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Compliance tech startup Vanta raised a $150M Series D led by Wellington Management at a $4.15B valuation, up from $2.45B after raising $150M in July 2024 (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-2…

Today my overly-optimistic cousin said "This is the absolute best time to be alive" and I said "Well, I would argue that 2024 was much better than right now..."
#USPOL

2024: in der EU soll besser vor Vergewaltigung geschützt und #JaHeißtJa als Standard gesetzt werden. Aber die #FDP in der Bundesregierung blockiert und Deutschland geht zusammen mit Frankreich dagegen.

Richtlinie zu Gewalt gegen Frauen: Warum Deutschland kein EU-Gesetz gegen Vergewaltigung will
Es begann als ambitioniertes Vorhaben der EU-Kommission gegen sexualisierte Gewalt. Bei den heutigen Trilog-Verhandlungen droht jedoch ein Debakel. Ausgerechnet Deutschland blockiert eine europaweite Regelung gegen Vergewaltigung. Und der Rat möchte den besseren Schutz vor bildbasierter Gewalt und Deepfakes verwässern.

Raiders Trade Pitch Lands Breakout WR from 2024 NFL Season https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/raiders-trade-pitch-lands-breakout-wr-from-2024-nfl-season/?adt_ei=[email]

Finally cancelled my Ideogram subscription today, I've had it for the past 12 months and loved it.
Now I'm using ChatGPT 4o almost exclusively for my AI image generation needs.
I updated my paid subscriptions list:
https://wiki.wesfryer.com/subscriptions

wesfryer - Subscriptions
Thoughts on Subscriptions: Have you noticed lots of companies and people want you to SUBSCRIBE to their service or commit to a MONTHLY payment / fee? Services like TRIM can help us identify, remember and manage our subscriptions. (s/o to Jason Neiffer in EdTechSR Ep 235) It can be helpful to SHARE

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Leon Bridges:
🎵 River
#LeonBridges
https://catzndogz.bandcamp.com/track/leon-bridges-river-catz-n-dogz-2024-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3hhbDnFUb2bicI2df6VurK

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

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

Die ePetition 174803 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Internationale Verträge und Abkommen mit dem Titel
Sperrung von Karten bei Verlust von Debitkarten und anderen Zahlungskarten
kann bis zum Mittwoch 03. September 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird gefordert, …

LLMxCPG: Context-Aware Vulnerability Detection Through Code Property Graph-Guided Large Language Models
Ahmed Lekssays, Hamza Mouhcine, Khang Tran, Ting Yu, Issa Khalil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16585

LLMxCPG: Context-Aware Vulnerability Detection Through Code Property Graph-Guided Large Language Models
Software vulnerabilities present a persistent security challenge, with over 25,000 new vulnerabilities reported in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database in 2024 alone. While deep learning based approaches show promise for vulnerability detection, recent studies reveal critical limitations in terms of accuracy and robustness: accuracy drops by up to 45% on rigorously verified datasets, and performance degrades significantly under simple code modifications. This paper presents L…

"Tämän vuoden alussa perusterveydenhuollon maksuja nostettiin kuitenkin 22,5 prosenttia ja erikoissairaanhoidossa 45 prosenttia. Vuonna 2024 maksuja oli korotettu jo 20 prosenttia."
#sote #terveydenhuolto #hallitus

Asiakasmaksujen perintä johtaa ulosottoihin
Helsingissä ulosottoon päätyi yli 50 000 maksua, eniten hammashoidon ja vanhusten hoidon maksuja.

Lunar Orbital VLBI Experiment: motivation, scientific purposes and status
Xiaoyu Hong, Weiren Wu, Qinghui Liu, Dengyun Yu, Chi Wang, Tao Shuai, Weiye Zhong, Renjie Zhu, Yonghui Xie, Lihua Zhang, Liang Xiong, Yuhua Tang, Yongliao Zou, Haitao Li, Guangli Wang, Jianfeng Xie, Changbin Xue, Hao Geng, Juan Zhang, Xiaojing Wu, Yong Huang, Weimin Zheng, Lei Liu, Fang Wu, Xiuzhong Zhang, Tao An, Xiaolong Yang, Fengxian Tong, Leonid I. Gurvits, Yong Zheng, Minfeng Gu, Xiaofei Ma, Liang Li, Peiji…

