Tootfinder

Sources: Vinted is exploring a share sale that could value the company at ~€8B; Vinted says it expects 2025 revenue to cross €1B , up from €813M in 2024 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/76b8784e-438b-49aa-b044-b1b590a5af0b

Those CunninLynguists put out The Heartstring Theory [Part 1] in 2024, and [Part 2] comes out next week.
And of course this first preview track is 🔥
https://cunninlynguists.bandcamp.com/album/the-heartstring-theory-part-two

"An SNP victory in May’s Holyrood contest would hardly be an earthquake, after 18 continuous years of nationalist government. It would, though, signal a remarkable comeback from a period of eclipse, and from an often dismal record on public services. For Labour, which did so well in Scotland in the 2024 general election, it would signal a crisis moment, imperilling Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership"
#UKPol

Microsoft bringt "Flight Simulator 2024" auf die Playstation 5
Microsoft gibt ein weiteres Kronjuwel her: Der "Flight Simulator 2024" kommt auf die Playstation 5. Auch Support für PS VR 2 ist geplant.

Laptop meiner Frau Ende 2024 mit einer neuen Windowsinstallation versehen. Der Fehler in der Updateverwaltung dieser Version zieht sich immer noch durch bis heute.
Jetzt bekommt der LP eine spezielle von MS angebotene Reparaturinstallation.
Ey #Microsoft - WTHFUGG läuft da verkehrt?

Visual context affects the perceived timing of tactile sensations elicited through intra-cortical microstimulation: a case study of two participants https://journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/jn.00518.2024

Never been as scared watching a movie as I was in the final 10min of "Arthur the King".
Dog lovers, this was a great dog movie... but terrifying.
▶️ Arthur the King (2024) Official Trailer - Mark Wahlberg, Simu Liu, Julie Rylance, Nathalie Emmanuel
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wjDJNEPg…

👻 #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.

Is Enerkem's Waste Gasification technology a Failure or a promising Climate Solution?🗑️💨♨️🏭
Gasification of waste and biomass🪵 could be an enormously helpful tool to make valuable circular or renewable chemicals. Yet, the list of failed gasification projects is long.
Enerkem looked like it had finally unlocked successful waste gasification, with the world's only waste-to-Methanol/Ethanol plant operating in Edmonton, Canada🇨🇦, since 2014. But in early 2024, it was shut down.…

Is Enerkem's Waste Gasification technology a Failure or a promising Climate Solution?
Repsol wants to build a waste gasification plant to make circular and biogenic Methanol in Spain. The Ecoplanta project will use a technology that previously failed to deliver on its promises in Canada.

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

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.

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…

Immigration into the Netherlands (there's also emigration, btw).
Yellow = asylum seekers
Grey = other motives (labour, study, etc.)

Foto-Story vom Robert-Schuman-Platz Brüssel von Hanna Penzer.
#brussels

Umbau an der Schaltzentrale Europas - Europa Blog
Der Schuman-Platz bildet das Herz des Brüsseler EU-Viertels. In dieser Foto-Story dokumentieren wir den 2024 begonnenen Umbau des Platzes.

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.

Machines in the Crowd? Measuring the Footprint of Machine-Generated Text on Reddit
Lucio La Cava, Luca Maria Aiello, Andrea Tagarelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07226 https://…

Machines in the Crowd? Measuring the Footprint of Machine-Generated Text on Reddit
Generative Artificial Intelligence is reshaping online communication by enabling large-scale production of Machine-Generated Text (MGT) at low cost. While its presence is rapidly growing across the Web, little is known about how MGT integrates into social media environments. In this paper, we present the first large-scale characterization of MGT on Reddit. Using a state-of-the-art statistical method for detection of MGT, we analyze over two years of activity (2022-2024) across 51 subreddits rep…

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.

Marshawn Kneeland Takes NFL Advice From Veteran Teammate in Resurfaced Video https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/marshawn-kneeland-demarcus-lawrence-video/?adt_ei=[email]

Self-consistent model of cosmic ray penetration into molecular clouds: Effect of energy losses
D. O. Chernyshov, A. V. Ivlev, V. A. Dogiel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03073 https…

Self-consistent model of cosmic ray penetration into molecular clouds: Effect of energy losses
The theory of cosmic-ray (CR) penetration into dense molecular clouds developed recently for relativistic particles by Chernyshov et al. (2024) is extended to non-relativistic CRs. Interstellar CRs streaming into the clouds are able to resonantly excite MHD waves in diffuse cloud envelopes. This leads to the self-modulation, such that streaming particles are scattered at the self-generated waves. In contrast to relativistic CRs, transport of lower-energy particles in the envelopes is generally …

