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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

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…

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

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
The Counts:
🎵 What's Up Front That Counts
#TheCounts
https://thecounts.bandcamp.com/album/whats-up-front-that-counts-2023-remastered
https://open.spotify.com/track/3e43HPCyyPpU1erpmVtZer

DreamState - Awakening - #DreamState #NowPlaying https://muz4now.com/2023/dreamstate-aw

DreamState - Awakening - #DreamState #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

This band Ultra Lights are often described as "90s slacker rock". To my ears, upon hearing this, I thought it was a new Soft Pack (aka Muslims) album lol
https://www.ultralightsband.com/

Ultra Lights
Rainbow Vision is a planner brand and creative consulting practice by Leela Hoehn. After 10+ years of building and expanding the Rainbow Vision paper and gift brand Leela condensed the line down to a handful of favorites in 2023. Rainbow Vision is based out of Atlanta, GA

Classical density functional theory for nanoparticle-laden droplets
Melih G\"ul, Andrew J Archer, Benjamin D Goddard, Roland Roth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04149 https://

Classical density functional theory for nanoparticle-laden droplets
Droplets of a pure fluid, such as water, in an open container surrounded by gas, are thermodynamically unstable and evaporate quickly. In a recent paper [Archer et al. J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 159}, 194403 (2023)] we employed lattice density functional theory (DFT) to demonstrate that nanoparticles or solutes dissolved in a liquid droplet can make it thermodynamically stable against evaporation. In this study, we extend our model by using continuum DFT, which allows for a more accurate description o…

SEC filing: Versant, preparing for a Nasdaq IPO, reports 2024 revenue of $7B, down from $7.4B in 2023, and 2024 net income of $1.4B, down from $1.5B in 2023 (Sarah Whitten/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/18/comcast-versant-annual-profit-public.html

Comcast spinoff Versant reports declining annual profit as it prepares to go public
Versant will trade on the Nasdaq under the ticker "VSNT" after its separation from Comcast.

In 2023, I wrote an article about two Bioenergy-with-CCS 🌲🔥🍃 (BECCS) projects in Denmark🇩🇰, which is somewhat timely given recent news.
It was published on the shipping news page Fathom World, which is no longer online, so I have republished it.
Back then, Ørsted announced plans for carbon capture and storage at two of its bioenergy power plants (Asnæsværket and AvedŸreværket). 🧵

Denmark's biomass plants become part of carbon dioxide shipping project
Ørsted plans to ship carbon emissions from two of its biomass-fired power plants in Denmark to the Northern Lights project in Norway.

Unprecedented marine heat waves amplified record-breaking 2023 East Asian summer, study finds #Asia

Unprecedented marine heat waves amplified record-breaking 2023 East Asian summer, study finds
In the summer of 2023, East Asia, including Japan, experienced record-breaking temperatures and humidity, accompanied by unprecedented marine heat waves in the surrounding seas. Although the simultaneous occurrence of atmospheric and marine heat waves has drawn global attention in recent years, the mechanisms through which the 2023 marine heat waves influenced land-based heat waves and the magnitude of this influence have remained unclear.

On Thursday, I wrote a piece saying that Scattered Spider/ShinyHunters etc. were having a banner week, with so many news announcements connected to their hacks.
Then on Friday, news came down that the UK busted two of the top Scattered Spider hackers, and now this.
https://www.

Teen Suspect Surrenders in 2023 Las Vegas Casino Cyberattack Case
A teenage boy suspected of involvement in the 2023 cyberattacks that disrupted the two largest Las Vegas casino companies has surrendered to authorities, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD).   The suspect, whose name has not been released due to his status as a minor, is currently being held at the Clark

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…

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 409 nodes and 8557 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

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 …

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

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…

UK Home Heating Decarbonisation Seminar Presentation (2023-08) - Short talk on UK home heating and Net Zero. #PhD #heating #research -

UK Home Heating Decarbonisation Seminar Presentation (2023-08)
Short talk on UK home heating and Net Zero. #PhD #heating #research

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

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

Apple raises the price of Apple TV in the US and some markets globally after previously raising the price in 2023; in the US, the price will rise $3 to $12.99 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/apple-tv-plus-price-increa…

Apple TV+ Price Increase: Service Now Costs $13 per Month in U.S.
Apple TV+ is bumping up its price by 30%: For U.S. customers, it will now be $12.99 per month, up from $9.99.

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.09.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen

Apple raises the price of Apple TV in the US and some markets globally after previously raising the price in 2023; in the US, the price will rise $3 to $12.99 (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/08/21/apple-tv-subscription-price-increase/

Apple TV+ subscription price increasing to $12.99 per month from today - 9to5Mac
Apple today announced that the monthly price of Apple TV+ is rising in the United States and some international markets....

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…

„Fingerbanger“ by Optic
Platform: Amiga
Released: 21 January 2023
Specification: 320x256px, 32 colors
Note: 2nd in the Gerp 2023 Amiga Graphics competition
#GFX_Optic #YR_2023 #PF_Amiga

I liked the premise of this The Dig podcast, that it was going to tell me why Chicago's left-wing mayor is seemingly so unpopular, but it's very in the weeds and didn't provide much of an overview of the issues. Feels like it's only for people who are already Chicago politics junkies
https://

A judge in Michigan dismissed the felony charges against a slate of electors who falsely signed on to documents claiming Donald Trump won the 2020 election
in the latest blow to efforts to hold the president and his allies accountable for attempting to overturn the results of the White House race he lost to Joe Biden.
Sixteen people were initially charged with eight felonies each related to forgery and conspiracy by the Democratic attorney general, Dana Nessel, in 2023,
tho…

AlF-AlF sticking time and prospects for ultracold dimers
Mahmoud A. E. Ibrahim, Mateo Londo\~no, Jes\'us P\'erez-R\'ios
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00676 https://

Solopreneurs – choosing your web presence #freelancer #musicbiz https://muz4now.com/2023/solopreneurs-

Solopreneurs - choosing your web presence
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

The FTC's 2023 lawsuit against Amazon goes to trial this week, alleging it used misleading tactics to entice people into Prime and made cancellation difficult (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/is-amazon-pri

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…

Interdependence Themes for Independence Day #community #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2023/interdependen…

Interdependence Themes for Independence Day
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

The Guardian reports revenue in the year to March up 7% YoY to £276M, losses down £24M from £37M the year prior, and 1.3M "recurring supporters" online, up 13% (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_busin…

Guardian reports bumper year for digital reader revenue
The Guardian has reported a bumper year for digital reader revenue, up by 22% from £88m in 2023/2024 to £107m in the year to March 2025.

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'`,…

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-…

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

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
Wet Leg:
🎵 Ur Mum - Reading 2023
#WetLeg

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
The 1975:
🎵 Chocolate - Reading 2023
#The1975
https://open.spotify.com/track/4WiiRw2PHMNQE0ad6y6GdD

Get Ready for the Final Blast of DreamState Art #dreams #inspiration #inspired #listen

Get Ready for the Final Blast of DreamState Art
Stan Stewart - @muz4now