wave systems combine offshore wind platforms with wave energy converters (WECs) to create cost-effective and reliable energy solutions. Adequately designed and tuned WECs are essential to avoid unwanted loads disrupting turbine motion while efficiently harvesting wave energy. These systems diversify energy sources, enhancing energy security and reducing supply risks while providing a more consistent power output by smoothing energy production variability. However, optimisin…

DynamiX: Large-Scale Dynamic Social Network Simulator
Yanhui Sun, Wu Liu, Wentao Wang, Hantao Yao, Jiebo Luo, Yongdong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19929 https://

DynamiX: Large-Scale Dynamic Social Network Simulator
Understanding the intrinsic mechanisms of social platforms is an urgent demand to maintain social stability. The rise of large language models provides significant potential for social network simulations to capture attitude dynamics and reproduce collective behaviors. However, existing studies mainly focus on scaling up agent populations, neglecting the dynamic evolution of social relationships. To address this gap, we introduce DynamiX, a novel large-scale social network simulator dedicated t…

Heavy flavored hydrogen molecule systems
Hui-Min Yang, Yao Ma, Shi-Lin Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21498 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.21498 https://arxiv.org/html/2507.21498
arXiv:2507.21498v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This study provides a comprehensive analysis of $S$-wave exotic hydrogen-like three-body systems ($pp\mu^-$, $pp\tau^-$, $\mu^-\mu^-p$, $\tau^-\tau^-p$, $p\mu^-\tau^-$) with spin-parity $J^P = 1/2^ $ and $3/2^ $, and four-body systems ($pp\mu^-\mu^-$, $pp\tau^-\tau^-$) with $J^P = 0^ $, $1^ $, and $2^ $. We use complex scaling and Gaussian expansion methods to solve the complex-scaled Schr\"{o}dinger equation and obtain possible bound and quasi-bound states. The resulting binding energies range from $-33.8$~keV to $-340$~eV. Notably, we present the first theoretical estimation of the bound-state energy levels of $pp\mu^-\mu^-$ and $pp\tau^-\tau^-$, which is of significant importance for understanding exotic few-body Coulomb systems. We further analyze spin configurations and root-mean-square radii to elucidate the spatial structure of these bound and quasi-bound states. Our results reveal that $K$-type spatial configurations play a crucial role in accurately describing bound and quasi-bound states in the hydrogen-molecule-like systems $pp\mu^-\mu^-$ and $pp\tau^-\tau^-$. Incorporating $K$-type configurations significantly alters the mass spectra of these states. Future muon colliders and muon facilities may offer promising platforms for the possible copious production of such heavy flavored hydrogen molecules and molecular ions. For instance, scattering processes such as $2\mu^- \mathrm{H_2} \to \mathrm{H_{2\mu}} 2e^-$, $\mu^- \mathrm{H_2} \to \mathrm{H_{\mu e}} e^-$, and $\mu^- \mathrm{H_2^ } \to \mathrm{H_{2\mu}^ } e^-$ could be utilized, facilitating detailed studies of intriguing states such as $\mathrm{H_{2\mu}}$, $\mathrm{H_{\mu e}}$, and $\mathrm{H_{2\mu}^ }$.
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Advanced System Engineering Approaches to Emerging Challenges in Planetary and Deep-Space Exploration
J. de Curt\`o, Cristina LiCalzi, Julien Tubiana Warin, Jack Gehlert, Brian Langbein, Alexandre Gamboa, Chris Sixbey, William Maguire, Santiago Fern\'andez, \'Alvaro Maestroarena, Alex Brenchley, Logan Maroclo, Philemon Mercado, Joshua DeJohn, Cesar Velez, Ethan Dahmus, Taylor Steinys, David Fritz, I. de Zarz\`a

Advanced System Engineering Approaches to Emerging Challenges in Planetary and Deep-Space Exploration
This paper presents innovative solutions to critical challenges in planetary and deep-space exploration electronics. We synthesize findings across diverse mission profiles, highlighting advances in: (1) MARTIAN positioning systems with dual-frequency transmission to achieve $\pm$1m horizontal accuracy; (2) artificial reef platforms for Titan's hydrocarbon seas utilizing specialized sensor arrays and multi-stage communication chains; (3) precision orbital rendezvous techniques demonstrating nove…

On different platforms, I see at least one post per day of someone willing to switch to #Linux. While seeing our community growing is nice, my first reaction is always: why didn't you take 3 seconds to read the post just before yours?
I may just become too old and grumpy but, generally speaking, I don't understand people who immediatly ask a question that has been answered thous…

Anyone of my followers working at Apple?
No need to reply—but you gotta raise hell internally to stop this misguided redesign.
It’s bad, and what’s worse that it’s bad for no reason at all.
The idea of transparent user interfaces for general-purpose computing platforms is fundamentally flawed and can’t be fixed.
This is HCI design 101 stuff.

