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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

Content and Engagement Trends in COVID-19 YouTube Videos: Evidence from the Late Pandemic
Nirmalya Thakur, Madeline D Hartel, Lane Michael Boden, Dallas Enriquez, Boston Joyner Ricks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01954

Content and Engagement Trends in COVID-19 YouTube Videos: Evidence from the Late Pandemic
This work investigated about 10,000 COVID-19-related YouTube videos published between January 2023 and October 2024 to evaluate how temporal, lexical, linguistic, and structural factors influenced engagement during the late pandemic period. Publishing activity showed consistent weekday effects: in the first window, average views peaked on Mondays at 92,658; in the second, on Wednesdays at 115,479; and in the third, on Fridays at 84,874, reflecting a shift in audience attention toward mid- and l…

Computing Radially-Symmetric Solutions of the Ultra-Relativistic Euler Equations with Entropy-Stable Discontinuous Galerkin Methods
Ferdinand Thein, Hendrik Ranocha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21427

Computing Radially-Symmetric Solutions of the Ultra-Relativistic Euler Equations with Entropy-Stable Discontinuous Galerkin Methods
The ultra--relativistic Euler equations describe gases in the relativistic case when the thermal energy dominates. These equations for an ideal gas are given in terms of the pressure, the spatial part of the dimensionless four-velocity, and the particle density. Kunik et al.\ (2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2024.113330) proposed genuine multi--dimensional benchmark problems for the ultra--relativistic Euler equations. In particular, they compared full two-dimensional discontinuous Galerkin…

Social Networks Are Lying to Manipulate You
#SocialMeda are manipulating all the time. This is what h…

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.

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

Nachtrag: Änderung der Berechnung bezüglich https://mastodon.online/@tinoeberl/115237785779609825.
Der Filter auf "in Betrieb" ändert die Zahlen leider rückwirkend. Also:
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in

Large deviations and almost sure convergence for the extremes of branching L\'evy processes
Runjia Luo, Yan-Xia Ren, Renming Song, Rui Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25917

Large deviations and almost sure convergence for the extremes of branching Lévy processes
In this paper, we investigate the asymptotic behavior of supercritical branching Markov processes $\{\mathbb{X}_t, t \ge0\}$ whose spatial motions are Lévy processes with regularly varying tails. Recently, Ren et al. [Appl. Probab. 61 (2024)] studied the weak convergence of the extremes of $\{\mathbb{X}_t, t \ge0\}$. In this paper, we establish the large deviation of $\{\mathbb{X}_t, t \ge0\}$ as well as some almost sure convergence results of the maximum of $\mathbb{X}_t$.

Your regular reminder that if you use “assistive technology” to mean only screen readers, then you’re using the term incorrectly and maybe sowing confusion.
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/08/at-is-more-than-screen-readers.html

AT Is More Than Screen Readers
A screen reader is a single element of the overall set of assistive technologies. In practice, however, each is often used as a metonym for the other. Well, hello there. It’s nice to see you. If you’re here because I sent you the link, it’s nothing personal. You’re a lovely…

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

Sinkholes around the world – in pictures | World news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2024/dec/04/sinkholes-around-the-world-from-greenwich-to-guatemala-in-pictures

I currently read “It can’t happen here” by Sinclair Lewis from 1935. It's about fictive events in the US in 1936: an election won by a senator turned dictator. It reads like a description of the US 2024/2025, except dear leader is Democrat, not Republican. I'm on page 90 (just finished chapter 11), almost 300 more to read, it really is hard!
As the Trump playbook follows Project 2025, are we completely sure that this is NOT just a rewrite of Lewis' novel?

