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BEHOLD @… VICTORIOUS https://cabel.com/2023/03/27/apple-passwords-deserve-an-app/

Apple Passwords Deserve An App
First, let’s consider three random tweets: They already have. They definitely should. They seemingly won’t… but why? We all know that Apple has nice built-in password management in macO…

https://lukegeeson.com/blog/2023-10-17-A-Proposal-For-Relaxed-Atomics/ - A proposed fix for C/C relaxed atomics in practice.

Bonjour chers Français ! Je ne connais rien Š la politique. Pourtant, j'ai déjŠ rencontré Manon Aubry (La France Insoumise). Elle était très gentille.
Lorsque je l’ai rencontrée Š Bruxelles en 2023, elle était la seule parlementaire Š soutenir en personne le « Supply Chain Act » / CSDDD.
Au Parlement européen, LFI travaille en collaboration avec mon parti politique (DIE LINKE) Š travers la fraction parlementaire « THE LEFT ». Manon Aubry est la c…

If you are eligible to vote and haven't already, remember to vote in the #EuropeanParliamentElection for a party committed to #ClimateAction

A lot is at stake. Much of what you care about - be it access to he…

If you are eligible to vote and haven't already, remember to vote in the #EuropeanParliamentElection for a party committed to #ClimateAction

A lot is at stake. Much of what you care about - be it access to he…

😱"Pedestrians are viewed as speed bumps"
From: @…
https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/112583573456735176

AI6YR Ben (@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)
Attached: 1 image @va7tz@mastodon.radio @jbaggs@infosec.exchange @davidho@mastodon.world In Arizona in 2022, 1888 crashes involving pedestrians. 302 pedestrians killed, 1669 pedestrians injured. https://azdot.gov/sites/default/files/2023-07/2022-Crash-Facts.pdf

@…: Wieso zeigt https://wahlen.zdf.de/ zuoberst Ergebnisse von Landtagswahlen im Oktober 2023? 🤨

Wahlen im ZDF
Informationen zu den wichtigsten Wahlen.

If anyone needs a cozy and warm article for today: "Spirited Away to Miyazaki Land"
by Sam Anderson https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/14/magazine/hayao-miyazaki-ghibli-park.html
I thought what adjectives to use to describe the ar…

A Visit to Ghibli Park, a Miyazaki Theme Park
What happens when the surreal imagination of the world’s greatest living animator, Hayao Miyazaki, is turned into a theme park?

Didn't Martha Stewart do time for something similar?
Elon Musk accused of improperly selling $7.5 billion in Tesla stock before weak sales report - ABC7 Los Angeles
https://abc7.com/post/elon-musk-accused-improperly-selling-75-billio…

Elon Musk accused of improperly selling $7.5 billion in Tesla stock before weak sales report
Elon Musk and the Tesla board are facing a shareholder suit over his sale of $7.5 billion worth of Tesla shares in late 2022, ahead of a January 2023 sales report that sent the price of the stock plunging.

Why am I not surprised?
https://abc11.com/post/elon-musk-accused-improperly-selling-75-billion-tesla/14917474/

Asklé B&B Corner
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Podcast: Asklé B&B Corner Host: Will Slater and Stephanie Slater Category: Health & Fitness Sub-Category: Entrepreneurship, Parenting & Pregnancy & Families First Episode: 2023 Welcome to Asklé B&

Uncovering a Critical Vulnerability in Authentik's PKCE Implementation (CVE-2023-48228) | Offensity https://www.offensity.com/en/blog/uncovering-a-critical-vulnerability-in-authentiks-pkce-implementation-cve-2023-48228/

Cowboys' Mazi Smith dubbed 'biggest draft miss' of 2023 rookie class https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_mazi_smith_dubbed_biggest_draft_miss_of_2023_rookie_class/s1_17313_40457216…

Cowboys' Mazi Smith dubbed 'biggest draft miss' of 2023 rookie class
On the latest "A to Z Sports Film Room" episode, NFL draft analysts Destin Adams and James Foster broke down how 2023 NFL Draft picks from No. 17 to No. 32 performed in Year 1.  The Dallas Cowboys fell in that range as they turned to Michigan defensive tackle Mazi Smith with the 26th overall pick last year.  And according to Foster and Adams, Smith's rookie year gets a disappointing D-.   "There's not a whole lot of positives that you can take away from his rookie season and at this point, d…

Good morning friends 🙋
One more photo from last year's hike.
I took this right after the last photo. After the path bent around the rocks, it went rather even with a very light incline along this side of the ridge.
This great view ahead, I just went on to see how far I could go in reasonable time.
I knew it would become chill quickly with the sun going down

A Mid-November Sunday Adventure
A spontaneous Sunday unfolded into a picturesque adventure of biking and hiking. The crisp mid-November air led me to a summit, a hidden meadow bathed in sunshine and tranquility. It felt like a moment frozen in time, urging me to extend the journey and embrace the unexpected beauty of the day.

Perfect Dark reboot looks interesting. I only just remembered that the original took place in the futuristic setting of 2023.

Pro Bowler David Njoku teases Browns' new offense under Ken Dorsey: 'It is juicy'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/pro-bowler-d…

Pro Bowler David Njoku teases Browns' new offense under Ken Dorsey: 'It is juicy'
The veteran TE enjoyed career-high production under former OC Alex Van Pelt in 2023

Sliding Window 3-Objective Pareto Optimization for Problems with Chance Constraints
Frank Neumann, Carsten Witt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04899 https://…

Sliding Window 3-Objective Pareto Optimization for Problems with Chance Constraints
Constrained single-objective problems have been frequently tackled by evolutionary multi-objective algorithms where the constraint is relaxed into an additional objective. Recently, it has been shown that Pareto optimization approaches using bi-objective models can be significantly sped up using sliding windows (Neumann and Witt, ECAI 2023). In this paper, we extend the sliding window approach to $3$-objective formulations for tackling chance constrained problems. On the theoretical side, we sh…

GR-Athena : magnetohydrodynamical evolution with dynamical space-time
Boris Daszuta, William Cook
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.05126 https://

GR-Athena++: magnetohydrodynamical evolution with dynamical space-time
We present a self-contained overview of GR-Athena++, a general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) code, that incorporates treatment of dynamical space-time, based on the recent work of (Daszuta+, 2021)[49] and (Cook+, 2023)[45]. General aspects of the Athena++ framework we build upon, such as oct-tree based, adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) and constrained transport, together with our modifications, incorporating the Z4c formulation of numerical relativity, judiciously coupled, enables G…

Former astronaut William #Anders, who took iconic #Earthrise photo, has died in Washington plane crash: #Apollo8.)

How many people you know took a plane to their holidays this year?
https://fediscience.org/@OceanTerra/112568015758721495

Dr Sam Burgess 🌊 🌍 💸 (@OceanTerra@fediscience.org)
Attached: 3 images Every single month in the last 12 months has broken temperature records for the respective month. For ocean surface temperatures - it's now a 14 month streak If we choose to continue to add greenhouse gases to the atmosphere then 2023/4 will soon look like a cool year, in a similar way to how 2015/6 now appears More: https://climate.copernicus.eu/press-releases #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction

Maxx Crosby seemingly takes a dig at LeBron James for taking the ‘easy road traveled’ as he admits being a ‘Raider for life’ https://www.yardbarker.com/general_sports/

Ukraine kauft französisches Flugabwehrsystem
Der französische Rüstungskonzern Thales verkauft ein zweites Luftabwehrsystem an die Ukraine. Nach der Lieferung eines ersten Luftabwehrsystems an die Ukraine im Jahr 2023 erwerbe das ukrainische Verteidigungsministerium ein zweites System, teilte das Unternehmen mit, ohne einen Kaufpreis zu nennen.
Die Unterzeichnung des Vertrags wurde am Rande eines Besuchs des ukrainischen Präs…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Ukraine kauft französisches Flugabwehrsystem ++
Der französische Rüstungskonzern Thales verkauft ein weiteres Luftabwehrsystem an die Ukraine. Russische Besatzer sprechen von zahlreichen Toten nach einem ukrainischen Angriff. Die Entwicklungen im Liveblog.

On Website Technicals (2023-03) - Tech updates: reducing storage writes from logging, slow random. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-70.html

On Website Technicals (2023-03)
Tech updates: reducing storage writes from logging, slow random.

Didn't Martha Stewart do time for something similar?
Elon Musk accused of improperly selling $7.5 billion in Tesla stock before weak sales report - ABC7 Los Angeles
https://abc7.com/post/elon-musk-accused-improperly-selling-75-billio…

Elon Musk accused of improperly selling $7.5 billion in Tesla stock before weak sales report
Elon Musk and the Tesla board are facing a shareholder suit over his sale of $7.5 billion worth of Tesla shares in late 2022, ahead of a January 2023 sales report that sent the price of the stock plunging.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.13554 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_…

The Influencer Next Door: How Misinformation Creators Use GenAI
Advances in generative AI (GenAI) have raised concerns about detecting and discerning AI-generated content from human-generated content. Most existing literature assumes a paradigm where 'expert' organized disinformation creators and flawed AI models deceive 'ordinary' users. Based on longitudinal ethnographic research with misinformation creators and consumers between 2022-2023, we instead find that GenAI supports bricolage work, where non-experts increasingly use GenAI to remix, repackage, an…

2023 retro-link! https://www.itu.int/hub/publication/s-gen-news-2023-2/ - ITU News Magazine: The future of Coordinated Universal Time.

