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Mission of Burma:
🎵 That's When I Reach for My Revolver
#MissionofBurma
https://venomousoranges.bandcamp.com/track/thats-when-i-reach-for-my-revolver-mission-of-burma
https://open.spotify.com/track/3bSKHihztyH9D1ZyQsoqzI

XR Extreme Reach: in 2024, only 9% of TV ads had closed captions and 1% had audio descriptions, despite over half of adults watching content with captions on (TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/06/xr-report-accessibility-advertising/

XR: Most TV ads lack accessibility features like captions
The shortcoming means viewers with disabilities aren't engaging with brand messaging on TV.

♪ I WANT TO REACH OUT AND GRAB YA ♪
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#ABRACADABRA

Mit "Deadpool VR" und "Reach" erscheinen 2025 zwei echte VR-Blockbuster
Meta kündigt mit "Deadpool VR" den nächsten Exklusivtitel für die Quest 3 an, während nDreams mit "Reach" eine VR-Großproduktion für alle VR-Plattformen zeigt.

Well that was an interesting one to debug... My blocky DNS service was down after a cluster restart
A given #metallb speaker won’t advertise the service if:
- the service has externalTrafficPolicy=local and there are no running endpoints on the speaker’s node
To use externalTrafficPolicy=local, the tolerations on metallb pods must match the tolerations on the destination pods…

I've just cleared out a bunch of hashtags I was following. I feel like they filled my timeline but didn't encourage me to reach out in friendship. And often the hashtag was the thing I scrolled past fast, thinking it was a bit ick.
(The hashtags you follow are in profile, then click on the 3 dots).
Let's see how a quieter Mastodon feels, and which hashtags I want to re-introduce...

Track star to Panthers RB to Canadian Olympic flag football? Chuba Hubbard keeps dream alive https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45498715/nfl-carolina-panthers-chuba-hubbard-olympics-flag-football-track

Anthropic's test of 16 top AI models from OpenAI and others found that, in some cases, they resorted to malicious behavior to avoid replacement or achieve goals (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/20/ai-models-deceive-steal-blackmail-an…

Top AI models will lie, cheat and steal to reach goals, Anthropic finds
The research used hypothetical scenarios, but those situations could get real fast.

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some of us suffer in silence. is it our fault we stay enveloped, shrouded and closed off? Too vulnerable? https://bit.ly/40aDp8L

Suffering In Silence: Meaning, 40+ Quotes & How To Reach Out
In this blog post, we'll talk about what it means to "suffer in silence"; as well as share 40+ quotes about suffering in silence, a variety of tips to help you reach out for help if you're suffering in silence, and 50 ways to reach out to a loved one who you think may be suffering in silence.

Shortermism and excessive risk taking in optimal execution with a target performance
Emilio Barucci, Yuheng Lan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15611 https://…

Shortermism and excessive risk taking in optimal execution with a target performance
We deal with the optimal execution problem when the broker's goal is to reach a performance barrier avoiding a downside barrier. The performance is provided by the wealth accumulated by trading in the market, the shares detained by the broker evaluated at the market price plus a slippage cost yielding a quadratic inventory cost. Over a short horizon, this type of remuneration leads, at the same time, to a more aggressive and less risky strategy compared to the classical one, and over a long hor…

The CAISAR Platform: Extending the Reach of Machine Learning Specification and Verification
Michele Alberti (LSL), Fran\c{c}ois Bobot (LSL), Julien Girard-Satabin (LSL), Alban Grastien (LSL), Aymeric Varasse (LSL), Zakaria Chihani (LSL)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12084

The CAISAR Platform: Extending the Reach of Machine Learning Specification and Verification
The formal specification and verification of machine learning programs saw remarkable progress in less than a decade, leading to a profusion of tools. However, diversity may lead to fragmentation, resulting in tools that are difficult to compare, except for very specific benchmarks. Furthermore, this progress is heavily geared towards the specification and verification of a certain class of property, that is, local robustness properties. But while provers are becoming more and more efficient at…

'The Responsible AI Ecosystem: Seven Lessons from the BRAID Landscape Study'
Report just released: https://braiduk.org/the-responsible-ai-ecosystem-seven-lessons-from-the-braid-landscape-study

The Responsible AI Ecosystem: Seven Lessons from the BRAID Landscape Study

Gender Gaps on Abortion Reach Historic Highs (Lydia Saad/Gallup)
https://news.gallup.com/poll/691370/gender-gaps-abortion-reach-historic-highs.aspx
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p102#a250609p102

Databricks says it expects to generate $3.7B in annualized revenue by July, up 50% YoY, with nearly 50 of its 15,000 customers spending over $10M annually (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/11/databricks…

Databricks says annualized revenue will reach $3.7 billion by next month
Databricks told investors and analysts on Wednesday that annualized revenue will hit $3.7 billion by July, with 50% year-over-year growth.

"Nigeria expected to hit just 1.5 GW of solar by 2035"
#Nigeria #Solar #SolarPower #Energy

Nigeria expected to hit just 1.5 GW of solar by 2035
UK-based consultancy GlobalData forecasts that Nigeria may install only 678 MW of solar capacity by 2030. The country is expected to surpass 1 GW in 2033 and reach 1.5 GW by 2035.

Please help @… if you can. Her and her family are living through hell at the hands of israel.
#israel #genocide

Deploying and Evaluating Multiple Deep Learning Models on Edge Devices for Diabetic Retinopathy Detection
Akwasi Asare, Dennis Agyemanh Nana Gookyi, Derrick Boateng, Fortunatus Aabangbio Wulnye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14834

Deploying and Evaluating Multiple Deep Learning Models on Edge Devices for Diabetic Retinopathy Detection
Diabetic Retinopathy (DR), a leading cause of vision impairment in individuals with diabetes, affects approximately 34.6% of diabetes patients globally, with the number of cases projected to reach 242 million by 2045. Traditional DR diagnosis relies on the manual examination of retinal fundus images, which is both time-consuming and resource intensive. This study presents a novel solution using Edge Impulse to deploy multiple deep learning models for real-time DR detection on edge devices. A ro…

Euphemisms galore. This is reportedly called an 'incident'.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/01/palestinians-gunned-down-while-trying-to-reach-food-aid-site-in-gaza-hosp…

Donald Trump on Sunday directed federal immigration officials to prioritize deportations from Democratic-run cities,
a move that comes after large protests erupted in Los Angeles and other major cities against the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
Trump in a social media posting called on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials
“to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in Hist…

Trump directs ICE to prioritize deportations from Democratic-run cities
President Donald Trump has directed federal immigration officials to prioritize deportations from Democratic-run cities after large protests have erupted in Los Angeles and other major cities against the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Trump in a social media posting Sunday called on ICE officials “to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History.” He added that to reach the goal officials ”must…

Building a product as an engineer is quite annoying when it comes to marketing. It's a must do step. Every time I do an email announcing new features, reach out to users, or post information on reddit I nearly always either get a new subscriber, sometimes a premium one, and at the very least increase the exposure of my product. Yet it's so annoying to do :) My only solution for this right now is discipline and not allowing myself to write code until I do something on the marketing si…

Lakers, an implementation of #EDHOC, i.e., lightweight security for #IoT, now uses formal verification to continuously check a first small part of its code using #hax and F*, proving our buffers won't reach out of the…

What might the future of research and education networking look like?
“Foresight 2030: Navigating Change” report explores 9 key challenges, 3 possible futures, and one key takeaway: change is coming, and collaboration is our strength.
📖 Read the article by Charles Hutchings, Raimundas Tuminauskas & Beatrix Weber −

Foresight 2030 – Navigating Change | GÉANT CONNECT Online
“Foresight 2030 is a great example of what NRENs do best: collaborate for the benefit of the unique and crucial digital infrastructure which supports research and education and the benefit they bring to science and learning, communities and economies internationally. The report demonstrates the reach and significance of the technical expertise NRENs convene within and

”From the ground, Zaydan saw his mother start to stand up, before a sniper bullet felled her with a shot to the head. ’Because I’m young, I got scared and left my mother,’ he said. ’I ran away.’
Zaydan is one of eight Palestinians who spoke to the Financial Times about their attempt to reach the #Gaza Humanitarian Foundation site in western Rafah over the past week. Their twilight journeys thronge…

How Gaza’s food queues turned into kill zones
Dozens of Palestinians have been shot dead trying to reach a US and Israeli-backed aid distribution scheme

London-based Definely, whose AI tools help law firms draft and review legal contracts, raised a $30M Series B led by Revaia, with Clio and others participating (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/06/09/uk-legaltech-de…

UK legaltech Definely secures $30M to boost global reach and AI development
UK legaltech company Definely has raised $30 million in Series B funding to accelerate its global expansion and AI product roadmap. This additional funding brings the total amount raised by Definely since its inception to $40 million. Launched in 2020 by Nnamdi Emelifeonwu and Feargus MacDaei, Definely was born from lived experience, including that of co-founder MacDaeid, who is registered blind after being diagnosed with a degenerative eye condition at age 11. Throughout his life, he consiste…

"What I'm optimizing for isn't growth... reach, or influence. I'm chasing connection[...]spending my days on things that bring me alive."
"It's about...signals that something genuinely MATTERED to one or more humans...private replies saying they've never felt so seen or understood." Rob Hardy
To fellow #writers

Thermodynamic Evolution of Flaring Loops with Non-local Thermal Transport
S. Belov, T. Parmenter, T. Arber, D. Kolotkov, F. Reale, T. Goffrey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14644

Thermodynamic Evolution of Flaring Loops with Non-local Thermal Transport
Hot solar coronal loops, such as flaring loops, reach temperatures where the thermal transport becomes non-local. This occurs when the mean-free-path of electrons can no longer be assumed to be small. Using a modified version of the Lare2d code, we study the evolution of flare-heated coronal loops under three thermal transport models: classical Spitzer-Harm (SH), a flux-limited local model (FL), and the non-local Schurtz-Nicolai-Basquet (SNB) model. The SNB model is used extensively in laser-pl…

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At last, we have a cure for all!
Ailments large and ailments small,
Good health is not beyond my reach,
If I inject myself with bleach.
Radiant, I’ll prance along,
Every trace of limescale gone,
With disinfectant as my friend,
Like him,
I’m clean around the bend.

Controlled Reach-avoid Set Computation for Discrete-time Polynomial Systems via Convex Optimization
Taoran Wu, Yiling Xue, Dejin Ren, Arvind Easwaran, Martin Fr\"anzle, Bai Xue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06679

Controlled Reach-avoid Set Computation for Discrete-time Polynomial Systems via Convex Optimization
This paper addresses the computation of controlled reach-avoid sets (CRASs) for discrete-time polynomial systems subject to control inputs. A CRAS is a set encompassing initial states from which there exist control inputs driving the system into a target set while avoiding unsafe sets. However, efficiently computing CRASs remains an open problem, especially for discrete-time systems. In this paper, we propose a novel framework for computing CRASs which takes advantage of a probabilistic perspec…

"Alvin, the world’s longest-operating and most productive human-occupied deep-sea submersible, with more than 5,000 dives completed over 60 years of operation ... recently underwent a significant upgrade, allowing it to reach depths of up to 6,500 meters—surpassing its previous limit of 4,500 meters." - Eos #geology

An Upgraded Alvin Puts New Ocean Depths Within Reach
The newly retooled submersible, which has already returned fascinating new findings from Earth’s watery depths, is opening more of the deep ocean to direct human exploration.

I had to interact with some Amazon voice systems this morning. Obviously they used some automated translation to German and it failed. The voice recognition itself wasn't that impressive either. There is still a very long way to go if we want to reach the same quality levels with automated systems compared to well trained humans. And I personally am not so sure if this path leads to the mountain top or off a cliff.

Study of the beyond standard model interaction using Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering process
S. P. Behera, S. Panda, D. K. Mishra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14443

Study of the beyond standard model interaction using Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering process
Phenomenological studies are carried out to find the potential reach of a detector to constraints on possible beyond the standard model general neutrino interactions in the neutrino-quark sector, for the proposed Indian Coherent Neutrino-nucleus Scattering Experiment (ICNSE) at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in India. Reactors of different core configuration and power are used as sources of electron antineutrinos. The study has been carried out considering a target mass of 10 kg and an expos…

When Measurement Mediates the Effect of Interest
Joy Zora Nakato, Janice Litunya, Brian Beesiga, Jane Kabami, James Ayieko, Moses R. Kamya, Gabriel Chamie, Laura B. Balzer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06267

When Measurement Mediates the Effect of Interest
Many health promotion strategies aim to improve reach into the target population and outcomes among those reached. For example, an HIV prevention strategy could expand the reach of risk screening and the delivery of biomedical prevention to persons with HIV risk. This setting creates a complex missing data problem: the strategy improves health outcomes directly and indirectly through expanded reach, while outcomes are only measured among those reached. To formally define the total causal effect…

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Disney and Amazon partner to let media buyers using Amazon's DSP have better tools to target consumers on ad-tier programming across Disney , Hulu, and ESPN (Erik Hayden/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Disney, Amazon Ink Deal to Expand Advertising Partnership
The pact unlocks more opportunities for brands using Amazon's Deliver Service Partner to reach consumers watching Hulu, Disney+ and ESPN content.

"We reach out, arms in exasperation, in tired anxiety, in worry, in unknowing—and God hands us back a feast. God plants flowers in our open palms."
—Caroline Blosser ’24 M.Div. writing in the new issue of Reflections, focused on "Is Christianity Losing its Religion?"

If you believe you have actual technical blockers in this space, that your code simply can't run as arm64 architecture, feel free to reach out with your FB # or existing case information about it.

projects in the near future:
1. my mac-mini server runs ubuntu server and need apps. I'm thinking about Heimdall and a next cloud instance that I can reach via tailscale. I will also use it as an exit node for my tailscale network.
2. Making the server sleep when not in use and use an old RPi to 'wake it up' also over tailscale.
3. Making a portable router out of a Radxa Rock 4c that also use tailscale as a vpn alternative using the exit node.

