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🐛 Using nanotechnology to target crop-munching pests and spare beneficial bugs
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-nanotechnology-crop-munching-pests-beneficial.html

Using nanotechnology to target crop-munching pests and spare beneficial bugs
A bane of farmers' existence, it's estimated that plant-eating pests are responsible for the loss of up to 40% of pre-harvest yields globally. But a new generation of crop treatments that target only "bad" bugs could mean big gains for the Canadian agriculture sector, improving pest management tools in an industry that in 2024 generated over $142 billion.

On Website Technicals (2024-12) - Tech updates: jq FTW, pasteurisation, freq out, mdash and ndash fun, 2025, webFeed. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-91.html

On Website Technicals (2024-12)
Tech updates: jq FTW, pasteurisation, freq out, mdash and ndash fun, 2025, webFeed.

“In August 2024, SubwayTakes was invited to interview Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. During Rahma's interview of Harris, Harris surprised Rahma when she diverted from the pre-approved take against removing shoes on airplanes to a "Bacon is a spice" take. This take offended Rahma's Muslim beliefs, causing Rahma to ask to do the pre-approved take. But, after being advised by a staffer, Harris moved to a pro-anchovies-on-pizza take. This caused Rahma to quickly end the video. Aft…

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
BKA: 548 Millionen Fluggastdatensätze durchsucht – 1525 Verdächtige verhaftet

"In 2024, the climate crisis worsened in all ways. But we can still limit warming with bold action"
#Climate #ClimateChange

In 2024, the climate crisis worsened in all ways. But we can still limit warming with bold action
We are living in a hotter, more chaotic world, with more emissions, fires and fossil fuel consumption.

The Earth is reflecting less and less sunlight, study reveals #environment

The Earth is reflecting less and less sunlight, study reveals
The Earth became darker from 2001 to 2024, meaning it reflects less sunlight, a research team reports in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Today at Pyöräpaja someone brought some green tea candy from China. Delicious. It is imported to the EU by a company in #Prato, Italy. I knew the businesses in Prato Chinatown for the clothing sector, I was not aware of the food importers. Such a blessing!
(The company apparently grew its revenues by 13,000 % in 2024.)

KPMG: the 12 largest media companies collectively spent ~$210B on content in 2024, up 4% YoY, led by Comcast/NBCUniversal at $37B and YouTube at $32B (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/content-spending-2024-re…

Content Spending Hit $210B in 2024, Led by Comcast, YouTube, Disney
The biggest media companies set a new content-spending record in 2024, paying out around $210 billion, according to an analysis by KPMG.

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

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

👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Erneuerbare Energien sind die teuersten“.
Eine Umfrage hat diesen Glauben in der deutschen Bevölkerung erst 2025 wieder gezeigt. Schauen wir uns die Kosten an. Wie schneiden

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

Another big jump in atmospheric CO2, (still) measured at Mauna Loa: Based on daily values, the November average was ~426.5 ppm, that's around 2.7 ppm higher than last year!
#ClimateChange #CO2 #emissions

from my link log —
Unification-free ("keyword") type checking.
https://www.haskellforall.com/2024/02/unification-free-keyword-type-checking.html
saved 2025-09-01

Unification-free ("keyword") type checking
Unification-free ("keyword") type checking From my perspective, one of the biggest open problems in imple...

The Brands That Gained the Most Value in 2025 - Voronoi
#brands

The Brands That Gained the Most Value in 2025
What We're Showing This graphic is based on data from Brand Finance, highlighting the global brands that saw the largest gains in brand value from 2024 to 20…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
The Gits:
🎵 Second Skin
#TheGits
https://thegits.bandcamp.com/track/second-skin-live-at-rkcndy-2024-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Rvwe2nPrL4QiylcSD6lcy
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post

Commanders vs. Bears prediction, where to watch: Jayden Daniels, Caleb Williams set to light it up on 'MNF'

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

I learned this sad news with a huge delay because WKIT 404s today for some reason 😑 (WKIT was bought at the last minute by Jeff Solari and Greg Hawes, but up until now I didn't know this, as I tune in only occasionally.) ->
Stephen King’s radio stations to sign off for good at month’s end (Published: Dec. 2, 2024 at 5:01 PM EET)

Stephen King’s radio stations to sign off for good at month’s end
Stephen King’s radio stations are signing off for good at the end of the month.

Two post updates this week (my site host is… chunking):
• https://adrianroselli.com/2024/02/techniques-to-break-words.html#Update05 adds a W3C video about text wrap:

Donald Trump has said he will grand a pardon to
Juan Orlando Hernšndez,
the former president of Honduras
who is serving a 45-year prison sentence in the US
on drug trafficking and weapons charges.
Hernšndez was convicted in 2024 of accepting millions in bribes to protect cocaine shipments

Assine a Petição para libertar Joseph Figueira Martin
Em 26 de maio de 2024, Joseph Figueira Martin, um humanitšrio belga-português, foi preso em Zémio, uma cidade no leste da República Centro-Africana.
Bélgica e Portugal têm que tomar ação!
#Wagner

Sign the Petition: Free Joseph Figueira Martin! Humanitarian arbitrarily detained and tortured in the Central African Republic
Sign the petition to protect those who risk their lives to save others.

Amazon reports Q3 revenue up 13% YoY to $180.2B, a $21.2B net income vs. $15.3B in Q3 2024, and operating income flat at $17.4B; AMZN jumps 10% after hours (Amazon)
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251029099339/en/

Wandern auf den Laaber bei Oberammergau 2024
#hiking #silentsunday

Day 3: Octavia Butler.
Incredibly dark, graphic, and disturbing near-future science fiction, which has proved absolutely prophetic. In the 1990's she was writing about a charismatic Conservative Christian and white nationalist president elected in 2024, and the horrors his paramilitary followers would unleash, including forced labor & indoctrination camps. Did I mention those books include ebikes & pseudo-cellphones too? Characters fleeing north from a disastrous social collapse in Loss Angeles? This is "The Parable of the Sower" and "The Parable of the Talents" and the later was tragically rushed to an end because of Butler's declining health.
Her work deals unflinchingly with racism and the darker parts of society, and to those who might say "her depiction of social collapse is overblown," I'd say that while it's not literally the world we live in, it's *effectively* the world that the poorest of us live in. If you're a homeless undocumented latinx person in LA right now, I'm not sure how meaningfully different your world is from the one she depicts.
Her work comes with a strong content warning for lots of things, including racial violence, sexual abuse and slavery, including of children, animal harm, etc., so it's not for everyone. Reading it in 2023 was certainly an incredible trip. Her politics are really cool though; with explicit pro-LGBTQ themes and tinges of what might today be considered #SolarPunk.
#20WomenAuthors

Maria Branyas Morera verstarb mit 117 Jahren. Sie ermöglichte Forschern tiefe Einblicke in das Geheimnis gesunden Alterns
#Alter

Langlebigkeit: 117-jährige Frau ermöglicht Forschern tiefe Einblicke in das Geheimnis gesunden Alterns
Die Spanierin Maria Branyas Morera starb 2024 mit 117 Jahren. Forscher haben ihr Leben und Verhalten so tiefgehend untersucht wie nie zuvor bei einem „Supercentenarian“ – und gewannen erstaunliche Erkenntnisse.

Akatsuki: Letzte aktive Venusmission nach Kontaktabbruch eingestellt
Anfang 2024 ist der Kontakt zur einzigen aktiven Sonde an der Venus verloren gegangen, alle Rettungsversuche sind gescheitert. Nun wurde die Mission beendet.
…

#Gig workers in #Indonesia are coming together to demand fair compensation and better working conditions, despite immense challenges & an anti-#labor government.
Read more in my latest at

Datasets for Valence and Arousal Inference: A Survey
Helen Schneider, Svetlana Pavlitska, Helen Gremmelmaier, J. Marius Z\"ollner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00738 https://

Datasets for Valence and Arousal Inference: A Survey
Understanding human affect can be used in robotics, marketing, education, human-computer interaction, healthcare, entertainment, autonomous driving, and psychology to enhance decision-making, personalize experiences, and improve emotional well-being. This work presents a comprehensive overview of affect inference datasets that utilize continuous valence and arousal labels. We reviewed 25 datasets published between 2008 and 2024, examining key factors such as dataset size, subject distribution, …

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

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

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

Multiband Optical Photometric and Spectroscopic Monitoring of the 2024 Flare Event in Transition Blazar OP313
TianFang Zhang, Mitsuru Kokubo, Mamoru Doi, Haruna Hagio, Hibiki Seki, Ichiro Takahashi, Katsuhiro L. Murata, Kazuya Matsubayashi, Keisuke Isogai, Koji Kawabata, Mahito Sasada, Masafumi Niwano, Masaki Hashizume, Megumi Shidatsu, Narikazu Higuchi, Ryo Imazawa, Shigeaki Joshima, Shigeyuki Sako, Shunsuke Hayatsu, Yoichi Yatsu, Wataru Iwakiri, Yoshiyuki Kubo

Multiband Optical Photometric and Spectroscopic Monitoring of the 2024 Flare Event in Transition Blazar OP313
Blazars are active galactic nuclei known for their extreme variability, offering unique opportunities to study jet physics and high-energy emission mechanisms. In 2024, the Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar (FSRQ) OP313 underwent a remarkable flare event, during which the gamma-ray flux observed by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi/LAT) increased by a factor of 60 over its average value. The flare peak lasted less than two days. Using optical telescopes, we conducted 100-day time-scale observation…

"Let it be Chaos in the Plumbing!" Usage and Efficacy of Chaos Engineering in DevOps Pipelines
Stefano Fossati, Damian Andrew Tamburri, Massimiliano Di Penta, Marco Tonnarelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14931

"Let it be Chaos in the Plumbing!" Usage and Efficacy of Chaos Engineering in DevOps Pipelines
Chaos Engineering (CE) has emerged as a proactive method to improve the resilience of modern distributed systems, particularly within DevOps environments. Originally pioneered by Netflix, CE simulates real-world failures to expose weaknesses before they impact production. In this paper, we present a systematic gray literature review that investigates how industry practitioners have adopted and adapted CE principles over recent years. Analyzing 50 sources published between 2019 and early 2024, w…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 01.12.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Netflix says Southeast Asian content on the platform grew nearly 50% from 2023 to 2024 and 40 Southeast Asian titles were in its Global Top 10 in 2025 (Zac Ntim/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/netflix-southeast-asian-content-1236632912/

Netflix Says Global Viewership Of Southeast Asian Content Grew By Almost 50% From 2023 To 2024
The streamer reported that more than 100 Southeast Asian titles have appeared in Netflix’s Global Top 10.

