Tootfinder

In 2014, NASA awarded a Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract to Boeing to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station with its #Starliner spacecraft; as part of its contract, Boeing was awarded up to six crewed flights to the orbital complex - after a thorough evaluation, the definitive order has been adjusted to four missions, with the remaining two available as options: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2025/11/24/nasa-boeing-modify-commercial-crew-contract/. The next Starliner flight, known as Starliner-1, will be used by NASA to deliver necessary cargo to the orbital laboratory and allow in-flight validation of the system upgrades implemented following the Crew Flight Test mission last year - NASA and Boeing are targeting no earlier than April 2026 to fly the uncrewed Starliner-1 pending completion of rigorous test, certification, and mission readiness activities.

How a Microsoft-backed $1B geothermal-powered data center in Kenya faced construction delays due to uncertainty over its value for local businesses (Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/22/2025/kenya-us-china-tech-war-ai-data-center

Africa’s forgotten battleground in the US-China tech war
A Kenyan data center stalls, raising questions about the ability of the US to compete with China in Africa.

A decision-theoretic framework for uncertainty quantification in epidemiological modelling
Nicholas Steyn, Freddie Bickford Smith, Cathal Mills, Vik Shirvaikar, Christl A Donnelly, Kris V Parag
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20013

A decision-theoretic framework for uncertainty quantification in epidemiological modelling
Estimating, understanding, and communicating uncertainty is fundamental to statistical epidemiology, where model-based estimates regularly inform real-world decisions. However, sources of uncertainty are rarely formalised, and existing classifications are often defined inconsistently. This lack of structure hampers interpretation, model comparison, and targeted data collection. Connecting ideas from machine learning, information theory, experimental design, and health economics, we present a fi…

The Lurie/Mandelman RV ban is still set to go into effect and tow people's homes on Nov. 1, the same day SNAP expires and at the same time federal agents are in the Bay to terrorize immigrants.
Send a letter to the mayor and BOS asking them to extend the towing deadline:
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All Eyes on the Mayor’s RV Ban - No Tows Before Housing!
DSA SF is continuing its opposition to Daniel Lurie’s two-hour restriction on RV parking, which will take effect on November 1st, 2025. We know this policy for what it is - the latest attempt by San Francisco’s oligarch Mayor to exile poor and working class people from the City. While San Francisco has put in place a refuge permit program, it’s deeply flawed. The City’s initial eligibility list excludes many longtime RV residents, and those that are eligible have an uncertain offer of …

Dynamic reversal of IT-PFC information flow orchestrates visual categorization under perceptual uncertainty https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.17.695044v1 Quite a mouthful to say that "the brain actually reverses its information flow when things get blurr…

RIS-assisted Data Collection and Wireless Power Transfer in Low-altitude Wireless Networks
Wenwen Xie, Geng Sun, Jiahui Li, Jiacheng Wang, Yinqiu Liu, Dusit Niyato, Dong In Kim, Shiwen Mao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19651

RIS-assisted Data Collection and Wireless Power Transfer in Low-altitude Wireless Networks
Low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs) have become effective solutions for collecting data from low-power Internet-of-Things devices (IoTDs) in remote areas with limited communication infrastructure. However, some outdoor IoTDs deployed in such areas face both energy constraints and low-channel quality challenges, making it challenging to ensure timely data collection from these IoTDs in LAWNs. In this work, we investigate a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted uncrewed aerial vehi…

Plans for a massive new #Oracle datacentre in the US state of Michigan have been left in limbo after funding talks with its key financial partner broke down.
https://www.comput…

Oracle datacentre plans uncertain after key funding talks collapse
Plans for a massive new Oracle datacentre in the US state of Michigan have been left in limbo after funding talks with its key financial ...

AI workplace agents startup Genspark raised a $275M Series B at a $1.25B valuation and says it hit $50M in annualized revenue after pivoting from AI search (Anna Tong/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2025/11/20/genspark…

Genspark Joins The Unicorn Club With Latest Funding Round
The startup, which offers AI work productivity tools, got to $50 million in annualized revenue just five months after launching its suite of AI agents.

Particle Filtering for Non-Deterministic Electrocardiographic Imaging
Emma Lagracie (UB), Luc de Montella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19404 https://arxiv.or…

Particle Filtering for Non-Deterministic Electrocardiographic Imaging
Electrocardiographic imaging (ECGI) aims to non-invasively reconstruct activation maps of the heart from temporal body surface potentials. While most existing approaches rely on inverse and optimization techniques that may yield satisfactory reconstructions, they typically provide a single deterministic solution, overlooking the inherent uncertainty of the problem stemming from its very ill-posed nature, the poor knowledge of biophysical features and the unavoidable presence of noise in the mea…

Sources detail how Tiger Global fueled the COVID-era unicorn bubble that burst ahead of the AI boom; the firm recently shared its $12.7B 2021 fund is now up 16% (Issie Lapowsky/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/tiger-global-unicorn-investment-crash/

Big bets and broken unicorns: Tiger Global’s rise and reckoning
The fast-money pandemic era helped build billion-dollar startups around the world — then brought many down just as quickly. Will the AI boom be a repeat?