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Die Bundesregierung gibt jährlich Milliarden für proprietäre US-Software aus, obwohl das E-Government-Gesetz seit 2024 #OpenSource (OSS) bevorzugt. Trotzdem bleibt OSS in der Verwaltung Randerscheinung – mit gravierenden Folgen für digitale Souveränität, Transparenz und Kostenkontrolle
Gerd Mischler: Digitalisierung: Open Source hat im Bund keine Lobby -

(Original title: How to not build the Torment Nexus)
https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-not-build-the-torment-nexus/

How to not build the Torment Nexus
This is No Gods No Masters, 2024, painted by me, in wax. 65x78” Join the $2 Lunch Club! This week’s question comes to us from Will Hopkins: When your job and...

Juno Observations of Io's Alfvén Wing From 23 Io Radii: #Alfvén wing at a distance of ∼23 #Io radii south of the moon during perijove 62. Evidence for this passage was clearly seen in the #Juno plasma wave, magnetometer, and plasma data. The plasma wave signature was an intensification of quasi-electrostatic waves below about 1 kHz with a weaker magnetic component, all lasting for about two minutes. A strong perturbation of the magnetic field consistent with strong field-aligned currents was observed at the edges of the Alfvén wing. Ions in the range below about 1 keV/q were slowed within the Alfvén wing. As with other measurements in Io's Alfvén wing, we observe evidence of filamentation. The power in the Alfvén wing based on the measured Poynting flux is estimated to be ∼500–1,500 × 109 W."

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

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…

Five principles to protect the human knowledge ecosystem 5/5

🤔 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 […]

Using Stochastic Block Models for Community Detection: The issue of edge-connectivity
The-Anh Vu-Le, Minhyuk Park, Ian Chen, George Chacko, Tandy Warnow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03843

Using Stochastic Block Models for Community Detection: The issue of edge-connectivity
A relevant, sometimes overlooked, quality criterion for communities in graphs is that they should be well-connected in addition to being edge-dense. Prior work has shown that leading community detection methods can produce poorly-connected communities, and some even produce internally disconnected communities. A recent study by Park et al. in Complex Networks and their Applications 2024 showed that this problem is evident in clusterings from three Stochastic Block Models (SBMs) in graph-tool, a…

What Patriots coach Mike Vrabel said on being fired by Titans, trading of AJ Brown https://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/nfl/titans/2025/08/06/mike-vrabel-tennessee-titans-fired-what-he-said-patriots/85372299007/…

South Africa to ban highly toxic pesticide Terbufos https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/07/south-africa-to-ban-highly-toxic-pesticide-terbufos/

South Africa to ban highly toxic pesticide Terbufos
In a decision welcomed by advocacy groups and researchers, South Africa’s Cabinet has approved a ban on the import of Terbufos, a highly toxic pesticide linked to the deaths of six children in a South African township in October 2024. On June 12, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, Minister of Presidency, said the ban will be accompanied by […]

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

"Banks bet big on fossil fuels, boosting financing in 2024, report finds"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

Banks bet big on fossil fuels, boosting financing in 2024, report finds
Financing for the fossil fuel sector from the world’s largest banks surged in 2024 to $869 billion, according to a recent report by the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and other environmental groups. That figure represents an increase of nearly 23% compared to 2023. The $162.5 billion increase channeled to companies doing business in fossil fuels […]

Check out this compelling rebuttal of Soteria International's claims regarding the OKC case. Get informed about the facts and perspectives presented in the article by visiting: https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rebuttal-of-soteria.html

Rebuttal of Soteria International's Claims on the OKC Case - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
Rebuttal of Soteria International’s Claims on the OKC Case As a victim of the Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) cult and an advocate for justice, I find Soteria …

A new report shows that Trump was more desperate for cash in 2024 than we knew (Zeeshan Aleem/MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-businesses-money-presidency-report-rcna216784
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p131#a250703p131

Replaced article(s) found for astro-ph.CO. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.CO/new
[1/1]:
- Constraining primordial non-Gaussianity with DESI 2024 LRG and QSO samples
E. Chaussidon, et al.

🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Retröt: Mit #Steckersolaranlagen kannst Du selbst auf Deinem #Balkon Teil der #Energiewende werden, Deine

Steckersolaranlagen für Deinen Balkon: Sparen mit der Energiewende
Spare Stromkosten mit einem Balkonkraftwerk! Finde heraus, was die neuen Regelungen 2024 für Dich bedeuten. Einfach installieren und profitieren.

🌟 “I see GÉANT as a strong component in the competitiveness that Europe is striving for.”
In her first interview as GÉANT CEO, Lise Fuhr reflects on her initial impressions, shares what she wishes more people knew about the GÉANT community, and offers a glimpse into the forthcoming GÉANT Association strategy.
➡️ Read the full interview:

CONNECT Interview: Lise Fuhr, GÉANT CEO | GÉANT CONNECT Online
In November 2024, Lise Fuhr took on the role of Chief Executive Officer at GÉANT. Now, six months into her new role, she reflects on her first impressions, shares what she wishes more people knew about the GÉANT community, and offers a glimpse into the forthcoming GÉANT Association strategy. You’ve now been at GÉANT for

Kävin Alkossa. Petit Bourgeois -roseeta. Kareliaanista piirakkaa, erilaisia hilloja, valkohomejuustoa.
(Ei pidä sekoittaa petite bourgeoisie:hin, pois se minusta, haha.)

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

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

Ik had helemaal gemist dat hij was overleden, fantastische, onvergeterlijke man. Ik heb nog les van hem gehad, rond 1977, in de duinen, over mierennesten en de duinen in het algemeen.
Gerrit Jan (1932–2024) gaf zijn ongekende veldkennis door aan academici en tienduizenden schoolkinderen | Van Wieg Tot Graf Den Haag en omstreken | AD.nl

Gerrit Jan (1932–2024) gaf zijn ongekende veldkennis door aan academici en tienduizenden schoolkinderen
Als Haagse jongen leerde hij de duinen kennen. Gerrit Jan de Bruyn werd bioloog, gespecialiseerd in de Rode bosmier, en de beschermheer van Meijendel. Dit is het bijzondere levensverhaal van Gerrit Jan de Bruyn (15 augustus 1932 – 29 oktober 2024).

Gute Nachrichten für alle, die in der IT-Branche arbeiten oder einen Einstieg planen! 💻 Laut aktuellen Zahlen der Bundesagentur für Arbeit sind die Gehälter im IT-Bereich 2024 um etwa 3,85% gestiegen und liegen damit über der Inflationsrate von 2,2%.
Zum Artikel: https://

Habits for Creativity – Investing in Yourself for Improved Mental and Physical Health #creativity #inspiration #motivational

Habits for Creativity - Investing in Yourself for Improved Mental and Physical Health
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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

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

Extended Abstract: Mutable Objects with Several Implementations
Matt Kaufmann, Yahya Sohail, Warren A. Hunt Jr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00016 https://arx…

Extended Abstract: Mutable Objects with Several Implementations
This extended abstract outlines an ACL2 feature, attach-stobj, that first appeared in ACL2 Version 8.6 (October, 2024). This feature supports different executable operations for a given abstract stobj, without requiring recertification of the book that introduces that stobj or theorems about it. The paper provides background as well as a user-level overview and some implementation notes.

