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#Bayern: #CSU will Atom-Balkonkraftwerke fördern
https://www.der-postillon.com/2023/04/atom

Rats. DDG is still my favorite.
arsTECHNICA article https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/wikipedia-ai-truth-duckduckgo-hopes-so-with-new-answerbot/?comments=1&com…

DuckDuckGo’s new Wikipedia summary bot: “We fully expect it to make mistakes” [Updated]
DuckAssist provides an AI-powered Wikipedia summary, hoping to avoid hallucinations.

Presentation: OpenView plans to return ~75% of a $571M fund it raised in 2023 to its LPs by Q3 and use the remaining capital to back ~30 portfolio companies (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/em

Embattled Venture Firm OpenView to Give Back 75% of Capital to Investors
OpenView Venture Partners, the Boston-based venture capital firm whose abrupt decision to wind down late last year epitomized the challenges facing startup investors in the aftermath of the tech funding boom, has figured out its final chapter. The 18-year-old firm plans to return the majority of ...

I watched "Let the River Flow" (2023) yesterday. I know very little about Sšmi or Norwegian history, so I can't speak to its accuracy. Still, its themes of discrimination, resource extraction, language, culture, and relation to the land and community strongly resonate with the recent history of colonialism in North America. Plus, it's a visually beautiful film.

Anti-abortion attorneys ascend federal government ranks with Christian right legal training
The conservative Christian law firm Alliance Defending Freedom’s expansive ties include  federal judges and most recently Speaker of the House
The nonprofit law firm that helped Mississippi solicitor general Scott Stewart argue and win the #Dobbs case
— the Alliance Defending Freedom
— has work…

Anti-abortion attorneys ascend federal government ranks with Christian right legal training • Oregon Capital Chronicle
The U.S. house speaker is among a number of people affiliated with a conservative group that's trying to capture the courts.

"Butterfly study finds sharpest fall on record for small tortoiseshell in England"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Butterflies

"Deutscher Wetterdienst zur #Klimakrise: 2023 in Deutschland heißestes Jahr
Wie überall war es hierzulande zu warm, im Sommer starben Tausende durch #Hitze. Immerhin gab es gutes Wetter für Wind- und #Sonnenstrom

Deutscher Wetterdienst zur Klimakrise: 2023 in Deutschland heißestes Jahr
Wie überall war es hierzulande zu warm, im Sommer starben Tausende durch Hitze. Immerhin gab es gutes Wetter für Wind- und Sonnenstrom.

Bad news on climate: the March average of atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa was 425.4 ppm, a massive 4.4 ppm higher than in March of last year.
The cause: record high global emissions, probably combined with an El Niño effect.
#emissions #co2

Opinion: Call of Duty's Modern Warfare III whitewashes the Kremlin's crimes: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/04/opinion-call-of.html

New #ethicalConsumer magazin about #outdoor clothing brands
Issue 208 May/June 2024
https://w…

EVs for light vehicles were 36% of Chinese auto sales in Q4 2023. And look at light trucks (16%) and heavy trucks (10%). https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-03-05/china-s-clean-truck-surprise-defi…

US Sen. Ted Cruz pushes back against reports that iHeartMedia, which hosts his podcast, gave $630K in 2023 to a PAC that exists solely to ensure his reelection (Shannon Ryan/ABC13)
https://abc13.com/ted-cruz-podcast-iheartmedia-fundraising-pac-money…

Ted Cruz pushes back on questions about his podcast's fundraising arrangement with iHeartMedia
Eyewitness News pressed Sen. Ted Cruz with questions over a tangled web of political contributions involving the company that airs his podcast.

Something something rule of law: A Brazil court has banned Bolsonaro from running for election until 2030
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/30/1185364211/brazil-bolsonaro-court-banned-election

I'm really tempted to get one of these cheap kid cameras with a thermal printer...
➡️ https://joevancleave.blogspot.com/2023/10/thermal-printing-fun.html

The Crime at Camp Ashwood - complete series 🕵🏼‍♀️👻🏕
Dramatized crime mystery series | Total listening time: 3h 03m
Desperate to finally solve the decades-old cold case of her best friend’s murder, Margot Ingell returns to the scene of the crime. Will the discovery of a long-lost diary reveal the killer, or will the secret forever remain at the bo...

