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Using #ApacheKafka with #ngrok by @…

Lobbying by the Big Borrow Checker is real:
https://www.regulations.gov/comment/ONCD-2023-0002-0045

Cruise Ship Sexual Assaults Reach New High in 2023, FBI Stats Show - The Messenger
https://themessenger.com/news/cruise-ship-sexual-assaults-record-high-2023-fbi-stats

Cruise Ship Sexual Assaults Reach New High in 2023, FBI Stats Show
Statistics compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation show that the number of reported sexual assaults on cruises has reached a new high in 2023.

Hackers may have accessed Inquirer subscriber and employee personal data in 2023 cyberattack
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/philly-inquirer-cyberattack-personal-data-20240426.html

The Crime Collective's Podcast
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

The Crime Collective | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: The Crime Collective’s Podcast Host: Ben, Claire, and Butch Category: Society & Culture Sub-Category: True Crime & Investigations First Episode: 2023 Let us start by saying welcome to the…

Hm, der Tab mit der Liste "Bad Oeynhausen und Umgebung" zeigt mir in den letzten 24 Stunden 2 Beiträge an und dann eine Lücke bis zum 03.08.2023 😮
In der Zwischenzeit haben die Menschen auf der Liste definitiv was gepostet. Das ist einfach verschwunden. Cache gelöscht, neu angemeldet. Sieht putzig aus.
CC @…

Higher wages are coming for California’s fast-food workers Monday.
With California’s mandatory minimum wage for fast-food workers set to jump to $20 an hour on Monday, major restaurant chains are scrutinizing every aspect of their businesses to find ways to offset the extra money they will soon be spending on labor.

Higher wages are coming for California's fast-food workers
The law, hammered out with the help of Gov. Gavin Newsom, increases wages for workers and allows business and unions to avoid a costly ballot fight over wages.

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #VernonKay
Dolly Parton:
🎵 9 to 5
#DollyParton
https://open.spotify.com/track/7ob0221dnx0OOGVSzNZgXO
https://orenamram.bandcamp.com/track/dolly-parton-9-to-5-oren-amram-2023-remix

“When Bangladesh’s Minimum Wage Board met in November 2023 to decide wages for garment workers, trade unions called for a monthly Living Wage of 23,000 taka (approx £172), given that the previous wage of 8,000 taka (£60) was a poverty wage that made fruit a luxury item. Protests erupted when the Board announced a new wage of just 12,500 taka (£90). The state cracked down on the protests—killing four workers and arresting thousands more including trade union organisers.”

Wages Not Warrants
Protest photos, remembering Rana Plaza and resisting the crackdown in Bangladesh.

Ukrainian POWs faced conditional release from Hungary: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/28/ukrainian-pows-faced.html

Sequencer live auf der Bühne zusammen mit Gitarre und Schlagzeug. Ich find's ziemlich cool: #klangphonics

Klangphonics - Fairground Festival 2023 - Programm in voller Länge | ARTE Concert
Ben Kopfnagel, Maxl Walmsley-Pledl und Markus Zunic aus Regensburg bilden das Trio Klangphonics. Das Ergebnis ihrer Musik sei ein sehr natürlicher, organischer Klang, der gleichzeitig die Energie behält, die man mit Deep House und melodischem Techno verbindet, schreiben sie auf ihrer Homepage. Aufzeichnung vom 1. Dezember 2023 beim Fairground-Festival in Hannover.

Roku reports Q1 revenue up 19% YoY to $882M, vs. $848.62M est., a net loss of $50.9M, compared to $193.6M YoY, and 81.6M active accounts, up 1.6M from Q4 2023 (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/streaming/news/roku-q1-2024-earnings-re…

Roku Q1 2024 Earnings: Reaches 81.6 Million Active Accounts
Roku reported its first-quarter 2024 earnings Thursday, revealing the company reached 81.6 million active accounts

„Zum Stichtag 29. September 2023 haben laut Bundesregierung bundesweit insgesamt 776 offene, das heißt noch nicht vollstreckte Haftbefehle gegen 597 Personen vorgelegen, die dem politisch rechten Spektrum zuzurechnen sind.“
ABeR DiE LInKeN!! DiE AnTiFA!
@… :
Offene Haftbefehle gegen Personen des rechten Spektrums

I didn't realize so many Quick Build projects were failing this badly to reduce injury crashes. On some of these streets I *feel* safer since the changes, but the numbers don't lie. These are failures and SF must reevaluate its whole approach. Concrete > flex posts
https://missionlocal.org/2024/03/sf-vi

Vision Zero lacks a vision, experts say
As San Francisco hit the 10-year anniversary of its 2014 “Vision Zero” plan to eliminate all traffic fatalities, the effort has failed: Nearly as many

AA/WARC report: UK ad spend grew 6.1% YoY to £36.6B in 2023, with search advertising up 11.9% to £14.7B and national newsbrands spending down 6.3% to £774M (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/g

Google takes lion's share of growing UK ad market as publishers lose out
New data reveals the UK ad market had a bumper year in 2023, but news publishers had a poor one with declining ad spend.

