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Plastik-futternde Pilze:
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/plastic-eating-fungi-could-be-glimmer-hope-cutting-ocean-pollution-2024-08-08/
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Tussell: UK government contracts for AI-related projects have reached £573M in 2025 to July 15, up from £468M for the whole of 2024, as it seeks efficiency (Josh Gabert-Doyon/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/70559d0c-5fb7-472e-b7c5-3735c6ba2da7

On the attenuation of waves through broken ice of randomly-varying thickness on water of finite depth
Lloyd Dafydd, Richard Porter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20099 https://

On the attenuation of waves through broken ice of randomly-varying thickness on water of finite depth
The recent work of Dafydd and Porter [2024] on the attenuation of waves propagating through floating broken ice of random thickness is extended to consider water of non-shallow depth. A theoretical model of broken floating ice is analysed using a multiple scales analysis to provide an explicit expression for the attenuation of waves as they propagate from a region of constant thickness ice into a semi-infinite region of ice whose thickness is a slowly-varying random function of distance. Theore…

The Marshall Project names Jennifer Peter as EIC, replacing Susan Chira, who stepped down in December 2024; Peter worked at the Boston Globe since 2004 (The Marshall Project)
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/26/jennifer-peter-new-editor-in-chief

The Marshall Project Names Jennifer Peter New Editor-in-Chief
Peter, of The Boston Globe, will lead the national criminal justice outlet’s news operations.

Titans WR Calvin Ridley says it's 'time to dominate' alongside rookie QB Cam Ward

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/titans-wr-calvin-ridle…

Bundesregierung genehmigte 2024 so viele Rüstungsexporte wie noch nie
Die Bundesregierung hat im vergangenen Jahr Rüstungsexporte in Höhe von 12,83 Milliarden Euro genehmigt - Deutschland exportierte damit so viele Kriegsgüter wie noch nie. Auf dem ersten Platz bei den Empfängerländern steht die Ukraine mit einem Wert von 8,15 Milliarden Euro, wie aus dem Rüstungsexportbericht hervorgeht, mit dem sich das Bundeskabinett am Vo…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ 100.000 Ukrainer ohne Strom ++
Nach russischen Angriffen auf Energieanlagen sind in drei ukrainischen Regionen etwa 100.000 Menschen ohne Strom. Die Bundesregierung hat 2024 Rüstungsexporte im Wert von 8,15 Milliarden Euro an Kiew genehmigt.

Nach Einmalzahlung: Hunderttausende inaktive BundID-Konten sind gelöscht
Die Zahl der BundID-Nutzerkonten ist Ende 2024 um mehrere hunderttausend auf rund 4,9 Millionen zurückgegangen. Die Nutzungsrate bei den Verbliebenen steigt.

APS Explorer: Navigating Algorithm Performance Spaces for Informed Dataset Selection
Tobias Vente, Michael Heep, Abdullah Abbas, Theodor Sperle, Joeran Beel, Bart Goethals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19399

APS Explorer: Navigating Algorithm Performance Spaces for Informed Dataset Selection
Dataset selection is crucial for offline recommender system experiments, as mismatched data (e.g., sparse interaction scenarios require datasets with low user-item density) can lead to unreliable results. Yet, 86\% of ACM RecSys 2024 papers provide no justification for their dataset choices, with most relying on just four datasets: Amazon (38\%), MovieLens (34\%), Yelp (15\%), and Gowalla (12\%). While Algorithm Performance Spaces (APS) were proposed to guide dataset selection, their adoption h…

On recurrence coefficients of classical orthogonal polynomials
K. Castillo, G. Gordillo-N\'u\~nez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20646 https://arxiv.org/pd…

On recurrence coefficients of classical orthogonal polynomials
In Lett. Math. Phys. 114, 54 (2024) and 115, 70 (2025), the author introduces what is presented as a novel method for determining whether a sequence of orthogonal polynomials is "classical", based solely on its initial recurrence coefficients. This note demonstrates that all the results contained in those works are already encompassed by two general theorems previously established in J. Math. Anal. Appl. 515 (2022), Article 126390. A symbolic algorithm, implemented in Mathematica, is also provi…

Jets' Jermaine Johnson II believes he can be 'trump card' in return from injury

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jets-jermaine-johnson-ii-b…

Polymarket raised "double-digit millions" from 1789 Capital, which Donald Trump Jr. joined as a partner in 2024; Trump Jr. will join Polymarket's advisory board (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/26/trump-jr-vc-fund-polymarket

Scoop: Donald Trump Jr.'s VC firm bets on Polymarket
1789 Capital invested double-digit millions of dollars into Polymarket

Measurements of enriched 155 Gd and 157Gd converters with the NMX detector on the nTOF EAR2 beam line at CERN
D. Pfeiffer, F. M. Brunbauer, I. R. Fehse, A. D. Finke, K. Fissum, K. J. Floethner, D. Janssens, M. Lisowska, H. Muller, E. Oksanen, E. Oliveri, L. Ropelewski, A. Rusu, J. Samarati, L. Scharenberg, M. van Stenis, R. Veenhof, N. Zavaritskaya
https://

