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San Mateo-based observability service Observe raised a $156M Series C led by Sutter Hill Ventures with participation from Snowflake, Madrona, and others (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/30/observe-contin…

Observe continues to adapt to the changing world of software observability | TechCrunch
Observe just raised a $156 million Series C round as the company looks to offer support for Apache Iceberg by the end of the year.

The growth of print culture in the eighteenth century was associated with the growing prestige of reason,
hostility to superstition, the birth of capitalism, and the rapid development of science.
Other historians have linked the eighteenth century explosion of literacy to the Enlightenment, the birth of human rights, the arrival of democracy and even the beginnings of the industrial revolution.
The world as we know it was forged in the reading revolution.
🔥Now, we ar…

The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation

DaVinci said, "As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” Let your death be as good as your life. | Beyond the Taboo: Rethinking Society's Fear of Death #EndOfLife #Reposted

"And quite an adventure the life of Margittai Neumann Janos Lajos was. A child prodigy, he published his first paper in mathematics before age 20. He was the indisputable champion of applied mathematics in the 20th century. His work yielded groundbreaking advances in theoretical mathematics, quantum mechanics, game theory, economics, fluid dynamics, artificial intelligence, electrodynamics, meteorology, and computing."

William Aspray
There was a moment in which Kurt Gödel, Albert Einstein, and John von Neumann were all roaming the halls of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton at the same time. Let that information sink in. Humanity experiences such gatherings of brilliant minds in a remote location of the space-time continuum only every so often; maybe the ancient Greeks and the men of the Renaissance witnessed such periods in time, as did the IAS staff at the end of World War II. How much will we have to wait f…

What Can We Learn from Harry Potter? An Exploratory Study of Visual Representation Learning from Atypical Videos
Qiyue Sun, Qiming Huang, Yang Yang, Hongjun Wang, Jianbo Jiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21770

What Can We Learn from Harry Potter? An Exploratory Study of Visual Representation Learning from Atypical Videos
Humans usually show exceptional generalisation and discovery ability in the open world, when being shown uncommon new concepts. Whereas most existing studies in the literature focus on common typical data from closed sets, open-world novel discovery is under-explored in videos. In this paper, we are interested in asking: \textit{What if atypical unusual videos are exposed in the learning process?} To this end, we collect a new video dataset consisting of various types of unusual atypical data (…

Toward the Autonomous AI Doctor: Quantitative Benchmarking of an Autonomous Agentic AI Versus Board-Certified Clinicians in a Real World Setting
Hashim Hayat, Maksim Kudrautsau, Evgeniy Makarov, Vlad Melnichenko, Tim Tsykunou, Piotr Varaksin, Matt Pavelle, Adam Z. Oskowitz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22902

Toward the Autonomous AI Doctor: Quantitative Benchmarking of an Autonomous Agentic AI Versus Board-Certified Clinicians in a Real World Setting
Background: Globally we face a projected shortage of 11 million healthcare practitioners by 2030, and administrative burden consumes 50% of clinical time. Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to help alleviate these problems. However, no end-to-end autonomous large language model (LLM)-based AI system has been rigorously evaluated in real-world clinical practice. In this study, we evaluated whether a multi-agent LLM-based AI framework can function autonomously as an AI doctor in a vir…

TL;DR: spending money to find the cause of autism is a eugenics project, and those resources could have been spent improving accommodations for Autistic people instead.
To preface this, I'm not Autistic but I'm neurodivergent with some overlap.
We need to be absolutely clear right now: the main purpose is *all* research into the causes of autism is eugenics: a cause is sought because non-autistic people want to *eliminate* autistic people via some kind of "cure." It should be obvious, but a "cured autistic person" who did not get a say in the decision to administer that "cure" has been subjected to non-consensual medical intervention at an extremely unethical level. Many autistic people have been exceptionally clear that they don't want to be "cured," including some people with "severe autism" such as people who are nonverbal.
When we think things like "but autism makes life so hard for some people," we're saying that the difficulties in their life are a result of their neurotype, rather than blaming the society that punished & devalues the behaviors that result from that neurotype at every turn. To the extent that an individual autistic person wants to modify their neurotype and/or otherwise use aids to modify themselves to reduce difficulties in their life, they should be free to pursue that. But we should always ask the question: "what if we changed their social or physical environment instead, so that they didn't have to change themselves?" The point is that difficulties are always the product of person x environment, and many of the difficulties we attribute to autism should instead be attributed to anti-autistic social & physical spaces, and resources spent trying to "find the cause of autism" would be *much* better spent trying to develop & promote better accommodations for autism. Or at least, that's the case if you care about the quality of life of autistic people and/or recognize their enormous contributions to society (e.g., Wikipedia could not exist in anything near its current form without autistic input). If instead you think of Autistic people as gross burdens that you'd rather be rid of, then it makes sense to investigate the causes of autism so that you can eventually find a "cure."
All of that to say: the best response to lies about the causes of autism is to ask "What is the end goal of identifying the cause?" instead of saying "That's not true, here's better info about the causes."
#autism #trump
P.S. yes, I do think about the plight of parents of autistic kids, particularly those that have huge struggles fitting into the expectations of our society. They've been put in a position where society constantly bullies and devalues their kid, and makes it mostly impossible for their kid to exist without constant parental support, which is a lot of work and which is unfair when your peers get the school system to do a massive amount of childcare. But in that situation, your kid is in an even worse position than you as the direct victim of all of that, and you have a choice: are you going to be their ally against the unfair world, or are you going to blame them and try to get them to confirm enough that you can let the school system take care of them, despite the immense pain that that will provoke? Please don't come crying for sympathy if you choose the later option (and yes, helping them be able to independently navigate society is a good thing for them, but there's a difference between helping them as their ally, at their pace, and trying to force them to conform to reduce the burden society has placed on you).

DeepCodeSeek: Real-Time API Retrieval for Context-Aware Code Generation
Esakkivel Esakkiraja, Denis Akhiyarov, Aditya Shanmugham, Chitra Ganapathy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25716

DeepCodeSeek: Real-Time API Retrieval for Context-Aware Code Generation
Current search techniques are limited to standard RAG query-document applications. In this paper, we propose a novel technique to expand the code and index for predicting the required APIs, directly enabling high-quality, end-to-end code generation for auto-completion and agentic AI applications. We address the problem of API leaks in current code-to-code benchmark datasets by introducing a new dataset built from real-world ServiceNow Script Includes that capture the challenge of unclear API us…

Like David Graeber said, the biggest weapon they have is crushing our imagination, making it easier to picture the end of the world than the end of oppressive systems.
#Anarchism #Anarchy #Politics

Somewhere between my original vision for web 1.0 and the rise of social media as part of web 2.0,
we took the wrong path.
We’re now at a new crossroads,
one where we must decide if AI will be used for the betterment or to the detriment of society.
How can we learn from the mistakes of the past?
First of all, we must ensure policymakers do not end up playing the same decade-long game of catchup they have done over social media.
The time to decide the go…

Holographic defect CFTs with Dirichlet end-of-the-world branes
Haruki Nakayama, Tatsuma Nishioka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22270 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Holographic defect CFTs with Dirichlet end-of-the-world branes
We construct a holographic model of defect conformal field theories (DCFTs) with defects of codimension greater than one. Our construction generalizes the AdS/BCFT model by anchoring the end-of-the-world brane on defects at the asymptotic AdS boundary and imposing Dirichlet boundary conditions for the metric on the brane. We compute the defect entropy and defect free energy and show that the defect $\mathcal{C}$-function is always non-negative. We further study holographic defect-localized RG f…

Peaceful Piano Solos • Musicals https://pianodao.com/2025/05/21/peaceful-piano-solos-musicals/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/Piano & Piano I…

Peaceful Piano Solos • Musicals
Pianists at early advanced level who are keen to explore the riches of the West End and Broadway songbooks will find this new collection a superb addition to their piano playing library. Highly recommended!

ACLA 2026: Queering the Anthropocene: Radical Ecocritical Perspectives on the End of the World in Global Literature and Media
https://ift.tt/nGjuMok
updated: Monday, September 29, 2025 - 10:24amfull name / name of organization: ACLA 2026contact…
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Research Challenges and Progress in the End-to-End V2X Cooperative Autonomous Driving Competition
Ruiyang Hao, Haibao Yu, Jiaru Zhong, Chuanye Wang, Jiahao Wang, Yiming Kan, Wenxian Yang, Siqi Fan, Huilin Yin, Jianing Qiu, Yao Mu, Jiankai Sun, Li Chen, Walter Zimmer, Dandan Zhang, Shanghang Zhang, Mac Schwager, Wei Huang, Xiaobo Zhang, Ping Luo, Zaiqing Nie
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Research Challenges and Progress in the End-to-End V2X Cooperative Autonomous Driving Competition
With the rapid advancement of autonomous driving technology, vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication has emerged as a key enabler for extending perception range and enhancing driving safety by providing visibility beyond the line of sight. However, integrating multi-source sensor data from both ego-vehicles and infrastructure under real-world constraints, such as limited communication bandwidth and dynamic environments, presents significant technical challenges. To facilitate research in this…

I can't help feeling that any 'peace deal' for #Gaza supported by Cooper and Trump, and making Tony #Blair interim governor, will be a permanent stain on the conscience of the world.
#Palestine…

Day 3: Octavia Butler.
Incredibly dark, graphic, and disturbing near-future science fiction, which has proved absolutely prophetic. In the 1990's she was writing about a charismatic Conservative Christian and white nationalist president elected in 2024, and the horrors his paramilitary followers would unleash, including forced labor & indoctrination camps. Did I mention those books include ebikes & pseudo-cellphones too? Characters fleeing north from a disastrous social collapse in Loss Angeles? This is "The Parable of the Sower" and "The Parable of the Talents" and the later was tragically rushed to an end because of Butler's declining health.
Her work deals unflinchingly with racism and the darker parts of society, and to those who might say "her depiction of social collapse is overblown," I'd say that while it's not literally the world we live in, it's *effectively* the world that the poorest of us live in. If you're a homeless undocumented latinx person in LA right now, I'm not sure how meaningfully different your world is from the one she depicts.
Her work comes with a strong content warning for lots of things, including racial violence, sexual abuse and slavery, including of children, animal harm, etc., so it's not for everyone. Reading it in 2023 was certainly an incredible trip. Her politics are really cool though; with explicit pro-LGBTQ themes and tinges of what might today be considered #SolarPunk.
#20WomenAuthors

I uploaded my Drum & Bass mix to YouTube (with the fancy visuals) and Mixcloud!

• #Music

A Chaotic Dynamics Framework Inspired by Dorsal Stream for Event Signal Processing
Yu Chen, Jing Lian, Zhaofei Yu, Jizhao Liu, Jisheng Dang, Gang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26085

A Chaotic Dynamics Framework Inspired by Dorsal Stream for Event Signal Processing
Event cameras are bio-inspired vision sensor that encode visual information with high dynamic range, high temporal resolution, and low latency.Current state-of-the-art event stream processing methods rely on end-to-end deep learning techniques. However, these models are heavily dependent on data structures, limiting their stability and generalization capabilities across tasks, thereby hindering their deployment in real-world scenarios. To address this issue, we propose a chaotic dynamics event …

Efficient Fine-Grained GPU Performance Modeling for Distributed Deep Learning of LLM
Biyao Zhang, Mingkai Zheng, Debargha Ganguly, Xuecen Zhang, Vikash Singh, Vipin Chaudhary, Zhao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22832

Efficient Fine-Grained GPU Performance Modeling for Distributed Deep Learning of LLM
Training Large Language Models(LLMs) is one of the most compute-intensive tasks in high-performance computing. Predicting end-to-end training time for multi-billion parameter models distributed across hundreds of GPUs remains challenging due to complex interactions between transformer components, parallelism strategies(data, model, pipeline, tensor), and multi-tier communication. Learned models require costly sampling, while analytical models often struggle with real-world network and hardware …

I'm still a bit upset that the people with basically all the money in the world have decided to burn a huge chunk of the global economy, and potentially kill billions of people and end complex human society, because someone invented math that could flirt with people who, despite having basically all of the world's money and the ability to kill billions of people and end complex human society, are the most incompetent and pathetic fucking losers on the planet.
https://youtube.com/shorts/Olhz2JXrll8

Marco Rubio hands control of USAID to Project 2025 co-author Russell Vought over ‘pocket recessions’ battle | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rubio-usaid-end-pocket-recissions-project-2025-author-b2816791.html

A Management Framework for Vehicular Cloudtoward Economic and Environmental Efficiency
Rosario Patan\`e, Andrea Araldo, Nadjib Achir, Lila Boukhatem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24946

A Management Framework for Vehicular Cloudtoward Economic and Environmental Efficiency
Vehicular Cloud Computing (VCC) leverages the idle computing capacity of vehicles to execute end-users' offloaded tasks without requiring new computation infrastructure. Despite its conceptual appeal, VCC adoption is hindered by the lack of quantitative evidence demonstrating its profitability and environmental advantages in real-world scenarios. This paper tackles the fundamental question: Can VCC be both profitable and sustainable? We address this problem by proposing a management scheme for …

Not only was airfield at Bagram built in 1950s by Soviet Union, but potus was one who wanted US out of Afghanistan.
“It was Trump's administration that signed the peace agreement with the Taliban that paved the way for the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan near the end of his first term.”
Bad things may well happen to US soldiers if potus follows through on this.
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Overly academic/distanced ethical discussions
Had a weird interaction with @/brainwane@social.coop just now. I misinterpreted one of their posts quoting someone else and I think the combination of that plus an interaction pattern where I'd assume their stance on something and respond critically to that ended up with me getting blocked. I don't have hard feelings exactly, and this post is only partly about this particular person, but I noticed something interesting by the end of the conversation that had been bothering me. They repeatedly criticized me for assuming what their position was, but never actually stated their position. They didn't say: "I'm bothered you assumed my position was X, it's actually Y." They just said "I'm bothered you assumed my position was X, please don't assume my position!" I get that it's annoying to have people respond to a straw man version of your argument, but when I in response asked some direct questions about what their position was, they gave some non-answers and then blocked me. It's entirely possible it's a coincidence, and they just happened to run out of patience on that iteration, but it makes me take their critique of my interactions a bit less seriously. I suspect that they just didn't want to hear what I was saying, while at the same time they wanted to feel as if they were someone who values public critique and open discussion of tricky issues (if anyone reading this post also followed our interaction and has a different opinion of my behavior, I'd be glad to hear it; it's possible In effectively being an asshole here and it would be useful to hear that if so).
In any case, the fact that at the end of the entire discussion, I'm realizing I still don't actually know their position on whether they think the AI use case in question is worthwhile feels odd. They praised the system on several occasions, albeit noting some drawbacks while doing so. They said that the system was possibly changing their anti-AI stance, but then got mad at me for assuming this meant that they thought this use-case was justified. Maybe they just haven't made up their mind yet but didn't want to say that?
Interestingly, in one of their own blog posts that got linked in the discussion, they discuss a different AI system, and despite listing a bunch of concrete harms, conclude that it's okay to use it. That's fine; I don't think *every* use of AI is wrong on balance, but what bothered me was that their post dismissed a number of real ethical issues by saying essentially "I haven't seen calls for a boycott over this issue, so it's not a reason to stop use." That's an extremely socially conformist version of ethics that doesn't sit well with me. The discussion also ended up linking this post: https://chelseatroy.com/2024/08/28/does-ai-benefit-the-world/ which bothered me in a related way. In it, Troy describes classroom teaching techniques for introducing and helping students explore the ethics of AI, and they seem mostly great. They avoid prescribing any particular correct stance, which is important when teaching given the power relationship, and they help students understand the limitations of their perspectives regarding global impacts, which is great. But the overall conclusion of the post is that "nobody is qualified to really judge global impacts, so we should focus on ways to improve outcomes instead of trying to judge them." This bothers me because we actually do have a responsibility to make decisive ethical judgments despite limitations of our perspectives. If we never commit to any ethical judgment against a technology because we think our perspective is too limited to know the true impacts (which I'll concede it invariably is) then we'll have to accept every technology without objection, limiting ourselves to trying to improve their impacts without opposing them. Given who currently controls most of the resources that go into exploration for new technologies, this stance is too permissive. Perhaps if our objection to a technology was absolute and instantly effective, I'd buy the argument that objecting without a deep global view of the long-term risks is dangerous. As things stand, I think that objecting to the development/use of certain technologies in certain contexts is necessary, and although there's a lot of uncertainly, I expect strongly enough that the overall outcomes of objection will be positive that I think it's a good thing to do.
The deeper point here I guess is that this kind of "things are too complicated, let's have a nuanced discussion where we don't come to any conclusions because we see a lot of unknowns along with definite harms" really bothers me.

Transcript Franking for Encrypted Messaging
Armin Namavari, Thomas Ristenpart
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19391 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19391

Transcript Franking for Encrypted Messaging
Message franking is an indispensable abuse mitigation tool for end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging platforms. With it, users who receive harmful content can securely report that content to platform moderators. However, while real-world deployments of reporting require the disclosure of multiple messages, existing treatments of message franking only consider the report of a single message. As a result, there is a gap between the security goals achieved by constructions and those needed in prac…

We are living in an age of bullies. Those with power are less constrained today than they have been in my lifetime, since the end of the second world war.
The question is: how do we lead moral lives in this era?
Vladimir Putin launches a horrendous war on Ukraine. After Hamas’s atrocity, Benjamin Netanyahu bombs Gaza to smithereens and is now starving to death its remaining occupants.
Trump abducts thousands of hardworking people within the US and puts them into detention c…

Digital and Robotic Twinning for Validation of Proximity Operations and Formation Flying
Aviad Golan, Gregory Zin, Zahra Ahmed, Emily Bates, Toby Bell, Pol Francesch Huc, Samuel Y. W. Low, Juergen Bosse, Simone D'Amico
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20034

Digital and Robotic Twinning for Validation of Proximity Operations and Formation Flying
In spacecraft Rendezvous, Proximity Operations (RPO), and Formation Flying (FF), the Guidance Navigation and Control (GNC) system is safety-critical and must meet strict performance requirements. However, validating such systems is challenging due to the complexity of the space environment, necessitating a verification and validation (V&V) process that bridges simulation and real-world behavior. The key contribution of this paper is a unified, end-to-end digital and robotic twinning framework t…

man, the entire Clipse tiny desk took me back to why we all fell for them right at the start, they are just such STARS, but I legit got emotional when they put the *desk* in Tiny Desk at the end of the set. This entire album rollout has been the coronation they've long deserved. https://youtu.be/f7gIBB7jKc0…

Here's my latest Prairie Voice post about the world of influencers:
https://open.substack.com/pub/boles/p/end-of-the-influencer-era?r=17i29e&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelc…

Quite extensive writeup on the whole W/X situation, the title suggesting too political of a discussion - I do recommend reading through it, neglecting stances, and just seeing where the projects stand.
To be clear, I do not endorse or judge anything here. It helps getting an overview. In the end, there are too many aspects, and deciding for either solution requires you to consider your personal preferences and priorities.

The price of software freedom is eternal politics
Comment: Many don't realize or forget, but the FOSS world has ideological wings, too

By the end of the year, the Austrian postal service will deliver all mail in Vienna completely emission-free (locally), be it on foot, by e-bike or e-delivery van. This important step will certainly help the city regain its position as the world's most liveable city next year.

WIEN: POST-ZUSTELLUNG ERFOLGT BIS JAHRESENDE KOMPLETT MIT E-FAHRZEUGEN
700 E-FAHRZEUGE SCHON CO2-FREI IM EINSATZ – WIEN ALS VORREITERIN UNTER EUROPÄISCHEN METROPOLEN

Today’s global civilisation, however, is deeply interconnected and unequal and could lead to the worst societal collapse yet, he says. The threat is from leaders who are “walking versions of the dark triad” – narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism – in a world menaced by the climate crisis, nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence and killer robots.
...
If citizens’ juries and wealth caps seem wildly optimistic, Kemp says we have been long brainwashed by rulers justifying their dominance, from the self-declared god-pharaohs of Egypt and priests claiming to control the weather to autocrats claiming to defend people from foreign threats and tech titans selling us their techno-utopias. “It’s always been easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of Goliaths. That’s because these are stories that have been hammered into us over the space of 5,000 years,” he says.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/02/self-termination-history-and-future-of-societal-collapse

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
R.E.M.:
🎵 It’s the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)
#REM
https://mototembo.bandcamp.com/album/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-moto-tembo-edits
https://open.spotify.com/track/2oSpQ7QtIKTNFfA08Cy0ku

That's the greatest fucking thing I've read this year!
#nethack

Addressing Bias in Algorithmic Solutions: Exploring Vertex Cover and Feedback Vertex Set
Sheikh Shakil Akhtar, Jayakrishnan Madathil, Pranabendu Misra, Geevarghese Philip
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14509

Addressing Bias in Algorithmic Solutions: Exploring Vertex Cover and Feedback Vertex Set
A typical goal of research in combinatorial optimization is to come up with fast algorithms that find optimal solutions to a computational problem. The process that takes a real-world problem and extracts a clean mathematical abstraction of it often throws out a lot of "side information" which is deemed irrelevant. However, the discarded information could be of real significance to the end-user of the algorithm's output. All solutions of the same cost are not necessarily of equal impact in the …

World of Good Brands, formerly Leaf Group, shuts down after owner Graham Holdings sold off its last three titles; Graham Holdings acquired it in 2021 for $323M (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/world-of-good-brands-sale-well-good-ziff-davis/

World of Good Brands Sells Off Portfolio, Lays Off Staff, and Shutters 
The closure represents the end of the digital media company once known as Intent Media.

#WritersCoffeeClub 23/9: How ‘self-reliant’ are you as a writer?
Extremely, but I try to open up to others and let them in. My reflexes are not helping, I'm kinda used to withdrawing into my own little corner of the world and shut the world out.
Outside influence, however, has always meant a better end-result, so I'm trying. I'm trying hard.

Just found this #book of stories based on #TheStand by #StephenKing. Now seems a good time to read about the end of the world as we know it.

911? I’d like to report a murder.
❝It is, quite literally, the most grim and embarrassing thing that's ever been done in Apple's name.❞
❝Many people have the quisling impulse to insist that Apple had to kiss Trump’s ass. “They’ll be stuck with really high tariffs!" “They might lose government contracts!" This is foolishness, of cause, because all of this will still happen. The only thing that’s different is that Apple will have to navigate those headwinds while everyone in the world already knows that they’re led by a CEO who has already bent the knee, and by a board that collectively has no spine.❞ https://front-end.social/@fox/115176688743847361

What a rubbish idea:
Large corporations already hide too much information from their shareholders and the public.
This would make that hiding easier and make company performance more opaque.
It doubles the time that corporate ill deeds and management failures can be hidden.
It is a dumb idea - but coming from one of the great scammers in our corporate world, we should be glad that he did not suggest yearly, or longer, reporting.
"Trump renews push to end co…

Trump renews push to end companies' quarterly reports
The US president urges regulators to adopt a semi-annual schedule for financial reports.

Last weekend the Defa Film Library started a virtual festival titled "The Colorful World of DEFA Animation: A Short History". Throughout July and August every few days a anther example of East German animated film will go online. The overall streaming link on the website is good from now until the end of August.
https://www.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/foss_chromeos_please/
Yes please

Please, FOSS world, we need something like ChromeOS
Comment: The End of Windows 10 is looming. The world needs a simpler, easy, quick, snackable alternative

Temporal Logic-Based Multi-Vehicle Backdoor Attacks against Offline RL Agents in End-to-end Autonomous Driving
Xuan Chen, Shiwei Feng, Zikang Xiong, Shengwei An, Yunshu Mao, Lu Yan, Guanhong Tao, Wenbo Guo, Xiangyu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16950

Temporal Logic-Based Multi-Vehicle Backdoor Attacks against Offline RL Agents in End-to-end Autonomous Driving
Assessing the safety of autonomous driving (AD) systems against security threats, particularly backdoor attacks, is a stepping stone for real-world deployment. However, existing works mainly focus on pixel-level triggers that are impractical to deploy in the real world. We address this gap by introducing a novel backdoor attack against the end-to-end AD systems that leverage one or more other vehicles' trajectories as triggers. To generate precise trigger trajectories, we first use temporal log…

There will be some 300,000 fewer federal workers on the government payroll by the end of December than there were in January,
according to the Trump administration’s top human resources official.
That amounts to the loss of about one in eight federal civilian workers,
and would be the largest single-year reduction since World War II.

Year Will End With 300,000 Fewer Federal Workers, Trump Official Says
The reduction would be the largest single-year decline in civilian federal employment since World War II.

This Is Not the World I Wanted to Leave for You: Reflections on Legacy, Loss, and the Future We Shape
I have been thinking a great deal lately about living and dying, and about the strange, stubborn human hunger to leave something meaningful behind. The faces of those I have known who have already passed return to me in quiet moments, and I find myself watching those who are, even now, nearing the end of their own stories. I also include my final braided prairie knot…

“They (the government) are fanatic. They are doing things against the interests of the country,” said Rami Dar, 69-year-old retiree, who travelled from a nearby suburb outside Tel Aviv, echoing calls for Trump to force a deal for the hostages.
“Frankly, I’m not an expert or anything, but I feel that after two years of fighting there has been no success,” said Yana, 45, who attended the rally with her husband and two children. “I wonder whether additional lives for both sides, not just …

Stellantis unveils 'intelligent' EV battery with 300-mile range and faster charging. Production could begin by the end of the decade. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Stellantis EV battery boosts range past 300 miles in real-world test
Stellantis tests new IBIS battery that boosts EV efficiency by 10 percent and extends range past 300 miles.

