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Building (or rebuilding) a manufacturing ecosystem - the skilled workforce and complex supply chain - takes time and money. I haven't seen much evidence that this is recognized, or supported, in #47's world, or indeed the "market" (the private investment that will take years to show a return on capital).
Interesting contrast between Foxconn in India:

Trump wants America to make iPhones. Here's how India Is doing it.
Explore the impact of Apple's new iPhone factory in Devanahalli, India, and its potential to reshape the country's manufacturing sector.

Building (or rebuilding) a manufacturing ecosystem - the skilled workforce and complex supply chain - takes time and money. I haven't seen much evidence that this is recognized, or supported, in #47's world, or indeed the "market" (the private investment that will take years to show a return on capital).
Interesting contrast between Foxconn in India:

Trump wants America to make iPhones. Here's how India Is doing it.
Explore the impact of Apple's new iPhone factory in Devanahalli, India, and its potential to reshape the country's manufacturing sector.

GSFusion:Globally Optimized LiDAR-Inertial-Visual Mapping for Gaussian Splatting
Jaeseok Park, Chanoh Park, Minsu Kim, Soohwan Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23273 https://

GSFusion:Globally Optimized LiDAR-Inertial-Visual Mapping for Gaussian Splatting
While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has revolutionized photorealistic mapping, conventional approaches based on camera sensor, even RGB-D, suffer from fundamental limitations such as high computational load, failure in environments with poor texture or illumination, and short operational ranges. LiDAR emerges as a robust alternative, but its integration with 3DGS introduces new challenges, such as the need for exceptional global alignment for photorealistic quality and prolonged optimization tim…

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Microsoft is pushing for bulk email senders to use addresses that can be replied to. (ie not "no-reply@")

Strengthening Email Ecosystem: Outlook’s New Requirements for High‐Volume Senders | Microsoft Community Hub
April 29th Update - Changes have been made to the action take on messages that do not meet requirements, please see details below. Introduction In an era...

Differential Transformer-driven 6G Physical Layer for Collaborative Perception Enhancement
Soheyb Ribouh, Osama Saleem, Mohamed Ababsa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20597

Differential Transformer-driven 6G Physical Layer for Collaborative Perception Enhancement
The emergence of 6G wireless networks promises to revolutionize vehicular communications by enabling ultra-reliable, low-latency, and high-capacity data exchange. In this context, collaborative perception techniques, where multiple vehicles or infrastructure nodes cooperate to jointly receive and decode transmitted signals, aim to enhance reliability and spectral efficiency for Connected Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) applications. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end wireless neural receiver base…

Movable-Antenna Empowered AAV-Enabled Data Collection over Low-Altitude Wireless Networks
Xuhui Zhang, Wenchao Liu, Jinke Ren, Chunjie Wang, Huijun Xing, Yanyan Shen, Shuguang Cui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15515

Movable-Antenna Empowered AAV-Enabled Data Collection over Low-Altitude Wireless Networks
Movable-antennas (MAs) are revolutionizing spatial signal processing by providing flexible beamforming in next-generation wireless systems. This paper investigates an MA-empowered autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) system in low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs) for uplink data collection from ground users. We aim to maximize the sum achievable rate by jointly optimizing the AAV trajectory, receive beamforming, and MA positions. An efficient alternating optimization (AO) algorithm that incorporat…

Pulsar escape: the recipe for LHAASO sources ?
Pierrick Martin, In\`es Mertz, Jean Kempf, Ruo-Yu Liu, Alexandre Marcowith, Marianne Lemoine-Goumard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06627

Pulsar+escape: the recipe for LHAASO sources ?
Observations of our Galaxy at very-high and ultra-high photon energies have revealed a rich population of sources, many of which have significant angular extension and/or are positionally coincident with energetic pulsars. We assessed whether the properties of these gamma-ray emitters are consistent with the predictions of a model for the non-thermal leptonic emission of a pulsar wind nebula expanding within a supernova remnant, including the possibility of particle escape across the different …

The Python library "YFinance" decided to force an upgrade. They did this by making the old version report a rate-limit error on every request.
Confusing.
Would have been better if they reported a "old version not supported" error or something instead. So that wasted some time.
That upgrade had dependencies which have dependencies upon a newer version of Python, so needed a whole OS upgrade really.
Which failed. Bricking the Rasp PI it was running on.
Oh well, complete rebuild of the whole machine and software it runs from scratch then.
That took all day yesterday. At the end I notice that the touch-screen doesn't touch. Needs drivers.
The drivers haven't been upgraded in six years. They brick the machine again when trying to install them on Debian Trixie.
Luckily, I kept good notes and could rebuild it all again much faster with no mistakes and knowing what to do and all the required custom software changes already made and saved.
So now I spent a whole day on annoying upgrade work because a single Python library decided to break the old version, and my Rasp Pi has no touch-screen. Which isn't ideal for a machine mostly operating as a fancy light switch for all the LED strips in the house.
This happens all the time in software. Millions of man hours wasted, so much hardware dumped because the drivers get abandoned.

In other news: Microsoft abandons Windows 10 any day now. Good luck to everyone faced with doing that lap on the upgrade treadmill.
I still have more work to do to bring up this RaspPi's software to where it was, but it'll have to wait, other things to do. At least it's back to sending me the nightly finance report and controlling the LED strips. If without a touch screen now.
#software #upgradeTredmil #python #microsoft