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Cybersicherheit im Gesundheitswesen erreicht eine neue, erschreckende Dimension: Der Angriff auf den britischen Pathologiedienstleister Synnovis hat nachweislich zum Tod eines Patienten geführt.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10463860?wt_mc=sm.re…

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 […]

The US takes down a North Korean operation that, from 2021 to 2024, impersonated 80 people to get remote jobs at 100 US firms, using "laptop farms" in the US (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/30/us-g…

US government takes down major North Korean 'remote IT workers' operation  | TechCrunch
US prosecutors indicated a total of 13 people involved in the fraudulent scheme to steal and launder money for North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.

Live Midden-Oosten: Ook Hamas publiceert video van gijzelaar | de Volkskrant
https://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/israel-gaza-hamas-trump-netanyahu~b27fd8b3/
Eindelijk maakt iemand van hoger politiek / diplomatiek niveau met de basis van de ve…

Titans CB eager to 'remind everybody who L'Jarius Sneed is' after injury-shortened 2024 season https://www.nfl.com/news/l-jarius-sneed-eager-to-remind-everybody-after-injury-shortened-2024-season

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

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…

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 …

A US judge denies Apple's motion to dismiss the DOJ antitrust lawsuit, filed in March 2024, accusing Apple of unlawfully dominating the US smartphone market (Jody Godoy/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

Our trip down Müller's play started over a decade ago, with rehearsals finally starting a year before the pandemic. The script has so many facets, it's imperative to give a production a unique focus. It took us until 2024 to find ours: Amidst all the brutality and perversion, it's a love story.
https://chao…

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1060581 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Our Mind on Music Podcast: Interview with Stan Stewart
https://ourmindonmusic.wordpress.com/2024/03/18/our-mind-on-music-podcast-interview-with-stan-stewart-aka-stanley-g-of-muz4now/

Our Mind on Music Podcast: Interview with Stan Stewart (aka Stanley G) of Muz4Now
In this week’s episode, we have the pleasure of interviewing Stan Stewart (aka Stanley G), a talented musician from Muz4Now. Stan is known for his captivating piano improvisations and heartfe…

Sharp stability in hypercontractivity estimates and logarithmic Sobolev inequalities
Zolt\'an M. Balogh, Alexandru Krist\'aly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21552 https://…

Sharp stability in hypercontractivity estimates and logarithmic Sobolev inequalities
We prove stability results in hypercontractivity estimates for the Hopf--Lax semigroup in $\mathbb R^n$ and apply them to deduce stability results for the Euclidean $L^p$-logarithmic Sobolev inequality for any $p>1$. As a main tool, we use recent stability results for the Prékopa--Leindler inequality, due to Böröczky and De (2021), Figalli and Ramos (2024) and Figalli, van Hintum, and Tiba (2025). Under mild assumptions on the functions, most of our stability results turn out to be sharp, as…

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Colts rookie TE Tyler Warren starting to find his fit at training camp: 'We’re putting a lot on his plate' https://www.nfl.com/news/colts-rookie-te-tyler-warren-starting-to-find-his-fit-at-training-camp-we-re-…

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 …

Online Combinatorial Allocation with Interdependent Values
Michal Feldman, Simon Mauras, Divyarthi Mohan, Rebecca Reiffenh\"auser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23500 https://

Online Combinatorial Allocation with Interdependent Values
We study online combinatorial allocation problems in the secretary setting, under interdependent values. In the interdependent model, introduced by Milgrom and Weber (1982), each agent possesses a private signal that captures her information about an item for sale, and the value of every agent depends on the signals held by all agents. Mauras, Mohan, and Reiffenhäuser (2024) were the first to study interdependent values in online settings, providing constant-approximation guarantees for secret…

A Statistical Analysis of Magnetic Parameters in Solar Source Regions of Halo-CMEs with and without SEP events
Xuchun Duan, Ting Li, Yijun Hou, Yang Wang, Yue Li, Yining Zhang, Zheng Sun, Guiping Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21907

A Statistical Analysis of Magnetic Parameters in Solar Source Regions of Halo-CMEs with and without SEP events
Large SEPs can cause adverse space weather hazard to humans technology and such events are especially associated with halo coronal mass ejections (CMEs). But in turn, a significant portion of halo-CMEs are not associated with large SEPs. The objective of this study is to gain an understanding of the source region distinctions between halo-CMEs in SEP and No-SEP events. Among the 176 halo-CMEs observed from 2010-2024, we screen out 45 large SEP events and 131 No-SEP events from this dataset. It …

Apple responds to the DOJ's antitrust lawsuit from March 2024, saying it sets "a dangerous precedent" and "threatens the very principles that set iPhone apart" (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/07/29/apple-doj-lawsuit-answer-iphone/

Apple slams DOJ lawsuit: ’threatens the very principles that set iPhone apart’ - 9to5Mac
The US Department of Justice formally sued Apple in March 2024, accusing the company of having a “smartphone monopoly.” Apple...

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Retröt: Mit #Steckersolaranlagen kannst Du selbst auf Deinem #Balkon Teil der #Energiewende werden, Deine

Steckersolaranlagen für Deinen Balkon: Sparen mit der Energiewende
Spare Stromkosten mit einem Balkonkraftwerk! Finde heraus, was die neuen Regelungen 2024 für Dich bedeuten. Einfach installieren und profitieren.

Habits for Creativity – Investing in Yourself for Improved Mental and Physical Health #creativity #inspiration #motivational

Habits for Creativity - Investing in Yourself for Improved Mental and Physical Health
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Commitment Gap via Correlation Gap
Shuchi Chawla, Dimitris Christou, Trung Dang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20246 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.20246

Commitment Gap via Correlation Gap
Selection problems with costly information, dating back to Weitzman's Pandora's Box problem, have received much attention recently. We study the general model of Costly Information Combinatorial Selection (CICS) that was recently introduced by Chawla et al. [2024] and Bowers et al. [2025]. In this problem, a decision maker needs to select a feasible subset of stochastic variables, and can only learn information about their values through a series of costly steps, modeled by a Markov decision pr…

Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten ersetzt, Sonderregelungen nach Solarpaket berücksichtigt.
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Nikki Haley’s campaign manager warned influential donors Tuesday that the GOP would lose control of the U.S. House of Representatives
if Donald Trump is the party’s presidential nominee,
leaning into concerns about down-ballot races
as some anti-Trump Republicans view the fight over Congress as a better investment than the presidential race.

Haley camp seeks to convince top donors that Trump would cost GOP the House
The move marked the latest effort by a campaign many Republicans have written off to hit back against the overwhelming GOP favorite.

Crash Landing
- let's see if we can stop crashing - OK?
#MusicVideo #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2024/…

Crash Landing #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Analysis of the Pion Electromagnetic Form Factor with Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order QCD Corrections
Sheng-Quan Wang, Zuo-Fen Liao, Jian-Ming Shen, Hua Zhou, Jia-Wei Zhang, Jiang Yan, Xing-Gang Wu, Leonardo Di Giustino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20479

Analysis of the Pion Electromagnetic Form Factor with Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order QCD Corrections
NNLO QCD corrections for the pion electromagnetic form factor at large momentum transfer have been recently performed in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 201901 (2024); Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 221901 (2025)], revealing that the NLO and NNLO contributions are positive and sizeable. Unfortunately, these predictions have been obtained using the conventional scale-setting method and thus they are plagued by large renormalization scale ambiguities. In this paper, we analyze the pion electromagnetic form factor …

The nebular phase of SN 2024ggi: a low-mass progenitor with no signs of interaction
L. Ferrari, G. Folatelli, K. Ertini, H. Kuncarayakti, T. Regna, M. C. Bersten, C. Ashall, E. Baron, C. R. Burns, L. Galbany, W. B. Hoogendam, K. Maeda, K. Medler, N. I. Morrel, B. Shapee, M. D. Stritzinger, H. Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22794