Measurements of enriched 155 Gd and 157Gd converters with the NMX detector on the nTOF EAR2 beam line at CERN
The detectors for the NMX instrument at the European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund use natural Gd as the neutron converter. In 2024, beam time was obtained at the neutron time-of flight experiment (nTOF) at CERN to study the feasibility of an upgrade to enriched Gd. A 10 x 10 cm^2 prototype of the NMX detector was equipped with two enriched Gd samples (157Gd and 155Gd) that were attached with copper tape to the natural Gd cathode of the detector. Three sets of measurements were taken, with th…

The Guardian’s reporting on AI is bordering on client journalism. It is so credulous and misinforming it feels like malpractice. Publishing an “interview” with an LLM like a 2024 Gizmodo joke article is embarrassing, sure, but it’s also laundering the ongoing marketing and investment push.

Liveblog vom Mittwoch zum Nachlesen
Nach russischen Angriffen auf Energieanlagen sind in drei ukrainischen Regionen etwa 100.000 Menschen ohne Strom. Die Bundesregierung hat 2024 Rüstungsexporte im Wert von 8,15 Milliarden Euro an Kiew genehmigt.
🔗 https://www.

Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ 100.000 Ukrainer ohne Strom ++
Nach russischen Angriffen auf Energieanlagen sind in drei ukrainischen Regionen etwa 100.000 Menschen ohne Strom. Die Bundesregierung hat 2024 Rüstungsexporte im Wert von 8,15 Milliarden Euro an Kiew genehmigt.

Svalbard lost 1% of its ice in the summer of 2024, more than any year on record #Svalbard

Svalbard lost 1% of its ice in the summer of 2024, more than any year on record
Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago that is technically a part of Norway, lies about halfway between the northernmost part of Norway and the North Pole. Currently, about 60% of Svalbard's surface is covered in glaciers, but these glaciers are melting rapidly. During the summer of 2024, Svalbard experienced a record-breaking heat wave that melted more of its glaciers than ever before.

Dolphins OLBs coach Ryan Crow arrested and charged with domestic battery, placed on administrative leave

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

Magnetic interaction analysis of multiple interplanetary coronal mass ejections leading to a historic geomagnetic storm in May 2024
Sanchita Pal, Cecilia Mac Cormack, Emilia K. J. Kilpua, Yogesh, Lan K. Jian, Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16780

Magnetic interaction analysis of multiple interplanetary coronal mass ejections leading to a historic geomagnetic storm in May 2024
Interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs), the large-scale eruptive phenomena capable of shedding a huge amount of solar magnetic helicity and energy are potential in driving strong geomagnetic storms. They complexly evolve while preceded and followed by other large-scale structures e.g. ICMEs. Magnetic interaction among multiple ICMEs may result intense and long-lived geomagnetic storms. Our aim is to understand the reason of substantial changes in the geoeffectivity of two meso-scale sepa…

A profile of A24, valued at $3.5B in June 2024, as the studio focuses on big budget projects and invests in AI tools via A24 Labs, drawing mixed reactions (Alex Barasch/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/a24s-empire-of-auteurs?curre…

A24’s Empire of Auteurs
Alex Barasch offers the first inside look at the studio behind such movies as Ari Aster’s “Midsommar,” Celine Song’s “Past Lives,” the Daniels’ “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” Barry Jenkins’s “Moonlight,” and Josh Safdie’s upcoming “Marty Supreme”—and reports on its shift toward big budgets and A.I. tools.

UK-based Yoto, whose screen-free speakers for kids play audiobooks and music, reports 2024 revenue up 86% YoY to £94.8M and expects to turn a profit in 2025 (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/fbd8dbbc-3b47-45d6-a380-1e973c61d903

📢 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.

"Svalbard lost 1% of its ice in the summer of 2024, more than any year on record"
#Svalbard #Glacier #Climate #ClimateChange

Svalbard lost 1% of its ice in the summer of 2024, more than any year on record
Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago that is technically a part of Norway, lies about halfway between the northernmost part of Norway and the North Pole. Currently, about 60% of Svalbard's surface is covered in glaciers, but these glaciers are melting rapidly. During the summer of 2024, Svalbard experienced a record-breaking heat wave that melted more of its glaciers than ever before.

GWTC-4.0: Updating the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog with Observations from the First Part of the Fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing Run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18082

GWTC-4.0: Updating the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog with Observations from the First Part of the Fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing Run
Version 4.0 of the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-4.0) adds new candidates detected by the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA observatories through the first part of the fourth observing run (O4a: 2023 May 24 15:00:00 to 2024 January 16 16:00:00 UTC) and a preceding engineering run. In this new data, we find 128 new compact binary coalescence candidates that are identified by at least one of our search algorithms with a probability of astrophysical origin $p_{\rm astro} \geq 0.5$ and that are n…

Stellt euch vor: Ein Asteroid schlägt auf dem Mond ein und ist von der Erde aus zu beobachten! 🌕💥
Genau dieses Szenario könnte am 22. Dezember 2032 Realität werden, wenn der Asteroid 2024 YR4 tatsächlich auf unserem Trabanten einschlägt.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10457429

The State of Papers, Retractions, and Preprints: Evidence from the CrossRef Database (2004-2024)
Khalid M. Saqr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21232 https://…

The State of Papers, Retractions, and Preprints: Evidence from the CrossRef Database (2004-2024)
A 20-year analysis of CrossRef metadata demonstrates that global scholarly output -- encompassing publications, retractions, and preprints -- exhibits strikingly inertial growth, well-described by exponential, quadratic, and logistic models with nearly indistinguishable goodness-of-fit. Retraction dynamics, in particular, remain stable and minimally affected by the COVID-19 shock, which contributed less than 1% to total notices. Since 2004, publications doubled every 9.8 years, retractions ever…

El Paso heat deaths hit record highs in 2023 and 2024. Advocates say the most vulnerable people are left unprotected
https://us2.campaign-archive.com/?e=fa4ac89bc1&u=7c733794100bcc7e083a163f0&id=72ef7d1ce0
> Get all…

SODA4: a mesoscale ocean/sea ice reanalysis 1980-2024
Gennady A. Chepurin, James A. Carton, Luyu Sun, Stephen G. Penny
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17462 https://

SODA4: a mesoscale ocean/sea ice reanalysis 1980-2024
This paper describes the new Simple Ocean Data Assimilation version 4 (SODA4) global eddy-resolving ocean/sea ice reanalysis that spans the 45-year period 1980-2024. The reanalysis is constructed using GFDL MOM5/SIS1 numerics and ECMWF ERA5 forcings with surface and subsurface temperature and salinity observations as constraints within an optimal interpolation data assimilation algorithm. The method of construction and resulting output files are described. Comparison of the SODA4 temperature an…

from my link log —
Updating a large codebase to Rust 2024.
https://codeandbitters.com/rust-2024-upgrade/
saved 2025-02-07 https://…

Ukraine: Über 100.000 Menschen nach Angriffen ohne Strom
In der Ukraine sind nach russischen Angriffen laut Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj mehr als 100.000 Verbraucher in drei Regionen ohne Strom. Energieanlagen seien gezielt beschädigt worden, schreibt Selenskyj auf der Online-Plattform X. Der Angriff habe Stromausfälle in den Regionen Poltawa, Sumy und Tschernihiw verursacht.
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ 100.000 Ukrainer ohne Strom ++
Nach russischen Angriffen auf Energieanlagen sind in drei ukrainischen Regionen etwa 100.000 Menschen ohne Strom. Die Bundesregierung hat 2024 Rüstungsexporte im Wert von 8,15 Milliarden Euro an Kiew genehmigt.

I got my bike all sorted! Took it back to the shop and my friend there was like "Your chain is all twisted!" and yeah, it was.
I didn't inspect it closely after the incident the other day, but it it was literally twisted in one spot.
They threw on a new chain, checked the derailers and cassette and it all good now. I did a 3 mile ride this morning with no issues.
(And I forgot I got a new cassette in Feb 2024.)

How the number of days per year that temperature exceeds 85F (29.4°C) exploded within one generation. Look at Spain, but also Italy, Greece, Bulgaria!
And underneath those lighter shades, the number is growing too.
By NY Times via María Ramirez on Bluesky.

Docs: xAI terminated its status as a public benefit corporation as of May 9, 2024; XAI Holdings, which houses xAI and X, also doesn't have a PBC designation (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/25/elon-musk-xai-dropp…

Elon Musk's xAI secretly dropped its benefit corporation status while fighting OpenAI
Elon Musk started xAI as a public benefit corporation, but dropped that distinction last year as the company's operations in Memphis, Tennessee were expanding.

‼️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.

As @pluralistic writes here, “the American right is a brittle coalition:”
https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/14/fracture-lines/
We imagine the right as monolithic at our peril. Reply guys love, love, love to lecture me about how These People are all the same. Here’s the thing: they are not, and imagining they are is self-defeating. The right has been •incredibly• effective at finding fracture points on the left and jamming a crowbar into them. It’s time we did the same.
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Ende des Liveblogs
Wir schließen an dieser Stelle den Liveblog für Mittwoch und danken für Ihr Interesse.
📑 https://www.tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveblog-ukraine-mittwoch-524.html?at_medium=mast…

Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ 100.000 Ukrainer ohne Strom ++
Nach russischen Angriffen auf Energieanlagen sind in drei ukrainischen Regionen etwa 100.000 Menschen ohne Strom. Die Bundesregierung hat 2024 Rüstungsexporte im Wert von 8,15 Milliarden Euro an Kiew genehmigt.

Interesting! The Swedes have found that if they add the enzyme endolysin to antibiotics, that they can work again against resistant bacteria.

I have finally accepted that I am a weird bird when it comes to guitars—I generally have one that I do everything with. Every time I've had another one, they gather dust until I move them on. I've never collected, never found a use for more than one.
My number ones:
2019-23 was a PRS 594, kept until this week
2023-24 Schecter USA Nick Johnston, which was traded for...
2024-25 PRS Studio
(1/n)

"In a record year for forest loss across the tropics, more than a fifth of all the primary forest destroyed in 2024 was in Bolivia, placing the Latin American nation at the very heart of a global crisis."
Bolivia Burning: ‘We are on the edge of a precipice’ | Latin America Bureau

Bolivia Burning: ‘We are on the edge of a precipice’ | Latin America Bureau
In a record year for forest loss across the tropics, more than a fifth of all the primary forest destroyed in 2024 was in Bolivia, placing the Latin

Stochastic heat flow is a black noise
Yu Gu, Li-Cheng Tsai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16484 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.16484

Stochastic heat flow is a black noise
We prove that the stochastic heat flow Caravenna Sun Zygouras (2023), Tsai (2024) is a black noise in the sense of Tsirelson (2004). As a corollary, the 2d stochastic heat equation driven by a mollified spacetime white noise becomes asymptotically independent of that noise in the scaling limit.

Charlie Tanfield Hour Record Attempt Results: live tracker
https://britishcyclingrecords.veloresults.com/HourRecord/results/689d248fe342682ea47f8392
How far will he ride in an hour?

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

Canary in the Mine: An LLM Augmented Survey of Disciplinary Complaints to the Ordre des ing\'enieurs du Qu\'ebec (OIQ)
Tammy Mackenzie, Varsha Kesavan, Thomas Mekhael, Animesh Paul, Branislav Radeljic, Sara Kodeiri, Sreyoshi Bhaduri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19775

Canary in the Mine: An LLM Augmented Survey of Disciplinary Complaints to the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ)
This study uses pre-trained LLMs to conduct thematic analysis to investigate disciplinary incidents involving engineers in Quebec, shedding light on critical gaps in engineering education. Through a comprehensive review of the disciplinary register of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ)'s disciplinary register for 2010 to 2024, researchers from engineering education and human resources management in technological development laboratories conducted a thematic analysis of reported incident…

Merz warnt vor Bedrohung aus Russland
Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz hat das vom Kabinett beschlossene Gesetzespaket für Sicherheit und Verteidigung mit der Bedrohung aus Moskau begründet. "Russland führt längst hybride Attacken gegen uns", sagte Merz nach einer Sitzung des Bundeskabinetts im Berliner Verteidigungsministerium. Er verwies unter anderem auf eine "massive Einmischung" in die deutsche Demokratie sowie gezielte Angr…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ 100.000 Ukrainer ohne Strom ++
Nach russischen Angriffen auf Energieanlagen sind in drei ukrainischen Regionen etwa 100.000 Menschen ohne Strom. Die Bundesregierung hat 2024 Rüstungsexporte im Wert von 8,15 Milliarden Euro an Kiew genehmigt.

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In case you've missed it. About linux desktop on arm
https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Where-are-w…

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz
https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rfutation-des-affirmations.html

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
En tant que victime, survivant de la dérive sectaire Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) et défenseur de la justice, des droits des enfants, des droits humains et de la …

Die deutschen Unternehmen halten sich bei Neueinstellungen im IT-Bereich derzeit stark zurück. Laut einer aktuellen Analyse des Instituts der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln ging die Zahl offener IT-Stellen zwischen 2023 und 2024 um mehr als ein Viertel zurück – ein Minus von rund 16.500 Stellen.
Zum Artikel:

Next Generation
#HardRock #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2024/next-generation-nowp…

Next Generation #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Open Data from LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA through the First Part of the Fourth Observing Run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18079

Open Data from LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA through the First Part of the Fourth Observing Run
LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA form a network of gravitational-wave observatories. Data and analysis results from this network are made publicly available through the Gravitational Wave Open Science Center. This paper describes open data from this network, including the addition of data from the first part of the fourth observing run (O4a) and selected periods from the preceding engineering run, collected from May 2023 to January 2024. The public data set includes calibrated strain time series for each…

Es gibt keine Totalverweigerer!! Niemand nutzt das System aus! Ein signifikanter Anteil der Ausgaben fürs Bürgergeld ging an „Aufstocker:innen”, Menschen welche trotz Arbeit nicht genug zum Leben haben! Alle nutzen die existierenden Sozialsysteme so wie sie sollen.
Es gibt keine Studie die belegt das „härtere Strafen” Arbeitslosigkeit verringern, es stärkt nur psychische Probleme und drängt mehr Menschen in die Obdachlosigkeit.
Man merkt wo eine Billionen Euro für Aufrüstung und…

Resnet-conformer network with shared weights and attention mechanism for sound event localization, detection, and distance estimation
Quoc Thinh Vo, David Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17941

Resnet-conformer network with shared weights and attention mechanism for sound event localization, detection, and distance estimation
This technical report outlines our approach to Task 3A of the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) 2024, focusing on Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD). SELD provides valuable insights by estimating sound event localization and detection, aiding in various machine cognition tasks such as environmental inference, navigation, and other sound localization-related applications. This year's challenge evaluates models using either audio-only (Track A) or audio…

