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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,040,950 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/19/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

128th Brigade Converted into Heavy Mechanized Brigade: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/19/th-brigade-converted-into-heavy.html

The good news from Alabama.
#Humanity #HumanRights #Juneteenth ht…

Europol and Eurojust disrupt pro-Russian hacktivist group NoName057(16), which claimed responsibility for 1,000 DDoS attacks since 2022, and arrest two people (Jordan Robertson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Veteran LB Von Miller, Washington Commanders finalizing 1-year deal: Reports https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6499101/2025/07/16/von-miller-washington-commanders-signing-reports/

“Sassy Outwater-Wright: Accessibility Champion and More, Dies at 42” by @…:
https://www.lflegal.com/2025/07/sassy-outwater/
The “and m…

Sassy Outwater-Wright: Accessibility Champion and More, Dies at 42
Sassy Outwater-Wright died on July 12, 2025 of cancer. She was the self-described Tumor Killer Girl in her fierce, honest, and often heart wrenching writing about the disease that ultimately took her life. As she said during a 2022 public radio interview “My superhero name is Tumor Killer Girl.

« Des soldats nous ont dit de nous déshabiller » : en Ethiopie, le silence sur les viols de masse commis pendant la guerre au Tigré
https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/202…

« Des soldats nous ont dit de nous déshabiller » : en Ethiopie, le silence sur les viols de masse commis pendant la guerre au Tigré
Entre 2020 et 2022, 120 000 femmes ont été victimes de viols dans cette région en proie à une rébellion. La réticence des autorités, aussi bien fédérales que régionales, à ouvrir les yeux sur ce fléau, entrave le processus de reconstruction des victimes.

Put the Q In Jazz
Real instruments. Real players.
#NoAI #jazz #NowPlaying

Put the Q In Jazz #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Search for the Higgs boson decay to a $Z$ boson and a photon in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV and $13.6$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
ATLAS Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12598

Search for the Higgs boson decay to a $Z$ boson and a photon in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV and $13.6$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
A search for the Higgs boson decay to a $Z$ boson and a photon in the $\ell\ellγ$ ($\ell = e, μ$) final state is performed using $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13.6$ TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider during 2022-2024, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 165 fb$^{-1}$. The signal yield, normalised to the Standard Model prediction, is measured to be $μ=0.9^{+0.7}_{-0.6}$, compared to an expected value of $μ=1.0\pm0.7$. This corresponds to an observed (ex…

Heute vor 60 Jahren: Am 16. Juli 1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Bye". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

Microwave Imaging Spectroscopy Diagnosis of the Slow-rise Precursor of a Major Solar Eruption
Yuankun Kou, Xin Cheng, Sijie Yu, Yingjie Luo, Bin Chen, Mingde Ding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11998

Microwave Imaging Spectroscopy Diagnosis of the Slow-rise Precursor of a Major Solar Eruption
In this Letter, taking advantage of microwave data from the Expanded Owens Valley Solar Array and extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) data from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly, we present the first microwave imaging spectroscopy diagnosis for the slow-rise precursor of a major coronal mass ejection (CME) on 2022 March 30. The EUV images reveal that the CME progenitor, appearing as a hot channel above the polarity inversion line, experiences a slow rise and heating before the eruption. The microwave emis…

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Sources: Zerohash, which provides crypto and stablecoin infrastructure, is raising ~$100M at a ~$1B valuation, up from $340M when it raised a Series D in 2022 (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/07/11/

Exclusive: Crypto and stablecoin infrastructure startup zerohash to raise $100 million at almost $1 billion valuation
The company is the latest beneficiary of venture capital’s booming interest in stablecoins.

I have already featured "Jason Scott" @… on my profile now as part of the efforts of archive.org to make their own instance.
archive.org gets the fediverse!
https://

This week's #GrindayFriday is this excellent corporate bullshit themed 2022 record 'Wage, Work' from Leipzig, Germany's HAEXLER. Big powerviolence vibes here, too. You know I love short songs- only three of these thirteen tracks are over a minute long. This is a SERIOUS ripper of a record.

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,036,290 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/15/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

@… 2. LLMs are prescriptivism incarnate. 2022 is forever established, there shall be no more evolution. They will always talk like people talked in 2022, value the same things as the average Reddit poster in 2022, generate the same boilerplate that was important in 2022.
If you don’t watch Stephen’s dispatches (or listen to them: there’s a podcast)…

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

The Potential Impact of Disruptive AI Innovations on U.S. Occupations
Munjung Kim, Marios Constantinides, Sanja \v{S}\'cepanovi\'c, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Daniele Quercia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11403

The Potential Impact of Disruptive AI Innovations on U.S. Occupations
The rapid rise of AI is poised to disrupt the labor market. However, AI is not a monolith; its impact depends on both the nature of the innovation and the jobs it affects. While computational approaches are emerging, there is no consensus on how to systematically measure an innovation's disruptive potential. Here, we calculate the disruption index of 3,237 U.S. AI patents (2015-2022) and link them to job tasks to distinguish between "consolidating" AI innovations that reinforce existing structu…

Die #Ukraine hat es geschafft, eine #Antonov AN-124 auszufliegen. Die stand seit 2022 in #Kyjiw und machte sich gestern auf die Reise nach #Leipzig

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/11/u-s-government-seized-1-million-from-russian-ransomware-gang/

US government seized $1M from Russian ransomware gang | TechCrunch
A global law enforcement coalition targeted the infrastructure of the group behind the Royal and BlackSuit ransomware strains, allegedly responsible for extorting victims out of $370 million since 2022.

Lawrow wirft Merz antirussische "Nazi-Parolen" vor
Moskaus Außenminister Sergej Lawrow hat Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz vorgeworfen, antirussische Losungen wie zu Nazi-Zeiten für eine Militarisierung Deutschlands zu nutzen. Es sei "völliger Unsinn", Russland als Gefahr zu bezeichnen, sagte Lawrow, dessen Land 2022 die Ukraine überfallen hatte, in der malaysischen Hauptstadt Kuala Lumpur. "Ich hoffe, dass jeder Politiker mit e…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Selenskyj: USA nehmen Militärhilfe wieder auf ++
Die USA haben nach Angaben von Präsident Selenskyj ihre Hilfslieferungen für die Ukraine wieder aufgenommen. Der US-Sondergesandte Kellogg beginnt am Montag einen einwöchigen Besuch in der Ukraine.

Medium CEO says the company has been profitable since August 2024 and details its financial turnaround after losing $2.6M per month in 2022 (Tony Stubblebine/The Coach Life)
https://medium.com/the-coach-life/fell-in-a-hole-got-out-381356ec8d7f

Fell in a hole, got out. - The Coach Life - Medium
I’m gonna write the wonky post of Medium’s turnaround. I’m not sure if a company is allowed to be this blunt about how bad things were. But it’s very much of the Medium ethos that if something…

Abuse in Buddhism: The Law of Silence https://openbuddhism.org/library/videos/2022/elodie-emery-wandrille-lanos-present-buddhism-the-unspeakable-truth/

Validation of Hermes-3 turbulence simulations against the TCV-X21 diverted L-mode reference case
B D Dudson, M Kryjak, H Muhammed, J Omotani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12180

Validation of Hermes-3 turbulence simulations against the TCV-X21 diverted L-mode reference case
Electrostatic flux-driven turbulence simulations with the Hermes-3 code are performed in TCV L-mode conditions in forward and reversed toroidal field configurations, and compared to the TCV-X21 reference dataset [D.S. Oliveira and T. Body et al. 2022] qualitatively and with a quantitative methodology. Using only the magnetic equilibrium, total power across the separatrix (120kW) and total particle flux to the targets (3e21/s) as inputs, the simulations produce time-averaged plasma profiles in g…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Young Thug:
🎵 On Fire
#YoungThug
https://keysonfirebeats.bandcamp.com/track/trap-beat-piano-2022-type-drake-x-young-thug-x-travis-scott
https://open.spotify.com/track/07YlTLGFG2LsTkqGFwY5jC

IXPE Observations of the Blazar Mrk 501 in 2022: A Multiwavelength View
L. Lisalda, E. Gau, H. Krawczynski, F. Tavecchio, I. Liodakis, A. Gokus, N. Rodriguez Cavero, M. Nowak, M. Negro, R. Middei, M. Perri, S. Puccetti, S. G. Jorstad, I. Agudo, A. P. Marscher, B. Ag\'is-Gonz\'alez, A. V. Berdyugin, M. I. Bernardos, D. Blinov, G. Bonnoli, G. A. Borman, I. G. Bourbah, C. Casadio, V. Casanova, A. J. Castro-Tirado, E. Fern\'andez-Garc\'ia, M. Garc\'ia-Comas, T. S. Grish…

IXPE Observations of the Blazar Mrk 501 in 2022: A Multiwavelength View
The blazar Markarian 501 (Mrk 501) was observed on three occasions over a 4-month period between 2022 March and 2022 July with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). In this paper, we report for the first time on the third IXPE observation, performed between 2022 July 9 and 12, during which IXPE detected a linear polarization degree of $Π_X=6\pm2$ per cent at a polarization angle, measured east of north, of $Ψ_X=143^\circ\pm11^\circ$ within the 2-8 keV X-ray band. The X-ray polarizati…

Outward and Inward – Sharing and Introspection #music https://muz4now.com/2022/outward-and-inward-sharing-and-introspection

Outward and Inward - Sharing and Introspection
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,031,620 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Mark your calendars for our upcoming events this Fall from the Love of Children program. You can read and register for these events at https://yaleyouthministryinstitute.org/upcoming-events/

Bears, GM Ryan Poles agree to contract extension through 2029: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6488952/2025/07/11/bears-ryan-poles-contract-extension/

Stat Counter: Windows 11 had a 50.9% share of the Windows market on July 4, ahead of Windows 10's 46.2%; the OS, released in 2021, only had a <10% share in 2022 (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.

Windows 11 is now the most popular desktop OS in the world — finally surpasses Windows 10 after 4 years
After four years on the market, Windows 11 has finally surpassed Windows 10 to become the most dominant desktop OS platform in the world.

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1026385 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

From Radar to Risk: Building a High-Resolution Hail Database for Austria And Estimating Risk Through the Integration of Distributional Neural Networks into the Metastatistical Framework
Gregor Ehrensperger, Vera Katharina Meyer, Marc-Andr\'e Falkensteiner, Tobias Hell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06429

From Radar to Risk: Building a High-Resolution Hail Database for Austria And Estimating Risk Through the Integration of Distributional Neural Networks into the Metastatistical Framework
This study makes significant contributions to the understanding of hail climatology in Austria. First, it introduces a comprehensive database of hailstone sizes, constructed from three-dimensional radar data spanning 2009 to 2022 and calibrated by approximately 5000 verified hail reports. The database serves as foundation for describing the short-term climatology of hail and provides the data necessary for estimating hail risk maps with enhanced spatial resolution and quality. Second, the…

Origin of insulating-like behavior of Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8 x}$ under pressure: A first-principles study
Xin Du, Jian-Feng Zhang, Zhong-Yi Lu, Kai Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07336

Origin of insulating-like behavior of Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+x}$ under pressure: A first-principles study
Recent experimental study on Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+x}$ superconductors has revealed an unexpected quantum phase transition from superconducting state to insulatinglike state under pressure [Zhou et al., Nat. Phys. 18, 406 (2022)]. To better understand the physical origin of this pressure-induced phenomenon, here we have studied the structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of undoped and O-doped Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+x}$ (Bi2212) under pressures based on density-functional theory …

„Are ”Friends” Electric?“ by Mikael
Platform: C64
Released: 4 May 2022
#GFX_Mikael #YR_2022 #PF_C64

Pastor comitted crypto fraud, blames god for telling him to do it!! #hipocracy #religion

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,033,930 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/13/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Bemerkenswerte schlechte Umfrageergebnisse für die Regierung.
Auch für Merz: 30% sind mit seiner Arbeit zufrieden, 59% sehen Merz kritisch (laut Insa). Mit dem damaligen Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz waren nach 100 Tagen im Amt im März 2022 43% der Befragten zufrieden, nur 41% unzufrieden.

Do you (sometimes) use print() or message() for debugging your code? Next time you can use {icecream} instead: #rstats

Ice Cream for R Programmers - Turtletopia: a blog about programming in R
Icecream is a tool which may serve as a more sophisticated replacement of using print while debugging.

