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Microsoft has once again been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning (DSML) Platforms.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog

Microsoft recognized for second consecutive year as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms | Microsoft Azure Blog
Find out how Microsoft Azure Machine Learning can help you optimize business processes, improve customer experiences, and drive innovation.

I wish DoubleBlind would join the Fediverse, where censorship is much less of an issue compared to platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
It baffles me that they talk about censorship on major platforms but haven’t moved to the free and open world of the Fediverse yet.
https://doubleblindmag.com

Scalable Software Testing in Fast Virtual Platforms: Leveraging SystemC, QEMU and Containerization
Lukas J\"unger, Jan Henrik Weinstock, Tim Kraus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10624

Scalable Software Testing in Fast Virtual Platforms: Leveraging SystemC, QEMU and Containerization
The ever-increasing complexity of HW/SW systems presents a persistent challenge, particularly in safety-critical domains like automotive, where extensive testing is imperative. However, the availability of hardware often lags behind, hindering early-stage software development. To address this, Virtual Platforms (VPs) based on the SystemC TLM-2.0 standard have emerged as a pivotal solution, enabling pre-silicon execution and testing of unmodified target software. In this study, we propose an app…

Sources: FTC is discussing a consent decree on the Omnicom-Interpublic merger, prohibiting the combined company from boycotting platforms over political content (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/business/ftc-omnicom-interpublic-mer…

FTC May Impose Political Bias Rule on Omnicom and Interpublic Merger
The Federal Trade Commission is considering restrictions on Omnicom and Interpublic to prevent the combined company from refusing to place ads on platforms for political reasons.

Data warehouses, lakes, lakehouses, and more – our choices significantly affect operational costs and development speed. Join Lars Albertsson at Berlin Buzzwords to explore how different data processing paradigms impact deployment, failure handling, and data quality. Learn strategies to minimise costs and latency, bridge between paradigms, and enhance development iteration and operational efficiency.
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#FULLBRUTALISM
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Sources: FTC is discussing a consent decree on the Omnicom-Interpublic merger, prohibiting the combined company from boycotting platforms over political content (New York Times)
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FTC May Impose Political Bias Rule on Omnicom and Interpublic Merger
The Federal Trade Commission is considering restrictions on Omnicom and Interpublic to prevent the combined company from refusing to place ads on platforms for political reasons.

General Manager of Azure AI at Microsoft Don Scott shares a second consecutive year win in this post on the AI and Machine Learning portion of the official Azure blog. Gartner Group has identified Microsoft as a industry leader in data science and machine learning platforms.
"Microsoft recognized for second consecutive year as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms"

Invariant Extended Kalman Filter for Autonomous Surface Vessels with Partial Orientation Measurements
Derek Benham, Easton Potokar, Joshua G. Mangelson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10850

Invariant Extended Kalman Filter for Autonomous Surface Vessels with Partial Orientation Measurements
Autonomous surface vessels (ASVs) are increasingly vital for marine science, offering robust platforms for underwater mapping and inspection. Accurate state estimation, particularly of vehicle pose, is paramount for precise seafloor mapping, as even small surface deviations can have significant consequences when sensing the seafloor below. To address this challenge, we propose an Invariant Extended Kalman Filter (InEKF) framework designed to integrate partial orientation measurements. While con…

Safeguarding Multimodal Knowledge Copyright in the RAG-as-a-Service Environment
Tianyu Chen, Jian Lou, Wenjie Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10030 https:/…

Safeguarding Multimodal Knowledge Copyright in the RAG-as-a-Service Environment
As Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) evolves into service-oriented platforms (Rag-as-a-Service) with shared knowledge bases, protecting the copyright of contributed data becomes essential. Existing watermarking methods in RAG focus solely on textual knowledge, leaving image knowledge unprotected. In this work, we propose AQUA, the first watermark framework for image knowledge protection in Multimodal RAG systems. AQUA embeds semantic signals into synthetic images using two complementary meth…

@… is one of the very few (maybe the only!) platforms that do provide excellent default protection against megacorp #espionage and even state actors like #trojanhorses

Building a Media Ecosystem Observatory from Scratch: Infrastructure, Methodology, and Insights
Zeynep Pehlivan, Saewon Park, Alexei Sisulu Abrahams, Mika Desblancs-Patel, Benjamin David Steel, Aengus Bridgman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10942

Building a Media Ecosystem Observatory from Scratch: Infrastructure, Methodology, and Insights
Understanding the flow of information across today's fragmented digital media landscape requires scalable, cross-platform infrastructure. In this paper, we present the Canadian Media Ecosystem Observatory, a national-scale infrastructure designed to monitor political and media discourse across platforms in near real time. Media Ecosystem Observatory (MEO) data infrastructure features custom crawlers for major platforms, a unified indexing pipeline, and a normalization layer that harmonizes he…

Is Sparse Matrix Reordering Effective for Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication?
Omid Asudeh, Sina Mahdipour Saravani, Gerald Sabin, Fabrice Rastello, P Sadayappan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10356

Is Sparse Matrix Reordering Effective for Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication?
This work evaluates the impact of sparse matrix reordering on the performance of sparse matrix-vector multiplication across different multicore CPU platforms. Reordering can significantly enhance performance by optimizing the non-zero element patterns to reduce total data movement and improve the load-balancing. We examine how these gains vary over different CPUs for different reordering strategies, focusing on both sequential and parallel execution. We address multiple aspects, including appro…

EasyDRAM: An FPGA-based Infrastructure for Fast and Accurate End-to-End Evaluation of Emerging DRAM Techniques
O\u{g}uzhan Canpolat, Ataberk Olgun, David Novo, O\u{g}uz Ergin, Onur Mutlu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10441

EasyDRAM: An FPGA-based Infrastructure for Fast and Accurate End-to-End Evaluation of Emerging DRAM Techniques
DRAM is a critical component of modern computing systems. Recent works propose numerous techniques (that we call DRAM techniques) to enhance DRAM-based computing systems' throughput, reliability, and computing capabilities (e.g., in-DRAM bulk data copy). Evaluating the system-wide benefits of DRAM techniques is challenging as they often require modifications across multiple layers of the computing stack. Prior works propose FPGA-based platforms for rapid end-to-end evaluation of DRAM techniques…

Zero-energy band observation in an interfacial chalcogen-organic network
Yichen Jin, Ignacio Gonzalez Oliva, Hibiki Orio, Guangyao Miao, Maximilian \"Unzelmann, Jos\'e D. Cojal Gonz\'alez, Angelina Jocic, Yan Wang, Xiaoxi Zhang, J\"urgen P. Rabe, Kai Rossnagel, Milan Kivala, Claudia Draxl, Friedrich Reinert, Carlos-Andres Palma
http…

Zero-energy band observation in an interfacial chalcogen-organic network
Structurally-defined molecule-based lattices such as covalent organic or metal-organic networks on substrates, have emerged as highly tunable, modular platforms for two-dimensional band structure engineering. The ability to grow molecule-based lattices on diverse platforms, such as metal dichalcogenides, would further enable band structure tuning and alignment to the Fermi level, which is crucial for the exploration and design of quantum matter. In this work, we study the emergence of a zero-en…

Calculating water/energy usage for "AI" per token is a bit problematic: A data center has a massive base load even if nobody uses it just by sheer existence. And since we have no actual data for any of the popular platforms all numbers floating around are problematic and not very useful.
Like how much power does one of those servers NVIDIA cards really save if its utilization is only 50%? And are the overhead costs actually counted?

UK regulator investigates possible online safety breaches at 4chan and other platforms
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/uk-regulator-investigates-possible-online-safety-breaches-4chan-othe…

Semantic Communication-Enabled Cloud-Edge-End-collaborative Metaverse Services Architecure
Yuxuan Li, Sheng Jinag, Bizhu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10001

Semantic Communication-Enabled Cloud-Edge-End-collaborative Metaverse Services Architecure
With technology advancing and the pursuit of new audiovisual experiences strengthening, the metaverse has gained surging enthusiasm. However, it faces practical hurdles as substantial data like high-resolution virtual scenes must be transmitted between cloud platforms and VR devices. Specifically, the VR device's wireless transmission hampered by insufficient bandwidth, causes speed and delay problems. Meanwhile, poor channel quality leads to data errors and worsens user experience. To solve th…

Huh? https://github.com/cheeaun/phanpy/issues/1198

Support Atom Over XMPP · Issue #1198 · cheeaun/phanpy
Problem I have XMPP is also a publishing platform. The largest HTML-based platforms to utilize Atom Over XMPP are Libervia and Movim, and I also maintain a couple of projects that are called Blasta...

Meta sues Joy Timeline, which makes nudify app CrushAI, in Hong Kong to "prevent them from advertising CrushAI apps on Meta platforms"; CrushAI had run 5K ads (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/meta-sues-nudify-app-that…

Meta Sues Nudify App That Keeps Advertising on Instagram
As part of what it claims is a new crackdown, Meta is suing a nudify app and "strengthening" its enforcement.

Repeated ancilla reuse for logical computation on a neutral atom quantum computer
J. A. Muniz, D. Crow, H. Kim, J. M. Kindem, W. B. Cairncross, A. Ryou, T. C. Bohdanowicz, C. -A. Chen, Y. Ji, A. M. W. Jones, E. Megidish, C. Nishiguchi, M. Urbanek, L. Wadleigh, T. Wilkason, D. Aasen, K. Barnes, J. M. Bello-Rivas, I. Bloomfield, G. Booth, A. Brown, M. O. Brown, K. Cassella, G. Cowan, J. Epstein, M. Feldkamp, C. Griger, Y. Hassan, A. Heinz, E. Halperin, T. Hofler, F. Hummel, M. Jaffe, E. …

Repeated ancilla reuse for logical computation on a neutral atom quantum computer
Quantum processors based on neutral atoms trapped in arrays of optical tweezers have appealing properties, including relatively easy qubit number scaling and the ability to engineer arbitrary gate connectivity with atom movement. However, these platforms are inherently prone to atom loss, and the ability to replace lost atoms during a quantum computation is an important but previously elusive capability. Here, we demonstrate the ability to measure and re-initialize, and if necessary replace, a …

GENMANIP: LLM-driven Simulation for Generalizable Instruction-Following Manipulation
Ning Gao, Yilun Chen, Shuai Yang, Xinyi Chen, Yang Tian, Hao Li, Haifeng Huang, Hanqing Wang, Tai Wang, Jiangmiao Pang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10966

GENMANIP: LLM-driven Simulation for Generalizable Instruction-Following Manipulation
Robotic manipulation in real-world settings remains challenging, especially regarding robust generalization. Existing simulation platforms lack sufficient support for exploring how policies adapt to varied instructions and scenarios. Thus, they lag behind the growing interest in instruction-following foundation models like LLMs, whose adaptability is crucial yet remains underexplored in fair comparisons. To bridge this gap, we introduce GenManip, a realistic tabletop simulation platform tailore…

GenBreak: Red Teaming Text-to-Image Generators Using Large Language Models
Zilong Wang, Xiang Zheng, Xiaosen Wang, Bo Wang, Xingjun Ma, Yu-Gang Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10047

GenBreak: Red Teaming Text-to-Image Generators Using Large Language Models
Text-to-image (T2I) models such as Stable Diffusion have advanced rapidly and are now widely used in content creation. However, these models can be misused to generate harmful content, including nudity or violence, posing significant safety risks. While most platforms employ content moderation systems, underlying vulnerabilities can still be exploited by determined adversaries. Recent research on red-teaming and adversarial attacks against T2I models has notable limitations: some studies succes…

"I Said Things I Needed to Hear Myself": Peer Support as an Emotional, Organisational, and Sociotechnical Practice in Singapore
Kellie Yu Hui Sim, Kenny Tsu Wei Choo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09362

"I Said Things I Needed to Hear Myself": Peer Support as an Emotional, Organisational, and Sociotechnical Practice in Singapore
Peer support plays a vital role in expanding access to mental health care by providing empathetic, community-based support outside formal clinical systems. As digital platforms increasingly mediate such support, the design and impact of these technologies remain under-examined, particularly in Asian contexts. This paper presents findings from an interview study with 20 peer supporters in Singapore, who operate across diverse online, offline, and hybrid environments. Through a thematic analysis,…

MultiCoSim: A Python-based Multi-Fidelity Co-Simulation Framework
Quinn Thibeault, Giulia Pedrielli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10869 https://

MultiCoSim: A Python-based Multi-Fidelity Co-Simulation Framework
Simulation is a foundational tool for the analysis and testing of cyber-physical systems (CPS), underpinning activities such as algorithm development, runtime monitoring, and system verification. As CPS grow in complexity and scale, particularly in safety-critical and learning-enabled settings, accurate analysis and synthesis increasingly rely on the rapid use of simulation experiments. Because CPS inherently integrate hardware, software, and physical processes, simulation platforms must suppor…

TikTok's Research API: Problems Without Explanations
Carlos Entrena-Serrano, Martin Degeling, Salvatore Romano, Raziye Buse \c{C}etin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09746

TikTok's Research API: Problems Without Explanations
Following the Digital Services Act of 2023, which requires Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) and Very Large Online Search Engines (VLOSEs) to facilitate data accessibility for independent research, TikTok augmented its Research API access within Europe in July 2023. This action was intended to ensure compliance with the DSA, bolster transparency, and address systemic risks. Nonetheless, research findings reveal that despite this expansion, notable limitations and inconsistencies persist withi…

"But there were technologists and open source projects in attendance. Notably, representatives from the Mastodon and Bluesky teams were at the Festival. The Newsmast Foundation was also present, incisively taking part in conversations to help newsrooms onboard themselves onto both of them. I got to hang out with them all, connecting with people I’d spoken with but never interacted with in person. Mastodon has undergone a transformation, has doubled its team, and is working on smoothing out some of its rough edges, while not letting go of its core ethos. It’s also beginning to position itself as a European alternative to American social media platforms, with a community-first values system and new services to directly help organizations join the network.
Bluesky, on the other hand, has done an able job of bringing journalists onto its existing social app, and is now hard at work explaining why its underlying protocol matters. Both want to engage with newsrooms and journalists and do the right thing by them. They each have something different to prove: Mastodon that it can be usable and accessible, and Bluesky that it can provide a return to its investors and truly decentralize while holding onto its values. I’m rooting for both of them.
These platforms’ messages dovetail with my own: news can own the platforms that support them. Lots of people at the Festival were worried about the impact of US big tech on their businesses — particularly in a world where tech moguls seem to be aligning themselves with a Presidential administration that has positioned itself as being adversarial to news, journalists, sources, and, arguably, the truth. The good news is that the technology is out there, the values-aligned technologists are out there, and there’s a strong path forward. The only thing left is to follow it."
#media #Mastodon #BlueSky #Journalism
https://werd.io/2025/notes-from-perugia-journalism-values-and-building-the-web-we

On the Linear Programming Model for Dynamic Stochastic Matching and Its Application on Pricing
Junlin Chen, Chiwei Yan, Hai Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09924

On the Linear Programming Model for Dynamic Stochastic Matching and Its Application on Pricing
Important pricing problems in centralized matching markets -- such as carpooling and food delivery platforms -- often exhibit a bi-level structure. At the upper level, the platform sets prices for different types of agents (e.g., riders with various origins and destinations, or delivery orders from diverse restaurants to customer locations). The lower level then matches converted agents to minimize operational costs, such as pooling riders with similar itineraries into the same vehicle or conso…

Brazil's Supreme Court rules that social media companies are accountable for some types of user content seen as illegal, a decision that could result in fines (Ricardo Brito/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bra

The only thing I appreciate about the Internet is discovering beautiful voices like Юлия Савичева, but then you realize the platform it’s all stuck on is a complete mess.
Her voice is stunning, but the fact that it’s trapped on sites like YouTube just reminds me how messed up the whole system is.
Sometimes I wonder how something so pure ends up on platforms designed to keep us hooked and distracted.
The good thing is that I can use yt-dlp to grab music videos and enjoy them…

Apple unveils updates to help parents protect kids and teens, including easier Child Accounts setup, stronger defaults, and granular App Store age ratings (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/11/ios-26-expands-family-tool…

iOS 26: Apple will expand family tools for child accounts - 9to5Mac
Apple today announced updates aimed at helping parents protect kids online, as part of its broader push to make Apple platforms safer.

Good Morning #Canada
I was going to post something about Preston Manning's birthday, but the related web surfing about how the parties he founded provided platforms for the worst Canadian politicians was too depressing. So instead, I'm starting a new feature called "Mercer Memories," where Rick Mercer gets centre stage on days where nothing interesting happened or topics don't pique my interest. You're welcome...
#CanadaIsAwesome #MercerMemories
https://youtu.be/yi1yhp-_x7A?si=dMmAuI2p0Sy_mXgO

Please join me on July 7th for next month's MediaEd Club webinar for the Media Education Lab: "Privacy, Power, and Platforms"
https://mediaeducationlab.com/index.php/events/privacy-power-and-platforms
If you missed today's / this month…

ObfusBFA: A Holistic Approach to Safeguarding DNNs from Different Types of Bit-Flip Attacks
Xiaobei Yan, Han Qiu, Tianwei Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10744

ObfusBFA: A Holistic Approach to Safeguarding DNNs from Different Types of Bit-Flip Attacks
Bit-flip attacks (BFAs) represent a serious threat to Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), where flipping a small number of bits in the model parameters or binary code can significantly degrade the model accuracy or mislead the model prediction in a desired way. Existing defenses exclusively focus on protecting models for specific attacks and platforms, while lacking effectiveness for other scenarios. We propose ObfusBFA, an efficient and holistic methodology to mitigate BFAs targeting both the high-le…

Yesterday, I watched "The Match" (승부), a movie that is now available on streaming platforms after it ran in cinemas in March. It tells the story of two Korean Go players who were both considered best in the world at some point: Cho Hun-hyun and Lee Chang-ho, a master and a student who later overtook the master. Side note: Lee Chang-ho was later followed by Lee Sedol as the world's best player who was then followed by AlphaGo. 1/2

Detecting Coordination on Short-Video Platforms: The Challenge of Multimodality and Complex Similarity on TikTok
Inga K. Wohlert, Davide Vega, Matteo Magnani, Alexandra Sergerberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05868

Detecting Coordination on Short-Video Platforms: The Challenge of Multimodality and Complex Similarity on TikTok
Research on online coordinated behaviour has predominantly focused on text-based social media platforms, where coordination manifests clearly through the frequent posting of identical hyperlinks or the frequent re-sharing of the same textual content by the same group of users. However, the rise of short-video platforms like TikTok introduces distinct challenges, by supporting integrated multimodality within posts and complex similarity between them. In this paper, we propose an approach to dete…

Is #liftgezocht (met hashtags van plaatsnaam) al trending op de diverse social media platforms?
#dtv #staking

MERIT: A Merchant Incentive Ranking Model for Hotel Search & Ranking
Shigang Quan, Hailong Tan, Shui Liu, Zhenzhe zheng, Ruihao Zhu, Liangyue Li, Quan Lu, Fan Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08442

MERIT: A Merchant Incentive Ranking Model for Hotel Search & Ranking
Online Travel Platforms (OTPs) have been working on improving their hotel Search & Ranking (S&R) systems that facilitate efficient matching between consumers and hotels. Existing OTPs focus almost exclusively on improving platform revenue. In this work, we take a first step in incorporating hotel merchants' objectives into the design of hotel S&R systems to achieve an incentive loop: the OTP tilts impressions and better-ranked positions to merchants with high quality, and in return, the merchan…

#FreeBSD 14.3 was released!
Some changes to `ps` -u and -O behavior, llvm/clang goes to 19.1.7, OpenSSH goes to 9.9p2, OpenSSL goes to 3.0.16, `sysctl` and `ip6addrctl` get jail support, lots more in the release notes:
https://www.

FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE Release Notes
FreeBSD is an operating system used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms.

Sources: Scale AI plans to promote Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege to CEO, replacing Alexandr Wang, who is set to join Meta after its investment in Scale AI (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Scale AI Picks New CEO as Alexandr Wang Set to Join Meta After Investment
Scale AI plans to promote Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege to serve as its next chief executive officer following a multibillion-dollar investment from Meta Platforms Inc., according to two people familiar with the matter.

Anyone else experiencing problems (again) with link previews (including thumbnail images) when posting from #Mastodon via #Bridgy to #Bluesky?
Have reported the issue to the team, hopefully it can be sorted b…

Fediverse => Bluesky: auto-generate embeds (with thumbnail images) for links? · Issue #1411 · snarfed/bridgy-fed
I do not know if this is a general problem between platforms or if it is strictly an issue between Mastodon -> Bluesky, but whenever I post an article (or other external link) on Mastodon the thumb...

Advances on Affordable Hardware Platforms for Human Demonstration Acquisition in Agricultural Applications
Alberto San-Miguel-Tello, Gennaro Scarati, Alejandro Hern\'andez, Mario Cavero-Vidal, Aakash Maroti, N\'estor Garc\'ia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09494

Advances on Affordable Hardware Platforms for Human Demonstration Acquisition in Agricultural Applications
This paper presents advances on the Universal Manipulation Interface (UMI), a low-cost hand-held gripper for robot Learning from Demonstration (LfD), for complex in-the-wild scenarios found in agricultural settings. The focus is on improving the acquisition of suitable samples with minimal additional setup. Firstly, idle times and user's cognitive load are reduced through the extraction of individual samples from a continuous demonstration considering task events. Secondly, reliability on the g…

Mechanism of Conductivity Enhancement of Polymers Employing Microbubble Lithography
Anand Dev Ranjan, Dhananjay Mahapatra, Partha Mitra, Ayan Banerjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09957

Mechanism of Conductivity Enhancement of Polymers Employing Microbubble Lithography
The pursuit of green methodologies for fabricating optoelectronic devices necessitates the adoption of self-assembly-based strategies to engineer efficient and sustainable platforms. Microbubble lithography (MBL) stands out as a directed self-assembly technique, enabling real-time micropatterning of conductive structures. Notably, this approach achieves significant enhancements in the conductivity of patterned polymers without requiring external dopants. However, the underlying mechanisms drivi…

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 511 nodes and 35013 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

Game Theory in Social Media: A Stackelberg Model of Collaboration, Conflict, and Algorithmic Incentives
Arjan Khadka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05373 https…

Game Theory in Social Media: A Stackelberg Model of Collaboration, Conflict, and Algorithmic Incentives
Social media platforms are ecosystems in which many decisions are constantly made for the benefit of the creators in order to maximize engagement, which leads to a maximization of income. The decisions, ranging from collaboration to public conflict or ``beefing,'' are heavily influenced by social media algorithms, viewer preferences, and sponsor risk. This paper models this interaction as a Stackelberg game in which the algorithm is the leader, setting exposure and reward rules, and the content…

Performance Impact of Containerized METADOCK 2 on Heterogeneous Platforms
Antonio Jes\'us Banegas-Luna, Baldomero Imbern\'on Tudela, Carlos Mart\'inez-Cort\'es, Jos\'e Mar\'ia Cecilia, Horacio P\'erez-S\'anchez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06450

Performance Impact of Containerized METADOCK 2 on Heterogeneous Platforms
Virtual screening (VS) is a computationally intensive process crucial for drug discovery, often requiring significant resources to analyze large chemical libraries and predict ligand-protein interactions. This study evaluates the performance impact of containerization on METADOCK 2, a high-throughput docking software when deployed on heterogeneous high-performance computing (HPC) platforms. By testing three containerization technologies - Docker, Singularity, and Apptainer - across varying CPU …

Replaced article(s) found for physics.plasm-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.plasm-ph/new/
[1/1]:
Sunbeam: Near-Sun Statites as Beam Platforms for Beam-Driven Rockets

Site-resolved magnon and triplon dynamics on a programmable quantum dot spin ladder
Pablo Cova Fari\~na, Daniel Jirovec, Xin Zhang, Elizaveta Morozova, Stefan D. Oosterhout, Stefano Reale, Tzu-Kan Hsiao, Giordano Scappucci, Menno Veldhorst, Lieven M. K. Vandersypen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08663

Site-resolved magnon and triplon dynamics on a programmable quantum dot spin ladder
Quasi-particle dynamics in interacting systems in the presence of disorder challenges the notion of internal thermalization, but proves difficult to investigate theoretically for large particle numbers. Engineered quantum systems may offer a viable alternative, as witnessed in experimental demonstrations in a variety of physical platforms, each with its own capabilities and limitations. Semiconductor gate-defined quantum dot arrays are of particular interest since they offer both a direct mappi…

The Daily Star drops its page three with pictures of scantily dressed women as part of a print and online redesign, with a new strapline "News with a wink" (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

Daily Star drops page three pictures of scantily dressed women in redesign
The Daily Star has ditched page three models amid a wider redesign which includes a new masthead, new website/app platforms and new strapline

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09432 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@a…

Nanoscale Quantum Imaging of Spin Dynamics using a Hybrid 2D/3D System
Spin defects in solids offer promising platforms for quantum sensing and memory due to their long coherence times and compatibility with quantum networks. Here, we integrate a single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond with scanning probe microscopy to discover, read out, and spatially map arbitrary spin-based quantum sensors at the nanoscale. Using the boron vacancy (V$_\mathrm{B}^-$) center in hexagonal boron nitride$\unicode{x2013}$an emerging two-dimensional spin system$\unicode{x2013}$…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18148 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_…

Are We in the AI-Generated Text World Already? Quantifying and Monitoring AIGT on Social Media
Social media platforms are experiencing a growing presence of AI-Generated Texts (AIGTs). However, the misuse of AIGTs could have profound implications for public opinion, such as spreading misinformation and manipulating narratives. Despite its importance, it remains unclear how prevalent AIGTs are on social media. To address this gap, this paper aims to quantify and monitor the AIGTs on online social media platforms. We first collect a dataset (SM-D) with around 2.4M posts from 3 major social…

Robust Spin Polarization by Adiabatic Dynamical Decoupling
Soham Pal, Oliver T. Whaites, Wolfgang Knolle, Tania S. Monteiro, Helena S. Knowles
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08571

Robust Spin Polarization by Adiabatic Dynamical Decoupling
High-fidelity multi-qubit initialization is vital for quantum simulation, quantum information processing (QIP), and quantum sensing. In diamond platforms, nuclear spin registers can be initialized through polarization transfer from a nearby electronic spin whose high gyromagnetic ratio enables efficient dynamical nuclear polarization (DNP). These hybrid systems are typically controlled using diabatic spin rotations, which require precise knowledge of all system parameters. Adiabatic DNP protoco…

#Digitalsteuer für Datenkraken-Konzerne bzw. "Plattformsoli": Unisono kritisch äußerten sich die nicht wenigen deutschen Digitalwirtschaftsverbände. Sowohl beim eco-Verband als auch beiBitkom und BVDW zahlen die Google Germany GmbH und die Facebook Germany GmbH (bzw. Meta Platforms, Inc.) jeweils Mitgliedsbeiträge. An Lobby-Ausgaben sparen sie weder in Brüssel noch in Deutschland…

Kolumne: Das Altpapier am 3. Juni 2025 – Die Digitalsteuer-Debatte
... die der neue Kulturstaatsminister Weimer anzettelte, nimmt Fahrt auf. Digitalminister Wildberger legte auf zwei ausgesprochen unterschiedlichen Konferenzen erste Auftritte hin.

Epass: Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Asynchronous Payment on Blockchain
Weijie Wang, Jinwen Liang, Chuan Zhang, Ximeng Liu, Liehuang Zhu, Song Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09387

Epass: Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Asynchronous Payment on Blockchain
Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) is a rapidly proliferating e-commerce model, offering consumers to get the product immediately and defer payments. Meanwhile, emerging blockchain technologies endow BNPL platforms with digital currency transactions, allowing BNPL platforms to integrate with digital wallets. However, the transparency of transactions causes critical privacy concerns because malicious participants may derive consumers' financial statuses from on-chain asynchronous payments. Furthermore, th…

[PODCAST] The problem(s) with platforms by #DemocracyWorks with #CoryDoctorow
https://pca.st/episode/026e66ba…

France has been developing its own digital tools and platforms for governmental use. I hope other countries follow suit, rather than relying on Google or Microsoft for government and education systems: https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/uploads/DINUM-roadmap_EN.pdf

Release, release, release
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#NewMusic #MusicVideo
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Release, release, release
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Sources: Meta's Scale AI deal was motivated by Mark Zuckerberg's desire to find new leadership for Meta's AI efforts, relationship with Alexandr Wang, and more (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-betting-n…

Why Meta is Betting Nearly $15 Billion on Alexandr Wang
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has tried to fix a seemingly existential problem in recent months. His company’s large language model, Llama, was falling behind competitors and struggling to perform as well as models from OpenAI, particularly on complex tasks. Increasingly, Zuckerberg turned ...

NAM: A Normalization Attention Model for Personalized Product Search In Fliggy
Shui Liu, Mingyuan Tao, Maofei Que, Pan Li, Dong Li, Shenghua Ni, Zhuoran Zhuang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08382

NAM: A Normalization Attention Model for Personalized Product Search In Fliggy
Personalized product search provides significant benefits to e-commerce platforms by extracting more accurate user preferences from historical behaviors. Previous studies largely focused on the user factors when personalizing the search query, while ignoring the item perspective, which leads to the following two challenges that we summarize in this paper: First, previous approaches relying only on co-occurrence frequency tend to overestimate the conversion rates for popular items and underestim…

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

Dual-mode superconducting diode effect enabled by in-plane and out-of-plane magnetic field
Chengyu Yan, Huai Guan, Zhenyu Zhang, Yiheng Sun, Qiao Chen, Xinming Zhao, Chuanwen Zhao, James Jun He, Shun Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07354

Dual-mode superconducting diode effect enabled by in-plane and out-of-plane magnetic field
The discovery of the superconducting diode effect (SDE) has been cherished as a milestone in developing superconducting electronics. Tremendous efforts are being dedicated to realizing SDE in a wide variety of material platforms. Despite the diversity in the hosting materials and device designs, SDE is usually operated in a single mode which is enabled by either out-of-plane or in-plane magnetic field/magnetization. In this work, we report the realization of a dual-mode SDE in 2H-$\mathrm{NbS_2…

Propaganda and Information Dissemination in the Russo-Ukrainian War: Natural Language Processing of Russian and Western Twitter Narratives
Zaur Gouliev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01807

Propaganda and Information Dissemination in the Russo-Ukrainian War: Natural Language Processing of Russian and Western Twitter Narratives
The conflict in Ukraine has been not only characterised by military engagement but also by a significant information war, with social media platforms like X, formerly known as Twitter playing an important role in shaping public perception. This article provides an analysis of tweets from propaganda accounts and trusted accounts collected from the onset of the war, February 2022 until the middle of May 2022 with n=40,000 total tweets. We utilise natural language processing and machine learning a…

POLARON: Precision-aware On-device Learning and Adaptive Runtime-cONfigurable AI acceleration
Mukul Lokhande, Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08785

POLARON: Precision-aware On-device Learning and Adaptive Runtime-cONfigurable AI acceleration
The increasing complexity of AI models requires flexible hardware capable of supporting diverse precision formats, particularly for energy-constrained edge platforms. This work presents PARV-CE, a SIMD-enabled, multi-precision MAC engine that performs efficient multiply-accumulate operations using a unified data-path for 4/8/16-bit fixed-point, floating point, and posit formats. The architecture incorporates a layer adaptive precision strategy to align computational accuracy with workload sensi…

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A Tutorial on Event Detection using Social Media Data Analysis: Applications, Challenges, and Open Problems
In recent years, social media has become one of the most popular platforms for communication. These platforms allow users to report real-world incidents that might swiftly and widely circulate throughout the whole social network. A social event is a real-world incident that is documented on social media. Social gatherings could contain vital documentation of crisis scenarios. Monitoring and analyzing this rich content can produce information that is extraordinarily valuable and help people and …

A majority of six of the 11 judges on Brazil's Supreme Court have voted to hold social media companies liable for some types of users' content seen as illegal (Ricardo Brito/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/…

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When Incentives Backfire, Data Stops Being Human
Progress in AI has relied on human-generated data, from annotator marketplaces to the wider Internet. However, the widespread use of large language models now threatens the quality and integrity of human-generated data on these very platforms. We argue that this issue goes beyond the immediate challenge of filtering AI-generated content -- it reveals deeper flaws in how data collection systems are designed. Existing systems often prioritize speed, scale, and efficiency at the cost of intrinsic …

Fault-Tolerant Stabilizer Measurements in Surface Codes with Three-Qubit Gates
Josias Old, Stephan Tasler, Michael J. Hartmann, Markus M\"uller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09029

Fault-Tolerant Stabilizer Measurements in Surface Codes with Three-Qubit Gates
Quantum error correction (QEC) is considered a deciding component in enabling practical quantum computing. Stabilizer codes, and in particular topological surface codes, are promising candidates for implementing QEC by redundantly encoding quantum information. While it is widely believed that a strictly fault-tolerant protocol can only be implemented using single- and two-qubit gates, several quantum computing platforms, based on trapped ions, neutral atoms and also superconducting qubits suppo…

WPP Media expects ad revenue from user-generated content and platforms like YouTube and TikTok to surpass that from traditional media for the first time in 2025 (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun

Since migrating away from big tech platforms (including Google Drive) I have been using Libreoffice for my writing and presentations.
I often get asked why I do not use OnlyOffice since it looks so much better (especially the web client). Two answers:
- The presentation tools of OnlyOffice are too barebones
But more importantly:
OnlyOffice is a company that seems to be controlled by a Russian guy who invests a lot of time to hide the fact that OnlyOffice is Russian (see…

Comparing Collabora with OnlyOffice
Collabora Online provides excellent interoperabilty, efficient backend for scalability, best privacy, and a rich interface for cooperation and editing docx, xlsx, pptx and odf

Sentiment Analysis in Learning Management Systems Understanding Student Feedback at Scale
Mohammed Almutairi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05490 https://

Sentiment Analysis in Learning Management Systems Understanding Student Feedback at Scale
During the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the educational paradigm has experienced a major change from in person learning traditional to online platforms. The change of learning convention has impacted the teacher-student especially in non-verbal communication. The absent of non-verbal communication has led to a reliance on verbal feedback which diminished the efficacy of the educational experience. This paper explores the integration of sentiment analysis into learning management systems (LMS)…

Towards Mixed-Criticality Software Architectures for Centralized HPC Platforms in Software-Defined Vehicles: A Systematic Literature Review
Lucas Mauser, Eva Zimmermann, Pavel Nedv\v{e}dick\'y, Tobias Eisenreich, Moritz W\"aschle, Stefan Wagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05822

Towards Mixed-Criticality Software Architectures for Centralized HPC Platforms in Software-Defined Vehicles: A Systematic Literature Review
Centralized electrical/electronic architectures and High-Performance Computers (HPCs) are redefining automotive software development, challenging traditional microcontroller-based approaches. Ensuring real-time, safety, and scalability in software-defined vehicles necessitates reevaluating how mixed-criticality software is integrated into centralized architectures. While existing research on automotive SoftWare Architectures (SWAs) is relevant to the industry, it often lacks validation through …

Serendipitous Recommendation with Multimodal LLM
Haoting Wang, Jianling Wang, Hao Li, Fangjun Yi, Mengyu Fu, Youwei Zhang, Yifan Liu, Liang Liu, Minmin Chen, Ed H. Chi, Lichan Hong, Haokai Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08283

Serendipitous Recommendation with Multimodal LLM
Conventional recommendation systems succeed in identifying relevant content but often fail to provide users with surprising or novel items. Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) possess the world knowledge and multimodal understanding needed for serendipity, but their integration into billion-item-scale platforms presents significant challenges. In this paper, we propose a novel hierarchical framework where fine-tuned MLLMs provide high-level guidance to conventional recommendation models, s…