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

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

Heh.
Smart.
https://noc.social/@todayilearned/114937316291088628

Today I learned (@todayilearned@noc.social)
Attached: 1 image TIL Anthony Borges, the Parkland shooting hero who shielded his classmates with his body, legally owns the rights to the shooter's name preventing the shooter from granting interviews or make any agreements with film producers or authors without Borges' permission. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolas_Cruz#2024 #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1mcezre/til_anthony_borges_the_parkland_shooting_hero_who/

Banks bet big on fossil fuels, boosting financing in 2024, report finds https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/banks-bet-big-on-fossil-fuels-boosting-financing-in-2024-report-finds/

Banks bet big on fossil fuels, boosting financing in 2024, report finds
Financing for the fossil fuel sector from the world’s largest banks surged in 2024 to $869 billion, according to a recent report by the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and other environmental groups. That figure represents an increase of nearly 23% compared to 2023. The $162.5 billion increase channeled to companies doing business in fossil fuels […]

By the end of 2024, Israel’s military attacks had killed more than 45,000 Palestinians in Gaza – the majority women and children – and injured well over 100,000 people.
(From MAP email to supporters).
So why is the UK government only now slowly beginning to wake up to this #genocide in #Gaza?

Delivering medical care to Palestinians living under occupation and as refugees in the Palestinian Territories and in Lebanon.
Help us get urgent medical supplies into the hands of Palestinians in need.

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.“

2024: in der EU soll besser vor Vergewaltigung geschützt und #JaHeißtJa als Standard gesetzt werden. Aber die #FDP in der Bundesregierung blockiert und Deutschland geht zusammen mit Frankreich dagegen.

Richtlinie zu Gewalt gegen Frauen: Warum Deutschland kein EU-Gesetz gegen Vergewaltigung will
Es begann als ambitioniertes Vorhaben der EU-Kommission gegen sexualisierte Gewalt. Bei den heutigen Trilog-Verhandlungen droht jedoch ein Debakel. Ausgerechnet Deutschland blockiert eine europaweite Regelung gegen Vergewaltigung. Und der Rat möchte den besseren Schutz vor bildbasierter Gewalt und Deepfakes verwässern.

IBM: Average cost of a data breach in US shoots to record $10 million https://therecord.media/ibm-data-breach-report-us-losses

Native American teens kayak river to celebrate dam removals, symbolizing restoration and honoring ancestors. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Native American teens kayak US river to celebrate dam removals
Four dams were dynamited and removed between 2023 to 2024, freeing hundreds of miles of the Klamath.

What are the Las Vegas Raiders doing to improve for next season? https://raiderramble.com/2025/07/23/what-are-the-las-vegas-raiders-doing-to-improve-for-next-season/

Compliance tech startup Vanta raised a $150M Series D led by Wellington Management at a $4.15B valuation, up from $2.45B after raising $150M in July 2024 (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-2…

Die ePetition 174803 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Internationale Verträge und Abkommen mit dem Titel
Sperrung von Karten bei Verlust von Debitkarten und anderen Zahlungskarten
kann bis zum Mittwoch 03. September 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird gefordert, …

Die ePetition 174803 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Internationale Verträge und Abkommen mit dem Titel
Sperrung von Karten bei Verlust von Debitkarten und anderen Zahlungskarten
kann bis zum Mittwoch 03. September 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird gefordert, …

Next Generation #NowPlaying #nowplaying #originalmusic #streaming

Next Generation #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Alles Gute den Weddinger Schüler:innen und schöne Ferien

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/

Replaced article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[2/5]:
- Analysis of the 2024 BraTS Meningioma Radiotherapy Planning Automated Segmentation Challenge
Dominic LaBella, et al.

«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.

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in Deutschland mit Stand vom 26.07.2025.
Zählung der Anlagen mit Inbetriebnahmedatum. Der aktuelle Betriebsstatus wird nicht berücksichtigt.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erster Versuch einer #Datenanalyse

#TrumpVotersDidThis
Farm Bankruptcies in 2025 Already Exceed 2024 Levels | Hoosier Ag Today
https://www.hoosieragtoday.com/2025/07/15/farm-bankruptcies-2/

