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ASML names Marco Pieters as its new CTO, replacing Martin van den Brink who left in 2024; Pieters was most recently EVP of ASML's Applications business (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-1…

Filing: PA Media Group reports 2024 revenue up 3% YoY to £116.3M, its eighth consecutive year of revenue growth, but profit before tax declined by 4% to £8.6M (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_busines…

PA Media Group continues revenue growth for eighth year in a row
PA Media Group has grown its revenue for the eight year in a row, once again marking the highest in its 145-year history.

A Home-heat Carol (2024-12) - Low-carbon heating at home with solar diversion and storage and heat pump. #heating #DHW #storage -

A Home-heat Carol (2024-12)
Low-carbon heating at home with solar diversion and storage and heat pump. #heating #DHW #storage

“Web is losing” is returning to my mind more often than I’d like
https://infrequently.org/2024/10/platforms-are-competitions/

Platform Strategy and Its Discontents
Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.

“In August 2024, SubwayTakes was invited to interview Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. During Rahma's interview of Harris, Harris surprised Rahma when she diverted from the pre-approved take against removing shoes on airplanes to a "Bacon is a spice" take. This take offended Rahma's Muslim beliefs, causing Rahma to ask to do the pre-approved take. But, after being advised by a staffer, Harris moved to a pro-anchovies-on-pizza take. This caused Rahma to quickly end the video. Aft…

🗡️ Landmines and violence in Colombian Amazon confine Indigenous Siona families
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/09/landmines-and-violence-in-colombian-amazon-confine-indigenous-siona-families/…

Landmines and violence in Colombian Amazon confine Indigenous Siona families
Siona Indigenous guards in southern Colombia are raising alarm that landmines and armed groups are cutting off their families from natural resources and trapping them in small portions of their territory. It’s been an ongoing problem for decades, Mongabay contributor Jose Guarnizo reported. In August 2024, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) expanded its […]

Machines in the Crowd? Measuring the Footprint of Machine-Generated Text on Reddit
Lucio La Cava, Luca Maria Aiello, Andrea Tagarelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07226 https://…

Machines in the Crowd? Measuring the Footprint of Machine-Generated Text on Reddit
Generative Artificial Intelligence is reshaping online communication by enabling large-scale production of Machine-Generated Text (MGT) at low cost. While its presence is rapidly growing across the Web, little is known about how MGT integrates into social media environments. In this paper, we present the first large-scale characterization of MGT on Reddit. Using a state-of-the-art statistical method for detection of MGT, we analyze over two years of activity (2022-2024) across 51 subreddits rep…

August 2025 was the third-warmest August globally, behind only 2023 and 2024, with an average surface air temperature of 16.60°C, 1.29°C above the estimated 1850-1900 average used to define the pre-industrial level.
https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-temper…

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

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

The firefly luciferase is being used as a 'reporter gene' here, to reveal the Kalanchoe's 24-hour rhythms in the lab. Otherwise they are invisible.
Actually the luciferase glow is not directly visible either! It's so faint that the video was taken with super-sensitive cameras, closer to astronomy kit than to your smartphone. These are transgenic plants, developed for lab science in my now-#EdinburghUni colleague Jessica Pritchard's PhD, with James Hartwell in Liverpool.
She reported this cool new science in a #preprint last year:
📖 https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.19.629446
and I just caught up with it, although... 2/n

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

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

A note on a diffeomorphism criterion via long-time Ricci flow
Shaochuang Huang, Zhuo Peng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05802 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05802…

A note on a diffeomorphism criterion via long-time Ricci flow
In this note, we give a diffeomorphism (to $\mathbb{R}^n$) criterion via long-time Ricci flow and show some applications. In particular, we provide an affirmative answer that the conclusion in [Manifolds with small curvature concentration, Ann. PDE, 2024] by Chan, Lee and the first named author and [Removing scalar curvature assumption for Ricci flow smoothing, Bull. Lond. Math. Soc., 2025] by A. Martens about manifolds with small curvature concentration can be improved to diffeomorphism in dim…

