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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.

"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

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.10.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1153689 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

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…

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

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…

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…

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

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

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

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…

Last year I raised the idea of Open Source Quality Institute: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/04/01/OSQI
Today, I’m wondering if anyone has tried to launch an Open-Source-Maintainer guild or union or whatever? It could set rates and draft contracts…

OSQI

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.

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/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Ray Charles:
🎵 No Use Crying
#RayCharles
https://raycharles.bandcamp.com/track/no-use-crying-2024-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/6dcclzmnE2mOifAlUexgZH

Somehow I missed this 2024 Reuters report on how the first Trump administration ordered the US military to carry out a psyop campaign that spread disinformation about COVID-19 around the world.
In particular, the campaign falsely claimed that the Chinese vaccine ChinaVac is unsafe/haram or ineffective. It also doubted the usefulness of face masks. As a result, lots of people died.

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…

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

Am Wochenende ausgelesen: World Press Photo 2024. Ich hab's ja sehr mit dokumentarischer und journalistischer Fotografie. Diese Bücher geben Jahr für Jahr einen guten Überblick zu (einigen) Problemzonen der Erde. Die Ausgabe für 2025 liegt schon parat für die nächsten 2-3 Wochen. #bücherliebe #fotografie

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…

BLUEX Revisited: Enhancing Benchmark Coverage with Automatic Captioning
Jo\~ao Guilherme Alves Santos, Giovana Kerche Bon\'as, Thales Sales Almeida
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21294

BLUEX Revisited: Enhancing Benchmark Coverage with Automatic Captioning
With the growing capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), there is an increasing need for robust evaluation methods, especially in multilingual and non-English contexts. We present an updated version of the BLUEX dataset, now including 2024-2025 exams and automatically generated image captions using state-of-the-art models, enhancing its relevance for data contamination studies in LLM pretraining. Captioning strategies increase accessibility to text-only models by more than 40%, producing …

Comscore: US and Canada summer box office revenue was $3.67B, down slightly from $3.68B in 2024, and well short of the $4B from the Barbenheimer-fueled 2023 (Pamela McClintock/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

Summer Box Office Clobbered by Kryptonite: Domestic Revenue Barely Matches Last Year
The May to Labor Day season initially soared, but global grosses took a nosedive as foreign movie ticket sales plunged further and a glut of male-skewing tentpoles battled for scraps in the U.S.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Brahms Symphony No 3 at the BBC Proms
A BBC Proms performance from 2024 that includes Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Mahler's Kindertotenlieder with Alice Coote.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002hn0c

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

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

The Torelli locus and Newton polygons
Rachel Pries
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00998 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.00998

The Torelli locus and Newton polygons
This manuscript is about abelian varieties that are Jacobians of curves. I started writing it for a lecture series at the Arizona Winter School in 2024 on abelian varieties. A longer more descriptive title might be: The Torelli locus in the moduli space of abelian varieties, with applications to Newton polygons of curves in positive characteristic. To elaborate, this manuscript covers two topics: the first is about the geometry of the Torelli locus; the second is about the arithmetic invariants…

Today I took the time to have another look at #ActualBudget
#firefly_iii is great, but my mind just doesn't work well with traditional budgeting methods and my overall balance went down in 2025.
This might just be a coincidence (it went up in 2024 after all) but I just…

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

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.

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…

Netzwerk aufgeflogen - Freundin betäubt und vergewaltigt: 7 Jahre Haft #News #Nachrichten

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.

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

Multi Scale Analysis of Nifty 50 Return Characteristics Valuation Dynamics and Market Complexity 1990 to 2024
Chandradew Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00697 https://

Multi Scale Analysis of Nifty 50 Return Characteristics Valuation Dynamics and Market Complexity 1990 to 2024
This study presents a unified, distribution-aware, and complexity-informed framework for understanding equity return dynamics in the Indian market, using 34 years (1990 to 2024) of Nifty 50 index data. Addressing a key gap in the literature, we demonstrate that the price to earnings ratio, as a valuation metric, may probabilistically map return distributions across investment horizons spanning from days to decades. Return profiles exhibit strong asymmetry. One-year returns show a 74 percent p…

The Uranus Flagship: Investigating New Paradigms for Outer Solar System Exploration Workshop Summary Report
Amy Simon, Louise Prockter, Ian Cohen, Kathleen Mandt, Lynnae Quick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21074

