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Partially paywalled but still lots of juicy data. “State of the software engineering job market in 2025”: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-the-tech-market-in-2025
From which:

State of the software engineering job market in 2025
A deepdive into today’s tech jobs market, with exclusive data on tech jobs, AI engineering, Big Tech recruitment, the growing importance of location, and more

Not such long walks today as it was raining. But the rain made some beautiful mood and we enjoyed some coffee and cake afterwards.

Cat Royale: An Artistic Inquiry into Trust in Robots
Matt Adams, Nick Tandavanitj, Steve Benford, Ayse Kucukyilmaz, Victor Ngo, Simon Castle-Green, Guido Salimberi, Pepita Bernard, Joel Fischer, Alan Chamberlain, Eike Schneiders, Clara Mancini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04970

Cat Royale: An Artistic Inquiry into Trust in Robots
Cat Royale is an artwork created by the artists Blast Theory to explore the question of whether we should trust robots to care for our loved ones. The artists endeavoured to create a `Cat Utopia', a luxurious environment that was inhabited by a family of three cats for six hours a day for twelve days, at the centre of which a robot arm played with them by wielding toys. Behind the scenes, the decision engine recommended games based on ongoing assessment of their happiness. A video installation …

Gaussian Process Modeling Coronal X-ray Variability of Active Galactic Nuclei
Haiyun Zhang, Dahai Yan, Li Zhang, Niansheng Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04715

Gaussian Process Modeling Coronal X-ray Variability of Active Galactic Nuclei
The corona is an integral component of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) which can produce the X-ray emission. However, many of its physical properties and the mechanisms powering this emission remain a mystery. In this work, we study the coronal X-ray variabilities of 13 AGNs by Gaussian Process. 2-10 keV light curves of 13 AGNs can be successfully described by the damped-random walk (DRW) model. The extracted coronal X-ray timescales range from 3 to 50 days. In the plot of variability timescale v…

"His uncle urged companies to be more mindful of staff who frequently come into the office at odd hours, suggesting that awareness alone could save lives" - Updated story reflects he had a heart attack. Had someone else been there, or had he not been working late to begin with, someone could have been around to act
Telling remark, "practice originated in China and was eventually banned there after being linked to burnout and deaths"

Very good and useful historical overview of England's role in making the mess that is the middle east, from Scottish historian @DalrympleWill [X]. Britain’s colonial legacy played a key role in creating this injustice. The suffering in Gaza didn’t start yesterday, it was engineered long ago.

Among US adults who have ever encountered paywalled articles, only 1% said they paid for access, 53% looked elsewhere, and 32% gave up on accessing the info (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…

Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls
Among adults who have not paid for news in the past year, the most common reason they cite is that they can find plenty of other news articles for free.

Have you or some one you know played Geometry Dash? It's a simple game with some very challenging levels and a pretty epic community of level makers. Inside is almost a whole game engine to build some of the most wild level I have ever seen.
This game is my nightmare but my son has sunk hundreds of hours in to this game and has even learned some game dev skill while trying to build levels
What do other know about this game?

Signature of a magnetar central engine with precession motion in the X-ray emission of GRB 220711B
Ying-Ze Shan, Xing Yang, Hou-Jun L\"u, Jared Rice, Hao-Yu Yuan, Xue-Zhao Chang, Zhao Joseph Zhang, Le Zou, En-Wei Liang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00284

Signature of a magnetar central engine with precession motion in the X-ray emission of GRB 220711B
The $γ$-ray light curve of long-duration GRB 220711B, is characterized by a multi-peaked structure with a duration lasting $\sim$105 seconds. More interestingly, the X-ray afterglow light curve is composed of a plateau emission smoothly connected with a $\sim t^{-2}$ segment overlapping some flares followed by an extremely steep decay. By analysing the light curves of both prompt emission and X-ray afterglow, no high-confidence-level quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) signals are found in the li…