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Defense tech startup Anduril raised a $2.5B Series G led by Founders Fund, which invested $1B, at a $30.5B valuation, up from $14B in August 2024 (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

This week is building up to a crescendo of critical cybersecurity developments, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the top infosec news stories you should know, including
--CISA nominee Plankey pulled from Senate confirmation hearing,
--The Com has been hacking Salesforce tools,
--Chinese hackers broke into US telecoms in 2023,
--Law enforcement busts up BidenCash,
--China issues warrants for 20 alleged Taiwanese hackers,
--Feds are probing CrowdS…

CISA nominee Plankey pulled from Senate confirmation hearing
The Com has been hacking Salesforce tools, Chinese hackers broke into US telecoms in 2023, Law enforcement busts up BidenCash, China issues warrants for 20 alleged Taiwanese hackers, Feds are probing CrowdStrike's 2024 outage, Reddit sues Anthropic for scraping comments, much more

Sometimes Being Unsigned Means DIY
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Sometimes Being Unsigned Means DIY - #IndieMusician
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Heh, I missed this because I don't care about the A Song of Ice and Fire books anymore, but I guess it's official:
> In December 2024, he stated that he might never finish [The Winds of Winter] or book series, but did reaffirm that it was still a priority for him[…].
Reminds me of how my privacy is apparently the priority to everyone on the web.

Cam Ward brings humility to Titans QB battle, explains 2024 first-round pick JC Latham

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cam-ward-br…

Ex-Raiders GM reveals which QBs the team wanted in 2024 NFL draft https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/ex-raiders-gm-reveals-which-qbs-the-team-wanted-in-2024-nfl-draft-3381813/

I just played through "The Gap (2023)" and watched "We Live in Time (2024)" so inadvertently had a double bill of non-linear narratives following a relationship in which one person has a, potentially fatal, medical condition.

Offensive centerpiece named Cowboys 'most promising building block' in 2025 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/offensive-centerpiece-dallas-cowboys-most-promising-building-block

Programming tonight’s episode of @… radio and stumbled on our most recent 3–hour #Drone #Accordion special episode from last fall
That’ll keep me going through…

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-10-30: Electronic, Experimental & Drone Show IV: Night of the Restless
So… our podcast schedule got disrupted by the Internet Archive hack late last year, and we never quite got caught up. But we can get closer. Here, today, I can share with you our incredible e…

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Booleans are a trap.
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#DDA Vogelwelt aktuell: Rückblick auf den Winter 2024/2025. https://www.dda-web.de/aktuelles/meldungen/vogelwelt-aktuell-rueckblick-auf-den-winter-202…

Sie gehören zum Besten, was der deutsche Schachnachwuchs zu bieten hat! 🔥
Auch 2025 sind wieder zahlreiche Kaderspieler:innen des Deutschen Schachbundes bei der #dem25 am Start – und unter ihnen auch Titelverteidiger:innen:
Tamila Trunz, Michelle Trunz, Vadim Petrovskiy, Johannes von Mettenheim und Mykhaylo Nezhyvenko haben 2024 jeweils ihre Altersklasse gewonnen und wollen auch dieses Jah…

Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – October 30, 2024
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Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 35 new job opportunities, 1 fellowship, 1 grant, 8 call for papers, and 11 conferences/speakers.

A former employee says fewer than 10,000 people use Ola Krutrim's LLM chatbot, which supports 10 Indian languages, and that over 60% of them are random testers (Swathi Moorthy/The Economic Times)
https://

Krutrim finds few takers for its LLMs and cloud products
Ola founder Aggarwal first announced Krutrim in December 2023, launching an LLM that could support 10 Indian languages, starting with Krutrim chatbot in February 2024, and cloud offering shortly after. Two founders told ET recently that repeated sign-in attempts were blocked by a persistent “logged out of session” error, making sign-up via mobile or Gmail difficult.