Asklé B&B Corner
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Podcast: Asklé B&B Corner Host: Will Slater and Stephanie Slater Category: Health & Fitness Sub-Category: Entrepreneurship, Parenting & Pregnancy & Families First Episode: 2023 Welcome to Asklé B&

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11610 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Note on Min-k-Planar Drawings of Graphs
The k-planar graphs, which are (usually with small values of k such as 1, 2, 3) subject to recent intense research, admit a drawing in which edges are allowed to cross, but each one edge is allowed to carry at most k crossings. In recently introduced [Binucci et al., GD 2023] min-k-planar drawings of graphs, edges may possibly carry more than k crossings, but in any two crossing edges, at least one of the two must have at most k crossings. In both concepts, one may consider general drawings or …

Effect of Rotation on Wave Mixing in Intermediate Mass Stars
A. Varghese, R. P. Ratnasingam, R. Vanon, P. V. F. Edelmann, S. Mathis, T. M. Rogers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04403 …

Effect of Rotation on Wave Mixing in Intermediate Mass Stars
Internal gravity waves (IGWs) are likely to cause mixing in stellar interiors. Studies show that the mixing by these waves changes drastically across age and mass (Varghese et al. 2023, arXiv:2211.06432). Here, we study the effect of rotation on this wave mixing by considering a 7 M$_{\odot}$ model at ZAMS and midMS. We compare the mixing profiles at a range of rotation rates ($1\times 10^{-5}$, $2\times 10^{-5}$, $3\times 10^{-5}$, $4\times 10^{-5}$ and $1\times 10^{-4}$ rad.s$^{-1}$) and obse…

Good morning friends 🙋
One more photo from last year's hike.
I took this right after the last photo. After the path bent around the rocks, it went rather even with a very light incline along this side of the ridge.
This great view ahead, I just went on to see how far I could go in reasonable time.
I knew it would become chill quickly with the sun going down

A Mid-November Sunday Adventure
A spontaneous Sunday unfolded into a picturesque adventure of biking and hiking. The crisp mid-November air led me to a summit, a hidden meadow bathed in sunshine and tranquility. It felt like a moment frozen in time, urging me to extend the journey and embrace the unexpected beauty of the day.

Quantitative convergence guarantees for the mean-field dispersion process
Fei Cao, Jincheng Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.05043 https://

Quantitative convergence guarantees for the mean-field dispersion process
We study the dispersion process on the complete graph introduced in the recent work \cite{de_dispersion_2023} under the mean-field framework. In contrast to the probabilistic approach taken in \cite{de_dispersion_2023} and many other related works, our focus is on the investigation of the large time behavior of solutions of the associated kinetic mean-field system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODEs). We establish various analytical and quantitative convergence results for the lo…

Sliding Window 3-Objective Pareto Optimization for Problems with Chance Constraints
Frank Neumann, Carsten Witt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04899 https://…

Sliding Window 3-Objective Pareto Optimization for Problems with Chance Constraints
Constrained single-objective problems have been frequently tackled by evolutionary multi-objective algorithms where the constraint is relaxed into an additional objective. Recently, it has been shown that Pareto optimization approaches using bi-objective models can be significantly sped up using sliding windows (Neumann and Witt, ECAI 2023). In this paper, we extend the sliding window approach to $3$-objective formulations for tackling chance constrained problems. On the theoretical side, we sh…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.13017 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_sta…

W-kernel and essential subspace for frequencist evaluation of Bayesian estimators
The posterior covariance matrix W defined by the log-likelihood of each observation plays important roles both in the sensitivity analysis and frequencist evaluation of the Bayesian estimators. This study is focused on the matrix W and its principal space; we term the latter as an essential subspace. A key tool for treating frequencist properties is the recently proposed Bayesian infinitesimal jackknife approximation (Giordano and Broderick (2023)). The matrix W can be interpreted as a reproduc…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18177 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@…

