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Google, the Earth Fire Alliance, and Muon Space's Fire Sat aims to launch 52 satellites by 2029 to detect wildfires globally and will make the data accessible (Boone Ashworth/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-earth-fire-alliance-sp…

Google Wants to Get Better at Spotting Wildfires From Space
A partnership with the nonprofit Earth Fire Alliance and satellite manufacturer Muon Space is giving Google a better shot at tracking wildfires—and using AI to process all the data being collected.

Putin visits center for nuclear weapons research day after Trump says Ukraine can't win without striking Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/22/putin-visits-center-for-nuclear.html

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

The Pickett fire, exploded in size on Thursday as it burned in a remote area of Napa county, and covered more than 2,100 acres by Friday morning.
Evacuation orders and warnings have been issued Thursday for hundreds of residents around Calistoga, a small city in the region known for its wine,
as firefighters faced challenging conditions, working through dangerously high temperatures and rugged terrain.
The fire’s perimeter is 0% contained.

💸 Agency for college athlete payment deals agrees to loosen third-party restrictions
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/jul/31/agency-for-college-athlete-payment-deals-agrees-to-loosen-third-party-restrictio…

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Die Links dazu:
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Fully-Dynamic Parallel Algorithms for Single-Linkage Clustering
Quinten De Man, Laxman Dhulipala, Kishen N Gowda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18384 https://

Fully-Dynamic Parallel Algorithms for Single-Linkage Clustering
Single-linkage clustering is a popular form of hierarchical agglomerative clustering (HAC) where the distance between two clusters is defined as the minimum distance between any pair of points across the two clusters. In single-linkage HAC, the output is typically the single-linkage dendrogram (SLD), which is the binary tree representing the hierarchy of clusters formed by iteratively contracting the two closest clusters. In the dynamic setting, prior work has only studied maintaining a minimum…

Adaptive Fast-and-Slow Visual Program Reasoning for Long-Form VideoQA
Chenglin Li, Feng Han, FengTao, Ruilin Li, Qianglong Chen, Jingqi Tong, Yin Zhang, Jiaqi Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17743

Adaptive Fast-and-Slow Visual Program Reasoning for Long-Form VideoQA
Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in generating program workflows for visual tasks. However, previous approaches often rely on closed-source models, lack systematic reasoning, and struggle with long-form video question answering (videoQA). To address these challenges, we introduce the FS-VisPR framework, an adaptive visual program reasoning approach that balances fast reasoning for simple queries with slow reasoning for difficult ones. First, we design efficient visual modules (e.…

Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble was released in Japan 25 years ago today (August 23, 2000). One of the coolest, most unique Game Boy Color games to come out-- it's a real blast. Here's my copy, and also a Japanese ad for it.
#Kirby #GameBoyColor

The cache, made up of more than 300 SIM servers packed with over 100,000 SIM cards and clustered within 35 miles of the United Nations,
represents one of the most sweeping communications threats uncovered on U.S. soil.
Investigators warn the system could have blacked out cellular service in a city that relies on it not only for daily life but for emergency response and counterterrorism.
Coming as foreign leaders filled midtown hotels and motorcades clogged Manhattan,

Secret Service dismantles threat around UN capable of crippling NYC cell service
The U.S. Secret Service has dismantled a massive hidden telecom network in New York. Investigators say the system could have crippled cell towers and jammed 911 calls. The cache included over 300 SIM servers with more than 100,000 SIM cards. It was located within 35 miles of the United Nations. The network could have blacked out cellular service, especially during the United Nations General Assembly. Officials have not uncovered a direct plot against the assembly. Forensic analysis is ongoing, …