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Eyewitnesses say Iranian government forces have begun opening fire,
apparently with automatic weapons and at times seemingly indiscriminately,
on unarmed protesters.
Hospital workers say protesters had been coming in with pellet injuries but now arrive with gunshot wounds and skull fractures.
One doctor called it a “mass-casualty situation.”
Despite the communications blockade, a recurring image has made its way out of Iran:
rows and rows of body bags.

As Iran’s Government Tries to Quell Protests, Accounts of Brutal Crackdown Emerge
As many as 3,000 feared dead as witnesses describe government forces firing on unarmed protesters.

A man blinded by greed, drunk on oil, hungry for more, deaf to the cost.
#Venezuela

Elektromobilität: Spulen in der Autobahn laden Fahrzeuge unterwegs
In Frankreich ist ein Autobahnteilstück mit einem induktiven Ladesystem ausgestattet worden. In einem Feldtest werden dort E-Autos während der Fahrt geladen.

In #Frankreich wird südlich von #Paris eine 1,5 km lange induktive #Autobahn getestet.
Vier Fahrzeuge prüfen, wie gut das

Elektrofahrzeuge: Induktive Lade-Autobahn in Frankreich geht in neue Testphase - Golem.de
Südlich von Paris wird eine 1,5 km lange induktive Autobahn getestet. Vier Fahrzeuge sollen nun zeigen, wie gut das Laden während der Fahrt funktioniert.

Robust forecast aggregation via additional queries
Rafael Frongillo, Mary Monroe, Eric Neyman, Bo Waggoner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05271 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.05271 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.05271
arXiv:2512.05271v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study the problem of robust forecast aggregation: combining expert forecasts with provable accuracy guarantees compared to the best possible aggregation of the underlying information. Prior work shows strong impossibility results, e.g. that even under natural assumptions, no aggregation of the experts' individual forecasts can outperform simply following a random expert (Neyman and Roughgarden, 2022).
In this paper, we introduce a more general framework that allows the principal to elicit richer information from experts through structured queries. Our framework ensures that experts will truthfully report their underlying beliefs, and also enables us to define notions of complexity over the difficulty of asking these queries. Under a general model of independent but overlapping expert signals, we show that optimal aggregation is achievable in the worst case with each complexity measure bounded above by the number of agents $n$. We further establish tight tradeoffs between accuracy and query complexity: aggregation error decreases linearly with the number of queries, and vanishes when the "order of reasoning" and number of agents relevant to a query is $\omega(\sqrt{n})$. These results demonstrate that modest extensions to the space of expert queries dramatically strengthen the power of robust forecast aggregation. We therefore expect that our new query framework will open up a fruitful line of research in this area.
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"France, Germany, Italy break solar records in December"
#France #Germany #Italy #SolarPower

France, Germany, Italy break solar records in December
AleaSoft Energy Forecasting's latest analysis finds Germany broke its record for solar production on a day in December on Christmas Day, reaching 87 GWh, while Italy and France achieved the same feat three days later, registering 66 GWh and 54 GWh respectively.

Trump calls off San Francisco ‘surge,’
but East Bay braces for action as protests erupt
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-23/trump-federal-forces-surge-san-francisco-east-bay

Trump calls off San Francisco 'surge,' but East Bay braces for action as protests erupt
President Trump called off a planned "surge" of federal forces to San Francisco, but officials in the East Bay said they were still gearing up for major immigration enforcement operations in their cities.

Sachsen Fernsehen hat einen ganz guten Beitrag zur gestrigen Demo für stärkere Verkehrsberuhigung am #Stresemannplatz veröffentlicht.
https://www.sachsen-fernsehen.de/mediath…

Stresemannplatz: Anwohner fordern mehr Sicherheit
Anwohner in Dresden-Striesen fordern mehr Sicherheit am Stresemannplatz. 4.000 Fahrzeuge täglich gefährden Kinder, Radfahrer und Fußgänger im Wohngebiet.

Donald Trump has suggested US taxpayers could reimburse energy companies for repairing Venezuelan infrastructure for extracting and shipping oil.
Trump acknowledged that
“a lot of money” would need to be spent to increase oil production in Venezuela after US forces ousted its leader, Nicolšs Maduro,
but suggested his government could pay oil companies to do the work.
“A tremendous amount of money will have to be spent and the oil companies will spend it,
and the…

Trump speaks with Petro amid nationwide Colombia protests against US after Venezuela intervention
Trump praises Colombian president’s ‘tone’ during call
and says they will meet soon,
while demonstrators rally across Colombia ‘to defend national sovereignty’
Venezuela to continue supplying oil to US ‘indefinitely’, White House says
Venezuela’s interim leader has said US forces’ attack to depose her predecessor
put a “stain” on the countries’ relations,