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"The Red Cross Collection: A Trainee Project" @ Oxford Libraries: https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtrainees/the-red-cross-collection-a-trainee-project/

Three new NERDS publications: Collective action, wildfire smoke, and urban mobility
https://nerds.itu.dk/2025/06/20/three-new-nerds-publications-collective-action-wildfire-smoke-and-urban-mobility/

»Parlament fordert Pilotprojekt für E-Collecting:
Der Nationalrat hat gleich zwei politische Vorstösse angenommen, in denen es um die Einführung von E-Collecting geht. Einer wurde zuvor allerdings noch abgeändert.«
Mal sehen wie sicher und Privatsphäre einhaltend diesmal E-Collection in der Schweiz sich ergibt/präsentiert. Simpel ist es nicht und die Privatsphäre hat Vorrang hoffentlich.
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Parlament fordert Pilotprojekt für E-Collecting
Der Nationalrat hat gleich zwei politische Vorstösse angenommen, in denen es um die Einführung von E-Collecting geht. Einer wurde zuvor allerdings noch abgeändert.

I should learn to do a floating IP, but it sounds complicated! https://docs.oracle.com/en/learn/oci-ip-failover/index.html#task-2-configure-the-cluster-and-the-floating-ip

The variable stars in the compact halo globular cluster NGC 5634 visited again
A. Arellano Ferro, R. Michel, M. A. Yepez, S. Muneer, I. Bustos Fierro, Z. Prudil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13466

The variable stars in the compact halo globular cluster NGC 5634 visited again
We present new time-series CCD \emph{VR} photometry of the globular cluster NGC 5634. We aim to use the known RR Lyrae stars, members of the cluster, as indicators of mean metallicity and distance. Accurate coordinates, periods and an identification chart of the variables in the field of our images are provided. A membership analysis was performed, based on $Gaia$-DR3 proper motions, for 3525 point sources within 15 arcmin from the cluster center. The membership status for each known variable w…

A Startup is Selling Data Hacked from Peoples’ Computers to Debt Collectors https://www.404media.co/a-startup-is-selling-data-hacked-from-peoples-computers-to-debt-collectors/

Franca: Nested Matryoshka Clustering for Scalable Visual Representation Learning
Shashanka Venkataramanan, Valentinos Pariza, Mohammadreza Salehi, Lukas Knobel, Spyros Gidaris, Elias Ramzi, Andrei Bursuc, Yuki M. Asano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14137

Franca: Nested Matryoshka Clustering for Scalable Visual Representation Learning
We present Franca (pronounced Fran-ka): free one; the first fully open-source (data, code, weights) vision foundation model that matches and in many cases surpasses the performance of state-of-the-art proprietary models, e.g., DINOv2, CLIP, SigLIPv2, etc. Our approach is grounded in a transparent training pipeline inspired by Web-SSL and uses publicly available data: ImageNet-21K and a subset of ReLAION-2B. Beyond model release, we tackle critical limitations in SSL clustering methods. While mo…

Source: Fox has officially closed its upfront discussions, reaching $2B for core sports properties, excluding the World Cup, for the first time (Saleah Blancaflor/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/convergent-tv/fox-wraps-upfront-2-billion-sports-properties/…

Fox Wraps Upfront, Reaches $2 Billion for Core Sports Properties
Fox closed its upfront talks with double-digit volume growth across its portfolio.

Paper & Viz: Analysis of Denmark’s whole bicycle network
https://nerds.itu.dk/2025/05/20/paper-viz-analysis-of-denmarks-whole-bicycle-network/