Ex-Raiders GM Tom Telesco reveals quarterbacks Las Vegas considered drafting in 2024 https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/ex-raiders-tom-telesco-quarterbacks-…

Offenbar ist #Brandenburg mit Tesla noch nicht genug gestraft. Amazon will auch was vom Wasser.
Und nein, mit 'Souveränität' hat es nichts zu tun, wenn einer von Trumps Buddys hier mehr Geld verdienen will.
Ort ist noch geheim: Internet, kriegen wir das raus?
Amazon will als Cloud-Anbieter 8 Milliarden Euro in Brandenburg investieren | rbb24

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GL-LowPopArt: A Nearly Instance-Wise Minimax Estimator for Generalized Low-Rank Trace Regression
We present `GL-LowPopArt`, a novel Catoni-style estimator for generalized low-rank trace regression. Building on `LowPopArt` (Jang et al., 2024), it employs a two-stage approach: nuclear norm regularization followed by matrix Catoni estimation. We establish state-of-the-art estimation error bounds, surpassing existing guarantees (Fan et al., 2019; Kang et al., 2022), and reveal a novel experimental design objective, $\mathrm{GL}(π)$. The key technical challenge is controlling bias from the non…

👇 👇 👇
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/jun/04/saying-trump-is-dangerous-is-not-enough-bernie-sanders-on-biden-billionaires-and-why-the-de…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

👇 👇 👇
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/jun/04/saying-trump-is-dangerous-is-not-enough-bernie-sanders-on-biden-billionaires-and-why-the-de…

Religious Studies Project Opportunites Digest – October 16, 2024
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Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 38 new job opportunities, 5 fellowships, 3 grants, 5 call for papers, 12 conferences/speakers, and 1 other opportunity.

Former Steelers standout receiver plots NFL comeback: 'I am the strongest and fastest I've ever been'

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

As everyone, the #FSF infrastructure is suffering because of 'AI' crawlers:
«Our infrastructure has been under attack since August 2024. Large Language Model (LLM) web crawlers have been a significant source of the attacks»
«the server behind the Free Software Directory, has been under attack since June 18. This likely is an LLM scraper designed to specifically target Media Wiki sites with a botnet. This attack is very active and now partially mitigated.»
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/our-small-team-vs-millions-of-bots

Mapped: How 6 Billionaire Family Fortunes Fund Project 2025 - DeSmog
https://www.desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial/
> Unraveli…

Mapped: How 6 Billionaire Family Fortunes Fund Project 2025
Unraveling a $130 million web of climate denial, political extremism, and Trump campaign ties.

Two rival Amazon influencers seek to dismiss their 2024 copyright case, where one accused the other of posting similar promotional content for the same products (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/676357/amazon-inf…

The ‘beige Amazon influencer’ lawsuit is headed for dismissal
A lawsuit between two Amazon influencers raised questions about copyright, identity, and ownership of online content and vibes. Now the case is coming to a close.

A Relativistic Jet in the Radio Quiet AGN Mrk 110
Ailing Wang, Tao An, Kenneth I. Kellermann, Hua Feng, Emmanuel K. Bempong-Manful, Roland Timmerman, Shaoguang Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03970

A Relativistic Jet in the Radio Quiet AGN Mrk 110
We report the discovery of a relativistic jet in Mrk~110, a narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy historically classified as a radio-quiet active galactic nucleus (AGN). Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations reveal intermittent jet activity during 2015--2016 and 2022--2024, with proper motion measurements yielding superluminal velocities of $\sim3.6\pm0.6\,c$ and $\sim2.1\pm0.2\,c$, respectively. The recent jet component decelerates to $\sim 1.5\pm0.2\,c$ at a projected distance of 1.1 p…

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The SLAX scripting language: an alternative syntax for XSLT.
http://juniper.github.io/libslax/slax-manual.html
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Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – October 9, 2024
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Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 28 new job opportunities, 3 fellowships, 2 grants, 5 call for papers, and 3 conferences/speakers. Everyone at RSP says thank you to all who have generously supported the RSP through our Patreon and PayPal donation options! Our goal is to have 100 patrons (currently at 39!) […]

Tom Telesco Reveals if Raiders Had Plans to Draft Michael Penix in 2024 https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/tom-telesco-michael-penix-rumors/?adt_ei=[email]

Sources: Toronto-based AI startup Cohere is seeking to raise $500M at a valuation of over $5.5B; it raised a $500M Series D at a $5.5B valuation in July 2024 (Financial Times)

AI start-up Cohere seeks $500mn in effort to catch up to OpenAI and Anthropic
Canadian group seeks valuation of up to $6.5bn but rivals have soared far higher in comparison

Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – December 9, 2024
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Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 21 new job opportunities, 3 fellowships, 2 grants, and 4 calls for papers.

