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Klimafreundliches Magnesium: US-Start-up setzt auf Elektrolyse von Meerwasser
Magnesium ist ein wichtiger Rohstoff für viele Industrien. Ein kalifornisches Start-up will das Leichtmetall nun klimafreundlich aus dem Meer gewinnen.

Didi reports Q1 revenue up 8.5% YoY to ~$7.4B, a ~$334M net income, up from a ~$194M loss YoY, transactions up 10% YoY to 3.3B, and ~$418M international revenue (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-trans…

That sinking feeling: Australia’s Limestone Coast is drying up https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/05/that-sinking-feeling-australias-limestone-coast-is-drying-up

On Setting Up a Raspberry Pi Off-grid PV-Powered Server (2014) - How I set up a Raspberry Pi (Model B then B ) after the SheevaPlug. ~1.6W consumption typical, 400x less than my original server rack! #RPi #frugal #offGrid

On Setting Up a Raspberry Pi Off-grid PV-Powered Server (2014)
How I set up a Raspberry Pi (Model B then B+) after the SheevaPlug. 1.6W consumption typical, 400x less than my original server rack! #RPi #frugal #offGrid

This week is building up to a crescendo of critical cybersecurity developments, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the top infosec news stories you should know, including
--CISA nominee Plankey pulled from Senate confirmation hearing,
--The Com has been hacking Salesforce tools,
--Chinese hackers broke into US telecoms in 2023,
--Law enforcement busts up BidenCash,
--China issues warrants for 20 alleged Taiwanese hackers,
--Feds are probing CrowdS…

CISA nominee Plankey pulled from Senate confirmation hearing
The Com has been hacking Salesforce tools, Chinese hackers broke into US telecoms in 2023, Law enforcement busts up BidenCash, China issues warrants for 20 alleged Taiwanese hackers, Feds are probing CrowdStrike's 2024 outage, Reddit sues Anthropic for scraping comments, much more

High-ranking federal officials have suggested that #birdflu virus should be left to "rip" through poultry farms across the U.S.
— but experts warn that this hands-off approach could hasten the beginning of a new pandemic

RFK's proposal to let bird flu spread through poultry could set us up for a pandemic, experts warn
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 outbreaks spread unchecked through U.S. poultry farms. Health experts warn it could lead to a new pandemic.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Black Keys:
🎵 Tighten Up
#NowPlaying #TheBlackKeys
https://goodrobotusses.bandcamp.com/track/tighten-up-bend-on-me-matchbox-twenty-bent-x-a-ha-take-on-me-x-the-black-keys-tighten-up
https://open.spotify.com/track/3C542UknrX76XSRXTyQ1Qg

Terence Steele is ‘set up to have a great year’ for Cowboys in 2025, per Brian Schottenheimer https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/terence-steele-is-set-up-to-have-a-great-year-for-cowboys-in-2025-per-brian-scho…

Aaron Rodgers wants to retire with this player on his team: 'It's always been something A-Rod would bring up'

https://www.cbssports.…

Top GOP Map-Drawer and Right-Wing Law Firm Team Up to Target Texas Minority Voters - Democracy Docket
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/top-gop-map-drawer-and-right-wing-law-firm-team-up-to-target-minority-voters-in-texas/

Chairman Comer Expands Investigation into Biden Mental Decline Cover-Up (United States House Committee on Oversight ...)
https://oversight.house.gov/release/chairman-comer-expands-investigation-into-biden-mental-decline-cover-up/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p184#a250604p184

Ashton Jeanty’s Rivalry With Travis Hunter Predicted to Heat Up Again https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/ashton-jeantys-rivalry-with-travis-hunter-predicted-to-heat-up-again/?adt_ei=[email

Our chosen company gave us 8 options covering a traditional set-up versus heat pump and back up heat, and 2 different brands. We chose a mid-tier solution with a gas furnace and heat pump from a non-traditional brand. More on that later. It would be set-up so the heat pump would provide heat down to 0°C at which point the furnace kicks in. That means we would be burning natural gas for approx 18 weeks in the Innisfil area. And that new furnace is 96% efficient vs. 80%ish for our old furnace.

As world heats up, U.N. cools itself the cool way: with water
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/05/13/climate-change/un-water-cooling-pipes/
🆓

As world heats up, U.N. cools itself the cool way — with water
As more and more people want to stay cool in a planet that is steadily heating up, energy experts point to this kind of water-based system as a good alternative.

"You put your nightmares up there, you put your dreams up there and people can see them better because they can stand outside of it and recognise themselves inside it."
-Holly Hunter
#acting #coaching

Running cars on E-Fuels, made with CO2 from the air and green Hydrogen?🚗⛽🌿⚡
E-Fuels, so the story goes, could allow using existing cars and infrastructure like gas stations. However, E-Fuels are extremely inefficient.
In 2022, Siemens Energy, Porsche, and the Chilean company HIF inaugurated the Haru Oni pilot plant in Chile's windy Magallanes region, which turns CO2 and Hydrogen into Methanol and small amounts of Gasoline. How's it going? 🧵

What's up with the Production of E-Fuels in Chile?
In 2022, Siemens Energy, Porsche, and HIF inaugurated a pilot plant for the production of E-Methanol and E-Gasoline in southern Chile. The Haru Oni plant was intended to be just the beginning — with plans for large-scale production just a few years later. However, it does not look like that will ever happen.

Ukraine will receive new aid: Sweden, Germany, Latvia step up support: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/05/ukraine-will-receive-new-aid.html

CERN gears up to ship antimatter (h/t #FixTheNews)
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/cern-gears-up-to-ship-antimatter-across-europe/

"Eventually, I stopped responding to my body. I was responding instead to a dashboard." — @…
This is a great point and very much translates to so many other parts of life/work where people stop listening to their "body" (or to their org/product/offering), outsourcing/numbing/dumbing down their decision making based on dashboards of col…

Why I Gave Up My Smartwatch
Somewhere between the first time I tapped my wrist to skip a song and the three hundredth time I anxiously checked my resting heart rate, I started to hate my Apple Watch. The promise of the smartwatch was elegance, convenience, optimization. What I got was constant data drip, subtle panic,

"Breaching the target would ramp up the extreme weather already devastating communities around the world. It would also require carbon dioxide to be sucked from the atmosphere in future to restore the stable climate in which the whole of civilisation developed over the past 10,000 years."
This is bogus. Carbon-neutral #CarbonCaptureAndStorage is the modern perpetual…

They're not gonna turn up an opportunity to show Wendy James, are they. And Wendy's certainly not going to turn up an opportunity to appear on #TOTP
Transvision Vamp incoming, you mark my words.

at tv eye, totally ripping set by takaat, 3 members of mdou moctar, ecstatic tuareg desert blues dialled up until reaching, like, horse lords levels of rhythmic facemelt. saw one very excellent local drummer basically (politely) elbow his way up front to watch agog. #nyc #guitar

Newsweek acquires adtech firm Adprime, a demand-side platform focused on healthcare marketers, to strengthen its health vertical and grow B2B revenue (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/newsweek-adtech-firm-adprime-health-expansion/

Newsweek Snaps Up Adtech Firm Adprime to Fuel Health Expansion
The tie-up is part of a broader bid from the publisher to diversify its advertising

Broadcom reports Q2 revenue up 20% YoY to $15B, vs. $14.96B est., net income up 134% YoY to $4.97B, and sales from the AI industry up 46% YoY to $4.4B (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/e…

Great blog post by @… on the Whatever machine. She talks about why crypto sucks, why LLMs suck, why hyped up clickbait sucks, and why calling writing and art 'content' sucks https://e…

The rise of Whatever
This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of events in recent history. Let me back up a bit.

We visited my parents yesterday and I decided to bring along my PS5/VR2 to see if my Dad would be interested in checking it out.
He was, so I hooked it up to their (20 year old and about to quit) TV and got it set up and tested for a minute with No Man's Sky to make sure everything was working as intended.
Dropped the hat on his head and set him up a custom save, all settings tuned to "easy mode", no combat or damage, all slots unlocked etc so he would be able to j…

I was originally planning on taking my pickup truck to Oshkosh for the fly-in in July, but then I gave it to my sister. I wonder if I can get my EV there and back again. I know that I can top up the battery in Port Washington but the last time I tried to juice up in West Bend, every charger was broken.

Lock screen ads. Imagine that.
I will never regret swearing off #Samsung devices after being fleeced by them twice. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114626009365316134…

Ars Technica (@arstechnica@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads Glance AI is coming to numerous Samsung phones as an opt-in experience this month. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/samsung-teams-up-with-glance-to-use-your-face-in-ai-generated-lock-screen-ads/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#WaPo: Reagan National Airport expected to close for up to several hours on June 14 for military flyovers,...
As loyal subject, I happily volunteer this sacrifice for my king's birthday. 🙄
But won't tolerate the extra "up to" in the report.
#uspol #parade

And this, people, is why Europe ABSOLUTELY NEEDS RIGHT FREAKING NOW its own human-graded space access system.
I'll never understand why nobody at #ESA thought of developping further the ATV in order to be also used to send people up instead of just cargo.
I know, the problem was mostly in bringing people down, as the ATV was designed to burn up in the atmosphere. But still. Now we…

rickf (@rickf@indieweb.social)
Attached: 1 image Dragon is what the US uses to resupply the ISS, for those that don't know...

Mentra entwickelt ein Open-Source-Betriebssystem für Smart Glasses
Das Start-up Mentra arbeitet an einer Open-Source-Alternative zu Smart-Glasses-Betriebssystemen der großen Techkonzerne.
http…

Nice tutorial on setting up local AI.
Set up a Local AI like ChatGPT on your own machine! https://youtu.be/DYhC7nFRL5I?si=lUyi5yGSJb37t0eO

Well, science is dead.
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/springer-nature-book-on-machine-learning-is-full-of-made-up-citations/

Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations
Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up? If not, you might want to pass on purchasing Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Ad…

Got root?
I figured this spider plant would be a bit rootbound after 3 years in the same container, but I wasn't expecting _this_! Poor thing has been detangled some and potted up. Snipped off 9 babies and stuck them in the greenhouse while I was at it, to give away later in the year, because everyone needs more spider plants.
#garden

“Just as Nazi Germany’s crimes could not have been committed without the technology IBM provided to track, round-up and murder Jews, Romani people and the disabled, Israel’s apartheid and genocide of the Palestinians would not be possible without Microsoft.”
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/05/23/mi…

How Microsoft became a hub for Israeli intelligence - The Grayzone
News and investigative journalism on empire

Long; central Massachusetts colonial history
Today on a whim I visited a site in Massachusetts marked as "Huguenot Fort Ruins" on OpenStreetMaps. I drove out with my 4-year-old through increasingly rural central Massachusetts forests & fields to end up on a narrow street near the top of a hill beside a small field. The neighboring houses had huge lawns, some with tractors.
Appropriately for this day and this moment in history, the history of the site turns out to be a microcosm of America. Across the field beyond a cross-shaped stone memorial stood an info board with a few diagrams and some text. The text of the main sign (including typos/misspellings) read:
"""
Town Is Formed
Early in the 1680's, interest began to generate to develop a town in the area west of Natick in the south central part of the Commonwealth that would be suitable for a settlement. A Mr. Hugh Campbell, a Scotch merchant of Boston petitioned the court for land for a colony. At about the same time, Joseph Dudley and William Stoughton also were desirous of obtaining land for a settlement. A claim was made for all lands west of the Blackstone River to the southern land of Massachusetts to a point northerly of the Springfield Road then running southwesterly until it joined the southern line of Massachusetts.
Associated with Dudley and Stoughton was Robert Thompson of London, England, Dr. Daniel Cox and John Blackwell, both of London and Thomas Freak of Hannington, Wiltshire, as proprietors. A stipulation in the acquisition of this land being that within four years thirty families and an orthodox minister settle in the area. An extension of this stipulation was granted at the end of the four years when no group large enough seemed to be willing to take up the opportunity.
In 1686, Robert Thompson met Gabriel Bernor and learned that he was seeking an area where his countrymen, who had fled their native France because of the Edict of Nantes, were desirous of a place to live. Their main concern was to settle in a place that would allow them freedom of worship. New Oxford, as it was the so-named, at that time included the larger part of Charlton, one-fourth of Auburn, one-fifth of Dudley and several square miles of the northeast portion of Southbridge as well as the easterly ares now known as Webster.
Joseph Dudley's assessment that the area was capable of a good settlement probably was based on the idea of the meadows already established along with the plains, ponds, brooks and rivers. Meadows were a necessity as they provided hay for animal feed and other uses by the settlers. The French River tributary books and streams provided a good source for fishing and hunting. There were open areas on the plains as customarily in November of each year, the Indians burnt over areas to keep them free of underwood and brush. It appeared then that this area was ready for settling.
The first seventy-five years of the settling of the Town of Oxford originally known as Manchaug, embraced three different cultures. The Indians were known to be here about 1656 when the Missionary, John Eliott and his partner Daniel Gookin visited in the praying towns. Thirty years later, in 1686, the Huguenots walked here from Boston under the guidance of their leader Isaac Bertrand DuTuffeau. The Huguenot's that arrived were not peasants, but were acknowledged to be the best Agriculturist, Wine Growers, Merchant's, and Manufacter's in France. There were 30 families consisting of 52 people. At the time of their first departure (10 years), due to Indian insurrection, there were 80 people in the group, and near their Meetinghouse/Church was a Cemetery that held 20 bodies. In 1699, 8 to 10 familie's made a second attempt to re-settle, failing after only four years, with the village being completely abandoned in 1704.
The English colonist made their way here in 1713 and established what has become a permanent settlement.
"""
All that was left of the fort was a crumbling stone wall that would have been the base of a higher wooden wall according to a picture of a model (I didn't think to get a shot of that myself). Only trees and brush remain where the multi-story main wooden building was.
This story has so many echoes in the present:
- The rich colonialists from Boston & London agree to settle the land, buying/taking land "rights" from the colonial British court that claimed jurisdiction without actually having control of the land. Whether the sponsors ever actually visited the land themselves I don't know. They surely profited somehow, whether from selling on the land rights later or collecting taxes/rent or whatever, by they needed poor laborers to actually do the work of developing the land (& driving out the original inhabitants, who had no say in the machinations of the Boston court).
- The land deal was on condition that there capital-holders who stood to profit would find settlers to actually do the work of colonizing. The British crown wanted more territory to be controlled in practice not just in theory, but they weren't going to be the ones to do the hard work.
- The capital-holders actually failed to find enough poor suckers to do their dirty work for 4 years, until the Huguenots, fleeing religious persecution in France, were desperate enough to accept their terms.
- Of course, the land was only so ripe for settlement because of careful tending over centuries by the natives who were eventually driven off, and whose land management practices are abandoned today. Given the mention of praying towns (& dates), this was after King Phillip's war, which resulted in at least some forced resettlement of native tribes around the area, but the descendants of those "Indians" mentioned in this sign are still around. For example, this is the site of one local band of Nipmuck, whose namesake lake is about 5 miles south of the fort site: #LandBack.

Is Jerry Jones Holding the Cowboys Back—or Lifting Them Up? https://insidethestar.com/is-jerry-jones-holding-the-cowboys-back-or-lifting-them-up

Ed Yong is one of, if not the top science writers in the world today. Here’s his latest blog entry. https://buttondown.com/edyong209/archive/the-eds-up-unbreaking/
Recommended.

The Ed's Up - Unbreaking
My face all the time I hope you’re all hanging in there. In the earliest months of the COVID-19 pandemic, people knew that the coronavirus that reached the...

Dreaming up scale invariance via inverse renormalization group
Adam Ran\c{c}on, Ulysse Ran\c{c}on, Tomislav Ivek, Ivan Balog
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04016

Dreaming up scale invariance via inverse renormalization group
We explore how minimal neural networks can invert the renormalization group (RG) coarse-graining procedure in the two-dimensional Ising model, effectively "dreaming up" microscopic configurations from coarse-grained states. This task-formally impossible at the level of configurations-can be approached probabilistically, allowing machine learning models to reconstruct scale-invariant distributions without relying on microscopic input. We demonstrate that even neural networks with as few as three…

Long-Term Optical Follow Up of S231206cc: Multi-Model Constraints on BBH Merger Emission in AGN Disks
P. Darc, C. R. Bom, C. D. Kilpatrick, A. Souza Santos, B. Fraga, J. C. Rodr\'iguez-Ram\'irez, D. A. Coulter, C. Mendes de Oliveira, A. Kanaan, T. Ribeiro, W. Schoenell, E. A. D. Lacerda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02224…

Long-Term Optical Follow Up of S231206cc: Multi-Model Constraints on BBH Merger Emission in AGN Disks
The majority of gravitational wave events detected by the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA Collaboration originate from binary black hole (BBH) mergers, for which no confirmed electromagnetic counterparts have been identified to date. However, if such mergers occur within the disk of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), they may generate observable optical flares induced by relativistic jet activity and shock-heated gas. We present results from a long-term optical follow-up of the gravitational wave event S…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Avalanches:
🎵 Frontier Psychiatrist
#TheAvalanches
https://seesfu.bandcamp.com/track/protip-if-youre-looking-for-the-australian-version-of-sily-make-sure-it-says-tonight-may-have-to-last-me-all-my-life-on-the-back-or-it-might-be-the-shitty-fucked-up-version-w-bad-frontier-psychia
https://open.spotify.com/track/4WVUtbd7CL38fVdIQVN3fk

I also want to re-up this thread, which links to two different funds providing direct mutual aid to people in Gaza. If you are looking to help •right now•, in this dire moment, this a place you can do that.
4/
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/114593006896846609

"Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations" The book," Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Advanced", costs $169.
Yet more reason to be skeptical about #AI salespeople.

Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations
Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up? If not, you might want to pass on purchasing Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Ad…

Whatever this cat got caught doing, they were obviously framed. They'll happily do it again, but they're clearly innocent! Just look at them :3

The NASA Exoplanet Archive and Exoplanet Follow-up Observing Program: Data, Tools, and Usage
Jessie L. Christiansen, Douglas L. McElroy, Marcy Harbut, David R. Ciardi, Megan Crane, John Good, Kevin K. Hardegree-Ullman, Aurora Y. Kesseli, Michael B. Lund, Meca Lynn, Ananda Muthiar, Ricky Nilsson, Toba Oluyide, Michael Papin, Amalia Rivera, Melanie Swain, Nicholas D. Susemiehl, Raymond Tam, Julian van Eyken, Charles Beichman

The NASA Exoplanet Archive and Exoplanet Follow-up Observing Program: Data, Tools, and Usage
The NASA Exoplanet Archive and the Exoplanet Follow-up Observing Program service are two widely used resources for the exoplanet community. The NASA Exoplanet Archive provides a complete and accurate accounting of exoplanetary systems published by NASA missions and by the community in the refereed literature. In anticipation of continued exponential growth in the number of exoplanetary systems, and the increasing complexity in our characterization of these systems, the NASA Exoplanet Archive ha…

Requirements Elicitation Follow-Up Question Generation
Yuchen Shen, Anmol Singhal, Travis Breaux
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02858 https://

Requirements Elicitation Follow-Up Question Generation
Interviews are a widely used technique in eliciting requirements to gather stakeholder needs, preferences, and expectations for a software system. Effective interviewing requires skilled interviewers to formulate appropriate interview questions in real time while facing multiple challenges, including lack of familiarity with the domain, excessive cognitive load, and information overload that hinders how humans process stakeholders' speech. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have exhibited s…

citeulike: CiteULike
Three bipartite networks that make up the CiteULike folksonomy, representing the tag-publication, user-publication, and user-tag networks. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 885046 nodes and 2411819 edges.
Tags: Informational, Folksonomy, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps
https://

This year, there appear to be even more fireworks on my street. Which seems weird given both the tariffs and the fact these are a Chinese invention which are made in China, and the folks setting them off around here are very much ‘America first’.
Because the folks setting them off don’t seem to care about their neighbors nor neighbors’ dogs.

Death Toll in Texas Flood Rises to at Least 24, With as Many as 25 Missing,
after up to 250 mm of rain fell within two days.
#ClimatechangeisWaterchange
https://www.

Death Toll in Texas Flood Rises to at Least 24, With as Many as 25 Missing
The authorities said that emergency workers had rescued more than 230 people so far after flooding along the Guadalupe River and would keep working through the night.

"Whatever" is a brilliant essay on "AI" by @…:
"But I think the core of what pisses me off is that selling this magic machine requires selling the idea that doing things is worthless. Because if doing something has some value, then it must be somehow better than pushing a button and receiving Whatever for essentially no cost."

The rise of Whatever
This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of events in recent history. Let me back up a bit.

Time to turn up the heat.
I'm told raccoons don't like spicy. well, i like a bit of kick in my yard...

This is a nice write-up of some complex and careful decisions and collaboration to navigate hard tradeoffs that in the end got the job done
I wish we also had more open discussions about the opposite scenario: "when the right tool is the wrong choice"
https://tern.sh/blog/pagerduty-cassadr

When the Wrong Tool is the Right Choice: PagerDuty's Cassandra Queue | Tern Blog
In 2011, PagerDuty was using MySQL as a queue. If you just winced, you understand the problem.

Sources: Toronto-based AI startup Cohere is seeking to raise $500M at a valuation of over $5.5B; it raised a $500M Series D at a $5.5B valuation in July 2024 (Financial Times)

AI start-up Cohere seeks $500mn in effort to catch up to OpenAI and Anthropic
Canadian group seeks valuation of up to $6.5bn but rivals have soared far higher in comparison

Ukraine attacks, the US stops air defense: what will Trump decide? | Weekly Wrap-Up: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/05/ukraine-attacks-the-us-stops.html

»Pay up or stop scraping – Cloudflare program charges bots for each crawl:
Cloudflare now beta testing pay-per-crawl feature to stop endless AI scraping.
Cloudflare is now experimenting with tools that will allow content creators to charge a fee to AI crawlers to scrape their websites.«
This is certainly a good idea, but on the other hand, the competition is trying to eliminate each other. I'm curious… 🍿😎

Pay up or stop scraping: Cloudflare program charges bots for each crawl
Cloudflare now beta testing pay-per-crawl feature to stop endless AI scraping.

Day 3 of my #MotoCamping trip. After the previous days adventures I decided I needed a day to hike rather than ride. Started the day off with a quick ride into town for provisions and then went to Natural Bridge State Park, where I hiked the Original trail up to Balanced Rock and then the Low Gap trail up to the Natural Bridge. Both are considered moderate by the locals, but I think by an…

Just my luck, I have to do a livestream and my eyes puff up due to allergies and Canadian wildfire smoke.

PSA it doesn't take greed to end up in a bad spot with companies extracting as much as they can. Only competition.

Boundary blow-up and degenerate equations
Satyanad Kichenassamy (LMR)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02485 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.024…

Boundary blow-up and degenerate equations
Let $Ω\subset\mathbb R^2$ be a bounded domain of class $C^{2+α}$, $0<α<1$. We show that if $u$ is the solution of $Δu = 4\exp(2u)$ which tends to $+\infty$ as $(x,y)\to\partialΩ$, then the hyperbolic radius $v=\exp(-u)$ is also of class $C^{2+α}$ up to the boundary. The proof relies on new Schauder estimates for degenerate elliptic equations of Fuchsian type.

"I have come up with a sure-fire concept for a hit television show,
which would be called `A Live Celebrity Gets Eaten by a Shark'."
-- Dave Barry, "The Wonders of Sharks on TV"

Somehow I managed 9.54 miles today in 48 minutes with an average speed of 12mph... I guess I made up for yesterday when I only did 4 indoor miles.
#biking #bikeTooter #mke

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09060 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

The COSMOS-Web deep galaxy group catalog up to $z=3.7$
Galaxy groups with $M_{tot} \lesssim 10^{14}$ $M_\odot$ and up to a few tens of members are the most common galaxy environment, marking the transition between field and massive clusters. Identifying groups plays a crucial role in understanding structure formation and galaxy evolution. Modern deep surveys allow us to build well-characterized samples of groups up to the regime where structures were taking shape. We aimed to build the largest deep catalog of galaxy groups to date over the COSMOS-W…

Natural experiments from Earth Hour reveal urban night sky being drastically lit up by few decorative buildings
Chu Wing So, Chun Shing Jason Pun, Shengjie Liu, Sze Leung Cheung, Ho Keung Kenneith Hui, Kelly Blumenthal, Constance Elaine Walker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02019

Natural experiments from Earth Hour reveal urban night sky being drastically lit up by few decorative buildings
Light pollution, a typically underrecognized environmental issue, has gained attention in recent years. While controlling light pollution requires sustained efforts, Earth Hour offers a unique natural experimental setting to assess temporary lights-out measures. Using photometric and spectroscopic sensors, we observed up to 50% night sky darkening during Earth Hour from 2011 to 2024 in Hong Kong, primarily as a result of a small but critical number of lights-out instances in central business di…

