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"The trick is knowing which tape to use, and young influencers on the social media platform are quick to enter into paid partnerships to sell the one brand of mouth tape you really need."
The Paper-Thin Evidence for Mouth Taping https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/…

The Paper-Thin Evidence for Mouth Taping
TikTokers can’t shut up about this one simple trick. All you need to do is seal your mouth with tape before going to bed, and you will apparently collect a slew of benefits. It will give you more energy, chisel your jawline, and even improve the health of your heart in the long run. The trick is knowing which tape to use, and young influencers on the social media platform are quick to enter into paid partnerships to sell the one brand of mouth tape you really need. If you don’t trust “ran…

Got a yard sign at the Evanston Main Street Fair from @katmabu.bsky.social.
Really respect her hustle in this campaign. Just out there at everything, meeting voters face to face. Her platform seems solid, and it would be great to have her enthusiasm and energy representing the 9th.
The best way to support her campaign is to donate

I started a conversion tool today for Plan 9 a.out to ELF.
https://github.com/platform-system-interface/p9aout2elf
The corresponding ELF I was given with an a.out has some differences in memory sizs for some reason.
I will see about trabslating the symbol table…

GitHub - platform-system-interface/p9aout2elf: Parse and convert Plan 9 a.out binaries
Parse and convert Plan 9 a.out binaries. Contribute to platform-system-interface/p9aout2elf development by creating an account on GitHub.

Last week I asked Google to stop releasing broken things. Apologists said maybe I needed to contribute more, write code or demos.
Last year I outlined some of what I *have* done and how, for the most part, Google / Web•dev doesn’t give a shit:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/07…

Don’t Use Web•dev for Accessibility Info
Web.dev is a site from Google Chrome developer relations that provides content both to evangelize Chrome and to more broadly support the web platform. Rachel Andrew’s monthly “new to the platform” posts are effectively required reading to try to stay abreast of the browser support landscape. However, the accessibility content…

Microsoft is now allowing developers to sign up for a private preview of what it calls the Windows Update orchestration platform, that will enable Windows Update to support any update for apps or drivers in the future.
https://www.theverge.com/news/675446/micro

Microsoft wants Windows Update to handle all apps
Microsoft is starting to open up Windows Update to third-party apps. A new preview is designed to let any app developer use Windows Update.

Winnipeg-based Conquest Planning, which uses AI to help financial advisors and other clients make decisions, raised an $80M Series B led by Goldman Sachs (Jon Fingas/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/conquest-planning-

Conquest Planning raises $110-million Series B to fuel US expansion of its financial management platform | BetaKit
Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives led the Winnipeg startup’s latest funding round.

Talk about an unholy alliance. #react and #windows. 💀
https://…

Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns
Recent observations from users on the social platform X have uncovered performance issues tied to the Windows 11 Start Menu, revealing that the component

We had the pleasure of presenting at FIRST.org 2025, showcasing the Vulnerability-Lookup and GCVE.eu initiatives.
Slides are now available.
#cybersecurity #vulnerability #cve

are you a platform/embedded developer?
do you need to interact with hardware in a semi-custom manner?
would you like to suffer a lot less doing it?
if so, #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer might be for you. the code below is all you need to build a custom testbench for a DUT you've never seen before. just as easily you can add JTAG/SWD debug, protocol analyzers, etc.…

Today I saw a train I've never seen before at Luxembourg central train station. It seemed very old, with "Rheingold" written on it.
Searching online, I cannot find anything about it still running today. The route it used to operate does not pass through Luxembourg.
It seemed to be the main stop on it's way to Köln.
Does anyone know more about it? ( @…

NetChoice sues Arkansas over two laws that would put limits on social media content and let parents of children who died by suicide sue over platform content (Andrew Demillo/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/net-choice-ar…

Tech industry group sues Arkansas over new social media laws
A tech industry trade group has sued Arkansas over two new law placing limits on content on social media platforms. The lawsuit was filed Friday in federal court by NetChoice, whose members include TikTok, Facebook parent Meta, and X, formerly known as Twitter. The lawsuit comes months after a federal judge struck down an Arkansas law that would have required parental consent for minors to create new social media accounts. The new laws the group is challenging include one that would allow paren…

Discover the intriguing 'Buddhism: The Unspeakable Truth’ article about how the Law of Silence Empowers Victims' Narratives. Dive into the insightful read here: https://web.archive.org/web/20221201073253/https://tricycle.or…

‘Buddhism: The Unspeakable Truth’ Elevates Victims’ Stories in Imperfect Documentary
Despite shortcomings, the film gives a necessary platform to abuse survivors.

