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A comprehensive write-up on post-quantum cryptography in today's web.
My favourite quote: "we are in an interesting in-between time, where almost all Internet traffic is protected by post-quantum key agreement, but not a single public post-quantum certificate is used."
https://blog.cloudflare.com/p…

2024 ist der Fahrradaktivist Andreas Mandalka alias #Natenom ums Leben gekommen. Nun will das Land den Radweg sanieren
https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuertt

Späte Genugtuung für Radaktivisten? Land saniert Fahrradweg nach Tod von Natenom
Späte Genugtuung für Radaktivisten: der Fahrradweg an der Todesstrecke von Natenom soll saniert werden. Das Land hat die Aufgabe übernommen.

Marques Brownlee plans to shut down his wallpaper app Panels on December 31; Appfigures: it had 900K downloads and $95K in user spending since its 2024 launch (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/01/mkbhds-wallpaper-app-panels-is-shutt…

MKBHD's wallpaper app Panels is shutting down | TechCrunch
"We knew it was niche... and ultimately, we weren't able to turn it into the vision I had," Marques Brownlee said.

Netflix says Southeast Asian content on the platform grew nearly 50% from 2023 to 2024 and 40 Southeast Asian titles were in its Global Top 10 in 2025 (Zac Ntim/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/netflix-southeast-asian-content-1236632912/

Netflix Says Global Viewership Of Southeast Asian Content Grew By Almost 50% From 2023 To 2024
The streamer reported that more than 100 Southeast Asian titles have appeared in Netflix’s Global Top 10.

I learned this sad news with a huge delay because WKIT 404s today for some reason 😑 (WKIT was bought at the last minute by Jeff Solari and Greg Hawes, but up until now I didn't know this, as I tune in only occasionally.) ->
Stephen King’s radio stations to sign off for good at month’s end (Published: Dec. 2, 2024 at 5:01 PM EET)

Stephen King’s radio stations to sign off for good at month’s end
Stephen King’s radio stations are signing off for good at the end of the month.

Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.11.2025.
320 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…

Seahawks-Commanders takeaways: Sam Darnold throws 4 touchdown passes, Jayden Daniels hurt https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6772442/2025/11/02/seahawks-commanders-score-result-takeaways-week-9-snf-nfl/

from my link log —
Stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header.
https://neilzone.co.uk/2024/07/attempting-to-stop-microsoft-users-sending-reactions-to-email-from-me…

Attempting to stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email from me by adding a postfix header
Over the past few months, I’ve noticed that an increasing number of replies to email that I’ve sent are “reactions”.

The Brands That Gained the Most Value in 2025 - Voronoi
#brands

The Brands That Gained the Most Value in 2025
What We're Showing This graphic is based on data from Brand Finance, highlighting the global brands that saw the largest gains in brand value from 2024 to 20…

In Berlin könnte es schon bald eine linke Bürgermeisterin geben. Der Kampf um die Gestaltungsspielräume, die eine von @… geführte Regierung haben wird, hat jedoch längst begonnen. Beispiel: Mit dem #Gewalthilfegesetz müssen die Länder am Januar 2027 - …

Donald Trump has said he will grand a pardon to
Juan Orlando Hernšndez,
the former president of Honduras
who is serving a 45-year prison sentence in the US
on drug trafficking and weapons charges.
Hernšndez was convicted in 2024 of accepting millions in bribes to protect cocaine shipments

I used to recommend #Ubuntu, and as of 2024, I started recommending #LinuxMint, especially #LMDE to the many (almost no people) who ask me for

HLTCOE at TREC 2024 NeuCLIR Track
Eugene Yang, Dawn Lawrie, Orion Weller, James Mayfield
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00143 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00143

HLTCOE at TREC 2024 NeuCLIR Track
The HLTCOE team applied PLAID, an mT5 reranker, GPT-4 reranker, score fusion, and document translation to the TREC 2024 NeuCLIR track. For PLAID we included a variety of models and training techniques -- Translate Distill (TD), Generate Distill (GD) and multi-lingual translate-distill (MTD). TD uses scores from the mT5 model over English MS MARCO query-document pairs to learn how to score query-document pairs where the documents are translated to match the CLIR setting. GD follows TD but uses p…

🛌 Wissen fürs Kopfkissen: 📖
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.

Anker paid users of its Eufy security cameras $2 per video of staged or real package and car thefts to train its AI systems from December 2024 to February 2025 (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/04/anke

Anker offered Eufy camera owners $2 per video for AI training | TechCrunch
Hundreds of Eufy customers have donated hundreds of thousands of videos to train the company’s AI systems.

Multiband Optical Photometric and Spectroscopic Monitoring of the 2024 Flare Event in Transition Blazar OP313
TianFang Zhang, Mitsuru Kokubo, Mamoru Doi, Haruna Hagio, Hibiki Seki, Ichiro Takahashi, Katsuhiro L. Murata, Kazuya Matsubayashi, Keisuke Isogai, Koji Kawabata, Mahito Sasada, Masafumi Niwano, Masaki Hashizume, Megumi Shidatsu, Narikazu Higuchi, Ryo Imazawa, Shigeaki Joshima, Shigeyuki Sako, Shunsuke Hayatsu, Yoichi Yatsu, Wataru Iwakiri, Yoshiyuki Kubo

Multiband Optical Photometric and Spectroscopic Monitoring of the 2024 Flare Event in Transition Blazar OP313
Blazars are active galactic nuclei known for their extreme variability, offering unique opportunities to study jet physics and high-energy emission mechanisms. In 2024, the Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar (FSRQ) OP313 underwent a remarkable flare event, during which the gamma-ray flux observed by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi/LAT) increased by a factor of 60 over its average value. The flare peak lasted less than two days. Using optical telescopes, we conducted 100-day time-scale observation…

Cowboys 'trade secrets' may have potentially revealed WR move at NFL deadline https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-trade-secrets-potential-revealed-wr-move-nfl-deadline

Iran-linked hackers target Israeli, Egyptian critical infrastructure through phishing campaign https://therecord.media/iran-linked-hackers-target-israel-egypt-phishing

Improved $\ell_{p}$ Regression via Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares
Alina Ene, Ta Duy Nguyen, Adrian Vladu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01729 https://arx…

Improved $\ell_{p}$ Regression via Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares
We introduce fast algorithms for solving $\ell_{p}$ regression problems using the iteratively reweighted least squares (IRLS) method. Our approach achieves state-of-the-art iteration complexity, outperforming the IRLS algorithm by Adil-Peng-Sachdeva (NeurIPS 2019) and matching the theoretical bounds established by the complex algorithm of Adil-Kyng-Peng-Sachdeva (SODA 2019, J. ACM 2024) via a simpler lightweight iterative scheme. This bridges the existing gap between theoretical and practical a…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

A planetary system with a sub-Neptune planet in the habitable zone of TOI-2093
J. Sanz-Forcada, E. Gonz\'alez-\'Alvarez, M. R. Zapatero Osorio, J. A. Caballero, V. J. S. B\'ejar, E. Herrero, C. Rodr\'iguez-L\'opez, K. R. Sreenivas, L. Tal-Or, S. Vanaverbeke, A. P. Hatzes, R. Luque, E. Nagel, F. J. Pozuelos, D. Rapetti, A. Quirrenbach, P. J. Amado, M. Blazek, I. Carleo, D. Ciardi, C. Cifuentes, K. Collins, Th. Henning, D. W. Latham, J. Lillo-Box, E. Marfil, D. Montes…

A planetary system with a sub-Neptune planet in the habitable zone of TOI-2093
Aims. We aim to confirm and measure the mass of the transiting planet candidate around the K5V star TOI-2093, previously announced by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) project. Methods. We combined photometric data from 32 sectors between 2019 and 2024 with 86 radial velocity measurements obtained with the CARMENES spectrograph over a period of 2.4 years, along with a series of ground-based, broadband photometric monitoring campaigns to characterize the host star and the transiti…

The hat polykite as an Iterated Function System
Corey de Wit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00409 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00409

The hat polykite as an Iterated Function System
This paper describes the celebrated aperiodic hat tiling by Smith et al. [Comb. Theory 8 (2024), 6] as generated by an overlapping iterated function system. We briefly introduce and study infinite sequences of iterated function systems that converge uniformly in each component, and use this theory to model the hat tiling's associated imperfect substitution system.

It\^o-Wentzell formulas for semimartingale conditional laws with applications to mean-field control
Nizar Touzi, Mehdi Talbi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00242 https://

Itô-Wentzell formulas for semimartingale conditional laws with applications to mean-field control
The present paper is an extension of Fadle-Touzi (2024). Following the same methodology, merely based on Taylor expansions, we establish the Itô and Itô-Wentzell formulae for flows of conditional distributions of general semimartingales, thus allowing for discontinuous semimartingales with possibly discontinuous flows of conditional marginals. We apply these results to derive the dynamic programming equations corresponding to mean field control problems with Poisson type common noise and mean…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 01.12.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1192237 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Moses Sumney:
🎵 Vintage (6 Music Session, 22 Oct 2024)
#MosesSumney
https://mosessumney.bandcamp.com/track/vintage
https://open.spotify.com/track/0EQt3hJTjy2dYuxZp3cqo9

Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeicher​n pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Unternehmen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.11.2025.
373 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.
…

Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeicher​n pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.11.2025.
373 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 04.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag