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🪂 $9 Billion Exit by Satoshi-Era BTC Whale Sparks Debate: Are Bitcoin OGs Losing Faith?
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/07/27/usd9-billion-exit-by-satoshi-era-btc-whale-sparks-debate-are-bitcoin-ogs-losi…

Bitcoin’s $9B Whale Exit Reignites Questions About OG Conviction and BTC’s Direction
A $9 billion BTC sale by a Satoshi-era whale triggered Scott Melker to question OG conviction, sparking debate over Bitcoin’s future and institutional shift.

Sea reports Q2 revenue up 38% YoY to $5.26B, vs. $5B est., a $414M net income, vs. $444M est., Shopee revenue up 34% YoY to $3.8B, driven by commissions and ads (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-12/s…

K2-18b Does Not Meet The Standards of Evidence For Life
Kevin B. Stevenson, Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, E. M. May, Ravi K. Kopparapu, Thomas J. Fauchez, Jacob Haqq-Misra, Mary Anne Limbach, Edward W. Schwieterman, Kristin S. Sotzen, Shang-Min Tsai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05961

K2-18b Does Not Meet The Standards of Evidence For Life
K2-18b, a temperate sub-Neptune, has garnered significant attention due to claims of possible biosignatures in its atmosphere. Low-confidence detections of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and/or dimethyl disulfide (DMDS) have sparked considerable debate, primarily around arguments that their absorption features are not uniquely identifiable. Here, we consider a different question from the astrobiology standards of evidence framework: Have we detected an authentic signal? To answer this, we analyzed prev…

Semafor appoints Matthew Martin as its Saudi Arabia bureau chief and its global head of sovereign wealth fund coverage, as it expands its Gulf coverage (Arab News)
https://arab.news/pymky

Semafor appoints Saudi Arabia bureau chief as part of regional expansion
DUBAI: Semafor has appointed Matthew Martin as its Saudi Arabia bureau chief and global head of sovereign wealth fund coverage as the news platform expands its Gulf edition. He will head the growing team in Riyadh and be a part of the wider editorial staff led by Semafor Gulf editor Mohammed Sergie. Martin, who has over two decades of journalistic experience, was most recently Bloomberg’s chief correspondent for SWFs in the Middle East and North Africa region.

A former leader of the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights during the Obama and Biden administrations
called the Trump administration’s targeting of undefined diversity, equity and inclusion legally spurious
and urged colleges and universities to stand up for their values.
At a panel last week at the annual Education Writers Association conference here,
Catherine Lhamon said it’s “enormously frustrating to me to see the federal government use its voice to sa…

Biden Civil Rights Chief: Trump Anti-DEI Orders Aren’t Law
Catherine Lhamon joined the American Council on Education’s president and a student in criticizing the current federal administration’s targeting of universities over diversity, equity and inclusion.

Gorkov-Hedin Equations for Quantum Many-Body Systems with Spin-Dependent Interactions
Christopher Lane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07302 https://

Gorkov-Hedin Equations for Quantum Many-Body Systems with Spin-Dependent Interactions
Driven by the need to understand and determine the presence of non-trivial superconductivity in real candidate materials, we present a generalized set of self-consistent Gorkov-Hedin equations in a vibrating lattice with spin dependent electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions. This extends Hedin's original equations to treat quantum many-body systems where electronic and lattice correlations along with relativistic effects coexist on the same footing. Upon iterating this set of equati…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.02821 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hepp…

Establishing CP Violation in $b$-Baryon Decays
It is a long-standing puzzle why the {\it CP} violation (CPV) in the baryon system has not yet been definitively established as in the meson one. We demonstrate that individual partial-wave CPV in the $Λ_b\to pπ^-$ and $pK^-$ decays can exceed $10\%$, but the destruction between the partial waves (the suppression by the small partial-wave weight) results in a small net direct CPV in the former (the latter) as measured currently. Our finding highlights the different dynamics responsible for CP…

The #MadreFire first broke out around 9:30 p.m. PT on Thursday
in a remote area of central California near Highway 166.
It quickly consumed roughly 35,000 acres overnight,
moving east-northeast onto the Carrizo Plain and burning through parts of  Los Padres National Park.
As of Friday morning, the Madre Fire was 10% contained
and had already burned about 52,592 acres of land, …

Madre Fire grows to over 50,000 acres on Fourth of July: See map
California's Madre Fire sparked in the late evening of July 3 but has since grown to the largest in the state this year by the Fourth.

Bumble reports Q2 revenue down 8% YoY to $248.2M, vs. $245.1M est., a $367M net loss, and total paying users down 8.7% YoY to 3.8M; BMBL falls 9% after hours (Kritika Lamba/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/bumbles-pay…