Bridging the Narrative Divide: Cross-Platform Discourse Networks in Fragmented Ecosystems
Patrick Gerard, Hans W. A. Hanley, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21729

Bridging the Narrative Divide: Cross-Platform Discourse Networks in Fragmented Ecosystems
Political discourse has grown increasingly fragmented across different social platforms, making it challenging to trace how narratives spread and evolve within such a fragmented information ecosystem. Reconstructing social graphs and information diffusion networks is challenging, and available strategies typically depend on platform-specific features and behavioral signals which are often incompatible across systems and increasingly restricted. To address these challenges, we present a platform…

We are thrilled to announce that Elastic has once again joined Berlin Buzzwords as a Silver Partner.
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Check Point acquires Israeli cyber startup firm Veriti for $100 million
https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/byjdi4emee

Check Point acquires Israeli cyber startup firm Veriti for $100 million
The Israeli company, founded in 2021 by Check Point alumni, has developed a platform for identifying and fixing security gaps in real time 30 Veriti employees will join Check Point as part of the deal, which is a continuation of the company's Israeli acquisition strategy

JUNO 20-inch PMT and electronics system characterization using large pulses of PMT dark counts at the Pan-Asia testing platform
Caimei Liu, Min Li, Narongkiat Rodphai, Zhimin Wang, Jun Hu, Nikolay Anfimov, Lei Fan, Alberto Garfagnini, Guanghua Gong, Shaojing Hou, Xiaolu Ji, Xiaoshan Jiang, Denis Korablev, Tobias Lachenmaier, Si Ma, Xiaoyan Ma, Zhe Ning, Alexander G. Olshevskiy, Zhaoyuan Peng, Zhonghua Qin, Tobias Sterr, Yunhua Sun, Alexander Felix Tietzsch, Jun Wang, Wei Wang, Yangfu W…

JUNO 20-inch PMT and electronics system characterization using large pulses of PMT dark counts at the Pan-Asia testing platform
The main goal of the JUNO experiment is to determine the neutrino mass ordering with a 20kt liquid-scintillator detector. The 20-inch PMT and its 1F3 (one for three) electronics are crucial to realize the excellent energy resolution of at least 3% at 1MeV. The knowledge on the PMT and 1F3 electronics response is critical for detector performance understanding. A study of the JUNO 20-inch PMT and 1F3 electronics system characterization is presented using large pulses of PMT dark count at the Pan…

„Eden 377“ by Made
Platform: Amiga
Released: 30 December 1996
Specification: 320x256px 128 colors
Note: 2nd in the The Party 1996 Graphics competition
#GFX_Made #YR_1996 #PF_Amiga

Meson spectroscopy of exotic symmetries of Ising criticality in Rydberg atom arrays
Joseph Vovrosh, Julius de Hond, Sergi Juli\`a-Farr\'e, Johannes Knolle, Alexandre Dauphin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21299

Meson spectroscopy of exotic symmetries of Ising criticality in Rydberg atom arrays
The Ising model serves as a canonical platform for exploring emergent symmetry in quantum critical systems. The critical point of the 1D Ising chain is described by a conformal Ising field theory, which remains integrable in the presence of a magnetic perturbation leading to massive particles associated with the exceptional Lie algebra $E_8$. Coupling two Ising chains in a ladder leads to an even richer $\mathcal{D}^{(1)}_8$ symmetry. Experimental signatures of the associated particle excitatio…

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EStacker: Explaining Battery-Less IoT System Performance with Energy Stacks
Lukas Liedtke, Per Gunnar Kjeldsberg, Frank Alexander Kraemer, Magnus Jahre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22366

EStacker: Explaining Battery-Less IoT System Performance with Energy Stacks
The number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices is increasing exponentially, and it is environmentally and economically unsustainable to power all these devices with batteries. The key alternative is energy harvesting, but battery-less IoT systems require extensive evaluation to demonstrate that they are sufficiently performant across the full range of expected operating conditions. IoT developers thus need an evaluation platform that (i) ensures that each evaluated application and configuration…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14223 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@a…

Topological electron and phonon flat bands in novel kagome superconductor XPd5 (X=Ca, Sr, Ba)
Fermionic and bosonic localized states induced by geometric frustration in the kagome lattice provide a distinctive research platform for investigating emergent exotic quantum phenomena in strongly correlated systems. Here, we report the discovery of coexisting electronic and phononic flat bands induced by geometric frustration in a novel kagome superconductor XPd5 (X=Ca, Sr, Ba). The electronic flat band is located around the Fermi level and possesses a nontrivial topological invariant with Z2…

Evaporation-induced freezing dynamics of droplets levitated in acoustic field
Misaki Mitsuno, Xiao Ma, Koji Hasegawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22001 https…

Evaporation-induced freezing dynamics of droplets levitated in acoustic field
This paper presents the evaporation-induced freezing dynamics of pure cyclohexane droplets levitated via acoustic levitation. Acoustic levitation has attracted considerable attention across various fields owing to its potential to create lab-in-a-drop systems. While droplet evaporation is a fundamental physicochemical process in such a platform, the freezing of droplets induced by evaporation has been sparsely explored experimentally. For pure cyclohexane, the rapid evaporation of levitated dro…

📊 Generates structured spreadsheets with formulas & data organization
💻 Develops interactive web applications directly within the platform
🔍 Performs extensive research combining web searches, code execution & data visualization

HelixDesign-Binder: A Scalable Production-Grade Platform for Binder Design Built on HelixFold3
Jie Gao, Jun Li, Jing Hu, Shanzhuo Zhang, Kunrui Zhu, Yueyang Huang, Xiaonan Zhang, Xiaomin Fang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21873

HelixDesign-Binder: A Scalable Production-Grade Platform for Binder Design Built on HelixFold3
Protein binder design is central to therapeutics, diagnostics, and synthetic biology, yet practical deployment remains challenging due to fragmented workflows, high computational costs, and complex tool integration. We present HelixDesign-Binder, a production-grade, high-throughput platform built on HelixFold3 that automates the full binder design pipeline, from backbone generation and sequence design to structural evaluation and multi-dimensional scoring. By unifying these stages into a scalab…

