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The European Commission accuses Chinese marketplace AliExpress of failing to tackle illegal products on its platform, in preliminary findings under the DSA (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Pandemic-era slump in ivory and pangolin scale trafficking persists, report finds https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/pandemic-era-slump-in-ivory-and-pangolin-scale-trafficking-persists-report-finds/

Pandemic-era slump in ivory and pangolin scale trafficking persists, report finds
A recent report surveying seizures of pangolin scales and elephant ivory over the past decade has found a sharp decline following the COVID-19 pandemic. Using data from media reports, public documents, and criminal intelligence and investigations, analysts at the Wildlife Justice Commission (WJC) found authorities seized more than 370 metric tons of pangolin scales and […]

Modeling flying formations as flow-mediated matter
Christiana Mavroyiakoumou, Jiajie Wu, Leif Ristroph
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14025 https://

Modeling flying formations as flow-mediated matter
Collective locomotion of swimming and flying animals is fascinating in terms of individual-level fluid mechanics and group-level structure and dynamics. Here we bridge and relate these scales through a model of formation flight that views the collective as a material whose properties arise from the flow-mediated interactions among its members. We build on and revise an aerodynamic model describing how flapping flyers produce vortex wakes and how they are forced by others' wakes. While simplisti…

Implied Probabilities and Volatility in Credit Risk: A Merton-Based Approach with Binomial Trees
Jagdish Gnawali, Abootaleb Shirvani, Svetlozar T. Rachev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12694

Implied Probabilities and Volatility in Credit Risk: A Merton-Based Approach with Binomial Trees
We explore credit risk pricing by modeling equity as a call option and debt as the difference between the firm's asset value and a put option, following the structural framework of the Merton model. Our approach proceeds in two stages: first, we calibrate the asset volatility using the Black-Scholes-Merton (BSM) formula; second, we recover implied mean return and probability surfaces under the physical measure. To achieve this, we construct a recombining binomial tree under the real-world (natu…

Wenn man im Restaurant zu lange aufs Essen wartet, ist das ärgerlich.
Nun saß ich aber gerade 2 min nach Abgabe der Bestellung da, wollte erstmal ankommen.
Fehlanzeige.
Denn schon stand der Spargel auf dem Tisch - noch bevor das Getränk gebracht wurde.
Solche Kleinigkeiten sind nicht unwichtig, denn Spargelessen war eine jährliche Tradition von mir und Essengehen generell ein Ritual. Nun fühle ich mich tendenziell abgefertigt und weiß nicht, ob ich im nächsten Jahr…

On the origin of the E1 electron trap level in GaN and dilute AlxGa1-xN films
Piotr Kruszewski, Jose Coutinho, Vladimir P. Markevich, Pawel Prystawko, Lijie Sun, Jerzy Plesiewicz, Chris A. Dawe, Matthew P. Halsall, Anthony R. Peaker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10566

On the origin of the E1 electron trap level in GaN and dilute AlxGa1-xN films
The results of high-resolution Laplace deep-level transient spectroscopy (L-DLTS) measurements applied to the E1 and FeGa electron traps in dilute AlxGa1-xN films (x = 0.063), grown by metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE) on Ammono-GaN substrates, are presented. It is shown that the electron emission signals associated with the E1 donor and the FeGa acceptor levels split into individual components due to the aluminium fluctuations in the nearest neighbour shells around the E1 and FeGa defe…

Jensen Huang says Nvidia will exclude the Chinese market from its revenue and profit forecasts going forward, amid US restrictions on chip sales to China (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/06/12/tech/nvidia-ceo-china-us-ai-chip-exports

Nvidia will stop including China in its forecasts amid US chip export controls, CEO says
Chipmaker Nvidia will exclude the Chinese market from its revenue and profit forecasts following the imposition of tough US restrictions on chip sales to China, its CEO said Thursday.

Steelers DB, West Virginia alum Beanie Bishop disrespects Pitt logo following recent practice

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/steeler

Battery electric vehicles had a market share of 18% last month in Germany; sales 45% higher than in May 2024.
China's BYD up 824%, easily surpassing Tesla (down 36%), but still only 4% share in Germany's BEV market.
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Adobe reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $5.87B, vs. $5.8B est., Digital Media revenue up 11% to $4.35B, and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-12/ado…

Adobe Posts Strong Outlook, Touting Traction for AI Tools
Adobe Inc. gave a strong sales outlook for the current quarter, quieting investor anxieties that the leader in creative software is falling behind in a competition with AI-focused upstarts.