The new Compendium is here, and it’s more than just data. [Part 1]
Created by and for the #NREN community, this year’s edition brings the 2024 survey results to life through stories, context, and reflections from NRENs and expert contributors.
🔗 Read the report and explore the data:

Fantasy Football 2025 draft day targets: Five rookies most likely to break out as league-winning picks

https://www.cbssports.com/fantas…

new* mary timony is so good. late-career triumph
https://marytimony.bandcamp.com/album/untame-the-tiger-2
*feb 2024. i overlooked it so long despite her being an all time favorite vocalist and songwriter

Microsoft entlässt weitere 9000 Leute. Mit KI wird die Qualität deren Software auch nicht besser. Die Finanzergebnisse waren 2024 rekordverdächtig – 245 Mrd. Dollar Umsatz (Steigerung um 16 %) und 109 Mrd. Dollar operativer Gewinn (Steigerung um ein Viertel). Damit werden vor allem Spielestudiis aufgekauft und neue Rechenzentren gebaut.
Mehr dazu in 18 Sprachen auf

Ukraine: Weitergabe von Kriegsdaten für Training von KI
Die Ukraine prüft die Weitergabe ihrer umfangreichen Daten vom Kriegsgeschehen an Verbündete und will diese als "Trumpf" bei Verhandlungen über weitere Unterstützung einsetzen. "Die Daten, die wir haben, sind für jedes Land von unschätzbarem Wert", sagte der für die Digitalisierung zuständige stellvertretende Ministerpräsident Mychajlo Fedorow am Mittwoch in einem Interv…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ 100.000 Ukrainer ohne Strom ++
Nach russischen Angriffen auf Energieanlagen sind in drei ukrainischen Regionen etwa 100.000 Menschen ohne Strom. Die Bundesregierung hat 2024 Rüstungsexporte im Wert von 8,15 Milliarden Euro an Kiew genehmigt.

Permutations satisfying $(P_1)$ and $(P_2)$ properties and $\ell$-optimal bent functions
Sadmir Kudin, Enes Pasalic, Alexandr Polujan, Fengrong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14277

Permutations satisfying $(P_1)$ and $(P_2)$ properties and $\ell$-optimal bent functions
An important classification of permutations over $\mathbb{F}_2^m$, suitable for constructing Maiorana-McFarland bent functions on $\mathbb{F}_2^m \times \mathbb{F}_2^m$ with the unique $M$-subspace of maximal dimension, was recently considered in Pasalic et al. (IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory 70(6): 4464-4477, 2024). More precisely, two properties called $(P_1)$ and $(P_2)$ were introduced and a generic method of constructing permutations having the property $(P_1)$ was presented, whereas no such resu…

HARLF: Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning and Lightweight LLM-Driven Sentiment Integration for Financial Portfolio Optimization
Benjamin Coriat, Eric Benhamou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18560

HARLF: Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning and Lightweight LLM-Driven Sentiment Integration for Financial Portfolio Optimization
This paper presents a novel hierarchical framework for portfolio optimization, integrating lightweight Large Language Models (LLMs) with Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) to combine sentiment signals from financial news with traditional market indicators. Our three-tier architecture employs base RL agents to process hybrid data, meta-agents to aggregate their decisions, and a super-agent to merge decisions based on market data and sentiment analysis. Evaluated on data from 2018 to 2024, after t…

Studios are rereleasing old films in theaters, helping them pad out thin slates; Universal has 12 rereleases on its 2025 slate, vs. four in 2024 and two in 2023 (Esther Zuckerman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/movies/rereleases-black-swan-…

Why ‘Black Swan,’ ‘Jaws’ and ‘Clue’ Are Coming Back to Theaters
The multiplex is awash in titles that are 15, 20, even 60 years old. Nostalgia is a factor but economics play a big part, too.

Over the last 6 months, potus has made decisions economists on both sides of the aisle said would lower the number of new jobs created in the U.S. (random inconsistent import taxes, tariffs, are bad).
That’s the only “rigging” going on.
https://trumpstruth.org/statuses/32338

Donald J. Trump: "In my opinion, today’s Jobs Numbers were RIGGED in order to make the Republi...
In my opinion, today’s Jobs Numbers were RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad — Just like when they had three great days around the 2024 Presidential Election, and then, those numbers were “taken away” on November 15, 2024, right after the Election, when the Jobs Numbers were massively revised DOWNWARD, making a correction of over 818,000 Jobs — A TOTAL SCAM. Jerome “Too Late” Powell is no better! But, the good news is, our Country is doing GREAT!