Sources: Amazon is paying $20M to $25M a year to use NYT's editorial content in a multi-year deal for its AI platforms, which is ~1% of NYT's total 2024 revenue (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/amazon-

Collaborative Last-Mile Delivery: A Multi-Platform Vehicle Routing Problem With En-route Charging
Sumbal Malik, Majid Khonji, Khaled Elbassioni, Jorge Dias
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23584

Collaborative Last-Mile Delivery: A Multi-Platform Vehicle Routing Problem With En-route Charging
The rapid growth of e-commerce and the increasing demand for timely, cost-effective last-mile delivery have increased interest in collaborative logistics. This research introduces a novel collaborative synchronized multi-platform vehicle routing problem with drones and robots (VRP-DR), where a fleet of $\mathcal{M}$ trucks, $\mathcal{N}$ drones and $\mathcal{K}$ robots, cooperatively delivers parcels. Trucks serve as mobile platforms, enabling the launching, retrieving, and en-route charging of…

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Two-sided Assortment Optimization: Adaptivity Gaps and Approximation Algorithms
To address efficiency and design challenges in choice-based matching platforms, we introduce a two-sided assortment optimization framework under general choice preferences. The goal in this problem is to maximize the expected number of matches by deciding which assortments are displayed to the agents and the order in which they are shown. In this context, we identify several classes of policies that platforms can use in their design. Our goals are: (1) to measure the value that one class of pol…

Cascade of Even-Denominator Fractional Quantum Hall States in Mixed-Stacked Multilayer Graphene
Yating Sha, Kai Liu, Chenxin Jiang, Dan Ye, Shuhan Liu, Zhongxun Guo, Jingjing Gao, Ming Tian, Neng Wan, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Bingbing Tong, Guangtong Liu, Li Lu, Yuanbo Zhang, Zhiwen Shi, Zixiang Hu, Guorui Chen
https://arxiv.org/…

Cascade of Even-Denominator Fractional Quantum Hall States in Mixed-Stacked Multilayer Graphene
The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE), particularly at half-filling of Landau levels, provides a unique window into topological phases hosting non-Abelian excitations. However, experimental platforms simultaneously offering large energy gaps, delicate tunability, and robust non-Abelian signatures remain scarce. Here, we report the observation of a cascade of even-denominator FQH states at filling factors $ν$ = ${-5/2}$, ${-7/2}$, ${-9/2}$, ${-11/2}$, and ${-13/2}$, alongside numerous odd-d…

Source: Meta hired four more OpenAI researchers, including key contributors to o1-mini and o3-mini, as Zuckerberg continues an unprecedented recruiting effort (Kalley Huang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-hires-four-openai-r…

Meta Hires Four More OpenAI Researchers
Meta Platforms is hiring four more OpenAI artificial intelligence researchers as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg continues an unprecedented recruiting effort to catch up to his AI rivals. The researchers, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi and Hongyu Ren, have each agreed to join, according to a ...

I wish Mastodon had a filter for screenshots of status updates from other platforms

Optimal Auction Design for Dynamic Stochastic Environments: Myerson Meets Naor
Yeon-Koo Che, Andrew B. Choi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22862 https://

Optimal Auction Design for Dynamic Stochastic Environments: Myerson Meets Naor
Allocation of goods and services often involves both stochastic supply and stochastic demand. Motivated by applications such as cloud computing, gig platforms, and blockchain auctions, we study the design of optimal selling mechanisms in an environment where buyers with private valuations arrive stochastically and are assigned goods that also arrive stochastically, and either buyers or goods can be held in a queue at costs until allocation. The optimal mechanism dynamically leverages competitiv…

Is the Full Power of Gaussian Boson Sampling Required for Simulating Vibronic Spectra Using Photonics?
Jan-Lucas Eickmann, Kai-Hong Luo, Mikhail Roiz, Jonas Lammers, Simone Atzeni, Cheeranjiv Pandey, Florian L\"utkewitte, Reza G. Shirazi, Benjamin Brecht, Vladimir V. Rybkin, Michael Stefszky, Christine Silberhorn
https://arxiv.org/abs…

