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New preprint!
User-space library rootkits revisited: Are user-space detection mechanisms futile?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07827

So #Axiom4 ain't going anywhere for now ... because "NASA is working with Roscosmos to understand a new pressure signature, after the recent post-repair effort" of the infamous ISS leak: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2025/06/12/nasa-axiom-space-delay-axiom-mission-4-launch-to-space-station/

First images of the Sun's south pole!
Solar Orbiter is the first space probe to look at the Sun's poles – and finds the magnetic field there in a state of turmoil. The Sun's magnetic field is currently undergoing a flip. During its latest flyby of the Sun at the end of March this year, the Solar Orbiter space probe had its first clear view of our star's poles. First images:

Donald Trump continued his war against America’s most cherished military traditions today when he delivered a speech at Fort Bragg.
It is too much to call it a “speech”; it was, instead, a ramble, full of grievance and anger,
just like his many political-rally performances.
He took the stage to Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA”
—which has become a MAGA anthem
—and then pointed to the “fake news,” encouraging military personnel to jeer at the press.
He mocke…

The Silence of the Generals
As President Donald Trump crossed a dangerous line at Fort Bragg, the brass failed to speak out in the Army’s defense.

WIE KRASS WAR DAS DENN!
Wenn ihr die Chance habt in den nächsten Wochen ins Chamäleon zu gehen, tut das!
https://chamaeleonberlin.com/en/shows/a-simple-space/
Beeindruckend, krass, magisch, energetisch.

OWSM-Biasing: Contextualizing Open Whisper-Style Speech Models for Automatic Speech Recognition with Dynamic Vocabulary
Yui Sudo, Yusuke Fujita, Atsushi Kojima, Tomoya Mizumoto, Lianbo Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09448

OWSM-Biasing: Contextualizing Open Whisper-Style Speech Models for Automatic Speech Recognition with Dynamic Vocabulary
Speech foundation models (SFMs), such as Open Whisper-Style Speech Models (OWSM), are trained on massive datasets to achieve accurate automatic speech recognition. However, even SFMs struggle to accurately recognize rare and unseen words. While contextual biasing (CB) is a promising approach to improve recognition of such words, most CB methods are trained from scratch, resulting in lower performance than SFMs due to the lack of pre-trained knowledge. This paper integrates an existing CB method…

I mean… I have limits, or do I? 🤔
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKjScu_SPbc/

মোঃ নুর শাহীন মিয়া on Instagram
358K likes, 2,631 comments - mohnurshaahiin on June 6, 2025

Leavitt Storms Out of Press Briefing Over Free Speech Grilling (Farrah Tomazin/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/leavitt-storms-out-of-press-briefing-over-free-speech-grilling/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p174#a250611p174

They'll console themselves going after same-sex marriage...
Vote to bar churches with women pastors fails again at SBC meeting
https://religionnews.com/2025/06/11/vote-to-bar-churches-with-women-pastors-fails-again-at-sbc-meeting/

UmbraTTS: Adapting Text-to-Speech to Environmental Contexts with Flow Matching
Neta Glazer, Aviv Navon, Yael Segal, Aviv Shamsian, Hilit Segev, Asaf Buchnick, Menachem Pirchi, Gil Hetz, Joseph Keshet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09874

UmbraTTS: Adapting Text-to-Speech to Environmental Contexts with Flow Matching
Recent advances in Text-to-Speech (TTS) have enabled highly natural speech synthesis, yet integrating speech with complex background environments remains challenging. We introduce UmbraTTS, a flow-matching based TTS model that jointly generates both speech and environmental audio, conditioned on text and acoustic context. Our model allows fine-grained control over background volume and produces diverse, coherent, and context-aware audio scenes. A key challenge is the lack of data with speech an…