A profile of OnlyFans' secretive founder Leo Radvinsky, as the platform's parent company is considering a sale for as much as $8B, according to sources (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/only-fa

How HP's poor strategic and systematic thinking by HP destroyed WebOS and $1.2 billion, a platform before it's time that deserved better.
https://philmckinney.substack.com/p/i-convinced-hps-board-to-buy-palm
(Fun fact: the lead desig…

I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days
The systematic thinking errors that kill breakthrough technology and the decision framework that prevents these disasters

📢 The 2025 GÉANT Innovation Programme has been awarded to the GÉANT Digital Research Environment (DRE) initiative!
Based on the @… Research Cloud, the initiative is a close collaboration between SURF & GÉANT.
Four NRENs —SUNET, Switch, HEAnet & Sikt — will also contribute with their own funding by establishing national tenancies of the GÉANT DRE.

GÉANT Innovation Programme awards its 2025 edition to Digital Research Environment (DRE) initiative | GÉANT CONNECT Online
The GÉANT Innovation Programme is excited to announce the award of its entire 2025 fund to the development of a GÉANT Digital Research Environment (DRE) and of a series of related Proof of Concepts. Based on the SURF Research Cloud, this digital platform will allow researchers and research organisations within NREN communities to build virtual

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18469 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

Self-doped Molecular Mott Insulator for Bilayer High-Temperature Superconducting La3Ni2O7
The bilayer structure of recently discovered high-temperature superconducting nickelates La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ provides a new platform for investigating correlation and superconductivity. Starting from a bilayer Hubbard model, we show that there is a molecular Mott insulator limit formed by the bonding band owing to Hubbard interaction $U$ and large interlayer coupling. This molecular Mott insulator becomes self-doped due to electrons transferred to the antibonding bands at a weaker interlayer coup…

The platform of 33 year-old Zohran Mamdani, the “Democatic Socialist" immigrant who just won the primary in New York City (setting himself up for Mayor's election in November)
free public buses 🚎
universal childcare 👶
freezing rent in subsidized units 🏚️
city-run grocery stores 🥖🥒🍎
all paid for by new taxes on the rich.🤑
Good people want these things. They are not complicated or extreme.
also:
"strong support of Palestinians and criticism of Israel”
#Socialist #CanPoli
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg6yg7x467o

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04555 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eco…

Who Bears the Cost? High-Frequency Evidence on Minimum Wage Effects and Amenity Pass-Through in Spot Labor Markets
This paper provides causal evidence on the short-run effects of minimum wage hikes in a spot labor market, using confidential contract-level data from Timee, a Japanese job-matching platform. Leveraging high-frequency variation and a bin-level difference-in-differences design, we find a 2 percentage point decline in employment within affected wage bins, with losses concentrated below the new threshold. Transportation reimbursement--a flexible nonwage amenity--remains largely unchanged, indicati…

Our partners at the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory have found cyanobacteria microcystin toxins in the western basin of Lake Erie April 28, far earlier this year than ever before. The season starts earlier and lasts longer due to #ClimateChange.

Printing a Death Star pot plant tonight! 🚀🪴 Get ready for some out-of-this-world greenery in the galaxy far, far away (my living room). #StarWars

Is there a cross-platform utility that allows you set up domain aliases locally and keep track of them. I just don't want to keep opening and closin the /etc/hosts file.

In-Memory Sorting-Searching with Cayley Tree
Subrata Paul, Sukanta Das, Biplab K Sikdar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19379 https://arxi…

In-Memory Sorting-Searching with Cayley Tree
This work proposes a computing model to reduce the workload of CPU. It relies on the data intensive computation in memory, where the data reside, and effectively realizes an in-memory computing (IMC) platform. Each memory word, with additional logic, acts as a tiny processing element which forms the node of a Cayley tree. The Cayley tree in turn defines the framework for solving the data intensive computational problems. It finds the solutions for in-memory searching, computing the max (min) in…

All-electric control of skyrmion-bimeron transition in van der Waals heterostructures
Lan Bo, Songli Dai, Xichao Zhang, Masahito Mochizuki, Xiaohong Xu, Zean Tian, Yan Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20984

All-electric control of skyrmion-bimeron transition in van der Waals heterostructures
Two-dimensional van der Waals materials offer a versatile platform for manipulating atomic-scale topological spin textures. In this study, using first-principles and micromagnetic calculations, we demonstrate a reversible transition between magnetic skyrmions and bimerons in a MoTeI/In_2Se_3 multiferroic heterostructure. The physical origin lies in the reorientation of the easy axis of magnetic anisotropy, triggered by the reversal of ferroelectric polarization. We show that the transition oper…

A broadband platform to search for hidden photons
Daqing Liu, Bin Tang, Xingfang Jiang, Xianyun Liu, Ning Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19449 https://

A broadband platform to search for hidden photons
The optical behavior of a structure consisting of graphene sheets embedded in media was studied, and the differences between the structure and ordinary birefringent crystal, double zero-reflectance point, were identified. We showed the changes in the optical behavior of the structure due to the existence of hidden photons. When a radiation illuminates the structure, only $ω^2/ω_p^2>1+\frac{m_X^2 c^4 χ^2}{ε_r\hbar^2ω_p^2}$ can propagate through the structure. This provides a broadband platf…

A US judge dismissed Rumble's antitrust suit accusing Google of violating antitrust law by allegedly promoting YouTube in search results and its other products (Wendy Davis/MediaPost)
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/406168/

Google Defeats Rumble Antitrust Suit
Conservative video platform Rumble's antitrust claims against Google fell outside the four-year statute of limitations, a federal judge ruled.

Malicious earworms and useful memes, how the far-right surfs on TikTok audio trends
Marloes Geboers, Marcus B\"osch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20695 h…

Malicious earworms and useful memes, how the far-right surfs on TikTok audio trends
With its features of remix, TikTok is the designated platform for meme-making and dissemination. Creative combinations of video, emoji, and filters allow for an endless stream of memes and trends animated by sound. The platform has focused its moderation on upholding physical safety, hence investing in the detection of harmful challenges. In response to the DSA, TikTok implemented opt-outs for personalized feeds and features allowing users to report illegal content. At the same time, the platfo…

A year after the CrowdStrike incident spawned BSODs across the world, in July, Microsoft will roll out its Windows endpoint security platform to allow Windows solutions to run outside the kernel, hopefully eliminating the chance of such an incident again.
https://redmondmag.c…

Ok, just a smol rant... Every time theres a new job platform, it's pretty neccessary to upload a whole portfolio again. And once all the images, and text are uploaded, the tags need to be accurate so they appear in site-searches correctly.
Not only that, but it then needs to be maintained. So, any changes or new projects to add... need to be done on every platform.
Am I wrong in thinking this is so incredibly tedious? lol
#Work #Jobs #Career

CyberArmor has a post up detailing abuse of the Vercel app development platform. Vercel is a legit tool that allows for the rapid creation of web applications. They have a free tier and unfortunately it gets abused. The free tier apps use the domain pattern *.vercel.app. I recommend blocking this domain and only allowing access to vetted sites using this domain name. Note that commercial sites using the Vercel platform will have their own domain names so your potential for collateral damage …

"I'm Petting the Laptop, Which Has You Inside It": Reflecting on Lived Experiences of Online Friendship
Seraphina Yong, Ashlee Milton, Evan Suma Rosenberg, Stevie Chancellor, Svetlana Yarosh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20055

"I'm Petting the Laptop, Which Has You Inside It": Reflecting on Lived Experiences of Online Friendship
Online(-only) friendships have become increasingly common in daily lives post-COVID despite debates around their mental health benefits and equivalence to ''real'' relationships. Previous research has reflected a need to understand how online friends engage beyond individual platforms, and the lack of platform-agnostic inquiry limits our ability to fully understand the dynamics of online friendship. We employed an activity-grounded analysis of 25 interviews on lived experiences of close online …

Modern applications require search capabilities that go beyond basic text matching. They must be fast, accurate, personalised and context-aware. At this year's Berlin Buzzwords, Saurabh Singh will demonstrate how OpenSearch’s latest AI/ML enhancements and engine improvements enable organisations to build intelligent, scalable search experiences that meet these evolving needs.
Learn more:

From Search to Insight: Leveraging OpenSearch for Scalable, AI-Driven Search Experiences
Observability, log analytics, GenAI systems, and RAG pipelines must query massive volumes of semantic embeddings to retrieve relevant content instantly. Today’s search systems often fall short in handling high-dimensional vector data and similarity search. OpenSearch 3.0 brings significant architectural improvements to address these challenges. Integrating Apache Lucene 10 and JVM 21, the platform delivers 20% faster queries than its 2.x predecessor and 10× the throughput of 1.x versions. Ne…

bitcoin_trust: Bitcoin OTC trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin OTC platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 5881 nodes and 35592 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps

Vietnam orders ban on Telegram messaging app over security concerns https://therecord.media/vietnam-orders-telegram-messaging-ban

When you are a swift developer, every day is Xmas!
https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-sdks-for-webassembly-now-available-on-swift-org/80405

Swift SDKs for WebAssembly now available on swift.org
As the Platform Steering Group accepted the vision document for WebAssembly support, we’re excited to announce that Swift SDKs for Wasm are now available at swift.org/install. The website now also hosts a getting started guide for Wasm with installation and build instructions. You may notice "Swift SDKs" is in plural. The reason is that artifact bundles for Wasm distributed from swift.org include two Swift SDKs: one with the full feature set of the Swift standard library and Swift Testing, a…

Walmart's Flipkart says about 200M Indian users engaged with social videos and livestreams promoting products on the platform in H1 2025, up from 75M a year ago (Satviki Sanjay/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles…

Reproducible Evaluation of Camera Auto-Exposure Methods in the Field: Platform, Benchmark and Lessons Learned
Olivier Gamache, Jean-Michel Fortin, Mat\v{e}j Boxan, Fran\c{c}ois Pomerleau, Philippe Gigu\`ere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18844

Reproducible Evaluation of Camera Auto-Exposure Methods in the Field: Platform, Benchmark and Lessons Learned
Standard datasets often present limitations, particularly due to the fixed nature of input data sensors, which makes it difficult to compare methods that actively adjust sensor parameters to suit environmental conditions. This is the case with Automatic-Exposure (AE) methods, which rely on environmental factors to influence the image acquisition process. As a result, AE methods have traditionally been benchmarked in an online manner, rendering experiments non-reproducible. Building on our prior…

Blaine Cook, an original Twitter architect is one of the backers of the new Canadian social platform #Gander
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/busi…

Tech leaders ready launch of Canadian social-media platform Gander to buck U.S. dominance
Founders aim to create alternative that addresses content, data sovereignty concerns

Bridding OT and PaaS in Edge-to-Cloud Continuum
Carlos J Barrios (LIG, UIS, CITI), Yves Denneulin (LIG, Grenoble INP)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21072 http…

Bridding OT and PaaS in Edge-to-Cloud Continuum
The Operational Technology Platform as a Service (OTPaaS) initiative provides a structured framework for the efficient management and storage of data. It ensures excellent response times while improving security, reliability, data and technology sovereignty, robustness, and energy efficiency, which are crucial for industrial transformation and data sovereignty. This paper illustrates successful deployment, adaptable application management, and various integration components catering to Edge and…

Rather they are, amongst other things, that emails in Arabic be sent when Trust & Security moderates an account, so that recipients can understand how platform rules have been breached.
Given the extremity of the situation, this seems like an aggressively moderate ask.

Just read Plantin & Thomer's article, on the changes Figshare for Institutions introduces into the provision & organization of data-management labor in libraries. The authors worry that this commercial SaaS platform for institutional & data repositories, while fulfilling a number of library needs, will have detrimental effects. While it's a good piece of infrastructure-studies research, I question some of the analysis & conclusions.

@… @… Not QA, any more than any of the team are QA, but UX.
I’m on a platform team, so the product is internal and developer-focused. We hired a tech writer to manage our docs (and probably docs throughout th…

Measuring optical force with a torsion pendulum: a platform for independent student experimentation
Leland Russell (Dept. of Physics, Reed College, Portland OR USA), Ezekiel A. Rein (Dept. of Physics, Reed College, Portland OR USA), Anatalya Piatigorsky (Dept. of Physics, Reed College, Portland OR USA), Jennifer T. Heath (Dept. of Physics, Reed College, Portland OR USA)

Measuring optical force with a torsion pendulum: a platform for independent student experimentation
In this work, the force due to radiation pressure is measured with sub-10 pN sensitivity, corresponding to less than 2 mW of optical power. The apparatus adds homemade reflectors to a commercial Cavendish balance, which consists of a torsion pendulum with a built-in capacitance position sensor. When driven by four 5 mW laser diodes, with square-wave modulation at the pendulum's natural frequency, the response is strong enough to easily discern in a short time series. The discrete Fourier transf…

Live Updates:
‘We Have Won,’ Mamdani Says
as Cuomo Concedes N.Y.C. Mayoral Primary
Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assemblyman, galvanized voters with an energetic campaign focused on affordability.
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo left the door open to running in the general election.
Zohran Mamdani,
a little-known state lawmaker whose progressive economic platform electrified younger voters,
surged into the lead in the Democratic primary for mayor of …

‘We Have Won,’ Mamdani Says, as Cuomo Concedes N.Y.C. Mayoral Primary
Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assemblyman, galvanized voters with an energetic campaign focused on affordability. Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo left the door open to running in the general election.

Exploring Developer Experience Factors in Software Ecosystems
Rodrigo Oliveira Zacarias, L\'eo Carvalho Ramos Antunes, M\'arcio de Oliveira Barros, Rodrigo Pereira dos Santos, Patricia Lago
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19757

Exploring Developer Experience Factors in Software Ecosystems
Context: Developer experience (DX) plays a key role in developers' performance and their continued involvement in a software ecosystem (SECO) platform. While researchers and practitioners have recognized several factors affecting DX in SECO platforms, a clear roadmap of the most influential factors is still missing. This is particularly important given the direct impact on developers' interest in SECO and their ongoing engagement with the common technological platform. Goal: This work aims to i…

Elon Musk says X will charge for ads "based on vertical size", with an ad taking up the whole screen costing more than one that takes up a quarter of the screen (Matt Swider/The Shortcut)
https://www.theshortcut.com/p/x-changes-ads-sizes-bans-ha…

X will start charging for ads based on vertical size, get rid of ad hashtags, says Elon Musk
The social media platform formerly known as Twitter is trying to disincentivize 'giant ads that impair the user experience

The US is finally building its National Database of Ruin.
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/22/intel-agencies-buying-data-portal-privacy/

U.S. Spy Agencies Are Getting a One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Most Sensitive Personal Data
The government wants to build a centralized platform where spy agencies can more easily buy private info about millions of people.

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Elon Musk says X will charge for ads "based on vertical size", with an ad taking up the whole screen costing more than one that takes up a quarter of the screen (Matt Swider/The Shortcut)
https://www.theshortcut.com/p/x-changes-ads-sizes-bans-ha…

X will start charging for ads based on vertical size, get rid of ad hashtags, says Elon Musk
The social media platform formerly known as Twitter is trying to disincentivize 'giant ads that impair the user experience

Deezer rolls out AI tagging system to fight streaming fraud; says up to 70% of streams from fully AI-generated tracks are fraudulent
#AI #MusicTech #NotTrustworthy

Deezer rolls out AI tagging system to fight streaming fraud; says up to 70% of streams from fully AI-
Platform has introduced what it claims to be the world’s first AI tagging system for music streaming…

“We’re in a moment when the moral forces of the world and religious forces of the world have a deep responsibility to say it doesn’t have to be this way.”
—The Divinity School's William Barber in today's NY Times speaking about the wars, polarization, inequality, disinformation, and other challenges #PopeLeo must contend with as he begins his papacy

For Catholics, the Pope Is a Holy Father. For the World, He Is a Powerful Voice
The papacy is a global platform, so the issues Pope Leo chooses to focus on can resonate far beyond the church.

