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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 ...

Your regular reminder that marginal income & capital gains tax rates are too low
-- and this poses an existential threat to 🇺🇸 democracy
https://bsky.app/profile/robertscotthorton.bsky.social/post/3lzu3j77n622p

Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social)
Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.' https://fortune.com/2024/09/17/oracle-larry-ellison-surveillance-state-police-ai/

Field hockey at the new Martha Dodson Field out past the East Hill Plaza -- Cornell Beat Vermont 3-1 in front of the largest crowd I've ever seen at a field hockey game. In the center are № 8 Ashley Plzak of the Big Red and № 15 Sophia Lefranc of the Catamounts, who won the US East Conference in 2024
#photo

Most Cambodia & Laos tree cover loss in 2024 happened inside protected areas https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/10/most-cambodia-laos-tree-cover-loss-in-2024-happened-inside-protected-areas/
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Most Cambodia & Laos tree cover loss in 2024 happened inside protected areas
More than half of Cambodia and Laos’ tree cover loss in 2024 was recorded inside protected areas, Mongabay’s Gerald Flynn reports. The findings were a result of Mongabay’s analysis of satellite data published by the Global Land Analysis and Discovery laboratory at the University of Maryland, in partnership with Global Forest Watch. In Cambodia, 56% of the nation’s […]

NFL picks, predictions against the spread Week 5: Chiefs cool Jaguars, Cowboys best Jets https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/nfl-picks-predictions-against-spread-week-5/265e0b16595e236ca1885170

Terrorism & Democracy in Burkina-Faso
P Carmel Marie Zagre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23046 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.23046

Terrorism & Democracy in Burkina-Faso
This article examines the political consequences of terrorism in Burkina Faso. Using a dataset combining geolocated terrorist events from ACLED (from 2015 to 2024) with public opinion data from Afrobarometer, I compare the effect of successful terrorist attacks on public support for democracy and authoritarian alternatives. The results reveal that successful terrorist attacks significantly increase support for military regimes, one man regimes, and one party systems, while decreasing support fo…

"Global use of coal hit record high in 2024"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

Bien que depuis des années mes enfants n'exigent plus une berceuse avant de se coucher, j'identifie tellement avec cette chanson. Elle reste hypnotique, même après que le saxo se met Š hurler.
Myriam Gendron, « Berceuse » (2024)
https://myriamgendron.bandcamp.com/track/berceu…

Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen:
https://weact.campact.de/petitions/afd

AfD-Boykott zu den Landtagswahlen 2026 in BW und Rheinland-Pfalz Keine Wahlpodien mit der AfD
In Belgien weigerten sich im Europawahlkampf 2024 die etablierten politischen Parteien im Rahmen des „Cordon sanitaire“, einer echten Brandmauer, mit der extremen Rechten zusammenzuarbeiten. Festzuhalten ist ein geringer Wahlerfolg der rechten Parteien in Belgien (vgl. (3) und (4)). Die Autoren der europäischen Cambridge-Studie von 2022 finden keine Hinweise dafür, dass Anpassungsstrategien die Unterstützung der radikalen Rechten verringern. Wenn überhaupt, deuten die Ergebnisse darauf …

Everytime I stumble upon this, I'm made joyus by Jim's writing! ^^
The Humble Link - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/the-humble-link/

“More music is being released today (in a single day) than was released in the calendar year of 1989,” Page explained.
“More of that music is being done by artists themselves, meaning there’s even more demand for music production software.”
It’s true,
the rise in musicians goes hand-in-hand with the rise of music-making software and music-distributing platforms.
Now that making high-quality recordings is possible from the palm of your hand
— and sharing them i…

In 2024, More Music Is Released in a Day Than in All of 1989 Combined
As more music is being made than ever before, the music industry economy is rapidly changing. In 2024, More Music Is Released in a Day Than in All of 1989...

Putin admits Russian air defense opened fire at Azerbaijani airliner in 2024: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/09/putin-admits-russian-air-defense.html

Defector reports Year 5 revenue up 1% YoY to $4.65M, including $3.8M from subscriptions; all 19 original co-founders continue to work at the worker-owned outlet (Defector)
https://defector.com/defector-annual-report-year-five

Defector Annual Report, September 2024 – August 2025 | Defector
Published on November 19, 2025 Purpose of this report Defector celebrated our fifth birthday in September 2025. It is a great honor, and something of a burden, to be publishing a fifth Annual Report. The year-to-year story of our business is one of general stability—an incredible luxury in digital media—with incremental and hard-won improvements. But…

