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Let's start football season with some takes, plus the strangest walk-off win https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6506943/2025/07/22/nfl-power-rankings-the-pulse/

Question-Answer Extraction from Scientific Articles Using Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models
Hosein Azarbonyad, Zi Long Zhu, Georgios Cheirmpos, Zubair Afzal, Vikrant Yadav, Georgios Tsatsaronis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13827

Question-Answer Extraction from Scientific Articles Using Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models
When deciding to read an article or incorporate it into their research, scholars often seek to quickly identify and understand its main ideas. In this paper, we aim to extract these key concepts and contributions from scientific articles in the form of Question and Answer (QA) pairs. We propose two distinct approaches for generating QAs. The first approach involves selecting salient paragraphs, using a Large Language Model (LLM) to generate questions, ranking these questions by the likelihood o…

MorphIt: Flexible Spherical Approximation of Robot Morphology for Representation-driven Adaptation
Nataliya Nechyporenko, Yutong Zhang, Sean Campbell, Alessandro Roncone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14061

MorphIt: Flexible Spherical Approximation of Robot Morphology for Representation-driven Adaptation
What if a robot could rethink its own morphological representation to better meet the demands of diverse tasks? Most robotic systems today treat their physical form as a fixed constraint rather than an adaptive resource, forcing the same rigid geometric representation to serve applications with vastly different computational and precision requirements. We introduce MorphIt, a novel algorithm for approximating robot morphology using spherical primitives that balances geometric accuracy with comp…

Implementing and Verifying a Fourier Domain Approach to Fast Stochastic X-ray Polarimetry Timing
Melissa Ewing, Adam Ingram, John Rankin, Fabio Muleri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15461

Implementing and Verifying a Fourier Domain Approach to Fast Stochastic X-ray Polarimetry Timing
The launch of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), the first space-based polarimeter since 1978, offers a two order of magnitude improvement to the measurement of X-ray polarisation than its predecessor OSO-8, offering unprecedented precision for the measurement of polarisation degree and polarisation angle of X-ray sources. This advancement lends itself to the birth of a number of contemporary techniques to study Galactic compact objects, including X-ray polarimetry-timing, the study…

https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2025/06/18/828269.htm
Erie Insurance appears to be denying a Scattered Spider attack.

Erie Insurance: 'No Evidence' of Ransomware in Network Outage
Erie Insurance said it has "seen no evidence of ransomware and there is no indication of ongoing threat actor activity" in a June 17 update on its 10-day

Japanese police release decryptor for Phobos ransomware after February takedown https://therecord.media/decryptor-phobos-8base-ransomware-japan-national-police

Cowboys’ 24-Year-Old Superstar Earns Lofty Ranking From NFL Execs https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/tyler-smith-lofty-espn-rankings/?adt_ei=[email]

NDCG-Consistent Softmax Approximation with Accelerated Convergence
Yuanhao Pu, Defu Lian, Xiaolong Chen, Xu Huang, Jin Chen, Enhong Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09454

NDCG-Consistent Softmax Approximation with Accelerated Convergence
Ranking tasks constitute fundamental components of extreme similarity learning frameworks, where extremely large corpora of objects are modeled through relative similarity relationships adhering to predefined ordinal structures. Among various ranking surrogates, Softmax (SM) Loss has been widely adopted due to its natural capability to handle listwise ranking via global negative comparisons, along with its flexibility across diverse application scenarios. However, despite its effectiveness, SM …

Russian vodka producer reports disruptions after ransomware attack https://therecord.media/novabev-russia-vodka-maker-ransomware-attack

Qantas confirms it has been in contact with its ransomware attackers.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/07/qantas-contacted-by-suspected-cyber-criminal-but-airline-wont-confirm-if-ha…