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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/

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.

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…

Champagne, chauffeur privé… Jordan Bardella encore retoqué sur ses frais de campagne aux Européennes
https://www.linforme.com/medias-culture/article/champagne-chauffeur-prive-jordan-bardella-…

Champagne, chauffeur privé… Jordan Bardella encore retoqué sur ses frais de campagne aux Européennes
La justice a confirmé que le contribuable n’avait pas à rembourser une partie des dépenses de la tête de liste du Rassemblement national lors du scrutin de 2024. Plusieurs centaines de milliers d’euros de coûts « excessifs » ou « sans finalité électorale ».

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 …

PitchBook: crypto M&A hit $8.6B across 267 deals in 2025 vs. $2.17B in 2024; 11 crypto IPOs raised $14.6B worldwide, up from $310M from four IPOs in 2024 (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b4d5e238-c34a-4602-91d0-4c7300b0006f

UCLA study: among the most-watched streaming series in 2024, 80% of lead actors were white and white men accounted for 79% of all show creators, vs. 77% in 2023 (Payton Turkeltaub/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/streaming/news/hollywood-diversi…

Hollywood Diversity Report: Underrepresented Stories Grow on Streaming
The Hollywood Diversity Report for 2024 streaming TV from UCLA reported fewer leading roles for women and women of color than in 2023.

Chargers' Justin Herbert continues 'to think about' playoff flop vs. Texans with rematch on tap Saturday https://www.nfl.com/news/chargers-justin-herbert-continues-to-think-about-playoff-flop-vs-texans-with-r…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
SOAK:
🎵 Bleach (6 Music Session, 25 Nov 2024)
#SOAK
https://soakinbleach.bandcamp.com
https://open.spotify.com/track/7aCOnhe1Krk6u2WmaxdgCp

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

Bears, Patriots, Jaguars Reach Playoffs in Stunning 1st-Year Coaching Turnarounds https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/bears-patriots-jaguars-reach-playoffs-stunning-1st-year-coaching-turnarounds

Det er utroligt så meget "Institute for the Study of War" bliver citeret på TV2. Det er en amerikansk tænketank der beskrives som tilhŸrende "hŸgene", altså dem der hellere ser krig end fred og er iŸvrigt finansieret af amerikanske våbenfakrikanter.

Russiske styrker i strategisk "afvigelse", skriver tænketank

Hvad sker der? Hundredvis af ukrainske familier er blevet tvangsevakueret fra byen Kupiansk i Kharkiv-regionen, som Rusland har rettet en offensiv imod.

Over Wiersma (gratis te lezen),
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/12/05/schrappen-vertragen-blokkeren-h…

Schrappen, vertragen, blokkeren; hoe een onervaren minister krimp van de veestapel tegenhield
Anderhalf jaar stilstand: Eindelijk zou er schot komen in het vastgeroeste stikstofdossier, toen BBB in 2024 de landbouwminister mocht leveren. Maar er kwam niks van terecht. Hoe Femke Wiersma de belangen van de intensieve veehouderij beschermde ten koste van zowat elk ander maatschappelijk belang.

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Alexander Smirnov, the ex–FBI informant who admitted to lying about the Biden-Burisma connection, has been released from prison just months into his six-year prison sentence.
In a plea deal in December 2024, Smirnov admitted to completely fabricating the conspiracy that became central to a Republican effort to impeach then-President Joe Biden.
Days later, the Russian asset pleaded guilty to four felony charges, including one count of obstruction, and was sentenced to six years in …

FBI Informant Who Lied About the Bidens Covertly Released From Jail
Alexander Smirnov pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and was sentenced to six years in jail.

Every year I try to get into podcasts and it never sticks, BUT…

US Press Freedom Tracker: 32 journalists arrested or charged in 2025, vs. 50 in 2024, and 170 assaulted, nearly as many as the previous three years combined (Jem Bartholomew/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/reporting-with-one-hand-tied.php<…

Reporting with one hand tied.
A new report documents a hostile environment for US journalists this year, with 32 arrests and 170 assaults.

Average wholesale electricity prices per bidding zone in Europe, 2024:
- lowest in Scandinavia
- low in France, Spain, Portugal
- high in the east, in Italy, and in Ireland
- average in the middle, including the Netherlands
Source: @energy-charts.bsky.social

Following law enforcement’s disruption of two high-profile ransomware groups, ransomware incidents reported to FinCEN decreased in 2024, with 1,476 incidents, reflecting $734 million in the aggregate value of reported payments in BSA reports.
https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-rele…

Venäjällä kuolee vuosittain tuhansia huono laatuisen juoma veden takia #Venäjä

Tutkimus: Saastunut vesi johti 11 000 kuolemaan Venäjällä vuonna 2024
Joka yhdeksännellä Venäjän asukkaalla ei ole pääsyä keskitettyyn vesihuoltojärjestelmään.

This image is from an official blog post by the AFfiNE team (a "source available" alternative to Notion, trying to pass as "open source").
The article was posted on December 18th, 2024. No one has tried to fix it since then.
AI slop & noise all the way down, carelessness as the new dominant creed.

Apple's Vision Pro with the M5 chip is assembled in Vietnam, according to labels on its packaging; the M2-based model, launched in 2024, was built in China (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-21/app…

Assessing the Impact of Post-Quantum Digital Signature Algorithms on Blockchains
Alison Gon\c{c}alves Schemitt (PUCRS), Henrique Fan da Silva (UNIPAMPA), Roben Castagna Lunardi (PUCRS, IFRS), Diego Kreutz (UNIPAMPA), Rodrigo Brand\~ao Mansilha (UNIPAMPA), Avelino Francisco Zorzo (PUCRS)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09271

Assessing the Impact of Post-Quantum Digital Signature Algorithms on Blockchains
The advent of quantum computing threatens the security of traditional encryption algorithms, motivating the development of post-quantum cryptography (PQC). In 2024, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standardized several PQC algorithms, marking an important milestone in the transition toward quantum-resistant security. Blockchain systems fundamentally rely on cryptographic primitives to guarantee data integrity and transaction authenticity. However, widely used algorithms…

Das #bpkFotoarchiv der @… erprobt seit 2024 #KI-gestützte Erschließungsmethoden, um seine mehr als 12 Millionen Bildmotive besser zugänglich und nutzbar zu machen.
Ste…

Tötete zwei Obdachlose - Killer (19): „Sperrt mich weg, bis ich gesund bin“ #News #Nachrichten …

"US energy storage installations surpass 2024 total by Q3 2025"
#US #USA #America #Energy

US energy storage installations surpass 2024 total by Q3 2025
US energy storage deployments exceeded full-year 2024 levels within nine months, led by utility-scale projects and sustained residential growth, according to industry data.

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…

Mapping the Perseus Galaxy Cluster with XRISM: Gas Kinematic Features and their Implications for Turbulence
Congyao Zhang, Irina Zhuravleva, Annie Heinrich, Elena Bellomi, Nhut Truong, John ZuHone, Eugene Churazov, Megan E. Eckart, Yutaka Fujita, Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, Yuto Ichinohe, Maxim Markevitch, Kyoko Matsushita, Fran\c{c}ois Mernier, Eric D. Miller, Koji Mori, Hiroshi Nakajima, Anna Ogorzalek, Frederick S. Porter, Ay\c{s}eg\"ul T\"umer, Shutaro Ueda, Norbert Werner

Mapping the Perseus Galaxy Cluster with XRISM: Gas Kinematic Features and their Implications for Turbulence
In this paper, we present extended gas kinematic maps of the Perseus cluster by combining five new XRISM/Resolve pointings observed in 2025 with four Performance Verification datasets from 2024, totaling 745 ks net exposure. To date, Perseus remains the only cluster that has been extensively mapped out to ~0.7$r_{2500}$ by XRISM/Resolve, while simultaneously offering sufficient spatial resolution to resolve gaseous substructures driven by mergers and AGN feedback. Our observations cover multipl…

A Computer-Assisted Proof of the Optimal Density Bound for Pinwheel Covering
Akitoshi Kawamura, Yusuke Kobayashi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06533 https://a…

A Computer-Assisted Proof of the Optimal Density Bound for Pinwheel Covering
In the covering version of the pinwheel scheduling problem, a daily task must be assigned to agents under the constraint that agent $i$ can perform the task at most once in any $a_i$-day interval. In this paper, we determine the optimal constant $α^* = 1.264\ldots {}$ such that every instance with $\sum_{i} \frac{1}{a_i} \ge α^*$ is schedulable. This resolves an open problem posed by Soejima and Kawamura (2020). Our proof combines Kawamura's (2024) techniques for the packing version with new …

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time
> The world generated almost a third more solar power in the first half of the year compared with the same period in 2024, meeting 83% of the global increase in electricity demand. Wind power grew by just over 7%, allowing renewables to displace fossil fuels for the first time.
> China and India were largely responsible for the surge in renewables, according to the Ember report, in contrast with the US and Eur…

Mexico-based fintech Plata, approved for a banking license in December 2024, raised $250M at a $3.1B valuation, as it seeks to transition to a full-fledged bank (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-16/mexico…

Solar Low Energy X-ray Spectrometer on board Aditya-L1: Ground Calibration and In-flight Performance
Abhilash R. Sarwade, Ankur Kushwaha, M. C. Ramadevi, Monoj Bug, Kiran Lakshmipathaiah, Smrati Verma, Vaishali Sharan, K. Sankarasubramanian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26292

Solar Low Energy X-ray Spectrometer on board Aditya-L1: Ground Calibration and In-flight Performance
The Solar Low-Energy X-ray Spectrometer (SoLEXS) on board India's Aditya-L1 mission was launched on 2 September 2023 and commenced solar observations on 13 December 2023 following successful aperture cover deployment. Operating from the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point, SoLEXS has been providing continuous Sun-as-a-star soft X-ray spectroscopy across 2-22 keV with 170 eV resolution at 5.9 keV and 1-second temporal cadence since 6 January 2024. The instrument employs two Silicon Drift Detectors with …

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

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.

Quaking in Soft Granular Particles with Speed-dependent Friction: Effect of Inertia
Wei-Chang Lo, Jih-Chiang Tsai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25932 https://…

Quaking in Soft Granular Particles with Speed-dependent Friction: Effect of Inertia
Our previous numerical simulation [C.-E. Tsai et al., Physical Review Research 6, 023065 (2024)] has shown that, for soft granular particles under quasistatic shearing, incorporating a speed-dependent friction is a necessary condition for reproducing the rate-dependent stick-slip fluctuations that have been found in laboratory experiments [J.-C. Tsai et al., Physical Review Letters 126, 128001 (2021)]. As a continuation, here we employ the simulation at a wide range of driving speeds to examine…

Broncos sign RB Sincere McCormick, WR Kyrese Rowan to practice squad https://www.denverbroncos.com/news/broncos-sign-rb-sincere-mccormick-wr-kyrese-rowan-to-practice-squad

A study found that by late 2024, around 24% of English-language corporate press releases and 14% of UN press releases involved LLM-assisted writing (AJ Dellinger/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/ai-finds-its-niche-writing-corporate-press-releases-2000666360

AI Finds its Niche: Writing Corporate Press Releases
Hopefully it got the numbers right.

Mordprozess in Tirol - Geständnis: „Bin schuld, dass meine Mama tot ist“ #News #Nachrichten

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

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…

A look at the First Amendment Watch's SLAPP Back Initiative, a US SLAPP tracker; in 2024, 69 of 500 cases involved the media, of which 46 were dismissed (Liam Scott/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/slapp-lawsuit-p…

The SLAPP problem is worse than we thought.
As Donald Trump tests the limits of anti-press litigation, a new initiative aims to document the wave of nuisance suits.

GPT-5.2 models match GPT-5 and 5.1 with a 400K context window and 128K max output tokens, but have a newer knowledge cutoff of Aug. 31, 2025 vs. Sept. 30, 2024 (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Newsletter)
https://simonw.substack.com/p/gpt-52-and-useful-patterns-for-…

GPT 5.2 and useful patterns for building HTML tools
Plus a YouTube video, a podcast appearance and more

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
White Denim:
🎵 Light On (6 Music Session, 11 Dec 2024)
#WhiteDenim
https://whitedenimband.bandcamp.com/track/light-on
https://open.spotify.com/track/3w2OkQHJE0E5DjVNNV14P6

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 …

👻 #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.

Sources and docs: after Marc Andreessen donated $5M to Trump's 2024 campaign, most CFPB probes have stalled, including three into Andreessen-backed companies (Jake Pearson/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cfpb-marc-andreessen-silicon-vall…

Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off for Silicon Valley.
The Trump administration’s gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been good for venture capitalists like Andreessen, who previously accused the agency of “terrorizing” fintech startups and crypto companies.

Is the Peculiar Galactic Center Transient Swift J174610.4-290018 A Recurrent Nova?
Ziqian Hua, Zhiyuan Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26446 https://arxiv.or…

Is the Peculiar Galactic Center Transient Swift J174610.4-290018 A Recurrent Nova?
Swift J174610.4-290018, a peculiar transient X-ray source originally discovered by the Swift satellite in February 2024 at the onset of its outburst, recently attracted intentional or coincident follow-up X-ray observations using Swift, NuSTAR and Chandra. We have performed a comprehensive analysis of the relevant X-ray data to investigate the spectral and temporal properties of this source between October 2000 and July 2024. Archival Chandra data reveal a plausible additional outburst in 2005,…

"Denmark’s second largest PV plant goes online"
#Denmark #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
…

Denmark’s second largest PV plant goes online
Swedish independent power producer Alight has completed a 215 MW solar project in Lolland, southern Denmark. The construction of Lidsø solar park started in the summer of 2024.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RadcliffeAndMaconie
The Unthanks:
🎵 Carol Of The Birds (6 Music Session, 15 December 2024)
#TheUnthanks
https://open.spotify.com/track/76VvFzL1EYcZ82IeDfD3rQ

#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit …