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Filing: Insight Partners says a ransomware attack on its systems between October 2024 and January 2025 affected 12,600 people, including limited partners (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/17/vc-giant…

VC firm Insight Partners says thousands of staff and limited partners had personal data stolen in a ransomware attack | TechCrunch
The venture capital giant, behind cyber giants Wiz and Databricks, notified current and former employees, as well as the firm's limited partners, that their data was stolen in a January cyberattack.

Deutsches Robotikunternehmen Kuka will nun insgesamt 560 Stellen streichen
Kuka plant nun, rund 560 Stellen abzubauen, weil Aufträge in dreistelliger Millionenhöhe ausgeblieben sind. Der bayerische Staat will helfen.

Why we sleep: insights from current research https://www.ru.nl/en/donders-institute/news/why-we-sleep-insights-from-current-research

Why we sleep: insights from current research | Radboud University
In the sleep lab of Martin Dresler, scientists work every day to piece together the scientific puzzle of sleep. We spend roughly a third of our lives asleep, switching off for eight hours makes any organism highly vulnerable.

from my link log —
A look at iMessage in iOS 14.
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/01/a-look-at-imessage-in-ios-14.html
saved 2021-01-31

🍬 Shape-shifting material could transform future of implantable and ingestible medical devices
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-shifting-material-future-implantable-ingestible.html

Shape-shifting material could transform future of implantable and ingestible medical devices
Researchers led by Rice University's Yong Lin Kong have developed a soft but strong metamaterial that can be controlled remotely to rapidly transform its size and shape.

Nowhere was quite as hard hit as Santa Barbara,
which experienced the soggiest three-day stretch of November rain in the county's recorded history.
According to data from the National Weather Service, the Santa Barbara Airport received 6.67 inches of rain between Friday and Sunday,
breaking the location's previous three-day total set in 2002 when it received 5.66 inches.
The downpour was so heavy because it pulled in moisture all the way from Hawaii as it rotat…

Santa Barbara hit hard by storms: record rainfall, flooded streets, moisture from Hawaii
According to data from the National Weather Service, the Santa Barbara Airport received 6.67 inches of rain between Friday and Sunday, breaking the location'...

An Exploratory Study on Abstract Images and Visual Representations Learned from Them
Haotian Li, Jianbo Jiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14149 https://arxiv…

An Exploratory Study on Abstract Images and Visual Representations Learned from Them
Imagine living in a world composed solely of primitive shapes, could you still recognise familiar objects? Recent studies have shown that abstract images-constructed by primitive shapes-can indeed convey visual semantic information to deep learning models. However, representations obtained from such images often fall short compared to those derived from traditional raster images. In this paper, we study the reasons behind this performance gap and investigate how much high-level semantic content…

This applies to all of us #Researchers - why do we keep flying all around the world just to give (or watch) some talks that could have been given or watched online???
Yes, in-person conferences are slightly better for "networking"... but is this really worth destroying the planet?!
Quoting @…

ChatGPT Images: OpenAI stellt neues Bildgenerierungsmodell GPT-Image-1.5 vor
OpenAI hat das neue Bildgenerierungsmodell GPT-Image-1.5 vorgestellt. Es soll schneller und präziser arbeiten und ist wohl die Antwort auf Googles Nano Banana.

Google plans to start using StopNCII's hashes to proactively identify nonconsensual images in search results and remove them (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/780852/google-stopncii-nonconsensual-intimate-imagery-has…

Google will use hashes to find and remove nonconsensual intimate imagery from Search
Google is partnering with StopNCII to combat nonconsensual images, but the company still lags behind much of the industry.