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YouTube's creative ecosystem added over €7B to the EU's GDP in 2024 and supported 200K full-time equivalent jobs, according to advising firm Oxford Economics (David Wheeldon/YouTube Official Blog)
https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/2025-youtube-europe-impact-…

New report explores YouTube's growing impact in Europe
YouTube’s creative ecosystem added over €7B to the EU’s GDP in 2024, while supporting over 200,000 jobs.

2024 starben 446 Menschen bei #Fahrradunfällen in Deutschland – über acht pro Woche.
Die Gründe reichen von Unachtsamkeit bis zu Verkehrsverstößen. Manche wurden Opfer von #Straftaten, andere verunglückten durch eigenes Fehlverhalten oder unglückliche Umstände. Eine umfassende …

Tödliche Fahrradunfälle 2024 • Z+ Empfehlung: Ein lebloser Körper. Die Jacke seiner Frau erkennt er gleich.
Die Zahl der Fahrradtoten steigt, 446 Menschen starben 2024. Wen trifft es? Und wer ist schuld? Wir haben jeden einzelnen Unfall auf den Ort genau recherchiert.

LAT Media Group reports a net loss before taxes of $48.1M in 2024, up from $30M in 2023, with a $21.5M loss in H1 2025; 50% of revenue still came from print (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-america/los…

Los Angeles Times reveals $50m loss as it seeks $500m investment
The Los Angeles Times Media Group made a loss of almost $50m (£37m) in 2024, according to newly-published unaudited accounts.

Evolution of wartime discourse on Telegram: A comparative study of Ukrainian and Russian policymakers' communication before and after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine
Mykola Makhortykh, Aytalina Kulichkina, Kateryna Maikovska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11746

Evolution of wartime discourse on Telegram: A comparative study of Ukrainian and Russian policymakers' communication before and after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine
This study examines elite-driven political communication on Telegram during the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war, the first large-scale European war in the social media era. Using a unique dataset of Telegram public posts from Ukrainian and Russian policymakers (2019-2024), we analyze changes in communication volume, thematic content, and actor engagement following Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion. Our findings show a sharp increase in Telegram activity after the invasion, particularly among ruling…

The Adoption Paradox: A Comparative Analysis of Veterinary AI Adoption in China and the North America
Shumin Li, Xiaoyun Lai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11758 https://

The Adoption Paradox: A Comparative Analysis of Veterinary AI Adoption in China and the North America
This study compares the perception, adoption, and application of artificial intelligence (AI) among veterinary professionals in China and North America (NA), testing the hypothesis that adoption patterns are shaped by regional market and demographic factors. A descriptive, cross-sectional survey was conducted with 455 veterinary professionals in China between May and July 2025. The results were compared with published data from a 2024 survey of 3,968 veterinary professionals in the United State…

"However, by 2015, support for independence stood at 52% among those on the left, compared with just 24% among those on the right – a difference of 28 points... In our most recent survey in 2024, those on the left were 34 points more likely than those on the right to say that Scotland should become an independent country"
#ScottishIndependence

Scottish Social Attitudes | 25 years of devolution in Scotland | National Centre for Social Research
This briefing charts some of the key developments in Scottish public opinion since the advent of devolution.

“How is it possible that a peace proposal ignores the International Court of Justice’s July 2024 Advisory Opinion, which reiterated that Israel’s occupation is illegal and must end?
How can it fail to mention the Palestinian’s right to self-determination?
Why are Palestinians, who have a right under international law to armed struggle against an occupying power, expected to disarm while Israel, the illegally occupying force, is not?”
And many more good questions.

Trump’s Sham Peace Plan
There will be no peace in Gaza. Only the temporary absence of war.

