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Filings: Bengaluru-based fintech Cred, which offers rewards for paying credit card bills and more, raised ~$72M at a $3.5B valuation, down from $6.4B in 2022 (The Economic Times)
https://ec…

Cred raises fresh funds from GIC, others; valuation cut by 45% to $3.5 billion
The fintech major was valued at $6.4 billion in 2022 during its last major fund infusion. The current fund infusion is in the form of primary capital, which means that existing investors have not sold any shares in this round. The drop in valuation was in line with the company's plans to list in India over the next two years, people in the know said.

#linktipp
#Pakistan is home to one of the largest concentrations of sellers on Alibaba.com
https://restofworld…

У убийц, которые бросили на Сумы кассетную боеголовку, вряд ли есть какой-то план. Разве что самый дурацкий вроде того, что был в феврале 2022 года, когда колонна Росгвардии выдвинулась на Киев, взяв с собой дубинки, щиты и парадную форму, ожидая встречи с цветами. Убийцы заняты любимым делом, потому что могут и потому что им нравится.
При этом я думаю, что рассчет, сформулированный Путиным в Мурманске, на пике ожиданий от мирных переговоров, что надо "додавить" и "добить…

Liminal and Lucid - dreamstate interplay
#DreamState #LucidDreaming
https://muz4now.co…

Liminal and Lucid - dreamstate interplay
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Having to add an explicit dependency declaration to a #gradle build file, to ensure that an app isn't built with a GSON version that has vulnerabilities dating back to 2022, feels sooo wrong..... but hey, that's #AndroidDev!
(if you're wondering, a dependency of the project has a deep …

Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR) has gained access to sensitive data of Russia's strategic aircraft manufacturer Tupolev
Tupolev, a Soviet-era aerospace firm now fully integrated into Russia's defense-industrial complex, has been under international sanctions since 2022 for its role in Russia's war against Ukraine.
Its bombers have been widely used to launch long-range cruise missiles against Ukrainian cities and infrastructure.
According to the so…

'There is nothing secret left' — Ukraine hacks Russia's Tupolev aircraft manufacturer, source claims
HUR's cyber corps accessed over 4.4 gigabytes (GB) of internal data, including official correspondence, personnel files, home addresses, resumes, purchase records, and closed meeting minutes, a source claimed.

Add richer tooltips to ggiraph with kableExtra and friends: #dataviz …

Guru Puppy - I'm Learning From My Dog
#BeBetter
https://muz4now.com/2022/guru-puppy-im-learning-from-my-dog/

2022 waren wir mit der Schachtour in Schweinfurt im Wildpark an den Eichen und haben dort geholfen, ein Blitzturnier zu veranstalten. Neben Flyern, Luftballons etc. war auch hier natürlich zur Freude aller Kinder wieder Chessy am Start. Und auch unsere "Morphs" waren mit dabei, sodass man gegen anonyme Gegner Schach spielen konnte.
Falls ihr aus dem Osten kommt und Lust habt, dass wir diesen Sommer zu euch kommen, meldet euch gerne hier an:

The US DOJ seized ~145 domains and crypto linked to BidenCash, a dark web market that made $17M in revenue since 2022 by selling stolen credit cards and more (Ionut Ilascu/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Rapid stellar and binary population synthesis with COMPAS: methods paper II
Ilya Mandel, Jeff Riley, Adam Boesky, Adam Brcek, Ryosuke Hirai, Veome Kapil, Mike Y. M. Lau, JD Merritt, Nicol\'as Rodr\'iguez-Segovia, Isobel Romero-Shaw, Yuzhe Song, Simon Stevenson, Avi Vajpeyi, L. A. C. van Son, Alejandro Vigna-G\'omez, Reinhold Willcox
https…

Rapid stellar and binary population synthesis with COMPAS: methods paper II
The COMPAS public rapid binary population synthesis code has undergone a number of key improvements since the original COMPAS methods paper (Team COMPAS: Riley et al., 2022) was published. These include more sophisticated and robust treatments of binary interactions: mass transfer physics, common-envelope events, tides and gravitational-wave radiation reaction; and updated prescriptions for stellar evolution, winds and supernovae. The code structure and outputs have also been updated, with a fo…

2020: The #Corona Crash
2022: The #Putin Crash
2025: The #Trump Crash
One does not belong with the other two, can you see which one?

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03074 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_sta…

GL-LowPopArt: A Nearly Instance-Wise Minimax Estimator for Generalized Low-Rank Trace Regression
We present `GL-LowPopArt`, a novel Catoni-style estimator for generalized low-rank trace regression. Building on `LowPopArt` (Jang et al., 2024), it employs a two-stage approach: nuclear norm regularization followed by matrix Catoni estimation. We establish state-of-the-art estimation error bounds, surpassing existing guarantees (Fan et al., 2019; Kang et al., 2022), and reveal a novel experimental design objective, $\mathrm{GL}(π)$. The key technical challenge is controlling bias from the non…

BidenCash darknet forum taken down by US, Dutch law enforcement https://therecord.media/bidencash-cybercrime-darknet-market-takedown-us-netherlands

Multi-wavelength analysis of FSRQ B2 1348 30B: Constraints on the jet power
Sajad Ahanger, Sunder Sahayanathan, Sitha K. Jagan, Shah Zahir, Naseer Iqbal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02821

Multi-wavelength analysis of FSRQ B2 1348+30B: Constraints on the jet power
We present 14.5-year multi-wavelength analysis of flat-spectrum radio quasar B2 1348+30B using Swift-UVOT, Swift-XRT, and Fermi-LAT observations. In the gamma-ray band, the 3 day bin lightcurve reveals two major flaring events on 2010-09-19 (55458 MJD) and 2022-05-26 (59725 MJD) detected at flux levels $(2.5\pm 0.5) \times 10^{-7}\,\rm{ph\,cm^{-2}\,s^{-1}}$ and $(5.2\pm 0.6) \times 10^{-7}\,\rm{ph\,cm^{-2}\,s^{-1}}$. The Bayesian block analysis of the flares suggested the variability timescale …

Effortless adjustments with an adaptive paste #visualstudio :visualstudio:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/effortless-adjust…

I hope Fosstodon continues.
See 2 recent posts on the matter
https://fosstodon.org/@kev/114415390874451358
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Thoughts on Fosstodon
I'm moving to hachyderm.io. Here's the background... When I left Twitter for Mastodon in late 2022, I chose fosstodon.org as my home. I appreciated the open source focus and it seemed like a well-run instance that would be around for a while. I also signed up as a monthly patron, to support the admin team and help keep the instance sustainable. In recent days, there has been a minor furor across the fediverse related to one of the moderators at…

2020: The #Corona Crash
2022: The #Putin Crash
2025: The #Trump Crash
One does not belong with the other two, can you see which one?

Steam Deck popularity(video bookmarks):
5:19 118k Mar 2022
5:25 185k Oct 2022
5:47 101k! Oct 2024
5:51 74k Mar 2025
"Most Popular Gaming Consoles: Data from 1985 to 2025"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4aJdU01hH8
I don't like DumbTube but the v…

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