Amazing, beautiful, deep & varied 4 hour(!) mix by Barcelona's ABSIS (aka DJ MouseDown/MouseUp) from early 2023, featuring the likes of Donato Dozzy (in various guises), Luigi Tozzi, Toki Fuko, Simone Bauer, Aspetuck, Forest on Stasys...
https://soundcloud.com/crescent-london…

Bericht: Ukraine zieht "Abrams"-Panzer von der Front ab
Wie die Nachrichtenagentur AP berichtet, will das ukrainische Militär aus den USA erhaltene "Abrams"-Panzer vorerst nicht mehr direkt an der Front einsetzen. Das liege unter anderem daran, dass der russische Drohnenkrieg es den Kampfpanzern zu schwer mache, sich unentdeckt fortzubewegen, zitierte die Agentur zwei US-Militärvertreter. Die USA hatten im Januar 2023 eingewi…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Russland übergibt tote Soldaten an Ukraine ++
Die Ukraine hat von Russland die Körper von 140 getöteten Soldaten zurückerhalten. Russlands Verteidigungsminister Schoigu beteuert, dass Moskau keine Absichten habe, NATO-Gebiet anzugreifen. Alle Entwicklungen im Liveblog.

The Crime Collective's Podcast
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

The Crime Collective | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: The Crime Collective’s Podcast Host: Ben, Claire, and Butch Category: Society & Culture Sub-Category: True Crime & Investigations First Episode: 2023 Let us start by saying welcome to the…

OpenAI in the Context of Steward-Ownership — Blog Post 1 on the “OpenAI Saga” | by Purpose | Medium
https://medium.com/@purpose_network/openai-in-the-context-of-steward-ownership-blog-post-1-on-the-openai-sa…

OpenAI in the Context of Steward-Ownership — Blog Post 1 on the “OpenAI Saga”
This blogpost is part one of our two-part series on OpenAI, its ownership structure and the events around Sam Altman’s ousting in November 2023. You can read our introductory thoughts, and learn more…

Ukrainian POWs faced conditional release from Hungary: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/28/ukrainian-pows-faced.html

Relazione 2023 dell’ACN: Il resoconto di un anno dell’Agenzia per la Cybersicurezza Nazionale
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-da9a792f-480f540b478feace
Relazione 2023 dell’ACN: Il resoconto di un anno dell’Agenzia per la Cybersicurezza Nazion…

I didn't realize so many Quick Build projects were failing this badly to reduce injury crashes. On some of these streets I *feel* safer since the changes, but the numbers don't lie. These are failures and SF must reevaluate its whole approach. Concrete > flex posts
https://missionlocal.org/2024/03/sf-vi

Vision Zero lacks a vision, experts say
As San Francisco hit the 10-year anniversary of its 2014 “Vision Zero” plan to eliminate all traffic fatalities, the effort has failed: Nearly as many

Here's their press release from this morning:
Alt text here instead of in images due to length:
NEWS RELEASE Embargoed until April 24, 7:00am PST
Divest From Death USA
Media Contact: Media Liaisons, USC Divest From Death Coalition USCSolidarityOccupation@protonmail.com
USC Divest From Death Coalition to Begin Gaza Solidarity Occupation in University of
Southern California Campus
LOS ANGELES. (April 24, 2023) — USC Divest From Death Coalition today announced theit occupation of USC's Alumni Park, where the increasingly controversial 2024 Commencement is currently set to take place. The students taking part in the Gaza Solidarity Occupation are planning to occupy USC until their demands are met. The coalition joins other students groups across the country in the National Students for Justice in Palestine's "Popular University for Gaza," a coordinated mass movement of students, faculty and staff that disrupts universities, creating climates that push universities to answer community and international calls for full divestment from the Zionist entity, and all of the industries that sustain it.
1. End War Profiteering and Investment in Genocide. USC must fully disclose and divest its finances and endowment from companies and institutions that profit from Israeli apartheid, genocide, and occupation in Palestine, including the US Military and weapons manufacturing. USC must comumit to accountability through full transparency of their financial investments.
2. Complete Academic Boycott of Israel. USC must end its study abroad programs at Hebrew University's Rothenberg International School and Reichman University and sever all academic ties and research cooperation with Israeli universities.
3. Protect free speech on campus and provide full amnesty to all students, staff, and faculty disciplined, penalized, or fired for their pro-Palestine ackivism. USC must abide by their self- proclaimed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion values and implement material policies protecting the safety of its marginalized students.
4. Stop the Displacement, from South Central to Palestine. No land grabs, whether in South Central, Tongva territory, or Palestine. Cease expansion, provide reparations, and support housing for low-income South Central residents. No development by USC without genuine community control.
5. No Policing on Campus. End the targeted repression and harassment of Black, Brown, and Palestinian students and their allies on and off campus, including through university disciplinary processes. Defund the Department of Public Safety and disclose and sever all ties with the LAPD.
6. End the Silence on the Genocide in Palestine. Release a public statement calling for an immediate, permanent ceasefire in Gaza, denouncing the ongoing genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people, and call on government officials o do so too.
"I'm participating in the Gaza Solidarity Occupation at USC to highlight and amplify the anti- zionist Jewish voice at USC and be in solidarity with the Palestinian fight for liberation," says a student organizer from USC's chapter of Jewish Voices for Palestine (JVP). "JVP USC feels our voice is especially important right now as many people at USC and across the country are equating zionism and Judaism, but we are here to say they are not the same! We stand by our belief of free speech, resistance to oppressive systems and solidarity with our valedictorian Asna and all other college campuses where pro-Palestine voices have been silenced."
The USC Divest From Death Coalition establishes the occupation mo st fundamentally in solidarity with the people of Palestine as they resist genocide and continue in their struggle for liberation. The occupation is also in resistance to attempts by USC and other universities to suppress the student movement for Palestine on its campuses, in resistance to the silencing of students that criticize the state of Israel, in resistance to the university administrators and boards of trustees who profit off the genocide of Palestinians; The students taking part are firm in their commitment to speaking out against the university's complicity in the genocide of the Palestinian people.
"USC's funding of the ongoing genocide perpetuated by the zionist entity is reflective of maintaining imperialist interests abroad, as well as solidifying the shared ideology of amerikan and zionist institutions in preserving racialized oppression," says a student organizer of the Gaza Solidarity Occupation. "To not stand in opposition to the expressly racist violence here and abroad is to ignore the calls for solidarity demanded by the majority of the world. USC acts in accordance with these oppressions, and to call against this is to recognize both the inhumanity of these systems and our own humanity in opposing them."
We have chosen to use the word "occupation” instead of "encampment" to draw attention to USC as an occupying force on unceded Gabrieleno/Tongva land, an occupying force in South Central through its expansion into, gentrification of, and destruction of the existing community, and as a complicit power in Israeli occupation of Palestine.
About USC Divest From Death
In joining the national "Cut Ties with Genocide: Divest from Death" campaign, USC Divest From Death pushes our institutions to divest from companies complicit in the genocide of Palestinians, in all its iterations, alongside thousands of campuses. The coalition's push for the advancement of the key demand points on campus is the first steps towards the liberation of all people by ending the complicity of the University of Southern California in the violence enacted on our communities. Through the intentional act of coalition building, the students of USC realize that we are part of an interconnected fight for freedom taking place on campus, in our communities and homelands. We envision campuses free from militarism, occupation, and war through the implementation of divestment at USC
About Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)
The student movement for the liberation of Palestine first began in the 1950s through the formation of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS). From the U.S. to Palestine, GUPS chapters galvanized thousands of students towards a liberated Palestine. The 90s” wave of corrupt politicians and faulty deals changed the liberation movement as we knew it and many institutions, including the student movement, collapsed. In the absence of a Palestinian student movement, organizations such as Students for Justice in Palestine emerged across occupied Turtle Island (U.S. and Canada) as a way to educate, advocate, and mobilize in support for Palestinian liberation. Nearly two decades after the formation of the first Students for Justice in Palestine, the movement for Palestine has taken colleges and universities across North America by storm. With over 200 campus Palestine solidarity organizations across the continent, students have been leaders in uplifting demands for freedom, Justice, and equality for the Palestinian people.

Some interesting bits in this report from the German government's hydrogen agency (which includes the centre for charging infrastructure...). They have regular 'clean room' discussions with manufacturers about their roadmap, projections etc.
The element highlighted by the German Ministry of Transport is that carmakers expect to reach the target of 15 million EVs by 2030 (although it's only 13.4 BEVs and 3.2 PHEVs).
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16,6 Millionen Elektro-Pkw bis zum Jahr 2030 - NOW GmbH
NOW veröffentlicht Factsheet zu Marktentwicklung aus Herstellerperspektive

Byzantine Attacks Exploiting Penalties in Ethereum PoS
Ulysse Pavloff, Yackolley Amoussou-Genou, Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16363 h…

Byzantine Attacks Exploiting Penalties in Ethereum PoS
In May 2023, the Ethereum blockchain experienced its first inactivity leak, a mechanism designed to reinstate chain finalization amid persistent network disruptions. This mechanism aims to reduce the voting power of validators who are unreachable within the network, reallocating this power to active validators. This paper investigates the implications of the inactivity leak on safety within the Ethereum blockchain. Our theoretical analysis reveals scenarios where actions by Byzantine validators…

AA/WARC report: UK ad spend grew 6.1% YoY to £36.6B in 2023, with search advertising up 11.9% to £14.7B and national newsbrands spending down 6.3% to £774M (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/g

Google takes lion's share of growing UK ad market as publishers lose out
New data reveals the UK ad market had a bumper year in 2023, but news publishers had a poor one with declining ad spend.

