Tootfinder

Pretty extreme @… forecast for this coming Tuesday 1 July, here in central the Netherlands (De Bilt).
A temperature of 35°C was only reached 7 times before (1901-2024) in July, all of those on 19 July or later.

Perplexity's head of advertising and shopping Taz Patel has left after nine months; its ad business reportedly generated only about $20,000 in Q4 2024 (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/perplexity-advertising-chief-taz-patel-departs/

EXCLUSIVE: Perplexity Ad Chief Taz Patel Departs
Perplexity’s push into advertising has so far brought in modest revenue as the company eyes new growth and faces mounting legal challenges

Analysis of the Pion Electromagnetic Form Factor with Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order QCD Corrections
Sheng-Quan Wang, Zuo-Fen Liao, Jian-Ming Shen, Hua Zhou, Jia-Wei Zhang, Jiang Yan, Xing-Gang Wu, Leonardo Di Giustino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20479

Analysis of the Pion Electromagnetic Form Factor with Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order QCD Corrections
NNLO QCD corrections for the pion electromagnetic form factor at large momentum transfer have been recently performed in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 201901 (2024); Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 221901 (2025)], revealing that the NLO and NNLO contributions are positive and sizeable. Unfortunately, these predictions have been obtained using the conventional scale-setting method and thus they are plagued by large renormalization scale ambiguities. In this paper, we analyze the pion electromagnetic form factor …

Mit Roger und dem Petermännle im Tonbachtal
https://www.nationalpark-schwarzwald.de/nationalpark/blog/2024/mit-roger-und-dem-petermaennle-im-tonbachtal

Deploying U.S. marines to Chicago isn’t just stupid and illegal.
20 years later, the Marine Corps can still learn from Fallujah https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2024/11/07/20-years-later…

20 years later, the Marine Corps can still learn from Fallujah
History provides lessons for the next urban fight, but it may be much worse.

LKA schließt offenbar russische Einflussnahme auf Weihnachtsmarkt-Anschlag aus
Das Landeskriminalamt (LKA) in Sachsen-Anhalt hat ausgeschlossen, dass der Magdeburger Weihnachtsmarktattentäter vom russischen Geheimdienst gesteuert wurde. Das berichtet der Spiegel unter Berufung auf einen Abschlussbericht der Behörde zu der Amokfahrt am 20. Dezember 2024 mit sechs Toten und mehr als 300 Verletzten her…
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Rechtsextreme Desinformation über Anschlag in Magdeburg
Nach dem Anschlag auf den Weihnachtsmarkt in Magdeburg haben Rechtsextreme in den sozialen Netzwerken zahlreiche Falschbehauptungen verbreitet. Auch internationale Akteure mischten dabei mit.

Outdoor nighttime light exposure - #LightPollution - is associated with Alzheimer’s disease: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2024.1378498/full -> Inquinamento luminoso e Alzheimer: https://www.media.inaf.it/2024/09/06/light-pollution-alzheimer/

Zwischen 2002 und 2024 haben Kontinente weltweit alarmierende Mengen an #Süßwasser verloren.
Betroffen sind 101 Länder mit 75 Prozent der #Weltbevölkerung. Auch in #Deutschland

Kontinente verlieren "alarmierende" Mengen Süßwasser
Eine neue Studie zeigt: Die Kontinente trocknen aus. Von 2002 bis 2024 haben sie riesige Mengen Süßwasser verloren. Betroffen sind 101 Länder, in denen 75 Prozent der Weltbevölkerung leben – darunter auch Deutschland und Europa.

Der Alte: Existenz (S46/E04) - 2024 - #ZDF #ARD
https://www.ardm…

Wow, 75% to 95% failure in under a year!
“Here’s the real reason 75% of corporate AI initiatives fail”
https://fortune.com/2024/10/01/real-reason-75-corporate-ai-initiatives-fail-leadership-tech/
October 2024
“Why 85% Of…

Here’s the real reason 75% of corporate AI initiatives fail
Adding AI to a business model of the past doesn’t lead to competitiveness—it simply solidifies old processes,' writes the author of The Humanchine.

How Hulk Hogan came to endorse Trump in 2024 (Alexandra Hutzler/ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hulk-hogan-endorse-trump-2024/story?id=124039602
http://www.memeorandum.com/250724/p107#a250724p107

Aaron Rodgers readies for likely last season with Pittsburgh Steelers: Top 10 moments of QB's legendary career

https://www.cbssports.com/…

Männerfeindliche Straftaten jenseits der linken, rechten, ausländischen oder religiösen Ideologie habe von 2023 bis 2024 um 300 Prozent (!) zugenommen.
(Vier Fälle statt zuvor einen!)
Quelle: Factsheet BKA zu politlisch motivierter Hasskriminalität.
https://www.

… found only 8% of articles in 2023 shared ANY Open data, consistent with previous reports for psychiatry and psychology research.
In our bioscience sample that year, only 8% of articles shared no Open data. Many factors underlying this difference, of course.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjment-2024-301333
👇 CMHN is our analysis of articles from researchers in the MRC-funded "Circadian and Mental Health Network". 3/3

These: "Mähroboter töten Igel"
Der Verein "Pro Igel e.V." hat dazu dies:
"Im Zeitraum September 2021 bis September 2024 hat das Leibniz-Institut für Zoo- und Wildtierforschung (Leibniz-IZW) anhand von 370 deutschlandweit gemeldeten Einzelfällen verletzter Tiere festgestellt, dass knapp die Hälfte die Verletzung durch Mähroboter oder Freischneider nicht überlebt hat."
Dieser seltsam konstruierte Satz verdeckt nur notdürftig: Die haben eigentlich…

"World’s largest banks pledged $869bn to fossil fuel firms in 2024, new report finds"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

Ende des Liveblogs
Wir schließen an dieser Stelle den Liveblog für Mittwoch und danken für Ihr Interesse.
📑 https://www.tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveblog-ukraine-mittwoch-524.html?at_medium=mast…

Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ 100.000 Ukrainer ohne Strom ++
Nach russischen Angriffen auf Energieanlagen sind in drei ukrainischen Regionen etwa 100.000 Menschen ohne Strom. Die Bundesregierung hat 2024 Rüstungsexporte im Wert von 8,15 Milliarden Euro an Kiew genehmigt.

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

Right-wing Americans have done much to fund cultural products that are not necessarily political but have deep political undertones.
Over the decades, Republicans have invested billions of dollars in selling their larger values and political brand while Democrats seem to think that a barrage of easily ignored video ads can counteract it.
This is a serious issue for Democrats because Donald Trump's 2024 election victory was largely thanks to people who had never voted before …

from my link log —
Thoughts on hashing in Rust.
https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/thoughts-on-rust-hashing/
saved 2024-12-13

Thoughts on Rust hashing
In languages like Python, Java, or C++, values are hashed by calling a “hash me” method on them, implemented by the type author. This fixed-hash size is then immediately used by the hash table or what have you. This design suffers from some obvious problems, like: How do you hash an integer? If you use a no-op hasher (booo), DoS attacks on hash tables are inevitable. If you hash it thoroughly, consumers that only cache hashes to optimize equality checks lose out of performance.

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.

Roadblocks and Opportunities in Quantum Algorithms -- Insights from the National Quantum Initiative Joint Algorithms Workshop, May 20--22, 2024
Eliot Kapit, Peter Love, Jeffrey Larson, Andrew Sornborger, Eleanor Crane, Alexander Schuckert, Teague Tomesh, Frederic Chong, Sabre Kais
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13973

Roadblocks and Opportunities in Quantum Algorithms -- Insights from the National Quantum Initiative Joint Algorithms Workshop, May 20--22, 2024
The National Quantum Initiative Joint Algorithms Workshop brought together researchers across academia, national laboratories, and industry to assess the current landscape of quantum algorithms and discuss roadblocks to progress. The workshop featured discussions on emerging algorithmic techniques, resource constraints in near-term hardware, and opportunities for co-design across software and systems. Presented here are seven topics from the workshop, each highlighting a critical challenge or p…

YouTube releases its 2024 US Impact Report, which says YouTube's creative ecosystem contributed $55B to US GDP in 2024 and supported 490K full-time jobs (Alexandra Veitch/YouTube Official Blog)
https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/2024-us-youtube-impact-re…

2024 U.S. YouTube Impact Report
Learn how YouTube empowers creators and fuels the US economy. Our new report highlights a $55B US GDP contribution and 490K jobs supported, showcasing two decades of shared growth and creator success.

