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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.

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.

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

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.

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...

Big if true
"Kamala Harris won the U.S elections: Bombshell report claims voting machines were tampered with before 2024"
https://economictimes.indiatim…

Kamala Harris won the U.S elections: Bombshell report claims voting machines were tampered with before 202
Kamala Harris election tampering story raises new questions about the 2024 U.S. presidential election outcome. A quiet but major change to voting machines by Pro V&V—used in over 40% of U.S. counties—was never publicly reviewed or disclosed. Watchdog group SMART Elections flagged suspicious updates, missing votes, and statistical anomalies suggesting potential vote tampering. Now, a lawsuit is moving forward, challenging whether Kamala Harris may have actually won.

Asymptotic behaviors of fractional binomial distributions derived from the generalized binomial theorem
Masanori Hino, Ryuya Namba
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10438

Asymptotic behaviors of fractional binomial distributions derived from the generalized binomial theorem
A fractional binomial distribution, introduced by Hino and Namba (2024) via the generalized binomial theorem, is a fractional variant of the classical binomial distribution. Building upon previous work that established limit theorems, such as the weak law of large numbers and the central limit theorem, for fractional binomial distributions, this paper further investigates their asymptotic behaviors. Specifically, we derive the large and moderate deviation principles and a Berry--Esseen type est…

Description and Discussion on DCASE 2025 Challenge Task 2: First-shot Unsupervised Anomalous Sound Detection for Machine Condition Monitoring
Tomoya Nishida, Noboru Harada, Daisuke Niizumi, Davide Albertini, Roberto Sannino, Simone Pradolini, Filippo Augusti, Keisuke Imoto, Kota Dohi, Harsh Purohit, Takashi Endo, Yohei Kawaguchi
https://

Description and Discussion on DCASE 2025 Challenge Task 2: First-shot Unsupervised Anomalous Sound Detection for Machine Condition Monitoring
This paper introduces the task description for the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) 2025 Challenge Task 2, titled "First-shot unsupervised anomalous sound detection (ASD) for machine condition monitoring." Building on the DCASE 2024 Challenge Task 2, this task is structured as a first-shot problem within a domain generalization framework. The primary objective of the first-shot approach is to facilitate the rapid deployment of ASD systems for new machine types …

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. " ?? …

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?

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

Digging My Way Out #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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…

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…

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

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

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.

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

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

Search for cosmic rays in GRANDProto300
Jolan Lavoisier (for the GRAND Collaboration), Xishui Tian (for the GRAND Collaboration), Kumiko Kotera (for the GRAND Collaboration), Takashi Sako (for the GRAND Collaboration), Hanrui Wang (for the GRAND Collaboration), Mauricio Bustamante (for the GRAND Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/…

Search for cosmic rays in GRANDProto300
GRANDProto300 (GP300) is a prototype array of the GRAND experiment, designed to validate the technique of autonomous radio-detection of astroparticles by detecting cosmic rays with energies between 10$^{17}$-10$^{18.5}$ eV. This observation will further enable the study of the Galactic-to-extragalactic source transition region. Since November 2024, 46 out of 300 antennas have been operational and collecting data stably. We present our cosmic-ray search pipeline, which involves several filtering…

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/

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.

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."

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.

"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 […]

Refugees' path to legal stability is long and systematically unequal
Ola Ali, Elma Dervic, Guillermo Prieto-Viertel, Carsten K\"allner, Rainer St\"utz, Andrea Vismara, Rafael Prieto-Curiel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07916

Refugees' path to legal stability is long and systematically unequal
Legal systems shape not only the recognition of migrants and refugees but also the pace and stability of their integration. Refugees often shift between multiple legal classifications, a process we refer to as the "legal journey". This journey is frequently prolonged and uncertain. Using a network-based approach, we analyze legal transitions for over 350,000 migrants in Austria (2022 to 2024). Refugees face highly unequal pathways to stability, ranging from two months for Ukrainians to nine mon…

Cybersicherheit im Gesundheitswesen erreicht eine neue, erschreckende Dimension: Der Angriff auf den britischen Pathologiedienstleister Synnovis hat nachweislich zum Tod eines Patienten geführt.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10463860?wt_mc=sm.re…

"There was a recent 2024 study that showed us that individuals who survive an acute COVID-19 infection (...) on average will lose somewhere in the neighbourhood of two to six IQ points per infection."
"although your immune system can take on [a COVID] infection, you want to avoid testing it as much as possible because your body is sustaining damage with each infection that it survives."
Seriously, wear a mask 😷 .

Beyond long COVID — how reinfections could be causing silent long-term organ damage | CBC Radio
Scientific evidence is painting an unsettling picture: COVID infections, even if mild or asymptomatic, may be causing long-term cellular and organ damage, as well as increasing your risk of developing long COVID.

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…

Ex-Raiders GM reveals which QBs the team wanted in 2024 NFL draft https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/ex-raiders-gm-reveals-which-qbs-the-team-wanted-in-2024-nfl-draft-3381813/

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…

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-…

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

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

Analysis of cost-efficiency of serverless approaches
Nakhat Syeda, Harsh Shah, Rajvinder Singh, Suraj Jaju, Sumedha Kumar, Gourav Chhabra, Maria Spichkova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05836

Analysis of cost-efficiency of serverless approaches
In this paper, we present a survey of research studies related to the cost-effectiveness of serverless approach and corresponding cost savings. We conducted a systematic literature review using Google Scholar search engine, covering the period from 2010 to 2024. We identified 34 related studies, from which we extracted 17 parameters that might influence the relative cost savings of applying the serverless approach.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09487 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_nli…

The N-species integrable Volterra system as a maximally superintegrable Hamiltonian system
The results presented in this paper are a natural development of those described in the paper {\it The Volterra Integrable case. Novel analytical and numerical results} (OCNMP Vol.4 (2024) pp 188-211), where the authors reconsidered the integrable case of the Hamiltonian $N$-species Lotka-Volterra system, introduced by Vito Volterra in 1937. There, an alternative approach for constructing the integrals of motion has been proposed, and compared with the old Volterra approach. Here we go beyond, …

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.

Eigenvalue bounds for preconditioned symmetric multiple saddle-point matrices
L. Bergamaschi, A. Martinez, J. W. Pearson, A. Potschka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02816

Eigenvalue bounds for preconditioned symmetric multiple saddle-point matrices
We develop eigenvalue bounds for symmetric, block tridiagonal multiple saddle-point linear systems, preconditioned with block diagonal matrices. We extend known results for $3 \times 3$ block systems [Bradley and Greif, IMA J.\ Numer. Anal. 43 (2023)] and for $4 \times 4$ systems [Pearson and Potschka, IMA J. Numer. Anal. 44 (2024)] to an arbitrary number of blocks. Moreover, our results generalize the bounds in [Sogn and Zulehner, IMA J. Numer. Anal. 39 (2018)], developed for an arbitrary numb…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03074 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_sta…

GL-LowPopArt: A Nearly Instance-Wise Minimax Estimator for Generalized Low-Rank Trace Regression
We present `GL-LowPopArt`, a novel Catoni-style estimator for generalized low-rank trace regression. Building on `LowPopArt` (Jang et al., 2024), it employs a two-stage approach: nuclear norm regularization followed by matrix Catoni estimation. We establish state-of-the-art estimation error bounds, surpassing existing guarantees (Fan et al., 2019; Kang et al., 2022), and reveal a novel experimental design objective, $\mathrm{GL}(π)$. The key technical challenge is controlling bias from the non…

July 13, 2024: How Trump's near miss coincided with Biden's last stand (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/01/trump-biden-assassination-attempt-butler/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p50#a250701p50

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

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

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

"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 […]

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Am 10. Juli, 13:30 Uhr stellen Moritz Mutter (VÖBB) und Tillmann Scheel (ASK) den neuen KI-Chatbot des VÖBB vor.
Er erleichtert die Katalogrecherche und empfiehlt Medien – auch bei vagen Anfragen.
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from my link log —
Booleans are a trap.
https://katafrakt.me/2024/11/09/booleans-are-a-trap/
saved 2025-06-30 https://

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

Die einen sagen so, die anderen sagen so.

Generative Exaggeration in LLM Social Agents: Consistency, Bias, and Toxicity
Jacopo Nudo, Mario Edoardo Pandolfo, Edoardo Loru, Mattia Samory, Matteo Cinelli, Walter Quattrociocchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00657

Generative Exaggeration in LLM Social Agents: Consistency, Bias, and Toxicity
We investigate how Large Language Models (LLMs) behave when simulating political discourse on social media. Leveraging 21 million interactions on X during the 2024 U.S. presidential election, we construct LLM agents based on 1,186 real users, prompting them to reply to politically salient tweets under controlled conditions. Agents are initialized either with minimal ideological cues (Zero Shot) or recent tweet history (Few Shot), allowing one-to-one comparisons with human replies. We evaluate t…

"Wie Atombombenexplosion": Warnung vor möglichem Asteroideneinschlag in den Mond
Der Asteroid 2024 YR₄ ist für uns keine direkte Gefahr mehr, den Mond könnte er noch treffen. Forscher haben ermittelt, was das für die Erde bedeuten würde.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Wire:
🎵 So & Slow It Grows (2024)
#Wire
https://open.spotify.com/track/2tF3jxdva0Pidv106mC4B2

F&O Expiry vs. First-Day SIPs: A 22-Year Analysis of Timing Advantages in India's Nifty 50
Siddharth Gavhale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04859 https…

