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Goldman Sachs and BNY partner to let institutional investors purchase tokenized money market funds, with ownership recorded on Goldman's blockchain platform (Hugh Son/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/23/goldman-sachs-bny-money-market-fund-digital…

Goldman Sachs and BNY join forces to transform $7.1 trillion money market industry with digital tokens
Clients of BNY will be able to invest in money market funds whose ownership will be recorded on Goldman's blockchain platform.

FundaQ-8: A Clinically-Inspired Scoring Framework for Automated Fundus Image Quality Assessment
Lee Qi Zun, Oscar Wong Jin Hao, Nor Anita Binti Che Omar, Zalifa Zakiah Binti Asnir, Mohamad Sabri bin Sinal Zainal, Goh Man Fye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20303

FundaQ-8: A Clinically-Inspired Scoring Framework for Automated Fundus Image Quality Assessment
Automated fundus image quality assessment (FIQA) remains a challenge due to variations in image acquisition and subjective expert evaluations. We introduce FundaQ-8, a novel expert-validated framework for systematically assessing fundus image quality using eight critical parameters, including field coverage, anatomical visibility, illumination, and image artifacts. Using FundaQ-8 as a structured scoring reference, we develop a ResNet18-based regression model to predict continuous quality scores…

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News companies have been warned of a “devastating impact” on online audiences
as search results are replaced by AI summaries,
after a new study claimed it caused up to 80% fewer clickthroughs.
https://www.thegu…

Ben Johnson, Caleb Williams Bring Creative Threat To Raiders’ Defense https://raiderramble.com/2025/09/24/ben-johnson-caleb-williams-bring-creative-threat-to-raiders-defense/

Features of Surface Structuring of Direct and Indirect Band Gap Semiconductors by Femtosecond Laser
N. I. Berezovska (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv), I. M. Dmitruk (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv), Ye. S. Hrabovskyi (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv), R. S. Kolodka (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv), O. P. Stanovyi (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv), A. M. Dmytruk (Institute of Physics of NAS of Ukraine), I. V. Blonskyi (…

Features of Surface Structuring of Direct and Indirect Band Gap Semiconductors by Femtosecond Laser
The impact of femtosecond (fs) laser radiation on semiconductors with direct (ZnSe, GaAs, CdZnTe) band gap, with the structurally induced direct-to-indirect band gap transition (PbI2, GaSe) and indirect band gap (Si) has been studied. The fs-laser treatment of semiconductors has been performed in the multi-pulse regime in air environment. The influence of fs-laser radiation parameters on surface morphology of the semiconductors has been analysed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and 2D Four…

Der #Ganges trocknet laut einer neuen Studie so stark aus wie seit 1.300 Jahren nicht mehr.
Die Flussmenge ist heute um 76 Prozent geringer als beim schlimmsten historischen #Dürreereignis im 16. Jahrhundert. Hauptursache ist menschliches Handeln, darunter ein geschwächter Sommer-

The Ganges River is drying at an unprecedented rate, new study finds
The Ganges River is in crisis. This lifeline for around 600 million people in India and neighboring countries is experiencing its worst drying period in 1,300 years. Using a combination of historical data, paleoclimate records and hydrological models, researchers from IIT Gandhinagar and the University of Arizona discovered that human activity is the main cause. They also found that the current drying is more severe than any recorded drought in the river's history.

Google Pay and PhonePe accounted for 80% of India's UPI transactions in Aug. 2025, down from 85% a year ago, as smaller players like Navi and BHIM gained ground (Pratik Bhakta/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.c…

Smaller UPI players nibble at veterans’ transactions share
The race for Unified Payments Interface (UPI) market share is heating up, with smaller fintechs ramping up volumes and pushing into territory long dominated by PhonePe and Google Pay. Navi, Super.Money and Bhim have seen their UPI payment volumes surge by 50 to 100% over the past six months

Warming triggers unprecedented carbon loss from tropical soils, study finds https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/warming-triggers-unprecedented-carbon-loss-from-tropical-soils-study-finds/

Warming triggers unprecedented carbon loss from tropical soils, study finds
Climate warming could cause much greater soil carbon losses in the tropics than previously predicted, with potentially dire consequences for the global climate, according to a new study published in Nature Communications. Tropical forests store around a third of the world’s soil carbon and exchange more CO2 with the atmosphere than any other land biome. […]

Cemeteries nationwide are coming up with creative ways to "liven up" their wide-open green spaces.
From a beekeeping collective in Seattle to “Night of Grief” karaoke in Washington DC,
cemetery owners say events help them reconnect with the local community
and sometimes bring in some much-needed funds.
Visitors say they enjoy the cool vibe, family- and dog-friendly areas and innovative ideas.
Cemeteries have always been community spaces in the United …