Is the Full Power of Gaussian Boson Sampling Required for Simulating Vibronic Spectra Using Photonics?
Simulating vibronic spectra is a central task in physical chemistry, offering insight into important properties of molecules. Recently, it has been experimentally demonstrated that photonic platforms based on Gaussian boson sampling (GBS) are capable of performing these simulations. However, whether an actual GBS approach is required depends on the molecule under investigation. To develop a better understanding on the requirements for simulating vibronic spectra, we explore connections between …

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Financial literacy, robo-advising, and the demand for human financial advice: Evidence from Italy
This paper investigates the impact of objective financial knowledge, confidence in one's financial skills, and digital financial literacy on individuals' decisions to seek financial advice from robo-advice platforms. Using microdata from the Bank of Italy's survey on adults' "Financial Literacy and Digital Financial Skills in Italy", we find that individuals with greater financial knowledge are less inclined to rely on online services for automated financial advice. On the contrary, confidence …

Ethical Classification of Non-Coding Contributions in Open-Source Projects via Large Language Models
Sergio Cobos, Javier Luis C\'anovas Izquierdo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21583

Ethical Classification of Non-Coding Contributions in Open-Source Projects via Large Language Models
The development of Open-Source Software (OSS) is not only a technical challenge, but also a social one due to the diverse mixture of contributors. To this aim, social-coding platforms, such as GitHub, provide the infrastructure needed to host and develop the code, but also the support for enabling the community's collaboration, which is driven by non-coding contributions, such as issues (i.e., change proposals or bug reports) or comments to existing contributions. As with any other social endea…

Avatars and Environments for Meetings in Social VR: What Styles and Choices Matter to People in Group Creativity Tasks?
Anya Osborne, Sabrina Fielder, Lee Taber, Tara Lamb, Joshua McVeigh-Schultz, Katherine Isbister
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21780

Avatars and Environments for Meetings in Social VR: What Styles and Choices Matter to People in Group Creativity Tasks?
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many professional entities shifted toward remote collaboration and video conferencing (VC) tools. Social virtual reality (VR) platforms present an alternative to VC for meetings and collaborative activities. Well-crafted social VR environments could enhance feelings of co-presence and togetherness at meetings, helping reduce the need for carbon-intensive travel to face-to-face meetings. This research contributes to creating meeting tools in VR by exploring the effe…

REDDIX-NET: A Novel Dataset and Benchmark for Moderating Online Explicit Services
MSVPJ Sathvik, Manan Roy Choudhury, Rishita Agarwal, Sathwik Narkedimilli, Vivek Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23231

REDDIX-NET: A Novel Dataset and Benchmark for Moderating Online Explicit Services
The rise of online platforms has enabled covert illicit activities, including online prostitution, to pose challenges for detection and regulation. In this study, we introduce REDDIX-NET, a novel benchmark dataset specifically designed for moderating online sexual services and going beyond traditional NSFW filters. The dataset is derived from thousands of web-scraped NSFW posts on Reddit and categorizes users into six behavioral classes reflecting different service offerings and user intentions…

As part of my spam this morning, from Indian telecoms provider Airtel: "to find the right information in seconds" 🙄.

👾 These police officers in Denmark are tackling crime by playing online games with kids
https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/07/03/these-police-officers-in-denmark-are-tackling-crime-by-playing-online-games-with-kid…

Can playing video games help police combat online crimes?
The team was set up in 2022 to tackle the rise in online crime in Denmark. The Politiets Online Patrulje now boasts over 787,000 followers across platforms.

Counterfactual Voting Adjustment for Quality Assessment and Fairer Voting in Online Platforms with Helpfulness Evaluation
Chang Liu, Yixin Wang, Moontae Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21362

Counterfactual Voting Adjustment for Quality Assessment and Fairer Voting in Online Platforms with Helpfulness Evaluation
Efficient access to high-quality information is vital for online platforms. To promote more useful information, users not only create new content but also evaluate existing content, often through helpfulness voting. Although aggregated votes help service providers rank their user content, these votes are often biased by disparate accessibility per position and the cascaded influence of prior votes. For a fairer assessment of information quality, we propose the Counterfactual Voting Adjustment (…

"Populism, platforms, and the challenges of science communication"
https://elephantinthelab.org/populism-platforms-and-the-challenges-of-science-communication/
"Teresa Völker interviewed Jeanette Hofmann about the rol…

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Edge-First Language Model Inference: Models, Metrics, and Tradeoffs
The widespread adoption of Language Models (LMs) across industries is driving interest in deploying these services across the computing continuum, from the cloud to the network edge. This shift aims to reduce costs, lower latency, and improve reliability and privacy. Small Language Models (SLMs), enabled by advances in model compression, are central to this shift, offering a path to on-device inference on resource-constrained edge platforms. This work examines the interplay between edge and clo…