There's another season of "Made in Abyss" on Netflix!
The show was an incredible bait and switch. It had this cutesy look and a very interesting world to explore. But each episode got darker end the end of season 1 was pure body horror.
#MadeInAbyss #anime

Deploying UDM Series in Real-Life Stuttered Speech Applications: A Clinical Evaluation Framework
Eric Zhang (SSHealth Team, AI for Healthcare Laboratory), Li Wei (SSHealth Team, AI for Healthcare Laboratory), Sarah Chen (SSHealth Team, AI for Healthcare Laboratory), Michael Wang (SSHealth Team, AI for Healthcare Laboratory)
https://arxiv.o…

Deploying UDM Series in Real-Life Stuttered Speech Applications: A Clinical Evaluation Framework
Stuttered and dysfluent speech detection systems have traditionally suffered from the trade-off between accuracy and clinical interpretability. While end-to-end deep learning models achieve high performance, their black-box nature limits clinical adoption. This paper looks at the Unconstrained Dysfluency Modeling (UDM) series-the current state-of-the-art framework developed by Berkeley that combines modular architecture, explicit phoneme alignment, and interpretable outputs for real-world clini…

Having just finished a 1-year consulting contract myself, my own list of restrictions for future jobs/consulting is very similar:
- will not work on adtech/surveillance/weapons
- will not knowingly make world worse and/or abet genocides
- will not be forced to use vibe coding (or will explain cost implications)
- prefer to work in the open
- prefer remote only
- flexible with time zones (last role was for a company in LA, -9h)

Joey de Villa 🪗 (@AccordionGuy@mastodon.cloud)
Attached: 1 image As long as we’re in the “September Surge” (that trend where there’s a noticeable uptick in job vacancies and hiring around September and October, when companies ramp up for year-end and the upcoming year), you might as well also ask “What DON’T I want in a new job?” https://www.globalnerdy.com/2025/09/06/what-dont-you-want-in-your-next-job/

The CPJ condemned the Israeli strike and called for action from the international community.
“Israel’s broadcasted killing of journalists in Gaza continues while the world watches and fails to act firmly on the most horrific attacks the press has faced in recent history,” said CPJ’s regional director Sara Qudah. “These unlawful killings must end now. The perpetrators must no longer be allowed to act with impunity.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/25/journalists-among-people-killed-by-israeli-strike-on-gaza-hospital?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

🌞 Solar power capacity additions in China doubled year-on-year to 212 gigawatts, with total capacity at the end of H1 increasing a whopping 54% year on year
[Post by @laurimyllyvirta on Bluesky]
That's more than the whole world installed in the full year 2021.

FARM: Frame-Accelerated Augmentation and Residual Mixture-of-Experts for Physics-Based High-Dynamic Humanoid Control
Tan Jing, Shiting Chen, Yangfan Li, Weisheng Xu, Renjing Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19926

FARM: Frame-Accelerated Augmentation and Residual Mixture-of-Experts for Physics-Based High-Dynamic Humanoid Control
Unified physics-based humanoid controllers are pivotal for robotics and character animation, yet models that excel on gentle, everyday motions still stumble on explosive actions, hampering real-world deployment. We bridge this gap with FARM (Frame-Accelerated Augmentation and Residual Mixture-of-Experts), an end-to-end framework composed of frame-accelerated augmentation, a robust base controller, and a residual mixture-of-experts (MoE). Frame-accelerated augmentation exposes the model to high-…

Imagine him sitting, months on end, in an accountability circile in order to be fed. Imagine the confused expression that's basically just his annoying little face. Imagine, for a bit, that tiny face shrinking into that giant head as he listens for the 3rd month in a row to someone shows him videos of starving people in Gaza, shows him hours of surgery video from gunshot wounds he's laughed at, explains the patriarchy to him and why it was destroyed, explains to him why empathy is a good thing and is the bedrock of this new world we've created, explains why we've build a world that centeres carework above all else. Imagine the confusion and agony.
I really wanted that for him, and for every fascist. It's disappointing when they're taken early, but I can't honetly ever say that I find it sad.

Farm Sanctuary fights the disastrous effects of animal agriculture on animals, the environment, social justice, and public health through rescue, education, and advocacy. #AnimalRights

We Envision a World Where Sanctuary Replaces Exploitation | Farm Sanctuary
Farm Sanctuary is a nonprofit pursuing bold solutions to end animal agriculture and foster compassionate vegan living.

If you want to make the case against political violence, start by saying clearly that Charlie Kirk was a miserable sack of shit who promoted bigotry and religious hatred and helped organized a violent coup attempt whose goal was to end democracy in the US in order to establish a white supremacist ethnostate. Say that the world is better without him in it.
•Then• make your argument that even in his case — even a person whose death improves the world — even •then• political violence is a bad strategy.
A/2

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmbientFocus
Masahiro Sugaya:
🎵 Until The End of The World
#MasahiroSugaya
https://masahirosugaya.bandcamp.com/track/until-the-end-of-the-world
https://open.spotify.com/track/5dAkyoPJDuq4dDJC1LiIPe

Looks indeed well made. Nice Website, too. https://www.threads.com/@luokai/post/DMNYb9hIunA

luokai (@luokai) on Threads
DJI just dropped the latest version of Terra, now supercharged with 3D Gaussian Splatting. 🚁✨ This isn’t just another update—it’s a leap for 3D reconstruction pros, blending photorealistic visuals, pinpoint mapping, and lightning-fast processing. Imagine digital twins so real, you’ll want to reach out and touch them. Key stats: Photorealistic 3D, trusted accuracy, LiDAR support, multispectral insights, and high-efficiency cluster processing—all in one end-to-end aerial survey s…

Some shots of Kare Kano are so Evangelion that it's almost painful to watch.