Lindblad dynamics from spatio-temporal correlation functions in nonintegrable spin-1/2 chains with different boundary conditions
We investigate the Lindblad equation in the context of boundary-driven magnetization transport in spin-$1/2$ chains. Our central question is whether the nonequilibrium steady state of the open system, including its buildup in time, can be described on the basis of the dynamics in the closed system. To this end, we rely on a previous work [Phys. Rev. B 108, L201119 (2023)], where a description in terms of spatio-temporal correlation functions has been suggested in the case of weak driving and sm…

Dallas Cowboys Tyler Guyton Showing Off Elite Work Ethic Ahead Of 2024 Season https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/dallas_cowboys_tyler_guyton_showing_off_elite_work_ethic_ahead_of_2024_season/s1_…

Dallas Cowboys Tyler Guyton Showing Off Elite Work Ethic Ahead Of 2024 Season
The Dallas Cowboys are gearing up for a make-or-break season in 2024. They won the NFC East last year but were shellacked in the Wild Card round by the Green Bay Packers. In the offseason, the team has not done much and the 2024 squad will look much like the 2023 squad. One big area of change is on the offensive line. Eight-time Pro Bowl left tackle Tyron Smith is gone and rookie Tyler Guyton is likely to get the spot. He is already showing off his elite work ethic in practice. The Dallas Cowbo…

Back in the 70s and 80s people used to say "Kids are growing up so much faster these days"
I have no idea if it was true back then.
but people just keep saying it, despite the fact that in 2023 it's plain as day that the opposite is true.

The two Cowboys Micah Parsons expects to take All-Pro jumps in the 2024 NFL season https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/the_two_cowboys_micah_parsons_expects_to_take_all_pro_jumps_in_the_2024…

The two Cowboys Micah Parsons expects to take All-Pro jumps in the 2024 NFL season
When discussing the Dallas Cowboys' free agency approach in 2024, superstar edge rusher Micah Parsons didn't hesitate to throw the company line to media members, claiming he understood with the big contracts coming up for the franchise made things financially complicated for the front office. Instead, he pointed toward the mindset of the team having enough talent, emphasizing the team had multiple All-Pros in 2023. The Cowboys had nine including the second-team. Additionally, Parsons believes t…

Heart Power Podcast
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Heart Power | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Heart Power Podcast Host: Saskia Düsselberg Category: Arts Sub-Category: Self-Improvement & Advice, Spirituality First Episode: 2023 Heart-based teachings with host Saskia Düsselberg…

Putin claims Russia has almost 700,000 soldiers fighting in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/06/14/putin-claims-russia.html

TechInsights: Nvidia shipped ~3.76M data center GPUs in 2023, up from 2.64M in 2022; the total data center GPU market was 3.85M in 2023, up from ~2.67M in 2022 (Agam Shah/HPCwire)
https://www.hpcwire.com/2024/06/10/nvidia-

Nvidia Shipped 3.76 Million Data-center GPUs in 2023, According to Study
Nvidia had an explosive 2023 in data-center GPU shipments, which totaled roughly 3.76 million units, according to a study conducted by semiconductor analyst firm TechInsights. Nvidia’s GPU shipments in 2023 […]

Geen "tsunami" dus.... "Het aantal migranten in 2023 is dus gedaald. Het aantal mensen dat voor asiel naar Nederland kwam was volgens het rapport relatief klein" https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/06/14/17-procent-minder-migranten-in-202…

17 procent minder migranten in 2023
Migratie: Het ministerie van Justitie en Veiligheid heeft een rapport uitgebracht waarin de staat van migratie in 2024 wordt behandeld. Onder andere cijfers en beleid betrekking tot migratie komen erin terug.

The Institute for Nonprofit News survey of 346 member outlets for 2023: 71% of outlets are digital-first, about 33% reported declines in web traffic, and more (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org…

“Neither feast nor famine”: In 2023, nonprofit news continued to grow — but the audience picture is more complicated
While the sector is still growing, that growth is slowing, by some metrics. And audience data for 2023 shows that across all outlets surveyed, average monthly web traffic fell.

Firma aus Bayern entwickelt neues Klausuren-Download-System für NRW
Neue Software soll den Download von Abiturklausuren in NRW verbessern. Eine Firma aus München soll das Problem nach der Panne 2023 nun richten.

My weekly photo-essay contribution to the blog Balloon Juice.
https://balloon-juice.com/2024/06/17/on-the-road-albatrossity-costa-rica-week-3-flowers-and-butterflies/

Balloon Juice - On The Road - Albatrossity - Costa Rica — Week 3, Flowers and Butterflies
It’s Albatrossity Monday!  No birbs, but we do get flowers!  Then we have the last of frosty’s 2022 national park trips from 2022 – pssst, frost, is it time to move into 2023?  Anyway, it’s the end of the frosty series for 2022, and the beginning of a series from PaulB.  Endings and beginnings this …

Why Boredom Benefits Kids and How to Cultivate It This Summer - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/19/well/family/kids-summer-boredom.html

Why Boredom Benefits Kids and How to Cultivate It This Summer
A reminder to parents soldiering through the summer: Boredom has its virtues.

La diffusione dei quotidiani ad aprile 2024 [analisi del «Post.it» su dati Ads]
http://acqueagitate.com/2024/06/17/la-diffusione-dei-quotidiani-ad-aprile-2024/

La diffusione dei quotidiani ad aprile 2024
Ricopio qui l’analisi sulla diffusione dei quotidiani nel mese di aprile 2024 rispetto allo stesso mese del 2023 pubblicata nell’ultimo numero della newsletter Charlie, del «Post.it» [&…

White House report dishes deets on all 11 major government breaches from 2023
https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/12/white_house_report/

More than 4 GW of solar PV capacity was added to the Dutch electricity grid in 2023, taking the total solar capacity to 24 GW. Last year, solar PV was good for 1/6 of all electricity generated in the Netherlands; this year it will certainly be more than that.
42% of total capacity is on residential roofs. The other 58% is on roofs of larger buildings and in 'solar parks' on the ground.
#solarPV

Es geht ja gerade das Paper rum, in dem "KI" Output mit dem von Harry Frankfurter definierten "Bullshit" Konzept in Verbindung gebracht wird. Etwas weird ist, wie das jetzt einschlägt, wo die Relation ja schon lange etabliert ist. Ich zitiere mal mich aus dem März 2023 (und war keineswegs der/die Erste, der/die diese Verbindung hergestellt hat)(Link:

ChatGPT, Bard und Co: Bullshit, der (e)skaliert - Golem.de
ChatGPT und andere populäre KI-Systeme werden uns weder alle arbeitslos machen noch das Denken und Handeln abnehmen. Sie werden aber unsere Gesellschaft verändern – nicht zum Guten.

I am very excited by this article on Local Govt funding models because I have been working on the wonkiest Gist ever about this topic for weeks and now I know the public is just thirsting to know more.
https://dublininquirer.com/2023/05/10/dublin-city-councillors-call-for-radical-changes-to-the-local-property-tax/

Hey folks, this is an important #security update for #JetBrains users. Please update as soon as possible if you use #GitHub and the integration in the

Updates for security issue affecting IntelliJ-based IDEs 2023.1+ and GitHub Plugin | The Security Blog
A new security issue was discovered that affects the JetBrains GitHub plugin on the IntelliJ platform, which could lead to disclosure of access tokens to third-party sites. The issue affects all IntelliJ-based IDEs as of 2023.1 onwards that have the JetBrains GitHub plugin enabled and configured/in-use. 

“Listening sessions” have become the scourge of Minnesota politics.
Re this from @…: https://c.im/@NewNordicNormal/112633294249579821…

Seit 10 Monaten sinkt die Anzahl der monatlich aktiven #Mastodon-Nutzer. Ich war hoffnungsfroh, dass wir es schaffen, das erste unkommerzielle Social Network zu etablieren. Stattdessen scheint es nun wieder in der Bedeutungslosigkeit zu versinken.

TIL. Florida's SB 264 bars Chinese nationals living in the US but are NOT permanent residents of the US from purchasing real estate.
Apparently this law has been in effect since July 1, 2023. 😲
https://us.cnn.com/2024/06/17/homes/fl

SPNV-Strategie 2040 in Niedersachsen: Das Verkehrsministerium in Hannover hat gemeinsam mit der Landesnahverkehrsgesellschaft Niederachsen (LNVG), der Region Hannover und dem Regionalverband Großraum Braunschweig ein Konzept für den Ausbau des Schienenpersonennahverkehrs (SPNV) bis 2040 vorgestellt. Laut Minister Lies sollen die Fahrgastzahlen dadurch verdoppelt werden. Die Zugfrequenz so bis 2030 gegenüber 2023 um 25 Prozent gesteigert werdem; bis 2040 um 50 Prozent...

SPNV-Strategie 2040 in Niedersachsen
SPNV-Strategie 2040 in Niedersachsen

Hypocrisie heeft *nog* een naam.
Deze mevrouw komt nu namens #NSC in de Tweede Kamer.
Gezellig samen met o.a. #CasparVeldkamp fijn ‘t eigen land verwonden, haatdragende en discriminerende standpunten wit wassen, de wankele positie van Europa ondergraven.

