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PitchBook: VCs have invested $5B in humanoid robotics startups since the beginning of 2024, as years of steady progress and GenAI triggers an investment frenzy (Washington Post)

Humanoid robots were a sci-fi dream. Suddenly they’re everywhere.
A frenzy of investment from Amazon, Meta and other companies has created a crowd of new humanoid robots.

Symphony of Creation: Understanding What It Takes To Compose #composer #composing #inspiration

Symphony of Creation: Understanding What It Takes To Compose
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

from my link log —
Evolution of the ELF object file format.
https://maskray.me/blog/2024-05-26-evolution-of-elf-object-file-format
saved 2025-09-03

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 06.09.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen

Trump said he threatened to bomb Moscow if Putin attacked Ukraine, 2024 fundraiser tapes show (Adam Cancryn/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/08/politics/trump-tape-putin-bomb-fundraiser
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p156#a250708p156

This aged like milk #Ubuntu!
https://mg.co.za/thought-leader/opinion/2024-05-17-ubuntu-is-for-all-people-including-the-lgbtq-communit…

Five principles to protect the human knowledge ecosystem 3/5

#ListeningClub It’s on Bandcamp if that’s your jam. https://liquidsounddesignuk.bandcamp.com/album/nature-never-di…

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).

Krishan Bhatia, Amazon's VP of global video advertising, is leaving; Bhatia joined Amazon in April 2024 after more than a decade as an ad sales leader at NBCU (Ad Age)
https://adage.com/media/tv-streaming/aa-amazon-ads-vp-krishan-bhatia-departs/

Amazon Ads VP Krishan Bhatia departs
The Prime Video and former NBCU ad leader announced his departure from Amazon Friday.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Trammps:
🎵 Disco Inferno
#NowPlaying #TheTrammps
https://funkyganesh.bandcamp.com/album/the-trammps-disco-inferno-funky-ganesh-retouch-2024
https://open.spotify.com/track/5jUA1njy3h6ynHLvPdEVHt

Dangerous City du Jour - Whims of the Mad Despot: Four red states are worse.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/06/trump-chicago-crime-red-states-violent

from my link log —
Nontransitive comparison functions lead to out-of-bounds read and write in glibc's qsort().
https://www.qualys.com/2024/01/30/qsort.txt
saved 2025-09-06

Digging My Way Out
#BeBetter #NowPlaying
https://

Digging My Way Out #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 06.09.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum

Five principles to protect the human knowledge ecosystem. 2/5

Sony reports Q1 revenue up 2.2% YoY to $17.8B, net profit up 23% YoY to ~$1.8B, PS5 sales at 2.5M, up from 2.4M in Q1 2024, and expects a lower FY tariff impact (Kosaku Narioka/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/bu…

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

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…

Cholesky decomposition for symmetric matrices over finite fields
Prateek Kumar Vishwakarma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04657 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.0465…

Cholesky decomposition for symmetric matrices over finite fields
Inspired by the seminal work of André-Louis Cholesky -- whose contributions remain crucial even after more than a century in broader sciences -- Cooper, Hanna and Whitlatch (2024) developed a theory of positive matrices over finite fields, and Khare and Vishwakarma (2025) described a general Cholesky factorization for a family of the dense cone of Hermitian matrices over real/complex fields, whose leading principal minors (LPM) are nonzero. Building on this, we develop a parallel theory within…

“Shell scraps construction of biofuels plant in Rotterdam"
#Shell #FossilFuels #Energy

Britain’s intelligence and military support to Israel since October 7, as well as the continued authorisation of components of F35 jets, “crosses the line into participation,” Mr Kennard added.
Forz Khan, the lawyer who represented the family of Jim Henderson, an aid worker with World Central Kitchen who was killed in April 2024, said it was ”highly likely that Sir Keir Starmer is guilty of genocide.”
'This is not complicity, this is participation' | Morning Star

Extremely diverse coronal jets accompanying an erupting filament captured by Solar Orbiter
Song Tan, Alexander Warmuth, Fr\'ed\'eric Schuller, Yuandeng Shen, Jake A. J. Mitchell, Fanpeng Shi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04741

Extremely diverse coronal jets accompanying an erupting filament captured by Solar Orbiter
Solar jets are collimated plasma ejections driven by magnetic reconnection, which play a critical role in the energy release and mass transport in the solar atmosphere. Using Solar Orbiter's Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) with its unprecedented spatiotemporal resolution, we report the discovery of nine transient coronal jets associated with a filament eruption on September 30, 2024. These jets, with a median lifetime of only 22 seconds, have significantly shorter timescales than previously ob…

Five principles to protect the human knowledge ecosystem. 2/5

🤔 Who is clearing Indonesia’s forests — and why?
#indonesia

Who is clearing Indonesia’s forests — and why?
JAKARTA — While most tropical countries experienced record-high deforestation rates in 2024, Indonesia’s forest loss is slowing, bucking a global trend. But beneath the headline figures lies a troubling mystery: Nearly half of the forest cleared last year can’t be linked to any identifiable driver, raising red flags about speculative land clearing, regulatory blind spots […]

Google's security for Android is getting worse. They recently moved from monthly security updates to quarterly. Layoffs have slowed releases as well. Atop that, there are some easy fixes that they're just ignoring. There are only two secure mobile OSes: GrapheneOS and (secondarily) iOS.
https://grapheneos.social/@Gr…

Manufacturing employment has been falling since April,
and job growth is slower than it was between January 2024 and August 2024.
The timing of the manufacturing declines corresponds with the Trump administration’s disastrous tariff policies,
which are projected to cost American households $2,400 annually.
Since Donald Trump’s tariff announcement in April 2025,
overall manufacturing employment has declined by 42,000,
while job openings and hires have fall…

Confirmed: July average of atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa was ~2.3 ppm higher than last year, at 427.9 ppm.
Overall, we're still speeding in the wrong direction!
#co2 #emissions #climatechange

Worlds Next Door: A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in the Habitable Zone of $\alpha$ Cen A. II. Binary Star Modeling, Planet and Exozodi Search, and Sensitivity Analysis
Aniket Sanghi, Charles Beichman, Dimitri Mawet, William O. Balmer, Nicolas Godoy, Laurent Pueyo, Anthony Boccaletti, Max Sommer, Alexis Bidot, Elodie Choquet, Pierre Kervella, Pierre-Olivier Lagage, Jarron Leisenring, Jorge Llop-Sayson, Michael Ressler, Kevin Wagner, Mark Wyatt

Worlds Next Door: A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in the Habitable Zone of $α$ Cen A. II. Binary Star Modeling, Planet and Exozodi Search, and Sensitivity Analysis
JWST observed our closest solar twin, $α$ Cen A, with the MIRI coronagraph in F1550C (15.5 $μ$m) at three distinct epochs between August 2024 and April 2025. For the first time with JWST, we demonstrate the application of reference star differential imaging to simultaneously subtract the coronagraphic image of a primary star and the point spread function (PSF) of its binary companion to conduct a deep search for exoplanets and dust emission. We achieve a typical 5$σ$ point source contrast se…

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…

Vaizdelis iš Kauno mašinų turgaus šiandien (ieškau pirkti auto).
Apžiūrinėjam mašiną. Kainos nėr, bet kaip ir tinka panašios. Panašesnė, kad naudojama, o ne parduodama. Jau nueidinėjam, atsiranda aikštelės savininkas. Sako mano, bet žiūrėkit parduosiu už Xk EUR.
Apžiūrinėjom.
Klausiam ridos, sako 325k. Odometras irgi rodo 325k km. Po kapotu ant kažkurio dangtelio ryškiai užrašyta "2025-03-.. 335,000 ...". Dar po kapotu serviso lipdukas ant kurio data ~2024-11 ir &…

Five principles to protect the human knowledge ecosystem 5/5

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]

Dak Prescott has up-and-down performance in Cowboys' 2025 season-opening loss https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/09/05/dak-prescott-cowboys-season-opener-eagles/85984996007/

Simultaneous Rational Function Codes: Improved Analysis Beyond Half the Minimum Distance with Multiplicities and Poles
Matteo Abbondati, Eleonora Guerrini, Romain Lebreton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05284

Simultaneous Rational Function Codes: Improved Analysis Beyond Half the Minimum Distance with Multiplicities and Poles
In this paper, we extend the work of Abbondati et al. (2024) on decoding simultaneous rational function codes by addressing two important scenarios: multiplicities and poles (zeros of denominators). First, we generalize previous results to rational codes with multiplicities by considering evaluations with multi-precision. Then, using the hybrid model from Guerrini et al. (2023), we extend our approach to vectors of rational functions that may present poles. Our contributions include: a rigorous…

TikTok says it now has more than 200M MAUs in Europe, up from 175M in 2024, the latest sign of its rapid growth among teenagers (Supantha Mukherjee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/tiktok-users-top-200-million-eu…

Diese Habsburger, ey. Seit Jahrhunderten nur Ärger. Der nächste will dann vermutlich auch das Schloss zurück ...

Five principles to protect the human knowledge ecosystem 5/5

Last year after I broke my ankle, I discovered that not all piano playing requires the sustain pedal...
Sustain Creativity - Pushing Too Far - part 2
#CreativeLife #piano

Sustain Creativity - Pushing Too Far - part 2
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Worlds Next Door: A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in the Habitable Zone of $\alpha$ Cen A. I. Observations, Orbital and Physical Properties, and Exozodi Upper Limits
Charles Beichman, Aniket Sanghi, Dimitri Mawet, Pierre Kervella, Kevin Wagner, Billy Quarles, Jack J. Lissauer, Max Sommer, Mark Wyatt, Nicolas Godoy, William O. Balmer, Laurent Pueyo, Jorge Llop-Sayson, Jonathan Aguilar, Rachel Akeson, Ruslan Belikov, Anthony Boccaletti, Elodie Choquet, Edward Fomalont, Thomas Henning, De…

Worlds Next Door: A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in the Habitable Zone of $α$ Cen A. I. Observations, Orbital and Physical Properties, and Exozodi Upper Limits
We report on coronagraphic observations of the nearest solar-type star, $α$ Cen A, using the MIRI instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope. With three epochs of observation (August 2024, February 2025, and April 2025), we achieve a sensitivity sufficient to detect $T_{\rm eff}\approx$ 225-250 K (1-1.2 $R_{\rm Jup}$) planets between 1"-2" and exozodiacal dust emission at the level of $>$5-8$\times$ the brightness of our own zodiacal cloud. The lack of exozodiacal dust emission sets an unpre…

Crime in large cities in the aggregate is lower in states with Democratic leadership.
But Trump focuses his ire almost exclusively on large blue cities in blue states,
sidestepping political conflict with Republican governors.
Trump threatens to deploy national guard units to Chicago and Baltimore,
ostensibly to quell violence,
a pattern has emerged as he describes which cities he talks about.
Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington DC and Baltimore.
But …

»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…

Brian Daboll announces offensive coordinator Mike Kafka will return to role as Giants' play-caller

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/brian-d

Somehow I missed this 2024 Reuters report on how the first Trump administration ordered the US military to carry out a psyop campaign that spread disinformation about COVID-19 around the world.
In particular, the campaign falsely claimed that the Chinese vaccine ChinaVac is unsafe/haram or ineffective. It also doubted the usefulness of face masks. As a result, lots of people died.

Movies watched in July, ranked (being on the bottom doesn’t mean it’s bad)
(1/2)
- The Graduate (1967) 🌞
- Kneecap (2024) 🔁
- The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025)
- The Substance (2024) 🔁
- 28 Days Later (2002) 🔁
- A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) 🩸🔁
- 28 Years Later (2025)
- F1 (2025)
- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004) 🌏🔁
- 28 Weeks Later (2007)
- An Unfinished Film (2024)
- …
🔁 — rewatch
🩸 — Creepy Crypt
…

Social Networks Are Lying to Manipulate You
#SocialMeda are manipulating all the time. This is what h…

Today I took the time to have another look at #ActualBudget
#firefly_iii is great, but my mind just doesn't work well with traditional budgeting methods and my overall balance went down in 2025.
This might just be a coincidence (it went up in 2024 after all) but I just…

Am Wochenende ausgelesen: World Press Photo 2024. Ich hab's ja sehr mit dokumentarischer und journalistischer Fotografie. Diese Bücher geben Jahr für Jahr einen guten Überblick zu (einigen) Problemzonen der Erde. Die Ausgabe für 2025 liegt schon parat für die nächsten 2-3 Wochen. #bücherliebe #fotografie

Here’s a good analysis by Gartner and The Next Platform that tries to make sense of spending on AI predictions over the next few years. “if you add devices to datacenter stuff, then AI drove 19.6 percent of IT revenues in 2024 and will drive 27.2 percent of IT revenues in 2025 and 34.1 percent in 2026.” h…

Dicing, Slicing, And Augmenting Gartner’s AI Spending Forecast
When we try to predict the weather, we use ensembles of the initial conditions on the ground, in the oceans, and throughout the air to create a kind of

Approximating Graphic Multi-Path TSP and Graphic Ordered TSP
Morteza Alimi, Niklas Dahlmeier, Tobias M\"omke, Philipp Pabst, Laura Vargas Koch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00448

Approximating Graphic Multi-Path TSP and Graphic Ordered TSP
The path version of the Traveling Salesman Problem is one of the most well-studied variants of the ubiquitous TSP. Its generalization, the Multi-Path TSP, has recently been used in the best known algorithm for path TSP by Traub and Vygen [Cambridge University Press, 2024]. The best known approximation factor for this problem is $2.214$ by Böhm, Friggstad, Mömke and Spoerhase [SODA 2025]. In this paper we show that for the case of graphic metrics, a significantly better approximation guarantee…

Der #BUND-Jahresbericht 2024 ist da. https://www.bund.net/service/publikationen/detail/publication/bund-jahresbericht-2024/

BUND-Jahresbericht 2024
Mit dem Jahresbericht legen wir Jahr für Jahr unsere Finanzen offen. Denn Transparenz ist für uns zentral. Ihre Mitgliedsbeiträge und Spenden sichern die Unabhängigkeit des BUND. Zugleich lädt dieser Bericht dazu ein, innezuhalten und wertzuschätzen, was wir 2024 gemeinsam für den Schutz von Natur...

Outdoor nighttime light exposure - #LightPollution - is associated with Alzheimer’s disease: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2024.1378498/full -> Inquinamento luminoso e Alzheimer: https://www.media.inaf.it/2024/09/06/light-pollution-alzheimer/

Detection of New Auroral Emissions at Io and Implications for Its Interaction with the Plasma Torus
Zachariah Milby, Katherine de Kleer, Carl Schmidt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04807

Detection of New Auroral Emissions at Io and Implications for Its Interaction with the Plasma Torus
We observed Io's optical aurora in eclipse on six nights between 2022 and 2024 using Keck I/HIRES. Spectra revealed 13 new auroral emissions not identified previously, tripling the total number of optical emissions lines detected at Io. These included the O I lines at 777.4 and 844.6 nm, the Na I lines at 818.3 and 819.5 nm, the [S I] lines at 458.9 and 772.5 nm, the S I triplet at 922.3 nm, the [O II] lines at 732.0 and 733.0 nm and the [S II] lines at 406.9, 407.6, 671.6 and 673.1 nm. We leve…

⚠️ Eilmeldung 🇪🇺
Der #EU #Datenschutzbeauftragte knickt ein "die @… habe alle im März 2024 fes…

I would do this daily (or how ever often is necessary) to rarely get sick again!
https://sfba.social/@nwchapman/115124195881987830

Our trip down Müller's play started over a decade ago, with rehearsals finally starting a year before the pandemic. The script has so many facets, it's imperative to give a production a unique focus. It took us until 2024 to find ours: Amidst all the brutality and perversion, it's a love story.
https://chao…

Gar nicht so blöd, würde damit schon gerne mal rumspielen
https://www.golem.de/news/microsoft-flight-simulator-2024-kommt-auf-die-playstation-5-2509-200466.html

Spahn (7/2024): „Wenn ich Präsident Trump zuhöre, dann mag ich seinen Stil zwar nicht […], aber wenn ich auf die Inhalte schaue [...], dann sehe ich gemeinsame Interessen“
Deutschland: „In dem Abschiebeflug in den Irak saßen nicht nur männliche Straftäter, sondern auch Frauen und Kinder - mehr als bislang bekannt.“

The Uranus Flagship: Investigating New Paradigms for Outer Solar System Exploration Workshop Summary Report
Amy Simon, Louise Prockter, Ian Cohen, Kathleen Mandt, Lynnae Quick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21074

The Uranus Flagship: Investigating New Paradigms for Outer Solar System Exploration Workshop Summary Report
This white paper is a summary of the Uranus Flagship Workshop that took place 21 to 23 May 2024 at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Co-led by Goddard and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab conveners, we had a broad, international, Science Organizing Committee, and a largely early career Local Organizing Committee from APL and GSFC. From prior workshops, it was apparent that the community was wildly enthusiastic about starting a mission, but lacked focus on what was possible or where to begin.…

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.

Israel Heritage Foundation tied to 2024 Trump campaign, top Israeli officials
https://prismreports.org/2025/09/17/israel-heritage-foundation-trump-israeli-government/

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

Shout-out an Münsteraner Studierende: Das Münster Center for Open Science (MüCOS) sucht studentische Hilfskräfte!
Bei Interesse beim @… melden!
https://www.uni-muenster.de/MueCOS/

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…

An der @… starten wir ein von der @… gefördertes Projekt zur (halb-)automatischen Erschließung von historischen kulinarischen Objekten (Kochbücher, Menükarten, …) um Forschenden eine Plattform anzubieten mit dieser Art…

Python Entwickler:in DFG-Projekt Kulinarik (m/w/d)
Berufsanfänger:innen willkommen! An der Sächsischen Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB) ist ab Februar 2024 die Stelle eines Bibliothekarischen Mitarbeitenden (m/w/d) Kennziffer SLUB-2023-56 in Teilzeit (50 Prozent) bis zur Vergütungsgruppe TV-L E 9b befristet auf 23 Monate zu besetzen. Die SLUB zählt mit etwa 350 Mitarbeitenden zu den größten und leistungsfähigsten wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken Deutschlands. Sie ist ein bedeutendes Innov…

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/

Massacre Š Bint Jbeil : 5 tués au moins, dont 3 enfants, dans une frappe de drone israélien
Cette attaque sanglante, l’une des plus meurtrières depuis le cessez-le-feu de novembre 2024, a coïncidé avec la visite au Liban de l'émissaire adjointe américaine au Moyen-Orient Morgan Ortagus.
…

Massacre à Bint Jbeil : 5 tués au moins, dont 3 enfants, dans une frappe de drone israélien
Un véritable massacre a été commis par l’armée israélienne dimanche dans l’après-midi dans la ville de Bint Jbeil, au Liban-Sud. Un drone a apparemment tiré deux missiles, l'un touchant une moto et...