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

Proceedings Seventh International Conference on Applied Category Theory 2024
Michael Johnson (Macquarie University), David Jaz Myers (Topos Institute)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18357

Phase transition properties via partition function zeros: The Blume-Capel ferromagnet revisited
Le\"ila Moueddene, Nikolaos G Fytas, Bertrand Berche
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20084

Phase transition properties via partition function zeros: The Blume-Capel ferromagnet revisited
Since the landmark work of Lee and Yang, locating the zeros of the partition function in the complex magnetic-field plane has become a powerful method for studying phase transitions. Fisher later extended this approach to complex temperatures, and subsequent generalizations introduced other control parameters, such as the crystal field. In previous works [Moueddene et al, J. Stat. Mech. (2024) 023206; Phys. Rev. E 110, 064144 (2024)] we applied this framework to the two- and three-dimensional B…

To cut or not to cut: Data-quality evaluation for the ASTRI Mini-Array
E. Molina (for the ASTRI Project), L. Foffano (for the ASTRI Project), S. Crestan (for the ASTRI Project), S. Iovenitti (for the ASTRI Project), S. Lombardi (for the ASTRI Project), F. Lucarelli (for the ASTRI Project), T. Mineo (for the ASTRI Project)
https://arxiv.org…

To cut or not to cut: Data-quality evaluation for the ASTRI Mini-Array
The ASTRI Mini-Array consists of nine Cherenkov telescopes under construction at the Observatorio del Teide, with one of them already performing observations since November 2024. Given the complexity of the analysis of gamma-ray data acquired with Cherenkov telescopes, a proper evaluation of the quality of these data is important to avoid a negative impact on the high-level scientific products. There are several factors that can contribute to reducing the quality of the observations, such as cl…

Large-Scale, Longitudinal Study of Large Language Models During the 2024 US Election Season
Sarah H. Cen, Andrew Ilyas, Hedi Driss, Charlotte Park, Aspen Hopkins, Chara Podimata, Aleksander M\k{a}dry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18446

An der @… starten wir ein von der @… gefördertes Projekt zur (halb-)automatischen Erschließung von historischen kulinarischen Objekten (Kochbücher, Menükarten, …) um Forschenden eine Plattform anzubieten mit dieser Art…

Python Entwickler:in DFG-Projekt Kulinarik (m/w/d)
Berufsanfänger:innen willkommen! An der Sächsischen Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB) ist ab Februar 2024 die Stelle eines Bibliothekarischen Mitarbeitenden (m/w/d) Kennziffer SLUB-2023-56 in Teilzeit (50 Prozent) bis zur Vergütungsgruppe TV-L E 9b befristet auf 23 Monate zu besetzen. Die SLUB zählt mit etwa 350 Mitarbeitenden zu den größten und leistungsfähigsten wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken Deutschlands. Sie ist ein bedeutendes Innov…

Cowboys Named Top Trade Partner for 2024 1st-Round WR Amid CeeDee Lamb Injury https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/trade-partner-panthers-wr-xavier-legette/?adt_ei=[email]

Indian digital payments giant PhonePe confidentially files for an IPO in India, seeking to raise $1.5B, sources say at a valuation of $15B (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/startup…

PhonePe files draft prospectus for $1.5 billion IPO with Sebi through confidential route
PhonePe, supported by Walmart, has confidentially filed its DRHP with SEBI. The digital payments platform reduced its net loss by 13.4% to Rs 1,727.4 crore in 2024-25, driven by a 40.4% surge in operating revenue to Rs 7,114.8 crore. Despite diversification into financial services, payments remain PhonePe's core business.

Non-Uniform Content-Oblivious Leader Election on Oriented Asynchronous Rings
J\'er\'emie Chalopin, Yi-Jun Chang, Lyuting Chen, Giuseppe A. Di Luna, Haoran Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19187 …

Non-Uniform Content-Oblivious Leader Election on Oriented Asynchronous Rings
We study the leader election problem in oriented ring networks under content-oblivious asynchronous message-passing systems, where an adversary may arbitrarily corrupt message contents. Frei et al. (DISC 2024) presented a uniform terminating leader election algorithm for oriented rings in this setting, with message complexity $O(n \cdot \mathsf{ID}_{\max})$ on a ring of size $n$, where $\mathsf{ID}_{\max}$ is the largest identifier in the system, this result has been recently extended by Chal…

Strong Lens Discoveries in DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys DR10 with Two Deep Learning Architectures
Jose Carlos Inchausti, Christopher J. Storfer, Xiaosheng Huang, Yuan-Ming Hsu, Brandt Kaufmann, Chaitanya Pasupala, S. Banka, A. Dey, D. Lang, A. Meisner, J. Moustakas, A. D. Myers, E. F. Schlafly, D. J. Schlegel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.2008…

Strong Lens Discoveries in DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys DR10 with Two Deep Learning Architectures
We have conducted a search for strong gravitational lensing systems in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Surveys Data Release 10 (DR10). This paper is the fourth in a series of searches (following Huang et al. 2020; Huang et al. 2021; Storfer et al. 2024, Paper I, II, & III respectively). This is the first catalog of lens candidates covering nearly the entirety of the extragalactic sky south of declination $δ\approx +32$ deg, all of it observed by the DECam, coveri…

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

The PhD Prize at the #ag2025goerlitz meeting went to Jonah Wagenveld and a current cosmology mystery - described in ample detail in the paper Wideband continuum catalogues and a measurement of the cosmic radio dipole: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/10/aa50291-24/aa50291-24.html

Nachtrag: Änderung der Berechnung bezüglich https://mastodon.online/@tinoeberl/115236719296242946.
Der Filter auf "in Betrieb" ändert die Zahlen leider rückwirkend. Also:
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🥠 How candidates evoke identity and issues on TikTok
#media #socialmedia

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

Interesting RTE analysis on the 🇫🇷 electricity spot market prices in the first half of 2025 (and first half of 2024). A clear 'canard'🦆
These are the average prices, which also include the winter months. But this new reality is barely reflected in retail prices.

Tom Brady Breaks Silence on Raiders Ownership Controversy: ‘Paranoid and Distrustful’ https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/tom-brady-newsletter-ownership-fox-controversy/?adt_ei=[email]

It's #GrindayFriday, and this week is local Phoenix, Arizona grind/powerviolence duo LAW ABIDING CITIZEN and their 2024 EP 'For the Culture' via No Time Records. The separate tracks of the EP have all been merged into one here-- just over 10 minutes total. Great riffs, brutality, insanity, a few samples that actually still crack me up (Carrey and Farley). A lot to dig on this one.

Bien que depuis des années mes enfants n'exigent plus une berceuse avant de se coucher, j'identifie tellement avec cette chanson. Elle reste hypnotique, même après que le saxo se met Š hurler.
Myriam Gendron, « Berceuse » (2024)
https://myriamgendron.bandcamp.com/track/berceu…

How Exclusive are Ethereum Transactions? Evidence from non-winning blocks
Vabuk Pahari, Andrea Canidio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16052 https://arxiv.org/p…

How Exclusive are Ethereum Transactions? Evidence from non-winning blocks
We analyze 15,097 blocks proposed for inclusion in Ethereum's blockchain over an 8-minute window on December 3, 2024, during which 38 blocks were added to the chain. We classify transactions as exclusive -- present only in blocks from a single builder -- or private -- absent from the public mempool but included in blocks from multiple builders. We find that exclusive transactions account for 84% of the total fees paid by transactions in winning blocks. Furthermore, we show that exclusivity cann…

China überschreitet als erstes Land der Welt die Marke von 1.000 GW Solarleistung
https://www.iwr.de/news/china-ueberschreitet-als-erstes-land-der-welt-die-marke-von-1-000-gw-solarleistung-news39292

China überschreitet als erstes Land der Welt die Marke von 1.000 GW Solarleistung
Münster – China entwickelt sich immer schneller zum Motor für den globalen Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien. Allein in den ersten sechs Monaten des Jahres 2025 wurden in China neue Solaranlagen mit einer Leistung von 210 GW (210.000 MW) neu errichtet. Das ist deutlich mehr als die gesamte installierte Solarleistung in den USA mit rund 178 GW (IRENA, 2024); Deutschland liegt Ende letzten Jahres bei 100 GW (MaStR, BNetzA).

