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Thoma Bravo acquires a majority stake in Java platform Azul, which received a $340M majority investment from Vitruvian Partners and Lead Edge Capital in 2020 (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/11/18/tho…

Exclusive: Thoma Bravo buys Java platform Azul
Azul battles Oracle in the Java marketplace.

Oh great. Sales of pesticides containing PFAS 'forever chemicals' growing explosively, as more and more types are allowed on the market.
https://www.nieuweoogst.nl/nieuws/2025/11/12/afzet-gewasbeschermingsmiddelen-met-pf…

Afzet gewasbeschermingsmiddelen met PFAS neemt enorm toe
De afzet van PFAS-houdende gewasbeschermingsmiddelen is flink gestegen. In de periode 2010-2020 lag dit rond de 150.000 kilo, in 2023 was dit ruim 250.000 kilo. Fungiciden hebben het grootste aandeel. Dit blijkt uit onderzoek van adviesbureau CLM.

from my link log —
Asterisk.
https://cormullion.github.io/pages/2020-10-09-asterisk/
saved 2020-10-10 https://dotat.at/:…

@… *me, 1000 years later, hooked up to a life-extension machine, still responding to GitHub issues opened in 2020*

US companies sold $1.7T of investment-grade bonds in 2025, nearing the $1.8T 2020 record, driven by AI infrastructure borrowing; Goldman says AI makes up ~30% (Kate Duguid/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/faa3d747-9a32-4219-93eb-a93c10502f06

AI debt boom pushes US corporate bond sales close to record
Investment-grade borrowers have issued $1.7tn of bonds this year, closing in on 2020’s Covid debt rush

from my link log —
How GitLab.com upgraded PostgreSQL.
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/09/11/gitlab-pg-upgrade/
saved 2020-09-12 https:…

How we upgraded PostgreSQL at GitLab.com
We explain the precise maintenance process to execute a major version upgrade of PostgreSQL.

None of the 25 dramas and comedies in N. American theaters in the last three months had $50M in sales; October had the lowest box office on record, except 2020 (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/business/media/box-office-co…

Why Hollywood’s Star-Studded Movies Are Failing at the Box Office
It has been a brutal three months for dramas and comedies.

Judge officially drops 3 charges in Georgia's Trump 2020 election interference case (Dan Raby/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-officially-drops-charges-georgia-trump-2020-election-interference-case/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251114/p125#a251114p125

Yesterday, Trump gave passes to all his convicted cronies who are now scott free.
Trump voters & people who didn't vote: This is your fault.
✅ Trump issues pardons for Rudy Giuliani and others in fake elector plot - The Independent
https://www.

Trump issues pardons for Rudy Giuliani, Sydney Powell and others involved in 2020 fake elector scheme
Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s disbarred and disgraced former attorney, joins other Trumpworld loyalists in receiving an unconditional pardon

from my link log —
Execute-only pages vs PAN (privileged access never) on arm64.
https://siguza.github.io/PAN/
saved 2020-01-07 https://dotat.at/:/CBAC3.h…

Apple fined $261,000 for poisoning people.
(Apple made that money back in about 21.5 seconds.)
#BigTech #Apple #poisoning

Ashley M. Gjøvik, JD (@ashleygjovik@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image "Former Apple employee Ashley Gjøvik moved into one of the adjacent apartments in 2020 only to fall badly ill with indications of chemical poisoning, she told SFGATE. She didn't know what was happening at first, she said, but after she arrived she started suddenly having chest pains, strange rashes, arrhythmia and numbness. She regularly fainted. When she got her blood and urine tested that September, she said, the results showed arsenic, mercury, toluene and xylene." https:…

Longtime NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue dies at 84, leaving behind legacy of reshaping the game

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/paul-tagliabue-dies-nfl-commissioner/

Zhu on AI/AGI: 'A sign of true intelligence... is the ability to reason towards a goal with minimal inputs ... a “small data, big task” approach, compared with the “big data, small task” approach employed by large language models like ChatGPT. AGI... is characterised by qualities such as resourcefulness in novel situations, social and physical intuition, and an understanding of cause and effect. Large language models... will never achieve this.'

mist: MIST protein interaction database (2020)
The Molecular Interaction Search Tool (MIST) is a comprehensive resource of molecular interactions, assembled from severla primary sources. MIST currently supports several species, including:.
This network has 46404 nodes and 643319 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting Systems, says he’ll push for paper ballots
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/politics/dominion-voting-systems-bought-election-ballots

Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting Systems, says he’ll push for paper ballots
Dominion Voting Systems, the election vendor that was falsely accused of rigging the 2020 election, is being sold and rebranded as Liberty Vote effective immediately.

On Website Technicals (2020-02) - Tech updates: GSC Review annoyance, CSS dark mode, video captions, lazy loading, srcset issues. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-33.html

On Website Technicals (2020-02)
Tech updates: GSC Review annoyance, CSS dark mode, video captions, lazy loading, srcset issues.

I saw an article about how good the food options are that are associated with churches. So I went to a Vietnamese place called O BACH across the road from Bunnings in Tuggeranong and had a pretty nice banh mi. Nice crispy bun!
Apologies, I neglected to photograph my food before it disappeared into my cake hole.
#food #canberra

"‘Eat out to help out’ scheme added to air pollution in London, study finds"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #London #Pollution

From The Conversation
Mark Carney’s climate inaction is at odds with his awareness of climate change’s existential threat
Mark Carney has long been recognized as an authority on climate change. In 2015, as the governor of the Bank of England, he gave his famous “tragedy of the horizon” speech that introduced climate change to bankers as a threat to international financial stability.
🧵1/4
#canpoli

I'm thinking about this Urban Dictionary definition again

from my link log —
dnstap-receiver: a dnstap streams receiver in Python.
https://github.com/dmachard/dnstap-receiver
saved 2020-11-09 https://

GitHub - dmachard/python-dnstap-receiver: Dnstap streams receiver in Python
Dnstap streams receiver in Python. Contribute to dmachard/python-dnstap-receiver development by creating an account on GitHub.

heise | Der Siegezug von Apple Silicon: Fünf Jahre Macs mit Apple-Prozessoren
Im November 2020 kamen Macs erstmals mit Apples eigenem M-Chip heraus. Es wurde eine echte Erfolgsgeschichte. Ein Rückblick auf Technik und Hintergründe.

Meta’s 2020 research project, Project Mercury,
measured the effect of ‘deactivating’ Facebook & Instagram
According to Meta docs obtained via discovery…
’people who stopped using Facebook for a week reported lower feelings of depression, anxiety, loneliness & social comparison’
https://

The destruction of our country has gone even faster than I had known as El Cheeto makes us bend even more to our corporate, especially AI corporate, masters who want to access all data, all information, everywhere and anywhere, without permission and without paying anything.
"The May Massacre: Firings, AI, and Constitutional Crisis at the Copyright Office"

The May Massacre: Firings, AI, and Constitutional Crisis at the Copyright Office (via Passle)
These are extraordinary times. And this is an extraordinary case. In 2020, Shira Perlmutter was appointed Register of Copyrights by Dr. Carla D. Hayden,...

Randall Munroe's #XKCD comic has the power to make you laugh, to make you think ... and sometimes to make you cry. For the right reasons.

• Posted in Nov 2012: #FuckCancer

LB Logan Wilson Sends Strong Message to Cowboys Fans After Trade https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/logan-wilson-trade-reaction/?adt_ei=[email]

Today's the 2nd day I'm wearing my black-yellow Engelbert-Strauss e.s.motion 2020 to work - in an office.
It's also the 2nd day of people making derogatory comments like "Are you going to a construction site?" and "You can't go to a customer like this, they'll think you've come to fix your bath." and "At least noone will run you over, reflecting like that."
You already banned me from wearing my kilt in summer! They are comfort…

Paranoid shooter named Nigel Max Edge is in custody for firing upon crowded #CapeFear Carolina shore bar , apparently under his #MarineCorps era moniker Sean William DeBevoise also had self published a book avail on AMZ called #Headshot

From High-Entropy Ceramics (HECs) to Compositionally Complex Ceramics (CCCs) and Beyond
Jian Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05629 https://arxiv.org/pdf/251…

From High-Entropy Ceramics (HECs) to Compositionally Complex Ceramics (CCCs) and Beyond
Over the past decade, the field of high-entropy ceramics (HECs) has rapidly expanded to encompass a wide range of oxides, borides, silicides, and other ceramic solid solutions. In 2020, we proposed extending the concept of HECs to compositionally complex ceramics (CCCs), in which non-equimolar compositions and the presence of long- or short-range order reduce entropy while offering new opportunities to tailor and enhance properties, often beyond those of higher-entropy counterparts. Here, funda…

The low-lying light tetraquark states with quantum numbers $J^{P}=0^{ }$, $1^{ }$ and $2^{ }$
Hao Wu, Mao-Jun Yan, Chun-Sheng An, Cheng-Rong Deng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07836

The low-lying light tetraquark states with quantum numbers $J^{P}=0^{+ }$, $1^{+}$ and $2^{+}$
The low-lying light tetraquark states are investigated in the non-relativistic quark model (NRQM) including the pseudoscalar meson exchange, where two different confinement potential schemes, the Cornell potential and the linear potential, are employed, along with the instanton-induced interaction serving as the residual spin-dependent interaction. The numerical results show agreement with masses of $f_{0}(500)$, $f_{0}(1370)$, $f_{0}(1500)$, $f_{0}(2020)$, $f_{0}(2200)$, $h_{1}(1170)$, $h_{1}(…

psi: Plant Photosystem I excitation energy transfer network (2020)
Weighted directed network of the light-harvesting Photosystem Ι (PSI) of the plant Pisum sativum. The nodes represent chromophores with different identities (i.e. chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, β-carotene and derivates, lutein, violaxanthin), while edges represent FRET transfer between chromophores. The link directionality connecting nodes in the PSI network depends on the energy levels of the connected chromophores. The…

Google and Epic Games reached an agreement to settle Epic's 2020 antitrust lawsuit, with proposed changes to Android and Google Play pending court approval (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainabi…

Private Realizable-to-Agnostic Transformation with Near-Optimal Sample Complexity
Bo Li, Wei Wang, Peng Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01291 https://arxiv.o…

Private Realizable-to-Agnostic Transformation with Near-Optimal Sample Complexity
The realizable-to-agnostic transformation (Beimel et al., 2015; Alon et al., 2020) provides a general mechanism to convert a private learner in the realizable setting (where the examples are labeled by some function in the concept class) to a private learner in the agnostic setting (where no assumptions are imposed on the data). Specifically, for any concept class $\mathcal{C}$ and error parameter $α$, a private realizable learner for $\mathcal{C}$ can be transformed into a private agnostic le…

Toward Affordable and Non-Invasive Detection of Hypoglycemia: A Machine Learning Approach
Lawrence Obiuwevwi, Krzysztof J. Rechowicz, Vikas Ashok, Sampath Jayarathna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17842

Toward Affordable and Non-Invasive Detection of Hypoglycemia: A Machine Learning Approach
Diabetes mellitus is a growing global health issue, with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) requiring constant monitoring to avoid hypoglycemia. Although Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGMs) are effective, their cost and invasiveness limit access, particularly in low-resource settings. This paper proposes a non-invasive method to classify glycemic states using Galvanic Skin Response (GSR), a biosignal commonly captured by wearable sensors. We use the merged OhioT1DM 2018 and 2020 datasets to build a machine l…

Around a third of US adults say they get news from podcasts at least sometimes, up from 22% in 2020; 6% say they paid for news podcasts in the past 12 months (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/podcasts-and-news-fact-sheet/

Podcasts and News Fact Sheet
Podcasts are playing a bigger role in Americans' news diets. Around a third of U.S. adults say they get news from podcasts at least sometimes.

Ordered Multi-Signatures with Public-Key Aggregation from SXDH Assumption
Masayuki Tezuka, Keisuke Tanaka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17709 https://arxiv.or…

Ordered Multi-Signatures with Public-Key Aggregation from SXDH Assumption
An ordered multi-signature scheme allows multiple signers to sign a common message in a sequential manner and allows anyone to verify the signing order of signers with a public-key list. In this work, we propose an ordered multi-signature scheme by modifying the sequential aggregate signature scheme by Chatterjee and Kabaleeshwaran (ACISP 2020). Our scheme offers compact public parameter size and the public-key aggregation property. This property allows us to compress a public-key list into a s…

Funding, authorship patterns and citation impact of articles funded by Ukrainian agencies before and during Russia's full-scale war (2020-2023)
Myroslava Hladchenko, Rodrigo Costas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22013

Funding, authorship patterns and citation impact of articles funded by Ukrainian agencies before and during Russia's full-scale war (2020-2023)
This study examines how Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine affected foreign co-funding, authorship patterns, and the citation impact of articles funded by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (MESU), the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), and the National Research Foundation of Ukraine (NRFU). The analysis includes articles in Scopus-indexed journals between 2020 and 2023. The share of articles funded by these agencies increased from 8.6% in 2020-2021 to 11.9% in 2…

Didn't realize this at the time but some time in 2020 my radio show surpassed the length of time it took for the confederacy to be established and die, now it's been more than double the amount lol

"‘Eat out to help out’ scheme added to air pollution in London, study finds"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #London #AirPollution

Stability and Superconductivity of Ternary Polyhydrides
Dmitrii V. Semenok, Di Zhou, Wuhao Chen, Alexander G. Kvashnin, Andrey V. Sadakov, Toni Helm, Pedro N. Ferreira, Christoph Heil, Vladimir M. Pudalov, Ivan A. Troyan, Viktor V. Struzhkin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22877

Stability and Superconductivity of Ternary Polyhydrides
We review five years of experimental and theoretical attempts (2020-2025) to enhance the superconducting critical temperature ($\textit{T$_c$}$) of hydrogen-rich compounds by alloying binary superhydrides with additional elements. Despite predictions of higher $\textit{T$_c$}$ in ternary systems such as La-Y-H, La-Ce-H, and Ca-Mg-H, experiments consistently show that the maximum $\textit{T$_c$}$ in disordered ternary superhydrides does not exceed that of the best binary parent hydrides within e…

Sex trafficking on Meta platforms was both difficult to report and widely tolerated.
Instagram’s former head of safety testified that when she joined Meta in 2020 she was shocked to learn the company had
a “17x” strike policy
for accounts that engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”
https://

Court Filings Allege Meta Downplayed Risks to Children and Misled the Public
Newly unsealed court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.

A look at US efforts to train workers for semiconductor manufacturing, led by Arizona, which has secured over 60 semiconductor expansion projects since 2020 (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

US races to train tech workers for manufacturing, but will AI get the jobs first?
Immigration issues and China competition further complicate Trump's vision of an industrial revival

this is my favorite review ever

Actively Learning Halfspaces without Synthetic Data
Hadley Black, Kasper Green Larsen, Arya Mazumdar, Barna Saha, Geelon So
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20848 https://

Actively Learning Halfspaces without Synthetic Data
In the classic point location problem, one is given an arbitrary dataset $X \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ of $n$ points with query access to an unknown halfspace $f : \mathbb{R}^d \to \{0,1\}$, and the goal is to learn the label of every point in $X$. This problem is extremely well-studied and a nearly-optimal $\widetilde{O}(d \log n)$ query algorithm is known due to Hopkins-Kane-Lovett-Mahajan (FOCS 2020). However, their algorithm is granted the power to query arbitrary points outside of $X$ (point sy…

from my link log —
The reverse tabnabbing vulnerability in HTML.
https://techblog.topdesk.com/security/developers-need-know-reverse-tabnabbing/
saved 2020-10-28

What all Developers need to know about: Reverse Tabnabbing - TOPdesk Tech Blog
Reverse tabnabbing is a vulnerability in which the browser allows a linked page to control the page that opened it. This may lead to phishing attacks.

Since it's getting misreported everywhere: this image of the stellar stream of the #galaxy #Messier61 by #Rubin - from A #StellarStream around the Spiral Galaxy Messier 61 in Rubin First Look Imaging: #AmateurAstronomers in 2020, 2024 and earlier in 2025: https://www.flickr.com/photos/133259498@N05/50665292533/ and https://www.galactic-hunter.com/post/messier-61-astrophotography and https://app.astrobin.com/i/0az5qv and https://app.astrobin.com/i/ldptvo - and these are just the results I could track down easily.

Admissible convergence behavior and mirroring of stagnation in restarted (block) GMRES
Marie Kub\'inov\'a, Kirk M. Soodhalter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17077 https://…

Admissible convergence behavior and mirroring of stagnation in restarted (block) GMRES
In this work, we describe how to construct matrices and block right-hand sides the exhibit a specified restarted block GMRES convergence pattern, such that the eigenvalues and Ritz values at each iteration can be chosen independent of the specified convergence behavior. This work is a generalization of the work in [Meurant and Tebbens, Num. Alg. 2019] in which the authors do the same for restarted non-block GMRES. We use the same tools as were used in [Kubínová and Soodhalter, SIMAX 2020], na…

Druckfrisch: ein verspielter Drache ziert die neueste Edition für meine Kartenaktion (die ich seit 2020 unverändert durchzieh) Ab heute bei den Klextras dabei. Wie immer kann meine Kunstpostkarten keiner kaufen, sondern nur nach meinem Gutdünken handverlesen zur Bestellung geschenkt bekommen, (Mehr dazu auf #art #artShop #fediArt #mastoArt #creativeToots

from my link log —
Exploiting Tiny Tiny RSS.
https://www.digeex.de/blog/tinytinyrss/
saved 2020-09-24 https://dotat.at/:/V7GPF.html

Filing: Meta axed research based on a Nielsen survey in 2020 that found evidence of social media harms, claiming the survey was tainted by the "media narrative" (Jeff Horwitz/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustain…

going through Minecraft saves from like 2020 full of redstone builds I do not understand with purposes that are equally mysterious

Unintended Consequences of Early Driving Access: Evidence from Graduated Driver Licensing Policies and Adolescent Health Outcomes
Sharareh Massahi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23578

Unintended Consequences of Early Driving Access: Evidence from Graduated Driver Licensing Policies and Adolescent Health Outcomes
Graduated driver licensing systems effectively reduce adolescent traffic fatalities but create unintended health consequences. Using state-level variation in licensing policies from 1999-2020 and difference-in-differences analysis, we provide the first causal evidence that early driving access generates significant health risks for female adolescents aged 15-19. States allowing learner's permits before age 16 experienced sharp increases in drug-related mortality (+1.331 per 100,000, p<0.001) an…

PreprintToPaper dataset: connecting bioRxiv preprints with journal publications
Fidan Badalova, Julian Sienkiewicz, Philipp Mayr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01783 https://…

PreprintToPaper dataset: connecting bioRxiv preprints with journal publications
The PreprintToPaper dataset connects bioRxiv preprints with their corresponding journal publications, enabling large-scale analysis of the preprint-to-publication process. It comprises metadata for 145,517 preprints from two periods, 2016-2018 (pre-pandemic) and 2020-2022 (pandemic), retrieved via the bioRxiv and Crossref APIs. Each record includes bibliographic information such as titles, abstracts, authors, institutions, submission dates, licenses, and subject categories, alongside enriched p…

Global Drought Escalation Since 2014: Multivariate Insights for Ecosystem Resilience and Water Security
Qianqian Han, Yijian Zeng, Bob Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20195 https:…

Global Drought Escalation Since 2014: Multivariate Insights for Ecosystem Resilience and Water Security
How is climate change altering the global patterns, frequency, and intensity of drought? To investigate this, we analyzed global drought events from 2000-2020 using a composite of hydrological indices (Σ(ET-P), SSMI, and GRACE-DSI). Our results reveal that near-normal to severe droughts became increasingly widespread after 2014. Unexpectedly, extreme, 100-year return period droughts occurred not only in semi-arid zones but also in high latitude and typically wet regions. The frequency of these…

from my link log —
Dumbindent: because 93% of the time was spent in clang-format.
https://nigeltao.github.io/blog/2020/dumbindent.html
saved 2020-06-15

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

from my link log —
Rendezvous hashing explained.
https://randorithms.com/2020/12/26/rendezvous-hashing.html
saved 2025-09-16 https://

from my link log —
Search and replace tricks with ripgrep.
https://learnbyexample.github.io/substitution-with-ripgrep/
saved 2020-09-17 ht…

from my link log —
Getting started with Rust and Rocket for http services.
https://christine.website/blog/how-i-start-rust-2020-03-15
saved 2020-03-16

from my link log —
libcpu: a library to emulate several CPU architectures using LLVM.
https://github.com/libcpu/libcpu
saved 2020-04-14 https://dotat.a…

GitHub - libcpu/libcpu: "libcpu" is an open source library that emulates several CPU architectures
"libcpu" is an open source library that emulates several CPU architectures - libcpu/libcpu