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…

AlgoTune: Can Language Models Speed Up General-Purpose Numerical Programs?
Ori Press, Brandon Amos, Haoyu Zhao, Yikai Wu, Samuel K. Ainsworth, Dominik Krupke, Patrick Kidger, Touqir Sajed, Bartolomeo Stellato, Jisun Park, Nathanael Bosch, Eli Meril, Albert Steppi, Arman Zharmagambetov, Fangzhao Zhang, David Perez-Pineiro, Alberto Mercurio, Ni Zhan, Talor Abramovich, Kilian Lieret, Hanlin Zhang, Shirley Huang, Matthias Bethge, Ofir Press

AlgoTune: Can Language Models Speed Up General-Purpose Numerical Programs?
Despite progress in language model (LM) capabilities, evaluations have thus far focused on models' performance on tasks that humans have previously solved, including in programming (Jimenez et al., 2024) and mathematics (Glazer et al., 2024). We therefore propose testing models' ability to design and implement algorithms in an open-ended benchmark: We task LMs with writing code that efficiently solves computationally challenging problems in computer science, physics, and mathematics. Our AlgoTu…

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.

A look at Radio Times parent company Immediate Media, which had adjusted profit of ~£36M in 2024 and 745K digital subscribers, out of 1.3M total subscribers (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news-leader

Podcasts, paywalls and Apple News fuel growing profitability at Immediate Media
Immediate Media CEO Sean Cornwell on why AI adoption is now a key performance metric for staff and new digital revenue streams.

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/

https://emusicology.org/index.php/EMR/issue/view/359

On the Image Profiles of Transients in the Palomar Sky Survey
Beatriz Villarroel, Enrique Solano, Geoffrey W. Marcy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15896 https:…

On the Image Profiles of Transients in the Palomar Sky Survey
The VASCO project has discovered groups of short-lived transients on historical photographic plates that lack conventional explanation. Hambly & Blair (2024) examined nine such transients reported by Villarroel (2021) and found that they exhibit narrower, rounder profiles, attributing this to emulsion flaws. However, well-established optical principles and atmospheric physics imply that unresolved flashes lasting less than a second naturally appear sharper and more circular than stellar images,…

Bernstein-type dimension-free concentration for self-normalised martingales
Arya Akhavan, Amitis Shidani, Alex Ayoub, David Janz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20982 https://…

Bernstein-type dimension-free concentration for self-normalised martingales
We introduce a dimension-free Bernstein-type tail inequality for self-normalised martingales normalised by their predictable quadratic variation. As applications of our result, we propose solutions to the recent open problems posed by Mussi et al. (2024), providing computationally efficient confidence sequences for logistic regression with adaptively chosen RKHS-valued covariates, and establishing instance-adaptive regret bounds in the corresponding kernelised bandit setting.

Check out my latest CSO piece that examines how Trump's civilian agency cyber budget cuts for FY2026 could weaken federal defenses, shrink the cyber talent pipeline, and strip state and local governments of vital grant funding.
Thanks to Michael Daniel of the Cyber Threat Alliance, Mark Montgomery of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Munish Walther-Puri of NYU's Center for Global Affairs, and former US cyber official Amélie Koran for their insights.
Trump see…

Trump seeks unprecedented $1.23 billion cut to federal cyber budget
Trump’s 2026 budget would slash cyber spending by over $1 billion from 2024 levels, a move that could weaken federal defenses, shrink the cyber talent pipeline, and strip state and local governments of vital grant funding.

Changes to the Facebook Algorithm Decreased News Visibility Between 2021-2024
Szymon Talaga, Erin Wertz, Dominik Batorski, Magdalena Wojcieszak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19373 …

Changes to the Facebook Algorithm Decreased News Visibility Between 2021-2024
Platforms, especially Facebook, are primary news sources in the US. In its widely criticized "War on News," Meta algorithmically deprioritized news and political content. We use data from 40 news organizations (5,243,302 Facebook posts, 7,875,372,958 user reactions) and 21 non-news pages (396,468 posts; 1,909,088,308 reactions) between January 1, 2016 and February 13, 2025 to examine how these changes influenced news visibility on the platform. Reactions to news declined by 78% between 2021 and…