"You should know Trump isn’t doing this on his own. The Hoover Institution has been plotting revenge against FDR since 1932. Groups like the Heritage Foundation and Heartland Foundation are generations old. The Federalist Society has been promising to overturn liberal justice since the 1960s. The Religious Right started working to overturn Roe v. Wade the day it was promulgated. All these groups have big money, and they play the long game.
What’s happening today is their platform, backed by their research. The fact it won’t work, that the 20th century won’t be put back into a bottle, that the Amendments put in place after 1865 somehow aren’t part of the “real” Constitution, is yet to be proven by events."
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Counter-propagating spontaneous parametric down-conversion source in lithium niobate on insulator
Jost Kellner, Alessandra Sabatti, Tristan Kuttner, Robert J. Chapman, Rachel Grange
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21396

Counter-propagating spontaneous parametric down-conversion source in lithium niobate on insulator
Quantum photonic technologies rely on the ability to generate, manipulate, and interfere indistinguishable single photons on a scalable platform. Among the various approaches, spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) remains one of the most widely used methods for generating entangled or pure photon pairs. However most integrated SPDC sources relying on co-propagating geometries have a limited purity of heralded photons, or require lossy filtering. Type-2 SPDC processes can produce pure se…

Binsparse: A Specification for Cross-Platform Storage of Sparse Matrices and Tensors
Benjamin Brock, Willow Ahrens, Hameer Abbasi, Timothy A. Davis, Juni Kim, James Kitchen, Spencer Patty, Isaac Virshup, Erik Welch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19175

Binsparse: A Specification for Cross-Platform Storage of Sparse Matrices and Tensors
Sparse matrices and tensors are ubiquitous throughout multiple subfields of computing. The widespread usage of sparse data has inspired many in-memory and on-disk storage formats, but the only widely adopted storage specifications are the Matrix Market and FROSTT file formats, which both use ASCII text. Due to the inefficiency of text storage, these files typically have larger file sizes and longer parsing times than binary storage formats, which directly store an in-memory representation to di…

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Beyond Code: #APIs as the Next #OSS Battleground
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bitcoin_alpha: Bitcoin Alpha trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin Alpha platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
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300 mm Wafer-Scale SiN Platform for Broadband Soliton Microcombs Compatible with Alkali Atomic References
Shao-Chien Ou, Alin Antohe, Lewis G. Carpenter, Gregory Moille, Kartik Srinivasan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20895

300 mm Wafer-Scale SiN Platform for Broadband Soliton Microcombs Compatible with Alkali Atomic References
Chip-integrated optical frequency combs (OFCs) based on Kerr nonlinear resonators are of great significance given their scalability and wide range of applications. Broadband on-chip OFCs reaching visible wavelengths are especially valuable as they address atomic clock transitions that play an important role in position, navigation, and timing infrastructure. Silicon nitride (SiN) deposited via low pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) is the usual platform for the fabrication of chip-integ…

Filters of Identity: AR Beauty and the Algorithmic Politics of the Digital Body
Miriam Doh, Corinna Canali, Nuria Oliver
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19611 h…

Filters of Identity: AR Beauty and the Algorithmic Politics of the Digital Body
This position paper situates AR beauty filters within the broader debate on Body Politics in HCI. We argue that these filters are not neutral tools but technologies of governance that reinforce racialized, gendered, and ableist beauty standards. Through naming conventions, algorithmic bias, and platform governance, they impose aesthetic norms while concealing their influence. To address these challenges, we advocate for transparency-driven interventions and a critical rethinking of algorithmic …

Podcast: ICE's 'Backdoor' Into a Nationwide AI Surveillance Network https://www.404media.co/podcast-ices-backdoor-into-a-nationwide-ai-surveillance-network/

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Scalable quantum interference in integrated lithium niobate nanophotonics
Tristan Kuttner, Alessandra Sabatti, Jost Kellner, Rachel Grange, Robert J. Chapman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20519

Scalable quantum interference in integrated lithium niobate nanophotonics
Photonics has emerged as one of the leading platforms for the implementation of real-world-applicable quantum technologies, enabling secure communication, enhanced sensing capabilities, as well as resolving previously intractable computational challenges. However, to harness the full potential of the photonics platform, several engineering feats need to be accomplished, among those is the quest for a scalable source of pure single photons. While single photon sources can be implemented in a var…

Discover the intriguing 'Buddhism: The Unspeakable Truth’ article about how the Law of Silence Empowers Victims' Narratives. Dive into the insightful read here: https://web.archive.org/web/20221201073253/https://tricycle.or…

‘Buddhism: The Unspeakable Truth’ Elevates Victims’ Stories in Imperfect Documentary
Despite shortcomings, the film gives a necessary platform to abuse survivors.

