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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.

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

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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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/…

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

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…

'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

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 …

Stealing Accuracy: Predicting Day-ahead Electricity Prices with Temporal Hierarchy Forecasting (THieF)
Arkadiusz Lipiecki, Kaja Bilinska, Nicolaos Kourentzes, Rafal Weron
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11372

Stealing Accuracy: Predicting Day-ahead Electricity Prices with Temporal Hierarchy Forecasting (THieF)
We introduce the concept of temporal hierarchy forecasting (THieF) in predicting day-ahead electricity prices and show that reconciling forecasts for hourly products, 2- to 12-hour blocks, and baseload contracts significantly (up to 13%) improves accuracy at all levels. These results remain consistent throughout a challenging 4-year test period (2021-2024) in the German power market and across model architectures, including linear regression, a shallow neural network, gradient boosting, and a s…

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

Deimos photometric properties: analysis of 20 years of observations (2004-2024) by the Mars Express HRSC camera
A. Wargnier, P. N. Simon, S. Fornasier, N. El-Bez-Sebastien, D. Tirsch, K. -D. Matz, T. Gautier, A. Doressoundiram, M. A. Barucci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12804

Deimos photometric properties: analysis of 20 years of observations (2004-2024) by the Mars Express HRSC camera
The goal of this study is to analyze the photometric properties of Deimos using Mars Express (MEX) observations, to improve the photometric properties and provide new insights into the texture and composition of the surface of Deimos, in preparation for the MMX mission. We analyzed the data obtained by the HRSC and the SRC cameras onboard MEX. The HRSC data, obtained through the use of four filters (blue, green, red, IR), provides 390 to 800 m/px resolution, while the SRC data reach 85 to 300 m…

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

A novel pointing technique for the enhancement of Tropospheric Delay Calibration System performances
David Bernacchia, Riccardo Lasagni Manghi, Marco Zannoni, Paolo Tortora, Jose Villalvilla, Javier De Vicente, Paolo Cappuccio, Luciano Iess
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13199

A novel pointing technique for the enhancement of Tropospheric Delay Calibration System performances
The beam-crossing is a novel technique aimed at reducing residual tropospheric Doppler noise for microwave radiometer calibrations. In this work, we report the findings of the first test of this technique using ESA's Tropospheric Delay Calibration System (TDCS) at the complex in Malargue. The data consists in 14 tracking passes of the BepiColombo spacecraft collected between October 2023 and March 2024 during two separate test campaigns. We analyzed the performance of the beam-crossing techniqu…

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...

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…

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?

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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

Highlands Suite
Inspired by the beautiful land of Scotland...
#PianoImprov #NowPlaying
https://

Highlands Suite #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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…

new* mary timony is so good. late-career triumph
https://marytimony.bandcamp.com/album/untame-the-tiger-2
*feb 2024. i overlooked it so long despite her being an all time favorite vocalist and songwriter

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…

Replaced article(s) found for astro-ph.EP. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.EP/new
[1/1]:
- Apache Point rapid response characterization of primitive imminent impactor 2024 RW$_1$
Ingebretsen, Bolin, Jedicke, Vere\v{s}, Chen, Lisse, McMillan, Sutherland, Townsend

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…

(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…

Towards a precise measurement of the $\Lambda_c^ /D^0$ ratio at RHIC
Joseph D. Osborn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10772 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.10772

Towards a precise measurement of the $Λ_c^+/D^0$ ratio at RHIC
sPHENIX is a next-generation experiment at RHIC for jet and heavy-flavor physics which was fully commissioned during 2023 and 2024. Using its novel streaming-readout-capable, precision tracking system, sPHENIX collected 100 billion unbiased $p$$+$$p$ collisions, and a further sample of minimum-bias Au-Au collisions, in Run-24. A key measurement of the sPHENIX heavy flavor physics program is the comparison of $Λ_c^+$ to $D^0$ differential yields in both Au+Au and $p$$+$$p$ collisions, which pro…

#NRW Umweltzustandsbericht Nordrhein-Westfalen 2020 bis 2024 / Ministerium für #Umwelt, #Naturschutz und #Verkehr

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.

