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Frontiers call for papers: Innovative electrode and bioelectronic technologies for neural recording and stimulation https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/75514/innovative-electrode-and-bioelec…

Bercy pousse au "libre"
https://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2007/03/21/bercy-pousse-au-libre_841993_651865.html

Bercy pousse au "libre"
Le logiciel libre intéresse nos gouvernants. Preuve récente, le passage de l'Assemblée Nationale au tout libre prévu pour juin 2007. Thierry Breton, ministre de l'Economie et des Finances a profité de la remise d'un rapport sur l'Economie de l'Immatériel pour réaffirmer son soutien au libre, vecteur d'innovations et de croissance.

Fleet management software provider Motive files for a US IPO, reporting a $138.5M net loss on $327.3M in revenue for the nine months ended September 30 (Prakhar Srivastava/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/motive-technologies-files-us-ipo-2025-12-23/…

Truth Social plus Fusionsenergie: Trump-Firma fusioniert mit TAE Technologies
Die Medienfirma der Familie Trump, die bislang primär für Truth Social bekannt ist, macht nun auch Fusionsenergie. Dafür sorgt eine Fusion mit TAE Technologies.

Bookmarked: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia #KI Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on user…

⛏️ Behind our screens: The truth about ‘artisanal’ mining and ‘natural’ technology
https://globalvoices.org/2025/10/05/behind-our-screens-the-truth-about-artisanal-mining-and-natural-technology/

Behind our screens: The truth about ‘artisanal’ mining and ‘natural’ technology
“It would be disingenuous to attempt to disentangle the human rights abuses connected to creating technologies from their environmental impacts.”

Ich bin heute auf dem @… Summit in Berlin. Sprecht mich gerne an, falls ihr mich erkennt. 😎 #SCSSummit #Sovereigncloudstack

Brett Harrison, the former president of FTX US, raised $35M for his new global exchange AX, which offers perpetual futures, a source says at a $187M valuation (Yueqi Yang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/former-ftx-head-raises-…

Former FTX US Head Raises $35 Million for New Exchange
Brett Harrison, the former president of FTX US, has raised $35 million for his startup Architect Financial Technologies, which offers a global perpetual futures exchange. The round, led by Miami International and Tioga Capital, values the company at $187 million, according to a person familiar with the fundraising. The exchange, AX, offers perpetual futures on traditional assets such as stocks

Structure-Fair Quantum Circuit Complexity: An Information-Theoretic Lower Bound
HongZheng Liu, YiNuo Tian, Zhiyue Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18205 https://

What could go wrong?
Trump Media to Merge With TAE Technologies, a Nuclear Fusion Firm, in a $6 Billion Deal - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/business/trump-media-tae-technologies-fusion-power-deal.html

Does Embodiment Matter to Biomechanics and Function? A Comparative Analysis of Head-Mounted and Hand-Held Assistive Devices for Individuals with Blindness and Low Vision
Gaurav Seth, Hoa Pham, Giles Hamilton-Fletcher, Charles Leclercq, John-Ross Rizzo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18391

Does Embodiment Matter to Biomechanics and Function? A Comparative Analysis of Head-Mounted and Hand-Held Assistive Devices for Individuals with Blindness and Low Vision
Visual assistive technologies, such as Microsoft Seeing AI, can improve access to environmental information for persons with blindness or low vision (pBLV). Yet, the physical and functional implications of different device embodiments remain unclear. In this study, 11 pBLV participants used Seeing AI on a hand-held smartphone and on a head-mounted ARx Vision system to perform six activities of daily living, while their movements were captured with Xsens motion capture. Functional outcomes inclu…

Colorado just released a roadmap for coal communities facing an uncertain future.
The state's new report shows how carbon capture, geothermal, hydrogen, and battery storage could replace lost coal jobs and tax revenue in rural areas. Wind and solar are already cost-effective, while emerging tech could create new economic opportunities.

Colorado outlines how clean energy could benefit coal communities
Emerging technologies like carbon capture and hydrogen combustion could help replace the economic activity lost after coal plants close, according to a

Algorithmic A-Legality: Shorting the Human Future through AI
Scott Veitch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18195 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.18195

Algorithmic A-Legality: Shorting the Human Future through AI
This article provides a necessary corrective to the belief that current legal and political concepts and institutions are capable of holding to account the power of new AI technologies. Drawing on jurisprudential analysis, it argues that while the current development of AI is dependent on the combination of economic and legal power, the technological forms that result increasingly exceed the capacity of even the most rigorous legal and political regimes. A situation of "a-legality" is emerging …

« Des ponctions sur les richesses » https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10164

So, apparently Peter Thiel, who is obsessed with the antichrist, had never pondered how to respond if someone notices that he's behaving like one, or at least enabling one. Not exactly my idea of resilient thinker.
“You’re an investor in AI,” Douthat says. “You’re deeply invested in Palantir, in military technology, in technologies of surveillance and technologies of warfare and so on. And it just seems to me that when you tell me a story about the Antichrist coming to power and us…

It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It
He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.

Perhaps the silver lining to the UK no longer being in the European Union is that it offers the opportunity to look at developments that are progressing at a different pace in the EU.
Here:
how clean consumer flexibility - EVs, heat pumps - can support the local grid, if allow it to.

Yes, consumer clean energy technologies can support the local grid — if we allow them to. Last week, I shared information about EU policy developments regarding device-level metering for charging… | Jaap Burger
Yes, consumer clean energy technologies can support the local grid — if we allow them to. Last week, I shared information about EU policy developments regarding device-level metering for charging points. This allows EV charging sessions to be measured accurately and enables the flexibility involved to be marketed. I cited the example of the UK, where this has recently become a practical reality, an opportunity to learn for other jurisdictions. Here is another example. The latest amendment to…

Anharmonicity-driven phonon avoided crossing and anomalous thermal transport in nodal-line semimetal ZrSiS
Xin Jin, Qingqing Zhang, Dengfeng Li, Zhenxiang Cheng, Jianli Wang, Xuewei Lv, Xiaoyuan Zhou, Rui Wang, Xianyong Ding, Peng Yu, Xiaolong Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19081

Un bon plan de sauvegarde informatique doit inclure des technologies différentes.
Mais les sauvegardes Time Machine sur un disque dur, c’est d'un pénible…

Relayed-loop optical scan amplification
Harishankar Jayakumar, Christopher Warkentin, Deano Farinella, Samuel Stanek, Zachary L Newman, Runze Liu, Aaron Kerlin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18399

Relayed-loop optical scan amplification
Many modern sensing, processing, and fabrication technologies depend upon the sequential scanning of laser light. Due to inertial, thermal, and electrical limitations, the speed of a typical laser deflector is inversely related to its optical invariant and therefore the number of resolvable spots it can address. Passive optical systems have been developed that can effectively double the optical invariant and maximum throughput of a single deflector. We present a method for increasing the effect…

Resilient technologies aren’t retro—they’re ROOT: Robust, Open, Ongoing, Time-tested. In RDM, text-first small, composable tools beat opaque stacks. Emacs/Org(-babel) for literate workflows & provenance; Makefiles declare rebuilds; CLI atoms—curl, sed, awk, grep, diff, tar, rsync, cron, SQLite—keep steps inspectable, portable, rebuildable. DOI: https://

Conceptual design of a Doppler Backscattering diagnostic for the EXL-50U spherical tokamak
Ying Hao Matthew Liang, Valerian Hongjie Hall-Chen, Terry L. Rhodes, Yumin Wang, Yihang Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18532

[2025-09-24 Wed (UTC), 5 new articles found for cs.ET Emerging Technologies]
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Call for Papers: "Gods in/of the Machine: Technologies of Metahuman Presence and Communication" in EASA 2026 conference (European Association of Social Anthropologists) https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcement…

Great example of why I'm fascinated w/ #quantum mechanics & technologies. It's an entire mind-blowing frontier of modern science.
▶️ There Is Something Faster Than Light - Veritasium
https://…

Quantum-memory-assisted on-demand microwave-optical transduction
Hai-Tao Tu, Kai-Yu Liao, Si-Yuan Qiu, Xiao-Hong Liu, Yi-Qi Guo, Zheng-Qi Du, Yang Xu, Xin-Ding Zhang, Hui Yan, Shi-Liang Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18834

Sodium-Decorated Ennea-Graphene: A Novel 2D Carbon Allotrope for High-Capacity Hydrogen Storage
Bill D. Aparicio Huacarpuma, Jos\'e A. S. Laranjeira, Nicolas F. Martins, Julio R. Sambrano, F\'abio L. Lopes de Mendon\c{c}a, Alexandre C. Dias, Luiz A. Ribeiro Junior
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19060

Sodium-Decorated Ennea-Graphene: A Novel 2D Carbon Allotrope for High-Capacity Hydrogen Storage
The development of safe, efficient, and reversible hydrogen storage materials is critical for advancing hydrogen-based energy technologies and achieving carbon-neutral goals. Ennea-Graphene, a new 2D carbon allotrope made of 4-, 5-, 6-, and mainly 9-membered carbon rings (nonagons), is introduced via Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations. Phonon dispersion and ab initio molecular dynamics demonstrate that the monolayer is mechanically and dynamically stable at 300 K, as no imaginary mode…

"Technologies like LLMs have utility, but the absurd way they've been over-hyped, the fact they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."
@… on
The majority AI view: spot on I'd say given advances in my field.
https://www.anildash.com//2025/10/17/the-majority-ai-view/

ElasticMoE: An Efficient Auto Scaling Method for Mixture-of-Experts Models
Gursimran Singh (Huawei Technologies Canada), Timothy Yu (Huawei Technologies Canada), Haley Li (Huawei Technologies Canada), Cheng Chen (Huawei Technologies Canada), Hanieh Sadri (Huawei Technologies Canada), Qintao Zhang (Huawei Technologies China), Yu Zhang (Huawei Technologies China), Ying Xiong (Huawei Technologies Canada), Yong Zhang (Huawei Technologies Canada), Zhenan Fan (Huawei Technologies Canada)

ElasticMoE: An Efficient Auto Scaling Method for Mixture-of-Experts Models
Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models promise efficient scaling of large language models (LLMs) by activating only a small subset of experts per token, but their parallelized inference pipelines make elastic serving challenging. Existing strategies fall short: horizontal scaling provisions entire replicas of the current configuration, often tens to hundreds of accelerators, leading to coarse granularity, long provisioning delays, and costly overprovisioning. Vertical scaling offers finer adjustments …

From National Observer
Why a former oil exec is going all-in on geothermal
“I am a big believer that the future of energy supply is moving away from conventional sources,” says Eavor Technologies CEO Mark Fitzgerald.