A polynomial bound on the pathwidth of graphs edge-coverable by $k$ shortest paths
Julien Baste, Lucas De Meyer, Ugo Giocanti, Etienne Objois, Timoth\'e Picavet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02901

A polynomial bound on the pathwidth of graphs edge-coverable by $k$ shortest paths
Dumas, Foucaud, Perez and Todinca (2024) recently proved that every graph whose edges can be covered by $k$ shortest paths has pathwidth at most $O(3^k)$. In this paper, we improve this upper bound on the pathwidth to a polynomial one; namely, we show that every graph whose edge set can be covered by $k$ shortest paths has pathwidth $O(k^4)$, answering a question from the same paper. Moreover, we prove that when $k\leq 3$, every such graph has pathwidth at most $k$ (and this bound is tight). Fi…

It has generally been reported that no significant irregularities was seen during the 2024 presendential election, but not everyone agrees to that.
I wonder if there is any substance to the statistical analysis provided by https://electiontruthalliance.org/2024-us-election-analysis/…

Packers' Micah Parsons downplays Cowboys matchup: 'We're talking about winning' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6659566/2025/09/25/packers-cowboys-micah-parsons-jerry-jones/

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…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
The Humpers:
🎵 You Give Good Headache
#TheHumpers
https://takethecityrecords.bandcamp.com/track/you-give-good-headache-2024-remastered
https://open.spotify.com/track/4wpkLcLygYWdAoj9qfBxHw

If you are planning anything in Denmark that is more long term than about 5 years, then you should definitely be using the Climate Atlas to check your climate adaptation impacts...
I wrote about it last year:
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2024/09/06/a-climate-atlas-is-discovered/
#NCKF25

The battery-electric vehicle boom in 🇧🇪 Belgium:
“In one year, their number jumped by 55.4%, from 254,240 in 2024 to 395,188 in 2025.”
The changes to the company car taxation scheme appear to be the main driver:
“The vast majority of these vehicles (81.8%) are registered in the name of a company”
https://

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

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- BBC Proms 2024: First Night
Elim Chan leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Clara Schumann's piano concerto with Isata Kanneh-Mason with Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, as well as Ben Nobuto's Hallelujah Sim.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002jfzc

One of the biggest political scandals in the #Philippines 🇵🇭 in 2024 was the accusation that Alice Guo, the elected town mayor of Bamban was not actually a Filipino citizen and instead was a Chinese spy that engaged in trafficking of Chinese nationals for illegal online gambling operations.
Following her recent conviction of human trafficking last November 20,

Does FOMC Tone Really Matter? Statistical Evidence from Spectral Graph Network Analysis
Jaeho Choi, Jaewon Kim, Seyoung Chung, Chae-shick Chung, Yoonsoo Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02705

Does FOMC Tone Really Matter? Statistical Evidence from Spectral Graph Network Analysis
This study examines the relationship between Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announcements and financial market network structure through spectral graph theory. Using hypergraph networks constructed from S\&P 100 stocks around FOMC announcement dates (2011--2024), we employ the Fiedler value -- the second eigenvalue of the hypergraph Laplacian -- to measure changes in market connectivity and systemic stability. Our event study methodology reveals that FOMC announcements significantly alter…

A profile of Edwin Chen, the CEO of Surge AI, a Scale AI rival that had $1.2B revenue in 2024, is profitable, and is reportedly raising $1B at a $30B valuation (Phoebe Liu/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/phoebeliu/2025/09/17/the-ai-billionaire-…

AI Founder Edwin Chen Shunned VC. Now He’s Worth $18 Billion
An alum of Google and Twitter, Edwin Chen built his data labeling company, Surge, in the shadows of the AI revolution. Now the 37-year-old wants to make his voice heard.

California Scrub Jay. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. December 2024. #laarboretum #jay #scrubjay

Institutional Research Computing Capabilities in Australia: 2024
Slava Kitaeff, Luc Betbeder-Matibet, Jake Carroll, Stephen Giugni, David Abramson, John Zaitseff, Sarah Walters, David Powell, Chris Bording, Trung Nguyen, Angus Macoustra, Fabien Voisin, Bowen Chen, Jarrod Hurley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17351

Institutional Research Computing Capabilities in Australia: 2024
Institutional research computing infrastructure plays a vital role in Australia's research ecosystem, complementing and extending national facilities. This paper analyses research computing capabilities across Australian universities and organisations, showing how institutional systems support research excellence through local compute resources, specialised hardware, and cluster solutions. Our study finds that nearly 112,258 CPU cores and 2,241 GPUs serve over 6,000 researchers as essential bri…