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.

Zur Erinnerung:
2024 war ein Rekordjahr für die #Windenergie: Über 2.400 Anlagen mit 14.056 MW wurden genehmigt, fast 1.900 mit 10.996 MW bezuschlagt.
Der tatsächliche Ausbau blieb mit 3.251 MW leicht unter den Erwartungen, doch die Dynamik ist da.

Pressemitteilung: 2024: Windenergie-Rekordjahr bei Zuschlägen u...
Pressemitteilung:Berlin, Frankfurt – 15. Januar 2025 - Das Jahr 2024 war ein Rekordjahr für die Windenergie an Land: Insgesamt wurden in Deutschland 2.405...

Giants TE Theo Johnson was in his 'groove' before season-ending injury, feels 'huge difference' in Year 2 https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-te-theo-johnson-was-in-his-groove-before-season-ending-…

My removal from #nasa #nyc continued afoot.
I haven’t said much of it here — but my competitive grant proposals (nasa scientists get funded this way since full cost accounting hit in 2004) have been chosen, but not funded.
There is no grant money to distribute. Folks in the know have seen that - ROSES, the acronym for research opportunities in science, does not have a 2025 call and the 2024 chosen post January 2025 don’t have money getting distributed.
If I cannot get proposals funded I will be in the same situation as every other soft money researcher.
So the soft RIF is coming for me and 1000’s of others.

Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – December 4, 2024
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Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 11 new job opportunities, 3 fellowships, 3 calls for papers, and 1 conference/speaker.

The average surface temperature of the Mediterranean Sea is at record level for this early in summer, at 3°C above the 1982-2011 average. Could end up well above the 2023-2024 record summer peaks (Jul-Aug) of 28°C.
https://www.ceam.es/ceamet/SST/SST-trend.html

Die @… diskutiert nicht nur, sondern kann wen auch ganz schön in die Mangel nehmen. Aber in nett.
From: @…

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…

Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – November 6, 2024
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Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 23 new job opportunities, 2 call for papers, and 2 conferences/speakers.

»Was könnte die EU-Chatkontrolle für die Schweiz bedeuten?«
– von @…
Eine gute Frage, denn auch wenn die Schweiz nicht in der EU ist, betrifft es sie – direkt oder indirekt. Denn Datenschutz geht nur entweder oder und nicht evt. ein bisschen gut gemeint.
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Was könnte die EU-Chatkontrolle für die Schweiz bedeuten? - Das Netz ist politisch
Wie wir im September schon geschrieben haben, ist die Einführung einer Chatkontrolle in der EU nach wie vor ein Thema, auch wenn es zwischenzeitlich mangels

Dear Apple SwiftUI friends, this bug is killing the vibe of our users: FB16257334
Repro for those in the community:
https://github.com/feedback-assistant/reports/issues/594

FB16257334: Inspector view bug · Issue #594 · feedback-assistant/reports
Date: 2024-01-07 Resolution: Open Area: SwiftUI OS: iPadOS 18.1 Type: Incorrect/Unexpected Behavior Keywords: SwiftUI, split view, iPadOS, NavigationSplitView Description Simple NavigationSplitView...

Measurement of the diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux over six seasons using cascade events from the Baikal-GVD expanding telescope
GVD Collaboration, V. A. Allakhverdyan, A. D. Avrorin, A. V. Avrorin, V. M. Aynutdinov, Z. Be\v{n}u\v{s}ov\'a, I. A. Belolaptikov, E. A. Bondarev, I. V. Borina, N. M. Budnev, V. A. Chadymov, A. S. Chepurnov, V. Y. Dik, A. N. Dmitrieva, G. V. Domogatsky, A. A. Doroshenko, R. Dvornick\'y, A. N. Dyachok, Zh. -A. M. Dzhilkibaev, E. Eckerov\'a, T. …