@… 2025 war eher so mittel. Ich konnte viel weniger für D3 machen, als ich wollte, weil die Gesundheit nicht passt. Einige Projekte aus 2024, die veröffentlichbar wären, sind es deshalb immer noch nicht und #DnD '24 schafft es nicht über den Event Begeiste…

"An SNP victory in May’s Holyrood contest would hardly be an earthquake, after 18 continuous years of nationalist government. It would, though, signal a remarkable comeback from a period of eclipse, and from an often dismal record on public services. For Labour, which did so well in Scotland in the 2024 general election, it would signal a crisis moment, imperilling Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership"
#UKPol

Over Wiersma (gratis te lezen),
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/12/05/schrappen-vertragen-blokkeren-h…

Schrappen, vertragen, blokkeren; hoe een onervaren minister krimp van de veestapel tegenhield
Anderhalf jaar stilstand: Eindelijk zou er schot komen in het vastgeroeste stikstofdossier, toen BBB in 2024 de landbouwminister mocht leveren. Maar er kwam niks van terecht. Hoe Femke Wiersma de belangen van de intensieve veehouderij beschermde ten koste van zowat elk ander maatschappelijk belang.

Beschäftigtenanteil von Flüchtlingen aus der Ukraine gestiegen
Der Beschäftigtenanteil von Flüchtlingen aus der Ukraine hat sich in Deutschland einer Erhebung zufolge binnen zwei Jahren verdreifacht. Ende 2024 waren rund 0,6 Prozent aller Beschäftigten in der Bundesrepublik ukrainische Geflüchtete, wie das Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) in Nürnberg unter Berufung auf eine eigene Studie mitteilte. 2022 ha…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ NATO und EU arbeiten an "Drohnenschutzwall" ++
Laut NATO-Generalsekretär Rutte arbeitet das Verteidigungsbündnis gemeinsam mit der EU an einem Abwehrwall gegen Drohnen. Die Zahl junge Ukrainer, die als Schutzsuchende nach Deutschland kommen, ist im Sommer gestiegen.

from my link log —
Stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header.
https://neilzone.co.uk/2024/07/attempting-to-stop-microsoft-users-sending-reactions-to-email-from-me…

Attempting to stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email from me by adding a postfix header
Over the past few months, I’ve noticed that an increasing number of replies to email that I’ve sent are “reactions”.

Laptop meiner Frau Ende 2024 mit einer neuen Windowsinstallation versehen. Der Fehler in der Updateverwaltung dieser Version zieht sich immer noch durch bis heute.
Jetzt bekommt der LP eine spezielle von MS angebotene Reparaturinstallation.
Ey #Microsoft - WTHFUGG läuft da verkehrt?

Obras que entraram em domínio público, segundo a Biblioteca Nacional da França:
2025:
https://gallica.bnf.fr/accueil/fr/html/ces-oeuvres-qui-entrent-dans-le-domaine-public-en-2025
2024:

Is Enerkem's Waste Gasification technology a Failure or a promising Climate Solution?🗑️💨♨️🏭
Gasification of waste and biomass🪵 could be an enormously helpful tool to make valuable circular or renewable chemicals. Yet, the list of failed gasification projects is long.
Enerkem looked like it had finally unlocked successful waste gasification, with the world's only waste-to-Methanol/Ethanol plant operating in Edmonton, Canada🇨🇦, since 2014. But in early 2024, it was shut down.…

Is Enerkem's Waste Gasification technology a Failure or a promising Climate Solution?
Repsol wants to build a waste gasification plant to make circular and biogenic Methanol in Spain. The Ecoplanta project will use a technology that previously failed to deliver on its promises in Canada.

»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…

Tötete zwei Obdachlose - Killer (19): „Sperrt mich weg, bis ich gesund bin“ #News #Nachrichten …

Never been as scared watching a movie as I was in the final 10min of "Arthur the King".
Dog lovers, this was a great dog movie... but terrifying.
▶️ Arthur the King (2024) Official Trailer - Mark Wahlberg, Simu Liu, Julie Rylance, Nathalie Emmanuel
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wjDJNEPg…

Foto-Story vom Robert-Schuman-Platz Brüssel von Hanna Penzer.
#brussels

Umbau an der Schaltzentrale Europas - Europa Blog
Der Schuman-Platz bildet das Herz des Brüsseler EU-Viertels. In dieser Foto-Story dokumentieren wir den 2024 begonnenen Umbau des Platzes.

