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Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Patchday XXL: Microsoft schließt teils aktiv attackierte Schwachstellen

Was ist denn das? #Kichererbsen sind es schonmal nicht. Ist das Acker-Rettich? 🤔
Übrigens, #Wanderroutentipps in diesem Bundesland mit GPX-Track findet Ihr über

Sources: Sinclair builds an ~8% stake in E.W. Scripps and is vying to acquire the local TV broadcaster; the companies held constructive talks in recent months (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/sincl…

It is now less than than 12 months to the midterm elections.
And the D-party is about as ready and organized as a bag of live worms.
The R-party is ready with massive tools to exclude voters; block, disrupt and manipulate the vote counts; and otherwise assure that the election comes out their way.
But the D's still hang onto leaders and issues (I'm lookin' at you "identity politics") that are like boat anchors on a parachute.
I am old, but I firm…

Education and Outreach Across Seventeen Countries of the Pierre Auger Collaboration
Fabio Convenga (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11850 https://…

Education and Outreach Across Seventeen Countries of the Pierre Auger Collaboration
The Pierre Auger Observatory, dedicated to measuring ultra-high energy cosmic rays, has been promoting for more than two decades educational and scientific outreach activities to make its results known in an understandable language to diverse audiences. Among its most notable efforts, we can mention the creation of a visitor center at the Observatory site in Malargüe, Argentina, the production of brochures, posters, videos, talks, and special actions with the community in the site of the Obser…

Leaked audio: Apple nears a deal to acquihire computer vision startup Prompt AI; it was approached by other potential suitors, including xAI and Neuralink (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/apple-nears-deal-to-acquire-ta…

Apple nears deal to acquire talent and technology from computer vision startup Prompt AI
Apple is in late-stage talks with startup Prompt AI to bring on the company's employees and its computer vision technology.

Understanding Expert Exploration in EHR Visualization Tools: The ParcoursVis Use Case
Ambre Assor, Jean-Daniel Fekete
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10081 https://

Understanding Expert Exploration in EHR Visualization Tools: The ParcoursVis Use Case
We introduce our ongoing work toward an insight-based evaluation methodology aimed at understanding practitioners' mental models when exploring medical data. It is based on ParcoursVis, a Progressive Visual Analytics system designed to visualize event sequences derived from Electronic Health Records at scale (millions of patients, billions of events), developed in collaboration with the Emergency Departments of 16 Parisian hospitals and with the French Social Security. Building on prior usabili…

Just heard about the ceasefire agreement from folks in Gaza (was heads-down coding).
I want to be optimistic although I fear what Israel and Netanyahu’s government will do to sabotage it.
Also, is it too soon to talk about holding Israel and the IDF responsible for genocide?
h…

Updates: Israel approves Gaza ceasefire deal; Hamas touts US guarantee
These were the updates on Israel’s war on Gaza and attacks on the occupied West Bank for Thursday, October 9.

Sources: Coinbase and Mastercard have each held talks to acquire stablecoin startup BVNK for $1.5B-$2.5B; a deal would be the largest stablecoin acquisition yet (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/10/09/bvnk-acquisition-coinbase-mastercard-stable…

Exclusive: Coinbase and Mastercard have both held advanced talks to buy stablecoin startup BVNK for around $2 billion
Stablecoins have become a buzzy sector over the past year amid a red-hot IPO from the stablecoin giant Circle and recently passed legislation in Congress.