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Newly daylighted Canyon Creek brings lost habitat back to Spanish Banks
A long-hidden urban stream in Spanish Banks Beach Park has been brought back to the surface thanks to efforts by the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation.
Local Nations, community members and elected officials gathered today to celebrate the public opening of Canyon Creek, a previously buried waterway that ran through Pacific Spirit Regional Park and under the western parking lot at Spanish Banks

Newly daylighted Canyon Creek brings lost habitat back to Spanish Banks
A long-hidden urban stream in Spanish Banks Beach Park has been brought back to the surface thanks to efforts by the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation.

On the Weak Error for Local Stochastic Volatility Models
Peter K. Friz, Benjamin Jourdain, Thomas Wagenhofer, Alexandre Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10817

On the Weak Error for Local Stochastic Volatility Models
Local stochastic volatility refers to a popular model class in applied mathematical finance that allows for "calibration-on-the-fly", typically via a particle method, derived from a formal McKean-Vlasov equation. Well-posedness of this limit is a well-known problem in the field; the general case is largely open, despite recent progress in Markovian situations. Our take is to start with a well-defined Euler approximation to the formal McKean-Vlasov equation, followed by a newly established hal…

Edinburgh-based Wordsmith, whose AI tools help legal teams automate contract and policy reviews, raised a $25M Series A led by Index Ventures (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/04/wordsmith-ai-raises-25m-build-legal-a…

Wordsmith AI raises $25M to build legal AI for in-house teams - SiliconANGLE
Wordsmith AI raises $25M to build legal AI for in-house teams - SiliconANGLE

The Effects of GitHub Copilot on Computing Students' Programming Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Processes in Brownfield Programming Tasks
Md Istiak Hossain Shihab, Christopher Hundhausen, Ahsun Tariq, Summit Haque, Yunhan Qiao, Brian Mulanda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10051

The Effects of GitHub Copilot on Computing Students' Programming Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Processes in Brownfield Programming Tasks
When graduates of computing degree programs enter the software industry, they will most likely join teams working on legacy code bases developed by people other than themselves. In these so-called brownfield software development settings, generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) coding assistants like GitHub Copilot are rapidly transforming software development practices, yet the impact of GenAI on student programmers performing brownfield development tasks remains underexplored. This paper i…

Structural Parameterizations of $k$-Planarity
Tatsuya Gima, Yasuaki Kobayashi, Yuto Okada
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10717 https://ar…

Structural Parameterizations of $k$-Planarity
The concept of $k$-planarity is extensively studied in the context of Beyond Planarity. A graph is $k$-planar if it admits a drawing in the plane in which each edge is crossed at most $k$ times. The local crossing number of a graph is the minimum integer $k$ such that it is $k$-planar. The problem of determining whether an input graph is $1$-planar is known to be NP-complete even for near-planar graphs [Cabello and Mohar, SIAM J. Comput. 2013], that is, the graphs obtained from planar graphs by…

"..some residents in #Ballymena have started to mark their front doors to indicate their nationality to avoid attack.."
I lived in this town, Ian Paisley's home town and DUP core territory, for 3 years as a teenager. Not been back.
It was characterised by narrow-mindedness and bigotry then in the 60s.
The last place to concentrate migrants, if that is what has happene…

Police injured, houses burned in second night of riots in Northern Ireland
Rioters said to target ‘foreigners’ in Northern Ireland town following alleged sexual assault of local teenage girl.

Whole-Person Education for AI Engineers
Rubaina Khan, Tammy Mackenzie, Sreyoshi Bhaduri, Animesh Paul, Branislav Radelji\'c, Joshua Owusu Ansah, Beyza Nur Guler, Indrani Bhaduri, Rodney Kimbangu, Nils Ever Murrugarra Llerena, Hayoung Shin, Lilianny Virguez, Rosa Paccotacya Yanque, Thomas Mekha\"el, Allen Munoriyarwa, Leslie Salgado, Debarati Basu, Curwyn Mapaling, Natalie Perez, Yves Gaudet, Paula Larrondo

Whole-Person Education for AI Engineers
This autoethnographic study explores the need for interdisciplinary education spanning both technical and philosophical skills - as such, this study leverages whole-person education as a theoretical approach needed in AI engineering education to address the limitations of current paradigms that prioritize technical expertise over ethical and societal considerations. Drawing on a collaborative autoethnography approach of fourteen diverse stakeholders, the study identifies key motivations driving…

Not everyone can treat patients in the field.
But everyone can do something.
https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/msf-operations-gaza

MSF operations in Gaza
Last updated on May 14, 2025Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been working in Gaza for decades and our teams have been providing lifesaving medical aid throughout the devastating war. With both local Palestinian staff and international teams operating throughout Gaza, MSF is providing medical care and humanitarian relief at a time of unimaginable suffering.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03465 has been replaced.
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Extending Internet Access Over LoRa for Internet of Things and Critical Applications
LoRa bridges the gap between remote locations and mainstream networks, enabling large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) deployments. Despite the recent advancements around LoRa, Internet access over this technology is still largely unexplored. Most existing solutions only handle packets within the local LoRa network and do not interact with web applications. This limits the scalability and the ability to deliver essential web services in disconnected regions. This work proposes and implements ILoR…

The UK High Court warns lawyers of possible criminal charges for using AI-generated fake legal material, citing two recent cases with hallucinated content (Lizzie Dearden/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/world/europe/england-high-court-…

UK Court Warns Lawyers Can Be Prosecuted Over A.I. Tools That ‘Hallucinate’ Fake Material
A senior judge said on Friday that lawyers could be prosecuted for presenting material that had been “hallucinated” by artificial intelligence tools.