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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

Conclusion: Bigfoot hangs out with black bears.
✅ Study finds bigfoot sightings correlate with black bear populations - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/study-finds-bigfoot-sightings-correlate-with-black-be…

Study finds bigfoot sightings correlate with black bear populations
The big conclusion: “If bigfoot is there, it could be a bear.”…

Sources: in May 2024, Business Insider sent some staff a recommended reading list that included seemingly AI-generated books that did not appear to exist (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/01/2025

Business Insider recommended nonexistent books to staff as it leans into AI
Some titles on the list included books with extremely garbled titles and fake authors.

Plonger dans le dossier de presse sur les affaires OKC qui s'étend de 1997- Š 2025 !
Comment nos sociétés traitent la question des dérives sectaires et la place des enfants mineurs dans ce genre de dérive ?
#PressKit #ChardonsBleus

Spotify: 17.000 Künstler aus der EU verdienen mehr als 10.000 Euro
2024 strichen europäische Künstler auf Spotify 1,7 Milliarden Euro an Tantiemen ein. Für die meisten bleibt es aber schwierig, von den Ausschüttungen zu leben.

☀️ Deutschlands Strom wird grüner: 2024 kamen fast 63 % des erzeugten Stroms aus Erneuerbaren Energien.
#Windkraft lieferte im Winter besonders viel, #Solarenergie brillierte im Sommer. Beim #Windkraft

Energiewende: So viel Strom kam gestern aus erneuerbaren Energien
Bis 2030 sollen insgesamt 80 Prozent des produzierten Stroms in Deutschland aus erneuerbaren Energien kommen. Daten zeigen, wie der Strommix aktuell aussieht und welche Rolle der importierte Strom spielt.

Dallas Cowboys 2024 starter named 'expendable' trade candidate https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-2024-starter-expendable-trade-candidate-jalen-tolbert

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Superfunk feat. Ron Carroll:
🎵 Lucky Star
#NowPlaying #Superfunk #RonCarroll
https://akalex.bandcamp.com/track/superfunk-ron-carroll-akalex-lucky-star-2024
https://open.spotify.com/track/18nfehYgwp7UvlshiRP5jD

'He's having a terrific offseason': Cowboys counting on second-year jump from LT Tyler Guyton https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45433728/nfl-dallas-cowboys-tyler-guyton-tyler-booker-dak-prescott

The EU Commission fines European takeaway groups Delivery Hero and Glovo €329M for taking part in an "online food delivery cartel", closing a July 2024 probe (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b0f37773-e68b-4c31-a7d5-b6ce8b9542d8…

EU fines Delivery Hero and Glovo €329mn for takeaway ‘cartel’
European Commission says European food delivery groups shared trade secrets

Standing Tall: Robust Fall Prediction for Bipedal Robots
Gokul Prabhakaran, Jessy W. Grizzle, M. Eva Mungai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01141 https://

Standing Tall: Robust Fall Prediction for Bipedal Robots
This paper extends the fall prediction algorithm from Mungai et al.(2024) to a real-time/online setting, implemented in both hardware and simulation. This yields results comparable to the offline version, maintaining a zero false positive rate, sufficient lead time, and accurate lead time prediction. Additionally, it achieves a high recovery rate. The paper also evaluates the fall prediction algorithm against omnidirectional faults and introduces an improved algorithm capable of reliably predic…

All-sky search for individual Primordial Black Hole bursts with LHAASO
Cao, Aharonian, Bai, Bao, Bastieri, Bi, Bi, Bian, Bukevich, Cai, Cao, Cao, Chang, Chang, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Cheng, Cheng, Chu, Cui, Cui, Cui, Cui, Dai, Dai, Dai, , Diao, Dong, Duan, Fan, Fan, Fang, Fang, Fang, Feng, Feng, Feng, Feng, Feng, Feng, Feng, Gabici, Gao, Gao, Gao, Gao, Gao, Ge, Ge, Geng, Giacinti, Gong, Gou, Gu, Guo, Guo, Guo, Guo…

All-sky search for individual Primordial Black Hole bursts with LHAASO
Primordial Black Holes~(PBHs) are hypothetical black holes with a wide range of masses that formed in the early universe. As a result, they may play an important cosmological role and provide a unique probe of the early universe. A PBH with an initial mass of approximately $10^{15}$~g is expected to explode today in a final burst of Hawking radiation. In this work, we conduct an all-sky search for individual PBH burst events using the data collected from March 2021 to July 2024 by the Water Che…

Direct-to-Cell: A First Look into Starlink's Direct Satellite-to-Device Radio Access Network through Crowdsourced Measurements
Jorge Garcia-Cabeza, Javier Albert-Smet, Zoraida Frias, Luis Mendo, Santiago Andr\'es Azcoitia, Eduardo Yraola
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00283

