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At U.S. request, France jails Russian basketball player Daniil Kasatkin on suspicion of ransomware conspiracy
https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/07/10/at-u-s-request-france-jails-…

At U.S. request, France jails Russian basketball player Daniil Kasatkin on suspicion of ransomware conspiracy
A court in Paris has jailed Russian basketball player Daniil Kasatkin on suspicion of involvement in a hacker group’s extortion activities. The 26-year-old was arrested on June 21 at Charles de Gaulle airport at the request of the United States, which has charged him with conspiracy to commit computer fraud. According to American investigators, Kasatkin acted as an accomplice in a hacker group’s ransomware attacks on roughly 900 companies, including two federal institutions, between 2020 an…

Determining the orientation of radio antennas at the South Pole using Galactic noise measurements
Paras Koundal (for the IceCube Collaboration), Valeria Torres-Gomez (for the IceCube Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07224

Determining the orientation of radio antennas at the South Pole using Galactic noise measurements
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a multi-messenger observatory at the South Pole. As preparation for an enhancement of its surface array, IceTop, a prototype station consisting of elevated scintillation panels and radio antennas has been installed and is operating since 2020. The radio antennas detect emissions from cosmic-ray-induced air showers, and their precise orientation is essential for an accurate reconstruction of the air-shower properties. This work presents a novel method to deter…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

3 Ways FaceBook Can Kill Your Creativity
#creativity #inspiration
https://muz4now…

3 Ways FaceBook Can Kill Your Creativity
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

I just found this UK report on #covid epidemiology from 2020 to Dec 2024; the graph I most noticed is below - they looked at blood donors for spike (S) and Nucleo (N) protein antibodies over time; The spike proteins are in both infection and vaccine, while N is infection only - so you can see when people got vaccinated and how now pretty much everyone (95.5% as end of January) has been infected as…

Epidemiology of COVID-19 in England: January 2020 to December 2024

Evolution of the ZTF SLRN-2020 star-planet merger
Ricardo Yarza, Morgan MacLeod, Benjamin Idini, Ruth Murray-Clay, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05365

Evolution of the ZTF SLRN-2020 star-planet merger
We model the optical and infrared transient ZTF SLRN-2020, previously associated with a star-planet merger. We consider the scenario in which orbital decay via tidal dissipation led to the merger, and find that tidal heating within the star was likely unobservable in the archival image of the system taken $12\mathrm{yr}$ before the merger. The observed dust formation months before the merger is consistent with a planet of mass $M_\mathrm{p} \gtrsim 5M_\mathrm{J}$ ejecting material as it skims t…

I continue to maintain that Biden was one of the worst presidents in my lifetime - mostly due to an accident of timing. If he had been president in 2016 or 2000, he obviously would've been a huge improvement over Trump or Cheney, respectively. Heck, even in 2008 or 2012 or 1996 he would've been.. fine.
But after covid, BLM, 4 years of Trump 1.0 abuses, & subsequent open insurrection by literal fascism, he was the wrong person for the job. He gave the fash 4 years to prep

Sources: Vikings give Metellus 3-year extension https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45830416/minnesota-vikings-sign-safety-josh-metellus-extension

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in Deutschland. Stand: 26.07.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erster Versuch einer #Datenanalyse. 😁 Hinweise gerne. Wü…

Good Morning #Canada
OTD in 1977, Tim Severin landed on Peckford Island, Newfoundland. Severin had set sail from Ireland on May 17th with a five-man crew in a boat built using only techniques and materials available in sixth-century Ireland. The arduous 7,300km journey was meant to prove that St. Brendon had discovered North America almost 1,000 years before Columbus. I'm sure we were polite and didn't smirk when we welcomed him to Canada.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Myth
https://lookingnorth.blog/2020/07/the-brendan-voyage/

Thunderstorm - a (perhaps strange) creative process story
#StoryTelling #CreativeProcess
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Thunderstorm - a (perhaps strange) creative process story
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Raiders fans will get chance to watch training camp practices https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-fans-will-get-chance-to-watch-training-camp-practices-3399855/

Many phases in a hairy box in three dimensions
Shoichiro Miyashita
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20528 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.20528

Many phases in a hairy box in three dimensions
In this paper, I investigate gravitational thermodynamics of the Einstein-Maxwell-scalar system in three dimensions without a cosmological constant. In the previous work by Krishnan,Shekhar, and Bala Subramanian (Nucl. Phys. B 958 (2020) 115115 [33]), it was argued that this system has no BH saddles, but has only empty (flat space) saddles and boson star saddles. It was then concluded that the structure of the thermodynamic phase space is much simpler than in the higher dimensional cases. I wil…

Toeplitz operators and weighted composition operators on variable exponent Bergman spaces
Cezhong Tong, Zicong Yang, Zehua Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13675

Toeplitz operators and weighted composition operators on variable exponent Bergman spaces
In a recent paper [JFA, 278 (2020), 108401], Choe et al. obtained characterizations for bounded and compact differences of two weighted composition operators acting on standard weighted Bergman spaces over the unit disk in terms of Carleson measures. Then they extended the results to the ball setting. In this paper, we further generalize those results to variable exponent Bergman spaces over the unit ball. Our proofs, when restricted to the case of constant variable, are new and simpler. Moreov…

Decadal evolution of a repeating fast radio burst source
P. Wang, J. S. Zhang, Y. P. Yang, D. K. Zhou, Y. K. Zhang, Y. Feng, Z. Y. Zhao, J. H. Fang, D. Li, W. W. Zhu, B. Zhang, F. Y. Wang, Y. F. Huang, R. Luo, J. L. Han, K. J. Lee, C. W. Tsai, Z. G. Dai, H. Gao, X. P. Zheng, J. H. Cao, X. L. Chen, E. Gugercinoglu, J. C. Jiang, W. C. Jing, Y. Li, J. Li, W. J. Lu, J. W. Luo, F. Lyu, C. C. Miao, C. H. Niu, J. R. Niu, Y. Qu, W. Y. Wang, Y. D. Wang, Y. B. Wang, C. J. Wang, Q. Wu, Y. S. Wu, …

Decadal evolution of a repeating fast radio burst source
The origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs), the brightest cosmic radio explosions, is still unknown. Bearing critical clues to FRBs' origin, the long-term evolution of FRBs has yet to be confirmed, since the field is still young and most FRBs were seen only once. Here we report clear evidence of decadal evolution of FRB~20121102A, the first precisely localized repeater. In conjunction with archival data, our FAST and GBT monitoring campaign since 2020 reveals a significant 7% decline of local dispe…

Quasi-periodic oscillations and reflection feature evolution in 4U 1630-47 observed with Insight-HXMT
Jiashi Chen, Wei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19285

Quasi-periodic oscillations and reflection feature evolution in 4U 1630-47 observed with Insight-HXMT
The Galactic black hole (BH) X-ray binary 4U 1630-47 went into a new outburst in 2021 after $\sim$ 600 days from its 2020 outburst. We perform a detailed analysis of quasi-periodic oscillations and spectral evolutions during its 2021 outburst based on \textit{Insight}-HXMT observations. The main science aims to study the reflection features evolution of this accreting black hole using the observations of detecting quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) and quasi-regular modulations (QRMs). The QPOs…