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Azerbaijan-Russia tensions escalate as Baku accuses Moscow of intentional killing of its citizens: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/azerbaijanrussia-tensions-escalate-as-baku.html

Im hbz wird eine neue Leitung der Gruppe "Datenbankservices und Verbunddienstleistungen" gesucht, siehe https://metadaten.community/t/hbz-leitung-der-gruppe-datenbankservices-und-verbunddienstleistungen/827

Russian propaganda media Sputnik shuts down operations in Azerbaijan amid tensions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/03/russian-propaganda-media-sputnik-shuts.html

Docs and interviews: Media Matters is struggling to survive, having racked up ~$15M in legal fees to defend itself from lawsuits by Elon Musk, the FTC, and AGs (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/us/poli

Under Siege From Trump and Musk, a Top Liberal Group Falls Into Crisis
Scrambling to pay legal fees, Media Matters has dialed back its criticism, trimmed its staff and contemplated closing entirely.

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Voor Deventer Op Stelten komen ze nu van de andere kant van de wereld | Deventer | destentor.nl
https://www.destentor.nl/deventer/voor-deventer-op-stelten-komen-ze-nu-van…

Bergleute nach Beschuss in ukrainischer Mine eingesperrt
Fast 150 Bergleute in der Ostukraine sitzen Medien zufolge wegen eines russischen Angriffs auf ihre Kohlegrube unter Tage fest. Durch den Beschuss sei die Stromversorgung der Grube von Biloserske bei Dobropillja ausgefallen, berichteten ukrainische Medien. Der Betreiber, der ukrainische Stromversorger DTEK, nannte den genauen Ort nicht, bestätigte aber auf Telegram den …
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Selenskyj macht Druck bei Sicherheitsgarantien ++
Der ukrainische Präsident Selenskyj fordert eine schnellere Ausarbeitung möglicher Sicherheitsgarantien für sein Land. Eine fehlgeleitete Drohne der Ukraine ist nach Behördenangaben in Estland abgestürzt.

Björn Müller, researcher at #MPSGoettingen and #IMPRS at #UniGoettingen graduate, has been awarded the Otto Hahn Medal for outstanding achievements in his dissertation. The

Quadratic Programming-Based Posture Manipulation and Thrust-vectoring for Agile Dynamic Walking on Narrow Pathways
Chenghao Wang, Eric Sihite, Kaushik Venkatesh Krishnamurthy, Shreyansh Pitroda, Adarsh Salagame, Alireza Ramezani, Morteza Gharib
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23203

Quadratic Programming-Based Posture Manipulation and Thrust-vectoring for Agile Dynamic Walking on Narrow Pathways
There has been significant advancement in legged robot's agility where they can show impressive acrobatic maneuvers, such as parkour. These maneuvers rely heavily on posture manipulation. To expand the stability and locomotion plasticity, we use the multi-modal ability in our legged-aerial platform, the Husky Beta, to perform thruster-assisted walking. This robot has thrusters on each of its sagittal knee joints which can be used to stabilize its frontal dynamic as it walks. In this work, we pe…

Collective communication in a transparent world: Phase transitions in a many-body Potts model and social-quantum duality
Pawat Akarapipattana, Sergei Nechaev, Bogdan Slavov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20267

Collective communication in a transparent world: Phase transitions in a many-body Potts model and social-quantum duality
We consider the Schelling-like social competition reflected in "dynamics of opinions" among groups of agents ("communities") in a highly transparent world. Specifically, we investigate a $q$-state Potts spin system with competing two- and three-body interactions on a complete graph. Agents interact through pairwise repulsion (opposing opinions) between different communities and three-body attraction (shared opinions) within the same community. In the thermodynamic limit, we identify variants of…