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All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12282

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

Alphabet Index Mapping: Jailbreaking LLMs through Semantic Dissimilarity
Bilal Saleh Husain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12685 https://…

Alphabet Index Mapping: Jailbreaking LLMs through Semantic Dissimilarity
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, yet their susceptibility to adversarial attacks, particularly jailbreaking, poses significant safety and ethical concerns. While numerous jailbreak methods exist, many suffer from computational expense, high token usage, or complex decoding schemes. Liu et al. (2024) introduced FlipAttack, a black-box method that achieves high attack success rates (ASR) through simple prompt manipulation. This paper investigates the underly…

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

Altijd goed , de objectieve cijfers rondom migratie.
#cbs

Minder immigratie in 2024, vooral minder kennismigranten
In 2024 kwamen 316 duizend immigranten naar Nederland. Dat waren er 19 duizend minder dan het jaar ervoor. Zowel de immigratie uit EU-landen als uit overige landen was lager dan in 2023, het aantal immigranten met de Nederlandse nationaliteit bleef gelijk. Vooral het aantal kennismigranten dat van buiten de EU naar Nederland kwam daalde. Dat meldt het CBS op basis van recente cijfers.

Die Union fordert Krankenhäuser effizienter zu machen. Ich hätte da eine ungewöhnliche Idee: könnten sich Krankenhäuser darauf konzentrieren, eine möglichst effektive Gesundheits­versorgung sicher zu stellen,¹ statt Gewinne machen zu müssen,² könnte das ganz entgegen der neoliberalen Lehre effizienter sein.
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¹z.B. in kommunaler Trägerschaft
²Asklepios Kliniken machte 2024 insgesamt 136 Millionen Euro, Fresenius Helios 772 Millionen Euro, usw, und diese Gewinne werden von un…

A comprehensive Darcy-type law for viscoplastic fluids: I. Framework
Emad Chaparian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06184 https://arxiv.or…

A comprehensive Darcy-type law for viscoplastic fluids: I. Framework
A comprehensive Darcy-type law for viscoplastic fluids is proposed. Different regimes of yield-stress fluid flow in porous media can be categorised based on the Bingham number (i.e. the ratio of the yield stress to the characteristic viscous stress). In a recent study (Chaparian, J. Fluid Mech., vol. 980, A14, 2024), we addressed the yield/plastic limit (infinitely large Bingham number), namely, the onset of percolation when the applied pressure gradient is just sufficient to overcome the yield…

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 583 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29417 Unterschriften bis zum 09.07.2025.

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

Anatomy of a mass disappearance in Mexico -- EL PAÍS English https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-06-28/anatomy-of-a-mass-disappearance-in-mexico-mom-i-fell-into-the-hands-of-the-mafia.htm…

Anatomy of a mass disappearance in Mexico: ‘Mom, I fell into the hands of the mafia’
EL PAÍS reconstructs the last movements of a group of 40 migrants from Cuba, Honduras and Ecuador who disappeared on December 21, 2024, in San José El Hueyate, on the coast of Chiapas. Six months later, no authorities have begun to search for them.

P.S. Hat tip to @… for the radium reference. He was talking about other things (https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/19/just-stop-putting-that-up-your-ass/#harm-reduction), but the whole vibe of that “Radium will magically restore you to health!” era is by far the best historical comparison I’ve found for the current froth-mouthed AI hype.

Plastik-futternde Pilze:
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/plastic-eating-fungi-could-be-glimmer-hope-cutting-ocean-pollution-2024-08-08/
🍄‍🟫

Discovery and Localization of the Swift-Observed FRB 20241228A in a Star-forming Host Galaxy
Alice P. Curtin, Shion Andrew, Sunil Simha, Alice Cai, Kenzie Nimmo, Shami Chatterjee, Amanda M. Cook, Fengqiu Adam Dong, Yuxin Dong, Tarraneh Eftekhari, Wen-fai Fong, Emmanuel Fonseca, Jason W. T. Hessels, Ronniy C. Joseph, Victoria Kaspi, Calvin Leung, Robert Main, Kiyoshi W. Masui, Ryan Mckinven, Daniele Michilli, Mason Ng, Ayush Pandhi, Aaron B. Pearlman, Ziggy Pleunis, Mawson W. Sammons, K…

Discovery and Localization of the Swift-Observed FRB 20241228A in a Star-forming Host Galaxy
On 2024 December 28, CHIME/FRB detected the thus-far non-repeating FRB 20241228A with a real-time signal-to-noise ratio of $>50$. Approximately 112~s later, the X-ray Telescope onboard the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory was on source, the fastest follow-up to-date of a non-repeating FRB (Tohuvavohu et al. in prep.). Using CHIME/FRB and two of the three CHIME/FRB Outriggers, we obtained a Very Long Baseline Interferometry localization for FRB 20241228A with a 1$σ$ confidence ellipse of 11$^{\pr…

