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Folk at #DH2025 might be interested in this article 'From handwriting to searchable text: using AI to make millions of historical documents accessible'

From handwriting to searchable text: using AI to make millions of historical documents accessible
In April 2025 the Swedish National Archives made 1,2 million digital images of archival documents into searchable, machine readable text — making the information in the archives more accessible than…

Getting right to the point...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/10/15/2348703/-Trump-s-minions-waste-millions-of-tax-dollars-on-ads-kissing-his-butt

China: Kartellbehörde wirft Nvidia Verletzung von Fusionsauflagen vor
Eine chinesische Voruntersuchung soll Nvidia belasten. Jetzt folgt eine umfassende Untersuchung zur milliardenschweren Mellanox-Übernahme.

Me cuesta entender lo que quiere decir este titular. ¿El hijo de Chadwick logró recaudar mas de 50 millones como consecuencia de la fiscalización vehicular que le hicieron? ¿Después de la fiscalización? O, lo mšs probable, solo intentaron poner un titular sensacionalista que llame la atención para capturas mas clicks. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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New wave of austerity in France.
Frozen pensions, cuts in public spending and jobs and reductions in public holidays. Debt at 114% GDP
El Gobierno francés congelarš pensiones, recortarš gasto social y funcionarios y eliminarš días festivos para contener la deuda
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El Gobierno francés congelará pensiones, recortará gasto social y funcionarios y eliminará días festivos para contener la deuda
El primer ministro de Francia anuncia un ajuste presupuestario de 43.800 millones de euros para 2026

Source: cloud startup Vercel has been approached by investors offering to invest hundreds of millions at an $8B-$9B valuation; it was valued at $3B last year (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/cloud-startup-vercel-fields-o…

Cloud Startup Vercel Fields Offers for $9 Billion Valuation
Vercel, a nine-year-old cloud startup that companies use to host and develop websites and artificial intelligence apps, has been approached by investors offering to invest hundreds of millions of dollars at a valuation between $8 billion to $9 billion, according to a person with direct knowledge ...

🦻 Leak of data belonging to 7.4 million Paraguays traced back to infostealers
#crime

Leak of data belonging to 7.4 million Paraguayans traced back to infostealers
The leaks to the dark web contain information “about the entire population” of Paraguay, researchers said, and likely originated with malware that infected a government employee device.

" by 2050, 1.5 million coastal residents would be at risk, rising to more than 3 million by 2090."
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/15/millions-…

"Millions of litres of oil seeping into UK soil from ageing electricity cables"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #FossilFuels

An Empirical Study for Representations of Videos in Video Question Answering via MLLMs
Zhi Li, Yanan Wang, Hao Niu, Julio Vizcarra, Masato Taya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12299 …

An Empirical Study for Representations of Videos in Video Question Answering via MLLMs
Multimodal large language models have recently achieved remarkable progress in video question answering (VideoQA) by jointly processing visual, textual, and audio information. However, it remains unclear which video representations are most effective for MLLMs, and how different modalities balance task accuracy against computational efficiency. In this work, we present a comprehensive empirical study of video representation methods for VideoQA with MLLMs. We systematically evaluate single modal…