# Border Patrol Wants Advanced AI to Spy on American Cities | A U.S. Border Patrol “Industry Day” deck also asks for drones, seismic sensors, and tech that can see through walls
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We are seeking a highly motivated PhD student to join our multidisciplinary volcanic hazards research team at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. This exciting project focuses on developing cutting-edge diffusion-based machine learning models to forecast volcanic activities, significantly enhancing our ability to predict eruption dynamics.
🔹 Scholarship details:
Generous stipend: NZ$35,000/year for 3 years (possible extension).
Full tuition fees covered.
Funding for international conferences and collaboration visits in Europe.
Fieldwork opportunities.
🔹 Ideal candidates:
Background in Machine Learning, Data Science, Computer Science, or related fields.
Strong Python skills.
Excellent communication in English.
Previous publications in top-tier AI conferences/journals.
🔹 Supervisors: Prof. Bastiaan Kleijn, Dr. Felix Yan, Dr. Finnigan Illsley-Kemp
📅 Applications reviewed from: September 1st, 2025 (Flexible start date from October 2025 onwards).
For inquiries and applications, please contact me directly at 📧 [felix.yan@vuw.ac.nz](mailto:felix.yan@vuw.ac.nz). Application documents include your CV, transcript, Master’s thesis, and publications.
Feel free to share this fantastic opportunity with your network!
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OpenAI closed both my user account and API access for “Acts of Violence”, yet absolutely nothing has been violence related on neither my account nor on the web service using API (I checked my API logs as well). They’re not replying to appeals either, essentially locking down business activity as well.
They locked my Tier 5 with all of its funds.
How is this possible without them actually giving details I would need for the appeal?
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Hi everyone, I’ve tried Agent Mode four times and each attempt returned “An error occurred,” performed zero searches, and still consumed four of my 40 requests. Has anyone else run into this problem?
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Hi y’all, left the scene for awhile (was broke), have some extra cash on hand and want to support the network again. This was about 2ish years ago. Staking back then was a pain and required a lot of command-line-fu and tinkering.
I was wondering if there were any full node options for Ethereum the way that bitcoin has Umbrel. I tried dappnode but it’s glitchy as hell and there isn’t a whole lot of support for it – I remember that there was an upgrade to docker and all of the sudden I was no longer able to restart any of the containers for my node- I used the install script to get everything going.
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My assumption is that success comes from either being the fastest to update quotes or having the most accurate pricing models (vol surfaces, Greeks, etc.). Is that roughly right?
A few specific questions:
* If you’re a researcher at a speed-focused OMM, what are you actually working on?
* How do slower firms stay competitive — by focusing on niche products, better hedging, or client flow?Would appreciate any perspective from people in the space
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Hi r/SEO,
I work at a company that invested a lot of time and $ in upgrading their website at the beginning of the year, and the site looks and seems to function much, much better. We are in the mid-market and enterprise B2B SaaS and hardware space.
The agency we worked with to redesign and republish the site was very skilled, but now we are looking to move on to SEO and trying to figure out where to start.
**Tech stack:**
* Webflow + Webflow CMS for hosting
* SurferSEO for content assistance
* Ahrefs**Basic data from ahrefs:**
* DR: 26 (competitors are in the mid- to high-40s)
* Referring domains: 90 (competitors are much, much higher – typically hundreds)
* Total visitors: 1.7K
* Organic Traffic: 261When we look at our competitors and their data (at least on ahrefs), we seem way behind.
We started reworking some pages (8 of about 90 or so) using Surfer and within a few weeks, GSC shows our traffic increasing, so this seems like a good sign. But there are tons of pages to work on and we’re not sure if we should keep going with it internally or hire in a consultant to help to help us develop a good strategy to work through this and understand if we are missing anything.
So for all the experts out there, the question is this — where do we start? what will generate the most results the fastest? It seems like we can keep working with Surfer to update our internal content, but we haven’t even started thinking about off-site SEO / backlinks and the myriad other facets to this.
Thanks!
