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A November 2024 report from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) reflects staggering numbers:
There are an estimated 96 million #birders in the United States
—more than a third of U.S. adults
—who together spent more than $107 billion in 2022.
In total, that’s more money than the 2022 gross domestic product of New Hampshire (and 10 other U.S. states).

Five principles to protect the human knowledge ecosystem 3/5

IBM plans to cut "a low single-digit percentage" of its workforce in Q4, affecting thousands of staffers; it employed ~270K workers as of the end of 2024 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-04/ibm-…

Always good to get a reality check. At the same time good to remember the data collection of this trial was from October 2024 to Decembre 2024. Models have improved since then, reasoning, more tool use etc.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m365_copilot_uk_government/

UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost
: AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex

»Grossunternehmen machen 2FA falsch:
Zwei-Faktor-Authentisierung ist eine der besten Sicherheitsmassnahmen für unsere Accounts im Netz. Viele Grossunternehmen setzen aber 2FA zum Nachteil der Kunden falsch ein«
Danke für den Artikel @…, ich habe ihn erst jetzt entdeckt. Leider verstehen mMn viele Firmen die IT nicht ganz wie sie die einsetzen. Es…

Last season’s updated vaccine provides significant protection against covid-19,
particularly against severe illness and death.
The results reaffirm the benefit of staying current with covid vaccination.

Researchers analyzed data from approximately 1.8 million Americans between August 2024 and April 2025,
of whom only about 13 percent received the 2024–2025 coronavirus shot.
They evaluated three clinical outcomes related to the disease: infections, emergency departm…

How long does covid booster protection last? A new study offers answers.
More evidence highlighting the benefit, and limitations, of covid-19 vaccines

On Structured State-Space Duality
Jerry Yao-Chieh Hu, Xiwen Zhang, Weimin Wu, Han Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04944 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04944

On Structured State-Space Duality
Structured State-Space Duality (SSD) [Dao & Gu, ICML 2024] is an equivalence between a simple Structured State-Space Model (SSM) and a masked attention mechanism. In particular, a state-space model with a scalar-times-identity state matrix is equivalent to a masked self-attention with a $1$-semiseparable causal mask. Consequently, the same sequence transformation (model) has two algorithmic realizations: as a linear-time $O(T)$ recurrence or as a quadratic-time $O(T^2)$ attention. In this note,…

“Shell scraps construction of biofuels plant in Rotterdam"
#Shell #FossilFuels #Energy

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”.

Brian Daboll announces offensive coordinator Mike Kafka will return to role as Giants' play-caller

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/brian-d

Es gibt ja in Japan diese "Plain Halloween" (地味ハロウィン) Reihe, wo Menschen alltägliche Szenen in realistischer Verkleidung nachstellen. Die Serie von 2025 ist noch nicht draußen, aber hier als Service die von 2024 maschinell übersetzt:
https://

地味ハロウィン2024 開催レポート・前編
2024年10月27日、東京カルチャーカルチャーで地味ハロウィンが開催された。1年にいちど、地味が輝くイベントだ。そのレポート前編です。 (デイリーポータルZ)

Today we celebrate all the wonderful creatures who share our planet. Happy World Animal Day! May every animal live a life full of love, kindness, and care.
#worldanimalday

GWI: Time spent on social media globally peaked in 2022 and is steadily declining; North America is the exception, with usage up 15% in 2024 compared to Europe (John Burn-Murdoch/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a0724dd9-0346-4df3-80f5-d6572c93a863
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Google's security for Android is getting worse. They recently moved from monthly security updates to quarterly. Layoffs have slowed releases as well. Atop that, there are some easy fixes that they're just ignoring. There are only two secure mobile OSes: GrapheneOS and (secondarily) iOS.
https://grapheneos.social/@Gr…

#30DayMapChallenge 🗺️ Day 3️⃣: Polygons
I went with a classic #choropleth map to keep things simple (and save my energy) and this one shows the population change of the 201 barangays (kinda like wards) of the city of Pasay in the

LKA schließt offenbar russische Einflussnahme auf Weihnachtsmarkt-Anschlag aus
Das Landeskriminalamt (LKA) in Sachsen-Anhalt hat ausgeschlossen, dass der Magdeburger Weihnachtsmarktattentäter vom russischen Geheimdienst gesteuert wurde. Das berichtet der Spiegel unter Berufung auf einen Abschlussbericht der Behörde zu der Amokfahrt am 20. Dezember 2024 mit sechs Toten und mehr als 300 Verletzten her…
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Rechtsextreme Desinformation über Anschlag in Magdeburg
Nach dem Anschlag auf den Weihnachtsmarkt in Magdeburg haben Rechtsextreme in den sozialen Netzwerken zahlreiche Falschbehauptungen verbreitet. Auch internationale Akteure mischten dabei mit.

I would do this daily (or how ever often is necessary) to rarely get sick again!
https://sfba.social/@nwchapman/115124195881987830

Sinkholes around the world – in pictures | World news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2024/dec/04/sinkholes-around-the-world-from-greenwich-to-guatemala-in-pictures

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…

Financial disclosures to investors suggest OpenAI generated ~$4.3B in revenue in H1 2025, 16% more than all of 2024, and burned $2.5B, largely due to R&D costs (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-fir…

OpenAI’s First Half Results: $4.3 Billion in Sales, $2.5 Billion Cash Burn
OpenAI generated around $4.3 billion in revenue in the first half of 2025, about 16% more than it generated all of last year, according to financial disclosures to shareholders. The company said it burned $2.5 billion, in large part due to its research and development costs for developing ...

Analyzing the Relationship among Cryptocurrencies using Complex Networks
Stergios Intzes, Georgios D. Papadopoulos, Lykourgos Magafas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20126 https://…

Analyzing the Relationship among Cryptocurrencies using Complex Networks
Our analysis focuses on the stock cryptocurrency market, by studying a group of nineteen cryptocurrencies where their capitalisation is about 99% of the total market. Specifically, it is examined this group of cryptocurrencies for the period from 2017 up to 2024, taking into account the effect of COVID-19 pandemic. As far as we know, this is the first time that this kind of study has been published, where it takes place by creating various networks based on stock cryptocurrency correlation, in …

„Im Jahr 2024 wurden über 2.770 Menschen im Verkehr getötet. „Hundertdreizehn“ macht klar, wie das die 2.800 mal 113, die über 310.000 Überlebenden in Deutschland traumatisiert. Plakate allein reichen nicht aus. Schmonzetten auch nicht. Aber sie helfen, die Perspektive zu ändern.“
@… über die Serie 113 in

@… @… too true.
Also, knowledge and intelligence are not the same.
I've had a thorn in my side since summer 2024. I should have responded more robustly at the time, instead: I kept quiet. When the person who stuck it in takes ple…

Two teenage suspected Scattered Spider members charged in UK over TfL hack https://therecord.media/scattered-spider-teenage-suspects-arrested-britain-nca

EliseAI, which provides AI tools for healthcare and housing industries, raised a $250M Series E led by a16z, doubling its valuation to $2.2B from August 2024 (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcar