That's the way to do it!
Spain's public prosecutor demands 3 years for ex police officer who attributed most crime to immigration, at a far right meeting, calling on Spanish people to "stop being peaceful" about it.
https://www.els…

La fiscalía pide tres años de cárcel para el excomisario que vinculó migración y delincuencia
Ricardo Ferris, en un acto organizado por Vox en el Ateneo de València en 2022, incitó a los “españoles a dejar de ser pacíficos" después de haber equiparado la inmigración con la delincuencia.

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- National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain at the 2022 BBC Proms
Pianist Simone Dinnerstein joins the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and conductor Andrew Gourlay in Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. John Shea presents
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001y9g1

My first book review came out today! *Metadata for Digital Collections* by Steven Miller (2nd ed.). I really do like this book, and we use it to teach Digital Libraries here at IU and I think about its approach in my own stuff. Available here (https://utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/jelis-…

A look at US investigative outlet The Lever, which has 19 staffers after launching in 2022 with two staff, 112K subscribers, and paying subscribers up 16.5% YoY (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

The Lever gets reader backing to expose corporate corruption and grows editorial team
US investigative news outlet The Lever, which has hired nine new journalists, put its ability to expand down to its subscriber strategy.

All the talks from rstudio::conf 2022: https://www.rstudio.com/conference/2022/2022-conf-talks/ 👩‍🏫 Keynotes: https:/…

Sollten Projekte, für die ja naturgemäß keine langfristige Förderung sichergestellt ist, vielleicht keine Infrastruktur aufbauen und bereitstellen? https://baudigital.social/@admin/112325590082481454
Aber bei den FIDs ist das ja Normalzustand, wenn ich das richtig se…

That's the way to do it!
Spain's public prosecutor demands 3 years for ex police officer who attributed most crime to immigration, at a far right meeting, calling on Spanish people to "stop being peaceful" about it.
https://www.els…

La fiscalía pide tres años de cárcel para el excomisario que vinculó migración y delincuencia
Ricardo Ferris, en un acto organizado por Vox en el Ateneo de València en 2022, incitó a los “españoles a dejar de ser pacíficos" después de haber equiparado la inmigración con la delincuencia.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain at the 2022 BBC Proms
Pianist Simone Dinnerstein joins the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and conductor Andrew Gourlay in Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. John Shea presents
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001y9g1

General Staff: Russia has lost 458,580 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/20/general-staff-russia.html

Noida, India-based B2B e-commerce marketplace ProcMart raised a $30M Series B led by Fundamentum and Edelweiss Discovery Fund, after a $10M Series A in 2022 (Times of India)
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ci

Procmart Raises $30 Mn Led By Fundamentum | Bengaluru News - Times of India
Bengaluru: ProcMart, an online B2B marketplace focused on supply chain solutions, has secured $30 million in funding.

NFC Contender May Trade For 1,100-Yard Starter https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/nfc_contender_may_trade_for_1100_yard_starter/s1_17198_40276293

Prosecutor's Office: At least 545 children have been killed since beginning of full-scale invasion: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/20/prosecutors-office-at.html

Using the considerable editorial authority I have been granted to improve life as we know it: Limn will henceforth be open access, not Open Access.

The billionaire energy executive who reigns over Koch Industries is known for playing the long game.
He bought up pipelines in advance of the fracking boom
— and waited calmly until they delivered billions in profits.
He invested in obscure, failing companies even though he knew that it would take years before they could add to his bottom line.
And he has been cautious as he’s ventured into new markets
— his empire now includes glass, pulp and paper, chemicals,…

How Charles Koch Purchased the Supreme Court’s EPA Decision
Decades of contributions aimed at influencing the judiciary bought fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch the EPA ruling he’s always wanted.

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Oscillatory and chaotic pattern dynamics driven by surface curvature
Patterns on curved surfaces are ubiquitous, yet the influence of surface geometry on pattern dynamics remains elusive. We recently reported a new mechanism of pattern propagation in which a static pattern on a flat plane becomes a propagating pattern on a curved surface [Nishide and Ishihara, Phys. Rev. Lett. 2022]. Here, we address whether surface curvature can drive more complex pattern dynamics beyond propagation. By employing a combination of weakly nonlinear analysis and numerical simulati…

2022 retro-link! https://www.pathsensitive.com/2022/09/bet-you-cant-solve-these-9-dependency.html - 9 puzzles to convince you you don't understand dependence.

Has anyone managed to successfully titrate whelming?
Everyone talks about being over- or underwhelmed but nobody ever gets the whelm level just right so everyone's happy.

ISO 27001 Amendment 1 ist eine Erweiterung der ISO 27001-Norm, welche Anforderungen an den **#Klimawandel** in das Informationssicherheitsmanagementsystem einführt. Was gilt es jetzt zu beachten? **#isms** **

Das ist der schlauste FOCUS Artikel den Ich je gelesen habe.

The helpers, the doers, and the ones left behind: Reflections on the gendered dimension of academic citizenship in Dutch #academia #Gender #Inclusion

Drei Jahre Haft für russischen Filmemacher
Ein russischer Filmemacher ist wegen Kritik an Moskaus Militäroffensive in der Ukraine zu drei Jahren Gefängnis verurteilt worden. Ein Gericht in St. Petersburg befand Wsewolod Koroljo für schuldig, im Frühjahr 2022 im Onlinedienst VKontakte "unwahre" Beiträge "über Massaker an Zivilisten in Butcha und Borodjanka sowie über den Beschuss von Donezk" veröffentlicht zu haben. Das Gericht…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Niederlande wollen Munition für F-16-Jets liefern ++
Die Niederlande wollen die Ukraine mit Drohnen und Munition für F-16-Jets unterstützen. In Litauen sollen im April die ersten Bundeswehrsoldaten zum verstärkten Schutz des NATO-Partners eintreffen. Die Entwicklungen vom Mittwoch zum Nachlesen.

On 5th May 2022 I made a complaint to the DPC that the entire An Post/ GeoDirectory advertising database was in breach of GDPR.
On 17th July 2023, the DPC wrote to confirm it had opened a wideranging ‘own volition’ inquiry into the GeoDirectory database.
No further update has issued.

Mystery solved!

#P4x #CyberSecurity #InfoSec @…

General Staff: Russia has lost 455,340 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/16/general-staff-russia.html

A US judge sentences ex-Amazon security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed to three years in prison for stealing $12.3M from Nirvana and another crypto exchange in 2022 (Chris Dolmetsch/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Ex-Amazon Engineer Shakeeb Ahmed Gets Three Years for Hacking DeFi Platforms
A former Amazon.com software engineer who admitted to stealing millions of dollars in cryptocurrency by hacking two decentralized finance platforms was ordered to spend three years behind bars.

“Today, the Court strips the EPA of the power Congress gave it to respond to ‘the most pressing environmental challenge of our time,’”
Justice Elena Kagan wrote in a dissenting opinion joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer.
“Whatever else this Court may know about, ⭐️it does not have a clue about how to address climate change. ⭐️Yet the Court today prevents congressionally authorized agency action to curb power plants’ carbon dioxide emissions.
The Court app…

How Charles Koch Purchased the Supreme Court’s EPA Decision
Decades of contributions aimed at influencing the judiciary bought fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch the EPA ruling he’s always wanted.

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Dirac walks on regular trees
The study of matter fields on an ensemble of random geometries is a difficult problem still in need of new methods and ideas. We will follow a point of view inspired by probability theory techniques that relies on an expansion of the two point function as a sum over random walks. An analogous expansion for Fermions on non-Euclidean geometries is still lacking. Casiday et al. [\textit{Laplace and Dirac operators on graphs}, Linear and Multilinear Algebra (2022) 1] proposed a classical "Dirac wal…

MM: # of CS papers has grown from 7 in 2010, to 336 in 2022. Was significant growth, in line with EU funding for CS. Currently seems to plateau though. #ecsa2024

Weizenbaum Report 2024: Politische Partizipation verlagert sich ins Netz
@…
Insgesamt zeigt sich die politische Partizipation in Deutschland zwischen den Jahren 2022 und 2023 leicht rückläufig. [Frage: Trotz der GegenRechts-Demos?]
Counterspeech ist nach wie vor eine verbreitete Taktik, um Hass und Falschnachrichten entgegenzuwirken…

Weizenbaum Report 2024: Politische Partizipation verlagert sich ins Netz
Eine aktuelle Studie des Weizenbaum-Instituts beleuchtet, wie sich die politische Teilhabe hierzulande entwickelt. Im Fokus steht auch das Thema Künstliche Intelligenz – und wie die Menschen diese nutzen und bewerten.

FTC lawsuit filings: Instagram had ad revenues of $22B in 2020, or 26% of Meta's total revenue, $32.4B in 2021, or 27% of Meta's revenue, and $16.5B in H1 2022 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta (META) Brought In Almost 30% of Its Revenue From Instagram in Early 2022
Meta Platforms Inc. brought in almost 30% of its revenue from Instagram in the first half of 2022, according to court filings that reveal for the first time how much money the popular photo and video service has generated.

Has anyone managed to successfully titrate whelming?
Everyone talks about being over- or underwhelmed but nobody ever gets the whelm level just right so everyone's happy.

The helpers, the doers, and the ones left behind: Reflections on the gendered dimension of academic citizenship in Dutch #academia #Gender #Inclusion

A US judge sentences ex-Amazon security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed to three years in prison for stealing $12.3M from Nirvana and another crypto exchange in 2022 (Chris Dolmetsch/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Ex-Amazon Engineer Shakeeb Ahmed Gets Three Years for Hacking DeFi Platforms
A former Amazon.com software engineer who admitted to stealing millions of dollars in cryptocurrency by hacking two decentralized finance platforms was ordered to spend three years behind bars.

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Ranked Choice Voting And Condorcet Failure in the Alaska 2022 Special Election: How Might Other Voting Systems Compare?
The August 2022 special election for the U.S. House of Representatives in Alaska featured three main candidates and was conducted by the single-winner ranked choice voting system known as "Instant Runoff Voting." The results of this election displayed a well-known but relatively rare phenomenon known as "Condorcet failure:" Nick Begich was eliminated in the first round despite being more broadly acceptable to the electorate than either of the other two candidates. More specifically, Begich was …

#fredagsbog
Noa Tishby: Israel (FreePress, Nov 2022)

There were 40 consecutive rollovers in 2021 and 2022; tomorrow is the first ever 41st #Powerball draw. As per the law of very large numbers the odds of a #Powerball rollover continuing gradually decrease. The more trials, the more black swan.
10 draws, ~67%.
20 draws, ~45%. <…

Edwards Smiltens about Latvia active support to Ukraine “Latvia was the first country to start supporting Ukraine on a large scale. It was 14 February 2022. We raised flags in Riga. We started sending Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/edwards-smiltens-abou…

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Einstein Telescope: Detection of Binary Black Hole Gravitational Wave Signals Using Deep Learning
Expanding upon our prior work (Alhassan et al. 2022), where we evaluated the performance of single sub-detector data (SSDD) from the Einstein Telescope (ET) for binary black hole (BBH) detection using deep learning (DL). In this study, we explore the detection efficiency of BBHs using data combined from all three proposed sub-detectors of ET (TSDCD), employing five different lower frequency cutoffs ($F_{\text{low}}$): 5 Hz, 10 Hz, 15 Hz, 20 Hz, and 30 Hz, while maintaining the same match-filter…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/14/wood-burning-stoves-cancel-out-fall-particulate-pollution-uk-roads

FTC lawsuit filings: Instagram had ad revenues of $22B in 2020, or 26% of Meta's total revenue, $32.4B in 2021, or 27% of Meta's revenue, and $16.5B in H1 2022 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta (META) Brought In Almost 30% of Its Revenue From Instagram in Early 2022
Meta Platforms Inc. brought in almost 30% of its revenue from Instagram in the first half of 2022, according to court filings that reveal for the first time how much money the popular photo and video service has generated.

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Internet sentiment exacerbates intraday overtrading, evidence from A-Share market
Market fluctuations caused by overtrading are important components of systemic market risk. This study examines the effect of investor sentiment on intraday overtrading activities in the Chinese A-share market. Employing high-frequency sentiment indices inferred from social media posts on the Eastmoney forum Guba, the research focuses on constituents of the CSI 300 and CSI 500 indices over a period from 01/01/2018, to 12/30/2022. The empirical analysis indicates that investor sentiment exerts a…

I don’t care that it didn’t get very good reviews, I like the series #Suspicion on #AppleTVPlus so far (at episode 2). Sure, it is silly that Uma Thurman is credited as a star, even if she so far has appeared only for a short scene in the first episode.

2022 retro-link! https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/30/773457637/from-culinary-dud-to-stud-how-dutch-plant-breeders-built-our-brussels-sprouts-bo - From culinary dud to stud: …

Borrell, Kuleba: Europe and the world need Ukraine to prevail: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/22/borrell-kuleba-europe.html

Checkr, a 10-year-old startup that offers employee background checks and was valued at $5B in April 2022, has laid off 382 employees, or 32% of its workforce (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/10/checkr-layoffs/

Exclusive: Checkr, the background-screening platform last valued at $5 billion, cuts 32% of workforce
Checkr, a 10-year-old startup that offers employee background checks, has laid off 382 employees — 32% of its workforce.

Raiders to re-sign veteran defensive lineman https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_to_re_sign_veteran_defensive_lineman/s1_14819_40118974

Raiders to re-sign veteran defensive lineman
Adam Butler is returning to Las Vegas. The defensive lineman is re-signing with the Raiders, according to ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler. It’ll be a one-year deal for the veteran. After sitting out the 2022 campaign and settling for a reserve/futures contract with the Raiders last January, Butler proceeded to have one of the most productive seasons of his career in 2023. He finished the campaign having compiled 28 tackles and five sacks, and despite not starting any of his 17 appearances, he got int…

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A Robust Ensemble Algorithm for Ischemic Stroke Lesion Segmentation: Generalizability and Clinical Utility Beyond the ISLES Challenge
Diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI) is essential for stroke diagnosis, treatment decisions, and prognosis. However, image and disease variability hinder the development of generalizable AI algorithms with clinical value. We address this gap by presenting a novel ensemble algorithm derived from the 2022 Ischemic Stroke Lesion Segmentation (ISLES) challenge. ISLES'22 provided 400 patient scans with ischemic stroke from various medical centers, facilitating the development of a wide range of cutting-edge…

The world’s five largest listed oil companies have made profits of more than a quarter of a trillion dollars since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine led to dramatic increases in energy prices and household bills.
The “super-majors” – BP, Shell, Chevron, ExxonMobil and TotalEnergies – have made $281bn (£223bn) since the war began in February 2022, according to Global Witness.
The UK-based pair, BP and Shell, have made a combined $94.2bn (£75bn) in profits since the conflict began. Glob…

Genesis - The Final Show (London O2 Arena | March 26. 2022)
#NowPlaying

Es läuft nicht rund - Nächste Demütigung! Benzema fliegt aus dem Kader #News #Nachrichten

The influence of thermonuclear bursts on polar caps of accreting X-ray millisecond pulsar MAXI J1816-195
Long Ji, Mingyu Ge, Yupeng Chen, Zhaosheng Li, Peng-Ju Wang, Shu Zhang, Shuang-Nan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06747

The influence of thermonuclear bursts on polar caps of accreting X-ray millisecond pulsar MAXI J1816-195
We report accretion-powered pulsations for the first time during thermonuclear bursts in hard X-rays, which were observed with Insight-HXMT in 2022 during the outburst of the accreting X-ray millisecond pulsar MAXI J1816-195. By stacking 73 bursts, we detected pulse profiles in 8-30 keV and 30-100 keV during bursts, which are identical to those obtained from the persistent (non-burst) emission. On average, no significant phase lag was observed between burst and persistent pulse profiles. In add…

South Dakota apologizes -- and pays transgender advocacy group $300,000 for discrimination (Raw Story)
https://www.rawstory.com/south-dakota-apologizes-and-pays-transgender-advocacy-group-300000-for-discrimination/

South Dakota apologizes — and pays transgender advocacy group $300,000 for discrimination
The state of South Dakota has issued an apology letter and a $300,000 payment to a transgender advocacy group for the abrupt cancellation of a Department of Health contract in 2022. Those are the terms of a settlement agreement inked Thursday in a federal discrimination lawsuit filed by The Tra...

2022 retro-link! https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/30/773457637/from-culinary-dud-to-stud-how-dutch-plant-breeders-built-our-brussels-sprouts-bo - From culinary dud to stud: …

The world’s five largest listed oil companies have made profits of more than a quarter of a trillion dollars since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine led to dramatic increases in energy prices and household bills.
The “super-majors” – BP, Shell, Chevron, ExxonMobil and TotalEnergies – have made $281bn (£223bn) since the war began in February 2022, according to Global Witness.
The UK-based pair, BP and Shell, have made a combined $94.2bn (£75bn) in profits since the conflict began. Glob…

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#ThroughTheNight
- Fauré and Debussy in Switzerland
Mezzo soprano Isabel Pfefferkorn sings Fauré's La Bonne Chanson at the 2022 Meiringen Music Festival in Switzerland. Jonathan Swain presents.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001xw7p

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„Die schwedischen Künstlerinnen und Künstler warfen der EBU nun Doppelmoral vor. Sie wiesen in dem Brief darauf hin, dass nach Russlands Angriff auf die Ukraine im Jahr 2022 keine russischen Musiker am ESC teilnehmen durften,…“
Die wissen aber schon, dass Israel den Krieg nicht begonnen hat, oder?

A profile of hacker P4x, aka Alejandro Caceres, who took down North Korea's internet in 2022 and says the US needs to wield its hacking powers more aggressively (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/p4x-north-korea-internet-hacker-iden…

Copper phone lines work, slow & ugly, but it works. During the ice storm of 98 and the storm of 2022 where we lost power for days the copper lines worked. If telcos ditch copper lines then what happens in a major disaster and there is extended power loss? Will the various towers have backup generators that can last days or even weeks?

dom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 12 nodes and 48 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

application amount for subsidy (retrofit) for insulation & heat pumps for households in the Netherlands almost doubled by 2023. Heat pumps in particular increasingly popular: 222 million for heat pumps (~110,000 - 150,000 units)
https://www.

Stormloop op subsidie voor duurzame investeringen als warmtepomp en isolatie
Particulieren hebben vorig jaar voor een bedrag aan 440 miljoen euro aan subsidie ontvangen voor het nemen van duurzame maatregelen.

Supervised Autoencoder MLP for Financial Time Series Forecasting
Bartosz Bieganowski, Robert Slepaczuk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01866 https://

Supervised Autoencoder MLP for Financial Time Series Forecasting
This paper investigates the enhancement of financial time series forecasting with the use of neural networks through supervised autoencoders, aiming to improve investment strategy performance. It specifically examines the impact of noise augmentation and triple barrier labeling on risk-adjusted returns, using the Sharpe and Information Ratios. The study focuses on the S&P 500 index, EUR/USD, and BTC/USD as the traded assets from January 1, 2010, to April 30, 2022. Findings indicate that supervi…

An unexpected side-effect of the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 - absolutely mad social media posts.
https://checkyourfact.com/2023/11/20/fact-check-database-israel-company-uk/

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Can You Learn Semantics Through Next-Word Prediction? The Case of Entailment
Do LMs infer the semantics of text from co-occurrence patterns in their training data? Merrill et al. (2022) argue that, in theory, probabilities predicted by an optimal LM encode semantic information about entailment relations, but it is unclear whether neural LMs trained on corpora learn entailment in this way because of strong idealizing assumptions made by Merrill et al. In this work, we investigate whether their theory can be used to decode entailment judgments from neural LMs. We find tha…

Selenskyj legt persönliche Einkünfte für 2021 und 2022 offen
Der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj hat seine persönlichen Einkünfte für die Jahre 2021 und 2022 offengelegt. In einem Beitrag auf der Internetseite des Präsidenten meldeten Selenskyj und seine Familie für 2021 ein Einkommen von 10,8 Millionen Griwna (263.000 Euro), zwölf Millionen Griwna weniger als im Jahr zuvor. Darin waren Einnahmen aus dem Verkauf von …
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Kiew meldet Verstöße bei Militärversorgung ++
Der ukrainische Verteidigungsminister meldet "viele Verstöße" bei Versorgungslieferungen für das Militär. Der Bezirk Krementschuk ist ukrainischen Angaben zufolge erneut Ziel russischer Raketenangriffe. Die Entwicklungen im Liveblog.

FTX's collapse exposed problems with crypto that are just as relevant today, including a lack of decentralization and companies' persistent regulatory battles (Joshua Oliver/Financial Times)
https://t.co/gjOlUMT3z2

From Adams to assets: A closer look at the impact of Davante's trade for the Packers https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/from_adams_to_assets_a_closer_look_at_the_impact_of_davantes_trad…

From Adams to assets: A closer look at the impact of Davante's trade for the Packers
We've been doing a Green Bay Packers mailbag every. But this question from Joe is so intriguing that this week we will explore this topic further. The Packers didn't offer what Davante Adams wanted in 2021, entering the last year of his deal. So he played out his contract, and Green Bay still had the option to apply the franchise tag while negotiating a new deal. Reportedly, the Packers made a strong offer to Adams in 2022, but the wide receiver requested a trade to the Las Vegas Raiders for se…

I am so close to paying off my student loans. Only 14k to go! For context, in 2022 it was 70k. With any luck, it will be paid in full by mid June.