Check out this compelling rebuttal of Soteria International's claims regarding the OKC case. Get informed about the facts and perspectives presented in the article by visiting: https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rebuttal-of-soteria.html

Momentum transfer coefficient constraints for the 2024 PDC25 Hypothetical Asteroid Impact Scenario
Christoph M. Sch\"afer, Uri Malamud, Tamir Manoach, Hagai B. Perets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19000

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

Die #Energiewende ist auch eine soziale Frage. Wirtschaftsministerin #Reiche weiß das natürlich und sorgt aus reiner Ideologie und Klientelpolitik dafür, dass ohne Not Energie für alle teurer wird.
Würde man stattdessen noch für ein paar Jahre in den Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien investier…

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".

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Tag des offenen Rechenzentrums am 7. November 2025
https://www.

Engaging and Educating Eclipse Observers Through Workshops, Media, Planetarium shows and Citizen Science
Patricia H. Reiff, Carolyn T. Sumners, Charles H. Gardner, Amir Caspi, Sarah Kovac
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22348

Engaging and Educating Eclipse Observers Through Workshops, Media, Planetarium shows and Citizen Science
The Heliophysics Big Year was an extended year where major solar events engaged the public. It included two eclipses (annular on October 14, 2023 and total on April 8, 2024), plus solar max and the Parker Solar Probe perihelion December 24, 2024. After the eclipse of 2017, many millions more Americans planned to view the solar corona. We expanded our eclipse website with activities, citizen science projects, resources, training videos, equipment, and external links. We were the Southwest Region…

Impact of nonthermal electron distributions on the triggering of the ion-ion acoustic instability near the Sun: Kinetic simulations
M. S. Afify, J. Dreher, S. O'Neill, M. E. Innocenti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18032

Impact of nonthermal electron distributions on the triggering of the ion-ion acoustic instability near the Sun: Kinetic simulations
Context. In a previous paper (Afify et al. 2024), we have investigated the stability threshold of the ion-ion acoustic instability (IIAI) in parameter regimes compatible with recent Parker Solar Probe (PSP, (Fox et al. 2016)) observations, in the presence of a Maxwellian electron distribution. We found that observed parameters are close to the instability threshold, but IIAI requires a higher electron temperature than observed. Aims. As electron distributions in the solar wind present clear non…

Kreml-Experte offen: - „Hatte das Gefühl, schutzlos ausgeliefert zu sein“ #News #Nachrichten

PoliTok-DE: A Multimodal Dataset of Political TikToks and Deletions From Germany
Tomas Ruiz, Andreas Nanz, Ursula Kristin Schmid, Carsten Schwemmer, Yannis Theocharis, Diana Rieger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15860

PoliTok-DE: A Multimodal Dataset of Political TikToks and Deletions From Germany
We present PoliTok-DE, a large-scale multimodal dataset (video, audio, images, text) of TikTok posts related to the 2024 Saxony state election in Germany. The corpus contains over 195,000 posts published between 01.07.2024 and 30.11.2024, of which over 18,000 (17.3%) were subsequently deleted from the platform. Posts were identified via the TikTok research API and complemented with web scraping to retrieve full multimodal media and metadata. PoliTok-DE supports computational social science acro…

The AI Literacy Heptagon: A Structured Approach to AI Literacy in Higher Education
Veronika Hackl, Alexandra Mueller, Maximilian Sailer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18900 https://…

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

2024 war das weltweit heißeste Jahr seit Beginn der #Wetteraufzeichnungen. Auch in #Deutschland steigen die Temperaturen.
Eine neue #Hitzekarte zeigt, dass sich besonders inten…

Trockenheit: Wie Landnutzung die Bodenhitze fördert

"Over 60,000 Europeans died from heat during 2024 summer: Study"
#Europe #Climate #ClimateChange #Health

Over 60,000 Europeans died from heat during 2024 summer: Study
More than 60,000 people died from heat in Europe during last year's record-breaking summer, a benchmark study said Monday, in the latest warning of the massive toll climate change is having on the continent.

