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Russische Angriffe auf Stromversorgung in der Ukraine
Russland hat in der vergangenen Nacht die ukrainische Energieinfrastruktur mit Drohnen angegriffen und dadurch die Stromversorgung in mehreren Gebieten unterbrochen. Betroffen sei auch die zentrale Region Dnipropetrowsk, teilt das ukrainische Energieministerium mit. Der Stromnetzbetreiber Ukrenergo erklärt, in sieben Regionen und vor allem im Osten sei die Stromversorgung …
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ NATO und EU arbeiten an "Drohnenschutzwall" ++
Laut NATO-Generalsekretär Rutte arbeitet das Verteidigungsbündnis gemeinsam mit der EU an einem Abwehrwall gegen Drohnen. Die Zahl junge Ukrainer, die als Schutzsuchende nach Deutschland kommen, ist im Sommer gestiegen.

Der Angriff auf das Hanukkah-Fest in Sydney ist erschütternd. Wir sind in Gedanken bei den Betroffenen und in Verbundenheit mit der jüdischen Gemeinschaft. Gegen jeden Hass, Gewalt und vor allem gegen jeden Antisemitismus!
Nie wieder heißt nie wieder wehrlos. Wir müssen jüdisches Leben mit allen Mitteln schützen! 🚩

Schwimmende vertikale Photovoltaikanlage mit 1,87 MW auf Kiessee eröffnet
Eine schwimmende Photovoltaikanlage auf einem See liefert durch vertikal angeordnete Solarmodule mehr Strom auf einer kleineren Fläche als herkömmliche Anlagen.

Towards Reliable and Interpretable Document Question Answering via VLMs
Alessio Chen, Simone Giovannini, Andrea Gemelli, Fabio Coppini, Simone Marinai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10129

Towards Reliable and Interpretable Document Question Answering via VLMs
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown strong capabilities in document understanding, particularly in identifying and extracting textual information from complex documents. Despite this, accurately localizing answers within documents remains a major challenge, limiting both interpretability and real-world applicability. To address this, we introduce \textit{DocExplainerV0}, a plug-and-play bounding-box prediction module that decouples answer generation from spatial localization. This design m…

from my link log —
An angry rant about locales and filenames in libarchive.
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f027338b0fab0f5078971fbe
saved 2025-10-13

stream_libarchive: workaround various types of locale braindeath · mpv-player/mpv@1e70e82
Fix that libarchive fails to return filenames for UTF-8/UTF-16 entries. The reason is that it uses locales and all that garbage, and mpv does not set a locale. Both C locales and wchar_t are shitf...

How do we steer EV charging so that it strengthens, rather than strains, the power grid? One of the clearest answers emerging from global leading practice is the use of smart pricing to guide smart EV charging.
What can China learn from Europe and vice versa? I discuss this with Chi Gao
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Smart Pricing for Smart Charging: Practical Lessons from the EU and China
As electric vehicles become mainstream, governments are beginning to ask a harder question: how do we steer this growing load so that it strengthens, rather than strains, the power grid? One of the clearest answers emerging from global leading practice is the use of smart pricing to guide smart EV c

My Favorite Streamer is an LLM: Discovering, Bonding, and Co-Creating in AI VTuber Fandom
Jiayi Ye, Chaoran Chen, Yue Huang, Yanfang Ye, Toby Jia-Jun Li, Xiangliang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10427

My Favorite Streamer is an LLM: Discovering, Bonding, and Co-Creating in AI VTuber Fandom
AI VTubers, where the performer is not human but algorithmically generated, introduce a new context for fandom. While human VTubers have been substantially studied for their cultural appeal, parasocial dynamics, and community economies, little is known about how audiences engage with their AI counterparts. To address this gap, we present a qualitative study of Neuro-sama, the most prominent AI VTuber. Our findings show that engagement is anchored in active co-creation: audiences are drawn by th…

"Tony Blair is an undeclared lobbyist. Ellison is his client. And TBI is an influencing machine whose tentacles spread across both the political and media establishments: if you read any article about digital ID that doesn’t include the Blair/Ellison connection, ask yourself why."

If Keir Starmer's digital ID is the question, Tony Blair is the answer
The government's wildly unpopular new policy is backed by Britain’s wildly unpopular former PM. It’s also a techno-authoritarian’s wet dream, argues Carole Cadwalladr

Strong suspicion that there's an overlap between the people who were being publicly angry that "DEI" was giving jobs to people they thought lacked merit, and the people pushing the idea that jobs should be given to AI.

Task-Specific Dual-Model Framework for Comprehensive Traffic Safety Video Description and Analysis
Blessing Agyei Kyem, Neema Jakisa Owor, Andrews Danyo, Joshua Kofi Asamoah, Eugene Denteh, Tanner Muturi, Anthony Dontoh, Yaw Adu-Gyamfi, Armstrong Aboah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11907

Task-Specific Dual-Model Framework for Comprehensive Traffic Safety Video Description and Analysis
Traffic safety analysis requires complex video understanding to capture fine-grained behavioral patterns and generate comprehensive descriptions for accident prevention. In this work, we present a unique dual-model framework that strategically utilizes the complementary strengths of VideoLLaMA and Qwen2.5-VL through task-specific optimization to address this issue. The core insight behind our approach is that separating training for captioning and visual question answering (VQA) tasks minimizes…