Daydream, which raised a $50M seed in June 2024 to build a generative AI shopping agent for fashion, launches in beta, with an app expected later this summer (Hilary Milnes/Vogue Business)
https://www.voguebusiness.com/story/techno

Is Daydream’s AI platform the answer to fashion’s discovery problem?
Founder Julie Bornstein raised $50 million last year to create the ultimate AI shopping experience. Today, it launches in beta.

MegaFold: System-Level Optimizations for Accelerating Protein Structure Prediction Models
Hoa La, Ahan Gupta, Alex Morehead, Jianlin Cheng, Minjia Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20686

MegaFold: System-Level Optimizations for Accelerating Protein Structure Prediction Models
Protein structure prediction models such as AlphaFold3 (AF3) push the frontier of biomolecular modeling by incorporating science-informed architectural changes to the transformer architecture. However, these advances come at a steep system cost, introducing: compute- and memory-intensive operators, 2D attention mechanisms, and retrieval-augmented data pipelines, which collectively hinder the scalability of AF3 training. In this work, we present MegaFold, a cross-platform system to accelerate AF…

Orbital Collision: An Indigenously Developed Web-based Space Situational Awareness Platform
Partha Chowdhury, Harsha M, Ayush Gupta, Sanat K Biswas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16892

Orbital Collision: An Indigenously Developed Web-based Space Situational Awareness Platform
This work presents an indigenous web based platform Orbital Collision (OrCo), created by the Space Systems Laboratory at IIIT Delhi, to enhance Space Situational Awareness (SSA) by predicting collision probabilities of space objects using Two Line Elements (TLE) data. The work highlights the growing challenges of congestion in the Earth's orbital environment, mainly due to space debris and defunct satellites, which increase collision risks. It employs several methods for propagating orbital unc…

Deezer rolls out AI tagging system to fight streaming fraud; says up to 70% of streams from fully AI-generated tracks are fraudulent

Deezer rolls out AI tagging system to fight streaming fraud; says up to 70% of streams from fully AI-
Platform has introduced what it claims to be the world’s first AI tagging system for music streaming…

When you are a Godot developer, every day is Xmas!
Support for Apple's VisionPro has now been merged into Godot:
https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/105628

Native visionOS platform support by rsanchezsaez · Pull Request #105628 · godotengine/godot
Dear Godot community, I'm on Apple's visionOS engineering team, and we would like to contribute Vision Pro support to the Godot engine. This is the first PR that lays the foundation for tha...

Cost-benefit analysis of an AI-driven operational digital platform for integrated electric mobility, renewable energy, and grid management
Arega Getaneh Abate, Xiaobing Zhang, Xiufeng Liu, Dogan Keles
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20631

Cost-benefit analysis of an AI-driven operational digital platform for integrated electric mobility, renewable energy, and grid management
Integrating electric mobility (electric vehicles (EVs), electric trucks (ETs)) and renewable energy sources (RES) with the power grid is paramount for achieving decarbonization, efficiency, and stability. Given the rapid growth of decentralized technologies and their critical role in decarbonization, two critical challenges emerge: first, the development of a digital platform for operational coordination; and second, rigorous research into their cost-benefit profile. This paper addresses this b…

Unconventional high-harmonic generation in resonant membrane metasurfaces
Pavel Tonkaev, Felix Richter, Ivan Toftul, Maria Antonietta Vincenti, Ivan Sinev, Michael Scalora, Hatice Altug, Yuri Kivshar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20873

Unconventional high-harmonic generation in resonant membrane metasurfaces
High-harmonic generation (HHG) in solids has rapidly emerged as a promising platform for creating compact attosecond sources and probing ultrafast electron dynamics. Resonant metasurfaces are essential for enhancement of the otherwise small harmonic generation efficiency through local field enhancement and are essential to circumvent the need of phase matching constraints. Until now, the metasurface-enhanced HHG was believed to follow the conventional integer-power scaling laws that hold for no…

5 Days, 5 Stories: Using Technology to Promote Empathy in the Workplace
Russell Beale, Eugenia Sergueeva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19495 https://

5 Days, 5 Stories: Using Technology to Promote Empathy in the Workplace
Empathy is widely recognized as a vital attribute for effective collaboration and communication in the workplace, yet developing empathic skills and fostering it among colleagues remains a challenge. This study explores the potential of a collaborative digital storytelling platform - In Your Shoes - designed to promote empathic listening and interpersonal understanding through the structured exchange of personal narratives. A one-week intervention was conducted with employees from multiple orga…

Big drama over Discord warning a no-code platform called BotGhost that it will be kicked off unless it finds a new way to operate, due to a security vulnerability that has now been fixed.
https://update.botghost.com/#tldr-what-s-happening-with-botghost-and-discord…

Discord is Threatening to Shutdown BotGhost: The Enshittification of Discord.
Discord has issued BotGhost with a formal breach warning and given us an ultimatum: find a completely new way to operate without using bot tokens by July 14, 2025, or the platform will be shut down. The catch? That alternative does not exist, and Discord has offered no guidance, no support, and no path forward.

