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How Australian men's lifestyle publisher Man of Many is countering a decline in Google referral traffic, through a registration wall, podcasts, and newsletters (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

How lifestyle brand Man of Many has changed to counter falling Google traffic
Man of Many, an Australian digital lifestyle brand, has adopted a new 2.0 strategy involving a sign-in system and seen "record growth".

More Belgian (Flemish?) households with solar panels, batteries or electric vehicles will be able to benefit from the flexibility they can offer the energy system as energy retailers Bolt and Trevion collaborate with VPP operator Powernaut.
https://powernaut.io/press/powernaut-a

Powernaut, Bolt, Trevion and Partners launch Belgium’s first energy contracts that pay consumers for grid support - Powernaut
Using Powernaut’s smart software, households with solar panels, home batteries, or EVs can now earn money by allowing their energy retailer to manage their devices intelligently. For example, devices may charge or reduce output during peak times to avoid grid overload. Retailers like Bolt and Trevion are offering these new contracts, allowing customers to benefit financially without sacrificing comfort. Partners such as Qbus and Innovoltus support the initiative, which is seen as a key step …

"Whenever anyone asks me for advice, I tell them: we don’t realize how deeply the nine-to-five fractures us. The weekends, the holidays, the fixed friend group—whatever rigidness exists in your behavior will exist in your perception, and it will exist in your ability to think critically."
Victoria Brugger, "Last Words of an Ego on Death Row"

Last Words of an Ego on Death Row
Hello.I don’t know who you are. But I hope we meet in the next pages—across whichever dimension I had to cross to embody these feelings.This is not a book. It is not a journal.It is the autopsy of an ego and the birth certificate of the woman I am today.It carries the blueprints I bled for: how to build something from nothing, how to love yourself when the mirror is a battlefield, how to decode the nature of existence and drag purpose out of the dark.But more than all of that—this is my b…

Laser spectroscopy and CP-violation sensitivity of actinium monofluoride
M. Athanasakis-Kaklamanakis, M. Au, A. Kyuberis, C. Z\"ulch, K. Gaul, H. Wibowo, L. Skripnikov, L. Lalanne, J. R. Reilly, A. Koszor\'us, S. Bara, J. Ballof, R. Berger, C. Bernerd, A. Borschevsky, A. A. Breier, K. Chrysalidis, T. E. Cocolios, R. P. de Groote, A. Dorne, J. Dobaczewski, C. M. Fajardo Zambrano, K. T. Flanagan, S. Franchoo, J. D. Johnson, R. F. Garcia Ruiz, D. Hanstorp, S. Kujanp\"a\&quot…

Rapid heat assisted polarization reversal in ferroelectric thin films
Rekikua Alemayehu, Steffen Zeuschner, Alexander von Reppert, Matthias Roessle, Marin Alexe, Matias Bargheer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21612

Rapid heat assisted polarization reversal in ferroelectric thin films
We demonstrate that switching of ferroelectric thin-films sandwiched between metallic electrodes can be controlled by laser-assisted heating, reminiscent of heat-assisted magnetic recording. We employ electrical switching cycles that quantify the electrically switchable remanent polarization $P_\mathrm{r}$ and show that 300\,ns voltage pulses alone change the polarization by less than $ΔP

Kilonovae and Long-duration Gamma-ray Bursts
Marko Risti\'c, Brandon L. Barker, Samuel Cupp, Axel Gross, Nicole Lloyd-Ronning, Oleg Korobkin, Jonah M. Miller, Matthew R. Mumpower
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03003

Kilonovae and Long-duration Gamma-ray Bursts
Recent detections of kilonova-like emission following long-duration gamma-ray bursts GRB211211A and GRB230307A have been interpreted as originating from the merger of two neutron stars. In this work, we demonstrate that these observations are also consistent with nucleosynthesis originating from a collapsar scenario. Our model accurately predicts the observed optical and infrared light curves using a single weak $r$-process component. The absence of lanthanide-rich material in our model, consis…

a bit physically relieved that we managed to avoid what would have been an extinction-level event for the web (the Mozilla search deal is also deemed fine now) https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/tech/google-antitrust-ruling-chrome-android

Google will not be forced to sell off Chrome or Android, judge rules in landmark antitrust ruling
A court will not force Google to sell off its Chrome browser or Android, a federal judge said in a court filing on Tuesday. The decision serves as a significant win for the tech company, which has avoided the most extreme possible outcome from a landmark antitrust case that determined the company was operating an illegal online search monopoly.

Voters may feel hotter summers are ‘too much’ but they appear to tolerate roll-back of policies to stop global heating
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/04/europe-heatwaves-failing-support-climate-action?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Summer is drawing to a close

"Zo neemt het gebruik van groene stroom minder snel toe dan verwacht, schrijft demissionair minister Hermans van Groene Groei en Klimaat (VVD) in een Kamerbrief.
Voornaamste oorzaak is dat de verduurzaming van de industrie moeizaam verloopt en fabrieken dus langer gebruik moeten maken van fossiele brandstoffen als olie, aardgas en steenkool."
♻️ Perpetuum mobile of drogredenering?

Kabinet snoeit flink in plannen voor windenergie op de Noordzee
Na veel slecht nieuws over windenergie op zee stelt het demissionaire kabinet het streefdoel officieel naar beneden bij.