The new #Compendium is here, and it’s more than just data. [Part 2]
While every NREN is unique, we’re united by a shared mission: delivering interlinked core services that power #Research & #Education

Brock Purdy was the NFL’s darling as Mr. Irrelevant. Who will he be as a $265 million man? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6585778/2025/09/04/brock-purdy-contract-49ers-2025-season/

The firefly luciferase is being used as a 'reporter gene' here, to reveal the Kalanchoe's 24-hour rhythms in the lab. Otherwise they are invisible.
Actually the luciferase glow is not directly visible either! It's so faint that the video was taken with super-sensitive cameras, closer to astronomy kit than to your smartphone. These are transgenic plants, developed for lab science in my now-#EdinburghUni colleague Jessica Pritchard's PhD, with James Hartwell in Liverpool.
She reported this cool new science in a #preprint last year:
📖 https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.19.629446
and I just caught up with it, although... 2/n

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

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

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…

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

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Religious Studies Opportunities Digest – October 30, 2024
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Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 35 new job…
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Religious Studies Opportunities Digest - October 30, 2024 | The Religious Studies Project
Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 35 new job opportunities, 1 fellowship, 1 grant, 8 call for papers, and 11 conferences/speakers.

Six microlensing planets detected via sub-day signals during the 2023 -- 2024 season
Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Andrzej Udalski, Ian A. Bond, Michael D. Albrow, Sun-Ju Chung, Andrew Gould, Youn Kil Jung, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, Yossi Shvartzvald, In-Gu Shin, Jennifer C. Yee, Weicheng Zang, Hongjing Yang, Sang-Mok Cha, Doeon Kim, Dong-Jin Kim, Seung-Lee Kim, Dong-Joo Lee, Yongseok Lee, Byeong-Gon Park, Richard W. Pogge, Przemek Mr\'oz, Micha{\l} K. Szyma\'nski, Jan Skowron…

Six microlensing planets detected via sub-day signals during the 2023 -- 2024 season
We present analyses of six microlensing events: KMT-2023-BLG-0548, KMT-2023-BLG-0830, KMT-2023-BLG-0949, KMT-2024-BLG-1281, KMT-2024-BLG-2059, and KMT-2024-BLG-2242. These were identified in KMTNet data from the 2023 -- 2024 seasons, selected for exhibiting anomalies shorter than one day -- potential signatures of low-mass planetary companions. Detailed modeling of the light curves reveals that the anomalies in all six events are caused by planetary companions to the lenses. The brief durations…

BRIDGES Lectures: G2 in action, and a mathematical theory of exceptions
Laurent Manivel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12757 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12757…

BRIDGES Lectures: G2 in action, and a mathematical theory of exceptions
The BRIDGES meeting in gauge theory, extremal structures, and stability was held in June 2024 at l'Institut d'Études Scientifiques de Cargèse in Corsica, organized by Daniele Faenzi, Eveline Legendre, Eric Loubeau, and Henrique Sá Earp. The first week was a summer school consisting of four independent but related lecture series by Oscar García-Prada, Spiro Karigiannis, Laurent Manivel, and Ruxandra Moraru. The present document consists of notes for the lecture series by Laurent Manivel on t…

Pact: streamers spent a record £850M on British TV shows in 2024, up 24% and surpassing Channel 4's annual originals budget (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/09/netflix-adolescence-row-channel-4-snarkiness-stream…

Streamer Spend In UK Topped $1B For First Time Last Year, Pact Research Finds, As John McVay Accuses Channel 4 Of “Snarkiness” Over ‘Adolescence’ Row
The Netflix 'Adolescence' row has seen John McVay accuses Channel 4 Of "snarkiness," while the Pact census found streamers spent $1B in the UK in 2024.

