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Creative Courage: Addiction Recovery Through Art and Music #art #music https://muz4now.com/2024/creative-c…

Creative Courage: Addiction Recovery Through Art and Music
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Cowboys share best training camp moments from 2024 NFL season https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-best-training-camp-moments-2024-nfl-season

"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…

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Attention, users of Arch-based distributions !!!
Malware distributed on the AUR #archlinux

Overview of the TREC 2024 NeuCLIR Track
Dawn Lawrie, Sean MacAvaney, James Mayfield, Paul McNamee, Douglas W. Oard, Luca Soldaini, Eugene Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14355 h…

Overview of the TREC 2024 NeuCLIR Track
The principal goal of the TREC Neural Cross-Language Information Retrieval (NeuCLIR) track is to study the effect of neural approaches on cross-language information access. The track has created test collections containing Chinese, Persian, and Russian news stories and Chinese academic abstracts. NeuCLIR includes four task types: Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) from news, Multilingual Information Retrieval (MLIR) from news, Report Generation from news, and CLIR from technical docume…

Jaycee Horn on Panthers' porous 2024 defense: 'We don't need to be anything close to that' in 2025 https://www.nfl.com/news/jaycee-horn-on-panthers-porous-2024-defense-we-don-t-need-to-be-anything-close-to-that…

Are gray skies trying to bring us down? #inspiration #beauty #inspiration

Are gray skies trying to bring us down? #inspiration
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

‘No one understands a woman in her 20s like Billy Joel [playing 🪗 in the 1970s]’: gen z finds solace in anti-hustle anthem Vienna
(I missed this story with the great #accordion pic last year)
https://www.

Efficient Algorithms for Disjoint Shortest Paths Problem and its Extensions
Keerti Choudhary, Amit Kumar, Lakshay Saggi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14588 https://

Efficient Algorithms for Disjoint Shortest Paths Problem and its Extensions
We study the 2-Disjoint Shortest Paths (2-DSP) problem: given a directed weighted graph and two terminal pairs $(s_1,t_1)$ and $(s_2,t_2)$, decide whether there exist vertex-disjoint shortest paths between each pair. Building on recent advances in disjoint shortest paths for DAGs and undirected graphs (Akmal et al. 2024), we present an $O(mn \log n)$ time algorithm for this problem in weighted directed graphs that do not contain negative or zero weight cycles. This algorithm presents a signif…

Analysis: 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 (Ichiro Lambe/Totally Human Media)
https://www.totallyhuman.io/blog/the-surprising-new-number-of-genai-gam…

The NEW Surprising Number of Steam Games that Use GenAI — Totally Human Media
A year ago, I poked around Steam to see how many game developers were disclosing usage of Generative AI . It was around 1,000, which seemed like a lot to me at the time. If memory serves, that was about 1.1% of the entire Steam library, which has since seen 20,000+ more titles appear. I've been fol

Artificial Intelligence in Rural Healthcare Delivery: Bridging Gaps and Enhancing Equity through Innovation
Kiruthika Balakrishnan, Durgadevi Velusamy, Hana E. Hinkle, Zhi Li, Karthikeyan Ramasamy, Hikmat Khan, Srini Ramaswamy, Pir Masoom Shah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11738

Artificial Intelligence in Rural Healthcare Delivery: Bridging Gaps and Enhancing Equity through Innovation
Rural healthcare faces persistent challenges, including inadequate infrastructure, workforce shortages, and socioeconomic disparities that hinder access to essential services. This study investigates the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in addressing these issues in underserved rural areas. We systematically reviewed 109 studies published between 2019 and 2024 from PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, IEEE Xplore, and Scopus. Articles were screened using PRISMA guidelines and…

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

Cowboys season outlook: Dak Prescott is healthy, but is that enough for Dallas to rebound from forgetful 2024?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys…

from my link log —
Where did DNSSEC go wrong?
https://blog.apnic.net/2024/07/05/where-did-dnssec-go-wrong/
saved 2025-09-05

Where did DNSSEC go wrong? | APNIC Blog
Guest Post: What lessons can we learn from the development of DNSSEC?

Large Language Models Imitate Logical Reasoning, but at what Cost?
Lachlan McGinness, Peter Baumgartner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12645 https://arxiv.org/…

Large Language Models Imitate Logical Reasoning, but at what Cost?
We present a longitudinal study which evaluates the reasoning capability of frontier Large Language Models over an eighteen month period. We measured the accuracy of three leading models from December 2023, September 2024 and June 2025 on true or false questions from the PrOntoQA dataset and their faithfulness to reasoning strategies provided through in-context learning. The improvement in performance from 2023 to 2024 can be attributed to hidden Chain of Thought prompting. The introduction of …

Two teenage suspected Scattered Spider members charged in UK over TfL hack https://therecord.media/scattered-spider-teenage-suspects-arrested-britain-nca

POL-BO: Tag ohne Verkehrstote
„Die Polizei appelliert daher:
- Beachten Sie die Regeln der Straßenverkehrsordnung.
- Halten Sie sich an die zulässige Höchstgeschwindigkeit.
- Lassen Sie sich nicht ablenken
- das Handy bleibt in der Tasche.
- Fahren Sie nicht unter Alkohol- oder Drogeneinfluss.
- Nehmen Sie Rücksicht auf andere Menschen.“

POL-BO: Polizei für Bochum, Herne und Witten beteiligt sich am Tag ohne Verkehrstote
Bochum, Herne, Witten (ots) - Neun Menschen haben 2024 in Bochum, Herne und Witten bei Verkehrsunfällen ihr Leben verloren - um auf die Gefahren des Straßenverkehrs aufmerksam...

Three binary-source binary-lens microlensing events from the 2024 microlensing campaign
Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Andrzej Udalski, Michael D. Albrow, Sun-Ju Chung, Andrew Gould, Youn Kil Jung, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, Yossi Shvartzvald, In-Gu Shin, Jennifer C. Yee, Weicheng Zang, Hongjing Yang, Doeon Kim, Dong-Jin Kim, Byeong-Gon Park, Przemek Mr\'oz, Micha{\l} K. Szyma\'nski, Jan Skowron, Rados{\l}aw Poleski, Igor Soszy\'nski, Pawe{\l} Pietrukowicz, Szymon Koz{\l}ows…

Three binary-source binary-lens microlensing events from the 2024 microlensing campaign
We investigated microlensing events detected by the OGLE and KMTNet surveys during the 2024 observing season, focusing on those that exhibit very complex anomaly features. Through this analysis, we found that the light curves of three events including OGLE-2024-BLG-0657, KMT-2024-BLG-2017, and KMT-2024-BLG-2480 cannot be readily interpreted using standard three-body lensing models such as a binary lens with a single source (2L1S) or a single lens with a binary source (1L2S). In this work we pre…

Quantum at a Music Festival: the Impact of an Exhibit about Quantum Science and Technologies on Festival Visitors
Vincent Koeman, Sanne Romp, Sanne J. W. Willems, Julia Cramer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13010

Quantum at a Music Festival: the Impact of an Exhibit about Quantum Science and Technologies on Festival Visitors
Quantum technologies are seen as transformative, with a potential to revolutionize fields like drug discovery and machine learning. Public engagement is crucial to align these developments with societal needs and foster acceptance. This study measured the impact of an exhibit about quantum technologies at the 2024 Lowlands music festival (n = 812). Pre- and post-surveys assessed changes in attitude, concern, interest and subjective knowledge. Results showed an increase in subjective knowledge b…

Search for the Higgs boson decay to a $Z$ boson and a photon in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV and $13.6$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
ATLAS Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12598

Search for the Higgs boson decay to a $Z$ boson and a photon in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV and $13.6$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
A search for the Higgs boson decay to a $Z$ boson and a photon in the $\ell\ellγ$ ($\ell = e, μ$) final state is performed using $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13.6$ TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider during 2022-2024, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 165 fb$^{-1}$. The signal yield, normalised to the Standard Model prediction, is measured to be $μ=0.9^{+0.7}_{-0.6}$, compared to an expected value of $μ=1.0\pm0.7$. This corresponds to an observed (ex…

Sustain Creativity – Pushing Too Far – part 2 #brokenankle #composer #musician

Sustain Creativity - Pushing Too Far - part 2
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

(2018, free PDF download) Retinal prosthesis: A clinical guide to successful implementation (Essentials in ophthalmology) by Mark S. Humayun https://unitedvrg.com/2024/11/09/retinal-prosthesis-a-clini…

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in 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/2507.12282

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing run
We present an all-sky search for long-duration gravitational waves (GWs) from the first part of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA fourth observing run (O4), called O4a and comprising data taken between 24 May 2023 and 16 January 2024. The GW signals targeted by this search are the so-called "long-duration" (> 1 s) transients expected from a variety of astrophysical processes, including non-axisymmetric deformations in magnetars or eccentric binary coalescences. We make minimal assumptions on the emitted GW …

ich war ja im Juli 2024 noch auf der Ausstellung "Das Fahrrad - Kultobjekt - Designobjekt" in der Pinakothek der Modernen in München.
Keine Ahnung, wieso das bis jetzt gedauert hat, dass ich was dazu geschrieben habe.
https://mega-stoffel.de/weblog/2024/07/29/das-fahrrad…

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">🚨Wow. ABC created a supercut of Donald Trump calling Kamala Harris a Fascist: <a href="https://t.co/r5Plb486od">

CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) on X
Jessica Tarlov on Fox News (2024): “Donald Trump calls Kamala a fascist quite regularly. Not only does he call her a fascist, he calls her a communist… So spare me.”

EU suspends Ukrainian language interpreter for suspected espionage on Zelensky for Russia, Le Monde reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/eu-suspends-ukrainian-language-interpreter.html

The IETF’s “AI-CONTROL Workshop Report”: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-iab-ai-control-report-02.html
Where by “AI-CONTROL” they mean “dealing with LLM-building scrapers”.

Identifying Information Technology Research Trends through Text Mining of NSF Awards
Said Varlioglu, Hazem Said, Murat Ozer, Nelly Elsayed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12245 https…

Identifying Information Technology Research Trends through Text Mining of NSF Awards
Information Technology (IT) is recognized as an independent and unique research field. However, there has been ambiguity and difficulty in identifying and differentiating IT research from other close variations. Given this context, this paper aimed to explore the roots of the Information Technology (IT) research domain by conducting a large-scale text mining analysis of 50,780 abstracts from awarded NSF CISE grants from 1985 to 2024. We categorized the awards based on their program content, lab…

A look at Yahoo Creators, launched in March 2024, offering creators a 50/50 ad revenue split for posting original written content and has signed up 135 creators (Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/yahoo-takes-cues-from-pla…

Yahoo takes cues from platforms as it offers more editorial control to creators
In June, Yahoo for Creators had its most lucrative month yet, reflecting Yahoo's gradual adoption of aspects of a creator platform.

Yeah, you'll easily get a $4T market cap when you sell your latest consumer graphics card for more money than sense!
https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/114823643634356944

Trump said he threatened to bomb Moscow if Putin attacked Ukraine, 2024 fundraiser tapes show (Adam Cancryn/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/08/politics/trump-tape-putin-bomb-fundraiser
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p156#a250708p156

Finally, there'll be weekend transit service to Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park in Oakland once AC Transit's service changes launch on August 10
https://hikingbytransit.com/2024/09/14/realign/

What does AC Transit Realign mean for recreational access in the East Bay? - Hiking by Transit
Trailheads that are convenient to get to by bus, train, or ferry in the San Francisco Bay Area

😬 https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/10/vimeo-to-be-acquired-by-bending-spoons-in-1-38b-all-cash-deal/

Vimeo to be acquired by Bending Spoons in $1.38B all-cash deal | TechCrunch
The announcement comes as Bending Spoons was interested in a potential takeover of Vimeo as far back as March 2024.

A hidden benefit of incomplete round-robin tournaments: Encouraging offensive play
L\'aszl\'o Csat\'o
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13141 https://…

A hidden benefit of incomplete round-robin tournaments: Encouraging offensive play
This paper aims to explore the impact of tournament design on the incentives of the contestants. We develop a simulation framework to quantify the potential gain and loss from attacking based on changes in the probability of reaching the critical ranking thresholds. The model is applied to investigate the 2024/25 UEFA Champions League reform. The novel incomplete round-robin league phase is found to create more powerful incentives for offensive play than the previous group stage, with an averag…

Clapping propulsion and thin vortex rings: a computational study of vortex dynamics, energy equivalence, and core potential energy
Suyog V. Mahulkar, Jaywant H. Arakeri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11491

Clapping propulsion and thin vortex rings: a computational study of vortex dynamics, energy equivalence, and core potential energy
We present a numerical study on clapping propulsion using a body consisting of two rigid plates hinged at one end, with a 60-degree interplate cavity. The closing of the cavity generates a thrust-producing jet. Our previous experimental study (Mahulkar and Arakeri, PRF, 2024) compared the flow fields of the clapping body in two cases: free-moving (dynamic) and forward-constrained (stationary). The experiments revealed significant differences in body motion and flow structures. This numerical st…

Eftersom DN avslöjade Säpos mångåriga slarv efter att Le Monde redan avslöjat *exakt* samma problematik i Frankrike (och hos fler världsledare) i oktober 2024 finns en rad filmer som förklarar hur det går till.

I en serie artiklar under beteckningen #StravaLeaks har Le Monde publicerat pedagogiska filmer som visar hur information finns att hämta publikt, och vilka riskerna är.

A…

Nvidia hits a $4T market cap in intraday trading, the first company to do so, after passing a $2T market cap in February 2024 and $3T in June 2025 (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/09/nvidia-4-trillion.html

Nvidia hits $4 trillion market cap, first company to do so
Nvidia topped a $4 trillion market cap for the first time as investors scooped stock in the tech giant building the hardware for the generative AI boom.

Manufacturing employment has been falling since April,
and job growth is slower than it was between January 2024 and August 2024.
The timing of the manufacturing declines corresponds with the Trump administration’s disastrous tariff policies,
which are projected to cost American households $2,400 annually.
Since Donald Trump’s tariff announcement in April 2025,
overall manufacturing employment has declined by 42,000,
while job openings and hires have fall…

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

Chiefs' Rashee Rice likely facing suspension after pleading guilty to 2024 car crash felony charges: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6500108/2025/07/17/chiefs-rashee-rice-sentence-suspension/

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 06.09.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen

Alexandrov estimates for polynomial operators by determinant majorization
F. Reese Harvey, Kevin R. Payne
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10879 https://arxiv.or…

Alexandrov estimates for polynomial operators by determinant majorization
We obtain estimates on the supremum, infimum and oscillation of solutions for a wide class of inhomogeneous fully nonlinear elliptic equations on Euclidean domains where the differential operator is an I-central Garding-Dirichlet operator in the sense of Harvey-Lawson (2024). The argument combines two recent results: an Alexandrov estimate of Payne-Redaelli (2025) for locally semiconvex functions based on the area formula and a determinant majorization estimate of Harvey-Lawson (2024). The de…

Always good to get a reality check. At the same time good to remember the data collection of this trial was from October 2024 to Decembre 2024. Models have improved since then, reasoning, more tool use etc.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m365_copilot_uk_government/

UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost
: AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex

Five principles to protect the human knowledge ecosystem 3/5

Man Freund Jan hat ne Doku über der Deutschen Liebe zum Automobil gemacht. Die gibts jetzt frisch in der #ARD Mediathek https://www.ardmediathek.de/film/kraftfahr

Kraftfahrzeug – Eine deutsche Liebe - hier anschauen
Der Dokumentarfilm geht der deutschen Liebe zum Automobil auf den Grund: Zwischen Auto-Fetisch und Verkehrswende begegnen dem Publikum Enthusiasten wie Ulf Poschardt sowie Kritikerinnen wie Katja Diehl. Autohersteller gestatten zudem seltene Einblicke in ihre Tricks der emotionalen Verführung. Das Auto fasziniert rund 140 Jahre nach seiner Entstehungsgeschichte noch immer. Die Zahl der Fahrzeuge in Deutschland stieg 2024 auf ein Rekordhoch. Manche verehren es gar als Kultobjekt oder sehen in i…

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

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

On generalized disc-polygons in plane convex bodies with a higher degree of smoothness
Ferenc Fodor, D\'aniel I. Papv\'ari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11702 https://

On generalized disc-polygons in plane convex bodies with a higher degree of smoothness
We prove power series expansions for the expectations of the number of vertices and missed area of random $L$-convex polygons in planar convex bodies with sufficiently smooth boundaries. Random $L$-convex polygons arise as the intersection of all translates of a fixed convex set $L$ that contain i.i.d. uniform random points from a suitable plane convex body $K$. Our results extend the asymptotic formulas proved in Fodor, Papvári and Vígh (2020) and Fodor and Montenegro (2024), and have conseq…

Adaptive FEM with explicit time integration for the wave equation
Marcus J. Grote, Omar Lakkis, Carina S. Santos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11193 https://

Adaptive FEM with explicit time integration for the wave equation
Starting from a recent a posteriori error estimator for the finite element solution of the wave equation with explicit time-stepping [Grote, Lakkis, Santos, 2024], we devise a space-time adaptive strategy which includes both time evolving meshes and local time-stepping [Diaz, Grote, 2009] to overcome any overly stringent CFL stability restriction on the time-step due to local mesh refinement. Moreover, at each time-step the adaptive algorithm monitors the accuracy thanks to the error indicators…

Here is a poll about #GenAI since that's all we're talking about at the moment:
Do you believe that you can detect AI-generated text?
If so, what are your tips to detect it? I found this article which has a few suggestions :

5 Easy Ways To Tell If Written Content Came From Generative AI
Spread of generative AI content online since ChatGPT 3.5 launched in November 2022 is up 8,362%. Here's how to tell if content was written by an AI bot or not.

Christian Wilkins Contract Looking Worse And Worse For The Raiders https://raiderramble.com/2025/07/09/christian-wilkins-contract-looking-worse-and-worse-for-the-raiders/

AI Governance InternationaL Evaluation Index (AGILE Index) 2025
Yi Zeng, Enmeng Lu, Xiaoyang Guo, Cunqing Huangfu, Jiawei Xie, Yu Chen, Zhengqi Wang, Dongqi Liang, Gongce Cao, Jin Wang, Zizhe Ruan, Xin Guan, Ammar Younas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11546

AI Governance InternationaL Evaluation Index (AGILE Index) 2025
The year 2024 witnessed accelerated global AI governance advancements, marked by strengthened multilateral frameworks and proliferating national regulatory initiatives. This acceleration underscores an unprecedented need to systematically track governance progress--an imperative that drove the launch of the AI Governance InternationaL Evaluation Index (AGILE Index) project since 2023. The inaugural AGILE Index, released in February 2024 after assessing 14 countries, established an operational a…

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

Are nominations by those accused of war crimes even considered?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/08/trump-nominated-nobel-peace-prize-netanyahu?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Enter Sandman? Von Miller joins to be the closer Commanders lacked in 2024 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45765147/how-von-miller-help-commanders-defense-2025

NuSTAR Analysis of the 2024 Periastron Passage of TeV Binary PSR B1259-63
Oliver J. Roberts, Philip Kaaret, M. Lynne Saade, Chien-Ting Chen, Steven R. Ehlert, Ioannis Liodakis, Martin C. Weisskopf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05571

NuSTAR Analysis of the 2024 Periastron Passage of TeV Binary PSR B1259-63
PSR B1259-63 is a well studied TeV binary, with an energetic pulsar in orbit around a Be star. Using NuSTAR observations during the 2024 passage of the pulsar through the circumstellar disk, we find the spectrum to be the most energetic ($Γ$ = 1.5) around 27 days after periastron, during the first of two variable, short-term emission episodes of a contemporaneous GeV flare. We discuss the variability in the X-ray flux and the hardening of the spectrum with time, and in the context of previous …

A new type-1 transition in NGC 1346 revealed by (spectro)polarimetry
F. Marin, D. Hutsem\'ekers, S. Jorstad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08589 https://…

A new type-1 transition in NGC 1346 revealed by (spectro)polarimetry
We present the first photo- and spectropolarimetric observations of the changing-look active galactic nucleus NGC~1346 taken with the Perkins telescope (November 2022, March 2025) and VLT/FORS2 (August and September 2024), which have revealed a new spectral transition. We find that NGC~1346 has reverted to its former (2001) type-1 spectral state after having been a type-2 active galactic nucleus from 2004 to 2022. More and more intense broad H$β$ (3720 $\pm$ 310 km.s$^{-1}$ full width at half …

Trump said he threatened to bomb Moscow if Putin attacked Ukraine, 2024 fundraiser tapes show
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/politics/trump-tape-putin-bomb-fundraiser?cid=ios_app

The limit of repetition thresholds of rich sequences
Lubom\'ira Dvo\v{r}\'akov\'a, Edita Pelantov\'a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06104 https://

The limit of repetition thresholds of rich sequences
The repetition threshold of a class of sequences is the smallest number $r$ such that a sequence from the class contains no repetition with exponent $> r$. We focus on the class $\mathcal{C}_d$ of $d$-ary sequences rich in palindromes. In 2020, Currie, Mol, and Rampersad determined the repetition threshold for $\mathcal{C}_2$. In 2024, Currie, Mol and Peltomäki found the repetition threshold for $\mathcal{C}_3$ and conjectured that the repetition threshold for $\mathcal{C}_d$ tends to 2 with $…

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The Trammps:
🎵 Disco Inferno
#NowPlaying #TheTrammps
https://funkyganesh.bandcamp.com/album/the-trammps-disco-inferno-funky-ganesh-retouch-2024
https://open.spotify.com/track/5jUA1njy3h6ynHLvPdEVHt

Britain’s intelligence and military support to Israel since October 7, as well as the continued authorisation of components of F35 jets, “crosses the line into participation,” Mr Kennard added.
Forz Khan, the lawyer who represented the family of Jim Henderson, an aid worker with World Central Kitchen who was killed in April 2024, said it was ”highly likely that Sir Keir Starmer is guilty of genocide.”
'This is not complicity, this is participation' | Morning Star

“Shell scraps construction of biofuels plant in Rotterdam"
#Shell #FossilFuels #Energy

Will Rashee Rice be suspended? Here's how many games Chiefs WR could miss following hit-and-run sentencing

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/will-ra

AI, Humans, and Data Science: Optimizing Roles Across Workflows and the Workforce
Richard Timpone, Yongwei Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11597 https://…

AI, Humans, and Data Science: Optimizing Roles Across Workflows and the Workforce
AI is transforming research. It is being leveraged to construct surveys, synthesize data, conduct analysis, and write summaries of the results. While the promise is to create efficiencies and increase quality, the reality is not always as clear cut. Leveraging our framework of Truth, Beauty, and Justice (TBJ) which we use to evaluate AI, machine learning and computational models for effective and ethical use (Taber and Timpone 1997; Timpone and Yang 2024), we consider the potential and limitati…

A US appeals court revives a lawsuit against NSO Group by Salvadoran journalists allegedly targeted with Pegasus spyware after a district court's 2024 dismissal (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/appeals-court-rev…

Appeals court revives Salvadoran journalists’ lawsuit against NSO Group
The appellate court on Tuesday sent the case back to the lower court for further consideration, saying it had “abused its discretion” and improperly applied the law when deciding Salvadoran journalists had no right to sue in U.S. courts.

Cowboys new $80 million investment ranked outside top 20 at his position by NFL execs https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/09/cowboys-dt-not-included-in-espns-top-20-rankings/84510446007…

Atlantic Council: the number of US-based investors in spyware nearly tripled in 2024 to 31 firms, compared to just 11 in 2023, topping Israel's 26 investors (Vas Panagiotopoulos/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/us-spyware-investment/

US Investment in Spyware Is Skyrocketing
A new report warns that the number of US investors in powerful commercial spyware rose sharply in 2024 and names new countries linked to the dangerous technology.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 06.09.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum

#ListeningClub It’s on Bandcamp if that’s your jam. https://liquidsounddesignuk.bandcamp.com/album/nature-never-di…

Anti-Money Laundering Machine Learning Pipelines; A Technical Analysis on Identifying High-risk Bank Clients with Supervised Learning
Khashayar Namdar, Pin-Chien Wang, Tushar Raju, Steven Zheng, Fiona Li, Safwat Tahmin Khan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09127

Anti-Money Laundering Machine Learning Pipelines; A Technical Analysis on Identifying High-risk Bank Clients with Supervised Learning
Anti-money laundering (AML) actions and measurements are among the priorities of financial institutions, for which machine learning (ML) has shown to have a high potential. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive and systematic approach for developing ML pipelines to identify high-risk bank clients in a dataset curated for Task 1 of the University of Toronto 2023-2024 Institute for Management and Innovation (IMI) Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Competition. The dataset included 195,789 c…

Five principles to protect the human knowledge ecosystem. 2/5

Crash Landing #NowPlaying #nowplaying #originalmusic #streaming

Crash Landing #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

A November 2024 report from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) reflects staggering numbers:
There are an estimated 96 million #birders in the United States
—more than a third of U.S. adults
—who together spent more than $107 billion in 2022.
In total, that’s more money than the 2022 gross domestic product of New Hampshire (and 10 other U.S. states).

from my link log —
I Have No Constructor, and I Must Initialize.
https://consteval.ca/2024/07/03/initialization/
saved 2024-07-05

I Have No Constructor, and I Must Initialize | consteval

Highlands Suite
Inspired by the beautiful land of Scotland...
#PianoImprov #NowPlaying
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Highlands Suite #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

A look at Yahoo Creators, launched in March 2024, offering creators a 50/50 ad revenue split for posting original written content and has signed up 135 creators (Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/yahoo-takes-cues-from-pla…

Yahoo takes cues from platforms as it offers more editorial control to creators
In June, Yahoo for Creators had its most lucrative month yet, reflecting Yahoo's gradual adoption of aspects of a creator platform.

Neighborhood Balanced k-Coloring of Graphs
Maurice Genevieva Almeida, Tarkeshwar Singh, Siddharth Gupta, Ravindra Pawar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06003 https://

Neighborhood Balanced k-Coloring of Graphs
For a simple graph G = (V, E) and a positive integer k greater than or equal to 2, a coloring of vertices of G using exactly k colors such that each vertex has an equal number of neighbors of each color is called neighborhood-balanced k-coloring, and the graph is called a neighborhood-balanced k-colored graph. This generalizes the notion of neighborhood balanced coloring of graphs introduced by Bryan Freyberg and Alison Marr (Graphs and Combinatorics, 2024). We derive some necessary/sufficient …

Addison pleads guilty to lesser charge in DUI case https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45763445/vikings-jordan-addison-pleads-guilty-lesser-charge

Five principles to protect the human knowledge ecosystem. 2/5

PitchBook: VCs have invested $5B in humanoid robotics startups since the beginning of 2024, as years of steady progress and GenAI triggers an investment frenzy (Washington Post)

Humanoid robots were a sci-fi dream. Suddenly they’re everywhere.
A frenzy of investment from Amazon, Meta and other companies has created a crowd of new humanoid robots.

from my link log —
Evolution of the ELF object file format.
https://maskray.me/blog/2024-05-26-evolution-of-elf-object-file-format
saved 2025-09-03

Symphony of Creation: Understanding What It Takes To Compose #composer #composing #inspiration

Symphony of Creation: Understanding What It Takes To Compose
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Crime in large cities in the aggregate is lower in states with Democratic leadership.
But Trump focuses his ire almost exclusively on large blue cities in blue states,
sidestepping political conflict with Republican governors.
Trump threatens to deploy national guard units to Chicago and Baltimore,
ostensibly to quell violence,
a pattern has emerged as he describes which cities he talks about.
Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington DC and Baltimore.
But …

Krishan Bhatia, Amazon's VP of global video advertising, is leaving; Bhatia joined Amazon in April 2024 after more than a decade as an ad sales leader at NBCU (Ad Age)
https://adage.com/media/tv-streaming/aa-amazon-ads-vp-krishan-bhatia-departs/

Amazon Ads VP Krishan Bhatia departs
The Prime Video and former NBCU ad leader announced his departure from Amazon Friday.

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Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Amazon expands its Now service in India to New Delhi, offering deliveries in as little as 10 minutes, after launching the service in Bengaluru in December 2024 (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

from my link log —
Nontransitive comparison functions lead to out-of-bounds read and write in glibc's qsort().
https://www.qualys.com/2024/01/30/qsort.txt
saved 2025-09-06

Five principles to protect the human knowledge ecosystem 5/5

Healing Vibe - happy inspirations of all sorts
#CreativeProcess #HealingVibes
https://m…

Healing Vibe - happy inspirations of all sorts
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

How candidates evoke identity and issues on TikTok
Sabina Tomkins, Chang Ge, David Rothschild
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05310 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.0…

How candidates evoke identity and issues on TikTok
Social media platforms are increasingly central to campaign communication, with both paid (advertising) and earned (organic) posts used for fundraising, mobilization, and persuasion. TikTok, and other short-form video platforms, with its short-video format and content-driven algorithms, demand unique content. We examine the final six months before the 2024 US Presidential Election to understand how major campaigns used TikTok. We frame our analysis around two political science theories. The fir…

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

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

Healing Voices - nothing quite like the human voice
#CreativeProcess #HealingMusic
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Healing Voices - nothing quite like the human voice
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

from my link log —
Booleans are a trap.
https://katafrakt.me/2024/11/09/booleans-are-a-trap/
saved 2025-06-30 https://

#Googles #CO2-Emissionen sind 2024 auf 15,2 Millionen Tonnen gestiegen.
Das ist ein Plus von 51 % seit 2019. Haupttreiber ist der wachsende #Energiebedarf durch Künstliche Intelligenz. Trotz Eff…

Googles Kohlendioxid-Emissionen steigen erneut
Der Suchmaschinen-Konzern Google befindet sich mit seinen Treibhausgas-Emissionen weiter im Aufwärtstrend. Grund dafür ist auch künstliche Intelligenz.

TikTok says it now has more than 200M MAUs in Europe, up from 175M in 2024, the latest sign of its rapid growth among teenagers (Supantha Mukherjee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/tiktok-users-top-200-million-eu…

Digging My Way Out
#BeBetter #NowPlaying
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Digging My Way Out #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Why Lions star Aidan Hutchinson believes he's 'in the perfect spot' after brutal leg injury at Cowboys in 2024

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/…

from my link log —
Statistical shortcomings in standard math libraries, and how to fix them.
https://www.evanmiller.org/statistical-shortcomings-in-standard-math-libraries.html
saved 2024-05-28

An analysis of 15M biomedical abstracts from 2010 to 2024 finds researchers using AI to write abstracts use certain words far more often than those who don't (Gina Kolata/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/…

454 Hints That a Chatbot Wrote Part of a Biomedical Researcher’s Paper
Scientists show that the frequency of a set of words seems to have increased in published study abstracts since ChatGPT was released into the world.

Sony reports Q1 revenue up 2.2% YoY to $17.8B, net profit up 23% YoY to ~$1.8B, PS5 sales at 2.5M, up from 2.4M in Q1 2024, and expects a lower FY tariff impact (Kosaku Narioka/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/bu…