Proceedings Seventh International Conference on Applied Category Theory 2024
Michael Johnson (Macquarie University), David Jaz Myers (Topos Institute)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18357

EU suspends Ukrainian language interpreter for suspected espionage on Zelensky for Russia, Le Monde reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/eu-suspends-ukrainian-language-interpreter.html

Time-Dependent Hamiltonian Simulation via Time-Independent Dynamics in a Larger Space
Zecheng Li, Chunhao Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19345 https://arx…

Time-Dependent Hamiltonian Simulation via Time-Independent Dynamics in a Larger Space
In this paper, we present a proof-of-concept quantum algorithm for simulating time-dependent Hamiltonian evolution by reducing the problem to simulating a time-independent Hamiltonian in a larger space using a discrete clock Hamiltonian construction. A similar construction was first explored for this simulation problem by Watkins, Wiebe, Roggero, and Lee [PRX Quantum, 2024]. Our algorithm improves upon their work in terms of the dependence on evolution time and precision. In addition, the compl…

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

Realität trifft erneut auf #Wasserstoff-Träume:
Die #Zillertalbahn wird künftig mit #Akkuzüge​n statt mit

Strombetriebene Zillertalbahn: Akkus stechen Wasserstoff - electrive.net
Die Zillertalbahn soll künftig mit Akku-Zügen betrieben werden. Damit erteilen die Entscheidungsträger der vor rund zehn Jahren geborenen Idee eine Absage,

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/

Cowboys officially lose a 2024 draft pick to another NFL team https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/22/cowboys-lose-2024-draft-pick-justin-rogers/85329395007/

Hunter Renfrow says Dabo Swinney talked him out of retiring after missing 2024 season with autoimmune disease

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

On the $l_\infty$-analog of Algebraic Connectivity
M. Rajesh Kannan, Rahul Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22015 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.22015

On the $l_\infty$-analog of Algebraic Connectivity
The algebraic connectivity $a(G)$ of a graph $G$ is defined as the second smallest eigenvalue of its Laplacian matrix $L(G)$. It also admits a variational characterization as the minimum of a quadratic form associated with $L(G)$, subject to $l_2$-norm constraints. In 2024, Andrade and Dahl investigated an analogous parameter $γ(G)$, defined using the $l_\infty$-norm instead of the $l_2$-norm. They demonstrated that $γ(G)$ can be computed in polynomial time using linear programming. In this a…

The nebular phase of SN 2024ggi: a low-mass progenitor with no signs of interaction
L. Ferrari, G. Folatelli, K. Ertini, H. Kuncarayakti, T. Regna, M. C. Bersten, C. Ashall, E. Baron, C. R. Burns, L. Galbany, W. B. Hoogendam, K. Maeda, K. Medler, N. I. Morrel, B. Shapee, M. D. Stritzinger, H. Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22794

The nebular phase of SN 2024ggi: a low-mass progenitor with no signs of interaction
Context: SN 2024ggi is a Type II supernova (SN) discovered in the nearby galaxy NGC 3621 (D $\approx6.7\pm0.d$ Mpc) on 2024 April 03.21 UT. Its proximity enabled a detailed investigation of the SN's properties and its progenitor star. This work focuses on the optical evolution of SN 2024ggi at the nebular phase. Aims: We investigate the progenitor properties and possible asymmetries in the ejecta by studying the nebular phase evolution between days 287 and 400 after the explosion. Methods: We p…

Trump said he threatened to bomb Moscow if Putin attacked Ukraine, 2024 fundraiser tapes show
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/politics/trump-tape-putin-bomb-fundraiser?cid=ios_app

from my link log —
Hacking Kia: remotely controlling cars with just a license plate.
https://samcurry.net/hacking-kia
saved 2024-09-27 https://

Hacking Kia: Remotely Controlling Cars With Just a License Plate
On June 11th, 2024, we discovered a set of vulnerabilities in Kia vehicles that allowed remote control over key functions using only a license plate. These attacks could be executed remotely on any hardware-equipped vehicle in about 30 seconds, regardless of whether it had an active Kia Connect subscription.