For fans of Australia's policy of using Nauru to park or dump refugees they might like to read this https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-28/nauru-files-whistleblower-speaks-for-first-time-detention/103014888
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Nauru Files whistleblower speaks for first time about Australia's offshore detention leak
Simone' was the worker behind 'The Nauru Files' — the largest leak inside Australia's system of offshore detention. She's never spoken out to reveal why she did what she did — until now.

Amazing, beautiful, deep & varied 4 hour(!) mix by Barcelona's ABSIS (aka DJ MouseDown/MouseUp) from early 2023, featuring the likes of Donato Dozzy (in various guises), Luigi Tozzi, Toki Fuko, Simone Bauer, Aspetuck, Forest on Stasys...
https://soundcloud.com/crescent-london…

Raiders keeping an eye on this 2023 Heisman finalist before NFL Draft https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_keeping_an_eye_on_this_2023_heisman_finalist_before_nfl_draft/s1_13132_40276057

Raiders keeping an eye on this 2023 Heisman finalist before NFL Draft
Whether they trade up or not, expect the Las Vegas Raiders to take a quarterback at some point in the NFL Draft.  ESPN's Dan Graziano reported that the Raiders would love to move up from No. 13 into the top four and select LSU QB Jayden Daniels.  However, many believe the 2023 Heisman winner will be a top-three pick, so the Raiders may target Washington's Michael Penix Jr. instead. "The Raiders are also thought to be high on Penix," wrote Graziano. "And if the quarterback market starts drying…

With apologies to The Angels…
No way, get f*****, f**k off.
https://aus.social/@ajsadauskas/112324992539325968

https://aras-p.info/blog/2023/09/13/Making-Gaussian-Splats-smaller/ - Making Gaussian Splats smaller.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.01669 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@a…

On electromagnetic turbulence and transport in STEP
In this work, we present first-of-their-kind nonlinear local gyrokinetic simulations of electromagnetic turbulence at mid-radius in the burning plasma phase of the conceptual high-$β$, reactor-scale, tight-aspect-ratio tokamak STEP (Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production). A prior linear analysis in D. Kennedy et al. 2023 Nucl. Fusion 63 126061 reveals the presence of unstable hybrid kinetic ballooning modes, where inclusion of the compressional magnetic field fluctuation, $δB_{\parallel}$, …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08770 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDL_…

A proof-of-concept online metadata catalogue service of Earth observation datasets for human health research in exposomics
This article describes research carried out during 2023 under an International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)-funded project to develop and disseminate a metadata catalogue of Earth observation data sources/products and types that are relevant to human health research in exposomics, as a free service to interested researchers worldwide. The proof-of-concept catalogue was informed by input from existing research literature on the subject (desk research), as well as online …

Deep Hard X-ray Survey of the M81 Field Based on INTEGRAL Data
R. Krivonos, I. Mereminskiy, S. Sazonov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16691 https://

Deep Hard X-ray Survey of the M81 Field Based on INTEGRAL Data
We have carried out a deep survey of the M81 field in the 25-60 keV energy band based on long-term (2003-2023) INTEGRAL observations. A record sensitivity of 0.16 mCrab at a detection significance of 4 sigma has been achieved in the central part of the field owing to the long accumulated exposure (19.2 Ms). The total area of the survey is 1004 deg^2 at a sensitivity level better than 0.72 mCrab. We have produced a catalog of sources detected at a significance level higher than 4 sigma. It conta…

Cowboys 10 Draft Commandments for 2024 after they screwed them up in 2023 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/lists/cowboys-10-draft-commandments-2024/

Cowboys 10 Draft Commandments for 2024 after they screwed them up in 2023
The Cowboys ignored the best commandments and adhered to the worst in 2023, and the result was a rookie class that did almost nothing. Will they fix it this draft weekend? | From @KDDrummondNFL

An interview with Apple Arcade's Senior Director Alex Rofman: the service hit record highs on all "critical metrics" in 2023, and will feature Vision Pro games (Keith Stuart/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/apr

I learned a lot about how LLMs work by reading this post:
https://explainextended.com/2023/12/31/happy-new-year-15/
(I plan to reread it as well :)

Happy New Year: GPT in 500 lines of SQL - EXPLAIN EXTENDED
A complete GPT2 implementation as a single SQL query in PostgreSQL.

always a link to Russia lurking in the background #TraitorTrump #MoscowMarjorie #UsPoli

„Vielleicht ist es auch für Open Source wieder einmal an der Zeit, den Veränderungen und den neuen Bedrohungen ins Auge zu sehen und die Lizenzen und die Definitionen der neuen Zeit anzupassen, so wie dies mit der GPLv3 und der AGPL schon einmal geschehen ist. […] Einen Grund, die BSL oder SSPL abzulehnen, gibt es nicht, ausgenommen Fundamentalismus für freie Software.“

Eine Revolution frißt ihre Kinder

Comcast reports Q1 Peacock revenue rose 54% YoY to $1.1B, a $639M loss, down from $704M in Q1 2023, and paying subscribers up 55% YoY to 34M (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Peacock Quarterly Loss Narrows to $639M as Streamer Hits 34M Subscribers
NBCUniversal parent Comcast, led by chairman and CEO Brian Roberts, reported its first-quarter earnings.

Mainzer Langzeitstudie zum #Medienvertrauen für das Jahr 2023: Damit vertrauen 44 Prozent der Deutschen den Medien eher oder voll und ganz, 31 Prozent nur teilweise. Bei jedem vierten Bürger ist die Glaubwürdigkeit der Medien jedoch tendenziell verloren gegangen.
Trotzdem zeigten die Ergebnisse deutlich, "dass die meisten Menschen in dem sehr vielfältigen Medienangebot in Deuts…

Kolumne: Das Altpapier am 18. April 2024 – Was die Medien-Bubble so bewegt
In Leipzig finden gerade die Medientage Mitteldeutschland statt, wozu nicht nur gern gesehene Gäste der Medienelite eingeladen sind. Außerdem gibt es neue Zahlen zum Medienvertrauen in Deutschland.

Structure-Preserving Oscillation-Eliminating Discontinuous Galerkin Schemes for Ideal MHD Equations: Locally Divergence-Free and Positivity-Preserving
Mengqing Liu, Kailiang Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16794

Structure-Preserving Oscillation-Eliminating Discontinuous Galerkin Schemes for Ideal MHD Equations: Locally Divergence-Free and Positivity-Preserving
This paper develops structure-preserving, oscillation-eliminating discontinuous Galerkin (OEDG) schemes for ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), as a sequel to our recent work [Peng, Sun, and Wu, OEDG: Oscillation-eliminating discontinuous Galerkin method for hyperbolic conservation laws, 2023]. The schemes are based on a locally divergence-free (LDF) oscillation-eliminating (OE) procedure to suppress spurious oscillations while maintaining many of the good properties of original DG schemes, such …

Witness the Glory of the 2024 European Tree of the Year – Growing in Poland for 2,000 Years https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/witness-the-glory-of-the-2024-european-tree-of-the-year-from-poland/

Witness the Glory of the 2024 European Tree of the Year – Growing in Poland for 2,000 Years
Thought to be 2,000 years old, The Heart of the Garden is the third Polish tree in a row to win, following up a pair oaks in 2023 and 2022.

The Israeli war on Gaza has killed a lot more civilians, and really a lot more children, than the Russian war on Ukraine: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/21/more-than-10000-civilians-killed-in-ukraine-since-russi…

More than 10,000 civilians killed in Ukraine since Russia invasion, UN says
UN: Half the fatalities in past three months due to Russia’s use of long-range missiles, abandoned ordinance blasts.

Adrian Tchaikovsky Will No Longer Cite His 2023 Hugo
https://file770.com/adrian-tchaikovsky-will-no-longer-cite-his-2023-hugo/
<< kudos, I didn't expect that.

Really nice analysis, everybody interested in #cybersecurity and #microsoft should read it,
https://www.

A Meta-Review of the Summer 2023 Microsoft Exchange Online Intrusion
Microsoft breach breakdown and CSRB report analysis. Microsoft was breached and here's the analysis.

Next Gen Stats: How defensive pressure defined the 2023 NFL season https://www.nfl.com/news/next-gen-stats-how-defensive-pressure-defined-the-2023-nfl-season

Next Gen Stats: How defensive pressure defined the 2023 NFL season
What was the one aspect of football that most defined the 2023 NFL season? Pressure. Next Gen Stats analytics expert John Andersen takes an in-depth look at the multitude of ways defenses harassed QBs.

Comcast reports Q1 Peacock revenue rose 54% YoY to $1.1B, a $639M loss, down from $704M in Q1 2023, and paying subscribers up 55% YoY to 34M (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Peacock Quarterly Loss Narrows to $639M as Streamer Hits 34M Subscribers
NBCUniversal parent Comcast, led by chairman and CEO Brian Roberts, reported its first-quarter earnings.