TGRPO :Fine-tuning Vision-Language-Action Model via Trajectory-wise Group Relative Policy Optimization
Zengjue Chen, Runliang Niu, He Kong, Qi Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08440

TGRPO :Fine-tuning Vision-Language-Action Model via Trajectory-wise Group Relative Policy Optimization
Recent advances in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model have demonstrated strong generalization capabilities across diverse scenes, tasks, and robotic platforms when pretrained at large-scale datasets. However, these models still require task-specific fine-tuning in novel environments, a process that relies almost exclusively on supervised fine-tuning (SFT) using static trajectory datasets. Such approaches neither allow robot to interact with environment nor do they leverage feedback from live ex…

An Efficient Digital Watermarking Technique for Small Scale devices
Kaushik Talathi, Aparna Santra Biswas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06691 https://

An Efficient Digital Watermarking Technique for Small Scale devices
In the age of IoT and mobile platforms, ensuring that content stay authentic whilst avoiding overburdening limited hardware is a key problem. This study introduces hybrid Fast Wavelet Transform & Additive Quantization index Modulation (FWT-AQIM) scheme, a lightweight watermarking approach that secures digital pictures on low-power, memory-constrained small scale devices to achieve a balanced trade-off among robustness, imperceptibility, and computational efficiency. The method embeds watermark …

WPP Media expects ad revenue from user-generated content and platforms like YouTube and TikTok to surpass that from traditional media for the first time in 2025 (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun

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Strongly Correlated Transport in Topological Y-Junction Devices
I study electron transport through a Y-shaped junction of helical edge states in a two-dimensional topological insulator (2DTI), focusing on the strongly interacting regime. An experimentally accessible device geometry is proposed, and the corresponding conductance tensor is calculated. These results position Y-junctions of 2DTI as promising platforms for interaction-driven transport and nanoscale device applications in spintronics and topological electronics.

Ofcom launches nine Online Safety Act investigations, including into 4chan over alleged illegal content and into seven file-sharing services over possible CSAM (Sam Tabahriti/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/medi…

Orbit dimensions in linear and Gaussian quantum optics
Eliott Z. Mamon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07995 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.07…

Orbit dimensions in linear and Gaussian quantum optics
In sub-universal quantum platforms such as linear or Gaussian quantum optics, quantum states can behave as different resources, in regard to the extent of their accessible state space (called their orbit) under the action of the restricted unitary group. We propose to study the dimension of a quantum state's orbit (as a manifold in the Hilbert space), a simple yet nontrivial topological property that can quantify "how many" states it can reach. As natural invariants under the group, these struc…

Some YouTube channels are using AI to turn paywalled articles into videos without the consent of publishers, often adding inaccuracies (Rhi Storer/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/google-handling-s…

Google 'handling stolen goods' with Youtube theft of paywalled news articles
Youtube channels use AI to turn paywalled articles into videos.

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Subgraph-Oriented Testing for Deep Learning Libraries
Deep Learning (DL) libraries, such as PyTorch, are widely used for building and deploying DL models on various hardware platforms. Meanwhile, they are found to contain bugs that lead to incorrect calculation results and cause issues like non-convergence training and inaccurate prediction of DL models. Thus, many efforts have been made to test DL libraries and reveal bugs. However, existing DL library testing methods manifest limitations: model-level testing methods cause complexity in fault loc…

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Ideological Fragmentation of the Social Media Ecosystem: From echo chambers to echo platforms
The entertainment-driven nature of social media encourages users to engage with like-minded individuals and consume content aligned with their beliefs, limiting exposure to diverse perspectives. Simultaneously, users migrate between platforms, either due to moderation policies like de-platforming or in search of environments better suited to their preferences. These dynamics drive the specialization of the social media ecosystem, shifting from internal echo chambers to "echo platforms"--entire …

A look at the intensifying race for super apps in the Gulf, as Careem, Talabat, Amazon, Botim, and Noon consolidate various services into single platforms (Divsha Bhat/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/middle-east-super-apps/

Tech giants in the Gulf are building super-apps to dominate digital life
From Dubai to Riyadh, apps are consolidating ride-hailing, payments, and delivery into single platforms.

NR4DER: Neural Re-ranking for Diversified Exercise Recommendation
Xinghe Cheng, Xufang Zhou, Liangda Fang, Chaobo He, Yuyu Zhou, Weiqi Luo, Zhiguo Gong, Quanlong Guan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06341

NR4DER: Neural Re-ranking for Diversified Exercise Recommendation
With the widespread adoption of online education platforms, an increasing number of students are gaining new knowledge through Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Exercise recommendation have made strides toward improving student learning outcomes. However, existing methods not only struggle with high dropout rates but also fail to match the diverse learning pace of students. They frequently face difficulties in adjusting to inactive students' learning patterns and in accommodating individuali…

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Public versus Less-Public News Engagement on Facebook: Patterns Across Bias and Reliability
The rapid growth of social media as a news platform has raised significant concerns about the influence and societal impact of biased and unreliable news on these platforms. While much research has explored user engagement with news on platforms like Facebook, most studies have focused on publicly shared posts. This focus leaves an important question unanswered: how representative is the public sphere of Facebook's entire ecosystem? Specifically, how much of the interactions occur in less-publi…

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Watermark under Fire: A Robustness Evaluation of LLM Watermarking
Various watermarking methods (``watermarkers'') have been proposed to identify LLM-generated texts; yet, due to the lack of unified evaluation platforms, many critical questions remain under-explored: i) What are the strengths/limitations of various watermarkers, especially their attack robustness? ii) How do various design choices impact their robustness? iii) How to optimally operate watermarkers in adversarial environments? To fill this gap, we systematize existing LLM watermarkers and water…

Apple unveils a Liquid Glass design language across its platforms, adding transparency and glass shine effects to Apple's in-app interfaces (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/682636/apple-liquid-design-glass-theme-wwdc-2025

Apple’s new design language is Liquid Glass
Apple is launching a new design language. Liquid Glass will be available on all of Apple’s software.