The nebular phase of SN 2024ggi: a low-mass progenitor with no signs of interaction
Context: SN 2024ggi is a Type II supernova (SN) discovered in the nearby galaxy NGC 3621 (D $\approx6.7\pm0.d$ Mpc) on 2024 April 03.21 UT. Its proximity enabled a detailed investigation of the SN's properties and its progenitor star. This work focuses on the optical evolution of SN 2024ggi at the nebular phase. Aims: We investigate the progenitor properties and possible asymmetries in the ejecta by studying the nebular phase evolution between days 287 and 400 after the explosion. Methods: We p…

Sherrod Brown's Race Will Test Trump Voters' Buyer's Remorse (Alex Roarty/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/2024-election/sherrod-brown-ohio-test-trump-voters-buyers-remorse
http://www.memeorandum.com/250818/p146#a250818p146

Measurements of enriched 155 Gd and 157Gd converters with the NMX detector on the nTOF EAR2 beam line at CERN
D. Pfeiffer, F. M. Brunbauer, I. R. Fehse, A. D. Finke, K. Fissum, K. J. Floethner, D. Janssens, M. Lisowska, H. Muller, E. Oksanen, E. Oliveri, L. Ropelewski, A. Rusu, J. Samarati, L. Scharenberg, M. van Stenis, R. Veenhof, N. Zavaritskaya
https://

Measurements of enriched 155 Gd and 157Gd converters with the NMX detector on the nTOF EAR2 beam line at CERN
The detectors for the NMX instrument at the European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund use natural Gd as the neutron converter. In 2024, beam time was obtained at the neutron time-of flight experiment (nTOF) at CERN to study the feasibility of an upgrade to enriched Gd. A 10 x 10 cm^2 prototype of the NMX detector was equipped with two enriched Gd samples (157Gd and 155Gd) that were attached with copper tape to the natural Gd cathode of the detector. Three sets of measurements were taken, with th…

Hypergraph Splitting-Off via Element-Connectivity Preserving Reductions
Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran, Chandra Chekuri, Shubhang Kulkarni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18637 https://

Hypergraph Splitting-Off via Element-Connectivity Preserving Reductions
Bérczi, Chandrasekaran, Király, and Kulkarni (ICALP 2024) recently described a splitting-off procedure in hypergraphs that preserves local-connectivity and outlined some applications. In this note we give an alternative proof via element-connectivity preserving reduction operations in graphs.

Die ePetition 174803 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Internationale Verträge und Abkommen mit dem Titel
Sperrung von Karten bei Verlust von Debitkarten und anderen Zahlungskarten
kann bis zum Mittwoch 03. September 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird gefordert, …

Cowboys officially lose a 2024 draft pick to another NFL team https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/22/cowboys-lose-2024-draft-pick-justin-rogers/85329395007/

Conclusion: Bigfoot hangs out with black bears.
✅ Study finds bigfoot sightings correlate with black bear populations - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/study-finds-bigfoot-sightings-correlate-with-black-be…

Study finds bigfoot sightings correlate with black bear populations
The big conclusion: “If bigfoot is there, it could be a bear.”…

Dolphins OLBs coach Ryan Crow arrested and charged with domestic battery, placed on administrative leave

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

from my link log —
The sorry state of Java deserialization.
https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_110_java_io/
saved 2024-09-22 https://

Greener Grass #NowPlaying #nowplaying #originalmusic #streaming

Greener Grass #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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…

Programming tonight’s episode of @… radio and stumbled on our most recent 3–hour #Drone #Accordion special episode from last fall
That’ll keep me going through…

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-10-30: Electronic, Experimental & Drone Show IV: Night of the Restless
So… our podcast schedule got disrupted by the Internet Archive hack late last year, and we never quite got caught up. But we can get closer. Here, today, I can share with you our incredible e…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#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

#DDA Vogelwelt aktuell: Rückblick auf den Winter 2024/2025. https://www.dda-web.de/aktuelles/meldungen/vogelwelt-aktuell-rueckblick-auf-den-winter-202…

Fantasy Football 2025 draft day targets: Five rookies most likely to break out as league-winning picks

https://www.cbssports.com/fantas…

@… Sigh. Non-tech people always lean towards the old tech. Like REALLY old, about to hit 30 years, that’s USB-A. It’s been 10 years since USB-C already.
I think the logic of what “loads of people have” is fine except they were coping just fine 1997-2024 with NO ports at all, zero USB options were available
So if you’re building something in 2025…

Hay grown for cattle consumes nearly half the water drawn from Colorado River, study finds https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-03-28/alfalfa-hay-beef-water-colorado-river

Hay consumes a vast share of the Colorado River's water
Much of the Colorado River's water is used for agriculture. A new study shows 46% of the water that is diverted is used to grow hay to feed cattle.

