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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.

The administration is putting up signs that say,
"President Donald J. Trump"
and
"Rebuilding America's Infrastructure"
at worksites funded by Biden's 2021 infrastructure bill
-- and for projects Trump opposed
https://www.

Trump Is Taking Credit for Infrastructure Projects Funded by Biden Legislation He Opposed
Donald Trump is taking credit for infrastructure projects funded by a bill former president Joe Biden signed into law, which Trump opposed.

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…

Podcast : Une enfance sous emprise
Dans cet épisode, Ricardo et Sophie racontent leurs vécus et échangent des souvenirs sur la réalité d'une enfance endoctrinée au sein d'une "communauté bouddhiste" cachant de véritables monstres.
https://chardonsbleus.org/podcast-une-

2021 Podcast : Une enfance sous emprise
Ricardo et Sophie ont aujourd’hui, en 2021, une quarantaine d’années. Ils ont grandi en Belgique, dans le Sud de la France puis au Portugal. Ils ne sont pas ...

Am 25. Oktober um 12 Uhr werden die beiden 161 Meter hohen #Kühltürme des ehemaligen AKW #Gundremmingen gesprengt.
Nach der Abschaltung 2021 markiert dies einen weiteren Schritt im Rückbau.
Rund 11.000 Tonnen Schutt werden erwartet. Die Behörden bereiten sich auf zahlre…

AKW Gundremmingen: Termin für die Sprengung der Kühltürme steht
Auf Nachfrage der Redaktion bestätigt der Betreiber RWE jetzt offiziell: Am Samstag, 25. Oktober, fallen die Kühltürme. Auf Gundremmingen wird einiges zukommen.

South Korea fines SK Telecom US$97M over data breach
https://www.telecomstechnews.com/news/south-korea-fines-sk-telecom-us-97m-over-data-breach/

South Korea fines SK Telecom US$97M over data breach
South Korea’s regulator fined SK Telecom US$97M over a data breach affecting 23.2M users, citing weak safeguards dating back to 2021.

Just listened to an interesting online talk (#Balloon Facility (https://www.tifr.res.in/bf/) - here are the slides about astronomical observations they do; see also https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.04877 for a 2021 review paper about this work and the mentioned papers https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2013/08/aa21614-13/aa21614-13.html ("Large-scale mapping of the massive star-forming region RCW38 in the [CII] and PAH emission") and https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/07/aa35739-19/aa35739-19.html ("[CII] emission properties of the massive star-forming region RCW 36 in a filamentary molecular cloud").

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Universe City:
🎵 Can You Get Down
#UniverseCity
https://universecitymusic.bandcamp.com/album/can-you-get-down-serious-2021-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/7ApnZM8mCOrdn1isKpcCVQ

Payroll and HR software provider Gusto agrees to acquire Guideline, which offers 401(k) plans to small businesses; Guideline was valued at $1.15B in 2021 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/gusto-retirement-guideline-deal.html

Gusto agrees to buy retirement plan provider Guideline
Gusto, which offers payroll and human resources software, has agreed to acquire Guideline, a startup that provides 401(k) plans to small businesses.

Ethereum übersteigt 4000 Euro zum ersten Mal seit 2021
ETFs investieren Milliarden US-Dollar in Ethereum. Der Kurs steigt seit Wochen erheblich; die Bitcoin-Dominanz sinkt allmählich.
https://www.

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.08.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1104581 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

TIL das es sogenannte Drama Numbers (Filmrufnummern) gibt und die hoch offiziell im Amtsblatt veröffentlicht werden: https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Fachthemen/Telekommunikation/Nummerierung/_DL/mittlg148_2021.pdf

JaParaPat: A Large-Scale Japanese-English Parallel Patent Application Corpus
Masaaki Nagata, Katsuki Chousa, Norihito Yasuda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16303 https://

JaParaPat: A Large-Scale Japanese-English Parallel Patent Application Corpus
We constructed JaParaPat (Japanese-English Parallel Patent Application Corpus), a bilingual corpus of more than 300 million Japanese-English sentence pairs from patent applications published in Japan and the United States from 2000 to 2021. We obtained the publication of unexamined patent applications from the Japan Patent Office (JPO) and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). We also obtained patent family information from the DOCDB, that is a bibliographic database maintained…

Less is More - diveXplore 5.0 at VBS 2021
Andreas Leibetseder, Klaus Schoeffmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20569 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.20569

Less is More - diveXplore 5.0 at VBS 2021
As a longstanding participating system in the annual Video Browser Showdown (VBS2017-VBS2020) as well as in two iterations of the more recently established Lifelog Search Challenge (LSC2018-LSC2019), diveXplore is developed as a feature-rich Deep Interactive Video Exploration system. After its initial successful employment as a competitive tool at the challenges, its performance, however, declined as new features were introduced increasing its overall complexity. We mainly attribute this to the…

Frequency-Aware Ensemble Learning for BraTS 2025 Pediatric Brain Tumor Segmentation
Yuxiao Yi, Qingyao Zhuang, Zhi-Qin John Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19353 https://

Frequency-Aware Ensemble Learning for BraTS 2025 Pediatric Brain Tumor Segmentation
Pediatric brain tumor segmentation presents unique challenges due to the rarity and heterogeneity of these malignancies, yet remains critical for clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. We propose an ensemble approach integrating nnU-Net, Swin UNETR, and HFF-Net for the BraTS-PED 2025 challenge. Our method incorporates three key extensions: adjustable initialization scales for optimal nnU-Net complexity control, transfer learning from BraTS 2021 pre-trained models to enhance Swin UNETR's gen…

A judge rules Nvidia must face trial over allegations that it benefitted from autonomous driving data stolen by an engineer who defected from Valeo in 2021 (Robert Burnson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08…

Cowboys Put Trevon Diggs on Active Roster, Clearing Way for Cornerback's Return https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/cowboys-put-trevon-diggs-active-roster-clearing-way-cornerbacks-return

Asymmetric super-Heston-rough volatility model with Zumbach effect as scaling limit of quadratic Hawkes processes
Priyanka Chudasama, Srikanth Krishnan Iyer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16566

Asymmetric super-Heston-rough volatility model with Zumbach effect as scaling limit of quadratic Hawkes processes
Hawkes processes were first introduced to obtain microscopic models for the rough volatility observed in asset prices. Scaling limits of such processes leads to the rough-Heston model that describes the macroscopic behavior. Blanc et al. (2017) show that Time-reversal asymmetry (TRA) or the Zumbach effect can be modeled using Quadratic Hawkes (QHawkes) processes. Dandapani et al. (2021) obtain a super-rough-Heston model as scaling limit of QHawkes processes in the case where the impact of buyin…

Relativistic compact stars coupled with dark energy in Heintzmann spacetime
Susmita Sarkar, Nayan Sarkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10930 https://arxiv.org…

Relativistic compact stars coupled with dark energy in Heintzmann spacetime
The literature suggests that dark energy is responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe due to its negative pressure, therefore, dark energy can be used as a possible option to prevent the gravitational collapse of compact objects into singularities. In this regard, there is a great possibility that dark energy can interact with the compact stellar matter configuration [Phys. Rev. D 103, 084042 (2021)]. In this article, we introduce a physically viable model for celestial compact…

Gruden eager to find 'truth' in NFL emails case https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45960156/jon-gruden-eager-discover-truth-nfl-emails-lawsuit

Gravitational Recoil and Suppression of Super Massive Black Hole Seeds in the Early Universe
Bisweswar Sen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10564 https://arxiv.o…

Gravitational Recoil and Suppression of Super Massive Black Hole Seeds in the Early Universe
We investigate the impact of gravitational-wave (GW) recoil on the growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the early Universe. Forming ~10^9 Msun SMBHs by z ~ 6 is challenging and may require hierarchical mergers of smaller seed black holes. We extend a semi-analytic seed model (Sassano et al. 2021) by explicitly incorporating GW recoil physics. Our model includes: (1) recoil velocity formulae calibrated to numerical relativity for spinning, unequal-mass BH binaries (Campanelli et al. 200…

Multi-spacecraft Measurements of the Evolving Geometry of the Solar Alfv\'en Surface Over Half a Solar Cycle
Samuel T. Badman, Michael L. Stevens, Stuart D. Bale, Yeimy J. Rivera, Kristopher G. Klein, Tatiana Niembro, Rohit Chhiber, Ali Rahmati, Phyllis L. Whittlesey, Roberto Livi, Davin E. Larson, Christopher J. Owen, Kristoff W. Paulson, Timothy S. Horbury, Jean Morris, Helen O'Brien, Jean-Baptiste Dakeyo, Jaye L. Verniero, Mihailo Martinovic, Marc Pulupa, Federico Fraschetti…

Multi-spacecraft Measurements of the Evolving Geometry of the Solar Alfvén Surface Over Half a Solar Cycle
The geometry of a star's Alfvén surface determines stellar angular momentum loss, separates a causally distinct 'corona' and stellar wind, and potentially affects exoplanetary habitability. The solar Alfvén surface is the only such structure that is directly measurable and since 2021, has been routinely measured in situ by NASA's Parker Solar Probe (Parker). We use these unique measurements in concert with Solar Orbiter and L1 in situ data spanning the first half of the Solar Cycle 25 in time…

Identification of OB associations using the LAMOST-Gaia OB star sample
Zhicun Liu, Xiao-Long Wang, Wenyuan Cui, Jianrong Shi, Chao Liu, Xiang-Xiang Xue, Min Fang, Yang Huang, Guozhen Hu, Gang Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07599

Identification of OB associations using the LAMOST-Gaia OB star sample
OB associations, as an intermediate stage between Galactic clusters and field stars, play an important role in understanding the star formation process, early stellar evolution, and Galactic evolution. In this work, we construct a large sample of OB stars with 6D phase space parameters ($l, b, d, V_{\rm los}, pmra ,pmdec$) by combining the distances from Bailer-Jones et al. (2021), radial velocities derived from low-resolution spectra of the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Teles…

Leaked a16z decks: $25B in net returns since its 2009 founding, including $11.2B in 2021, and 56 unicorn investments in the past 10 years, the most of any firm (Eric Newcomer/Newcomer)
https://www.newcomer.co/p/andreessen-horowitz-has-returned

Andreessen Horowitz Has Returned at Least $25 Billion Net to Its Backers Since the Firm's Founding in 2009
The firm has held its $900 million 2012 Fund III at 9.4x net TVPI.

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.09.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1131260 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Quantile-based Fractional Generalized Cumulative Past Entropy
Poulami Paul, Chanchal Kundu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09182 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.0918…

Quantile-based Fractional Generalized Cumulative Past Entropy
Uncertainty in past lifetime distributions and the timing of inactivity in systems and their components can be effectively measured using the fractional generalized cumulative past entropy (FGCPE) and its dynamic extension (DFGCPE), introduced by Di Crescenzo et al. (2021). Building on this framework, we propose a quantile-based variant, the quantile fractional generalized cumulative past entropy (QFGCPE), along with its dynamic time-dependent counterpart (DQFGCPE). Closed-form expressions of t…

Harvests and Hooky in the Hills: Crop Yield Variability and Gendered School Enrollment in Rwanda
Maxwell Fogler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10780 https://ar…

Harvests and Hooky in the Hills: Crop Yield Variability and Gendered School Enrollment in Rwanda
This paper investigates the trade-off that households in agrarian economies face between immediate production needs and long-term human capital investment. We ask how exogenous agricultural productivity shocks affect primary and secondary school enrollment in Rwanda, a country characterized by a heavy reliance on rain-fed agriculture alongside ambitious development goals. Using a district-level panel dataset for the years 2010-2021, we employ a two-stage least squares (2SLS) instrumental variab…