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Ich habe heute im #fediday2025 -Vortrag von @… zum ersten Mal von den #MastodonStarterPacks gehört. Sehr gute Sache 👍 👍
👉 Es gibt jetzt ein Starte…

Großbritannien: Haftstrafen für Brandanschlag mit Russland-Bezug
Wegen ihrer Beteiligung an einem mutmaßlich von Russland aus orchestrierten Brandanschlag in London hat ein britisches Gericht fünf Männer zu langen Haftstrafen verurteilt. Richterin Bobbie Cheema-Grubb verhängte Gefängnisstrafen von sieben bis 17 Jahren.
Die Männer waren laut der Staatsanwaltschaft in ein Komplott verwickelt, bei dem im März 2024 ein Lagerhaus…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Russischer Gesandter zu Gesprächen in den USA ++
Der russische Sondergesandte und Präsidentenberater Dmitrijew hält sich zu Gesprächen in den USA auf. In der Ukraine zündet ein Mann bei einer Personenkontrolle in einem Zug einen Sprengsatz. Vier Menschen sterben.

ShopMy, which lets brands run influencer marketing efforts, raised $70M led by Avenir at a $1.5B valuation, up from ~$410M when it raised $77.5M in March 2024 (Diana Pearl/The Business of Fashion)
https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/marketing-p…

A fragment of a Chinese rocket stage - 2024-173L - 'landed' in Western Australia on 18 October: #SpaceJunk

El Cheeto is tearing down the East Wing of the White House.
He says, of course, that he isn't. But he is.
And he promises to preserve historical elements and artifacts.
But he won't - does anyone remember when he was trying to get New York to allow him to build the horrid "trump tower" on the site of the then existing Bonwitt Teller building (a building full of and covered by art deco works)?
Well back then El Cheat-o promised to preserve those Bonw…

A profile of Credo, which makes active electrical cables to connect AI servers and whose stock price has more than doubled this year, after soaring 245% in 2024 (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/17/500-purple-cables-put-credo-in-middle-…

$500 purple cables put this little-known company in the middle of the AI boom
Credo's stock has more than doubled this year after soaring 245% in 2024 as the AI boom makes its way downstream.

OGH-Entscheidung: - Todesschuss in Kärntner Kaserne war ein Mord! #News #Nachrichten

US Army major general who has been director of operations of UN Command, ROK/US Combined Forces Command & US Forces Korea since July 2024 uses ChatGPT to make command decisions. 🤦‍♂️
A threat to the safety of South Korea and the US.
https://

Top US Army general says he’s using ChatGPT to help make key command decisions
Maj. Gen. William “Hank” Taylor told reporters that he’s been using ChatGPT to refine how he makes choices affecting thousands of troops.

McKinsey expects the European demand-side flexibility market to grow to €12 billion by 2030, with a €2 billion residential portion.
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/electric-power-and-natural-…

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz
https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rfutation-des-affirmations.html

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
En tant que victime, survivant de la dérive sectaire Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) et défenseur de la justice, des droits des enfants, des droits humains et de la …

Habe mich heute sehr darüber gefreut zu hören, dass @… das Problem #Impressumspflicht schon eine ganze Weile deutlich thematisiert.
Weil mich das nämlich auch schon eine Weile beschäftigt:

WATCH: Bears DC Dennis Allen gives fiery speech after win over Saints, the team that fired him in 2024

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/watch-b

Sources: Revolut is nearing the completion of a $3B fundraising round that values the company at $75B, up from $45B in a 2024 secondary share sale (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-17/revolut-backers-near-en…

"September 2025: Earth’s 3rd-warmest September on record"
#Climate #ClimateChange
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September 2025: Earth’s 3rd-warmest September on record
Only September 2023 and September 2024 were warmer.

Nearly $900 Million Flowed in Secret to Help Harris and Trump in 2024 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/us/politics/harris-trump-dark-money-democrats-republicans.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p109#a251217p109

Cowboys-Commanders: How to Watch, Listen, Stream https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-commanders-how-to-watch-listen-stream-x7314

Me había preparado para lo mšs grotesco y asqueroso que haya visto en una película antes de poner «The Substance», pero me pareció que los comentarios al respecto son muy exagerados. Sí, tiene escenas fuertes, pero nada que no se haya visto antes.
Lo importante es que es una muy buena película. Yo le doy 4★ 👉🏻 https://boxd.it/blM8HF

Behind the scenes talk about how the English-language webcast of Japan's #SLIM landing on the Moon went: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxe3owbJr38#t=1h10m26s (from 1 hour 10 minutes 26 seconds) - see also https://cosmos.isas.jaxa.jp/landing-on-the-moon-behind-the-scenes-of-the-night-when-slim-made-history/ for a related article and https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/slim-vor-mond-landung-peregine-vor-erd-crash/ (from "Japans SLIM – mit zwei Extra-Vehikeln – vor der Mondlandung" in chronological order) for my live coverage back then, based on the JAXA webcast and direct reception of radio signals from the lander by radio amateurs with a 20 meter dish in my home town.

Our local (Savannah) cops have warned that wearing a costume that obscures identity at the No Kings rally Saturday could lead to arrest under a law originally written to stop the Ku Klux Klan from hiding under their sheets.
GA Code § 16-11-38 (2024)
https://law.justia.com/codes/ge…

Exordia (2024) by Seth Dickinson is a fun romp on trolley problems if your idea of fun includes "nuke Kurdistan or else we nuke the world". Obama is president, and an alien appears in Central Park to drag some broken people into a battle over an artifact that can change the universe. These aliens have actual Original Sin, and visibly so. Humans freak out at the alien wrongness, a metaphysical brand that shows the entire alien race is doomed from birth to go to a literal hell when t…

The Mall That Could Have Been: What Happened to Our Vision for SF Centre / Westfield Mall
https://www.kultivatelabs.org/blog/the-mall-that-could-have-been-what-happened-to-our-vision-for-sf-centre

Visual context affects the perceived timing of tactile sensations elicited through intra-cortical microstimulation: a case study of two participants https://journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/jn.00518.2024

Sources: Suno is in talks to raise $100M at a $2B valuation, quadrupling its previous valuation; it raised $125M in 2024 and is generating $100M in ARR (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-17/ai-musi…

Insgesamt war's ja schön mit Euch. Schade, dass es so bald vorbei ist...
https://www.tagesschau.de/wissen/klima/wmo-co2-ausstoss-100.html

WMO: CO2-Konzentration in der Atmosphäre 2024 so stark gestiegen wie nie
Die Konzentration von klimaschädlichem CO2 in der Atmosphäre ist laut WMO auf einem neuen Höchststand. Der Anstieg war 2024 so stark wie noch nie - verursacht etwa durch zahlreiche Waldbrände. Das System breche zusammen.

UCLA study: among the most-watched streaming series in 2024, 80% of lead actors were white and white men accounted for 79% of all show creators, vs. 77% in 2023 (Payton Turkeltaub/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/streaming/news/hollywood-diversi…

Hollywood Diversity Report: Underrepresented Stories Grow on Streaming
The Hollywood Diversity Report for 2024 streaming TV from UCLA reported fewer leading roles for women and women of color than in 2023.

Pelican is putting out a 12" EP 'Ascending' on January 9 with Flickering Resonance era tracks. The last two had a limited release in 2024, and the title track was left off Flickering Resonance as they felt it was more its own thing. Didn't know if I was gonna like Geoff Rickly's (from Thursday) vocals on the 'vocal version' of 'Cascading Crescent', but it rips: <…

It's shocking to me that the guy who was a useless councilmember (and council president) in Seattle for more than a decade also turned out to be a useless Mayor. Absolutely shocking! https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/115327462564038876

How the Broncos quickly overcame the Russell Wilson disaster to become a contender https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46616201/denver-broncos-build-contender-russell-wilson-trade-release-85-million-dead-money

Cowboys-Commanders: How to Watch, Listen, Stream https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-commanders-how-to-watch-listen-stream-x7314

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"
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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.