Lunar Orbital VLBI Experiment: motivation, scientific purposes and status
The Lunar Orbital VLBI Experiment (LOVEX) is a scientific component of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Project (CLEP) Chang'E-7. The spaceborne component of LOVEX is implemented onboard the relay satellite QueQiao-2, which was launched on 2024 March 20, and later placed into an elliptical selenocentric orbit. The LOVEX-specific payload consists of an X-band cryogenic receiver, a hydrogen maser frequency standard, and VLBI data formatting and acquisition electronics. Several components of the QueQ…

A metrization theorem for edge-end spaces of infinite graphs
Max Pitz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16625 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.166…

A metrization theorem for edge-end spaces of infinite graphs
We prove that the edge-end space of an infinite graph is metrizable if and only if it is first-countable. This strengthens a recent result by Aurichi, Magalhaes Jr.\ and Real (2024). Our central graph-theoretic tool is the use of tree-cut decompositions, introduced by Wollan (2015) as a variation of tree decompositions that is based on edge cuts instead of vertex separations. In particular, we give a new, elementary proof for Kurkofka's result (2022) that every infinite graph has a tree-cut d…

Correspondence among congruence families for generalized Frobenius partitions via modular permutations
Rong Chen, Xiao-Jie Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16823

Correspondence among congruence families for generalized Frobenius partitions via modular permutations
In 2024, Garvan, Sellers and Smoot discovered a remarkable symmetry in the families of congruences for generalized Frobenius partitions $cψ_{2,0}$ and $cψ_{2,1}$. They also emphasized that the considerations for the general case of $cψ_{k,β}$ are important for future work. In this paper, for each $k$ we construct a vector-valued modular form for the generating functions of $cψ_{k,β}$, and determine an equivalence relation among all $β$. Within each equivalence class, we can identify modu…

Shout-out an Münsteraner Studierende: Das Münster Center for Open Science (MüCOS) sucht studentische Hilfskräfte!
Bei Interesse beim @… melden!
https://www.uni-muenster.de/MueCOS/

Raiders Coach Pete Carroll Sends Bold Statement as Training Camp Starts https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/pete-carroll-sends-bold-statement-as-training-camp-starts/?adt_ei=[email]

Krispy Kreme: Over 160,000 people had data stolen during November 2024 cyberattack https://therecord.media/krispy-kreme-reports-data-breach-from-2024-attack

Not looking good #showyourstripes #climatechange #ClimateCrisis

Show Your Stripes
Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe

from my link log —
Rewriting the Ruby parser.
https://railsatscale.com/2023-06-12-rewriting-the-ruby-parser/
saved 2024-12-26

Rewriting the Ruby parser
At Shopify, we have spent the last year writing a new Ruby parser, which we’ve called YARP (Yet Another Ruby Parser). As of the date of this post, YARP can parse a semantically equivalent syntax tree to Ruby 3.3 on every Ruby file in Shopify’s main codebase, GitHub’s main codebase, CRuby, and the 100 most popular gems downloaded from rubygems.org. We recently got approval to merge this work into CRuby, and are very excited to share our work with the community. This post will take you thro…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Hamish Hawk:
🎵 Men Like Wire (6 Music Session, 12 Aug 2024)
#HamishHawk
https://open.spotify.com/track/42WNxEp3MmQZNCb0vcR0se

Cowboys legend says 'No. 1 key' to success is what team failed to do in 2024 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-legend-key-to-success-is-what-team-failed-to-do-in-2024

FKK-Strand goes Live-Stream...😱
Genau das ist in Niedersachsen passiert, wie der neue Tätigkeitsbericht des Landesdatenschützers Denis Lehmkemper für 2024 enthüllt.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10445504?wt_mc=sm.re

Sherman charged with DUI following '24 arrest https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45533363/richard-sherman-charged-dui-stemming-2024-arrest

See How Marine Heat Waves Are Spreading Across the Globe https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/climate/see-how-marine-heat-waves-are-spreading-across-the-globe.html

Ocean Temperatures Are Increasing Around the World. See Where.
Sea surface temperatures in 2024 broke records and about a quarter of the world’s oceans are experiencing temperatures that qualify as a marine heat wave.