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…

How Surprised Was Brock Bowers That the Raiders Drafted Him? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/how-surprised-brock-bowers-that-las-vegas-drafted-him-2024-draft

Cowboys’ Dak Prescott Turns Heads at Camp After Injury https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/dak-prescott-turns-heads-camp-after-injury/?adt_ei=[email]

Digging My Way Out
#NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2024/digging-my-way-out-nowplaying/

Digging My Way Out #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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 …

Variations of the Ca II K Line Profile Parameters with Solar Latitude and Time Observed from Kodaikanal Solar Observatory
Apoorva Srinivasa (Department of Physics, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, India), Anu Sreedevi (Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology), K P Raju (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, India), K Nagaraju (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, India), Jagdev Singh (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, India), Narayanankutt…

Variations of the Ca II K Line Profile Parameters with Solar Latitude and Time Observed from Kodaikanal Solar Observatory
The Calcium-K line profiles as functions of solar latitude and time were obtained through our observations from the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory using the solar tunnel telescope and spectrograph with a CCD detector. Observations were conducted on all days with favourable sky conditions. We analysed the data collected over a period of about ten years to study the variations in the Ca II K line profiles recorded between 2015 and 2024, of which 709 days of data were found useful. The temporal and …

🇺🇦 #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

The Value of Finance Journals
Douglas Cumming
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14301 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14301

The Value of Finance Journals
I present data from SCImago, 1999-2024, on factors that affect the valuation of finance journals. The SCImago data show some interesting facts; for example, in 2024, Finance Research Letters, valued at \$16.5 million, was four times more valuable than the Journal of Financial Economics (\$4.1m), five times more valuable than the Review of Financial Studies (\$3.3m), and over seven times more valuable than the Journal of Finance (\$2.3m). The data show that quality, as proxied by citations, posi…

ResPlan: A Large-Scale Vector-Graph Dataset of 17,000 Residential Floor Plans
Mohamed Abouagour, Eleftherios Garyfallidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14006 https://

ResPlan: A Large-Scale Vector-Graph Dataset of 17,000 Residential Floor Plans
We introduce ResPlan, a large-scale dataset of 17,000 detailed, structurally rich, and realistic residential floor plans, created to advance spatial AI research. Each plan includes precise annotations of architectural elements (walls, doors, windows, balconies) and functional spaces (such as kitchens, bedrooms, and bathrooms). ResPlan addresses key limitations of existing datasets such as RPLAN (Wu et al., 2019) and MSD (van Engelenburg et al., 2024) by offering enhanced visual fidelity and gre…

"Guest post: Why 2024’s global temperatures were unprecedented, but not surprising"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Guest post: Why 2024’s global temperatures were unprecedented, but not surprising - Carbon Brief
Human-caused greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2024 continued to drive global warming to record levels.

Autism and anarchy: The importance of autistic anarchism
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/04/10/autism-and-anarchy-the-importance-of-autistic-anarchism/

Amazon's 2024 sustainability report says it emitted 68.25M metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, up 6% from 2023 and the first rise in three years (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-16/a…

Amazon’s (AMZN) Carbon Emissions Climbed 6% in 2024 on Data Center Buildout
Amazon.com Inc.’s carbon emissions rose for the first time in three years in 2024, driven by data center construction and fuel consumption by its delivery providers.

To the genocide-loving German from mastodon.social who reported @… for being antisemitic:
Fuck you, you genocide-loving piece of shit, opposing genocide isn’t antisemitism. What you’re doing – conflating being anti-genocide with being antisemitic – is the greatest antisemitism as you’re de facto stating that all Jews are pro-genocide.

Der MDR verlässt X/Twitter, aber nicht, weil es damit ein Problem gäbe, sondern weil es bei Meta und LinkedIn mehr Reichweite gibt.
Bitter, denn mind. Meta (Insta, FB, Threads) ist ja ähnlich schlimm.

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
Abstract Editors note: For easy download the posted pdf of the State of the Climate in 2024 is a low-resolution file. A high-resolution copy of the report is available by clicking here. Please be patient as it may take a few minutes for the high-resolution file to download.

Keine Hilfe geleistet - Todeslenker beschwerte sich über 600 Euro Strafe #News #Nachrichten

Jag vidhåller att det mest anmärkningsvärda med Säpos hantering är att Le Monde har en världsomspännande publicering om hur Bidens och Macrons livvakter läcker position via Strava i oktober 2024. I juni 2025 fortsätter svenska livvakter läcka *på exakt samma sätt*.

1) Det är anmärkningsvärt att inte upptäcka den här läckan på 7-9 år, trots att risken är känd, men…

2) Att inte agera när Le Monde publicerar en världsomspännande nyhet som exakt avslöjar metoden som läckan sker på…

👯‍♂️ 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

Stochastic heat flow is a black noise
Yu Gu, Li-Cheng Tsai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16484 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.16484

Stochastic heat flow is a black noise
We prove that the stochastic heat flow Caravenna Sun Zygouras (2023), Tsai (2024) is a black noise in the sense of Tsirelson (2004). As a corollary, the 2d stochastic heat equation driven by a mollified spacetime white noise becomes asymptotically independent of that noise in the scaling limit.

Doublespeak, hypocrisy, and shameless lying are requirements to be a Republican these days.
#uspol #GOP #TrumpFascist

@… Sigh. Non-tech people always lean towards the old tech. Like REALLY old, about to hit 30 years, that’s USB-A. It’s been 10 years since USB-C already.
I think the logic of what “loads of people have” is fine except they were coping just fine 1997-2024 with NO ports at all, zero USB options were available
So if you’re building something in 2025…

Longitudinal review of portfolios with minimum variance approach before during and after the pandemic
Genjis A. Ossa, Luis H. Restrepo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15111 https://

Longitudinal review of portfolios with minimum variance approach before during and after the pandemic
This study investigates the impact of the pandemic on the most traded stocks in the Colombian stock market for the date of January 17, 2024. Based on the daily data of the most traded companies in Colombia for said date and covering a period general from 2015 to 2023, in a summarized way our analysis reveals that in the period 2015-2019, the return reached 5.70%, with a relatively low risk of 18.45%. However, in the following period 2016 -2020, although the yield decreased to 5.40%, the risk ex…

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…

A London judge rules that HPE lost ~£730M after acquiring Mike Lynch's Autonomy, after a 2022 fraud finding against Lynch, who died in 2024; HPE was seeking $4B (Jonathan Browning/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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

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.

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…

Programming tonight’s episode of @… radio and stumbled on our most recent 3–hour #Drone #Accordion special episode from last fall
That’ll keep me going through…

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-10-30: Electronic, Experimental & Drone Show IV: Night of the Restless
So… our podcast schedule got disrupted by the Internet Archive hack late last year, and we never quite got caught up. But we can get closer. Here, today, I can share with you our incredible e…

Symmetry-breaking motility of an active hinge in a crowded channel
Leonardo Garibaldi Rigon, Yongjoo Baek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16722 https://

Symmetry-breaking motility of an active hinge in a crowded channel
A recent experiment [Son et al., Soft Matter, 2024, 20,2777-2788] showed that self-propelled particles confined within a circular boundary filled with granular medium spontaneously form a motile cluster that stays on the boundary. This cluster exhibits persistent (counter)clockwise motion driven by symmetry breaking, which arises from a positive feedback between the asymmetry of the cluster and those of the surrounding granular medium. To investigate this symmetry-breaking mechanism in broader …

Any suggestions OTHER than upgrading to AlmaLinux 9 to fix these kind of issues with ansible? Ansible server is Alma 10, but I have a few v8 boxes and mostly v9. "FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Could not import the dnf python module using /usr/bin/python3.9 (3.9.20 (main, Oct 23 2024, 09:34:14) [GCC 8.5.0 20210514 (Red Hat 8.5.0-22)]). Please install `python3-dnf` package or ensure you have specified the correct ansible_python_interpreter. " ?? …

Mixed phases in a Fermi--Hubbard model describing altermagnetism
E. Langmann, J. Lenells
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16503 https://arx…

Mixed phases in a Fermi--Hubbard model describing altermagnetism
We study an extension of the 2D Fermi--Hubbard model, which was recently introduced in [Das et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 263402 (2024)] and shown to describe altermagnetism that can be studied in cold atom systems. Using an updated Hartree--Fock method that can detect instabilities towards phase separation, we show that the model is in a mixed phase in large parts of the parameter regime at half-filling. We argue that the occurrence of a mixed phase is an indication of exotic physics which, in…

I'm all for electrification of energy demand, e.g. for cars, home heating, and industrial processes.
But we shouldn't be betting the climate on it alone. The share of electricity in global final energy consumption reached 20% in 2023, up from 18% in 2015 (IEA, 2024):
https://www.iea.o…

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

This week is building up to a crescendo of critical cybersecurity developments, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the top infosec news stories you should know, including
--CISA nominee Plankey pulled from Senate confirmation hearing,
--The Com has been hacking Salesforce tools,
--Chinese hackers broke into US telecoms in 2023,
--Law enforcement busts up BidenCash,
--China issues warrants for 20 alleged Taiwanese hackers,
--Feds are probing CrowdS…

CISA nominee Plankey pulled from Senate confirmation hearing
The Com has been hacking Salesforce tools, Chinese hackers broke into US telecoms in 2023, Law enforcement busts up BidenCash, China issues warrants for 20 alleged Taiwanese hackers, Feds are probing CrowdStrike's 2024 outage, Reddit sues Anthropic for scraping comments, much more

Zwischen 2018 und 2024 starben in #Berlin jährlich durchschnittlich 205 Menschen infolge von #Hitze.
In diesem Zeitraum wurden im Schnitt 21 sogenannte #Hitzetage pro Jahr gezählt, an denen die Tem…

Hitzeschutz Berlin - Berlin.de

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

Next Generation #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Counter-example to Conjectures on Complemented Zero-Divisor Graphs of Semigroups
Anagha Khiste, Ganesh Tarte, Vinayak Joshi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16919

Counter-example to Conjectures on Complemented Zero-Divisor Graphs of Semigroups
In this paper, we are motivated by two conjectures proposed by C. Bender et al.\ in 2024, which have remained open questions. The first conjecture states that if the complemented zero-divisor graph \( G(S) \) of a commutative semigroup \( S \) with a zero element has the clique number three or greater, then the reduced graph \( G_r(S) \) is isomorphic to the graph \( G(\mathcal{P}(n)) \). The second conjecture asserts that if \( G(S) \) is a complemented zero-divisor graph with the clique numbe…

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…

UK filings: TikTok's revenue in the UK, Europe, and Latin America grew 38% YoY to $6.3B in 2024, up from $2.6B in 2022 (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2025/08/22/tiktok-booms-in-europe-despite-threat-of-us-ban/…

TikTok Booms In Europe Despite Threat Of U.S. Ban
Revenue from Chinese giant ByteDance’s short video app leapt up 38% to $6.3 billion last year in Europe even as it faces the threat of being banned in the United States.

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...

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-…

Entdeckt in der ARD Mediathek
@… : Was bleibt https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/Y3JpZDovL2Rhc2Vyc3RlLmRlL3RhdG9ydF8yMDI0LTAxLT…

Generative AI enterprise search startup Glean raises a $150M Series F led by Wellington Management, bringing its valuation to $7.2B, up from $4.6B in Sept. 2024 (Afshan Musani/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/10/glean-gen-ai…

Glean, gen AI enterprise search startup, raises $150 million in deal adding billions to valuation
Glean, a generative AI enterprise search startup, raised $150 million from investors in a deal that increased its valuation to over $7 billion.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02976 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_…

Deep Learning for Retinal Degeneration Assessment: A Comprehensive Analysis of the MARIO AMD Progression Challenge
The MARIO challenge, held at MICCAI 2024, focused on advancing the automated detection and monitoring of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) through the analysis of optical coherence tomography (OCT) images. Designed to evaluate algorithmic performance in detecting neovascular activity changes within AMD, the challenge incorporated unique multi-modal datasets. The primary dataset, sourced from Brest, France, was used by participating teams to train and test their models. The final ranking wa…

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…

"104 companies linked to 20% of global environmental conflicts, study finds"
#Business #Environment

104 companies linked to 20% of global environmental conflicts, study finds
A recent study has found that just 104 companies, mostly multinational corporations from high-income countries, are involved in a fifth of the more than 3,000 environmental conflicts it analyzed. The study examined 3,388 conflicts, involving 5,589 companies, recorded in the Global Atlas of Environmental Justice (EJAtlas) as of October 2024. The atlas is the world’s […]

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

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."

Amazon expands its Now service in India to New Delhi, offering deliveries in as little as 10 minutes, after launching the service in Bengaluru in December 2024 (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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…

from my link log —
Critical analysis of the Meshtastic protocol.
https://www.disk91.com/2024/technology/lora/critical-analysis-of-the-meshtastic-protocol/
saved 2025-06-16

Critical Analysis of the Meshtastic Protocol - disk91.com - the IoT blog
Analysis of the Mestastic LoRa mesh solution in details, what's good and wrong with that communication solution.

Who was the Greater Lansing boys high school coach of year in 2024-25? https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/sports/high-school/2025/07/07/vote-greater-lansing-boys-coach-year-2024-25/84448877007/

Interview with Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak on Apple's struggles to ship AI features, demoed in 2024, with the "V1 Siri architecture" and work on a V2 model (Lance Ulanoff/TechRadar)
https://www.techra…

This is what really happened with Siri and Apple Intelligence, according to Apple
Is it a delay, a strategy... or something else?

Giants TE Theo Johnson was in his 'groove' before season-ending injury, feels 'huge difference' in Year 2 https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-te-theo-johnson-was-in-his-groove-before-season-ending-…

"Banks bet big on fossil fuels, boosting financing in 2024, report finds"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

Banks bet big on fossil fuels, boosting financing in 2024, report finds
Financing for the fossil fuel sector from the world’s largest banks surged in 2024 to $869 billion, according to a recent report by the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and other environmental groups. That figure represents an increase of nearly 23% compared to 2023. The $162.5 billion increase channeled to companies doing business in fossil fuels […]

from my link log —
What is systems programming, really?
https://willcrichton.net/notes/systems-programming/
saved 2024-10-10

Die Bürger Energie Genossenschaft – Freisinger Land blickt auf ein erfolgreiches Jahr zurück.
2024 gingen drei neue Bürger-#Solaranlagen ans Netz, das Bürger-#Windrad #Kammerberg produzier…

Lokale Energiewende in Bürgerhand - Energiegenossenschaft zufrieden mit Jahresbilanz
Sehr zufrieden sind die Vorstände der Bürger Energie Genossenschaft – Freisinger Land (BEG-FS) mit ihrer Bilanz zum Jahr 2024. Nur eine Zahl lag unter den Prognosen.

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 —
Booleans are a trap.
https://katafrakt.me/2024/11/09/booleans-are-a-trap/
saved 2025-06-30 https://

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

CrowdStrike: Chinese hacking attacks on US targets were up 2x from 2024 to 330 incidents in 2025; US officials say China has shifted to "hacking-for-hire" (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/16/china-hackin…

China’s cyber sector amplifies Beijing’s hacking of U.S. targets
Chinese-government hacking attacks against US targets are more serious than ever before, current and former officials said in interviews.

Documents: since mid-December 2024, YouTube told moderators to prioritize "freedom of expression" over potential harm, exempting political and culture videos (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/technology/youtube-video…

YouTube Loosens Video Content Moderation Rules
The world’s largest video platform has told content moderators to favor “freedom of expression” over the risk of harm in deciding what to take down.

Bitcoin reached a new all-time high of over $121K, up about 30% since December 2024, after more than doubling in value in 2024 (Kirk Ogunrinde/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-14/bitcoin-hits-record-h…

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.

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

Bilt Rewards, which offers rewards points for rent payments, raised $250M led by General Catalyst and GID at a $10.75B valuation, up from $3.1B in January 2024 (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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…

Defense tech startup Anduril raised a $2.5B Series G led by Founders Fund, which invested $1B, at a $30.5B valuation, up from $14B in August 2024 (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A live blog of WWDC, where OS redesigns, new naming conventions, and more are expected, after failing to deliver on Apple Intelligence, unveiled at WWDC 2024 (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/681646/apple-wwdc-2025-news-rumors-ios-26…

WWDC 2025: all the news from Apple’s annual developer conference
Apple faces some unusually high stakes at this year’s WWDC.

Tesla sues ex-Optimus engineer Zhongjie Li, who worked at Tesla from 2022 to 2024, accusing him of stealing humanoid robot info and setting up a rival startup (Dana Hull/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Nominal, which makes industrial design software for space, energy, and defense tech, raised $75M led by Sequoia, after raising $27M in April 2024 (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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: In 2024, Apple explored a cloud service renting its own chips to developers; it spends ~$7B per year on renting Nvidia chips from AWS and Google (Aaron Tilley/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-explored…

Apple Explored Launching a Cloud Service for Developers
Apple over the past few years considered launching a business renting out its servers to the millions of developers that create apps for the iPhone and Mac, in what would be a hugely ambitious move that would pit it against Amazon, Microsoft and Google. The idea discussed was for Apple to rent ...

The EU Commission fines European takeaway groups Delivery Hero and Glovo €329M for taking part in an "online food delivery cartel", closing a July 2024 probe (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b0f37773-e68b-4c31-a7d5-b6ce8b9542d8…

EU fines Delivery Hero and Glovo €329mn for takeaway ‘cartel’
European Commission says European food delivery groups shared trade secrets