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Researcher brutecat finds a vulnerability that revealed the phone number linked to any Google account via brute forcing phone numbers; Google fixed the issue (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/a-researcher-figur

A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account
Phone numbers are a goldmine for SIM swappers. A researcher found how to get this precious piece of information from any Google account.

On Monday, scores of scientists at the National Institutes of Health sent their Trump-appointed leader a letter titled the "Bethesda Declaration"
challenging “policies that undermine the NIH mission, waste public resources, and harm the health of Americans and people across the globe.”
It says: “We dissent.”
In a capital where insiders often insist on anonymity to say such things publicly,
92 NIH researchers, program directors, branch chiefs and scientific r…

NIH scientists go public with criticism over Trump cuts
President Donald Trump’s National Institutes of Health director says some employees’ critical letter to him has “fundamental misconceptions about the policy directions the NIH has taken.” Monday’s letter from NIH researchers and staffers says the Republican Trump administration’s policies waste public resources and harm people’s health. NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya in his confirmation hearings pledged openness to views that might conflict with his, saying dissent is the “essenc…

A five-month investigation found that data centers in Mexico, Chile, South Africa, the Netherlands, and the U.S. overhyped their economic benefits and downplayed environmental damage, especially their water use, even in drought zones.
https://www.themaybe.org/research/data-cen

Where Cloud Meets Cement

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04104 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…

Position: We Need Responsible, Application-Driven (RAD) AI Research
This position paper argues that achieving meaningful scientific and societal advances with artificial intelligence (AI) requires a responsible, application-driven approach (RAD) to AI research. As AI is increasingly integrated into society, AI researchers must engage with the specific contexts where AI is being applied. This includes being responsive to ethical and legal considerations, technical and societal constraints, and public discourse. We present the case for RAD-AI to drive research th…

"Can This Alternative Browser Make Search Good Again?" @ Katina Magazine: https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/resource-reviews/2025/can-this-alternative-browser-make-search-good-again
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Research Knowledge Graphs: the Shifting Paradigm of Scholarly Information Representation
Matth\"aus Zloch, Danilo Dess\`i, Jennifer D'Souza, Leyla Jael Castro, Benjamin Zapilko, Saurav Karmakar, Brigitte Mathiak, Markus Stocker, Wolfgang Otto, S\"oren Auer, Stefan Dietze
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07285

Research Knowledge Graphs: the Shifting Paradigm of Scholarly Information Representation
Sharing and reusing research artifacts, such as datasets, publications, or methods is a fundamental part of scientific activity, where heterogeneity of resources and metadata and the common practice of capturing information in unstructured publications pose crucial challenges. Reproducibility of research and finding state-of-the-art methods or data have become increasingly challenging. In this context, the concept of Research Knowledge Graphs (RKGs) has emerged, aiming at providing an easy to u…

Near-future rocket launches could slow ozone recovery: #launches would start harming the ozone layer – new research: https://theconversation.com/a-10-fold-increase-in-rocket-launches-would-start-harming-the-ozone-layer-new-research-257480

The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity - Apple Machine Learning Research
https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-thinking

The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity
Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes…

"**Melbourne team demonstrates way to make the virus visible within white blood cells, paving the way to fully clear it from the body**"
Sunday Science: Breakthrough in Search for HIV Cure Leaves Researchers ‘Overwhelmed’ | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-06-08/sunday-science-breakthrough-search-hiv-cure-leaves-researchers-overwhelmed

SatelliteFormula: Multi-Modal Symbolic Regression from Remote Sensing Imagery for Physics Discovery
Zhenyu Yu, Mohd. Yamani Idna Idris, Pei Wang, Yuelong Xia, Fei Ma, Rizwan Qureshi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06176

SatelliteFormula: Multi-Modal Symbolic Regression from Remote Sensing Imagery for Physics Discovery
We propose SatelliteFormula, a novel symbolic regression framework that derives physically interpretable expressions directly from multi-spectral remote sensing imagery. Unlike traditional empirical indices or black-box learning models, SatelliteFormula combines a Vision Transformer-based encoder for spatial-spectral feature extraction with physics-guided constraints to ensure consistency and interpretability. Existing symbolic regression methods struggle with the high-dimensional complexity of…