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US senators reintroduce the bipartisan Open App Markets Act to challenge Apple's and Google's grip on app stores; the 2021 version never made it to a floor vote (Amber Neely/AppleInsider)
https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/0

Bipartisan Open App Markets Act revived to challenge Apple's App Store control
Big Tech's grip on the app economy is under fire again as lawmakers reintroduce the bipartisan "Open App Markets Act" aimed at breaking Apple and Google's app store dominance.

Russia frees Ukrainian journalist Vladislav Yesypenko, detained since March 2021, and Belarus frees Belarusian journalist Ihar Karnei, detained since July 2023 (Lauren Wolfe/Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/06/russia-and-bel

Russia and Belarus release two journalists who had been detained for years - Committee to Protect Journalists
Paris, June 23, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release of Ukrainian journalist Vladislav Yesypenko and Belarusian journalist Ihar Karnei, who had been unjustly detained for years by Russia and Belarus, respectively.   Russia freed Yesypenko on June 20 after he served a five-year prison sentence on charges of possessing and transporting explosives, which he denied. Karnei, detained for nearly 2...

These: "Mähroboter töten Igel"
Der Verein "Pro Igel e.V." hat dazu dies:
"Im Zeitraum September 2021 bis September 2024 hat das Leibniz-Institut für Zoo- und Wildtierforschung (Leibniz-IZW) anhand von 370 deutschlandweit gemeldeten Einzelfällen verletzter Tiere festgestellt, dass knapp die Hälfte die Verletzung durch Mähroboter oder Freischneider nicht überlebt hat."
Dieser seltsam konstruierte Satz verdeckt nur notdürftig: Die haben eigentlich…

New Bounds for the Ideal Proof System in Positive Characteristic
Amik Raj Behera, Nutan Limaye, Varun Ramanathan, Srikanth Srinivasan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16397

New Bounds for the Ideal Proof System in Positive Characteristic
In this work, we prove upper and lower bounds over fields of positive characteristics for several fragments of the Ideal Proof System (IPS), an algebraic proof system introduced by Grochow and Pitassi (J. ACM 2018). Our results extend the works of Forbes, Shpilka, Tzameret, and Wigderson (Theory of Computing 2021) and also of Govindasamy, Hakoniemi, and Tzameret (FOCS 2022). These works primarily focused on proof systems over fields of characteristic $0$, and we are able to extend these results…

Some music for today's protests in the US. Stay safe everyone. Don't forget to dance as needed.
Laura Jane Grace, "Baby, I'm an Anarchist" (live, 2021)
https://youtu.be/7-nj4QhjJpc

Texans sign Damon Arnette: Former first-rounder returns to NFL after three-year absence, legal issues

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/texans-

How to Favicon in 2025: Three files that fit most needs
It’s time to rethink how we cook a set of favicons for modern browsers and stop the icon generator madness. Frontend developers currently have to deal with 20 static PNG files just to display a tiny website logo in a browser tab or on a touchscreen. Read on to see how to take a smarter approach and adopt a minimal set of icons that fits most modern needs.
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How to Favicon in 2025: Three files that fit most needs—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog
Prefer SVG over PNG, trust browsers to downscale, drop obscure formats—the ultimate, exhaustive guide to favicons for modern web. Includes steps for static HTML and Webpack.

Observations of Successive CMEs and their Successive Type II Solar Radio Bursts in the Corona
V. Vasanth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19179 https://arxiv.org…

Observations of Successive CMEs and their Successive Type II Solar Radio Bursts in the Corona
This paper reports the observations of two coronal shocks from two Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) for the Successive type II Solar radio bursts observed on 02 May 2021 in the frequency range of 80 - 1 MHz with the time interval of ~ 20 minutes between them. Both the bursts show clear band splitting features in the harmonic band. The estimated heights for the source of the first type II burst lies in the range of 2.06 - 2.93 R0 with the average speeds of 601 + or - 76, 700 + or - 91 a…

Current and former employees of OpenAI have sold nearly $3B worth of shares in tender offers since 2021, with $1.5B going to SoftBank alone (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-employees-cashed-3-bil…

OpenAI Employees Have Cashed Out $3 Billion in Shares
My colleague Sri Muppidi broke the news Wednesday of OpenAI’s latest fundraising talks as it seeks to raise an unprecedented $40 billion. One previously unreported detail is that SoftBank bought about $240 million in shares from a small group of current and former employees this spring.That deal ...

Byron Allen settles with McDonald's over his $10B 2021 lawsuit accusing the fast food chain of racial stereotyping in its ads budget; terms were not disclosed (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sus…

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…

🌝 Reverse engineering the mysterious Up-Data Link Test Set from Apollo
http://www.righto.com/2025/07/reverse-engineering-mysterious-up-data.html
#electronics

Reverse engineering the mysterious Up-Data Link Test Set from Apollo
Back in 2021, a collector friend of ours was visiting a dusty warehouse in search of Apollo-era communications equipment. A box with NASA-st...

I love this album. EPIC POLITICAL INDUSTRIAL METAL AL ->
Ministry - Moral Hygiene (Full Album 2021) - Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnUNgWk4CcyZjc012_89K848JamwqUVVG

CNN's chief national security correspondent Alex Marquardt, whose 2021 story led to a suit in which a jury awarded $5M to an ex-CIA operative, is leaving CNN (Stephen Battaglio/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latime…

CNN parts ways with correspondent whose story led to defamation lawsuit
A jury awarded a military contractor $5 million over Alex Marquardt's 2021 report on a military contractor.

All-sky search for individual Primordial Black Hole bursts with LHAASO
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All-sky search for individual Primordial Black Hole bursts with LHAASO
Primordial Black Holes~(PBHs) are hypothetical black holes with a wide range of masses that formed in the early universe. As a result, they may play an important cosmological role and provide a unique probe of the early universe. A PBH with an initial mass of approximately $10^{15}$~g is expected to explode today in a final burst of Hawking radiation. In this work, we conduct an all-sky search for individual PBH burst events using the data collected from March 2021 to July 2024 by the Water Che…

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initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Bounds on Functionality and Symmetric Difference -- Two Intriguing Graph Parameters
Functionality ($\mathrm{fun}$) is a graph parameter that generalizes graph degeneracy defined by Alecu et al. [JCTB, 2021]. They research the relation of functionality to many other graphs parameters (tree-width, clique-width, VC-dimension, etc.). Extending their research, we completely characterize the functionality of random graph $G(n,p)$ for all possible $p$. We provide matching (up to a constant factor) lower and upper bound for a large range of $p$. It follows from our bounds for $G(n,p)$…

CB Insights: Figma's IPO was the largest venture-backed IPO by market capitalization for a US tech company since Rivian's debut in November 2021 (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fig…

Temporally Extending Existing Web Archive Collections for Longitudinal Analysis
Lesley Frew, Michael L. Nelson, Michele C. Weigle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24091

Temporally Extending Existing Web Archive Collections for Longitudinal Analysis
The Environmental Governance and Data Initiative (EDGI) regularly crawled US federal environmental websites between 2016 and 2020 to capture changes between two presidential administrations. However, because it does not include the previous administration ending in 2008, the collection is unsuitable for answering our research question, Were the website terms deleted by the Trump administration (2017--2021) added by the Obama administration (2009--2017)? Thus, like many researchers using the Way…

On the rate of convergence for Landau type Schr\"odinger Operators
Yucheng Pan, Wenchang Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24568 https://

On the rate of convergence for Landau type Schrödinger Operators
We study the pointwise convergence of Landau type Schrödinger operators within the fractional Sobolev space $W^{s,p}(\mathbb R)$. Our results extend those established by Bailey (Rev. Mat. Iberoam., 29 (2): 531-546, 2013) and Yuan, Zhao and Zheng (Nonlinear Anal., 208: Paper No. 112312, 28, 2021). Furthermore, we also analyze the convergence rate of Landau type Schrödinger operators along curves and derive a sharp result for the case of convergence along vertical lines.

Cardinals' Murray, starters to play against Chiefs https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45909733/arizona-cardinals-qb-murray-starters-play-chiefs

PitchBook: VC exits through public listings, acquisitions, and buyouts reached $67.7B in Q2 2025, up from $38.5B a year ago and the strongest showing since 2021 (Richard Waters/Financial Times)

Jon Gruden vs. NFL lawsuit: Nevada Supreme Court sides with former coach in ongoing battle vs. league

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jon-gru

Effect of Different Concentration and Application Method of Zinc on Yield of Chickpea (Pisum Sativum L.)
Samaneh Goodarzi, Ali Tavanmand, Hamed Shajari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23855

Effect of Different Concentration and Application Method of Zinc on Yield of Chickpea (Pisum Sativum L.)
This study evaluated the impact of Zinc (Zn) supplementation on the growth, yield, and seed quality of chickpea (Pisum sativum L.) under the semi-arid conditions of Kerman, Iran, across two growing seasons (2021-2022). A randomized complete block design was used with six treatments, including varying concentrations of zinc sulphate applied via foliar spraying (0.1%, 0.25%, 0.5%) or irrigation (4, 8, 16 kg/ha), each applied twice-one and two months after greening. Results from the first year rev…