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?
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…
@… 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
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
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…
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
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
"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
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
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
POLARON: Precision-aware On-device Learning and Adaptive Runtime-cONfigurable AI acceleration
Mukul Lokhande, Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08785
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
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…
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
#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.
Replaced article(s) found for physics.plasm-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.plasm-ph/new/
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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
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/…
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. …
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
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
Mechanism of Conductivity Enhancement of Polymers Employing Microbubble Lithography
Anand Dev Ranjan, Dhananjay Mahapatra, Partha Mitra, Ayan Banerjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09957
Is #liftgezocht (met hashtags van plaatsnaam) al trending op de diverse social media platforms?
#dtv #staking
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
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…
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
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
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
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
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
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
#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…
Resource-efficient crosstalk mitigation for the high-fidelity operation of photonic integrated circuits with induced phase shifters
Andreas Fyrillas, Nicolas Heurtel, Simone Piacentini, Nicolas Maring, Jean Senellart, Nadia Belabas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05988
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
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…
Release, release, release
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#NewMusic #MusicVideo
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Social media platforms have become so closed this days. I hate when I get a Tik Tok link. I can't do anything with that and I am not creating a Tik Tok account. How exactly do those platforms resonate around that? Aren't they making it harder to get new users? Are people really going around and creating accounts in all platforms just to be able to see that one link they received from someone?
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
@… streaming platforms have some GNARLY ux — autoplay is another one that drives me bonkers
I had set up a Gumroad account years ago to experiment with some digital sales and subscription stuff but after reading that the CEO of Gumroad worked for DOGE and Musk I deleted that fucking account.
Most of us don't have a lot of power individually but we can still make choices about the platforms we use (and don't use).
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ThinkTank: A Framework for Generalizing Domain-Specific AI Agent Systems into Universal Collaborative Intelligence Platforms
Praneet Sai Madhu Surabhi, Dheeraj Reddy Mudireddy, Jian Tao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02931
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…
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
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
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
Ground state exciton-polariton condensation by coherent Floquet driving
Alexander Kuznetsov, Ignacio Carraro-Haddad, Gonzalo Usaj, Klaus Biermann, Alejandro Fainstein, Paulo V. Santos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05874
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/
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
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/
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
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…
Early linguistic fingerprints of online users who engage with conspiracy communities
Francesco Corso, Giuseppe Russo, Francesco Pierri, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05086
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
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-…
Synopsis: Secure and private trend inference from encrypted semantic embeddings
Madelyne Xiao, Palak Jain, Micha Gorelick, Sarah Scheffler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23880
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…
PUB: An LLM-Enhanced Personality-Driven User Behaviour Simulator for Recommender System Evaluation
Chenglong Ma, Ziqi Xu, Yongli Ren, Danula Hettiachchi, Jeffrey Chan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04551
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-