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…

»Grossunternehmen machen 2FA falsch:
Zwei-Faktor-Authentisierung ist eine der besten Sicherheitsmassnahmen für unsere Accounts im Netz. Viele Grossunternehmen setzen aber 2FA zum Nachteil der Kunden falsch ein«
Danke für den Artikel @…, ich habe ihn erst jetzt entdeckt. Leider verstehen mMn viele Firmen die IT nicht ganz wie sie die einsetzen. Es…

A High-order Backpropagation Algorithm for Neural Stochastic Differential Equation Model
Daili Sheng, Minghui Song, Xiang Peng, Xuanqi Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06292 http…

A High-order Backpropagation Algorithm for Neural Stochastic Differential Equation Model
Neural stochastic differential equation model with a Brownian motion term can capture epistemic uncertainty of deep neural network from the perspective of a dynamical system. The goal of this paper is to improve the convergence rate of the sample-wise backpropagation algorithm in neural stochastic differential equation model which has been proposed in [Archibald et al., SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 62 (2024), pp. 593-621]. It is necessary to emphasize that, improving the convergence orde…

Email: Indian crypto exchange WazirX plans to resume operations on October 24, following a court-approved restructuring, after hackers stole $230M in July 2024 (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/10/2

WazirX Latest News: Users Can Start Trading on Friday After $230M Hack Comes to Close
That was the final step in a process that began after a massive security breach last year froze assets, shuttered withdrawals, and effectively took India’s oldest crypto platform offline.

Fiducial-Cosmology-dependent systematics for the DESI 2024 Full-Shape Analysis
R. Gsponer, S. Ramirez-Solano, F. Rodr\'iguez-Mart\'inez, M. Vargas-Maga\~na, S. Novell-Masot, N. Findlay, H. Gil-Mar\'in, P. Zarrouk, S. Nadathur, A. Rocher, S. Brieden, A. P\'erez-Fern\'andez, J. Aguilar, S. Ahlen, D. Bianchi, D. Brooks, F. J. Castander, T. Claybaugh, A. Cuceu, A. de la Macorra, A. de Mattia, Arjun Dey, P. Doel, A. Font-Ribera, J. E. Forero-Romero, E. Gazta\~naga, S. Go…

Fiducial-Cosmology-dependent systematics for the DESI 2024 Full-Shape Analysis
We assess the impact of the fiducial cosmology choice on cosmological inference from full-shape (FS) fits of the galaxy power spectrum in the DESI 2024 Data Release 1 (DR1). Using a suite of AbacusSummit DR1 mock catalogues based on the Planck 2018 best-fit cosmology, we quantify potential systematic shifts introduced by analysing the data under five secondary cosmologies - featuring variations in matter density, thawing dark energy, higher effective number of neutrino species, reduced clusteri…

Uncovering AI Governance Themes in EU Policies using BERTopic and Thematic Analysis
Delaram Golpayegani, Marta Lasek-Markey, Arjumand Younus, Aphra Kerr, Dave Lewis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13387

Uncovering AI Governance Themes in EU Policies using BERTopic and Thematic Analysis
The upsurge of policies and guidelines that aim to ensure Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are safe and trustworthy has led to a fragmented landscape of AI governance. The European Union (EU) is a key actor in the development of such policies and guidelines. Its High-Level Expert Group (HLEG) issued an influential set of guidelines for trustworthy AI, followed in 2024 by the adoption of the EU AI Act. While the EU policies and guidelines are expected to be aligned, they may differ in their …

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Convergences and Divergences: Einstein, Poincar\'e, and Special Relativity
Galina Weinstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09361 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509…

