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Crypto trading volume at Bitstamp, bought by Robinhood in 2024, grew 21% MoM in August to $14.4B, surpassing Robinhood's crypto volume, which fell 18% to $13.7B (Brayden Lindrea/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitstamp-flips-parent-robin…

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…

The Schwarz lemma for holomorphic and minimal disks at the boundary
David Kalaj
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09471 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.09471

The Schwarz lemma for holomorphic and minimal disks at the boundary
We first prove a Boundary Schwarz lemma for holomorphic disks on the unit ball in $\mathbb{C}^n$. Further by using a Schwarz lemma for minimal conformal disks of Forstneri\v c and Kalaj (F.~Forstneri{č} and D.~Kalaj. \newblock Schwarz-pick lemma for harmonic maps which are conformal at a point. \newblock {\em Anal. PDE}, 17(3):981--1003, 2024.) we prove the boundary Schwarz lemma for such minimal disks.

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.10.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1153689 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Re-doing a #MusicWomenWednesday from 2024, as the video I'd linked to disappeared and I had to grab a new one.
When I was a kid in the 90s, I had a Wax Trax video compilation on VHS that had this great cover of Patsy Cline's "Walking After Midnight" done by Los Angeles' BRAINDEAD SOUND MACHINE. This was the first way I ever heard this song, and I'm crazy about th…

Democracy on the March... into the abyss...
In today's news, a rather small fish in the world of voting systems swallows a whale.
This reporter wonders: Who provided the funding for this acquisition?
"Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official"
htt…

Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official
Dominion is one of the biggest election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the 2024 election.

Putin admits Russian air defense opened fire at Azerbaijani airliner in 2024: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/09/putin-admits-russian-air-defense.html

Email: USA Today EIC Caren Bohan has abruptly left the company, the second editor in chief to do so in less than two years; she became EIC in September 2024 (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/business/media/usa-today-to…

USA Today’s Top Editor Departs, the Second in Less Than Two Years
Caren Bohan, who was named editor in chief in September 2024, will no longer continue in her role “effective immediately,” the company told employees.

"Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024" für Playstation 5 erschienen
Der "Flight Simulator 2024" ist für die Playstation 5 erschienen. Dabei hatte Microsoft einen Port zuerst abgelehnt.
https://w…

Bulk Thermal Conductance of the 5/2 and 7/3 Fractional Quantum Hall States in the Corbino Geometry
F. Boivin, M. Petrescu, Z. Berkson-Korenberg, K. W. West L. N. Pfeiffer, G. Gervais
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09588

Bulk Thermal Conductance of the 5/2 and 7/3 Fractional Quantum Hall States in the Corbino Geometry
In this work, making use of time-resolved in situ Joule heating of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the Corbino geometry, we report bulk thermal conductance measurements for the ν = 5/2 and ν = 7/3 fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states for electron temperatures ranging from 20 to 150 mK. We compare our findings with a recent study by Melcer et al. [Nature 625, 489 (2024)] that observed a finite bulk thermal conductivity \k{appa}xx in FQH states. In spite of the large size difference an…

“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…

The Exact $\varepsilon$-Hypercyclicity Threshold
Geivison Ribeiro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09406 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.09406

The Exact $\varepsilon$-Hypercyclicity Threshold
In this paper we give an affirmative answer to the problem proposed by Bayart in 2024 \cite{Bayart2024JMAA}: given $\varepsilon\in(0,1)$, there exists an operator which is $δ$-hypercyclic if and only if $δ\in[\varepsilon,1)$.

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.

From Keywords to Clusters: AI-Driven Analysis of YouTube Comments to Reveal Election Issue Salience in 2024
Raisa M. Simoes, Timoteo Kelly, Eduardo J. Simoes, Praveen Rao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07821

From Keywords to Clusters: AI-Driven Analysis of YouTube Comments to Reveal Election Issue Salience in 2024
This paper aims to explore two competing data science methodologies to attempt answering the question, "Which issues contributed most to voters' choice in the 2024 presidential election?" The methodologies involve novel empirical evidence driven by artificial intelligence (AI) techniques. By using two distinct methods based on natural language processing and clustering analysis to mine over eight thousand user comments on election-related YouTube videos from one right leaning journal, Wall Stre…

🗡️ Landmines and violence in Colombian Amazon confine Indigenous Siona families
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/09/landmines-and-violence-in-colombian-amazon-confine-indigenous-siona-families/…

Landmines and violence in Colombian Amazon confine Indigenous Siona families
Siona Indigenous guards in southern Colombia are raising alarm that landmines and armed groups are cutting off their families from natural resources and trapping them in small portions of their territory. It’s been an ongoing problem for decades, Mongabay contributor Jose Guarnizo reported. In August 2024, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) expanded its […]

Theoretical and experimental basis for excluding Einstein-Cartan theory within the USMEG-EFT framework
Farrukh A. Chishtie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08848 https://

Theoretical and experimental basis for excluding Einstein-Cartan theory within the USMEG-EFT framework
The USMEG-EFT framework~\cite{ChishtieEFT2025,ChishtieBreakdown2023} provides systematic quantum gravity through with 4D General Relativity (GR) achieving Standard Model-gravity unification. This work examines Einstein-Cartan theory against McKeon et al.'s claims~\cite{BrandtFrenkelMcKeon2024,McKeonBrandtFrenkel2025} regarding its viability for unification. McKeon et al.'s 2024 analysis omitted key interaction terms, missing Einstein-Cartan's central content. Their 2025 claim that unification r…

Investment in subsea cable projects is expected to reach $13B between 2025 and 2027, almost 2x the amount invested between 2022 and 2024, driven by AI buildout (Magdalena Petrova/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/08/big-tech-ai-underwater-cables.html

Underwater cables are a vital piece of the AI buildout and internet — investment is booming
Over 95% of international data and voice traffic travels through subsea telecom cables. Tech giants Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft are investing for AI.

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.

Cutting along a symmetric quadrilateral to construct an embedded flexible dodecahedron
Elvar Atlason
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06897 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Cutting along a symmetric quadrilateral to construct an embedded flexible dodecahedron
Until recently, the simplest known flexible polyhedron was Steffen's polyhedron on nine vertices. However, in 2024, an embedded flexible polyhedron on eight vertices was announced. It attains the known lower bound for the number of vertices, showing that the simplest embedded flexible polyhedron has eight vertices. We introduce a method for making new flexible polyhedral surfaces from old ones. This general method applies to the above minimal example, giving another proof of its flexibility. We…

"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.

Detta skaver.
På samma sätt som det skaver att Tidölaget skjutit in sig på att förstöra för hållbar energi, bred folkbildning, jämställdhet och social trygghet.
Det finns ett mönster i det här som jag tycker är motbjudande.
https://www.europarl.eu…

„Aus Zahlen der Bundesagentur für Arbeit schlussfolgert das Institut, dass die wegen Totalverweigerung von Jobcentern verhängten Sanktionen zwischen April 2024 und Juni 2025 wohl deutlich weniger als 100 Menschen betrafen.
„Dies ist eine sehr geringe Zahl angesichts von mehr als fünf Mio. Personen, die (..) 2024 (..) zur Gruppe der erwerbsfähigen Leistungsberechtigten gehörten“, heißt es im Bericht des zur Bundesagentur für Arbeit gehörenden Forschungsinstituts.“

It is December, so it is time to share my #Warframe2024 report from last year before the 2025 one arrives, and yes, I play on Linux and have since 2023, running Warframe on Debian Trixie.
#Debian #Warframe

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

Larry Ellison (Oracle-Chef und Trump-Freund) träumt von der totalen Überwachung: Bürger „werden sich benehmen“, weil jeder Schritt gefilmt, analysiert, gemeldet wird. Klingt mehr nach Orwells #1984 als nach Fortschritt. Mehr Kameras bedeuten nicht mehr Gerechtigkeit, sondern mehr Machtkonzentration. Autor Christiaan Hetzner zieht Parallelen zu Chinas Sozialkreditsystem. | Fortune

today in "Rob Pike thinks you are literally too stupid and will personally make Go worse because of it" https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2024-12-20-collection-functions-in-go-1-23/

Ein wachsender Anteil des in #Deutschland erzeugten #Solarstroms wird direkt vor Ort verbraucht.
2024 lag der #Eigenverbrauch laut

Immer größerer Solarstromanteil erreicht das öffentliche Netz nicht
Die Strompreise liegen heute weit über der Einspeisevergütung für Solarstrom. Eine Studie belegt, wie schnell der Eigenverbrauch deutscher Erzeuger steigt.

»Heute würde diese Aufdringlichkeit als eine klare Grenzüberschreitung gewertet werden und könnte strafrechtlich verfolgt werden. Doch in den 1950er-Jahren war sexuelle Belästigung noch keine Straftat, es war noch nicht mal ein gängiger Begriff.«
Aus: Annegret Braun — Die Sekretärin (2024)

Anwar Floyd-Pruitt has passed away. I met him at UWM a decade ago, and he was always such a kind and creative person. I last saw him at Saint Kate and had a great conversation with him about his art, while surrounded by the art he was creating at the time. I am gutted... Anwar and his art will be sorely missed.
https://www.

Beloved Artist Anwar Floyd-Pruitt Has Died
Floyd-Pruitt served as the Saint Kate’s artist in residence in 2024.

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...

Der konkrete Erziehungsstil der Eltern ist für das spätere Leben der Kinder kaum relevant, solange drei Dinge gegeben sind:
1. Unbedingte Wärme und Zuwendung,
2. kulturelle Impulse und
3. eine gewisse Struktur mit konkreten Zielen.
Ansonsten tun Kinder halt das, was ihnen ihre Eltern vorleben.

The One Big Thing You Can Do for Your Kids
The research shows that you probably have less effect on your kids than you think—with one major exception: Your love will make them happy.

Seahawks survive a TNF classic, plus MLB's late drama surge https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6662226/2025/09/26/seahawks-cardinals-tnf-the-pulse/

@… guten morgen! re flameshot (https://www.tub.tuhh.de/tubtorials/2024/11/30/screenshot-tools-mein-aha-moment-mit-fla…

3 things to know about Bears: Could 2024 top pick be hitting stride? https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/3-things-to-know-about-bears-could-2024-top-pick-be-hitting-stride-3466586/

Israel Heritage Foundation tied to 2024 Trump campaign, top Israeli officials
https://prismreports.org/2025/09/17/israel-heritage-foundation-trump-israeli-government/

🇺🇦 #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
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Wandern auf den Laaber bei Oberammergau 2024
#hiking #silentsunday

#Tatort: Ich sehe dich - #ARD #BR

#np

Invincible Shield (Deluxe Edition)
Judas Priest · Album · 2024 · 14 songs

Sharp Interface Dynamics in a Minimal Non-Reciprocal Cahn-Hilliard System
Daniel Gomez, Yoichiro Mori, Sarah Strikwerda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21706 https://

Sharp Interface Dynamics in a Minimal Non-Reciprocal Cahn-Hilliard System
Interest in non-reciprocally coupled systems recently led to the introduction of a minimal non-reciprocally coupled Cahn-Hilliard (CH) model by Brauns and Marchetti in 2024 arXiv:2306.08868, which we refer to as the Brauns-Marchetti (BM) model. This model can be seen as a conservative counterpart to the spatially extended FitzHugh-Nagumo model. Lacking a gradient structure, the BM model was observed to exhibit interesting dynamics including traveling periodic wave-trains and other coherent stru…

NFL picks, predictions against the spread Week 5: Chiefs cool Jaguars, Cowboys best Jets https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/nfl-picks-predictions-against-spread-week-5/265e0b16595e236ca1885170

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.

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…

Updated Running Quark and Lepton Parameters at Various Scales
Stefan Antusch, Kevin Hinze, Shaikh Saad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01312 https://arxiv.org/p…

Updated Running Quark and Lepton Parameters at Various Scales
In the light of the recent Particle Data Group (PDG) release, we revisit the running quark and lepton Yukawa couplings, together with the quark mixing parameters, across a range of energy scales. The 2024 PDG determinations of low-energy fermion masses feature significantly smaller uncertainties, resulting from a reduced estimate of systematic errors compared to the more conservative treatment in the 2022 analysis. To assess the impact of these changes, we present running parameters obtained us…

208 Menschen 2024 durch Streumunition getötet
208 Menschen sind im vergangenen Jahr in der Ukraine von Streumunition getötet oder verletzt worden. Das war die Mehrheit der weltweit 314 Opfer, wie aus dem Streumunitionsmonitor der Menschenrechtsorganisation Human Rights Watch hervorgeht. Es gebe aber eine hohe Dunkelziffer, weil nicht immer registriert werde, dass Verletzungen durch Streumunition verursacht wurden.
Auch die U…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Ukraine meldet Ausfall von Starlink ++
Die Ukraine hat einen erneuten vorübergehenden Ausfall des Satelliten-Kommunikationsdienstes Starlink beklagt. Laut Präsident Selenskyj rücken die ukrainischen Streitkräfte in den Grenzgebieten der nördlichen Region Sumy vor.

Inspiring stories from women in astronomy in Africa
Priscilla Muheki, Mirjana Povi\'c, Somaya Saad, Salma Sylla Mbaye, in collaboration with Vanessa McBride, Naomi Asabre Frimpong, Meryem Guennoun, African Science Stars team
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05195

Inspiring stories from women in astronomy in Africa
In preparation for the International Astronomical Union (IAU) General Assembly (GA) 2024, the first GA held in Africa, the African Network of Women in Astronomy (AfNWA) embarked on a visionary project: the creation of an inspiring storytelling book that showcases the remarkable journeys of professional female astronomers in Africa. This book is not merely a collection of biographies; it is a tapestry of resilience, passion, and scientific excellence woven through the lives of women who have ven…

White rose, covered in water droplets. Mary and Joseph Retreat Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, California, USA. August, 2024. #maryandjosephretreatcenter #ranchopalosverdes #rose

Conceptual design of a Doppler Backscattering diagnostic for the EXL-50U spherical tokamak
Ying Hao Matthew Liang, Valerian Hongjie Hall-Chen, Terry L. Rhodes, Yumin Wang, Yihang Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18532

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...

Researchers: Tile tags broadcast unencrypted MAC addresses and unique IDs; researchers informed Life360 in November 2024 but it stopped replying in February (Kim Zetter/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/tile-tracking-tags-can-be-exploi…

Tile Tracking Tags Can Be Exploited by Tech-Savvy Stalkers, Researchers Say
A team of researchers found that, by not encrypting the data broadcast by Tile tags, users could be vulnerable to having their location information exposed to malicious actors.

Nonadiabatic processes in dynamical controls
Yoshiaki Teranishi, Satoshi Morita, Seiji Miyashita
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19062 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Hierarchical Deep Fusion Framework for Multi-dimensional Facial Forgery Detection - The 2024 Global Deepfake Image Detection Challenge
Kohou Wang, Huan Hu, Xiang Liu, Zezhou Chen, Ping Chen, Zhaoxiang Liu, Shiguo Lian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13107

Hierarchical Deep Fusion Framework for Multi-dimensional Facial Forgery Detection - The 2024 Global Deepfake Image Detection Challenge
The proliferation of sophisticated deepfake technology poses significant challenges to digital security and authenticity. Detecting these forgeries, especially across a wide spectrum of manipulation techniques, requires robust and generalized models. This paper introduces the Hierarchical Deep Fusion Framework (HDFF), an ensemble-based deep learning architecture designed for high-performance facial forgery detection. Our framework integrates four diverse pre-trained sub-models, Swin-MLP, CoAtNe…

Russian oppositioner Navalny killed 'by poisoning' in 2024, widow cites Western labs: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/17/russian-oppositioner-navalny-killed-by.html

A Combined TESS and Ground-based Study of Transit Timing Variations in HAT-P-16, TOI-1516 and TOI-2046 Systems
E. Sonbas, K. Kaplan, M. Tanriver, A. Keskin, K. S. Dhuga, A. Bulut, E. Gogus, W. Ogloza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21551

A Combined TESS and Ground-based Study of Transit Timing Variations in HAT-P-16, TOI-1516 and TOI-2046 Systems
We present new results for the hot Jupiters HAT-P-16b, TOI-1516b, and TOI-2046b, based on photometric observations collected using both space- and ground-based facilities. Ground-based data were collected in the 2020-2024 time span with the 0.6 m telescope (ADYU60) located at the Adiyaman University Application and Research Center (Adiyaman, Türkiye) and the 1.0 m telescope at the Türkiye National Observatory (TUG, Türkiye). Through a combination of fits to our ground-based data, the mid-tra…

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?

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/

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

Taiwan's interior ministry announces a one-year ban on access to Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu, aka RedNote, citing 1,700 fraud cases since 2024 (Ben Blanchard/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/tai…

NEXUS: A Search for Nuclear Variability with the First Two JWST NIRCam Epochs
Zachary Stone, Yue Shen, Ming-Yang Zhuang, Lei Hu, Justin Pierel, Junyao Li, Adam J. Burgasser, Jenny E. Greene, Zhiwei Pan, Alice E. Shapley, Fengwu Sun, Padmavathi Venkatraman, Feige Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19585

NEXUS: A Search for Nuclear Variability with the First Two JWST NIRCam Epochs
The multi-cycle JWST Treasury program NEXUS will obtain cadenced imaging and spectroscopic observations around the North Ecliptic Pole during 2024-2028. Here we report a systematic search for nuclear variability among $\sim 25\,$k sources covered by NIRCam (F200W+F444W) imaging using the first two NEXUS epochs separated by 9 months in the observed frame. Difference imaging techniques reach $1σ$ variability sensitivity of 0.18~mag (F200W) and 0.15~mag (F444W) at 28th magnitude (within 0".2 diam…

Progressing Level-of-Detail Animation of Volumetric Elastodynamics
Jiayi Eris Zhang, Doug L. James, Danny M. Kaufman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14177 https://

Progressing Level-of-Detail Animation of Volumetric Elastodynamics
We extend the progressive dynamics model (Zhang et al., 2024) from cloth and shell simulation to volumetric finite elements, enabling an efficient level-of-detail (LOD) animation-design pipeline with predictive coarse-resolution previews facilitating rapid iterative design for a final, to-be-generated, high-resolution animation of volumetric elastodynamics. This extension to volumetric domains poses significant new challenges, including the construction of suitable mesh hierarchies and the defi…

Trump started the verbal war with Canada shortly after the 2024 election.
He invited Prime Minister Trudeau to dine with him at Mar-a-Lago on November 29.
Trump said then that Canada should be the fifty-first state and that Trudeau should be its governor. (Later, Trump switched to Gretzky.)
“I look forward to seeing the governor again soon so that we may continue our in depth talks on tariffs and trade,” Trump posted on social media.
To this, Trudeau responded:
…

The New Detroit-Windsor Bridge Can’t Repair the Damage Trump Has Done
The opening of the Gordie Howe bridge has been delayed. It’s an apt metaphor for where U.S.-Canada relations have gone under Trump 2.0.

Gap Inhomogeneity in Cuprates: a view from Two-Dimensional Josephson Echo Spectroscopy
Alex G\'omez Salvador, Ivan Morera, Marios H. Michael, Pavel E. Dolgirev, Danica Pavicevic, Albert Liu, Andrea Cavalleri, Eugene Demler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23856

Gap Inhomogeneity in Cuprates: a view from Two-Dimensional Josephson Echo Spectroscopy
Novel theoretical developments have allowed to connect microscopic disorder in bosonic collective excitations to the signatures in two-dimensional terahertz spectroscopy (Gómez Salvador et al. 2025). Here, we employ this framework to analyze the recently measured Josepshon echoes in optimally doped La$_{2-x}$Sr$_x$CuO$_4$ (Liu et al. 2024). We consider the spatial gap inhomogeneities -observed in scanning tunneling microscopy- as input for the disorder in the superfluid density, and compute th…

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…

EU life expectancy estimated at 81.7 years in 2024 - News articles - #Eurostat
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20250911-1
Ga…

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.

Characterizing Phishing Pages by JavaScript Capabilities
Aleksandr Nahapetyan, Kanv Khare, Kevin Schwarz, Bradley Reaves, Alexandros Kapravelos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13186 …

Characterizing Phishing Pages by JavaScript Capabilities
In 2024, the Anti-Phishing Work Group identified over one million phishing pages. Phishers achieve this scale by using phishing kits -- ready-to-deploy phishing websites -- to rapidly deploy phishing campaigns with specific data exfiltration, evasion, or mimicry techniques. In contrast, researchers and defenders continue to fight phishing on a page-by-page basis and rely on manual analysis to recognize static features for kit identification. This paper aims to aid researchers and analysts by …

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 …

Quadratic Kernel for Cliques or Trees Vertex Deletion
Soh Kumabe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16815 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16815

Quadratic Kernel for Cliques or Trees Vertex Deletion
We consider \textsc{Cliques or Trees Vertex Deletion}, which is a hybrid of two fundamental parameterized problems: \textsc{Cluster Vertex Deletion} and \textsc{Feedback Vertex Set}. In this problem, we are given an undirected graph $G$ and an integer $k$, and asked to find a vertex subset $X$ of size at most $k$ such that each connected component of $G-X$ is either a clique or a tree. Jacob et al. (ISAAC, 2024) provided a kernel of $O(k^5)$ vertices for this problem, which was recently improve…

Pond Slider turtles basking on the rocks in a pond. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. December, 2024. #laarboretum #turtle #pondslider

Survival of the accretion disk in LMC Recurrent Nova 1968-12a: UV--X-ray case study of the 2024 eruption
Judhajeet Basu, G. C. Anupama, Jan-Uwe Ness, Kulinder Pal Singh, Sudhanshu Barway, Shatakshi Chamoli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11231

Survival of the accretion disk in LMC Recurrent Nova 1968-12a: UV--X-ray case study of the 2024 eruption
We report on UV and X-ray observations of the 2024 eruption of the recurrent nova LMCN 1968-12a, a rapidly recurring extragalactic system with a $\sim$4.3 year recurrence period and a massive white dwarf (WD). The eruption was discovered on 2024 August 1.8 by \textit{Swift}, and subsequently monitored using \textit{AstroSat}'s UVIT and SXT, along with Swift/UVOT and XRT. The multi-wavelength light curves reveal a rapid UV-optical decline, followed by a plateau phase exhibiting 1.26-day modulati…

Cowboys Add WR From Practice Squad With CeeDee Lamb Out vs. Packers https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/jalen-cropper-elevated-ceedee-lamb-out/?adt_ei=[email]

Internal report: global revenue at the Financial Times Group grew by 6% YoY to £540M in 2024; UK accounts for Financial Times Ltd show revenue up 2% to £454.6M (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/…

Financial Times reports global revenue boost to £540m for 2024
Global revenue at the Financial Times Group was above half-a-billion pounds for the second time in 2024, growing by 6% to £540m.

#Podcast-Hörempfehlung (nicht ganz unparteiisch): der @… -Podcast mit Beiträgen aus der Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft und dem Stadtmuseum #Berlin zu 'k…

Sources: smart ring maker Oura is raising an $875M Series E at a $10.9B valuation, up from $5B in November 2024, and has sold ~3M rings over the past year (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-22/oura-ri…

Oura Ring Maker to Become $11 Billion Company with Latest Raise
Oura Health Oy, the maker of the popular Oura health and fitness ring, is closing in on a roughly $11 billion valuation after selling about 3 million rings over the past year.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 19.09.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum

Filing: Insight Partners says a ransomware attack on its systems between October 2024 and January 2025 affected 12,600 people, including limited partners (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/17/vc-giant…

VC firm Insight Partners says thousands of staff and limited partners had personal data stolen in a ransomware attack | TechCrunch
The venture capital giant, behind cyber giants Wiz and Databricks, notified current and former employees, as well as the firm's limited partners, that their data was stolen in a January cyberattack.

The robo-advisory market, which includes companies that use AI tools to help investors pick stocks, is expected to grow from $61.75B in 2024 to $470.91B by 2029 (Joice Alves/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/c

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

Modified rational six vertex model on a rectangular lattice : new formula, homogeneous and thermodynamic limits
Matthieu Cornillault, Samuel Belliard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11797

Modified rational six vertex model on a rectangular lattice : new formula, homogeneous and thermodynamic limits
We continue the work of Belliard, Pimenta and Slavnov (2024) studying the modified rational six vertex model. We find another formula of the partition function for the inhomogeneous model, in terms of a determinant that mix the modified Izergin one and a Vandermonde one. This expression enables us to compute the partition function in the homogeneous limit for the rectangular lattice, and then to study the thermodynamic limit. It leads to a new result, we obtain the first order of free energy wi…

Dallas Cowboys' DeMarvion Overshown inching closer to return from injury https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-demarvion-overshown-inching-closer-return-injury/a662…

Immer häufiger führen #Dürre, #Starkregen und #Überschwemmungen weltweit zu Schäden.
2024 war das sechste Jahr in Folge mit extremen Abweichungen im

Ressource Wasser: Dürren, Fluten, Extremregen: Wasserkreislauf aus den Fugen
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A review of Northern Irish police finds journalist surveillance wasn't widespread but finds 20 attempts to ID journalists' sources between 2011 and 2024 (Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/police-in-nort…

Police in Northern Ireland tried to identify journalists' sources more than 20 times
But covert surveillance of journalists not found to be "widespread or systemic".

