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Here is a poll about #GenAI since that's all we're talking about at the moment:
Do you believe that you can detect AI-generated text?
If so, what are your tips to detect it? I found this article which has a few suggestions :

5 Easy Ways To Tell If Written Content Came From Generative AI
Spread of generative AI content online since ChatGPT 3.5 launched in November 2022 is up 8,362%. Here's how to tell if content was written by an AI bot or not.

Changement de registrar
#dns

Can Chargers, Broncos continue to ascend after breakthrough 2024 seasons?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/can-chargers-broncos-continue-to-ascend-after-bre…

from my link log —
aa-56: an astronomical ephemeris calculator program.
http://www.moshier.net/aadoc.html
saved 2024-05-28 https://

Similarweb: since the launch of Google's AI Overviews, the number of news searches that result in no click-throughs grew from 56% in May 2024 to 69% in May 2025 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/02/chat

ChatGPT referrals to news sites are growing, but not enough to offset search declines | TechCrunch
Not surprisingly, organic traffic has also declined, dropping from over 2.3 billion visits at its peak in mid-2024 to now under 1.7 billion.

Similarweb: since the launch of Google's AI Overviews in May 2024, the number of news searches that result in no click-throughs grew from 56% to 69% in May 2025 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/02/chat

ChatGPT referrals to news sites are growing, but not enough to offset search declines | TechCrunch
Not surprisingly, organic traffic has also declined, dropping from over 2.3 billion visits at its peak in mid-2024 to now under 1.7 billion.

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1014651 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

“The colonial monopoly on violence is backed by the liberal demand of nonviolent resistance.”
— tsengputterman, 2024 on Twitter

"Banks bet big on fossil fuels, boosting financing in 2024, report finds"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

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 […]

South Africa to ban highly toxic pesticide Terbufos https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/07/south-africa-to-ban-highly-toxic-pesticide-terbufos/

South Africa to ban highly toxic pesticide Terbufos
In a decision welcomed by advocacy groups and researchers, South Africa’s Cabinet has approved a ban on the import of Terbufos, a highly toxic pesticide linked to the deaths of six children in a South African township in October 2024. On June 12, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, Minister of Presidency, said the ban will be accompanied by […]

Aidan Hutchinson's dominance at Lions training camp forces Detroit to implement 'Hutch Rule' in practice

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/aidan-h…

Check out this compelling rebuttal of Soteria International's claims regarding the OKC case. Get informed about the facts and perspectives presented in the article by visiting: https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rebuttal-of-soteria.html

Rebuttal of Soteria International's Claims on the OKC Case - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
Rebuttal of Soteria International’s Claims on the OKC Case As a victim of the Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) cult and an advocate for justice, I find Soteria …

Vasthouden aan Microsoft 365 is geen natuurwet - iBestuur
https://ibestuur.nl/artikel/vasthouden-aan-microsoft-365-is-geen-natuurwet/
Er is nog een lange weg te gaan, maar de 1e conclusie is een mooie opsteker en de 3e conclusie geeft ee…

Google carbon emissions up by 65% 2019-2024.
Another reason to #degooglify.
#google #carbon
Google undercounts its carbon emissions, report finds | Google | The Guardian

Kävin Alkossa. Petit Bourgeois -roseeta. Kareliaanista piirakkaa, erilaisia hilloja, valkohomejuustoa.
(Ei pidä sekoittaa petite bourgeoisie:hin, pois se minusta, haha.)

Jean-Sébastien Bach, Fantaisie BWV 542 - Pauline Klaus, violon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebA9HamBOy8
> Jean-Sébastien Bach, Fantaisie BWV 542Pauline Klaus, violonArrangement : Tedi PapavramiLive concert Eglise de Cordon, 2024

It's so nice when companies only make small changes to their code of conduct. Google dropped the word "Don't" from their foundational guiding principle.
I guess that makes it easier to make money.
https://www.theguardian.com/t…

It's so nice when companies only make small changes to their code of conduct. Google dropped the word "Don't" from their foundational guiding principle.
I guess that makes it easier to make money.
https://www.theguardian.com/t…

An analysis of 15M biomedical abstracts from 2010 to 2024 finds researchers using AI to write abstracts use certain words far more often than those who don't (Gina Kolata/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/…

454 Hints That a Chatbot Wrote Part of a Biomedical Researcher’s Paper
Scientists show that the frequency of a set of words seems to have increased in published study abstracts since ChatGPT was released into the world.

G/O Media sells gaming news site Kotaku to Keleops, the European company that acquired Gizmodo in 2024, leaving G/O Media with just one property, The Root (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/02/kotaku-sale-keleops-go-media

G/O Media sells Kotaku to Gizmodo owner Keleops
The Root is now the only media brand left at G/O Media.

🌟 “I see GÉANT as a strong component in the competitiveness that Europe is striving for.”
In her first interview as GÉANT CEO, Lise Fuhr reflects on her initial impressions, shares what she wishes more people knew about the GÉANT community, and offers a glimpse into the forthcoming GÉANT Association strategy.
➡️ Read the full interview:

CONNECT Interview: Lise Fuhr, GÉANT CEO | GÉANT CONNECT Online
In November 2024, Lise Fuhr took on the role of Chief Executive Officer at GÉANT. Now, six months into her new role, she reflects on her first impressions, shares what she wishes more people knew about the GÉANT community, and offers a glimpse into the forthcoming GÉANT Association strategy. You’ve now been at GÉANT for

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 …

I am enjoying the audio/book “Some Desperate Glory” by Emily Tesh. I think the book won the 2024 Hugo Awards.

Trevon Diggs progressing well in recovery from 2024 injury: 'All signs are positive' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/trevon-diggs-progressing-well-in-recovery-from-2024-injury-all-signs-are-positive…

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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

Generative Exaggeration in LLM Social Agents: Consistency, Bias, and Toxicity
Jacopo Nudo, Mario Edoardo Pandolfo, Edoardo Loru, Mattia Samory, Matteo Cinelli, Walter Quattrociocchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00657

Generative Exaggeration in LLM Social Agents: Consistency, Bias, and Toxicity
We investigate how Large Language Models (LLMs) behave when simulating political discourse on social media. Leveraging 21 million interactions on X during the 2024 U.S. presidential election, we construct LLM agents based on 1,186 real users, prompting them to reply to politically salient tweets under controlled conditions. Agents are initialized either with minimal ideological cues (Zero Shot) or recent tweet history (Few Shot), allowing one-to-one comparisons with human replies. We evaluate t…

Intellectual Property Rights and Entrepreneurship in the NFT Ecosystem: Legal Frameworks, Business Models, and Innovation Opportunities
Pranav Darshan, Rohan J S, Raghuveer Rajesh, Ruchitha M, Sanika Kamath, Manas M N
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00172

Intellectual Property Rights and Entrepreneurship in the NFT Ecosystem: Legal Frameworks, Business Models, and Innovation Opportunities
Non Fungible Tokens have changed digital ownership and how creators earn money. Between 2021 and 2024, the market value exceeded 40 billion. However, the fast growth of the NFT ecosystem has revealed serious issues in managing intellectual property rights. There is a lot of confusion about the difference between owning an NFT and owning the copyright for the underlying content. This research looks at the gap between traditional copyright laws and blockchain-based transactions. We use a mixed me…

On quantum ergodicity for higher dimensional cat maps modulo prime powers
Subham Bhakta, Igor E. Shparlinski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00325 https://

On quantum ergodicity for higher dimensional cat maps modulo prime powers
A discrete model of quantum ergodicity of linear maps generated by symplectic matrices $A \in \mathrm{Sp}(2d,\mathbb{Z})$ modulo an integer $N\ge 1$, has been studied for $d=1$ and almost all $N$ by P. Kurlberg and Z. Rudnick (2001). Their result has been strengthened by J. Bourgain (2005) and subsequently by A. Ostafe, I. E. Shparlinski, and J. F. Voloch (2023). For arbitrary $d$ this has been studied by P. Kurlberg, A. Ostafe, Z. Rudnick and I. E. Shparlinski (2024). The corresponding equidis…

@… @… je viens de découvrir que linuxjobs.fr est down depuis août 2024 😟

Localized evaluation and fast summation in the extrapolated regularization method for integrals in Stokes flow
Joseph Siebor, Svetlana Tlupova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00156

Localized evaluation and fast summation in the extrapolated regularization method for integrals in Stokes flow
Boundary integral equation methods are widely used in the solution of many partial differential equations. The kernels that appear in these surface integrals are nearly singular when evaluated near the boundary, and straightforward numerical integration produces inaccurate results. In Beale and Tlupova (Adv. Comput. Math, 2024), an extrapolated regularization method was proposed to accurately evaluate the nearly singular single and double-layer surface integrals for harmonic potentials or Stoke…

The story of Rogue #rogue #roguelikes

"104 companies linked to 20% of global environmental conflicts, study finds"
#Business #Environment

104 companies linked to 20% of global environmental conflicts, study finds
A recent study has found that just 104 companies, mostly multinational corporations from high-income countries, are involved in a fifth of the more than 3,000 environmental conflicts it analyzed. The study examined 3,388 conflicts, involving 5,589 companies, recorded in the Global Atlas of Environmental Justice (EJAtlas) as of October 2024. The atlas is the world’s […]

even more famous!
https://english.elpais.com/people/2024-02-10/that-ferrari-isnt-going-to-pay-for-itself-the-controversial-rise-of-jeremy-fragrance-the-perfume-influencer.html

Six-yr SPIRou monitoring of the young planet-host dwarf AU Mic
J. -F. Donati, P. I. Cristofari, C. Moutou, A. L'Heureux, N. J. Cook, E. Artigau, S. H. P. Alencar, E. Gaidos, A. Vidotto, P. Petit, A. Carmona, T. Ray, the SPIRou science team
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01746

Six-yr SPIRou monitoring of the young planet-host dwarf AU Mic
In this paper we revisit our spectropolarimetric and velocimetric analysis of the young M dwarf AU Mic based on data collected with SPIRou at the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope, over a monitoring period of 2041 d from 2019 to 2024. The longitudinal magnetic field, the small-scale magnetic field, and the differential temperature of AU Mic, derived from the unpolarized and circularly-polarized spectra, were clearly modulated with the stellar rotation period, with a pattern that evolved over time.…

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…

Check out this compelling rebuttal of Soteria International's claims regarding the OKC case. Get informed about the facts and perspectives presented in the article by visiting: https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rebuttal-of-soteria.html

Rebuttal of Soteria International's Claims on the OKC Case - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
Rebuttal of Soteria International’s Claims on the OKC Case As a victim of the Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) cult and an advocate for justice, I find Soteria …

Timing and spectral studies of SRGA J144459.2$-$604207 with NICER, Einstein Probe, IXPE, NuSTAR, Insight-HXMT and INTEGRAL during its 2024 outburst
Zhaosheng Li, Lucien Kuiper, Yuanyue Pan, Renxin Xu, Yong Chen, Mingyu Ge, Yue Huang, Shumei Jia, Xiaobo Li, Liming Song, Jinlu Qu, Shu Zhang, Lian Tao, Hua Feng, Shuang-Nan Zhang, Maurizio Falanga
https:…

Timing and spectral studies of SRGA J144459.2$-$604207 with NICER, Einstein Probe, IXPE, NuSTAR, Insight-HXMT and INTEGRAL during its 2024 outburst
SRGA J144459.2$-$604207 is a newly confirmed accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar and type I X-ray burster. We present the broadband X-ray timing and spectral behaviors of SRGA J144459.2$-$604207 during its 2024 outburst. The data were collected from NICER, Einstein Probe, IXPE, Insight-HXMT, NuSTAR and INTEGRAL observations. X-ray pulsations have been detected for the 1.5$-$90 keV energy range throughout the `ON' phase of the outburst from MJD $\sim 60355-60385$. We refined the orbital and spi…

Bis zu 96 Prozent - Preisschock bei Billig-Lebensmitteln hält an #News #Nachrichten …

SMA and NOEMA reveal asymmetric sub-structure in the protoplanetary disk of IRAS23077 6707
Joshua B. Lovell, Leon Trapman, Kristina Monsch, Sean M. Andrews, Alice S. Booth, Garrett K. Keating, Takahiro Ueda, David J. Wilner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00122

SMA and NOEMA reveal asymmetric sub-structure in the protoplanetary disk of IRAS23077+6707
We present high-resolution data of IRAS 23077+6707 (`Dracula's Chivito') with the Submillimeter Array (SMA at 1.33 mm/225.5 GHz) and the Northern Extended Millimeter Array (NOEMA at 2.7 mm/111.7 GHz and 3.1 mm/96.2 GHz). IRAS 23077+6707 is a highly-inclined and newly discovered protoplanetary disk, first reported in 2024. We combine SMA baselines from the Compact, Extended and Very Extended arrays, and NOEMA baselines from its A and C configurations, and present continuum images with resolution…

Outdoor nighttime light exposure - #LightPollution - is associated with Alzheimer’s disease: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2024.1378498/full -> Inquinamento luminoso e Alzheimer: https://www.media.inaf.it/2024/09/06/light-pollution-alzheimer/

Scale-Dependent Multifractality in Bitcoin Realised Volatility: Implications for Rough Volatility Modelling
Milan Pontiggia (MAGEFI - University of Bordeaux, France)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00575

Scale-Dependent Multifractality in Bitcoin Realised Volatility: Implications for Rough Volatility Modelling
We assess the applicability of rough volatility models to Bitcoin realised volatility using the normalised p-variation framework of Cont and Das (2024). Applying this model free estimator to high-frequency Bitcoin data from 2017 to 2024 across multiple sampling resolutions, we find that the normalised statistic remains strictly negative throughout, precluding the estimation of a valid roughness index. Stationarity tests and robustness checks reveal no significant evidence of non-stationarity or…

MacMahon's Double Vision: Partition Diamonds Revisited
Matthias Beck, Kobe Wijesekera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23354 https://ar…

MacMahon's Double Vision: Partition Diamonds Revisited
Plane partition diamonds were introduced by Andrews, Paule, and Riese (2001) as part of their study of MacMahon's $Ω$-operator in search for integer partition identities. More recently, Dockery, Jameson, Sellers, and Wilson (2024) extended this concept to $d$-fold partition diamonds and found their generating function in a recursive form. We approach $d$-fold partition diamonds via Stanley's (1972) theory of $P$-partitions and give a closed formula for a bivariate generalization of the Dockery…

Future shuts down Laptop Mag, which started as a print magazine in 1991; Future shut down AnandTech in 2024 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/695969/laptop-mag-shutdown-future-plc

Laptop Mag is shutting down
Laptop Mag, the publication that shared in-depth information about laptops and other devices, is shutting down after almost 35 years.

from my link log —
UK Online Safety Act Notes for small sites.
https://russ.garrett.co.uk/2024/12/17/online-safety-act-guide/
saved 2024-12-17

Online Budget-Feasible Mechanism Design with Predictions
Georgios Amanatidis, Evangelos Markakis, Christodoulos Santorinaios, Guido Sch\"afer, Panagiotis Tsamopoulos, Artem Tsikiridis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24624

Online Budget-Feasible Mechanism Design with Predictions
Augmenting the input of algorithms with predictions is an algorithm design paradigm that suggests leveraging a (possibly erroneous) prediction to improve worst-case performance guarantees when the prediction is perfect (consistency), while also providing a performance guarantee when the prediction fails (robustness). Recently, Xu and Lu [2022] and Agrawal et al. [2024] proposed to consider settings with strategic agents under this framework. In this paper, we initiate the study of budget-feasib…

Hey @… könnt ihr dann wenigstens Konsequent sein und auch dieses Bild entfernen 🥺🥺🥺
EDIT: Nach mehr Kommunikation mit Menschen aus der Orga wird der Fall klarer:
Ein Dauercamper hat die Platzwarte dazu gebracht, über die Fahne nachzudenken. Weil der Campingplatz ein Eigenbetrieb der Stadt ist, fühlt sich der Platzwart nicht mit der „Riot Nights“ Aussage com…

First Australian Abrams tanks reach Ukraine after 9-month wait: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/18/first-australian-abrams-tanks-reach.html

Prediction of the SVOM MXT camera end of life spectral performance based onproton irradiation results
Clara Plasse, Diego G\"otz, Aline Meuris, Miguel Fernandez Moita, Philippe Ferrando, Leo Favier, Francesco Ceraudo
#toXiv_bot_toot

Paper Of Record delves into how unchecked global warming #climate chaos created catastrophic conditions for deadly #floods in #TX. The #GuadalupeRiver

As the World Warms, Extreme Rain Is Becoming Even More Extreme
Even in places, like Central Texas, with a long history of floods, human-caused warming is creating the conditions for more frequent and severe deluges.

Canary Island Daisy (with tiny spider). LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. July, 2024. #laarboretum #daisy #flower

It’s taking me way longer to set up for my seminar than last time. Like 6 hours longer lol - such is my tinnitus induced sleep deprivation - despite it being a similar simple bunch of machines.
If anyone happens to be in Karlsruhe and wants to come and laugh at me / wants to offer moral support - feel free to join! 😁 This time it’s called ‘Let Sound Be Sound: Technology, Perception, and the Question of Music’. Somehow it’s my third visit to the Akademie. 🤪

Inferring Obscured Cosmic Black Hole Accretion History from AGN Found by JWST/MIRI CEERS Survey
C. -A. Hsieh (Department of Physics, National Taiwan University), T. Goto (Institute of Astronomy, National Tsing Hua University, Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University), C. -T. Ling (Institute of Astronomy, National Tsing Hua University), S. J. Kim (Institute of Astronomy, National Tsing Hua University), T. Hashimoto (Department of Physics, National Chung Hsing University), T.…

