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Sources: Pinecone, which provides an AI-compatible vector database, is exploring a sale after receiving takeover interest; Pinecone was valued at $750M in 2023 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/top-funded-ai-database-star…

Top-Funded AI Database Startup Pinecone Considers a Sale
When the artificial intelligence boom began a few years ago, investors flocked to startups that helped businesses transform and store proprietary data in a format AI could understand, known as a vector database. The technology allowed businesses to use a customized AI chatbot to search or ...

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.08.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1104581 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

"Antarctic ice has grown again – but this does not buck overall melt trend"
#Antarctic #Climate #ClimateChange

Some journalists detail how they are covering the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, including using trusted contacts, OSINT, and filming from airdrop flights (Marina Adami/Reuters Institute)
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.a

Unprecedentedly bright X-ray flaring in Cygnus X-1 observed by INTEGRAL
P. Thalhammer, T. Bouchet, J. Rodriguez, F. Cangemi, K. Pottschmidt, D. A. Green, L. Rhodes, C. Ferrigno, M. A. Nowak, V. Grinberg, T. Siegert, P. Laurent, I. Kreykenbohm, M. Perucho, J. Tomsick, C. S\'anchez-Fern\'andez, J. Wilms C. S\'anchez-Fern\'andez, J. Wilms
https://

Unprecedentedly bright X-ray flaring in Cygnus X-1 observed by INTEGRAL
We study three extraordinarily bright X-ray flares originating from Cyg X-1 seen on 2023 July 10 detected with INTEGRAL. The flares had a duration on the order of only ten minutes each, and within seconds reached a 1-100 keV peak luminosity of $1.1-2.6\times10^{38}$ erg/s. The associated INTEGRAL/IBIS count rate was about ${\sim}$10x higher than usual for the hard state. To our knowledge, this is the first time that such strong flaring has been seen in Cyg X-1, despite the more than 21 years of…

Intensivering grenscontroles tot op een niveau dat ze geloofwaardig worden is vrijwel onmogelijk, we hebben de mensen er niet voor, zoals ook door de KMar aangegeven. Tegelijk is er dan ook de politieke vraag, wil je die mensen dan allemaal aan de grens zetten of zetten we die capaciteit niet liever in voor criminaliteitsbestrijding en verhogen van veiligheid elders in het land, persoonlijk weet ik het dan wel.

Kamerbrief over intensivering grenstoezicht
Staatssecretaris Van der Burg (JenV) informeert de Tweede Kamer over de operationele en juridische mogelijkheden van herinvoering van de binnengrenscontroles.

Underhållande artikel
Ultra-Processed Evidence - May Contain Lies https://maycontainlies.com/ultra-processed-evidence/

Quantitative stability for the conformally invariant Chang-Gui inequality on the exponentiation of functions on the sphere
Monideep Ghosh, Debabrata Karmakar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19930

Quantitative stability for the conformally invariant Chang-Gui inequality on the exponentiation of functions on the sphere
In this work, we focus on a recent variant of the Trudinger-Moser-Onofri inequality introduced by S. Y. Alice Chang and Changfeng Gui \cite{CG-2023}: \begin{align*} α\int_{\mathbb{S}^2}|\nabla_{\mathbb{S}^2}u|^2 {\rm d}ω+2 \int_{\mathbb{S}^2} u {\rm d}ω-\frac{1}{2}\ln\left[\left(\int_{\mathbb{s}^2}e^{2u}{\rm d}ω\right)^2-\sum_{i=1}^3\left(\int_{\mathbb{s}^2}ω_i e^{2u}{\rm d} ω\right)^2\right] \geq 0 \end{align*} holds on $H^1(\mathbb{S}^2)$ if and only if $α\geq \frac{2}{3}$. I…

Energetic ($< 2$ MeV) Ion Environment of the Magnetosphere as measured by ASPEX-STEPS on board Aditya-L1 during its earth-bound phase
Dibyendu Chakrabarty, Bijoy Dalal, Santosh Vadawale, Aveek Sarkar, Shiv Kumar Goyal, Jacob Sebastian, Anil Bhardwaj, P. Janardhan, M. Shanmugam, Neeraj Kumar Tiwari, Aaditya Sarda, Piyush Sharma, Aakash Gupta, Prashant Kumar, Manan S. Shah, Bhas Bapat, Pranav R Adhyaru, Arpit R. Patel, Hitesh Kumar Adalja, Abhishek Kumar, Tinkal Ladiya, Sushil Kumar, …

