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Sources: lobbyists for Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta back a campaign for a 10-year US state AI regulation ban, a move dividing the AI industry and the GOP (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/52ae52f1-531e-462f-898f-e9f86b3b1869

Big Tech pushes for 10-year ban on US states regulating AI
Call by Amazon, Google and Microsoft lobbyists for a ‘moratorium’ has split industry and the Republican party

Regulating Next-Generation Implantable Brain-Computer Interfaces: Recommendations for Ethical Development and Implementation
Renee Sirbu, Jessica Morley, Tyler Schroder, Mariarosaria Taddeo, Raghavendra Pradyumna Pothukuchi, Muhammed Ugur, Abhishek Bhattacharjee, Luciano Floridi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12540

Regulating Next-Generation Implantable Brain-Computer Interfaces: Recommendations for Ethical Development and Implementation
Brain-computer interfaces offer significant therapeutic opportunities for a variety of neurophysiological and neuropsychiatric disorders and may perhaps one day lead to augmenting the cognition and decision-making of the healthy brain. However, existing regulatory frameworks designed for implantable medical devices are inadequate to address the unique ethical, legal, and social risks associated with next-generation networked brain-computer interfaces. In this article, we make nine recommendatio…

Queueing for Civility: User Perspectives on Regulating Emotions in Online Conversations
Akriti Verma, Shama Islam, Valeh Moghaddam, Adnan Anwar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11477

Queueing for Civility: User Perspectives on Regulating Emotions in Online Conversations
Online conversations are often interrupted by trolling, which causes emotional distress and conflict among users. Previous research has focused on moderating harmful content after it has been posted, but ways to manage emotions in real-time remain unexplored. This study suggests a comment queuing mechanism that delays comment publishing, encourages self-reflection, and reduces the impact of impulsive and toxic comments. To assess the efficacy of this approach, a mixed-method research design is …

Oh, well, then - let's stop regulating formaldehyde, too, and toss in thalidomide while we're at it...
EPA reconsidering ban on asbestos
https://thehill.com/newsletters/energy-environment/5356005-epa-reconsidering-ban-on-asbestos/

Great stuff in this article but I do not know if unplugging from the broligarch's platforms is the solution to end their delusional grandeur.
It is the same with the climate crisis. This cannot hinge on the individual to solve but the whole system has to change. Individual action is good but that is not enough.
(For all its shortfalls the EU is regulating parts of the tech industry, but there has to be more.)

What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us
Why Elon Musk and other tech billionaires have a different perspective

Unlearning-Enhanced Website Fingerprinting Attack: Against Backdoor Poisoning in Anonymous Networks
Yali Yuan, Kai Xu, Ruolin Ma, Yuchen Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13563

Unlearning-Enhanced Website Fingerprinting Attack: Against Backdoor Poisoning in Anonymous Networks
Website Fingerprinting (WF) is an effective tool for regulating and governing the dark web. However, its performance can be significantly degraded by backdoor poisoning attacks in practical deployments. This paper aims to address the problem of hidden backdoor poisoning attacks faced by Website Fingerprinting attack, and designs a feasible mothed that integrates unlearning technology to realize detection of automatic poisoned points and complete removal of its destructive effects, requiring onl…

Followstopper Revisited: Phase-space Lagrangian Controller for Traffic Decongestion
Rahul Bhadani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08036 https://

Followstopper Revisited: Phase-space Lagrangian Controller for Traffic Decongestion
This paper revisits Followerstopper, a phase-space-based control system that had demonstrated its ability to mitigate emergent traffic jams due to stop-and-go traffic during rush hour in the mixed-autonomy setting. Followerstopper was deployed on an autonomous vehicle. The controller attenuates the emanant traffic waves by regulating its velocity according to the relative distance and velocity of the leader car. While regulating the velocity, the controller also prevents the collision of the eg…

Triggering and quenching in the shadow of AGN: How does AGN proximity affect star formation in the EAGLE simulation?
Apashanka Das, Biswajit Pandey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08790

Triggering and quenching in the shadow of AGN: How does AGN proximity affect star formation in the EAGLE simulation?
Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are among the most energetic phenomena in the universe, capable of regulating star formation in galaxies via radiative and mechanical feedback. While AGN feedback is well studied in host galaxies, its influence on neighbouring galaxies within the same large-scale environment remains less understood. In this work, we use the EAGLE cosmological hydrodynamical simulation to examine how proximity to AGN affects star formation in nearby star-forming galaxies (SFGs) out t…

"Fixer les prix des livres au détail est une politique commune en Europe, mais comment la prévention de la concurrence affecte-t-elle les libraires et les acheteurs ? Christos Genakos, Lorien Sabatino et Tommaso Valletti constatent que lorsque la possibilité d'offrir des prix plus bas aux clients est limitée, les vendeurs se tournent vers la concurrence sur le service Š la clientèle et la variété des livres - améliorant ainsi l'expérience des acheteurs."

NSUN2 as a potential prognostic as well as therapeutic target in cancer by regulating m5C modification
Zifang He, Longtao Yang, Peiyao Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06673

NSUN2 as a potential prognostic as well as therapeutic target in cancer by regulating m5C modification
m5C modification is a type of RNA methylation modification, and its major methyltransferase, NSUN2, catalyzes m5C modification. NSUN2 is overexpressed in a variety of cancers, and it affects the metabolism of RNA from target genes by affecting the level of m5C modification in cancer cells, which in turn promotes the development of cancers and is associated with poor prognosis. This review summarizes the mechanisms by which NSUN2 and m5C play a pro-cancer role in various cancers, and the relatio…

Attention on flow control: transformer-based reinforcement learning for lift regulation in highly disturbed flows
Zhecheng Liu, Jeff D. Eldredge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10153

Attention on flow control: transformer-based reinforcement learning for lift regulation in highly disturbed flows
A linear flow control strategy designed for weak disturbances may not remain effective in sequences of strong disturbances due to nonlinear interactions, but it is sensible to leverage it for developing a better strategy. In the present study, we propose a transformer-based reinforcement learning (RL) framework to learn an effective control strategy for regulating aerodynamic lift in gust sequences via pitch control. The transformer addresses the challenge of partial observability from limited …

An In-situ Solid Fuel Ramjet Thrust Monitoring and Regulation Framework Using Neural Networks and Adaptive Control
Ryan DeBoskey, Parham Oveissi, Venkat Narayanaswamy, Ankit Goel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08157

An In-situ Solid Fuel Ramjet Thrust Monitoring and Regulation Framework Using Neural Networks and Adaptive Control
Controlling the complex combustion dynamics within solid fuel ramjets (SFRJs) remains a critical challenge limiting deployment at scale. This paper proposes the use of a neural network model to process in-situ measurements for monitoring and regulating SFRJ thrust with a learning-based adaptive controller. A neural network is trained to estimate thrust from synthetic data generated by a feed-forward quasi-one-dimensional SFRJ model with variable inlet control. An online learning controller base…

Senate strikes AI provision from GOP bill after uproar from the states
https://apnews.com/article/congress-ai-provision-moratorium-states-20beeeb6967057be5fe64678f72f6ab0

Senate strikes AI provision from the Republican tax bill after uproar
A proposal to deter states from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade was soundly defeated in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, thwarting attempts to insert the measure into President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts. The Senate voted 99-1 to strike the AI provision after weeks of criticism from both Republican and Democratic governors and state officials. Originally proposed as a 10-year ban on states doing anything to regulate AI, lawmakers later tied it to federa…

A bipartisan group of over 260 US state legislators sign a letter opposing a federal budget bill provision that bans states from enforcing AI laws for 10 years (Sophia Fox-Sowell/StateScoop)
https://statescoop.com/state-lawmakers-push-back-fe…

State lawmakers push back on federal proposal to limit AI regulation
More than 260 state legislators from all 50 states have signed a letter opposing a provision in the federal budget reconciliation bill that would limit state power in regulating AI.

Distributed Optimization of Finite Condition Number for Laplacian Matrix in Multi-Agent Systems
Yicheng Xu, Faryar Jabbari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06440

Distributed Optimization of Finite Condition Number for Laplacian Matrix in Multi-Agent Systems
This paper addresses the distributed optimization of the finite condition number of the Laplacian matrix in multi-agent systems. The finite condition number, defined as the ratio of the largest to the second smallest eigenvalue of the Laplacian matrix, plays an important role in determining the convergence rate and performance of consensus algorithms, especially in discrete-time implementations. We propose a fully distributed algorithm by regulating the node weights. The approach leverages max …

The Senate votes 99-1 to remove a Trump tax bill provision that would have barred states from regulating AI if they got funding from a $500M broadband program (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

From Voids to Clusters: Mergers and Evolutionary Pathways of Star-Forming and Quenched Low-Mass Galaxies
Mohammad Reza Shojaei, Saeed Tavasoli, Parsa Ghafour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06711

From Voids to Clusters: Mergers and Evolutionary Pathways of Star-Forming and Quenched Low-Mass Galaxies
The evolution of low-mass galaxies is shaped by both internal processes and environmental factors, yet the role of environment and mergers in regulating their growth and star formation rates remains poorly understood, especially in the low-density regime. This study aims to compare the evolutionary pathways and merger histories of star-forming and quenched galaxies in dense (cluster) and under-dense (void) environments, focusing on galaxies with stellar masses in the range $10^{8.5} \leq M_\sta…

AGNI: A radiative-convective model for lava planet atmospheres
Harrison Nicholls, Raymond Pierrehumbert, Tim Lichtenberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00091 h…

AGNI: A radiative-convective model for lava planet atmospheres
It is important that we are able to accurately model the atmospheres of (exo)planets. This is because atmospheres play a central role in setting a planet's thermochemical environment at a given point in time, and also in regulating how it evolves over geological timescales. Additionally, it is primarily by observation of their atmospheres that we are able to characterise exoplanets. There is particular demand for accurate models in the context of so-called lava worlds: planets with molten inter…

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Unravelling how winds and surface heat fluxes control the Atlantic Oceans meridional heat transport
The North Atlantic Ocean circulation, fuelled by winds and surface buoyancy fluxes, carries 1.25 PettaWatts of heat poleward in the subtropics, and helps in regulating global weather and climate patterns. Here, we assess the relative impacts of changes in winds and surface heat fluxes on the Atlantic Ocean circulation and heat transport on short timescales (<10 years) and long timescales (>50 years) using ocean simulations. We decompose the circulation and heat transport into warm and cold cell…

Beware! The AI Act Can Also Apply to Your AI Research Practices
Alina Wernick, Kristof Meding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03218 https://

Beware! The AI Act Can Also Apply to Your AI Research Practices
The EU has become one of the vanguards in regulating the digital age. A particularly important regulation in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) domain is the EU AI Act, which entered into force in 2024. The AI Act specifies -- due to a risk-based approach -- various obligations for providers of AI systems. These obligations, for example, include a cascade of documentation and compliance measures, which represent a potential obstacle to science. But do these obligations also apply to AI researcher…

Sources: Anthropic has been lobbying Congress to oppose a bill banning states from regulating AI, and pushed against the recent US AI deal with Gulf states (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/30/2025/anthropi…

Anthropic emerges as an adversary to Trump’s big bill
Sources familiar say the White House, angered by Anthropic’s lobbying against its chief piece of legislation, have come to view the AI company as an obstacle.

Elastic heterogeneity governs anomalous scaling in a soft porous crystal
Kota Mitsumoto, Kyohei Takae
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19546 https://

Elastic heterogeneity governs anomalous scaling in a soft porous crystal
Nanoscale molecular transport plays a crucial role in regulating mass diffusion and responsiveness in condensed matter systems. In soft porous crystals, in particular, adsorption of guest molecules induces host framework deformation and changes in rigidity, underpinning their characteristic stimuli-responsive behaviour. Surface-mediated adsorption leads to inhomogeneous adsorbate distribution, which, through local framework deformation, induces spatial variations in rigidity -- elastic heteroge…

The EDGE-CALIFA survey: The effect of active galactic nucleus feedback on the integrated properties of galaxies at different stages of their evolution
Z. Bazzi, D. Colombo, F. Bigiel, V. Kalinova, V. Villanueva, S. F. Sanchez, A. D. Bolatto, T. Wong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06709

The EDGE-CALIFA survey: The effect of active galactic nucleus feedback on the integrated properties of galaxies at different stages of their evolution
Galaxy quenching, the intricate process through which galaxies transition from active star-forming states to retired ones, remains a complex phenomenon that requires further investigation. This study investigates the role of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in regulating star formation by analyzing a sample of 643 nearby galaxies with redshifts between 0.005 and 0.03 from the Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area (CALIFA) survey. Galaxies were classified according to the Quenching Stages and Nucle…

Incremental Gain Computation and Regulation of Discrete-time Positive Lur\'e Systems using Linear Programming
Jared Miller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24386

Incremental Gain Computation and Regulation of Discrete-time Positive Luré Systems using Linear Programming
This work approaches the problem of computing incremental $\ell_1$ and $\ell_\infty$ gains for discrete-time positive systems in \lure feedback with static memoryless nonlinearities, and regulating the $\ell_\infty$ gain through the design of a state-feedback controller. Finite incremental gains provide a quantitative measure of robustness for trajectories, and will ensure that all pairs of trajectories will converge to a fixed point or will diverge together in the absence of an applied input. …

Paper Of Record delves into how unchecked global warming #climate chaos created catastrophic conditions for deadly #floods in #TX. The #GuadalupeRiver

As the World Warms, Extreme Rain Is Becoming Even More Extreme
Even in places, like Central Texas, with a long history of floods, human-caused warming is creating the conditions for more frequent and severe deluges.

Unlearning-Enhanced Website Fingerprinting Attack: Against Backdoor Poisoning in Anonymous Networks
Yali Yuan, Kai Xu, Ruolin Ma, Yuchen Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13563

Unlearning-Enhanced Website Fingerprinting Attack: Against Backdoor Poisoning in Anonymous Networks
Website Fingerprinting (WF) is an effective tool for regulating and governing the dark web. However, its performance can be significantly degraded by backdoor poisoning attacks in practical deployments. This paper aims to address the problem of hidden backdoor poisoning attacks faced by Website Fingerprinting attack, and designs a feasible mothed that integrates unlearning technology to realize detection of automatic poisoned points and complete removal of its destructive effects, requiring onl…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14230 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXi…

Unravelling how winds and surface heat fluxes control the Atlantic Oceans meridional heat transport
The North Atlantic Ocean circulation, fuelled by winds and surface buoyancy fluxes, carries 1.25 PettaWatts of heat poleward in the subtropics, and helps in regulating global weather and climate patterns. Here, we assess the relative impacts of changes in winds and surface heat fluxes on the Atlantic Ocean circulation and heat transport on short timescales (<10 years) and long timescales (>50 years) using ocean simulations. We decompose the circulation and heat transport into warm and cold cell…

[Beat-to-beat AV nodal assessment] ECG-based beat-to-beat assessment of AV node conduction properties during AF
Mattias Karlsson, Felix Plappert, Pyotr G Platonov, Sten \"Ostenson, Mikael Wallman, Frida Sandberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19427

[Beat-to-beat AV nodal assessment] ECG-based beat-to-beat assessment of AV node conduction properties during AF
The refractory period and conduction delay of the atrioventricular (AV) node play a crucial role in regulating the heart rate during atrial fibrillation (AF). Beat-to-beat variations in these properties are known to be induced by the autonomic nervous system (ANS) but have previously not been assessable during AF. Assessing these could provide novel information for improved diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment on an individual basis. To estimate AV nodal conduction properties with beat-to-beat…

Self-assembled clusters of mutually repelling particles in confinement
P. D. S. de Lima, R. De La Cour, K. Gaff, J. M. de Ara\'ujo, S. J. Cox, M. S. Ferreira, S. Hutzler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19772

Self-assembled clusters of mutually repelling particles in confinement
Mutually repelling particles form spontaneously ordered clusters when forced into confinement. The clusters may adopt similar spatial arrangements even if the underlying particle interactions are contrastingly different. Here we demonstrate with both simulations and experiments that it is possible to induce particles of very different types to self-assemble into the same ordered geometric structure by simply regulating the ratio between the repulsion and confining forces. This is the case for b…

The SOMA-POL Survey. I. Polarization and magnetic field properties of massive protostars
Tuva K\"allberg, Chi Yan Law, Jonathan C. Tan, Kate Pattle, Zacariyya Khan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02384

The SOMA-POL Survey. I. Polarization and magnetic field properties of massive protostars
The role of magnetic fields in regulating the formation of massive stars remains much debated. Here we present sub-millimeter polarimetric observations with JCMT-POL2 at $850\:μ$m of 13 regions of massive star formation selected from the SOFIA Massive (SOMA) star formation survey, yielding a total of 29 massive protostars. Our investigation of the $p'-I$ relationship suggests that grain alignment persists up to the highest intensities. We examine the relative orientations between polarization-…