#Tatort: Ich sehe dich - #ARD #BR

Charlie Tanfield Hour Record Attempt Results: live tracker
https://britishcyclingrecords.veloresults.com/HourRecord/results/689d248fe342682ea47f8392
How far will he ride in an hour?

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…

And a related issues - lowered speed limits work when well implemented. #VisionZero #SafeStreets
https://…

Brent Toderian (@brenttoderian.bsky.social)
IMPORTANT STUDY: “On average, the implementation of 30 km/h speed limits in European cities demonstrated a 23%, 37% & 38% reduction in road crashes, fatalities & injuries respectively. Lower speed limits also yielded environmental benefits.” https://www.nrso.ntua.gr/review-of-city-wide-30-kmh-speed-limit-benefits-in-europe-may-2024/

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

PeV particle acceleration and non-thermal emission in the `minimalist' model of the extended jets in W50/SS433
A. M. Bykov, S. M. Osipov, V. I. Romansky, Y. A. Uvarov, E. Churazov, I. Khabibullin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09883

PeV particle acceleration and non-thermal emission in the `minimalist' model of the extended jets in W50/SS433
The W50 nebula around microquasar SS~433, powered by supercritical accretion, features two `extended jets' (tens of pc long and a few pc wide) from which polarized X-ray and very high energy radiation above 100 TeV is detected. Here we present a model of very high energy particle acceleration in these extended jets. In the `minimalist' model (discussed in Churazov, Khabibullin, and Bykov, 2024), a collimated outflow aligned with the rotation axis is propagating through a more isotropic wind pro…

An analysis of a rock sampled by NASA's #Perseverance #Mars rover last year called “Sapphire Canyon” will be discussed in a press conference at the top of the hour: #Jezero Crater long ago.

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

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.

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

"Upgrading a thousand Debian hosts in less than an hour" – Grégory Colpart (@…) & Jérémy Lecour (@…) at MiniDebConf Toulouse 2024

And a related issues - lowered speed limits work when well implemented. #VisionZero #SafeStreets
https://…

Brent Toderian (@brenttoderian.bsky.social)
IMPORTANT STUDY: “On average, the implementation of 30 km/h speed limits in European cities demonstrated a 23%, 37% & 38% reduction in road crashes, fatalities & injuries respectively. Lower speed limits also yielded environmental benefits.” https://www.nrso.ntua.gr/review-of-city-wide-30-kmh-speed-limit-benefits-in-europe-may-2024/

📢 Attentäter von Solingen zu Höchststrafe verurteilt
Das Düsseldorfer Oberlandesgericht hat für den islamistischen Terroranschlag von Solingen mit drei Toten die Höchststrafe verhängt. Es verurteilte einen 27-jährigen Syrer unter anderem wegen Mordes zu lebenslanger Haft. Außerdem stellte es die besondere Schwere seiner Schuld fest und ordnete die anschließende Sicherungsverwahrung an. Issa al H. hatte beim Solinger Stadtfe…
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Attentäter von Solingen zu Höchststrafe verurteilt
Das Düsseldorfer Oberlandesgericht hat für den islamistischen Terroranschlag von Solingen mit drei Toten die Höchststrafe verhängt. Es verurteilte einen 27-jährigen Syrer unter anderem wegen Mordes zu lebenslanger Haft. Außerdem stellte es die besondere Schwere seiner Schuld fest und ordnete die anschließende Sicherungsverwahrung an. Issa al H. hatte beim Solinger Stadtfest am 23. August 2024 mit einem Messer auf Besucher eingestochen und dabei drei Menschen getötet und acht verletzt.

