Tootfinder

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.

Géorgie : des manifestants ont tenté d’entrer dans le palais présidentiel
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/10/04/georgie-des-manifestants-ont-tente-d-entrer-dans-le-palais-presid…

Géorgie : des manifestants ont tenté d’entrer dans le palais présidentiel
Samedi avaient lieu des élections locales largement remportées par le parti au pouvoir, Rêve géorgien, selon des résultats partiels, et boycottées par plusieurs partis d’opposition. Ce pays du Caucase traverse une crise politique depuis les élections législatives de 2024.

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 04.10.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen

Average wholesale electricity prices per bidding zone in Europe, 2024:
- lowest in Scandinavia
- low in France, Spain, Portugal
- high in the east, in Italy, and in Ireland
- average in the middle, including the Netherlands
Source: @energy-charts.bsky.social

Observers worry that Trump might abuse the power of the Insurrection Act.
Given his propensity to lie and exaggerate about the immigration crisis
-- such as the false rumors he helped spread about Haitian immigrants in 2024
-- Trump might use similar false claims to justify sending troops into American cities.
During his first term, he reportedly threatened to use military force against protestors after the murder of George Floyd.
Now that Trump has purged top …

Is Trump About To Use The Insurrection Act? Here's Why Some People Believe So - Blavity

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

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
…

Venäjällä kuolee vuosittain tuhansia huono laatuisen juoma veden takia #Venäjä

Tutkimus: Saastunut vesi johti 11 000 kuolemaan Venäjällä vuonna 2024
Joka yhdeksännellä Venäjän asukkaalla ei ole pääsyä keskitettyyn vesihuoltojärjestelmään.

#PgBouncer is useful, important, and fraught with peril
https://jpcamara.com/2023/04/12/pgbouncer-is-useful.html

»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…

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

Brock Purdy was the NFL’s darling as Mr. Irrelevant. Who will he be as a $265 million man? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6585778/2025/09/04/brock-purdy-contract-49ers-2025-season/

If #MayorLurie could only explain how this plan would provide housing affordable to the full mix of household incomes, without trotting out the hypothetical (and misleading) explanations of #filtering and related misleading

Vancouver housing is 'impossibly unaffordable,' says new report
Vancouver is behind only Hong Kong and Sydney, according to the 2024 Demographia International Housing Affordability Report. Read more.

Got the 🇨🇭 #SwissAI #Apertus model - one of the very few completely opensource LLMs - running locally!
Next step: finetuning on historical low-resource languages (like Middle High German).
#FOSS

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 04.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Daten lokal speichern

Gerry Dulac's 2025 NFL predictions: Week 1 https://www.post-gazette.com/sports/nfl/2025/09/04/nfl-picks-predictions-week-1/stories/202509040016

If #MayorLurie could only explain how this plan would provide housing affordable to the full mix of household incomes, without trotting out the hypothetical (and misleading) explanations of #filtering and related misleading

Vancouver housing is 'impossibly unaffordable,' says new report
Vancouver is behind only Hong Kong and Sydney, according to the 2024 Demographia International Housing Affordability Report. Read more.

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

Bret Taylor's Sierra raised $350M at a $10B valuation, up from $4.5B in 2024, and says its AI customer service agents are being used by "hundreds of millions" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/04/bret-taylor-sierra-ai-startup…

Ex-Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor's Sierra is the latest $10 billion AI startup
Bret Taylor's artificial intelligence startup Sierra has closed a $350 million funding round

"Australia may install 220,000 home batteries under subsidy scheme"
#Australia #Batteries #Energy

Australia may install 220,000 home batteries under subsidy scheme
Australia is on track to surpass 2024 home battery installation records, with July data from SunWiz indicating that up to 220,000 units could be deployed in the first year of the federal Cheaper Home Batteries subsidy.

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 04.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Rechte und Förderung

#Bergschadenssituation im Rheinischen #Braunkohlenrevier. Jährliche Berichterstattung der #RWE Power AG
Berichtsjahr 2024.

In 2024 Jane Goodall Left This Message
‘Hope Isn’t Just Wishful Thinking’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/climate/jane-goodall-interviews.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qU8.6Zom.tQ7ncRpY92KO&…

Jane Goodall’s Thoughts for a Reporter: ‘Hope Isn’t Just Wishful Thinking’
A Times correspondent who interviewed Dr. Goodall recalled their conversations about the state of the planet.

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 04.10.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1149038 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Improved Bounds on Access-Redundancy Tradeoffs in Quantized Linear Computations
Ching-Fang Li, Mary Wootters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00183 https://arxiv…

Improved Bounds on Access-Redundancy Tradeoffs in Quantized Linear Computations
Consider the problem of computing quantized linear functions with only a few queries. Formally, given $\mathbf{x}\in \mathbb{R}^k$, our goal is to encode $\mathbf{x}$ as $\mathbf{c} \in \mathbb{R}^n$, for $n > k$, so that for any $\mathbf{w} \in A^k$, $\mathbf{w}^T \mathbf{x}$ can be computed using at most $\ell$ queries to $\mathbf{c}$. Here, $A$ is some finite set; in this paper we focus on the case where $|A| = 2$. Prior work \emph{(Ramkumar, Raviv, and Tamo, Trans. IT, 2024)} ha…

Discovery of 63 New Young Asteroid Families
David Nesvorny, David Vokrouhlicky, Miroslav Broz, Fernando V. Roig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00753 https://ar…

Discovery of 63 New Young Asteroid Families
We searched for young asteroid families -- those with ages t_age < 10 Myr and at least three members -- using the proper element catalog from Nesvorny et al. (2024). Our approach employed the Hierarchical Clustering Method (HCM) in a five-dimensional space of proper orbital elements: semimajor axis, eccentricity, inclination, proper nodal longitude, and proper perihelion longitude. The proper longitudes were calculated for various times in the past. Any convergence of these angles at times t < …

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 04.10.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

Learn2Reg 2024: New Benchmark Datasets Driving Progress on New Challenges
Lasse Hansen, Wiebke Heyer, Christoph Gro{\ss}br\"ohmer, Frederic Madesta, Thilo Sentker, Wang Jiazheng, Yuxi Zhang, Hang Zhang, Min Liu, Junyi Wang, Xi Zhu, Yuhua Li, Liwen Wang, Daniil Morozov, Nazim Haouchine, Joel Honkamaa, Pekka Marttinen, Yichao Zhou, Zuopeng Tan, Zhuoyuan Wang, Yi Wang, Hongchao Zhou, Shunbo Hu, Yi Zhang, Qian Tao, Lukas F\"orner, Thomas Wendler, Bailiang Jian, Christian Wachinge…

Learn2Reg 2024: New Benchmark Datasets Driving Progress on New Challenges
Medical image registration is critical for clinical applications, and fair benchmarking of different methods is essential for monitoring ongoing progress. To date, the Learn2Reg 2020-2023 challenges have released several complementary datasets and established metrics for evaluations. However, these editions did not capture all aspects of the registration problem, particularly in terms of modality diversity and task complexity. To address these limitations, the 2024 edition introduces three new …

Predicting Movie Success with Multi-Task Learning: A Hybrid Framework Combining GPT-Based Sentiment Analysis and SIR Propagation
Wenlan Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02809 http…

Predicting Movie Success with Multi-Task Learning: A Hybrid Framework Combining GPT-Based Sentiment Analysis and SIR Propagation
This study presents a hybrid framework for predicting movie success. The framework integrates multi-task learning (MTL), GPT-based sentiment analysis, and Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) propagation modeling. The study examines limitations in existing approaches. It models static production attributes, information dissemination, and audience sentiment at the same time. The framework uses 5,840 films from 2004 to 2024 and approximate 300,000 user reviews. It shows predictive performance wit…

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…

An interview with Strava CEO Michael Martin on Athlete Intelligence, the premium AI "coach" introduced in 2024 that has alienated experienced users, and more (Haley Zimmerman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/te…

Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 04.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten ersetzt, Sonderregelungen nach Solarpaket berücksichtigt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Amortisation automatisch

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmyLamé
Les Amazones d’Afrique:
🎵 Flaws (6 Music Session, 4 Feb 2024)
#LesAmazonesdAfrique
https://lesamazonesdafrique.bandcamp.com/track/flaws-feat-mamani-ke-ta-fafa-ruffino
https://open.spotify.com/track/3AH8RIK78cByIoR211KTY3

Solving Polynomial Systems with Gr\"obner Bases: An Introduction to F4 and FGLM
Anna Maria Bigatti, Alessio Caminata, Tor Kristian Ellingsen, Evelina Lanteri, Andrea Sanguineti, Irene Villa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03346

Solving Polynomial Systems with Gröbner Bases: An Introduction to F4 and FGLM
These notes originate from a reading course held by the authors in the spring of 2024 at the Università di Genova. They provide a hands-on introduction to the F4 and FGLM algorithms. In addition to the notes, we present two implementations of the algorithms: FGLM in CoCoALib and F4 in Sage. These implementations closely follow the structure of the algorithms as described here and are intended to help readers experiment with them in practice, thereby gaining a deeper understanding.

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

Crash Landing #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Wanna lose your money? Here's the #1 suckers & losers bets in Las Vegas:
❌ 6:5 Blackjack
❌ Triple-zero Roulette
❌ Mandatory sidebet tables
❌ Big Wheel anything
❌ Capped odds bets in craps
☑️ 2024 #Vegas DisAdvantage Awards | Worst #Gambling in

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…

Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, salad, this wine, and Jack of Diamonds
#FridayDateNight #meatloaf #wine #JackOfDiamonds

It has generally been reported that no significant irregularities was seen during the 2024 presendential election, but not everyone agrees to that.
I wonder if there is any substance to the statistical analysis provided by https://electiontruthalliance.org/2024-us-election-analysis/…

Pinching of ICME Flux Rope: Unprecedented Multipoint Observations of Internal Magnetic Reconnection during Gannon's Superstorm
Shibotosh Biswas, Ankush Bhaskar, Anil Raghav, Ajay Kumar, Kalpesh Ghag, Smitha V. Thampi, Vipin K Yadav
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00577

Pinching of ICME Flux Rope: Unprecedented Multipoint Observations of Internal Magnetic Reconnection during Gannon's Superstorm
The extreme solar storm of May 10, 2024, during the 25th solar cycle, which recorded a symmetric H component index (Sym-H) reaching -500 nT, was the strongest since the 2003 Halloween storm. This event offered a unique opportunity for unprecedented multipoint observation of the complex interaction of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections (ICME) from different vantage points. Utilizing NASA's Wind, ACE, DSCOVR, THEMIS-C, STEREO-A, MMS, and ISRO's recently launched Aditya-L1 spacecraft, we compre…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MorningShow
Leon Bridges:
🎵 River
#LeonBridges
https://catzndogz.bandcamp.com/track/leon-bridges-river-catz-n-dogz-2024-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3hhbDnFUb2bicI2df6VurK

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

Nachdem eben schon zwei gutgelaunte Schornsteinfeger bei mir waren, ist heute sicher ein guter Tag um die Steuererklärungen für 2024 erfolgreich fertig zu machen.

Event-by-event vortex rings in fixed-target p Ar collisions
David Chinellato, Michael Lisa, Willian Serenone, Chun Shen, Jun Takahashi, Giorgio Torrieri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00512

Event-by-event vortex rings in fixed-target p+Ar collisions
We present event-by-event simulations for central asymmetric p+Ar collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} = 68$ GeV to investigate the formation and evolution of vortex-ring structures from the early-stage longitudinal flow velocity profile. Our predictions for their imprints on Lambda hyperon's polarization observables are complementary to those presented in Ref. [Phys.Rev.C 110 (2024) 5, 054908] and can be explored in the future fixed-target collisions at the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) e…

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.

Predicting Qualification Thresholds in UEFA's incomplete round-robin tournaments via a Dixon and Coles Model
David Winkelmann, Rouven Michels, Christian Deutscher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20075

Predicting Qualification Thresholds in UEFA's incomplete round-robin tournaments via a Dixon and Coles Model
In the 2024/25 season, UEFA introduced the incomplete round-robin format in the Champions League and Europa League, replacing the traditional group stage with a single league phase table of all 36 teams. Now, the top eight qualify directly for the round of 16, while teams ranked 9th-24th enter a play-off round. Existing simulation-based analyses, such as those by Opta, provide guidance on points presumably needed for qualification but show discrepancies when compared to actual outcomes in the f…

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…

"Bromism" is when you believe too much in what tech bros say https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/aimcc.2024.1260

2024: in der EU soll besser vor Vergewaltigung geschützt und #JaHeißtJa als Standard gesetzt werden. Aber die #FDP in der Bundesregierung blockiert und Deutschland geht zusammen mit Frankreich dagegen.

Richtlinie zu Gewalt gegen Frauen: Warum Deutschland kein EU-Gesetz gegen Vergewaltigung will
Es begann als ambitioniertes Vorhaben der EU-Kommission gegen sexualisierte Gewalt. Bei den heutigen Trilog-Verhandlungen droht jedoch ein Debakel. Ausgerechnet Deutschland blockiert eine europaweite Regelung gegen Vergewaltigung. Und der Rat möchte den besseren Schutz vor bildbasierter Gewalt und Deepfakes verwässern.

Dane Brugler’s 2026 NFL Draft summer positional rankings: Interior offensive linemen https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6525093/2025/07/31/nfl-draft-2026-summer-rankings-guards-centers/

"Umgang mit dem Unsichtbaren – Neurodiversity-Management in Bibliotheken" https://doi.org/10.1515/bfp-2024-0005

XRISM reveals a variable, multi-phase outflow-inflow structure during the X-ray obscured 2024 outburst of the black hole transient V4641 Sgr
Maxime Parra, Megumi Shidatsu, Ryota Tomaru, Chris Done, Teo Mu\~noz-Darias, Montserrat Armas Padilla, Shoji Ogawa, Alessio Marino, Noa Grollimund, Stephane Corbel, Eduardo De la Fuente, Huaqing Cheng, Mar\'ia D\'iaz Trigo, Rob Fender, Keisuke Isogai, Shogo B. Kobayashi, Sara Motta, Katsuhiro Murata, Hitoshi Negoro, Samar Safi-Harb, Hiroma…

XRISM reveals a variable, multi-phase outflow-inflow structure during the X-ray obscured 2024 outburst of the black hole transient V4641 Sgr
We report the results of a simultaneous X-ray and optical spectroscopy campaign on the Galactic black hole X-ray binary V4641 Sgr, carried out with XRISM and the Seimei telescope during a low-luminosity phase towards the end of its 2024 outburst. Despite a very low X-ray luminosity of $10^{34}$ erg s$^{-1}$, the continuum spectrum is well reproduced by a disk blackbody model with a high inner disk temperature ($1.8$ keV). XRISM/Resolve provides the highest-resolution X-ray spectrum ever obtaine…

U.S. law already makes clear that America cannot and will not recognize Russia’s land grabs.
2024 Omnibus Bill, Section 7047 (extended into 2025 CR): Prohibits funding for any action recognizing Russian claims over Crimea or other occupied territory.
2019 NDAA, Section 1241 (reaffirmed annually, most recently in the 2025 NDAA, Section 1303): Bars any Defense Department funds from supporting recognition of Russian sovereignty over Crimea. 1/2

Check out my latest CSO piece that examines how Trump's civilian agency cyber budget cuts for FY2026 could weaken federal defenses, shrink the cyber talent pipeline, and strip state and local governments of vital grant funding.
Thanks to Michael Daniel of the Cyber Threat Alliance, Mark Montgomery of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Munish Walther-Puri of NYU's Center for Global Affairs, and former US cyber official Amélie Koran for their insights.
Trump see…

Trump seeks unprecedented $1.23 billion cut to federal cyber budget
Trump’s 2026 budget would slash cyber spending by over $1 billion from 2024 levels, a move that could weaken federal defenses, shrink the cyber talent pipeline, and strip state and local governments of vital grant funding.

List Coloring the Cartesian Product of a Complete Graph and Complete Bipartite Graph
Hemanshu Kaul, Leonardo Marciaga, Jeffrey A. Mudrock
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16733 https:…

List Coloring the Cartesian Product of a Complete Graph and Complete Bipartite Graph
We study the list chromatic number of the Cartesian product of a complete graph of order $n$ and a complete bipartite graph with partite sets of size $a$ and $b$, denoted $χ_{\ell}(K_n \square K_{a,b})$. At the 2024 Sparse Graphs Coalition's Workshop on algebraic, extremal, and structural methods and problems in graph colouring, Mudrock presented the following question: For each positive integer $a$, does $χ_{\ell}(K_n \square K_{a,b}) = n+a$ if and only if $b \geq (n+a-1)!^a/(a-1)!^a$? In th…

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

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 …

Die Abschlepp-Statistik steigt:
- 2023: 2.368 (7/Tag)
- 2024: 2.846 (8/Tag)
- 2025 (bis Juli): **1.954 – das sind 10 pro Tag!**
Tipp: Lieber 2 Minuten länger suchen als 200 Euro zahlen. 😉
#Bochum #Parken

Anfrage zur Anzahl der Abschleppmaßnahmen (2023–2025) im Auftrag der städtischen Verkehrsüberwachung
Bitte teilen Sie mir die Anzahl der Abschleppmaßnahmen mit, die im Auftrag der städtischen Verkehrsüberwachung in den Jahren 2023 und 2024 durchgeführt wurden. Falls bereits verfügbar, wäre ich auch an den Zahlen für das laufende Jahr 2025 interessiert.

Isn't it weird how when a Federal Crown Corporation - Marine Atlantic - buys a new ship... there is nary a mention that it was built in China (#BCPoli #BCFerries

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 ...

Scale two-sample testing with arbitrarily missing data
Yijin Zeng, Niall M. Adams, Dean A. Bodenham
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20332 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Scale two-sample testing with arbitrarily missing data
This work proposes a novel rank-based scale two-sample testing method for univariate, distinct data when a subset of the data may be missing. Our approach is based on mathematically tight bounds of the Ansari-Bradley test statistic in the presence of missing data, and rejects the null hypothesis if the test statistic is significant regardless of the missing values. This proposed scale testing method is then combined with the location testing method proposed by Zeng et al. (2024) using the Holm-…

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

Estado del clima en Jalisco: temporada de lluvias y comportamiento extremo de la temperatura en 2024
Mauricio L\'opez-Reyes, Julio Eduardo Zamora-Salvador, Alma Delia Ort\'iz-Ba\~nuelos, Stephany Paulina Arellano-Ram\'irez, Carlos Rom\'an-Casta\~neda, Armando Gonz\'alez-Figueroa, Hector Hugo Ulloa-God\'inez, Mario E. Garc\'ia Guadalupe

Estado del clima en Jalisco: temporada de lluvias y comportamiento extremo de la temperatura en 2024
This article analyzes the characteristics of the rainy season and extreme temperatures recorded in the state of Jalisco, Mexico, during 2024. Using ERA5 and CHIRPS reanalysis data and observations from thirteen meteorological stations, patterns of precipitation and temperature anomalies were identified. The results show a late start and early end of the rainy season, with positive anomalies in the central and southern regions, and significant deficits in the coastal strip. Furthermore, 2024 sto…

Common Sunflower. Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge, California, USA. September, 2024. #descansogardens #sunflower #flower

Optimizing Peer Grading: A Systematic Literature Review of Reviewer Assignment Strategies and Quantity of Reviewers
Uchswas Paul, Shail Shah, Sri Vaishnavi Mylavarapu, M. Parvez Rashid, Edward Gehringer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11678

Optimizing Peer Grading: A Systematic Literature Review of Reviewer Assignment Strategies and Quantity of Reviewers
Peer assessment has established itself as a critical pedagogical tool in academic settings, offering students timely, high-quality feedback to enhance learning outcomes. However, the efficacy of this approach depends on two factors: (1) the strategic allocation of reviewers and (2) the number of reviews per artifact. This paper presents a systematic literature review of 87 studies (2010--2024) to investigate how reviewer-assignment strategies and the number of reviews per submission impact the …

Mapping Gamma-Ray Bursts: Distinguishing Progenitor Systems Through Machine Learning
Sharleen N. Espinoza, Nicole M. Lloyd-Ronning, Michela Negro, Roseanne M. Cheng, Nicol\'o Cibrario
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20214

Mapping Gamma-Ray Bursts: Distinguishing Progenitor Systems Through Machine Learning
We present an analysis of gamma-ray burst (GRB) progenitor classification, through their positions on a Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) plot, constructed by Negro et al. 2024, from Fermi-GBM waterfall plots. The embedding plot has a head-tail morphology, in which GRBs with confirmed progenitors (e.g. collapsars vs. binary neutron star mergers) fall in distinct regions. We investigate the positions of various proposed sub-populations of GRBs, including those with and without…

Uncertainty Relation for the Wigner-Yanase Skew Information and Quantum Sobolev Inequalities
Laurent Lafleche
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15554 https://arxi…

Uncertainty Relation for the Wigner-Yanase Skew Information and Quantum Sobolev Inequalities
This note explores uncertainty inequalities for quantum analogues of the Fisher information including the Wigner-Yanase skew information, and their connection to the quantum Sobolev inequalities proved by the author in [Journal of Functional Analysis, 286 (10) 2024]. Some additional inequalities concerning commutators are derived and others are left as open problems.

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

CLAP: Clustering to Localize Across n Possibilities, A Simple, Robust Geometric Approach in the Presence of Symmetries
Gabriel I. Fernandez, Ruochen Hou, Alex Xu, Colin Togashi, Dennis W. Hong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08495

CLAP: Clustering to Localize Across n Possibilities, A Simple, Robust Geometric Approach in the Presence of Symmetries
In this paper, we present our localization method called CLAP, Clustering to Localize Across $n$ Possibilities, which helped us win the RoboCup 2024 adult-sized autonomous humanoid soccer competition. Competition rules limited our sensor suite to stereo vision and an inertial sensor, similar to humans. In addition, our robot had to deal with varying lighting conditions, dynamic feature occlusions, noise from high-impact stepping, and mistaken features from bystanders and neighboring fields. The…

Truthful, Credible, and Optimal Auctions for Matroids via Blockchains and Commitments
Aadityan Ganesh, Qianfan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04592 https…

Truthful, Credible, and Optimal Auctions for Matroids via Blockchains and Commitments
We consider a revenue-optimizing auctioneer in single-dimensional environments with matroid feasibility constraints. Akbarpour and Li (2020) argue that any revenue-optimal, truthful, and credible mechanism requires unbounded communication. Recent works (Ferreira and Weinberg, 2020; Essaidi et al., 2022; Chitra et al., 2024) circumvent their impossibility for the single-item setting through the use of cryptographic commitments and blockchains. We extend their results to matroid feasibility const…

Measuring the Macroeconomic and Financial Stability of Bangladesh
Faruque Ahamed, Md Ataur Rahman Chowdhury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20340 https://arxiv.…

Measuring the Macroeconomic and Financial Stability of Bangladesh
This study constructs an Aggregate Financial Stability Index (AFSI) for Bangladesh to evaluate the systemic health and resilience of the countrys financial system during the period from 2016 to 2024. The index incorporates 19 macrofinancial indicators across four key sectors Real Sector, Financial and Monetary Sector, Fiscal Sector and External Sector. Using a normalized scoring approach and equal weighting scheme, sub-indices were aggregated to form a comprehensive measure of financial stabili…