Calls coming in are reports of homeless encampments, mental health crises and people sleeping on sidewalks.
Those calls will now be directed to Los Angeles County’s Emergency Centralized Response Center,
a new department designed to consolidate over 150 outreach teams across 88 cities, all under one roof.
The department soft-launched in January of this year following a motion that was introduced by LA County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath back in September 2024
Officials…

A look inside LA County's new emergency dispatch center for homelessness
The department hopes to increase accountability and deliver results

Booth after first career pick-six: 'It's me versus me' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/booth-after-first-career-pick-six-it-s-me-versus-me

Russland meldet Einnahme weiterer Ortschaft in Ostukraine
Russland hat nach eigenen Angaben die Ortschaft Osarjaniwka in der ostukrainischen Region Donezk eingenommen. Dies teilt das Verteidigungsministerium in Moskau mit. Die Angaben lassen sich von unabhängiger Seite nicht überprüfen.
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ 100.000 Ukrainer ohne Strom ++
Nach russischen Angriffen auf Energieanlagen sind in drei ukrainischen Regionen etwa 100.000 Menschen ohne Strom. Die Bundesregierung hat 2024 Rüstungsexporte im Wert von 8,15 Milliarden Euro an Kiew genehmigt.

from my link log —
Mix-testing: revealing a new class of compiler concurrency bugs.
https://johnwickerson.wordpress.com/2024/06/28/mix-testing-revealing-a-new-class-of-compiler-bugs/
saved 2024-06-29

Mix-testing: revealing a new class of compiler bugs
I’m delighted that Luke Geeson’s work on “mix testing” (a collaboration with James Brotherston, Wilco Dijkstra, Alastair Donaldson, Lee Smith, Tyler Sorensen, and myself) will app…

State of the Climate in 2024 ist erschienen.
2024 war das wärmste Jahr seit Beginn der Aufzeichnungen. Die #CO2-Konzentration stieg auf 422,8 ppm – 52 % über dem vorindustriellen Niveau.
Extreme #Wetterlagen nahmen zu: schwere Überschwemmungen in

State of the Climate in 2024
Abstract Editors note: For easy download the posted pdf of the State of the Climate in 2024 is a low-resolution file. A high-resolution copy of the report is available by clicking here. Please be patient as it may take a few minutes for the high-resolution file to download.

EVP: EU-Truppe in Ukraine zur Friedensabsicherung vorstellbar
Der Chef der konservativen EVP-Fraktion im Europaparlament, Manfred Weber, bringt gemeinsame europäische Truppen zur Absicherung eines möglichen Friedens in der Ukraine ins Spiel. Vielleicht sei dies jetzt der richtige Zeitpunkt, sagte der CSU-Vize. Er könne sich gemeinsame Truppen mit der europäischen Fahne auf der Uniform vorstellen, eventuell sogar unter Einbind…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ 100.000 Ukrainer ohne Strom ++
Nach russischen Angriffen auf Energieanlagen sind in drei ukrainischen Regionen etwa 100.000 Menschen ohne Strom. Die Bundesregierung hat 2024 Rüstungsexporte im Wert von 8,15 Milliarden Euro an Kiew genehmigt.

This "service" is thanks to the numbskulls the Tories hired when they were still in power. Utter incompetence.

Commanders, Terry McLaurin agree to 3-year, $96 million contract extension https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6432712/2025/08/25/terry-mclaurin-commanders-contract-extension/

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://

Kreml: Treffen zwischen Putin und Selenskyj braucht "gute Vorbereitung"
Russland hat in Bezug auf ein Treffen zwischen Präsident Wladimir Putin und dem ukrainischen Staatsoberhaupt Wolodymyr Selenskyj die Notwendigkeit einer "guten Vorbereitung" betont. Die Chefs der russischen und ukrainischen Delegationen seien im Gespräch, sagte Kremlsprecher Dmitri Peskow. "Jeder weitere Kontakt auf hohem Niveau oder auf höchster Ebene mu…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ 100.000 Ukrainer ohne Strom ++
Nach russischen Angriffen auf Energieanlagen sind in drei ukrainischen Regionen etwa 100.000 Menschen ohne Strom. Die Bundesregierung hat 2024 Rüstungsexporte im Wert von 8,15 Milliarden Euro an Kiew genehmigt.

Selenskyj: Ukrainisches Team trifft am Freitag US-Regierungsvertreter
Im Ringen um ein Ende des Ukraine-Krieges werden ukrainische Regierungsvertreter nach Angaben von Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj am Freitag mit US-Vertretern in New York zusammenkommen. "Am Freitag finden in New York, in den Vereinigten Staaten, Treffen mit dem Team von Präsident (Donald) Trump statt", sagte Selenskyj am Mittwoch in seiner abendlichen Videoa…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ 100.000 Ukrainer ohne Strom ++
Nach russischen Angriffen auf Energieanlagen sind in drei ukrainischen Regionen etwa 100.000 Menschen ohne Strom. Die Bundesregierung hat 2024 Rüstungsexporte im Wert von 8,15 Milliarden Euro an Kiew genehmigt.

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 …

Non-uniform bounds for non-normal approximation via Stein's method with applications to the Curie--Weiss model and the imitative monomer-dimer model
L\^e V\v{a}n Th\`anh, Nguyen Ngoc Tu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17061

Non-uniform bounds for non-normal approximation via Stein's method with applications to the Curie--Weiss model and the imitative monomer-dimer model
This paper establishes a non-uniform Berry--Esseen bound for non-normal approximation using Stein's method. The main theorem generalizes the result of the authors in [Comptes Rendus Mathematique, 2024] to the context of non-normal approximation. As an application of the main result, we derive non-uniform Berry--Esseen bounds in non-central limit theorems for the magnetization in the Curie--Weiss model and the imitative monomer-dimer model. These extend some existing results in the literature, i…

Confirmed: another big jump in atmospheric CO2 concentration. The June average at Mauna Loa was 429.6 ppm, that's 2.7 ppm more than last year!
#co2 #emissions #climatechange

from my link log —
Post-mortem of network outage affecting OpenStreetMap.org in December 2024.
https://operations.osmfoundation.org/2025/02/15/post-mortem.html
saved 2025-02-15

Optimizing Peer Grading: A Systematic Literature Review of Reviewer Assignment Strategies and Quantity of Reviewers
Uchswas Paul, Shail Shah, Sri Vaishnavi Mylavarapu, M. Parvez Rashid, Edward Gehringer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11678

Optimizing Peer Grading: A Systematic Literature Review of Reviewer Assignment Strategies and Quantity of Reviewers
Peer assessment has established itself as a critical pedagogical tool in academic settings, offering students timely, high-quality feedback to enhance learning outcomes. However, the efficacy of this approach depends on two factors: (1) the strategic allocation of reviewers and (2) the number of reviews per artifact. This paper presents a systematic literature review of 87 studies (2010--2024) to investigate how reviewer-assignment strategies and the number of reviews per submission impact the …

The new #Compendium is here, and it’s more than just data. [Part 2]
While every NREN is unique, we’re united by a shared mission: delivering interlinked core services that power #Research & #Education

Wirtschaftsinstitut: IT-Fachkräfte sind in Deutschland deutlich weniger gefragt
Die durchschnittliche Zahl offener Stellen in IT-Berufen hat sich 2024 gegenüber 2023 um 26 Prozent reduziert. Gerade Experten mit Uni-Abschluss sind betroffen.

SuryaBench: Benchmark Dataset for Advancing Machine Learning in Heliophysics and Space Weather Prediction
Sujit Roy, Dinesha V. Hegde, Johannes Schmude, Amy Lin, Vishal Gaur, Rohit Lal, Kshitiz Mandal, Talwinder Singh, Andr\'es Mu\~noz-Jaramillo, Kang Yang, Chetraj Pandey, Jinsu Hong, Berkay Aydin, Ryan McGranaghan, Spiridon Kasapis, Vishal Upendran, Shah Bahauddin, Daniel da Silva, Marcus Freitag, Iksha Gurung, Nikolai Pogorelov, Campbell Watson, Manil Maskey, Juan Bernabe-Moreno,…

SuryaBench: Benchmark Dataset for Advancing Machine Learning in Heliophysics and Space Weather Prediction
This paper introduces a high resolution, machine learning-ready heliophysics dataset derived from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), specifically designed to advance machine learning (ML) applications in solar physics and space weather forecasting. The dataset includes processed imagery from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) and Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI), spanning a solar cycle from May 2010 to July 2024. To ensure suitability for ML tasks, the data has been preprocessed…

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Canva launches employee stock sale to new and existing investors at a $42B valuation, up 30% from $32B in 2024, reports $3.3B annualized sales and 240M MAUs (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

L\'{e}vy processes as weak limits of rough Heston models
Alessandro Bondi, Martin Forde
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14835 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.148…

Lévy processes as weak limits of rough Heston models
We show weak convergence of the marginals for a re-scaled rough Heston model to a Normal Inverse Gaussian (NIG) Lévy process. This shows we can obtain such a limit without having to impose that the true Hurst exponent $H$ for the model is $\frac{1}{2}$ as in [Abi Jaber, & De Carvalho, 2024], or that $H\searrow -\frac{1}{2}$ as in [Abi Jaber, Attal, & Rosenbaum, 2025], so the result potentially has increased financial relevance. We later extend to the case when $V$ has jumps, where we show weak…

EliseAI, which provides AI tools for healthcare and housing industries, raised a $250M Series E led by a16z, doubling its valuation to $2.2B from August 2024 (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcar

from my link log —
Legacy safety: the Wrocław C wg21 meeting.
https://cor3ntin.github.io/posts/profiles/
saved 2024-12-04 https://

Police: Shots fired at Chiefs facility an open case https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46040567/police-shots-fired-chiefs-facility-2024-open-case

Der Ausbau der #Windenergie in Deutschland hat im ersten Halbjahr 2025 deutlich zugelegt.
Mit 405 neuen Onshore-Anlagen und 2.157 MW installierter Leistung wurde der Zubau gegenüber 2024 mehr als verdoppelt.
Treiber sind beschleunigte Genehmigungen und höhere Ausschreibungszuschläge.