Dynamical symmetries in laser harmonic generation via a cubic nonlinearity
Raoul Trines, Holger Schmitz, Martin King, Paul McKenna, Robert Bingham
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08635

Dynamical symmetries in laser harmonic generation via a cubic nonlinearity
In our earlier work on harmonic generation with complex light [Nature Communications 15, 6878 (2024)], we demonstrated how the harmonic spectrum of a complex laser beam in a nonlinear medium can be obtained through the judicious application of the ``beat wave'' concept. In this paper, we show how the same results can be obtained via the full set of symmetries of the initial laser-target configuration, and how this can be reconciled with the ``beat wave'' approach. We also highlight the connecti…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Chamber Music from the 2024 Schubertiade, Hohenems
The Modigliani Quartet perform Schubert's Seventh String Quartet together with Beethoven's first Rasumovsky quartet. They are joined by Sharon Kam for Brahms's Clarinet Quintet.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002hwtr

Eagles sign DT Justin Rogers, release LS Christian Johnstone https://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/news/eagles-sign-justin-rogers-release-christian-johnstone

Healing Love – the best remedy for body and soul #healing #inspiration #love #musicianresources

Healing Love - the best remedy for body and soul
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Trace Repair Never Loses to Classical Repair: Exact and Explicit Helper Nodes Selection
Wilton Kim, Stanislav Kruglik, Han Mao Kiah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06492 https://

Trace Repair Never Loses to Classical Repair: Exact and Explicit Helper Nodes Selection
We study the repair of Reed--Solomon codes over $\mathbb{F}=\mathbb{B}^t$ using traces over $\mathbb{B}$. Building on the trace framework of Guruswami--Wootters (2017), recent work of Liu--Wan--Xing (2024) reduced repair bandwidth by studying a related subspace $\mathcal{W}_k$. In this work, we determine the dimension of $\mathcal{W}_k$ exactly using cyclotomic cosets and provide an explicit set of helper nodes that attains bandwidth $(n-d-1)\log |\mathbb{B}|$ bits with $d=\text{dim}(…

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

Last year I raised the idea of Open Source Quality Institute: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/04/01/OSQI
Today, I’m wondering if anyone has tried to launch an Open-Source-Maintainer guild or union or whatever? It could set rates and draft contracts…

OSQI

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 …

BTW - that CBC article used a lot of numbers from this report, which because it's all numbers is awesome. Some tidbits:
- The number of farms over 3,500 acres has nearly doubled in 20 years.
- 41.3% of Canadian farmland is rented.
- From 1971 to 2021, the farm population declined by 62.2%, from 1 in 14 Canadians to 1 in 61.
- Farm debt has more than doubled in the last 20 years, from $43B in 2002 to $138.8B in 2022. That is currently 10x the size of net farm income.
- In 2021, 96,043 tonnes of pesticides were sold for agricultural use – more than three times the amount sold in 1991.
#Statistics #Farming
https://www.nfu.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Canadian-Ag-by-the-Numbers-2024.pdf

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…

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…

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 hierarchical entropy method for the delocalization of bias in high-dimensional Langevin Monte Carlo
Daniel Lacker, Fuzhong Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08619 https://

A hierarchical entropy method for the delocalization of bias in high-dimensional Langevin Monte Carlo
The unadjusted Langevin algorithm is widely used for sampling from complex high-dimensional distributions. It is well known to be biased, with the bias typically scaling linearly with the dimension when measured in squared Wasserstein distance. However, the recent paper of Chen et al. (2024) identifies an intriguing new delocalization effect: For a class of distributions with sparse interactions, the bias between low-dimensional marginals scales only with the lower dimension, not the full dimen…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Ray Charles:
🎵 No Use Crying
#RayCharles
https://raycharles.bandcamp.com/track/no-use-crying-2024-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/6dcclzmnE2mOifAlUexgZH

The Role of Legacy Mobile Networks in Infrastructure Resilience: Evidence from the Southern Brazil Flood
Daniel Meyer, Lisandro Z Granville, Leandro M. Bertholdo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08595

The Role of Legacy Mobile Networks in Infrastructure Resilience: Evidence from the Southern Brazil Flood
This paper investigates the resilience of mobile communication networks during the extreme flooding that affected Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in May 2024. Based on regulatory data and technical insights from operators, the study identifies the leading causes of mobile network disruptions, primarily related to flooding and prolonged power outages. The results reveal the significant vulnerability of modern networks (4G/5G) during the event and the essential role played by legacy technologies (2G/3…

‼️#Deutschland hat sich #Klimaschutzziele gesetzt und natürlich möchte auch das Bundesamt für #Bevölkerungsschutz und

Das BBK setzt beim Warntag auf Nachhaltigkeit
Beim Warntag 2024 wurden erstmals Schafherden als natürliche Sirenen eingesetzt. Erfahre, wie Schafe umweltfreundlich Alarme auslösen!

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 $δ\in[\varepsilon,1)$.

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Group Decision Making and Beyond 2. Distorted Polarization and Vulnerability
Serge Galam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06649 https://

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Group Decision Making and Beyond 2. Distorted Polarization and Vulnerability
This paper extends previous work on echo chambers modeled by an Ising-like system at zero temperature (1. Echo Chambers and random Polarization, Symmetry 2024, 16(12), 1566). There, polarization emerged as a spontaneous symmetry-breaking process with a randomly selected direction. Here using a mean-field analysis and Monte Carlo simulations I show that this mechanism is highly vulnerable to minimal distortions. An external symmetry-breaking field, even vanishingly small, suffices to impose a gl…

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.

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

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

from my link log —
CandyFab: a DIY 3D sugar printer.
https://candyfab.org/
saved 2024-12-20 https://dotat.at/:/3D5SH.html

Krugman’s musical coda today was the walk-up music for my keynote address at the 2024 NLUUG Voorjaarsconferentie!

Cyberattacks against schools driven by a rise in student hackers, ICO warns https://therecord.media/cyberattacks-against-schools-driven-by-student-hackers

Evaluation of Machine Learning Reconstruction Techniques for Accelerated Brain MRI Scans
Jonathan I. Mandel, Shivaprakash Hiremath, Hedyeh Keshtgar, Timothy Scholl, Sadegh Raeisi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07193

Evaluation of Machine Learning Reconstruction Techniques for Accelerated Brain MRI Scans
This retrospective-prospective study evaluated whether a deep learning-based MRI reconstruction algorithm can preserve diagnostic quality in brain MRI scans accelerated up to fourfold, using both public and prospective clinical data. The study included 18 healthy volunteers (scans acquired at 3T, January 2024-March 2025), as well as selected fastMRI public datasets with diverse pathologies. Phase-encoding-undersampled 2D/3D T1, T2, and FLAIR sequences were reconstructed with DeepFoqus-Accelerat…

The market share of new battery electric #vehicles in #Canada has fallen from 13.9% in Q4 2024 to 5.4% in Q2 2025.
#EV #BEV

Plasma wakefield: from accelerators to black holes
Pisin Chen, Yung-Kun Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03880 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.03880

Plasma wakefield: from accelerators to black holes
Commemorating the 2024 S. Chandrasekhar Prize, this review provides a retrospective on the genesis and evolution of plasma wakefield acceleration. It traces the journey from prehistory and the invention of the Plasma Wakefield Accelerator (PWFA), the establishment of its theoretical cornerstones, to its profound reverberations across fundamental physics, including astrophysics and analog gravity. The narrative emphasizes conceptual evolution, key theoretical breakthroughs, and future outlook, c…

The Geodesics Less Traveled: Nonminimal RT Surfaces and Holographic Scattering
Jacqueline Caminiti, Caroline Lima, Robert C. Myers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03597 https://

The Geodesics Less Traveled: Nonminimal RT Surfaces and Holographic Scattering
The connected wedge theorem states that in order to have a scattering process in the bulk, it is necessary to have O(1/G) mutual information between certain "decision" regions in the boundary theory. While this large mutual information is not generally sufficient to imply scattering, Caminiti et al. (2024) showed that for a certain class of geometries, bulk scattering is implied by a certain relation between two (possibly non-minimal) Ryu-Takayanagi surfaces. Here, we show that the 2-to-2 versi…

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…

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

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

Eagles unveil 2024 Super Bowl banner amid fireworks before NFL opener against Dallas https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/eagles-unveil-2024-super-bowl-banner-amid-fireworks-before-nfl-opener-against-dallas

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1114359 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Browns coach Kevin Stefanski enters his most important season surrounded by uncertainty https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6592772/2025/09/03/browns-kevin-stefanski-2025-season/

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…

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 …

Revisiting Simple Baselines for In-The-Wild Deepfake Detection
Orlando Castaneda, Kevin So-Tang, Kshitij Gurung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04150 https://ar…

Revisiting Simple Baselines for In-The-Wild Deepfake Detection
The widespread adoption of synthetic media demands accessible deepfake detectors and realistic benchmarks. While most existing research evaluates deepfake detectors on highly controlled datasets, we focus on the recently released "in-the-wild" benchmark, Deepfake-Eval-2024. Initial reporting on Deepfake-Eval-2024 showed that three finetuned open-source models achieve accuracies between 61% and 69%, significantly lagging behind the leading commercial deepfake detector with 82% accuracy. Our work…

Translation Groups for arbitrary Gauge Fields in Synthetic Crystals with real hopping amplitudes
Marco Marciani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08461 https://ar…

Translation Groups for arbitrary Gauge Fields in Synthetic Crystals with real hopping amplitudes
The Cayley-crystals introduced in [F. R. Lux and E. Prodan, Annales Henri Poincaré 25(8), 3563 (2024)] are a class of synthetic lattices whose Hamiltonians are symmetric under the simply transitive action of a generic discrete group G. We show that these systems naturally realize the generalization of the so-called magnetic translation groups to arbitrary discrete gauge groups. The one-body dynamics mimics that of a particle carrying multiple charges, each experiencing a distinct static gauge-…

Five principles to protect the human knowledge ecosystem 3/5

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

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.

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.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

Five principles to protect the human knowledge ecosystem 5/5

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Drifting – the Piece and the Process #inspiration #music #musicvideo #originalmusic

Drifting - the Piece and the Process
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Five principles to protect the human knowledge ecosystem 5/5

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

Sources: Mistral AI is finalizing a €2B investment that values the company at €12B, in its first fundraise since June 2024, when it was valued at €5.8B (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-03/mis…

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

AI search engine startup Exa Labs raised an $85M Series B led by Benchmark at a $700M valuation, up 10x on its 2024 Series A, and plans to grow its GPU cluster (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-03/…

You.com, which pivoted from AI search to enterprise AI tools, raised $100M led by Cox Enterprises at a $1.5B valuation, after a $50M Series B in September 2024 (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in Deutschland mit Stand vom 09.08.2025.
Zählung der Anlagen mit Inbetriebnahmedatum. Der aktuelle Betriebsstatus wird nicht berücksichtigt.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erste Versuche einer #Datenanalyse

Diese Meldung gab es ähnlich bereits 2024, aber nun sind wir bereits im Jahr 2028!
#Kohleausstieg schreitet…

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Retröt: Mit #Steckersolaranlagen kannst Du selbst auf Deinem #Balkon Teil der #Energiewende werden, Deine

Steckersolaranlagen für Deinen Balkon: Sparen mit der Energiewende
Spare Stromkosten mit einem Balkonkraftwerk! Finde heraus, was die neuen Regelungen 2024 für Dich bedeuten. Einfach installieren und profitieren.