Measurement of the diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux over six seasons using cascade events from the Baikal-GVD expanding telescope
We present an updated measurement of the diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux using Baikal-GVD cascade data collected between April 2018 to March 2024. In this period, the detector grew from 15% to 55% of its baseline cubic kilometer configuration. The diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux is detected with a statistical significance of 5.1 $σ$. Assuming a single power law model of the astrophysical neutrino flux with identical contribution from each neutrino flavor, the following best-fit paramet…

Sennheiser generated €492.3 million in sales in 2024, despite “volatile market conditions”
#MusicTech #MusicBiz

Sennheiser generated €492.3 million in sales in 2024, despite “volatile market conditions”
The Sennheiser Group generated sales of €492.3 million across the 2024 financial year, despite facing “turbulent times” across the economic landscape. 

NOTICE OF PUBLIC FORUM
(Public Participation Hearing)
Southern California Edison Company and San Diego Gas and Electric Company’s
Joint Application for the 2024 Nuclear Decommissioning Cost Triennial Proceeding
APPLICATION A.24-12-003
Southern California Edison Company (SCE), San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E), and the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) would like to hear from you. You are invited to participate in a Public Forum, also calle…

FPF and OneTrust launch updated Conformity Assessment under the EU AI Act: guide and infographic
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-and-onetrust-launch-updated-conformity-assessment-under-the-eu-ai-act-guide-and-infographi…

Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – October 23, 2024
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"Applications of the Critical Incident Technique in Library and Information Science Research: A Literature Review" https://doi.org/10.1515/libri-2024-0065

"World’s largest banks pledged $869bn to fossil fuel firms in 2024, new report finds"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 56 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29944 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

Lessons Learned from the URGENT 2024 Speech Enhancement Challenge
Wangyou Zhang, Kohei Saijo, Samuele Cornell, Robin Scheibler, Chenda Li, Zhaoheng Ni, Anurag Kumar, Marvin Sach, Wei Wang, Yihui Fu, Shinji Watanabe, Tim Fingscheidt, Yanmin Qian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01611

Lessons Learned from the URGENT 2024 Speech Enhancement Challenge
The URGENT 2024 Challenge aims to foster speech enhancement (SE) techniques with great universality, robustness, and generalizability, featuring a broader task definition, large-scale multi-domain data, and comprehensive evaluation metrics. Nourished by the challenge outcomes, this paper presents an in-depth analysis of two key, yet understudied, issues in SE system development: data cleaning and evaluation metrics. We highlight several overlooked problems in traditional SE pipelines: (1) misma…

Heute ist bei uns in #BadOeYnhausen das #Stadtradeln gestartet und ich habe letztes Jahr schon etwas dazu geschrieben, was sich auch in diesem Jahr nicht geändert hat:

@… announced that Doris Reiter is awarded with the "Emmy Noether Distinction 2024 (mid-career)" ... Go Sis!
https://eps…

Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – November 27, 2024
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Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 17 new job opportunities and 3 other opportunities.

UK neobank Monzo reports FY 2025 revenue up 48% YoY to £1.2B, a £60.5M pre-tax profit, up from £13.9M in FY 2024, deposits up 48% YoY to £16.6B, and 12M users (Yadarisa Shabong/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/b

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Submonoid Membership in n-dimensional lamplighter groups and S-unit equations
We show that Submonoid Membership is decidable in n-dimensional lamplighter groups $(\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z}) \wr \mathbb{Z}^n$ for any prime $p$ and integer $n$. More generally, we show decidability of Submonoid Membership in semidirect products of the form $\mathcal{Y} \rtimes \mathbb{Z}^n$, where $\mathcal{Y}$ is any finitely presented module over the Laurent polynomial ring $\mathbb{F}_p[X_1^{\pm}, \ldots, X_n^{\pm}]$. Combined with a result of Shafrir (2024), this gives the first example of…

Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – November 18, 2024
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Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – November 13, 2024
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Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 13 new job opportunities, 6 fellowships, 3 grants, 4 calls for papers, 4 conferences/speakers, and 1 other submission.