#np

Invincible Shield (Deluxe Edition)
Judas Priest · Album · 2024 · 14 songs

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time
> The world generated almost a third more solar power in the first half of the year compared with the same period in 2024, meeting 83% of the global increase in electricity demand. Wind power grew by just over 7%, allowing renewables to displace fossil fuels for the first time.
> China and India were largely responsible for the surge in renewables, according to the Ember report, in contrast with the US and Eur…

GPT-5.2 models match GPT-5 and 5.1 with a 400K context window and 128K max output tokens, but have a newer knowledge cutoff of Aug. 31, 2025 vs. Sept. 30, 2024 (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Newsletter)
https://simonw.substack.com/p/gpt-52-and-useful-patterns-for-…

GPT 5.2 and useful patterns for building HTML tools
Plus a YouTube video, a podcast appearance and more

US Press Freedom Tracker: 32 journalists arrested or charged in 2025, vs. 50 in 2024, and 170 assaulted, nearly as many as the previous three years combined (Jem Bartholomew/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/reporting-with-one-hand-tied.php<…

Reporting with one hand tied.
A new report documents a hostile environment for US journalists this year, with 32 arrests and 170 assaults.

#Artikelupdate
Es gibt teilweise die Ansicht, Erneuerbare Energien wären eine teure Form der #Stromerzeugung. Das kann durch Zahlen geprüft werden.
Im Artikel ergänzt wurde ein Verweis auf das Ergebnis einer Untersuchung des Beratungsunternehmens Enervis im Auftrag des Bunde…

Energiewende-Mythos: „Erneuerbare Energien sind die teuersten“
2024 stammt der meiste Strom in Deutschland aus erneuerbaren Energien – und sie sind günstiger als Kohle oder Gas. Fakten statt Mythen.

A Computer-Assisted Proof of the Optimal Density Bound for Pinwheel Covering
Akitoshi Kawamura, Yusuke Kobayashi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06533 https://a…

A Computer-Assisted Proof of the Optimal Density Bound for Pinwheel Covering
In the covering version of the pinwheel scheduling problem, a daily task must be assigned to agents under the constraint that agent $i$ can perform the task at most once in any $a_i$-day interval. In this paper, we determine the optimal constant $α^* = 1.264\ldots {}$ such that every instance with $\sum_{i} \frac{1}{a_i} \ge α^*$ is schedulable. This resolves an open problem posed by Soejima and Kawamura (2020). Our proof combines Kawamura's (2024) techniques for the packing version with new …

Evolution of wartime discourse on Telegram: A comparative study of Ukrainian and Russian policymakers' communication before and after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine
Mykola Makhortykh, Aytalina Kulichkina, Kateryna Maikovska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11746

Evolution of wartime discourse on Telegram: A comparative study of Ukrainian and Russian policymakers' communication before and after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine
This study examines elite-driven political communication on Telegram during the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war, the first large-scale European war in the social media era. Using a unique dataset of Telegram public posts from Ukrainian and Russian policymakers (2019-2024), we analyze changes in communication volume, thematic content, and actor engagement following Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion. Our findings show a sharp increase in Telegram activity after the invasion, particularly among ruling…

Broncos sign RB Sincere McCormick, WR Kyrese Rowan to practice squad https://www.denverbroncos.com/news/broncos-sign-rb-sincere-mccormick-wr-kyrese-rowan-to-practice-squad

Hausdorff dimension of the Wedding cake type surfaces
Bal\'azs B\'ar\'any, Manuj Verma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04613 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Hausdorff dimension of the Wedding cake type surfaces
In this paper, we study the Hausdorff dimension of fractal interpolation surfaces (FISs) over a triangular domain. These FISs are known as `wedding cake surfaces'. These surfaces are the attractor of some deterministic self-affine iterated function systems (IFS) on $\mathbb{R}^3$ generated by a fractal interpolation algorithm. Due to the recent seminal result of Rapaport (Adv. Math. 449 (2024) 109734), the dimension theory of self-affine IFS on $\mathbb{R}^3$ is known whenever the IFS is strong…

Cutting along a symmetric quadrilateral to construct an embedded flexible dodecahedron
Elvar Atlason
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06897 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Cutting along a symmetric quadrilateral to construct an embedded flexible dodecahedron
Until recently, the simplest known flexible polyhedron was Steffen's polyhedron on nine vertices. However, in 2024, an embedded flexible polyhedron on eight vertices was announced. It attains the known lower bound for the number of vertices, showing that the simplest embedded flexible polyhedron has eight vertices. We introduce a method for making new flexible polyhedral surfaces from old ones. This general method applies to the above minimal example, giving another proof of its flexibility. We…

"France adds 4.2 GW of solar in first nine months of 2025"
#France #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

France adds 4.2 GW of solar in first nine months of 2025
Statistics from Enedis show that 4.2 GW of solar connected to France’s grid in the January-September period, including 82 MW paired with storage, marking a slight decline from 2024.