#NowPlaying a truly strange, brutal (but also sometimes gentle) record, the new LP 'Under a Gilded Sun' by Atlanta, Georgia's MALEVICH. They claim to make 'weird, heavy music for the end of the world', and.. indeed. This is like, blackened sludge? It's rad. Dissonant but coherent, chaotic but serene. So many textures and dynamics. Riffs, weirdness, everything. Maybe ffo Sumac, Su…

Dual Modality-Aware Gated Prompt Tuning for Few-Shot Multimodal Sarcasm Detection
Soumyadeep Jana, Abhrajyoti Kundu, Sanasam Ranbir Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04468

Dual Modality-Aware Gated Prompt Tuning for Few-Shot Multimodal Sarcasm Detection
The widespread use of multimodal content on social media has heightened the need for effective sarcasm detection to improve opinion mining. However, existing models rely heavily on large annotated datasets, making them less suitable for real-world scenarios where labeled data is scarce. This motivates the need to explore the problem in a few-shot setting. To this end, we introduce DMDP (Deep Modality-Disentangled Prompt Tuning), a novel framework for few-shot multimodal sarcasm detection. Unlik…

Amazon expands Multichannel Fulfillment to let Walmart sellers use Amazon's logistics network to deliver orders and announces support for Shein by year-end (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/sold-on-walmart-sent-by-amaz…

SEEC: Stable End-Effector Control with Model-Enhanced Residual Learning for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
Jaehwi Jang, Zhuoheng Wang, Ziyi Zhou, Feiyang Wu, Ye Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21231

SEEC: Stable End-Effector Control with Model-Enhanced Residual Learning for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
Arm end-effector stabilization is essential for humanoid loco-manipulation tasks, yet it remains challenging due to the high degrees of freedom and inherent dynamic instability of bipedal robot structures. Previous model-based controllers achieve precise end-effector control but rely on precise dynamics modeling and estimation, which often struggle to capture real-world factors (e.g., friction and backlash) and thus degrade in practice. On the other hand, learning-based methods can better mitig…

SMTrack: End-to-End Trained Spiking Neural Networks for Multi-Object Tracking in RGB Videos
Pengzhi Zhong, Xinzhe Wang, Dan Zeng, Qihua Zhou, Feixiang He, Shuiwang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14607

SMTrack: End-to-End Trained Spiking Neural Networks for Multi-Object Tracking in RGB Videos
Brain-inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) exhibit significant potential for low-power computation, yet their application in visual tasks remains largely confined to image classification, object detection, and event-based tracking. In contrast, real-world vision systems still widely use conventional RGB video streams, where the potential of directly-trained SNNs for complex temporal tasks such as multi-object tracking (MOT) remains underexplored. To address this challenge, we propose SMTrack…

After his summit with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia,
Trump adopted Putin’s preference for pursuing a sweeping peace agreement
-- instead of the urgent cease-fire Trump said he wanted before the meeting.
Doing so would give Russia an advantage in the talks,
which are due to continue on Monday when President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine visits Trump at the White House.
It breaks from a strategy Trump and European allies,
as well as Zelensky, had ag…

After Putin Summit, Trump Backs Plan to Cede Land in Ukraine: Live Updates
After meeting the Russian president, President Trump told European leaders he now favors giving up unoccupied Ukrainian land to Russia to end the fighting, a concession Ukraine has long opposed.

CodeFuse-CR-Bench: A Comprehensiveness-aware Benchmark for End-to-End Code Review Evaluation in Python Projects
Hanyang Guo, Xunjin Zheng, Zihan Liao, Hang Yu, Peng DI, Ziyin Zhang, Hong-Ning Dai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14856

CodeFuse-CR-Bench: A Comprehensiveness-aware Benchmark for End-to-End Code Review Evaluation in Python Projects
Automated code review (CR) is a key application for Large Language Models (LLMs), but progress is hampered by a "reality gap": existing benchmarks evaluate models on isolated sub-tasks using simplified, context-poor data. This fails to reflect the holistic context-rich nature of real-world CR. To bridge this gap, we introduce CodeFuse-CR-Bench, the first comprehensiveness-aware benchmark for repository-level CR evaluation. CodeFuse-CR-Bench comprises 601 high-quality instances from 70 Python pr…

Gibraltar celebrates its return to Europe
After nearly a decade in limbo and years of negotiations,
a treaty announced in June and set to come into effect over coming months,
will scrap most barriers to travel and trade that went up after Britain’s divorce from the E.U. became official at the end of 2020.

Some 40,000 Gibraltarians will regain what millions of traveling Brits miss most:
the ability to wander unfettered, without passports or time limits, througho…

The Brits who beat Brexit: Gibraltar celebrates its return to Europe
Nearly a decade after Britain quit the E.U., British residents of Gibraltar on the southern tip of Spain, will regain travel and commercial access under a treaty.

spherical: A Comprehensive Database and Automated Pipeline for VLT/SPHERE High-Contrast Imaging
Matthias Samland
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08044 https://a…

spherical: A Comprehensive Database and Automated Pipeline for VLT/SPHERE High-Contrast Imaging
I present spherical (https://github.com/m-samland/spherical), a software package and database designed for the ESO VLT/SPHERE high-contrast imager. SPHERE has produced the world's largest archive of direct imaging observations of exoplanets and circumstellar disks, but its heterogeneous metadata and fragmented reduction tools make end-to-end analysis labor-intensive. spherical addresses this by combining (1) a curated, regularly updated, and searchable database of all SPHERE observations, cross…

I was really angry last night about the fireworks being set off in our neighborhood. Our dog is severely traumatized by them. She hides under a chair and pants until about an hour after they stop going off.
However, my posts were much more generalized and that was not called for.
*** If I offended you with my posts, I apologize. ***
I do not apologize for wanting to end the use of fireworks.

Analyst: China summoning Nvidia over alleged H20 security risks shows it "wants to use the Nvidia case to show China is a buyer, but it won't be a blind buyer" (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

China Draws Red Lines on US Chip Tracking With Nvidia Meeting
As the US and China look for any sort of leverage in a prolonged trade fight, Beijing sees an opportunity to win over the world by taking a stand against the Trump administration’s plans to track high-end chips.