China’s APT31 linked to hacks on Russian tech firms https://therecord.media/russia-report-apt31-china-linked-hacks

"Technologies like LLMs have utility, but the absurd way they've been over-hyped, the fact they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value." https://www.anildash.com//20…

The Majority AI View
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Google is phasing out its Privacy Sandbox technologies; the initiative was launched in 2019 to develop privacy-protecting tech to replace third-party cookies (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/googles-privacy-sandbox-is-officially-dead/

Google’s Privacy Sandbox Is Officially Dead
The elimination of many remaining Privacy Sandbox APIs come six months after third-party cookies got a reprieve in Chrome.

Magnon-photon coupling in the YIG-based disk and ring microcavities
S. S. Demirchyan, D. M. Krichevsky, V. I. Belotelov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18872 https://

"It is 'remarkable' to see that China is so dominant and advanced in so many fields compared with the United States."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04048-7

China leads research in 90% of crucial technologies — a dramatic shift this century
The United States tops the remaining areas in an assessment of 74 technologies.

During the #COP30 climate conference in Brazil, Australia's opposition party withdrew from the country's net-zero by 2050 target. It now sees net-zero as a potential 'welcome outcome' of using Australia's resources (coal, gas) plus new energy technologies. Reckless.

Liberal Party formally abandons net zero by 2050 climate target
The decision brings the party closer to the Nationals, which ditched its support for the target earlier this month amid internal turmoil over the Coalition's policy.

Your Donations at Work: Funding Josh Matthews' Contributions to Servo - Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.
https://servo.org/blog/2025/09/17/your-donations-at-work-funding…

"The hidden health risks of bottled water"
#Water #Plastic #Plastics

The hidden health risks of bottled water
Plastic bottled water is popular despite health risks and environmental costs but decentralised technologies could cut plastic waste while improving water safety.

»Akamai kauft WebAssembly-Spezialisten Fermyon:
Der Cloud- und Cybersecurity-Anbieter Akamai Technologies will mit der Akquisition des Serverless-Spezialisten Fermyon seine Edge-Computing-Strategie ausbauen. Im Fokus steht die WebAssembly-basierte Function-as-a-Service-Technologie.«
Schon länger ist WebAssembly (@…) im Aufwind, nun aber auch umf…

Akamai kauft WebAssembly-Spezialisten Fermyon
Akamai Technologies will mit der Akquisition des Serverless-Spezialisten Fermyon seine Edge-Computing-Strategie ausbauen.

Ukraine's drone innovations: developing unmanned technologies for defense: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/11/ukraines-drone-innovations-developing-unmanned.html

Future of Privacy Forum Appoints Four New Members to Its Board of Directors 
https://fpf.org/press-releases/future-of-privacy-forum-appoints-four-new-members-to-its-board-of-directors/

Comparative Performance Analysis of Modern NoSQL Data Technologies: Redis, Aerospike, and Dragonfly
Deep Bodra, Sushil Khairnar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08863 https://

Comparative Performance Analysis of Modern NoSQL Data Technologies: Redis, Aerospike, and Dragonfly
The rise of distributed applications and cloud computing has created a demand for scalable, high-performance key-value storage systems. This paper presents a performance evaluation of three prominent NoSQL key-value stores: Redis, Aerospike, and Dragonfly, using the Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark (YCSB) framework. We conducted extensive experiments across three distinct workload patterns (read-heavy, write-heavy), and balanced while systematically varying client concurrency from 1 to 32 clients…

Workers Governing Technologies Workshop - #UofT #TorontoEvents
https://creativelabourcriticalfutures.ca/blog/workers-governing-technologies-workshop/

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I do not think that Meta's Metaverse failed cause the devs weren't efficient enough. It's conceptually flawed and underbaked at best, without vision and direction. A toy Mark no longer cares too much about.
(And even getting 5% more efficiency out of LLMs is a stretch, studies show improvement of 1 or 2% at best - because you have to spend a lot of time to clean up the generated mess, especially if you are building frameworks and foundational technologies)

Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’
Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."

Amazon's CTO, Dr. Werner Vogels, recently shared this short post about how software development improves with age. His perspective revolves around the recurrence of certain patterns in technology where the experienced developer can say "New technology, same pattern.", and sift through the daily onslaught of new technologies in a calm fashion, weeding out what's just flash from more interesting developments.
"Development gets better with Age"

Google is phasing out its Privacy Sandbox technologies; the initiative was launched in 2019 to develop privacy-protecting tech to replace third-party cookies (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/googles-privacy-sandbox-is-officially-dead/

Google’s Privacy Sandbox Is Officially Dead
The elimination of many remaining Privacy Sandbox APIs come six months after third-party cookies got a reprieve in Chrome.

