In a proposed settlement, the US FTC says crypto bridge Nomad must repay victims of a 2022 cyberattack that led to $186M worth of funds being stolen (Connor Jones/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/17/nomad_ftc_settlement/
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 17 nodes and 146 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
Wer wie ich einmal ein Prime-Abo bei Amazon hatte und infolge einer Preiserhöhung per AGB-Änderung mehr zahlen muss, sollte sich vielleicht - sehr einfach - an der Sammelklage beteiligen. Außerdem gibt es ein Verfahren gegen Werbeeinblendungen, auch dazu bringt euch der Text der Verbraucherzentrale NRW weiter.
📸 Mémoire du 14 juin 2018
Sept ans ont passé depuis ce post.
Et pourtant, la justice n’a toujours pas terminé son travail.
En Belgique, le jugement définitif est tombé en 2022. Mais en 2025, certaines indemnisations sont encore bloquées. Des victimes attendent toujours que leur souffrance soit reconnue dans les faits, pas seulement dans les mots.
En France, l’affaire OKC/Spatz a été relancée en 2017, réouverte officiellement en 2021. Et aujourd’hui ? Toujours aucune mis…
Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 16.10.1964 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombomben "Barbel" und "Turnstone". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in
Home 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 -…
Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten ersetzt, Sonderregelungen nach Solarpaket berücksichtigt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Amortisation automatisch
I migrated to #Bandcamp in early 2022 before #Spotify started serving #ICE as “free content.”
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Last time in Sweden was midsommmar 2022, in Umeå. And it actually did not get dark. But also I wasn’t really sleepy during those days
This time, it's almost winter solstice and I'm way more north in Luleå. Sunrise at 9:37, sundown at 13:11 😲 We will see how that goes
#AnnerOstseeIssesImmerSchön
The Business of Care ... PART ONE PART TWO PART THREE PART FOUR PART FIVE -- EARLY MORNING, MAY 26, 2022 (ProPublica)
https://projects.propublica.org/albany-georgia-hospital/part-one
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p18#a251207p18
Wikimedia Foundation names Bernadette Meehan, who was the US Ambassador to Chile from 2022 to 2025, as its new CEO (Deborah Mary Sophia/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regula…
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag
Gives the tragedy of the Russian aggression of Ukraine its full depth. :-(
at_migrations: Austrian internal migrations (2002-2022)
A network of migrations between municipalities in Austria, from 2002 to 2022. A weighted directed link from source to target indicates a migration flow from these two municipalities. Edges are annotated with migration volume (number of people), nationality, sex, and year.
This network has 2115 nodes and 2908569 edges.
Tags: Social, Economic, Travel, Weighted, Politlcal, Timestamps, Metadata
Robust forecast aggregation via additional queries
Rafael Frongillo, Mary Monroe, Eric Neyman, Bo Waggoner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05271 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.05271 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.05271
arXiv:2512.05271v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study the problem of robust forecast aggregation: combining expert forecasts with provable accuracy guarantees compared to the best possible aggregation of the underlying information. Prior work shows strong impossibility results, e.g. that even under natural assumptions, no aggregation of the experts' individual forecasts can outperform simply following a random expert (Neyman and Roughgarden, 2022).
In this paper, we introduce a more general framework that allows the principal to elicit richer information from experts through structured queries. Our framework ensures that experts will truthfully report their underlying beliefs, and also enables us to define notions of complexity over the difficulty of asking these queries. Under a general model of independent but overlapping expert signals, we show that optimal aggregation is achievable in the worst case with each complexity measure bounded above by the number of agents $n$. We further establish tight tradeoffs between accuracy and query complexity: aggregation error decreases linearly with the number of queries, and vanishes when the "order of reasoning" and number of agents relevant to a query is $\omega(\sqrt{n})$. These results demonstrate that modest extensions to the space of expert queries dramatically strengthen the power of robust forecast aggregation. We therefore expect that our new query framework will open up a fruitful line of research in this area.
