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H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Grad: 17 August - 24 August https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20123261/h-net-job-guide-weekly-report-h-grad-17-august-24-august

August 26, 2025 -- Today, for the second time in as many days, President Donald J. Trump suggested ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-26-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250827/p54#a250827p54

Another bloody SovCit 🤬
#Australia

Porepunkah shooting live updates: Two police officers killed in rural Victoria as search for shooter continues
The public is being asked to avoid the scene, which has been described as an "active and ongoing incident which may present a significant risk to members of the public".

Salesloft says hackers stole OAuth tokens from its Drift chat agent integration to conduct a Salesforce data theft campaign between August 8 and August 18 (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

board_directors: Norwegian Boards of Directors (2002-2011)
224 networks of the affiliations among board directors due to sitting on common boards of Norwegian public limited companies (as of 5 August 2009), from May 2002 onward, in monthly snapshots through August 2011. Some metadata is included, such as director and company names, city and postal code for companies, and gender for directors. The 'net2m' data are bipartite company-director networks, while the 'net1m' ar…

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Buddhism: 17 August - 24 August https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20123243/h-net-job-guide-weekly-report-h-buddhism-17-august-24-august

What a time to be alive.
😱
https://www.gocomics.com/jen-sorensen/2025/08/27

Jen Sorensen by Jen Sorensen for August 27, 2025 | GoComics
Read Jen Sorensen—a comic strip by creator Jen Sorensen—for today, August 27, 2025, and check out other great comics, too!

Nahe dem Flughafen #Schönefeld entsteht die größte deutsche #AgriPV-Anlage mit #Ackerbau.
Das 48-Megawatt-Projekt soll bis August 2026 fertiggestellt werden und jährlich 59 Gigawattstunden…

Goldbeck Solar und Elysium Solar Schönefeld errichten landesweit größte Agri-Photovoltaik-Anlage mit Ackerbau
Die 48-Megawatt-Anlage entsteht nahe des Flughafens Berlin-Schönefeld. Der Bau soll im August 2026 abgeschlossen sein. Eigentümer ist der Investmentfond Klimavest der Commerzbank-Tochter Commerz Real.

Cowboys Headlines: Forecasting Micah Parsons Week 1 usage; 53-man roster news; cuts recap https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/27/news-headlines-august-26-2025…

Wildfire raised local death rate by 67%, shows study on 2023 Hawaiʻi fires #Hawaii

Wildfire raised local death rate by 67%, shows study on 2023 Hawaiʻi fires
New research unveils the true death toll of the deadly August 2023 wildfires which took place in Lāhainā, Maui, Hawaiʻi—and which temporarily made wildfire a leading cause of death in Maui. By comparing death rates over time, the scientists found that two-thirds more people died that August than would have been expected.

Today's best bets for Monday, August 25: Top MLB, NFL, college football picks, predictions

https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/todays-…

Trump Ratings and U.S. Mood Stay Tepid in August (Lydia Saad/Gallup)
https://news.gallup.com/poll/694370/trump-ratings-mood-stay-tepid-august.aspx
http://www.memeorandum.com/250826/p89#a250826p89

Champions League vom #StPauli auf dem CSD 2025 in #Hamburg
Der FC St. Pauli nimmt am 2. August erstmals mit einem eigenen Truck am Hamburger #CSD teil.

CSD 2025: FC St. Pauli mit eigenem Truck - MillernTon
Der FC St. Pauli nimmt am 2. August erstmals mit einem eigenen Truck am Hamburger CSD teil. Wir sprachen mit Tanja von St. Pauli Pride  über den Tag und die Aktionen.

heise | heise Update vom 22. August 2025: Lesetipps fürs Wochenende
Der wöchentliche Newsletter von heise diesmal mit Spotify-Alternativen, Festplatten, Dolby Atmos, EU-Energielabels, Staubsaugerroboter in Home Assistant.