EU Tech Commissioner Henna Virkkunen says that far more online content is being removed in the EU under the T&Cs of US platforms than as a result of the DSA (Anupriya Datta/Euractiv)
https://www.euractiv.com/section/tech/news

ChatPD: An LLM-driven Paper-Dataset Networking System
Anjie Xu, Ruiqing Ding, Leye Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22349 https://arxi…

ChatPD: An LLM-driven Paper-Dataset Networking System
Scientific research heavily depends on suitable datasets for method validation, but existing academic platforms with dataset management like PapersWithCode suffer from inefficiencies in their manual workflow. To overcome this bottleneck, we present a system, called ChatPD, that utilizes Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate dataset information extraction from academic papers and construct a structured paper-dataset network. Our system consists of three key modules: \textit{paper collection},…

Studentenvisum für die #USA ? Geh' zur Botschaft und bring' Dein digitales Leben mit: "Under the screening process, consular officers would examine applicants’ posts, shares, and comments across platforms such as Instagram, X, and TikTok for content they deem to be threatening to national security, ..."

A Mini Review on Tumor Organoid-on-a-Chip Technologies in Personalized Oncology
Keyvan Alavi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21149 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.21…

A Mini Review on Tumor Organoid-on-a-Chip Technologies in Personalized Oncology
Tumor organoid-on-a-chip platforms represent a cutting-edge fusion of patient-derived organoids with microfluidic technologies, offering unprecedented capabilities for personalized cancer research. These systems overcome limitations of conventional models by enabling precise control over the tumor microenvironment, including nutrient gradients, fluid flow, and immune interactions. Tumor organoids recapitulate patient-specific tumor heterogeneity and genetic landscapes, while microfluidic chips …

#Oracle #Linux 10 is now generally available for 64-bit Intel and AMD (x86_64) and 64-bit Arm (aarch64) platforms.

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Hybrid Wave-wind System Power Optimisation Using Effective Ensemble Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolutionary Algorithm
Floating hybrid wind-wave systems combine offshore wind platforms with wave energy converters (WECs) to create cost-effective and reliable energy solutions. Adequately designed and tuned WECs are essential to avoid unwanted loads disrupting turbine motion while efficiently harvesting wave energy. These systems diversify energy sources, enhancing energy security and reducing supply risks while providing a more consistent power output by smoothing energy production variability. However, optimisin…

Bridging the Narrative Divide: Cross-Platform Discourse Networks in Fragmented Ecosystems
Patrick Gerard, Hans W. A. Hanley, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21729

Bridging the Narrative Divide: Cross-Platform Discourse Networks in Fragmented Ecosystems
Political discourse has grown increasingly fragmented across different social platforms, making it challenging to trace how narratives spread and evolve within such a fragmented information ecosystem. Reconstructing social graphs and information diffusion networks is challenging, and available strategies typically depend on platform-specific features and behavioral signals which are often incompatible across systems and increasingly restricted. To address these challenges, we present a platform…

Brazil's supreme court rules that platforms like Facebook and X can be held liable for user posts, requiring them to remove content even without a court order (Michael Pooler/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4a5235c5-acd0-4e81-9d44-2362a25c8eb3

Brazil supreme court rules digital platforms are liable for users’ posts
Ruling risks stoking tensions with US amid accusations of censorship of social media groups

How Fox Corp. has accelerated its roll-up of independent media talent, as it seeks to attract younger viewers through digital and streaming platforms (Ben Smith/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/27/2025/how-fox-got-ahead-on-the-big-media-future

How Fox got ahead on the big media future
The deals represent a dramatic change from Fox’s reputation of keeping a tight hold on talent.

Leveraging Large Language Model for Intelligent Log Processing and Autonomous Debugging in Cloud AI Platforms
Cheng Ji, Huaiying Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17900

Leveraging Large Language Model for Intelligent Log Processing and Autonomous Debugging in Cloud AI Platforms
With the increasing complexity and rapid expansion of the scale of AI systems in cloud platforms, the log data generated during system operation is massive, unstructured, and semantically ambiguous, which brings great challenges to fault location and system self-repair. In order to solve this problem, this paper proposes an intelligent log processing and automatic debugging framework based on Large Language Model (LLM), named Intelligent Debugger (LLM-ID). This method is extended on the basis o…

Visualizing Cloud-native Applications with KubeDiagrams
Philippe Merle, Fabio Petrillo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22879 https://arxiv…

