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Filing: Strava voluntarily dismissed its patent lawsuit against Garmin, for allegedly infringing its heat map and segments features, just 21 days after filing (Ray Maker/DC Rainmaker)
https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2025/10/strava-drops-voluntarily-lawsuit-again…

Strava Voluntarily Drops Lawsuit Against Garmin
 Strava’s multifaceted legal (and social media) attack on Garmin was short-lived. Just 21 days after filing the original patent infringement case, alongside a Reddit post from their executive team attacking Garmin, the company has decided to dismiss the case

Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a screed of an essay
https://apnews.com/article/oklahoma-bible-essay-instructor-fulneckydei-f37ba4b8afdc9d9aba3b73b124f13b9b

The University of Oklahoma fires instructor who gave failing grade to Bible-based gender essay
The University of Oklahoma has fired an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination. The complaint from 20-year-old junior Samantha Fulnecky was over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and called promoting a belief in multiple genders “demonic.” The university said Monday that its investigation found that the graduate teaching assistant had been arbitrary in giving Fulnecky zero points on the assignment. The attorney for instructor Mel…

A profile of Shirish Dšte, a White House reporter for HuffPost, whose treatment by top Trump officials stands out, with regular insulting and disparaging texts (Erik Wemple/New York Times)
https://www.

When This Reporter Comes Calling, the White House Insults Go Flying
The administration often criticizes journalists, but the treatment of Shirish Dáte, a reporter for HuffPost, stands out.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Radiohead:
🎵 Where I End and You Begin. (The Sky Is Falling In.)
#Radiohead
https://ra-w-music.bandcamp.com/track/radiohead-where-i-end-and-you-begin-ra-w-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/2dDqsUr11Mv0qhXByNfbJx

Manipulating the metal-insulator transitions in correlated vanadium dioxide through bandwidth and band-filling control
Xiaohui Yao, Jiahui Ji, Xuanchi Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10183

Manipulating the metal-insulator transitions in correlated vanadium dioxide through bandwidth and band-filling control
The metal-insulator transition (MIT) in correlated oxide systems opens up a new paradigm to trigger the abruption in multiple physical functionalities, enabling the possibility in unlocking exotic quantum states beyond conventional phase diagram. Nevertheless, the critical challenge for practical device implementation lies in achieving the precise control over the MIT behavior of correlated system across a broad temperature range, ensuring the operational adaptability in diverse environments. H…

I have been driving, cycling and walking past this old house for years* waiting for it to fail completely but it is still holds up for the most part.
* My wife has been paying attention to it since she was a young girl.

The Unwinnable Arms Race of AI Image Detection
Till Aczel, Lorenzo Vettor, Andreas Plesner, Roger Wattenhofer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21135 https://arxi…

The Unwinnable Arms Race of AI Image Detection
The rapid progress of image generative AI has blurred the boundary between synthetic and real images, fueling an arms race between generators and discriminators. This paper investigates the conditions under which discriminators are most disadvantaged in this competition. We analyze two key factors: data dimensionality and data complexity. While increased dimensionality often strengthens the discriminators ability to detect subtle inconsistencies, complexity introduces a more nuanced effect. Usi…

Long but very good:
"An essay on wank"
It names and identifies one of my least favorite genre of posts – finally I have a proper term for it!
I'm sure I've been guilty of it too in the past, so it's useful for self-regulation, too.
https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/essay_

Fractional quantum Hall states under density decoherence
Zijian Wang, Ruihua Fan, Tianle Wang, Samuel J. Garratt, Ehud Altman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08490 https://

Fractional quantum Hall states under density decoherence
Fractional quantum Hall states are promising platforms for topological quantum computation due to their capacity to encode quantum information in topologically degenerate ground states and in the fusion space of non-abelian anyons. We investigate how the information encoded in two paradigmatic states, the Laughlin and Moore-Read states, is affected by density decoherence -- coupling of local charge density to non-thermal noise. We identify a critical filling factor $ν_c$, above which the quant…