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I was trying to package #FlexiBLAS for #Gentoo, and to be honest, it doesn't look that good.
The first red flag is lack of an open bug tracker. Apparently, there is the tracker on GitLab that's limited to "members of their group and selected external contributors", but it doesn't seem to be used much. So it's "send us an email", and wonder how many people sent us the same bug report before.
The git repository is currently at something tagged 3.4.80 that seems to be prerelease, and its build system is quite broken. Not exactly the best path to verify that the bugs you are hitting are still there.
Now, upstream seems to insist on either using vendored netlib #LAPACK, or statically linking to the system library (we don't install the static libraries). Apparently I can specify the shared libraries instead, but it doesn't work — and it's unclear to me whether it doesn't work because I'm using the shared libraries, or because it doesn't support my LAPACK version. If I build LAPACK without deprecated symbols, it refuses to load it at runtime because of missing symbols. And if I build it with deprecated symbols, it fails to find some symbols at CMake time.
Honestly, I feel like I've spent too much time on this project already, especially given that its future is entirely unclear to me — the current git is quite broken, I have no clue how many issues were reported already and whether my bug reports will receive any reply. It definitely doesn't fare well for a package that we might start to rely heavily on. We don't want a cathedral there.
https://www.mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de/projects/flexiblas
https://gitlab.mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de/software/flexiblas-release

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Wie wirkt die Fleischproduktion auf den Klimawandel? (vereinfachte Sprache)
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Próbowałem dodać #FlexiBLAS do #Gentoo, i szczerze mówiąc, nie wygląda to dobrze.
Na dobry początek niepokoi brak otwartego systemu zgłaszania błędów. Jest GitLab, ale ograniczony do "członków ich grupy i wybranych osób z zewnątrz", ale nie wygląda na to, żeby go za bardzo używano. Jest tylko…

Flexible arrangement of two Bennett tubes
Georg Nawratil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08356 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.08356

Flexible arrangement of two Bennett tubes
In analogy to flexible bipyramids, also known as Bricard octahedra, we study flexible couplings of two Bennett mechanisms. The resulting flexible bi-Bennett structures can be used as building blocks of flexible tubes with quadrilateral cross-section that possess skew faces. We present three 4-dimensional families of flexible arranged Bennett tubes and discuss some of their properties as well as their relation to flexible bipyramids and biprisms, respectively.

KI-Assistentin "Kiana": Deutsche Bahn testet Sprachbot am Flughafen BER
Die Deutsche Bahn erprobt am Berliner Flughafen BER eine KI-gestützte Reiseberatung. "Kiana" soll Fahrgäste unterstützen – allerdings mit Einschränkungen.

Skadden was one of the law firms that bent the knee
Skadden Fellowship Sells Out, Gets Rid Of Commitments They've Championed Since 1988 - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/06/skadden-fellowship-sells-out-gets-rid-of-commitments-theyve-championed-since-1988/

DOJ drops charges against Utah doctor accused of falsifying Covid-19 vaccine records https://ground.news/article/doj-drops-charges-against-utah-doctor-accused-of-falsifying-covid-19-vaccine-records

Spatial-Temporal Multi-Scale Quantization for Flexible Motion Generation
Zan Wang, Jingze Zhang, Yixin Chen, Baoxiong Jia, Wei Liang, Siyuan Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08991

Spatial-Temporal Multi-Scale Quantization for Flexible Motion Generation
Despite significant advancements in human motion generation, current motion representations, typically formulated as discrete frame sequences, still face two critical limitations: (i) they fail to capture motion from a multi-scale perspective, limiting the capability in complex patterns modeling; (ii) they lack compositional flexibility, which is crucial for model's generalization in diverse generation tasks. To address these challenges, we introduce MSQ, a novel quantization method that compre…

Why wait for the next energy crisis? Enjoy the benefits of flexibility today.
What can the U.S. learn from Europe's progress in making greater residential demand flexibility?
https://www.raponline.org/blog/why-wait-for-the-…

Why wait for the next energy crisis? Enjoy the benefits of flexibility today
Europe has been paving the way to greater residential demand flexibility since 2018, and according to RAP’s recent survey, residential smart tariff

Dänemark kauft Flugabwehrsysteme
Dänemark will wegen der Bedrohung durch Russland für 58 Milliarden Kronen (fast 7,8 Milliarden Euro) Flugabwehrsysteme europäischer Hersteller kaufen. Wie das Verteidigungsministerium am Freitag mitteilte, soll für den Langstreckenbereich das französisch-italienische Flugabwehrsystem Samp/T beschafft werden.
Für mittlere Reichweiten sollen "ein oder mehrere Systeme"…
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EU-Außenminister ringen über Kurs gegenüber Russland
Europas Außenminister rechnen nicht mehr mit einem baldigen Frieden in der Ukraine. In Dänemark sprachen sie deshalb über neue Russland-Sanktionen. Außenminister Wadephul drängt auf mehr militärische Unterstützung für Kiew.