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CISA, the ACSC, and the FBI say the Play ransomware gang, active since June 2022, had breached roughly 900 organizations as of May 2025, up 3x on October 2023 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Running cars on E-Fuels, made with CO2 from the air and green Hydrogen?🚗⛽🌿⚡
E-Fuels, so the story goes, could allow using existing cars and infrastructure like gas stations. However, E-Fuels are extremely inefficient.
In 2022, Siemens Energy, Porsche, and the Chilean company HIF inaugurated the Haru Oni pilot plant in Chile's windy Magallanes region, which turns CO2 and Hydrogen into Methanol and small amounts of Gasoline. How's it going? 🧵

What's up with the Production of E-Fuels in Chile?
In 2022, Siemens Energy, Porsche, and HIF inaugurated a pilot plant for the production of E-Methanol and E-Gasoline in southern Chile. The Haru Oni plant was intended to be just the beginning — with plans for large-scale production just a few years later. However, it does not look like that will ever happen.

Domestic Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady

Domestic Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022)
A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady

I’m very tempted to speculate that this report is banned in corporate C-suite and HR:
Why are there so many tech layoffs, and why should we be worried?
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2022/12/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried
What do you think?🤔

Differences between Neurodivergent and Neurotypical Software Engineers: Analyzing the 2022 Stack Overflow Survey
Pragya Verma, Marcos Vinicius Cruz, Grischa Liebel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03840

Differences between Neurodivergent and Neurotypical Software Engineers: Analyzing the 2022 Stack Overflow Survey
Neurodiversity describes variation in brain function among people, including common conditions such as Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and dyslexia. While Software Engineering (SE) literature has started to explore the experiences of neurodivergent software engineers, there is a lack of research that compares their challenges to those of neurotypical software engineers. To address this gap, we analyze existing data from the 2022 Stack Overflow De…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18154 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@…

Emergent supercounterfluid and quantum phase diagram of two-component interacting bosons in one-dimensional optical lattice
Motivated by a recent experiment that realizes nearest-neighbor dipolar couplings in an optical lattice [C. Lagoin, $\textit{et al.}$, Nature $\textbf{609}$, 485 (2022)], we study a one-dimensional version of the two-component extended Bose-Hubbard model via the density-matrix renormalization group method. By using the nearest-neighbor and on-site interaction parameters from the experiment, we start by mapping the quantum phase diagram in the hopping parameters $t_{A}\mbox{-}t_{B}$ plane with b…

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Let's play!
#FreudianSlipAToastOrVow

Installing the DivumWX “Light” skin for WeeWx Weather Software for a remote web server setup.
NOTE JUNE 2 2025: AS DIVUMWX IS STILL UNDER ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT THESE INSTRUCTIONS MAY CHANGE. In 2022 I installed a new skin as part of my Alberniweather.ca website using the "Weather34" skin for displaying weather data from my Davis Weather Station. My setup is a little special because my weather data gathering server is at home, where it creates the webpages and then syncs…
https://chrisalemany.ca/b/2tK

Tamar Riley, global managing director at Refinery29 since July 2022, is set to join The Standard, formerly The Evening Standard, as CEO on July 14 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/media-jobs-uk-news/eveni…

Managing director of lifestyle publisher Refinery29 joins Standard as CEO
The new chief executive (CEO) of The Standard is Tamar Riley, joining from women's lifestyle brand Refinery29 in July.

The inner working of parquette/arrow data in R: #rstats

Unpacking Arrow Datasets – Notes from a data witch
A comment on how Datasets work in Apache Arrow. I’m not really sure who the audience for this one. Am I just talking to myself? Probably.

Energy cost shares and energy prices, 142 countries, 1980-2022 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140988325004438 @…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03834 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@a…

Update: Progress toward fusion energy breakeven and gain as measured against the Lawson criteria
This paper is an update to our earlier paper ''Progress toward fusion energy breakeven and gain as measured against the Lawson criterion'' [Phys. Plasmas 29, 062103 (2022)]. Plots of Lawson parameter and triple product vs. ion temperature and triple product vs. date achieved are updated with recently published experimental results. A new plot of scientific energy gain vs. date achieved is included. Additionally, notes on new experimental results, clarifications, and a correction are included.

Viele #Deutsche lagern daheim alte #Smartphones. Auch wenn die Zahl der "Schubladenhandys" laut #Bitkom sinkt, ist sie extrem hoch. Imho wäre die Lösung nicht, alles wegzuwerfen, …

Consent for Processing Personal Data in the Age of AI: Key Updates Across Asia-Pacific
https://fpf.org/blog/consent-for-processing-personal-data-in-the-age-of-ai-key-updates-across-asia-pacific/