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Conversational AI firm Cerence sues Apple in Texas for infringing patents tied to virtual keyboards and "Hey Siri", says it raised the issues with Apple in 2021 (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/09/04/apple-hi…

Apple hit with patent lawsuit over Hey Siri and virtual keyboard features - 9to5Mac
Today, Cerence filed a lawsuit against Apple, accusing it of infringing multiple patents. Here are the details.

Unpopular Opinion: Ich persönlich mag #TheLänd. Ich finde, Jung von Matt hat mit der Idee einen echten Coup gelandet. Werbeexperten sehen das ähnlich.
Andere denken bei The Länd eher - hä?
Nur den #NettHier-Sticker, den lieben ca. alle.

"The Länd" - wie erfolgreich die Werbung ist, weiß keiner, aber jeder kennt sie
Seit 2021 wirbt Baden-Württemberg mit der "The-Länd"-Kampagne um ausländische Fachkräfte. Weil unklar ist, ob das geklappt hat, gibt es neben positiven Stimmen aber auch Kritik.

Calendar.txt by Tero Karvinen is a plain text file calendar that's versionable, supports all operating systems, is future-proof, easily syncs with Android, etc: #TextFiles

Here's your annual warning to beware hanging out in person with Defcon attendees, because many of them have returned with asymptomatic COVID infections.
As in every year since 2021, Defcon is a super spreader event. Many COVID infections are NOT symptomatic: not showing symptoms does not guarantee not carrying the highly contagious virus.

Impact of Pulsar SAX J1748.9-2021 Observations on $f(\mathcal{Q}, \mathbb{T})$ Gravity
M. Sharif, Iqra Ibrar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02641 https://arxiv…

Impact of Pulsar SAX J1748.9-2021 Observations on $f(\mathcal{Q}, \mathbb{T})$ Gravity
The main objective of this study is to investigate the viability and stability of a pulsar filled with anisotropic matter in $f(\mathcal{Q}, \mathbb{T})$ gravity, where $\mathcal{Q}$ represents non-metricity and $\mathbb{T}$ is the trace of the energy-momentum tensor. In this context, we employ non-singular solution and a particular model of this gravity. We use junction conditions to evaluate unknown constants in the metric coefficients. Observations from the pulsar SAX J1748.9-2021 star are e…

Extending the short gamma-ray burst population from sub-threshold triggers in Fermi/GBM and GECAM data and its implications
Ce Cai, Shao-Lin Xiong, Yan-Qiu Zhang, Jin-Peng Zhang, Ping Wang, Yao-Guang Zheng, Shi-Jie Zheng, Shuo Xiao, Hao-Xuan Guo, Jia-Cong Liu, Yang-Zhao Ren, Wen-Jun Tan, Chen-Wei Wang, Yue Wang, Sheng-Lun Xie, Wang-Chen Xue, Zheng-Hang Yu, Peng Zhang, Wen-Long Zhang, Chao Zheng, Jia-Wei Luo, Shuai Zhang, Li-Ming Song, Shuang-Nan Zhang

Extending the short gamma-ray burst population from sub-threshold triggers in Fermi/GBM and GECAM data and its implications
Detection of short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) is critically important for the research of compact object mergers and multi-messenger astrophysics, but a significant part of SGRBs fall below the trigger threshold of GRB detectors, and thus are often missed. Here we present a systematic search for and verification of missed SGRBs using Fermi/GBM subthreshold triggers, jointly analyzing data from GBM, GECAM-B, and GECAM-C. Among 466 Fermi/GBM sub-threshold events (with reliability >= 5) from 2021 to…

Your idea could be the next tool our community relies on.
Since 2021, the GÉANT Innovation Programme has supported 30 projects that grew into flagship community services like #eduroam and eduVPN.
With up to €50K in funding, 2025 projects can turn a pilot, proof of concept, or novel idea into something that benefits the entire

Moment-SOS hierarchies for arrow-type polynomial matrix inequalities with applications to structural optimization
Marouan Handa, Marek Tyburec, Giovanni Fantuzzi, Victor Magron, Michal Ko\v{c}vara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02849

Moment-SOS hierarchies for arrow-type polynomial matrix inequalities with applications to structural optimization
The Arrow Decomposition (AD) technique, initially introduced in [Mathematical Programming 190(1-2) (2021), pp 105-134], demonstrated superior scalability over the classical chordal decomposition in the context of Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMIs) if the matrix in question satisfied suitable assumptions. The primary objective of this paper is to extend the AD method to address Polynomial Optimization Problems (POPs) involving large-scale Polynomial Matrix Inequalities (PMIs), with the solution f…

A note on Wang's conjecture for harmonic functions with nonlinear boundary condition
Xiaohan Cai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02978 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

A note on Wang's conjecture for harmonic functions with nonlinear boundary condition
We obtain some Liouville type theorems for positive harmonic functions on compact Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature and strictly convex boundary and partially verifies Wang's conjecture (J. Geom. Anal. 31 (2021)). For the specific manifold $\mathbb{B}^n$, we present a new proof of this conjecture, which has been resolved by Gu-Li (Math. Ann. 391 (2025)). Our proof is based on a general principle of applying the P-function method to such uniqueness results. As a further app…

> 7 ans après ce post.
30 ans après les faits.
En France, les victimes engagées en tant que parties civiles attendent toujours que la justice bouge.
Le dossier OKC-Spatz a été rouvert en 2021. Depuis ?
Silence.
La Belgique a jugé.
L’Espagne a protégé Spatz.

Emergent Hierarchy in Localized States of Organic Quantum Chains
L. L. Lage, A. B. F\'elix, D. S. Gomes, M. L. Pereira Jr., A. Latg\'e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02231 h…

Emergent Hierarchy in Localized States of Organic Quantum Chains
Organic Quantum Chains (OQCs) represent a newly synthesized class of carbon-based nanostructures whose quasi-one-dimensional nature gives rise to unconventional electronic and transport phenomena. Here we investigate the electronic and transport properties of recently synthesized OQCs [Nature Communications, 12, 5895 (2021)]. Structural stability was first assessed through molecular dynamics relaxation combined with density functional theory (DFT). The optimized coordinates are then used in a t…

"Inzwischen geht es um eine Entscheidung des Hanseatischen Oberlandesgerichts, das 2021 zum Schluss kam, dass der Wunsch der Kinder, beim Vater zu bleiben, „nicht authentisch“ sei. Sie sollten zurück zur Mutter, sagten die Familienrichter. Die Schilderungen der Kinder über Schläge bewerten die Richter so: Es habe „körperliche Einwirkungen geringen Ausmaßes zu erzieherischen Zwecken“ gegeben."
Das ist schon recht... bemerkenswert, oder?

Seems like a good day to bring back this 2021 post: https://systemsapproach.org/2021/07/19/decentralizing-the-internet-again/

On Website Technicals (2021-11) - Tech updates: more meters, reutils tweets upgrade, DB-based Event and Product schema.org. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-54.html

On Website Technicals (2021-11)
Tech updates: more meters, reutils tweets upgrade, DB-based Event and Product schema.org.

On a practical level, I think the UK should immediately revert to the pre-2021 proscription of Hamas (between 2001 and 2021 a distinction was made between militant operations and civil administration).
(Separately I also think that Palestine Action should be de-proscribed until the government is prepared to make a public case.)
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Proscribed terrorist groups or organisations
List of terrorist groups or organisations banned under UK law, and details of proscription criteria.

📸 Mémoire du 14 juin 2018
Sept ans ont passé depuis ce post.
Et pourtant, la justice n’a toujours pas terminé son travail.
En Belgique, le jugement définitif est tombé en 2022. Mais en 2025, certaines indemnisations sont encore bloquées. Des victimes attendent toujours que leur souffrance soit reconnue dans les faits, pas seulement dans les mots.
En France, l’affaire OKC/Spatz a été relancée en 2017, réouverte officiellement en 2021. Et aujourd’hui ? Toujours aucune mis…

from my link log —
Optimizing triangles for a full-screen shader pass.
https://wallisc.github.io/rendering/2021/04/18/Fullscreen-Pass.html
saved 2025-09-29

cofe: Collaboration in Financial Economics (2021)
Network of authors and commenters of papers in finantial economics, obtained from the acknowledgement sections of over 5,000 published research papers.
This network has 13967 nodes and 102039 edges.
Tags: Social, Directed, Weighted, Online, Collaboration
https://networks.ske…

The UK Electoral Commission says it took three years and over £250K to recover from an August 2021 hack that exposed private data of 40M voters to Chinese spies (Joe Tidy/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80gl8yvj9go

Elections watchdog admits 'painful lessons learned' after Chinese hack
In the first interview about the hack, the commission's new boss admits that huge mistakes were made, but says the organisation is now secure.

Big news for the energy transition!
And a nice little 'told you so' moment for yours truly :)
In the first half of this year, renewables produced more electricity globally than coal, for the first time.
And 2025 is the date I predicted for this to happen, back in 2016, in a blog post for Ecofys! The score was 23%-40% at the time, with most of the renewables share still coming from hydro, and the prediction was less than obvious.

Modified Loss of Momentum Gradient Descent: Fine-Grained Analysis
Matias D. Cattaneo, Boris Shigida
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08483 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Modified Loss of Momentum Gradient Descent: Fine-Grained Analysis
We analyze gradient descent with Polyak heavy-ball momentum (HB) whose fixed momentum parameter $β\in (0, 1)$ provides exponential decay of memory. Building on Kovachki and Stuart (2021), we prove that on an exponentially attractive invariant manifold the algorithm is exactly plain gradient descent with a modified loss, provided that the step size $h$ is small enough. Although the modified loss does not admit a closed-form expression, we describe it with arbitrary precision and prove global (f…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheRemixWithChrisHawkins
U2:
🎵 Lemon (The Perfecto Mix / Remastered 2021)
#U2
https://fernandopicon.bandcamp.com/track/u2-lemon-fernando-picon-bad-yard-rework
https://open.spotify.com/track/3GtaFJ4Zx7TEBU8yUXtdOx

En 2018, un verdict belge semblait enfin mettre fin Š une affaire vieille de 20 ans.
En 2025, certaines indemnisations sont toujours en suspens.
Pendant ce temps, en France, l’enquête OKC/Spatz — rouverte officiellement en 2021 — n’a toujours pas abouti.
Cela interroge :

Efficient Polynomial Identity Testing Over Nonassociative Algebras
Partha Mukhopadhyay, C Ramya, Pratik Shastri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11349 https://ar…

Efficient Polynomial Identity Testing Over Nonassociative Algebras
We design the first efficient polynomial identity testing algorithms over the nonassociative polynomial algebra. In particular, multiplication among the formal variables is commutative but it is not associative. This complements the strong lower bound results obtained over this algebra by Hrubeš, Yehudayoff, and Wigderson (2010) and Fijalkow, Lagarde, Ohlmann, and Serre (2021) from the identity testing perspective. Our main results are the following: (1) We construct nonassociative algebras …

cofe: Collaboration in Financial Economics (2021)
Network of authors and commenters of papers in finantial economics, obtained from the acknowledgement sections of over 5,000 published research papers.
This network has 13967 nodes and 102039 edges.
Tags: Social, Directed, Weighted, Online, Collaboration
https://networks.ske…

PitchBook: European defense tech startups have raised €2.4B since 2022, including €1.4B in the first 7 months of 2025, up from €30M in 2020 and €150M in 2021 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a194942b-93ff-49a0-8aa9-02460055748e

Europe’s defence tech start-ups attract investment surge
Russia’s war in Ukraine and fears over US security relationship drive wave of VC funding

cofe: Collaboration in Financial Economics (2021)
Network of authors and commenters of papers in finantial economics, obtained from the acknowledgement sections of over 5,000 published research papers.
This network has 13967 nodes and 102039 edges.
Tags: Social, Directed, Weighted, Online, Collaboration
https://networks.ske…

En 2018, un verdict belge semblait enfin mettre fin Š une affaire vieille de 20 ans.
En 2025, certaines indemnisations sont toujours en suspens.
Pendant ce temps, en France, l’enquête OKC/Spatz — rouverte officiellement en 2021 — n’a toujours pas abouti.
Cela interroge :

cofe: Collaboration in Financial Economics (2021)
Network of authors and commenters of papers in finantial economics, obtained from the acknowledgement sections of over 5,000 published research papers.
This network has 13967 nodes and 102039 edges.
Tags: Social, Directed, Weighted, Online, Collaboration
https://networks.ske…

> 7 ans après ce post.
30 ans après les faits.
En France, les victimes engagées en tant que parties civiles attendent toujours que la justice bouge.
Le dossier OKC-Spatz a été rouvert en 2021. Depuis ?
Silence.
La Belgique a jugé.
L’Espagne a protégé Spatz.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Wet Leg:
🎵 Chaise Longue (6 Music Session, 4 Oct 2021)
#WetLeg
https://longdissonance.bandcamp.com/track/wet-leg-chaise-longue
https://open.spotify.com/track/7iqAuZe5yS0suLQcFfVK39