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The Public Media Bridge Fund awards $26M across 74 organizations that operate more than 180 public radio and TV stations (Tyler Falk/Current)
https://current.org/2025/12/public-media-bridge-fund-announces-initial-round-of-grants/

Public Media Bridge Fund announces initial round of grants
The fund will provide $26 million to 74 public media organizations.

Bridged Clustering for Representation Learning: Semi-Supervised Sparse Bridging
Patrick Peixuan Ye, Chen Shani, Ellen Vitercik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07182 https://

Bridged Clustering for Representation Learning: Semi-Supervised Sparse Bridging
We introduce Bridged Clustering, a semi-supervised framework to learn predictors from any unpaired input $X$ and output $Y$ dataset. Our method first clusters $X$ and $Y$ independently, then learns a sparse, interpretable bridge between clusters using only a few paired examples. At inference, a new input $x$ is assigned to its nearest input cluster, and the centroid of the linked output cluster is returned as the prediction $\hat{y}$. Unlike traditional SSL, Bridged Clustering explicitly levera…

#GoodNews #GuteNachrichten
Bertas (81) Herzenswunsch geht in Erfüllung
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Bertas «Happy Day»: Die 81-jährige darf endlich Hüttenwartin sein
Zum ersten Mal seit dem Tod ihres Mannes kehrt Berta in die Berge zurück und bekommt einen Wunsch erfüllt.

Heavy is the head that bows the crown. Or something…
https://apnews.com/article/bbc-director-resigns-trump-speech-editing-3aab83138d58c92db1bb00e77e568876

Top BBC bosses resign after criticism of the broadcaster’s editing of a Trump speech
The head of the BBC has resigned after criticism of the broadcaster’s editing of a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump. The BBC said that director-general Tim Davie and news CEO Deborah Turness both announced their resignations on Sunday. Britain’s public broadcaster has been criticized for editing a speech Trump made on Jan. 6, 2021 before protesters attacked the Capitol in Washington. Critics said that the way the speech was edited for a BBC documentary last year was misleading and cut …

Zahlen, bitte! 85 geheimnisvolle Zeichen der Cherokee-Silbenschrift
Um den Kontakt mit den britischen Kolonisten zu verbessern, entwickelte der Cherokee Sequoyah eine eigene Stammes-Schrift mit 85 Zeichen.

Looking forward to reading this! “Making BERT Feel at Home. Modelling Domestic Space in 19th-Century British and Irish Fiction”, Journal of Computational Literary Studies4(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.48694/jcls.4164
By Guhr, S., Monaco, J., Sherman, A., Warner, M. & Algee-Hewitt, M

Making BERT Feel at Home. Modelling Domestic Space in 19th-Century British and Irish Fiction
We introduce a novel approach to detecting domestic space in literary texts beyond explicit spatial markers like “home” or “house.” Using a pre-trained English BERT model fine-tuned on manually annotated passages from a corpus of 19th-century British and Irish novels, we develop a method to operationalize and quantify domesticity in fiction. Our model captures the nuances of domestic space by analyzing contextual and relational cues rather than relying solely on toponymic and other expl…

"Study Shows Ban on Bee Killing Pesticides Helps Bird Populations Rebound"
#Birds #Pesticides #Animals

Study Shows Ban on Bee Killing Pesticides Helps Bird Populations Rebound | Happy Eco News
France's ban on bee killing pesticides is working. Bird populations increased 2-3% in four years after the EU restricted neonicotinoids in 2018. This first study showing wildlife recovery proves pesticide bans help birds, bats, and other insect-eating animals bounce back.

Der #BDEW meldet, dass bereits 78 Gigawatt an großen #Batteriespeichern genehmigt wurden.
Gleichzeitig übersteigen die aktuellen #Netzanschlussanfragen mit 720 Gigawatt deutli…

BDEW: Mindestens 78 Gigawatt an großen Batteriespeichern bereits genehmigt
Der Verband hat die Zahlen der vier Übertragungsnetzbetreiber und von 17 Verteilnetzbetreibern zusammengetragen. Der BDEW fordert angesichts der genehmigten Netzanschlüsse und ausstehenden Anträge schnelles politisches Handeln und neue Regeln für Netzanschlussbegehren.

Source: Microsoft is in talks to design future custom chips with Broadcom, which would involve Microsoft switching its business from Marvell (Abram Brown/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/microsoft-discusses-custom-chips-broadcom

Microsoft Discusses Custom Chips With Broadcom
Microsoft is in talks to design future custom chips with Broadcom, which would involve Microsoft switching its business from Marvell, another maker of custom chips, according to one person involved in the discussions. Those discussions come amid intense demand for such chips as companies like Microsoft race to acquire more semiconductors and increase their AI products. Nvidia lords over the

Ladesäulenbetreiber will Kabeldiebe mit GPS aufspüren
Immer häufiger werden an Ladestationen für Elektroautos die Kabel gestohlen. Ein britischer Infrastrukturbetreiber wehrt sich mit GPS.
https://www.