- ☑ August release (1 app, 6 platforms): shipped
- ☐ September release (4 apps, 4 platforms): in progress

Technically I got this bike last month (August 31st) but I just hit 300 miles during a lunch time ride at work.
I'll add another 6 miles getting home just to make it legit 300 miles this month.
The best thing about this ebike is that I can ride and ride and ride and my 55 year old bum knee doesn't make me pay for it later.
#bikeTooter

Wusstet ihr, dass die #WorldTransplantGames auch deswegen nach Deutschland vergeben wurden, weil hier die Lage bei der #Organspende so katastrophal ist?
freie-radios.net (Radio @…

It's late August in the kitchen.
#cooking

Millions of passengers could be affected by cyber breach at Dublin Airport supplier
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/10/24/millions-of-passengers-could-be-affected-by-cyber-breach-at-dublin-airport-suppl…

Millions of passengers could be affected by cyber breach at Dublin Airport supplier
Boarding pass information of people who used airport in August may have been published online

Although there have been no regulatory changes to the DACA program,
the administration has tried to strip 525,000 Daca recipients,
also known as Dreamers, of benefits.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/27/daca…

A proposed class action suit against Amazon filed August 22 claims it misleads customers, who think they own content they bought when they only have a license (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

You Don’t Actually Own That Movie You Just “Bought.” A New Class Action Lawsuit Targets Amazon
A suit challenges Prime Video telling people they can "buy" a movie when they're purchasing a license to watch it for a period of time.

»Tech & #Religion — Peter Thiels geheimer Besuch an der Uni Innsbruck:
Der #Tech-Milliardär Peter Thiel ist fasziniert von der Idee eines "#AntiChrist'en". Im August hielt er dazu vier Vo…

Tech & Religion: Peter Thiels geheimer Besuch an der Uni Innsbruck
Der Tech-Milliardär Peter Thiel ist fasziniert von der Idee eines "Anti-Christen". Im August hielt er dazu vier Vorträge im kleinsten Kreis an der Katholisch-Theologischen Fakultät. Warum die Geheimnistuerei?

A poem by Stan Stewart: The Medicine I Carry. Written during a grief circle and ritual on the 23rd of August, 2025.
#poem #grief
https://

The Medicine I Carry
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

The GPT-4o Shock Emotional Attachment to AI Models and Its Impact on Regulatory Acceptance: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Immediate Transition from GPT-4o to GPT-5
Hiroki Naito
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16624

The GPT-4o Shock Emotional Attachment to AI Models and Its Impact on Regulatory Acceptance: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Immediate Transition from GPT-4o to GPT-5
In August 2025, a major AI company's immediate, mandatory transition from its previous to its next-generation model triggered widespread public reactions. I collected 150 posts in Japanese and English from multiple social media platforms and video-sharing services between August 8-9, 2025, and qualitatively analyzed expressions of emotional attachment and resistance. Users often described GPT-4o as a trusted partner or AI boyfriend, suggesting person-like bonds. Japanese posts were dominated by…

ADAC-Preis bei Aral Pulse gefixt — danke für eure Meldungen! Achtung, gute Neuigkeiten: ab 1. August sinkt der Preis von 0,57 € auf 0,55 €!

Tonight!
Mayor Lurie doesn't have the authority to overturn car-free Market Street. This is only a temporary violation of car-free Market Street, one we can and will reverse!

@… did you … know? #wasps #waspnest

Brandelyn Tafoya - From Scratch Cooking | Low Tox Homestead on Instagram: "I wish I knew this earlier!! Decided to try it since we strongly dislike having to spray wasp nests. Can’t believe it actually worked!!! Basically you hang a paper bag next to their nest, and they think it’s another nest and leave. So cool!!!! . #nontoxichome #farmhack #homehacks #tryit #househack #organicliving #nontoxicliving #waspnest #homestead"
39K likes, 625 comments - pivotfarm on August 23, 2025: "I wish I knew this earlier!! Decided to try it since we strongly dislike having to spray wasp nests. Can’t believe it actually worked!!! Basically you hang a paper bag next to their nest, and they think it’s another nest and leave. So cool!!!! . #nontoxichome #farmhack #homehacks #tryit #househack #organicliving #nontoxicliving #waspnest #homestead".

Moin #SchleswigHolstein, moin #Kiel,
heute Abend ist das erste Treffen der #WomenInMobility in Schleswig-Holstein.
"Der WiM Hub Schleswig-Holstein lädt euch am 27. August 2025 …

Events | Women in Mobility
Die Women in Mobility Hubs schaffen mit ihren Events Chancen für den persönlichen Austausch. Aber nicht nur das: Es ist uns ein wichtiges Anliegen, mehr Frauen auf Mobilitätsveranstaltungen sichtbar zu machen.