Context-Aware Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Racing
Emran Yasser Moustafa, Ivana Dusparic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11501 https://arxiv…

Context-Aware Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Racing
Autonomous vehicles have shown promising potential to be a groundbreaking technology for improving the safety of road users. For these vehicles, as well as many other safety-critical robotic technologies, to be deployed in real-world applications, we require algorithms that can generalize well to unseen scenarios and data. Model-based reinforcement learning algorithms (MBRL) have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance and data efficiency across a diverse set of domains. However, these algori…

Omni-Captioner: Data Pipeline, Models, and Benchmark for Omni Detailed Perception
Ziyang Ma, Ruiyang Xu, Zhenghao Xing, Yunfei Chu, Yuxuan Wang, Jinzheng He, Jin Xu, Pheng-Ann Heng, Kai Yu, Junyang Lin, Eng Siong Chng, Xie Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12720

Omni-Captioner: Data Pipeline, Models, and Benchmark for Omni Detailed Perception
Fine-grained perception of multimodal information is critical for advancing human-AI interaction. With recent progress in audio-visual technologies, Omni Language Models (OLMs), capable of processing audio and video signals in parallel, have emerged as a promising paradigm for achieving richer understanding and reasoning. However, their capacity to capture and describe fine-grained details remains limited explored. In this work, we present a systematic and comprehensive investigation of omni de…

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
paid $825,000 earlier this year
to a company that manufactures vehicles equipped with various technologies for law enforcement,
including fake cellphone towers known as “cell-site simulators,” which can be used to spy on nearby phones.  
According to public records, the award dated May 8
“provides Cell Site Simulator (CSS) Vehicles to support the Homeland Security Technical Operations program”
and is a modifi…

ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones  | TechCrunch
The federal contract shows ICE spent $825,000 on vans equipped with “cell-site simulators” which allow the real-world location tracking of nearby phones and their owners.

Protecting Persona Biometric Data: The Case of Facial Privacy
Lambert Hogenhout, Rinzin Wangmo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03035 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.…

Protecting Persona Biometric Data: The Case of Facial Privacy
The proliferation of digital technologies has led to unprecedented data collection, with facial data emerging as a particularly sensitive commodity. Companies are increasingly leveraging advanced facial recognition technologies, often without the explicit consent or awareness of individuals, to build sophisticated surveillance capabilities. This practice, fueled by weak and fragmented laws in many jurisdictions, has created a regulatory vacuum that allows for the commercialization of personal i…

⓿ Study outlines steps for California to reach net-zero emissions by 2045
#california

Study outlines steps for California to reach net-zero emissions by 2045
A 2022 California law mandates net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045 and negative emissions every year thereafter. The state can achieve this but will have to act quickly and thoroughly, and success will require new technologies for sectors difficult to decarbonize, a new Stanford University study finds. The state will need to decarbonize not only cars and electricity but also trucks, trains, planes, agriculture, and factories, while slashing pollution from its oil refineries.

"We read Jet Zero as a gamble predicated on a series of technologies and policies that are highly unlikely to achieve their goals."
Full article: Flight from reality: sustainable aviation, Jet Zero, and the technofix
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

Defects in hexagonal boron nitride for quantum technologies
Tobias Vogl, Viktor Iv\'ady, Isaac J. Luxmoore, Hannah L. Stern
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04344 https://

Defects in hexagonal boron nitride for quantum technologies
Atomic defects in solid-state materials are building blocks for future quantum technologies, such as quantum communication networks, computers, and sensors. Until recently, a handful of defects in a small selection of host materials have been possible candidates. Recent developments have revealed that hexagonal boron nitride, a wide-bandgap two-dimensional material, hosts single-photon-emitting atomic defects with access to optically addressable electronic and nuclear spins at room temperature.…

Interoperability From OpenTelemetry to Kieker: Demonstrated as Export from the Astronomy Shop
David Georg Reichelt, Shinhyung Yang, Wilhelm Hasselbring
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11179

Interoperability From OpenTelemetry to Kieker: Demonstrated as Export from the Astronomy Shop
The observability framework Kieker provides a range of analysis capabilities, but it is currently only able to instrument a smaller selection of languages and technologies, including Java, C, Fortran, and Python. The OpenTelemetry standard aims for providing reference implementations for most programming languages, including C# and JavaScript, that are currently not supported by Kieker. In this work, we describe how to transform OpenTelemetry tracing data into the Kieker framework. Thereby, it …

It's that time again! Tomorrow evening (Tue 9/12), 20:00 NZST is our monthly FOSS/Libre Tech catch up. Find us at https://meeting.iridescent.nz - all welcome! We'll be discussing relevant current events, sharing case studies, looking at new technologies, and how to make a living doing this stuff! Our mee…

Schon im 19. Jahrhundert versteht Samuel Butler, die Maschinen als eine separate evolutionäre Spezies, die mehr an ihrem eigenen Überleben mehr interessiert ist, als am Wohlergehen der Menschen:
> A world where we prioritize the relentless advancement of technology and a universal dependence on it in the name of efficiency is a world where we prioritize a certain political-economic order that is more interested in advancing technologies based on criteria that have little to do with…

On the Origins of Dune's Butlerian Jihad
Some notes on what should go in our own Orange Catholic Bible.