Who was the Greater Lansing boys high school coach of year in 2024-25? https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/sports/high-school/2025/07/07/vote-greater-lansing-boys-coach-year-2024-25/84448877007/

China says Xiaomi will issue a software update for 115K SU7 EVs to fix assisted driving safety issues, its second recall-related fix since the 2024 launch (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/chinas-xiaomi-f…

A High-order Backpropagation Algorithm for Neural Stochastic Differential Equation Model
Daili Sheng, Minghui Song, Xiang Peng, Xuanqi Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06292 http…

A High-order Backpropagation Algorithm for Neural Stochastic Differential Equation Model
Neural stochastic differential equation model with a Brownian motion term can capture epistemic uncertainty of deep neural network from the perspective of a dynamical system. The goal of this paper is to improve the convergence rate of the sample-wise backpropagation algorithm in neural stochastic differential equation model which has been proposed in [Archibald et al., SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 62 (2024), pp. 593-621]. It is necessary to emphasize that, improving the convergence orde…

"Global investment in renewable energy up 10% on 2024 despite Trump rollback"
#US #USA #America #Energy

And a related issues - lowered speed limits work when well implemented. #VisionZero #SafeStreets
https://…

Brent Toderian (@brenttoderian.bsky.social)
IMPORTANT STUDY: “On average, the implementation of 30 km/h speed limits in European cities demonstrated a 23%, 37% & 38% reduction in road crashes, fatalities & injuries respectively. Lower speed limits also yielded environmental benefits.” https://www.nrso.ntua.gr/review-of-city-wide-30-kmh-speed-limit-benefits-in-europe-may-2024/

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).

The World Shipping Council launches an AI tool to scan millions of bookings in real time to identify risks of cargo fires, which reached a decade-high in 2024 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8e9c70f1-af80-4e9b-8171-59b1ad54aaf6

Christian Watson contract: Packers reward WR with one-year extension amid recovery from torn ACL, per report

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

Quantum Stochastic Walks for Portfolio Optimization: Theory and Implementation on Financial Networks
Yen Jui Chang, Wei-Ting Wang, Yun-Yuan Wang, Chen-Yu Liu, Kuan-Cheng Chen, Ching-Ray Chang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03963

Quantum Stochastic Walks for Portfolio Optimization: Theory and Implementation on Financial Networks
Financial markets are noisy yet contain a latent graph-theoretic structure that can be exploited for superior risk-adjusted returns. We propose a quantum stochastic walk (QSW) optimizer that embeds assets in a weighted graph: nodes represent securities while edges encode the return-covariance kernel. Portfolio weights are derived from the walk's stationary distribution. Three empirical studies support the approach. (i) For the top 100 S\&P 500 constituents over 2016-2024, six scenario portfolio…

Seasonal Variability of Snow Cover and Impact on Albedo and Thermal Properties in the Antarctic Marginal Ice Zone
Ippolita Tersigni, Filippo Nelli, Emiliano Cimoli, Petra Heil, Luke Bennetts, Giulio Passerotti, Alessandro Toffoli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10916

Seasonal Variability of Snow Cover and Impact on Albedo and Thermal Properties in the Antarctic Marginal Ice Zone
Snow cover plays a critical yet often underrepresented role in shaping the thermodynamic behavior of Antarctic sea ice. In this study, we investigate the seasonal variability of snow distribution and its impact on surface albedo and energy fluxes across the marginal ice zone (MIZ), using a unique dataset from five shipborne expeditions conducted between 2019 and 2024. High-resolution visible and infrared imagery, combined with field observations and meteorological data, reveal that even modest …

Stargazing: Cowboys who stood out vs. Rams https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/stargazing-cowboys-who-stood-out-vs-rams

Filing: Shein reports 2024 UK sales up 32.3% YoY to £2.05B, making the UK its third largest market after the US and Germany, as it works toward a Hong Kong IPO (Helen Reid/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co

Multi-polarization during the 9th European Parliament
Sebastiao Rosalino, Ant\'onio Curado, Fl\'avio L. Pinheiro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03214 h…

Multi-polarization during the 9th European Parliament
Brexit, a global pandemic, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and record inflation - few legislative bodies have faced such a cascade of shocks as the European Parliament did during its 9th term (2019-2024). Using the Bipartite Configuration Model and a set of network statistics, this research explores how multi-polarization was characterized during this term by constructing and analyzing co-voting networks across all legislative subjects and within specific legislative subjects. The results cont…

Stargazing: Cowboys who stood out vs. Rams https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/stargazing-cowboys-who-stood-out-vs-rams

Zwischen 2018 und 2024 starben in #Berlin jährlich durchschnittlich 205 Menschen infolge von #Hitze.
In diesem Zeitraum wurden im Schnitt 21 sogenannte #Hitzetage pro Jahr gezählt, an denen die Tem…

Hitzeschutz Berlin - Berlin.de

Bitcoin reached a new all-time high of over $121K, up about 30% since December 2024, after more than doubling in value in 2024 (Kirk Ogunrinde/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-14/bitcoin-hits-record-h…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in Deutschland. Stand: 09.08.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erste Versuche einer #Datenanalyse. 😁 Hinweise gerne. Wü…

Jugadores que brillaron en el debut de los Cowboys https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/jugadores-que-brillaron-en-el-debut-de-los-cowboys

Seit 2010 sind sie für Solarstrom um 41 Prozent gesunken; 2024 kostete eine Kilowattstunde (kWh) im Schnitt nur etwa 3,5 Rp. Windstrom an Land war mit 2,7 Rp./kWh sogar noch günstiger. Zum Vergleich: Strom aus neuen Gaskraftwerken kostete in Deutschland laut Fraunhofer-Institut mindestens 8 Rp./kWh, aus Braunkohle sogar mindestens 10 Rp. ~ SES

Jugadores que brillaron en el debut de los Cowboys https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/jugadores-que-brillaron-en-el-debut-de-los-cowboys

F&O Expiry vs. First-Day SIPs: A 22-Year Analysis of Timing Advantages in India's Nifty 50
Siddharth Gavhale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04859 https…

F&O Expiry vs. First-Day SIPs: A 22-Year Analysis of Timing Advantages in India's Nifty 50
This study presents a comparative analysis of Systematic Investment Plan (SIP) performance in India's Nifty 50 index over a 22-year period (2003--2024), focusing on the timing of investments -- specifically, the first trading day (FTD) of each month versus the monthly expiry day of Futures and Options (EXP). The research establishes, through mathematical validation, that SIP returns are independent of the invested amount. Leveraging historical index data, the study finds that SIPs timed on F\&O…

Der Ausbau der #Windenergie in Deutschland hat im ersten Halbjahr 2025 deutlich zugelegt.
Mit 405 neuen Onshore-Anlagen und 2.157 MW installierter Leistung wurde der Zubau gegenüber 2024 mehr als verdoppelt.
Treiber sind beschleunigte Genehmigungen und höhere Ausschreibungszuschläge.

Ausbau Windenergie: Deutschland verdoppelt neue Windenergieleistung an Land im ersten Halbjahr 2025
Münster – Der Ausbau der Windenergie in Deutschland hat sich im ersten Halbjahr 2025 im Vergleich zum Vorjahr deutlich beschleunigt. Dies geht aus einer ersten vorläufigen Auswertung von Daten des Marktstammdatenregisters (MaStR) der Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA) durch das Internationale Wirtschaftsforum Regenerative Energien (IWR) in Münster (Datenstand: 01. Juli 2025) hervor.

NFL QB Tiers 2025: Lamar Jackson cracks Tier 1, Jayden Daniels sets rookie record https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6514160/2025/08/11/nfl-qb-rankings-tiers-2025-jackson-daniels/