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All external power lines supplying electricity to the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine were down for several hours on Friday, the UN nuclear watchdog said
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi acknowledged that power had been restored after 3½ hours
but added on X that nuclear safety “remains extremely precarious in Ukraine”.
The Ukrainian energy minister blamed Russian shelling for severing the last power line to the…

And by “prevent crime,” what they mean is AI will be able to automatically yell at homeless people to move along! Innovation!
https://mastodon.social/@eff/114626708912715793

Context-Aware Code Wiring Recommendation with LLM-based Agent
Taiming Wang, Yanjie Jiang, Chunhao Dong, Yuxia Zhang, Hui Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01315

Context-Aware Code Wiring Recommendation with LLM-based Agent
Copy-paste-modify is a widespread and pragmatic practice in software development, where developers adapt reused code snippets, sourced from platforms such as Stack Overflow, GitHub, or LLM outputs, into their local codebase. A critical yet underexplored aspect of this adaptation is code wiring, which involves substituting unresolved variables in the pasted code with suitable ones from the surrounding context. Existing solutions either rely on heuristic rules or historical templates, often faili…

Genomic sequencers with massive security vulnerabilities. Company doesn't admit to wrongdoing but also says it "successfully remediated" various issues, hmm? Small $ relative to their revenues, but you take what you can get.

Pope Leo tells the Giro he is going to ride stage next year and will win!
#giroditalia2025

UltrasonicSpheres: Localized, Multi-Channel Sound Spheres Using Off-the-Shelf Speakers and Earables
Michael K\"uttner, Valeria Sitz, Kathrin Gerling, Michael Beigl, Tobias R\"oddiger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02715

UltrasonicSpheres: Localized, Multi-Channel Sound Spheres Using Off-the-Shelf Speakers and Earables
We present a demo ofUltrasonicSpheres, a novel system for location-specific audio delivery using wearable earphones that decode ultrasonic signals into audible sound. Unlike conventional beamforming setups, UltrasonicSpheres relies on single ultrasonic speakers to broadcast localized audio with multiple channels, each encoded on a distinct ultrasonic carrier frequency. Users wearing our acoustically transparent earphones can demodulate their selected stream, such as exhibit narrations in a chos…

Mayor Lurie has to be reined in. He thinks he's CEO of the city and can do whatever he wants, and the Board of Supervisors keeps rolling over and letting him. Good on Kathrin Moore for this
https://missionlocal.org/2025/06/sf-planning-director…

New S.F. planning director’s appointment process was illegal, commissioner says
An S.F. planning commissioner is says the commission's president wrangled votes for the mayor's pick to lead the department — an alleged violation of open meeting laws

When Prompts Go Wrong: Evaluating Code Model Robustness to Ambiguous, Contradictory, and Incomplete Task Descriptions
Maya Larbi, Amal Akli, Mike Papadakis, Rihab Bouyousfi, Maxime Cordy, Federica Sarro, Yves Le Traon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20439

When Prompts Go Wrong: Evaluating Code Model Robustness to Ambiguous, Contradictory, and Incomplete Task Descriptions
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in code generation tasks under idealized conditions, where task descriptions are clear and precise. However, in practice, task descriptions frequently exhibit ambiguity, incompleteness, or internal contradictions. In this paper, we present the first empirical study examining the robustness of state-of-the-art code generation models when faced with such unclear task descriptions. We extend the HumanEval and MBPP benchmarks by …