Cybertech Global and IVC: in 2023, Israeli cybersecurity exit deals grew by 65% YoY to $7.1B; total tech sector exits were ~$11B, down from $13.5B in 2022 (Steven Scheer/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cyberse

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„Die schwedischen Künstlerinnen und Künstler warfen der EBU nun Doppelmoral vor. Sie wiesen in dem Brief darauf hin, dass nach Russlands Angriff auf die Ukraine im Jahr 2022 keine russischen Musiker am ESC teilnehmen durften,…“
Die wissen aber schon, dass Israel den Krieg nicht begonnen hat, oder?

Filings in FTC lawsuit: Instagram had revenues of $22B in 2020, or 26% of Meta's total revenue, $32.4B in 2021, or 27% of Meta's revenue, and $16.5B in H1 2022 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

From Adams to assets: A closer look at the impact of Davante's trade for the Packers https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/from_adams_to_assets_a_closer_look_at_the_impact_of_davantes_trad…

From Adams to assets: A closer look at the impact of Davante's trade for the Packers
We've been doing a Green Bay Packers mailbag every. But this question from Joe is so intriguing that this week we will explore this topic further. The Packers didn't offer what Davante Adams wanted in 2021, entering the last year of his deal. So he played out his contract, and Green Bay still had the option to apply the franchise tag while negotiating a new deal. Reportedly, the Packers made a strong offer to Adams in 2022, but the wide receiver requested a trade to the Las Vegas Raiders for se…

Internet sentiment exacerbates intraday overtrading, evidence from A-Share market
Peng Yifeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12001 https://

Internet sentiment exacerbates intraday overtrading, evidence from A-Share market
Market fluctuations caused by overtrading are important components of systemic market risk. This study examines the effect of investor sentiment on intraday overtrading activities in the Chinese A-share market. Employing high-frequency sentiment indices inferred from social media posts on the Eastmoney forum Guba, the research focuses on constituents of the CSI 300 and CSI 500 indices over a period from 01/01/2018, to 12/30/2022. The empirical analysis indicates that investor sentiment exerts a…

Zelensky: Liberation of Ukraine's territories occupied after 2022 may force Putin to negotiate: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/29/zelensky-liberation-of.html

"783 million people face chronic hunger. Yet the world wastes 19% of its food, UN says"
#UN #UnitedNations #Food #FoodWaste

783 million people face chronic hunger, UN says
A new United Nations report estimates that 19% of the food produced around the world went to waste in 2022. That's a little more than 1 billion metric tons of food that could have helped feed the hundreds of millions of people who live with hunger every day. The biggest share of that waste, about 60%, came in households. Almost 30% came in food service operations, such as restaurants. The updated Food Waste Index out Wednesday comes three years after the U.N.'s first attempt to quantify the pro…

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Can You Learn Semantics Through Next-Word Prediction? The Case of Entailment
Do LMs infer the semantics of text from co-occurrence patterns in their training data? Merrill et al. (2022) argue that, in theory, probabilities predicted by an optimal LM encode semantic information about entailment relations, but it is unclear whether neural LMs trained on corpora learn entailment in this way because of strong idealizing assumptions made by Merrill et al. In this work, we investigate whether their theory can be used to decode entailment judgments from neural LMs. We find tha…

Deliveroo reports adjusted EBITDA of £85M in 2023, its first-ever profit and up from a loss of £45M in 2022, after launching Deliveroo Shopping in November (PYMNTS.com)
https://www.pymnts.com/earnings/2024/deliveroo-looks-past-food-follo…

Deliveroo Looks Past Food Following First-Ever Profit
Deliveroo has logged its first-ever profit as it continues pushing past its restaurant roots into online shopping.

Magazine and newspaper subscription app Readly had 464K full-paying subscribers at the end of 2023, up 2.7% YoY, and a £9.10 ARPU, up from £7.80 in 2022 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/magazines/rea…

As subscriber growth flattens 'all you can read' magazine app Readly moves into profit
The chief executive of "all you can read" magazine and newspaper app Readly has set out a two-year plan for reaching long-term profitability.

Sources: by the end of 2022, <10% of Instagram teens had parental supervision settings on, showing barriers for parents like limited understanding of the tools (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)
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Meta says its parental controls protect kids. But hardly anyone uses them.
Internal Meta safety experts have raised red flags about the features, citing infrequent use, low adoption and high burdens on parents.