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Jurassic World: Wiedergeburt? Was soll schon schiefgehen
Steven Spielberg schickt seine Dinos in ihr inzwischen siebtes Abenteuer. Die menschliche Besetzung wechselt, ist aber ohnehin weitestgehend verzichtbar.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Subsonic Eye:
🎵 Aku Cemas
#SubsonicEye
https://subsoniceye.bandcamp.com/track/aku-cemas
https://open.spotify.com/track/7oIRGgtV69MTBHadwxWte9

Improving SpGEMM Performance Through Matrix Reordering and Cluster-wise Computation
Abdullah Al Raqibul Islam, Helen Xu, Dong Dai, Ayd{\i}n Bulu\c{c}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21253

Improving SpGEMM Performance Through Matrix Reordering and Cluster-wise Computation
Sparse matrix-sparse matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is a key kernel in many scientific applications and graph workloads. Unfortunately, SpGEMM is bottlenecked by data movement due to its irregular memory access patterns. Significant work has been devoted to developing row reordering schemes towards improving locality in sparse operations, but prior studies mostly focus on the case of sparse-matrix vector multiplication (SpMV). In this paper, we address these issues with hierarchical clusterin…

TIL that the UK won the 2023 SpoGomi world cup. (and that "SpoGomi" is competitive litter picking.)
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/26/japanese-competitive-litter-picking-spogomi-sport-thrives-in-u…

So, Sheboygan only has a population of 50K yet the city is sending breach notices to 70K?
https://therecord.media/ransomware-sheboygan-breach-notice

Nearly 70,000 impacted by ransomware attack on Sheboygan, Wisconsin
The city filed breach notification letters with regulators seven months after a ransomware gang accessed systems.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Subsonic Eye:
🎵 Why Am I Here
#SubsonicEye
https://subsoniceye.bandcamp.com/track/why-am-i-here
https://open.spotify.com/track/5iUhCS6nQeeFo4sCHjVJrO

#TuneTuesday (Jul 29)
I first heard of #SufjanStevens when he contributed songs to the soundtrack of Call Me By Your Name and I instantly liked his dreamy and laid-back style of music.
But if I were to pick one song of his I really like, then it would have to be the demo version of “C…

Spoken question answering for visual queries
Nimrod Shabtay, Zvi Kons, Avihu Dekel, Hagai Aronowitz, Ron Hoory, Assaf Arbelle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23308

Spoken question answering for visual queries
Question answering (QA) systems are designed to answer natural language questions. Visual QA (VQA) and Spoken QA (SQA) systems extend the textual QA system to accept visual and spoken input respectively. This work aims to create a system that enables user interaction through both speech and images. That is achieved through the fusion of text, speech, and image modalities to tackle the task of spoken VQA (SVQA). The resulting multi-modal model has textual, visual, and spoken inputs and can ans…

China showcased many of the initiatives for AI self-sufficiency at Shanghai's World AI Conference, as it invests heavily in power generation and skills training (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-china-is-g

Experts raise concerns that Malta's expedited MiCA licensing process may lack sufficient enforcement and oversight; OKX received a MiCA license in four days (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/news-analysis/202

'Like Ordering McDonald's:' Malta's MiCA Fast-Track Draws Oversight Concerns
Some people think Malta is nimble and innovative when it comes to regulation. But others see a fast track to regulatory arbitrage.