The Crime at Camp Ashwood - complete series 🕵🏼‍♀️👻🏕
Dramatized crime mystery series | Total listening time: 3h 03m Desperate to finally solve the decades-old cold case of her best friend’s murder, Margot Ingell returns to the scene of the crime. Will the discovery of a long-lost diary reveal the killer, or will the secret forever remain at the bottom of Camp Ashwood’s lake? Winner Austin Film Festival Fiction Podcast Award 2023. 1 seasons, 12 episodes as of Apr 02, 2024.

Topics in group schemes and surfaces in positive characteristic
Nikolaos Tziolas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02839 https://arxiv.org/p…

Topics in group schemes and surfaces in positive characteristic
This is a survey paper on algebraic surfaces in positive characteristic based on a series of lectures that the author gave at the University of Edinburgh in March 2023. It is focused on certain positive characteristic phenomena like infinitesimal group schemes and their actions on algebraic surfaces as well as the failure in positive characteristic of certain fundamental characteristic zero results like the Kodaira vanishing theorem. Many explicit examples are presented.

2023 retro-link! https://thebrokenrail.com/2022/12/31/xfinity-stream-on-linux.html - How to get Xfinity Stream to work on Linux: a tale of Widevine, Chrome OS, and a patched glibc.

Kritik nach Cyberangriff: Microsoft hat seine Kronjuwelen nicht im Griff - Golem.de
Auch ein griffiger Titel ;-)
https://www.golem.de/news/us-kommission-aeussert-kritik-hackerangriff-auf-microsoft-…

Kritik nach Cyberangriff: Microsoft hat seine "Kronjuwelen" nicht im Griff - Golem.de
Ein im Sommer 2023 festgestellter Cyberangriff auf Microsofts Server hatte für einige Kunden verheerende Folgen. Eine US-Kommission erhebt nun schwere Vorwürfe gegen den Konzern.

At least one 2023 Cowboys’ backup will start on the offensive line in 2024 https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/at_least_one_2023_cowboys_backup_will_start_on_the_offensive_line_in_2024/s1_17100_40054…

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #OJBorg
Coco vs Fragma:
🎵 Toca's Miracle
#CocovsFragma
https://open.spotify.com/track/7hMlGTuvLYTilQ3MFHmxDy
https://darrenglancymusic.bandcamp.com/track/coco-star-tocas-miracle-darren-glancy-2023-remix

To better understand how neural networks learn to simulate writing, researchers trained simpler versions on synthetic children’s stories.
The post "Tiny Language Models Come of Age" first appeared on Quanta Magazine
https://d2r55xnwy6nx47.cloudfront.net/

4/ So und hier noch der Post zu #Gewalt im #Osten und das angeblich nötige 1968 für den Osten. #Aufarbeitung
Das sind die vier Blog-Posts zu #AnneRabe. Jetzt bin ich mit ihr fertig.
https://so-isser-der-ossi.de/2023/10/16/gewalterfahrungen-und-1968-fuer-den-osten/

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 145 nodes and 2403 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

The WebAIM Million report 2024 is out.
95.9% of home pages had detected WCAG 2 failures, which is a slight improvement over 2023, while the number of overall errors per page increased notably by 13.6 %.
#accessibility #a11y

yes, a half-abandoned Mastodon branch with the revenue of a hot dog stand but the debt of a small country is definitely worth $6 billion

Spectacular climate news: EU-ETS emissions decreased by 15.5% in 2023, compared to 2022 levels!
Electricity emissions -24% (more renewables, less fossil)
Industry emissions -7% (less output efficiency gains)
Aviation emissions 10%
https:/…

Record reduction of 2023 ETS emissions due largely to boost in renewable energy
Last year’s emissions under the EU’s Emission Trading System (ETS) show the most significant annual emissions reductions since the ETS was launched in 2005. The main driver is the power sector’s significant progress in decarbonisation.

Neues aus Hessen: Der Regionalverband Großraum Frankfurt von PRO BAHN hat auf 56 Seiten interessante Artikel seines Newsletters aus 2023 zusammengestellt. Dieser Jahresrückblick wird als PDF-Download zur Verfügung gestellt.
Der Fahrgastverband PRO BAHN Hessen weist außerdem auf die im April beginnende Veranstaltungsreihe "Hessisches PRO BAHN Forum" hin. Am 8.4.2024 startet die Reihe mit dem Thema "Fernbahntunnel Frankfurt" und einem Vertreter der DB InfraGO AG.

