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Cycle of Creativity - Inspire, Create, Rest, Repeat
#inspiration #creativity
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Cycle of Creativity - Inspire, Create, Rest, Repeat
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

FuboTV agrees to pay $3.4M to settle a 2023 class action lawsuit alleging it violated US and California privacy laws over user data; Fubo denies the claims (Luke Bouma/Cord Cutters News)
https://cordcuttersnews.com/fu…

Fubo May Owe You Money After Agreeing to Pay $3.4 Million to Settle Class Action Lawsuit Over Privacy Violations | Cord Cutters News
FuboTV Inc. and FuboTV Media Inc. have agreed to pay $3.4 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging the companies violated federal and California privacy laws, including the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), and California Civil Code § 1799.3. The lawsuit claims Fubo improperly collected, stored, used, […]

#Wetterextreme haben Europa 2023 mehr als 45 Milliarden Euro gekostet. #Deutschland verzeichnete die höchsten Schäden, gefolgt von #Italien,

Unwetterschäden: Wetterextreme kosten Europa jährlich viele Milliarden Euro
Klimabedingte Extremereignisse haben in Europa 2023 zu Wirtschaftsschäden von mehr als 45 Milliarden Euro geführt. Die höchsten Schäden verzeichnete Deutschland.

Analysis: 12 Chinese tech companies have applied to list in Hong Kong so far this year, the most since 2023, after rules allowed lossmaking companies to float (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/31212a34-d8be-491c-9236-f4743e27f64f

Installer Dotclear sur FreeBSD 13
#dotclear

Optical and Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Outbursting Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks
Ruining Zhao, Bin Yang, Michael S. P. Kelley, Silvia Protopapa, Aigen Li, Yang Huang, Jifeng Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03247

Optical and Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Outbursting Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks
We present optical and near-infrared (NIR) observations of the outbursting, Halley-type comet 12P/Pons-Brooks. Three NIR spectra were obtained during two outbursts in October and November 2023, with the 3-meter Infrared Telescope Facility and the Palomar 200-inch Telescope, respectively. The NIR spectra exhibited absorption features at 1.5 and 2.0 $μ$m, consistent with the diagnostic absorption bands of water ice, superimposed on a red dust-scattering continuum. We find that the absorption ban…

Central Tibetan Administration Suspends Attestation Robert Spatz’s Ogyen Kunzang Choling https://openbuddhism.org/blog/2023/central-tibetan-administration-suspends-attestation-robert-spatzs-ogyen-kunzang-choling…

I'm all for electrification of energy demand, e.g. for cars, home heating, and industrial processes.
But we shouldn't be betting the climate on it alone. The share of electricity in global final energy consumption reached 20% in 2023, up from 18% in 2015 (IEA, 2024):
https://www.iea.o…

Human-AI Technology Integration and Green ESG Performance: Evidence from Chinese Retail Enterprises
Jun Cui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03057 https://

Human-AI Technology Integration and Green ESG Performance: Evidence from Chinese Retail Enterprises
This study examines the relationship between human-AI technology integration transformation and green Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance in Chinese retail enterprises, with green technology innovation serving as a mediating mechanism. Using panel data comprising 5,400 firm-year observations from 2019 to 2023, sourced from CNRDS and CSMAR databases, we employ fixed-effects regression models to investigate this relationship. Our findings reveal that human-AI technology integr…

The Extended SONICOM HRTF Dataset and Spatial Audio Metrics Toolbox
Katarina C. Poole, Julie Meyer, Vincent Martin, Rapolas Daugintis, Nils Marggraf-Turley, Jack Webb, Ludovic Pirard, Nicola La Magna, Oliver Turvey, Lorenzo Picinali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05053