Jag gör som @… och skriver under https://www.mittskifte.org/petitions/radda

Buccaneers QB Teddy Bridgewater suspended for high school football season after giving impermissible benefits

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/buccan…

from my link log —
Experience report: it will never work in theory.
https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/so/2024/03/10424425/1Ulj1Qa8tJ6
saved 2025-11-09

Hybrid GCN-GRU Model for Anomaly Detection in Cryptocurrency Transactions
Gyuyeon Na, Minjung Park, Hyeonjeong Cha, Soyoun Kim, Sunyoung Moon, Sua Lee, Jaeyoung Choi, Hyemin Lee, Sangmi Chai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07392

Hybrid GCN-GRU Model for Anomaly Detection in Cryptocurrency Transactions
Blockchain transaction networks are complex, with evolving temporal patterns and inter-node relationships. To detect illicit activities, we propose a hybrid GCN-GRU model that captures both structural and sequential features. Using real Bitcoin transaction data (2020-2024), our model achieved 0.9470 Accuracy and 0.9807 AUC-ROC, outperforming all baselines.

Cowboys bring back 2024 camp standout to bolster thin secondary https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/07/cowboys-julius-wood-safety-practice-squad/86572307007/

BPO giant Conduent confirms data breach impacts 10.5 million people
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bpo-giant-conduent-confirms-data-breach-impacts-105-million-people/

BPO giant Conduent confirms data breach impacts 10.5 million people
American business services giant Conduent has confirmed that a 2024 data breach has impacted over 10.5 million people, according to notifications filed with the US Attorney General's offices.

Clustering methods for Categorical Time Series and Sequences : A scoping review
Ottavio Khalifa, Viet-Thi Tran, Alan Balendran, Fran\c{c}ois Petit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07885

Clustering methods for Categorical Time Series and Sequences : A scoping review
Objective: To provide an overview of clustering methods for categorical time series (CTS), a data structure commonly found in epidemiology, sociology, biology, and marketing, and to support method selection in regards to data characteristics. Methods: We searched PubMed, Web of Science, and Google Scholar, from inception up to November 2024 to identify articles that propose and evaluate clustering techniques for CTS. Methods were classified according to three major families -- distance-based,…

Lagos-founded payments startup Moniepoint raised $90M at a $1B valuation, after raising $110M in October 2024, and says it processes $250B yearly transactions (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-21/visa-…

And a related issues - lowered speed limits work when well implemented. #VisionZero #SafeStreets
https://…

Brent Toderian (@brenttoderian.bsky.social)
IMPORTANT STUDY: “On average, the implementation of 30 km/h speed limits in European cities demonstrated a 23%, 37% & 38% reduction in road crashes, fatalities & injuries respectively. Lower speed limits also yielded environmental benefits.” https://www.nrso.ntua.gr/review-of-city-wide-30-kmh-speed-limit-benefits-in-europe-may-2024/

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.

We watched one episode of High Potential (2024), liked it a lot, and then saw at the end credits that it's based on the French HPI: Haut Potentiel Intellectuel (2021). So we watched episode 1 of THAT.
It's fascinating to note the differences. The plots are basically identical, so the differences are nuance.
https://www.

"Solar accounted for 70% of new global power capacity in 2024"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Solar accounted for 70% of new global power capacity in 2024
A new IEEE report shows solar dominated new generation in 2024, with 70% of added global capacity from PV and record installations in China and the United States.

Michael Badgley returns to Colts after 15-month recovery from torn hamstring https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/michael-badgley-returns-to-colts-after-15month-recovery-from-torn-hamstring

Heather Cox Richardson wrote on July 11, 2024
#Ivan #Raiklin, Trump’s
self-declared 👉“Secretary of Retribution”
has compiled a
💥“Deep State target list” 💥
of 350 people he wants to see arrested and punished for “treason”
The list includes Democratic and Republican elected officials,

July 11, 2024
Yesterday, Raw Story reported that Ivan Raiklin, Trump’s self-declared “Secretary of Retribution” has compiled a “Deep State target list” of 350 people he wants to see arrested and punished for “treason” if Trump is reelected.