Analysis: 10 Chinese entities acquired advanced Nvidia chips embedded in Supermicro, Dell, and Gigabyte products between November 20, 2023 and February 28, 2024 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-

The kids are obviously a problem: Trump Ally Says Key to Republicans Winning Elections Is to Stop College Kids From Voting
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/04/clea-mitchell-donald-trump-restrict-college-voting

Trump Ally Says Key to Republicans Winning Elections Is to Stop College Kids From Voting
Obviously coming up with policies that are, y’know, popular with college kids, is out of the question.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08770 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDL_…

A proof-of-concept online metadata catalogue service of Earth observation datasets for human health research in exposomics
This article describes research carried out during 2023 under an International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)-funded project to develop and disseminate a metadata catalogue of Earth observation data sources/products and types that are relevant to human health research in exposomics, as a free service to interested researchers worldwide. The proof-of-concept catalogue was informed by input from existing research literature on the subject (desk research), as well as online …

The TARP program, created by Congress in 2008 to address the financial crisis, finally ended in September of 2023. Today, CBO released its final report on the program.
"By CBO’s estimate, $444 billion of the $700 billion initially authorized was disbursed through the TARP... [after repayments, etc.] the government’s total subsidy cost was $31 billion."

Final Report on the Troubled Asset Relief Program
NotesNotes All years referred to are federal fiscal years, which run from October 1 to September 30 and are designated by the calendar year in which they end. Numbers in the text and table may not add up to totals because of rounding.

Beim KIM-Workshop weist @… darauf hin, dass sich in Deutschland in den letzten Jahren die Nutzung von #SKOS im Bildungsbereich zunehmend verbreitet und intensiviert hat. Eine maßgeblichen Impuls haben dabei das Allgemeine Metadatenprofil für Bildungsressource…

Expertenrat: Verkehrssektor hat Klimaziel 2023 deutlich gerissen
Der unabhängige Expertenrat für Klimafragen hat erneut eine deutliche Verfehlung der Klimavorgaben im Verkehrsbereich festgestellt. Statt den erlaubten 133 Millionen Tonnen CO2-Äquivalenten stieß dieser Sektor demnach im vergangenen Jahr 146 Millionen Tonnen Treibhausgase aus.

Expertenrat: Verkehrssektor hat Klimaziel 2023 deutlich gerissen
Der unabhängige Expertenrat für Klimafragen hat erneut eine deutliche Verfehlung der Klimavorgaben im Verkehrsbereich festgestellt. Statt den erlaubten 133 Millionen Tonnen CO2-Äquivalenten stieß dieser Sektor demnach im vergangenen Jahr 146 Millionen Tonnen Treibhausgase aus.

Roku reports Q1 revenue up 19% YoY to $882M, vs. $848.62M est., a net loss of $50.9M, compared to $193.6M YoY, and 81.6M active accounts, up 1.6M from Q4 2023 (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/streaming/news/roku-q1-2024-earnings-re…

Roku Q1 2024 Earnings: Reaches 81.6 Million Active Accounts
Roku reported its first-quarter 2024 earnings Thursday, revealing the company reached 81.6 million active accounts

D981, 736 - issued in 2023 for a design for "a fabric with pattern." #DesignPatents

River Trent at Beeston Weir, December 2023.
#photography #ukphotographer #beeston #beestonnottingham

Zentrale in Holland - „Sprengmeister“ sind die neue Bankomat-Mafia #News #Nachrichten

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14971 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXi…

Noether invariance theory for the equilibrium force structure of soft matter
We give details and derivations for the Noether invariance theory that characterizes the spatial equilibrium structure of inhomogeneous classical many-body systems, as recently proposed and investigated for bulk systems [F. Sammüller $\textit{et al.}$, Phys. Rev. Lett. $\textbf{130}$, 268203 (2023)]. Thereby an intrinsic thermal symmetry against a local shifting transformation on phase space is exploited on the basis of the Noether theorem for invariant variations. We consider the consequences…

In this workshop by Stanimira Vlaeva at #bbuzz 2023, learn how to easily build search functionality across data collections and 3rd party APIs into applications by combining Apache Lucene, MongoDB and GraphQL.
https://www.…

@… the data suggests not much. I was surprised to see that the 70K twitter account sitting dormant since June 2023 too

Heute vor einem Jahr: Am 25. März 2023 kündigte Putin an, dass #Russland taktische #Kernwaffen in #Belarus stationieren werde. Bereits am 21.02.2023 suspendierte Putin die Teilnahme Russlands am New…

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 Columbine survivor’s tragic battle to reveal the ‘ripple effect’ of gun violence
Since this piece was first published, there have been more than a dozen additional school shootings across the US.
The estimated number of US students exposed to violence at their schools has grown to 370,000, with more than 400 school shootings since Columbine

Roku reports Q1 revenue up 19% YoY to $882M, vs. $848.62M est., a net loss of $50.9M, compared to $193.6M YoY, and 81.6M active accounts, up 1.6M from Q4 2023 (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/streaming/news/roku-q1-2024-earnings-re…

