Tootfinder

BTW - that CBC article used a lot of numbers from this report, which because it's all numbers is awesome. Some tidbits:
- The number of farms over 3,500 acres has nearly doubled in 20 years.
- 41.3% of Canadian farmland is rented.
- From 1971 to 2021, the farm population declined by 62.2%, from 1 in 14 Canadians to 1 in 61.
- Farm debt has more than doubled in the last 20 years, from $43B in 2002 to $138.8B in 2022. That is currently 10x the size of net farm income.
- In 2021, 96,043 tonnes of pesticides were sold for agricultural use – more than three times the amount sold in 1991.
#Statistics #Farming
https://www.nfu.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Canadian-Ag-by-the-Numbers-2024.pdf

Raiders report: Pass rusher ready for opener after missing all of 2024 https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-report-pass-rusher-ready-for-opener-after-missing-all-of-2024-3435404/

Eagles unveil 2024 Super Bowl banner amid fireworks before NFL opener against Dallas https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/eagles-unveil-2024-super-bowl-banner-amid-fireworks-before-nfl-opener-against-dallas

The Geodesics Less Traveled: Nonminimal RT Surfaces and Holographic Scattering
Jacqueline Caminiti, Caroline Lima, Robert C. Myers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03597 https://

The Geodesics Less Traveled: Nonminimal RT Surfaces and Holographic Scattering
The connected wedge theorem states that in order to have a scattering process in the bulk, it is necessary to have O(1/G) mutual information between certain "decision" regions in the boundary theory. While this large mutual information is not generally sufficient to imply scattering, Caminiti et al. (2024) showed that for a certain class of geometries, bulk scattering is implied by a certain relation between two (possibly non-minimal) Ryu-Takayanagi surfaces. Here, we show that the 2-to-2 versi…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 01.12.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Coca-Cola releases upgraded AI-generated ads for 2025 holidays, after finding people didn't know or care about the use of AI, despite criticism for its 2024 ads (Katie Deighton/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.w…

Venäjällä kuolee vuosittain tuhansia huono laatuisen juoma veden takia #Venäjä

Tutkimus: Saastunut vesi johti 11 000 kuolemaan Venäjällä vuonna 2024
Joka yhdeksännellä Venäjän asukkaalla ei ole pääsyä keskitettyyn vesihuoltojärjestelmään.

A Russian YouTuber posts an unboxing of the alleged M5 iPad Pro, which looks identical to the M4 model; the same YouTuber leaked the M4 MacBook Pro in 2024 (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/09/30/leaked-unboxing-video-reveals-unann…

Leaked unboxing video reveals unannounced M5 iPad Pro in full - 9to5Mac
Remember last year when an unboxing video of the M4 MacBook Pro leaked before it was even announced? Well, it’s...

I learned this sad news with a huge delay because WKIT 404s today for some reason 😑 (WKIT was bought at the last minute by Jeff Solari and Greg Hawes, but up until now I didn't know this, as I tune in only occasionally.) ->
Stephen King’s radio stations to sign off for good at month’s end (Published: Dec. 2, 2024 at 5:01 PM EET)

Stephen King’s radio stations to sign off for good at month’s end
Stephen King’s radio stations are signing off for good at the end of the month.

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

Another big jump in atmospheric CO2, (still) measured at Mauna Loa: Based on daily values, the November average was ~426.5 ppm, that's around 2.7 ppm higher than last year!
#ClimateChange #CO2 #emissions

Field hockey at the new Martha Dodson Field out past the East Hill Plaza -- Cornell Beat Vermont 3-1 in front of the largest crowd I've ever seen at a field hockey game. In the center are № 8 Ashley Plzak of the Big Red and № 15 Sophia Lefranc of the Catamounts, who won the US East Conference in 2024
#photo

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

»Heute würde diese Aufdringlichkeit als eine klare Grenzüberschreitung gewertet werden und könnte strafrechtlich verfolgt werden. Doch in den 1950er-Jahren war sexuelle Belästigung noch keine Straftat, es war noch nicht mal ein gängiger Begriff.«
Aus: Annegret Braun — Die Sekretärin (2024)