Exploring the change in scientific readability following the release of ChatGPT
Abdulkareem Alsudais
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21825 https://

Exploring the change in scientific readability following the release of ChatGPT
The rise and growing popularity of accessible large language models have raised questions about their impact on various aspects of life, including how scientists write and publish their research. The primary objective of this paper is to analyze a dataset consisting of all abstracts posted on arXiv.org between 2010 and June 7th, 2024, to assess the evolution of their readability and determine whether significant shifts occurred following the release of ChatGPT in November 2022. Four standard re…

Falcons' Darnell Mooney fine with missing 1,000-yard receiving mark in 2024: 'I came here to win games' https://www.nfl.com/news/falcons-darnell-mooney-fine-with-missing-1-000-yard-receiving-mark-in…

To the genocide-loving German from mastodon.social who reported @… for being antisemitic:
Fuck you, you genocide-loving piece of shit, opposing genocide isn’t antisemitism. What you’re doing – conflating being anti-genocide with being antisemitic – is the greatest antisemitism as you’re de facto stating that all Jews are pro-genocide.

Der Voodoo Zauber #Waffenverbotszone funktioniert nicht 🤡
Warum wundert mich das nicht 🤔
⚠️ Debatte um Verbotszonen: Stadträtin Pape mahnt differenzierte Lösungen an
https://osna.social/@maze/11426097…

Where is AIED Headed? Key Topics and Emerging Frontiers (2020-2024)
Shihui Feng, Huilin Zhang, Dragan Ga\v{s}evi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20971 ht…

Where is AIED Headed? Key Topics and Emerging Frontiers (2020-2024)
In this study, we analyze 2,398 research articles published between 2020 and 2024 across eight core venues related to the field of Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED). Using a three-step knowledge co-occurrence network analysis, we analyze the knowledge structure of the field, the evolving knowledge clusters, and the emerging frontiers. Our findings reveal that AIED research remains strongly technically focused, with sustained themes such as intelligent tutoring systems, learning analyt…

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Jujutsu (jj), a git compatible version control system.
https://tonyfinn.com/blog/jj/
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Gaming the Metrics? Bibliometric Anomalies and the Integrity Crisis in Global University Rankings
Global university rankings have transformed how certain institutions define success, often elevating metrics over meaning. This study examines universities with rapid research growth suggestive of metric-driven behaviors. Among the 1,000 most publishing institutions, 98 showed extreme output increases between 2018-2019 and 2023-2024. Of these, eighteen were selected for exhibiting sharp declines in first and corresponding authorship. Compared to national, regional, and international norms, thes…

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 583 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29417 Unterschriften bis zum 09.07.2025.

Estonia issues arrest warrant for Moroccan wanted for major pharmacy data breach https://therecord.media/estonia-arrest-warrant-pharmacy-data-breach

Firefox OS's story from a mozilla insider not working on the project
#mozilla

Firefox OS's story from a mozilla insider not working on the project

Möglicher Komplize - Terrorpläne auf Swift-Konzert: Anklage in Berlin #News #Nachrichten

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.04352 has been replaced.
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Thermonuclear superburst of MAXI J1752$-$457 observed with NinjaSat and MAXI
An uncatalogued bright X-ray transient was detected with MAXI on November 9, 2024, named MAXI J1752$-$457. The NinjaSat X-ray observatory promptly observed the source from November 10 to 18 while the small angular separation from the Sun hampered follow-up campaigns by other X-ray observatories. The MAXI and NinjaSat light curves in the 2-10 keV band showed first and second decaying components at the early and late phases, approximated by exponential functions with e-folding constants of 1.2 $\…

Installing Whoogle on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W in 2025
I had to update the instructions for my 2024 article. Here it is:
https://theprivacydad.com/installing-whoogle-on-a-raspberry-pi-zero-2-w-in-2025/

Einige der Absurditäten hatte ich gar nicht mitbekommen oder sie sind wieder untergegangen. #Steuerbetrug ist kein Kavaliersdelikt, auch wenn das laut Wikipedia oft so gesehen wird:
> wobei Steuerhinterziehung am häufigsten in Verbindung damit [#Kavaliersdelikt] gebracht wurde

POL-LG: Weniger Verkehrsunfälle und Verletzte: Verkehrsunfallstatistik 2024 für die Polizeidirektion Lüneburg
2014: 32.284 Unfälle, 2024: 35.769 Unfälle
Mittelfristig gibt es da in #Lüneburg eher nichts zu feiern.
#verkehr

Digging My Way Out
#AngryAmbient #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2024/digging-my-wa

Digging My Way Out #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Die Anmeldung zum RSR-Ausbildung während der #DEM25 ist noch bis übermorgen möglich - sichere dir hier deinen Platz und lerne alles, was du über die Schachregeln wissen musst: https://www.deutsche-schachjugend.de/termi…

Hall of Fame hopeful headlines Cowboys' All-Century secondary https://insidethestar.com/hall-of-fame-hopeful-headlines-cowboys-all-century-secondary

XR Extreme Reach: in 2024, only 9% of TV ads had closed captions and 1% had audio descriptions, despite over half of adults watching content with captions on (TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/06/xr-report-accessibility-advertising/

XR: Most TV ads lack accessibility features like captions
The shortcoming means viewers with disabilities aren't engaging with brand messaging on TV.

NASA: May 2025 was the 2nd warmest May on record, globally: 1.07°C above the 1951-1980 average. Only May 2024 was warmer.
Highest anomalies in the Siberian Arctic, Central Asia, and the West-Antarctic.
#globalwarming #ClimateChange

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
Bombay Bicycle Club:
🎵 Always Like This (Glastonbury 2024)
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X-ray polarization observations of NGC 2110 with IXPE
X-ray polarimetric observations from the Imaging X-ray Polarimeter Explorer (IXPE) is an excellent tool for probing the geometry and dynamics of X-ray emitting corona in active galactic nuclei (AGN). This work aims to investigate the geometry of the X-ray corona in the Seyfert 2 AGN, NGC 2110, using its first polarimetric observation with IXPE, conducted over a net exposure of 554 ks beginning on October 16, 2024. We performed a model-independent analysis of the 2-8 keV IXPE polarimetric observ…

Alphabet Index Mapping: Jailbreaking LLMs through Semantic Dissimilarity
Bilal Saleh Husain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12685 https://…

Alphabet Index Mapping: Jailbreaking LLMs through Semantic Dissimilarity
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, yet their susceptibility to adversarial attacks, particularly jailbreaking, poses significant safety and ethical concerns. While numerous jailbreak methods exist, many suffer from computational expense, high token usage, or complex decoding schemes. Liu et al. (2024) introduced FlipAttack, a black-box method that achieves high attack success rates (ASR) through simple prompt manipulation. This paper investigates the underly…

Stochastic heat flow is a black noise
Yu Gu, Li-Cheng Tsai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16484 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.16484

Stochastic heat flow is a black noise
We prove that the stochastic heat flow Caravenna Sun Zygouras (2023), Tsai (2024) is a black noise in the sense of Tsirelson (2004). As a corollary, the 2d stochastic heat equation driven by a mollified spacetime white noise becomes asymptotically independent of that noise in the scaling limit.

New tests of cosmic distance duality relation with DESI 2024 BAO observations
Qiumin Wang, Shuo Cao, Jianyong Jiang, Kaituo Zhang, Xinyue Jiang, Tonghua Liu, Chengsheng Mu, Dadian Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12759

New tests of cosmic distance duality relation with DESI 2024 BAO observations
In this paper, we test the cosmic distance duality relation (CDDR), as required by the Etherington reciprocity theorem, which connects the angular diameter distance and the luminosity distance via the relation \( D_{\rm L}(z) = D_{\rm A}(z)(1+z)^2 \). Our analysis is based on the latest baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements provided by the Dark Energy Survey (DES), the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS)/Extended BOSS (eBOSS), and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DE…

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Healing Melodies
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NuPECC Long Range Plan 2024 for European Nuclear Physics
The Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee ( NuPECC, http://nupecc.org/ ) hosted by the European Science Foundation represents today a large nuclear physics community from 23 countries, 3 ESFRI (European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures) nuclear physics infrastructures and ECT* (European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas), as well as from 4 associated members and 10 observers. As stated in the NuPECC Terms of Reference one of the major ob…

Statista expects the global influencer marketing industry to grow 36% between 2024 and 2025, reaching $33B, as brands tighten overall ad budgets (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-14/influen…

