OpenAI is acquiring open source Python tool-maker Astral

OpenAI announced Thursday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Astral, the company behind popular open source Python development tools such as uv, Ruff, and ty, and integrate the company ...
IEEE

Graph Neural Network for In-Network Placement of Real-Time Metaverse Tasks in Next-Generation Networks

Abstract: Delivering realistic, real-time virtual experiences in the Metaverse demands computationally intensive rendering tasks with strict latency constraints. These challenges are further ...
IEEE

Influence Maximization Under Network Data Distortion: A Max-Min Ant System with Multi-Graph Random Walk Approach

Abstract: Influence maximization (IM) aims to select a seed set of users that maximizes the expected influence spread and is a fundamental problem in social network analysis. The dynamic and complex ...
Journal-Courier

Far from random, China’s global port network is clustering near the world’s riskiest trade routes

(THE CONVERSATION) In late February 2026, the Panamanian government took control of two ports in the Panama Canal that had been operated by a Hong Kong conglomerate for two decades. The move is the ...