Research on E-Commerce Long-Tail Product Recommendation Mechanism Based on Large-Scale Language Models
Qingyi Lu, Haotian Lyu, Jiayun Zheng, Yang Wang, Li Zhang, Chengrui Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06336

Research on E-Commerce Long-Tail Product Recommendation Mechanism Based on Large-Scale Language Models
As e-commerce platforms expand their product catalogs, accurately recommending long-tail items becomes increasingly important for enhancing both user experience and platform revenue. A key challenge is the long-tail problem, where extreme data sparsity and cold-start issues limit the performance of traditional recommendation methods. To address this, we propose a novel long-tail product recommendation mechanism that integrates product text descriptions and user behavior sequences using a large-…

Optically accessible high-finesse millimeter-wave resonator for cavity quantum electrodynamics with atom arrays
Tony Zhang, Michelle Wu, Sam R. Cohen, Lin Xin, Debadri Das, Kevin K. S. Multani, Nolan Peard, Anne-Marie Valente-Feliciano, Paul B. Welander, Amir H. Safavi-Naeini, Emilio A. Nanni, Monika Schleier-Smith
https://arxiv…

Optically accessible high-finesse millimeter-wave resonator for cavity quantum electrodynamics with atom arrays
Cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) is a powerful tool in quantum science, enabling preparation of non-classical states of light and scalable entanglement of many atoms coupled to a single field mode. While the most coherent atom-photon interactions have been achieved using superconducting millimeter-wave cavities coupled to Rydberg atoms, these platforms so far lack the optical access required for trapping and addressing individual atomic qubits. We present a millimeter-wave Fabry-Pérot cavi…

Apple says macOS 26 Tahoe will be the last release of macOS that supports Intel Macs, with future macOS versions only available to Apple Silicon Macs (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/09/apple-will-end-support-for-intel-macs/

Apple will end support for Intel Macs next year, macOS 27 will require Apple Silicon - 9to5Mac
During the Platforms State of the Union at WWDC, Apple just announced that macOS 26 Tahoe will be the last...

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Coherence-guided Preference Disentanglement for Cross-domain Recommendations
Discovering user preferences across different domains is pivotal in cross-domain recommendation systems, particularly when platforms lack comprehensive user-item interactive data. The limited presence of shared users often hampers the effective modeling of common preferences. While leveraging shared items' attributes, such as category and popularity, can enhance cross-domain recommendation performance, the scarcity of shared items between domains has limited research in this area. To address th…

Measuring the co-evolution of online engagement with (mis)information and its visibility at scale
Yueting Han, Paolo Turrini, Marya Bazzi, Giulia Andrighetto, Eugenia Polizzi, Manlio De Domenico
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06106

Measuring the co-evolution of online engagement with (mis)information and its visibility at scale
Online attention is an increasingly valuable resource in the digital age, with extraordinary events such as the COVID-19 pandemic fuelling fierce competition around it. As misinformation pervades online platforms, users seek credible sources, while news outlets compete to attract and retain their attention. Here we measure the co-evolution of online "engagement" with (mis)information and its "visibility", where engagement corresponds to user interactions on social media, and visibility to fluct…

Fubo and DAZN announce a multi-year deal to distribute their linear channels, which include exclusive sports rights, on each other's platforms in the US (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/fubo-and-dazn-strike-multi-year-spo…

Fubo and DAZN Strike Multi-Year Sports TV Network Partnership
The pact will see the streamers distribute their owned-and-operated linear channels on each other's U.S. platforms.

TRIDENT -- A Three-Tier Privacy-Preserving Propaganda Detection Model in Mobile Networks using Transformers, Adversarial Learning, and Differential Privacy
Al Nahian Bin Emran, Dhiman Goswami, Md Hasan Ullah Sadi, Sanchari Das
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05421

TRIDENT -- A Three-Tier Privacy-Preserving Propaganda Detection Model in Mobile Networks using Transformers, Adversarial Learning, and Differential Privacy
The proliferation of propaganda on mobile platforms raises critical concerns around detection accuracy and user privacy. To address this, we propose TRIDENT - a three-tier propaganda detection model implementing transformers, adversarial learning, and differential privacy which integrates syntactic obfuscation and label perturbation to mitigate privacy leakage while maintaining propaganda detection accuracy. TRIDENT leverages multilingual back-translation to introduce semantic variance, charact…

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Learning Universal User Representations Leveraging Cross-domain User Intent at Snapchat
The development of powerful user representations is a key factor in the success of recommender systems (RecSys). Online platforms employ a range of RecSys techniques to personalize user experience across diverse in-app surfaces. User representations are often learned individually through user's historical interactions within each surface and user representations across different surfaces can be shared post-hoc as auxiliary features or additional retrieval sources. While effective, such schemes …

A probe found hundreds of ads for "nudify" apps on Meta platforms; Meta removed the ads, and says those behind the apps constantly evolve to avoid detection (Emmet Lyons/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meta-instagra

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.

Shares of Circle jumped 124%, opening at $69.50 on the NYSE, after the stablecoin company raised almost $1.1B in an IPO (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/05/stablecoin-issuer-circle-soars-in-…

Stablecoin issuer Circle soars 124% in NYSE debut after pricing IPO above expected range
Circle joins Coinbase, Mara Holdings and Riot Platforms as one of the few pure-play crypto companies to list in the U.S. 

Mistral releases Mistral Code, a "vibe coding" client forked from open source project Continue, in private beta on JetBrains platforms and VS Code (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/04/mistral-releases-a-vibe-co…

Mistral releases a vibe coding client, Mistral Code | TechCrunch
French AI startup Mistral is releasing its own 'vibe coding' client, Mistral Code, to compete with incumbents like Windsurf, Anysphere's Cursor, and GitHub Copilot.

How the delivery app Fantuan grew its US presence to 50 cities since 2019 by focusing on Asian cuisines, with an app design reminiscent of Chinese platforms (Alex Harring/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/31/under-the-

Under-the-radar delivery apps are gaining ground in the U.S. by courting Asian restaurants
Asian restaurants are utilizing delivery apps like Fantuan and HungryPanda instead of or in addition to bigger-name options.