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Apparently #Spotify is #Fascist. Wow, big surprise from the app that’s allergic to paying artists. Always has been, comrade, and I migrated to #Bandcamp in early 2022 before they started servi…
1Password founders sold a $75M stake as part of a $100M secondary sale, valuing the company at $6.8B, the same valuation as its $620M Series C in January 2022 (Jeff Stone/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Just wrote two more ministers with the request to vote AGAINS #chatcontrol .
Imagine a world where antidemocratics gain power—and want to “cleanse” the country. What better tool than access to all private chats?
My grandma experienced denunciations during WW2. I don’t want to relive that. And backdoors can and WILL be exploited by enemies of the country.
And once it's …
Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
While crustaceans are common as #zooplankton, insects are very rare, but one group is found globally in freshwaters. Chaoborus (phantom midge or glassworm) spend the majority of their life as predaceous plankton, but are familiar to many when the adults emerge lake…
The Supreme Courtsaid on Friday that it will take up its latest gun rights case
and consider striking down a strict regulation on where people can carry firearms in Hawaii.
Trump’s administration had urged the justices to take the case.
The court will consider Hawaii’s law that bans guns on private property,
including businesses like stores and hotels,
unless the owner has specifically allowed them verbally or with a sign.
An interview with Ukrainian cyber-crime kingpin Vyacheslav Penchukov, aka Tank, who was arrested in 2022 after spending ~10 years on the FBI's Most Wanted list (Joe Tidy/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2w0pvg4wko
faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …
Sterben ist auch keine Lösung - #ARD #BR
#zaterdagavondfilm
From #HannahFry @fryrsquared@instagram.com
🥰Your feel good research of the day:
Gentle as a mother's touch: C-tactile touch promotes autonomic regulation in preterm infants by I Püschel, J Reichert, Y Friedrich, J Bergander, K Weidner, I Croy (2022).
#Ctactile
Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 2. Oktober 1964 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Auk". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in
Response to President Trump’s Unauthorized Use of “Danger Zone”
Late Saturday, Oct. 18, Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video on his Truth Social account that portrayed him dumping brown sludge on a crowd of protesters while wearing a crown and flying overhead in a jet labeled “King Trump.”
The music accompanying the video clip was Kenny Loggins’ hit recording “Danger Zone,” from the 1986 motion picture Top Gun (it was also used in the 2022 sequel Top Gun: Maverick).
Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage
The White House says China has agreed to effectively end rare earth export controls issued in 2025 and 2022, and will also close probes of US chip companies (Hadriana Lowenkron/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Ausgerechnet Ronnie Mocker, der Chef von Swissmint, versteigerte 2022 auf Ricardo unter dem Pseudonym «Ronnie_75» selbst eine Münze, die er für 800 Franken kaufte und wenige Tage später für 2500 Franken weiterverkaufte.
https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/goldvreneli-skandal-bund-verbietet-kauf-von-sondermuenzen-fuer-angestellte-427757241966
Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.09.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1131260 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
Meituan reports Q3 revenue up 2% to $13.4B and a $2.3B adjusted net loss, worse than $1.9B est., its first loss since 2022, amid a price war with JD and Alibaba (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
Debriefing: certains enseignants grêvistes doivent regretter de ne pas avoir voté pour Cesla Amarelle en 2022. #erreurstrategique
Amazon raises its forecast for capital expenditures to $125B in 2025, up from its earlier estimate of $118B, and says that number will likely increase in 2026 (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/30/amazon-amzn-q3-earnings-report-2025.html
OECD lists 1,300 AI regulations, guidelines, and other policies worldwide as of September 2025, up ~30% since 2022, but international cooperation has stalled (Naoki Watanabe/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn
WeTravel, whose travel payments software is used by group travel operators, raised a $92M Series C at a ~$450M valuation, up from ~$100M in 2022 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/09/24/wetravel-92m-series-c
PitchBook: Nvidia invested in 59 AI startups in 2025 so far, including 10 in the past two months, surpassing 55 investments in 2024 and 12 investments in 2022 (Emily Forgash/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-29…
Checkout.com announces an employee share buyback at a $12B valuation, up 30% from $9.35B two years ago yet below $40B in 2022, and says an IPO isn't a priority (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20