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An Apple-funded study says the global App Store drove $1.3T in developer billings and sales in 2024, with developers paying no commission on 90% of sales (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/appl

Apple says its App Store helped generate $1.3T in billings and sales, most without a commission | TechCrunch
Apple said developers generated $1.3 trillion in sales in 2024 through its App Store, of which 90% did not involve paying the company a commission.

Musk says Trump would have lost the 2024 election without his help (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/05/trump-presidency-news/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p111#a250605p111

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

from my link log —
Booleans are a trap.
https://katafrakt.me/2024/11/09/booleans-are-a-trap/
saved 2025-06-30 https://

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…

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

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/

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-…

Technical report on a quantum-inspired solver for simulating compressible flows
Raghavendra Dheeraj Peddinti, Stefano Pisoni, Egor Tiunov, Alessandro Marini, Leandro Aolita
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03833

Technical report on a quantum-inspired solver for simulating compressible flows
This document presents a quantum-inspired solver for 2D Euler equations, accepted at the final phase of the Airbus-BWM Group Quantum Computing Challenge (ABQCC) 2024. We tackle the case study of Quantum Solvers for Predictive Aeroacoustic and Aerodynamic modeling tasks. We propose a tensor network based solver that scales polylogarithmically with the mesh size, in both runtime and memory. This provides a promising avenue for tackling the curse of dimensionality that plagues the direct numerical…

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

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03447 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Asymptotic formula for the sum of a prime and a square-full number in intervals shorter than $X^{1/2}$
Let $R(N)$ be the number of representations of $N$ as a sum of a prime and a square-full number weighted with logarithmic function. In $2024$, the author and Y. Suzuki obtained an asymptotic formula for the sum of $R(N)$ over positive integers $N$ in a short interval ($X$, $X+H$] for $X^{\frac{1}{2}+\varepsilon} \le H < X^{1-\varepsilon}$. In this article, we improve the range of $H$, that is, we prove the same asymptotic formula for $X^{\frac{32-4\sqrt{15}}{49}+\varepsilon} \le H \le X^{1- \va…

Apple's July 2022 to June 2024 transparency report shows it gave governments data on thousands of push notifications, which can include unencrypted content (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/apple-gave-governments-data-on-tho…

Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications
Push notification data can sometimes include the unencrypted content of notifications. Requests include from the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Israel.

from my link log —
When should a Java JIT compiler expand garbage collection barriers?
https://robcasloz.github.io/blog/2024/02/14/when-should-a-compiler-expand-garbage-collection-barriers.html
saved…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03074 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_sta…

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…

Share of news influencers on Bluesky has doubled after the 2024 US election to 43%, but X remains popular, with 82% of news influencers maintaining an account (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20

Bluesky has caught on with many news influencers, but X remains popular
The share of news influencers in our sample with a Bluesky account roughly doubled in the four months after Election Day 2024, from 21% beforehand to 43% by March.

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]

REfugEEs From Beyond – Odd Spede Noisecore
#byncsa

No Words - #NoWords https://muz4now.com/2024/no-words-nowords/

No Words - #NoWords
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

CVE-2024-4367 (PDF.js) is gaining traction in some exploitation-focused Telegram channels...
https://vulnerability.circl.lu/cve/CVE-2024-4367
seen via @…

