Tootfinder

On 1-year anniversary, Ukraine names Russian officer linked to deadly strike on Kyiv Okhmatdyt children's hospital: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/08/on-year-anniversary-ukraine-names.html

Many people regard horse racing as a harmless sport in which the animals are willing participants who thoroughly enjoy the thrill. The truth is that behind the scenes lies a story of immense suffering. https://www.animalaid.org.uk/the-issues/our-campaigns/horse-racing/…

Horse Racing - Animal Aid
Many people regard horse racing as a harmless sport in which the animals are willing participants who thoroughly enjoy the thrill. The truth is that behind the scenes lies a story of immense suffering. 2024 statistics: 214 horses killed as a result of racing on British racecourses, 557 abuses of whip regulations, 598 horses with racing industry passports sent to slaughter.

How the GOP Brought Trump Back from the Dead (The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/how-the-gop-brought-trump-back-from-dead-2020-2024-january-6-republicans-dawsey-pager-arnsdorf-trial-primary
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p129#a250708p129

Are nominations by those accused of war crimes even considered?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/08/trump-nominated-nobel-peace-prize-netanyahu?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

"Die Produktion von #Solarmodule​n für #Photovoltaikanlagen in Deutschland sank 2024 um gut 56 Prozent auf 1,5 Millionen Solarmodule."

Finally, there'll be weekend transit service to Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park in Oakland once AC Transit's service changes launch on August 10
https://hikingbytransit.com/2024/09/14/realign/

What does AC Transit Realign mean for recreational access in the East Bay? - Hiking by Transit
Trailheads that are convenient to get to by bus, train, or ferry in the San Francisco Bay Area

Christian Wilkins Contract Looking Worse And Worse For The Raiders https://raiderramble.com/2025/07/09/christian-wilkins-contract-looking-worse-and-worse-for-the-raiders/

Investigating Algorithmic Bias in YouTube Shorts
Mert Can Cakmak, Nitin Agarwal, Diwash Poudel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04605 https://

Investigating Algorithmic Bias in YouTube Shorts
The rapid growth of YouTube Shorts, now serving over 2 billion monthly users, reflects a global shift toward short-form video as a dominant mode of online content consumption. This study investigates algorithmic bias in YouTube Shorts' recommendation system by analyzing how watch-time duration, topic sensitivity, and engagement metrics influence content visibility and drift. We focus on three content domains: the South China Sea dispute, the 2024 Taiwan presidential election, and general YouTub…

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…

Christian Wilkins's injury has coaches and execs snub the Raiders DT from list of NFL best https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/07/08/christian-wilkinss-inju…

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 …

F&O Expiry vs. First-Day SIPs: A 22-Year Analysis of Timing Advantages in India's Nifty 50
Siddharth Gavhale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04859 https…

F&O Expiry vs. First-Day SIPs: A 22-Year Analysis of Timing Advantages in India's Nifty 50
This study presents a comparative analysis of Systematic Investment Plan (SIP) performance in India's Nifty 50 index over a 22-year period (2003--2024), focusing on the timing of investments -- specifically, the first trading day (FTD) of each month versus the monthly expiry day of Futures and Options (EXP). The research establishes, through mathematical validation, that SIP returns are independent of the invested amount. Leveraging historical index data, the study finds that SIPs timed on F\&O…

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.

Neighborhood Balanced k-Coloring of Graphs
Maurice Genevieva Almeida, Tarkeshwar Singh, Siddharth Gupta, Ravindra Pawar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06003 https://

Neighborhood Balanced k-Coloring of Graphs
For a simple graph G = (V, E) and a positive integer k greater than or equal to 2, a coloring of vertices of G using exactly k colors such that each vertex has an equal number of neighbors of each color is called neighborhood-balanced k-coloring, and the graph is called a neighborhood-balanced k-colored graph. This generalizes the notion of neighborhood balanced coloring of graphs introduced by Bryan Freyberg and Alison Marr (Graphs and Combinatorics, 2024). We derive some necessary/sufficient …

Personalized Large Language Models Can Increase the Belief Accuracy of Social Networks
Adiba Mahbub Proma, Neeley Pate, Sean Kelty, Gourab Ghoshal, James N. Druckman, Ehsan Hoque
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06153