#Kronkorken sammeln für #Bäume in #Berliner Parks

Teaching the Difficult Past of Statistics to Improve the Future
https://doi.org/10.1080/26939169.2023.2224407
"..it is a crucial time for students to understand not just statistical
methods, but their role in society."

This is the kind of thing that the D-party should be advocating rather than quietly murmuring about firearms in ways to avoid annoying gun nut absolutists.
California Becomes First State in America to Call for Constitutional Convention on Right to Safety

Bijstand en AOW worden losgekoppeld van minimumloon, de naoorlogse welvaartsstaat definitief afgebroken | de #Volkskrant
https://www.

Quelques passages du mot du Conseil de l’UNIL:
« L’année 2023 a vu naître un nouveau dispositif de lutte contre les conflits, le harcèlement et les discriminations, dont le Conseil de l’UNIL attend avec intérêt les premiers résultats. »
#UNIL

Når en har uberŸrt av menneskehender, automatiserte artikler som bare baserer seg på regnskap, så blir resultatet fŸlgende https://www.mn24.no/regnskapsnytt/i/pPpeBw/resultathopp-for-den-gode-naboen-as-i-2023
> Den Gode Nabo ble…

Puben ved Nidelva er mer lønnsom enn noensinne
Slik gjorde Den Gode Naboen AS det i fjor, ifølge regnskapet.

Quelques passages du mot du Conseil de l’UNIL:
« L’année 2023 a vu naître un nouveau dispositif de lutte contre les conflits, le harcèlement et les discriminations, dont le Conseil de l’UNIL attend avec intérêt les premiers résultats. »
#UNIL

Nvidia passes Microsoft during intraday trading to become the most valuable public company, with a ~$3.33T market cap; NVDA is up over 9x since January 2023 (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/18/nvidia-passes-…

Zsolt Szabo, beoogd staatssecretaris Koninkrijksrelaties en Digitalisering, in ieder geval iemand met affiniteit en ervaring mbt digitalisering !
https://www.kabinetsformatie2023.nl/kabinetsformaties…

Filings: X is still working on Venmo-like payments features, with a 2024 US launch target; X had $1.48B in revenue in first six months of 2023, down ~40% YoY (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-1…

Current and former staff at Boston public media outlet GBH criticize top salaries after 31 people were laid off; nine execs earned $300K in base pay in 2023 (Aidan Ryan/The Boston Globe)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/06/10/bus…

After GBH layoffs, employees question executives' pay
The untouched, high salaries have prompted criticism among current and former employees about the organization’s choices in confronting a budget shortfall of $7 million for its core business.

This online map provides information about bathing water locations and their quality for both the latest 2023 season and previous seasons.
The map symbols are colored to reflect the quality status achieved in the most recent season.
The data is presented at two levels:
country (less detailed scales) and bathing water (more detailed scales).
In addition to the 27 EU Member States, the bathing water viewer includes also the data for Albania and Switzerland

State of bathing waters in 2023
We all want to know the quality of 'our' local bathing area, beach or lake, and whether it conforms to EU standards. Below you will find a map viewer that will allow you to view on-line the quality of the bathing water in the around 22 000 coastal beaches and freshwater bathing waters across Europe.

NASA’s #Voyager 1 spacecraft is conducting normal science operations for the first time following a technical issue that arose in November 2023: https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/06/13/voyager-1-returning-science-data-from-all-four-instruments/ - its four instruments study plasma waves, magnetic fields, and particles; Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are the only spacecraft to directly sample interstellar space, which is the region outside the heliosphere — the protective bubble of magnetic fields and solar wind created by the Sun.

This is the kind of thing that the D-party should be advocating rather than quietly murmuring about firearms in ways to avoid annoying gun nut absolutists.
California Becomes First State in America to Call for Constitutional Convention on Right to Safety

L’#UNIL vient de publier son rapport annuel 2023.
https://wp.unil.ch/rapport-annuel/

The Netherlands has an obligation for companies to take energy saving measures with a payback time of less than 7 years. Large energy users had to report on their measures by 1 December 2023, but 4.5 months later, less than half had done so.
My comments in
https://www.<…

Grote bedrijven moeten verplicht energie besparen, maar meeste doen niet mee
De meest energie-intensieve bedrijven van Nederland kunnen samen vele honderden miljoenen kubieke meters aardgas besparen met maatregelen die ze binnen korte tijd hebben terugverdiend. Ze zijn daar ook toe verplicht, maar de meerderheid van de bedrijven werkt niet mee.

L’#UNIL vient de publier son rapport annuel 2023.
https://wp.unil.ch/rapport-annuel/

https://www.htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2023/2/ - You don't need JavaScript for that.

OpenAI says it has expanded its global affairs team from three at the start of 2023 to 35, stationed strategically in locations where AI legislation is advanced (Financial Times)
https://t.co/fdR2M4EtVW

This online map provides information about bathing water locations and their quality for both the latest 2023 season and previous seasons.
The map symbols are colored to reflect the quality status achieved in the most recent season.
The data is presented at two levels:
country (less detailed scales) and bathing water (more detailed scales).
In addition to the 27 EU Member States, the bathing water viewer includes also the data for Albania and Switzerland

State of bathing waters in 2023
We all want to know the quality of 'our' local bathing area, beach or lake, and whether it conforms to EU standards. Below you will find a map viewer that will allow you to view on-line the quality of the bathing water in the around 22 000 coastal beaches and freshwater bathing waters across Europe.

In which the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams of the IAU dampens expectations for #comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS): http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/005400/CBET005404.txt - the peak is now predicted to be 2.2 mag. at best, perhaps with some forward-scatter enhancement but OTOH when the elongation is small. Even another NEOWISE-style show later in October looks pretty doubtful now ... but then again comets are nearly always good for surprises, and positive ones, too. Like NEOWISE delivered in 2020, so stay tuned.

'Scandalous': G7 Nations Spend 62 Times More on Military Than Humanitarian Aid | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/global-military-spending-2023

'Scandalous': G7 Nations Spend 62 Times More on Military Than Humanitarian Aid | Common Dreams
"More must be invested in eradicating poverty and fostering peace and development, not fueling war and destruction," said one campaigner.

Q&A with Tubi CEO Anjali Sud, who joined from Vimeo in September 2023, on the streaming industry, working within Fox, subscription fatigue, copyright, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/24178580/tubi-ceo-free-tv…

How Tubi CEO Anjali Sud plans to compete with Netflix and TikTok
Tubi is a fast-growing free ad-supported streaming platform with big ambitions to take on TikTok. Here’s how Anjali Sud plans to do it.

Around two dozen sources detail Google's decision to form the Google DeepMind "super-unit" in April 2023, shifting the AI lab from research to products (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

2023 retro-link! https://www.statnews.com/2023/03/07/how-one-medical-school-became-remarkably-diverse-without-considering-race/ - How UC Davis medical school became remarkably diverse.

Democrats held their own in the last three cycles in navigating tough Senate races.
They will be defending a slim Senate majority in 2024.
Here's a look at the states where both parties are fighting for control of the chamber.
https://www.bus…

Democrats face a tough 2024 Senate map as they aim to protect majority
In 2024, 34 seats will be up for grabs, including 20 currently held by Democrats, 11 held by Republicans, and three currently held by Independents.

Sources: OpenAI's annualized revenue has hit $3.4B, up from $1.6B in late 2023 and $1B last summer; $3.2B comes from subscriptions to its chatbots and API fees (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI’s Annualized Revenue Doubles to $3.4 Billion Since Late 2023
OpenAI has more than doubled its annualized revenue to $3.4 billion in the past six months or so, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has told staff, a sign that growth in the ChatGPT developer’s business is accelerating despite intensifying competition. Annualized revenue—a measure of the past month’s ...

Democrats held their own in the last three cycles in navigating tough Senate races.
They will be defending a slim Senate majority in 2024.
Here's a look at the states where both parties are fighting for control of the chamber.
https://www.bus…

Democrats face a tough 2024 Senate map as they aim to protect majority
In 2024, 34 seats will be up for grabs, including 20 currently held by Democrats, 11 held by Republicans, and three currently held by Independents.

2023 retro-link! https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2023/01/01/competitive-programming-in-haskell-better-binary-search/ - Better binary search in Haskell.

Sources: Shein recorded $32.2B in sales in 2023, up 40% YoY, compared with 37% YoY growth in 2022, and doubled its net profit to $1.6B, for a 5% profit margin (Jing Yang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/sh

Shein’s 40% Revenue Growth and Profit Boost in 2023 Could Help Lure IPO Investors
China-founded fast fashion giant Shein lifted its net profit margin even as it posted slightly faster revenue growth in 2023, two people with direct knowledge of its finances said. That performance should help Shein lure investors for a highly anticipated initial public offering—if it can ...