Congratulations on the retirement of Bill Curry after 13 years as head of the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, following an already amazing, full career at Wood's Hole Oceanographic Insitution where he was a leader in marine geology, #climate and #carbon cycling research.

Was speaking to some journalists recently who didn't realise how long a history the use of radar has in measuring ice thickness over glaciers.
The technique was discovered by pilots, who must have had the frankly terrifying experience of landing on the ice sheet with their radars telling them they still had a few thousand metres of descent to reach the surface...
It's not mentioned in this obituary but I wonder if this guy would have seen it? Perhaps he didn't even have radar to assist in landing?
https://flipboard.com/@newyorktimes/obituaries-bq1u22g8z/-/a-gd4LiLY4RbOMXavSDWOBQQ:a:3195393-/0
newyorktimes@flipboard.com - Conrad Shinn, First Pilot to Land at the South Pole, Dies at 102
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/obituaries/conrad-shinn-dead.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Obituaries @obituaries-newyorktimes

As a human, I love the WWDC advertisement voice encouraging me to run faster when I workout with the Apple. That’s just the boost I need to reach the finish line! #wwdc

ShelterBox
To ensure no one is without shelter after disaster
We often work in places that others don’t,
making sure that we reach families who need support to take the next step in resuming their livelihoods and rebuilding their communities
https://www.shelterboxusa.org/

Just read through "Sanctuary" by Paola Mendez & Abby Sher, which was electrifying as I read news about ICE kidnappings in local towns, including one in Waltham today where they left a kid alone on the sidewalk:
#ICE #kidnappings

Governments Should Mandate Tiered Anonymity on Social-Media Platforms to Counter Deepfakes and LLM-Driven Mass Misinformation
David Khachaturov, Roxanne Schnyder, Robert Mullins
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12814

Governments Should Mandate Tiered Anonymity on Social-Media Platforms to Counter Deepfakes and LLM-Driven Mass Misinformation
This position paper argues that governments should mandate a three-tier anonymity framework on social-media platforms as a reactionary measure prompted by the ease-of-production of deepfakes and large-language-model-driven misinformation. The tiers are determined by a given user's $\textit{reach score}$: Tier 1 permits full pseudonymity for smaller accounts, preserving everyday privacy; Tier 2 requires private legal-identity linkage for accounts with some influence, reinstating real-world accou…

Catalogue of chiral phonon materials
Yue Yang, Zhenyu Xiao, Yu Mao, Zhanghuan Li, Zhenyang Wang, Tianqi Deng, Yanhao Tang, Zhi-Da Song, Yuan Li, Huiqiu Yuan, Ming Shi, Yuanfeng Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13721

Catalogue of chiral phonon materials
Chiral phonons, circularly polarized lattice vibrations carrying intrinsic angular momentum, offer unprecedented opportunities for controlling heat flow, manipulating quantum states through spin-phonon coupling, and realizing exotic transport phenomena. Despite their fundamental importance, a universal framework for identifying and classifying these elusive excitations has remained out of reach. Here, we address this challenge by establishing a comprehensive symmetry-based theory that systemati…

First to reach $n$ game
Stanislav Volkov, Magnus Wiktorsson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08782 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08782

First to reach $n$ game
We consider a game with two players, consisting of a number of rounds, where the first player to win $n$ rounds becomes the overall winner. Who wins each individual round is governed by a certain urn having two types of balls (type 1 and type 2). At each round, we randomly pick a ball from the urn, and its type determines which of the two players wins. We study the game under three regimes. In the first and the third regimes, a ball is taken without replacement, whilst in the second regime, it …

Just playing a bit of Dwarf Fortress in a biome where it rains poisonous mucus, so the surface is kind of tricky.
All my grazing animals died before I could reach a cavern layer (my incompetence).
Traders came but brought no food.
The only thing my dwarves have eaten for 2 years is turkey eggs.
Hopefully I can sort this out before they are all clad head to toe only in turkey leather.
Got some pigs but they take ages to grow to adulthood.
Spirits are amazing…

The metric from energy-momentum non-conservation: Generalizing Noether and completing spectral geometry
Achim Kempf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11186 https:…

The metric from energy-momentum non-conservation: Generalizing Noether and completing spectral geometry
We complete the program of spectral geometry, in the sense that we show that a manifold's shape, i.e., its metric, can be reconstructed from its resonant sound when tapped lightly, i.e., from its spectrum, -- if in addition we also record the resonances' mutual excitation pattern when the driving is strong enough to reach the nonlinear regime. Applied to spacetime, this finding yields a generalization of Noether's theorem: the specific pattern of energy-momentum non-conservation on a generic cu…

The problem of course is that our problems are complex.
“Advanced AI suffers ‘complete accuracy collapse’ in face of complex problems, study finds” - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/09/apple-artificial-intelligence…

Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/01/palestinians-gunned-down-while-trying-to-reach-food-aid-site-in-gaza-hospital-says
http://www.memeorandum.com/250601/p60#a250601p60

Replaced article(s) found for astro-ph.CO. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.CO/new
[1/1]:
Simulation-Based Inference of the sky-averaged 21-cm signal from CD-EoR with REACH

The Diversity of Exoplanetary Environments and the Search for Signs of Life Beyond Earth
Sara Seager, Janusz J. Petkowski, William Bains
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11690

The Diversity of Exoplanetary Environments and the Search for Signs of Life Beyond Earth
Thousands of exoplanets orbit nearby stars, showcasing a remarkable diversity in mass, size, and orbits. With the James Webb Space Telescope now operational, we are observing exoplanet atmospheres and aiming to reach down to small, habitable-zone exoplanets in search of signs of habitability and possibly even biosignature gases. Given the scarcity of targets, it is imperative to embrace the known diversity and consider the range of exoplanets that might host life. We review how Earth life inter…

Iterative Annealing Mechanism for Protein and RNA Chaperones
Changbong Hyeon, D. Thirumalai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12645 https://…

Iterative Annealing Mechanism for Protein and RNA Chaperones
Molecular chaperones are machines that consume copious amount of ATP to drive misfolded proteins or RNA to fold into functionally competent native states. Because the folding landscapes of biomolecules with complex native state topology are rugged consisting of multiple minima that are separated by large free energy barriers, folding occurs by the kinetic partitioning mechanism according to which only a small fraction of the molecules reach the folded state in biologically viable times. The res…

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The Throughput Gain of Hypercycle-level Resource Reservation for Time-Triggered Ethernet
Peng Wang, Suman Sourav, Binbin Chen, Hongyan Li, Feng Wang, Fan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11745

The Throughput Gain of Hypercycle-level Resource Reservation for Time-Triggered Ethernet
Time-Triggered Communication is a key technology for many safety-critical systems, with applications spanning the areas of aerospace and industrial control. Such communication relies on time-triggered flows, with each flow consisting of periodic packets originating from a source and destined for a destination node. Each packet needs to reach its destination before its deadline. Different flows can have different cycle lengths. To achieve assured transmission of time-triggered flows, existing ef…

Reach, which has 450 newsletters, launches free, topic-based Substack newsletters, as it seeks to expand its current estimated 35M monthly UK audience (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/newsletters

If prices keep rising out of the reach of so many people, businesses and even whole countries are in huge amounts of debt, what is the end game here?
Who exactly are we owing all this money to anyway?
#Money

Disney and Amazon partner to let media buyers using Amazon's DSP have better tools to target consumers on ad-tier programming across Disney , Hulu, and ESPN (Erik Hayden/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Disney, Amazon Ink Deal to Expand Advertising Partnership
The pact unlocks more opportunities for brands using Amazon's Deliver Service Partner to reach consumers watching Hulu, Disney+ and ESPN content.

How long is Lamar Jackson's Super Bowl window with the Ravens? And will he eventually reach 10,000 rush yards?

https://www.cbssports.com/nf…

RICE: Reactive Interaction Controller for Cluttered Canopy Environment
Nidhi Homey Parayil, Thierry Peynot, Chris Lehnert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10383 …

RICE: Reactive Interaction Controller for Cluttered Canopy Environment
Robotic navigation in dense, cluttered environments such as agricultural canopies presents significant challenges due to physical and visual occlusion caused by leaves and branches. Traditional vision-based or model-dependent approaches often fail in these settings, where physical interaction without damaging foliage and branches is necessary to reach a target. We present a novel reactive controller that enables safe navigation for a robotic arm in a contact-rich, cluttered, deformable environm…

Landauer Principle and Thermodynamics of Computation
Pritam Chattopadhyay, Avijit Misra, Tanmoy Pandit, Goutam Paul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10876 https:…

Landauer Principle and Thermodynamics of Computation
According to the Landauer principle, any logically irreversible process accompanies entropy production, which results in heat dissipation in the environment. Erasing of information, one of the primary logically irreversible processes, has a lower bound on heat dissipated into the environment, called the Landauer bound (LB). However, the practical erasure processes dissipate much more heat than the LB. Recently, there have been a few experimental investigations to reach this bound both in the cl…

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Replaced article(s) found for astro-ph.IM. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.IM/new
[1/1]:
Simulation-Based Inference of the sky-averaged 21-cm signal from CD-EoR with REACH

Passive radiative cooling using temperature-dependent emissivity can sometimes outperform static emitters
Yeonghoon Jin, Jin-Woo Cho, Mikhail A. Kats
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11259

Passive radiative cooling using temperature-dependent emissivity can sometimes outperform static emitters
In passive sky-facing radiative cooling, wavelength-selective thermal emitters in the atmospheric transparency window of 8-13 $μ$m can reach lower temperatures compared to broadband emitters, but broadband emitters always have higher cooling power when the emitter is warmer than the ambient. Here, we propose a temperature-tunable thermal emitter that switches between a wavelength-selective state -- with high emissivity only in the atmospheric transparency window of 8-13 $μ$m -- and a broadban…

Grasp Prediction based on Local Finger Motion Dynamics
Dimitar Valkov, Pascal Kockwelp, Florian Daiber, Antonio Kr\"uger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10818

Grasp Prediction based on Local Finger Motion Dynamics
The ability to predict the object the user intends to grasp offers essential contextual information and may help to leverage the effects of point-to-point latency in interactive environments. This paper explores the feasibility and accuracy of real-time recognition of uninstrumented objects based on hand kinematics during reach-to-grasp actions. In a data collection study, we recorded the hand motions of 16 participants while reaching out to grasp and then moving real and synthetic objects. Our…

Our hotel wifi keeps glitching. I'm guessing that there's a captive portal or something that is disabled, but the device randomly wants to send people to that network. Sometimes you'll have a 10.0.x.x IP address and everything will be fine, but other times you connect and you'll get a 192.168.1.x IP address and can't even reach the gateway (192.168.1.250). So on two different laptops, I've had to disable dhcp and hardcode 10.0.x.x IP addresses in order to get working …

«An extremely simple, coherent and sober visual system, but above all, within everyone's reach, and with almost zero resources»
This article has a nice overview of the collage method used by Stern and the groups in France: https://www.grapheine.com/en/graphic-design-en/branding-social-movement-against-feminicide

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.05630 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIT_…

Enabling 6G Performance in the Upper Mid-Band by Transitioning From Massive to Gigantic MIMO
The initial 6G networks will likely operate in the upper mid-band (7-24 GHz), which has decent propagation conditions but underwhelming new spectrum availability. In this paper, we explore whether we can anyway reach the ambitious 6G performance goals by evolving the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology from massive in 5G to gigantic in 6G. We describe how many antennas are needed to reach the envisioned 6G peak user rates, how many can realistically be deployed in practical radio e…

Verification of Quantum Circuits through Barrier Certificates using a Scenario Approach
Siwei Hu, Victor Lopata, Sadegh Soudjani, Paolo Zuliani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07635

Verification of Quantum Circuits through Barrier Certificates using a Scenario Approach
In recent years, various techniques have been explored for the verification of quantum circuits, including the use of barrier certificates, mathematical tools capable of demonstrating the correctness of such systems. These certificates ensure that, starting from initial states and applying the system's dynamics, the system will never reach undesired states. In this paper, we propose a methodology for synthesizing such certificates for quantum circuits using a scenario-based approach, for both f…

Rising Cowboys star shares why Super Bowl drought could end in 2025 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/rising-dallas-cowboys-star-shares-why-super-bowl-drought-could-end-2025

Reusing Trajectories in Policy Gradients Enables Fast Convergence
Alessandro Montenegro, Federico Mansutti, Marco Mussi, Matteo Papini, Alberto Maria Metelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06178

Reusing Trajectories in Policy Gradients Enables Fast Convergence
Policy gradient (PG) methods are a class of effective reinforcement learning algorithms, particularly when dealing with continuous control problems. These methods learn the parameters of parametric policies via stochastic gradient ascent, typically using on-policy trajectory data to estimate the policy gradient. However, such reliance on fresh data makes them sample-inefficient. Indeed, vanilla PG methods require $O(ε^{-2})$ trajectories to reach an $ε$-approximate stationary point. A common …

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Solving Multiagent Path Finding on Highly Centralized Networks
The Mutliagent Path Finding (MAPF) problem consists of identifying the trajectories that a set of agents should follow inside a given network in order to reach their desired destinations as soon as possible, but without colliding with each other. We aim to minimize the maximum time any agent takes to reach their goal, ensuring optimal path length. In this work, we complement a recent thread of results that aim to systematically study the algorithmic behavior of this problem, through the paramet…

MAGNA: Asia Pacific ad revenue grew 7.9% in 2024 to $288B led by digital advertising; TV budgets declined by 1.9%, print dropped by 3%, and radio fell by 4.2% (Alisha Buaya/Mediaweek)
https://www.mediaweek.com.au/magna-forecast-apac-ad-revenue-gr…

Deceptive Path Planning: A Bayesian Game Approach
Violetta Rostobaya, James Berneburg, Yue Guan, Michael Dorothy, Daigo Shishika
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13650

