Tootfinder

FieldAI, which is developing robot "brains", raised $405M at a $2B post-money valuation from Nvidia and others; FieldAI raised an initial $91M in late 2024 (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/20/fieldai-raises-over-400-million-to-…

FieldAI raises over $400 million to make robot "brains"
Investors include funds affiliated with Jeff Bezos and NVIDIA.

Newsmax reports Q2 revenue of $46.4M, up 18.4% YoY, a net loss of $75.2M, compared with a $4.8M loss in Q2 2024, primarily due to settlement costs with Dominion (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/08/newsmax-q2-2025-earnings-report/

Newsmax revenue climbs to $46 million during Q2
August 19, 2025 - The company renewed its carriage deal with Comcast, inked a new talent agreement with Greta van Susteren and expanded its reach on Hulu with Live TV.

Sherrod Brown's Race Will Test Trump Voters' Buyer's Remorse (Alex Roarty/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/2024-election/sherrod-brown-ohio-test-trump-voters-buyers-remorse
http://www.memeorandum.com/250818/p146#a250818p146

U.S. law already makes clear that America cannot and will not recognize Russia’s land grabs.
2024 Omnibus Bill, Section 7047 (extended into 2025 CR): Prohibits funding for any action recognizing Russian claims over Crimea or other occupied territory.
2019 NDAA, Section 1241 (reaffirmed annually, most recently in the 2025 NDAA, Section 1303): Bars any Defense Department funds from supporting recognition of Russian sovereignty over Crimea. 1/2

Energy Efficiency in Robotics Software: A Systematic Literature Review (2020-2024)
Aryan Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12170 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.…

Energy Efficiency in Robotics Software: A Systematic Literature Review (2020-2024)
This study presents a systematic literature review of software-level approaches to energy efficiency in robotics published from 2020 through 2024, updating and extending pre-2020 evidence. An automated-but-audited pipeline combined Google Scholar seeding, backward/forward snowballing, and large-language-model (LLM) assistance for screening and data extraction, with ~10% human audits at each automated step and consensus-with-tie-breaks for full-text decisions. The final corpus comprises 79 peer-…

Panthers' Derrick Brown primed for return after missing most of 2024 season with knee injury https://www.nfl.com/news/panthers-derrick-brown-return-from-knee-injury-2025-preseason

Optimizing Peer Grading: A Systematic Literature Review of Reviewer Assignment Strategies and Quantity of Reviewers
Uchswas Paul, Shail Shah, Sri Vaishnavi Mylavarapu, M. Parvez Rashid, Edward Gehringer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11678

Optimizing Peer Grading: A Systematic Literature Review of Reviewer Assignment Strategies and Quantity of Reviewers
Peer assessment has established itself as a critical pedagogical tool in academic settings, offering students timely, high-quality feedback to enhance learning outcomes. However, the efficacy of this approach depends on two factors: (1) the strategic allocation of reviewers and (2) the number of reviews per artifact. This paper presents a systematic literature review of 87 studies (2010--2024) to investigate how reviewer-assignment strategies and the number of reviews per submission impact the …

Beneath the Mask: Can Contribution Data Unveil Malicious Personas in Open-Source Projects?
Ruby Nealon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13453 https://arxiv.org/p…

Beneath the Mask: Can Contribution Data Unveil Malicious Personas in Open-Source Projects?
In February 2024, after building trust over two years with project maintainers by making a significant volume of legitimate contributions, GitHub user "JiaT75" self-merged a version of the XZ Utils project containing a highly sophisticated, well-disguised backdoor targeting sshd processes running on systems with the backdoored package installed. A month later, this package began to be distributed with popular Linux distributions until a Microsoft employee discovered the backdoor while investiga…

Stable magnetic fields and changing starspots on Vega -- An ultra-deep decadal survey at Pic du Midi and OHP
T. B\"ohm, M. Holschneider, P. Petit, F. Ligni\`eres, F. Paletou, C. P. Folsom, M. Rainer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13348

Stable magnetic fields and changing starspots on Vega -- An ultra-deep decadal survey at Pic du Midi and OHP
Monitoring magnetic and activity variations in A- and B-type stars with ultra-weak magnetic fields is essential to understand the origin and evolution of these fields in this region of the HR diagram, with Vega standing as the prototype of this category. We collected high-resolution spectroscopic and spectropolarimetric data with SOPHIE (OHP, 2018) and with NARVAL/NEO-NARVAL (TBL, 2018, 2023, and 2024), yielding a total of 13108 individual spectra. Magnetic field maps were reconstructed using t…

Strong spectral stabilities for $C_{2k 1}$-free graphs
Lantao Zou, Yongtao Li, Yuejian Peng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13643 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.136…

Strong spectral stabilities for $C_{2k+1}$-free graphs
A stability result due to Ren, Wang, Wang and Yang [SIAM J. Discrete Math. 38 (2024)] shows that if $3\le r \le 2k$ and $n\ge 318 (r-2)^2k$, and $G$ is a $C_{2k+1}$-free graph on $n$ vertices with $e(G)\ge \lfloor {(n-r+1)^2}/{4}\rfloor +{r \choose 2}$, then $G$ can be made bipartite by deleting at most $r-2$ vertices. Using a different method, we give a linear bound on $n$ in terms of $k$ and show a stronger structural result, which roughly says that $G$ can be obtained from a large bipartite …

A Multi-Body Dobrushin-Sokal Criterion -- Part I
Jan Philipp Neumann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12078 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12078

A Multi-Body Dobrushin-Sokal Criterion -- Part I
We derive a sufficient condition for zero-freeness of partition functions applicable to lattice gases with possibly complex-valued multi-body interactions. This includes the case of hard-core interactions and, in particular, generalises recent results by Galvin et al.\ (2024) and Bencs-Buys (2025) on zero-free polydiscs of hypergraph independence polynomials. We provide two proofs: the first generalises the inductive approach of Bencs and Buys; the second employs the Kirkwood-Salsburg hierarchy…

https://hpiers.obspm.fr/eoppc/bul/buld/bulletind.145
Paris, 18 December 2024 Bulletin D 144
(er oops looks like they forgot to update the heading, should be 145)
ANNOUNCEMENT OF DUT1
From the 10 July 2025, 0h UTC until further notice, the value o…

On the bricks (Schur representations) of finite dimensional algebras
Kaveh Mousavand, Charles Paquette
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11789 https://arxiv.org/p…

On the bricks (Schur representations) of finite dimensional algebras
This manuscript treats the diverse applications of bricks within modern representation theory and several related domains, and reviews the recent developments and new results on bricks (a.k.a Schur representations). The current survey is an extended version of a mini-course by the second-named author, delivered in the research school on ``New Developments in Representation Theory of Algebras", held in November of 2024, at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), Japan. The review is …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Eddie Palmieri:
🎵 Comparsa de los locos
#EddiePalmieri
https://fania.bandcamp.com/track/comparsa-de-los-locos-remastered-2024-1
https://open.spotify.com/track/3rZ5GjrObnRNsDxC2zrFMx

Data-Driven Deepfake Image Detection Method -- The 2024 Global Deepfake Image Detection Challenge
Xiaoya Zhu, Yibing Nan, Shiguo Lian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11464 https://…

Data-Driven Deepfake Image Detection Method -- The 2024 Global Deepfake Image Detection Challenge
With the rapid development of technology in the field of AI, deepfake technology has emerged as a double-edged sword. It has not only created a large amount of AI-generated content but also posed unprecedented challenges to digital security. The task of the competition is to determine whether a face image is a Deepfake image and output its probability score of being a Deepfake image. In the image track competition, our approach is based on the Swin Transformer V2-B classification network. And o…

Note on Selection Bias in Observational Estimates of Algorithmic Progress
Parker Whitfill
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11033 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.11033…

Note on Selection Bias in Observational Estimates of Algorithmic Progress
Ho et. al (2024) is an interesting paper that attempts to estimate the degree of algorithmic progress from language models. They collect observational data on language models' loss and compute over time, and argue that as time has passed, language models' algorithmic efficiency has been rising. That is, the loss achieved for fixed compute has been dropping over time. In this note, I want to raise one potential methodological problem with the estimation strategy. Intuitively, if part of algorith…

State of the Climate in 2024 ist erschienen.
2024 war das wärmste Jahr seit Beginn der Aufzeichnungen. Die #CO2-Konzentration stieg auf 422,8 ppm – 52 % über dem vorindustriellen Niveau.
Extreme #Wetterlagen nahmen zu: schwere Überschwemmungen in

State of the Climate in 2024
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How the number of days per year that temperature exceeds 85F (29.4°C) exploded within one generation. Look at Spain, but also Italy, Greece, Bulgaria!
And underneath those lighter shades, the number is growing too.
By NY Times via María Ramirez on Bluesky.

Artificial Intelligence in Rural Healthcare Delivery: Bridging Gaps and Enhancing Equity through Innovation
Kiruthika Balakrishnan, Durgadevi Velusamy, Hana E. Hinkle, Zhi Li, Karthikeyan Ramasamy, Hikmat Khan, Srini Ramaswamy, Pir Masoom Shah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11738

Artificial Intelligence in Rural Healthcare Delivery: Bridging Gaps and Enhancing Equity through Innovation
Rural healthcare faces persistent challenges, including inadequate infrastructure, workforce shortages, and socioeconomic disparities that hinder access to essential services. This study investigates the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in addressing these issues in underserved rural areas. We systematically reviewed 109 studies published between 2019 and 2024 from PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, IEEE Xplore, and Scopus. Articles were screened using PRISMA guidelines and…

Einschlag des Asteroiden 2024 YR₄ auf Mond noch einmal etwas wahrscheinlicher
Der Asteroid 2024 YR₄ ist vorerst außer Reichweite unserer Instrumente. Laut der letzten Beobachtung ist ein Einschlag auf dem Mond nun etwas wahrscheinlicher.

Trey Hendrickson trade rumors: Breaking down whether 2024 NFL sack leader will play for Bengals in Week 1

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/trey-he

Filing: Shein reports 2024 UK sales up 32.3% YoY to £2.05B, making the UK its third largest market after the US and Germany, as it works toward a Hong Kong IPO (Helen Reid/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co

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…

"Bromism" is when you believe too much in what tech bros say https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/aimcc.2024.1260

Highlands Suite #PianoImprov #NowPlaying #nowplaying #originalmusic

Highlands Suite #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Wurde 2024 gefeuert - Formel-1-Crash-Pilot gibt sein Motorsport-Comeback #News #Nachrichten

Did Google Maps and Apple Maps search get worse in the past year?
I keep having a ridiculous amount of trouble locating places to eat or stores in #NYC lately unless I know the precise name of a place - even very similar keywords like “burger” for a place that’s called “Blue Collar Burger” - and it doesn’t come up.
Let alone searching for nearby open restaurants or something by category… most places just don’t come up and instead I see completely irrelevant businesses.
I feel like it’s deteriorated a lot since 2024 but I also might be misremembering how easy it used to be.
#tech #Apple #Google #askfedi

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

Rebuttal of Soteria International's Claims on the OKC Case - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
Rebuttal of Soteria International’s Claims on the OKC Case As a victim of the Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) cult and an advocate for justice, I find Soteria …

"Umgang mit dem Unsichtbaren – Neurodiversity-Management in Bibliotheken" https://doi.org/10.1515/bfp-2024-0005

from my link log —
Updating a large codebase to Rust 2024.
https://codeandbitters.com/rust-2024-upgrade/
saved 2025-02-07 https://…

SpaceX is seeking approval to nearly double rocket launches from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base -- to 95 per year,
putting the company on a collision course with the California Coastal Commission
over concerns about wildlife, noise, and state oversight
That represents a sharp climb from early 2024,
when SpaceX, owned by billionaire Elon Musk and working with the U.S. Air Force,
agreed to only six launches a year under a deal with the commission.

Pew: Trump has lost 30% of his young 2024 voters | Weekly roundup for August 17, 2025 (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/pew-trump-has-lost-30-of-his-young
http://www.memeorandum.com/250817/p26#a250817p26

Nieuwsuur vroeg aan Sigrid Kaag een foto mee te nemen die voor haar betekenis heeft.
Dit is dus al in April 2024.
Meer dan een jaar geleden dus.
In Nieuwsuur dus een uitgebreid interview met een duidelijk heel kritische Kaag op het NLse beleid. Aanrader en verplichte kost voor dit kabinet.
#Nieuwsuur #Gaza

Russland: Putins Bedingungen für Kriegsende unverändert
Im Vorfeld des Putin-Trump-Gipfels am Freitag bekräftigt Russland seinen Anspruch auf vier ukrainische Regionen. Russlands Haltung zur Beendigung des Krieges sei konstant, erklärt der Sprecher des Moskauer Außenministeriums, Alexei Fadajew. Die von Präsident Wladimir Putin im Juni 2024 dargelegte Position habe sich nicht geändert.
Putin hatte damals den vollständigen Ab…
📑

Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Merz: "Es gibt Hoffnung auf Bewegung" ++
Bundeskanzler Merz hat sich nach dem Gespräch mit US-Präsident Trump verhalten optimistisch geäußert und Trump viel Erfolg für dessen Unterredung mit Kremlchef Putin gewünscht. Die südukrainische Region Cherson meldet drei Tote.

RBs flourish, Milton struggles: Cowboys snap counts, offensive position grades vs Rams https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/10/rbs-flourish-milton-struggles-cowboys-snap-…

Raiders remain in top 10 of NFL’s most valuable teams https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-remain-in-top-10-of-nfls-most-valuable-teams-3421298/

Das Geld parkt falsch auf der Straße. Wir haben nur kein Personal es aufzuheben.
Wie viele Verfahren konnten aufgrund der Privatanzeigen eingeleitet werden?
2023 konnten von 6.865 Anzeigen 4.355 Verfahren eingeleitet werden.
2024 konnten aufgrund erheblicher Personalausfälle in dem betroffenen Arbeitsbereich von insgesamt 11.034 Anzeigen nur 2.775 Verfahren eingeleitet werden

Anfrage zu Privatanzeigen im Bereich ruhender Verkehr
bitte beantworten Sie folgende Fragen, jeweils aufgeschlüsselt für die Jahre 2023 und 2024 für den Bereich des ruhenden Verkehrs mit dem Schwerpunkt auf Privatanzeige/Drittanzeige/Fremdanzeigen - im Folgenden nur noch 'Privatanzeigen' genannt: * Wie viele Privatanzeigen sind bei Ihnen eingegangen? * Wie viele Verfahren konnten aufgrund der Privatanzeigen eingeleitet werden? * Wie viele Verfahren durch Privatanzeigen wurden durch Zahlung eines Verwarnungsgeldes bestandskräfig? * Wie viele V…

👯‍♂️ Young men in UK more likely than women to live with parents
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/23/men-women-society-uk-housing-parents-women

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 303 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29697 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

Vision Pro: Erstes Upgrade noch in diesem Jahr?
Seit Frühjahr 2024 ist Apples erstes Mixed-Reality-Headset erhältlich. Nun steht angeblich bald die zweite Version an – mit wichtigen Verbesserungen.
https://www.

Estado del clima en Jalisco: temporada de lluvias y comportamiento extremo de la temperatura en 2024
Mauricio L\'opez-Reyes, Julio Eduardo Zamora-Salvador, Alma Delia Ort\'iz-Ba\~nuelos, Stephany Paulina Arellano-Ram\'irez, Carlos Rom\'an-Casta\~neda, Armando Gonz\'alez-Figueroa, Hector Hugo Ulloa-God\'inez, Mario E. Garc\'ia Guadalupe

Estado del clima en Jalisco: temporada de lluvias y comportamiento extremo de la temperatura en 2024
This article analyzes the characteristics of the rainy season and extreme temperatures recorded in the state of Jalisco, Mexico, during 2024. Using ERA5 and CHIRPS reanalysis data and observations from thirteen meteorological stations, patterns of precipitation and temperature anomalies were identified. The results show a late start and early end of the rainy season, with positive anomalies in the central and southern regions, and significant deficits in the coastal strip. Furthermore, 2024 sto…

Die zweite und letzte Ernte von Rote Bete.
Dieses Jahr sind die Knollen größer gewachsen als 2024. Das wird nochmal ein großer Topf #Borschtsch. Es gibt immer noch keinen #Weißkohl im Handel, also muss wieder

I just saw an animation showing the evolution of the number of artificial satellites in orbit around Earth:
- 1957: 1
- 1960: 10
- 1965: 100
- 1996: 1'000
- 2016: 2'000
- 2024: 10'000
- 2025: 14'000

from my link log —
Eidophor: 1950's space age video projection technology. (video)
https://youtu.be/3-BvMcqEc98?si=_OkQjEKADeva4QD5
saved 2024-10-08

“The colonial monopoly on violence is backed by the liberal demand of nonviolent resistance.”
— tsengputterman, 2024 on Twitter

"Australia may install 220,000 home batteries under subsidy scheme"
#Australia #Batteries #Energy

Australia may install 220,000 home batteries under subsidy scheme
Australia is on track to surpass 2024 home battery installation records, with July data from SunWiz indicating that up to 220,000 units could be deployed in the first year of the federal Cheaper Home Batteries subsidy.

Call for Papers: ICMS 2026 Panel, "The Imagined Woman"
https://ift.tt/ADIFo2C
University of Alaska - Fairbanks - Alaska & Polar Regions Area Studies Bibliographer & Curator of…
via Input 4 RELCFP …

The Potential Danger to Satellites due to Ejecta from a 2032 Lunar Impact by Asteroid 2024 YR4
Paul Wiegert, Peter Brown, Jack Lopes, Martin Connors
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11217

The Potential Danger to Satellites due to Ejecta from a 2032 Lunar Impact by Asteroid 2024 YR4
On 2032 December 22 the 60 m diameter asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 4% chance of impacting the Moon. Such an impact would release 6.5 MT TNT equivalent energy and produce a ~1 km diameter crater. We estimate that up to 10^8 kg of lunar material could be liberated in such an impact by exceeding lunar escape speed. Depending on the actual impact location on the Moon as much as 10% of this material may accrete to the Earth on timescales of a few days. The lunar ejecta-associated particle fluence at 0.1 …

Has to be be intervention from the gods of fate (i e. irony of fate), that one of the biggest assholes in literature, Peer Gynt, is a national hero and idol in Norway. https://www.ibsenbyen.no/en/ibsen-i-norge-peer-gynt-pa-gala-ikonisk-forest…

"Applications of the Critical Incident Technique in Library and Information Science Research: A Literature Review" https://doi.org/10.1515/libri-2024-0065

Common Sunflower. Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge, California, USA. September, 2024. #descansogardens #sunflower #flower

Milan-based Bending Spoons raised €500M in debt led by JPMorgan Chase to buy more software businesses; the company raised $155M at a $2.6B valuation in 2024 (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…

It's amazing to me that people continue to look back at 2024 and angrily blame muslims,non-voters, & leftists for the overwhelming win by Trump. It must be nice to be able to completely ignore reality and learn nothing.
https://www.

Behind Trump’s 2024 Victory, a More Racially and Ethnically Diverse Voter Coalition
Pew Research Center’s in-depth study of its survey respondents who voted in the 2024 election examines turnout, voting patterns and demographics.

Juno Observations of Io's Alfvén Wing From 23 Io Radii: #Alfvén wing at a distance of ∼23 #Io radii south of the moon during perijove 62. Evidence for this passage was clearly seen in the #Juno plasma wave, magnetometer, and plasma data. The plasma wave signature was an intensification of quasi-electrostatic waves below about 1 kHz with a weaker magnetic component, all lasting for about two minutes. A strong perturbation of the magnetic field consistent with strong field-aligned currents was observed at the edges of the Alfvén wing. Ions in the range below about 1 keV/q were slowed within the Alfvén wing. As with other measurements in Io's Alfvén wing, we observe evidence of filamentation. The power in the Alfvén wing based on the measured Poynting flux is estimated to be ∼500–1,500 × 109 W."

Offenbar ist #Brandenburg mit Tesla noch nicht genug gestraft. Amazon will auch was vom Wasser.
Und nein, mit 'Souveränität' hat es nichts zu tun, wenn einer von Trumps Buddys hier mehr Geld verdienen will.
Ort ist noch geheim: Internet, kriegen wir das raus?
Amazon will als Cloud-Anbieter 8 Milliarden Euro in Brandenburg investieren | rbb24

Next Generation
#HardRock #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2024/next-generation-nowp…

Next Generation #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Statista expects the global influencer marketing industry to grow 36% between 2024 and 2025, reaching $33B, as brands tighten overall ad budgets (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-14/influen…

Monthly mean carbon dioxide as measured at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii.
July 2025:    
427.87. ppm
July 2024:    
425.55 ppm
The carbon dioxide data on Mauna Loa constitute the longest record of direct measurements of CO2 in the atmosphere.
https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

Trends in CO2 - NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory
GML conducts research on greenhouse gas and carbon cycle feedbacks, changes in aerosols, and surface radiation, and recovery of stratospheric ozone.

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 273 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29727 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

Die Meng Xiang: Fertig, um den Meeresboden zu stalken. 🕵️‍♂️
Das Forschungsschiff, das im November 2024 in Dienst gestellt wurde, soll bis zu 11 Kilometer tief in den Meeresboden bohren und Proben aus bisher unerforschten Regionen sammeln.
Zum Artikel: https://

Der Ausbau der #Windenergie in Deutschland hat im ersten Halbjahr 2025 deutlich zugelegt.
Mit 405 neuen Onshore-Anlagen und 2.157 MW installierter Leistung wurde der Zubau gegenüber 2024 mehr als verdoppelt.
Treiber sind beschleunigte Genehmigungen und höhere Ausschreibungszuschläge.

Ausbau Windenergie: Deutschland verdoppelt neue Windenergieleistung an Land im ersten Halbjahr 2025
Münster – Der Ausbau der Windenergie in Deutschland hat sich im ersten Halbjahr 2025 im Vergleich zum Vorjahr deutlich beschleunigt. Dies geht aus einer ersten vorläufigen Auswertung von Daten des Marktstammdatenregisters (MaStR) der Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA) durch das Internationale Wirtschaftsforum Regenerative Energien (IWR) in Münster (Datenstand: 01. Juli 2025) hervor.

I’ve Got Some Explaining To Do #heart #inspiration #recording

I've Got Some Explaining To Do
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Fans' Choice: Vote for 910Preps Boys' Athlete of the Year for 2024-2025 https://www.fayobserver.com/story/sports/high-school/sports-awards/2025/06/10/fayetteville-nc-fans-c…

Bengals OC Dan Pitcher labels Chase Brown a top 10 NFL running back

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bengals-oc-dan-pitcher-labels-chase-brown-a-top-10-nfl-runn…

Cybercriminals are using AI to execute highly targeted attacks at scale, causing people to unwittingly send money and sensitive information or simply open themselves up to theft.
Hackers are now able to rent generative AI large language models created in the underground cybercrime community to help formulate text-based scams.
But just as generative AI is enhancing and scaling social engineering attacks, so too is it giving defenders a leg up.

The hacking underworld has removed all of AI's guardrails, but the good guys are closing in
Fake Taylor Swift ads and malicious QR codes are just some of the newest ways cybercriminals are using AI as the cat-and-mouse cybersecurity game heats up.

Sources: Chinese officials have urged the Trump administration to relax HBM chip export controls during trade talks, after the Biden administration ban in 2024 (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/19442dba-c724-4825-9388-26219a12cb8a

The increasing precipitation deficit in (central) the Netherlands, 1961-2024. While precipitation in the growing season (April-September) hardly changed, evaporation rapidly grew. This explains the increase in the deficit (moving average) from around zero in 1961 to on average over 100 mm by 2024.
#ClimateChangeIsWaterChange

NFL QB Tiers 2025: Lamar Jackson cracks Tier 1, Jayden Daniels sets rookie record https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6514160/2025/08/11/nfl-qb-rankings-tiers-2025-jackson-daniels/

Report for America says for 2024-25, 55% of the 181 reporters in the program were hired into permanent positions; since 2018, RFA has placed 759 corps members (Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/report-f

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1071459 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

"ChatGPT ranking of business and management journals with article quality scores" https://doi.org/10.1108/AJIM-11-2024-0927 [closed access / paywall]

How Google, Meta, and Apple's pledges to spend billions on new Silicon Valley housing failed to meet expectations; Apple spent $1.6B by July 2024, the most (Nicole Friedman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/tech-compa…

from my link log —
Histogramming bytes with positional popcount, GF2P8AFFINEQB edition.
http://bitmath.blogspot.com/2024/11/histogramming-bytes-with-positional.html
saved 2024-11-10

Histogramming bytes with positional popcount (GF2P8AFFINEQB edition)
A while ago, after some back and forth on twitter/X with @corsix , I dropped some implementation of byte histogramming without explaini...

NFL QB Tiers 2025: Lamar Jackson cracks Tier 1, Jayden Daniels sets rookie record https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6514160/2025/08/11/nfl-qb-rankings-tiers-2025-jackson-daniels/

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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NFL QB Tiers 2025: Lamar Jackson cracks Tier 1, Jayden Daniels sets rookie record https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6514160/2025/08/11/nfl-qb-rankings-tiers-2025-jackson-daniels/

Der Winter 2024/25 brachte in den #Alpen teils Rekord-#Trockenheit und extremen #Schneemangel.
An der #Zugspitze

Alpen-Bilanz 2024/25: Rekord-Trockenheit und Schneemangel
Rekord-Trockenheit in den Alpen: Im Winter 2024/25 fiel mancherorts so wenig Schnee wie seit über 90 Jahren nicht mehr. Auch an der Zugspitze wurden Negativrekorde gemessen.

from my link log —
EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/10/ebcdic-is-incompatible-with-gdpr/
saved 2024-10-28

EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR
Welcome to acronym city! The Court of Appeal of Brussels has made an interesting ruling. A customer complained that their bank was spelling the customer's name incorrectly. The bank didn't have support for diacritical marks. Things like á, è, ô, ü, ç etc. Those accents are common in many languages. So it was a little surprising that the bank didn't support them. The bank refused to spell their c…

Sea's Shopee is nearing a $100B market cap after its stock surged 300% since early 2024, driven by its in-house, community-based logistics network SPX Express (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

Trump’s Hooters-loving Malaysia ambassador pick worries Asean diplomats
Nick Adams, who rallied actively for Trump at the 2024 US election,
has drawn controversy over his misogynistic remarks and brash nature
https://www.scmp.com/wee…

Trump’s Hooters-loving Malaysia ambassador pick worries Asean diplomats
Nick Adams, who rallied actively for Trump at the 2024 US election, has drawn controversy over his misogynistic remarks and brash nature.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in Deutschland. Stand: 09.08.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erste Versuche einer #Datenanalyse. 😁 Hinweise gerne. Wü…

Niners WR Brandon Aiyuk (knee) return targeted for Week 6 of regular season https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-wr-brandon-aiyuk-knee-return-targeted-for-week-6-of-regular-season

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

from my link log —
Bril: an intermediate language for teaching compilers.
https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asampson/blog/bril.html
saved 2024-07-27

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

Texans to sign Jalen Mills to reinforce secondary with C.J. Gardner-Johnson, Jimmie Ward sidelined, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/texans-…

TollBit: from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, traffic from AI retrieval bots to 266 websites, including national and local news organizations, grew 49%, as AI usage jumps (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

‘This is coming for everyone’: A new kind of AI bot takes over the web
As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI chatbots.

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

In Q2 2025, global VC funding reached $91B, up from $82B in Q2 2024, driven largely by AI investments, but down from $114B in Q1 2025, the highest since Q3 2022 (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/global-funding-climbs-q2-…

Q2 Global Venture Funding Climbs In A Blockbuster Quarter For AI And As Capital Concentrates In Larger...
Global venture funding ticked up year over year in Q2 2025, reaching $91 billion, with a greater concentration of capital into the largest funding rounds compared to a year ago, Crunchbase data shows.

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 248 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29752 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

Visa: stablecoin transaction volumes hit $752B in May, up from $409B in May 2024, and wallets that regularly send and receive payments hit a record 46M average (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b69f304c-798e-4dc3-9f17-6f7a7c8d3ac0

How stablecoins are entering the financial mainstream
Usage of the digital assets is growing rapidly, but concerns remain about supervision and their impact on other parts of the financial system

Sources: xAI prepares a new fundraising round, its third in two months, targeting a valuation of $170B to $200B, up 10x from its May 2024 valuation of $18B (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/25aab987-c2a1-4fca-8883-38a617269b68

#Deutschland kommt beim Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien nur teilweise voran.
Das #Solarziel für 2024 wurde übertroffen, bei der #Windenergie hingegen deutlich verfehlt.
Vorreiter bei …

Wie läuft der Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien in Deutschland?
Das Ausbauziel für Solarenergie wurde 2024 erreicht - bei der Windenergie hängt Deutschland seinen Zielen aber hinterher. Am Norden liegt es nicht: In Bundesländern wie Schleswig-Holstein und Niedersachsen stehen besonders viele Windkraftanlagen.

Microsoft says it paid $17M to 344 security researchers across 59 countries between June 2024 to June 2025 via its bug bounty program; the top reward was $200K (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/micr

Sources: Intel's 18A process is facing significant yield challenges, with only ~5% of chips meeting its specifications in late 2024 and ~10% by summer 2025 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/…

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 226 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29774 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

An interview with Strava CEO Michael Martin on Athlete Intelligence, the premium AI "coach" introduced in 2024 that has alienated experienced users, and more (Haley Zimmerman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/te…

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 197 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29803 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.