Sadomaso-Affäre - Hinweise schon 2024: Botschafter zu spät abberufen #News #Nachrichten

Hausdorff dimension of the Wedding cake type surfaces
Bal\'azs B\'ar\'any, Manuj Verma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04613 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Hausdorff dimension of the Wedding cake type surfaces
In this paper, we study the Hausdorff dimension of fractal interpolation surfaces (FISs) over a triangular domain. These FISs are known as `wedding cake surfaces'. These surfaces are the attractor of some deterministic self-affine iterated function systems (IFS) on $\mathbb{R}^3$ generated by a fractal interpolation algorithm. Due to the recent seminal result of Rapaport (Adv. Math. 449 (2024) 109734), the dimension theory of self-affine IFS on $\mathbb{R}^3$ is known whenever the IFS is strong…

#RWE hat im Kreis #Düren den Windpark #Aldenhoven auf rekultivierter #Tagebaufläche in Betr…

RWE nimmt Windpark auf ehemaliger Tagebaufläche in Betrieb
Windenergie fürs Revier: RWE hat ihren Windpark Aldenhoven im Kreis Düren mit einer installierten Gesamtleistung von 34,2 Megawatt (MW) in Betrieb genommen. Auf rekultivierter Fläche des Tagebaus Inden hat das Unternehmen seit Frühjahr 2024 sechs Windenergie-anlagen der 5,7-MW-Klasse errichtet.

How can we make sustainability part of everything we do?
That question led to the creation of SIG-Sustainability, a new community space within the GÉANT Community Programme (GCP).
Launched in 2024, the group brings together members from across our community to exchange ideas and tools, from reducing carbon footprint to promoting inclusivity & climate adaptation.
📖 Read the full interview with the SIG-Sustainability Coordinator Judith Six (Jisc) in

Microsoft bringt "Flight Simulator 2024" auf die Playstation 5
Microsoft gibt ein weiteres Kronjuwel her: Der "Flight Simulator 2024" kommt auf die Playstation 5. Auch Support für PS VR 2 ist geplant.

Trump embraces Project 2025 after disavowing it during 2024 campaign (Herb Scribner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/02/trump-project-2025-russ-vought
http://www.memeorandum.com/251002/p100#a251002p100

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

In 2024 Jane Goodall Left This Message
‘Hope Isn’t Just Wishful Thinking’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/climate/jane-goodall-interviews.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qU8.6Zom.tQ7ncRpY92KO&…

Jane Goodall’s Thoughts for a Reporter: ‘Hope Isn’t Just Wishful Thinking’
A Times correspondent who interviewed Dr. Goodall recalled their conversations about the state of the planet.

Sources: German AI language platform DeepL held initial talks over a US IPO, and may seek an up to $5B valuation; DeepL raised $300M at a $2B valuation in 2024 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-02/google-tran…

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.

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

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

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

Hackers are attacking Britain’s drinking water suppliers https://therecord.media/britain-water-supply-cybersecurity-incident-reports-dwi-nis

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

OMG my The Bear opinion isn't fringe 🥲
I LOVE S1. I've made SO many ppl watch it.
I also liked S2.
I absolutely HATED S3. It felt like the writers got too much artistic freedom after their (well-deserved!) success & I had to watch them artistically jerking-off on TV.
https://

The Bear Is Not a Good Show
When the series premiered on FX, it was smart and thoughtful television. Not anymore.

Global use of coal hit record high in 2024 #environment

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…

"Global use of coal hit record high in 2024"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

GWI: Time spent on social media globally peaked in 2022 and is steadily declining; North America is the exception, with usage up 15% in 2024 compared to Europe (John Burn-Murdoch/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a0724dd9-0346-4df3-80f5-d6572c93a863
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Safer streets make it to the art museum

»Eine KI denkt nicht, sie produziert keinen Sinn, außer durch Zufall. Der Sinn existiert nur für uns. Er entsteht, wenn ein Beobachter da ist, der ihn wahrnimmt. Deshalb warnen wir vor Vermenschlichung.«
Aus: FibreTigre et al. - Künstliche Intelligenz (2019/2024) #ai #ki

PEN America warns that book bans in public schools have become "rampant and common", with 3,750 titles banned in 87 districts during the 2024-25 school year (Elizabeth A. Harris/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/books/book-bans-pen-america.html…

‘Rampant’ Book Bans Are Now Taken for Granted, Free Speech Group Warns
A new report from PEN America tracks restrictions on school books across 45 states.

Sign The Petition to free Joseph Figueira Martin
On 26 May 2024, Joseph Figueira Martin, a Belgian-Portuguese humanitarian, was arrested in Zémio, a town in the east of the Central African Republic.
Portugal and Belgium must act! …

Sign the Petition: Free Joseph Figueira Martin! Humanitarian arbitrarily detained and tortured in the Central African Republic
Sign the petition to protect those who risk their lives to save others.

Das Facebook, TikTok und Co. auch Propaganda-Plattformen sind ist allgemein bekannt. Doch deren Einsatz scheint auch von Russland für Propaganda anzuwenden wie andere auch. Ein Argument mehr diese abzuraten. (mal noch nett gesagt)
📺 SRF Tagesschau: »Wahlen in Moldau mit russischer Einflussnahme«

Tagesschau vom 26.09.2025: Hauptausgabe - Play SRF
Trump verhängt Pharma-Zölle von 100 Prozent, Bundesrat bleibt hart in Sachen Eigenkapital der UBS, Rösti plant neue Steuer für E-Autos ab 2030, Kirchenstatistik 2024: Der Mitgliederschwund geht weiter

Datasets for Valence and Arousal Inference: A Survey
Helen Schneider, Svetlana Pavlitska, Helen Gremmelmaier, J. Marius Z\"ollner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00738 https://

Datasets for Valence and Arousal Inference: A Survey
Understanding human affect can be used in robotics, marketing, education, human-computer interaction, healthcare, entertainment, autonomous driving, and psychology to enhance decision-making, personalize experiences, and improve emotional well-being. This work presents a comprehensive overview of affect inference datasets that utilize continuous valence and arousal labels. We reviewed 25 datasets published between 2008 and 2024, examining key factors such as dataset size, subject distribution, …

White rose, covered in water droplets. Mary and Joseph Retreat Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, California, USA. August, 2024. #maryandjosephretreatcenter #ranchopalosverdes #rose

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…

Things I have read in major newspapers and cyber publications over the past week that are just really fiction, totally false, and yet have become conventional wisdom among cyber journos:
--TP-Link routers are a US security threat. (not more than any other router)
--The SEC's settlement with SolarWinds is evidence of how little Trump cares about cyber (utterly false -- fed judge pooped on the SEC's legality in 2024 and much more).
--Coinbase is playing fast and loose…

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

Wo kommen wir denn da hin wenn die AfD an die Macht kommt und all ihre Forderungen bereits umgesetzt sind?

„Polyman“ by Facet
Platform: Amiga
Released: 25 May 2024
Specification: 320x256px, 32 colors
Note: 3rd in the 68k Inside 2024 Graphics competition
#GFX_Facet #YR_2024 #PF_Amiga

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

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

I currently read “It can’t happen here” by Sinclair Lewis from 1935. It's about fictive events in the US in 1936: an election won by a senator turned dictator. It reads like a description of the US 2024/2025, except dear leader is Democrat, not Republican. I'm on page 90 (just finished chapter 11), almost 300 more to read, it really is hard!
As the Trump playbook follows Project 2025, are we completely sure that this is NOT just a rewrite of Lewis' novel?

On the pancyclicity of $2$-connected $[5,3]$-graphs
Feng Liu, Hongxi Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20038 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.20038

On the pancyclicity of $2$-connected $[5,3]$-graphs
A graph $G$ is called an $[s,t]$-graph if any induced subgraph of $G$ of order $s$ has size at least $t$. In 2024, Zhan conjectured that every $2$-connected $[p + 2, p]$-graph of order at least $2p + 3$ and with minimum degree at least $p$ is pancyclic, where $p$ is an integer with $3 \leq p \leq 5$. In this paper, we confirm the conjecture for the case $p=3$, thereby taking the first step toward a complete resolution of the conjecture.

Aidan Hutchinson, Lions agree to 4-year extension, his agent says https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6565234/2025/10/29/aidan-hutchinson-contract-extension-lions/

Sinkholes around the world – in pictures | World news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2024/dec/04/sinkholes-around-the-world-from-greenwich-to-guatemala-in-pictures

Causal Understanding by LLMs: The Role of Uncertainty
Oscar Lithgow-Serrano, Vani Kanjirangat, Alessandro Antonucci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20088 https://

Causal Understanding by LLMs: The Role of Uncertainty
Recent papers show LLMs achieve near-random accuracy in causal relation classification, raising questions about whether such failures arise from limited pretraining exposure or deeper representational gaps. We investigate this under uncertainty-based evaluation, testing whether pretraining exposure to causal examples improves causal understanding >18K PubMed sentences -- half from The Pile corpus, half post-2024 -- across seven models (Pythia-1.4B/7B/12B, GPT-J-6B, Dolly-7B/12B, Qwen-7B). We an…

"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.

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

This is an interesting study in how local conditions skew your perceptions, I'm actually surprised how *low* the numbers are, but I see in Denmark EVs are much higher than the rest of the EU, who also clearly have some catching up to do...
https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115354274303487490
EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu - 👋 Watt’s up, Europe?
 
The numbers of electric vehicles sold in Europe in 2024 are in:
 
⚡ 1.45 million new battery-only EVs registered
📈 32% growth in the total electric fleet
🚗 Nearly 6 million e-vehicles on the road
🔋 13.6% of all new car registrations are electric
 
Europe is accelerating full throttle to a clean future.  
 
Read more: https://link.europa.eu/cNKjkh

Over the 2 years since the previous elections, popular support for the 4 right-far-right coalition parties in the Netherlands consistently went downhill, from 56% shortly after the elections to 50% at the start of their coalition government in July 2024 to 31% now.
Data: https://peilingwijzer.tomlouwerse.nl/

Laatste Peilingwijzer – Peilingwijzer
De Peilingwijzer combineert de Tweede Kamerpeilingen van Ipsos I&O & Verian/EenVandaag

Assine a Petição para libertar Joseph Figueira Martin
Em 26 de maio de 2024, Joseph Figueira Martin, um humanitšrio belga-português, foi preso em Zémio, uma cidade no leste da República Centro-Africana.
Bélgica e Portugal têm que tomar ação!
#Wagner

Sign the Petition: Free Joseph Figueira Martin! Humanitarian arbitrarily detained and tortured in the Central African Republic
Sign the petition to protect those who risk their lives to save others.

Human Interest, a 401(k) platform for SMBs that aims to cut down on administrative work, raised $100M at a $3B post-money valuation, up from $1.3B in 2024 (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/31/401k-human-interest

Scoop: 401(k) platform Human Interest now worth $3 billion
The $100 million raise comes just days after HI sued rival Guideline.

