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#SIGBOVIK is at it again: "Factoring up to 255 “with” a Quantum Computer"
"[…] in this paper, I will appear to succeed at factoring by failing with style"
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Die finnische Luftwaffe zeigt noch immer Hakenkreuze auf einer Handvoll Einheitsflaggen - bereitet sich aber darauf vor, diese abzuschaffen, vor allem um Unannehmlichkeiten mit ihren westlichen Verbündeten zu vermeiden. https://apnews.com/article/finland-swa

Swastikas still linger on some flags in Finland's air force, but are on the way out
Finland's air force is moving to remove swastikas from its flags, partly due to the awkwardness it creates with Western allies. The swastika, an ancient symbol, was adopted by Finland's air force in 1918, long before the birth of Nazi Germany. However, it has become associated with hate groups. The military has been phasing out the symbol, which has caused embarrassment, especially with American allies. Finland joined NATO in April 2023, and while the change isn't directly related to this, the …

Nº 3 Infielder Nick O'Brien of the Penn State Quakers Makes it to the Base (April 13 game against the Big Red at Booth Field)
#sports #baseball #gobigred

Sources: ESPN cuts ties with Shannon Sharpe after he settled a lawsuit accusing him of rape; Sharpe had said he'd return to ESPN at the start of NFL preseason (Andrew Marchand/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6525499/2

ESPN parts ways with Shannon Sharpe following settlement of rape lawsuit: Sources
Sharpe has not been on ESPN since late April, when the suit was first filed.

Scissor arches and vaulted ceiling, Wells Cathedral, Somerset, April 2025
#photography #heritagephotography #documentingplaces

For #MusicWomenWednesday this week, something I've been listening to a lot lately - this tour tape that came out in April from Conneticut's TOWER OF ONE. This is some raw, hardcore punk that's just great. Four fast, ripping, fantastic songs.

bitcoin: Bitcoin transactions (2009-2013)
A network of Bitcoin transactions spanning January 2009 to April 2013. Nodes are public-key "addresses" at some time within the given period, and each edge is marked with the time (at a resolution of seconds) of the transaction.
This network has 6336770 nodes and 16057711 edges.
Tags: Economic, Cryptocurrency, Unweighted, Timestamps

So, I dunno, is this believable?
https://www.bea.gov/news/2025/gross-domestic-product-2nd-quarter-2025-advance-estimate

Flip, a TikTok rival that let shoppers post video reviews and earn cash based on engagement, has shut down; it had raised $300M and was valued at $1B in 2024 (Ann Gehan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/tiktok-challenger-flip-shuts

TikTok Challenger Flip Shuts Down
Flip, a video-sharing social media app that at one point tried to challenge TikTok’s dominance, has shut down, according to a message to users and the company’s website. Flip didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. The social commerce app raised over $300 million from investors since its founding in 2019, and was valued in April 2024 at more than $1 billion, according to PitchBook

arxiv_authors: Arxiv authors (1993-2003)
Scientific collaborations between authors of papers submitted to arxiv.org, under 5 categories: gr-qc, astro-ph, cond-mat, hep-ph, and hep-th categories, spanning January 1993 to April 2003. If an author i co-authored a paper with author j, the graph contains a undirected edge from i to j. If the paper is co-authored by k authors this generates a completely connected (sub)graph on k nodes.
This network has 26197 nodes and 28980 edges.