Visualizing Cloud-native Applications with KubeDiagrams
Modern distributed applications increasingly rely on cloud-native platforms to abstract the complexity of deployment and scalability. As the de facto orchestration standard, Kubernetes enables this abstraction, but its declarative configuration model makes the architectural understanding difficult. Developers, operators, and architects struggle to form accurate mental models from raw manifests, Helm charts, or cluster state descriptions. We introduce KubeDiagrams, an open-source tool that trans…

Dielectric environment engineering via 2D material heterostructure formation on hybrid photonic crystal nanocavity
C. F. Fong, D. Yamashita, N. Fang, Y. -R. Chang, S. Fujii, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, Y. K. Kato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19796

Dielectric environment engineering via 2D material heterostructure formation on hybrid photonic crystal nanocavity
Hybrid integration of two-dimensional (2D) materials with nanophotonic platforms has enabled compact optoelectronic devices by leveraging the unique optical and electronic properties of atomically thin layers. While most efforts have focused on coupling 2D materials to pre-defined photonic structures, the broader potential of 2D heterostructures for actively engineering the photonic environment remains largely unexplored. In our previous work, we employed single types of 2D material and showed …

Technological Requirements for Videoconferencing Judicial Hearings: Enhancing the Credibility and Reliability of Remote Testimonies
Jorge Alberto Araujo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19496

Technological Requirements for Videoconferencing Judicial Hearings: Enhancing the Credibility and Reliability of Remote Testimonies
This paper analyzes the technological requirements necessary to enhance the credibility and reliability of judicial hearings conducted via videoconference, from the internal perspective of the judiciary. Drawing on the practical experience of a judge who conducts daily hearings, this study identifies limitations in current platforms for verifying the authenticity of testimonies and proposes tailored functionalities for the judicial context. Recognizing that remote hearings represent a convenien…

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Negative Ties Highlight Hidden Extremes in Social Media Polarization
Human interactions in the online world comprise a combination of positive and negative exchanges. These diverse interactions can be captured using signed network representations, where edges take positive or negative weights to indicate the sentiment of the interaction between individuals. Signed networks offer valuable insights into online political polarization by capturing antagonistic interactions and ideological divides on social media platforms. This study analyzes polarization on Menéam…

Examining the sentiment and emotional differences in product and service reviews: The moderating role of culture
Vinh Truong (RMIT University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21057 h…

Examining the sentiment and emotional differences in product and service reviews: The moderating role of culture
This study explores how emotions and sentiments differ in customer reviews of products and services on e-commerce platforms. Unlike earlier research that treats all reviews uniformly, this study distinguishes between reviews of products, typically fulfilling basic, functional needs, and services, which often cater to experiential and emotional desires. The findings reveal clear differences in emotional expression and sentiment between the two. Product reviews frequently focus on practicality, s…

Real-time and personalized product recommendations for large e-commerce platforms
Matteo Tolloso, Davide Bacciu, Shahab Mokarizadeh, Marco Varesi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21368 …

Real-time and personalized product recommendations for large e-commerce platforms
We present a methodology to provide real-time and personalized product recommendations for large e-commerce platforms, specifically focusing on fashion retail. Our approach aims to achieve accurate and scalable recommendations with minimal response times, ensuring user satisfaction, leveraging Graph Neural Networks and parsimonious learning methodologies. Extensive experimentation with datasets from one of the largest e-commerce platforms demonstrates the effectiveness of our approach in foreca…

MMBench-GUI: Hierarchical Multi-Platform Evaluation Framework for GUI Agents
Xuehui Wang, Zhenyu Wu, JingJing Xie, Zichen Ding, Bowen Yang, Zehao Li, Zhaoyang Liu, Qingyun Li, Xuan Dong, Zhe Chen, Weiyun Wang, Xiangyu Zhao, Jixuan Chen, Haodong Duan, Tianbao Xie, Chenyu Yang, Shiqian Su, Yue Yu, Yuan Huang, Yiqian Liu, Xiao Zhang, Yanting Zhang, Xiangyu Yue, Weijie Su, Xizhou Zhu, Wei Shen, Jifeng Dai, Wenhai Wang

MMBench-GUI: Hierarchical Multi-Platform Evaluation Framework for GUI Agents
We introduce MMBench-GUI, a hierarchical benchmark for evaluating GUI automation agents across Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, and Web platforms. It comprises four levels: GUI Content Understanding, Element Grounding, Task Automation, and Task Collaboration, covering essential skills for GUI agents. In addition, we propose a novel Efficiency-Quality Area (EQA) metric to assess GUI agent execution efficiency in online automation scenarios. Through MMBench-GUI, we identify accurate visual gr…