Retro-tastic!
https://andypiper.co.uk/2025/08/25/retro-tastic/

Retro-tastic!
A visit to the August 2025 retro computing exhibition in Kingston-upon-Thames, London.

Wegen Ölgeschäften mit Russland: US-Zölle für Indien verdoppelt
Die Frist für neue US-Zölle auf Importe aus Indien wegen dessen Ölgeschäften mit Russland ist abgelaufen. US-Präsident Donald Trump hatte Anfang August angeordnet, dass die zusätzlichen Zölle in Höhe von 25 Prozent um 6.01 Uhr deutscher Zeit in Kraft treten. Ein hochrangiger Regierungsbeamter bestätigte der Deutschen Presse-Agentur, das…
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Enge Beziehungen zu Russland: Zwischen Indien und USA kriselt es
Indien gehört zu den Ländern, die die höchsten Zollabgaben an die USA zahlen müssen. Dabei verstehen sich Indiens Premierminister Narendra Modi und US-Präsident Donald Trump eigentlich gut. Doch nun kriselt es.

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is doing very well already, months before its perihelion - and it's not a transient outburst: "To measure the total brightness, the entire coma of 7' was used in Astrometrica," writes Michael Jäger in #comet *could* thus reach 2nd or 1st magnitude in late October / early November when it's observable in Ser, Her and Oph at a solar elongation of around 35° ... unless it decides to stay dimmer, of course.

In Hamburg Wilhelmsburg gab es einen rassistischen Angriff auf einen Arzt.
https://www.mopo.de/hamburg/heil-hitler-rufe-im-wartezimmer-rassistischer-angriff-in-arztpraxis/

"DRC finally moves to protect African gray parrots from unsustainable trade Didier Makal"
#DRC #Parrots #Animals

DRC finally moves to protect African gray parrots from unsustainable trade
LUBUMBASHI, DRC — African gray parrot populations in the central and northern parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo are declining. Data collected by patrols carried out by the Lukuru Foundation in Lomami Luidjo, Maniema province, show a worrying decline of 36% in the numbers of Psittacus erithacus observed between 2016 and 2021. In August […]

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Grad: 17 August - 24 August
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State University Equal Rights Association Name of Site Patterson Hall, Women's…
via Input 4 RELCFP …

Sammy Obeid tried to organize a show in #Singapore
This did not go well. Had to submit his whole script in advance. Ultimately rejected.
That's the thing with Singapore, it's an awesome place to visit, but it's also not very democratic. Protests need a permit, etc.

Today was a 14 mile bike ride instead of a 2 mile paddle, with no dolphins on any part of the ride. Unseasonably comfortable weather for August in Atlanta 74F (23C) at 11am.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Viv Corringham:
🎵 August (Rain, Sag Harbor, NY)
#VivCorringham

We recorded our @… radio show not realising that resonance FM is on a summer break. So we uploaded it here please have a listen! https://www.

Bei einem linksextremistischen Menschen in wäre das nicht passiert https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/sachsen/chemnitz/chemnitz-stollberg/flucht-rechtsextremistin-liebich-jva-100.html

Rechtsextremistin Liebich: Wussten Behörden von geplanter Flucht?
Ende August hat Rechtsextremistin Marla Svenja Liebich ihre Haft im Gefängnis in Chemnitz nicht angetreten. Seitdem ist sie auf der Flucht. Das Justizministerium in Sachsen-Anhalt soll rechtzeitig davon gewusst haben.

Anthropic's Threat Intelligence report for August says Claude was weaponized for sophisticated cybercrimes, including a "vibe-hacking" data extortion scheme (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

‘Vibe-hacking’ is now a top AI threat
Anthropic’s new Threat Intelligence report, out today, details the wide range of cases in which Claude — and likely many other leading AI agents and chatbots — are being abused.

