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.

🏈 @… #NFL #FreezingColdTakes
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Last night I updated my post “ADA Web Site Compliance Still Not a Thing”:
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/03/ada-web-site-compliance-still-not-a-thing.html#Update09
Links to the DoJ release about making ADA apply to state &a…

ADA Web Site Compliance Still Not a Thing
Photo courtesy Steve Faulkner, taken outside the CSUNATC 2022 venue after we had chicken and rice, free from the food desert of the venue. Who has two thumbs and is not a lawyer? For years I have worked with clients who refer to digital/web accessibility as ADA work. They have…

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…

✍️ 2023: By The Numbers
After being stalled for several months whilst life happened, I've finally hit publish on my 2023 data review/collation.
Less of a narrative-driven approach this year, and more of a raw data feel. It made it easier to write (2022's post remains a Draft 😅) but also created a format closer to the dashboard I ultimately want. Plus, I could capture more data, from more varied sources, more easily.
#IndieWeb #YearInReview

2022 retro-link! https://blog.janestreet.com/magic-trace/ - Magic-trace: Diagnosing tricky performance issues easily with Intel Processor Trace.

SoPhAr: Solar Phased-Arrays to boost the range of electric, hydrogen and SAF airliners in a solar world
Christian Claudel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04779 …

SoPhAr: Solar Phased-Arrays to boost the range of electric, hydrogen and SAF airliners in a solar world
In late 2022, ICAO member states adopted a long-term global aspirational goal (LTAG) to achieve net zero carbon emissions from international aviation by 2050. To date however, no economically scalable solution to the aviation decarbonization problem has been proposed. Despite considerable research on potential alternative fuels including e-fuels, Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), Hydrogen or Ammonia, and extensive research on purely electric propulsion, low-carbon propulsion methods are unable t…

Improved Lower Bound for Differentially Private Facility Location
Pasin Manurangsi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04874 https://arxiv.org…

Improved Lower Bound for Differentially Private Facility Location
We consider the differentially private (DP) facility location problem in the so called super-set output setting proposed by Gupta et al. [SODA 2010]. The current best known expected approximation ratio for an $ε$-DP algorithm is $O\left(\frac{\log n}{\sqrtε}\right)$ due to Cohen-Addad et al. [AISTATS 2022] where $n$ denote the size of the metric space, meanwhile the best known lower bound is $Ω(1/\sqrtε)$ [NeurIPS 2019]. In this short note, we give a lower bound of $\tildeΩ\left(\min\lef…

Mystery solved!

#P4x #CyberSecurity #InfoSec @…

Marketing Mentors Podcast
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Marketing Mentors | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Marketing Mentors Podcast Hosts: Tash Dal Bianco and Linda D’Amico Category: Business Sub-Category: Careers, Marketing & Social Media First Episode: 2022 Imposter Syndrome. It’s something we’…

Nach Covid-Infektion - So stoppte 40-Jährige plötzlichen Haarausfall #News #Nachrichten

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

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

Disney sells out of ad inventory for the 2024 Oscars; a source says Disney was seeking $1.7M to $2.2M for 30-second ads, similar to its 2022 pricing (Bill Bradley/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/convergent-tv/disney-sells-out-ad-inventory-96th-oscars…

Disney Sells Out Ad Inventory for 96th Oscars With Pricing Back Up
The ceremony will have a broad range of sponsors across 17 categories.

Three big names the Philadelphia Eagles should avoid in free agency https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/three_big_names_the_philadelphia_eagles_should_avoid_in_free_agency/s1_13132_40076009

Three big names the Philadelphia Eagles should avoid in free agency
With more than $40M available under the NFL's new salary cap, the Eagles can afford to add some big-name talent to their 2024 roster. Just not these guys. RB Austin Ekeler Ekeler’s Chargers career got off to a slow start after he went undrafted out of Western Colorado in 2017. Ekeler tallied just 1,901 yards and nine touchdowns in his first four seasons. But things changed in 2021 when he ran for 911 yards and 12 touchdowns, followed by 915 yards and 13 scores in 2022. Unfortunately, Ekeler�…

Fulmar's Folly 😱😢💀
Dramatized scifi series | Two years after civilisation has collapsed from a zombie-like pandemic, the Cooper family aboard the Fulmar's Folly fights extreme pressures to survive against hostile survivors, the infected, and the sea itself.
1 seasons, 9 episodes as of Mar 12, 2022.
https://www.

Fulmar's Folly 😱😢💀
Dramatized scifi series | Two years after civilisation has collapsed from a zombie-like pandemic, the Cooper family aboard the Fulmar's Folly fights extreme pressures to survive against hostile survivors, the infected, and the sea itself. 1 seasons, 9 episodes as of Mar 13, 2022.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.08739 has been replaced.
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Product structure extension of the Alon--Seymour--Thomas theorem
Alon, Seymour and Thomas [1990] proved that every $n$-vertex graph excluding $K_t$ as a minor has treewidth less than $t^{3/2}\sqrt{n}$. Illingworth, Scott and Wood [2022] recently refined this result by showing that every such graph is a subgraph of some graph with treewidth $t-2$, where each vertex is blown up by a complete graph of order $O(\sqrt{tn})$. Solving an open problem of Illingworth, Scott and Wood [2022], we prove that the treewidth bound can be reduced to $4$ while keeping blowups…

2022 retro-link! https://blog.janestreet.com/magic-trace/ - Magic-trace: Diagnosing tricky performance issues easily with Intel Processor Trace.

Versuchte Morde - 18-Jährige zogen „Spur der Todesangst“ durch Graz #News #Nachrichten

yes, a half-abandoned Mastodon branch with the revenue of a hot dog stand but the debt of a small country is definitely worth $6 billion

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Similarity between a many-body quantum avalanche model and the ultrametric random matrix model
In the field of ergodicity-breaking phases, it has been recognized that quantum avalanches can destabilize many-body localization at a wide range of disorder strengths. This has in particular been demonstrated by the numerical study of a toy model, sometimes simply called the "avalanche model" or the "quantum sun model" [Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 060602 (2022)], which consists of an ergodic seed coupled to a perfectly localized material. In this paper, we connect this toy model to a well-studied mo…

Fulmar's Folly 😱😢💀
Dramatized scifi series | Two years after civilisation has collapsed from a zombie-like pandemic, the Cooper family aboard the Fulmar's Folly fights extreme pressures to survive against hostile survivors, the infected, and the sea itself.
1 seasons, 9 episodes as of Mar 12, 2022.
https://www.

Fulmar's Folly 😱😢💀
Dramatized scifi series | Two years after civilisation has collapsed from a zombie-like pandemic, the Cooper family aboard the Fulmar's Folly fights extreme pressures to survive against hostile survivors, the infected, and the sea itself. 1 seasons, 9 episodes as of Mar 13, 2022.

Zoals jullie wel hebben gemerkt houdt het klimaat, de klimaatverandering, de klimaatcrisis me nogal bezig. En dat gaat niet alleen per website of per nieuwsbrief, maar er is ook een groot aantal echte boeken over, die ik gelezen, recht of diagonaal, of in doorgebladerde toestand in de kast heb staan. Die wil ik graag in deze maand van #Lees aan jullie opdringen 😂 Wees gerust, niet meer dan één per d…

General Staff: Russia has lost 436,750 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/24/general-staff-russia.html

A Comparison of Cryptocurrency Volatility-benchmarking New and Mature Asset Classes
Alessio Brini, Jimmie Lenz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04962 https://

A Comparison of Cryptocurrency Volatility-benchmarking New and Mature Asset Classes
The paper analyzes the cryptocurrency ecosystem at both the aggregate and individual levels to understand the factors that impact future volatility. The study uses high-frequency panel data from 2020 to 2022 to examine the relationship between several market volatility drivers, such as daily leverage, signed volatility and jumps. Several known autoregressive model specifications are estimated over different market regimes, and results are compared to equity data as a reference benchmark of a mo…

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…

2/ Weil es gerade passt. Vor einigen Monaten habe ich mal Aktivist*innen fotografiert, die gegen Ausbeutung entlang der Lieferketten protestiert haben. Ein Person hatte einen #Puma-Rucksack. Puma wird genau solche Ausbeutung vorgeworfen.
#NoLogo? Logo!
Man kann die Logos übermalen. Schwarzer permanent Marker oder eben Sachen ohne Logo kaufen.
Ich hatte ja mal hier gefragt, wo man logofreie Kleidung kaufen kann. Die Antwort war #Grundstoff. Hab's probiert und bin sehr zufrieden. (Sorry, jetzt gibt's hier doch noch Werbung, aber das ist das einzige Problem, das logo-freie Firmen haben: Niemand kann einfach herausfinden, wo es so tolle schwarze Pullover gibt.)
Hier mein Blog-Post zu Aktivismus, Gedankenlosigkeit und Logos. Puma ist ein schönes Beispiel, aber da gibt es noch mehr. Menschen vom BUND mit Jeep South Africa-Mütze usw. usf.
Auch ein paar lustige Positivbeispiele.
https://hot-climate-topics.net/2022/09/13/no-logo/

Je kunt het qua beleidskeuzes erg oneens zijn met het vorige kabinet maar financieel gezien hebben Wopke en Kaag het prima achtergelaten blijkt ook nu weer. Maar ik vrees dat de PVV daar geen dankbaarheid voor gaat uitspreken. 😀
https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/nieuws/2024/13/…

Overheidstekort 2023 uitgekomen op 0,3 procent bbp
De overheid gaf 3,5 miljard euro meer uit in 2023 dan zij ontving. Dit komt overeen met 0,3 procent van het bruto binnenlands product (bbp). Dit is iets hoger dan het tekort over 2022 van 0,1 procent van het bbp. De schuld kwam eind 2023 uit op 481 miljard euro, nagenoeg evenveel als eind 2022. Als percentage van het bbp daalde de schuld in 2023 tot 46,5 procent. Een jaar eerder bedroeg die nog 50,1 procent. Dit meldt het CBS op basis van de eerste, voorlopige cijfers over de overheidsfinancië…

Visual Studio 2022 17.9 is available!
#visualstudio
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-2022-17-9-now-available/

Officer Screamed ‘Stop Shooting Her’ While Police Killed Unarmed Teen After Car Chase https://www.404media.co/officer-screamed-stop-shooting-her-while-police-killed-unarmed-teen-after-car-chase/

A Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index Decomposition of CO$_2$ Emissions from Energy Use in Romania
Mariana Carmelia Balanica-Dragomir, Gabriel Murariu, Lucian Puiu Georgescu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04354

A Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index Decomposition of CO$_2$ Emissions from Energy Use in Romania
Carbon emissions have become a specific alarming indicators and intricate challenges that lead an extended argue about climate change. The growing trend in the utilization of fossil fuels for the economic progress and simultaneously reducing the carbon quantity has turn into a substantial and global challenge. The aim of this paper is to examine the driving factors of CO$_2$ emissions from energy sector in Romania during the period 2008-2022 emissions using the log mean Divisia index (LMDI) met…

"After union membership peaked in the 1950s at 1/3 of the US workforce.. overall income inequality was close to its lowest level since its peak before the Great Depression, and was continuing to fall. Over the subsequent decades, union membership steadily declined, while income #inequality began to steadily rise after a trough in the 1970s. In 2022, union membership plateaued at 10%, while…

Labor Unions and the U.S. Economy
By Laura Feiveson, Deputy Assistant Secretary for MicroeconomicsToday, the Treasury Department released a first-of-its-kind report on labor unions, highlighting the evidence that unions serve to strengthen the middle class and grow the economy at large. Over the last half century, middle-class households have experienced stagnating wages, rising income volatility, and reduced intergenerational mobility, even as the economy as a whole has prospered. Unions can improve the well-being of middle-c…

#Korallenriffen brauchen etwa 15 bis 20 Jahre, um sich von einer starken #Korallenbleiche zu erholen.
"For the fifth time in just the past eight summers (2016, 2017, 2020, 2022 and now 2024) huge swathes of the Great Barrier Reef are experiencing extreme heat stress that h…

Der Klimawandel für Einsteiger
"Der Klimawandel für Einsteiger" von Tino Eberl • BoD Buchshop • Besondere Autoren. Besonderes Sortiment.

“Russia has successfully relaunched its spy operations against the West after hundreds of its operatives were ejected following Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, according to analysts. They warn that the Kremlin is using a network of proxies to infiltrate European nations and carry out a range of intelligence operations.”

Ukrainischer Landwirtschaftsminister soll in U-Haft
Der ukrainische Landwirtschaftsminister Mykola Solskyj muss wegen Korruptionsvorwürfen in Untersuchungshaft. Laut Gerichtsbeschluss müsste der Politiker rund 1,9 Millionen Dollar an Kaution zahlen, um einer Inhaftierung zu entgehen.
Solskyj soll in der Zeit vor seinem Amtsantritt 2022 an illegalem Erwerb von staatlichem Grund im Wert von insgesamt rund sieben Millionen Doll…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Neue US-Militärhilfe für die Ukraine ++
Die USA haben ein neues milliardenschweres Militärhilfepaket für die Ukraine zugesagt. Wegen befürchteter russischer Angriffe lässt Kiew zwei Krankenhäuser evakuieren. Alle Entwicklungen vom Freitag zum Nachlesen.

Comment on "Do near-threshold molecular states mix with neighboring $\bar QQ$ states?"
George Rupp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19541 https://

Comment on "Do near-threshold molecular states mix with neighboring $\bar QQ$ states?"
I comment on a paper by Christoph Hanhart and Alexey Nefediev, published in Phys. Rev. D 106, 114003 (2022). The authors discuss the interpretation of mesons close to their lowest decay threshold and present a mechanism for the formation of molecular states. The proposed formalism is then applied to the axial-vector mesons $D_{s1}(2536)$ and $D_{s1}(2460)$, presenting two scenarios for the lighter meson, namely a $D^\star K$ molecule or a compact $c\bar{s}$ state. The authors argue that the lat…

Das Dilemma mit TikTok lässt sich ganz gut an Joe Biden aufzeigen: Der Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten darf die App nicht auf seinem Smartphone installieren. Er hat das entsprechende Gesetz 2022 selbst unterschrieben, ...
Derselbe Joe Biden hat nun seit Anfang Februar einen offiziellen TikTok-Account. Von welchem Endgerät er den betreiben lässt? Gute Frage!
Johanna Jürgens, #ZeitOnline

TikTok in den USA: TikTok weiß seine Nutzer zu mobilisieren
In Washington wächst das Unbehagen über TikTok. 180 Tage will die US-Regierung dem chinesischen Konzern ByteDance geben, um seine Plattform zu verkaufen – eigentlich.

In case you missed it.
How serious is Greater #Manchester about traffic reduction? | Steady State Manchester
https://steadystatemanchester.net/2024

How serious is Greater Manchester about traffic reduction?
How serious is Greater Manchester about traffic reduction? The streets of Greater Manchester are groaning under the weight of traffic. Between 2012 and 2022, the number of cars on the road increase…

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Potentialisations of a class of fully-nonlinear symmetry-integrable evolution equations
We consider here the class of fully-nonlinear symmetry-integrable third-order evolution equations in 1+1 dimensions that were proposed recently in the journal Open Communications in Nonlinear Mathematical Physics, vol. 2, 216--228 (2022). In particular, we report all zero-order and higher-order potentialisations for this class of equations using their integrating factors (or multipliers) up to order four. Chains of connecting evolution equations are also obtained by multi-potentialisations.

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Computing Longest Common Subsequence under Cartesian-Tree Matching Model
Two strings of the same length are said to Cartesian-tree match (CT-match) if their Cartesian-trees are isomorphic [Park et al., TCS 2020]. Cartesian-tree matching is a natural model that allows for capturing similarities of numerical sequences. Oizumi et al. [CPM 2022] showed that subsequence pattern matching under CT-matching model can be solved in polynomial time. This current article follows and extends this line of research: We present the first polynomial-time algorithm that finds the lon…

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This 2022 post from @… has come my way thrice (so far):
“Partially supported is not supported”
https://www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/partial…

Partially supported is not supported
Stop using the phrase 'partially supports' in accessibility.

Rätel um Starstürmer: - „Ich bin nicht mehr derselbe Benzema wie damals“ #News #Nachrichten

Coronagraphic observations of Si X 1430 nm acquired by DKIST/Cryo-NIRSP with methods for telluric absorption correction
T. A. Schad, A. Fehlmann, G. I. Dima, J. R. Kuhn, I. F. Scholl, D. Harrington, T. Rimmele, A. Tritschler, A. R. Paraschiv
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09632

Coronagraphic observations of Si X 1430 nm acquired by DKIST/Cryo-NIRSP with methods for telluric absorption correction
We report commissioning observations of the Si X 1430 nm solar coronal line observed coronagraphically with the Cryogenic Near-Infrared Spectropolarimeter (Cryo-NIRSP) at the National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST). These are the first known spatially resolved observations of this spectral line, which has strong potential as a coronal magnetic field diagnostic. The observations target a complex active region located on the solar northeast limb on 4 March 2022. We …

Russia intensifies attacks on Kharkiv, draining Ukraine's air defense and civilian morale: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/28/russia-intensifies-attacks.html

Lithuanian second hand marketplace Vinted reports 2023 revenue up 61% YoY to €596.3M and a €17.8M net profit, up from a €20.4M loss in 2022 (Zosia Wanat/Sifted)
https://sifted.eu/articles/vinted-startup-lithuania-profit-news/

Vinted reaches profitability and reports 61% revenue growth last year
The Vilnius-based company is backed by some of the world’s leading VC firms, including Accel, Lightspeed, EQT and Insight Partners.

Kagan: in 2023, radio industry revenue totaled $15.15B, down 1.5% from $15.39B in 2022, and there were $212.5M worth of radio deals, down 35.6% YoY from $329.9M (Inside Radio)
https://www.insideradio.com/free/kagan-rad

I still very clearly remember all the credulous vote blue people telling me 3 years ago how great Biden's climate plan was. Now, after the obvious bait-and-switch, US is producing more oil than any other country ever.
https://www.washingtonpost.c…

Analysis | The Civilian Climate Corps was dropped from the climate bill. Now what?
The federally funded initiative was hugely popular and aimed at hiring tens of thousands of young people to pursue climate-friendly projects.

The spate of recent interviews on NPR of Rushdie are just brilliant. He may be the sanest man on the planet. https://press.coop/@NPR/112286764729718179

NPR :press: (@NPR@press.coop)
Attached: 1 image Watch: Salman Rushdie on the moment he was attacked on stage, and why he felt lonely Salman Rushdie is a storyteller. So when you ask him to describe the day, in 2022, when he was attacked and nearly killed by a young man with a knife, Rushdie paints a vivid picture. #press https://www.npr.org/2024/04/17/1243745884/salman-rushdie-knife-attack-memoir?utm_medium=JSONFeed&utm_campaign=news&utm_source=press.coop

Multi-Center Fetal Brain Tissue Annotation (FeTA) Challenge 2022 Results
Kelly Payette, C\'eline Steger, Roxane Licandro, Priscille de Dumast, Hongwei Bran Li, Matthew Barkovich, Liu Li, Maik Dannecker, Chen Chen, Cheng Ouyang, Niccol\`o McConnell, Alina Miron, Yongmin Li, Alena Uus, Irina Grigorescu, Paula Ramirez Gilliland, Md Mahfuzur Rahman Siddiquee, Daguang Xu, Andriy Myronenko, Haoyu Wang, Ziyan Huang, Jin Ye, Mireia Aleny\`a, Valentin Comte, Oscar Camara, Jean-Baptiste Mass…

Multi-Center Fetal Brain Tissue Annotation (FeTA) Challenge 2022 Results
Segmentation is a critical step in analyzing the developing human fetal brain. There have been vast improvements in automatic segmentation methods in the past several years, and the Fetal Brain Tissue Annotation (FeTA) Challenge 2021 helped to establish an excellent standard of fetal brain segmentation. However, FeTA 2021 was a single center study, and the generalizability of algorithms across different imaging centers remains unsolved, limiting real-world clinical applicability. The multi-cent…

Ach ja, niet alleen de koeienboeren https://mastodon.nl/@henkdeligt/112087975713634191

Henk de Ligt (@henkdeligt@mastodon.nl)
Attached: 1 image In 2023 werden 6% minder broeikasgassen uitgestoten dan in 2022. Maar de landbouwsector stootte vorig jaar juist méér broeikasgassen uit, blijkt uit cijfers van het Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek. Het gaat om 2%, vooral veroorzaakt doordat tuinders hun kassen harder en vaker hebben opgestookt met hun warmtekrachtinstallaties, die draaien op aardgas. In de cijfers van het CBS valt verder op dat de bijdrage aan de economie (bbp) in de landbouwsector juist daalde. htt…

So, und jetzt Pssssst!, ich werde nun "Fischers Frau" [2022] von Karin #Kalisa in einem Zug durchlesen, weil es von eine*r angefordert wurde und ich es also heute bis um 19 Uhr zurückgeben werde, weil ich zu geizig für die Strafzahlungen und gleichzeitig zu geil auf lesende Druckbetankung bin!
#bookstodon

2022 retro-link! https://probablydance.com/2022/09/17/finding-the-second-bug-in-glibcs-condition-variable/ - Finding a second bug in glibc’s condition variable with TLA .

A Monte Carlo Simulation of the Broad Band X-ray Emission of the Accreting Millisecond X-ray pulsar MAXI J1816-195
Yuan You (Key Laboratory of Particle Astrophysics, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China), Shuang-Nan Zhang (Key Laboratory of Particle Astrophysics, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China), Zhaosheng Li (Key Laboratory of Stars and Interstellar Medium, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan University, …

A Monte Carlo Simulation of the Broad Band X-ray Emission of the Accreting Millisecond X-ray pulsar MAXI J1816-195
MAXI J1816-195 is an accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar (AMXP) discovered in 2022. According to the Insight-HXMT data, the pulsations of this source extend all the way to over 100 keV, and its pulse profiles change from a single peak in low-energy range to double peaks in high-energy range. In this work, we simulate its energy spectra and pulse profiles with a Compton scattering Monte Carlo program. The simulation results suggest that the low energy X-ray source on the neutron star surface shou…

Cybersecurity startup Zafran, which develops risk mitigation services, emerges from stealth with a $25M Series A co-led by Sequoia Capital and Cyberstarts (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjhhpaz10

After fleeing Iran and an illustrious career in Israeli intelligence, Sanaz Yashar raises $30M for cyber start
Zafran, founded in 2022 by Yashar (CEO), Ben Seri (CTO) and Snir Havdala (CPO), develops a risk and mitigation platform to pinpoint the ‘exploitable’ threats in the organization and to mitigate their risk by mobilizing existing security controls

He’s been moving slowly for quite a long while now …
From: @…
https://press.coop/@nytimes/112084583599139623

The New York Times :press: (@nytimes@press.coop)
Attached: 1 image Uvalde Police Chief Resigns After Robb Elementary School Shooting Investigation The news comes less than a week after an investigation by the city of Uvalde found that city police officers made mistakes during a 2022 mass shooting, but did not violate policy. #press https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/us/daniel-rodriguez-uvalde-police-resign.html?utm_source=press.coop

“Russia has successfully relaunched its spy operations against the West after hundreds of its operatives were ejected following Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, according to analysts. They warn that the Kremlin is using a network of proxies to infiltrate European nations and carry out a range of intelligence operations.”

Russia Steps Up Spy War on West
Analysts say Moscow is using proxies to infiltrate many European countries.

A US appeals court overturns Harvey Weinstein's 2020 conviction, finding the trial judge let women testify about allegations that were not part of the case (Michael Sisak/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/weinstein-metoo-appeal-ed2…

Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction from landmark #MeToo trial overturned
New York’s highest court has overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction and ordered a new trial. The Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the judge at the disgraced movie mogul’s landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced him with improper rulings, including by letting women testify about allegations that weren’t part of the case. The 72-year-old Weinstein is serving a 23-year sentence in New York. He’ll remain imprisoned because a 2022 conviction in a Los Angeles rape case resulted in …

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Measurement of vector boson production cross sections and their ratios using $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13.6$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
Fiducial and total $W^\pm$ and $Z$ boson cross sections, their ratios and the ratio of top-antitop-quark pair and $W$-boson fiducial cross sections are measured in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=13.6$ TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 29 fb$^{-1}$ of data collected in 2022 by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. The measured fiducial cross-section values for $W^+\to \ell^+ν$, $W^-\to \ell^-\barν$, and $Z\to \ell^+\ell^-$ ($\ell=e…

Bolt told investors that it had revenue of $19.4M for the nine months ending in October 2023, essentially flat YoY; Bolt's troubles grow with a Fanatics lawsuit (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/bolts-…

Bolt’s Fanatics Partnership Goes South, Adding to Growth Woes
Bolt, the checkout startup that rocketed to an $11 billion valuation during the pandemic e-commerce boom, is embroiled in another legal battle with a high-profile retail partner: sports apparel company Fanatics, which signed a deal in 2022 to offer Bolt’s speedy payment buttons across several of ...