Texans' Sheldon Rankins details frightening bout with meningitis, shingles during 2024 season

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/texans-

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.07.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1051084 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Healing Melodies – recovery and inspiration #healing #inspiration #music

Healing Melodies - recovery and inspiration
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

from my link log —
Development notes from xkcd's "Machine".
https://chromakode.com/post/xkcd-machine/
saved 2024-05-09 h…

Development notes from xkcd's "Machine"
How we designed xkcd's massive rube goldberg machine game in 3 weeks.

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.07.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

Nvidia hits a $4T market cap in intraday trading, the first company to do so, after passing a $2T market cap in February 2024 and $3T in June 2025 (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/09/nvidia-4-trillion.html

Nvidia hits $4 trillion market cap, first company to do so
Nvidia topped a $4 trillion market cap for the first time as investors scooped stock in the tech giant building the hardware for the generative AI boom.

Der Markt für #Elektroautos in Deutschland zieht nach dem Rückgang 2024 wieder an.
Im ersten Halbjahr 2025 waren 17,8 Prozent der #Neuzulassungen vollelektrisch.
Gründe sind neue Modelle, stärkere

E-Auto-Markt: Die E-Autos sind zurück
Nach einem schwierigen Jahr 2024 verkaufen sich E-Autos jetzt wieder überraschend gut – ganz ohne Prämie. Ein Grund dafür: Tricks der Hersteller.

How will the Vikings split carries? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45842987/nfl-minnesota-vikings-aaron-jones-jordan-mason-backfield

Creative Courage: Addiction Recovery Through Art and Music #art #music https://muz4now.com/2024/creative-c…

Creative Courage: Addiction Recovery Through Art and Music
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

from my link log —
Where did DNSSEC go wrong?
https://blog.apnic.net/2024/07/05/where-did-dnssec-go-wrong/
saved 2025-09-05

Where did DNSSEC go wrong? | APNIC Blog
Guest Post: What lessons can we learn from the development of DNSSEC?

Bengals RB Zack Moss eyes return from broken neck, tempers expectations for 2025 season

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bengals-rb-zack-moss…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

Are gray skies trying to bring us down? #inspiration #beauty #inspiration

Are gray skies trying to bring us down? #inspiration
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Nachtrag: Änderung der Berechnung bezüglich https://mastodon.online/@tinoeberl/115236719296242946.
Der Filter auf "in Betrieb" ändert die Zahlen leider rückwirkend. Also:
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in

Sustain Creativity – Pushing Too Far – part 2 #brokenankle #composer #musician

Sustain Creativity - Pushing Too Far - part 2
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Analysis: 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 (Ichiro Lambe/Totally Human Media)
https://www.totallyhuman.io/blog/the-surprising-new-number-of-genai-gam…

The NEW Surprising Number of Steam Games that Use GenAI — Totally Human Media
A year ago, I poked around Steam to see how many game developers were disclosing usage of Generative AI . It was around 1,000, which seemed like a lot to me at the time. If memory serves, that was about 1.1% of the entire Steam library, which has since seen 20,000+ more titles appear. I've been fol

A look at Yahoo Creators, launched in March 2024, offering creators a 50/50 ad revenue split for posting original written content and has signed up 135 creators (Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/yahoo-takes-cues-from-pla…

Yahoo takes cues from platforms as it offers more editorial control to creators
In June, Yahoo for Creators had its most lucrative month yet, reflecting Yahoo's gradual adoption of aspects of a creator platform.

Der deutsche #Wirtschaftsstabilisierungsfonds (#WSF) erzielte 2024 mit 90,4 Millionen Euro erneut einen Jahresüberschuss.
Ursprünglich zur Unterstützung großer Unternehmen in der #Coronapandemie