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Buddhism: 17 August - 24 August
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State University Equal Rights Association Name of Site Patterson Hall, Women's…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Heute vor 57 Jahren: Am 27. August 1968 kam es in der sowjetischen Werft #Sewmasch in #Sewerodwinsk zu einem #Reaktorunfall auf dem U-Boot K-140. Ein Fehler bei der Installation der Steuerka…

gnutella: Gnutella p2p networks (2002)
A sequence of 9 snapshots of the Gnutella peer-to-peer file sharing network from 5-31 August 2002. Nodes are hosts in the Gnutella network topology and edges are connections between them.
This network has 8717 nodes and 31525 edges.
Tags: Technological, Peer-to-peer, Unweighted
https://

Begegnung mit Freunden - #Gottesdienst einmal anders! „Gute Nachrichten“ am 29. August 18 Uhr Chrustuskirche #Waksdorf und danach Snacks und Getränke #Kirche

Police respond to possible active shooter in south Minneapolis (Aki Nace/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/south-minneapolis-incident-august-27-2025/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250827/p62#a250827p62

Perspectra: Choosing Your Experts Enhances Critical Thinking in Multi-Agent Research Ideation
Yiren Liu, Viraj Shah, Sangho Suh, Pao Siangliulue, Tal August, Yun Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20553 …

Perspectra: Choosing Your Experts Enhances Critical Thinking in Multi-Agent Research Ideation
Recent advances in multi-agent systems (MAS) enable tools for information search and ideation by assigning personas to agents. However, how users can effectively control, steer, and critically evaluate collaboration among multiple domain-expert agents remains underexplored. We present Perspectra, an interactive MAS that visualizes and structures deliberation among LLM agents via a forum-style interface, supporting @-mention to invite targeted agents, threading for parallel exploration, with a r…

Ukrainian hackers force Russian TV to broadcast hourslong footage of battlefield losses: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/25/ukrainian-hackers-force-russian-tv.html

Happy Birthday, Linux!
🎁🎂🎈 🥳
I first installed Linux on my computer many months after that announcement, in December 1992. I have memories of swapping an almost endless pack of floppy disks during the lengthy install at a Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany. The album “Connected” by Stereo MC's was playing several times until I was finally greeted with a shell prompt.

Adversarial Defense in Cybersecurity: A Systematic Review of GANs for Threat Detection and Mitigation
Tharcisse Ndayipfukamiye, Jianguo Ding, Doreen Sebastian Sarwatt, Adamu Gaston Philipo, Huansheng Ning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20411

Adversarial Defense in Cybersecurity: A Systematic Review of GANs for Threat Detection and Mitigation
Machine learning-based cybersecurity systems are highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks, while Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) act as both powerful attack enablers and promising defenses. This survey systematically reviews GAN-based adversarial defenses in cybersecurity (2021--August 31, 2025), consolidating recent progress, identifying gaps, and outlining future directions. Using a PRISMA-compliant systematic literature review protocol, we searched five major digital libraries. From 8…

Just reported that I found a couple of dead Salamander at beginning of August in the #Karwendel . 😞
Luckily I was following the Blog of karwendel.org. Otherwise I wouldn't have known that reports about such incidents should be reported:

Tatterfrau, Tattermann und der Salamander-Fresser - Naturpark Karwendel ⛰️
Eine Pilz-Krankheit breitet sich unter heimischen Salamander- und Molch-Arten aus. Deshalb sollen kranke Alpensalamander gemeldet werden.

NFL preseason rookie winners: Which 2025 draft first-rounders thrived in August? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6570445/2025/08/25/nfl-draft-winners-jaxson-dart-abdul-carter/

Although there have been no regulatory changes to the DACA program,
the administration has tried to strip 525,000 Daca recipients,
also known as Dreamers, of benefits.
In July, Tricia McLaughlin, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) assistant press secretary, claimed, FALSELY, that
“Daca does not confer any form of legal status in this country”
and urged recipients to self-deport.
Earlier this month, Javier Diaz Santana,
a deaf and mute Daca recip…

This is utterly unacceptable. The international Dance community must condemn this loudly and publicly.

Monday Aug 4th. Breathe new life into your old laptop/desktop. Stop E-waste and Windows 11 bloat-ware, and try Linux. #Linux #linuxmint #EndOf10

Disney sues Sling TV for allegedly violating their carriage deal by including Disney's networks without permission in the new mini-bundles launched in August (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/08/disney-sues-sling-tv-min…

Disney Sues Sling TV, Saying Its New Mini-Bundles Violate Carriage Deal Terms
The Walt Disney Co. is suing Dish Network's internet subsidiary Sling TV, alleging that the pay-TV service included its networks without permission in a new set of short-term pay-TV packages.

Early start today for two weeks in Aachen.
Today: talk at the Center for Computational Life Sciences (come by!)
Tue-Thu: #CoRDI2025 with a poster for the German Reproducibility Network @… and a Market Stall for the Digital Research Academy

In August of 1977, Tim Horton was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, just 3 years after losing his life in an automobile accident. Known as "the strongest man in hockey " during his career, he helped the Toronto Maple Leafs win 4 Stanley Cups. He would have been only notable with hockey nerds except for the fact that before he died, he was the namesake and primary investor for a Hamilton Ontario restaurant selling donuts and coffee. Today, most Canadians live within 100 metres of a Timmies and don't have a clue who the founder was, or that he died crashing his exotic sports car while drunk. (Insert tasteless joke about TimBits all over the QEW...)
#CanadaIsAwesome #NHL #Fame
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Horton

Bis 31.8./30.9.: Bewerben für Kabarettwettbewerbe!
Bewerbungen für die "Weinstädter Reblaus" sind bis Ende August möglich - Bewerbungen für den "Stuttgarter Besen" bitte bis 30. September!
https://www.kabarett-news.de/News-vom-25.08.2025-kaba…

Artemis: $10B was moved through stablecoins in August, up from $6B in February and more than double YoY, following President Trump's signing of the Genius Act (Judy Lagrou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

Timer wrap around strikes again:
''The root cause was traced to a software timing bug. The software function that switches the signal amplifier on and off relies on an internal timer. This timer is constantly counting up and restarts from zero once every 16 months. If the function happens to be using the timer at the exact moment it restarts, the amplifier remains switched off, and Juice’s signal is too weak to detect from Earth.'

Juice team resolves anomaly on approach to Venus
The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) is on track for its gravity-assist flyby at Venus on 31 August, following the successful resolution of a spacecraft communication anomaly that temporarily severed contact with Earth.The issue, which emerged during a routine ground station pass on 16 July, temporarily disrupted Juice’s ability to transmit information about its health and status (telemetry).Thanks to swift and coordinated action by the teams at ESA’s European Sp…

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians | Israel | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/25/microsoft-blocks-israels-use-of-its-technology-in-mass-s…

This week! Another week of perfect weather, and we play Thursday, August 28th from 4:00pm to 7:00pm at Pearson Street and State, just off the Mag Mile near the Hancock. Say hi if you're in the area!
#chicago #LiveMusic

August 2025 was the third-warmest August globally, behind only 2023 and 2024, with an average surface air temperature of 16.60°C, 1.29°C above the estimated 1850-1900 average used to define the pre-industrial level.
https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-temper…

wiki_link_dyn: Wikipedia link dynamics (2011)
Six networks of the evolving hyperlink structure among wikipedia articles, for simple English (en), German (de), Dutch (nl), Polish (pl), Italian (it), French (fr), taken in August 2011. Each edge is timestamped, and an edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to j. The edge sign indicates the addition ( 1) or deletion (-1) of that link at the specified time.
This network has 100312 nodes and 1627472 edges.
Tags: Informati…

NFL preseason rookie winners: Which 2025 draft first-rounders thrived in August? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6570445/2025/08/25/nfl-draft-winners-jaxson-dart-abdul-carter/

Catalina “Xochitl” Santiago had already made it past the security line at the El Paso airport
when two border patrol agents called her in for questioning
and whisked her away to an immigration detention center.
Nearly a month after her arrest, she and her family still aren’t clear why she is detained.
Santiago is a beneficiary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) program
– which has allowed her to legally live and work in the US.
“They have …

Meet the Press - August 24, 2025 (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-august-24-2025-n1312618
http://www.memeorandum.com/250824/p49#a250824p49

DHL schränkt Paketversand in die USA ein
Ende August greifen neue strenge Zollvorschriften für den Paketversand in die USA. Viele Fragen sind noch unbeantwortet, Postdienste ziehen daher die Notbremse.
https://www.