Havumetsän lapset #luonto #ympäristö

Havumetsän lapset
Ovatko nuoret sankareita vai kriminaaleja puolustaessaan metsien koskemattomuutta? Vastustajinaan he kohtaavat Suomen metsäteollisuuden ja kansallisen ideologian metsistä taloudellisen hyvinvoinnin perustana. Humaani tarina kuljettaa katsojan lumoavalle matkalle metsän kauneuteen, mutta myös ravistelee kohtaamaan sen hädän. O: Virpi Suutari T: Euphoria Film Oy (Suomi 2024) Kuvailutulkattu

A metrization theorem for edge-end spaces of infinite graphs
Max Pitz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16625 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.166…

A metrization theorem for edge-end spaces of infinite graphs
We prove that the edge-end space of an infinite graph is metrizable if and only if it is first-countable. This strengthens a recent result by Aurichi, Magalhaes Jr.\ and Real (2024). Our central graph-theoretic tool is the use of tree-cut decompositions, introduced by Wollan (2015) as a variation of tree decompositions that is based on edge cuts instead of vertex separations. In particular, we give a new, elementary proof for Kurkofka's result (2022) that every infinite graph has a tree-cut d…

Analysis: in H1 2025, 500 orgs lobbied the White House and Congress on AI, on par with H1 2024 but up ~2x since 2023; OpenAI spent $1.8M, up from $380K in 2023 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/df01dcf8-dbc4-4b56-8d8b-67b7e6a83eef

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

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.…

Raiders Trade Pitch Lands Breakout WR from 2024 NFL Season https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/raiders-trade-pitch-lands-breakout-wr-from-2024-nfl-season/?adt_ei=[email]

Record marine heat waves in 2023 covered 96% of oceans, lasted four times longer than average #ocean

Record marine heat waves in 2023 covered 96% of oceans, lasted four times longer than average
Heat waves aren't just getting worse on land, the majority of the world's oceans are experiencing record-breaking temperatures too. These marine heat waves are getting longer, more intense and reaching farther than ever before. In particular, 2023's marine heat waves (MHWs) exhibited the longest duration, widest extents, and highest intensities on record—and 2024 wasn't any better.

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

In the early morning hours of July 20, 2025, fountains of lava began pouring continuously from vents in the summit caldera of Hawaii’s Kīlauea volcano
This eruptive episode was the 29th in a stretch of periodic activity in Halema‘uma‘u Crater that began on December 23, 2024.
https://bsky.app/profile/mapsbyw…

Wanmei L 🌎🛰️ (@mapsbyw.com)
In the early morning hours of July 20, 2025, fountains of lava began pouring continuously from vents in the summit caldera of Hawaii’s Kīlauea volcano 🧪 This eruptive episode was the 29th in a stretch of periodic activity in Halema‘uma‘u Crater that began on December 23, 2024.

Entropy Stable Nodal Discontinuous Galerkin Methods via Quadratic Knapsack Limiting
Brian Christner, Jesse Chan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14488 https://…

Entropy Stable Nodal Discontinuous Galerkin Methods via Quadratic Knapsack Limiting
Lin, Chan (High order entropy stable discontinuous Galerkin spectral element methods through subcell limiting, 2024) enforces a cell entropy inequality for nodal discontinuous Galerkin methods by combining flux corrected transport (FCT)-type limiting and a knapsack solver, which determines optimal limiting coefficients that result in a semi-discrete cell entropy inequality while preserving nodal bounds. In this work, we provide a slight modification of this approach, where we utilize a quadrati…

2024 hat Deutschland pro Kopf 198 Euro in sein marodes #Schienennetz investiert und erreicht damit im europäischen Vergleich nur das obere Mittelfeld.
Die #AmpelRegierung finanziert eine groß angelegte

Mehr Investitionen in die Schiene - trotzdem nur Mittelfeld
Deutschland hat 2024 soviel Geld in sein Schienennetz investiert wie noch nie - und kann mit anderen Ländern trotzdem nicht mithalten. Woran das liegt und wie die neue Regierung das ändern will.

Negative news posts are less prevalent and generate lower user engagement than non-negative news posts across six countries
Szymon Talaga, Dominik Batorski, Magdalena Wojcieszak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19300

Negative news posts are less prevalent and generate lower user engagement than non-negative news posts across six countries
Although news negativity is often studied, missing is comparative evidence on the prevalence of and engagement with negative political and non-political news posts on social media. We use 6,081,134 Facebook posts published between January 1, 2020, and April 1, 2024, by 97 media organizations in six countries (U.S., UK, Ireland, Poland, France, Spain) and develop two multilingual classifiers for labeling posts as (non-)political and (non-)negative. We show that: (1) negative news posts constitut…

California achieved significant groundwater recharge last year, state report says
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-06-24/california-2024-groundwater-report
🆓

California achieved significant groundwater recharge last year
California's aquifers gained an estimated 2.2 million acre-feet of water during the last water year. Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration has been promoting efforts to replenish groundwater.

"What are the most popular digital #tools for learning and why? The 19th Annual Survey is now open to generate the TOP 100 TOOLS FOR LEARNING 2025 list"
https://toptools4learning.com/voting/…

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.

Cowboys' in-house Tyler Guyton replacement likely unheralded 7th-round pick https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-in-house-tyler-guyton-replacement-likely-unheralded-7th-round-pick-nate-thomas…

Multi-service messaging app Beeper relaunches, introducing premium offerings and the option to switch to an on-device model; Automattic acquired Beeper in 2024 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/beep

Beeper's all-in-one messaging app relaunches with an on-device model and premium upgrades | TechCrunch
Multi-service messaging app Beeper, which allows people to connect to all their chat apps from one interface, is relaunching its app on Wednesday to offer a more secure version that no longer requires use of its own cloud services.

New malware samples exfiltrate WhatsApp data to target Iran regime’s enemies https://therecord.media/malware-exfiltrates-whatsapp-iran-muddywater

Making REST APIs Agent-Ready: From OpenAPI to Model Context Protocol Servers for Tool-Augmented LLMs
Meriem Mastouri, Emna Ksontini, Wael Kessentini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16044

Making REST APIs Agent-Ready: From OpenAPI to Model Context Protocol Servers for Tool-Augmented LLMs
Large Language Models (LLMs) are evolving from passive text generators into active agents that invoke external tools. To support this shift, scalable protocols for tool integration are essential. The Model Context Protocol (MCP), introduced by Anthropic in 2024, offers a schema-driven standard for dynamic tool discovery and invocation. Yet, building MCP servers remains manual and repetitive, requiring developers to write glue code, handle authentication, and configure schemas by hand-replicatin…

The BBC reports 23.8M licenses at the end of 2024-25, down from 24.1M in 2023-24, and license fee income of £3.8B after an inflationary fee rise, up from £3.7B (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jul

Liberals often struggle against populist narratives because the polar opposite of populism is elitism,
-- which carries much less appeal.
Here are some of the narratives that work to create the software of autocracy
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/202

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

from my link log —
gofumpt: a stricter gofmt.
https://github.com/mvdan/gofumpt
saved 2024-11-23 https://dotat.at/:/GFZMK.html

GitHub - mvdan/gofumpt: A stricter gofmt
A stricter gofmt. Contribute to mvdan/gofumpt development by creating an account on GitHub.

Patriots Day 2 training camp takeaways: Second-year WR continues to be MIA, further risking roster spot

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/patriot

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

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…

Cowboys lose 79-game starter to high ankle sprain; injury considered day-to-day https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/25/cowboys-ol-terence-steele-high-ankle-sprain/85378594007/

Raiders Coach Pete Carroll Sends Bold Statement as Training Camp Starts https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/pete-carroll-sends-bold-statement-as-training-camp-starts/?adt_ei=[email]

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.

Who Leads in the Shadows? ERGM and Centrality Analysis of Congressional Democrats on Bluesky
Gordon Hew, Ian McCulloh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16858 https://

Who Leads in the Shadows? ERGM and Centrality Analysis of Congressional Democrats on Bluesky
Following the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Democratic lawmakers and their supporters increasingly migrated from mainstream social media plat-forms like X (formerly Twitter) to decentralized alternatives such as Bluesky. This study investigates how Congressional Democrats use Bluesky to form networks of influence and disseminate political messaging in a platform environment that lacks algorithmic amplification. We employ a mixed-methods approach that combines social network analysis, expo-ne…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 23.08.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Hinweise gerne. Wünsche gegen Spende. 😁

A judge rules Don Lemon's lawsuit against Elon Musk and X can proceed to trial, after Musk canceled a $1.5M/year exclusive X content deal with Lemon in 2024 (Alex Welch/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/don-lemon-elon-musk-x-lawsuit-moving-to-tria…

Don Lemon's Lawsuit Against Elon Musk Can Go to Trial Following Pivotal Court Ruling
Former CNN journalist Don Lemon's lawsuit against Elon Musk and the Tesla CEO's social media platform X will be allowed to go to trial.

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

Medium CEO says the company has been profitable since August 2024 and details its financial turnaround after losing $2.6M per month in 2022 (Tony Stubblebine/The Coach Life)
https://medium.com/the-coach-life/fell-in-a-hole-got-out-381356ec8d7f

Fell in a hole, got out. - The Coach Life - Medium
I’m gonna write the wonky post of Medium’s turnaround. I’m not sure if a company is allowed to be this blunt about how bad things were. But it’s very much of the Medium ethos that if something…

Trump’s Hooters-loving Malaysia ambassador pick worries Asean diplomats
Nick Adams, who rallied actively for Trump at the 2024 US election,
has drawn controversy over his misogynistic remarks and brash nature
https://www.scmp.com/wee…

Trump’s Hooters-loving Malaysia ambassador pick worries Asean diplomats
Nick Adams, who rallied actively for Trump at the 2024 US election, has drawn controversy over his misogynistic remarks and brash nature.

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 23.08.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen

Medium CEO says the company has been profitable since August 2024 and details its financial turnaround after losing $2.6M per month in 2022 (Tony Stubblebine/The Coach Life)
https://medium.com/the-coach-life/fell-in-a-hole-got-out-381356ec8d7f

Could Cowboys land Christian Wilkins after stunning release? https://insidethestar.com/could-cowboys-land-christian-wilkins-after-stunning-release

A judge rules Don Lemon's lawsuit against Elon Musk and X can proceed to trial, after Musk canceled a $1.5M/year exclusive X content deal with Lemon in 2024 (Alex Welch/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/don-lemon-elon-musk-x-lawsuit-moving-to-trial-ruling/…

Don Lemon's Lawsuit Against Elon Musk Can Go to Trial Following Pivotal Court Ruling
Former CNN journalist Don Lemon's lawsuit against Elon Musk and the Tesla CEO's social media platform X will be allowed to go to trial.

Sources: xAI prepares a new fundraising round, its third in two months, targeting a valuation of $170B to $200B, up 10x from its May 2024 valuation of $18B (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/25aab987-c2a1-4fca-8883-38a617269b68

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]

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Sources: Groq has talked with investors about raising $300M to $500M at a $6B post-investment valuation, which would double its $2.8B valuation from August 2024 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-challenger…

Nvidia Challenger Groq Discusses $6 Billion Valuation
Groq, an Nvidia challenger that develops chips to power large language models, has talked to investors about raising between $300 million to $500 million at a $6 billion post-investment valuation, according to two people with direct knowledge of the fundraising effort. The deal discussions come ...

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…