Energetic ($< 2$ MeV) Ion Environment of the Magnetosphere as measured by ASPEX-STEPS on board Aditya-L1 during its earth-bound phase
During its earth-bound phase of the Aditya-L1 spacecraft of India, the Supra-Thermal and Energetic Particle Spectrometer (STEPS) of the Aditya Solar wind Particle EXperiment (ASPEX) was operated whenever the orbit was above 52000 km during 11-19 September 2023. This phase of operation provided measurements of energetic ions (with energies 0.1-2 MeV) in the magnetosphere, magnetosheath, and interplanetary medium. Three interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICME) hit the magnetosphere during thi…

Approaching the great wall
(From a hike up a beautiful side valley in the Karwendel, September 2023)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

Significantly over the required 1.21 gigawatts…
https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/114755431266931818

Information Is Beautiful (@infobeautiful@vis.social)
Attached: 1 image The world’s solar capacity reached 1,419 gigawatts in 2023, way beyond any predictions. 1 gigawatt = power for a medium sized city

Do these comments in the Israeli press possibly explain what is happening in #Gaza?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun…

🦞 🇩🇪 💸 Ledger ( #AD2023) | Lobsters
https://lobste.rs/s/wthfwo/ledger_2023#c_gfo9px
about the most tricky entries are those split 50/50 private/business and separate VAT, e.g…

Edge-weighted Matching in the Dark
Zhiyi Huang, Enze Sun, Xiaowei Wu, Jiahao Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19366 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19366

Edge-weighted Matching in the Dark
We present a $0.659$-competitive Quadratic Ranking algorithm for the Oblivious Bipartite Matching problem, a distribution-free version of Query-Commit Matching. This result breaks the $1-\frac{1}{e}$ barrier, addressing an open question raised by Tang, Wu, and Zhang (JACM 2023). Moreover, the competitive ratio of this distribution-free algorithm improves the best existing $0.641$ ratio for Query-Commit Matching achieved by the distribution-dependent algorithm of Chen, Huang, Li, and Tang (SODA …

Blameless Users in a Clean Room: Defining Copyright Protection for Generative Models
Aloni Cohen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19881 https://

Blameless Users in a Clean Room: Defining Copyright Protection for Generative Models
Are there any conditions under which a generative model's outputs are guaranteed not to infringe the copyrights of its training data? This is the question of "provable copyright protection" first posed by Vyas, Kakade, and Barak (ICML 2023). They define near access-freeness (NAF) and propose it as sufficient for protection. This paper revisits the question and establishes new foundations for provable copyright protection -- foundations that are firmer both technically and legally. First, we sho…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Muddy Waters:
🎵 Mannish Boy
#NowPlaying #MuddyWaters
https://weddingparty.bandcamp.com/track/muddy-waters-mannish-boy-bad-to-the-bone-radio-mix-2023-djpitsios
https://open.spotify.com/track/58PSYdY0GFg0LFb2PxYk4T

Netflix acquires the Japanese media rights to carry the 2026 World Baseball Classic, marking the first time it will stream a live event in Japan (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/world-baseball-classic-netflix-japan-3ca47c79a174e31…

Netflix wins Japanese media rights for 2026 World Baseball Classic
Netflix has secured the Japanese media rights for next year's World Baseball Classic, marking its first live event it will stream in Japan. The platform will broadcast all 47 games of the tournament. Team Japan is the defending champion, having won in 2023. Previously, a consortium including Amazon Prime Video held these rights. The sixth edition of the tournament will feature 20 teams competing in four first-round pools in Tokyo, San Juan, Houston, and Miami. It starts on March 5, with the fin…

Wide-field Polarization Imaging and Numerical Modeling of the Coma and Tail of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)
Mirza Arnaut, Christian W\"ohler, Pritish Halder, Goldy Ahuja, Shashikiran Ganesh, Megha Bhatt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21284

Wide-field Polarization Imaging and Numerical Modeling of the Coma and Tail of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)
Imaging polarimetry is a well-known method for analysing the structure and composition of cometary dust. Accordingly, comets are classified based on the phase angle dependent degree of linear polarization of their comae. The goal of this study is to examine the size and structure of the dust grains in the coma and in particular in the tail of the bright comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) and to infer possible variations. For this purpose, we rely on the method of telescopic wide-field polarime…

Run 2/3 measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment by the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab
Estifa'a Zaid (University of Liverpool, Oliver Lodge, Liverpool, United Kingdom)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21219

Run 2/3 measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment by the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab
The Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab seeks to measure the muon magnetic moment anomaly, $a_μ=(g-2)/2$, with a final target precision of 0.14 parts-per-million (ppm). The experiment's initial result, published in 2021 using Run 1 data from 2018, confirmed the previous measurement at Brookhaven National Laboratory with a comparable sensitivity of 0.46 ppm. In 2023, a new result based on Run 2 and Run 3 data, collected in 2019 and 2020, was released. These datasets contain four times the data from…

Suspense and Surprise in European Football
Raphael Flepp, Tim Pawlowski, Travis Richardson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21253 https://a…

Suspense and Surprise in European Football
We propose utilizing match-level suspense and surprise - which capture the entertainment utility created by competitive balance and outcome uncertainty for sports spectators - as alternative policy targets for league organizers and managers. Through simulations, we derive a benchmark range for suspense and surprise based on a perfectly balanced match before analyzing over 25,000 men's matches (2010/11-2023/24) and 725 women's matches (2023/24) from Europe's top football leagues. Our findings re…

#TuneTuesday (Aug 19)
I first learned of New York–based duo #FlyByMidnight in 2023 and I found myself really enjoying their music. And if you’re curious, their song “Borrow Your Time” is an example of the style of melodic synth-pop that is just a pleasure to listen to.

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

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

@… : Zerrissen • Fernsehfilm Deutschland 2023
Trailer
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/tatort…

Tupakantumpit ja nikotiinipussit päätyvät katukaivoista Itämereen – roskien myrkyt vaaraksi kaloille ja vesistöjen muille eliöille https://www.maaseuduntulevaisuus.fi/uutiset/20fb1e27-62bf-4f96-aef6-471c0e019278

Tupakantumpit ja nikotiinipussit päätyvät katukaivoista Itämereen – roskien myrkyt vaaraksi kaloille ja vesistöjen muille eliöille
Nikotiinipussit olivat yksi Suomen yleisimmistä rantaroskista vuonna 2023 vain kuukausia sen jälkeen, kun niiden myynti sallittiin.

Meditation Suite 2
#MellowMusic #MeditationMusic #NowPlaying

Meditation Suite 2 #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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.

from my link log —
An epicyclic clock.
https://sophiehoulden.com/randomstuff/epitime/
saved 2023-06-22 https://

Chow-Witt Rings of Classifying Spaces of Products of Multiplicative and Cyclic Groups
Andrea Lachmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13605 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Chow-Witt Rings of Classifying Spaces of Products of Multiplicative and Cyclic Groups
We compute the total Chow-Witt rings of the classifying space Bμ_n of the roots of unity, as well as the products BG_m x Bμ_n and Bμ_m x Bμ_n for all m,n greater than or equal to 1 based on the strategy by di Lorenzo and Mantovani (2023) for Bμ_n with n even. Moreover we compute the total I^j-cohomology and Chow-Witt rings of P^q x P^r for all q,r greater than or equal to 1 and of BG_m x BG_m.

The Tiny Awards have celebrated the best of the small and creative web since 2023, and voting is now open (it closes September 1) to select one of the eleven nominations for the 2025 awards, here: #TinyAwards2025

Tiny Awards
This is the home of the Tiny Awards, which, since 2023, has celebrated the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web.

On the generator graph of a cyclic group
Zekhaya B. Shozi, Teresa L. Tacbobo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14865 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14865

On the generator graph of a cyclic group
In this paper, we continue the study of the generator graph of a group. In 2023, Tacbobo [9] defined the generator graph of a nontrivial group to be the graph whose vertices are the elements of the group, with two vertices being adjacent if at least one of them is a generator of the group. Building on the properties established in [9], we prove that the diameter of the generator graph of a cyclic group is at most $2$. Furthermore, we present explicit formulas for some topological indices of the…

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, ...

Stable magnetic fields and changing starspots on Vega -- An ultra-deep decadal survey at Pic du Midi and OHP
T. B\"ohm, M. Holschneider, P. Petit, F. Ligni\`eres, F. Paletou, C. P. Folsom, M. Rainer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13348

Stable magnetic fields and changing starspots on Vega -- An ultra-deep decadal survey at Pic du Midi and OHP
Monitoring magnetic and activity variations in A- and B-type stars with ultra-weak magnetic fields is essential to understand the origin and evolution of these fields in this region of the HR diagram, with Vega standing as the prototype of this category. We collected high-resolution spectroscopic and spectropolarimetric data with SOPHIE (OHP, 2018) and with NARVAL/NEO-NARVAL (TBL, 2018, 2023, and 2024), yielding a total of 13108 individual spectra. Magnetic field maps were reconstructed using t…

Ex-defense minister appointed secretary of Ukraine's Security Council: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/18/exdefense-minister-appointed-secretary-of.html

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

An interview with Binance co-founder Yi He on growing up poor in China, the tests she faced during Binance's year of crisis when CZ was imprisoned, and more (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/08/13/binance-yi-he/

How Binance’s Yi He became ‘the most powerful woman in crypto’—and steered the company past its biggest ordeal
In 2023, Yi He had to face down an enormous business challenge at Binance—one that was very personal as well.

🇺🇦 #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

Solange #Piraten nicht in den Parlamenten sitzen wird das wieder passieren, eher häufiger als seltener: https://chaos.social/@Freiheitsrechte/114901808007320123

Det er ikke bare fælt i de gamle epostene mine da. Norges styggeste kirke, i norges styggeste kirke. https://kimenkulturhus.no/program/39990-stjordal-kirke-temakveld/

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

Felix Anudike-Uzomah's injury with Chiefs punctuates concerning trend for 2023 NFL Draft edge rushers

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/felix-a

I remember vividly when the Fediverse immediately used the fake news about an alleged #Israel​i airstrike on al-Ahli Arab Hospital on 17 October 2023 as evidence for an ongoing genocide.
Wondering what the conclusion from the #Iran​ian airstrike on

Iranian missile strikes hit Israeli hospital
Israel is targeted by new Iranian missile strikes with several hits, among them, the Soroka Hospital in Beersheba. Israel earlier reportedly attacked a key heavy-water research reactor in Khondab. DW has more.

Accurate complex-stacking-fault Gibbs energy in Ni3Al at high temperatures
Xiang Xu, Xi Zhang, Andrei Ruban, Siegfried Schmauder, Blazej Grabowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15528

Accurate complex-stacking-fault Gibbs energy in Ni3Al at high temperatures
To gain a deeper insight into the anomalous yield behavior of Ni3Al, it is essential to obtain temperature-dependent formation Gibbs energies of the relevant planar defects. Here, the Gibbs energy of the complex stacking fault (CSF) is evaluated using a recently proposed ab initio framework [Acta Materialia, 255 (2023) 118986], accounting for all thermal contributions - including anharmonicity and paramagnetism - up to the melting point. The CSF energy shows a moderate decrease from 300K to abo…

Le bouddhisme tibétain, ses grandes figures ont gardé le silence sur 3 canaux distincts :
- Le Dalai Lama de 1998 Š 2023
- Shechen Rabjam de 1997 Š 2023
- Matthieu Ricard de 2010 Š 2023
Découvrez pourquoi ces dates sont cruciales :
1/5

Swarm-in-Blocks: Simplifying Drone Swarm Programming with Block-Based Language
Agnes Bressan de Almeida, Joao Aires Correa Fernandes Marsicano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11498 h…

Swarm-in-Blocks: Simplifying Drone Swarm Programming with Block-Based Language
Swarm in Blocks, originally developed for CopterHack 2022, is a high-level interface that simplifies drone swarm programming using a block-based language. Building on the Clover platform, this tool enables users to create functionalities like loops and conditional structures by assembling code blocks. In 2023, we introduced Swarm in Blocks 2.0, further refining the platform to address the complexities of swarm management in a user-friendly way. As drone swarm applications grow in areas like del…

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1071459 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

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

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."

Antenna: Americans buy ~30% of all new streaming subscriptions via third-party apps like Prime Video or Roku, rising 40% from 2023, a new kind of cable bundle (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/business/media/streaming-tv-s…

Come One, Come All! Buy Your TV Subscriptions Here!
A battle is heating up in the streaming world as millions of Americans sign up for multiple services through a single provider instead of separate apps.

Secure Multi-Key Homomorphic Encryption with Application to Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning
Jiahui Wu, Tiecheng Sun, Fucai Luo, Haiyan Wang, Weizhe Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20101

Secure Multi-Key Homomorphic Encryption with Application to Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning
Multi-Key Homomorphic Encryption (MKHE), proposed by Lopez-Alt et al. (STOC 2012), allows for performing arithmetic computations directly on ciphertexts encrypted under distinct keys. Subsequent works by Chen and Dai et al. (CCS 2019) and Kim and Song et al. (CCS 2023) extended this concept by proposing multi-key BFV/CKKS variants, referred to as the CDKS scheme. These variants incorporate asymptotically optimal techniques to facilitate secure computation across multiple data providers. In this…

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

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/

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.

APCs and citation impact of Gold OA articles authored by Ukrainian scholars before and during Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine (2020-2023)
Myroslava Hladchenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08850

APCs and citation impact of Gold OA articles authored by Ukrainian scholars before and during Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine (2020-2023)
This study examines how Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine affected APCs, publishing patterns, and citation impact of Gold OA articles authored by Ukrainian scholars between 2020 and 2023. Data from Scopus covers articles published before (2020-2021) and after (2022-2023) the war's onset. Statistical analysis revealed a small but significant correlation between APC amounts and citation impact, though the effect size was minimal, suggesting higher APCs did not substantially boost citations.…

Revisiting H\"otte (2025): A Companion Analysis with Extended Evidence from UK Inter-Industry Payment Data, 2017-2024
Kerstin H\"otte
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17695 …

Revisiting Hötte (2025): A Companion Analysis with Extended Evidence from UK Inter-Industry Payment Data, 2017-2024
In 2025, the UK Office for National Statistics released a novel dataset of monthly inter-industry payment flows during January 2017 to November 2024 at the 5-digit SIC level (ONS, 2025a), covering $>$3.1 million UK organizations. Annual aggregates amount to 490 million transactions with an aggregate value of over £3.1 trillion in 2023. Such publicly available data are unprecedented by their granularity and timeliness, providing a rich basis for economic research and real-time policy advice. H�…

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

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/

„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

Exploring Each DreamState Deeply #dreams #inspiration #puppy

Exploring Each DreamState Deeply
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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

Mumbai-based online pharmacy Truemeds, which offers generic alternatives to branded drugs, raised $85M led by Accel at a $400M valuation, up from $110M in 2023 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/10/trueme…

Why investors just bet $85M on this Indian company's generic drug strategy | TechCrunch
Truemeds has taken a different route from other Indian online pharmacies — and it has helped the startup double its revenue.

Evaluation of Time Series Forecasting Models for Predicting Lung Cancer Mortality Rates in the United States: A Comparison with Altuhaifa (2023) Study
E. Kubuafor, D. Baidoo, O. J. Okeke, R. Amevor, G. Arhin, J. T. Korley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16052

Evaluation of Time Series Forecasting Models for Predicting Lung Cancer Mortality Rates in the United States: A Comparison with Altuhaifa (2023) Study
This paper evaluates the performance of the following time series forecasting models - Simple Exponential Smoothing (SES), Holt's Double Exponential Smoothing (HDES), and Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) - in predicting lung cancer mortality rates in the United States. It builds upon the work of Altuhaifa, which used Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) data from 1975-2018 to evaluate these models. Altuhaifa's study found that ARIMA (0,2,2), SES with smoothing para…

Do AI Companies Make Good on Voluntary Commitments to the White House?
Jennifer Wang, Kayla Huang, Kevin Klyman, Rishi Bommasani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08345 https://…

Do AI Companies Make Good on Voluntary Commitments to the White House?
Voluntary commitments are central to international AI governance, as demonstrated by recent voluntary guidelines from the White House to the G7, from Bletchley Park to Seoul. How do major AI companies make good on their commitments? We score companies based on their publicly disclosed behavior by developing a detailed rubric based on their eight voluntary commitments to the White House in 2023. We find significant heterogeneity: while the highest-scoring company (OpenAI) scores a 83% overall on…

Two-dimensional Rademacher walk
Satyaki Bhattacharya, Stanislav Volkov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16259 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.16…

Two-dimensional Rademacher walk
We study a generalisation of the one-dimensional Rademacher random walk introduced in Bhattacharya and Volkov (2023) to $\mathbb{Z}^2$ (for $d\ge 3$, the Rademacher random walk is always transient, as follows from Theorem 8.8 in Englander and Volkov (2025)). This walk is defined as the sum of a sequence of independent steps, where each step goes in one of the four possible directions with equal probability, and the size of the $n$th step is $a_n$ where $\{a_n\}$ is a given sequence of positive …

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.

Homogeneous hypersurfaces of the four-dimensional Thurston geometry ${\rm Sol_0^4}$
Guoxin Wei, Zeke Yao, Xi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10545 https://

Homogeneous hypersurfaces of the four-dimensional Thurston geometry ${\rm Sol_0^4}$
In this paper, we classify hypersurfaces with constant principal curvatures in the four-dimensional Thurston geometry ${\rm Sol_0^4}$ under certain geometric assumptions. As an application of the classification result, we give a complete classification of homogeneous hypersurfaces in ${\rm Sol_0^4}$, which solves a problem raised by Erjavec and Inoguchi (Problem 6.4 of [J. Geom. Anal. 33, Art. 274, (2023)]).

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.

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12282

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing run
We present an all-sky search for long-duration gravitational waves (GWs) from the first part of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA fourth observing run (O4), called O4a and comprising data taken between 24 May 2023 and 16 January 2024. The GW signals targeted by this search are the so-called "long-duration" (> 1 s) transients expected from a variety of astrophysical processes, including non-axisymmetric deformations in magnetars or eccentric binary coalescences. We make minimal assumptions on the emitted GW …

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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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.

Non-r-partite graphs without complete split subgraphs
Bing Wang, Wenwen Chen, Ping Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12210 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12210

Non-r-partite graphs without complete split subgraphs
The classical Simonovits' chromatic critical edge theorem shows that for sufficiently large $n$, if $H$ is an edge-color-critical graph with $χ(H)=p+1\ge 3$, then the Turán graph $T_{n,p}$ is the unique extremal graph with respect to ${\rm ex}(n,H)$. Denote by ${\rm EX}_{r+1}(n,H)$ and ${\rm SPEX}_{r+1}(n,H)$ the family of $n$-vertex $H$-free non-$r$-partite graphs with the maximum size and with the spectral radius, respectively. Li and Peng [SIAM J. Discrete Math. 37 (2023) 2462--2485] chara…

The Waterfall – 3rd music video for TPITDR #improvpiano #music #musicvideo #piano

The Waterfall - 3rd music video for TPITDR
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'`,…

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

🇺🇦 #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

Clueless Colts: Why starting Daniel Jones over Anthony Richardson has zero upside for QB-starved Indy

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/clueles

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

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

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.

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.

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…

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...

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In wie vielen #Fernsehsendungen des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks wurde im Juni 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.

Induced Minors, Asymptotic Dimension, and Baker's Technique
Robert Hickingbotham
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06190 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06190

Induced Minors, Asymptotic Dimension, and Baker's Technique
Asymptotic dimension is a large-scale invariant of metric spaces that was introduced by Gromov (1993). We prove that every hereditary class of bounded-degree graphs that excludes some graph as a fat minor has asymptotic dimension at most $2$, which is optimal. This makes substantial progress on a question of Bonamy, Bousquet, Esperet, Groenland, Liu, Pirot, and Scott (J. Eur. Math. Soc. 2023). The key to our proof is a notion inspired by Baker's technique (J. ACM 1994). We say that a graph cl…

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.

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

In Memory of Tom – mentor and friend #grief #improvpiano #piano #pianoimprov

In Memory of Tom - mentor and friend
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in Deutschland mit Stand vom 09.08.2025.
Zählung der Anlagen mit Inbetriebnahmedatum. Der aktuelle Betriebsstatus wird nicht berücksichtigt.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erste Versuche einer #Datenanalyse

#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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Wusstet Ihr....
Die erste #Balkonsolaranlage wurde bereits am 14.04.1923 auf einer #Gartenlaube errichtet.
Damals arbeitete das #Marktstammdatenregister noch mi…

2023 wurden in Deutschland erstmals über 10 Millionen Quadratmeter #Gründächer neu angelegt.
Das ist ein Rekordwert laut #BuGG-Marktreport. Der Markt für #Gebäudebegrünung

BuGG-Marktreport Archiv - BuGG e.V.

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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.