A Comparative Study of OpenMP Scheduling Algorithm Selection Strategies
Jonas H. M\"uller Kornd\"orfer, Ali Mohammed, Ahmed Eleliemy, Quentin Guilloteau, Reto Krummenacher, Florina M. Ciorba
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20312

A Comparative Study of OpenMP Scheduling Algorithm Selection Strategies
Scientific and data science applications are becoming increasingly complex, with growing computational and memory demands. Modern high performance computing (HPC) systems provide high parallelism and heterogeneity across nodes, devices, and cores. To achieve good performance, effective scheduling and load balancing techniques are essential. Parallel programming frameworks such as OpenMP now offer a variety of advanced scheduling algorithms to support diverse applications and platforms. This cre…

Former MSNBC host Joy Reid plans to launch The Joy Reid Show, a new video podcast, on June 9, streaming on YouTube and other major podcast platforms (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/…

Joy Reid Launching New Video Podcast in Post-Cable TV Push (Exclusive)
The former MSNBC host will launch 'The Joy Reid Show' next month, with plans to expand to five days per week later this year.

Transcript Franking for Encrypted Messaging
Armin Namavari, Thomas Ristenpart
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19391 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19391

Transcript Franking for Encrypted Messaging
Message franking is an indispensable abuse mitigation tool for end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging platforms. With it, users who receive harmful content can securely report that content to platform moderators. However, while real-world deployments of reporting require the disclosure of multiple messages, existing treatments of message franking only consider the report of a single message. As a result, there is a gap between the security goals achieved by constructions and those needed in prac…

PBS station WNET removed at least three educational TV episodes that discuss transgender identity and drag expression, following a DOGE subcommittee hearing (Nikita Mazurov/The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/29/drag-trans-pbs-wnet-censorship-d…

PBS Station Wipes Drag and Trans Content After DOGE Outcry
PBS producer WNET quietly erased episodes containing a drag queen and a trans character from its platforms.

Identity resolution of software metadata using Large Language Models
Eva Mart\'in del Pico, Josep Llu\'is Gelp\'i, Salvador Capella-Guti\'errez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23500

Identity resolution of software metadata using Large Language Models
Software is an essential component of research. However, little attention has been paid to it compared with that paid to research data. Recently, there has been an increase in efforts to acknowledge and highlight the importance of software in research activities. Structured metadata from platforms like bio.tools, Bioconductor, and Galaxy ToolShed offers valuable insights into research software in the Life Sciences. Although originally intended to support discovery and integration, this metada…

Hitchhiking Rides Dataset: Two decades of crowd-sourced records on stochastic traveling
Till Wenke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21946 https://

Hitchhiking Rides Dataset: Two decades of crowd-sourced records on stochastic traveling
Hitchhiking, a spontaneous and decentralized mode of travel, has long eluded systematic study due to its informal nature. This paper presents and analyzes the largest known structured dataset of hitchhiking rides, comprising over 63,000 entries collected over nearly two decades through platforms associated with hitchwiki.org and lately on hitchmap.com. By leveraging crowd-sourced contributions, the dataset captures key spatiotemporal and strategic aspects of hitchhiking. This work documents the…

Leveraging Correlation Across Test Platforms for Variance-Reduced Metric Estimation
Rachel Luo, Heng Yang, Michael Watson, Apoorva Sharma, Sushant Veer, Edward Schmerling, Marco Pavone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20553

Leveraging Correlation Across Test Platforms for Variance-Reduced Metric Estimation
Learning-based robotic systems demand rigorous validation to assure reliable performance, but extensive real-world testing is often prohibitively expensive, and if conducted may still yield insufficient data for high-confidence guarantees. In this work, we introduce a general estimation framework that leverages paired data across test platforms, e.g., paired simulation and real-world observations, to achieve better estimates of real-world metrics via the method of control variates. By incorpora…

Online platforms offering astrological advice are thriving in India, with the leading app Astrotalk claiming about 84% of its 70M users are under the age of 35 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…

Star Charts and Stock Tips: Venture Capital Bets on Financial Astrology
An age-old belief in astrology has snowballed into a $7 billion industry as a younger generation seeks celestial guidance.

