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X CEO Linda Yaccarino says that "after two incredible years, I've decided to step down"; X hired Yaccarino in 2023 after running NBCUniversal's ad business (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/09/x-ceo-linda-yaccarino-resigns…

X CEO Linda Yaccarino to step down
Yaccarino was the first permanent CEO after Elon Musk bought the social media platform in 2022.

X CEO Linda Yaccarino says that "after two incredible years, I've decided to step down"; X hired Yaccarino in 2023 after running NBCUniversal's ad business (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/09/x-ceo-linda-yaccarino-resigns…

X CEO Linda Yaccarino to step down
Yaccarino was the first permanent CEO after Elon Musk bought the social media platform in 2022.

I don’t know, asshole, was 1947 worth it? Was close to 80 years of settler colonialism and apartheid worth it? Is the current genocide of the Palestinian people being committed by israel worth it? https://ravenation.club/@welkin7/114652095075122736

#vereinfachteSprache
2023 hat der #Emissionshandel in Deutschland über 18 Milliarden Euro eingebracht. Das ist ein Anstieg von 40 Prozent. Was ist Emissionshandel eigentlich? Und was bedeutet er für den Klimaschutz? Du willst wissen, wie das System funktioniert und warum es …

Neuer Rekord im deutschen Emissionshandel im Jahr 2023 (vereinfachte Sprache)
Deutschlands Weg zur Klimaneutralität: Wie der Emissionshandel 2023 finanzielle Rekorde bricht und den Klimaschutz vorantreibt.

Sources: Linda Yaccarino had discussed her plans to leave with X employees earlier this week, before Grok's antisemitic posts (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/technology/linda-yaccarino-x-steps-down.html

X CEO Linda Yaccarino Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform
Linda Yaccarino, whom Elon Musk hired to run X in 2023, grappled with the challenges the company faced after Mr. Musk took over.

Neulich kam im TV die DC Comic­verfilmung The Flash von 2023.
Meinem Eindruck nach war der Film eine ganz nette Komödie und/oder Parodie, die man durchaus schauen kann. Allerdings scheint der Rest der Welt diese Einordnung nicht zu teilen und nimmt den Film ernst – also soweit man einen Action-Superhelden­film überhaupt ernst nehmen kann.

By changing our diets now, we can avoid the food chaos that climate change is bringing #nutrition

By changing our diets now, we can avoid the food chaos that climate change is bringing
Climate change is pushing up the prices of the food that we buy and therefore changing what we eat. One-third of UK food price increases in 2023 resulted from climate change, according to research by agricultural economists. This extra cost contributed to food price inflation and the UK's cost-of-living crisis.

Campaigning through the lens of Google: A large-scale algorithm audit of Google searches in the run-up to the Swiss Federal Elections 2023
Tobias Rohrbach, Mykola Makhortykh, Maryna Sydorova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06018

Campaigning through the lens of Google: A large-scale algorithm audit of Google searches in the run-up to the Swiss Federal Elections 2023
Search engines like Google have become major sources of information for voters during election campaigns. To assess potential biases across candidates' gender and partisan identities in the algorithmic curation of candidate information, we conducted a large-scale algorithm audit analyzing Google's selection and ranking of information about candidates for the 2023 Swiss Federal Elections, three and one week before the election day. Results indicate that text searches prioritize media sources in …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Blondie:
🎵 Atomic
#Blondie
https://orenamram.bandcamp.com/album/blondie-atomic-oren-amram-2023-remixes
https://open.spotify.com/track/5QIbR39hAEDIOkr4ggh4xc

My fine "new" (2023) bike is in the shop, so I unmothballed my trusty classic steed for today's ride. After a go with the tire pump, I was off like the wind. There's something exquisite about a strong and simple piece of engineering. That old bike is 39 years old! I bought it new back in California in the day. It's still a sweet ride.
#roadbike

Sources: Linda Yaccarino had discussed her plans to leave with X employees earlier this week, before Grok's antisemitic posts (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/technology/linda-yaccarino-x-steps-down.html

X CEO Linda Yaccarino Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform
Linda Yaccarino, whom Elon Musk hired to run X in 2023, grappled with the challenges the company faced after Mr. Musk took over.

Oh great, the 3 warmest months of July on record globally are now 2023, 2024, and 2025.
https://mstdn.social/@Powerfromspace1/114994787705123922

PKPs Powerfromspace1 (@Powerfromspace1@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image @extretemps@toot.community #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming July 2025 Worldwide,according to NASA, had a temperature anomaly of +0.45C vs 1991/2020 (+1.03C vs 1951/1980) and was the 3rd hottest July on record, +0.16C behind both those of 2023 and 2024. https://bsky.app/profile/extremetemps.bsky.social/post/3lvvxirf7mc2i

Combining IceCube Muon Tracks and Cascades to measure the Galactic Diffuse Neutrino Flux
Jonas Hellrung (for the IceCube Collaboration), Julia Becker Tjus (for the IceCube Collaboration), Wolfgang Rhode (for the IceCube Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06089

Combining IceCube Muon Tracks and Cascades to measure the Galactic Diffuse Neutrino Flux
The diffuse Galactic neutrino flux is produced by cosmic rays interacting with the interstellar medium. The measurement of this flux can help to understand the distribution of cosmic rays in the Galaxy. The first observation of this neutrino flux was published in 2023 by the IceCube Collaboration. Here, plans for a new analysis combining different event topologies are presented. IceCube measures events in two main topologies. Tracks, originating in charged current $ν_μ$ interactions, provide …

Is “Bicycle Fishing” really a thing?
➡️ http://www.all-the-bikes.com/2023/04/Introduction to Bicycle Fishing.html
#bikeTooter

Introduction to Bicycle Fishing
Bicycle fishing is a unique and exciting way to explore the great outdoors while catching fish. Combining the joys of cycling and fishing, ...