So, tracked down the issue with Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFS) 2024. The default permissions for the HOTAS `/dev/hidraw` devices is too restrictive. This is why neither MSFS 2024 or Elite: Dangerous saw the devices. I added new entries into the `udev` rules to relax the permissions and both games immediately saw the HOTAS.
```
KERNEL=="hidraw*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="231d", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0126", MODE="0666"
KERNEL=="hidraw*&q…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06343 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Should We Expect Further Acceleration of the Earth's Rotation in the Coming Years?
Recently, it has been suggested in the literature that the difference between universal and coordinated time UT1-UTC could reach a large positive value in the coming years (Agnew 2024). This would make it necessary to introduce a negative leap second into UTC for the first time in history, which in turn will cause serious problems in time keeping and synchronization systems around the world. Based on the latest Earth's rotation and universal time data published by the international Earth rotati…

Flowing Loops
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Flowing Loops | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Flowing Loops Host: Dan Koop Category: Arts Sub-Category: Crafts & Creativity, Local News & Stories, Places & Travel First Episode: 2024 Dan Koop and six artists have been walking and talking…

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

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

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

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

Share of news influencers on Bluesky has doubled after the 2024 US election to 43%, but X remains popular, with 82% of news influencers maintaining an account (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20

Bluesky has caught on with many news influencers, but X remains popular
The share of news influencers in our sample with a Bluesky account roughly doubled in the four months after Election Day 2024, from 21% beforehand to 43% by March.

Nouvelle publication: Montées & descentes dans les gares en 2024
👉Sur le portail statistique: https://reporting.sbb.ch/fr/transports?highlighted=3a58b28b54dfca1498a080fae…

Transports - SBB Zahlen & Fakten

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

from my link log —
“Twelfth Night Till Candlemas: the story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending.
https://davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twelfth-night-till-candlemas-the-story…

“Twelfth Night Till Candlemas” – the story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
The day before the Winter Solstice, 2024 This post is about finally finding a book from one’s youth forty years later – and after nearly thirty years of searching. It is also a tale about gob…

How will the 2024 Cowboys draft class perform in Year 2? https://insidethestar.com/how-will-the-2024-cowboys-draft-class-perform-in-year-2

Demand for LNG in Europe dropped by 18 per cent between 2022 and 2024, and Canadian exports would have a hard time competing in Asian markets, says advocacy group Investors for Paris Compliance. “Investing in infrastructure that will be very expensive and likely won’t be profitable will weaken our economy rather than strengthen it,” Renaud Gignac, an economist and senior adviser for the group, said in an interview.

New report casts doubt on potential revival of Quebec LNG project
Reviving a liquefied natural gas export project in Quebec's Saguenay region would be costly and likely unprofitable, a shareholder advocacy group says.

A systematic review of research on large language models for computer programming education
Meina Zhu, Lanyu Xu, Barbara Ericson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21818

A systematic review of research on large language models for computer programming education
Given the increasing demands in computer programming education and the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), LLMs play a critical role in programming education. This study provides a systematic review of selected empirical studies on LLMs in computer programming education, published from 2023 to March 2024. The data for this review were collected from Web of Science (SCI/SSCI), SCOPUS, and EBSCOhost databases, as well as three conference proceedings specialized in computer programm…

Counting Small Induced Subgraphs: Scorpions Are Easy but Not Trivial
Radu Curticapean, Simon D\"oring, Daniel Neuen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22300 h…

Counting Small Induced Subgraphs: Scorpions Are Easy but Not Trivial
We consider the parameterized problem $\#$IndSub$(Φ)$ for fixed graph properties $Φ$: Given a graph $G$ and an integer $k$, this problem asks to count the number of induced $k$-vertex subgraphs satisfying $Φ$. Dörfler et al. [Algorithmica 2022] and Roth et al. [SICOMP 2024] conjectured that $\#$IndSub$(Φ)$ is $\#$W[1]-hard for all non-meager properties $Φ$, i.e., properties that are nontrivial for infinitely many $k$. This conjecture has been confirmed for several restricted types of prop…

Symmetry oscillations sensitivity to SU(2)-symmetry breaking in quantum mixtures
S. Musolino, M. Albert, P. Vignolo, A. Minguzzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22266

Symmetry oscillations sensitivity to SU(2)-symmetry breaking in quantum mixtures
In one-dimensional bosonic quantum mixtures with SU(2)-symmetry breaking Hamiltonian, the dynamical evolution explores different particle exchange symmetry sectors. For the case of infinitely strong intra-species repulsion, the hallmark of such symmetry oscillations are time modulations of the momentum distribution [Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 183402 (2024)], an observable routinely accessed in experiments with ultracold atoms. In this work we show that this phenomenon is robust in strongly interacti…

How to Retrieve Examples in In-context Learning to Improve Conversational Emotion Recognition using Large Language Models?
Mengqi Wang, Tiantian Feng, Shrikanth Narayanan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20199

How to Retrieve Examples in In-context Learning to Improve Conversational Emotion Recognition using Large Language Models?
Large language models (LLMs) have enabled a wide variety of real-world applications in various domains. However, creating a high-performing application with high accuracy remains challenging, particularly for subjective tasks like emotion recognition. Inspired by the SLT 2024 GenSER Challenge, this study investigates approaches to improving conversational emotion recognition (CER) by LLMs. Specifically, we explore how to retrieve high-quality examples in in-context learning (ICL) to enhance CER…

from my link log —
The magic of software; or, what makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization.
https://moxie.org/2024/09/23/a-good-engineer.html
saved 2025-05-21

It may not come as a surprise that the fracking billionaire who helped launch The Daily Wire has also denied that the climate emergency is real. 
https://www.desmog.com/2024/09/09/inside-the-anti-climate-culture-war-led…

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