📢 Attentäter von Solingen zu Höchststrafe verurteilt
Das Düsseldorfer Oberlandesgericht hat für den islamistischen Terroranschlag von Solingen mit drei Toten die Höchststrafe verhängt. Es verurteilte einen 27-jährigen Syrer unter anderem wegen Mordes zu lebenslanger Haft. Außerdem stellte es die besondere Schwere seiner Schuld fest und ordnete die anschließende Sicherungsverwahrung an. Issa al H. hatte beim Solinger Stadtfe…
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Attentäter von Solingen zu Höchststrafe verurteilt
Das Düsseldorfer Oberlandesgericht hat für den islamistischen Terroranschlag von Solingen mit drei Toten die Höchststrafe verhängt. Es verurteilte einen 27-jährigen Syrer unter anderem wegen Mordes zu lebenslanger Haft. Außerdem stellte es die besondere Schwere seiner Schuld fest und ordnete die anschließende Sicherungsverwahrung an. Issa al H. hatte beim Solinger Stadtfest am 23. August 2024 mit einem Messer auf Besucher eingestochen und dabei drei Menschen getötet und acht verletzt.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmyLamé
Les Amazones d’Afrique:
🎵 Flaws (6 Music Session, 4 Feb 2024)
#LesAmazonesdAfrique
https://lesamazonesdafrique.bandcamp.com/track/flaws-feat-mamani-ke-ta-fafa-ruffino
https://open.spotify.com/track/3AH8RIK78cByIoR211KTY3

"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.

Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year
By Diego Delso, CC-BY-SA
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2024/Results/All

#Artikelupdate
Es gibt teilweise die Ansicht, Erneuerbare Energien wären eine teure Form der #Stromerzeugung. Das kann durch Zahlen geprüft werden.
Im Artikel ergänzt wurde ein Verweis auf das Ergebnis einer Untersuchung des Beratungsunternehmens Enervis im Auftrag des Bunde…

Energiewende-Mythos: „Erneuerbare Energien sind die teuersten“
2024 stammt der meiste Strom in Deutschland aus erneuerbaren Energien – und sie sind günstiger als Kohle oder Gas. Fakten statt Mythen.

DLR untersucht Drohnenvorfälle an deutschen Flughäfen
2024 wurden dem Luftfahrt-Bundesamt 118 Drohnenvorfälle gemeldet. Das DLR hat diese unter anderem auf wirtschaftliche Schäden untersucht.
https://www.

Revisiting the mental imagery debate: New evidence from aphantasia and neuroimaging https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945225002539
"Montabes De La Cruz et al. (2024) observed reduced auditory-induced activation in early visual areas in…

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/
@…

Filing: iRobot says its last potential buyer withdrew from the process and its financials remain dire, following Amazon abandoning a 2024 bid; IRBT drops 33% (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/27/irobot-stock-roomba.html

iRobot stock tumbles 33% after Roomba maker warns the search for a buyer has stalled
The Roomba maker's financial condition has worsened since Amazon abandoned its planned acquisition of the company in 2024.

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.

PitchBook: Nvidia invested in 59 AI startups in 2025 so far, including 10 in the past two months, surpassing 55 investments in 2024 and 12 investments in 2022 (Emily Forgash/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-29…

Dutch public broadcaster Nos quits X, citing the "amount of hateful responses and disinformation" on the site; The Guardian quit in 2024 and NPR in 2023 (Bart Meijer/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

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

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

Majorization via positivity of Jack and Macdonald polynomial differences
Hong Chen, Apoorva Khare, Siddhartha Sahi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19649 https://

Majorization via positivity of Jack and Macdonald polynomial differences
Majorization inequalities have a long history, going back to Maclaurin and Newton. They were recently studied for several families of symmetric functions, including by Cuttler--Greene--Skandera (2011), Sra (2016), Khare--Tao (2021), McSwiggen--Novak (2022), and Chen--Sahi (2024+) among others. Here we extend the inequalities by these authors to Jack and Macdonald polynomials, and obtain conjectural characterizations of majorization and of weak majorization of the underlying partitions. We prove…

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

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

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

From Keywords to Clusters: AI-Driven Analysis of YouTube Comments to Reveal Election Issue Salience in 2024
Raisa M. Simoes, Timoteo Kelly, Eduardo J. Simoes, Praveen Rao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07821