The Extended SONICOM HRTF Dataset and Spatial Audio Metrics Toolbox
Headphone-based spatial audio uses head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) to simulate real-world acoustic environments. HRTFs are unique to everyone, due to personal morphology, shaping how sound waves interact with the body before reaching the eardrums. Here we present the extended SONICOM HRTF dataset which expands on the previous version released in 2023. The total number of measured subjects has now been increased to 300, with demographic information for a subset of the participants, provi…

Rund 20 Jahre lang - Das Phantom: Wie Benko seinen Freund bezahlen ließ #News #Nachrichten

OMD at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles, performing 'Anthropocene' June 21, 2025.
https://open.spotify.com/track/1zTghGUFb7Ajrn5ghO9ZQl?si=XNxEhurBRXaWIu3kJmY42Q&context=spotify:album:2yW1JUK…

Anthropocene
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark · Bauhaus Staircase (The Complete Edition) · Song · 2023

Da Team Zastrow hier so sozial tut, möchte ich noch einmal daran erinnern, dass im Entwurf der Rechten die Stabilität der Kitagebühren mit massiven Kürzungen bei der DVB, der Jugend- & Kindersozialarbeit und weiteren Buchungstricks erkauft werden sollte.
P.S.: Wer bei denen kommentieren kann, darf dies gerne tun. Ich wurde leider blockiert.

This week's #ThursDeath is a recent find I've been listening a lot to this week, Belgium's DISCARNATION have re-released their 2023 demo as 'Mournful Incantations of Mortality'. This is a fantastic piece of gloomy, death-doom that's super growly and cavernous, just how I like it-- much like this year's Cave, Ovenhead or Annihilation Cult. Definitely one to try out, for fans o…

Sources: Meta offers to buy ~49% of Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross's VC fund NFDG; about half of NFDG's first fund of ~$1.1B, raised in 2023, has been invested (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
https:/…

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}…

From this year on, ESWC will be under the umbrella of SWSA, the Semantic Web Science Association, to secure financial sustainability for the upcoming years after its previous supporting organisation STI was dissolved in 2023. Basics about the transition are given by Elena Simperl, president of SWSA.
https://swsa.semanticweb.org/

No, it's not in aid distribution. It's simply in being alive in an extermination camp.
Or would you people be speaking of the dangers in aid distribution if someone trying to help the jews in Auschwitz ended up in the gas chambers?
https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/1…

Two years ago I took 7 `<blockquote>` variations (W3C & WHATWG HTML) and reported their output across 7 screen readers, for a measly 49 variations:
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/07/blockquotes-in-screen-readers.html
I made one anti-…

Blockquotes in Screen Readers
TL;DR: This post does not assert the correct way to code blockquotes, it will only demonstrate how screen readers announce some existing patterns. Test Details The first four examples are lifted from WHATWG HTML’s

entry. The next three are from W3C HTML’s 2019

guidance (the W3C HTML spec…

Figures from a new T&E UK report: public charging prices have gone up (and not come down), shaping the perception of expensive public #EV charging.
And: in some areas public charging points are out of order longer than in others

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

Lectures on SL(3) foams and link homology
Mikhail Khovanov, Dmitry Solovyev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17119 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.17119

Lectures on SL(3) foams and link homology
These notes are based on the three lectures that one of the authors gave at Tsinghua University in the summer of 2023 as part of the workshop on Geometric Representation Theory and Applications. They contain an introduction to the evaluation of $\mathsf{SL}(3)$ foams and the associated topological theory of trivalent planar graphs and foam cobordisms between them. A categorification of the Kuperberg quantum $\mathfrak{sl}_3$ web and link invariant and the Robert-Wagner $\mathsf{SL}(N)$ foam eva…

If you read the "Bluesky requires IDs now" post:
1. This only applies to UK users.[1]
2. It's because the UK is building a surveillance state that requires websites and apps to do this, not because Bluesky is evil.[2]
3. It's either that or shut down in the UK.
Whether you like it or not, this also affects Mastodon—and even personal blogs with comments enabled.[3]
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/704468/bluesky-age-verification-uk-online-safety-act
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Act_2023
[3] https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/law/doing-an-osa-assessment-for-my-single-user-fedi-server.html