Average wholesale electricity prices per bidding zone in Europe, 2024:
- lowest in Scandinavia
- low in France, Spain, Portugal
- high in the east, in Italy, and in Ireland
- average in the middle, including the Netherlands
Source: @energy-charts.bsky.social

After typhoon 🌀 Yagi in 2024, the north of #Vietnam faced yet another unprecedented storm. #climatechange
People take hours and hours to get to their families, they swim, the strand.

Measurement of the $e^ e^-\to\eta\gamma$ cross section near the $\phi(1020)$ resonance with the SND detector
SND Collaboration, M. N. Achasov, A. E. Alizzi, A. Yu. Barnyakov, E. V. Bedarev, K. I. Beloborodov, A. V. Berdyugin, A. G. Bogdanchikov, A. A. Botov, D. E. Chistyakov, T. V. Dimova, V. P. Druzhinin, L. V. Kardapoltsev, A. S. Kasaev, A. A. Kattsin, A. G. Kharlamov, I. A. Koop, A. A. Korol, D. P. Kovrizhin, A. S. Kupich, A. P. Kryukov, N. A. Melnikova, N. Yu. Muchnoi, A. E. Obrazo…

Measurement of the $e^+e^-\toηγ$ cross section near the $ϕ(1020)$ resonance with the SND detector
In the experiment with the SND detector at the VEPP-2000 $e^+e^-$ collider, the $e^+e^-\toηγ$ cross section is measured in the energy range $E = 980 - 1060$ MeV. The measurement is carried out in the $η\to 2γ$ decay mode. Data with an integrated luminosity of 73 pb$^{-1}$ collected in 2018 and 2024 are used in the analysis. The measured cross section is the most accurate to date and is higher compared to other measurements. From the fit to the cross section data with the vector meson domina…

Learning to Mitigate Post-Outage Load Surges: A Data-Driven Framework for Electrifying and Decarbonizing Grids
Wenlong Shi, Dingwei Wang, Liming Liu, Zhaoyu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08357

Learning to Mitigate Post-Outage Load Surges: A Data-Driven Framework for Electrifying and Decarbonizing Grids
Electrification and decarbonization are transforming power system demand and recovery dynamics, yet their implications for post-outage load surges remain poorly understood. Here we analyze a metropolitan-scale heterogeneous dataset for Indianapolis comprising 30,046 feeder-level outages between 2020 and 2024, linked to smart meters and submetering, to quantify the causal impact of electric vehicles (EVs), heat pumps (HPs) and distributed energy resources (DERs) on restoration surges. Statistica…

Assessing the Impact of Post-Quantum Digital Signature Algorithms on Blockchains
Alison Gon\c{c}alves Schemitt (PUCRS), Henrique Fan da Silva (UNIPAMPA), Roben Castagna Lunardi (PUCRS, IFRS), Diego Kreutz (UNIPAMPA), Rodrigo Brand\~ao Mansilha (UNIPAMPA), Avelino Francisco Zorzo (PUCRS)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09271

Assessing the Impact of Post-Quantum Digital Signature Algorithms on Blockchains
The advent of quantum computing threatens the security of traditional encryption algorithms, motivating the development of post-quantum cryptography (PQC). In 2024, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standardized several PQC algorithms, marking an important milestone in the transition toward quantum-resistant security. Blockchain systems fundamentally rely on cryptographic primitives to guarantee data integrity and transaction authenticity. However, widely used algorithms…

#POTUS47 pledged in his 2024 campaign that there'd be no new wars. Anyone with any sense realized this was an empty promise.
Less than a year after taking office, it looks like he's at least posing to go to war with #Venezuela. I don't see anything remotely justifying a US war against…

A 50-min coronal kink oscillation and its possible photospheric counterpart
Sihui Zhong, Valery M. Nakariakov, Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12527 https://

A 50-min coronal kink oscillation and its possible photospheric counterpart
A coronal loop of 290~Mm length, observed at 171~Å with SDO/AIA on February 6th 2024 near AR 13571, is found to oscillate with two significantly different oscillation periods, $48.8 \pm 6.1$~min and $4.8\pm 0.3$~min. The oscillations occur in the time intervals without detected flares or eruptions. Simultaneously, near the Northern footpoint of the oscillating loop, we detect a $49.6 \pm 5.0$-min periodic variation of the average projected photospheric magnetic field observed with SDO/HMI. The…

Meta say it has frozen its third-party Horizon OS headset program, announced in 2024 with Asus and Lenovo as the first partners to build headsets (Ben Lang/Road to VR)
https://www.roadtovr.com/meta-horizon-os-third-party-headset-cancelled-asus-lenovo/

Meta "Pauses" Third-party Headset Program, Effectively Cancelling Horizon OS Headsets from Asus & Lenovo
Meta has “paused” its initiative to bring third-party Horizon OS headsets to the market. The company says it has shifted focus to “building the world-class first-party hardware and software needed to advance the VR market.” The News A little over a year and a half ago, Meta made an “industry-altering announcement,” as I called the …

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 26.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Rechte und Förderung

Three-point connectivity constant for $q$-state Potts spin clusters
Gefei Cai, Haoyu Liu, Baojun Wu, Zijie Zhuang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05850 https://…

Three-point connectivity constant for $q$-state Potts spin clusters
Recently, Ang--Cai--Sun--Wu (2024) determined the three-point connectivity constant for two-dimensional critical percolation, confirming a prediction of Delfino and Viti (2010). In this paper, we address the analogous problem for planar critical $q$-state Potts spin clusters. We introduce a continuum three-point connectivity constant and compute it explicitly. Under the scaling-limit conjecture for Potts spin clusters, this quantity coincides with the scaling limit of the properly normalized pr…

A 400 MW virtual power plant of decentralised energy sources, including rooftop solar panels, home batteries, EV chargers and heat pumps, for Germany. It's not quite the GWs envisaged earlier, but it's still an impressive achievement.
https://www.pv-magazine.de/…

Enpal erreicht 400 Megawatt Leistung mit virtuellem Kraftwerk
40.000 Kundinnen und Kunden mit insgesamt 100.000 Photovoltaik-Anlagen, Batteriespeichern, Wallboxen und anderen Einheiten sind Enpal zufolge inzwischen beim Ende 2024 gestarteten „Enpal.One+“ vernetzt. Vom angekündigten Ziel, der Bündelung von mehreren Gigawatt Leistung, ist man aber noch ein gutes Stück entfernt.

Bangladesh to reintroduce captive elephants to the wild https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/10/bangladesh-to-reintroduce-captive-elephants-to-the-wild/

Bangladesh to reintroduce captive elephants to the wild
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Bangladesh has embarked on an ambitious plan to end the centuries-old practice of keeping elephants in captivity. The government has begun retrieving privately owned elephants and aims to rehabilitate them in the wild. The initiative follows a 2024 […]

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.

Got the 🇨🇭 #SwissAI #Apertus model - one of the very few completely opensource LLMs - running locally!
Next step: finetuning on historical low-resource languages (like Middle High German).
#FOSS

"Climate change puts pressure on reindeer populations, both wild & domestic herds"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Reindeers

Climate change puts pressure on reindeer populations, both wild & domestic herds
In 2024, as unpredictable rains, snow and heat beat down on Finland’s Arctic, reindeer struggled to secure food sources, say Indigenous Sámi herders who shuffle their packs from one grazing ground to another. According to researchers, this is an example of the much larger problem the species faces. Due to climate change, a recent study […]

Project Severe Weather Archive of the Philippines (SWAP) Part 2: Baseline Climatology of Close Proximity Soundings in Hailstorm Environments across Luzon, Philippines
Generich H. Capuli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09530

Project Severe Weather Archive of the Philippines (SWAP) Part 2: Baseline Climatology of Close Proximity Soundings in Hailstorm Environments across Luzon, Philippines
The environments of severe thunderstorms that produced hail were examined using 171 proximity soundings (2005-2024) archived in the 3rd Data Release of Project SWAP. These soundings were categorized based on their geographical occurrence into three hail-prone environments across Luzon, Philippines. For each case, key parameters describing instability, vertical wind structure, and moisture were calculated to assess their relationship to hail formation. The probability of hail occurrence, express…

«C’est peut-être un peu surprenant sur le plan de la gestion.» Eh ben, oui.
https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/2025/article/la-ssr-revient-sur-la-fm-apres-la-decision-du-parlement-de-maintenir-la-bande-2908795…

Forecasting Inflation Based on Hybrid Integration of the Riemann Zeta Function and the FPAS Model (FPAS $\zeta$): Cyclical Flexibility, Socio-Economic Challenges and Shocks, and Comparative Analysis of Models
Davit Gondauri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02966

Forecasting Inflation Based on Hybrid Integration of the Riemann Zeta Function and the FPAS Model (FPAS + $ζ$): Cyclical Flexibility, Socio-Economic Challenges and Shocks, and Comparative Analysis of Models
Inflation forecasting is a core socio-economic challenge in modern macroeconomic modeling, especially when cyclical, structural, and shock factors act simultaneously. Traditional systems such as FPAS and ARIMA often struggle with cyclical asymmetry and unexpected fluctuations. This study proposes a hybrid framework (FPAS + $ζ$) that integrates a structural macro model (FPAS) with cyclical components derived from the Riemann zeta function $ζ(1/2 + i t)$. Using Georgia's macro data (2005-2024),…

CNN's Daniel Dale fact checks Trump & calls outright B.S. on his blatant lies about inflation being 'defeated'.
Groceries costs are sky high due to Trump's immigration crackdown & wild tariffs, with all-up consumer prices are up 3.0% since Sept 2024.
#trump #Inflation

Revisiting 18 NFL trades at last year's deadline: Several solid moves, but a bunch of duds https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6760070/2025/10/30/nfl-trade-deadline-2024-best-worst-trades/

kind of wild, but only michael jackson & dr. seuss outrank syd barrett & rick wright as 2025's best-paid dead celebrities (though i assume that's a 1-year-only thing after the floyd sold their publishing rights in 2024). https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattcraig/202

The Highest-Paid Dead Celebrities Of 2025
On the 25th anniversary of the Forbes ranking, The Notorious B.I.G., Miles Davis and Jimmy Buffett join a heavenly lineup of musicians as the greatest earners in the great beyond. Plus: How Michael Jackson earned $3.5 billion in the afterlife.

From X-rays to High-Energy Gamma-rays: A Comprehensive Multi-Wavelength Study of Early Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows
P. Tiwari, B. Banerjee, D. Miceli, G. Oganesyan, A. Ierardi, S. Macera, M. Branchesi, L. Nava, S. Mohnani, S. Agarwal, A. Shukla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05239

From X-rays to High-Energy Gamma-rays: A Comprehensive Multi-Wavelength Study of Early Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows
Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) generate powerful relativistic jets that inject a large amount of energy into their surrounding environment, producing blast waves that accelerate particles to high energies. The GRB afterglow radiation provides a powerful means to investigate the microphysics of relativistic shocks and to probe the medium surrounding the progenitor of the burst. In this study, we present a comprehensive multiwavelength analysis of 31 GRBs observed between 2008 and 2024 from the Neil Geh…

UK filings: Piers Morgan's production company Wake Up Productions generated £17.1M in revenue in 2024, as he concluded his £50M, three year deal with News UK (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/piers-mo…

Re-doing a #MusicWomenWednesday from 2024, as the video I'd linked to disappeared and I had to grab a new one.
When I was a kid in the 90s, I had a Wax Trax video compilation on VHS that had this great cover of Patsy Cline's "Walking After Midnight" done by Los Angeles' BRAINDEAD SOUND MACHINE. This was the first way I ever heard this song, and I'm crazy about th…

OnePlus 15R review: the new $700 device is fast with a big battery and a vibrant 165Hz OLED, but one less camera than 2024's 13R and only four years of support (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphone

OnePlus 15R review: A 165Hz display and big battery for $700
The OnePlus 15R has many of the same strengths as the more expensive OP15, but shaves off $200 off by compromising on cameras.

Das #bpkFotoarchiv der @… erprobt seit 2024 #KI-gestützte Erschließungsmethoden, um seine mehr als 12 Millionen Bildmotive besser zugänglich und nutzbar zu machen.
Ste…

Pareto-optimal Non-uniform Language Generation
Moses Charikar, Chirag Pabbaraju
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02795 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.02795

Pareto-optimal Non-uniform Language Generation
Kleinberg and Mullainathan (2024) recently proposed an interesting model for language generation in the limit: Given a countable collection of languages, and an adversary enumerating the strings of some language $L$ from the collection, the objective is to generate new strings from the target language, such that all strings generated beyond some finite time are valid. Li, Raman and Tewari (2024) and Charikar and Pabbaraju (2024) showed strong non-uniform generation guarantees in this model, giv…

Cowboys rumored NFL trade deadline target now unlikely to get shopped https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-rumored-nfl-trade-deadline-target-unlikely-shopped

Framing Unionization on Facebook: Communication around Representation Elections in the United States
Arianna Pera, Veronica Jude, Ceren Budak, Luca Maria Aiello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01757

Framing Unionization on Facebook: Communication around Representation Elections in the United States
Digital media have become central to how labor unions communicate, organize, and sustain collective action. Yet little is known about how unions' online discourse relates to concrete outcomes such as representation elections. This study addresses the gap by combining National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election data with 158k Facebook posts published by U.S. labor unions between 2015 and 2024. We focused on five discourse frames widely recognized in labor and social movement communication res…

Happy Halloween! Orbweaver spider. Mary and Joseph Retreat Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, California, USA. August, 2024. #halloween #spider #orbweaver

A polynomial bound on the pathwidth of graphs edge-coverable by $k$ shortest paths
Julien Baste, Lucas De Meyer, Ugo Giocanti, Etienne Objois, Timoth\'e Picavet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02901

A polynomial bound on the pathwidth of graphs edge-coverable by $k$ shortest paths
Dumas, Foucaud, Perez and Todinca (2024) recently proved that every graph whose edges can be covered by $k$ shortest paths has pathwidth at most $O(3^k)$. In this paper, we improve this upper bound on the pathwidth to a polynomial one; namely, we show that every graph whose edge set can be covered by $k$ shortest paths has pathwidth $O(k^4)$, answering a question from the same paper. Moreover, we prove that when $k\leq 3$, every such graph has pathwidth at most $k$ (and this bound is tight). Fi…

Der Autokraten-Code - #ARD Documentar Film
#Trailer
#Documentaire:
#AI

WOW, did you know texting currently prohibits PETTING CATS unless you see a kitty in person? Hang out with ME to PET cute kittens!

When Hallucination Costs Millions: Benchmarking AI Agents in High-Stakes Adversarial Financial Markets
Zeshi Dai, Zimo Peng, Zerui Cheng, Ryan Yihe Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00332

When Hallucination Costs Millions: Benchmarking AI Agents in High-Stakes Adversarial Financial Markets
We present CAIA, a benchmark exposing a critical blind spot in AI evaluation: the inability of state-of-the-art models to operate in adversarial, high-stakes environments where misinformation is weaponized and errors are irreversible. While existing benchmarks measure task completion in controlled settings, real-world deployment demands resilience against active deception. Using crypto markets as a testbed where $30 billion was lost to exploits in 2024, we evaluate 17 models on 178 time-anchore…

Wilders and his far-right PVV are losing in the Dutch polls. He's now polling at 23 seats (around 15%), down from 37 in the 2023 elections and 49 at his peak in the polls, early 2024.
Good development, but the real thing is tomorrow, when we finally get to vote!

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 26.10.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

Radial Velocity Monitoring and Analysis of Gaia Astrometry of Selected Intermediate Mass Stars to Constrain Their Multiplicity Status
J. B\"atz, M. Mugrauer, K. -U. Michel, J. Reichert, A. Tschirschky, L. Pietsch, F. Edelmann, R. Neuh\"auser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09772

Radial Velocity Monitoring and Analysis of Gaia Astrometry of Selected Intermediate Mass Stars to Constrain Their Multiplicity Status
We present new radial velocity measurements of 13 selected intermediate mass stars (2 - 6 M$_\odot$). The measurements were performed between 29 April and 6 September 2024 at the University Observatory Jena using the échelle spectrograph FLECHAS. The radial velocity of eight stars was found to be constant during our spectroscopic monitoring, namely: 17 Dra A, HD 148374, HD 169487 A, 57 Cnc, $γ$ And, HD 11031, $κ$ And, and $λ$ Cas. In contrast, the radial velocity of five stars showed signif…

Mordprozess in Tirol - Geständnis: „Bin schuld, dass meine Mama tot ist“ #News #Nachrichten

Google is shutting down its dark web monitoring tool, launched in 2024 to alert users when their personal info is detected on the dark web, on February 16, 2026 (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/12/15/google-dark-web-report-shutting-down/<…

Google is shutting down its ‘Dark web report’ tool after just over a year
One of the lesser-known features that Google offers is a “Dark Web Report” monitoring tool, but it’s about to shut...

Lions have 'added motivation' for Week 10 game vs. Commanders after playoff loss https://www.nfl.com/news/lions-added-motivation-week-10-game-commanders-playoff-loss

Filing: Lime's UK revenue rose 75% YoY to £111.3M in 2024, while its pre-tax profit fell to £1.71M, partly due to a £51.3M "reseller fee" paid to its US parent (Athena Browning/Zag Daily)
https://zagdaily.com/trends/limes-uk-revenue…

Self-consistent model of cosmic ray penetration into molecular clouds: Effect of energy losses
D. O. Chernyshov, A. V. Ivlev, V. A. Dogiel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03073 https…

Self-consistent model of cosmic ray penetration into molecular clouds: Effect of energy losses
The theory of cosmic-ray (CR) penetration into dense molecular clouds developed recently for relativistic particles by Chernyshov et al. (2024) is extended to non-relativistic CRs. Interstellar CRs streaming into the clouds are able to resonantly excite MHD waves in diffuse cloud envelopes. This leads to the self-modulation, such that streaming particles are scattered at the self-generated waves. In contrast to relativistic CRs, transport of lower-energy particles in the envelopes is generally …

Seit dem Pariser #Klimaabkommen 2015 ist der Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien deutlich schneller vorangeschritten als erwartet.
Laut einer britischen Studie stieg der Anteil nicht-fossiler Energien bis Ende 2024 um 41 %. Damit wurden frühere Prognosen klar übertroffen.
Rund 67 % des weltweit gestiegenen Energiebedarfs wurden durch

Energiesektor: Prognose zum Ausbau von erneuerbaren Energien deutlich übertroffen
Der Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien ist seit dem Pariser Klimaabkommen von 2015 deutlich schneller erfolgt als erwartet. Dies hat eine britische Studie festgestellt.

Commanders vs. Bears prediction, where to watch: Jayden Daniels, Caleb Williams set to light it up on 'MNF'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/command

It\^o-Wentzell formulas for semimartingale conditional laws with applications to mean-field control
Nizar Touzi, Mehdi Talbi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00242 https://

Itô-Wentzell formulas for semimartingale conditional laws with applications to mean-field control
The present paper is an extension of Fadle-Touzi (2024). Following the same methodology, merely based on Taylor expansions, we establish the Itô and Itô-Wentzell formulae for flows of conditional distributions of general semimartingales, thus allowing for discontinuous semimartingales with possibly discontinuous flows of conditional marginals. We apply these results to derive the dynamic programming equations corresponding to mean field control problems with Poisson type common noise and mean…

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Der Flensburg Krimi - Staffel 1 - #ARD
#crimi #krimi #DonnerstagsKrimi

Study: among the top 100 Spotify podcasts in the US in 2024, 64% were hosted by men, 77% of hosts were white, and 62.6% of 4K episodes had no woman guests (Adam Chitwood/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/usc-study-podcast-hosts-diversity-men-women-race/

Podcasting's Diversity Problem: 64% of Hosts Are Male, 77% Are White, USC Study Finds
The hosts of the top 100 podcasts of 2024 were overwhelmingly white and male, a new comprehensive study from USC reveals.

Sources: Waymo is in discussions to raise more than $15B at a valuation near $100B, in a round led by Alphabet; an October 2024 round valued Waymo at above $45B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-16/waymo-se…

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 26.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Daten lokal speichern

TechInsights: Huawei used components from TSMC, Samsung, and SK Hynix in some of its Ascend 910C chips; TSMC says the analyzed dies were made before Oct. 2024 (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Spotify raises UK prices by £1 after previously raising them in April 2024; the Premium individual monthly plan will now cost £12.99 (Mandy Dalugdug/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spo

Spotify raises UK and Switzerland Premium prices again as analysts see US hike by early 2026
The 8.3% increase marks the second time in 18 months that the Swedish streaming giant has raised UK prices by £1.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 26.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

Cowboys DE Marshawn Kneeland dies suddenly at age 24

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/marshawn-kneeland-dies-cowboys/

Cowboys second-year DE Kneeland dies at 24 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46869849/cowboys-second-year-de-marshawn-kneeland-dies-24

Amazon reports Q3 revenue up 13% YoY to $180.2B, a $21.2B net income vs. $15.3B in Q3 2024, and operating income flat at $17.4B; AMZN jumps 10% after hours (Amazon)
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251029099339/en/

Thanksgiving NFL games averaged nearly 45M viewers each, up from 34.5M in 2024, driven by enhanced Nielsen measurement; streaming averaged 2.2M viewers, up 58% (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/04/nfl-games-chiefs-cowboys-thanksgiving-record

NFL shatters Thanksgiving Day viewership records
The nail-biter between the Dallas Cowboys and the Kansas City Chiefs is now the most-watched regular season game of all time.

Cowboys DE Marshawn Kneeland died Thursday, team announces https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6783787/2025/11/06/marshawn-kneeland-dead-cowboys/

Falcons 'highly likely' to start Kirk Cousins vs. Dolphins due to Michael Penix Jr. injury, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/falcons

Google withdraws its 2024 EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft over Azure licensing, after the EU launched a probe into Azure and AWS under the DMA (Edith Hancock/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-withdraws-

International Federation of Robotics: Chinese factories installed ~300K new robots in 2024, more than the rest of the world combined; US factories installed 34K (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/business/ch…

There Are More Robots Working in China Than the Rest of the World Combined
China has embarked on a campaign to use more robots in its factories, transforming its manufacturing industries and becoming the dominant maker.

Q&A with Oura CEO Tom Hale on why many CEOs love its rings, competition from Apple, and more; Oura sold 2.5M rings in 2024 and expects $1B revenue in 2025 (Jordyn Holman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/business/oura-ring-tom-hale.html

Oura Heath’s C.E.O. Knows the Secret to Better Sleep
Oura Health makes a pricey smart ring that busy executives, celebrities and others use to track health measures like their sleep patterns. It expects $1 billion in sales this year.

A profile of Ant International, Ant Group's cross-border payments unit using AI and blockchain for treasury management, which handled $1.1T in cash flow in 2024 (Lulu Yilun Chen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20