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Amazon shutters its AGI Lab as part of layoffs in its AGI unit earlier this week; the lab's former head David Luan left in February (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/amazon-shuts-ai-agent-research-lab-agi-layoffs…

Amazon Shuts AI Agent Research Lab In AGI Layoffs
Amazon this week closed its AGI Lab, a San Francisco-based research and product team that was developing software to improve the usefulness of AI agents, according to an Amazon spokesperson. The lab was shuttered as part of Amazon’s layoffs in its artificial general intelligence unit earlier this week. AGI Lab was founded in December 2024 and initially included several dozen employees that

from my link log —
The rainbow hats puzzle.
https://taoa.io/posts/The-Rainbow-Hats-Puzzle
saved 2024-05-17 https://dotat.at/:/5NA2…

The Rainbow Hats Puzzle
ROYGBV

@… interesting, however (unless I'm missing something) it's primarily reporting on research from 2024 and 2025.

Cyberkriminalität: Männer für Angriff auf Londoner Verkehrsbetrieb verurteilt
Bei dem Angriff im Jahr 2024 entstand ein Schaden von mehreren Millionen Euro für die Londoner Verkehrsbetriebe.
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Cyberkriminalität: Männer für Angriff auf Londoner Verkehrsbetrieb verurteilt
Bei dem Angriff im Jahr 2024 entstand ein Schaden von mehreren Millionen Euro für die Londoner Verkehrsbetriebe.

Fruits Of Labor (Of Love)
(A 10x8" silver chloride print I made last night of a scene captured in the Bernina Range in 2024, which reminded me of 18th century landscape painting...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

An American scientist who has studied underground nuclear tests
has been detained in China for more than 18 months on spying charges,
according to his supporters and a US lawmaker.
💥Youlin Chen, a seismologist, has been “wrongfully detained” since November 2024,
US Senator Edward Markey said in a statement Tuesday.
Donald Trump raised Chen’s detention and asked for his freedom during a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing in May,
according to …

US expert on underground nuclear tests held in China for 18 months
An American scientist who has studied underground nuclear tests has been detained in China more than 18 months on spying charges, according to his supporters and a US lawmaker.

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Smoothed asymptotics: from number theory to quantum field theory.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10981
saved 2024-02-18 https://dotat.at…

Smoothed asymptotics: from number theory to QFT
Inspired by the method of smoothed asymptotics developed by Terence Tao, we introduce a new ultra-violet regularisation scheme for loop integrals in quantum field theory which we call $η$ regularisation. This allows us to reveal a surprising connection between the elimination of divergences in divergent series of powers and the preservation of gauge invariance in the regularisation of loop integrals in quantum field theory. In particular, we note that a method for regularising the series of na…

2024 NFL redraft: Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels or Drake Maye at No. 1?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2024-nfl-redraft-caleb-williams-jayden-daniels-drake-maye/

"Nine out of 10 Brazilian cities have experienced climate-related disasters over the past three decades"
#Brazil #Climate #ClimateChange

Nine out of 10 Brazilian cities have experienced climate-related disasters over the past three decades
Extreme weather events are becoming increasingly frequent and severe. The El Niño predicted for 2026–2027 is one such event. These events have caused environmental, economic and social impacts in Brazil, requiring specific public policies. To transform scientific data into a foundation for developing prevention, adaptation and mitigation measures, a group of Brazilian researchers has analyzed approximately 60,000 records of hydrogeological disasters in Brazil between 1991 and 2024. Their res…

#Steady #Klimacrew
Die Abos der Microsoft-Copiloten sind in Wirklichkeit Eintritt!
Schon relativ früh habe ich eines der Copilot-Derivate ausprobiert. Das war 2024 – glaube ich – und noch lange vor der Copilot-Inflation. Was ich aber nie wusste ist, dass es sich um

Die Abos der Microsoft-Copiloten sind in Wirklichkeit Eintritt!
KI-Tools für Profis – oder doch nur Spaß? Ein Blick in den Copilot-Disclaimer von Microsoft verleitet zum Schmunzeln.

I added a PDF to my page about mosquito-killing buckets in case anyone wants to print something off to give to neighbors. Link to the file is near the bottom. #mosquitoes https://colinpurrington.com/2024/08/bti-honeypot-traps/

Ensitrelvir, an oral inhibitor of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) 3C-like protease,
is approved in Japan for the treatment of mild-to-moderate coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).
Previously, no antiviral agents were approved for postexposure prophylaxis in household contacts of patients with Covid-19.
The study was conducted from June 2023 to September 2024 in Argentina, Japan, South Africa, the U.S., and Vietnam. About 9% of people who receiv…

Digital i: YouTube overtakes Netflix in average daily viewing globally, rising from 87.2 minutes in 2024 to 99.1 in 2025, while Netflix fell from 100.5 to 93.4 (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

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Speed up your code: don't pass structs bigger than 16 bytes on AMD64.
https://gist.github.com/FeepingCreature/5dff669aad380a123b15659e195fb96c
saved 2024-01-05

Speed up your code: don't pass structs bigger than 16 bytes on AMD64
Speed up your code: don't pass structs bigger than 16 bytes on AMD64 - sixteen_bytes.md

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

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Performance culture.
http://joeduffyblog.com/2016/04/10/performance-culture/
saved 2024-06-01 https://

Ich lass das hier mal so stehen
#nosvp #climatecrisis #globalwarming #klimakrise

"Five Americans die every hour from toxic vehicle emissions, study finds"
#US #USA #America #Emissions

Five Americans die every hour from toxic vehicle emissions, study finds
Research suggests 41,800 premature US deaths in 2024 were attributable to road pollution