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Spotify geht den Netflix-Weg! 🎧 Nach der letzten Erhöhung im Oktober 2023 müsst ihr bald erneut tiefer in die Tasche greifen, wenn ihr weiterhin werbefrei Musik streamen wollt.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10530661

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 …

50 years ago #OTD at 16:09 UTC #Soyuz 19 and the final #Apollo spacecraft docked in orbit in the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project or Экспериментальный полёт «Союз»–«Аполлон» (the Americans and Soviets never agreed on which s/c comes first): https://www.nasa.gov/apollo-soyuz-test-project/ = various NASA materials, https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/astp.htm = many links, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/sp-4209.pdf = a biiiig book, https://www.facebook.com/AstroDrewMorgan/posts/pfbid0wcN12LcAfRYYTmiWS71GQ47P42jukXVhd2QWA7eBzgg1wbdZAKq8LXVGTC9o7tKtl and https://www.facebook.com/ralf.heckel1/posts/pfbid02jcFp85PRy2UBUs4JVhPQcBnmddC8sQbPL3Vx26XoFMvbbsToNJmpLMDrRfce98HPl and https://www.facebook.com/groups/176051159106442/posts/24331420949809459 and https://www.facebook.com/groups/48800622850/posts/10162318303047851 = more visuals, https://www.youtube.com/live/Mu7iEyaOmDM = an online event, https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/07/not-that-into-peace-doves-the-apollo-soyuz-patch-nasa-rejected/ and https://www.spacerockethistory.com/2025/02/space-rocket-history-457-apollo-soyuz-test-project-soviet-concerns-with-apollo/ and http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-071425a-apollo-soyuz-test-project-astp-official-flight-kit-ofk-apk.html and https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/science/apollo-soyuz-test-project-1975-anniversary.html?smid=bs-share = articles and https://scicomm.xyz/@Nick_Stevens_graphics@mastodon.art/114858897568849751 = a contemporary cartoon.

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

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

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

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

Altijd goed , de objectieve cijfers rondom migratie.
#cbs

Minder immigratie in 2024, vooral minder kennismigranten
In 2024 kwamen 316 duizend immigranten naar Nederland. Dat waren er 19 duizend minder dan het jaar ervoor. Zowel de immigratie uit EU-landen als uit overige landen was lager dan in 2023, het aantal immigranten met de Nederlandse nationaliteit bleef gelijk. Vooral het aantal kennismigranten dat van buiten de EU naar Nederland kwam daalde. Dat meldt het CBS op basis van recente cijfers.

Two elected #Democrat political officials in #NorthernCalifornia town booked and held on $1 million bail for #arson & #insurance sch…

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

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

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 …

TIL that the UK won the 2023 SpoGomi world cup. (and that "SpoGomi" is competitive litter picking.)
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/26/japanese-competitive-litter-picking-spogomi-sport-thrives-in-u…

Cryptanalysis of LC-MUME: A Lightweight Certificateless Multi-User Matchmaking Encryption for Mobile Devices
Ramprasad Sarkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22674 https://

Cryptanalysis of LC-MUME: A Lightweight Certificateless Multi-User Matchmaking Encryption for Mobile Devices
Yang et al. proposed a lightweight certificateless multiuser matchmaking encryption (LC-MUME) scheme for mobile devices, published in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS) (DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2023.3321961). Their construction aims to reduce computational and communication overhead within a one-to-many certificateless cryptographic framework. The authors claim that their scheme satisfies existential unforgeability under chosen-message attacks (EUF-CMA) in the random oracl…

Forecasting Geopolitical Events with a Sparse Temporal Fusion Transformer and Gaussian Process Hybrid: A Case Study in Middle Eastern and U.S. Conflict Dynamics
Hsin-Hsiung Huang, Hayden Hampton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20935

Forecasting Geopolitical Events with a Sparse Temporal Fusion Transformer and Gaussian Process Hybrid: A Case Study in Middle Eastern and U.S. Conflict Dynamics
Forecasting geopolitical conflict from data sources like the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) is a critical challenge for national security. The inherent sparsity, burstiness, and overdispersion of such data cause standard deep learning models, including the Temporal Fusion Transformer (TFT), to produce unreliable long-horizon predictions. We introduce STFT-VNNGP, a hybrid architecture that won the 2023 Algorithms for Threat Detection (ATD) competition by overcoming these l…

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…

2 years later, my Freedom of Information Request shows a snapshot of Government ignoring Vancouver Islanders for 20 years.
On June 28, 2023 I submitted a Request for Information to the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure of British Columbia for documents related to the Island Railway on Vancouver Island. It took two years to receive the response.
#VancouverIsland #BC #BCPoli #transportation #FOiA #Canada #CdnPoli
https://chrisalemany.ca/b/2tp

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…

Rural #Colorado town with less than 10,000 population has hyped up #cowboy #cops whose excessive force incidents are on dramatic rise, far outpacing #Denver