PrompTrend: Continuous Community-Driven Vulnerability Discovery and Assessment for Large Language Models
Tarek Gasmi, Ramzi Guesmi, Mootez Aloui, Jihene Bennaceur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19185

PrompTrend: Continuous Community-Driven Vulnerability Discovery and Assessment for Large Language Models
Static benchmarks fail to capture LLM vulnerabilities emerging through community experimentation in online forums. We present PrompTrend, a system that collects vulnerability data across platforms and evaluates them using multidimensional scoring, with an architecture designed for scalable monitoring. Cross-sectional analysis of 198 vulnerabilities collected from online communities over a five-month period (January-May 2025) and tested on nine commercial models reveals that advanced capabilitie…

At TrustCon 2025, trust and safety professionals expressed anxiety over the industry's retreat, but no leaders condemned platforms' rollback of safety policies (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/trustcon-trust-safety-leadership-decline-20…

Is anyone left to defend trust and safety?
It’s under assault this year from users, politicians, and their own executives — but the industry has responded with silence

Big Data Energy Systems: A Survey of Practices and Associated Challenges
Lunodzo J. Mwinuka, Massimo Cafaro, Lucas Pereira, Hugo Morais
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19154 https://…

Big Data Energy Systems: A Survey of Practices and Associated Challenges
Energy systems generate vast amounts of data in extremely short time intervals, creating challenges for efficient data management. Traditional data management methods often struggle with scalability and accessibility, limiting their usefulness. More advanced solutions, such as NoSQL databases and cloud-based platforms, have been adopted to address these issues. Still, even these advanced solutions can encounter bottlenecks, which can impact the efficiency of data storage, retrieval, and analysi…

Changes to the Facebook Algorithm Decreased News Visibility Between 2021-2024
Szymon Talaga, Erin Wertz, Dominik Batorski, Magdalena Wojcieszak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19373 …

Changes to the Facebook Algorithm Decreased News Visibility Between 2021-2024
Platforms, especially Facebook, are primary news sources in the US. In its widely criticized "War on News," Meta algorithmically deprioritized news and political content. We use data from 40 news organizations (5,243,302 Facebook posts, 7,875,372,958 user reactions) and 21 non-news pages (396,468 posts; 1,909,088,308 reactions) between January 1, 2016 and February 13, 2025 to examine how these changes influenced news visibility on the platform. Reactions to news declined by 78% between 2021 and…

Hybrid Wave-wind System Power Optimisation Using Effective Ensemble Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolutionary Algorithm
Mehdi Neshat, Nataliia Y. Sergiienko, Leandro S. P. da Silva, Seyedali Mirjalili, Amir H. Gandomi, Ossama Abdelkhalik, John Boland
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20720

Hybrid Wave-wind System Power Optimisation Using Effective Ensemble Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolutionary Algorithm
Floating hybrid wind-wave systems combine offshore wind platforms with wave energy converters (WECs) to create cost-effective and reliable energy solutions. Adequately designed and tuned WECs are essential to avoid unwanted loads disrupting turbine motion while efficiently harvesting wave energy. These systems diversify energy sources, enhancing energy security and reducing supply risks while providing a more consistent power output by smoothing energy production variability. However, optimisin…

European Commission says Meta has proposed limited changes to its pay-or-consent ad model, and Meta faces daily fines if it determines they are not sufficient (Reuters)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

Meta will only make limited changes to pay-or-consent model, EU says
Meta Platforms made only limited changes to its pay-or-consent model, and EU regulators cannot confirm compliance with an antitrust order. The European Commission may impose periodic penalties starting June 27, if Meta continues to fail meeting the required standards.

GPUnion: Autonomous GPU Sharing on Campus
Yufang Li (The Hong Kong University of Science,Technology), Yuanbo Zhang (Sun Yat-sen University), Hanlong Liao (National University of Defense Technology), Guoming Tang (The Hong Kong University of Science,Technology), Deke Guo (Sun Yat-sen University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18928

GPUnion: Autonomous GPU Sharing on Campus
A pronounced imbalance in GPU resources exists on campus, where some laboratories own underutilized servers while others lack the compute needed for AI research. GPU sharing can alleviate this disparity, while existing platforms typically rely on centralized oversight and persistent allocation models, conflicting with the voluntary and autonomous nature of academic resource ownership. We present GPUnion, a campus-scale GPU sharing platform enabling voluntary participation while preserving full …

NetChoice sues Arkansas over two laws that would put limits on social media content and let parents of children who died by suicide sue over platform content (Andrew Demillo/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/net-choice-ar…

Tech industry group sues Arkansas over new social media laws
A tech industry trade group has sued Arkansas over two new law placing limits on content on social media platforms. The lawsuit was filed Friday in federal court by NetChoice, whose members include TikTok, Facebook parent Meta, and X, formerly known as Twitter. The lawsuit comes months after a federal judge struck down an Arkansas law that would have required parental consent for minors to create new social media accounts. The new laws the group is challenging include one that would allow paren…