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

Evaluation empirique de la s\'ecurisation et de l'alignement de ChatGPT et Gemini: analyse comparative des vuln\'erabilit\'es par exp\'erimentations de jailbreaks
Rafa\"el Nouailles (GdR)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10029

Evaluation empirique de la sécurisation et de l'alignement de ChatGPT et Gemini: analyse comparative des vulnérabilités par expérimentations de jailbreaks
Large Language models (LLMs) are transforming digital usage, particularly in text generation, image creation, information retrieval and code development. ChatGPT, launched by OpenAI in November 2022, quickly became a reference, prompting the emergence of competitors such as Google's Gemini. However, these technological advances raise new cybersecurity challenges, including prompt injection attacks, the circumvention of regulatory measures (jailbreaking), the spread of misinformation (hallucinat…

👾 These police officers in Denmark are tackling crime by playing online games with kids
https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/07/03/these-police-officers-in-denmark-are-tackling-crime-by-playing-online-games-with-kid…

Can playing video games help police combat online crimes?
The team was set up in 2022 to tackle the rise in online crime in Denmark. The Politiets Online Patrulje now boasts over 787,000 followers across platforms.

(Chinese) Review: Research progress of artificial vision https://rs.yiigle.com/cmaid/1543337 the paper contains 1 reference to sensory substitution for the blind

Dubai-based Huspy, which offers proptech tools to home buyers, agents, and brokers, raised a $59M Series B led by Balderton, after a $40M Series A in June 2022 (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/uae-proptech-huspy-r…

UAE proptech Huspy raises $59M to scale in Europe | TechCrunch
Huspy closes $59 million Series B to double down on operations across the Middle East and Europe, backed by Balderton Capital and Peak XV.

Preetz holt im #Fahrradklimatest #FKT24 nach einem Rückschritt in 2022 wieder auf und gehört nun zu den Aufholerstädten in Schleswig-Holstein.
Esther Wenderhold ist die Mobilitätsmanagerin in Preetz und stellt die Leistungen der Stadt vor.

NDR Info: Preetz macht Radfahrenden das Leben leichter - hier anschauen
Mit ihrem Mobilitätskonzept ist die Stadt im Fahrradklimatest auf Platz drei in Schleswig-Holstein gelandet.

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

The role of large language models in UI/UX design: A systematic literature review
Ammar Ahmed, Ali Shariq Imran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04469 https://…

The role of large language models in UI/UX design: A systematic literature review
This systematic literature review examines the role of large language models (LLMs) in UI/UX design, synthesizing findings from 38 peer-reviewed studies published between 2022 and 2025. We identify key LLMs in use, including GPT-4, Gemini, and PaLM, and map their integration across the design lifecycle, from ideation to evaluation. Common practices include prompt engineering, human-in-the-loop workflows, and multimodal input. While LLMs are reshaping design processes, challenges such as halluci…

Ndamukong Suh announces NFL retirement, honors late father in emotional farewell https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6489892/2025/07/12/ndamukong-suh-retirement-nfl-lions/

How Ukrainian teens are training for war: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/how-ukrainian-teens-are-training.html

Cowboys' former 2nd-round draft pick arrested, charged after crash kills motorcyclist https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/07/former-cowboys-cb-k…

Starting watching Barbarian, from 2022 (again) as it's leaving Netflix August 31. I just couldn't get it started before, thanks to my late night movie sessions where I often just pass out 😂 How many days will it take to get through this one, breaking it up into pieces - we shall see
https://boxd.it/aHmXKj…

A diary entry for Barbarian (2022)

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…

The State-of-the-Art in Lifelog Retrieval: A Review of Progress at the ACM Lifelog Search Challenge Workshop 2022-24
Allie Tran, Werner Bailer, Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen, Graham Healy, Steve Hodges, Bj\"orn {\TH}\'or J\'onsson, Luca Rossetto, Klaus Schoeffmann, Minh-Triet Tran, Lucia Vadicamo, Cathal Gurrin
https://arxiv…

The State-of-the-Art in Lifelog Retrieval: A Review of Progress at the ACM Lifelog Search Challenge Workshop 2022-24
The ACM Lifelog Search Challenge (LSC) is a venue that welcomes and compares systems that support the exploration of lifelog data, and in particular the retrieval of specific information, through an interactive competition format. This paper reviews the recent advances in interactive lifelog retrieval as demonstrated at the ACM LSC from 2022 to 2024. Through a detailed comparative analysis, we highlight key improvements across three main retrieval tasks: known-item search, question answering, a…

Optimizing Sparse SYK
Matthew Ding, Robbie King, Bobak T. Kiani, Eric R. Anschuetz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09037 https://arxiv.org…

Optimizing Sparse SYK
Finding the ground state of strongly-interacting fermionic systems is often the prerequisite for fully understanding both quantum chemistry and condensed matter systems. The Sachdev--Ye--Kitaev (SYK) model is a representative example of such a system; it is particularly interesting not only due to the existence of efficient quantum algorithms preparing approximations to the ground state such as Hastings--O'Donnell (STOC 2022), but also known no-go results for many classical ansatzes in preparin…

@… @… @… Language will still evolve, but the LLM will always be stuck in 2022, and if the world keeps u…

Spectroscopic Observations of Four Candidates for Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators. No BLAPs at High Galactic Latitudes
P. Pietrukowicz, M. Latour, F. Di Mille, M. Dorsch, U. Heber, J. Borowicz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08372

Spectroscopic Observations of Four Candidates for Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators. No BLAPs at High Galactic Latitudes
We have obtained spectroscopic observations for four short-period variable objects detected in ZTF, Gaia, and Pan-STARRS (ZGP) data and classified as Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators (BLAPs) in McWhirter and Lam (2022): ZGP-BLAP-03, ZGP-BLAP-04, ZGP-BLAP-10, and ZGP-BLAP-15. The variables have periods between 46 and 56 min, full amplitudes of 0.13-0.22 mag in the $r$ band, and light curve shapes typical for radially pulsating stars. Three of them were found at high galactic latitudes (|$b$&#…

Robotics company Tencore raises $3.7 million in one of the largest known investments in Ukraine defense tech: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/robotics-company-tencore-raises-million.html

Medium CEO says the company has been profitable since August 2024 and details its financial turnaround after losing $2.6M per month in 2022 (Tony Stubblebine/The Coach Life)
https://medium.com/the-coach-life/fell-in-a-hole-got-out-381356ec8d7f

Truthful, Credible, and Optimal Auctions for Matroids via Blockchains and Commitments
Aadityan Ganesh, Qianfan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04592 https…

Truthful, Credible, and Optimal Auctions for Matroids via Blockchains and Commitments
We consider a revenue-optimizing auctioneer in single-dimensional environments with matroid feasibility constraints. Akbarpour and Li (2020) argue that any revenue-optimal, truthful, and credible mechanism requires unbounded communication. Recent works (Ferreira and Weinberg, 2020; Essaidi et al., 2022; Chitra et al., 2024) circumvent their impossibility for the single-item setting through the use of cryptographic commitments and blockchains. We extend their results to matroid feasibility const…

Numerical search for states with constant enstrophy flux over finite time intervals in two-dimensional turbulence
Kyo Yoshida
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04853

Numerical search for states with constant enstrophy flux over finite time intervals in two-dimensional turbulence
An ensemble model of turbulence based on states with constant flux in wavenumber space was proposed in [K. Yoshida, Phys. Rev. E, 106, 045106 (2022)]. The justification of this ensemble model relies on the conjecture that almost all states with constant flux correspond to turbulence states. To verify this conjecture, a numerical search for states with constant enstrophy flux in wavenumber space over finite time intervals in two-dimension turbulence is conducted using a Monte Carlo method. Prope…

Enttäuscht vom Verband - ÖSV-Goldhamster startet künftig für Tschechien #News #Nachrichten

A natural and short proof of Lee's conjecture on the Frobenius norm
Teng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02684 https://arxiv.org…

A natural and short proof of Lee's conjecture on the Frobenius norm
In 2010, Eun-Young Lee conjectured that if $A,B$ are two $n\times n$ complex matrices and $\left|A\right|, \left|B\right|$ are the absolute values of $A, B$, respectively, then \[ \|A+B\|_F\le \sqrt{\dfrac{1+\sqrt{2}}{2}}\|\left|A\right|+\left|B\right|\|_F, \] where $\|\cdot\|_F$ is the Frobenius norm of matrices. This conjecture was initially proven by Lin and Zhang [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 516 (2022) 126542] by studying inequa…

I’m running CalyxOS on my old Fairphone4, not because it’s a bad choice, but precisely to observe how incredibly behind this OS is on security updates.
My primary device today is a Pixel 9a running GrapheneOS, not this outdated, insecure, and privacy-compromised Fairphone 4.
This Fairphone never became my daily driver once I realized just how far behind it is on security and privacy. I used it from October 2022 until I switched to my Pixel 6a running GrapheneOS in early May 2023,…

Selenskyj bestätigt Gefangenenaustausch
Der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj hat den Austausch von Kriegsgefangenen in seinem Telegram-Kanal bestätigt. Die meisten nun heimgekehrten Ukrainer seien bereits seit 2022 in Gefangenschaft gewesen, schrieb Selenskyj. Demnach handelte es sich um Soldaten, Angehörige der Nationalgarde, des Grenzschutzes und der Eisenbahntruppen, aber auch um Zivilis…
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Vassili Golod, ARD Kiew, mit Details zu den drastischen russischen Angriffen auf Kiew
Vassili Golod, ARD Kiew, mit Details zu den drastischen russischen Angriffen auf Kiew

Expressive Power of Graph Transformers via Logic
Veeti Ahvonen, Maurice Funk, Damian Heiman, Antti Kuusisto, Carsten Lutz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01067 https://

Expressive Power of Graph Transformers via Logic
Transformers are the basis of modern large language models, but relatively little is known about their precise expressive power on graphs. We study the expressive power of graph transformers (GTs) by Dwivedi and Bresson (2020) and GPS-networks by Rampásek et al. (2022), both under soft-attention and average hard-attention. Our study covers two scenarios: the theoretical setting with real numbers and the more practical case with floats. With reals, we show that in restriction to vertex properti…

Can Kenny Pickett win Browns' starting QB job and become the NFL's next Sam Darnold? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45697092/cleveland-browns-quarterback-competition-kenny-pickett

Soderle, und hier haben wir nun auch noch die kumulative Grafik mit der Anzahl der Balkonkraftwerke.
Hab noch den Endpunkt rangebastelt, damit man die Summe sieht.
Von der diese Woche vermeldeten Million sind wir zumindest offiziell noch etwas entfernt, wobei Sebastian ja von einer hohen Dunkelziffer ausgeht.
Wieso haben wir eigentlich eine Dunkelziffer? Faulheit? Ungenehmigt?
#Balkonkraftwerke

The Hidden Threat in Plain Text: Attacking RAG Data Loaders
Alberto Castagnaro, Umberto Salviati, Mauro Conti, Luca Pajola, Simeone Pizzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05093

The Hidden Threat in Plain Text: Attacking RAG Data Loaders
Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed human-machine interaction since ChatGPT's 2022 debut, with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) emerging as a key framework that enhances LLM outputs by integrating external knowledge. However, RAG's reliance on ingesting external documents introduces new vulnerabilities. This paper exposes a critical security gap at the data loading stage, where malicious actors can stealthily corrupt RAG pipelines by exploiting document ingestion. We propose a t…

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

Love's Shifting Nature
- #inspired by #grief -
#NowPlaying

Love's Shifting Nature #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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.

Bears extend Ryan Poles: Three things Chicago must do in 2025 to validate new deal

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bears-extend-ryan-poles-three-…

Influence of Three-Body Effects on Halogen Bonding
Sharon A. Ochieng, Konrad Patkowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17619 https://arxiv…

Influence of Three-Body Effects on Halogen Bonding
We construct a new noncovalent benchmark dataset 3BXB that combines halogen-bonded bimolecular complexes from the SH250 dataset [Kriz and Rezac, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2022, 24, 14794] with a third interacting partner, either H$_2$O or CH$_4$. The reference total and three-body interaction energies are computed at the CCSD(T) level. To shed light on the physical origins of binding and cooperativity in complexes of this kind, several symmetry-adapted perturbation theory (SAPT)-based energy deco…

