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Sources: Pinecone, which provides an AI-compatible vector database, is exploring a sale after receiving takeover interest; Pinecone was valued at $750M in 2023 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/top-funded-ai-database-star…

Top-Funded AI Database Startup Pinecone Considers a Sale
When the artificial intelligence boom began a few years ago, investors flocked to startups that helped businesses transform and store proprietary data in a format AI could understand, known as a vector database. The technology allowed businesses to use a customized AI chatbot to search or ...

Russisches Spionageschiff kartiert europäische Unterseekabel
Das russische Spionageschiff Yantar kartiert offenbar systematisch Unterseekabel und Pipelines. Satellitenbilder zeigen verstärkte Aktivitäten seit 2023.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

Ho un point assez intéressant sur les startups
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J’ai fondé trois startups, la première en France. Ceux qui pensent que c’est plus facile aux US se trompent, de beaucoup.
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Jamais la France ou être français n'a été un frein. Jamais être européen n'a été autre chose qu'une chance ! J'ai créé des boîtes et des filiales de boîtes dans 12 pays incluant des puissances… | Frederic Lasnier | 56 commentaires
Jamais la France ou être français n'a été un frein. Jamais être européen n'a été autre chose qu'une chance ! J'ai créé des boîtes et des filiales de boîtes dans 12 pays incluant des puissances majeures (USA,UK, Allemagne) et des puissances émergentes (Vietnam, Mexique, Roumanie, Maroc...). J'ai dirigé, jusqu'en 2023, une boîte française qui comptait près de 1500 sublimes collaborateurs dans le monde et nous l'avons vendue à une entreprise cotée au NYSE. J'ai investi dans …

Automating Thematic Review of Prevention of Future Deaths Reports: Replicating the ONS Child Suicide Study using Large Language Models
Sam Osian, Arpan Dutta, Sahil Bhandari, Iain E. Buchan, Dan W. Joyce
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20786

Automating Thematic Review of Prevention of Future Deaths Reports: Replicating the ONS Child Suicide Study using Large Language Models
Prevention of Future Deaths (PFD) reports, issued by coroners in England and Wales, flag systemic hazards that may lead to further loss of life. Analysis of these reports has previously been constrained by the manual effort required to identify and code relevant cases. In 2025, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published a national thematic review of child-suicide PFD reports ($\leq$ 18 years), identifying 37 cases from January 2015 to November 2023 - a process based entirely on manual c…

Such a great head, this head of mine!
Apparently I had opened a GitHub account in october 2023 and forgot all about it. 🤪

GWTC-4.0: Updating the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog with Observations from the First Part of the Fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing Run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18082

GWTC-4.0: Updating the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog with Observations from the First Part of the Fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing Run
Version 4.0 of the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-4.0) adds new candidates detected by the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA observatories through the first part of the fourth observing run (O4a: 2023 May 24 15:00:00 to 2024 January 16 16:00:00 UTC) and a preceding engineering run. In this new data, we find 128 new compact binary coalescence candidates that are identified by at least one of our search algorithms with a probability of astrophysical origin $p_{\rm astro} \geq 0.5$ and that are n…

Working on the #perl 5.42 update for #nixpkgs - unfortunately perl-cross hasn't been released for 5.42 yet which is a bit of a blocker. In general it feels like the declining interest in maintaining #CPAN packages are going to be a problem over time. For instance EV hasn't had a release since 2023 and needed a patch to work with 5.42

#vereinfachteSprache
Im Jahr 2023 waren die Ozeane so warm wie nie zuvor. Das hat große Folgen für die ganze Welt. Warme Meere bringen mehr Regen und #Stürme nach Europa, und in Amerika gibt es stärke

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

Open Data from LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA through the First Part of the Fourth Observing Run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18079

Open Data from LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA through the First Part of the Fourth Observing Run
LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA form a network of gravitational-wave observatories. Data and analysis results from this network are made publicly available through the Gravitational Wave Open Science Center. This paper describes open data from this network, including the addition of data from the first part of the fourth observing run (O4a) and selected periods from the preceding engineering run, collected from May 2023 to January 2024. The public data set includes calibrated strain time series for each…

Can fractal dimension distinguish between grand-design and flocculent spiral arms?
Biju Saha, Subhadip Dutta, Arunima Banerjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04411 https://

Can fractal dimension distinguish between grand-design and flocculent spiral arms?
About two-thirds of disk galaxies host spiral arms, ranging from well-delineated grand-design spirals to fragmented flocculent spiral galaxies. We introduce fractal dimension $D_B$ as a non-parametric measure to distinguish between grand-designs and flocculents. We calculate the $D_B$ of 197 grand-designs and 322 flocculents from SDSS DR18, using the samples of \citet{Buta..2015} and \citet{Sarkar..2023}. Our calculated median values of $D_B$ are $1.29^{+0.06}_{-0.04}$ and $1.38^{+0.05}_{-0.06}…

When You Fall – a #poem with photos of the #waterfall that #inspired it #inspiration

When You Fall - a #poem with photos of the #waterfall that #inspired it
Stan Stewart - @muz4now