Shifting the Lens: Detecting Malware in npm Ecosystem with Large Language Models
Nusrat Zahan, Philipp Burckhardt, Mikola Lysenko, Feross Aboukhadijeh, Laurie Williams
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12196

Shifting the Lens: Detecting Malware in npm Ecosystem with Large Language Models
The Gartner 2022 report predicts that 45% of organizations worldwide will encounter software supply chain attacks by 2025, highlighting the urgency to improve software supply chain security for community and national interests. Current malware detection techniques aid in the manual review process by filtering benign and malware packages, yet such techniques have high false-positive rates and limited automation support. Therefore, malware detection techniques could benefit from advanced, more au…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14908 has been replaced.
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More Excitement Across the Horizon
An Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detector falling radially into a four-dimensional Schwarzschild black hole, coupled linearly to a massless scalar field that has been prepared in the Hartle-Hawking or Unruh state, has recently been shown to exhibit a local extremum in its transition probability near the black hole horizon [K.K. Ng et al., New J. Phys. 24 (2022) 103018]. We show that a similar phenomenon is present in the transition rate of a UDW detector falling radially into a spinless Bañados-Teitelboi…

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
The Tudor period occurred between 1485 and 1603. The Reformation happened. Henry the 8th got married a few times. Let's play!

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19146 has been replaced.
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Computing Longest Common Subsequence under Cartesian-Tree Matching Model
Two strings of the same length are said to Cartesian-tree match (CT-match) if their Cartesian-trees are isomorphic [Park et al., TCS 2020]. Cartesian-tree matching is a natural model that allows for capturing similarities of numerical sequences. Oizumi et al. [CPM 2022] showed that subsequence pattern matching under CT-matching model can be solved in polynomial time. This current article follows and extends this line of research: We present the first polynomial-time algorithm that finds the lon…

2022 retro-link! https://blog.apnic.net/2022/07/22/why-the-nro-is-defending-afrinic/ - Why the NRO is defending AFRINIC.

Craft Messages That Matter Podcast
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Craft Messages That Matter | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Craft Messages That Matter Podcast Host: Theo Kapodistrias Category: Education Sub-Category: Self-Improvement & Advice First Episode: 2022 Craft Messages That Matter Podcast by Theo…

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

A US appeals court overturns Harvey Weinstein's 2020 conviction, finding the trial judge let women testify about allegations that were not part of the case (Michael Sisak/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/weinstein-metoo-appeal-ed2…

Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction from landmark #MeToo trial overturned
New York’s highest court has overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction and ordered a new trial. The Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the judge at the disgraced movie mogul’s landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced him with improper rulings, including by letting women testify about allegations that weren’t part of the case. The 72-year-old Weinstein is serving a 23-year sentence in New York. He’ll remain imprisoned because a 2022 conviction in a Los Angeles rape case resulted in …

"Sewage dumped into Scottish rivers 50 times a day, ‘disturbing’ figures reveal"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Scotland #Sewage

Sewage dumped into Scottish rivers 50 times a day, ‘disturbing’ figures reveal
Scottish Water released sewage into rivers, lochs and waterways more than 14,000 times in 2022 - but the real figure is more than 19,000

Hubble Space Telescope images of SN 1987A: Evolution of the ejecta and the equatorial ring from 2009 to 2022
Sophie Rosu, Josefin Larsson, Claes Fransson, Peter Challis, Tuomas Kangas, Robert P. Kirshner, Stephen S. Lawrence, Peter Lundqvist, Mikako Matsuura, Jesper Sollerman, George Sonneborn, Linda Tenhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/…

Hubble Space Telescope images of SN 1987A: Evolution of the ejecta and the equatorial ring from 2009 to 2022
Supernova (SN) 1987A offers a unique opportunity to study how a spatially resolved SN evolves into a young supernova remnant (SNR). We present and analyze Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging observations of SN 1987A obtained in 2022 and compare them with HST observations from 2009 to 2021. These observations allow us to follow the evolution of the equatorial ring (ER), the rapidly expanding ejecta, and emission from the center over a wide range in wavelength from 2000 to 11 000 AA. The ER has …

Dodging the electricity price hike: Can demand-side flexibility compensate for spot price increases for households in Germany?
Judith Stute, Sabine Pelka, Matthias K\"uhnbach, Marian Klobasa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06711

Dodging the electricity price hike: Can demand-side flexibility compensate for spot price increases for households in Germany?
In 2022, energy prices skyrocketed across Europe, with average day-ahead spot market prices in Germany 2.43 times higher than the previous year, hinting at future trends. At the same time, electricity infrastructure is expected to be overutilized in some regions in the future due to the uptake of electric vehicles, heat pumps, PV systems, and other appliances in the residential sector. Dynamic electricity pricing for households is proposed as a solution to alleviate infrastructure strain and re…

Reconstructed Electronic Structure in 2D vdW 1T-Ta$S_2$ for Quantum Sensing and Information Science
S. K. Behera, P. C. Ramamurthy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14932

Reconstructed Electronic Structure in 2D vdW 1T-Ta$S_2$ for Quantum Sensing and Information Science
Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are a class of two-dimensional (2D) layered materials that exhibit a diverse range of electronic structures, including charge density waves (CDWs) that can lead to insulating, semiconducting, metallic, and even superconducting phases. While the formation of CDWs in these systems has been recognized in early research [Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 156401 (2022); Nat. Phys. 11, 328 (2015)], the underlying mechanisms driving the commensurate CDW (CCDW) phase remain …

How the US is using wire fraud laws to prosecute crypto crimes, such as with SBF, while the debate over whether crypto tokens are securities plays out in court (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024…

Sam Bankman-Fried Sentencing: FTX Co-Founder SBF Faces Decades in Jail
In the waning days of 2022, a month after the collapse of FTX, federal prosecutors filed eight charges against Sam Bankman-Fried, the face of the bubble-like crypto industry. Four of them involved wire fraud.

Second gadolinium loading to Super-Kamiokande
K. Abe, C. Bronner, Y. Hayato, K. Hiraide, K. Hosokawa, K. Ieki, M. Ikeda, J. Kameda, Y. Kanemura, R. Kaneshima, Y. Kashiwagi, Y. Kataoka, S. Miki, S. Mine, M. Miura, S. Moriyama, Y. Nakano, M. Nakahata, S. Nakayama, Y. Noguchi, K. Sato, H. Sekiya, H. Shiba, K. Shimizu, M. Shiozawa, Y. Sonoda, Y. Suzuki, A. Takeda, Y. Takemoto, H. Tanaka, T. Yano, S. Han, T. Kajita, K. Okumura, T. Tashiro, T. Tomiya, X. Wang, S. Yoshida, P. Fernandez, L. La…

Second gadolinium loading to Super-Kamiokande
The first loading of gadolinium (Gd) into Super-Kamiokande in 2020 was successful, and the neutron capture efficiency on Gd reached 50\%. To further increase the Gd neutron capture efficiency to 75\%, 26.1 tons of $\rm Gd_2(\rm SO_4)_3\cdot \rm 8H_2O$ was additionally loaded into Super-Kamiokande (SK) from May 31 to July 4, 2022. As the amount of loaded $\rm Gd_2(\rm SO_4)_3\cdot \rm 8H_2O$ was doubled compared to the first loading, the capacity of the powder dissolving system was doubled. We a…

2022 retro-link! https://supabase.com/blog/postgresql-commitfest - What is PostgreSQL commitfest?

Neil Young is bringing back his music to Spotify, after the removal in January 2022, saying "Apple and Amazon have started serving the same disinformation" (Chris Eggertsen/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/business/streamin…

Neil Young Says His Music Is Returning to Spotify
Neil Young's music is returning to Spotify, says the singer-songwriter, who noted the end of the streamer's exclusive deal with Joe Rogan's podcast.

A New You Tomorrow - Limited series ⭐☄️❤️
Dramatized musical sci-fi comedy | Total listening time: 1h 29m
A college drop-out, troubled by bad dreams, seeks answers at his aunt’s space-rock store in the Mojave desert. Maybe the universe is trying to tell us something?
#AudioFiction #FictionPodcast

A New You Tomorrow - Limited series ⭐☄️❤️
Dramatized musical sci-fi comedy | Total listening time: 1h 29m A college drop-out, troubled by bad dreams, seeks answers at his aunt’s space-rock store in the Mojave desert. Maybe the universe is trying to tell us something? 1 seasons, 7 episodes as of Jan 01, 2022.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Think about what you know about a character. Their story, relationships, etc.
Let's play!
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Neil Young is bringing back his music to Spotify, after the removal in January 2022, saying "Apple and Amazon have started serving the same disinformation" (Chris Eggertsen/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/business/streamin…

Neil Young Says His Music Is Returning to Spotify
Neil Young's music is returning to Spotify, says the singer-songwriter, who noted the end of the streamer's exclusive deal with Joe Rogan's podcast.

Ein Forschungsinstitut setzt auf Pneumatit, um Beton zu beleben und so das Wohlbefinden in den Räumlichkeiten zu verbessern.
Biodynamischer Beton. Dort, wo unter anderem auch an biodynamischer Landwirtschaft geforscht wird.
Da kann man schon mal über den Grundsatz der ergebnisoffenen Forschung ins Grübeln geraten.
https://www.bioaktuell.ch/fileadmin/documents/ba/Zeitschrift/Archiv/2022/ba-d-2022-01-ar.pdf
(Seite 24)
Pneumatit "enthält" Nautilusschale, Gold, Schwefel etc., selbstverständlich potenziert (D7).
Disclaimer: Ich hab früher im FiBL gearbeitet.

Sources: Founders Fund bought $100M in bitcoin and $100M in ether from late summer to early fall 2023; it sold its crypto portfolio in 2022 for $1.8B in returns (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/peter-t

Spectro-polarimetric study to constrain accretion-ejection properties of MCG-5-23-16 using IXPE and NuSTAR observations
Santanu Mondal, Rwitika Chatterjee, Vivek K. Agrawal, Anuj Nandi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14169

Spectro-polarimetric study to constrain accretion-ejection properties of MCG-5-23-16 using IXPE and NuSTAR observations
We conducted a study on the X-ray polarization properties of MGC-5-23-16 by analyzing long-term monitoring data from {\it NuSTAR} jointly with {\it IXPE} observations in May and November 2022. The re-analysis of {\it IXPE} data gives model-dependent polarization degree, PD (\%) = $1.55\pm0.99$ and $1.31\pm0.95$ in the energy band $2-8$ keV, agrees with previous studies within error bars. The model-independent analysis of PD poses an upper limit of $\leq3.8$ ($1σ$ level) for the same energy ban…

US high school papers are ditching digital only strategies for print, which has a retro appeal and offers students a respite from digital content overload (Belle Cushing/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/the-echo-high-school-print-…

How print got cool again
In 2022, on the day they met, Zoe Otto and Orlena Fella decided they wanted to start a newspaper at their school, Manhattan’s High School for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering. They would call it The Echo, and they hoped it would build some community pride at their specialized STEM school—a place otherwise lacking that conventional […]

Sources: e-commerce roll-up firm Kite, which was cofounded by Blackstone in 2022 and closed a $200M equity commitment, shut down earlier in 2024 (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/blackstone-f…

Blackstone-Founded E-Commerce ‘Roll-Up’ Firm Shuts Down
How bad is the slowdown in e-commerce growth? Ask Blackstone, one of the world’s largest investment firms. Two years ago, a division of Blackstone that invests in consumer brands such as Supergoop and Spanx joined a second investor to commit $200 million to an e-commerce startup they had founded ...

Report: Miami Dolphins expected to sign Cowboys free agent Neville Gallimore https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/report_miami_dolphins_expected_to_sign_cowboys_free_agent_neville_gallimore/s1_17236…

Report: Miami Dolphins expected to sign Cowboys free agent Neville Gallimore
Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle Neville Gallimore is leaving the Lonestar State for the Sunshine State. According to NFL insider Ian Rapoport, Gallimore is expected to sign with the Miami Dolphins. The fourth-year defender is coming off of his rookie contract, which he signed in 2020 for four years, $4.68 million. This season for Dallas, Gallimore played all 17 regular season games, working in the defensive tackle rotation. He posted 16 tackles with one sack and 3.5 tackles for loss. The 2022 s…

Google quietly refreshes its Fitbit branding, changing from "Fitbit by Google" to "Google Fitbit", similar to Google Pixel and Google Nest (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2024/03/17/google-fitbit-rebrand/

‘Fitbit by Google’ is dead, long live ‘Google Fitbit’
In August of 2022, the "Fitbit by Google" branding emerged. That's now going away in favor of just "Google Fitbit."

Report: Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle Neville Gallimore to sign with Miami Dolphins https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/report_dallas_cowboys_defensive_tackle_neville_gallimore_to_sign_w…

Report: Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle Neville Gallimore to sign with Miami Dolphins
Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle Neville Gallimore is leaving the Lonestar State for the Sunshine State. According to NFL insider Ian Rapoport, Gallimore is expected to sign with the Miami Dolphins. The fourth-year defender is coming off of his rookie contract, which he signed in 2020 for four years, $4.68 million. This season for Dallas, Gallimore played all 17 regular season games working in the defensive tackle rotation. He posted 16 tackles with one sack and 3.5 tackles for loss. The 2022 se…

IAB and PwC report on US digital ad sales in 2023: total revenue grew 7.3% YoY to $225B, digital video grew 10.6% to $52.1B, and digital audio grew 18.9% to $7B (Hana Yoo/AdExchanger)
https://www.adexchanger.com/online-adverti<…

Digital Ad Revenue Growth Decelerates Again in 2023, Per IAB Ad Revenue Report
US digital ad revenue grew at a slower rate in 2023 compared to 2022, according to the IAB/PwC Internet Advertising Revenue Report.

TikTok signs a deal with ticketing provider AXS to let users buy tickets to live events in the US, UK, and more; TikTok has had a Ticketmaster deal since 2022 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/music/news/tiktok-axs-concer…

TikTok Teams With AXS to Let Certified Artists Sell Concert Tickets
TikTok inked a partnership with ticketing provider AXS to let users of the popular video app discover and buy tickets to live events.