Beschäftigtenanteil von Flüchtlingen aus der Ukraine gestiegen
Der Beschäftigtenanteil von Flüchtlingen aus der Ukraine hat sich in Deutschland einer Erhebung zufolge binnen zwei Jahren verdreifacht. Ende 2024 waren rund 0,6 Prozent aller Beschäftigten in der Bundesrepublik ukrainische Geflüchtete, wie das Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) in Nürnberg unter Berufung auf eine eigene Studie mitteilte. 2022 ha…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ NATO und EU arbeiten an "Drohnenschutzwall" ++
Laut NATO-Generalsekretär Rutte arbeitet das Verteidigungsbündnis gemeinsam mit der EU an einem Abwehrwall gegen Drohnen. Die Zahl junge Ukrainer, die als Schutzsuchende nach Deutschland kommen, ist im Sommer gestiegen.

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.

The Polar Orbit of TOI-2374 b, a Planet in the Neptunian Ridge
Samuel W. Yee, Patrick Tamburo, Gudmundur Stef\'ansson, Juliana Garc\'ia-Mej\'ia, David Charbonneau, Khalid Barkaoui, Karen A. Collins, Richard P. Schwarz, Norio Narita, Akihiko Fukui, Andrew W. Howard, Howard Isaacson, Benjamin J. Fulton, Fei Dai
https://arxiv.org/…

The Polar Orbit of TOI-2374 b, a Planet in the Neptunian Ridge
The ``Neptunian ridge'' is a recently identified peak in the frequency of planets with sizes between that of Neptune and Saturn orbiting their host stars with periods between 3 and 6 days (A. Castro-González et al. 2024). These planets may have formed similarly to their larger, hot Jupiter counterparts in the ``three-day pile-up'', through a dynamically excited migration pathway. The distribution of stellar obliquities in hot Neptune systems may therefore provide a vital clue as to their origi…

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

Nika Soon-Shiong, LAT owner Patrick Soon-Shiong's daughter, becomes Drop Site News' publisher, as the left-leaning outlet hits ~400K subs since its 2024 launch (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/14/2025

‘The verdict of history will be merciless’: A new left media rises in the age of Trump
Drop Site News is bringing on a new publisher as it and other leftist news sites get scoops and momentum.

'Until we win games ... it doesn't matter': Why Dolphins are fixing a broken team culture https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46284120/miami-dolphins-mike-mcdaniel-culture-reset-tyreek-hill-tua-tagovailoa

RSF says Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan, jailed from 2020 to 2024, has been sentenced to four more years on a charge of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-c…

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.09.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen

Humanoid robot startup Figure raised a $1B Series C led by Parkway Venture Capital at a post-money valuation of $39B, up from $2.6B in February 2024 (Jackie Davalos/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-1…

Sources: Reddit is in early talks with Google to deepen integration of its content into Google's AI products, beyond its $60M data-sharing deal signed in 2024 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-17/…

Vanity Fair announces 12 new hires, including Olivia Nuzzi, who left New York Magazine in October 2024 after admitting to an affair with RFK Jr. (Vanity Fair)
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/vanity-fair-welcomes-new-hires

Vanity Fair Announces New Hires Across Departments
Jennifer Pastore, Olivia Nuzzi, Lindsey Underwood, Aidan McLaughlin, and more to join the magazine

JD.com: sales of the iPhone 17 series in the first minute after pre-orders opened in China surpassed the first-day pre-order volume of 2024's iPhone 16 series (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article

Strong appetite for new iPhone in China as pre-orders break record
The numbers underscore Apple’s brand loyalty in China despite growing competition from the likes of Huawei, analysts say.

Penske Media sues Google, says ~20% of Google search results linking to its sites now include AI Overviews, and affiliate link revenue fell 33% since late 2024 (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/rolling-stone-publisher-sues…

AI music platform Suno raised $250M led by Menlo Ventures at a $2.45B valuation, up from ~$500M in 2024, and says its annual revenue has reached $200M (Katherine Sayre/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/ai-musi