I've been listening to a podcast by the German public broadcaster ​ARD about the end of the world. Every episode had a different topic and one was about AI. It was mostly sourced from an interview with a youtuber but one idea is now stuck in my head: what if AI doesn't launch nukes but develops into an all-powerful actor whose aims are not aligned with those of human survival? Do we have a precedent?
Yes. There are such super-human and quasi-immortal beings here on earth today…

Agile in the Face of Delay: Asynchronous End-to-End Learning for Real-World Aerial Navigation
Yude Li, Zhexuan Zhou, Huizhe Li, Youmin Gong, Jie Mei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13816

Agile in the Face of Delay: Asynchronous End-to-End Learning for Real-World Aerial Navigation
Robust autonomous navigation for Autonomous Aerial Vehicles (AAVs) in complex environments is a critical capability. However, modern end-to-end navigation faces a key challenge: the high-frequency control loop needed for agile flight conflicts with low-frequency perception streams, which are limited by sensor update rates and significant computational cost. This mismatch forces conventional synchronous models into undesirably low control rates. To resolve this, we propose an asynchronous reinfo…

Unveiling Unicode's Unseen Underpinnings in Undermining Authorship Attribution
Robert Dilworth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15840 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Unveiling Unicode's Unseen Underpinnings in Undermining Authorship Attribution
When using a public communication channel -- whether formal or informal, such as commenting or posting on social media -- end users have no expectation of privacy: they compose a message and broadcast it for the world to see. Even if an end user takes utmost precautions to anonymize their online presence -- using an alias or pseudonym; masking their IP address; spoofing their geolocation; concealing their operating system and user agent; deploying encryption; registering with a disposable phone…

Carbon-Aware Workflow Scheduling with Fixed Mapping and Deadline Constraint
Dominik Schweisgut, Anne Benoit, Yves Robert, Henning Meyerhenke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08725

Carbon-Aware Workflow Scheduling with Fixed Mapping and Deadline Constraint
Large data and computing centers consume a significant share of the world's energy consumption. A prominent subset of the workloads in such centers are workflows with interdependent tasks, usually represented as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). To reduce the carbon emissions resulting from executing such workflows in centers with a mixed (renewable and non-renewable) energy supply, it is advisable to move task executions to time intervals with sufficient green energy when possible. To this end, …

Trump has asked the EU to impose tariffs of up to 100% on India and China as part of an effort to force the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, to end the war in Ukraine, according to reports.
The US president made the demand during a meeting between US and EU officials discussing options to increase economic pressure on Russia on Tuesday

Wind and solar set to make up 30% of global electricity generation by the end of the decade. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Chart: Which countries get the most power from solar and wind?
These two clean energy sources are growing quickly around the world. Here are the 10 countries that rely on them the most.

DuetUI: A Bidirectional Context Loop for Human-Agent Co-Generation of Task-Oriented Interfaces
Yuan Xu, Shaowen Xiang, Yizhi Song, Ruoting Sun, Xin Tong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13444

DuetUI: A Bidirectional Context Loop for Human-Agent Co-Generation of Task-Oriented Interfaces
Large Language Models are reshaping task automation, yet remain limited in complex, multi-step real-world tasks that require aligning with vague user intent and enabling dynamic user override. From a formative study with 12 participants, we found that end-users actively seek to shape generative interfaces rather than relying on one-shot outputs. To address this, we introduce the human-agent co-generation paradigm, materialized in DuetUI. This LLM-empowered system unfolds alongside task progress…

And when all these mechanisms — the “more just, more human systems” I’m talking about — fail to do their job, what can we do? Go to war, I guess? But I’m not happy about that. I don’t like war.
I am quite willing to celebrate a world without Kirk if in fact that’s what we get. (Last I heard was “critical condition.”) But I can’t get •that• happy about it. Whether we celebrate his death or denounce gun violence — both are important, both are appropriate! — we must above all notice the failure of everything that should have prevented us from even getting here. •That• is the real crisis.
/end

RealMirror: A Comprehensive, Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Platform for Embodied AI
Cong Tai, Zhaoyu Zheng, Haixu Long, Hansheng Wu, Haodong Xiang, Zhengbin Long, Jun Xiong, Rong Shi, Shizhuang Zhang, Gang Qiu, He Wang, Ruifeng Li, Jun Huang, Bin Chang, Shuai Feng, Tao Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14687

RealMirror: A Comprehensive, Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Platform for Embodied AI
The emerging field of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) for humanoid robots faces several fundamental challenges, including the high cost of data acquisition, the lack of a standardized benchmark, and the significant gap between simulation and the real world. To overcome these obstacles, we propose RealMirror, a comprehensive, open-source embodied AI VLA platform. RealMirror builds an efficient, low-cost data collection, model training, and inference system that enables end-to-end VLA research witho…

SpatialVID: A Large-Scale Video Dataset with Spatial Annotations
Jiahao Wang, Yufeng Yuan, Rujie Zheng, Youtian Lin, Jian Gao, Lin-Zhuo Chen, Yajie Bao, Yi Zhang, Chang Zeng, Yanxi Zhou, Xiaoxiao Long, Hao Zhu, Zhaoxiang Zhang, Xun Cao, Yao Yao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09676

SpatialVID: A Large-Scale Video Dataset with Spatial Annotations
Significant progress has been made in spatial intelligence, spanning both spatial reconstruction and world exploration. However, the scalability and real-world fidelity of current models remain severely constrained by the scarcity of large-scale, high-quality training data. While several datasets provide camera pose information, they are typically limited in scale, diversity, and annotation richness, particularly for real-world dynamic scenes with ground-truth camera motion. To this end, we col…

PRIM: Towards Practical In-Image Multilingual Machine Translation
Yanzhi Tian, Zeming Liu, Zhengyang Liu, Chong Feng, Xin Li, Heyan Huang, Yuhang Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05146

PRIM: Towards Practical In-Image Multilingual Machine Translation
In-Image Machine Translation (IIMT) aims to translate images containing texts from one language to another. Current research of end-to-end IIMT mainly conducts on synthetic data, with simple background, single font, fixed text position, and bilingual translation, which can not fully reflect real world, causing a significant gap between the research and practical conditions. To facilitate research of IIMT in real-world scenarios, we explore Practical In-Image Multilingual Machine Translation (II…

China set to open world’s tallest bridge, expanding infrastructure push
China will open the world’s tallest bridge this month,
besting its own record with a structure that can fit almost two Eiffel Towers beneath it.

The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in southwestern Guizhou,
one of China’s poorest provinces,
stands a staggering 2,050 feet above ground,
making it almost twice the height of Paris’s landmark tower.

It stretches 9,481 feet end to end, ac…

China set to open world’s tallest bridge, expanding infrastructure push
The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge can fit almost two Eiffel Towers under it and will be touted as evidence of China’s engineering prowess when it opens this month.