Inferring Obscured Cosmic Black Hole Accretion History from AGN Found by JWST/MIRI CEERS Survey
This study presents the black hole accretion history (BHAH) of obscured active galactic nuclei (AGNs) identified from the JWST CEERS survey by Chien et al. (2024) using mid-infrared (MIR) SED fitting. We compute black hole accretion rates (BHARs) to estimate the black hole accretion density (BHAD), $ρ_{L_{\mathrm{disk}}}$, across $0 < z < 4.25$. MIR luminosity functions (LFs) are also constructed for these sources, modeled with modified Schechter and double power law forms, and corresponding B…

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…

LLM-Based Identification of Infostealer Infection Vectors from Screenshots: The Case of Aurora
Estelle Ruellan, Eric Clay, Nicholas Ascoli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23611 https…

LLM-Based Identification of Infostealer Infection Vectors from Screenshots: The Case of Aurora
Infostealers exfiltrate credentials, session cookies, and sensitive data from infected systems. With over 29 million stealer logs reported in 2024, manual analysis and mitigation at scale are virtually unfeasible/unpractical. While most research focuses on proactive malware detection, a significant gap remains in leveraging reactive analysis of stealer logs and their associated artifacts. Specifically, infection artifacts such as screenshots, image captured at the point of compromise, are large…

Advances in aviation radiation mitigation were demonstrated during the Gannon storm
W. K. Tobiska, B. Hogan, L. Didkovsky, K. Judge, J. Bailey, K. Drumm, K. Wahl, A. Sosnov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00887

Advances in aviation radiation mitigation were demonstrated during the Gannon storm
The validation of a strategy for aviation radiation hazard mitigation in development for decades has been completed using two commercial airline flights in 2024 and 2025. This article provides a historical review of the primary elements leading to that strategy, including the building of aviation radiation awareness and collaborative efforts by global aviation and radiological bodies that established mitigation standards. The validation of an ALARA strategy was accomplished using two UAL 990 fl…

Alles Gute den Weddinger Schüler:innen und schöne Ferien

🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
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.

Isto é interessante. Relatório sobre educação nos países da OCDE.
https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/education-at-a-glance-2024_c00cad36-en.html

After stabilizing around 2000-2005, atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gas methane started to rise again, accelerating until a few years ago.
At least the increase seems to be slowing down since 2021.
From the @NOAA ESRL site, now threatened by the Trump regime.
#emissions #methane

‘No one understands a woman in her 20s like Billy Joel [playing 🪗 in the 1970s]’: gen z finds solace in anti-hustle anthem Vienna
(I missed this story with the great #accordion pic last year)
https://www.

Native American teens kayak river to celebrate dam removals, symbolizing restoration and honoring ancestors. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Native American teens kayak US river to celebrate dam removals
Four dams were dynamited and removed between 2023 to 2024, freeing hundreds of miles of the Klamath.

AlgoTune: Can Language Models Speed Up General-Purpose Numerical Programs?
Ori Press, Brandon Amos, Haoyu Zhao, Yikai Wu, Samuel K. Ainsworth, Dominik Krupke, Patrick Kidger, Touqir Sajed, Bartolomeo Stellato, Jisun Park, Nathanael Bosch, Eli Meril, Albert Steppi, Arman Zharmagambetov, Fangzhao Zhang, David Perez-Pineiro, Alberto Mercurio, Ni Zhan, Talor Abramovich, Kilian Lieret, Hanlin Zhang, Shirley Huang, Matthias Bethge, Ofir Press

AlgoTune: Can Language Models Speed Up General-Purpose Numerical Programs?
Despite progress in language model (LM) capabilities, evaluations have thus far focused on models' performance on tasks that humans have previously solved, including in programming (Jimenez et al., 2024) and mathematics (Glazer et al., 2024). We therefore propose testing models' ability to design and implement algorithms in an open-ended benchmark: We task LMs with writing code that efficiently solves computationally challenging problems in computer science, physics, and mathematics. Our AlgoTu…

All-sky search for individual Primordial Black Hole bursts with LHAASO
Cao, Aharonian, Bai, Bao, Bastieri, Bi, Bi, Bian, Bukevich, Cai, Cao, Cao, Chang, Chang, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Cheng, Cheng, Chu, Cui, Cui, Cui, Cui, Dai, Dai, Dai, , Diao, Dong, Duan, Fan, Fan, Fang, Fang, Fang, Feng, Feng, Feng, Feng, Feng, Feng, Feng, Gabici, Gao, Gao, Gao, Gao, Gao, Ge, Ge, Geng, Giacinti, Gong, Gou, Gu, Guo, Guo, Guo, Guo…

All-sky search for individual Primordial Black Hole bursts with LHAASO
Primordial Black Holes~(PBHs) are hypothetical black holes with a wide range of masses that formed in the early universe. As a result, they may play an important cosmological role and provide a unique probe of the early universe. A PBH with an initial mass of approximately $10^{15}$~g is expected to explode today in a final burst of Hawking radiation. In this work, we conduct an all-sky search for individual PBH burst events using the data collected from March 2021 to July 2024 by the Water Che…