On the rapid growth of SMBHs in high-z galaxies: the aftermath of Population III.1 stars
Mahsa Sanati, Julien Devriendt, SergioMartin-Alvarez, Adrianne Slyz, Jonathan C. Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02058

On the rapid growth of SMBHs in high-z galaxies: the aftermath of Population III.1 stars
The vast amount of energy released by active galactic nuclei (AGN) is increasingly recognized as a key driver of evolution not only in massive galaxies and clusters, but also in low-mass dwarf galaxies. Despite this, their role in the early stages of galaxy formation and in self-regulating the rapid growth of the first and abundant supermassive black holes (SMBHs) remains poorly understood. Through new high-resolution zoom-in cosmological simulations, we follow the co-evolution of $10^5 M_\odot…

High resolution ALMA observations of H$_2$S in LIRGS (Dense gas and shocks in outflows and CNDs)
M. T. Sato, S. Aalto, S. K\"onig, K. Kohno, S. Viti, M. Gorski, F. Combes, S. Garc\'ia-Burillo, N. Harada, P. van der Werf, J. Otter, S. Muller, Y. Nishimura, J. S. Gallagher, A. S. Evans, K. M. Dasyra, J. K. Kotilainen
https://

High resolution ALMA observations of H$_2$S in LIRGS (Dense gas and shocks in outflows and CNDs)
Molecular gas plays a critical role in regulating star formation and nuclear activity in galaxies. Sulphur bearing molecules, such as H2S, are sensitive to the physical and chemical environments in which they reside and are potential tracers of shocked, dense gas in galactic outflows and active galactic nuclei (AGN). We aim to investigate the origin of H2S emission and its relation to dense gas and outflow activity in the central regions of nearby infrared luminous galaxies. We present ALMA Ban…

Dynamics of Multiphase Carbon in the Turbulent Circumgalactic Medium
Yue Hu, Evan Scannapieco, Edward Buie II, Siyao Xu, Samuel T Sebastian, Om Biswal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17554

Dynamics of Multiphase Carbon in the Turbulent Circumgalactic Medium
The circumgalactic medium (CGM) plays a crucial role in regulating material and energy exchange between galaxies and their environments. The best means of observing this medium is through absorption-line spectroscopy, but we have yet to develop a consistent physical model that fully explains these results. Here we investigate the impact of turbulence and non-equilibrium chemistry on the properties of the CGM, using three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations that include the impact of an ionizin…

Project AMIGA: The Inner Circumgalactic Medium of Andromeda from Thick Disk to Halo
Nicolas Lehner, J. Christopher Howk, Lucy Collins, Sameer, Bart P. Wakker, Ramona Augustin, Kathleen A. Barger, Michelle A. Berg, Rongmon Bordoloi, Thomas M. Brown, Frances H. Cashman, Claude-Andr\'e Faucher-Gigu\`ere, Andrew J. Fox, David M. French, Karoline M. Gilbert, Puragra Guhathakurta, John M. O'Meara, Brian W. O'Shea, Molly S. Peeples, D. J. Pisano, J. Xavier Prochaska, Jonathan Ste…

Project AMIGA: The Inner Circumgalactic Medium of Andromeda from Thick Disk to Halo
The inner circumgalactic medium (CGM) of galaxies, where disk and halo processes intersect, remains poorly characterized despite its critical role in regulating galaxy evolution. We present results from Project AMIGA Insider, mapping Andromeda's (M31) inner CGM within 0.25 R_vir (~75 kpc) using 11 QSO sightlines, bringing our total sample to 54 sightlines from the disk to 2 R_vir. We detect a clear transition between M31's thick disk and CGM at R < 30 kpc, where low/intermediate ions show thick…

Interstellar dust production, destruction and effects of dust depletion in galaxies
Francesco Calura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13851 https://

Interstellar dust production, destruction and effects of dust depletion in galaxies
Despite its small mass fraction typically observed in the interstellar medium, dust plays a significant role as a key component of galaxies, affecting a wide range of properties. This review focuses specifically on how dust grains influence interstellar chemical abundances and on the processes that regulate the evolution of the galactic dust budget. I describe the main physical processes regulating dust evolution, including production by stars and other sources, destruction in supernova shocks …