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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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

'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

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…

"Only a third of world’s river basins experienced normal conditions in 2024"
#Rivers #Water #Climate #ClimateChange

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…

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…

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.

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 …

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...

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…

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/…

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 …

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

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…

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…

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?

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

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
Hier finden Sie Informationen zu dem Thema „Ressource Wasser“. Lesen Sie jetzt „Dürren, Fluten, Extremregen: Wasserkreislauf aus den Fugen“.

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…

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

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/

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…

#Tatort: Ich sehe dich - #ARD #BR

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…

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.

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…

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.

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…

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/

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

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.

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

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…

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…

🔊 #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

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

“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…

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

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}(…

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 …

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

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…

🇺🇦 #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

„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.“

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…

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.

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…

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

"Canadian cities can prepare for climate change by building with nature"
#Canada #Climate #ClimateChange #Nature

Canadian cities can prepare for climate change by building with nature
The housing affordability crisis is top of mind for many around the world, including Canadians. Between 2019 and 2024, house prices in Toronto and Montréal had an average annual increase of 6.7% and 10.2%, respectively.

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.

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…

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/

'I'm probably going to cry': Inside DeMarvion Overshown's long journey back from knee surgery https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46974338/nfl-dallas-cowboys-demarvion-overshown-knee-surgery

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.

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

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

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.

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

State-Dependent X-ray Variability in Cygnus X-1: A 12-Year NuSTAR Timing Study of Accretion Flow Geometry
Kshitij Duraphe, Kartik Mandar, Chooda Khanal, Abha Pareek, Tejaswi Kondhiya, V Sree Suswara, Deeksha Dinesh, Vidyasagar Bhat, Gopal Bhatta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10746

State-Dependent X-ray Variability in Cygnus X-1: A 12-Year NuSTAR Timing Study of Accretion Flow Geometry
We present a comprehensive timing analysis of the black hole X-ray binary Cygnus X-1 using 26 NuSTAR observations spanning 2012-2024, providing the most detailed characterization to date of its accretion flow variability across spectral states. Our analysis reveals fundamental insights into the physics governing state transitions in stellar-mass black holes. We discover distinct bimodal flux distributions in the 8-79 keV band with well-separated peaks, contrasting with overlapping distributions…

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…

Five principles to protect the human knowledge ecosystem 3/5

‼️#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!

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.

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/

"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.

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

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…

Five principles to protect the human knowledge ecosystem 5/5

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.

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

Five principles to protect the human knowledge ecosystem 5/5

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.

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…

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

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

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/…

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

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 06.09.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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