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Even wat side-by-side constateringen over de #verkiezingsuitslag.
Vorige uitslag (2023) versus huidige stand van zaken.
Links wint fors (ja, D66 werd tot nu toe altijd meegerekend bij links dus waarom nu niet?)
Anti-antifa verliest meerderheid.
Met GL-PvdA vierpartijencoalitie mogelijk, zonder GL-PvdA niet.
Extreemrechts nauwelijks groter geworden.
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As recently as Thursday, Vladimir Putin told a Kremlin demographic conference that increasing births was “crucial” for Russia.
Putin has launched initiatives to encourage people to have more children -- from free school meals for large families to awarding Soviet-style “hero-mother” medals to women with 10 or more children.
“Many of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers had seven, eight, and even more children,” Putin said in 2023.
“Let’s preserve and revive these wonderful…

Russia's population is getting smaller and older. Putin sees that as a national security threat
Russia has grappled with a shrinking and aging population for decades, with President Vladimir Putin viewing it as a threat to national security. Yet despite efforts like cash incentives and family-friendly policies, the number of deaths now outpaces births. Economic uncertainty, restrictions on immigration and the war in Ukraine are making the crisis worse. Desperate to reverse the trend, Russian authorities are also rolling out a wave of restrictive laws, such as banning "child-free propagand…

FusedANN: Convexified Hybrid ANN via Attribute-Vector Fusion
Alireza Heidari, Wei Zhang, Ying Xiong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19767 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

FusedANN: Convexified Hybrid ANN via Attribute-Vector Fusion
Vector search powers transformers technology, but real-world use demands hybrid queries that combine vector similarity with attribute filters (e.g., "top document in category X, from 2023"). Current solutions trade off recall, speed, and flexibility, relying on fragile index hacks that don't scale. We introduce FusedANN (Fused Attribute-Vector Nearest Neighbor), a geometric framework that elevates filtering to ANN optimization constraints and introduces a convex fused space via a Lagrangian-lik…

Nonlinear corrections to the nuclear heavy flavor structure functions
F. Abdi, B. Rezaei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20934 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.20934

Nonlinear corrections to the nuclear heavy flavor structure functions
We study numerically the small-$x$ behaviour of the nuclear gluon distribution function $ G^A(x,Q^2)$ at next-to-leading order (NLO) approximation of the Gribov-Levin-Ryskin-Mueller-Qiu, Zhu-Ruan-Shen (GLR-MQ-ZRS) nonlinear equation and quantify the impact of gluon recombination in the kinematic range of $x \le 10^{-2}$ and $Q^2 \ge 5 \text{GeV}^2$ respectively. The results are comparable to the Rausch-Guzey-Klasen (RGK) [J.Rausch, V.Guzey and M.Klasen, Phys. Rev. D 107, 054003 (2023)] nuclear …

Atlantic Council: the number of US-based investors in spyware nearly tripled in 2024 to 31 firms, compared to just 11 in 2023, topping Israel's 26 investors (Vas Panagiotopoulos/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/us-spyware-investment/

US Investment in Spyware Is Skyrocketing
A new report warns that the number of US investors in powerful commercial spyware rose sharply in 2024 and names new countries linked to the dangerous technology.

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Philipp Loser über die Null-Legislatur 2023-27
https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/wahlen-in-der-schweiz-wenn-stabilitaet-zum-stillstand-wird-357107637164