#TuneTuesday (June 17)
Continuing with the #PrideMonth 🏳️‍🌈 theme, I’m selecting #DavidArchuleta’s “Hell Together” for this week.
Released in 2024, this song was inspired by David’s mom’s …

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#25For25:SoundsOfTheCentury
- Part three: The world keeps turning
Naga Munchetty explores the landmark events of the 21st century via the lens of music. Part three: 2017 to 2024.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002fk0m

#idw #ClimateChange on the #Rhine: water temperature expected to rise by up to 4.2 °C by the end of the century
The water temperatures of the Rhine are rising. This is shown by an analysis carried out in 2024 by…

Climate change on the Rhine: water temperature expected to rise by up to 4.2 °C by the end of the century

The Trump regime's coordinated repression did not come from nowhere.
In 2024, TheNew York Times reported that the Trump transition team was already planning to use emergency powers, such as the one Trump invoked on June 7,
to confront political opponents who protest the administration.
While the Trump administration planned this move for about a year,
the deployment of troops in Los Angeles is the brutal culmination of a yearslong campaign to systematically erod…

Military Crackdown on LA Protests Portends Further Erosion of Everyone’s Rights
Governments at all levels from both parties have paved the way to an authoritarian response to dissent.

The BBC reports 23.8M licenses at the end of 2024-25, down from 24.1M in 2023-24, and license fee income of £3.8B after an inflationary fee rise, up from £3.7B (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jul

Check out this compelling rebuttal of Soteria International's claims regarding the OKC case. Get informed about the facts and perspectives presented in the article by visiting: https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rebuttal-of-soteria.html

Rebuttal of Soteria International's Claims on the OKC Case - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
Rebuttal of Soteria International’s Claims on the OKC Case As a victim of the Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) cult and an advocate for justice, I find Soteria …

Check out my latest CSO piece that examines how Trump's civilian agency cyber budget cuts for FY2026 could weaken federal defenses, shrink the cyber talent pipeline, and strip state and local governments of vital grant funding.
Thanks to Michael Daniel of the Cyber Threat Alliance, Mark Montgomery of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Munish Walther-Puri of NYU's Center for Global Affairs, and former US cyber official Amélie Koran for their insights.
Trump see…

Trump seeks unprecedented $1.23 billion cut to federal cyber budget
Trump’s 2026 budget would slash cyber spending by over $1 billion from 2024 levels, a move that could weaken federal defenses, shrink the cyber talent pipeline, and strip state and local governments of vital grant funding.

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Havumetsän lapset #luonto #ympäristö

Havumetsän lapset
Ovatko nuoret sankareita vai kriminaaleja puolustaessaan metsien koskemattomuutta? Vastustajinaan he kohtaavat Suomen metsäteollisuuden ja kansallisen ideologian metsistä taloudellisen hyvinvoinnin perustana. Humaani tarina kuljettaa katsojan lumoavalle matkalle metsän kauneuteen, mutta myös ravistelee kohtaamaan sen hädän. O: Virpi Suutari T: Euphoria Film Oy (Suomi 2024) Kuvailutulkattu

5-Month Forecast: What to watch from Cowboys in December and January https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/5-month-forecast-what-to-watch-from-cowboys-in-december-and-january

„Methodisch mag es da Unterschiede geben, doch der Trend ist stets der gleiche: Wer viel besitzt, kann sich die besten Anlageprofis leisten und dadurch höhere Renditen erwirtschaften als Normalverdiener – und wird somit fast von allein noch reicher.“ -So die SZ.
Das Schlüsselworte sind hier „quasi“ und „fast“, denn: natürlich passiert es nicht von alleine, sondern es wird dafür weltweit geschuftet, in Lohnarbeit oder sklavenähnlichen Verhältnissen. Und: Ein Großteil des Reichtums besteh…

Quantum at a Music Festival: the Impact of an Exhibit about Quantum Science and Technologies on Festival Visitors
Vincent Koeman, Sanne Romp, Sanne J. W. Willems, Julia Cramer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13010

Quantum at a Music Festival: the Impact of an Exhibit about Quantum Science and Technologies on Festival Visitors
Quantum technologies are seen as transformative, with a potential to revolutionize fields like drug discovery and machine learning. Public engagement is crucial to align these developments with societal needs and foster acceptance. This study measured the impact of an exhibit about quantum technologies at the 2024 Lowlands music festival (n = 812). Pre- and post-surveys assessed changes in attitude, concern, interest and subjective knowledge. Results showed an increase in subjective knowledge b…

How to search Google without the crap
https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/

Olympic gold medalist Noah Lyles calls off 100-meter race against Dolphins' Tyreek Hill for 'personal reasons'

https://www.cbsspor…

Thanks to @… for finding this needle to getting the Charlie Rudder Pedals working! I've updated the blog as well to hopefully make it a bit easier to track down.
https://

Injured Dallas Cowboys cornerback claims he's 'ready' for training camp https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/injured-dallas-cowboys-cornerback-josh-butler-ready-for-training-camp

Replaced article(s) found for astro-ph.CO. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.CO/new
[1/1]:
- Constraining primordial non-Gaussianity with DESI 2024 LRG and QSO samples
E. Chaussidon, et al.