AI and Art – Stepping Back Into Humanity #technology https://muz4now.com/2023/ai-and-art-stepping-back-into-humanity

AI and Art - Stepping Back Into Humanity
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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'`,…

Heute habe ich wundervoll zu Mittag gegessen. Das mir das Rezept erst am Ende der Saison unter die Augen gekommen ist, ist schon bedauerlich.
Gnocchi und Aupergine, Zuccine, etc.
Leicht und äußerst schmackhaft, dazu noch einfach zuzubereitet.
Dies kommt auf jeden Fall zu meinen Top 20. Danke.
#vegan

New tool lets artists ‘poison’ their artwork to deter AI companies from using it to train their models
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/27/new-tool-lets-artists-poison-their-artwork-to-deter-ai-companies.html

This new tool lets artists 'poison' their artwork to deter AI companies from using it to train their models—here’s how it works
If an artist doesn't want their pieces being used to train AI image generators, a new tool called Nightshade would let them "poison" their artwork.

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.

from my link log —
A simple ray tracer written in the meson.build language.
https://github.com/annacrombie/meson-raytracer
saved 2023-11-19

GitHub - annacrombie/meson-raytracer
Contribute to annacrombie/meson-raytracer development by creating an account on GitHub.

Search for the rare decay D$^0$ $\to$ $\mu^ \mu^-$ in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13.6 TeV
CMS Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06152 …

Search for the rare decay D$^0$ $\to$ $μ^+μ^-$ in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13.6 TeV
A search for the rare decay D$^0$ $\to$ $μ^+μ^-$ is reported using proton-proton collision events at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13.6 TeV collected by the CMS detector in 2022$-$2023, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 64.5 fb$^{-1}$. This is the first analysis to use a newly developed inclusive dimuon trigger, expanding the scope of the CMS flavor physics program. The search uses D$^0$ mesons obtained from D$^{*+}$ $\to$ D$^0π^+$ decays. No significant excess is observed. A limit on the branchin…

Solar Flare Prediction Using LSTM and DLSTM with Sliding Window Pattern Recognition
Zeinab Hassani, Davud Mohammadpur, Hossein Safari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05313

Solar Flare Prediction Using LSTM and DLSTM with Sliding Window Pattern Recognition
We investigate the use of Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Decomposition-LSTM (DLSTM) networks, combined with an ensemble algorithm, to predict solar flare occurrences using time-series data from the GOES catalog. The dataset spans from 2003 to 2023 and includes 151,071 flare events. Among approximately possible patterns, 7,552 yearly pattern windows are identified, highlighting the challenge of long-term forecasting due to the Sun's complex, self-organized criticality-driven behavior. A slidi…

‼️Gern boosten für mehr Antworten‼️
😃Seit September 2023 immer falsch geraten. 😛
In wie vielen #Fernsehsendungen des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks wurde im Februar 2025 über den #Klimawandel und dessen Drumherum sowie den

Klimawandel im Fokus: Analyse der Berichterstattung im öffentlich-rechtlichen Fernsehen 2025
Wird der Klimawandel im öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk ausreichend thematisiert? Eine umfassende Analyse zeigt Zahlen und Trends in der Berichterstattung.

Are nominations by those accused of war crimes even considered?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/08/trump-nominated-nobel-peace-prize-netanyahu?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Federal prosecutors accuse two US men of operating and promoting OmegaPro, a crypto multi-level marketing scheme that allegedly defrauded victims of $650M (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/08/doj-omegapro-crypto-scam.html

Two charged in $650 million global crypto scam that promised 300% returns
From 2019 to 2023, Sims and Reynoso allegedly lured thousands of victims worldwide to purchase "investment packages" from OmegaPro using cryptocurrency.

Understanding support for AI regulation: A Bayesian network perspective
Andrea Cremaschi, Dae-Jin Lee, Manuele Leonelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05866 ht…

Understanding support for AI regulation: A Bayesian network perspective
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly embedded in public and private life, understanding how citizens perceive its risks, benefits, and regulatory needs is essential. To inform ongoing regulatory efforts such as the European Union's proposed AI Act, this study models public attitudes using Bayesian networks learned from the nationally representative 2023 German survey Current Questions on AI. The survey includes variables on AI interest, exposure, perceived threats and opportunit…

Was für ein Spieltag in der #Erima-GFL #AmericanFootball
https://www.football-aktuell.de/cgi-bin…

"Our Home"
Each #PianoImprov in this suite is named after the room that inspired it.
#NowPlaying
https://

Our Home - #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Oh great, the 3 warmest months of July on record globally are now 2023, 2024, and 2025.
July 2025 was 1.03°C above the 1951-1980 average, that's around 1.22°C above the preindustrial average.
The map shows an anomaly of 4 to 8°C for West-Antarctica!
#globalwarming #ClimateChange

A look at The Examination, a nonprofit investigative news outlet with ~20 staffers launched in 2023 that focuses on Big Food, tobacco, pollution, and drugs (Sophie Endrud/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2025/t…

Meet The Examination, a nonprofit watchdog for global health - Poynter
Ben Hallman and his team of almost 20 are taking on four of the biggest global industries, one health investigation at a time

IceCat-2: Updated IceCube Event Catalog of Alert Tracks
Angela Zegarelli (for the IceCube Collaboration), Anna Franckowiak (for the IceCube Collaboration), Giacomo Sommani (for the IceCube Collaboration), Nora Valtonen-Mattila (for the IceCube Collaboration), Tianlu Yuan (for the IceCube Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507…

IceCat-2: Updated IceCube Event Catalog of Alert Tracks
We present preliminary results for IceCat-2, the second public catalog of IceCube Alert Tracks, which plans to build and improve upon the first release, IceCat-1. The initial catalog, last updated in October 2023, included all real-time alerts issued since 2016, as well as events observed by IceCube since the start of full-detector data collection in 2011 that would have triggered an alert if the program had been in place at that time. IceCat-2 plans to expand on this by incorporating all addit…

Tragischer Todesfall - Polizei ermittelt in Krimi um die schöne Bankerin #News #Nachrichten

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #SHERELLE
Crystal Waters:
🎵 100% Pure Love
#CrystalWaters
https://waldodj.bandcamp.com/track/crystal-waters-100-pure-love-waldo-remix-2023
https://open.spotify.com/track/0dfQwyoZoS9LgQiU6AJO7f

On Jiang's Bounded Index Property for products of nilmanifolds
Peng Wang, Qiang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06132 https://ar…

On Jiang's Bounded Index Property for products of nilmanifolds
In 2023, Zhang and Zhao presented the first examples of aspherical manifolds lacking the Bounded Index Property (BIP) for fixed points. This answered a question posed by Jiang in 1998 in the negative. In this paper, we first extend the notion of BIP to that of iterations of selfmaps (BIP$_k$), and then demonstrate BIP$_k$ for certain products $M\times N$ of nilmanifolds. Finally, we give characterizations for the Lefschetz number, the Nielsen number, and the minimal number of fixed points of se…

Simultaneous Rational Function Codes: Improved Analysis Beyond Half the Minimum Distance with Multiplicities and Poles
Matteo Abbondati, Eleonora Guerrini, Romain Lebreton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05284

Simultaneous Rational Function Codes: Improved Analysis Beyond Half the Minimum Distance with Multiplicities and Poles
In this paper, we extend the work of Abbondati et al. (2024) on decoding simultaneous rational function codes by addressing two important scenarios: multiplicities and poles (zeros of denominators). First, we generalize previous results to rational codes with multiplicities by considering evaluations with multi-precision. Then, using the hybrid model from Guerrini et al. (2023), we extend our approach to vectors of rational functions that may present poles. Our contributions include: a rigorous…

The NetMob25 Dataset: A High-resolution Multi-layered View of Individual Mobility in Greater Paris Region
Alexandre Chasse, Anne J. Kouam, Aline C. Viana, Razvan Stanica, Wellington V. Lobato, Geymerson Ramos, Geoffrey Deperle, Abdelmounaim Bouroudi, Suzanne Bussod, Fernando Molano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05903

The NetMob25 Dataset: A High-resolution Multi-layered View of Individual Mobility in Greater Paris Region
High-quality mobility data remains scarce despite growing interest from researchers and urban stakeholders in understanding individual-level movement patterns. The Netmob25 Data Challenge addresses this gap by releasing a unique GPS-based mobility dataset derived from the EMG 2023 GNSS-based mobility survey conducted in the Ile-de-France region (Greater Paris area), France. This dataset captures detailed daily mobility over a full week for 3,337 volunteer residents aged 16 to 80, collected betw…

WBD renames Max as HBO Max on its website and apps; max.com now redirects to hbomax.com, and users won't need to download a new app, unlike the 2023 Max rollout (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/702261/hbo-max-rebrand-official-…

HBO Max is officially HBO Max again
The Max app switched back to HBO Max today, as Warner Bros. officially reverts to its original streaming brand.

MusGO: A Community-Driven Framework For Assessing Openness in Music-Generative AI
Roser Batlle-Roca, Laura Ib\'a\~nez-Mart\'inez, Xavier Serra, Emilia G\'omez, Mart\'in Rocamora
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03599

MusGO: A Community-Driven Framework For Assessing Openness in Music-Generative AI
Since 2023, generative AI has rapidly advanced in the music domain. Despite significant technological advancements, music-generative models raise critical ethical challenges, including a lack of transparency and accountability, along with risks such as the replication of artists' works, which highlights the importance of fostering openness. With upcoming regulations such as the EU AI Act encouraging open models, many generative models are being released labelled as 'open'. However, the definiti…

Comparing observations of the closely located JUICE and STEREO-A spacecraft during the widespread solar energetic particle event of 2024 May 13
L. Rodr\'iguez-Garc\'ia, E. Palmerio, M. Pinto, N. Dresing, C. M. S. Cohen, R. G\'omez-Herrero, J. Gieseler, F. Santos, F. Espinosa Lara, I. Cernuda, M. Mewes, C. Vallat, O. Witasse, N. Altobelli
…

Comparing observations of the closely located JUICE and STEREO-A spacecraft during the widespread solar energetic particle event of 2024 May 13
JUICE was launched in April 2023, and it is now in its cruise phase to Jupiter, where it is scheduled to arrive in July 2031. JUICE carries a radiation monitor, namely the RADiation hard Electron Monitor (RADEM) to measure protons, electrons, and ions, detecting particles coming mainly from the anti-Sun direction. On 2024 May 13, a large solar energetic particle (SEP) event took place in association with an eruption close to the western limb of the Sun as seen from Earth. Providentially, at tha…

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…

J-PAS: Forecasting constraints on Neutrino Masses
Gabriel Rodrigues, Antonio J. Cuesta, Jailson Alcaniz, Miguel Aparicio Resco, Antonio L. Maroto, Manuel Masip, Jamerson G. Rodrigues, Felipe B. M. dos Santos, Javier de Cruz P\'erez, Jorge Enrique Garc\'ia-Farieta, Clarissa Siqueira, Fuxing Qin, Yuting Wang, Gong-Bo Zhao, Carlos Hern\'andez-Monteagudo, Valerio Marra, Raul Abramo, Narciso Ben\'itez, Silvia Bonoli, Saulo Carneiro, Javier Cenarro, David Crist\'obal-Horn…

J-PAS: Forecasting constraints on Neutrino Masses
The large-scale structure survey J-PAS is taking data since October 2023. In this work, we present a forecast based on the Fisher matrix method to establish its sensitivity to the sum of the neutrino masses. We adapt the Fisher Galaxy Survey Code (FARO) to account for the neutrino mass under various configurations applied to galaxy clustering measurements. This approach allows us to test the sensitivity of J-PAS to the neutrino mass across different tracers, with and without non-linear correcti…

Disney closes its deal with Comcast to buy out NBCUniversal's 33% stake in Hulu, paying an additional $439M, after agreeing in 2023 to pay $8.61B (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Disney to Pay Comcast an Additional $439 Million for Hulu Stake as Streaming Saga Comes to an End
The Bob Iger-run entertainment giant agreed to buy the 33 percent stake in Hulu in 2023; after an extended appraisal process, the deal is finally set to close.

In the United States, people often get away with murder.
The clearance rate
— the share of cases that result in an arrest or are otherwise solved
— was 58 percent in 2023,
the latest year for which F.B.I. data is available.
And that figure is inflated because it includes murders from previous years that police solved in 2023.

Nearly Half of America’s Murderers Get Away With It
Most crimes go unsolved, emboldening criminals and potentially leading to more violence.

Neue IW-Studie. Aber Achtung: Sample-Size nu 4000 Haushalte. Perzentile der Haushaltsnettovermögen (Alle Assets ex Schulden, Ÿ 2 Personen).
Artikel & Interaktive Graphik: https://www.finanzfluss.de/blog/wieviel-geld-sollte-man-gespart-haben/

A tightness criterion for fragmentations
Gabriel Berzunza Ojeda, Cecilia Holmgren, Svante Janson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05102 https://

A tightness criterion for fragmentations
This note presents a simple criterion for the tightness of stochastic fragmentation processes. Our work is motivated by an application to a fragmentation process derived from deleting edges in a conditioned Galton-Watson tree studied by Berzunza-Ojeda and Holmgren (2023). In that paper, while finite-dimensional convergence was established, the claimed functional convergence relied on Lemma 22 of Broutin and Marckert (2016), which is unfortunately incorrect. We show how our results can correct t…

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Überwachung: Strafverfolger setzen erneut mehr Staatstrojaner ein

Are BLS monthly numbers still trustworthy?
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/06/04/ADP-May-jobs-lowest-since-2023/8661749044732/

ADP: Private payrolls grew by 37,000 in May; lowest rate since 2023 - UPI.com
Private payroll company ADP Wednesday reported May private sector jobs growth of just 37,000 - the lowest in over two years.

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…

Profile of Dominick McGee, a right-wing X influencer who has amassed 1.5M followers and made $157K since 2023 by spending 11 hours daily posting about politics (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/technol

He’s a Master of Outrage on X. The Pay Isn’t Great.
An online creator went from a “nobody” to a conspiratorial sensation on X. What he gets in return is less clear.

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 Observations of Magnetic Reconnection During the Interaction Process of Two Active Region Filaments
Zongyin Wu, Zhike Xue, Xiaoli Yan, Jincheng Wang, Liheng Yang, Zhe Xu, Qiaoling Li, Yang Peng, Liping Yang, Yian Zhou, Xinsheng Zhang, Liufan Gong, Qifan Dong, Guotang Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05659

The Observations of Magnetic Reconnection During the Interaction Process of Two Active Region Filaments
We investigate the interaction between two filaments (F1 and F2) and their subsequent magnetic reconnection in active region (AR) NOAA 13296 and AR NOAA 13293 on May 9, 2023, utilizing high spatial and temporal resolution and multi-wavelength observational data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, the New Vacuum Solar Telescope, and the Chinese Hα Solar Explorer. The movement of F1 from the southeast toward the northwest, driven by the motion of the positive magnetic polarity (P1), leads to a …

A district court judge throws out SoundExchange's 2023 suit against SiriusXM, which had argued SoundExchange doesn't have the right to litigate royalty disputes (Stuart Dredge/Music Ally)
https://musically.com/2025/08/08/soundexchang…

SoundExchange’s SiriusXM lawsuit dismissed over right to litigate
SiriusXM lawsuit dismissed: court ruling indicates SoundExchange cannot litigate royalty disputes with digital music services.