PhysX: Physical-Grounded 3D Asset Generation
Ziang Cao, Zhaoxi Chen, Linag Pan, Ziwei Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12465 https://ar…

PhysX: Physical-Grounded 3D Asset Generation
3D modeling is moving from virtual to physical. Existing 3D generation primarily emphasizes geometries and textures while neglecting physical-grounded modeling. Consequently, despite the rapid development of 3D generative models, the synthesized 3D assets often overlook rich and important physical properties, hampering their real-world application in physical domains like simulation and embodied AI. As an initial attempt to address this challenge, we propose \textbf{PhysX}, an end-to-end paradi…

MTRDrive: Memory-Tool Synergistic Reasoning for Robust Autonomous Driving in Corner Cases
Ziang Luo, Kangan Qian, Jiahua Wang, Yuechen Luo, Jinyu Miao, Zheng Fu, Yunlong Wang, Sicong Jiang, Zilin Huang, Yifei Hu, Yuhao Yang, Hao Ye, Mengmeng Yang, Xiaojian Dong, Kun Jiang, Diange Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20843

MTRDrive: Memory-Tool Synergistic Reasoning for Robust Autonomous Driving in Corner Cases
Vision-Language Models(VLMs) have demonstrated significant potential for end-to-end autonomous driving, yet a substantial gap remains between their current capabilities and the reliability necessary for real-world deployment. A critical challenge is their fragility, characterized by hallucinations and poor generalization in out-of-distribution (OOD) scenarios. To bridge this gap, we introduce MTRDrive, a novel framework that integrates procedural driving experiences with a dynamic toolkit to en…

Discrete Diffusion for Reflective Vision-Language-Action Models in Autonomous Driving
Pengxiang Li, Yinan Zheng, Yue Wang, Huimin Wang, Hang Zhao, Jingjing Liu, Xianyuan Zhan, Kun Zhan, Xianpeng Lang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20109

Discrete Diffusion for Reflective Vision-Language-Action Models in Autonomous Driving
End-to-End (E2E) solutions have emerged as a mainstream approach for autonomous driving systems, with Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models representing a new paradigm that leverages pre-trained multimodal knowledge from Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to interpret and interact with complex real-world environments. However, these methods remain constrained by the limitations of imitation learning, which struggles to inherently encode physical rules during training. Existing approaches often rely on…

Trump said on Thursday that a phone call earlier in the day with Vladimir Putin
resulted in "no progress at all"
on efforts to end the war in Ukraine,
while a Kremlin aide said the Russian president reiterated that Moscow would keep pushing to solve the conflict’s “root causes.”
– Russian shorthand for the issue of Nato enlargement and western support for Ukraine.

The two leaders did not discuss a recent pause in some US weapons shipments to K…

TeraSim-World: Worldwide Safety-Critical Data Synthesis for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
Jiawei Wang, Haowei Sun, Xintao Yan, Shuo Feng, Jun Gao, Henry X. Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13164

TeraSim-World: Worldwide Safety-Critical Data Synthesis for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
Safe and scalable deployment of end-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving requires extensive and diverse data, particularly safety-critical events. Existing data are mostly generated from simulators with a significant sim-to-real gap or collected from on-road testing that is costly and unsafe. This paper presents TeraSim-World, an automated pipeline that synthesizes realistic and geographically diverse safety-critical data for E2E autonomous driving at anywhere in the world. Starting from an arbitrar…

Capacity Planning and Scheduling for Jobs with Uncertainty in Resource Usage and Duration
Sunandita Patra, Mehtab Pathan, Mahmoud Mahfouz, Parisa Zehtabi, Wided Ouaja, Daniele Magazzeni, Manuela Veloso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01225

Capacity Planning and Scheduling for Jobs with Uncertainty in Resource Usage and Duration
Organizations around the world schedule jobs (programs) regularly to perform various tasks dictated by their end users. With the major movement towards using a cloud computing infrastructure, our organization follows a hybrid approach with both cloud and on-prem servers. The objective of this work is to perform capacity planning, i.e., estimate resource requirements, and job scheduling for on-prem grid computing environments. A key contribution of our approach is handling uncertainty in both re…

BcQLM: Efficient Vision-Language Understanding with Distilled Q-Gated Cross-Modal Fusion
Sike Xiang, Shuang Chen, Amir Atapour-Abarghouei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08715 https:…

BcQLM: Efficient Vision-Language Understanding with Distilled Q-Gated Cross-Modal Fusion
As multimodal large language models (MLLMs) advance, their large-scale architectures pose challenges for deployment in resource-constrained environments. In the age of large models, where energy efficiency, computational scalability and environmental sustainability are paramount, the development of lightweight and high-performance models is critical for real-world applications. As such, we propose a lightweight MLLM framework for end-to-end visual question answering. Our proposed approach centr…

I’m going to be very honest and clear.
I am fully preparing myself to die under this new American regime.
That’s not to say that it’s the end of the world. It isn’t.
But I am almost 50 years old. It will take so long to do anything with this mess that this is the new normal for *me*.
I do hope a lot of you run. I hope you vote, sure.
Maybe do a general strike or rent strike.
All great!
But I spent the last week reading things and this is not, for ME…

Self-adaptive Dataset Construction for Real-World Multimodal Safety Scenarios
Jingen Qu, Lijun Li, Bo Zhang, Yichen Yan, Jing Shao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04403 https://

Self-adaptive Dataset Construction for Real-World Multimodal Safety Scenarios
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are rapidly evolving, presenting increasingly complex safety challenges. However, current dataset construction methods, which are risk-oriented, fail to cover the growing complexity of real-world multimodal safety scenarios (RMS). And due to the lack of a unified evaluation metric, their overall effectiveness remains unproven. This paper introduces a novel image-oriented self-adaptive dataset construction method for RMS, which starts with images and end …

Constrained Decoding for Robotics Foundation Models
Parv Kapoor, Akila Ganlath, Changliu Liu, Sebastian Scherer, Eunsuk Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01728 https://

Constrained Decoding for Robotics Foundation Models
Recent advances in the development of robotic foundation models have led to promising end-to-end and general-purpose capabilities in robotic systems. These models are pretrained on vast datasets of robot trajectories to process multi- modal inputs and directly output a sequence of action that the system then executes in the real world. Although this approach is attractive from the perspective of im- proved generalization across diverse tasks, these models are still data-driven and, therefore, l…

EvoPSF: Online Evolution of Autonomous Driving Models via Planning-State Feedback
Jiayue Jin, Lang Qian, Jingyu Zhang, Chuanyu Ju, Liang Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11453 ht…

EvoPSF: Online Evolution of Autonomous Driving Models via Planning-State Feedback
Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in autonomous driving, with systems evolving from modular pipelines to end-to-end architectures. However, most existing methods are trained offline and lack mechanisms to adapt to new environments during deployment. As a result, their generalization ability diminishes when faced with unseen variations in real-world driving scenarios. In this paper, we break away from the conventional "train once, deploy forever" paradigm and propose EvoPSF, a nove…