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Supercharged dust storms are exposing millions to deadly air pollution https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/10/supercharged-dust-storms-are-exposing-millions-to-deadly-air-pollution/

Supercharged dust storms are exposing millions to deadly air pollution
More people are getting sick due to sand and dust storms that are now more intense and frequent, contributor Sean Mowbray reported for Mongabay. The intensifying storms have exposed many millions more people to dangerous levels of particulate pollution across the world. In some regions, it has also triggered outbreaks of respiratory and infectious diseases. […]

Google partners with Reliance to offer free AI Pro access to Jio 5G users in India for 18 months; Perplexity has a similar deal with Bharti Airtel (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/30/goog

Google partners with Ambani's Reliance to offer free AI Pro access to millions of Jio users in India | TechCrunch
The offer will first roll out to Jio users aged 18 to 25 before expanding to all subscribers nationwide.

drosophila_flybi: Fruit fly protein interactions (Drosophila melanogaster)
Binary protein-protein interactions (PPIs) for Drosophila melanogaster, containing 8723 PPIs among 2939 proteins. The iteractions were identified using a yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) analysis.
This network has 2939 nodes and 8723 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

‘Millions of Avoidable Deaths’: Climate Change Health Harms Reach Unprecedented Levels - Inside Climate News
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28102025/millions-of-avoidable-deaths-climate-change-health-harms-reach-unprecedented-levels/

All the president's millions: how the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches (Tom Burgis/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/30/all-the-presidents-millions-how-the-trumps-are-turning-the-presidency-into-riches
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p18#a251130p18

"Organised crime making millions from illegal waste dumping in UK, says committee"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment

Visual Jigsaw Post-Training Improves MLLMs
Penghao Wu, Yushan Zhang, Haiwen Diao, Bo Li, Lewei Lu, Ziwei Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25190 https://arxiv…

Visual Jigsaw Post-Training Improves MLLMs
Reinforcement learning based post-training has recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for enhancing the alignment and reasoning capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs). While vision-centric post-training is crucial for enhancing MLLMs' intrinsic understanding of visual signals, current post-training paradigms are predominantly text-centric, where dense visual inputs are only leveraged to extract sparse cues for text-based reasoning. There exist a few approaches in this directi…

Since #Trump’s re-election, warnings that his use of presidential power to advance personal interests is corroding American democracy have grown ever louder.
☑️ All the president’s millions: how the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches

All the president’s millions: how the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches
From Vietnam to the Balkans, Donald Trump’s family has launched a global dealmaking blitz since his re-election

JD Vance did nothing
as Trump cuts cost his Ohio home town millions.
Despite Vance being Middletown’s most famous son
and Ohio broadly safe ground for Republican politicians for at least a decade,
⭐️nearly four in 10 of voters in the city of 50,000 people chose not to back Vance and Trump in last year’s presidential election.
Two progressives are running for seats on Middletown’s non-partisan,
yet Republican-leaning,
council in next month’s election…

Acquiring solar panels at home can be an expensive hassle for people in the US.
But small, simple, plug-in solar panels for use on balconies are soon to become available for millions of Americans,
with advocates hoping the technology will quickly go mainstream.
Balcony solar panels are now widespread in countries such as Germany
– where more than 1m homes have them
– but have until now been stymied in the US by state regulations.
This is set to change, wit…