A US judge rules Anthropic use of copyrighted books to train AI was fair use, but its storage of pirated books in a "central library" used for training was not (Olivia Sophie Rafferty/ai fray)
https://aifra…

Hybrid Wave-wind System Power Optimisation Using Effective Ensemble Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolutionary Algorithm
Mehdi Neshat, Nataliia Y. Sergiienko, Leandro S. P. da Silva, Seyedali Mirjalili, Amir H. Gandomi, Ossama Abdelkhalik, John Boland
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20720

Hybrid Wave-wind System Power Optimisation Using Effective Ensemble Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolutionary Algorithm
Floating hybrid wind-wave systems combine offshore wind platforms with wave energy converters (WECs) to create cost-effective and reliable energy solutions. Adequately designed and tuned WECs are essential to avoid unwanted loads disrupting turbine motion while efficiently harvesting wave energy. These systems diversify energy sources, enhancing energy security and reducing supply risks while providing a more consistent power output by smoothing energy production variability. However, optimisin…

Brazil's supreme court rules that platforms like Facebook and X can be held liable for user posts, requiring them to remove content even without a court order (Michael Pooler/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4a5235c5-acd0-4e81-9d44-2362a25c8eb3

Brazil supreme court rules digital platforms are liable for users’ posts
Ruling risks stoking tensions with US amid accusations of censorship of social media groups

Indonesia changes rules to require e-commerce platforms like TikTok Shop to withhold income tax from sellers, instead of asking sellers to pay the government (Grace Sihombing/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Ofcom says public service TV is becoming an "endangered species" after finding that streamers offered by PSBs only account for 9% of all viewing in the UK (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jul/21/uk-public-servi…

Anysphere launches Bugbot, an AI-powered tool that integrates with GitHub to detect coding errors introduced by humans or AI agents, for $40 per month per user (Lauren Goode/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/cursor-releases-new-ai-tool-for-debugging-code/

Cursor’s New Bugbot Is Designed to Save Vibe Coders From Themselves
One of the most popular platforms for AI-assisted programming says the next era of vibe coding is all about supercharging error detection.

A US judge rules Anthropic use of copyrighted books to train AI was fair use, but its storage of pirated books in a "central library" used for training was not (Olivia Sophie Rafferty/ai fray)
https://aifra…

A US judge rules that Meta's use of books to train AI is protected by fair use but says his opinion is more a reflection of the plaintiffs' poor arguments (Isaiah Poritz/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/legal-op

Meta Beats Copyright Suit From Authors Over AI Training on Books
Meta Platforms Inc. escaped a first-of-its-kind copyright lawsuit from a group of authors who alleged the tech giant hoovered up millions of copyrighted books without permission to train its generative AI model called Llama.

The UK CMA giving Google "strategic market status" could allow publishers to opt out of Google AI Overviews without removing websites from search (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/cma-to…

CMA set to force Google to work more fairly with UK publishers
CMA sets out plans to start curbing Google power in the UK and will address secrecy and unfairness around Google AI Overviews.

Source: Yann LeCun will continue to work at Meta as chief scientist of the AI research group FAIR and will report to Alexandr Wang (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-25/meta-says-open-ai…

Meta Says Open AI Hire is Superintelligence Group Chief Scientist
Mark Zuckerberg has named Shengjia Zhao, an artificial intelligence researcher who joined Meta Platforms Inc. from OpenAI in June, as the chief scientist for the social media company’s new superintelligence AI group.

At the 2025 RISC-V Summit in China, Nvidia says CUDA will now be compatible with RISC-V's instruction set architecture, making RISC-V a viable x86 and Arm rival (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.

Nvidia's CUDA platform now supports RISC-V — support brings open source instruction set to AI platforms, joining x86 and Arm
Yet another alternative.

Sources: Adani Group has shelved plans for a consumer super app amid losses and internal turmoil, as Reliance and Tata also struggle to scale their platforms (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-2…

A US judge rules that Meta's use of books to train AI is protected by fair use but says his opinion is more a reflection of the plaintiffs' poor arguments (Isaiah Poritz/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/legal-op

Meta Beats Authors’ Copyright Suit Over AI Training on Books (2)
Meta Platforms Inc. escaped a first-of-its-kind copyright lawsuit from a group of authors who alleged the tech giant hoovered up millions of copyrighted books without permission to train its generative AI model called Llama.