I am sad to be one of the Canadians who’ve chosen to avoid discretionary travel to the US, under the current government, that they’re talking about in this video.
As a comparison, here are my in-the-US discretionary spends for the first halves of 2023, 2024, 2025. This does not include air travel or accommodation. This is in-person spending on things like restaurants, gas, entertainment, parking, food.
2023Q1Q2: 1763.97 USD
2024Q1Q2: 1455.82 USD
2025Q1Q2: 172.12 USD

Colts owner: Richardson 'still has time to prove it' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45788854/colts-owner-says-anthony-richardson-prove-it

General Strong Bound on the Uncrossed Number which is Tight for the Edge Crossing Number
Gaspard Charvy, Tom\'a\v{s} Masa\v{r}\'ik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20937 https…

General Strong Bound on the Uncrossed Number which is Tight for the Edge Crossing Number
We investigate a very recent concept for visualizing various aspects of a graph in the plane using a collection of drawings introduced by Hliněný and Masařík [GD 2023]. Formally, given a graph $G$, we aim to find an uncrossed collection containing drawings of $G$ in the plane such that each edge of $G$ is not crossed in at least one drawing in the collection. The uncrossed number of $G$ ($unc(G)$) is the smallest integer $k$ such that an uncrossed collection for $G$ of size $k$ exists. The …

Gender and Discipline Shape Length, Content and Tone of Grant Peer Review Reports
Stefan M\"uller, Gabriel Okasa, Michaela Strinzel, Anne Jorstad, Katrin Milzow, Matthias Egger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00103

Gender and Discipline Shape Length, Content and Tone of Grant Peer Review Reports
Peer review by experts is central to the evaluation of grant proposals, but little is known about how gender and disciplinary differences shape the content and tone of grant peer review reports. We analyzed 39,280 review reports submitted to the Swiss National Science Foundation between 2016 and 2023, covering 11,385 proposals for project funding across 21 disciplines from the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), Life Sciences (LS), and Mathematics, Informatics, Natural Sciences, and Technolog…

I’m running CalyxOS on my old Fairphone4, not because it’s a bad choice, but precisely to observe how incredibly behind this OS is on security updates.
My primary device today is a Pixel 9a running GrapheneOS, not this outdated, insecure, and privacy-compromised Fairphone 4.
This Fairphone never became my daily driver once I realized just how far behind it is on security and privacy. I used it from October 2022 until I switched to my Pixel 6a running GrapheneOS in early May 2023,…

Optimizing fMRI Data Acquisition for Decoding Natural Speech with Limited Participants
Louis Jalouzot, Alexis Thual, Yair Lakretz, Christophe Pallier, Bertrand Thirion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21304

Optimizing fMRI Data Acquisition for Decoding Natural Speech with Limited Participants
We investigate optimal strategies for decoding perceived natural speech from fMRI data acquired from a limited number of participants. Leveraging Lebel et al. (2023)'s dataset of 8 participants, we first demonstrate the effectiveness of training deep neural networks to predict LLM-derived text representations from fMRI activity. Then, in this data regime, we observe that multi-subject training does not improve decoding accuracy compared to single-subject approach. Furthermore, training on simil…

In 2020, Scotland generated 32TWh of electricity from wind alone.
https://www.scottishrenewables.com/our-industry/statistics
In 2023, Scotland consumed 21.8TWh of electricity in total.

Renewable Energy Facts & Statistics | Scottish Renewables
Scotland's renewable energy sector in numbers. Scotland’s renewable energy sector is growing and developing year-on-year. Discover facts, statistics and figures from Scotland's renewable energy sector.

International collaboration of Ukrainian scholars: Effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine International collaboration of Ukrainian scholars: Effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine
Myroslava Hladchenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20944

International collaboration of Ukrainian scholars: Effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine International collaboration of Ukrainian scholars: Effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine
This study explores the effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on the international collaboration of Ukrainian scholars. First and foremost, Ukrainian scholars deserve respect for continuing to publish despite life-threatening conditions, mental strain, shelling and blackouts. In 2022-2023, universities gained more from international collaboration than the NASU. The percentage of internationally co-authored articles remained unchanged for the NASU, while it increased for universitie…

New report details global drought impacts #environment

New report details global drought impacts
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln's National Drought Mitigation Center and the United Nations' Convention to Combat Desertification have released a report outlining the impacts of drought around the world since 2023.

Entdeckt in der ARD Mediathek
@… : Was bleibt https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/Y3JpZDovL2Rhc2Vyc3RlLmRlL3RhdG9ydF8yMDI0LTAxLT…

Voxan Roadster vs. Citroën DS 21 https://archivo.kamasystems.nl/es/2023/11/03/voxan-roadster-vs-citroen-ds-21/

#bibliocon25: Heute gegen 14:00 Uhr präsentieren @… und ich das metadaten.community-Forum in Halle 4.1/ Raum III in der Sitzung "Entschlossen zur Vernetzung".
#Metadaten

Minimal Velocity
- my first ode to minimalism in music -
#NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2023/minimal-velocity-nowplaying/

Minimal Velocity #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Crypto custody company BitGo confidentially files for a US IPO; it raised $100M at a $1.75B valuation in August 2023 (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/07/21/bitgo-files-to-go-public-as-crypto-market-surges-past-…

Existence, uniqueness, and long-time asymptotic behavior of regular solutions in multidimensional thermoelasticity
Piotr Micha{\l} Bies, Tomasz Cie\'slak, Mario Fuest, Johannes Lankeit, Boris Muha, Srdan Trifunovi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20794

Existence, uniqueness, and long-time asymptotic behavior of regular solutions in multidimensional thermoelasticity
We study a simplified nonlinear thermoelasticity model on two- and three-dimensional tori. A novel functional involving the Fisher information associated with temperature is introduced, extending the previous one-dimensional approach from the first two authors (SIAM J.\ Math.\ Anal.\ \textbf{55} (2023), 7024--7038)) to higher dimensions. Using this functional, we prove global/local existence of unique regular solutions for small/large initial data. Furthermore, we analyze the asymptotic behavio…

From Knowledge to Noise: CTIM-Rover and the Pitfalls of Episodic Memory in Software Engineering Agents
Tobias Lindenbauer, Georg Groh, Hinrich Sch\"utze
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23422

From Knowledge to Noise: CTIM-Rover and the Pitfalls of Episodic Memory in Software Engineering Agents
We introduce CTIM-Rover, an AI agent for Software Engineering (SE) built on top of AutoCodeRover (Zhang et al., 2024) that extends agentic reasoning frameworks with an episodic memory, more specifically, a general and repository-level Cross-Task-Instance Memory (CTIM). While existing open-source SE agents mostly rely on ReAct (Yao et al., 2023b), Reflexion (Shinn et al., 2023), or Code-Act (Wang et al., 2024), all of these reasoning and planning frameworks inefficiently discard their long-term …

When will the FBI release the documents that prove Stanley Kubrick is a time traveler who came forward in time to 2023 for movie ideas and after seeing the Barbie movie decided to make a whole movie based on the opening sequence.

A Dormant Captured Oort Cloud Comet Awakens: (18916) 2000 OG44
Colin Orion Chandler, William J. Oldroyd, Chadwick A. Trujillo, Dmitrii E. Vavilov, William A. Burris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21324

A Dormant Captured Oort Cloud Comet Awakens: (18916) 2000 OG44
We report the discovery of activity emanating from (18916) 2000 OG44 (alternately designated 1977 SD), a minor planet previously reported to be both an extinct comet or an asteroid on a cometary orbit. We observed 2000 OG44 with a thin tail oriented towards the coincident anti-solar and anti-motion vectors (as projected on the sky) in images we acquired on UT 2023 July 24 and 26 with the Apache Point Observatory 3.5-meter Astrophysical Research Consortium telescope (New Mexico, USA). We also in…

Continued fractions with large prime partial quotients
Gerardo Gonz\'alez Robert, Mumtaz Hussain, Benjamin Ward, Lauren White
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17167

Continued fractions with large prime partial quotients
We determine the Lebesgue measure and Hausdorff dimension of various sets of real numbers with infinitely many partial quotients that are both large and prime, thus extending the well-known theorems by Łuczak (1997) and Huang-Wu-Xu (2020). To this end, we obtain new asymptotics on the tail end of the almost prime zeta function. Our results include some recent work by Schindler-Zweim{ü}ller (2023).

I really should have bought a Framework, but they just didn't have anything compelling at the moment I was in the market (and arguably still don't, given that the 16 is still on c.2023 silicon)

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'`,…

A federal judge dismisses Trump's ~$50M 2023 lawsuit against Bob Woodward for publishing tapes from interviews for his 2020 book Rage as an audiobook (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/d

from my link log —
Deploying IPv6-mostly access networks.
https://labs.ripe.net/author/ondrej_caletka_1/deploying-ipv6-mostly-access-networks/
saved 2023-05-07

Deploying IPv6-Mostly Access Networks
Dual stack is the most common way of deploying IPv6 in access networks. A recent standard defines IPv6-mostly access networks, providing IPv4 connectivity only for legacy devices while allowing modern devices to run IPv6-only. It is already well supported and allows network operators to gradually p…

I wish this were ironic, but it's not. The article itself has intelligent-sounding sentences, which a Web search shows up on other sites. The publisher claims to have a "strict plagiarism policy"…which I'm realizing can be read two different ways.

Former star tight end Jimmy Graham to retire from NFL as member of New Orleans Saints

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/former-star-tight-end-j…

Solar cells on cattle holding pens seems like a great idea! Probably tons of buildings and farms that would be fine with solar cells on top.
I'm no (food) scientist but I am a lot more confident that it doesn't pose a risk to the food source. But I'm less confident of growing crops under solar cells or solar cells floating on aquatic farms. Likely need significant maintenance over the years to prevent leaching and it's always hard for politicians to fix old instead of …

Constrain magnetar parameters by taking into account the evolutionary effects of radius and moment of inertia with \emph{Swift}/XRT data
Lin Lan, He Gao, Shunke Ai, Wen-Jin Xie, Yong Yuan, Long Li, Li-Ping Xin, Jian-Yan Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11110

Constrain magnetar parameters by taking into account the evolutionary effects of radius and moment of inertia with \emph{Swift}/XRT data
A newly born millisecond magnetar has been proposed as one possible central engine of some gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with X-ray plateau emission. In this work, we systematically analyzed the \emph{Swift}/XRT data of long GRBs with plateau emission that were detected before 2023 December, and estimated the magnetar parameters by considering the $R/I$ evolutionary effects, and investigated possible relationships among these parameters and their relation to the GRB jet and magnetar wind radiation. W…

Kernel Learning for Mean-Variance Trading Strategies
Owen Futter, Nicola Muca Cirone, Blanka Horvath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10701 https://

Kernel Learning for Mean-Variance Trading Strategies
In this article, we develop a kernel-based framework for constructing dynamic, pathdependent trading strategies under a mean-variance optimisation criterion. Building on the theoretical results of (Muca Cirone and Salvi, 2025), we parameterise trading strategies as functions in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS), enabling a flexible and non-Markovian approach to optimal portfolio problems. We compare this with the signature-based framework of (Futter, Horvath, Wiese, 2023) and demonstrat…

BBC Commercial reports 2024-25 revenue of £2.2B, up from £1.9B in 2023-24, with BBC Studios EBITDA up 11% YoY to £225M and media and streaming revenues up 43% (Advanced Television)
https://www.advanced-television.com/2025/07/15/bbc-commercial-delivers-…