USpol
Was just having a conversation with someone about how "50%" of the country voted for Trump and in reminding them it's way less took the time to look up the numbers. In 2024 Trump got 77.3 million votes in a country of 340.1 million people. That's 22.7% of the people. ~21.5% of the people are under age 18, so 263.6 million adults. Trump got the vote of 29.3% of them. Some of those adults aren't eligible to vote, but when discussing social dynamics, they matter just as much, as do kids... Even of the people who voted for Trump, many were not at all MAGA fanatics (even if they at minimum had a seriously warped worldview and dangerous politics of one kind or another).
The truth is, almost no president has ever had a huge popular mandate, because our society is engineered to let a minority political class retain most of the power while giving the illusion of influence to the masses.

Britain’s intelligence and military support to Israel since October 7, as well as the continued authorisation of components of F35 jets, “crosses the line into participation,” Mr Kennard added.
Forz Khan, the lawyer who represented the family of Jim Henderson, an aid worker with World Central Kitchen who was killed in April 2024, said it was ”highly likely that Sir Keir Starmer is guilty of genocide.”
'This is not complicity, this is participation' | Morning Star

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 04.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

Last year global temperatures were 1.6°C over the pre-industrial average, the first year to breach the 1.5° goal.
"One or two years that exceed 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level does not imply that the Paris Agreement has been breached. However, with the current rate of warming at more than 0.2°C per decade, the probability of breaching the 1.5°C target of the Paris Agreement within the 2030s is highly likely."

hm. i wonder what this may cause

Voting is under way in Georgia for two seats on the utilities regulatory commission. Current GOP members are totally in the pocket of the entities they're supposed to be regulating.
https://energyandpolicy.org/georgia-psc-in…

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:

Champagne, chauffeur privé… Jordan Bardella encore retoqué sur ses frais de campagne aux Européennes
https://www.linforme.com/medias-culture/article/champagne-chauffeur-prive-jordan-bardella-…

Champagne, chauffeur privé… Jordan Bardella encore retoqué sur ses frais de campagne aux Européennes
La justice a confirmé que le contribuable n’avait pas à rembourser une partie des dépenses de la tête de liste du Rassemblement national lors du scrutin de 2024. Plusieurs centaines de milliers d’euros de coûts « excessifs » ou « sans finalité électorale ».

This graph says it all: instead of starting to go down, the *annual increase* of atmospheric CO2 is setting new records. We're making climate change worse at a record rate.
Turning this around should be our top priority, and it's not.
From: https://www.

Met Office: Atmospheric CO2 rise now exceeding IPCC 1.5C pathways - Carbon Brief
The rate at which atmospheric CO2 is increasing is now outpacing the pathways set out...

HLTCOE at TREC 2024 NeuCLIR Track
Eugene Yang, Dawn Lawrie, Orion Weller, James Mayfield
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00143 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00143

HLTCOE at TREC 2024 NeuCLIR Track
The HLTCOE team applied PLAID, an mT5 reranker, GPT-4 reranker, score fusion, and document translation to the TREC 2024 NeuCLIR track. For PLAID we included a variety of models and training techniques -- Translate Distill (TD), Generate Distill (GD) and multi-lingual translate-distill (MTD). TD uses scores from the mT5 model over English MS MARCO query-document pairs to learn how to score query-document pairs where the documents are translated to match the CLIR setting. GD follows TD but uses p…

Bien que depuis des années mes enfants n'exigent plus une berceuse avant de se coucher, j'identifie tellement avec cette chanson. Elle reste hypnotique, même après que le saxo se met Š hurler.
Myriam Gendron, « Berceuse » (2024)
https://myriamgendron.bandcamp.com/track/berceu…

Filings: business services giant Conduent, which was spun off from Xerox in 2017, confirms that a 2024 data breach has impacted over 10.5M people (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/b…

Inspiring stories from women in astronomy in Africa
Priscilla Muheki, Mirjana Povi\'c, Somaya Saad, Salma Sylla Mbaye, in collaboration with Vanessa McBride, Naomi Asabre Frimpong, Meryem Guennoun, African Science Stars team
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05195