Neuromorphic Computing -- An Overview
Benedikt Jung, Maximilian Kalcher, Merlin Marinova, Piper Powell, Esma Sakalli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06721 https://

Neuromorphic Computing - An Overview
With traditional computing technologies reaching their limit, a new field has emerged seeking to follow the example of the human brain into a new era: neuromorphic computing. This paper provides an introduction to neuromorphic computing, why this and other new computing systems are needed, and what technologies currently exist in the neuromorphic field. It begins with a general introduction into the history of traditional computing and its present problems, and then proceeds to a general overvi…

Five-page draft Trump administration cyber strategy targeted for January release
https://cyberscoop.com/trump-national-cybersecurity-strategy-2025-release/

Five-page draft Trump administration cyber strategy targeted for January release
Trump administration plans January 2026 release of a six-part national cybersecurity strategy, focusing on deterrence, regulations, workforce, procurement, infrastructure, and emerging technologies.

Current and Future Directions for Responsible Quantum Technologies: A ResQT Community Perspective
Adrian Schmidt, Alexandre Artaud, Arsev Umur Aydinoglu, Astrid B\"otticher, Rodrigo Araiza Bravo, Marilu Chiofalo, Rebecca Coates, Ilke Ercan, Alexei Grinbaum, Emily Haworth, Carolyn Ten Holter, Eline de Jong, Bart Karstens, Matthias C. Kettemann, Anna Kn\"orr, Clarissa Ai Ling Lee, Fabienne Marco, Wenzel Mehnert, Josephine C. Meyer, Shantanu Sharma, Pieter Vermaas, Carrie Weidne…

Current and Future Directions for Responsible Quantum Technologies: A ResQT Community Perspective
Quantum technologies (QT) are advancing rapidly, promising advancements across a wide spectrum of applications but also raising significant ethical, societal, and geopolitical impacts, including dual-use capabilities, varying levels of access, and impending quantum divide(s). To address these, the Responsible Quantum Technologies (ResQT) community was established to share knowledge, perspectives, and best practices across various disciplines. Its mission is to ensure QT developments align with …

CCS does not look like you may think💨🏭
Carbon Capture and Storage is certainly one of the more controversial technologies to mitigate climate change.
When I observe discussions about it, I am often frustrated.
Sometimes, I feel we're talking about entirely different worlds of CCS. One is the world of ideas that people may have about what CCS might look like.
The other is how actual CCS projects look in the real world.🧵

VideoVerse: How Far is Your T2V Generator from a World Model?
Zeqing Wang, Xinyu Wei, Bairui Li, Zhen Guo, Jinrui Zhang, Hongyang Wei, Keze Wang, Lei Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08398

VideoVerse: How Far is Your T2V Generator from a World Model?
The recent rapid advancement of Text-to-Video (T2V) generation technologies, which are critical to build ``world models'', makes the existing benchmarks increasingly insufficient to evaluate state-of-the-art T2V models. First, current evaluation dimensions, such as per-frame aesthetic quality and temporal consistency, are no longer able to differentiate state-of-the-art T2V models. Second, event-level temporal causality, which not only distinguishes video from other modalities but also constitu…

MeanFlowSE: One-Step Generative Speech Enhancement via MeanFlow
Yike Zhu (Audio, Speech and Language Processing Group), Boyi Kang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China, Audio, Speech and Language Processing Group), Ziqian Wang (Audio, Speech and Language Processing Group), Xingchen Li (Audio, Speech and Language Processing Group, Huawei Technologies, China), Zihan Zhang (Huawei Technologies, China), Wenjie Li (Huawei Technologies, China), Longshuai Xiao …

MeanFlowSE: One-Step Generative Speech Enhancement via MeanFlow
Speech enhancement (SE) recovers clean speech from noisy signals and is vital for applications such as telecommunications and automatic speech recognition (ASR). While generative approaches achieve strong perceptual quality, they often rely on multi-step sampling (diffusion/flow-matching) or large language models, limiting real-time deployment. To mitigate these constraints, we present MeanFlowSE, a one-step generative SE framework. It adopts MeanFlow to predict an average-velocity field for on…

Beyond Accessibility: How Intelligent Assistive Technologies Improve Activities of Daily Life for Visually Impaired People in South Africa
Ronaldo Nombakuse, Nils Messerschmidt, Pitso Tsibolane, Muhammad Irfan Khalid
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05998

Beyond Accessibility: How Intelligent Assistive Technologies Improve Activities of Daily Life for Visually Impaired People in South Africa
Our study explores how intelligent assistive technologies (IATs) can enable visually impaired people (VIPs) to overcome barriers to inclusion in a digital society to ultimately improve their quality of life. Drawing on the Social Model of Disability (SMD), which frames disability as a consequence of social and institutional barriers rather than individual impairments, we employ semi-structured interviews and an online qualitative survey with n=61 VIPs in South Africa. Using descriptive statisti…

China provides the materials and technologies Russia needs for making the drones that attack Ukrainian civilians.
Because Russia is shit, they often send drones that fail to explode, providing excellent evidence of the bits and pieces coming from China and the west.
Giorgio is on the ground in Ukraine, gathering receipts from the wreckage and reporting from the trenches of democracy.
He shares the friend link so the world can learn the truth of what their governments are do…

China’s Signature On Russian Terror
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

i installed tailscale on my oscilloscope

«Because people have varying needs across disparate contexts from assorted expectations with unequal skill levels using almost random technologies, never mind current moods and real-life distractions, to suggest one thing will be accessible for everyone in all those circumstances is pure hubris. Or lack of empathy. Maybe a mix.»
So obvious but underappreciated. AutSPACEs ran into that all the time. Often one person's accessibility is another person's barrier.
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/12/you-cant-make-something-accessible-to-everyone.html

424-word hot take: “You Can’t Make Something Accessible to Everyone”
#accessibility

You Can’t Make Something Accessible to Everyone
This post’s title is unpleasant, but it’s important to acknowledge the reality of the human condition and limitations in technologies. Even purpose-built assistive tech. Broadly, when someone says something is “accessible” that’s a hopeful statement that is based on some best efforts. Of course, there are bad actors who assert…

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Poland in talks to transfer MiG-29s to Ukraine in exchange for drone and missile technologies: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/10/poland-in-talks-to-transfer.html

Lidar manufacturer Luminar files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and says it reached a deal to sell its semiconductor subsidiary to Quantum Computing Inc. for $110M (Reshmi Basu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Volvo Supplier Luminar Files Bankruptcy After Contract Dispute
Luminar Technologies Inc, which manufactures laser-based sensors for cars, filed for bankruptcy shortly after it lost a contract with Swedish carmaker Volvo AB.

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Monitoring of Fluid Transport in Low Temperature Water Electrolyzers and Fuel Cells: Emerging Technologies and Future Prospects
Zehua Dou, Laura Tropf, Tobias Lappan, Hannes Rox, Xuegeng Yang, Lars Buettner, David Weik, Harry Hoster, Kerstin Eckert, Juergen Czarske
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12542 …

Monitoring of Fluid Transport in Low Temperature Water Electrolyzers and Fuel Cells: Emerging Technologies and Future Prospects
Low temperature water electrolyzers (LTWEs) and low temperature hydrogen fuel cells (LTFCs) present a promising technological strategy for the productions and usages of green hydrogen energy towards a net-zero world. However, the interactions of gas/liquid (fluid) transport and the intrinsic reaction kinetics in LTWEs/LTFCs present one of the key hurdles hindering high production rate and high energy conversion efficiency. Addressing these limitations requires analytical tools that are capable …

How Far I'll Go: Imagining Futures of Conversational AI with People with Visual Impairments Through Design Fiction
Jeanne Choi, Dasom Choi, Sejun Jeong, Hwajung Hong, Joseph Seering
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12268

How Far I'll Go: Imagining Futures of Conversational AI with People with Visual Impairments Through Design Fiction
People with visual impairments (PVI) use a variety of assistive technologies to navigate their daily lives, and conversational AI (CAI) tools are a growing part of this toolset. Much existing HCI research has focused on the technical capabilities of current CAI tools, but in this paper, we instead examine how PVI themselves envision potential futures for living with CAI. We conducted a study with 14 participants with visual impairments using an audio-based Design Fiction probe featuring specula…

Advances in artificial vision systems: a comprehensive review of technologies, applications, and future directions https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13534-025-00513-4 "clinical value hinges on durability, effective resolution, surgical practicality, and user t…

Advances in artificial vision systems: a comprehensive review of technologies, applications, and future directions - Biomedical Engineering Letters
This review article focuses on recent advancements and persistent challenges in artificial vision prostheses designed to restore sight for patients affected by retinal diseases. It comprehensively examines various approaches, including epiretinal, subretinal, and suprachoroidal implants, as well as optic nerve and visual cortex stimulation strategies. The critical role of the retina in visual perception is explored, emphasizing how retinal degeneration affects the transmission of visual informa…

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- Qubit-Efficient QUBO Formulation for Constrained Optimization Problems
Meerzhan Kanatbekova, Vincenzo De Maio, Ivona Brandic

Der Kampf um Nexperia https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10157

"Building sustainable sodium-ion batteries from wood industry by-products"
#Batteries #Energy
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Building sustainable sodium-ion batteries from wood industry by-products
In light of the growing demand for energy storage for the energy transition, there is an urgent need for cost-effective, safe and resource-efficient battery technologies. Sodium-ion batteries based on locally available and environmentally friendly materials offer a promising approach. Fraunhofer researchers and their project partners are working on a sodium-ion battery system based on lignin, a by-product of the wood and pulp industry.

🌿 Oxford’s TIDE Centre launches the Nature’s Intelligence Studio at #COP30 — turning 3.4 billion years of evolution into solutions for today’s climate and energy challenges. Innovation inspired by the Amazon, for the planet. 🌍✨

Oxford's TIDE Centre launches Nature’s Intelligence Studio at COP30 | University of Oxford
The University of Oxford’s TIDE Centre (Technology and Industrialisation for Development Centre) has launched the Nature’s Intelligence Studio, a new programme to translate principles observed in biological systems into technologies that support the energy transition and wider sustainability goals, while ensuring fair benefit-sharing with communities in biodiverse regions.

Australia-based AI infrastructure company Firmus raised AU$500M, or ~$325M, tripling its valuation to AU$6B in two months, after raising AU$330M in September (Tess Bennett/Australian Financial Review)
https://www.afr.com/technology/oliver-curt

Firmus Technologies: Oliver Curtis’ AI infrastructure start-up triples valuation to $6 billion
The AI start-up has tripled its valuation in two months, raising a further $500 million from investors to bankroll its massive data centre developments. 

A principled way to think about AI in education: guidance for action based on goals, models of human learning, and use of technologies
Noah D. Finkelstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01467

A principled way to think about AI in education: guidance for action based on goals, models of human learning, and use of technologies
The rapid emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and related technologies has the potential to dramatically influence higher education, raising questions about the roles of institutions, educators, and students in a technology-rich future. While existing discourse often emphasizes either the promise and peril of AI or its immediate implementation, this paper advances a third path: a principled framework for guiding the use of AI in teaching and learning. Drawing on decades of scho…

The assumption is that one day large language models and other related AI technologies fostered by Google Gemini and OpenAI ChatGPT actually will be a great and infallible productivity tool for genuine work.
It already is decent for providing basic overviews of highly-covered, well-sourced topics, even as hallucinations and sycophancy continue to dog the tech, particularly in situations where accountability is more critical.
Despite today's downsides,
many companies ar…

Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, with estimates that it has no road to profitability by 2030 — and will need a further $207 billion in funding even if it gets there
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?

A smart city model for an intelligent traffic light decision system
Darko Pajkovski, Marija Apostoloska Kondoska, Hristina Dimova Popovska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25254 https…

A smart city model for an intelligent traffic light decision system
A smart city is a framework that uses information and communication technologies to improve public safety, quality of life, transportation and energy efficiency. A big share of these technologies has intelligent networks consisting of connected objects and devices that transmit data using wireless technology and cloud-based solutions. These technologies and their applications can receive, analyze and manage data in real-time to help citizens and municipalities make better decisions to improve q…

Contextuality-based quantum key distribution with deterministic single-photon sources
Yu Meng, Debashis Saha, Mikkel Thorbj{\o}rn Mikkelsen, Clara Henke, Ying Wang, Nikolai Bart, Arne Ludwig, Ad\'an Cabello, Leonardo Midolo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12761

Contextuality-based quantum key distribution with deterministic single-photon sources
Photons are central to quantum technologies, with photonic qubits offering a promising platform for quantum communication. Semiconductor quantum dots stand out for their ability to generate single photons on demand, a key capability for enabling long-distance quantum networks. In this work, we utilize high-purity single-photon sources based on self-assembled InAs(Ga)As quantum dots as quantum information carriers. We demonstrate that such on-demand single photons can generate quantum contextual…

Sonification and haptic feedback for mathematical graph accessibility: State of the art and future directions in assistive technologies and educational applications for users with visual impairments https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000186056 Cf. The vOICe

Sonification and Haptic Feedback for Mathematical Graph Accessibility : State of the art and future directions in assistive technologies and educational applications for users with visual impairments

Digital Innovation in Microenterprises: Current Trends and New Research Avenues
Juan E. G\'omez-Morantes (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana), Andrea Herrera (Universidad de los Andes), Sonia Camacho (Universidad de los Andes)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07519

Digital Innovation in Microenterprises: Current Trends and New Research Avenues
The relationship between microenterprises and information and communication technologies (ICTs) has always been troublesome. Because of the rapid pace of modern digital technologies, digital innovation processes are permeating the industries, markets, and social contexts in which microenterprises exist today. However, microenterprises have severe difficulties engaging or performing in these digital contexts and are at risk of being left behind. This paper reviews the literature on ICTs and micr…

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- Large-Area Fabrication-Aware Computational Diffractive Optics
Wei, Jimenez-Romero, Amata, Sun, Fu, Heide, Heidrich

🎤 Stethoscope, meet AI: Helping doctors hear hidden sounds to better diagnose disease
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-stethoscope-ai-doctors-hidden-disease.html

Stethoscope, meet AI: Helping doctors hear hidden sounds to better diagnose disease
When someone opens the door and enters a hospital room, wearing a stethoscope is a telltale sign that they're a clinician. This medical device has been around for more than 200 years and remains a staple in the clinic despite significant advances in medical diagnostics and technologies.

VisPile: A Visual Analytics System for Analyzing Multiple Text Documents With Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs
Adam Coscia, Alex Endert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09605

VisPile: A Visual Analytics System for Analyzing Multiple Text Documents With Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs
Intelligence analysts perform sensemaking over collections of documents using various visual and analytic techniques to gain insights from large amounts of text. As data scales grow, our work explores how to leverage two AI technologies, large language models (LLMs) and knowledge graphs (KGs), in a visual text analysis tool, enhancing sensemaking and helping analysts keep pace. Collaborating with intelligence community experts, we developed a visual analytics system called VisPile. VisPile inte…

Source: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and more are set to unveil the Agentic AI Foundation to build open-source AI agent standards as soon as this week (Aaron Holmes/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai…

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Agree to Develop Agent Standards Together
For AI agents to work properly in automating white-collar tasks, the companies developing the agents and the companies running the enterprise apps those agents use will need to agree on technical standards for how these technologies connect to each other.Some leading companies are preparing to ...

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.ET. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.ET/new
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- Mixture of Inverse Gaussians for Hemodynamic Transport (MIGHT) in Vascular Networks
Jakumeit, Heinlein, Richter, Lotter, Schober, Sch\"afer

Entangled Photon Pair Generator via Biexciton-Exciton Cascade in Semiconductor Quantum Dots and its Simulation
Simon Sekav\v{c}nik, Paul Kohl, Janis N\"otzel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09262

Entangled Photon Pair Generator via Biexciton-Exciton Cascade in Semiconductor Quantum Dots and its Simulation
The generation of entangled photon pairs is highly useful for many types of quantum technologies. In this work an entangled photon pair generator that utilises the biexciton-exciton cascade in semiconductor quantum dots is described on a physical, mathematical, and software level. The system is implemented and simulated as a self-contained component in a framework for bigger quantum optical experiments. Thus, it is a description to further the holistic understanding of the system for interdisci…

A New Digital Divide? Coder Worldviews, the Slop Economy, and Democracy in the Age of AI
Jason Miklian, Kristian Hoelscher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04755 https://

A New Digital Divide? Coder Worldviews, the Slop Economy, and Democracy in the Age of AI
Digital technologies are transforming democratic life in conflicting ways. This article bridges two perspectives to unpack these tensions. First, we present an original survey of software developers in Silicon Valley, interrogating how coder worldviews, ethics, and workplace cultures shape the democratic potential and social impact of the technologies they build. Results indicate that while most developers recognize the power of their products to influence civil liberties and political discours…

Perceptual learning of prosthetic vision using video game training https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2810927 "A key limitation shared by both electronic and optogenetic sight recovery technologies is that they cause simultaneous rather than complementa…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.ET. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.ET/new
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- Exploration of Embodied Space Experience through Umbilical Interaction: A Grounded Theory Approach
Shuai Guo, Dawei Liu, Tiantian Zheng

Datadog's stock jumps 20% after reporting Q3 revenue up 28% YoY to $885.7M, above $852.8M est., and forecasting Q4 revenue at $912M-$916M, above $877M est. (Jaures Yip/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/datadogs-ddog-stock-earnings.html

Datadog's stock soars 20% on revenue beat, strong forecast
Datadog has rolled out multiple artificial intelligence technologies as the AI boom boosts demand for cloud security.

Cryogenic pressure sensing with an ultrafast Meissner-levitated microrotor
Joel K Jose, Andrea Marchese, Marion Cromb, Hendrik Ulbricht, Andrejs Cebers, Ping Koy Lam, Tao Wang, Andrea Vinante
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24964

Cryogenic pressure sensing with an ultrafast Meissner-levitated microrotor
Magnetically levitated spinning rotors are key elements in important technologies such as navigation by gyroscopes, energy storage by flywheels, ultra-high vacuum generation by turbomolecular pumps, and pressure sensing for process control. However, mechanical rotors are typically macroscopic and limited to room temperature and low rotation frequencies. In particular, sensing pressure at low temperatures remains a technological challenge, while emerging quantum technologies demand a precise eva…

AI and Human Oversight: A Risk-Based Framework for Alignment
Laxmiraju Kandikatla, Branislav Radeljic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09090 https://arxiv.org/pd…

AI and Human Oversight: A Risk-Based Framework for Alignment
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies continue to advance, protecting human autonomy and promoting ethical decision-making are essential to fostering trust and accountability. Human agency (the capacity of individuals to make informed decisions) should be actively preserved and reinforced by AI systems. This paper examines strategies for designing AI systems that uphold fundamental rights, strengthen human agency, and embed effective human oversight mechanisms. It discusses key oversight…

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- Exploring human-SAV interaction using LLMs: The impact of psychological factors on user experience
Lirui Guo, Michael G. Burke, Wynita M. Griggs

CrowdStrike and Nvidia announce an expanded partnership to deepen the use of each other's technologies for creating and deploying AI agents for cybersecurity (Kyle Alspach/CRN)
https://www.crn.com/news/ai/2025/5-big-moves-in-crowdstrike-nvidia-ai-partner…

5 Big Moves In CrowdStrike-Nvidia AI Partnership
A newly announced partnership expansion between CrowdStrike and Nvidia will see the technology giants utilizing each other’s capabilities more deeply for the creation and deployment of AI agents.