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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.

"..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.

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

Closing objectivity loophole in Bell tests on a public quantum computer
Adam Bednorz, Josep Batle, Tomasz Bia{\l}ecki, Jaros{\l}aw K. Korbicz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08940

Closing objectivity loophole in Bell tests on a public quantum computer
We have constructed and run a Bell test of local realism focusing on the objectivity criterion. The objectivity means that the outcomes are confirmed macroscopically by a few observers at each of party. The IBM Quantum devices turn out to be sufficiently accurate to pass such an extended Bell-type test, although at the price of communication loopholes and residual but statistically significant signaling. The test serves also as the benchmark of entanglement spread across larger sets of qubits.

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…

Asymmetric Electronic Band Alignment and Potentially Enhanced Thermoelectric Properties in Phase-Separated Mg2X (X=Si,Ge,Sn) Alloys
Byungki Ryu, Samuel Foster, Eun-Ae Choi, Sungjin Park, Jaywan Chung, Johannes de Boor, Pawel Ziolkowski, Eckhard M\"uller, Seung Zeon Han, SuDong Park, Neophytos Neophytou
https://arxiv.org/abs…

Asymmetric Electronic Band Alignment and Potentially Enhanced Thermoelectric Properties in Phase-Separated Mg2X (X=Si,Ge,Sn) Alloys
The Mg2X (X=Si, Ge, Sn) based alloy is an eco-friendly thermoelectric material for mid-temperature applications. The Mg2Si1-xSnx and Mg2Ge1-xSnx alloys can be phase-separated into Si(Ge)- and Sn-rich phases during material synthesis, leading to a nanocomposite with locally varying electronic band structure. First-principles calculations reveal that the valence band offset is eight-times larger than the conduction band offset at the interface between Si- and Sn-rich phases for x=0.6, showing typ…

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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…

Deformations of OP ensembles in a bulk critical scaling
Caio E. Candido, Victor Alves, Thomas Chouteau, Charles F. Santos, Guilherme L. F. Silva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05622

Deformations of OP ensembles in a bulk critical scaling
We study orthogonal polynomial ensembles whose weights are deformations of exponential weights, in the limit of a large number of particles. The deformation symbols we consider affect local fluctuations of the ensemble around a bulk point of the limiting spectrum. We identify the limiting kernel in terms of a solution to an integrable non-local differential equation. This novel kernel is the correlation kernel of a conditional thinned process starting from the Sine point process, and it is also…

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.

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.