Ex-Raiders QB Signs With Playoff Contender After Prolonged Free Agency https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/desmond-ridder-bengals-contract-signing/?adt_ei=[email]

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-USA: 23 June - 30 June
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Improved Binary Black Hole Search Discriminator from the Singular Value Decomposition of Non-Gaussian Noise Transients
Tathagata Ghosh, Sukanta Bose, Sanjeev Dhurandhar, Sunil Choudhary
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04628

Improved Binary Black Hole Search Discriminator from the Singular Value Decomposition of Non-Gaussian Noise Transients
The sensitivity of current gravitational wave (GW) detectors to transient GW signals is severely affected by a variety of non-Gaussian and non-stationary noise transients, such as the blip and tomte "glitches". These glitches share some time-frequency resemblance with GW signals from massive binary black holes. In earlier works [Joshi et al., Phys. Rev. D 103, 044035 (2021); Choudhary et al., Phys. Rev. D 110, 044051 (2024)], the authors presented a method for constructing a $χ^2$-distributed …

Who is using AI to code? Global diffusion and impact of generative AI
Simone Daniotti, Johannes Wachs, Xiangnan Feng, Frank Neffke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08945

Who is using AI to code? Global diffusion and impact of generative AI
Generative coding tools promise big productivity gains, but uneven uptake could widen skill and income gaps. We train a neural classifier to spot AI-generated Python functions in 80 million GitHub commits (2018-2024) by 200,000 developers and track how fast--and where--these tools take hold. By December 2024, AI wrote an estimated 30.1% of Python functions from U.S. contributors, versus 24.3% in Germany, 23.2% in France, 21.6% in India, 15.4% in Russia and 11.7% in China. Newer GitHub users use…

Der Mai 2025 war global der zweitwärmste Mai seit Beginn der Aufzeichnungen.
Laut ERA5-Daten lag die durchschnittliche #Oberflächentemperatur 0,53 °C über dem Mittel von 1991–2020 und 1,40 °C über dem vorindustriellen Niveau.
Nur der Mai 2024 war wärmer. In den letzten 23 Monaten überschritt die globale Temperatur 14-mal deutlich die 1,5-Grad-Marke.

CeeDee Lamb is set up perfectly to win Offensive Player of the Year https://insidethestar.com/ceedee-lamb-is-set-up-perfectly-to-win-offensive-player-of-the-year

London's water works https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2024/09/hampton-water-works.html

South Africa to ban highly toxic pesticide Terbufos https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/07/south-africa-to-ban-highly-toxic-pesticide-terbufos/

South Africa to ban highly toxic pesticide Terbufos
In a decision welcomed by advocacy groups and researchers, South Africa’s Cabinet has approved a ban on the import of Terbufos, a highly toxic pesticide linked to the deaths of six children in a South African township in October 2024. On June 12, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, Minister of Presidency, said the ban will be accompanied by […]

Antenna: US SVOD subscriptions grew 11% from March 2024 to March 2025; the average churn rate for premium SVOD services has hovered around 5% since January 2023 (Katie Campione/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/antenna-s…

Streaming Enters New Phase Of “More Stable Growth” As Ad Tiers Gain Traction & Subscriber Churn Reduces, Study Says
A new report from data firm Antenna explains why streaming is entering a more stable period of growth after years of volatility

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Devil: 23 June - 30 June
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsRaveForever
Underworld:
🎵 Dark & Long
#Underworld
https://johansson-nl.bandcamp.com/track/underworld-dark-and-long-remake-2024-free-download
https://open.spotify.com/track/2nZPzVKtW9j8aztHy8HKAa

"Labour issue Supplementary Badger Cull licences for 2025!"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Badgers #Animals

Labour issue Supplementary Badger Cull licences for 2025!
Natural England confirms second year of badger culling under 2024 Supplementary licences, challenged in upcoming court case by Badger Trust and Wild Justice.

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Buddhism: 23 June - 30 June
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