Modeling the Multiwavelength Emission of 3C 279 during the 14 years of Fermi-LAT Era
Krishna Mohana A, Alok C. Gupta, Junhui Fan, Narek Sahakyan, Claudia M. Raiteri, Lang Cui, Anne Lahteenmaki, Mark Gurwell, Merja Tornikoski, Massimo Villata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03913

Modeling the Multiwavelength Emission of 3C 279 during the 14 years of Fermi-LAT Era
We report the results of our long-term multiwavelength spectral energy distribution (SED) study on the flat spectrum radio quasar 3C 279 during the $\sim14$ years (2008--2022) of {\sl Fermi}-LAT (Large Area Telescope) observing period. The {\sl Fermi}-LAT data were complemented with data in other wavebands obtained from {\sl Swift}-XRT/UVOT, Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT), along with other optical and radio data from several observatories. Different activity states were identified from the…

The Baltimore Banner, launched in 2022 as a nonprofit news outlet focused on Greater Baltimore and Maryland, gets a $200K grant from the Henry Luce Foundation (The Baltimore Banner)
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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,025,260 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/05/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Coherent electrically-charged quantum black holes
Tommaso Antonelli, Marco Sebastianutti, Andrea Giusti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02231 https://

Coherent electrically-charged quantum black holes
We improve upon the results presented in [R. Casadio, et al., Phys. Rev. D 105 (2022) 124026] deriving a quantum-corrected Reissner-Nordström geometry containing an integrable singularity at its center while being devoid of spurious oscillations around the classical configuration. We further investigate some relevant physical observables, related to geodesics and quasinormal modes of scalar perturbations, associated with this geometry to complement our theoretical analysis.

Disaster Informatics after the COVID-19 Pandemic: Bibliometric and Topic Analysis based on Large-scale Academic Literature
Ngan Tran, Haihua Chen, Ana Cleveland, Yuhan Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16820

Disaster Informatics after the COVID-19 Pandemic: Bibliometric and Topic Analysis based on Large-scale Academic Literature
This study presents a comprehensive bibliometric and topic analysis of the disaster informatics literature published between January 2020 to September 2022. Leveraging a large-scale corpus and advanced techniques such as pre-trained language models and generative AI, we identify the most active countries, institutions, authors, collaboration networks, emergent topics, patterns among the most significant topics, and shifts in research priorities spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings hig…

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1014651 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Digital Transformation and the Restructuring of Employment: Evidence from Chinese Listed Firms
Yubo Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23230 https://

Digital Transformation and the Restructuring of Employment: Evidence from Chinese Listed Firms
This paper examines how digital transformation reshapes employment structures within Chinese listed firms, focusing on occupational functions and task intensity. Drawing on recruitment data classified under ISCO-08 and the Chinese Standard Occupational Classification 2022, we categorize jobs into five functional groups: management, professional, technical, auxiliary, and manual. Using a task-based framework, we construct routine, abstract, and manual task intensity indices through keyword analy…

A Data-Driven Model Predictive Controller to manage epidemics: The case of SARS-CoV-2 in Mauritius
S. Z. Sayed Hassen, A. Aboudonia, J. Lygeros
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01996

A Data-Driven Model Predictive Controller to manage epidemics: The case of SARS-CoV-2 in Mauritius
This work investigates the benefits of implementing a systematic approach to social isolation policies during epidemics. We develop a mixed integer data-driven model predictive control (MPC) scheme based on an SIHRD model which is identified from available data. The case of the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus (also known as COVID-19) in Mauritius is used as a reference point with data obtained during the period December 2021 to May 2022. The isolation scheme is designed with the control decision…

A website developed for the UK Home Office's 2022 "flop" anti-encryption campaign has seemingly been hijacked to push a payday loan scheme.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/25/home_office_antiencryption_campaign_website/?m…

UK govt dept website that campaigns against encryption hijacked to advertise ... payday loans
: Company at center of findings blamed SEO on outsourcer

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,022,090 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

49ers QB Brock Purdy on losing Deebo Samuel: 'It sucks' https://www.nfl.com/news/49ers-qb-brock-purdy-on-losing-deebo-samuel-it-sucks

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,024,210 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/04/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

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Sources: e-commerce startup OpenStore, co-founded by Keith Rabois, is raising a $15M Series C at a valuation of just $50M, down from $970M in September 2022 (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…

E-Commerce Startup OpenStore Cuts Valuation By 95%, Taps New CEO
E-commerce startup OpenStore is slashing its valuation from nearly $1 billion to just $50 million in a new round of funding as it prepares to narrow its focus to building up menswear brand Jack Archer.

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,023,090 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/03/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Explanation of the seasonal variation of cosmic multiple muon events observed with the NOvA Near Detector
The NOvA Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04434 https://…

Explanation of the seasonal variation of cosmic multiple muon events observed with the NOvA Near Detector
The flux of cosmic ray muons at the Earth's surface exhibits seasonal variations due to changes in the temperature of the atmosphere affecting the production and decay of mesons in the upper atmosphere. Using data collected by the NOvA Near Detector during 2018--2022, we studied the seasonal pattern in the multiple-muon event rate. The data confirm an anticorrelation between the multiple-muon event rate and effective atmospheric temperature, consistent across all the years of data. Previous ana…

Putin, Macron hold first call since 2022, discuss wars in Ukraine, Middle East: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/putin-macron-hold-first-call.html

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

When the Wall Fell: Study of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in T Chamaeleontis using JWST
R. Arun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21639 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

When the Wall Fell: Study of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in T Chamaeleontis using JWST
We investigate the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) emission features of T Cha, a G8-type T Tauri star that has exhibited "seesaw"-type mid-infrared continuum variability over nearly two decades due to the destruction of the disk's inner wall, using JWST/MIRI and Spitzer observations. We report the first detection of weak PAH emission at 6.2, 7.7, and 8.6 microns in the Spitzer/IRS spectrum from 2005. The inner wall destruction in the 2022 JWST epoch allowed more ultraviolet photons to rea…

A London judge rules that HPE lost ~£730M after acquiring Mike Lynch's Autonomy, after a 2022 fraud finding against Lynch, who died in 2024; HPE was seeking $4B (Jonathan Browning/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

Analysis: US and UK entry-level graduate job listings have plunged since 2022, but there's only tentative evidence of AI-related disruption in some occupations (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/99b6acb7-a079-4f57-a7bd-8317c1fbb728

Charged-hadron identification at Belle II
Belle II Collaboration, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04355 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.…

Charged-hadron identification at Belle II
The Belle II experiment's ability to identify particles critically affects the sensitivity of its measurements. We describe Belle II's algorithms for identifying charged particles and evaluate their performance in separating pions, kaons, and protons using 426 fb$^{-1}$ of data collected at the energy-asymmetric $e^+e^-$ collider SuperKEKB in 2019--2022 at center-of-mass energies at and near the mass of the $Υ(4S)$.

Observation of Astrophysical Sources with SST-1M Telescopes -- First Results
Jakub Jury\v{s}ek (for the SST-1M Collaboration), Thomas Tavernier (for the SST-1M Collaboration), Vladim\'ir Novotn\'y (for the SST-1M Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17451

Observation of Astrophysical Sources with SST-1M Telescopes -- First Results
The Single-Mirror Small Size Cherenkov Telescope (SST-1M) was developed by a consortium of institutes in Switzerland, Poland, and the Czech Republic. The SST-1M design is based on the Davies-Cotton concept, featuring a 4-meter mirror and an innovative SiPM-based camera. It is most sensitive to gamma rays in the TeV and multi-TeV energy bands. Since 2022, two SST-1M prototypes have been commissioned at the Ondrejov Observatory in the Czech Republic, where their performance in both mono and stere…

$\mathcal{B}(B\rightarrow\tau\nu)$ measurement with the hadronic FEI at Belle~II
Giovanni Gaudino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03000 https://

$\mathcal{B}(B\rightarrowτν)$ measurement with the hadronic FEI at Belle~II
We presented at Moriond EW 2025 a measurement of the branching fraction of $B\toτν$ decays using $(387\pm 6) \times 10^6$ $Υ(4S)$ collected between 2019 and 2022 with the Belle~II detector at the SuperKEKB $e^+e^-$ collider. We reconstruct the accompanying $B^-$ meson using the hadronic tagging method, while $B\toτν$ candidates are identified in the recoil. We find evidence for $B\toτν$ decays at 3.0 standard deviations, including systematic uncertainties. The measured branching fraction…