A Framework for Quantum Advantage
Olivia Lanes, Mourad Beji, Antonio D. Corcoles, Constantin Dalyac, Jay M. Gambetta, Loic Henriet, Ali Javadi-Abhari, Abhinav Kandala, Antonio Mezzacapo, Christopher Porter, Sarah Sheldon, John Watrous, Christa Zoufal, Alexandre Dauphin, Borja Peropadre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20658

A Framework for Quantum Advantage
As quantum computing approaches the threshold where certain tasks demonstrably outpace their classical machines, the need for a precise, clear, consensus-driven definition of quantum advantage becomes essential. Rapid progress in the field has blurred this term across companies, architectures, and application domains. Here, we aim to articulate an operational definition for quantum advantage that is both platform-agnostic and empirically verifiable. Building on this framework, we highlight the …

Roblox says it is on track to pay out $1B to creators in 2025, as it revamps its rewards program to encourage creators to bring more players onto the platform (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/691308/roblo

Roblox wants to better reward creators for bringing players back
Roblox is introducing two new systems that are designed to reward creators for engagement and bringing new and lapsed users onto the platform.

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Threat intel experts have told me that CISOs should be prepared for DDoS attacks in terms of Iranian threats.
"'313 Team' claimed responsibility for a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack on Trump’s Truth Social platform just hours after the U.S. strikes."

Iranian-Aligned Hackers Claim Responsibility for Attack on Trump’s Truth Social Platform
A group of Iranian-aligned hackers has reportedly attacked something President Donald Trump holds dear — his Truth Social platform.

Dinari, which offers blockchain-based US stocks, secures a broker-dealer registration to become the first tokenized equity platform to secure approval in the US (Hannah Lang/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustai…

In a letter to staff, CEO Eddie Wu says Alibaba is merging its food delivery platform Ele.me and online travel agency Fliggy into its core e-commerce business (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-t…

Alibaba folds delivery app and travel agency into e-commerce group
CEO Eddie Wu said the restructuring ‘marks a strategic upgrade from an e-commerce platform to a comprehensive consumer platform’.

Supercell makes Brawl Stars available on WeChat and says Clash Royale is "currently being developed" for a September launch on the WeChat mini-game platform (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3315…

Tencent-owned Supercell to launch titles like Clash Royale as WeChat mini games
The video game Brawl Stars is already available within WeChat, while Clash Royale will exclusively launch on the messaging app in September.

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Roblox says it is on track to pay out $1B to creators in 2025, as it revamps its rewards program to encourage creators to bring more players onto the platform (Jay Peters/The Verge)
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"The jury found that two of Lindell’s statements about Eric Coomer, the former security and product strategy director at Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems, including calling him a traitor, were defamatory."
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Jury finds MyPillow founder defamed former employee for a leading voting equipment company
A federal jury in Colorado has found MyPillow founder Mike Lindell defamed a former employee for a leading voting equipment company. Jurors reached the verdict Monday for Lindell, one of the nation’s most prominent election conspiracy theorists. He had called the employee for Dominion Voting Systems, Eric Coomer, a traitor. Lindell’s online media platform also streamed an event where a conservative podcaster accused Coomer of helping rig the 2020 election. During the trial in Denver, Lindel…

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At Cannes, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says YouTube plans to integrate Google's most advanced AI video generation tool, Veo 3, into YouTube Shorts later this summer (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

YouTube to Add Google’s Veo 3 to Shorts in Move That Could Turbocharge AI on the Video Platform
The Veo 3 video generator is capable of creating both videos and sound based on text prompts, with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan saying the "AI technology will push the limits of human creativity."

Facebook renames its Videos tab as the Reels tab and says all videos on its platform will soon be shared as reels, regardless of their length or orientation (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/face

Facebook announces that all videos on its platform will soon be shared as reels | TechCrunch
Facebook announced on Tuesday that all videos on its platform will soon be shared as reels, regardless of their length or orientation.

Betting platform Kalshi aired a fully AI-generated 30-second ad during the NBA Finals, reportedly made in 2-3 days with 300-400 generations using Google's Veo 3 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/686474/kalshi-ai-generated-a…

Here’s the $2,000 fully AI-generated ad that aired during the NBA Finals
Kalshi debuted an AI-generated ad during the NBA finals. The creator behind the ad said it only took two to three days to make using Google Veo 3.

Klarna launches a $40/month unlimited mobile plan in the US via a partnership with telecom services startup Gigs, following similar offerings by Revolut and N26 (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/18/klarna-ceo-outlines-plan-to…

Klarna CEO wants to turn the platform into a 'super app' with AI
The buy now, pay later giant's IPO may be on hold — but its business strategy remains the same, according to CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski.

Uber expands its data-labeling platform Uber AI Solutions to 30 countries, and adds new offerings like tools for developing AI agents and ready-to-use datasets (Richard Nieva/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2025/06/20/uber-scale-data-…

Uber Is Making A Push In Data Labeling After Scale AI’s Deal With Meta
The ride-haling giant, which unveiled a data-labeling platform late last year, thinks it can out-muscle the smaller rivals jockeying for position after Scale’s tie-up with Meta.

Canary, which offers hotel guest management tools, raised an $80M Series D led by Brighton Park Capital, valuing the company at about $600M (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/hotel-mana…

Hotel management platform Canary nabs $80M Series D from BPC, YC, Insight Partners | TechCrunch
Canary offers a product suite that encompasses every part of the guest journey, from booking to departure. The company offers services that let hotel guests check in on mobile devices or text the front desk for help. And it's leaning into AI in serving its customers’ guests through voice, web, and text with an LLM, sometimes offering instant responses.