Convergences and Divergences: Einstein, Poincaré, and Special Relativity
Jean-Marc Ginoux's recent book, "Poincaré, Einstein and the Discovery of Special Relativity: An End to the Controversy" (2024), seeks to close the debate over the respective roles of Poincaré and Einstein. Yet what is presented as an "end" may instead invite a more careful analysis of how similar equations can conceal divergent conceptions. The aim here is not to rehearse priority disputes but to show how Einstein's ether-free, principle-based kinematics marked out a path that, unlike its con…

Long-term monitoring of a dynamically new comet C/2020 V2 (ZTF)
Goldy Ahuja, K. Aravind, Shashikiran Ganesh, Said Hmiddouch, Mathieu Vander Donckt, Emmanuel Jehin, Devendra Sahu, T. Sivarani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05902

Long-term monitoring of a dynamically new comet C/2020 V2 (ZTF)
Comet C/2020 V2 (ZTF) is categorized as a dynamically new long-period comet, making its first approach to the inner Solar system. We have observed this comet for around 32 months (from January 2022 to July 2024) at heliocentric distances from 5.41 au (pre-perihelion) to 5.26 au (post-perihelion) through various telescopes, employing photometric (60 epochs) and spectroscopic techniques (5 epochs). Using these observations, we derived the production rates of different molecules such as CN$(0-0)$,…

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

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

Network Contagion in Financial Labor Markets: Predicting Turnover in Hong Kong
Abdulla AlKetbi, Patrick Yam, Gautier Marti, Raed Jaradat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08001 https:/…

Network Contagion in Financial Labor Markets: Predicting Turnover in Hong Kong
Employee turnover is a critical challenge in financial markets, yet little is known about the role of professional networks in shaping career moves. Using the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) public register (2007-2024), we construct temporal networks of 121,883 professionals and 4,979 firms to analyze and predict employee departures. We introduce a graph-based feature propagation framework that captures peer influence and organizational stability. Our analysis shows a contagio…

Rotational-Mode-Enhanced Piezoelectricity in a Ferroelectric Double Helix
Yihao Hu, Shi Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05017 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.050…

Rotational-Mode-Enhanced Piezoelectricity in a Ferroelectric Double Helix
Recent theoretical work has predicted the existence of a ``dipole spiral" structure in strained freestanding membranes, promising a route to giant electromechanical responses[\href{https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.046802}{PRL \textbf{133}, 046802 (2024)}]. However, its microscopic nature, energetic landscape, and electronic consequences remain largely unexplored. Here, using first-principles calculations on PbTiO$_3$ under biaxial tensile strain, we unveil a novel f…

The cosmic web's Lyman-$\alpha$ glow at $z \approx 2.5$; varying hydrodynamic models, dust, and wide-field, narrow-band imaging detection
Oleksii Sokoliuk, John K. Webb, Kenneth M. Lanzetta, Michael M. Shara, Stefan Gromoll, James S. Bolton, Robert F. Carswell, Gaspar Galaz, C\'edric Ledoux, Gaspare Lo Curto, Alain Smette, David Valls-Gabaud, Anja von der Linden, Frederick M. Walter, Joris Witstok

The cosmic web's Lyman-$α$ glow at $z \approx 2.5$; varying hydrodynamic models, dust, and wide-field, narrow-band imaging detection
The diffuse glow of the cosmic web in Lyman-$α$ emission has long been predicted, yet remained elusive to direct wide field detection. We present theoretical calculations that, when compared with recent observations made using the Condor Array Telescope in New Mexico reported in Lanzetta et al. 2024, point to its discovery at $z \approx 2.5$. Synthetic Lyman-$α$ surface brightness maps are constructed from five state-of-the-art hydrodynamic simulations (Illustris-TNG, SIMBA, EAGLE, CROCODILE,…

Dense photometry validation of super-fast-rotating asteroid candidates
Bojan Novakovi\'c, Pedro J. Guti\'errez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06533 https://

