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🍻 Maltose-negative yeasts could unlock new flavors and faster brewing for nonalcoholic beers
#microbes

Maltose-negative yeasts could unlock new flavors and faster brewing for nonalcoholic beers
Small organisms can have a big impact, and researchers have explored nearly a dozen nontraditional yeast strains to determine which ones could brew the best nonalcoholic beers for a rapidly growing market.

Lies we tell ourselves to keep using #Golang
https://fasterthanli.me/articles/lies-we-tell-ourselves-to-keep-using-golang

Ce graphe dit tout...
This graph says it all...
Source (in French but nicely illustrated) https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/visuel/2025/07/02/comprendre-le-rechauffement-climatiq…

Comprendre le réchauffement climatique : comment nous avons bouleversé la planète
Deux siècles ont suffi à l’humanité pour dérégler le climat et enclencher une hausse des températures aux effets potentiellement dramatiques. Dans ce format visuel, « Le Monde » retrace cette évolution et les mécanismes à l’œuvre dans ce bouleversement.

Detecting, intercepting, and ejecting adversaries is getting harder as cybercriminals move faster and smarter.
Check out my latest CSO piece on how CISOs need to rethink their digital playbooks in light of these trends.
Thanks to Matt Immler of Okta, Tom Etheridge of CrowdStrike and Pierre Cadieux of Cisco Talos for their insight.

CISOs must rethink defense playbooks as cybercriminals move faster, smarter
Facing faster, stealthier intruders, CISOs are under pressure to modernize their cybersecurity strategies, toolsets, and tactics. From detection to post-mortem, here are key points of renewed emphasis.

"Stop that kitty!"
Kitty: *does it faster*

Loser: U.S. factories
When Democrats in 2022 created and expanded a slew of federal tax breaks for electric vehicles, solar panels, wind turbines, batteries,
they designed them to encourage companies to use components made in the United States.
That spurred a manufacturing boom, including solar-panel glass recyclers in Georgia and electric-vehicle assembly lines in Kentucky.
The new law could derail many of those factories.
The old tax credit for solar power, for…

How the G.O.P. Bill Will Reshape America’s Energy Landscape
Here’s a rundown on the winners and losers in the legislation muscled through Congress.

Enhancing Interpretability in Generative Modeling: Statistically Disentangled Latent Spaces Guided by Generative Factors in Scientific Datasets
Arkaprabha Ganguli, Nesar Ramachandra, Julie Bessac, Emil Constantinescu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00298

Enhancing Interpretability in Generative Modeling: Statistically Disentangled Latent Spaces Guided by Generative Factors in Scientific Datasets
This study addresses the challenge of statistically extracting generative factors from complex, high-dimensional datasets in unsupervised or semi-supervised settings. We investigate encoder-decoder-based generative models for nonlinear dimensionality reduction, focusing on disentangling low-dimensional latent variables corresponding to independent physical factors. Introducing Aux-VAE, a novel architecture within the classical Variational Autoencoder framework, we achieve disentanglement with m…

Norway to send F-35 fighter jets to Poland to cover transportation hub for Ukrainian military aid: https://benborges.xyz/2025/06/30/norway-to-send-f-fighter.html

🎣 New study maps the fishmeal factories that supply the world’s fish farms
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/05/new-study-maps-the-fishmeal-factories-that-supply-the-worlds-fish-farms/

New study maps the fishmeal factories that supply the world’s fish farms
Fish farms boomed globally in recent decades — more than half the world’s seafood now comes from aquaculture — but it’s not a boom all environmentalists support. One argument that critics of industrial aquaculture make is that the fishmeal and fish oil used to make the feed for popular carnivorous species like salmon is not sustainably […]

Hey NY, let Eric Adams know that he's a piece of shit.. er, wait, sorry, I meant let him know that making ebikes limited to 15mph (not the motor speed, but literally pedaling faster than 15mph) with *criminal* charges if you go faster is a terrible idea. Cars will still have a 25mph (or more) speed limit, only ebikes will be criminally charged for keeping up with car traffic on the road.
#NYC

E-Bike Rule — Transportation Alternatives
Biking is not a crime, but Mayor Adams wants it to be.