The Very Faint X-ray Transient 4XMM J174610.7-290020 at the Galactic center
Giovanni Stel, Gabriele Ponti, Nathalie Degenaar, Lara Sidoli, Sandro Mereghetti, Kaya Mori, Tong Bao, Giulia Illiano, Samaresh Mondal, Mark Reynolds, Chichuan Jin, Tianying Lian, Shifra Mandel, Simone Scaringi, Shuo Zhang, Grace Sanger-Johnson, Rudy Wijnands, Jon M. Miller, Jamie Kennea, Zhenlin Zhu

The Very Faint X-ray Transient 4XMM J174610.7-290020 at the Galactic center
Very Faint X-ray Transients (VFXTs) are a class of X-ray binary systems that exhibit occasional outbursts with peak X-ray luminosities (L_X< 1e36 erg s^-1) much lower than typical X-ray transients. On 22nd February 2024, during its daily Galactic center monitoring, Swift-XRT detected a VFXT, 7 arcmin from Sgr A* dubbing it Swift J174610--290018. We aim to characterize the outburst that occurred in 2024, and a second, distinct outburst in 2025, to understand the nature and accretion flow propert…

A study found that by late 2024, around 24% of English-language corporate press releases and 14% of UN press releases involved LLM-assisted writing (AJ Dellinger/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/ai-finds-its-niche-writing-corporate-press-releases-2000666360

AI Finds its Niche: Writing Corporate Press Releases
Hopefully it got the numbers right.

Auto-ARGUE: LLM-Based Report Generation Evaluation
William Walden, Marc Mason, Orion Weller, Laura Dietz, Hannah Recknor, Bryan Li, Gabrielle Kaili-May Liu, Yu Hou, James Mayfield, Eugene Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26184

Auto-ARGUE: LLM-Based Report Generation Evaluation
Generation of long-form, citation-backed reports is a primary use case for retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems. While open-source evaluation tools exist for various RAG tasks, ones tailored to report generation are lacking. Accordingly, we introduce Auto-ARGUE, a robust LLM-based implementation of the recent ARGUE framework for report generation evaluation. We present analysis of Auto-ARGUE on the report generation pilot task from the TREC 2024 NeuCLIR track, showing good system-level …

CL-UZH submission to the NIST SRE 2024 Speaker Recognition Evaluation
Aref Farhadipour, Shiran Liu, Masoumeh Chapariniya, Valeriia Perepelytsia, Srikanth Madikeri, Teodora Vukovic, Volker Dellwo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00952

CL-UZH submission to the NIST SRE 2024 Speaker Recognition Evaluation
The CL-UZH team submitted one system each for the fixed and open conditions of the NIST SRE 2024 challenge. For the closed-set condition, results for the audio-only trials were achieved using the X-vector system developed with Kaldi. For the audio-visual results we used only models developed for the visual modality. Two sets of results were submitted for the open-set and closed-set conditions, one based on a pretrained model using the VoxBlink2 and VoxCeleb2 datasets. An Xvector-based model was…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmyLamé
Adrianne Lenker:
🎵 Free Treasure (6 Music Session, 1st of May 2024)
#AdrianneLenker
https://adriannelenker.bandcamp.com/track/free-treasure
https://open.spotify.com/track/3zGhR60NOVSgtzNEQNcHav

Mordprozess in Tirol - Geständnis: „Bin schuld, dass meine Mama tot ist“ #News #Nachrichten

Raiders Urged to Move on From Disgruntled Star as Nightmare Season Continues https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/raiders-urged-to-move-on-from-disgruntled-star/?adt_ei=[email]

#RWE hat im Kreis #Düren den Windpark #Aldenhoven auf rekultivierter #Tagebaufläche in Betr…

RWE nimmt Windpark auf ehemaliger Tagebaufläche in Betrieb
Windenergie fürs Revier: RWE hat ihren Windpark Aldenhoven im Kreis Düren mit einer installierten Gesamtleistung von 34,2 Megawatt (MW) in Betrieb genommen. Auf rekultivierter Fläche des Tagebaus Inden hat das Unternehmen seit Frühjahr 2024 sechs Windenergie-anlagen der 5,7-MW-Klasse errichtet.

"Denmark’s second largest PV plant goes online"
#Denmark #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
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Denmark’s second largest PV plant goes online
Swedish independent power producer Alight has completed a 215 MW solar project in Lolland, southern Denmark. The construction of Lidsø solar park started in the summer of 2024.