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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.

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 :

Composing a Requiem:
What Is A Requiem?
#Composing #NeoRomantic
https://muz4now.com/2021/composi…

Composing a Requiem: What Is A Requiem?
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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

> 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

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…

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Feeling All Of The Feels - Finding Expression
#creativity #CreativeProcess
https://muz4now.…

Feeling All Of The Feels - Finding Expression
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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.

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…

Zohran Mamdani received 545,334 votes in RCV tally. That's 135% of Eric Adams' 2021 primary vote.
Mamdani's proven primary voters would make a 48% share of those who turned out in the 2021 general election.
https://enr.boenyc.gov/rcv/026916_1.html

English River August Ambient (2021-08) - Late summer soundscape from a small river near the English south coast with a mystery chicken or three! #river #summer #fieldRecording -

English River August Ambient (2021-08)
Late summer soundscape from a small river near the English south coast with a mystery chicken or three! #river #summer #fieldRecording

How To Know Which Reviews You Can Trust And Avoid Buyer's Remorse https://muz4now.com/2021/how-to-know-which-reviews-you-can-trust-avoid-buyers-remorse/

How To Know Which Reviews You Can Trust And Avoid Buyer's Remorse
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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…

Release and Procrastination - Life and Artistry
#CreativeProcess
https://muz4now.com/2021/release-and-procrastination-life-and-artistry/

Release and Procrastination - Life and Artistry
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

EUV Wave and Coronal Seismology
Pooja Devi, Ramesh Chandra, Arun Kumar Awasthi, Brigitte Schmieder, Reetika Joshi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01400 https://…

EUV Wave and Coronal Seismology
We present an investigation of the Extreme-Ultraviolet (EUV) wave linked to the flare that occurred on 28 October 2021, along with the associated coronal loop oscillation and type II radio burst. The EUV wave was observed by multi-viewpoint with Solar Dynamics Observatory and Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory - A. The associated coronal mass ejection (CME) was observed by Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) as well by COR1 coronagraph. From the multi-view observation, we fou…

Singing Grief: What Did It Take To Make A Pandemic Choir?
#choir #singing
https://muz4now.com/…

Singing Grief: What's It Take To Make A Pandemic Choir?
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Intellectual Property Rights and Entrepreneurship in the NFT Ecosystem: Legal Frameworks, Business Models, and Innovation Opportunities
Pranav Darshan, Rohan J S, Raghuveer Rajesh, Ruchitha M, Sanika Kamath, Manas M N
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00172

Intellectual Property Rights and Entrepreneurship in the NFT Ecosystem: Legal Frameworks, Business Models, and Innovation Opportunities
Non Fungible Tokens have changed digital ownership and how creators earn money. Between 2021 and 2024, the market value exceeded 40 billion. However, the fast growth of the NFT ecosystem has revealed serious issues in managing intellectual property rights. There is a lot of confusion about the difference between owning an NFT and owning the copyright for the underlying content. This research looks at the gap between traditional copyright laws and blockchain-based transactions. We use a mixed me…

Banjo Virtual Instrument Comparison Review
#VirtualInstrument #MusicianTips #banjo

Banjo Virtual Instrument Comparison Review
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Effective source for second-order self-force calculations: quasicircular orbits in Schwarzschild spacetime
Samuel D. Upton, Barry Wardell, Adam Pound, Niels Warburton, Leor Barack
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00087

Effective source for second-order self-force calculations: quasicircular orbits in Schwarzschild spacetime
Recent years have seen the first production of "post-adiabatic" gravitational-waveform models based on second-order gravitational self-force theory. These models rely on calculations of an effective source in the perturbative second-order Einstein equation. Here, for the first time, we detail the calculation of the effective source in a Schwarzschild background, which underlies the second-order self-force results in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 151102 (2021); ibid. 128, 231101 (2022); ibid. 130, 2414…

Two Cases of Non-Radial Filament Eruption and Associated CME Deflection
Kostadinka Koleva, Ramesh Chandra, Pooja Devi, Peter Duchlev, Momchil Dechev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01580

Two Cases of Non-Radial Filament Eruption and Associated CME Deflection
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the multi-wavelength and multi-instrument observations of two quiescent filament eruptions as well as the deflection of associated CMEs from the radial direction. The events occurred on 18 October 2017 and 9 May 2021, respectively, in the southern solar hemisphere. Both of them and associated flares were registered by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory-Ahead (S…

Loneliness and the Power of Convergence
#Community #CreativeCommunity
https://muz4now.com/202…

Loneliness and the Power of Convergence
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

> 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.

🇵🇱 Cześć! Jestem Łukasz. Trójka z przodu. Warszawa. Na fedi mniej-więcej od 2021 r. Łączę dwa konta w jedno i od tej pory będzie tu więcej polskojęzycznych postów (a jeśli obserwowałxś mnie na polskojęzycznym koncie, to dostaniesz więcej treści po angielsku 😄).
Mam kilka równoległych żyć.
Przez większość czasu buduję rzeczy w internetach, głównie z użyciem TypeScriptu, Reacta i całej reszty tego jazzu. Ciągle jednak lubię generatory stron statycznych i stary dobry HTML/CSS.
W innym życiu jestem fotografem-dokumentalistą i fotoreporterem. Interesuje mnie aktywizm, sztuka, kultura, polityka oraz wszystko, co jest ciekawe, a dzieje się na ulicach miast. Dużo uwagi poświęcam protestom i demonstracjom w Polsce, zwłaszcza dotyczącym praw człowieka i kwestii społecznych. Interesuje mnie też sztuka uliczna, zwłaszcza taka, która niesie ze sobą mocne komunikaty.
Zdarza mi się blogować i tłumaczyć teksty. Wiele lat temu napisałem dwie książki o WordPressie. Obecnie jednak wolę gdzieś wyjść niż spędzać jeszcze więcej czasu przed ekranem.
Okazjonalnie zdarza mi się postować o zdrowiu psychicznym i polityce. Staram się używać CW kiedy to możliwe.
Postuję po polsku i angielsku w zależności od tematu.
No i... chyba tyle. Miło Cię widzieć!
#introduction #witajswiecie #przywitanie #wprowadzenie

📸 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…

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 :

Strategic Customer Behavior in an M/M/1 Feedback Queue with General Payoffs
Peter Taylor, Jiesen Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11263 https://

Strategic Customer Behavior in an M/M/1 Feedback Queue with General Payoffs
We consider an M/M/1 feedback queue in which service attempts may fail, requiring the customer to rejoin the queue. Arriving customers act strategically, deciding whether to join the queue based on a threshold strategy that depends on the number of customers present. Their decisions balance the expected service reward against the costs associated with waiting, while accounting for the behavior of others. This model was first analyzed by Fackrell, Taylor and Wang (2021), who assumed that waiti…