From Keywords to Clusters: AI-Driven Analysis of YouTube Comments to Reveal Election Issue Salience in 2024
This paper aims to explore two competing data science methodologies to attempt answering the question, "Which issues contributed most to voters' choice in the 2024 presidential election?" The methodologies involve novel empirical evidence driven by artificial intelligence (AI) techniques. By using two distinct methods based on natural language processing and clustering analysis to mine over eight thousand user comments on election-related YouTube videos from one right leaning journal, Wall Stre…

Automattic files counterclaims against WP Engine's October 2024 lawsuit and alleges that WP Engine has been abusing the WordPress trademark (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/24/automa…

Automattic files counterclaims against WP Engine in WordPress lawsuit, alleging trademark misuse | TechCrunch
Automattic has filed counterclaims against WP Engine, alleging that the company — backed by private equity firm Silver Lake — misused WordPress and WooCommerce trademarks, misled users, and undermined the open source community.

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

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says the company expects to earn close to $15B in profit in 2025, up from around $13B in 2024 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-24/stablecoin-leader-tether-expect…

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.

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-…

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

Tencent is investing in shooting games, traditionally dominated by Western companies, after the 2024 success of Delta Force, which still has 30M players daily (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-12/tencen…

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

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

Defector reports Year 5 revenue up 1% YoY to $4.65M, including $3.8M from subscriptions; all 19 original co-founders continue to work at the worker-owned outlet (Defector)
https://defector.com/defector-annual-report-year-five

Defector Annual Report, September 2024 – August 2025 | Defector
Published on November 19, 2025 Purpose of this report Defector celebrated our fifth birthday in September 2025. It is a great honor, and something of a burden, to be publishing a fifth Annual Report. The year-to-year story of our business is one of general stability—an incredible luxury in digital media—with incremental and hard-won improvements. But…

Pricempire: after Valve updated the exchange rate of Counter-Strike digital items, the market fell by $1.75B, or 25%, on October 23; in 2024, a gun sold for $1M (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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…

Mexico-based fintech Plata, approved for a banking license in December 2024, raised $250M at a $3.1B valuation, as it seeks to transition to a full-fledged bank (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-16/mexico…

Broadcom closes up 9.88% following the announcement of its custom chip deal with OpenAI; its stock is up over 50% in 2025 after more than doubling in 2024 (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/openai-partners-with-bro…

Broadcom stock pops 7% on OpenAI custom chip deal, adding to Nvidia and AMD agreements
OpenAI is teaming up with Broadcom to jointly develop and deploy 10 gigawatts of custom AI accelerators starting in 2026.

Sources: smart ring maker Oura is raising an $875M Series E at a $10.9B valuation, up from $5B in November 2024, and has sold ~3M rings over the past year (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-22/oura-ri…

Oura Ring Maker to Become $11 Billion Company with Latest Raise
Oura Health Oy, the maker of the popular Oura health and fitness ring, is closing in on a roughly $11 billion valuation after selling about 3 million rings over the past year.

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

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

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

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

Amazon plans to hire 250K workers for the 2025 holiday season, the same as in 2023 and 2024, including full-time and part-time, and will pay $19/hour on average (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: Spotify plans to raise US subscription prices in Q1 2026, its first US price rise since July 2024, after increasing prices in other countries this year (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/fb490480-5d9a-495f-8c23-f34149bbcadb

Spotify to raise US prices in first quarter of next year
Increase will come as music-streaming company aims for continued profitability

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

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.

Indian digital payments giant PhonePe confidentially files for an IPO in India, seeking to raise $1.5B, sources say at a valuation of $15B (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/startup…

PhonePe files draft prospectus for $1.5 billion IPO with Sebi through confidential route
PhonePe, supported by Walmart, has confidentially filed its DRHP with SEBI. The digital payments platform reduced its net loss by 13.4% to Rs 1,727.4 crore in 2024-25, driven by a 40.4% surge in operating revenue to Rs 7,114.8 crore. Despite diversification into financial services, payments remain PhonePe's core business.

TSMC reports a 16.9% rise in October sales, the slowest pace since February 2024, highlighting uncertainty over the AI boom's sustainability; TSMC is up 37% YTD (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-…