Direct-to-Cell: A First Look into Starlink's Direct Satellite-to-Device Radio Access Network through Crowdsourced Measurements
Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite mega-constellations have recently emerged as a viable access solution for broadband services in underserved areas. In 2024, Direct Satellite-to-Device (DS2D) communications, which enable unmodified smartphones to connect directly to spaceborne base stations, entered large-scale beta testing, with Starlink globally leading deployments. This paper presents the first measurement study of commercial DS2D services. Using crowdsourced mobile network data collected in t…

Pro-Ukraine hacker group Black Owl poses ‘major threat’ to Russia, Kaspersky says https://therecord.media/pro-ukraine-hacker-group-black-owl-major-threat-russia

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 113 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29887 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

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.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06483 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Sunrise III: Overview of Observatory and Instruments
In July 2024, Sunrise completed its third successful science flight. The Sunrise III observatory had been upgraded significantly after the two previous successful flights in 2009 and 2013. Three completely new instruments focus on the small-scale physical processes and their complex interaction from the deepest observable layers in the photosphere up to chromospheric heights. Previously poorly explored spectral regions and lines are exploited to paint a three-dimensional picture of the solar at…

Inferring Obscured Cosmic Black Hole Accretion History from AGN Found by JWST/MIRI CEERS Survey
C. -A. Hsieh (Department of Physics, National Taiwan University), T. Goto (Institute of Astronomy, National Tsing Hua University, Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University), C. -T. Ling (Institute of Astronomy, National Tsing Hua University), S. J. Kim (Institute of Astronomy, National Tsing Hua University), T. Hashimoto (Department of Physics, National Chung Hsing University), T.…

Inferring Obscured Cosmic Black Hole Accretion History from AGN Found by JWST/MIRI CEERS Survey
This study presents the black hole accretion history (BHAH) of obscured active galactic nuclei (AGNs) identified from the JWST CEERS survey by Chien et al. (2024) using mid-infrared (MIR) SED fitting. We compute black hole accretion rates (BHARs) to estimate the black hole accretion density (BHAD), $ρ_{L_{\mathrm{disk}}}$, across $0 < z < 4.25$. MIR luminosity functions (LFs) are also constructed for these sources, modeled with modified Schechter and double power law forms, and corresponding B…

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…

Ravens RB Keaton Mitchell: I feel like I'm better than before 2023 knee injury https://www.nfl.com/news/ravens-rb-keaton-mitchell-i-feel-like-i-m-better-than-before-2023-knee-injury

The best-case scenario for the Cowboys quarterback room in 2025 https://insidethestar.com/the-best-case-scenario-for-the-cowboys-quarterback-room-in-2025

Quality Assessment of Noisy and Enhanced Speech with Limited Data: UWB-NTIS System for VoiceMOS 2024 and Beyond
Marie Kune\v{s}ov\'a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00506

Quality Assessment of Noisy and Enhanced Speech with Limited Data: UWB-NTIS System for VoiceMOS 2024 and Beyond
In this preprint, we present the UWB-NTIS-TTS team's submission to Track 3 of the VoiceMOS 2024 Challenge, the goal of which was to automatically assess the speech quality of noisy and de-noised speech in terms of the ITU-T P.835 metrics of "SIG", "BAK", and "OVRL". Our proposed system, based on wav2vec 2.0, placed among the top systems in the challenge, achieving the best prediction of the BAK scores (background noise intrusiveness), the second-best prediction of the OVRL score (overall audio …

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

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…

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...

Pablo Reche – Programa(cion)
#byncsa

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

Okay, das ist skurril:
Zu Clint Eastwoods 95. Geburtstag veröffentlicht der Kurier am 30.5. ein Interview, das Korrespondentin Elisabeth Sereda mit ihm geführt hat.
Ein Zitat wird rasch von internationalen Medien aufgegriffen und geht viral:
"Wir leben in einer Ära der Remakes und Franchises. Ich habe dreimal Fortsetzungen gedreht, aber das interessiert mich schon lange nicht mehr. Meine Philosophie ist, mach etwas Neues oder bleib zu Hause".
Am 2.6. nun druckt Deadline ein Statement von Eastwood ab: er habe seit Wochen niemandem ein Interview gegeben, und sicher nicht dem Kurier. Das Interview sei gefälscht.
Der Kurier prüft nun den Sachverhalt, was "angesichts der Zeitverschiebung in die USA etwas dauern wird". (Lol)
Auch interessant: im Interview ist davon die Rede, dass Eastwoods Film "Juror #2" "Ende des Jahres" in die Kinos komme. Bloß war das Ende 2024 der Fall. Ist das Interview eventuell schon ein Jahr alt?
#Eastwood #ClintEastwood #Kurier #Medien #Medienkritik #Medienjournalismus #entertainmentnews #Österreich #Hollywood