Roku Q1 2024 Earnings: Reaches 81.6 Million Active Accounts
Roku reported its first-quarter 2024 earnings Thursday, revealing the company reached 81.6 million active accounts

"Open in VSC" with Shortcuts on macOS: https://dotproto.com/2023/10/09/im-not-sure.html

"Our results suggest that between 6.5% and 16.9% of text submitted as peer reviews to these conferences could have been substantially modified by #LLM"
"We find a significant shift in
the frequency of certain tokens in ICLR 2024, with adjectives such as “commendable”, “meticulous”, and “intricate” showing 9.8, 34.7, and 11.2-fold increases in probability of occurring in a sentence.…

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2023/09/hacking-book8088-for-better-accuracy.html - Hacking the Book8088 for better accuracy.

2 weeks into FA: Are the Cowboys doing a stealth rebuild? https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/2_weeks_into_fa_are_the_cowboys_doing_a_stealth_rebuild/s1_17100_40154512

2 weeks into FA: Are the Cowboys doing a stealth rebuild?
We're now two weeks into the 2024 free agency season and the scoreboard for Dallas looks frighteningly like the halftime score of the Cowboys' last game of 2023. Cowboys Free Agents Resigned DB Jourdan Lewis RB Rico Dowdle LS Trent Sieg DB C.J. Goodwin Free Agents Signed From Other Teams LB Eric Kendricks (Chargers) Players Released LB Leighton Vander Esch WR Michael Gallup Free Agents Signed With Other Teams DT Johnathan Hankins (Seahawks) OT Tyron Smith (Jets) DB Noah Igbinoghene (Commanders)…

In der Altersgruppe der 65- bis 74-Jährigen sind 15 % offline, darüber noch mehr.
Je mehr Dinge nur noch online oder sogar nur per Smartphone geregelt werden können, desto mehr werden sie ausgeschlossen.
Deswegen sollte es immer eine nicht-digitale Option geben.
Gut 5 % der Bevölkerung im Alter von 16 bis 74 Jahren in Deutschland sind offline - Statistisches Bundesamt

Sources: in 2023, Abu Dhabi's G42 and the US Commerce Department held talks that led to G42 agreeing to pare back its China presence to avoid punitive measures (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

G42 Made Secret Pact With US to Divest From China Before Microsoft (MSFT) Deal
Microsoft Corp.’s just-announced partnership with Abu Dhabi’s G42 followed behind-the-scenes negotiations between the US government and the Middle Eastern firm, which agreed to divest from China and pivot to American technology.

Cosmic Batter
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Cosmic Batter | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Cosmic Batter Host: Karla Herschell Category: Society & Culture Sub-Category: Philosophy, Spirituality First Episode: 2023 What is reality really made of? I am your host Karla and welcome to…

Heute vor einem Jahr: Am 25. März 2023 kündigte Putin an, dass #Russland taktische #Kernwaffen in #Belarus stationieren werde. Bereits am 21.02.2023 suspendierte Putin die Teilnahme Russlands am New…

Rail Company To Pay $600M In Suit Over Derailment - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2024/04/rail-company-to-pay-600m-in-suit-over-derailment/

Rail Company To Pay $600M In Suit Over Derailment
The Associated Press reports: Norfolk Southern has agreed to pay $600 million in a class-action lawsuit settlement related to a fiery train derailment in February 2023 in eastern Ohio. The company sai

A Day in the Life of a Quebec Fire Crew
Theo Dagnaud scanning the horizon to ensure that firefighter patrols have left, and he can mark the area as ‘controlled’.
Quebec, Canada, 13 July 2023.
Fuelled by high temperatures and dry conditions, gigantic summer forest fires swept across Canada in 2023, affecting all 13 provinces and territories, especially northern parts of Quebec.
The record-breaking fire season began early and ended late, burning nearly three times m…

Two New Apple and Google Platform Privacy Requirements Kicking In Now
https://fpf.org/blog/two-new-apple-and-google-platform-privacy-requirements-kicking-in-now/
@…

Wegen Schadenersatz - Teichtmeister wieder vor Wiener Gericht #News #Nachrichten

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.

Filing: MGM sues the FTC to stop an investigation into a 2023 cyberattack and asks for Chair Lina Khan's recusal; Khan stayed at the MGM Grand in September 2023 (Sabrina Willmer/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

MGM Resorts Sues US FTC to Stop Investigation of Casino Hack
MGM Resorts International sued the Federal Trade Commission to stop an investigation into how it dealt with a cybersecurity attack last year.

By allowing corporations to flout antimonopoly laws,
we set the stage for monopolies.
The fault lay with regulators and the corporate leaders and finance barons who captured them
– not with "consumers" who made the wrong choices.
What's more, as the biggest businesses' monopoly power grew, your ability to choose grew ever narrower:
once every mom-and-pop restaurant in your area fires their delivery drivers and switches to Doordash, your choic…

After Winning Only Four Playoff Games in the 21st Century, Are the Dallas Cowboys In Position to Give Their Fans Something to Cheer About in the 2024 Postseason? https://www.