Neues aus Hessen
Neues aus Hessen

#KlimaZeit: Was kostet #Klimaschutz?

Wassermangel treibt weltweite energiebedingte CO₂-Emissionen auf Rekordhöhe
Die weltweiten CO₂-Emissionen sind im Energiesektor 2023 weiter angestiegen. Eine Ursache ist der Klimawandel, meint die Internationale Energieagentur.

When an auditor has issues with you, fire them!!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2024/04/27/heres-what-led-to-republic-firsts-collapse-and-why-its-different-from-2023-f…

Here’s What Led To Republic First’s Collapse—And Why It’s Different From 2023 Failures
An auditor previously warned the bank of “material weaknesses” of internal controls.

Analysis: between 2019 and the end of 2023, women's share of tech jobs rose from 31% to 35% in the US, 23% to 25.2% across the EU, and 29% to 32% in the UK (Financial Times)
https://t.co/SNkc8ZjMJ3

Gender gap in tech jobs narrows across advanced economies
Strong demand for IT jobs and flexible arrangements help more women join workforce in US, EU and UK

On the Daily Show, Jon Stewart says Apple asked him not to have FTC's Lina Khan for his Apple podcast; Apple abruptly ended Stewart's TV show in October 2023 (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/02/jon-stewart-apple-ftc-chair-interview…

Jon Stewart claims Apple wouldn't let him interview FTC chair on his show
"Why are they so afraid to even have these conversations out in the public sphere?" he said to FTC's Lina Khan on "The Daily Show."

Broadband spectral and temporal study of Ton 599 during the brightest January 2023 flare
Aaqib Manzoor, Zahir Shah, Sunder Sahayanathan, Naseer Iqbal, Athar A. Dar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00572

Broadband spectral and temporal study of Ton 599 during the brightest January 2023 flare
In this work, we provide a detailed analysis of the broadband temporal and spectral properties of the blazar Ton\,599 by using the observations from \emph{Fermi}-LAT and \emph{Swift}-XRT/UVOT telescopes, during its brightest $γ$-ray flaring. The one-day bin $γ$-ray light curve exhibits multiple substructures with asymmetric and symmetric profiles. Notably, the $γ$-ray light curve shows a maximum flux of $\rm 3.63 \times 10^{-6}\, ph \,cm^{-2}\,s^{-1}$ on MJD\,59954.50, which is the highest f…

Oh wait that's 2023

Analysis Facilities White Paper
D. Ciangottini, A. Forti, L. Heinrich, N. Skidmore, C. Alpigiani, D. Benjamin, B. Bockelman, L. Bryant, J. Catmore, M. D'Alfonso, C. Doglioni, G. Duckeck, P. Elmer, J. Eschle, M. Feickert, J. Frost, R. Gardner, V. Garonne, M. Giffels, J. Gooding, E. Gramstad, L. Gray, B. Hegner, A. Held, J. Hern\'andez, B. Holzman, F. Hu, B. K. Jashal, D. Kondratyev, E. Kourlitis, L. Kreczko, I. Krommydas, T. Kuhr, E. Lancon, C. Lange, D. Lange, J. Lange, P. Lenz…

Analysis Facilities White Paper
This white paper presents the current status of the R&D for Analysis Facilities (AFs) and attempts to summarize the views on the future direction of these facilities. These views have been collected through the High Energy Physics (HEP) Software Foundation's (HSF) Analysis Facilities forum, established in March 2022, the Analysis Ecosystems II workshop, that took place in May 2022, and the WLCG/HSF pre-CHEP workshop, that took place in May 2023. The paper attempts to cover all the aspects of an…

Which rookies have a chance to start? A look at how the Bucs' draft class fits the roster https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/40070919/tampa-bay-buccaneers-2024-nfl-draft-class-roster-depth

Which rookies have a chance to start for the Buccaneers? - ESPN
Tampa Bay is hoping to duplicate its 2023 rookie success with its 2024 draft class.

Questioning whether seasonal advance of intense tropical cyclones since the 1980s truly exists
Jimin Liu, Jeremy Cheuk-Hin Leung, Wenshou Tian, Hong Huang, Daosheng Xu, Weijing Li, Weihong Qian, Banglin Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00330

Questioning whether seasonal advance of intense tropical cyclones since the 1980s truly exists
Shan et al. (2023) recently reported significant seasonal advances of intense tropical cyclones (TCs) in both the Northern Hemisphere (NH) and Southern Hemisphere (SH) since the 1980s and emphasized the data insensitivity of this conclusion, based on the advanced Dvorak Technique-Hurricane Satellite (ADT-HURSAT) and the International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS) datasets. However, upon rigorously repeating the analysis procedure in Shan et al. (2023), we are unable to re…

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 …

Breakup To Blessing
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Breakup To Blessing | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Breakup To Blessing Host: Sylvia Suwan Category: Health & Fitness Sub-Category: Mental Health & Well Being, Self-Improvement & Advice First Episode: 2023 Welcome to Breakup to Blessing…

Direct, simple, and efficient computation of all components of the virtual-casing magnetic field in axisymmetric geometries with Kapur-Rokhlin quadrature
Evan Toler, Antoine Cerfon, Dhairya Malhotra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02799

Direct, simple, and efficient computation of all components of the virtual-casing magnetic field in axisymmetric geometries with Kapur-Rokhlin quadrature
In a recent publication (Toler et al. 2023), we demonstrated that for axisymmetric geometries, the Kapur-Rokhlin quadrature rule provided an efficient and high-order accurate method for computing the normal component, on the plasma surface, of the magnetic field due to the toroidal current flowing in the plasma, via the virtual-casing principle. The calculation was indirect, as it required the prior computation of the magnetic vector potential from the virtual-casing principle, followed by the …

👍 Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs strips Saudi Arabia's Almarai subsidiary Fondomonte of water leases | Fortune
https://fortune.com/2023/10/04/saudi-arabia-stripped-leases-arizona-drought-pumping-groundwater-fondomon…

Saudi Arabia was pumping water on 10,000 acres of drought-stricken Arizona. The governor just stripped its leases
Fondomonte raised eyebrows when it purchased nearly 10,000 acres of land for $47.5 million in 2014. Then the drought set in.

New note by cybersecurity
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-5d359956-b7cfa8e43d1c5743
Managed Detection and Response in 2023 (PDF)

Laut Zahlen von Statista lag der Marktanteil von #Windows im Juli 2023 nur noch bei 68,41 Prozent. Im Januar 2009 hingegen konnte Microsoft noch über 95 Prozent für sich beanspruchen.
Ein augenscheinlicher Grund für den Rückgang an Windows-Nutzern ist die Konkurrenz. Apple hat sich mit MacOS von 3,68 Prozent im Januar 2009 kontinuierlich auf über 20 Prozent Marktanteil im Juli 2023 hochgekä…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08685 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_…

Apple Vision Pro: Comments in Healthcare
This paper objectively analyzes the emerging discourse surrounding Apple Vision Pro's application in healthcare and medical education. Released in June 2023, Apple Vision Pro represents a significant advancement in spatial computing, combining augmented and virtual reality to create new possibilities in digital interaction. We aim to compile and present recent articles. We used PubMed, IEEE Xplore, Google Scholar, and JSTOR. Non-academic publications were excluded. The results were six commenta…

#climatechange
I’m reviewing the 2023 State of the #Climate report
I am just struck again (yes - intellectually I knew this) that my teen kids’ whole lives have only been hottest years.
It’s scary.
ERA5 (European reanalysis dataset version 5) top-ten Temperature anomaly years
Rank Year Global_Temperature_anomaly (℃) vs 1991-2020 baseline
1 2023 0.60
2 2016 0.44
3 2020 0.43
4 2019 0.40
5 2017 0.34
6 2022 0.30
7 2021 0.27
8 2018 0.26
9 2015 0.26
10 2010 0.13

"Sweden reports higher than expected PV growth for 2023"
#Sweden #Solar #SolarPower #Renewables <…

Sweden reports higher than expected PV growth for 2023
Official figures from Sweden’s energy association says more solar was added than estimates suggested during a record year for PV deployment in 2023, with the country's cumulative capacity now standing at around 4 GW.

