2026-07-31 13:15:54
UMG shares fall 25%, the record company's worst day since its 2021 IPO, following disappointing Q2 results; UMG is down 40% over the past 12 months (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/univ
UMG shares fall 25%, the record company's worst day since its 2021 IPO, following disappointing Q2 results; UMG is down 40% over the past 12 months (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/univ
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.06.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
RE: https://social.telemetrydeck.com/@daniel/116657284790762301
Heute! Bin bissle aufgeregt!
Google-backed nuclear fusion company Commonwealth Fusion Systems raised $1B, after raising a $1.8B Series B in 2021 and $863M in 2025, and plans a 2030s launch (Zachary Skidmore/DatacenterDynamics)
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news
For my latest article for Inquirer.net, I decided to talk about something light and fun and it is the daily puzzle game #Gerrymandle. Your aim in the game is to create electoral districts so that your political party wins more districts than other parties.
from my link log —
Cryptographic key length recommendations.
https://www.keylength.com/en/
saved 2021-01-05 https://dotat.at/:/9C8XW.html
Staying in a job for the health insurance?
About 1 in 4 Americans do,
a survey says
The survey from West Health-Gallup Center on Healthcare in America
finds that approximately
23 million adults are in what the report authors call "job lock."
In 2021, 16% of those surveyed were in job lock.
"Anybody having to stay in a job just to keep their health insurance,
knowing that they want to leave, is crazy,"
says Ellyn Maes…
How Erin Andrews, Charissa Thompson built an NFL podcast that goes beyond football https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7435205/2026/07/15/erin-andrews-charissa-thompson-nfl-podcast-calm-down/
"Most of what former Ukrainian press secretary Iuliia Mendel told Tucker Carlson about events after 2021 is secondhand. The facts tell a different story."
Mendel told Tucker Carlson many tales about Zelenskyy. All blame the country being invaded - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/16/mendel-tucker-carlson-interview-four-claims-examined/
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…
🌱 Im Forschungsprojekt „nascent-SolaRegio“ wurde untersucht, welche landwirtschaftl. Betriebe grundsätzlich gute Voraussetzungen für eine Umstellung auf Solidarische Landwirtschaft mitbringen.
📊 Das Ergebnis: Rund 16.000 Betriebe (knapp 7 % aller landwirtschaftlichen Betriebe in DE!) weisen Merkmale auf, die eine Umstellung begünstigen. Besonders häufig sind darunter kleinere Betriebe sowie ökologisch wirtschaftende und direktvermarktende Höfe.
🚜 Das Potenzial für weitere Solawis i…
"Illegal e-waste trade turns Bangladesh into net importer"
#Bangladesh #Technology #EWaste
India pledges $13.3B to boost domestic chipmaking, building on a $10B incentive program from 2021, which attracted investments from companies like Micron (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…
Today, I'm remembering that time on January 6, 2021 when Lindsey Graham indicated he might actually have a backbone by speaking out against the illegal coup attempt and said that Biden legitimately won the election.
It didn't stick though. He returned to his cowardly support of Turnip leading up to the 2024 election.
https://www.
#Ahrtalflut #Jahrestag Nach Starkregen kam es in der Nacht vom 14. auf den 15. Juli 2021 zu einer verheerenden Sturzflut. - Sehenswerter Film von Susanne Jäger über die Ahrtalkatastrophe
Quake rewritten in 18kb: #Quake
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm wonder what happened in 2020/2021 that caused long term brain damage it’s a mystery we’ll never know such a puzzle
https://www.reddit.com/r/rails/s/TEakTuW5Ce
the non-news of the solstice is that, surprising no-one, there will not be a leap second at the new year
the difference between UT1 and UTC remains very close to zero and the earth is rotating at very close to 24h per day
BUT LOOK
since i previously posted these charts in march, the length-of-day line (green) has popped upwards
https…
Génocide au Rwanda : la commission Duclert conclut Š une faillite militaire et politique de la France de 1990 Š 1994
https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2021/03/26/rw…
#Microsoft is intentionally bricking all #OfficeforMac 2019/2021 installations
https://www.
Surprise, il s’avère que l’on peut en effet calculer l’effet de la mésapplication du bouclier fiscal.
Mais bon, 202 millions, c’est des peanuts. On peut simplement couper le budget des hautes écoles.
https://www.
Zum 2. Mal den Film 3 1/2 Stunden @… gesehen. Es geht um den Tag des Mauerbaus und einen Zug, der auf dem Weg in die DDR ist.
Der Plot ist gut und es gibt zahlreiche mikro-Plots, die alle noch viel besser erzählt sind.
Insgesamt ist der Film großartig, denn es stimmt alles. Tolle Schauspieler mit glaubhaften Rollen, die Tiefe haben. Wunderbare Bilder und Licht.
Improved Approximation Guarantees for Groupwise Maximin Share Fairness
Georgios Amanatidis, Anna Korfiati, Evangelos Markakis, Christodoulos Santorinaios
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04731 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.04731 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04731
arXiv:2606.04731v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study the problem of fairly allocating a set of indivisible goods to a set of $n$ agents with additive valuation functions. We focus on the very demanding notion of \textit{groupwise maximin share fairness} (GMMS), which requires that each agent $i$ receives value comparable to their maximin share, where the latter is computed \textit{with respect to any subset of agents that contains $i$}. We show that it is possible to compute $(\phi-1)$-approximate GMMS allocations in polynomial time, where $\phi \approx 1.618$ is the golden ratio). This improves on the previously known guarantee of $4/7$ of Chaudhury et al. [SICOMP; 2021] and Amanatidis et al. [TCS; 2020]. We propose a simple algorithm that maintains the same main properties as the Draft-and-Eliminate algorithm of Amanatidis et al. [TCS, 2020] and we improve on the approximation guarantee analysis by carefully bounding the relevant value within any subinstance induced by the restriction of our allocation to a subset of agents. Our analysis is asymptotically tight for algorithms that share these properties and has the additional benefit of giving improved guarantees for restricted settings; in particular, when the agents agree on the top $n$ goods or when the number of agents is small. To illustrate the challenges of going beyond the guarantees of our algorithm, we also present a variant with an improved approximation of $(\sqrt{10}-1)/3 \approx 0.72$ for the case of three agents. To achieve this improvement we partially characterize the maximin share guarantees of short picking sequences for a small number of goods.
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from my link log —
Inko: Friendship ended with the garbage collector.
https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/friendship-ended-with-the-garbage-collector/
saved 2021-08-26
"However, a US intelligence report in 2021 ... conducted under John Ratcliffe, Trump’s then-director of national intelligence and his present CIA director, found China attempted to collect information on US voters, public opinion and political parties going as far back as 2008. Typically, such data is publicly available and cannot be used to alter votes."
Did China steal 2020 US election data, as Trump claims? | US Elections 2020 News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/17/did-china-steal-2020-us-election-data-as-trump-claims?traffic_source=rss
"Blanche also claimed there was "very little corroboration" for the charges against Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's convicted co-conspirator, an assertion the attendee called "patently false." Four women testified against Maxwell at her 2021 trial, and one of them, Annie Farmer, was reportedly in the room."
Five words from 'abrasive' Todd Blanche left Epstein survivors 'feeling betrayed': report - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/blanche-gaslights-epstein-survivors/