Deceptive Path Planning: A Bayesian Game Approach
This paper investigates how an autonomous agent can transmit information through its motion in an adversarial setting. We consider scenarios where an agent must reach its goal while deceiving an intelligent observer about its destination. We model this interaction as a dynamic Bayesian game between a mobile Attacker with a privately known goal and a Defender who infers the Attacker's intent to allocate defensive resources effectively. We use Perfect Bayesian Nash Equilibrium (PBNE) as our solut…

Bias and Identifiability in the Bounded Confidence Model
Claudio Borile, Jacopo Lenti, Valentina Ghidini, Corrado Monti, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11751

Bias and Identifiability in the Bounded Confidence Model
Opinion dynamics models such as the bounded confidence models (BCMs) describe how a population can reach consensus, fragmentation, or polarization, depending on a few parameters. Connecting such models to real-world data could help understanding such phenomena, testing model assumptions. To this end, estimation of model parameters is a key aspect, and maximum likelihood estimation provides a principled way to tackle it. Here, our goal is to outline the properties of statistical estimators of th…

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"For Glory's Sake - For Vengeance Sake - War"
The predicate is being laid.
There’s a very easy A to B if, after a day or two or three, you don’t see the violence stop,
you could imagine easily that Trump would use that as a pretext for a much more sweeping assertion of power.
So we are at a very, very dangerous time.
The rhetoric is maximal rhetoric. The deployment is relatively minimal, but I’m worried it’s only a matter of time before the depl…

Opinion | Three Opinion Writers on the L.A. Protests and Trump’s Spectacle of Control
Michelle Cottle, David French and Tressie McMillan Cottom dissect Trump’s reach for power.

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Lyft ramps up its ad business with three new ad formats; CEO David Risher said that Lyft is on track to reach a $100M annualized ad revenue run rate by 2025 end (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/12/lyft-ads-sponsored-rides

Exclusive: Lyft launches new ad formats
Advertisers can brand the Lyft map and subsidize rides.

Reaching the Ultimate Quantum Precision Limit at Colliders: Conditions and Case Studies
Tengyu Ai, Qi Bi, Yuxin He, Jia Liu, Xiao-Ping Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10673

Reaching the Ultimate Quantum Precision Limit at Colliders: Conditions and Case Studies
We investigate whether collider experiments can reach the quantum limit of precision, defined by the quantum Fisher information (QFI), using only classical observables such as particle momenta. As a case study, we focus on the $τ^+τ^-$ system and the decay channel $τ\to πν$, which offers maximal spin-analyzing power and renders the decay a projective measurement. We develop a general framework to determine when collider measurements can, in principle, saturate the QFI in an entangled bipar…

Quantum Adiabatic Generation of Human-Like Passwords
Sascha M\"ucke, Raoul Heese, Thore Gerlach, David Biesner, Loong Kuan Lee, Nico Piatkowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08917

Quantum Adiabatic Generation of Human-Like Passwords
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) for Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the predominant AI technology to date. An important perspective for Quantum Computing (QC) is the question whether QC has the potential to reduce the vast resource requirements for training and operating GenAI models. While large-scale generative NLP tasks are currently out of reach for practical quantum computers, the generation of short semantic structures such as passwords is not. Generating passwords that mi…

In a laboratory setting, humans have accelerated particles — protons, antiprotons, electrons, and positrons — to incredibly high energies: up to the TeV (trillions of electron-volts) scale.

But cosmic rays, also including protons, electrons, and other atomic nuclei, are produced up to far greater energies, at the PeV (quadrillions of electron-volts) scale and beyond.

These very high energy cosmic rays are produced somewhere in our own galaxy:
in natural, astrophysical…

Astronomers close in on the source of the highest energy particles
On Earth, our particle accelerators can reach tera-electron-volt (TeV) energies. Particles from space are thousands of times as energetic.

Lyft ramps up its ad business with three new ad formats; CEO David Risher said that Lyft is on track to reach a $100M annualized ad revenue run rate by 2025 end (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/12/lyft-ads-sponsored-rides

Exclusive: Lyft launches new ad formats
Advertisers can brand the Lyft map and subsidize rides.

Elon Musk says Tesla's robotaxi service will "tentatively" begin on June 22 in Austin, with first autonomous deliveries of a car to a customer's home on June 28 (Ari Levy/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/10/elon-musk-

Elon Musk says Tesla robotaxi rides in Austin 'tentatively' set to begin June 22
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a post on X on Tuesday that the first self-driving Tesla will reach a customer's house on June 28.

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SAG-AFTRA reaches a tentative deal with Activision, EA, Epic, Take-Two, and other game companies on the Interactive Media Contract, after months of strikes (Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/sag-video-game-companie…

SAG-AFTRA and Video Game Companies Reach Tentative New Deal
SAG-AFTRA and the video game companies have reached a tentative deal, putting and end to the strike in sight.

