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Climate inaction linked to millions of preventable deaths each year, study finds #environment

Climate inaction linked to millions of preventable deaths each year, study finds
Climate change is ravaging the health of people around the world and policy failures are leading to "millions" of avoidable deaths each year, an international team of experts said Wednesday.

Thanks, Trump!
#ThanksTrump

🕷️ Spiderweb silks and architectures reveal millions of years of evolutionary ingenuity
https://theconversation.com/spiderweb-silks-and-architectures-reveal-millions-of-years-of-evolutionary-ingenuity-261928…

Spiderweb silks and architectures reveal millions of years of evolutionary ingenuity
7 distinct types of silk allow different spider species to build webs with various jobs – including to catch prey, tether themselves and protect their eggs.

I think the best summary until now about Post-quantum cryptography is from Peter Gutmann in the cryptography mailing-list.

Given that after 20 years and hundreds of millions of dollars spent researchers have yet to demonstrate a single legitimate cryptanalysis result using a quantum physics experiment, it's a bit like arguing over which brand of unicorn repellent is the most cromulent.

The current state of things in terms of pure vs. hybrid systems seems to be:

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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

'Sick Game': Democratic Megadonor David Geffen, 82, Faces Sordid Grooming Lawsuit from Porn Star Husband, 32, as Top Cultural Centers Take His Millions and Toast Him on Both Coasts (Chuck Ross/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/sick-game-democratic-megadonor-david-geffen-82-faces-sordid-grooming-lawsuit-from-porn-star-husband-32-as-top-cultural-centers-take-his-millions-and-toast-him-on-both-coasts/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250903/p31#a250903p31

Why Do MLLMs Struggle with Spatial Understanding? A Systematic Analysis from Data to Architecture
Wanyue Zhang, Yibin Huang, Yangbin Xu, JingJing Huang, Helu Zhi, Shuo Ren, Wang Xu, Jiajun Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02359

Why Do MLLMs Struggle with Spatial Understanding? A Systematic Analysis from Data to Architecture
Spatial understanding is essential for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to support perception, reasoning, and planning in embodied environments. Despite recent progress, existing studies reveal that MLLMs still struggle with spatial understanding. However, existing research lacks a comprehensive and systematic evaluation of these limitations, often restricted to isolated scenarios, such as single-view or video. In this work, we present a systematic analysis of spatial understanding from…

LinkedIn sues a company called ProAPIs for allegedly operating millions of fake accounts to scrape LinkedIn member data and selling it for ~$15,000 per month (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/linkedin-sues-data-scraping-company

LinkedIn sues software company allegedly scraping data from millions of profiles
ProAPIs, a software company, and its CEO Rahmat Alam allegedly run an operation which LinkedIn says charges customers up to $15,000 per month for scraped user data taken from the social media platform.

So viel zum Thema #Chatkontrolle und „Wer nichts zu verbergen hat…“
Wenn die Falschen an der Macht sind und die Strukturen bestehen, wird es übel.
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ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day
Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

Patch-as-Decodable-Token: Towards Unified Multi-Modal Vision Tasks in MLLMs
Yongyi Su, Haojie Zhang, Shijie Li, Nanqing Liu, Jingyi Liao, Junyi Pan, Yuan Liu, Xiaofen Xing, Chong Sun, Chen Li, Nancy F. Chen, Shuicheng Yan, Xulei Yang, Xun Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01954

Patch-as-Decodable-Token: Towards Unified Multi-Modal Vision Tasks in MLLMs
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have advanced rapidly in recent years. However, existing approaches for vision tasks often rely on indirect representations, such as generating coordinates as text for detection, which limits performance and prevents dense prediction tasks like segmentation. To overcome these challenges, we introduce Patch-as-Decodable Token (PaDT), a unified paradigm that enables MLLMs to directly generate both textual and diverse visual outputs. Central to PaDT are Vis…