yes, a half-abandoned Mastodon branch with the revenue of a hot dog stand but the debt of a small country is definitely worth $6 billion

Tina Satter: Reality (2023)
Denis Villeneuve: Dune 2 (2024)

No top-heavy stellar initial mass function needed: the ionizing radiation of GS9422 can be powered by a mixture of AGN and stars
Yijia Li, Joel Leja, Benjamin D. Johnson, Sandro Tacchella, Rohan P. Naidu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02333

No top-heavy stellar initial mass function needed: the ionizing radiation of GS9422 can be powered by a mixture of AGN and stars
JWST is producing high-quality rest-frame optical and UV spectra of faint galaxies at $z>4$ for the first time, challenging models of galaxy and stellar populations. One galaxy recently observed at $z=5.943$, GS9422, has nebular line and UV continuum emission that appears to require a high ionizing photon production efficiency. This has been explained with an exotic stellar initial mass function (IMF), 10-30x more top-heavy than a Salpeter IMF (Cameron et al. 2023). Here we suggest an alternate…

Stockende Verkehrswende: Streckenausbau Berlin-Rügen verzögert sich
Bundeswirtschaftsminister Robert Habeck (Die Grünen) versprach im Sommer 2023 für den Ausbau der Bahnstrecke Berlin-Binz 500-Millionen-Euro als Gegenleistung für den Bau des LNG-Terminals auf der Insel Rügen. Das Terminal ist nun genehmigt, der Bahnausbau stockt.

Erstmal nicht schneller an die Ostsee: Darum verzögert sich der Streckenausbau Berlin-Rügen
Bundeswirtschaftsminister Robert Habeck (Die Grünen) versprach im Sommer 2023 für den Ausbau der Bahnstrecke Berlin-Binz 500-Millionen-Euro als Gegenleistung für den Bau des LNG-Terminals auf der Insel Rügen. Das Terminal ist nun genehmigt, der Bahnausbau stockt.

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

Die #ASFINAG machte 844 Millionen Euro Gewinn; da fragt man sich angesichts teilweise maroder Autobahnabschnitte, was sie mit dem Geld macht.
Eigenkapitalquote 45% - erstaunlich.

ASFINAG mit soliden Zahlen in der Bilanz 2023 – Investitionen von 1,3 Milliarden Euro für 2023 aus eigener Kraft
Überschuss von 844 Millionen Euro erwirtschaftet – Eigenkapitalquote erstmals über 45 Prozent

There are more billionaires than ever before.
The world has 2,781 people with fortunes exceeding $1bn, an increase of 141 on 2023, according to Forbes’ annual ranking of the world’s richest people.
The billionaires are also collectively worth more than ever, with combined assets estimated at $14.2 Trillion
– a 2 Trillion dollar increase on 2023 and more than the GDP of every country except the US and China.
Their collective wealth has risen by 120% in the past decade…

Trump Media & Technology Group closed down 21% on April 1, wiping out the gains from last week, after it disclosed a $58M loss on $4.1M in revenue in 2023 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/trumps-media-co…

Unterstützenswert: die #Vodafone-#Sammelklage wegen eventuell rechtswidriger Preiserhöhungen im Jahr 2023.
Geht ganz einfach mit ein paar Klicks online, die @…

Habe laut #FAZ an einem Wörterbuch zu Diversität mitgeschrieben (https://tante.cc/2023/12/11/vielfalt/ ), in dem "manche Begrifflichkeiten [...] an die Etikettierungen des Stalinismus zur Markierung der unters…

Missed it by, that much
This morning's agenda- submit ESPionage the RPG of Psychics and Spies for Fate to Evil Hat. Upon checking the requirements one last time (it had been awhile) I found this line in the middle of the page: “Update: As of August 17, 2023 our submissions are currently closed. We don’t anticipate re-opening them until late 2025.” Well...crap… Looks like I have ~18 months to kill.

