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Sources: data labeling company Surge AI aims to raise up to $1B, targeting a valuation of $15B; Surge AI had $1B in 2024 revenue, vs. Scale AI's reported $870M (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/scale-ais

July 13, 2024: How Trump's near miss coincided with Biden's last stand (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/01/trump-biden-assassination-attempt-butler/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p50#a250701p50

The Python-based data-exfiltration utility used by the Cl0p ransomware group (commonly distributed as part of the toolset during the 2023 – 2024 MoveIt campaigns) constructs operating-system commands by directly concatenating attacker-supplied strings without input sanitization. An authenticated endpoint on the Cl0p operators’ staging/collection host passes file-or directory-names received from compromised machines straight into a shell-escape sequence. No official patch or cooperation from …

Stashed in 2024, Cowboys 7th-round pick looks to turn grainy film into real opportunity https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/30/dallas-cowboys-player-profile-no-71-ot-nate-t…

Ik had helemaal gemist dat hij was overleden, fantastische, onvergeterlijke man. Ik heb nog les van hem gehad, rond 1977, in de duinen, over mierennesten en de duinen in het algemeen.
Gerrit Jan (1932–2024) gaf zijn ongekende veldkennis door aan academici en tienduizenden schoolkinderen | Van Wieg Tot Graf Den Haag en omstreken | AD.nl

Gerrit Jan (1932–2024) gaf zijn ongekende veldkennis door aan academici en tienduizenden schoolkinderen
Als Haagse jongen leerde hij de duinen kennen. Gerrit Jan de Bruyn werd bioloog, gespecialiseerd in de Rode bosmier, en de beschermheer van Meijendel. Dit is het bijzondere levensverhaal van Gerrit Jan de Bruyn (15 augustus 1932 – 29 oktober 2024).

Banks bet big on fossil fuels, boosting financing in 2024, report finds https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/banks-bet-big-on-fossil-fuels-boosting-financing-in-2024-report-finds/

Banks bet big on fossil fuels, boosting financing in 2024, report finds
Financing for the fossil fuel sector from the world’s largest banks surged in 2024 to $869 billion, according to a recent report by the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and other environmental groups. That figure represents an increase of nearly 23% compared to 2023. The $162.5 billion increase channeled to companies doing business in fossil fuels […]

I'm sorry but aren't pros/cons lists supposed to cover both faces of the coin? The list here is very one-sided for immich:
https://www.wetransco.de/2024/09/immich-app-and-nextc…

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Tell WestJet to Stop Sponsoring Calgary Stampede Rodeo Cruelty #AnimalRights

Tell WestJet to Stop Sponsoring Rodeo Cruelty!
WestJet, a so-called progressive airline, has been sponsoring rodeo for years at the Stampede—including 2024 bull riding competitions. Tell WestJet to STOP supporting animal suffering for entertainment! 🐂🚫

Plastik-futternde Pilze:
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/plastic-eating-fungi-could-be-glimmer-hope-cutting-ocean-pollution-2024-08-08/
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Fantasy Football 2025 draft day targets: Five rookies most likely to break out as league-winning picks

https://www.cbssports.com/fantas…

Unveiling the Complex Jet Dynamics in the Blazar 2021 317 through Multi-Epoch VLBI Observations
Haitian Shang, Wei Zhao, Xiaoyu Hong, Leonid I. Gurvits, Ailing Zeng, Tao An, Xiaopeng Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23082

Unveiling the Complex Jet Dynamics in the Blazar 2021+317 through Multi-Epoch VLBI Observations
We present an investigation of the compact structure of the AGN 2021+317 based on multi-epoch Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations at 15, 22, and 43 GHz in the period from 2013 through 2024. The VLBI images show a core-jet structure extended to the south, with two stationary components in the northern region, one of which likely to be the core of the source. We also detected two new moving jet components (S4 and S5) in the observations of 2021. Based on these observational find…

Microsoft finally ships controversial Windows 11 'Recall' feature after year-long delay — now rolling out to all Copilot PCs
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/windows-recall-general-availabilit…

Cowboys Get Good News on Potential Return of ‘Breakout Star’ on Defense https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/linebacker-demarvion-overshown-thanksgiving-injury-return/?adt_ei=[email]

In 2024, Vandenberg Space Force Base had 51 launches,
but proposed changes would increase that number to 100 launches per year at both the Space Launch Complex (SLC)-6 and SLC-4,
including both Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches. 
The Falcon Heavy, which according to the EIS, has not launched out of Vandenberg Space Force Base in the past, would launch a maximum of five times per year from the SLC-6.
Because of the Falcon Heavy’s two side boosters landing separately, …

As @pluralistic writes here, “the American right is a brittle coalition:”
https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/14/fracture-lines/
We imagine the right as monolithic at our peril. Reply guys love, love, love to lecture me about how These People are all the same. Here’s the thing: they are not, and imagining they are is self-defeating. The right has been •incredibly• effective at finding fracture points on the left and jamming a crowbar into them. It’s time we did the same.
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165 Millionen (!) Euro - Behandlungskosten für Häftlinge explodieren #News #Nachrichten

2024 waren wir mit der Schachtour auf dem Schulfest des Wilhelmsgymnasiums in Stuttgart-Degerloch. Dort haben wir neben den Feierlichkeiten auch etwas Schach angeboten und unser Maskottchen Chessy war natürlich auch mit am Start.
Falls ihr aus dem Osten kommt und Lust habt, dass wir diesen Sommer zu euch kommen, meldet euch gerne hier an:

Non-uniform bounds for non-normal approximation via Stein's method with applications to the Curie--Weiss model and the imitative monomer-dimer model
L\^e V\v{a}n Th\`anh, Nguyen Ngoc Tu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17061

Non-uniform bounds for non-normal approximation via Stein's method with applications to the Curie--Weiss model and the imitative monomer-dimer model
This paper establishes a non-uniform Berry--Esseen bound for non-normal approximation using Stein's method. The main theorem generalizes the result of the authors in [Comptes Rendus Mathematique, 2024] to the context of non-normal approximation. As an application of the main result, we derive non-uniform Berry--Esseen bounds in non-central limit theorems for the magnetization in the Curie--Weiss model and the imitative monomer-dimer model. These extend some existing results in the literature, i…

Energy Spectra of Secondary Particles Induced by Solar Energetic Proton Events and Magnetospheric Effects
A. Chilingarian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.16269 …

Energy Spectra of Secondary Particles Induced by Solar Energetic Proton Events and Magnetospheric Effects
We investigate the energy spectra of secondary cosmic ray particles associated with two distinct solar events: the magnetospheric effect (ME) of 5 November 2023 and ground-level enhancement (GLE 74) of 11 May 2024. Using data from the SEVAN and Neutron Monitor networks and energy release histograms from particle spectrometers, we reconstruct spectra and identify key differences between ME and GLE. CORSIKA-based simulations reveal that MEs are caused by galactic protons below geomagnetic cutoff …

Amsterdam-based Finom, a neobank targeting SMBs, raised a €115M Series C led by AVP after raising €92.7M from General Catalyst in May (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/23/smb-focused-finom-closes-e115m-as-european-…

SMB-focused Finom closes €115M as European fintech heats up | TechCrunch
Finom, an Amsterdam-based challenger bank for SMBs that claims to have doubled its revenue in 2024, closed a €115 million Series C equity round (around $133 million).

As much as I’d love to believe that the 2024 election results were the result of covert ballot tampering, I land in @…’s camp here. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and the evidence here isn’t extraordinary. It isn’t even passing.
Sorry. I’d love to believe it. But I don’t.
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President Trump's 2024 financial disclosure report shows he earned ~$57M from his stake in World Liberty Financial and $1.2M from an NFT licensing deal (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/us/politics/trump-disclosure-cryptocu…

Trump Was Already a Crypto Czar in 2024
Financial disclosures for 2024 filed by the president on Friday show that digital coins had already become one of his family’s most successful ventures.

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#ThroughTheNight
- Ajna Marosz and Il Cuore Barocco play Graupner and Telemann
A chamber music concert from the 2024 Allegretto Žilina International Music Festival in northern Slovakia, bringing together award winning musicians from around the world.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002d1q4

And yes, please, please, please view anyone raising money to expose some theoretical 2024 election tampering as a Steinesque grifter. They are conning you. And they are more likely than not conning you to fund some right-wing benefactor holding their puppet strings — or at best they’re just an old-fashioned charlatan. Ignore.
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https://federate.social/@mattblaze/114684153991038814

With Aaron Rodgers, how will Steelers' offense change? OC Arthur Smith says team's attack is less 'obvious'

https://www.cbssports.co…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03447 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Asymptotic formula for the sum of a prime and a square-full number in intervals shorter than $X^{1/2}$
Let $R(N)$ be the number of representations of $N$ as a sum of a prime and a square-full number weighted with logarithmic function. In $2024$, the author and Y. Suzuki obtained an asymptotic formula for the sum of $R(N)$ over positive integers $N$ in a short interval ($X$, $X+H$] for $X^{\frac{1}{2}+\varepsilon} \le H < X^{1-\varepsilon}$. In this article, we improve the range of $H$, that is, we prove the same asymptotic formula for $X^{\frac{32-4\sqrt{15}}{49}+\varepsilon} \le H \le X^{1- \va…

Probing the Turbulent Corona and Heliosphere Using Radio Spectral Imaging Observation during the Solar Conjunction of Crab Nebula
Peijin Zhang, Surajit Mondal, Bin Chen, Sijie Yu, Dale Gary, Marin M. Anderson, Judd D. Bowman, Ruby Byrne, Morgan Catha, Xingyao Chen, Sherry Chhabra, Larry D'Addario, Ivey Davis, Jayce Dowell, Katherine Elder, Gregg Hallinan, Charlie Harnach, Greg Hellbourg, Jack Hickish, Rick Hobbs, David Hodge, Mark Hodges, Yuping Huang, Andrea Isella, Daniel C. Jaco…

Probing the Turbulent Corona and Heliosphere Using Radio Spectral Imaging Observation during the Solar Conjunction of Crab Nebula
Measuring plasma parameters in the upper solar corona and inner heliosphere is challenging because of the region's weakly emissive nature and inaccessibility for most in situ observations. Radio imaging of broadened and distorted background astronomical radio sources during solar conjunction can provide unique constraints for the coronal material along the line of sight. In this study, we present radio spectral imaging observations of the Crab Nebula (Tau A) from June 9 to June 22, 2024 when it…