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The only way Microsoft should be involved in a European Sovereign Tech Fund is if we fund it by taxing the living shit out of them.
But having them organise and influence it (and who gets funded by it), thereby de facto giving Microsoft EU taxpayer subsidies? Get the fuck out of here.
There are no words to describe how angry this attempt at corporate capture gets me when we’ve been working on sovereign tech in the EU for the past seven years with zero EU funding (not for lack of …

We need a European Sovereign Tech Fund
With a new feasibility study, GitHub’s developer policy team is building a coalition of policymakers and industry to close the maintenance funding gap.

Titans RB Tyjae Spears (ankle) headed to IR, will miss at least first four games of 2025 season https://www.nfl.com/news/titans-rb-tyjae-spears-ankle-injured-reserve-miss-first-four-games-2025-season

#SteadyCommunityContent #KIMissbrauch #Retröt
Wie gut erkennt man gefälschte Stimmen am Telefon?
Eine neue Studie beschäftigt sich damit, inwiefern Menschen Sprach-

Deepfake-Betrug: Wie gut erkennen Menschen Sprach-Deepfakes?
Können Menschen Sprach-Deepfakes erkennen? Eine neue Studie zeigt ernüchternde Ergebnisse und macht deutlich, dass automatische Erkennungssysteme notwendig sind.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Sparks:
🎵 This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us
#Sparks
https://tributefestpgh.bandcamp.com/track/this-town-aint-big-enough-for-the-both-of-us
https://open.spotify.com/track/2rgHxOarlO4W35mg0IZ5u8

Electroweak symmetry non-restoration and suppressed dark radiation in Supersymmetric Twin Higgs model
Marcin Badziak, Keisuke Harigaya, Ignacy Na{\l}\k{e}cz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15894

Electroweak symmetry non-restoration and suppressed dark radiation in Supersymmetric Twin Higgs model
We investigate a possibility of electroweak symmetry non-restoration (SNR) below the Twin electroweak scale ($\sim$TeV) within the Twin Higgs model. We focus on supersymmetric extensions with light sfermions where SNR is driven by mirror symmetry breaking in the Yukawa couplings. The inclusion of light scalars not only stabilizes the electroweak scale, but also extends SNR into new regions of the parameter space and enables a first-order phase transition. When this model is augmented with right…

Beam Geometry and Input Dimensionality: Impact on Sparse-Sampling Artifact Correction for Clinical CT with U-Nets
Tina Dorosti, Johannes Thalhammer, Sebastian Peterhansl, Daniela Pfeiffer, Franz Pfeiffer, Florian Schaff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17961

Beam Geometry and Input Dimensionality: Impact on Sparse-Sampling Artifact Correction for Clinical CT with U-Nets
This study aims to investigate the effect of various beam geometries and dimensions of input data on the sparse-sampling streak artifact correction task with U-Nets for clinical CT scans as a means of incorporating the volumetric context into artifact reduction tasks to improve model performance. A total of 22 subjects were retrospectively selected (01.2016-12.2018) from the Technical University of Munich's research hospital, TUM Klinikum rechts der Isar. Sparsely-sampled CT volumes were simula…

#TuneTuesday (Aug 26)
To me Toad the Wet Sprocket is one of those cool 1990s alternative rock bands and know them for their major hits like “All I Want” and “Fall Down”.
It was only in the last few years that I got to listen to some of their non-singles and “Windmills” from their 1994 album Dulcinea is one that really stood out to me with its laid-back melancholic vibe.

Unconventional superconductivity induced by rare-earth substitution in Nd1-xEuxNiO2 thin films
Dung Vu, Hangoo Lee, Daniele Nicoletti, Wenzheng Wei, Zheting Jin, Dmitry V. Chichinadze, Michele Buzzi, Yu He, Christopher A. Mizzi, Tiema Qian, Boris Maiorov, Alexey Suslov, Cyprian Lewandowski, Sohrab Ismail-Beigi, Frederick Walker, Andrea Cavalleri, Charles Ahn
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Unconventional superconductivity induced by rare-earth substitution in Nd1-xEuxNiO2 thin films
High temperature superconductivity is typically associated with strong coupling and a large superconducting gap, yet these characteristics have not been demonstrated in the nickelates. Here, we provide experimental evidence that Eu substitution in the spacer layer of Nd1-xEuxNiO2 (NENO) thin films enhances the superconducting gap, driving the system toward a strong-coupling regime. This is accompanied by a magnetic-exchange-driven magnetic-field-enhanced superconductivity. We investigate the up…

Automated, physics-guided, multi-parameter design optimization for superconducting quantum devices
Axel M. Eriksson, Lukas J. Splitthoff, Harsh Vardhan Upadhyay, Pietro Campana, Niranjan Pittan Narendiran, Kunal Helambe, Linus Andersson, Simone Gasparinetti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18027

Automated, physics-guided, multi-parameter design optimization for superconducting quantum devices
The design of nonlinear superconducting quantum circuits often relies on time-consuming iterative electromagnetic simulations requiring manual intervention. These interventions entail, for example, adjusting design variables such as resonator lengths or Josephson junction energies to meet target parameters such as mode frequencies, decay rates, and coupling strengths. Here, we present a method to efficiently automate the optimization of superconducting circuits, which significantly reduces the …

Strong Sparsification for 1-in-3-SAT via Polynomial Freiman-Ruzsa
Benjamin Bedert, Tamio-Vesa Nakajima, Karolina Okrasa, Stanislav \v{Z}ivn\'y
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17878

Strong Sparsification for 1-in-3-SAT via Polynomial Freiman-Ruzsa
We introduce a new notion of sparsification, called \emph{strong sparsification}, in which constraints are not removed but variables can be merged. As our main result, we present a strong sparsification algorithm for 1-in-3-SAT. The correctness of the algorithm relies on establishing a sub-quadratic bound on the size of certain sets of vectors in $\mathbb{F}_2^d$. This result, obtained using the recent \emph{Polynomial Freiman-Ruzsa Theorem} (Gowers, Green, Manners and Tao, Ann. Math. 2025), co…