Vulnerability Patching Across Software Products and Software Components: A Case Study of Red Hat's Product Portfolio
Jukka Ruohonen, Sani Abdullahi, Abhishek Tiwari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13117

Vulnerability Patching Across Software Products and Software Components: A Case Study of Red Hat's Product Portfolio
Motivated by software maintenance and the more recent concept of security debt, the paper presents a time series analysis of vulnerability patching of Red Hat's products and components between 1999 and 2024. According to the results based on segmented regression analysis, the amounts of vulnerable products and components have not been stable; a linear trend describes many of the series well. Nor do the amounts align well with trends characterizing vulnerabilities in general. There are also visi…

Nachtrag: Änderung der Berechnung bezüglich https://mastodon.online/@tinoeberl/115236719296242946.
Der Filter auf "in Betrieb" ändert die Zahlen leider rückwirkend. Also:
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in

Meerderheid Tweede Kamer wil meer grenscontroles, hebben allemaal rapport Rekenkamer niet gelezen kennelijk, zo oerdom , pure symboolpolitiek...
https://www.rekenkamer.nl/actueel/nieuws/2025/06/03/binnengrenscontro…

Binnengrenscontroles dragen niet bij aan snellere realisatie beleidsdoelen
Aantal aanhoudingen gedaald In oktober 2024 besloot het kabinet-Schoof tot tijdelijke herinvoering van binnengrenscontroles. Het kabinet wil daarmee irreguliere migratie en grensoverschrijdende criminaliteit tegengaan. Daarmee wil het kabinet de druk op de migratieketen – waaronder de druk op de opvangcapaciteit en lokale huisvesting – verlagen. De eerste resultaten wijzen er op dat hiermee kabinetsdoelen niet sneller worden bereikt dan met de eerdere Mobiel Toezicht Veiligheid-controles (…

Wandern auf den Laaber bei Oberammergau 2024
#hiking #silentsunday

AC^0[p]-Frege Cannot Efficiently Prove that Constant-Depth Algebraic Circuit Lower Bounds are Hard
Jiaqi Lu, Rahul Santhanam, Iddo Tzameret
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16824 http…

AC^0[p]-Frege Cannot Efficiently Prove that Constant-Depth Algebraic Circuit Lower Bounds are Hard
We study whether lower bounds against constant-depth algebraic circuits computing the Permanent over finite fields (Limaye-Srinivasan-Tavenas, J. ACM 2025; Forbes, CCC 2024) are hard to prove in certain proof systems. We focus on a DNF formula that expresses that such lower bounds are hard for constant-depth algebraic proofs. Using an adaptation of the diagonalization framework of Santhanam and Tzameret (SIAM J. Comput. 2025), we show unconditionally that this family of DNF formulas does not ad…

Available since the second half of 2024 for transactions between individuals in Belgium, France and Germany, #Wero already has more than 43.5 million registered users.
https://epicompany.eu/media-insi…

CBP Flew Drones to Help ICE 50 Times in Last Year https://www.404media.co/cbp-flew-drones-to-help-ice-50-times-in-last-year/

Sources: Flipkart is investing $30M in its fintech unit Supermoney, after a $20M 2024 spin-off round; Supermoney disbursed $700M in loans via lending partners (Alex Gabriel Simon/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.09.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1131260 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.space-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.space-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Space Mission Options for Reconnaissance and Mitigation of Asteroid 2024 YR4
Brent W. Barbee, et al.

All Models Are Wrong, But Can They Be Useful? Lessons from COVID-19 Agent-Based Models: A Systematic Review
Emma Von Hoene, Sara Von Hoene, Szandra Peter, Ethan Hopson, Emily Csizmadia, Faith Fenyk, Kai Barner, Timothy Leslie, Hamdi Kavak, Andreas Zufle, Amira Roess, Taylor Anderson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13346

All Models Are Wrong, But Can They Be Useful? Lessons from COVID-19 Agent-Based Models: A Systematic Review
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a surge in computational models to simulate disease dynamics and guide interventions. Agent-based models (ABMs) are well-suited to capture population and environmental heterogeneity, but their rapid deployment raised questions about utility for health policy. We systematically reviewed 536 COVID-19 ABM studies published from January 2020 to December 2023, retrieved from Web of Science, PubMed, and Wiley on January 30, 2024. Studies were included if they used ABMs …

Comment on Galina Weinstein's article entitled "Convergences and Divergences: Einstein Poincar\'e and Special Relativity"
Jean-Marc Ginoux
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22726

Comment on Galina Weinstein's article entitled "Convergences and Divergences: Einstein Poincaré and Special Relativity"
In 2024, after thirty years of research on this subject, I published a book entitled: Poincaré, Einstein and the discovery of special relativity. An end to the controversy (Ginoux2024). In September 2025, Galina Weinstein published a review of this book entitled: Convergences and Divergences: Einstein Poincaré and Special Relativity (arXiv:2509.09361) in which she aimed "to show how Einstein's ether-free, principle-based kinematics marked out a path that, unlike its contemporaries, became the…

The UK's Cabinet Office says its Fraud Risk Assessment Accelerator AI tool helped the government recover £480M from fraud in the 12 months from April 2024 (Jack Fenwick/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpd92gpld0go

AI tool used to recover £500m lost to fraud, government says
Ministers say software developed by the Cabinet Office has helped to ramp up fraud detection.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Thee Sacred Souls:
🎵 Lucid Girl (6 Music Session, 17 Sep 2024)
#TheeSacredSouls
https://supapatselectah.bandcamp.com/track/thee-sacred-souls-lucid-girl
https://open.spotify.com/track/5TdnxXaZIqJjASZaJQrW2e

Available since the second half of 2024 for transactions between individuals in Belgium, France and Germany, #Wero already has more than 43.5 million registered users.
https://epicompany.eu/media-insi…

GPU Programming for AI Workflow Development on AWS SageMaker: An Instructional Approach
Sriram Srinivasan, Hamdan Alabsi, Rand Obeidat, Nithisha Ponnala, Azene Zenebe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13703

GPU Programming for AI Workflow Development on AWS SageMaker: An Instructional Approach
We present the design, implementation, and comprehensive evaluation of a specialized course on GPU architecture, GPU programming, and how these are used for developing AI agents. This course is offered to undergraduate and graduate students during Fall 2024 and Spring 2025. The course began with foundational concepts in GPU/CPU hardware and parallel computing and progressed to develop RAG and optimizing them using GPUs. Students gained experience provisioning and configuring cloud-based GPU ins…

Sieben Mitglieder der Gruppe #LetzteGeneration sind nach einer #Protestaktion am Flughafen #Frankfurt angeklagt.
Sie hatten sich im Juli 2024 mit

Anklage gegen Mitglieder der "Letzten Generation" wegen Protestaktion
Im vergangenen Sommer klebten sich Mitglieder der "Letzten Generation" auf der Startbahn des Frankfurter Flughafens fest. 200 Flüge fielen aus. Jetzt sind die Umweltaktivisten wegen Hausfriedensbruchs und Sachbeschädigung angeklagt worden.

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/

Terrorism & Democracy in Burkina-Faso
P Carmel Marie Zagre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23046 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.23046

Terrorism & Democracy in Burkina-Faso
This article examines the political consequences of terrorism in Burkina Faso. Using a dataset combining geolocated terrorist events from ACLED (from 2015 to 2024) with public opinion data from Afrobarometer, I compare the effect of successful terrorist attacks on public support for democracy and authoritarian alternatives. The results reveal that successful terrorist attacks significantly increase support for military regimes, one man regimes, and one party systems, while decreasing support fo…

A New Mechanism for ULF Wave Modulation of Energetic Electron Precipitation
L. Olifer, D. Zhou, M. Patel, I. R. Mann, M. K. Hudson, A. W. Degeling, C. O. Heinke, G. R. Sivakoff, A. Kale, S. Kasahara, S. Yokota, K. Keika, T. Hori, T. Mitani, T. Takashima, Y. Kasahara, S. Matsuda, A. Shinbori, A. Matsuoka, M. Teramoto, K. Yamamoto, I. Shinohara, Y. Miyoshi
https:…

A New Mechanism for ULF Wave Modulation of Energetic Electron Precipitation
The May 2024 geomagnetic superstorm provided the opportunity to explore how strong wave-particle interactions affect energetic electron precipitation under intense driving. Using coordinated measurements from a balloon-borne Timepix-based X-ray detector, ground-based riometers and magnetometers, and Arase satellite observations, we identified quasi-periodic bursts of energetic electron precipitation coincident with Pc5 ultra low frequency (ULF) wave oscillations. Arase satellite data revealed e…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
New Starts:
🎵 What I Specifically Love (6 Music Session, 14 Aug 2024)
#NewStarts
https://darrenhayman.bandcamp.com/track/what-i-specifically-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/0xkfgSjn3s7SWsnihw6bUS