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today, rich & i hit the end of our enjoying the ride deadcast season with some deep head history. thanks to sociologist rebecca adams (& her receipts!) we can pinpoint wide use of “shakedown street” to describe the parking lot scene to summer ’89. https://www.dead.net/deadcast/enjoying-rid

Enjoying the Ride: On Tour | The Official Grateful Dead Podcast
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"Only two European states have net zero military emissions target, data shows"
#Europe #Climate #ClimateChange #Emissions

"Witcher 4": Erste Engine-Szenen aus dem neuen Rollenspiel
Bei einem Epic-Event hat CD Projekt erste Abschnitte aus dem kommenden "Witcher 4" gezeigt. Das Spiel läuft in Uneal Engine 5.6.

Polish engineer Piotr Ostapowicz has created what may be the world's smallest 8-bit Atari computer recreation, the "Atarino". The entire system—processor, graphics chips, sound hardware, and memory controllers—fits on a module measuring just 2×1.5 centimeters (about 0.79×0.59 inches), roughly the size of a postage stamp:

Polish engineer creates postage stamp-sized 1980s Atari computer
Hobby project shrinks 1980s computer platform that pierced the Iron Curtain.

The Growing Impact of Unintended #Starlink Broadband Emission on Radio Astronomy in the SKA-Low Frequency Range: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02831 -> "We report 112,534 individual detections of 1,806 unique Starlink satellites, some emitting broadband emission and others narrowband emission. [...] It is shown that in the worst cases, some datasets have a detectable Starlink satellite in ~30% of all images acquired. Emission from Starlink satellites is detected in primary and secondary frequency ranges protected by the International Telecommunication Union".

Epic Games launches MetaHuman, its game developer tool to quickly create realistic digital human characters, now embedded as part of Unreal Engine 5.6 (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/678403/epic-games-metahumans-unreal-engine

Epic is making it easier to create MetaHumans
Epic Games’ announced at its State of Unreal show MetaHuman Creator is now embedded within Unreal Engine and that they can be used in engines like Unity and Godot.

ℹ️ Beitrag im Liveblog gelöscht oder nicht zuordenbar, es folgt die alte Version:
Hegseth: Kommen NATO-Einigung auf ein Fünf-Prozent-Ziel näher
Die Nato-Staaten kommen US-Verteidigungsminister Pete Hegseth zufolge einer Einigung über Verteidigungsausgaben in Höhe von fünf Prozent der Wirtschaftsleistung näher. "Viele Länder übertreffen bereits die Zwei-Prozent-Marke deutlich. Wir sind sehr nahe an einem Konsens für eine Verpf…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Satellitenbilder zeigen Schäden an Flugzeugen ++
Nach dem ukrainischen Angriff vom Sonntag auf russische Militärstützpunkte sind auf Satellitenbildern Schäden an einigen Maschinen zu sehen. Im Norden der Ukraine sind bei Angriffen laut Behörden mindestens fünf Menschen getötet worden. Der Liveblog vom Donnerstag zum Nachlesen.

A Learned Cost Model-based Cross-engine Optimizer for SQL Workloads
Andr\'as Strausz, Niels Pardon, Ioana Giurgiu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02802 http…

A Learned Cost Model-based Cross-engine Optimizer for SQL Workloads
Lakehouse systems enable the same data to be queried with multiple execution engines. However, selecting the engine best suited to run a SQL query still requires a priori knowledge of the query computational requirements and an engine capability, a complex and manual task that only becomes more difficult with the emergence of new engines and workloads. In this paper, we address this limitation by proposing a cross-engine optimizer that can automate engine selection for diverse SQL queries throu…

Do Research Software Engineers and Software Engineering Researchers Speak the Same Language?
Timo Kehrer, Robert Haines, Guido Juckeland, Shurui Zhou, David E. Bernholdt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02665

Do Research Software Engineers and Software Engineering Researchers Speak the Same Language?
Anecdotal evidence suggests that Research Software Engineers (RSEs) and Software Engineering Researchers (SERs) often use different terminologies for similar concepts, creating communication challenges. To better understand these divergences, we have started investigating how SE fundamentals from the SER community are interpreted within the RSE community, identifying aligned concepts, knowledge gaps, and areas for potential adaptation. Our preliminary findings reveal opportunities for mutual le…

"Danone cuts methane emissions by a quarter"
#Danone #Emissions
https://www.edie.net/dan…