Personalized Large Language Models Can Increase the Belief Accuracy of Social Networks
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly involved in shaping public understanding on contested issues. This has led to substantial discussion about the potential of LLMs to reinforce or correct misperceptions. While existing literature documents the impact of LLMs on individuals' beliefs, limited work explores how LLMs affect social networks. We address this gap with a pre-registered experiment (N = 1265) around the 2024 US presidential election, where we empirically explore the impact of …

#MileHigh #Roundup is title of #DenverPost feature header on State of #Colorado seeing nearly 300% increase in

Immigration arrests in Colorado have surged under the Trump administration. Now we know how much.
ICE arrests in Colorado this year amount to more than 9 per day, on average, since Jan. 20, according to new data that shows a nearly 300% increase compared to the same period in 2024.

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…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Lau Noah:
🎵 Que Pasen Cosas (Live - London Jazz Festival 2024)
#LauNoah
https://open.spotify.com/track/2mAtcBJOmHHg0QCsB4S797

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

"Lopettaneiden yritysten suureen määrään vaikuttanee lainsäädännön muutos, jonka mukaan vuoden 2025 alusta alkaen pienet yritykset eivät ole enää oikeutettuja arvonlisäveron kevennykseen”, Veistämö toteaa. "
#hallitus #yritykset

Lopettaneiden yritysten määrä kasvoi edelleen voimakkaasti tammi-maaliskuussa | Tilastokeskus
Vuoden 2025 ensimmäisellä neljänneksellä toimintansa aloitti lähes 11 000 yritystä. Samaan aikaan toimintansa lopetti runsaat 21 000 yritystä, kun vuoden 2024 tammi-maaliskuussa lopettaneita yrityksiä oli noin 12 700

Stack Overflow survey: 84% of developers use or plan to use AI tools in their workflow, up from 76% in 2024, and 33% trust AI accuracy, down from 43% in 2024 (Sean Michael Kerner/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/stack-overflo…

Stack Overflow data reveals the hidden productivity tax of ‘almost right’ AI code
Stack Overflow survey shows that as more enterprise developers actually use AI tools, their expectations aren't being met by reality.

Oh it's #WorldRangerDay ?
https://www.nationalpark-schwarzwald.de/nationalpark/blog/2024/welt-r…

Welt-Ranger-Tag - auch der Nationalpark wieder dabei
Der Welt-Ranger-Tag am 31. Juli ist wichtiger Gedenktag für Rangerinnen und Ranger, die bei ihrem Einsatz für Mensch und Natur verletzt oder getötet wurden.

from my link log —
Use test data that looks like data.
https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/use-data-that-looks-like-data
saved 2024-10-22

Use data that looks like data
Maybe the #1 best programming tip of all time?

Magnetic octupole Hall effect in heavy transition metals
Insu Baek, Seungyun Han, Hyun-Woo Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02516 https://

Magnetic octupole Hall effect in heavy transition metals
d-wave altermagnets have the magnetic octupole as their primary order parameter. A recent study [Han et al. arXiv 2409.14423 (2024)] demonstrated that magnetic octupole current can induce Néel vector dynamics. Therefore, identifying materials that can efficiently generate a magnetic octupole current is essential. In this paper, we investigate the magnetic octupole Hall effect in 4d and 5d transition metals. By employing atomic magnetic octupole operators, we calculate the magnetic octupole Hal…

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…

Similarweb: since the launch of Google's AI Overviews in May 2024, the number of news searches that result in no click-throughs grew from 56% to 69% in May 2025 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/02/chat

ChatGPT referrals to news sites are growing, but not enough to offset search declines | TechCrunch
Not surprisingly, organic traffic has also declined, dropping from over 2.3 billion visits at its peak in mid-2024 to now under 1.7 billion.

#Microsoft outsourced administration of classified #DoD data to cheap workers in #China. 🇨🇳 🕵️
My latest update on

L’Opus Dei mis en cause dans une affaire de traite d’êtres humains en Argentine
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/07/17/l-opus-dei-mis-en-cause-dans-une-affaire-de-traite-…

L’Opus Dei mis en cause dans une affaire de traite d’êtres humains en Argentine
Suite à des plaintes de femmes affirmant avoir travaillé sans salaire et dans des conditions très difficiles pour l’institution catholique conservatrice, le numéro deux de l’organisation, basée à Rome, pourrait être mis en examen. Quatre responsables argentins ont déjà été mis en examen en 2024.