The Very Faint X-ray Transient 4XMM J174610.7-290020 at the Galactic center
Giovanni Stel, Gabriele Ponti, Nathalie Degenaar, Lara Sidoli, Sandro Mereghetti, Kaya Mori, Tong Bao, Giulia Illiano, Samaresh Mondal, Mark Reynolds, Chichuan Jin, Tianying Lian, Shifra Mandel, Simone Scaringi, Shuo Zhang, Grace Sanger-Johnson, Rudy Wijnands, Jon M. Miller, Jamie Kennea, Zhenlin Zhu

The Very Faint X-ray Transient 4XMM J174610.7-290020 at the Galactic center
Very Faint X-ray Transients (VFXTs) are a class of X-ray binary systems that exhibit occasional outbursts with peak X-ray luminosities (L_X< 1e36 erg s^-1) much lower than typical X-ray transients. On 22nd February 2024, during its daily Galactic center monitoring, Swift-XRT detected a VFXT, 7 arcmin from Sgr A* dubbing it Swift J174610--290018. We aim to characterize the outburst that occurred in 2024, and a second, distinct outburst in 2025, to understand the nature and accretion flow propert…

Das Facebook, TikTok und Co. auch Propaganda-Plattformen sind ist allgemein bekannt. Doch deren Einsatz scheint auch von Russland für Propaganda anzuwenden wie andere auch. Ein Argument mehr diese abzuraten. (mal noch nett gesagt)
📺 SRF Tagesschau: »Wahlen in Moldau mit russischer Einflussnahme«

Tagesschau vom 26.09.2025: Hauptausgabe - Play SRF
Trump verhängt Pharma-Zölle von 100 Prozent, Bundesrat bleibt hart in Sachen Eigenkapital der UBS, Rösti plant neue Steuer für E-Autos ab 2030, Kirchenstatistik 2024: Der Mitgliederschwund geht weiter

#np

Invincible Shield (Deluxe Edition)
Judas Priest · Album · 2024 · 14 songs

Bubble, Bubble, AI's Rumble: Why Global Financial Regulatory Incident Reporting is Our Shield Against Systemic Stumbles
Anchal Gupta, Gleb Pappyshev, James T Kwok
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26150

Bubble, Bubble, AI's Rumble: Why Global Financial Regulatory Incident Reporting is Our Shield Against Systemic Stumbles
"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble." As Shakespeare's witches foretold chaos through cryptic prophecies, modern capital markets grapple with systemic risks concealed by opaque AI systems. According to IMF, the August 5, 2024, plunge in Japanese and U.S. equities can be linked to algorithmic trading yet ab-sent from existing AI incidents database exemplifies this transparency crisis. Current AI incident databases, reliant on crowdsourcing or news scraping, systematic…

Auto-ARGUE: LLM-Based Report Generation Evaluation
William Walden, Marc Mason, Orion Weller, Laura Dietz, Hannah Recknor, Bryan Li, Gabrielle Kaili-May Liu, Yu Hou, James Mayfield, Eugene Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26184

Auto-ARGUE: LLM-Based Report Generation Evaluation
Generation of long-form, citation-backed reports is a primary use case for retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems. While open-source evaluation tools exist for various RAG tasks, ones tailored to report generation are lacking. Accordingly, we introduce Auto-ARGUE, a robust LLM-based implementation of the recent ARGUE framework for report generation evaluation. We present analysis of Auto-ARGUE on the report generation pilot task from the TREC 2024 NeuCLIR track, showing good system-level …

Donald Trump Jr. joined
Unusual Machines’ advisory board in November 2024
-- U.S. government contracts soon followed
CEO Allan Evans told Forbes the advisory board was created when Donald Trump Jr. was named to it,
and that he believes it has four other members,
but he declined to name them or share if they are associated with the Trump Organization.
Likewise, the company’s website does notappear to mention any members other than Donald Trump Jr.
Earl…

After Unusual Machines Names Donald Trump Jr. To New Advisory Board, Defense Contracts Follow
Donald Trump Jr. once mocked Hunter Biden's "no-show no-experience board seats." Now he's on his second newly activated advisory board—and that company just announced $15 million in contracts.

Solar Low Energy X-ray Spectrometer on board Aditya-L1: Ground Calibration and In-flight Performance
Abhilash R. Sarwade, Ankur Kushwaha, M. C. Ramadevi, Monoj Bug, Kiran Lakshmipathaiah, Smrati Verma, Vaishali Sharan, K. Sankarasubramanian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26292

Solar Low Energy X-ray Spectrometer on board Aditya-L1: Ground Calibration and In-flight Performance
The Solar Low-Energy X-ray Spectrometer (SoLEXS) on board India's Aditya-L1 mission was launched on 2 September 2023 and commenced solar observations on 13 December 2023 following successful aperture cover deployment. Operating from the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point, SoLEXS has been providing continuous Sun-as-a-star soft X-ray spectroscopy across 2-22 keV with 170 eV resolution at 5.9 keV and 1-second temporal cadence since 6 January 2024. The instrument employs two Silicon Drift Detectors with …

Large deviations and almost sure convergence for the extremes of branching L\'evy processes
Runjia Luo, Yan-Xia Ren, Renming Song, Rui Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25917

Large deviations and almost sure convergence for the extremes of branching Lévy processes
In this paper, we investigate the asymptotic behavior of supercritical branching Markov processes $\{\mathbb{X}_t, t \ge0\}$ whose spatial motions are Lévy processes with regularly varying tails. Recently, Ren et al. [Appl. Probab. 61 (2024)] studied the weak convergence of the extremes of $\{\mathbb{X}_t, t \ge0\}$. In this paper, we establish the large deviation of $\{\mathbb{X}_t, t \ge0\}$ as well as some almost sure convergence results of the maximum of $\mathbb{X}_t$.

There are no US federal prohibitions on limiting campaign contributions at the state level, so twelve states actually permit unlimited financing. Other states have unfairly-high limits. Too bad I'm not a billionaire…
https://news.ballo…

Gar nicht so blöd, würde damit schon gerne mal rumspielen
https://www.golem.de/news/microsoft-flight-simulator-2024-kommt-auf-die-playstation-5-2509-200466.html

from my link log —
Unification-free ("keyword") type checking.
https://www.haskellforall.com/2024/02/unification-free-keyword-type-checking.html
saved 2025-09-01

Unification-free ("keyword") type checking
Unification-free ("keyword") type checking From my perspective, one of the biggest open problems in imple...

Quaking in Soft Granular Particles with Speed-dependent Friction: Effect of Inertia
Wei-Chang Lo, Jih-Chiang Tsai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25932 https://…

Quaking in Soft Granular Particles with Speed-dependent Friction: Effect of Inertia
Our previous numerical simulation [C.-E. Tsai et al., Physical Review Research 6, 023065 (2024)] has shown that, for soft granular particles under quasistatic shearing, incorporating a speed-dependent friction is a necessary condition for reproducing the rate-dependent stick-slip fluctuations that have been found in laboratory experiments [J.-C. Tsai et al., Physical Review Letters 126, 128001 (2021)]. As a continuation, here we employ the simulation at a wide range of driving speeds to examine…

Russian oppositioner Navalny killed 'by poisoning' in 2024, widow cites Western labs: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/17/russian-oppositioner-navalny-killed-by.html

Source: Stripe is in talks to buy back shares from its VC backers at a $106.7B valuation; Sequoia bought $861M worth of shares in 2024 at a $70B valuation (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/23/stripe-buy-back-stock-vc

Scoop: Stripe in talks to buy back stock from investors
Stripe has never seemed interested in an IPO.

Some bounds on the number of non isomorphic cyclic k-cycle systems of the complete graph
Lotrenzo Mella, Gloria Rinaldi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24015 https://

Some bounds on the number of non isomorphic cyclic k-cycle systems of the complete graph
In a recent paper (2024) M. Buratti and M.E:Muzychuck have established some lower bounds on the number of non isomorphic cyclic Steiner Triple Systems of order $v\equiv 1$ (mod $6$). We complete their result to the case $v\equiv 3$ (mod $6$). For each odd $k > 3$ we also find lower bounds for the number of non isomorphic cyclic $k$-cycle systems of a complete graph.

Note on Robins' Conjecture in Dimension Four and Higher
Oleg Asipchuk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26587 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.26587

Note on Robins' Conjecture in Dimension Four and Higher
This article is motivated by a conjecture proposed by Sinai Robins in 2024. The conjecture asserts that two convex, centrally symmetric sets of positive measure that are not multi-tilers must coincide up to rigid motions if and only if their Fourier transforms agree on the lattice $\mathbb{Z}^d$. In this paper, we disprove the conjecture by constructing explicit counterexamples in dimensions $d \geq 4$.

Former Broncos WR Josh Reynolds was victim of mistaken identity in 2024 Denver shooting incident

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/former-

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- BBC Proms 2024: First Night
Elim Chan leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Clara Schumann's piano concerto with Isata Kanneh-Mason with Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, as well as Ben Nobuto's Hallelujah Sim.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002jfzc

Filing: Lachlan Murdoch's fiscal 2025 compensation jumped to $33M, including a $3M salary and $10.6M in stock awards, up from $23.8M in 2024 and $21.8M in 2023 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Lachlan Murdoch’s Fox Pay Rises to $33 Million As He Assumes Control of Family Media Empire
Weeks after settling with his siblings over who will control Fox, the company revealed that the CEO's fiscal 2025 pay rose significantly from 2024.

im concerned for my people who favorite more than 75% of what i post but never substantially interact with me. they've only grown in number. maybe im forgetting what it was like to be quiet online, before my 2024 vibe shift

Is the Peculiar Galactic Center Transient Swift J174610.4-290018 A Recurrent Nova?
Ziqian Hua, Zhiyuan Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26446 https://arxiv.or…

Is the Peculiar Galactic Center Transient Swift J174610.4-290018 A Recurrent Nova?
Swift J174610.4-290018, a peculiar transient X-ray source originally discovered by the Swift satellite in February 2024 at the onset of its outburst, recently attracted intentional or coincident follow-up X-ray observations using Swift, NuSTAR and Chandra. We have performed a comprehensive analysis of the relevant X-ray data to investigate the spectral and temporal properties of this source between October 2000 and July 2024. Archival Chandra data reveal a plausible additional outburst in 2005,…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
New Starts:
🎵 What I Specifically Love (6 Music Session, 14 Aug 2024)
#NewStarts
https://darrenhayman.bandcamp.com/track/what-i-specifically-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/0xkfgSjn3s7SWsnihw6bUS

Skill, Will, or Both? Understanding Digital Inaccessibility from Accessibility Professionals' Viewpoint
P D Parthasarathy, Rachel F. Adler, Devorah Kletenik, Swaroop Joshi, Anshu M Mittal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23287

Skill, Will, or Both? Understanding Digital Inaccessibility from Accessibility Professionals' Viewpoint
Digital inaccessibility continues to be a significant barrier to true inclusion and equality. WebAIM's 2024 report reveals that only 4.1% of the world's top one million website homepages are fully accessible. Furthermore, the percentage of web pages with detectable Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) failures has only decreased by 1.9\% over the past five years, from 97.8%. To gain deeper insights into the persistent challenges of digital accessibility, we conducted a comprehensive surv…

😬 https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/10/vimeo-to-be-acquired-by-bending-spoons-in-1-38b-all-cash-deal/

Vimeo to be acquired by Bending Spoons in $1.38B all-cash deal | TechCrunch
The announcement comes as Bending Spoons was interested in a potential takeover of Vimeo as far back as March 2024.

(YouTube, 2024) Learning to see again with a bionic eye #BCI

McKinsey expects the European demand-side flexibility market to grow to €12 billion by 2030, with a €2 billion residential portion.
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/electric-power-and-natural-…

Everytime I stumble upon this, I'm made joyus by Jim's writing! ^^
The Humble Link - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/the-humble-link/

Ground-Based Radar Tracking of Near-Earth Objects With VLBI Radio Telescopes: 2024 MK Test Case
Oliver White, Guifr\'e Molera Calv\'es, Shinji Horiuchi, Ed Kruzins, Edwin Peters, Nick Stacy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15684

Ground-Based Radar Tracking of Near-Earth Objects With VLBI Radio Telescopes: 2024 MK Test Case
The Southern Hemisphere Asteroid Research Project is an active and informal entity comprising the University of New South Wales, the University of Tasmania, the University of Western Australia, and the Curtin University, which performs asteroid research in collaboration with federal agencies, including the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (JPL). Since 2015, we have used the Australian infrastructure to characteriz…