"Auf der österreichischen Tauernautobahn hat sich Medienberichten zufolge am Samstagmorgen ein Mega-Stau gebildet. Er reiche von der A10 bis nach Bayern zurück, berichtet der Radiosender Ö3. Das seien rund 45 Kilometer – Autofahrer müssten mit einer Wartezeit von fünf Stunden rechnen."
"Schon Pfingsten 2024 waren 28 Kilometer gemessen worden."
Wir haben zwei Probleme:
- zu viele Autos
- zu viele Idioten

On Minimal Excludant over Overpartitions
Judy Ann Donato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04402 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.04402

On Minimal Excludant over Overpartitions
A partition of a positive integer $n$ is a non-increasing sequence of positive integers which sum to $n$. A recently studied aspect of partitions is the minimal excludant of a partition, which is defined to be the smallest positive integer that is not a part of the partition. In 2024, Aricheta and Donato studied the minimal excludant of the non-overlined parts of an overpartition, where an overpartition of $n$ is a partition of $n$ in which the first occurrence of a number may be overlined. In …

wut??

Vote: Choose central Ohio's high school boys Athlete of the Year for 2024-25 https://www.dispatch.com/story/sports/high-school/2025/06/30/vote-who-is-central-ohios-high-school-boys-athlete-of-th…

P.S. Hat tip to @… for the radium reference. He was talking about other things (https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/19/just-stop-putting-that-up-your-ass/#harm-reduction), but the whole vibe of that “Radium will magically restore you to health!” era is by far the best historical comparison I’ve found for the current froth-mouthed AI hype.

28 Years of Sun-as-a-star Extreme Ultraviolet Light Curves from SOHO EIT
Emily Sandford, Fr\'ed\'eric Auch\`ere, Annelies Mortier, Laura A. Hayes, Daniel M\"uller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18990

28 Years of Sun-as-a-star Extreme Ultraviolet Light Curves from SOHO EIT
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) has been taking images of the Solar disk and corona in four narrow EUV bandpasses (171Å, 195Å, 284Å, and 304Å) at a minimum cadence of once per day since early 1996. The time series of fully-calibrated EIT images now spans approximately 28 years, from early 1996 to early 2024, covering solar cycles 23, 24, and the beginning of cycle 25. We convert this extensive EIT image archive into a time series of …

☀️ Deutschlands Strom wird grüner: 2024 kamen fast 63 % des erzeugten Stroms aus Erneuerbaren Energien.
#Windkraft lieferte im Winter besonders viel, #Solarenergie brillierte im Sommer. Beim #Windkraft

Energiewende: So viel Strom kam gestern aus erneuerbaren Energien
Bis 2030 sollen insgesamt 80 Prozent des produzierten Stroms in Deutschland aus erneuerbaren Energien kommen. Daten zeigen, wie der Strommix aktuell aussieht und welche Rolle der importierte Strom spielt.

London's water works https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2024/09/hampton-water-works.html

Scaling solutions for current-carrying cosmic string networks. II. Biased solutions
F. C. N. Q. Pimenta, C. J. A. P. Martins
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21494

Scaling solutions for current-carrying cosmic string networks. II. Biased solutions
The charge-velocity-dependent one-scale model is an extension of the canonical velocity-dependent one-scale model which explicitly incorporates additional degrees of freedom on the string worldsheet, such as arbitrary currents and charges, expected in physically realistic models. A previous paper [Pimenta and Martins, Phys. Rev. D 110, 023540 (2024)] started an in-depth classification of its possible asymptotic scaling solutions, with the goal of identifying distinguishing features which may be…

Advances in aviation radiation mitigation were demonstrated during the Gannon storm
W. K. Tobiska, B. Hogan, L. Didkovsky, K. Judge, J. Bailey, K. Drumm, K. Wahl, A. Sosnov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00887

Advances in aviation radiation mitigation were demonstrated during the Gannon storm
The validation of a strategy for aviation radiation hazard mitigation in development for decades has been completed using two commercial airline flights in 2024 and 2025. This article provides a historical review of the primary elements leading to that strategy, including the building of aviation radiation awareness and collaborative efforts by global aviation and radiological bodies that established mitigation standards. The validation of an ALARA strategy was accomplished using two UAL 990 fl…

Control of pedestal-top electron density using RMP and gas puff at KSTAR
Minseok Kim, S. K. Kim, A. Rothstein, P. Steiner, K. Erickson, Y. H. Lee, H. Han, Sang-hee Hahn, J. W. Juhn, B. Kim, R. Shousha, C. S. Byun, J. Butt, ChangMin Shin, J. Hwang, Minsoo Cha, Hiro Farre, S. M. Yang, Q. Hu, D. Eldon, N. C. Logan, A. Jalalvand, E. Kolemen
https://

Control of pedestal-top electron density using RMP and gas puff at KSTAR
We report the experimental results of controlling the pedestal-top electron density by applying resonant magnetic perturbation with the in-vessel control coils and the main gas puff in the 2024-2025 KSTAR experimental campaign. The density is reconstructed using a parametrized psi_N grid and the five channels of the line-averaged density measured by a two-colored interferometer. The reconstruction procedure is accelerated by deploying a multi-layer perceptron to run in about 120 microseconds an…

Two elected #Democrat political officials in #NorthernCalifornia town booked and held on $1 million bail for #arson & #insurance sch…