Heute vor 60 Jahren: Am 27. August 1965 zündeten die USA im Rahmen von Operation #Flintlock die 6. #Atombombe "Centaur". Flintlock war eine Serie von Tests zwischen 65/66 bei der insgesamt 47 #Kernwaffentests

NFL preseason rookie winners: Which 2025 draft first-rounders thrived in August? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6570445/2025/08/25/nfl-draft-winners-jaxson-dart-abdul-carter/

wiki_link_dyn: Wikipedia link dynamics (2011)
Six networks of the evolving hyperlink structure among wikipedia articles, for simple English (en), German (de), Dutch (nl), Polish (pl), Italian (it), French (fr), taken in August 2011. Each edge is timestamped, and an edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to j. The edge sign indicates the addition ( 1) or deletion (-1) of that link at the specified time.
This network has 100312 nodes and 1627472 edges.
Tags: Informati…

August 24, 2025 -- As the administration of President Donald Trump is using loopholes ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-24-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250825/p60#a250825p60

Fact Check: Zelenskyy Did NOT Comment On Meeting With Trump By Saying That 'Trump Doesn't Really Want' Ceasefire Between Ukraine And Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/25/fact-check-zelenskyy-did-not.html

"The tenth flight test of #Starship is preparing to launch as soon as Monday, August 25," says https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-10 now: "The launch window will open at 6:30 p.m. CT" i.e. at 23:30 UTC tonight.

Immigrants locked up in California’s newest federal detention center have described the facility as
“a torture chamber”, “a zoo” and “hell on earth”,
saying they were confined in filthy cells and suffered medical crises without help.
Six people detained at the
California City detention center,
which opened in late August and is now the state’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention center,
shared accounts with the Guardian of poor cond…

Tracxn: funding for Indian digital lending startups fell to $462M between January and August 2025 from $1.1B a year earlier, after RBI tightened lending norms (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

Clock’s ticking for digital lenders as VC funding plunges 50% in 2025
Funding into digital lending startups slumped to $462 million between January and August 2025 from $1.1 billion a year earlier, according to data from market intelligence platform Tracxn. Only around 50 of the 154 fintech deals reported this year involved digital lenders, the data showed.

Heute vor 68 Jahren: Am 27. August 1957 fand der #Atomtest "Pascal-B" (17/29) im Rahmen der Operation #Plumbbob in Nevada statt. Sie beinhaltete die höchsten Turmtests in den #USA, umfasste Luft…

Innerhalb weniger Tage im August 2025 haben #Waldbrände in #Spanien die höchsten jährlichen #Feueremissionen seit Beginn der

This Week in Sports Trivia: August 21, 2025 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6565023/2025/08/21/this-week-in-sports-trivia-august-21-2025/

A U.S. Border Patrol video featuring antisemitic lyrics went viral on X on Tuesday
after far-right users discovered it had been posted to Facebook and Instagram.
The video, which included the lyrics “Jew me” and “kike me,” was deleted from the platforms on Wednesday morning,
though it’s not clear whether the offensive content was taken down by Border Patrol or Meta.
The 13-second video appears to have been posted to Instagram in August,
but was pinned in the Reel…

Border Patrol Posts Instagram Propaganda Video Featuring Antisemitic Slurs
The video was pinned to Border Patrol's Instagram Reels.

heise | heise Update vom 15. August 2025: Lesetipps zum Wochenende
Der Newsletter von heise : Abnehmen mit Gadgets, E-Lastenräder, macOS-Tools, Wechselrichter-Tausch, Foto-Sync-Speicher.
https://www.

The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer #JUICE is on track for its gravity-assist flyby at #Venus on 31 August, following the successful resolution of a spacecraft communication #anomaly that temporarily severed contact with Earth: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Juice_team_resolves_anomaly_on_approach_to_Venus

August 22, 2025 -- In these last days of August, with Congress on hiatus and the Epstein files looming ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-22-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250823/p28#a250823p28

board_directors: Norwegian Boards of Directors (2002-2011)
224 networks of the affiliations among board directors due to sitting on common boards of Norwegian public limited companies (as of 5 August 2009), from May 2002 onward, in monthly snapshots through August 2011. Some metadata is included, such as director and company names, city and postal code for companies, and gender for directors. The 'net2m' data are bipartite company-director networks, while the 'net1m' ar…

Heute vor 31 Jahren: Am 25. August 1994 wurde im #Kernkraftwerk #Barsebäck ein schwerwiegender Mangel entdeckt. Die Schmierung der Notkühlsystem-Pumpen war unzureichend, was im Ernstfall zu Schäden geführt hätte.

August 23, 2025 -- "It is my Great Honor to report that the United States of America ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-23-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250824/p3#a250824p3

xAI sues OpenAI in California for allegedly stealing trade secrets by means of hiring away key employees; in August, xAI sued an ex-staffer who left for OpenAI (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/musks-xai-sues-openai-alleging-theft-of-trad…

Musk’s xAI sues OpenAI, alleging theft of trade secrets
Following a recent lawsuit against a former employee over allegedly stealing trade secrets, Musk’s xAI is now suing the company that executive left to work for — OpenAI. The suit accuses OpenAI of “inducing” recruits that it poached to steal trade secrets from the company.

Heute vor 44 Jahren: Am 27. August 1981 testen die #USA die #Atombombe "Islay". Die Operation #Guardian war eine Serie von 14 US-amerikanischen

Android 16: August-Update für Pixel behebt nervigen Navigations-Bug
Google hat das August-Update für seine Pixel-Geräte veröffentlicht. Unter anderem behebt die Software einen Fehler, bei dem die Navigation nicht mehr reagierte.

Today's best bets for Wednesday, August 20: MLB, PGA, college football, NFL picks, predictions

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Heute vor 56 Jahren: Am 27. August 1969 testen die #USA simultan die Atombomben "Horehound" u. "Pliers". Operation Mandrel war eine Serie von 53 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1969/70 hauptsächlich auf der Nevada Test Site in Nevada unterirdisch durchgeführt wurde.…

wiki_link_dyn: Wikipedia link dynamics (2011)
Six networks of the evolving hyperlink structure among wikipedia articles, for simple English (en), German (de), Dutch (nl), Polish (pl), Italian (it), French (fr), taken in August 2011. Each edge is timestamped, and an edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to j. The edge sign indicates the addition ( 1) or deletion (-1) of that link at the specified time.
This network has 100312 nodes and 1627472 edges.
Tags: Informati…

Heute vor 57 Jahren: Am 27. August 1968 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Bowline die Atombombe "Diana Moon". Bowline war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 68/69 insgesamt 58 Bomben im Testgebiet in

Lawyers for the Trump administrationargued in court on Thursday that
the administration has the authority to send migrants to military bases around the globe, according to a new report.
The New York Times reported on Thursday on an exchange between Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan of the Federal District Court in Washington and August E. Flentje, a senior Justice Department lawyer.
The two argued over whether the Trump administration could detain migrants abroad, a question that…

Trump lawyer uncorks startling new claim about where it can ship migrants next
Lawyers for the Trump administration argued in court on Thursday that the administration has the authority to send migrants to military bases around the globe, according to a new report. The New York Times reported on Thursday on an exchange between Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan of the Federal District...

Intel legt Bundle mit "Battlefield 6" auf
Ab dem 25. August bekommen Käufer von Intels CPUs und GPUs "Battlefield 6". Schon ein 120-Euro-Prozessor erhält die Dreingabe.
https://www.…

Heute vor 63 Jahren: Am 27. August 1962 teste die #Sowjetunion im Atomtestgebiet Nowaja Semlja eine #Atombombe mit der Testnummer 160 (4.2 Mt, atmosphärisch).

August 21, 2025 -- Yesterday, Republicans in the Texas House of Representatives approved ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-21-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250822/p61#a250822p61

Heute vor 67 Jahren: Am 27. August 1958 startete die geheime „Operation #Argus“ der #USA. Dabei wurden im Südatlantik nukleare Tests durchgeführt, um den „Christofilos-Effekt“ zu untersuchen – eine mögliche Verteidigung gegen sowjetische Raketen.

Neue VR-Spiele im August 2025: "World War Z VR" & "Grit and Valor: 1949"
Im August kommen Strategie- und Survival-Fans voll auf ihre Kosten. Außerdem erhält "World War Z" seine erste VR-Umsetzung.

board_directors: Norwegian Boards of Directors (2002-2011)
224 networks of the affiliations among board directors due to sitting on common boards of Norwegian public limited companies (as of 5 August 2009), from May 2002 onward, in monthly snapshots through August 2011. Some metadata is included, such as director and company names, city and postal code for companies, and gender for directors. The 'net2m' data are bipartite company-director networks, while the 'net1m' ar…