Jährlich genehmigte Windenergieleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Genehmigt bedeutet noch nicht gebaut oder in Betrieb. Nicht alle Anlagen benötigen eine Genehmigung.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erster Versuch einer #Datenanalyse. 😁 Hinweise gerne. Wünsche nur gegen Geld. 🤪

Bis zu 96 Prozent - Preisschock bei Billig-Lebensmitteln hält an #News #Nachrichten …

Pathwidth of 2-Layer $k$-Planar Graphs
Yuto Okada
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21864 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.21864…

Pathwidth of 2-Layer $k$-Planar Graphs
A bipartite graph $G = (X \cup Y, E)$ is a 2-layer $k$-planar graph if it admits a drawing on the plane such that the vertices in $X$ and $Y$ are placed on two parallel lines respectively, edges are drawn as straight-line segments, and every edge involves at most $k$ crossings. Angelini, Da Lozzo, Förster, and Schneck [GD 2020; Comput. J., 2024] showed that every 2-layer $k$-planar graph has pathwidth at most $k + 1$. In this paper, we show that this bound is sharp by giving a 2-layer $k$-plan…

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/

Scaling and Data Saturation in Protein Language Models
Aviv Spinner, Erika DeBenedictis, Corey M. Hudson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22210 https://arxiv.org…

Scaling and Data Saturation in Protein Language Models
Data in biology is redundant, noisy, and sparse. How does the type and scale of available data impact model performance? In this work, we specifically investigate how protein language models (pLMs) scale with increasing pretraining data. We investigate this relationship by measuring the performance of protein function prediction on a suite of pLMs pretrained on yearly snapshots of UniRef100 from 2011 to 2024. We find no evidence of model saturation on this task: performance improves--but not mo…

Männerfeindliche Straftaten jenseits der linken, rechten, ausländischen oder religiösen Ideologie habe von 2023 bis 2024 um 300 Prozent (!) zugenommen.
(Vier Fälle statt zuvor einen!)
Quelle: Factsheet BKA zu politlisch motivierter Hasskriminalität.
https://www.

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/

Scoop: Top Biden aide was promised $8 million for 2024 win (Alex Thompson/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/31/donilon-biden-2024-reelection-testimony-congress
http://www.memeorandum.com/250731/p127#a250731p127

So the 🇵🇭 Philippine Statistics Authority released the 2024 census report last Thursday:
https://psa.gov.ph/content/2024-census-population-popcen-population-counts-declared-official-president
A fellow

Russian Supreme Court chair dies at 71 after illness: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/22/russian-supreme-court-chair-dies.html

G/O Media sells gaming news site Kotaku to Keleops, the European company that acquired Gizmodo in 2024, leaving G/O Media with just one property, The Root (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/02/kotaku-sale-keleops-go-media

G/O Media sells Kotaku to Gizmodo owner Keleops
The Root is now the only media brand left at G/O Media.

Elintarvikkeiden takaisinvedoissa kasvua vuonna 2024 https://www.ruokavirasto.fi/elintarvikkeet/elintarvikeala/elintarvikealan-uutiset/elintarvikkeiden-takaisinvedoissa-kasvua-vuonna-2024/…

Elintarvikkeiden takaisinvedoissa kasvua vuonna 2024

Overly academic/distanced ethical discussions
Had a weird interaction with @/brainwane@social.coop just now. I misinterpreted one of their posts quoting someone else and I think the combination of that plus an interaction pattern where I'd assume their stance on something and respond critically to that ended up with me getting blocked. I don't have hard feelings exactly, and this post is only partly about this particular person, but I noticed something interesting by the end of the conversation that had been bothering me. They repeatedly criticized me for assuming what their position was, but never actually stated their position. They didn't say: "I'm bothered you assumed my position was X, it's actually Y." They just said "I'm bothered you assumed my position was X, please don't assume my position!" I get that it's annoying to have people respond to a straw man version of your argument, but when I in response asked some direct questions about what their position was, they gave some non-answers and then blocked me. It's entirely possible it's a coincidence, and they just happened to run out of patience on that iteration, but it makes me take their critique of my interactions a bit less seriously. I suspect that they just didn't want to hear what I was saying, while at the same time they wanted to feel as if they were someone who values public critique and open discussion of tricky issues (if anyone reading this post also followed our interaction and has a different opinion of my behavior, I'd be glad to hear it; it's possible In effectively being an asshole here and it would be useful to hear that if so).
In any case, the fact that at the end of the entire discussion, I'm realizing I still don't actually know their position on whether they think the AI use case in question is worthwhile feels odd. They praised the system on several occasions, albeit noting some drawbacks while doing so. They said that the system was possibly changing their anti-AI stance, but then got mad at me for assuming this meant that they thought this use-case was justified. Maybe they just haven't made up their mind yet but didn't want to say that?
Interestingly, in one of their own blog posts that got linked in the discussion, they discuss a different AI system, and despite listing a bunch of concrete harms, conclude that it's okay to use it. That's fine; I don't think *every* use of AI is wrong on balance, but what bothered me was that their post dismissed a number of real ethical issues by saying essentially "I haven't seen calls for a boycott over this issue, so it's not a reason to stop use." That's an extremely socially conformist version of ethics that doesn't sit well with me. The discussion also ended up linking this post: https://chelseatroy.com/2024/08/28/does-ai-benefit-the-world/ which bothered me in a related way. In it, Troy describes classroom teaching techniques for introducing and helping students explore the ethics of AI, and they seem mostly great. They avoid prescribing any particular correct stance, which is important when teaching given the power relationship, and they help students understand the limitations of their perspectives regarding global impacts, which is great. But the overall conclusion of the post is that "nobody is qualified to really judge global impacts, so we should focus on ways to improve outcomes instead of trying to judge them." This bothers me because we actually do have a responsibility to make decisive ethical judgments despite limitations of our perspectives. If we never commit to any ethical judgment against a technology because we think our perspective is too limited to know the true impacts (which I'll concede it invariably is) then we'll have to accept every technology without objection, limiting ourselves to trying to improve their impacts without opposing them. Given who currently controls most of the resources that go into exploration for new technologies, this stance is too permissive. Perhaps if our objection to a technology was absolute and instantly effective, I'd buy the argument that objecting without a deep global view of the long-term risks is dangerous. As things stand, I think that objecting to the development/use of certain technologies in certain contexts is necessary, and although there's a lot of uncertainly, I expect strongly enough that the overall outcomes of objection will be positive that I think it's a good thing to do.
The deeper point here I guess is that this kind of "things are too complicated, let's have a nuanced discussion where we don't come to any conclusions because we see a lot of unknowns along with definite harms" really bothers me.

NASA and ESA scientists are monitoring
💥asteroid 2024 YR4,
initially feared to pose a threat to Earth,
but now projected to have a small chance of impacting the #Moon by 2031
—potentially offering a rare opportunity to observe a lunar impact and test planetary defense strategies.
First detected by the
"Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System" (ATLAS) in Hawaii…

2024 YR4
When discovered, asteroid 2024 YR4 appeared to have a small chance of impacting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. Experts now think it poses no significant risk to Earth.

Bengals in contract standoff with Trey Hendrickson: Predicting when drama might end with 2024 NFL sack leader

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

A London judge rules that HPE lost ~£730M after acquiring Mike Lynch's Autonomy, after a 2022 fraud finding against Lynch, who died in 2024; HPE was seeking $4B (Jonathan Browning/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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.

Implementation and Basis Construction for Smooth Finite Element Spaces
Chunyu Chen, Long Chen, Tingyi Gao, Xuehai Huang, Huayi Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19732 https://

Implementation and Basis Construction for Smooth Finite Element Spaces
The construction of $C^m$ conforming finite elements on simplicial meshes has recently advanced through the groundbreaking work of Hu, Lin, and Wu (Found. Comput. Math. 24, 2024). Their framework characterizes smoothness via moments of normal derivatives over subsimplices, leading to explicit degrees of freedom and unisolvence, unifying earlier constructions. However, the absence of explicit basis functions has left these spaces largely inaccessible for practical computation. In parallel, multi…

Yes, There's Evidence Trump Hacked the 2024 Election - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kNAbMuSB0c&ab_channel=ScottCarney

News outlet Iran International says that Banished Kitten, a threat group linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, likely installed malware on its journalists' Telegram accounts in two coordinated attacks in 2024 and 2025.
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202507084950

Leaked materials came from previously reported cyberattacks, Iran International confirms
Iran International confirmed on Tuesday that recently published materials from the hacked Telegram accounts of its journalists are linked to two separate cyberattacks carried out in the summer of 2024 and January 2025.

from my link log —
Servo revival 2023-2024.
https://blogs.igalia.com/mrego/servo-revival-2023-2024/
saved 2025-01-07 htt…

«Fachleute warnen allerdings vor voreiligen Schlüssen. Um die wirkliche Auswirkung des kostenlosen ÖV zu messen, müsse man noch Monate bis Jahre warten.»
Ich sage jetzt nicht… ach, lassen wir's 🤷‍♂️
https://www.srf.ch/news/dialog/nach-der-a…

32 Millionen für kostenlosen ÖV in Genf reichen nicht
32 Millionen Franken hat Genf budgetiert, um den ÖV teilweise kostenlos zu machen. Doch das Geld reicht nicht.

📢 Bundesverwaltungsgericht hebt Verbot des Compact-Magazins auf
Das rechtsextreme Magazin Compact kann weiter erscheinen. Das Bundesverwaltungsgericht hat das Verbot aufgehoben, das die damalige Bundesinnenministerin Faeser im Sommer 2024 erlassen hatte.
➡️ https://www.

Bundesverwaltungsgericht hebt Verbot des Compact-Magazins auf
Das rechtsextreme Magazin Compact kann weiter erscheinen. Das Bundesverwaltungsgericht hat das Verbot aufgehoben, das die damalige Bundesinnenministerin Faeser im Sommer 2024 erlassen hatte.

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Rein numerische Zählung nach Inbetriebnahmejahr ohne Berücksichtigung des Betriebsstatus.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erster Versuch einer #Datenanalyse

CCL-XCoT: An Efficient Cross-Lingual Knowledge Transfer Method for Mitigating Hallucination Generation
Weihua Zheng, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Zhengyuan Liu, Kui Wu, AiTi Aw, Bowei Zou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14239

CCL-XCoT: An Efficient Cross-Lingual Knowledge Transfer Method for Mitigating Hallucination Generation
Multilingual Large Language Models(MLLMs) demonstrate strong generalization across languages, yet they remain prone to hallucinations, especially in low-resource languages, due to training data imbalances. These hallucinations, which include inaccurate or fabricated outputs, are particularly problematic in domain-specific generation tasks (Chataigner et al., 2024). To address this challenge, we propose CCL-XCoT(Curriculum-based Contrastive Learning-based Cross-lingual Chain-of-Thought), a two-s…

I am sad to be one of the Canadians who’ve chosen to avoid discretionary travel to the US, under the current government, that they’re talking about in this video.
As a comparison, here are my in-the-US discretionary spends for the first halves of 2023, 2024, 2025. This does not include air travel or accommodation. This is in-person spending on things like restaurants, gas, entertainment, parking, food.
2023Q1Q2: 1763.97 USD
2024Q1Q2: 1455.82 USD
2025Q1Q2: 172.12 USD

Harris to give Colbert her first interview since 2024 election (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/media/5429723-harris-colbert-late-show-cbs-2024-election-paramount-skydance-trump-fcc/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250731/p108#a250731p108

Entdeckt in der ARD Mediathek
@… : Was bleibt https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/Y3JpZDovL2Rhc2Vyc3RlLmRlL3RhdG9ydF8yMDI0LTAxLT…

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

Multi-virtual braid groups
Valeriy G. Bardakov, Tatyana A. Kozlovskaya, Komal Negi, Madeti Prabhakar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14551 https://

Multi-virtual braid groups
L. Kauffman (2024) introduced multi-virtual and symmetric multi-virtual braid groups, which are generalizations of the virtual braid group. We introduce multi-virtual pure and multi-virtual semi-pure braid groups, which are normal subgroups of index $n!$. We give a set of generators and defining relations for these groups, show that multi-virtual (symmetric multi-virtual) braid group is a semi-direct products of multi-virtual pure (symmetric multi-virtual pure) braid group and symmetric group. …

Amazon degradation increases by 163% in two years, while deforestation falls by 54% in the same period https://phys.org/news/2025-07-amazon-degradation-years-deforestation-falls.html

Amazon degradation increases by 163% in two years, while deforestation falls by 54% in the same period
The accelerated degradation of the Brazilian Amazon, primarily due to fires, has overshadowed the significant reduction in deforestation from 2022 to 2024. This "negative balance" in protecting the biome jeopardizes the international goals for combating the climate crisis that have been assumed by the country, which is hosting the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) this year.

Future shuts down Laptop Mag, which started as a print magazine in 1991; Future shut down AnandTech in 2024 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/695969/laptop-mag-shutdown-future-plc

Laptop Mag is shutting down
Laptop Mag, the publication that shared in-depth information about laptops and other devices, is shutting down after almost 35 years.

LLMxCPG: Context-Aware Vulnerability Detection Through Code Property Graph-Guided Large Language Models
Ahmed Lekssays, Hamza Mouhcine, Khang Tran, Ting Yu, Issa Khalil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16585

LLMxCPG: Context-Aware Vulnerability Detection Through Code Property Graph-Guided Large Language Models
Software vulnerabilities present a persistent security challenge, with over 25,000 new vulnerabilities reported in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database in 2024 alone. While deep learning based approaches show promise for vulnerability detection, recent studies reveal critical limitations in terms of accuracy and robustness: accuracy drops by up to 45% on rigorously verified datasets, and performance degrades significantly under simple code modifications. This paper presents L…

A new Gallup survey of Trump’s first six months in office finds Trump with a 37% approval rating among adults
-- a new low across all pollsters
-- and losing ground on all issues.
Strikingly, Gallup finds that just 38% of Americans approve of how Trump is handling immigration,
and 37% approve of his job on the economy
— the two issues that probably won him the 2024 election.
Trump has lost double digits on handling the federal budget and 6 points on trade…

Trump's approval with independents sinks below Biden's, Trump's post-Jan. 6 | Weekly roundup for July 27, 2025
This week in political data: Gallup's newsy poll; New Pew benchmark data; Senate ratings; Manufacturing prices increase; and AI disrupting news traffic

Slomads Rising: Stay Length Shifts in Digital Nomad Travel, United States 2019-2024
Harrison Katz, Erica Savage
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21298 https://ar…

Slomads Rising: Stay Length Shifts in Digital Nomad Travel, United States 2019-2024
Using every U.S. Airbnb reservation created from 1 January 2019 through 31 December 2024, weighted by nights booked, we document a lasting shift toward longer stays after the COVID 19 shock. Mean nights per booking rose from 3.7 before the pandemic to a stable 4.1 to 4.4 after 2021; the median increased from two to three nights and the weighted standard deviation nearly doubled to seven nights, indicating a heavier tail. Negative binomial regression shows that, relative to the restriction perio…

Quantum Boltzmann Machines using Parallel Annealing for Medical Image Classification
Dani\"elle Schuman, Mark V. Seebode, Tobias Rohe, Maximilian Balthasar Mansky, Michael Schroedl-Baumann, Jonas Stein, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, Florian Krellner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14116

Quantum Boltzmann Machines using Parallel Annealing for Medical Image Classification
Exploiting the fact that samples drawn from a quantum annealer inherently follow a Boltzmann-like distribution, annealing-based Quantum Boltzmann Machines (QBMs) have gained increasing popularity in the quantum research community. While they harbor great promises for quantum speed-up, their usage currently stays a costly endeavor, as large amounts of QPU time are required to train them. This limits their applicability in the NISQ era. Following the idea of Noè et al. (2024), who tried to allev…

On the connection between zero-free regions and the error term in the Prime Number Theorem
Frederik Broucke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13780 https://

On the connection between zero-free regions and the error term in the Prime Number Theorem
We provide for a wide class of zero-free regions an upper bound for the error term in the Prime Number Theorem, refining works of Pintz (1980), Johnston (2024), and Révész (2024). Our method does not only apply to the Riemann zeta function, but to general Beurling zeta functions. Next we construct Beurling zeta functions having infinitely many zeros on a prescribed contour, and none to the right, for a wide class of such contours. We also deduce an oscillation result for the corresponding err…

Ashby, which offers an AI-powered talent platform combining applications, CRM, search, and more, raised a $50M Series D, following a $30M Series C in 2024 (Judy Rider/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/ai-powered-hr-platform-ashby-raise/

Exclusive: With OpenAI and Shopify As Customers, Ashby Raises $50M Series D For AI-Powered Talent Platform
In a Crunchbase News exclusive, San Francisco-based Ashby, provider of an “all-in-one” AI-powered HR platform, says it has raised $50 million in a Series D round of funding, just over a year after raising its $30 million Series C.

Theoretical modeling and quantitative research on aquatic ecosystems driven by multiple factors
Haizhao Guan, Yiyuan Niu, Chuanjin Zu, Ju Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19553 h…

Theoretical modeling and quantitative research on aquatic ecosystems driven by multiple factors
Understanding the complex interactions between water temperature, nutrient levels, and chlorophyll-a dynamics is essential for addressing eutrophication and the proliferation of harmful algal blooms in freshwater ecosystems algal. However, many existing studies tend to oversimplify thse relationships often neglecting the non-linear effects and long-term temporal variations that influence chlorophyll-a growth. Here, we conducted multi-year field monitoring (2020-2024) of the key environmental fa…

UK sanctions 135 Russian oil tankers, 2 firms linked to shadow fleet: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/21/uk-sanctions-russian-oil-tankers.html

Kansas City Chiefs: Better line play should bolster the offense https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45715875/kansas-city-chiefs-2025-training-camp-preview-patrick-mahomes-travis-kelce

Cowboys legend says 'No. 1 key' to success is what team failed to do in 2024 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-legend-key-to-success-is-what-team-failed-to-do-in-2024

Relatively hyperbolic groups, Grothendieck pairs, and uncountable profinite ambiguity among fibre products
Martin R. Bridson, Alan W. Reid
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15009

Relatively hyperbolic groups, Grothendieck pairs, and uncountable profinite ambiguity among fibre products
These notes expand upon our lectures on {\em profinite rigidity} at the international colloquium on randomness, geometry and dynamics, organised by TIFR Mumbai at IISER Pune in January 2024. We are interested in the extent to which groups that arise in hyperbolic geometry and 3-manifold topology are determined by their finite quotients. The main theme of these notes is the radical extent to which rigidity is lost when one passes from consideration of groups with hyperbolic features to considera…

The Complexity of Color-constrained Paths in Semicomplete Multipartite Digraphs
Julian Brinkmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15667 https://

The Complexity of Color-constrained Paths in Semicomplete Multipartite Digraphs
Every semicomplete multipartite digraph contains a quasi-Hamiltonian path, but the problem of finding a quasi-Hamiltonian path with prescribed start and end vertex is NP-complete even when restricted to semicomplete multipartite digraphs with independence number exactly 3. Bang-Jensen, Wang and Yeo (arXiv 2024) showed that deciding the presence of a quasi-Hamiltonian cycle which does not contain at least one vertex from each color class is NP-complete. Similarly, deciding the presence of a quas…

First Australian Abrams tanks reach Ukraine after 9-month wait: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/18/first-australian-abrams-tanks-reach.html

How Hulk Hogan came to endorse Trump in 2024 (Alexandra Hutzler/ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hulk-hogan-endorse-trump-2024/story?id=124039602
http://www.memeorandum.com/250724/p107#a250724p107

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…

The European Commission accepts Corning's offer to end exclusivity terms in its supply contracts, ending an antitrust investigation opened in November 2024 (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

Recurrent Cometary Activity Discovered on Quasi-Hilda Jupiter Family Comet 362P/(457175) 2008 GO98
Kennedy A. Farrell, Colin Orion Chandler, Chadwick A. Trujillo, William J. Oldroyd, Jarod A. DeSpain, Mark Jesus Mendoza Magbanua, Maxwell K. Frissell, Phineas Stone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17808

Recurrent Cometary Activity Discovered on Quasi-Hilda Jupiter Family Comet 362P/(457175) 2008 GO98
We report the discovery of recurrent activity on quasi-Hilda comet (QHC) 362P/(457175) 2008 GO98. The first activity epoch was discovered during the perihelion passage of 362P. The first activity epoch was discovered during the perihelion in 2016 (Garcia-Migani & Gil-Hutton 2018), so we were motivated to observe it for recurrent cometary activity near its next perihelion passage (UT 2024 July 20). We obtained observations with the Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT), the Astrophysical Research Con…

Tälläistä sitten tekohengitetään kymmenillä miljoonilla tämänkin hallituksen johdolla. Erityismaininta menee Keskustalle, RKP:lle ja KD:lle joille eläinrääkkäyksen tukeminen on ollut tärkeä poliittinen ja ideologinen tavoite eri hallituskokoonpanoissa.
Turkisalan tilastot paljastavat: ala jatkaa romahdustaan https://

Turkisalan tilastot paljastavat: ala jatkaa romahdustaan | Animalia-media
Suomessa kasvatettiin 0,8 miljoonaa turkiseläintä vuonna 2024. Tämä tarkoittaa, että jäljellä on enää 17 prosenttia vuoden 2015 tuotannosta.

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,

Improving reproducibility of cheminformatics workflows with chembl-downloader
Charles Tapley Hoyt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17783 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Improving reproducibility of cheminformatics workflows with chembl-downloader
Many modern cheminformatics workflows derive datasets from ChEMBL, but few of these datasets are published with accompanying code for their generation. Consequently, their methodologies (e.g., selection, filtering, aggregation) are opaque, reproduction is difficult, and interpretation of results therefore lacks important context. Further, such static datasets quickly become out-of-date. For example, the current version of ChEMBL is v35 (as of December 2024), but ExCAPE-DB uses v20, Deep Confide…

Dolphins' Jaylen Waddle looks to move past 2024 struggles: 'Definitely the year that I didn't want as an individual' https://www.nfl.com/news/dolphins-jaylen-waddle-looks-to-move-past-2024-str…

Cowboys’ Dak Prescott Turns Heads at Camp After Injury https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/dak-prescott-turns-heads-camp-after-injury/?adt_ei=[email]

Raiders claim DT Keondre Coburn https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-claim-keondre-coburn-dt-nfl-waivers-2025-training-camp-transactions

Sources: Perplexity jumped to a $18B valuation two months after it raised at $14B; its annualized revenues jumped from $35M in August 2024 to $150M this month (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4e05a5c5-84ad-4f8a-991a-d7f3842de76d

Machine learning-based multimodal prognostic models integrating pathology images and high-throughput omic data for overall survival prediction in cancer: a systematic review
Charlotte Jennings (National Pathology Imaging Cooperative, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK), Andrew Broad (National Pathology Imaging Cooperative, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK), Lucy Godson (National Pathology Imaging Cooperative, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK), Emily…

Machine learning-based multimodal prognostic models integrating pathology images and high-throughput omic data for overall survival prediction in cancer: a systematic review
Multimodal machine learning integrating histopathology and molecular data shows promise for cancer prognostication. We systematically reviewed studies combining whole slide images (WSIs) and high-throughput omics to predict overall survival. Searches of EMBASE, PubMed, and Cochrane CENTRAL (12/08/2024), plus citation screening, identified eligible studies. Data extraction used CHARMS; bias was assessed with PROBAST+AI; synthesis followed SWiM and PRISMA 2020. Protocol: PROSPERO (CRD42024594745)…

ICE Detains Wife of Trump-Supporting US Marine Corps Veteran
I supported President Trump in 2016, 2020, and 2024.
I donated almost all my net income in 2015 to his campaign,
earning an inaugural invite," Prine told Newsweek.
https://www.

ICE Detains Wife of Trump-Supporting US Marine Corps Veteran
"I donated almost all my net income in 2015 to his campaign, earning an inaugural invite," David Prine told Newsweek.

Top oversight Democrat sends letter to Fox News demanding answers on edits to Trump's 2024 Epstein comments (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/17/media/trump-epstein-fox-news-edits-house-democrats-oversight
http://www.memeorandum.com/250717/p116#a250717p116

Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa says relationship with WR Tyreek Hill 'still a work in progress' https://www.nfl.com/news/dolphins-qb-tua-tagovailoa-says-relationship-with-wr-tyreek-hill-still-a-work-in-progress

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 373 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29627 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

Raiders claim DT Keondre Coburn https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-claim-keondre-coburn-dt-nfl-waivers-2025-training-camp-transactions

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in Deutschland. Stand: 19.07.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erster Versuch einer #Datenanalyse. 😁 Hinweise gerne. Wü…

Sources: Paramount layoffs could affect 2,000 to 3,000 employees and are expected by early November; Paramount had 18,600 employees globally as of December 2024 (Brent Lang/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/paramoun…

Paramount Layoffs: Thousands of Job Cuts Expects by Early November
Paramount will enact steep layoffs by early November after closing its merger with Skydance.

Vikings' Jordan Addison resolves DUI case by pleading no contest to a lesser charge https://www.nfl.com/news/vikings-jordan-addison-resolves-dui-case-by-pleading-no-contest-to-a-lesser-charge

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1039061 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 248 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29752 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.