Ant Group spent a record ~$2.9B on research in 2023, as the Alibaba affiliate develops its BaiLing LLM; Ant and affiliate MYbank served 87M businesses by 2023 (Xinyi Luo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Stephen Wolfe, an evangelical Presbyterian, advocates an ethnically uniform nation
ruled by a "Christian prince"
with the power to punish blasphemy and false religion.
Wolfe veers chapter by chapter between close readings of often obscure Reformation theologians
and mostly unsourced screeds against the dangers of feminist "gynocracy" and immigrant invasion.
For Wolfe, the nationalism part of Christian nationalism is synonymous with ethnicity…

Stephen Wolfe Makes a Segregationist Case for 'Christian Nationalism'
The Case for Christian Nationalism' advocates for an ethnically uniform nation ruled by a "Christian prince."

Q&A with Tubi CEO Anjali Sud, who joined from Vimeo in September 2023, on the streaming industry, working within Fox, subscription fatigue, copyright, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/24178580/tubi-ceo-free-tv…

How Tubi CEO Anjali Sud plans to compete with Netflix and TikTok
Tubi is a fast-growing free ad-supported streaming platform with big ambitions to take on TikTok. Here’s how Anjali Sud plans to do it.

Stephen Wolfe, an evangelical Presbyterian, advocates an ethnically uniform nation
ruled by a "Christian prince"
with the power to punish blasphemy and false religion.
Wolfe veers chapter by chapter between close readings of often obscure Reformation theologians
and mostly unsourced screeds against the dangers of feminist "gynocracy" and immigrant invasion.
For Wolfe, the nationalism part of Christian nationalism is synonymous with ethnicity…

Stephen Wolfe Makes a Segregationist Case for 'Christian Nationalism'
The Case for Christian Nationalism' advocates for an ethnically uniform nation ruled by a "Christian prince."

Runway unveils Gen-3 Alpha, a model to generate high-quality, detailed, highly realistic video clips of 10 seconds in length, after releasing Gen-2 in June 2023 (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/runway-unve

Runway unveils new hyper realistic AI video model Gen-3 Alpha, capable of 10-second-long clips
Gen-3 Alpha allows users to generate high-quality, detailed, highly realistic video clips of 10 seconds in length.

A look at tech companies' investments in AI startups: Nvidia and NVentures completed a total of 32 deals in 2023, while Microsoft and M12 made 21 investments (Chris Metinko/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/msft-nvda-lead-big-tech-start…

Microsoft, Nvidia Lead In Investing In AI Startups, But Others Close Behind
So far this year, out of the handful of tech titans putting big money in the AI space, Microsoft and Nvidia — along with their respective venture arms — are among the leaders when it comes to investing in VC-backed, AI-related startups.

A profile of French secondhand tech marketplace Back Market, which has raised €930M , generated €320M in 2023 sales, up 45% YoY, and had 4.5M new users in 2023 (Sarah Butler/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian…

Sources: Indian rapid grocery delivery startup Zepto plans to raise ~$650M co-led by Nexus and StepStone at a valuation of $3.5B, up from $1.4B in August 2023 (Moneycontrol)
https://www.moneycontrol.com/technology/ze

Sources: Indian rapid grocery delivery startup Zepto plans to raise ~$650M co-led by Nexus and StepStone at a valuation of $3.5B, up from $1.4B in August 2023 (Moneycontrol)
https://www.moneycontrol.com/technology/ze

Dutch agencies: 20K FortiGate systems were hacked in a Chinese cyber-espionage campaign in 2022 and 2023, at least two months before FortiGate noted the flaw (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Nintendo drops X support from the Switch via a new firmware update, following Sony and Microsoft doing the same in 2023 after X began charging for API usage (Wesley Yin-Poole/IGN)
https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-swit

Nintendo Switch Update 18.1.0 Pulls X/Twitter Support, Bringing It In-Line With PlayStation and Xbox - IGN
Nintendo Switch firmware update 18.1.0 is out now and pulls X/Twitter support. Check out the patch notes.

Regulators in Canada and the UK launch a joint probe to assess what customer info was exposed in 23andMe's 2023 breach and if proper safeguards were in place (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Google lets advertisers serve targeted ads across Google TV's 125 free channels, and reports 20M US monthly active Google TV and Android TV OS devices in 2023 (Umar Shakir/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/10/24175676/google-fast-ads…

Google is ready to fill free streaming TV channels with ads
Google TV network lets advertisers get spots within free FAST streaming content. Google Ad campaigns can extend to YouTube as well.