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…

DAZN, which paid $1B to show FIFA's Club World Cup, expects 2025 to be a "transformational" year, despite low usership in the US, UK, Africa, and South America (Philip Buckingham/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6404831/2

DAZN will broadcast the Club World Cup around the world. What is the streamer’s big idea?
DAZN is the global rights holder for the upcoming Club World Cup and is planning to use it to expand its reach

Prominent lawyers join press freedom fight to thwart Paramount settlement with Trump
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2025-06-06/freedom-press-abbe-lowell-norm-eisen-bre…

Press group adds high-powered attorneys in fight against Paramount
Prominent attorneys Abbe Lowell and Norm Eisen joined the Freedom of the Press Foundation's campaign to thwart efforts by Paramount to reach a settlement with President Trump over his "60 Minutes" lawsuit.

SAG-AFTRA reaches a tentative deal with Activision, EA, Epic, Take-Two, and other game companies on the Interactive Media Contract, after months of strikes (Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/sag-video-game-companie…

SAG-AFTRA and Video Game Companies Reach Tentative New Deal
SAG-AFTRA and the video game companies have reached a tentative deal, putting and end to the strike in sight.

Voxel, whose AI-powered logistics safety software integrates into existing security cameras to detect and predict workplace hazards, raised a $44M Series B (Colin Campbell/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/supply-chain-deals/2025/06/03/lo…

Exclusive: Logistics safety startup Voxel raises $44M Series B
It gives San Franscisco-based Voxel three years of runway to reach breakeven or accelerate growth and raise again, its CEO says.

Skyral, a London-based modeling and simulation startup developing AI-based digital twin tech for defense, healthcare, and other sectors, raised a $20M Series A (Lucy Adams/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/06/04/uk-based-sk

UK-based Skyral raises $20M Series A to expand modelling and simulation tech globally
British modelling and simulation startup Skyral has secured $20 million in Series A funding, led by NOIA Capital in partnership with Accrete Capital, as it looks to expand the global reach of its AI-enabled digital twin technology across sectors including defence, national security, healthcare, and infrastructure. Founded in June 2023 and headquartered in the UK, Skyral is developing a next-generation platform that combines digital twin modelling with artificial intelligence to simulate comple…

Solar storm has reached Earth, could bring auroras to U.S. South
A severe” solar storm
— rated a level 4 out of 5
— arrived on Earth earlier than NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center had forecast on Saturday.
Northern lights were visible as far south as New Mexico, and vivid displays were photographed in Wyoming, Utah and Washington state.

Before dawn, the aurora could even be detected in the Mid-Atlantic with a camera
— which is more sensitive to ligh…

Solar storm has reached Earth, could bring auroras to U.S. South
A “severe” solar storm is expected to reach Earth any time from late morning to Sunday evening Eastern time, according to NOAA.

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Microsoft and the CWA reach a tentative contract agreement for ~300 ZeniMax QA workers after two years of talks, marking Microsoft's first US union contract (Josh Eidelson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Disney's live-action Lilo & Stitch grossed $610M globally in just 10 days, and could reach $950M; the film cost $100M and may make $300M in box office profit (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/busines

How ‘Lilo & Stitch’ Became One of the Most Profitable Movies in Years
The film was originally aimed for Disney+. But it was rerouted to a theatrical release and is on pace for at least $950 million in ticket sales.

Hoarding syndrome is considered a psychiatric condition, not a crisis for democracy itself
-- with one giant exception:
When people with hoarding syndrome are born with or come into massive wealth
-- suddenly what was once a personal, psychiatric issue can become a crisis for all of society.
It happens every few generations.
It’s what drove the fascist oligarchs of the Confederacy to reach out and try to conquer the entire United States in the 1860s.
It …

The Billionaire Hoarders: How the Wealthy Became Our Biggest Threat
How a sick obsession is killing workers, democracy, and our planet.

Ukrainian security services conducted a massive drone attack against Russian military airbases on Sunday,
striking thousands of kilometres from the front line in what President Volodymyr Zelensky said was their longest-range operation ever.
The operation, code-named "Spider's Web," required months of preparation and the smuggling of drones into Russian territory
Using 117 drones, Ukraine was able to reach regions thousands of kilometres from the front,
w…

What We Know About Ukraine’s Drone Attacks in Russia
Ukrainian security services conducted a massive drone attack against Russian military airbases on Sunday, striking thousands of kilometres from the front line in what President Volodymyr Zelensky said was their longest-range operation ever.

Jon Ossof's fundraising has slowed dramatically since Marjorie Taylor Greene said she wasn't running.
And Republicans are ramping up their attacks and their spending against Jon.
The timing is not great, to say the least.
You made your last donation to Jon Ossoff in 2020 -- Thank you for that.
But if we are going to reach our goals and defend this seat, Jon needs you one more time.
Can you do it? For Jon? To hold this seat?
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