Inspiring stories from women in astronomy in Africa
In preparation for the International Astronomical Union (IAU) General Assembly (GA) 2024, the first GA held in Africa, the African Network of Women in Astronomy (AfNWA) embarked on a visionary project: the creation of an inspiring storytelling book that showcases the remarkable journeys of professional female astronomers in Africa. This book is not merely a collection of biographies; it is a tapestry of resilience, passion, and scientific excellence woven through the lives of women who have ven…

Ranking top 10 players from loaded 2024 NFL Draft class: Jayden Daniels or Drake Maye at No. 1? https://www.nfl.com/news/ranking-top-10-players-from-loaded-2024-nfl-draft-class-jayden-daniels-or-drake-maye-at-no-1

2024: Zum ersten Mal mehr Internet-Bots als Menschen. 37 % davon „Bad Bots“. Sie klauen Daten, manipulieren Preise, täuschen Klicks – und füttern das Netz mit KI-Schrott. Jörg Schieb warnt: Wir surfen durch eine Bot-Fata Morgana und nennen es Social Media. #BadBot #KI

Stirbt Social Media – oder ertrinkt es in KI-Müll? - Jörg Schieb | Digital und KI
Während wir darüber diskutieren, ob Social Media seinen Zenit überschritten hat, passiert im Hintergrund etwas viel Bedrohlicheres: Das Internet wird systematisch mit KI-generiertem Schrott geflutet.

A comprehensive write-up on post-quantum cryptography in today's web.
My favourite quote: "we are in an interesting in-between time, where almost all Internet traffic is protected by post-quantum key agreement, but not a single public post-quantum certificate is used."
https://blog.cloudflare.com/p…

When Does Tourism Raise Land Prices? Threshold Effects, Superstar Cities, and Policy Lessons from Japan
Mingzhi Xiao, Takara Sakai, Daisuke Murakami, Yuki Takayama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04307

When Does Tourism Raise Land Prices? Threshold Effects, Superstar Cities, and Policy Lessons from Japan
While tourism is widely regarded as a catalyst for economic and urban transformation, its effects on land prices remain contested. This study examines tourism and land prices using a panel of 1,724 Japanese municipalities from 2021 to 2024, with annual tourist arrivals as a proxy for tourism activity. Using mediation analysis and panel threshold regression, we show that sizable land price increases are concentrated in a small group of "superstar" cities, specifically those in the top 5.9 percen…

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-…

Clinical characteristics, complications and outcomes of critically ill patients with Dengue in Brazil, 2012-2024: a nationwide, multicentre cohort study
Igor Tona Peres, Otavio T. Ranzani, Leonardo S. L. Bastos, Silvio Hamacher, Tom Edinburgh, Esteban Garcia-Gallo, Fernando Augusto Bozza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18207

Clinical characteristics, complications and outcomes of critically ill patients with Dengue in Brazil, 2012-2024: a nationwide, multicentre cohort study
Background. Dengue outbreaks are a major public health issue, with Brazil reporting 71% of global cases in 2024. Purpose. This study aims to describe the profile of severe dengue patients admitted to Brazilian Intensive Care units (ICUs) (2012-2024), assess trends over time, describe new onset complications while in ICU and determine the risk factors at admission to develop complications during ICU stay. Methods. We performed a prospective study of dengue patients from 253 ICUs across 56 hospit…

Hitliste aus Vorjahr - Das waren 2024 die beliebtesten Babynamen #News #Nachrichten …

Field hockey at the new Martha Dodson Field out past the East Hill Plaza -- Cornell Beat Vermont 3-1 in front of the largest crowd I've ever seen at a field hockey game. In the center are № 8 Ashley Plzak of the Big Red and № 15 Sophia Lefranc of the Catamounts, who won the US East Conference in 2024
#photo

A November 2024 report from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) reflects staggering numbers:
There are an estimated 96 million #birders in the United States
—more than a third of U.S. adults
—who together spent more than $107 billion in 2022.
In total, that’s more money than the 2022 gross domestic product of New Hampshire (and 10 other U.S. states).

Wanna lose your money? Here's the #1 suckers & losers bets in Las Vegas:
❌ 6:5 Blackjack
❌ Triple-zero Roulette
❌ Mandatory sidebet tables
❌ Big Wheel anything
❌ Capped odds bets in craps
☑️ 2024 #Vegas DisAdvantage Awards | Worst #Gambling in

Detection of OH maser emission in the 71-year periodic comet 12P/Pons-Brooks using the 40-m Thai National Radio Telescope (TNRT)
Nobuyuki Sakai, Saran Poshyachinda, Koichiro Sugiyama, Wiphu Rujopakarn, Boonrucksar Soonthornthum, Apichat Leckngam, Busaba Kramer, Phrudth Jaroenjittichai, Bannawit Pimpanuwat, Dan Singwong, Kitipoom Kanjana, Nikom Prasert, Songklod Punyawarin, Spiro Sarris, Teep Chairin, Kamorn Bandudej, Chalunthon Nuchur, Haseng Sani, Nattawit Chanwedchasart, Pathit Chatu…

Detection of OH maser emission in the 71-year periodic comet 12P/Pons-Brooks using the 40-m Thai National Radio Telescope (TNRT)
Although the optical cometary database is extensive, the radio database is limited. The 18-cm OH maser observations of comets allow us to determine (i) the production rate of OH ($Q_{\rm{OH}}$) and (ii) the water expansion velocity, for each comet. To reveal the physical properties of the periodic comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, we conducted the OH maser observations of the comet using the 40-m TNRT (Thai National Radio Telescope) on March 22nd, 27th and 29th, 2024 before the perihelion passage on April…

Chinese hackers scanning, exploiting Cisco ASA firewalls used by governments worldwide https://therecord.media/chinese-hackers-scan-exploit-firewalls-government

"In numbers: The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2024"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Emissions

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.

2024 ist der Fahrradaktivist Andreas Mandalka alias #Natenom ums Leben gekommen. Nun will das Land den Radweg sanieren
https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuertt

Späte Genugtuung für Radaktivisten? Land saniert Fahrradweg nach Tod von Natenom
Späte Genugtuung für Radaktivisten: der Fahrradweg an der Todesstrecke von Natenom soll saniert werden. Das Land hat die Aufgabe übernommen.

props to Gemini or whatever for getting over sycophancy and just deciding I'm Always Wrong

Trotz rückläufiger verbrannter Fläche stiegen die CO₂-Emissionen durch #Waldbrände 2024/25 auf über 8 Milliarden Tonnen – rund 10 % mehr als im langjährigen Schnitt.
Ursache sind vermehrte #Brände in kohlenstoffreichen

Global wildfires burned an area of land larger than India in 2024 - Carbon Brief
“Extreme” wildfires emitted more than 8bn tonnes of carbon dioxide during the 2024-25 “global fire season”, according to a new report.

Polymarket and Kalshi surpassed $2B in notional trading volume in the week ending Oct. 19, exceeding the previous peak during the 2024 US presidential election (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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/

CL-UZH submission to the NIST SRE 2024 Speaker Recognition Evaluation
Aref Farhadipour, Shiran Liu, Masoumeh Chapariniya, Valeriia Perepelytsia, Srikanth Madikeri, Teodora Vukovic, Volker Dellwo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00952

CL-UZH submission to the NIST SRE 2024 Speaker Recognition Evaluation
The CL-UZH team submitted one system each for the fixed and open conditions of the NIST SRE 2024 challenge. For the closed-set condition, results for the audio-only trials were achieved using the X-vector system developed with Kaldi. For the audio-visual results we used only models developed for the visual modality. Two sets of results were submitted for the open-set and closed-set conditions, one based on a pretrained model using the VoxBlink2 and VoxCeleb2 datasets. An Xvector-based model was…

Skill, Will, or Both? Understanding Digital Inaccessibility from Accessibility Professionals' Viewpoint
P D Parthasarathy, Rachel F. Adler, Devorah Kletenik, Swaroop Joshi, Anshu M Mittal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23287

Skill, Will, or Both? Understanding Digital Inaccessibility from Accessibility Professionals' Viewpoint
Digital inaccessibility continues to be a significant barrier to true inclusion and equality. WebAIM's 2024 report reveals that only 4.1% of the world's top one million website homepages are fully accessible. Furthermore, the percentage of web pages with detectable Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) failures has only decreased by 1.9\% over the past five years, from 97.8%. To gain deeper insights into the persistent challenges of digital accessibility, we conducted a comprehensive surv…

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…

Oh boy, we have Ig Noble Prize 2025!
#igNobel #funny

Past Ig Winners
Ig® Nobel Prize Winners For achievements that first make people LAUGH then make them THINK Winners by year: 2025 : 2024 : 2023 : 2022 : 2021 2020 : 2019 : 2018 : 2017 : 2016 2015 : 2014 : 2013 : 20…

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…

The Draghi Dilemma: The Right and the Wrong Way to Undertake GDPR Reform
https://fpf.org/blog/the-draghi-dilemma-the-right-and-the-wrong-way-to-undertake-gdpr-reform/
@…

(2024) Visual neuroprostheses for impaired human nervous system: State-of-the-art and future outlook #BCI

"Trevor Milton and his wife donated $1.8 million to Trump in 2024"
Trump Pardoned Him. Now He Won't Have to Pay Back $660 Million
https://gizmodo.com/trump-pardoned-him-now-he-wont-have-to-pay-back-660-million-2000661542

Analyst picks perfect team comparison for Dallas Cowboys in 2025 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/analyst-picks-perfect-team-comparison-for-dallas-cowboys

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/

Die weltweite #Waldzerstörung nimmt weiter zu: 2024 gingen 8,3 Millionen Hektar verloren – deutlich mehr als im Vorjahr.
Besonders betroffen sind #Tropenwälder, oft durch gezielt gelegte #Brände

Waldzerstörung schreitet immer schneller voran
Eigentlich will die Staatengemeinschaft die Zerstörung des Waldes stoppen. Doch der Trend zeigt in die entgegengesetzte Richtung.

Mark Zuckerberg says Threads has 150M DAUs, up from 100M in December 2024, and Meta has rolled out ads globally in the Threads feed with plans to add video ads (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/thre

Threads reaches 150 million daily users and is ramping up ads
Threads has grown to 150 million daily active users and is ramping up ads on the text-based platform.

There have been 1,295 cases of pertussis, also called whooping cough, in Florida, an 81 percent surge compared to the entirety of 2024. 
And nationwide, cases rose six-fold in 2024 compared to the year before, CDC figures show, a sign of waning immunity against a disease that once struck hundreds of thousands. 
#MakeAmericaHealthyAgain

Cases of Victorian-era whooping cough soar in Florida amid plummeting vaccine rates
Cases of a Victorian-era disease have soared in Florida over the past year amid state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo's declaration to end all vaccine mandates for children.

Content and Engagement Trends in COVID-19 YouTube Videos: Evidence from the Late Pandemic
Nirmalya Thakur, Madeline D Hartel, Lane Michael Boden, Dallas Enriquez, Boston Joyner Ricks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01954

Content and Engagement Trends in COVID-19 YouTube Videos: Evidence from the Late Pandemic
This work investigated about 10,000 COVID-19-related YouTube videos published between January 2023 and October 2024 to evaluate how temporal, lexical, linguistic, and structural factors influenced engagement during the late pandemic period. Publishing activity showed consistent weekday effects: in the first window, average views peaked on Mondays at 92,658; in the second, on Wednesdays at 115,479; and in the third, on Fridays at 84,874, reflecting a shift in audience attention toward mid- and l…

Auto-ARGUE: LLM-Based Report Generation Evaluation
William Walden, Marc Mason, Orion Weller, Laura Dietz, Hannah Recknor, Bryan Li, Gabrielle Kaili-May Liu, Yu Hou, James Mayfield, Eugene Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26184

Auto-ARGUE: LLM-Based Report Generation Evaluation
Generation of long-form, citation-backed reports is a primary use case for retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems. While open-source evaluation tools exist for various RAG tasks, ones tailored to report generation are lacking. Accordingly, we introduce Auto-ARGUE, a robust LLM-based implementation of the recent ARGUE framework for report generation evaluation. We present analysis of Auto-ARGUE on the report generation pilot task from the TREC 2024 NeuCLIR track, showing good system-level …

Regrading eight NFL trades from last year's deadline: Hindsight on Adams to the Jets, Cooper to the Bills https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46654966/regrading-deals-2024-nfl-trade-deadline-davante-adams-marshon-lattimore

Sources: Crusoe is discussing raising $1B at a $10B valuation; the company, which is helping build OpenAI's first Stargate facility, had $250M revenue in 2024 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/crusoe-talks-raise-money-10-bill…

OpenAI’s Data Center Provider in Talks to Raise Money at $10 Billion Valuation
Crusoe, the developer behind OpenAI’s first Stargate data center, is discussing raising funds at a $10 billion valuation—more than three times its valuation less than a year ago, according to two people with direct knowledge of the fundraising talks. The seven-year-old company wants to raise at ...

🛌 Wissen fürs Kopfkissen: 📖
Retröt: Mit #Steckersolaranlagen kannst Du selbst auf Deinem #Balkon Teil der #Energiewende werden, Deine

Steckersolaranlagen für Deinen Balkon: Sparen mit der Energiewende
Spare Stromkosten mit einem Balkonkraftwerk! Finde heraus, was die neuen Regelungen 2024 für Dich bedeuten. Einfach installieren und profitieren.

Selenskyj: Ukrainisches Team trifft am Freitag US-Regierungsvertreter
Im Ringen um ein Ende des Ukraine-Krieges werden ukrainische Regierungsvertreter nach Angaben von Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj am Freitag mit US-Vertretern in New York zusammenkommen. "Am Freitag finden in New York, in den Vereinigten Staaten, Treffen mit dem Team von Präsident (Donald) Trump statt", sagte Selenskyj am Mittwoch in seiner abendlichen Videoa…
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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.

Anrok, which helps software companies automate sales tax compliance, raised a $55M Series C at a $525M valuation, up from $250M after raising $30M in April 2024 (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

from my link log —
Tiling with three polygons is undecidable.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11582
saved 2024-11-21 https://dotat.at/…

Tiling with Three Polygons is Undecidable
We prove that the following problem is co-RE-complete and thus undecidable: given three simple polygons, is there a tiling of the plane where every tile is an isometry of one of the three polygons (either allowing or forbidding reflections)? This result improves on the best previous construction which requires five polygons.

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

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…

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

Predicting Movie Success with Multi-Task Learning: A Hybrid Framework Combining GPT-Based Sentiment Analysis and SIR Propagation
Wenlan Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02809 http…

Predicting Movie Success with Multi-Task Learning: A Hybrid Framework Combining GPT-Based Sentiment Analysis and SIR Propagation
This study presents a hybrid framework for predicting movie success. The framework integrates multi-task learning (MTL), GPT-based sentiment analysis, and Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) propagation modeling. The study examines limitations in existing approaches. It models static production attributes, information dissemination, and audience sentiment at the same time. The framework uses 5,840 films from 2004 to 2024 and approximate 300,000 user reviews. It shows predictive performance wit…

UnifyApps, which lets companies build AI chatbots by connecting SaaS apps and data, raised a $50M Series B led by WestBridge, after a $20M Series A in 2024 (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/10…

Exclusive: UnifyApps raises $50M Series B led by WestBridge Capital
Siloed systems of record and data make it harder for enterprises to adopt AI.

Filing: Lachlan Murdoch's fiscal 2025 compensation jumped to $33M, including a $3M salary and $10.6M in stock awards, up from $23.8M in 2024 and $21.8M in 2023 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Lachlan Murdoch’s Fox Pay Rises to $33 Million As He Assumes Control of Family Media Empire
Weeks after settling with his siblings over who will control Fox, the company revealed that the CEO's fiscal 2025 pay rose significantly from 2024.

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

Samsung rolls out a Perplexity TV app, which works alongside Samsung's Vision AI Companion, on its 2025 TVs; 2023 and 2024 TV models will get it later this year (Artie Beaty/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-get-perplex…

How to get Perplexity AI Pro for free on your Samsung TV - and what it can do
The new Perplexity TV app is rolling out to Samsung's 2025 TVs first, with older models getting it later this year.

Apple's Vision Pro with the M5 chip is assembled in Vietnam, according to labels on its packaging; the M2-based model, launched in 2024, was built in China (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-21/app…

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.09.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen

Everett Randle, a former partner at Kleiner Perkins, joins VC firm Benchmark as general partner, following a slew of personnel departures at Benchmark (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/benchmark-names-ev…

Benchmark Names Everett Randle as New General Partner 
Everett Randle, a former partner at Kleiner Perkins investing out of its growth-stage funds, has joined Benchmark as the firm’s newest general partner, the early-stage firm announced Monday. At Kleiner, Randle worked on investments including enterprise search startup Glean and legal AI startup Harvey, earning him a top spot on The Information’s Next General Partners list in 2024. The hiring

#Steckersolargeräte, auch bekannt als #Balkonkraftwerke, gewinnen in #Deutschland weiter an Bedeutung.
Laut einer aktuellen Analyse erzeugten sie 2024 rund 1,7 TWh

Steckersolargeräte gewinnen zunehmend an Bedeutung
Steckersolargeräte, umgangssprachlich Balkonkraftwerke, werden immer beliebter. Durch sie kann man vergleichsweise preiswert und leicht Solarstrom erzeugen und selber nutzen. In einer aktuellen Studie wurde untersucht, wie hoch das Marktvolumen dieser Anlagen tatsächlich ist, wie viel Strom bereitgestellt wird und in welchem Umfang dieser PV-Strom selbst verbraucht oder ins Netz eingespeist wird.

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.

YouTube's creative ecosystem added over €7B to the EU's GDP in 2024 and supported 200K full-time equivalent jobs, according to advising firm Oxford Economics (David Wheeldon/YouTube Official Blog)
https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/2025-youtube-europe-impact-…

New report explores YouTube's growing impact in Europe
YouTube’s creative ecosystem added over €7B to the EU’s GDP in 2024, while supporting over 200,000 jobs.

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.

Source: Stripe is in talks to buy back shares from its VC backers at a $106.7B valuation; Sequoia bought $861M worth of shares in 2024 at a $70B valuation (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/23/stripe-buy-back-stock-vc

Scoop: Stripe in talks to buy back stock from investors
Stripe has never seemed interested in an IPO.

Der #Marmolata-Gletscher in den #Dolomiten zieht sich weiter zurück.
Aktuelle Messungen zeigen einen durchschnittlichen Schwund von sieben Metern seit 2024 sowie eine deutliche #Ausdünnung

Dolomiten: Marmolata-Gletscher verschwindet
Italienische Glaziologinnen und Glaziologen sehen für den Marmolata-Gletscher in den Dolomiten schwarz. Im Vergleich zu 2024 hat er sich im Durchschnitt um sieben Meter zurückgezogen – begleitet von einer allgemeinen Ausdünnung der Gletscherfronten.