BBC Commercial delivers record revenues
BBC Commercial, the media company which is part of the BBC Group, has released its annual results as part of the BBC’s Annual Report and Accounts, marking a y

Elliptic estimates cross-chain criminal and high-risk activity has topped $21.8B in 2025, up from $7B in 2023; North Korea is responsible for ~12% of the total (Yohan Yun/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/crosschain-swaps-move-21b-…

Folgten Ladung nicht - Kindersarg-Diebe könnten straffrei davonkommen #News #Nachrichten

NFLPA executive director Lloyd Howell Jr. was not advised to resign from firm seeking NFL minority ownership: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6486656/2025/07/10/nflpa-lloyd-howell-jr-carlyle-group/

Rural #Colorado town with less than 10,000 population has hyped up #cowboy #cops whose excessive force incidents are on dramatic rise, far outpacing #Denver

Great comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS): dust loss before perihelion
Bin Liu, Man-To Hui, Xiaodong Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12756 https://

Great comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS): dust loss before perihelion
In this study, the dust loss of comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) is investigated through the analysis of archival images. By measuring the surface brightness profile of the coma, we determined that the comet maintained nearly in a steady state during the observations. Analysis of the dust distribution perpendicular to the orbital plane reveals that the ejection velocity is $v_{\perp}\sim(65\pm5)\,β^{1/2}$ m s$^{-1}$, where $β$ is inversely proportional to the size of the dust grains. From …

The evolution of CME sheath turbulence from L1 to Earth: Wind and MMS observations of the 2023-04-23 CME
Matthew R. Argall, Li-Jen Chen, No\'e Lugaz, Norberto Romanelli, Jaye L. Verniero, Charles W. Smith, Brandon Burkholder, Victoria Wilder
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13645

The evolution of CME sheath turbulence from L1 to Earth: Wind and MMS observations of the 2023-04-23 CME
An interplanetary shock driven by a coronal mass ejection (CME) containing an interval of sub-Alfvénic flow impacted Earth on April 23, 2024. In this article, we analyze the turbulence in the sheath region between the shock and CME to determine how it evolves from L1 (as observed by Wind) to Earth (as observed by MMS, upstream of the bow shock). Wind and MMS were separated by $55\,\mathrm{R_{E}}$ in the dawn-dusk direction, but the shock normals differ by only $2.8^{\circ}$ and the Pearson cor…

Can Quantum Physics Help Fight Climate Change? A Thematic Analysis of Press Release Narratives
Maxwell Bernstein, Joanna Krajewski, Rachel Fisher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13600 …

Can Quantum Physics Help Fight Climate Change? A Thematic Analysis of Press Release Narratives
The climate crisis demands innovative solutions and quantum technologies are considered by some a potential solution (Berger et al., 2021; Calvin et al., 2023). The United Nations declared 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (United Nations, 2024), focusing on applications for quantum technologies. Quantum technologies, leveraging quantum mechanics, offer unprecedented computational power (Ajagekar & You, 2022) and sensitivity (Schleich et al., 2016) that could revolut…

Stablecoins: Fundamentals, Emerging Issues, and Open Challenges
Ahmed Mahrous, Maurantonio Caprolu, Roberto Di Pietro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13883 http…

Stablecoins: Fundamentals, Emerging Issues, and Open Challenges
Stablecoins, with a capitalization exceeding 200 billion USD as of January 2025, have shown significant growth, with annual transaction volumes exceeding 10 trillion dollars in 2023 and nearly doubling that figure in 2024. This exceptional success has attracted the attention of traditional financial institutions, with an increasing number of governments exploring the potential of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). Although academia has recognized the importance of stablecoins, research in…

In 2024-25, 50 on-air BBC journalists earned above £178K, up from 46 in 2023-24; Nick Robinson and Fiona Bruce were the top-paid following Huw Edwards' exit (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/nick-r

Nick Robinson and Fiona Bruce are top-paid BBC journalists after Huw Edwards exit
Nick Robinson and Fiona Bruce are the highest-paid journalists at the BBC after the departure of Huw Edwards - BBC annual report for 2024/25.

Extracting Information About Publication Venues Using Citation-Informed Transformers
Brian D. Zimmerman, Joshua Folkins, Olga Vechtomova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08199

Extracting Information About Publication Venues Using Citation-Informed Transformers
Scientific document embeddings contain a variety of rich features which can be harnessed for downstream tasks such as recommendation, ranking, and clustering. We explore which tangible insights can be drawn from scientific document embeddings to understand trends in computer science research featured across nine well-known venues. We collect approximately 60,000 scientific documents published between 2015 and 2023 and analyze their embeddings, which we produce with the SPECTER pre-trained langu…

Advancing Exchange Rate Forecasting: Leveraging Machine Learning and AI for Enhanced Accuracy in Global Financial Markets
Md. Yeasin Rahat, Rajan Das Gupta, Nur Raisa Rahman, Sudipto Roy Pritom, Samiur Rahman Shakir, Md Imrul Hasan Showmick, Md. Jakir Hossen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09851

Advancing Exchange Rate Forecasting: Leveraging Machine Learning and AI for Enhanced Accuracy in Global Financial Markets
The prediction of foreign exchange rates, such as the US Dollar (USD) to Bangladeshi Taka (BDT), plays a pivotal role in global financial markets, influencing trade, investments, and economic stability. This study leverages historical USD/BDT exchange rate data from 2018 to 2023, sourced from Yahoo Finance, to develop advanced machine learning models for accurate forecasting. A Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural network is employed, achieving an exceptional accuracy of 99.449%, a Root Mean Sq…

The BBC reports 23.8M licenses at the end of 2024-25, down from 24.1M in 2023-24, and license fee income of £3.8B after an inflationary fee rise, up from £3.7B (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jul

In Memory Of Tom #PianoImprov #NowPlaying #nowplaying #originalmusic

In Memory Of Tom #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Learning to Regulate: A New Event-Level Dataset of Capital Control Measures
Geyue Sun, Xiao Liu, Tomas Williams, Roberto Samaniego
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23025

Learning to Regulate: A New Event-Level Dataset of Capital Control Measures
We construct a novel event-level Capital Control Measures (CCM) dataset covering 196 countries from 1999 to 2023 by leveraging prompt-based large language models (LLMs). The dataset enables event study analysis and cross-country comparisons based on rich policy attributes, including action type, intensity, direction, implementing entity, and other multidimensional characteristics. Using a two-step prompt framework with GPT-4.1, we extract structured information from the IMF's Annual Report on E…

Survey: US employees who use AI at work at least a few times per year rises from 21% in 2023 to 40% in 2025, and 19% report frequently using AI, up from 11% (Ryan Pendell/Gallup)
https://www.gallup.com/workplace/691643/work-nearly-doubled-two-years.aspx

AI Use at Work Has Nearly Doubled in Two Years
White-collar workers and leaders are the primary users. Leaders can further drive AI adoption by clearly communicating why and how to use it.

Influential scientists shape knowledge flows between science and IGO policy
Kimitaka Asatani, Yurie Iwata, Yuta Tomokiyo, Basil Mahfouz, Masaru Yarime, Ichiro Sakata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06753

Influential scientists shape knowledge flows between science and IGO policy
Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) increasingly rely on scientific evidence, yet the pathways through which scientific research enters policy remain opaque. By linking 230,737 scientific papers cited in IGO policy documents (2015-2023) to their authors and collaboration networks, we identify a small group of policy-influential scientists (PI-Sci) who dominate this knowledge flow. These scientists form tightly interconnected, internationally spanning co-authorship networks and achieve policy…