As the AI talent wars reach a fever pitch,
Mark Zuckerberg is offering top tier recruits to Meta’s new superintelligence lab
pay packages of up to $300 million over four years,
with more than $100 million in total compensation for the first year.
https://bsky.app/profile/wired.com/pos

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Pete Josef:
🎵 Looking Up
#NowPlaying #PeteJosef
https://petejosef.bandcamp.com/album/looking-up
https://open.spotify.com/track/4FqimycrrBbrtBQfooXLNU

No such thing as a slow cybersecurity news day anymore, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Top cyber vendors hope to clean up crazy threat group naming practices,
--Coinbase knew of data leak in January,
--Prolific swatter pleads guilty,
--Cartier confirms data breach,
--Abilene gropes for recovery after rejecting ransom payment,
--North Face customers' data stolen in credential s…

Top cyber vendors hope to clean up crazy threat group naming practices
Coinbase knew of data leak in January, Prolific swatter pleads guilty, Cartier confirms data breach, Abilene gropes for recovery after rejecting ransom payment, North Face customers' data stolen in credential stuffing attacks, $11.5m stolen from BitoPro hot wallets, much more

Raiders Countdown to kickoff catch up 99-95: Who wore it best and who's wearing it now https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/06/05/raiders-countdown-to-kickoff-…

Derek Carr said retiring, giving up $30 million Saints salary was 'the right thing to do' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6405385/2025/06/05/derek-carr-retirement-saints-money/

Had a great, entirely unexpected experience with the State Troopers at a protest today in #Memphis. They showed up and parked nearby; we all figured they were itching for us to violate the new #Tennessee "PEACE Act" law (which restricts protests) so they could jam us up.
Then a MAGA came…

Judge frees up Trump tariffs pending DC Circuit appeal | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/federal-judge-frees-up-trump-tariffs-pending-dc-circuit-appeal/

The real cover-up is of Trump's disordered mental state (Stephen Robinson/Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-cognitive-decline-cover-up
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p34#a250603p34

(2014) Watch the 'Fed Up' documentary #documentary

Fed Up
Fed Up blows the lid off everything we thought we knew about food and weight loss, revealing a 30-year campaign by the food industry, aided by the U.S. government, to mislead and confuse the American public, resulting in one of the largest health epidemics in history.

North Korea to send up to 30,000 more troops to aid Russia's war against Ukraine, CNN reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/north-korea-to-send-up.html

MongoDB reports Q1 revenue up 22% YoY to $549M, vs. $527.5M est., net loss down 54% to $37.6M, and increases its full-year guidance; MDB up 14% after hours (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/04/mongodb-crus…

["Overture" for Cats (2019) plays in the background]

Battery electric vehicles had a market share of 18% last month in Germany; sales 45% higher than in May 2024.
China's BYD up 824%, easily surpassing Tesla (down 36%), but still only 4% share in Germany's BEV market.
https://www.

fullerene_structures: Fullerene molecular structures
Fifteen networks of carbon atoms and the atomic bonds that connect them within molecules of fullerenes, from 60 atoms up to 6000 atoms. A bond is defined to exist whenever the distance of two atoms is less than 1.5 angstrom.
This network has 1500 nodes and 2250 edges.
Tags: Biological, Chemical, Unweighted, Spatial

Finally finished the VSC8512 writeup! Ended up being just a biiiit longer than I had expected but there was a lot to talk about.
I still want to refactor my code a bit to be cleaner and more OO, what I have now is a bit quick-and-dirty, but it works.
https://serd.es/2025/07/04/Switch-proj

it is now possible to set arbitrary strap pins with #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer! use `glasgow multi <...> gpio --pins B0:3 B0=0 B1=H B2=L B3=1` to strap B0 strong low, B1 weak high, B2 weak low, B3 strong high
the GPIO applet doesn't take up USB endpoint resources, so this is "free": you can append ` gpio` to any applet command line you'd like

KI oder nicht KI, das ist hier die Frage! 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
Builder.ai, ein einst hochgehandeltes KI-Start-up mit Sitz in London, sorgt für Schlagzeilen.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10422912?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.ma…

Did the Republicans Just Blow Up the Trump Coalition? (Dan Pfeiffer/The Message Box)
https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/did-the-republicans-just-blow-up
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p109#a250703p109

Aaron Rodgers wants to retire with this player on his team: 'It's always been something A-Rod would bring up'

https://www.cbssports.…

How I start my day :3
🎨by ayu

Thousands of satellites with incredibly short lifetimes are being sent up into low Earth orbit.
When they fall back down they're fireballs of pollution — and what doesn't burn up hits the ground
https…

What goes up must come down: How megaconstellations like SpaceX's Starlink network pose a grave safety threat to us on Earth
Thousands of satellites with incredibly short lifetimes are being sent up into low Earth orbit. When they fall back down they're fireballs of pollution — and what doesn't burn up hits the ground.

After hanging around in Dutch parliament for 35 years (8 years as assistant and speech writer for VVD, 27 years as MP), far-right Wilders just blew up his first own coalition, because the other parties didn't sign up for his new list of anti-refugee/asylumseeker ideas.

Ukraine war latest: As Russia ramps up missile attacks, US halts promised air defense shipments to Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/ukraine-war-latest-as-russia.html

As Russia ramps up missile attacks, US halts promised air defense shipments to Ukraine, Politico reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/as-russia-ramps-up-missile.html

Foxconn reports Q1 revenue up 15.8% YoY to ~$62B, driven by strong demand for iPhones and AI servers powered by Nvidia chips, meeting analysts' expectations (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

HPE reports Q2 revenue up 6% YoY to $7.63B, vs. $7.46B est., Server revenue up 6% YoY to $4.1B, and says it expects a reduced impact from tariffs this year (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

OpenAI says it has 3M "paying business users", up from 2M in February; ChatGPT Team users can now use a "record mode" for taking notes during meetings (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/679580/chatgpt-google-d…

ChatGPT can now read your Google Drive and Dropbox
ChatGPT now has 3 million “paying business users” and is adding new features like meeting notes.

Sources: Apple and Alibaba's AI rollout in China is being held up by the Cyberspace Administration of China, which has approved 300 domestic AI models so far (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/0c76f3c2-7213-42a5-8f30-b101b7616db0

Apple and Alibaba’s AI rollout in China delayed by Donald Trump’s trade war
Partnership between US and Chinese tech groups stalled by Beijing regulator in wake of geopolitical tensions

Singapore's Temasek cuts back on startup investments after the fund wrote down hundreds of millions of dollars on a spate of collapsed startups, including FTX (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/54594076-eea5-4c0d-946c-e05ba7038d3e

Singapore’s Temasek cuts back on start-up investments
State-owned $300bn fund says it is adopting a ‘more cautious approach’ on early-stage companies

UK neobank Monzo reports FY 2025 revenue up 48% YoY to £1.2B, a £60.5M pre-tax profit, up from £13.9M in FY 2024, deposits up 48% YoY to £16.6B, and 12M users (Yadarisa Shabong/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/b

Defense tech startup Anduril raised a $2.5B Series G led by Founders Fund, which invested $1B, at a $30.5B valuation, up from $14B in August 2024 (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

CISA, the ACSC, and the FBI say the Play ransomware gang, active since June 2022, had breached roughly 900 organizations as of May 2025, up 3x on October 2023 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Some creatives and academics are rejecting AI on environmental and ethical grounds, and describe the pressure they feel to use AI to "keep up" with others (Emine Saner/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Leaked documents: Meta is training custom AI chatbots to message users unprompted, following up on past chats to boost engagement on its AI Studio platform (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-studio-…

Leaked docs show Meta training custom AI chatbots to be more proactive
Leaked guidelines show how Meta's custom AI chatbots are trained to get more proactive, following up with users to increase retention.

Source: Trump's World Liberty Financial sent a cease-and-desist letter to the company behind $TRUMP and to Magic Eden after they announced the $TRUMP Wallet (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A former employee says fewer than 10,000 people use Ola Krutrim's LLM chatbot, which supports 10 Indian languages, and that over 60% of them are random testers (Swathi Moorthy/The Economic Times)
https://

Krutrim finds few takers for its LLMs and cloud products
Ola founder Aggarwal first announced Krutrim in December 2023, launching an LLM that could support 10 Indian languages, starting with Krutrim chatbot in February 2024, and cloud offering shortly after. Two founders told ET recently that repeated sign-in attempts were blocked by a persistent “logged out of session” error, making sign-up via mobile or Gmail difficult.