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Everett Randle, a former partner at Kleiner Perkins, joins VC firm Benchmark as general partner, following a slew of personnel departures at Benchmark (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/benchmark-names-ev…

Benchmark Names Everett Randle as New General Partner 
Everett Randle, a former partner at Kleiner Perkins investing out of its growth-stage funds, has joined Benchmark as the firm’s newest general partner, the early-stage firm announced Monday. At Kleiner, Randle worked on investments including enterprise search startup Glean and legal AI startup Harvey, earning him a top spot on The Information’s Next General Partners list in 2024. The hiring

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.

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

🫧 Cleaner air may be accelerating warming by making clouds less reflective
#atmosphere

Cleaner air may be accelerating warming by making clouds less reflective
Earth is reflecting less sunlight, and absorbing more heat, than it did several decades ago. Global warming is advancing faster than climate models predicted, with observed temperatures exceeding projections in 2023 and 2024. These trends have scientists scrambling to understand why the atmosphere is letting more light in.

Source: livestream shopping app Whatnot nears ~$1B in revenue for 2025; Whatnot says it has passed $6B in gross sales this year, more than doubling 2024's sales (Ann Gehan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/live…

Livestream Shopping App Whatnot Nears $1 Billion in 2025 Revenue
Livestream shopping app Whatnot is targeting close to $1 billion in revenue for 2025, according to a person with knowledge of the company’s finances. The six-year-old company has quietly grown into one of e-commerce’s hottest companies, raising more than $500 million in new funding this year and boosting its valuation to $11.5 billion. Whatnot originally started as a place for collectors of Funko

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.

#Helen (the energy company of #Helsinki) in 2024 has installed a 148 MW wind power plant.
https://www.helen.fi/en/n…

»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)

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...

Grundeinkommen mal anders.
https://noc.social/@todayilearned/115639265788636490

"Brits heading for Spain may soon have to wear a face mask again due to the huge surge in flu and Covid cases."
Everyone else will be exempt or what? 🥴
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2140229/spain-covid-flu-alert-new-rules-hospitals…

#GoodNews @… https://wandering.shop/@adapalmer/115498163707135…

This is the "find out" part. Look at that blue shift almost everywhere.
#VA #election2025 #ElectionDay

Valmisruoan vaarat #dokumentti #terveys

Valmisruoan vaarat
Dokumentti tutkii elintarviketeollisuuden vaikutusta ruokailutottumuksiin ja terveyteen. Viimeisen 70 vuoden aikana suuryritykset ovat kehittäneet houkuttelevia, edullisia ja helposti saatavilla olevia valmisruokia ja eineksiä, joilla on mm. yhteys maailmanlaajuiseen lihavuusongelmaan. Tuotanto: Lion TV/Arte/CBC/BBC. (Irresistible: Why We Can't Stop Eating, Iso-Britannia 2024)

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…

GPT-5.2 models match GPT-5 and 5.1 with a 400K context window and 128K max output tokens, but have a newer knowledge cutoff of Aug. 31, 2025 vs. Sept. 30, 2024 (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Newsletter)
https://simonw.substack.com/p/gpt-52-and-useful-patterns-for-…

GPT 5.2 and useful patterns for building HTML tools
Plus a YouTube video, a podcast appearance and more

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…

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:

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Jakub Józef Orliński with Il Pomo d'Oro at the BBC Proms
A Late Night Prom from 2024 featuring golden-voiced Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński with regular collaborators Il Pomo d’Oro for a journey through the early Baroque.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ksl9

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.

Among the top 10K artists streamed in Australia from 2021 to 2024, Australian artists fell ~20% as algorithms make English-speaking artists compete globally (The Australia Institute)
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post

Drowned out in the stream. Australian music is in trouble and needs investment: new report
The algorithms of global music streaming services like Spotify, YouTube, Amazon and Apple are killing Australian music, according to a new report by a

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 $d \geq 4$.

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…

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

🔊 #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

ShopMy, which lets brands run influencer marketing efforts, raised $70M led by Avenir at a $1.5B valuation, up from ~$410M when it raised $77.5M in March 2024 (Diana Pearl/The Business of Fashion)
https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/marketing-p…

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…

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…

#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit …

#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit …