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Data privacy experts are calling on the government to urgently tighten regulation around facial recognition technology, amid growing concerns over its unregulated use by police forces and private companies across the UK.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/202…

Government urged to tighten regulation around facial recognition technology
Data privacy experts are calling on the government to urgently tighten regulation around facial recognition technology, amid growing concerns over its unregulated use by police ...

Vivodyne, which uses AI and robots to grow human tissues in the lab for drug discovery and development, raised a $40M Series A, taking its total funding to $78M (Katherine Davis/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/biotech-deals/2025/05…

Vivodyne raises $40M for human tissue drug testing
It's seeing heightened demand following the FDA's plans to phase out animal testing requirements.

While consulting clients with #WordPress websites and dealing with support, I've learned that Staging can be challenging to understand. If you run a small business site, blog, or community project using WordPress, this guide is for you.

Learning to Incentivize in Repeated Principal-Agent Problems with Adversarial Agent Arrivals
Junyan Liu, Arnab Maiti, Artin Tajdini, Kevin Jamieson, Lillian J. Ratliff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23124

Learning to Incentivize in Repeated Principal-Agent Problems with Adversarial Agent Arrivals
We initiate the study of a repeated principal-agent problem over a finite horizon $T$, where a principal sequentially interacts with $K\geq 2$ types of agents arriving in an adversarial order. At each round, the principal strategically chooses one of the $N$ arms to incentivize for an arriving agent of unknown type. The agent then chooses an arm based on its own utility and the provided incentive, and the principal receives a corresponding reward. The objective is to minimize regret against the…

Packers' Josh Jacobs feels he 'left a lot on the table' in rebound season; RB eyes 'No. 1 spot,' Super Bowl in 2025 https://www.nfl.com/news/packers-josh-jacobs-feels-he-left-a-lot-o…

Evolution analysis of software quality metrics in an open-source java project: A case study on TestNG
Venkata Sai Sravya Sambaturu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22884

Evolution analysis of software quality metrics in an open-source java project: A case study on TestNG
Software quality is critical in modern software engineering, especially in large and evolving codebases. This study analyzes the evolution of software quality metrics in five successive versions of the open-source Java testing framework TestNG. Using the static analysis tool Understand, eleven key object-oriented metrics, including cyclomatic complexity, class coupling, and lines of code, were extracted for each version. Statistical and visual analyses reveal structural trends over time. The re…

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Unraveling the Interplay between Carryover Effects and Reward Autocorrelations in Switchback Experiments
A/B testing has become the gold standard for policy evaluation in modern technological industries. Motivated by the widespread use of switchback experiments in A/B testing, this paper conducts a comprehensive comparative analysis of various switchback designs in Markovian environments. Unlike many existing works which derive the optimal design based on specific and relatively simple estimators, our analysis covers a range of state-of-the-art estimators developed in the reinforcement learning (R…

Lift augmentation by incorporating bend twist coupled composites in flapping wing
Rahul Kumar, Devranjan Samanta, Srikant S. Padhee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23372

Lift augmentation by incorporating bend twist coupled composites in flapping wing
Drawing inspiration from the adaptive wing shape of birds in flight, this study introduces a bio-inspired concept for shape adaptation utilizing bend-twist coupling (BTC) in composite laminates. The primary aim of the design optimization is to identify the optimal fibre orientation angles needed to produce the required bending and twisting deformations, which directly contribute to the design's goal of maximizing lift without relying on external mechanisms for twisting. This novel technique inc…

Testing my new LLM, "#CrokAI":
Q. Explain why the 9th full test of the Starship was a resounding success.
A. Before we can get to Mars, we must perfect the needed technology by colonizing a target that is closer to us. While some think that the Moon could serve this purpose, the Earth is a much more convenient (if challenging) target. In test #9, Starshit, sorry, Starship managed t…

Sources say Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, and other Chinese companies are testing domestic alternatives as they deal with a dwindling stockpile of Nvidia processors (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/bb1315e8-27df-4a93-a4dc-11e2883fdde3

Chinese tech groups prepare for AI future without Nvidia
Tougher US export restrictions on advanced chips give added urgency to testing of domestic alternatives