After Winning Only Four Playoff Games in the 21st Century, Are the Dallas Cowboys In Position to Give Their Fans Something to Cheer About in the 2024 Postseason?
The Dallas Cowboys have not performed well in the postseason for a very long time. Throughout the past quarter-century, “America’s Team” has won a total of four playoff games. At no point during that period have they strung together two postseason wins. Will the Cowboys turn things around in 2024? The Cowboys have had impressive 12-5 records in each of the past three regular seasons, winning the NFC East in 2021 and 2023. Dallas has won the NFC East five other times in the 21st century �…

Piper Sandler survey of 6,020 US teens: 33% now own a VR device, up from 31% in fall 2023, and weekly usage of VR devices increased to ~13% from ~10% (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/09/survey-teenagers-using-more-vr-devices/<…

Survey shows that teenagers are using more VR devices in the US
The AR/VR device market has always been considered a niche. Even with the launch of the Apple Vision Pro earlier...

Enterprise data security startup Cyera raised a $300M Series C led by Coatue at a $1.4B valuation, taking its funding to $460M, after a $100M Series B in 2023 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/09/ai-d

AI data security startup Cyera confirms $300M raise at a $1.4B valuation | TechCrunch
Artificial intelligence continues to be the biggest threat but also the biggest promise in the world of cybersecurity. Today, one of the startups tackling

Source: Mistral is in talks with investors about raising several hundred million dollars at a $5B valuation, after raising $415M at a $2B valuation in Dec. 2023 (Kate Clark/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/mi

Mistral, an OpenAI Rival in Europe, in Talks to Raise Capital at a $5 Billion Valuation
Mistral, a Paris-based startup developing artificial intelligence that is open source, has been speaking to investors about raising several hundred million dollars at a valuation of $5 billion, according to a person with direct knowledge. The company, which has just recently begun to generate ...

Nielsen data from 2021 to 2023: nine of the ten most-watched streaming programs are reruns, but most of the 100 most popular titles are original series (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-04-07/…

These Are The Most Popular TV Shows of the Streaming Era
Netflix isn’t the most-watched streaming service in the US. But it does have the most hit shows.

Web Summit co-founder Paddy Cosgrave confirms returning as Web Summit CEO; Cosgrave resigned in October 2023 over controversial comments on the Israel-Hamas war (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/08/padd

Paddy Cosgrave returns as Web Summit CEO, after resigning over Israel/Gaza controversy | TechCrunch
Paddy Cosgrave, the co-founder of the Web Summit tech conference, is returning to his role as CEO after resigning in October over controversial statements

Nielsen data from 2021 to 2023: nine of the ten most-watched streaming programs are reruns, but most of the 100 most popular titles are original series (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-04-07/…

These Are The Most Popular TV Shows of the Streaming Era
Netflix isn’t the most-watched streaming service in the US. But it does have the most hit shows.

Sources: ByteDance's EBITDA rose 60% YoY in 2023 to $40B and its sales rose from $80B to $120B, the first time ByteDance surpassed Tencent in revenue and profit (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

ByteDance Profit Jumps 60%, Taking It Past Archrival Tencent
ByteDance Ltd.’s profit surged roughly 60% in 2023, outpacing the growth of online peers Tencent Holdings Ltd. and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. in a sign of the TikTok owner’s resilience in the face of an economic downturn.

News Corp reports The Sun revenue down 5% to £305.2M, losses down 48% to £65.9M in the year to July 2, 2023, The Times revenue up 3% to £385.8M, profit down 17% (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_busin

Sun halves losses, Times titles grow revenue, TalkTV losses rise to £88m
The Sun halved its losses last year while News UK stablemate The Times suffered a 17% drop in profits and TalkTV's losses are revealed.

Lime plans to spend $55M in 2024 to expand its e-bike fleet, adding 30K bikes in North America and elsewhere, and reports 2023 gross bookings up 32% to $616M (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Uber-Backed E-Bike Startup Lime Planning Global Fleet Expansion
Lime, the operator of a shared electric bike and scooter network backed by Uber Technologies Inc., is planning to invest more than $55 million this year to expand its global fleet.

A US official says SpaceX's Pentagon contract to deploy terminals in Ukraine between June 2023 and May 2024 is worth $23M; the deal may not be renewed (Anthony Capaccio/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

SpaceX’s Pentagon Contract to Supply Starlink in Ukraine Is Worth $23 Million
The Pentagon revealed that its contract to deploy Elon Musk’s Starlink terminals in Ukraine is worth $23 million, finally putting a dollar figure on a deal that has embroiled one of the world’s richest men in the Russia conflict — sometimes to his own chagrin.

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