F&O Expiry vs. First-Day SIPs: A 22-Year Analysis of Timing Advantages in India's Nifty 50
This study presents a comparative analysis of Systematic Investment Plan (SIP) performance in India's Nifty 50 index over a 22-year period (2003--2024), focusing on the timing of investments -- specifically, the first trading day (FTD) of each month versus the monthly expiry day of Futures and Options (EXP). The research establishes, through mathematical validation, that SIP returns are independent of the invested amount. Leveraging historical index data, the study finds that SIPs timed on F\&O…

Prediction of the SVOM MXT camera end of life spectral performance based onproton irradiation results
Clara Plasse, Diego G\"otz, Aline Meuris, Miguel Fernandez Moita, Philippe Ferrando, Leo Favier, Francesco Ceraudo
#toXiv_bot_toot

from my link log —
aa-56: an astronomical ephemeris calculator program.
http://www.moshier.net/aadoc.html
saved 2024-05-28 https://

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.

Tom Telesco Reveals if Raiders Had Plans to Draft Michael Penix in 2024 https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/tom-telesco-michael-penix-rumors/?adt_ei=[email]

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…

Pro-Ukraine hacker group Black Owl poses ‘major threat’ to Russia, Kaspersky says https://therecord.media/pro-ukraine-hacker-group-black-owl-major-threat-russia

12) Who needs to take a bigger leap https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/12-who-needs-to-take-a-bigger-leap-guyton-or-mazi

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24586 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

All-sky search for individual Primordial Black Hole bursts with LHAASO
Primordial Black Holes~(PBHs) are hypothetical black holes with a wide range of masses that formed in the early universe. As a result, they may play an important cosmological role and provide a unique probe of the early universe. A PBH with an initial mass of approximately $10^{15}$~g is expected to explode today in a final burst of Hawking radiation. In this work, we conduct an all-sky search for individual PBH burst events using the data collected from March 2021 to July 2024 by the Water Che…

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.

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

https://www.cbssports.com/…

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

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.

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.

@… 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…

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…

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

Offensive centerpiece named Cowboys 'most promising building block' in 2025 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/offensive-centerpiece-dallas-cowboys-most-promising-building-block

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

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 …

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…

"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.

How Will the Raiders Perform Against the AFC West? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-kansas-city-chiefs-bo-nix-denver-broncos

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…

Paper Of Record delves into how unchecked global warming #climate chaos created catastrophic conditions for deadly #floods in #TX. The #GuadalupeRiver

As the World Warms, Extreme Rain Is Becoming Even More Extreme
Even in places, like Central Texas, with a long history of floods, human-caused warming is creating the conditions for more frequent and severe deluges.

Estonia issues arrest warrant for Moroccan wanted for major pharmacy data breach https://therecord.media/estonia-arrest-warrant-pharmacy-data-breach

12) Who needs to take a bigger leap https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/12-who-needs-to-take-a-bigger-leap-guyton-or-mazi

Decadal Analysis of Delhi's Air Pollution Crisis: Unraveling the Contributors
Prachi Tewari, Shweta Jindal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.24087 https://

Decadal Analysis of Delhi's Air Pollution Crisis: Unraveling the Contributors
Recently, Delhi has become a chamber of bad air quality. This study explores the trends of probable contributors to Delhi's deteriorating air quality by analyzing data from 2014 to 2024 -- a period that has not been the central focus of previous research. The study aims to reassess the contributors in light of recent shifts. The consistently worsening air quality has forced the people of Delhi to adapt to an unhealthy environment. People breathing this polluted air are at great risk of developi…

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 ...

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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.

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.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Celia Cruz & Johnny Pacheco:
🎵 Cúcala
#CeliaCruz #JohnnyPacheco
https://celiacruz.bandcamp.com/track/c-cala-remastered-2024
https://open.spotify.com/track/5cenbJMA1mtYqtOqbUvoPr

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

Ball path curvature and in-game free throw shooting proficiency in the National Basketball Association
Ruoqian Zhu, Dave Love, Scott Powers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13779

Ball path curvature and in-game free throw shooting proficiency in the National Basketball Association
Basketball shooting coaches agree that smoother shooting motions are better, but there is less agreement about what "smooth" means quantitatively or what part of the shooting motion needs to be smooth. Using ball tracking data from the 2023-2024 National Basketball Association regular season, we explore the relationship between ball path curvature and free throw shooting performance. We fit Bézier curves to the ball tracking data in the sagittal plane and test different methods of calculating …

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

A whistleblower details Clothoff, an AI-powered nudify app that owns 10 similar services; Clothoff had 27M visitors in H1 2024 and produced 200K images daily (Spiegel Online)
https://www.spiegel.de/internationa…

Using AI to Humiliate Women: The Men Behind Deepfake Pornography
AI-generated naked images of real women is the business model behind Clothoff, a dubious "nudify" app that has millions of visitors. Now, a whistleblower has provided details of just how cynical the site's operators are.

from my link log —
Jujutsu (jj), a git compatible version control system.
https://tonyfinn.com/blog/jj/
saved 2024-10-20 https://dot…

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