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An unpublished draft of Changpeng Zhao's memoir, "Freedom of Money", details secret negotiations in 2023 that led to his imprisonment and a run-in with ICE (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/technology/cz-changpeng-zha…

In a Memoir Draft, Changpeng Zhao of Binance Details the Talks Leading to His Prison Time
In a draft of his memoir, Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, laid out the secret negotiations that led to his imprisonment and a run-in with ICE.

2023 in #AI4LAM terms feels a very long time ago! It's not easy to find the videos from Fantastic Futures 2023 so for findability... https://…

from my link log —
Ordered dithering with arbitrary or irregular colour palettes.
https://matejlou.blog/2023/12/06/ordered-dithering-for-arbitrary-or-irregular-palettes/
saved 2026-02-27

Ordered Dithering with Arbitrary or Irregular Colour Palettes
Introduction Hello. I have recently been spending a lot of time dithering. In image processing, dithering is the act of applying intentional perturbations or noise in order to compensate for the in…

LinkedIn job posting data: companies added 640K AI-related jobs from 2023 to 2025 in the US, including 225K "head of AI" jobs, up 49% from the prior four years (Te-Ping Chen/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/wanted-head-of

Tracking fifth-year options for 2023 first-rounder... https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48358999/fifth-year-option-tracker-nfl-players-2023-first-round-draft-class

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…

Tether says it has frozen $4.2B of its crypto token over links to "illicit activity", including $3.5B since 2023 and $61M linked to pig-butchering scams (Elizabeth Howcroft/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainabi…

The watercress dies down in winter but comes back in Spring. It's nearly ready. Here's how I grow it.
The solar watercress garden: how I made one | Uncommontater
https://uncommontater.net/2023/07/23/the-solar-watercress-garden-how-i-made-one/

The solar watercress garden: how I made one
Introduction The mini solar watercress garden 6 weeks after construction Watercress, Nasturtium officinale, is a well known salad plant, one of the tastiest. It is a perennial, that grows best in c…

Kumulativer Zubau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen minus Stilllegungen.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Wie Solarparks Biodiversität fördern können

Wir haben eben einen Kartoffelbrei aus Kartoffelbrei-Pulver gegessen, das 2023 abgelaufen war. Drückt uns die Daumen! :blobcatfearful:
(schmeckte aber normal)

RE: https://nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/chris-kraus-15-jahre-2023/
Der Film '15 Jahre' ist ein irrer Ritt zwischen Rache, Musiktalent und Castingshow. So etwas habt ihr nicht gesehen. Tolles Drehbuch, tolle Inszenierung, tolle Schaus…

SAG-AFTRA contract negotiations with Hollywood begin for actors; the 2023 post-strike deals are set to expire on May 1 for writers and June 30 for actors (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/business/media/hollywood-ac…

Hollywood Braces for New Round of Labor Talks
The last time writers and actors negotiated contracts, in 2023, dual strikes froze the industry.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Margaret Glaspy:
🎵 Act Natural (6 Music Session, 19 Sep 2023)
#MargaretGlaspy
https://margaretglaspy.bandcamp.com/track/act-natural
https://open.spotify.com/track/2IvHM9pA4qT5Uiu6bqRwGS

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared with those remaining on a chronological feed, whereas switching the feed setting in the opposite direction, from algorithmic to chronological, had no effect.

Amazon agreed to pay a $25 million civil penalty
as part of a settlement with the Justice Department and the FTC
to resolve allegations the ecommerce giant’s Alexa voice assistant
violated a U.S. children’s privacy law, the DOJ announced.
Under the terms of the settlement, Amazon also is required to change its practices relating to the alleged violations and inform consumers of its practices.
According to a complaint filed in May by the DOJ on behalf of the FTC,…

Amazon to Pay $25M Fine to Settle Allegations Alexa Violated COPPA
Amazon agreed to pay a $25 million fine to settle Justice Department and FTC allegations that Alexa violated a U.S. children's privacy law.

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1228115 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

📢 Bundestagspräsidentin Klöckner besucht Gazastreifen - erste deutsche Politikerin seit Hamas-Überfall
Bundestagspräsidentin Julia Klöckner hat als erste deutsche Politikerin seit dem Überfall der Hamas auf Israel am 7. Oktober 2023 den Gazastreifen besucht. Sie hielt sich laut Bundestag etwa eine Stunde in dem von israelischen Streitkräften kontrollierten Teil des Gazastreifens auf. Journalisten durften nicht mit in das Ge…
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Bundestagspräsidentin Klöckner besucht Gazastreifen
Als erste deutsche Politikerin seit dem Hamas-Überfall hat Bundestagspräsidentin Klöckner überraschend den Gazastreifen besucht. Vorausgegangen waren lange Verhandlungen. Die Sicherheitslage gilt als instabil.

Ajit Niranjan writes about the supposed decoupling in #Romania.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/11/is-romania-blueprint-economic-g…

Yet another #SuperbOwl. September 2023

Nochmal ein kurzer Reminder für heute um 14 Uhr: https://events.gwdg.de/event/1351/page/406-1822026-fair-netzen
In der zweiten Sitzung des @…

FAIR February 2026: Veranstaltungsreihe
Viertes FAIR February Meetup: 10 Jahre FAIR-Prinzipien – Let’s discuss FAIR Digital Editions In der Task Area Editions des NFDI-Konsortiums Text+ wird das Know-how digital und interdisziplinär arbeitender Wissenschaftler:innen gebündelt mit dem Ziel, die Forschungsdateninfrastruktur für digitale Editionen zu verbessern. In der 2023 begründeten Veranstaltungsreihe FAIR February beschäftigen wir uns jährlich fokussiert mit den FAIR-Prinzipien Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability…

Home Insulation Works: Barriers to Installation (2023) - Doing the right thing is hard, and insurers do not help! #insulation #netZero #futureReady -

Home Insulation Works: Barriers to Installation (2023)
Doing the right thing is hard, and insurers do not help! #insulation #netZero #futureReady

Before the #Superbowl Half-time show tonight, watch #BadBunny compete in a 'San Juan Street Fight' in #WWE against Damian Priest in 2023.

Débat de 2023 sur les victimes de sectes, de l’emprise Š la reconstruction. Quels sont les mécanismes Š l'oeuvre, comment identifier le discours sectaire, comment trouver de l'aide pour s'en sortir et se reconstruire ? https://chardonsbleus.org/debat-victim

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Cowboys Linebacker Delivers Powerful Response to Controversial Video https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-linebacker-delivers-powerful-response-to-controversial-video/

Flock of Pelicans flying over the beach. Moonstone Beach, Cambria, California, USA. May, 2023. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 12-40 F2.8. #moonstonebeach #pelican #birds

https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entdecken/psychologie-psychotherapie-beratung/psychotherapie-psychosoziale-beratung/allgem…

Predator spyware used to infect phone belonging to Angolan journalist, report says https://therecord.media/predator-spyware-used-to-infect-phone-angola-journalist

"life sciences infrastructure" (ie pharma labs) to be designated Key National Infrastructure in the Public Order Act 2023.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/112/made

A look at the dearth of media coverage of Sudan's civil war, started in 2023; report: 32 journalists have been killed and 90% of outlets damaged or destroyed (Isma'il Kushkush/Nieman Reports)
https://niemanreports.org/sudan-civil-war…

Sudan’s Civil War Is Silencing the Press - Nieman Reports
Sudan’s journalists risk their lives to tell the story of their homeland as the world turns away, writes Isma'il Kushkush.

Cold Case in Kärnten - Ungelöste Todesfälle: Die Mörder sind unter uns #News #Nachrichten

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

POSTDOCTORAL POSITION> University of Toronto, Department for the Study of Religion & The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies
https://ift.tt/0GzPZnT
Slave subjectivities in the Iberian Worlds (15th- 20th centuries) Date: October 31,…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Prune, Don't Rebuild: Efficiently Tuning $\alpha$-Reachable Graphs for Nearest Neighbor Search
Tian Zhang, Ashwin Padaki, Jiaming Liang, Zack Ives, Erik Waingarten
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08097 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.08097 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.08097
arXiv:2602.08097v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Vector similarity search is an essential primitive in modern AI and ML applications. Most vector databases adopt graph-based approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search algorithms, such as DiskANN (Subramanya et al., 2019), which have demonstrated state-of-the-art empirical performance. DiskANN's graph construction is governed by a reachability parameter $\alpha$, which gives a trade-off between construction time, query time, and accuracy. However, adaptively tuning this trade-off typically requires rebuilding the index for different $\alpha$ values, which is prohibitive at scale. In this work, we propose RP-Tuning, an efficient post-hoc routine, based on DiskANN's pruning step, to adjust the $\alpha$ parameter without reconstructing the full index. Within the $\alpha$-reachability framework of prior theoretical works (Indyk and Xu, 2023; Gollapudi et al., 2025), we prove that pruning an initially $\alpha$-reachable graph with RP-Tuning preserves worst-case reachability guarantees in general metrics and improved guarantees in Euclidean metrics. Empirically, we show that RP-Tuning accelerates DiskANN tuning on four public datasets by up to $43\times$ with negligible overhead.
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from my link log —
Interesting JavaScript bugs caught by no-constant-binary-expression in ESLint.
https://eslint.org/blog/2022/07/interesting-bugs-caught-by-no-constant-binary-expression/
saved 2023-11-09

Interesting bugs caught by no-constant-binary-expression - ESLint - Pluggable JavaScript Linter
A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

How Cash App founder Bob Lee's 2023 killing fed into a narrative pushed by tech leaders like Elon Musk about SF's decline until an acquaintance was convicted (Shawn Wen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

How Israel destroyed Gaza’s health system ‘deliberately and methodically’
"The devastation and lack of access to medical care have killed thousands of Palestinians, experts say.
"For example, there were 1,244 kidney patients in Gaza before the start of the war in October 2023. Now that number stands at 622, ..."
| Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

How Israel destroyed Gaza’s health system ‘deliberately and methodically’
Despite ‘ceasefire’, the health sector in Gaza continues to suffer from shortages, destruction and lack of equipment.

The Office producer Ben Silverman's Propagate Content raised $50M from Ares Management at a $200M valuation, up 33% from 2023, as part of a creator-economy push (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/mormon-w…

from my link log —
Bounded flexible arrays in C.
https://people.kernel.org/kees/bounded-flexible-arrays-in-c
saved 2023-01-24 https://

Bounded Flexible Arrays in C
How to modernize C arrays for greater memory safety: a case-study in refactoring the Linux kernel and a look to the future Kees Cook C i...

Shortly after the war in Gaza began in 2023,
Bellingcat introduced a free tool authored by University College London lecturer and Bellingcat contributor, Ollie Ballinger,
that was able to estimate the number of damaged buildings in a given area.
This helped monitor and map the scale of destruction across the territory as Israel’s military operation progressed. 
Bellingcat is now introducing an updated version of the open source tool
— called the Iran Conflict D…

Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 07.02.2026.
393 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…

POSTDOCTORAL POSITION> University of Toronto, Department for the Study of Religion & The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20140643/postdoct…

In opening statements in New Mexico's suit against Meta, state prosecutors argue Meta misrepresented the safety of its platforms, as Meta's attorney pushes back (Morgan Lee/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/meta-new-mexi…

Meta accused in New Mexico trial of failing to protect children online
Meta is on trial in New Mexico to answer allegations that its social media platforms enable predators to target children for sexual exploitation. The case is one of a series of lawsuits nationwide accusing social media companies of not doing enough to protect children online. New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez sued Meta in 2023 alleging its platforms enable predators to target children for sexual exploitation. Meta denies the allegation and accuses prosecutors of taking a “sensationalis…

Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeicher​n pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 07.02.2026.
393 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.

Warum sind die #Meerestemperaturen so wichtig für unser #Klima? 🌊🔥
Im März 2023 erreichten die globalen #Meeresoberflächentemperaturen Rekordwerte. Diese Entwic…

Rekord-Meerestemperaturen: Was die Erwärmung der Ozeane für die Welt bedeutet
Erkunde die dramatischen Auswirkungen der Ozeanerwärmung und wie sie den Planeten verändert. Erfahre mehr über die Rekord-Meerestemperaturen und ihre Folgen.

POSTDOCTORAL POSITION> University of Toronto, Department for the Study of Religion & The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies
https://ift.tt/NWaGujy
Slave subjectivities in the Iberian Worlds (15th- 20th centuries) Date: October 31,…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Former Mercor staffers describe "operational mishaps" at the $10B startup, including employee fraud, a security breach, and suspected North Korean infiltration (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbe…

Inside Messy, Fast-Growing Mercor, Run By Youngest-Ever Self-Made Billionaires
Founded in 2023 by 20-somethings, data labeling startup Mercor exploded to $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate in September. Now it's confronting a wave of challenges, including an employee stealing money, security blunders and cultural growing pains.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DebGrant
Isaac Hayes:
🎵 Theme From Shaft
#IsaacHayes
https://orenamram.bandcamp.com/track/isaac-hayes-theme-from-shaft-oren-amram-2023-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3126iwAXVfyNQDP5iW2OAr

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…