Richard Sherman charged with DUI stemming from 2024 arrest https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6434019/2025/06/18/richard-sherman-dui-charge-2024-arrest-seahawks/

Inverted Classroom in der Einf\"uhrungsveranstaltung Programmierung
Ulrich von Zadow, Natalie Kiesler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10057 https://…

Inverted Classroom in der Einführungsveranstaltung Programmierung
Traditionally, the introductory programming course for computer science students at Nuremberg Tech had been implemented as a combination of lectures and exercise sessions. Due to high failure rates in the winter semester 2023/24, an experimental teaching concept based on the inverted classroom was implemented for one cohort in the winter semester 2024/25. Students had to prepare themselves through literature work and activating teaching and learning methods. The course was accompanied by a seri…

The unusual spectrum of the X-ray transient source XRISM J174610.8-290021 near the Galactic center
A. Yoshimoto, S. Yamauchi, M. Nobukawa, H. Uchiyama, K. K. Nobukawa, Y. Aoki, M. Ishida, Y. Kanemaru, M. Shidatsu, T. Hayashi, Y. Maeda, H. Matsumoto, Y. Tsuboi, H. Suzuki, H. Nakajima, Q. D. Wang, S. Eguchi, T. Yoneyama, T. Dotani, E. Behar, Y. Terada, N. Suzuki, M. Yoshimoto

The unusual spectrum of the X-ray transient source XRISM J174610.8-290021 near the Galactic center
The Galactic center region was observed with the XRISM X-ray observatory during the performance verification phase in 2024 and a point-like X-ray source was detected with the X-ray imager Xtend at a position of (RA, Dec)=(17h46m10.8s, -29°00'21''), which is thus named XRISM J174610.8-290021. This source was bright in February to March and showed time variations in count rate by more than one order of magnitude in one week. The 2-10 keV X-ray luminosity was ~$10^{35}$ erg/s for the assumed dist…

TollBit: from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, traffic from AI retrieval bots to 266 websites, including national and local news organizations, grew 49%, as AI usage jumps (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

‘This is coming for everyone’: A new kind of AI bot takes over the web
As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI chatbots.

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

TOC Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies (HIJBS) 7.1, 7.2 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20069347/toc-hualin-international-journal-buddhist-studies-hijbs-71-72

XRISM Spectroscopy of the Stellar-Mass Black Hole 4U 1630-472 in Outburst
Jon M. Miller (Univ. of Michigan), Misaki Mizumoto (Univ. of Teacher Education Fukuoka), Megumi Shidatsu (Ehime University), Ralf Ballhausen (Univ. of Maryland, College Park, NASA/GSFC, CRESST), Ehud Behar (Technion), Maria Diaz Trigo (ESO), Chris Done (Univ. of Durham), Tadayasu Dotani (ISAS), Javier Garcia (Caltech), Timothy Kallman (NASA/GSFC), Shogo B. Kobayashi (Tokyo Univ. of Science), Aya Kubota (Shibaura …

XRISM Spectroscopy of the Stellar-Mass Black Hole 4U 1630-472 in Outburst
We report on XRISM/Resolve spectroscopy of the recurrent transient and well-known black hole candidate 4U 1630$-$472 during its 2024 outburst. The source was captured at the end of a disk-dominated high/soft state, at an Eddington fraction of $λ_\mathrm{Edd} \sim 0.05~(10 M_{\odot}/M_\mathrm{BH})$. A variable absorption spectrum with unprecedented complexity is revealed with the Resolve calorimeter. This marks one of the lowest Eddington fractions at which highly ionized absorption has been de…

Der Winter 2024/25 brachte in den #Alpen teils Rekord-#Trockenheit und extremen #Schneemangel.
An der #Zugspitze

Alpen-Bilanz 2024/25: Rekord-Trockenheit und Schneemangel
Rekord-Trockenheit in den Alpen: Im Winter 2024/25 fiel mancherorts so wenig Schnee wie seit über 90 Jahren nicht mehr. Auch an der Zugspitze wurden Negativrekorde gemessen.

TAGB: Ritualisierte Praktiken: Formeln ­– Zeichen – Rezeptarien, Basel (07.11. – 08.11.2024)
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