Cowboys Add WR From Practice Squad With CeeDee Lamb Out vs. Packers https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/jalen-cropper-elevated-ceedee-lamb-out/?adt_ei=[email]

PoliTok-DE: A Multimodal Dataset of Political TikToks and Deletions From Germany
Tomas Ruiz, Andreas Nanz, Ursula Kristin Schmid, Carsten Schwemmer, Yannis Theocharis, Diana Rieger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15860

PoliTok-DE: A Multimodal Dataset of Political TikToks and Deletions From Germany
We present PoliTok-DE, a large-scale multimodal dataset (video, audio, images, text) of TikTok posts related to the 2024 Saxony state election in Germany. The corpus contains over 195,000 posts published between 01.07.2024 and 30.11.2024, of which over 18,000 (17.3%) were subsequently deleted from the platform. Posts were identified via the TikTok research API and complemented with web scraping to retrieve full multimodal media and metadata. PoliTok-DE supports computational social science acro…

"2024 was the third year in a row in which all of the extremist-related killings in the United States were carried out by… right-wingers."
Charlie Kirk Killing and How Political Violence Comes From the Right
https://zeteo.com/p/charlie-kirk-killing-political-violence

Prompt Injection Attacks on LLM Generated Reviews of Scientific Publications
Janis Keuper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10248 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.10248…

Prompt Injection Attacks on LLM Generated Reviews of Scientific Publications
The ongoing intense discussion on rising LLM usage in the scientific peer-review process has recently been mingled by reports of authors using hidden prompt injections to manipulate review scores. Since the existence of such "attacks" - although seen by some commentators as "self-defense" - would have a great impact on the further debate, this paper investigates the practicability and technical success of the described manipulations. Our systematic evaluation uses 1k reviews of 2024 ICLR papers…

A profile of Edwin Chen, the CEO of Surge AI, a Scale AI rival that had $1.2B revenue in 2024, is profitable, and is reportedly raising $1B at a $30B valuation (Phoebe Liu/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/phoebeliu/2025/09/17/the-ai-billionaire-…

AI Founder Edwin Chen Shunned VC. Now He’s Worth $18 Billion
An alum of Google and Twitter, Edwin Chen built his data labeling company, Surge, in the shadows of the AI revolution. Now the 37-year-old wants to make his voice heard.

2024: Zum ersten Mal mehr Internet-Bots als Menschen. 37 % davon „Bad Bots“. Sie klauen Daten, manipulieren Preise, täuschen Klicks – und füttern das Netz mit KI-Schrott. Jörg Schieb warnt: Wir surfen durch eine Bot-Fata Morgana und nennen es Social Media. #BadBot #KI

Stirbt Social Media – oder ertrinkt es in KI-Müll? - Jörg Schieb | Digital und KI
Während wir darüber diskutieren, ob Social Media seinen Zenit überschritten hat, passiert im Hintergrund etwas viel Bedrohlicheres: Das Internet wird systematisch mit KI-generiertem Schrott geflutet.

The firefly luciferase is being used as a 'reporter gene' here, to reveal the Kalanchoe's 24-hour rhythms in the lab. Otherwise they are invisible.
Actually the luciferase glow is not directly visible either! It's so faint that the video was taken with super-sensitive cameras, closer to astronomy kit than to your smartphone. These are transgenic plants, developed for lab science in my now-#EdinburghUni colleague Jessica Pritchard's PhD, with James Hartwell in Liverpool.
She reported this cool new science in a #preprint last year:
📖 https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.19.629446
and I just caught up with it, although... 2/n

Filing: CFPB scrapped a 2024 Apple credit card settlement implemented under Biden, ending oversight requirements years early; Apple had already paid a $25M fine (Christian Martinez/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa…

On Global Rates for Regularization Methods based on Secant Derivative Approximations
Coralia Cartis, Sadok Jerad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07580 https://a…

On Global Rates for Regularization Methods based on Secant Derivative Approximations
An inexact framework for high-order adaptive regularization methods is presented, in which approximations may be used for the $p$th-order tensor, based on lower-order derivatives. Between each recalculation of the $p$th-order derivative approximation, a high-order secant equation can be used to update the $p$th-order tensor as proposed in (Welzel 2024) or the approximation can be kept constant in a lazy manner. When refreshing the $p$th-order tensor approximation after $m$ steps, an exact evalu…

Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.space-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.space-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Ground-Based Radar Tracking of Near-Earth Objects With VLBI Radio Telescopes: 2024 MK Test Case
Oliver White, Guifr\'e Molera Calv\'es, Shinji Horiuchi, Ed Kruz…

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Group Decision Making and Beyond 2. Distorted Polarization and Vulnerability
Serge Galam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06649 https://

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Group Decision Making and Beyond 2. Distorted Polarization and Vulnerability
This paper extends previous work on echo chambers modeled by an Ising-like system at zero temperature (1. Echo Chambers and random Polarization, Symmetry 2024, 16(12), 1566). There, polarization emerged as a spontaneous symmetry-breaking process with a randomly selected direction. Here using a mean-field analysis and Monte Carlo simulations I show that this mechanism is highly vulnerable to minimal distortions. An external symmetry-breaking field, even vanishingly small, suffices to impose a gl…

from my link log —
Nontransitive comparison functions lead to out-of-bounds read and write in glibc's qsort().
https://www.qualys.com/2024/01/30/qsort.txt
saved 2025-09-06

Bulk Thermal Conductance of the 5/2 and 7/3 Fractional Quantum Hall States in the Corbino Geometry
F. Boivin, M. Petrescu, Z. Berkson-Korenberg, K. W. West L. N. Pfeiffer, G. Gervais
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09588

Bulk Thermal Conductance of the 5/2 and 7/3 Fractional Quantum Hall States in the Corbino Geometry
In this work, making use of time-resolved in situ Joule heating of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the Corbino geometry, we report bulk thermal conductance measurements for the ν = 5/2 and ν = 7/3 fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states for electron temperatures ranging from 20 to 150 mK. We compare our findings with a recent study by Melcer et al. [Nature 625, 489 (2024)] that observed a finite bulk thermal conductivity \k{appa}xx in FQH states. In spite of the large size difference an…

The Role of Legacy Mobile Networks in Infrastructure Resilience: Evidence from the Southern Brazil Flood
Daniel Meyer, Lisandro Z Granville, Leandro M. Bertholdo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08595

The Role of Legacy Mobile Networks in Infrastructure Resilience: Evidence from the Southern Brazil Flood
This paper investigates the resilience of mobile communication networks during the extreme flooding that affected Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in May 2024. Based on regulatory data and technical insights from operators, the study identifies the leading causes of mobile network disruptions, primarily related to flooding and prolonged power outages. The results reveal the significant vulnerability of modern networks (4G/5G) during the event and the essential role played by legacy technologies (2G/3…

Large-Scale, Longitudinal Study of Large Language Models During the 2024 US Election Season
Sarah H. Cen, Andrew Ilyas, Hedi Driss, Charlotte Park, Aspen Hopkins, Chara Podimata, Aleksander M\k{a}dry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18446

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

To cut or not to cut: Data-quality evaluation for the ASTRI Mini-Array
E. Molina (for the ASTRI Project), L. Foffano (for the ASTRI Project), S. Crestan (for the ASTRI Project), S. Iovenitti (for the ASTRI Project), S. Lombardi (for the ASTRI Project), F. Lucarelli (for the ASTRI Project), T. Mineo (for the ASTRI Project)
https://arxiv.org…

To cut or not to cut: Data-quality evaluation for the ASTRI Mini-Array
The ASTRI Mini-Array consists of nine Cherenkov telescopes under construction at the Observatorio del Teide, with one of them already performing observations since November 2024. Given the complexity of the analysis of gamma-ray data acquired with Cherenkov telescopes, a proper evaluation of the quality of these data is important to avoid a negative impact on the high-level scientific products. There are several factors that can contribute to reducing the quality of the observations, such as cl…

The AI Literacy Heptagon: A Structured Approach to AI Literacy in Higher Education
Veronika Hackl, Alexandra Mueller, Maximilian Sailer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18900 https://…

Alexander Smirnov, the ex–FBI informant who admitted to lying about the Biden-Burisma connection, has been released from prison just months into his six-year prison sentence.
In a plea deal in December 2024, Smirnov admitted to completely fabricating the conspiracy that became central to a Republican effort to impeach then-President Joe Biden.
Days later, the Russian asset pleaded guilty to four felony charges, including one count of obstruction, and was sentenced to six years in …

FBI Informant Who Lied About the Bidens Covertly Released From Jail
Alexander Smirnov pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and was sentenced to six years in jail.

from my link log —
Instead of "auth", we should say "permissions" and "login".
https://ntietz.com/blog/lets-say-instead-of-auth/
saved 2024-05-27

Christian Watson contract: Packers reward WR with one-year extension amid recovery from torn ACL, per report

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

Cowboys Look To Tryout Former Colts Center After Starter’s Injury https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/wesley-french-work-out-beebe-injury/?adt_ei=[email]

JD.com: sales of the iPhone 17 series in the first minute after pre-orders opened in China surpassed the first-day pre-order volume of 2024's iPhone 16 series (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article

Strong appetite for new iPhone in China as pre-orders break record
The numbers underscore Apple’s brand loyalty in China despite growing competition from the likes of Huawei, analysts say.

Der deutsche #Emissionshandel erzielte 2023 #Rekordeinnahmen von über 18 Milliarden Euro. 💶🌍 Diese Gelder fließen in den Klima- und #Transformationsfonds, der klimaneutrale …

Neuer Rekord im deutschen Emissionshandel im Jahr 2024
Deutschlands Weg zur Klimaneutralität: Wie der Emissionshandel 2023 finanzielle Rekorde bricht und den Klimaschutz vorantreibt.

PitchBook: VCs have invested $5B in humanoid robotics startups since the beginning of 2024, as years of steady progress and GenAI triggers an investment frenzy (Washington Post)

Humanoid robots were a sci-fi dream. Suddenly they’re everywhere.
A frenzy of investment from Amazon, Meta and other companies has created a crowd of new humanoid robots.

What day is the peak of birth in France?
Nathalie Blanpain (INSEE)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06234 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06234

What day is the peak of birth in France?
Over the last ten years, from 2015 to 2024, the day with the highest average number of births was on the 20th of July, while Christmas Day recorded the fewest. Apart from July, a noticeable concentration of births occurred in late September, reflecting conceptions that took place during the end of year holidays. Births tended to be less frequent on weekends and public holidays. Since the 1970s, France's ``baby season'' shifted from spring to summer. From 1975 to 2010, heat waves were most often…

Apple's Vision Pro with the M5 chip is assembled in Vietnam, according to labels on its packaging; the M2-based model, launched in 2024, was built in China (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-21/app…

Machines in the Crowd? Measuring the Footprint of Machine-Generated Text on Reddit
Lucio La Cava, Luca Maria Aiello, Andrea Tagarelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07226 https://…

Machines in the Crowd? Measuring the Footprint of Machine-Generated Text on Reddit
Generative Artificial Intelligence is reshaping online communication by enabling large-scale production of Machine-Generated Text (MGT) at low cost. While its presence is rapidly growing across the Web, little is known about how MGT integrates into social media environments. In this paper, we present the first large-scale characterization of MGT on Reddit. Using a state-of-the-art statistical method for detection of MGT, we analyze over two years of activity (2022-2024) across 51 subreddits rep…

Mexico-based fintech Plata, approved for a banking license in December 2024, raised $250M at a $3.1B valuation, as it seeks to transition to a full-fledged bank (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-16/mexico…

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Investment in subsea cable projects is expected to reach $13B between 2025 and 2027, almost 2x the amount invested between 2022 and 2024, driven by AI buildout (Magdalena Petrova/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/08/big-tech-ai-underwater-cables.html

Underwater cables are a vital piece of the AI buildout and internet — investment is booming
Over 95% of international data and voice traffic travels through subsea telecom cables. Tech giants Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft are investing for AI.

Sources and docs: after Marc Andreessen donated $5M to Trump's 2024 campaign, most CFPB probes have stalled, including three into Andreessen-backed companies (Jake Pearson/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cfpb-marc-andreessen-silicon-vall…

Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off for Silicon Valley.
The Trump administration’s gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been good for venture capitalists like Andreessen, who previously accused the agency of “terrorizing” fintech startups and crypto companies.