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

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

Docs and sources: Builder.ai faked business with Bengaluru-based VerSe, which runs the Dailyhunt news app, by "round-tripping" sales worth ~$60M from 2021-2024 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

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.

@… Remember we were talking about this a few days ago? "[The report] notes that 170 candidates received in total almost £2m more than they were legally allowed to spend locally during the [2024] election, raising questions about where the surplus funds went after the campaign. The donors who funded them are also tricky to identify, especially if the candid…

Sources: data labeling company Surge AI aims to raise up to $1B, targeting a valuation of $15B; Surge AI had $1B in 2024 revenue, vs. Scale AI's reported $870M (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/scale-ais

Publishing's class problem
The 2024 data shows a similar picture of middle-class origin dominance of publishing. Although there are year-on-year variations, since 2019 there has consistently been more than 60% proportions of middle-class origin people in publishing occupations. In the same period, working-class origin proportions have never been above 20%.
#FederatedMemory

from my link log —
Jujutsu (jj), a git compatible version control system.
https://tonyfinn.com/blog/jj/
saved 2024-10-20 https://dot…

Achieving Gender Representation in Lead-Author Publications in the ASTRO3D Centre of Excellence
Kim-Vy H. Tran, Stuart Wyithe, Michelle Ding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20676

Achieving Gender Representation in Lead-Author Publications in the ASTRO3D Centre of Excellence
We examine the publication rates of 400 research-focused members in the ASTRO3D Centre of Excellence by gender, project, and year from January 2018 to January 2024 (six years). Of the 443 refereed publications led by ASTRO3D members, women were first-author on 38% which is nearly double that of the astronomy field in the same period (~20%). We record a high-water mark in 2022: 46% of ASTRO3D publications were led by females and 45% of research members identified as female. Using the nine resear…

Contribution of expert aggregation to temperature prediction part I
L\'eo Pfitzner (GMAP), Olivier Wintenberger (SU), Olivier Mestre (GMAP), Marion Riverain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15217

Contribution of expert aggregation to temperature prediction part I
Many Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models and their associated Model Output Statistics (MOS) are available. Combining all of these predictions in an optimal way is however not straightforward. This can be achieved thanks to Expert Aggregation (EA) [Cesa-Bianchi and Lugosi, 2006, Gaillard et al., 2014, Wintenberger, 2024] which has many advantages, such as being online, being adaptive to model changes and having theoretical guarantees. Hence, in this paper, we propose a method for making de…

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

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

Electric fields and waves in the Venus nightside magnetosphere
Forrest Mozer, Oleksiy Agapitov, Stuart Bale, John Bonnell, Marc Pulupa, Tim Quinn, Andrii Voschchepynets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12618

Electric fields and waves in the Venus nightside magnetosphere
On November 6, 2024, the Parker Solar Probe flew past Venus to make the first accurate electric field measurement in the nightside Venusian magnetosphere. To achieve this result, the electric field antennas were current biased in a way never before experienced by an electric field detector. This biasing requirement, that the positive bias current in the Venus shadow be about equal to the electron thermal current, is discussed and illustrated. About one minute of useful electric f ield data in t…

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.

Доля расходов россиян на еду подскочила до рекорда с начала войны.
Стремительное ускорение инфляции после накачки экономики триллиоными расходами на войну ударило по карманам российских потребителей. Доля расходов граждан РФ на покупку продуктов питания в апреле 2025 года достигла максимума с начала войны в Украине, показало исследование холдинга «Ромир».
В среднем потребители тратили на еду 34,6% своих расходов против 33% в начале года и 28,6% в апреле-2024. Зафиксированный «Ромир…

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…

Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications
Cynthia Kop (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen), Helida Salles Santos (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05219

Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications
This volume contains the post-proceedings of the 19th LSFA, which was held in Goiânia, the capital of Goiás state in Brazil, from September 18 to September 20, 2024. Logical and semantic frameworks are formal languages used to represent logics, languages and systems. These frameworks provide foundations for the formal specification of systems and programming languages, supporting tool development and reasoning. The aim of this series is bringing together theoreticians and practitioners t…

Mailbag: How important is a good start to season? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-how-important-is-a-good-start-to-season

#Demenz #Dementia #Alzheimer
Der 52-jährige Journalist Jo Failer erhielt 2024 Jahr die Diagnose Frühdemenz
#Alzheimer

Mit nur 51 Jahren dement: "Alzheimer-Erkrankte sind nicht einfach dumm"
Die Zahl der Menschen mit Demenz nimmt weiter zu – und das nicht erst im hohen Alter. Ein neuer Wirkstoff soll hier helfen. t-online spricht mit einem Betroffenen.

Bumble plans to cut 30% of its workforce, or about 240 roles, and invest the ~$40M saved annually into new product and tech development; BMBL rises 20% (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/25/bumble-layoffs.html

Bumble jumps 26% as dating company plans to axe 30% of workforce
Founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, who stepped down as CEO at the beginning of 2024, returned to the role earlier this year.

And if you're wondering what happened to those three Fast Cats.
In January 2024 someone tried to get someone to buy them by putting them up on Facebook Marketplace (yep!) for $15 Million for all three. (98% off original price lol). They were, and likely still are, sitting tied up in Alexandria, Egypt. They were last owned by the Egyptian Government.
At least one of them was essentially unchanged inside since the 1990s. (a Nanaimo Bar for $1.5!)
#BCPoli #BCNDP #FastFerry #Shipbuilding

Statista: the global influencer marketing industry is projected 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/i…

Cowboys minicamp: Jake Ferguson, George Pickens shine on Day 2; ping pong duels intensify https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6419759/2025/06/12/cowboys-minicamp-george-pickens-jake-ferguson-parsons/

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.

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

Cowboys star among NFLPA's leaders in retail sales, 2 others in year-end top 50 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/11/cowboys-parsons-lamb-prescott-among-league…