The Uranus Flagship: Investigating New Paradigms for Outer Solar System Exploration Workshop Summary Report
This white paper is a summary of the Uranus Flagship Workshop that took place 21 to 23 May 2024 at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Co-led by Goddard and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab conveners, we had a broad, international, Science Organizing Committee, and a largely early career Local Organizing Committee from APL and GSFC. From prior workshops, it was apparent that the community was wildly enthusiastic about starting a mission, but lacked focus on what was possible or where to begin.…

Computing Radially-Symmetric Solutions of the Ultra-Relativistic Euler Equations with Entropy-Stable Discontinuous Galerkin Methods
Ferdinand Thein, Hendrik Ranocha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21427

Computing Radially-Symmetric Solutions of the Ultra-Relativistic Euler Equations with Entropy-Stable Discontinuous Galerkin Methods
The ultra--relativistic Euler equations describe gases in the relativistic case when the thermal energy dominates. These equations for an ideal gas are given in terms of the pressure, the spatial part of the dimensionless four-velocity, and the particle density. Kunik et al.\ (2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2024.113330) proposed genuine multi--dimensional benchmark problems for the ultra--relativistic Euler equations. In particular, they compared full two-dimensional discontinuous Galerkin…

Challenges and Applications of Large Language Models: A Comparison of GPT and DeepSeek family of models
Shubham Sharma, Sneha Tuli, Narendra Badam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21377

Challenges and Applications of Large Language Models: A Comparison of GPT and DeepSeek family of models
Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming AI across industries, but their development and deployment remain complex. This survey reviews 16 key challenges in building and using LLMs and examines how these challenges are addressed by two state-of-the-art models with unique approaches: OpenAI's closed source GPT-4o (May 2024 update) and DeepSeek-V3-0324 (March 2025), a large open source Mixture-of-Experts model. Through this comparison, we showcase the trade-offs between closed source models …

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…

Internal memo: Revolut begins a secondary share sale for staffers at $1,381.06 per share, valuing Revolut at $75B, up from $45B in a 2024 secondary share sale (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

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 …

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,…

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 $\mathbb{X}_t$.

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…

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-…

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

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...

»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)

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

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

Predicting Movie Success with Multi-Task Learning: A Hybrid Framework Combining GPT-Based Sentiment Analysis and SIR Propagation
Wenlan Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02809 http…

Predicting Movie Success with Multi-Task Learning: A Hybrid Framework Combining GPT-Based Sentiment Analysis and SIR Propagation
This study presents a hybrid framework for predicting movie success. The framework integrates multi-task learning (MTL), GPT-based sentiment analysis, and Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) propagation modeling. The study examines limitations in existing approaches. It models static production attributes, information dissemination, and audience sentiment at the same time. The framework uses 5,840 films from 2004 to 2024 and approximate 300,000 user reviews. It shows predictive performance wit…

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.

Internal data: Amazon registered 5.4M US Prime sign-ups over the 21-day run-up to Prime Day and the four-day event, ~116K less than 2024 and 106K below its goal (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co

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…

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...

🔊 #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

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]

A profile of A24, valued at $3.5B in June 2024, as the studio focuses on big budget projects and invests in AI tools via A24 Labs, drawing mixed reactions (Alex Barasch/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/a24s-empire-of-auteurs?curre…

A24’s Empire of Auteurs
Alex Barasch offers the first inside look at the studio behind such movies as Ari Aster’s “Midsommar,” Celine Song’s “Past Lives,” the Daniels’ “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” Barry Jenkins’s “Moonlight,” and Josh Safdie’s upcoming “Marty Supreme”—and reports on its shift toward big budgets and A.I. tools.

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…

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.

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

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.

A profile of A24, valued at $3.5B in June 2024, as the studio focuses on big budget projects and invests in AI tools via A24 Labs, drawing mixed reactions (Alex Barasch/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/a24s-empire-of-auteurs?curre…

A24’s Empire of Auteurs
Alex Barasch offers the first inside look at the studio behind such movies as Ari Aster’s “Midsommar,” Celine Song’s “Past Lives,” the Daniels’ “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” Barry Jenkins’s “Moonlight,” and Josh Safdie’s upcoming “Marty Supreme”—and reports on its shift toward big budgets and A.I. tools.

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://…

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.

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…

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…