A planetary system with a sub-Neptune planet in the habitable zone of TOI-2093
J. Sanz-Forcada, E. Gonz\'alez-\'Alvarez, M. R. Zapatero Osorio, J. A. Caballero, V. J. S. B\'ejar, E. Herrero, C. Rodr\'iguez-L\'opez, K. R. Sreenivas, L. Tal-Or, S. Vanaverbeke, A. P. Hatzes, R. Luque, E. Nagel, F. J. Pozuelos, D. Rapetti, A. Quirrenbach, P. J. Amado, M. Blazek, I. Carleo, D. Ciardi, C. Cifuentes, K. Collins, Th. Henning, D. W. Latham, J. Lillo-Box, E. Marfil, D. Montes…

A planetary system with a sub-Neptune planet in the habitable zone of TOI-2093
Aims. We aim to confirm and measure the mass of the transiting planet candidate around the K5V star TOI-2093, previously announced by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) project. Methods. We combined photometric data from 32 sectors between 2019 and 2024 with 86 radial velocity measurements obtained with the CARMENES spectrograph over a period of 2.4 years, along with a series of ground-based, broadband photometric monitoring campaigns to characterize the host star and the transiti…

2024: Zum ersten Mal mehr Internet-Bots als Menschen. 37 % davon „Bad Bots“. Sie klauen Daten, manipulieren Preise, täuschen Klicks – und füttern das Netz mit KI-Schrott. Jörg Schieb warnt: Wir surfen durch eine Bot-Fata Morgana und nennen es Social Media. #BadBot #KI

Stirbt Social Media – oder ertrinkt es in KI-Müll? - Jörg Schieb | Digital und KI
Während wir darüber diskutieren, ob Social Media seinen Zenit überschritten hat, passiert im Hintergrund etwas viel Bedrohlicheres: Das Internet wird systematisch mit KI-generiertem Schrott geflutet.

Filings: business services giant Conduent, which was spun off from Xerox in 2017, confirms that a 2024 data breach has impacted over 10.5M people (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/b…

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

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

Since it's getting misreported everywhere: this image of the stellar stream of the #galaxy #Messier61 by #Rubin - from A #StellarStream around the Spiral Galaxy Messier 61 in Rubin First Look Imaging: #AmateurAstronomers in 2020, 2024 and earlier in 2025: https://www.flickr.com/photos/133259498@N05/50665292533/ and https://www.galactic-hunter.com/post/messier-61-astrophotography and https://app.astrobin.com/i/0az5qv and https://app.astrobin.com/i/ldptvo - and these are just the results I could track down easily.

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

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

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Next highest weight and other lower $SU(3)$ irreducible representations with proxy-$SU(4)$ symmetry for nuclei with $32 \le \mbox{Z,N} \le 46$
V. K. B. Kota
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00800

Next highest weight and other lower $SU(3)$ irreducible representations with proxy-$SU(4)$ symmetry for nuclei with $32 \le \mbox{Z,N} \le 46$
In the applications of proxy-SU(3) model in the context of determining $(β,γ)$ values for nuclei across the periodic table, for understanding the preponderance of triaxial shapes in nuclei with $Z \ge 30$, it is seen that one needs not only the highest weight (hw) or leading $SU(3)$ irreducible representation (irrep) $(λ_H, μ_H)$ but also the lower $SU(3)$ irreps $(λ,μ)$ such that $2λ+ μ=2λ_H + μ_H-3r$ with $r=0,1$ and $2$ [Bonatsos et al., Symmetry {\bf 16}, 1625 (2024)]. These give …

Sources: Spotify plans to raise US subscription prices in Q1 2026, its first US price rise since July 2024, after increasing prices in other countries this year (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/fb490480-5d9a-495f-8c23-f34149bbcadb

Spotify to raise US prices in first quarter of next year
Increase will come as music-streaming company aims for continued profitability

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 26.10.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1167083 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Seit dem Pariser #Klimaabkommen 2015 ist der Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien deutlich schneller vorangeschritten als erwartet.
Laut einer britischen Studie stieg der Anteil nicht-fossiler Energien bis Ende 2024 um 41 %. Damit wurden frühere Prognosen klar übertroffen.
Rund 67 % des weltweit gestiegenen Energiebedarfs wurden durch

Energiesektor: Prognose zum Ausbau von erneuerbaren Energien deutlich übertroffen
Der Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien ist seit dem Pariser Klimaabkommen von 2015 deutlich schneller erfolgt als erwartet. Dies hat eine britische Studie festgestellt.