Dense photometry validation of super-fast-rotating asteroid candidates
Super-fast rotators (SFRs; P < 2.2 hr) are of great importance in asteroid studies; yet, many reported detections suffer from aliasing caused by an insufficient observation cadence. We present dense CCD photometry for 15 SFRs candidates (14 after excluding 11219 Benbohn, whose published period already exceeds the spin barrier) observed from 2023 Aug 11 to 2024 Aug 11 with the 1.5 m Sierra Nevada and 1.4 m AS Vidojevica telescopes. Our dataset comprises approximately 2,400 calibrated data points…

Non-Linear Solar EUV-Driven Sodium Release from the Lunar Surface: A Contrast to the Linear PSD Model
A Devaraj, S Narendranath, Sreeja S Kartha, M Sarantos, Akhil Krishna R, Blesson Mathew, T Sivarani, S Nidhi, P Anbazhagan, G Selvakumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05644

Non-Linear Solar EUV-Driven Sodium Release from the Lunar Surface: A Contrast to the Linear PSD Model
The correlation between solar Extreme Ultra-Violet (EUV) radiation above 8.8 eV and the release of sodium from the lunar surface via photon-stimulated desorption (PSD) is investigated. We use simultaneous measurements of EUV photon flux and Na optical spectral line flux ($F_{Na}$) from the lunar exosphere. Data were acquired with the high-resolution (R$\sim$72000) Echelle Spectrograph on the 2.34-m Vainu Bappu Telescope during the lunar first quarter (January-March 2024), observing $Na\,I$ D2 a…

Predicting Movie Success with Multi-Task Learning: A Hybrid Framework Combining GPT-Based Sentiment Analysis and SIR Propagation
Wenlan Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02809 http…

Predicting Movie Success with Multi-Task Learning: A Hybrid Framework Combining GPT-Based Sentiment Analysis and SIR Propagation
This study presents a hybrid framework for predicting movie success. The framework integrates multi-task learning (MTL), GPT-based sentiment analysis, and Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) propagation modeling. The study examines limitations in existing approaches. It models static production attributes, information dissemination, and audience sentiment at the same time. The framework uses 5,840 films from 2004 to 2024 and approximate 300,000 user reviews. It shows predictive performance wit…

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.

Congested Clique Counting for Local Gibbs Distributions
Joshua Z. Sobel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13083 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.13083

Congested Clique Counting for Local Gibbs Distributions
There are well established reductions between combinatorial sampling and counting problems (Jerrum, Valiant, Vazirani TCS 1986). Building off of a very recent parallel algorithm utilizing this connection (Liu, Yin, Zhang arxiv 2024), we demonstrate the first approximate counting algorithm in the CongestedClique for a wide range of problems. Most interestingly, we present an algorithm for approximating the number of $q$-colorings of a graph within $ε$-multiplicative error, when $q>αΔ$ for any…

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Evolution of wartime discourse on Telegram: A comparative study of Ukrainian and Russian policymakers' communication before and after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine
Mykola Makhortykh, Aytalina Kulichkina, Kateryna Maikovska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11746

Evolution of wartime discourse on Telegram: A comparative study of Ukrainian and Russian policymakers' communication before and after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine
This study examines elite-driven political communication on Telegram during the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war, the first large-scale European war in the social media era. Using a unique dataset of Telegram public posts from Ukrainian and Russian policymakers (2019-2024), we analyze changes in communication volume, thematic content, and actor engagement following Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion. Our findings show a sharp increase in Telegram activity after the invasion, particularly among ruling…

Discovery of 63 New Young Asteroid Families
David Nesvorny, David Vokrouhlicky, Miroslav Broz, Fernando V. Roig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00753 https://ar…

Discovery of 63 New Young Asteroid Families
We searched for young asteroid families -- those with ages t_age < 10 Myr and at least three members -- using the proper element catalog from Nesvorny et al. (2024). Our approach employed the Hierarchical Clustering Method (HCM) in a five-dimensional space of proper orbital elements: semimajor axis, eccentricity, inclination, proper nodal longitude, and proper perihelion longitude. The proper longitudes were calculated for various times in the past. Any convergence of these angles at times t < …