📗 Cornford, F. M. (2023). Antes y Después de Sócrates (Edición de acceso abierto). [Publicación original: 1932].
https://archive.org/details/cornford-f.-m.-antes-y-despues-de-socrates-epl-fs-1932-2023
En "Antes y Después de

Cornford, F. M. Antes Y Después De Sócrates [EPL FS] [1932] [2023] : F. M. Cornford : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Edición digital ePubLibre, 2023. Ed. original 1932. Acceso abierto.

#PgBouncer is useful, important, and fraught with peril
https://jpcamara.com/2023/04/12/pgbouncer-is-useful.html

CB Insights: VCs and private equity firms poured $3.1B to fund 144 deals in the LA area in Q1 2025, up from $2.7B in Q1 2024 and $1.4B in Q1 2023 (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-06-06/venture-capital-…

Venture capital investment rises in L.A., and not just for AI startups
Venture capital investors and private equity firms poured $3.1 billion to fund 144 deals in the L.A. area in the first quarter of this year, up 15% from a year ago.

Energy spectrum and mass composition of the primary cosmic rays based on the intensity of muon bundles detected in the NEVOD-DECOR experiment
A. G. Bogdanov (National Research Nuclear University MEPhI Moscow Engineering Physics Institute Russia), A. Chiavassa (Dipartimento di Fisica Dell Universita Degli Studi di Torino Italy, Sezione di Torino Dell Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Italy), D. M. Gromushkin (National Research Nuclear University MEPhI Moscow Engineering Physics Inst…

Energy spectrum and mass composition of the primary cosmic rays based on the intensity of muon bundles detected in the NEVOD-DECOR experiment
The results of the analysis of the NEVOD-DECOR data on the study of inclined muon bundles (with zenith angles from 40 to 85 degrees) of cosmic rays for the period from 2012 to 2023 are presented. An original method for studying the muon component of extensive air showers, local muon density spectra, was used. The data are compared with the calculations based on the simulation of air showers using the CORSIKA program for different models of hadronic interactions. The estimates of the energy spec…

Distance restricted matching extensions in regular non-bipartite graphs
Jun Fujisawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04507 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.04507

Distance restricted matching extensions in regular non-bipartite graphs
Let $m$ and $r$ be integers with $m \ge r \ge 3$ and let $G$ be an $r$-regular graph of even order. Let $M$ be a matching in $G$ of size $m$ such that each pair of edges in $M$ is at distance at least $3$. In 2023, Aldred et al. proved that if $G$ is cyclically $(mr-r+1)$-edge-connected and $G$ is bipartite, then there exists a perfect matching of $G$ containing $M$. In this paper, we present non-bipartite analogues of Aldred et al.'s theorem. An odd ear of $U \subseteq V(G)$ is a path of odd l…

A Multi-stage Low-latency Enhancement System for Hearing Aids
Chengwei Ouyang, Kexin Fei, Haoshuai Zhou, Congxi Lu, Linkai Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04283 https://

A Multi-stage Low-latency Enhancement System for Hearing Aids
This paper proposes an end-to-end system for the ICASSP 2023 Clarity Challenge. In this work, we introduce four major novelties: (1) a novel multi-stage system in both the magnitude and complex domains to better utilize phase information; (2) an asymmetric window pair to achieve higher frequency resolution with the 5ms latency constraint; (3) the integration of head rotation information and the mixture signals to achieve better enhancement; (4) a post-processing module that achieves higher hear…

Apple says its design team will report to Tim Cook after Jeff Williams retires; Williams was overseeing the team following Evans Hankey's departure in 2023 (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/07/08/apple-design-team-tim-cook/

Apple design team to start reporting directly to Tim Cook later this year - 9to5Mac
Apple today announced that COO Jeff Williams will retire later this year, with Sabih Khan set to assume the COO...

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'`,…

The Python-based data-exfiltration utility used by the Cl0p ransomware group (commonly distributed as part of the toolset during the 2023 – 2024 MoveIt campaigns) constructs operating-system commands by directly concatenating attacker-supplied strings without input sanitization. An authenticated endpoint on the Cl0p operators’ staging/collection host passes file-or directory-names received from compromised machines straight into a shell-escape sequence. No official patch or cooperation from …

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}…

Tout va bien :
"Le nombre de cas de dépression et de burnout entraînant une incapacité de travail de plus d'un an a augmenté de 44% entre 2018 et 2023, selon les chiffres publiés lundi par l'Institut national d'assurance maladie-invalidité (INAMI)."
#santé

Disney closes its deal with Comcast to buy out NBCUniversal's 33% stake in Hulu, paying an additional $439M, after agreeing in 2023 to pay $8.61B (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Disney to Pay Comcast an Additional $439 Million for Hulu Stake as Streaming Saga Comes to an End
The Bob Iger-run entertainment giant agreed to buy the 33 percent stake in Hulu in 2023; after an extended appraisal process, the deal is finally set to close.

Ihmisen jalanjälki #luonto #ympäristö

Ihmisen jalanjälki
Miten ihmisen toiminta on vaikuttanut maapallon nykytilaan ja evoluutioon? Yhdysvaltalainen biologi Shane Campbell-Staton selvittää ihmisen jättämää jalanjälkeä maapallolla käyttäen esimerkkejä jokapäiväisestä elämästämme. (Human Footprint. Tuotanto: Days Edge Productions/PBS, Yhdysvallat 2023.)