Missed it by, that much • [tone·milazzo]

Interesting how Bostrom’s concerns changed. The biggest risk is mindless panic preventing development of AI. The EU is in panic, with only the US as a bulwark in AI development against the apocalyptic prospect of Russia or China getting it.
https://unherd.com/2023/11/nick-bostro

Nick Bostrom: Will AI lead to tyranny?
We are entering an age of existential risk

👚 Investigating the ambitions of young women to run for national parliament: the case of Australia
#women

On May 22-29, 2024 Ukrainian veterans will visit Brussels, providing a vital platform to discuss veteran affairs : https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/30/on-may-ukrainian.html

Laut Zahlen von Statista lag der Marktanteil von #Windows im Juli 2023 nur noch bei 68,41 Prozent. Im Januar 2009 hingegen konnte Microsoft noch über 95 Prozent für sich beanspruchen.
Ein augenscheinlicher Grund für den Rückgang an Windows-Nutzern ist die Konkurrenz. Apple hat sich mit MacOS von 3,68 Prozent im Januar 2009 kontinuierlich auf über 20 Prozent Marktanteil im Juli 2023 hochgekä…

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…

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.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06832 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Arithmetic functions that remain constant on strings of integers
In 2013, Pollack et al. gave an asymptotic expression for the largest $k$ in terms of $x$ for which the string of inequalities $φ(n+1)\geqφ(n+2)\geq\cdots\geqφ(n+k)$ holds for some $n\leq x$, where $φ$ is the Euler totient function. Their method of proof also works to derive an upper bound for $k$ with $φ$ replaced by $σ$, the sum-of-divisors function. In 2023, the first author and Vandehey gave an alternative proof for a weaker lower bound on $k$ in the string of equalities $φ(n+1)=φ(n…

#Berlin
Übrigens:
gestern war 6-Monatstag des Markierungsbeginns für die Fahrradstraße #Handjerystraße (23.10.2023), die aus verschiedenen Gründen noch immer nicht offiziell eröffnet werden konnte. (BVV Beschluss vom 21.01.2015[sic])

Slender vortex filaments in the Boussinesq Approximation
Marie Rodal, Daniel Margerit, Rupert Klein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00460 https://

Slender vortex filaments in the Boussinesq Approximation
A model for the motion of slender vortex filaments is extended to include the effect of gravity. The model, initially introduced by Callegari and Ting (SIAM, J. of App. Math., (1978), vol. 35, pp. 148-175), is based on a matched asymptotic expansion in which the outer solution, given by the Biot-Savart law, is matched with the inner solution derived from the Navier-Stokes equations. Building on recent work by Harikrishnan et al (Phys. of Fluids, (2023), vol. 35) the Boussinesq approximation is …

Below find the list of the most visited cities in the world by international tourists:
1 Istanbul, Turkey: 20.2 million
2 London, United Kingdom: 18.8 million
3 Dubai, United Emirates: 19.8 million
4 Antalya, Turkey: 16.5 million
5 Paris, France: 15.5 million
6 Hong Kong: 14.7 million
7 Bangkok, Thailand: 12.2 million
8 New York, USA: 11.7 million
9 Cancun, Mexico: 10.8 million
10 Mecca, Saudi Arabia: 10.8 million
Source: Eurom…

This is the most visited city in the world! - Emma's Light
A new report from global market research company Euromonitor International has highlighted the world's most visited cities based on international arrivals. Paris and London may indeed have ham and double-decker buses, but Istanbul has more tourists: the cultural and economic capital of Turkey tops Euromonitor International's list of the 10 most visited cities internationally in 2023, in the index 100 most visited destinations. Subscribe to never miss an article from Ema's Light! Leave this fiel…

Christian Wilkins landing spots: Dolphins not expected to tag DT, allowing him to test free agency, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/n…

Christian Wilkins landing spots: Dolphins not expected to tag DT, allowing him to test free agency, per report
The 13th overall pick in the 2019 NFL Draft registered the best season of his five-year career in 2023

Germany says it found evidence that Russian state-backed hacker Fancy Bear was behind a cyberattack in 2023 that took down several German government websites (Lisa O'Carroll/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/<…

Lukaschenko: Russland hat Atomwaffen in Belarus stationiert
Der belarusische Staatschef Lukaschenko hat nach Angaben der russischen Nachrichtenagentur Tass gesagt, es seien mehrere Dutzend taktische Atomwaffen aus Russland in Belarus stationiert worden. Das sei im Rahmen des Abkommens geschehen, das er und der russische Präsident Putin 2023 angekündigt hätten. Belarus hatte im Juni erklärt, mit der Lieferung der Waffen sei be…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Freilassung verschleppter Kinder vermittelt ++
Präsident Selenskyj hat sich bei Katar für Hilfe bei der Freilassung von verschleppten ukrainischen Kindern bedankt. Nach einem Angriff auf die ukrainische Region Tscherkassy wurden mehrere Verletzte gemeldet. Alle Entwicklungen im Liveblog.

Direct, simple, and efficient computation of all components of the virtual-casing magnetic field in axisymmetric geometries with Kapur-Rokhlin quadrature
Evan Toler, Antoine Cerfon, Dhairya Malhotra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02799

Direct, simple, and efficient computation of all components of the virtual-casing magnetic field in axisymmetric geometries with Kapur-Rokhlin quadrature
In a recent publication (Toler et al. 2023), we demonstrated that for axisymmetric geometries, the Kapur-Rokhlin quadrature rule provided an efficient and high-order accurate method for computing the normal component, on the plasma surface, of the magnetic field due to the toroidal current flowing in the plasma, via the virtual-casing principle. The calculation was indirect, as it required the prior computation of the magnetic vector potential from the virtual-casing principle, followed by the …

Ampere: seven movie adaptations of video games were released broadly in 2023; Comscore: movies based on video games grossed $712.2M at the US box office in 2023 (Wall Street Journal)
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The Adventures of Power Dog in Dogland - Season 3 coming soon 🐶🚀🎉
Narrated stories for kids | Total listening time: 15h 38m
What would dogs do? Come visit Licktopolis and Question Mark Mountain, and stay for the jokes, mindfulness-based problem-solving techniques, and delicious Dogland bananas that open when you boop them with your nose.
These stories are co-...

The Adventures of Power Dog in Dogland - Season 3 coming soon 🐶🚀🎉
Narrated stories for kids | Total listening time: 15h 38m What would dogs do? Come visit Licktopolis and Question Mark Mountain, and stay for the jokes, mindfulness-based problem-solving techniques, and delicious Dogland bananas that open when you boop them with your nose. These stories are co-written by a mom & kid team who love to ask themselves "What would dogs do?" 2 seasons, 36 episodes as of Apr 23, 2023.

Since pleading guilty in November 2023, Changpeng Zhao has networked across the US to set up his next act; sources say CZ and Sam Altman exchanged text messages (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/t…

Binance’s Founder Plans a Comeback Even as He Faces Prison Time
Since pleading guilty to violating money-laundering rules, Changpeng Zhao, who ran the giant crypto exchange Binance, has networked across the United States to set up his next act.

1 Jahr Deutschlandticket: Hier lohnt es sich überhaupt nicht
Seit nunmehr einem Jahr gibt es das Deutschlandticket. Seit 1. Mai 2023 kannst du für 49 Euro im Monat quer durch Deutschland fahren. Doch lohnt sich das? Und für wen? Wir zeigen es dir – samt Ausflugstipps.
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Deutschlandticket: Wenn du hier wohnst, lohnt es sich besonders
Das Deutschlandticket wird ein Jahr alt. Doch nicht für jeden ist es ein Gewinn. Andere wiederum sparen viele hundert Euro monatlich.

Missed it by, that much
This morning's agenda- submit ESPionage the RPG of Psychics and Spies for Fate to Evil Hat. Upon checking the requirements one last time (it had been awhile) I found this line in the middle of the page: “Update: As of August 17, 2023 our submissions are currently closed. We don’t anticipate re-opening them until late 2025.” Well...crap… Looks like I have ~18 months to kill.

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Trump Media & Technology Group closed down 21% on April 1, wiping out the gains from last week, after it disclosed a $58M loss on $4.1M in revenue in 2023 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/trumps-media-co…

Unbuttoned Podcast
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Unbuttoned | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Unbuttoned Podcast Host: Andrew Felix Category: Arts Sub-Category: Commentary & Conversations, Crafts & Creativity, Visual Arts First Episode: 2023 Where we talk about photography, modelling…

The Marion County Record's parent and Eric Meyer, its editor and publisher, file a federal lawsuit over police raids of its offices and Meyer's home in 2023 (John Hanna/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/kansas-news

A Kansas paper and its publisher are suing over police raids. They say damages exceed $10M
A weekly central Kansas newspaper and its publisher have filed a federal lawsuit over police raids last summer of its offices and the publisher’s home. The Marion County Record's parent company and its editor and publisher Eric Meyer also notified local officials Monday that the paper and its publisher believe they are due more than $10 million in damages. The lawsuit accuses the city of Marion, the Marion County Commission and five current and former local officials of violating constitution…

1 Jahr Deutschlandticket: Hier lohnt es sich überhaupt nicht
Seit nunmehr einem Jahr gibt es das Deutschlandticket. Seit 1. Mai 2023 kannst du für 49 Euro im Monat quer durch Deutschland fahren. Doch lohnt sich das? Und für wen? Wir zeigen es dir – samt Ausflugstipps.
https://www.

Deutschlandticket: Wenn du hier wohnst, lohnt es sich besonders
Das Deutschlandticket wird ein Jahr alt. Doch nicht für jeden ist es ein Gewinn. Andere wiederum sparen viele hundert Euro monatlich.

Esther Crawford joins Meta's Messenger team as director of product; Crawford was Twitter's director of product management before being laid off in February 2023 (Kwan Wei Kevin Tan/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-twitter

Ex-Twitter director who went 'hardcore' for Elon Musk now at Meta
Esther Crawford had spent over two years as Twitter's director of product management, where she oversaw projects like Twitter Blue and Spaces.

Berlin-based Parloa, which uses conversational AI to automate call center operations, raised a $66M Series B led by Altimeter, after a $21M Series A in 2023 (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/24/parloa-a-c…

Parloa, a conversational AI platform for customer service, raises $66M | TechCrunch
Parloa, a conversational AI platform for customer service, has raised $66 million in a Series B round of funding.

African tech investor TLcom Capital raised $154M for a new fund, attracting US and Europe investment; Africa-focused VCs have raised $655M since November 2023 (Aanu Adeoye/Financial Times)
https://t.co/DIlRCef7e1

Madrid-based big data observability startup Onum, which launched in 2023, raised a $28M Series A led by Dawn Capital, with participation from Insight and Kibo (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2024/04/10/on

Onum raises $28M to help organizations extract their most valuable data in real time - SiliconANGLE
Onum raises $28M to help organizations extract their most valuable data in real time - SiliconANGLE

Israeli cloud security startup Wiz buys cloud detection and response startup Gem Security, sources say for $350M, after buying developer platform Rafft in 2023 (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2024/04/10/exclusive-wiz-acquires-gem-security/<…

Exclusive: Wiz acquires Gem Security
Wiz has made headlines as one of the fastest-growing software companies ever, and this marks the company’s second-ever acquisition.

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-

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.

NetEase says it is working with Microsoft to bring World of Warcraft and other Blizzard games back to China after a feud ended the partnership in January 2023 (Josh Ye/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/microsoft-nete…

Microsoft and NetEase to re-launch Warcraft game in China, ending feud
Chinese video games giant NetEase said it is working with Microsoft to bring popular games including "World of Warcraft" back to the country after a public fallout that ended a decade-long partnership in 2023.

Sources: Mistral plans to raise €500M at an over €5B valuation from multiple VCs and wealth funds, after raising ~€400M at a €2B valuation in December 2023 (Financial Times)
https://t.co/aldaMDD3Jz

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.

TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 16.5% YoY to $18.5B and expects revenue to grow at least 20% in 2024, reversing 2023's slight decline, and budgets capex of $28B-$32B (Jane Lanhee Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

TSMC’s Sales Surge Most Since 2022 After Riding AI Chip Boom
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s quarterly revenue grew at its fastest pace in more than a year, shoring up expectations that a global boom in AI development is fueling demand for high-end chips and servers.

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.

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.

Avail, a modular blockchain project spun out of Polygon in 2023 to streamline the rollup experience, raised a $27M seed co-led by Founders Fund and Dragonfly (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/279095/peter-thiel-founders-fund-avail-f…

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...

Expedia plans to cut about 1,500 roles this year, mainly in its Product & Technology division; the company had 17,100 employees at the end of 2023 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2024/expedia-group…

Expedia Group cutbacks will impact 1,500 roles this year, more than 8% of workforce
Expedia Group expects about 1,500 roles to be impacted by cutbacks under an operational review announced in an internal memo.