Ausbau Windenergie: Deutschland verdoppelt neue Windenergieleistung an Land im ersten Halbjahr 2025
Münster – Der Ausbau der Windenergie in Deutschland hat sich im ersten Halbjahr 2025 im Vergleich zum Vorjahr deutlich beschleunigt. Dies geht aus einer ersten vorläufigen Auswertung von Daten des Marktstammdatenregisters (MaStR) der Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA) durch das Internationale Wirtschaftsforum Regenerative Energien (IWR) in Münster (Datenstand: 01. Juli 2025) hervor.

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz
https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rfutation-des-affirmations.html

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
En tant que victime, survivant de la dérive sectaire Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) et défenseur de la justice, des droits des enfants, des droits humains et de la …

Filing: Netflix UK distribution arm reports revenue of £1.85B for 2024, up 11% from 2023, and an 11% growth in average paid memberships (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/netflix-uk-revenue-surges-2-billion-profits-grow…

Netflix U.K. Revenue Surges to $2.4 Billion, Profits Grow
Netflix's U.K. arm delivered a strong performance in 2024, with revenue climbing 11% to $2.48 billion as the streaming giant continued its expansion.

Filing: Shein reports 2024 UK sales up 32.3% YoY to £2.05B, making the UK its third largest market after the US and Germany, as it works toward a Hong Kong IPO (Helen Reid/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co

from my link log —
Boolean blindness.
https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/boolean-blindness/
saved 2024-09-21

Boolean Blindness
I hate Booleans!  But isn’t everything “just bits”?  Aren’t computers built from gates?  And aren’t gates just the logical connectives?  How can a Computer Scientist p…

Shooting at Chiefs facility kept quiet at behest of team, president says https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6567768/2025/08/21/chiefs-shooting-andy-reid-team-facility/

Klarna reports Q2 revenue up 25% YoY to $823M with a net loss of $53M, up from a net loss of $18M in Q2 2024, as it prepares for a second attempt at a US IPO (Akila Quinio/Financial Times)

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in Deutschland. Stand: 09.08.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erste Versuche einer #Datenanalyse. 😁 Hinweise gerne. Wü…

Media advocates criticize a US Department of Energy plan to throw out FOIA requests sent before October 1, 2024, unless the request is formally renewed (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/trump-administration-outlines-p…

Trump Administration Outlines Plan to Throw Out an Agency's FOIA Requests En Masse
The Department of Energy said it will close FOIA requests from last year unless the requester emails the agency to say they are still interested. Experts say it's an "attempt to close out as many FOIA requests as possible."

Derek Stingley Jr. is comparable to Deion Sanders in one key area, Texans coach Demeco Ryans explains

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/derek-s

from my link log —
Making a compiler to prove tmux Is Turing complete.
https://willhbr.net/2024/03/15/making-a-compiler-to-prove-tmux-is-turing-complete/
saved 2025-08-01

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 303 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29697 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

Uzbek fintech and e-commerce company Uzum raised $65.5M led by Tencent and VR Capital at a ~$1.5B valuation, up from $1.16B in March 2024 after a $114M Series A (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/05/uzbekistans-first-unicorn-…

Uzbekistan's first unicorn, Uzum, leaps to a $1.5B valuation | TechCrunch
Uzbekistan's Uzum has raised $65.5 million in a new funding round co-led by China's Tencent and the New York- and London-based VR Capital, with participation from U.S.-based FinSight Capital.

Der Mai 2025 war global der zweitwärmste Mai seit Beginn der Aufzeichnungen.
Laut ERA5-Daten lag die durchschnittliche #Oberflächentemperatur 0,53 °C über dem Mittel von 1991–2020 und 1,40 °C über dem vorindustriellen Niveau.
Nur der Mai 2024 war wärmer. In den letzten 23 Monaten überschritt die globale Temperatur 14-mal deutlich die 1,5-Grad-Marke.

Laut #Klimaschutzbericht sanken Deutschlands #CO2-Emissionen 2024 um 3,4 % auf 649 Mio.
Tonnen, vor allem dank Einsparungen im #Energiesektor.

Klimaschutzbericht - Trotz sinkender Emissionen - Deutschland droht Klimaziele 2040 und 2045 zu verfehlen
Die Treibhausgasemissionen in Deutschland sind im vergangenen Jahr um 3,4 Prozent gesunken.

Ukraine erhält weitere Milliardensumme aus der EU
Aus Gewinnen von eingefrorenem Staatsvermögen Russlands in der EU können weitere 1,6 Milliarden Euro zur Unterstützung der Ukraine genutzt werden. Die Zinserträge seien an die EU ausgezahlt worden und sollen nun als Finanzhilfe für die Ukraine verwendet werden, wie die EU-Kommission mitteilte.
Es ist den Angaben zufolge nach Zahlungen im Juli 2024 und April 2025 die dritte Üb…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Selenskyj sieht "echte Chance" auf Frieden ++
Der ukrainische Präsident Selenskyj sieht angesichts einer Vielzahl an Kontakten zu Staatschefs eine reelle Chance auf Frieden. Kanzler Merz will am Mittwoch bei einer Videokonferenz unter anderem mit US-Präsident Trump beraten.