Raiders claim DT Keondre Coburn https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-claim-keondre-coburn-dt-nfl-waivers-2025-training-camp-transactions

Build it and they will come.
In spring 2024, 11% of trips in Paris were made by bicycle and 4.2% by car. In 2010, the cycling share was just 3%.
This year, records have been broken on a monthly basis at many cycle counters. Existing cycle paths are becoming congested and need to be widened.
From: @…

Simultaneous observations of multiple ELVES and SPRITES at the Pierre #Auger Observatory: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11641 -> "the Pierre Auger Observatory has exploited a dedicated trigger and its very high time resolution to study ELVES and harvest record samples of multiple ELVES using the Fluorescence Detector (FD). In 2017, after extending the readout of trace lengths to 0.9 ms, we started observing other types of light transients from the base of the ionosphere, such as HALOS, which deserved further investigation. In December 2023 and April 2024, we installed two additional cameras (TLECAMs), which allow us to perform simultaneous detection of these transients with higher space resolution and longer integration times. Here, we present our first simultaneous observations of SPRITES and ELVES by both TLECAMs and FD."

Jag vidhåller att det mest anmärkningsvärda med Säpos hantering är att Le Monde har en världsomspännande publicering om hur Bidens och Macrons livvakter läcker position via Strava i oktober 2024. I juni 2025 fortsätter svenska livvakter läcka *på exakt samma sätt*.

1) Det är anmärkningsvärt att inte upptäcka den här läckan på 7-9 år, trots att risken är känd, men…

2) Att inte agera när Le Monde publicerar en världsomspännande nyhet som exakt avslöjar metoden som läckan sker på…

Quantum Boltzmann Machines using Parallel Annealing for Medical Image Classification
Dani\"elle Schuman, Mark V. Seebode, Tobias Rohe, Maximilian Balthasar Mansky, Michael Schroedl-Baumann, Jonas Stein, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, Florian Krellner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14116

Quantum Boltzmann Machines using Parallel Annealing for Medical Image Classification
Exploiting the fact that samples drawn from a quantum annealer inherently follow a Boltzmann-like distribution, annealing-based Quantum Boltzmann Machines (QBMs) have gained increasing popularity in the quantum research community. While they harbor great promises for quantum speed-up, their usage currently stays a costly endeavor, as large amounts of QPU time are required to train them. This limits their applicability in the NISQ era. Following the idea of Noè et al. (2024), who tried to allev…

Sobre la DANA o gota fría https://archivo.kamasystems.nl/2024/11/03/over-de-dana-of-gota-fria/?lang=es

Die #Versicherungen haben es bereits seit Jahrzehnten verstanden. Die Politik ignoriert wirksamen #Klimaschutz weiterhin.
Naturgewalten haben 2024 in Deutschland erneut #Milliardenschäden

Eagles RB Saquon Barkley's reverse hurdle graces cover of 'Madden NFL 26' https://www.nfl.com/news/eagles-rb-saquon-barkley-s-reverse-hurdle-graces-cover-of-madden-nfl-26

📝 CrossCurrents Volume 74, Number 4, December 2024 Special Issue: 200 Years of Johnson v. M’Intosh: Indigenous Responses to the Religious Foundations of Racism. Open Access. https://dofd.fyi/vol74
!The cover art by Anna Ullman shows a turtle island being labed as sold. (https://cdn.some.pics/adjb/68654e44dd835.png)

Multi-service messaging app Beeper relaunches, introducing premium offerings and the option to switch to an on-device model; Automattic acquired Beeper in 2024 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/beep

Beeper's all-in-one messaging app relaunches with an on-device model and premium upgrades | TechCrunch
Multi-service messaging app Beeper, which allows people to connect to all their chat apps from one interface, is relaunching its app on Wednesday to offer a more secure version that no longer requires use of its own cloud services.

Cannot even find where i read it but because i first read about an alleged breach of data from the Israeli government held by the Iranian government (on Mossad agents, recordings from secret cameras installed by Netanyahu to get compromising info on potential rivals, and much more, apparently all from a 2024 hack or leak) i have not been able to shake the twisted thought that the war Israel has now started against Iran is the new worst ever fallout for bad information security.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06483 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Sunrise III: Overview of Observatory and Instruments
In July 2024, Sunrise completed its third successful science flight. The Sunrise III observatory had been upgraded significantly after the two previous successful flights in 2009 and 2013. Three completely new instruments focus on the small-scale physical processes and their complex interaction from the deepest observable layers in the photosphere up to chromospheric heights. Previously poorly explored spectral regions and lines are exploited to paint a three-dimensional picture of the solar at…

Der Markt für #Elektroautos in Deutschland zieht nach dem Rückgang 2024 wieder an.
Im ersten Halbjahr 2025 waren 17,8 Prozent der #Neuzulassungen vollelektrisch.
Gründe sind neue Modelle, stärkere

E-Auto-Markt: Die E-Autos sind zurück
Nach einem schwierigen Jahr 2024 verkaufen sich E-Autos jetzt wieder überraschend gut – ganz ohne Prämie. Ein Grund dafür: Tricks der Hersteller.

The increasing precipitation deficit in (central) the Netherlands, 1961-2024. While precipitation in the growing season (April-September) hardly changed, evaporation rapidly grew. This explains the increase in the deficit (moving average) from around zero in 1961 to on average over 100 mm by 2024.
#ClimateChangeIsWaterChange

Making REST APIs Agent-Ready: From OpenAPI to Model Context Protocol Servers for Tool-Augmented LLMs
Meriem Mastouri, Emna Ksontini, Wael Kessentini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16044

Making REST APIs Agent-Ready: From OpenAPI to Model Context Protocol Servers for Tool-Augmented LLMs
Large Language Models (LLMs) are evolving from passive text generators into active agents that invoke external tools. To support this shift, scalable protocols for tool integration are essential. The Model Context Protocol (MCP), introduced by Anthropic in 2024, offers a schema-driven standard for dynamic tool discovery and invocation. Yet, building MCP servers remains manual and repetitive, requiring developers to write glue code, handle authentication, and configure schemas by hand-replicatin…

The European Commission accepts Corning's offer to end exclusivity terms in its supply contracts, ending an antitrust investigation opened in November 2024 (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

A metrization theorem for edge-end spaces of infinite graphs
Max Pitz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16625 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.166…

A metrization theorem for edge-end spaces of infinite graphs
We prove that the edge-end space of an infinite graph is metrizable if and only if it is first-countable. This strengthens a recent result by Aurichi, Magalhaes Jr.\ and Real (2024). Our central graph-theoretic tool is the use of tree-cut decompositions, introduced by Wollan (2015) as a variation of tree decompositions that is based on edge cuts instead of vertex separations. In particular, we give a new, elementary proof for Kurkofka's result (2022) that every infinite graph has a tree-cut d…

Was wurde aus dem Loch vom Wedding? https://weddingweiser.de/was-wurde-aus-dem-loch-vom-wedding/

Ende der Bauarbeiten absehbar: Was wurde aus dem Loch vom Wedding?
Reparaturarbeiten an der Seestraße fast abgeschlossen In der Silvesternacht 2024 kam es im Wedding …

On the Image Profiles of Transients in the Palomar Sky Survey
Beatriz Villarroel, Enrique Solano, Geoffrey W. Marcy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15896 https:…

On the Image Profiles of Transients in the Palomar Sky Survey
The VASCO project has discovered groups of short-lived transients on historical photographic plates that lack conventional explanation. Hambly & Blair (2024) examined nine such transients reported by Villarroel (2021) and found that they exhibit narrower, rounder profiles, attributing this to emulsion flaws. However, well-established optical principles and atmospheric physics imply that unresolved flashes lasting less than a second naturally appear sharper and more circular than stellar images,…

Electroweak Phase Transition, Gravitational Waves and Collider Probes in Multi-Scalar Dark Matter Scenarios
Tripurari Srivastava, Jaydeb Das, Anupam Ghosh, Arnab Chaudhuri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05917

Electroweak Phase Transition, Gravitational Waves and Collider Probes in Multi-Scalar Dark Matter Scenarios
We study scalar singlet extensions of the Standard Model (SM), focusing on scenarios where dark matter (DM) is stabilized by a \(\mathbb{Z}_2\) symmetry. In the minimal single-scalar extension of the SM, only a narrow region near the Higgs resonance remains viable, requiring small portal couplings in order to simultaneously satisfy the observed relic abundance and comply with the most recent direct detection limits from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ-2024) and XENON1T experiments. To address this limitatio…

Any suggestions OTHER than upgrading to AlmaLinux 9 to fix these kind of issues with ansible? Ansible server is Alma 10, but I have a few v8 boxes and mostly v9. "FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Could not import the dnf python module using /usr/bin/python3.9 (3.9.20 (main, Oct 23 2024, 09:34:14) [GCC 8.5.0 20210514 (Red Hat 8.5.0-22)]). Please install `python3-dnf` package or ensure you have specified the correct ansible_python_interpreter. " ?? …

Arcsecond-Scale X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy of SS 433 with Chandra HETG
Yusuke Sakai, Shinya Yamada, Haruka Sakemi, Mami Machida, Taichi Igarashi, Ryota Hayakawa, Miho Tan, Taisei Furuyama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19042

Arcsecond-Scale X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy of SS 433 with Chandra HETG
We present a spatial and spectral analysis of arcsecond-scale X-ray emission in SS433 using zeroth-order data from Chandra High-Energy Transmission Grating (HETG) observations. The analysis is based on 24 observations acquired between 1999 and 2024, comprising a total exposure of $\sim$850 ks and covering a wide range of orbital and precessional phases. Among these, the $\sim$140 ks observation from 2014 was analyzed in detail for this study. This data provides the best statistics and was taken…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in Deutschland. Stand: 19.07.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erster Versuch einer #Datenanalyse. 😁 Hinweise gerne. Wü…

Nvidia hits a $4T market cap in intraday trading, the first company to do so, after passing a $2T market cap in February 2024 and $3T in June 2025 (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/09/nvidia-4-trillion.html

Nvidia hits $4 trillion market cap, first company to do so
Nvidia topped a $4 trillion market cap for the first time as investors scooped stock in the tech giant building the hardware for the generative AI boom.

Brock Bowers Was the Perfect Prospect https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/brock-bowers-las-vegas-draft-john-spytek-pete-carroll

The State of Computational Science in Fission and Fusion Energy
Andrea Morales Coto, Aditi Verma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08061 https://

The State of Computational Science in Fission and Fusion Energy
The tools used to engineer something are just as important as the thing that is actually being engineered. In fact, in many cases, the tools can indeed determine what is engineerable. In fusion and fission1 energy engineering, software has become the dominant tool for design. For that reason, in 2024, for the first time ever, we asked 103 computational scientists developing the codes used in fusion and fission energy about the problems they are attempting to solve with their codes, the tools av…

A new type-1 transition in NGC 1346 revealed by (spectro)polarimetry
F. Marin, D. Hutsem\'ekers, S. Jorstad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08589 https://…

A new type-1 transition in NGC 1346 revealed by (spectro)polarimetry
We present the first photo- and spectropolarimetric observations of the changing-look active galactic nucleus NGC~1346 taken with the Perkins telescope (November 2022, March 2025) and VLT/FORS2 (August and September 2024), which have revealed a new spectral transition. We find that NGC~1346 has reverted to its former (2001) type-1 spectral state after having been a type-2 active galactic nucleus from 2004 to 2022. More and more intense broad H$β$ (3720 $\pm$ 310 km.s$^{-1}$ full width at half …

Bilt Rewards, which offers rewards points for rent payments, raised $250M led by General Catalyst and GID at a $10.75B valuation, up from $3.1B in January 2024 (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Lunar Orbital VLBI Experiment: motivation, scientific purposes and status
Xiaoyu Hong, Weiren Wu, Qinghui Liu, Dengyun Yu, Chi Wang, Tao Shuai, Weiye Zhong, Renjie Zhu, Yonghui Xie, Lihua Zhang, Liang Xiong, Yuhua Tang, Yongliao Zou, Haitao Li, Guangli Wang, Jianfeng Xie, Changbin Xue, Hao Geng, Juan Zhang, Xiaojing Wu, Yong Huang, Weimin Zheng, Lei Liu, Fang Wu, Xiuzhong Zhang, Tao An, Xiaolong Yang, Fengxian Tong, Leonid I. Gurvits, Yong Zheng, Minfeng Gu, Xiaofei Ma, Liang Li, Peiji…

Lunar Orbital VLBI Experiment: motivation, scientific purposes and status
The Lunar Orbital VLBI Experiment (LOVEX) is a scientific component of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Project (CLEP) Chang'E-7. The spaceborne component of LOVEX is implemented onboard the relay satellite QueQiao-2, which was launched on 2024 March 20, and later placed into an elliptical selenocentric orbit. The LOVEX-specific payload consists of an X-band cryogenic receiver, a hydrogen maser frequency standard, and VLBI data formatting and acquisition electronics. Several components of the QueQ…

Why Lions star Aidan Hutchinson believes he's 'in the perfect spot' after brutal leg injury at Cowboys in 2024

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/…

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1026385 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Falcons did Kirk Cousins wrong: How 2024 NFL offseason could've been turned upside down if QB rejected Atlanta

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/fa…

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

Broncos LB Nik Bonitto 'hungrier' to build off of breakout season entering contract year in 2025

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