Yes, it’s absurd.
LLMs don’t scale to reach “AGI”. That is mathematically proven[1], so it doesn’t matter how large your data center is.
But that’s not the main reason why this is absurd—as a society we shouldn’t spend these enormous resources and lasting environmental damage on this _even if it would work_.
[1] https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/09/17/debunking-agi-inevitability-claims/

Over the last couple of weeks I introduced you to our homeless stray cat Cinderella and her descendants Nele, Nepomuk and Nera. Today I'll show you the last one of our cats: say hello to Kasimir. He was also homeless, found by my brother 12 years ago. He moved together with us, when we relocated from Bavaria to the north-eastern corner of Germany in December 2023. Living alone with us for 10 years, it took a while until he became friend with the stray cats family.

KI krempelt vieles um. Es ist so einfach, wie nie, Content zu produzieren. Gleichzeitig bekommen wir durch die Veränderungen bei Google & Co. (allen voran durch die AI Overviews) immer weniger Klicks auf unseren Content. Persönlichkeit wird zum wichtigsten Unterscheidungsmerkmal, meint Judith Peters #Bloggen #KI

Monatsrückblick Mai 2025: Die KI-Explosion
ChatGPT hat Anfang 2023 unser Leben überrollt. Aber erst jetzt, ca. 2,5 Jahre später, habe ich das Gefühl: KI ist...

„The Explorers“ by Critikill
Platform: Amiga
Released: 26 August 2023
Note: 2nd in the Xenium 2023 Oldschool GFX competition
#GFX_Critikill #YR_2023 #PF_Amiga

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 458 nodes and 7613 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

T CrB - overview of the accretion history, Roche-lobe filling, orbital solution, and radiative modeling: #TCrB are mounting, initiated by the discovery in 2015 of a new enhanced mass-transfer phase (SAP), which is reminiscent of the one preceding the last recorded outburst in 1946. [...] SAP has been caused by an inside-out collapse of the disk, during which the mean accretion rate onto the WD has been ~28x larger than in quiescence. SAP ended in April 2023, but from May 2024 mass-flow has intensively resumed at disk inner radii while the collapse wave reached the outer portions of the disk; the consequent revamp in mass accretion could fill the gap inherited by the fainter 2015-2023 SAP and eventually lead the WD accreted shell to ignition."

Filing: Netflix UK distribution arm reports revenue of £1.85B for 2024, up 11% from 2023, and an 11% growth in average paid memberships (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/netflix-uk-revenue-surges-2-billion-profits-grow…

Netflix U.K. Revenue Surges to $2.4 Billion, Profits Grow
Netflix's U.K. arm delivered a strong performance in 2024, with revenue climbing 11% to $2.48 billion as the streaming giant continued its expansion.

The Incomplete Bridge: How AI Research (Mis)Engages with Psychology
Han Jiang, Pengda Wang, Xiaoyuan Yi, Xing Xie, Ziang Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22847 https://

The Incomplete Bridge: How AI Research (Mis)Engages with Psychology
Social sciences have accumulated a rich body of theories and methodologies for investigating the human mind and behaviors, while offering valuable insights into the design and understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. Focusing on psychology as a prominent case, this study explores the interdisciplinary synergy between AI and the field by analyzing 1,006 LLM-related papers published in premier AI venues between 2023 and 2025, along with the 2,544 psychology publications they cite. T…

The Entire Earth was Mysteriously Shaking Every 90 Seconds. Now, Scientists Know Why https://www.404media.co/the-entire-earth-was-mysteriously-shaking-every-90-seconds-now-scientists-know-why/

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.13191 has been replaced.
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Moment-sos and spectral hierarchies for polynomial optimization on the sphere and quantum de Finetti theorems
We revisit the convergence analysis of two approximation hierarchies for polynomial optimization on the unit sphere. The first one is based on the moment-sos approach and gives semidefinite bounds for which Fang and Fawzi (2021) showed an analysis in $O(1/r^2)$ for the r-th level bound, using the polynomial kernel method. The second hierarchy was recently proposed by Lovitz and Johnston (2023) and gives spectral bounds for which they show a convergence rate in $O(1/r)$, using a quantum de Finet…

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Kinetic approximation for equations of discrete turbulence in the subcritical case
We consider a damped/driven cubic NLS equation on a torus under the limit when first the amplitude of solutions goes to zero and then the period of the torus goes to infinity. We suggest another proof of the kinetic approximation for the energy spectrum under a subcritical scaling, extending to the exact solutions result obtained in [Dymov, Kuksin, Maiocchi, Vladuts '2023] for quasisolutions which were defined as the second order truncations of decompositions for the solutions in amplitude. The…

X-ray Polarization Detection of the Pulsar Wind Nebula in G21.5-0.9 with IXPE
Niccol\`o Di Lalla, Nicola Omodei, Niccol\`o Bucciantini, Jack T. Dinsmore, Nicol\`o Cibrario, Stefano Silvestri, Josephine Wong, Patrick Slane, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Michela Negro, Roger W. Romani, Riccardo Ferrazzoli, Stephen Chi-Yung Ng, Miltiadis Michailidis, Yi-Jung Yang, Fei Xie, Martin C. Weisskopf, Philip Kaaret, Iv\'an Agudo, L. A. Antonelli, Matteo Bachetti, Luca Baldini, Wayne H. Baumgartner, Ronal…

X-ray Polarization Detection of the Pulsar Wind Nebula in G21.5-0.9 with IXPE
We present the X-ray polarization observation of G21.5-0.9, a young Galactic supernova remnant (SNR), conducted with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) in October 2023, with a total livetime of approximately 837 ks. Using different analysis methods, such as a space-integrated study of the entire region of the PWN and a space-resolved polarization map, we detect significant polarization from the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) at the center of the SNR, with an average polarization degree of …

On Apl 4, 2023 I watched
𝗕𝗔𝗬𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗖𝗛 Season 6 Episode 19 “𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗯𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗲: 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝟭” 22 Apr 96 #PamelaAnderson #AlexandraPaul #DavidCharvet

2021: There is no #AI, I'm doing my own laundry.
2023: CEOs are saying that AI is coming and will do your laundry.
2025: There is AI. I'm still doing my own laundry.
2027?: I'm doing the AI's laundry.

Discovery and dynamics of a Sedna-like object with a perihelion of 66 au
Ying-Tung Chen, Patryk Sofia Lykawka, Yukun Huang, JJ Kavelaars, Wesley C. Fraser, Michele T. Bannister, Shiang-Yu Wang, Chan-Kao Chang, Matthew J. Lehner, Fumi Yoshida, Brett Gladman, Mike Alexandersen, Edward Ashton, Young-Jun Choi, A. Paula Granados Contreras, Takashi Ito, Youngmin JeongAhn, Jianghui Ji, Myung-Jin Kim, Samantha M. Lawler, Jian Li, Zhong-Yi Lin, Hong-Kyu Moon, Surhud More, Marco Mu\~noz-Guti\…

Discovery and dynamics of a Sedna-like object with a perihelion of 66 au
Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) with large perihelion distances ($q > 60$ au) and semi-major axes ($a > 200$ au) provide insights into the early evolution of the solar system and the existence of a hypothetical distant planet. These objects are still rare and their detection is challenging, yet they play a crucial role in constraining models of solar system formation. Here we report the discovery of a Sedna-like TNO, 2023\,KQ$_{14}$, nicknamed `Ammonite', with $q = 66$ au, $a = 252$ au, and incl…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Love and Rockets:
🎵 No New Tale to Tell (Remastered 2023)
#LoveandRockets
https://loveandrockets.bandcamp.com/track/no-new-tale-to-tell
https://open.spotify.com/track/2HkFBa2tIfhQTjacNPrNNN

Avara luonto: Pohjanmeri ja Itämeri #luonto

Avara luonto: Pohjanmeri ja Itämeri
Sarjassa perehdytään myrskyisän Pohjanmeren ja matalan Itämeren luontoon ja ilmaston lämpenemisen tuomiin uusiin haasteisiin. Miten mm. kalat, linnut, hylkeet ja kasvit pärjäävät muuttuvissa olosuhteissa? (Seas in Motion, Tuotanto: Doclights/NDR/ARD/Arte/Terra Mater, Saksa 2023.)

Subtle Drama
#MellowMusic #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2023/subtle-drama-

Subtle Drama #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00493 has been replaced.
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Asteroseismology of the G8 subgiant beta Aquilae with SONG-Tenerife, SONG-Australia and TESS
We present radial velocities of the G8 subgiant star beta Aql obtained in 2022 and 2023 using SONG-Tenerife and SONG-Australia. We also analysed a sector of TESS photometry that overlapped with the 2022 SONG data. We processed the time series to assign weights and to remove bad data points. The power spectrum clearly shows solar-like oscillations centred at 430 muHz. The TESS data show the oscillations at lower signal-to-noise because photometric measurements are much more affected by the granu…

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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…

"Finding Bliss"
#MellowMusic #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2023/finding-bliss

Finding Bliss #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

A former employee says fewer than 10,000 people use Ola Krutrim's LLM chatbot, which supports 10 Indian languages, and that over 60% of them are random testers (Swathi Moorthy/The Economic Times)
https://

Krutrim finds few takers for its LLMs and cloud products
Ola founder Aggarwal first announced Krutrim in December 2023, launching an LLM that could support 10 Indian languages, starting with Krutrim chatbot in February 2024, and cloud offering shortly after. Two founders told ET recently that repeated sign-in attempts were blocked by a persistent “logged out of session” error, making sign-up via mobile or Gmail difficult.

In Memory Of Tom
Inspired by the life of a mentor and friend...
#PianoImprov #NowPlaying
https://muz4no…

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

Full Stokes magnetometry of the active M dwarfs AU Mic and EV Lac with SPIRou
J. -F. Donati, P. I. Cristofari, B. Klein, B. Finociety, C. Moutou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01754

Full Stokes magnetometry of the active M dwarfs AU Mic and EV Lac with SPIRou
We report in this paper circularly and linearly polarized observations of the young active M dwarfs AU Mic and EV Lac with the near-infrared SPIRou spectropolarimeter at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, collected from August to October 2023 over a few rotation cycles of both stars. Applying Least-Squares Deconvolution (LSD) to our spectra, we detected Zeeman signatures in circular (Stokes V) and linear (Stokes QU) polarization, and Zeeman broadening in unpolarized (Stokes I) LSD profiles, al…

X-ray observations of Nova Sco 2023: Spectroscopic evidence of charge exchange
Sharon Mitrani, Ehud Behar, Marina Orio, Jack Worley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02465

X-ray observations of Nova Sco 2023: Spectroscopic evidence of charge exchange
The super-soft source (SSS) phase of a nova eruption, observed a few days after the outburst, usually displays an absorbed X-ray thermal continuum with absorption features, emitted by the white dwarf (WD) atmosphere. However, the X-ray spectra of many novae in this phase display additional emission lines which likely originate from shocks in the novae ejecta. When the shocked plasma interacts with cold gas, narrow radiative recombination continua (RRCs) and charge exchange (CX) emission are obs…

A Tale of Two Shocks
Robert F. Wimmer-Schweingruber, Domenico Trotta, Rungployphan Kieokaew, Liu Yang, Alexander Kollhoff, Lars Berger, Patrick K\"uhl, Stephan I. B\"ottcher, Bernd Heber, Philippe Louarn, Andrey Fedorov, Javier Rodriguez-Pacheco, Ra\'ul G\'omez-Herrero, Francisco Espinosa Lara, Ignacio Cernuda, Yulia Kartavykh, Linghua Wang, George C. Ho, Robert C. Allen, Glenn M. Mason, Zheyi Ding, Andrea Larosa, G. Sindhuja, Sandra Eldrum, Sebastian Fleth, David Lar…

A Tale of Two Shocks
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, . . . - for the thermal/suprathermal particle populations in the vicinity of two traveling interplanetary shocks observed by Solar Orbiter on 2023-11-29 07:51:17 UTC and 2023-11-30 10:47:26 UTC at $\sim 0.83$ astronomical units from the Sun. We investigate these two very dissimilar shocks and elucidate their non-equilibrium features. We do not provide explanations of all observed features, our aim is to report them here for future reference…

Energy-dependent anisotropy of cosmic-ray muons: A twelve-year study with IceCube Neutrino Observatory
Nabin Upadhya Dhakal, Nabin Bhusal, Manjeet Kunwar, Manil Khatiwada, Shiv Narayan Yadav
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01194

Energy-dependent anisotropy of cosmic-ray muons: A twelve-year study with IceCube Neutrino Observatory
We present a comprehensive, energy-resolved study of cosmic-ray muon anisotropy using 12 years (2011-2023) of data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, comprising 7.92 x 10^11 events in the 13 TeV to 5.3 PeV energy range. Dividing the spectrum at log-scale energy 5 GeV, we contrast low- and high-energy anisotropy features via sidereal modulation, angular profiles, Fourier analysis, and full-sky HEALPix mapping. Gaussian and power-law fits to energy distributions are evaluated using chi-square…

Juneteenth - what you and I need to know https://muz4now.com/2023/juneteenth-what-you-and-i-need-to-know/

Juneteenth - what you and I need to know
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Daily fluctuations propagate damply through a black hole accretion disk
Han He, Yi Long, Bei You, Fu-Guo Xie, Zhen Yan, Andrzej A. Zdziarski, Sai-En Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01384

Daily fluctuations propagate damply through a black hole accretion disk
Propagating fluctuations within accretion disks are known to induce multi-wavelength variability across diverse timescales. While these fluctuations have been widely invoked to explain rapid timing phenomena within the inner disk region in the frequency domain, observational signatures of outer-disk fluctuations propagating in the time domain remain sparse. Here, we present an analysis of observations by the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT) during the 2023 outburst of the newly discovered…

Phase II of the LAMOST-Kepler/K2 Survey. II. Time Domain of Medium-resolution Spectroscopic Observations from 2018 to 2023
Mingfeng Qin, Jian-Ning Fu, Weikai Zong, Peter De Cat, Antonio Frasca, Tianqi Cang, Jiangtao Wang, Jianrong Shi, Ali Luo, Haotong Zhang, Hongliang Yan, J. Molenda- \.Zakowicz, R. O. Gray, Jiaxin Wang
https://arxiv.org/…

Phase II of the LAMOST-Kepler/K2 Survey. II. Time Domain of Medium-resolution Spectroscopic Observations from 2018 to 2023
The LAMOST-Kepler/K2 Medium-Resolution Spectroscopic Survey (LK-MRS) conducted time-domain medium-resolution spectroscopic observations of 20 LAMOST plates in the Kepler and K2 fields from 2018 to 2023, a phase designated as LK-MRS-I. A catalog of stellar parameters for a total of 36,588 stars, derived from the spectra collected during these five years, including the effective temperature, the surface gravity, the metallicity, the α-element abundance, the radial velocity, and v sin i of the ta…

A second security breach at Tea exposes more than 1.1M user messages, dating from early 2023 to as recently as last week, many containing sensitive information (404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/a-second-tea-breach-reveals-users-dms-about-abortion…

A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating
The more than one million messages obtained by 404 Media are as recent as last week, discuss incredibly sensitive topics, and make it trivial to unmask some anonymous Tea users.

Flexport announces it is selling Convoy's tech to DAT Freight & Analytics, after acquiring the digital freight startup's tech stack in late 2023 (John Kingston/FreightWaves)
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/less-tha

Less than 2 years after Flexport bought Convoy’s tech stack, it’s being sold to DAT
Flexport is selling the Convy tech stack to DAT, less than two years after it bought it from the defunct digital brokerage.

WGA West report: the number of members reporting earnings fell 9.4% YoY in 2024, while total earnings rose 12.7% to $1.5B in the same period, below 2022's $1.9B (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

TV and Film Writing Jobs Grew More Scarce, Even If Earnings Were Up Slightly in 2024
The annual tally from the Writers Guild West shows that its members may have made slightly more money overall than during the 148-day strike year of 2023, but there's fewer jobs available.

Google says it revised its Android Earthquake Alerts algorithm after it failed to send the highest-level Take Action warnings to 10M people in Turkey in 2023 (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c77v2kx304go

Google failed to warn 10 million of Turkey earthquake severity
The tech giant said only 469 serious warnings were sent out ahead of the 7.8 magnitude quake.