The US Senate passes the Genius Act, which establishes a regulatory framework for stablecoins; the bill now heads to the House (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/17/genius-stablecoin-bill-crypto.html

Senate passes GENIUS stablecoin bill, giving crypto industry first major legislative win
This is the first legislative victory for the digital asset industry, which put around $250 million in the 2024 election cycle.

Emulating Dark Matter Halo Merger Trees with Graph Generative Models
Tri Nguyen, Chirag Modi, Siddharth Mishra-Sharma, L. Y. Aaron Yung, Rachel S. Somerville
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10652

Emulating Dark Matter Halo Merger Trees with Graph Generative Models
Merger trees track the hierarchical assembly of dark matter halos across cosmic time and serve as essential inputs for semi-analytic models of galaxy formation. However, conventional methods for constructing merger trees rely on ad-hoc assumptions and are unable to incorporate environmental information. Nguyen et al. (2024) introduced FLORAH, a generative model based on recurrent neural networks and normalizing flows, for modeling main progenitor branches of merger trees. In this work, we exten…

Spoiled 4 Us All #NowPlaying #nowplaying #originalmusic #streaming

Spoiled 4 Us All #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Beware! The AI Act Can Also Apply to Your AI Research Practices
Alina Wernick, Kristof Meding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03218 https://

Beware! The AI Act Can Also Apply to Your AI Research Practices
The EU has become one of the vanguards in regulating the digital age. A particularly important regulation in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) domain is the EU AI Act, which entered into force in 2024. The AI Act specifies -- due to a risk-based approach -- various obligations for providers of AI systems. These obligations, for example, include a cascade of documentation and compliance measures, which represent a potential obstacle to science. But do these obligations also apply to AI researcher…

Canva launches employee stock sale to new and existing investors at a $42B valuation, up 30% from $32B in 2024, reports $3.3B annualized sales and 240M MAUs (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Facts are Harder Than Opinions -- A Multilingual, Comparative Analysis of LLM-Based Fact-Checking Reliability
Lorraine Saju, Arnim Bleier, Jana Lasser, Claudia Wagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03655

Facts are Harder Than Opinions -- A Multilingual, Comparative Analysis of LLM-Based Fact-Checking Reliability
The proliferation of misinformation necessitates scalable, automated fact-checking solutions. Yet, current benchmarks often overlook multilingual and topical diversity. This paper introduces a novel, dynamically extensible data set that includes 61,514 claims in multiple languages and topics, extending existing datasets up to 2024. Through a comprehensive evaluation of five prominent Large Language Models (LLMs), including GPT-4o, GPT-3.5 Turbo, LLaMA 3.1, and Mixtral 8x7B, we identify signific…

An Eclipse of Another Kind – Standing Down #eclipse #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2024/an-eclipse-of

An Eclipse of Another Kind - Standing Down
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Sources: Samsung is delaying completion of its Texas fab due to a lack of customers; the plant was meant to come online in 2024 before being pushed to 2026 (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/S…

Samsung delaying completion of US chip plant due to lack of customers
South Korean chipmaker in no rush to install equipment at Texas factory

Sustain Creativity – Pushing Too Far – part 2 #brokenankle #composer #musician

Sustain Creativity - Pushing Too Far - part 2
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Streudiagramm der Entwicklung der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durc…

Healing Vibe – happy inspirations of all sorts #healing #inspiration #inspirations #musician

Healing Vibe - happy inspirations of all sorts
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Morning Darkness – an #improv #poem #improv #poem

Morning Darkness - an #improv #poem
Stan Stewart - @muz4now