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Preparing for the Intelligence Explosion
William MacAskill, Fin Moorhouse
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14863 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506…

Preparing for the Intelligence Explosion
AI that can accelerate research could drive a century of technological progress over just a few years. During such a period, new technological or political developments will raise consequential and hard-to-reverse decisions, in rapid succession. We call these developments grand challenges. These challenges include new weapons of mass destruction, AI-enabled autocracies, races to grab offworld resources, and digital beings worthy of moral consideration, as well as opportunities to dramatically i…

After nuclear weapons testing began in 1945, atmospheric radiation contaminated new steel production worldwide.
For decades, scientists needing radiation-free metal for sensitive instruments had to salvage steel from pre-war shipwrecks.
Scientists called this steel
"low-background steel."
Graham-Cumming sees a parallel with today's web, where AI-generated content increasingly mingles with human-created material and contaminates it.
With the advent o…

Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel; now we’re hoarding pre-AI content
Newly announced catalog collects pre-2022 sources untouched by ChatGPT and AI contamination.

Ukraine behind new pipeline explosion in Siberia that supplies Russian military-industrial complex, source claims: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/ukraine-behind-new-pipeline-explosion.html

I finally opened my RSS reader today to see what's going on in the country I live in.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion:
🎵 Bellbottoms
#TheJonSpencerBluesExplosion
https://shoverecords.bandcamp.com/track/bellbottoms
https://open.spotify.com/track/6NJQpFNkDCMaRBogIi9sOI

Israhell, obviously very disappointed that they still haven't succeeded in starting WWIII, just bombed Damascus (including the presidential palace).
broadcasted on live TV ...

Lawmakers are poised to extend Pell Grant eligibility to short-term credential programs.
With few guardrails in place, it could incentivize an explosion in unaccredited and for-profit providers.
https://www.insidehighered.com/ne…

Workforce Pell Would Extend Grants to Unaccredited Programs
Lawmakers are poised to extend Pell eligibility to short-term credential programs. With few guardrails in place, it could incentivize an explosion in unaccredited and for-profit providers.

Magnetic Reconnection in a Compact Magnetic Dome - Chromospheric Emissions and High-velocity Plasma Flows: #Solar Explosion Reveals Big Clues About Magnetic Reconnection: https://nso.edu/blog/small-scale-solar-explosion-reveals-big-clues-about-magnetic-reconnection/

Erster sichtbarer Beweis für doppelte Explosion eines Weißen Zwergsterns
Laut einer vergleichsweise neuen Theorie können Weiße Zwerge unter Umständen zweimal nacheinander explodieren. Nun gibt es erstmals einen bildlichen Nachweis.

Canada : "Le coût estimé pour l’achat de 88 nouveaux F-35A auprès des États‑Unis a explosé de près de 50 % depuis 2022"
#F35 #défense

5 suspects charged over deadly explosion in Ukraine's Zhytomyr Oblast: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/07/suspects-charged-over-deadly-explosion.html

Blood explosion means time for a new week

10 NFL futures bets to make right now: Dak Prescott redemption, Bijan Robinson explosion, long shot CPOY, more

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/10-nfl-

#SilentSunday #bloomScrolling

Good article how reinforcement learning improved current AI models. Also illustrates that LLMs today are not just imitating.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/how

How a big shift in training LLMs led to a capability explosion
Reinforcement learning, explained with a minimum of math and jargon.

Heute vor 80 Jahren: Am 16. Juli 1945 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen des Manhattan-Projekts in New Mexico die erste #Kernwaffe, den Trinity-Test. Die Plutonium-Implosionsbombe "The Gadget" setzte 21 Kilotonnen TNT frei und hinterließ einen 330 Meter breiten Krater.

I hate this timeline

Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
COSER: Now, even if Security trace us to this planet, they'll assume the ship crashed and we died in the explosion. Did you hear what I said?
RASHEL: Yes.
COSER: Well?
RASHEL: It's a very clever plan, sir.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/2

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

some kind of really loud explosion in the financial district just now, every car alarm around is going off.

Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Detection of Carbon Monoxide in the Type II Supernova SN 2023ixf
Seong Hyun Park, Jeonghee Rho, Sung-Chul Yoon, Jeniveve Pearson, Manisha Shrestha, Samaporn Tinyanont, T. R. Geballe, Ryan J. Foley, Aravind P. Ravi, Jennifer Andrews, David J. Sand, K. Azalee Bostroem, Chris Ashall, Peter Hoeflich, Stefano Valenti, Yize Dong, Nicolas Meza Retamal, Emily Hoang, Darshana Mehta, D. Andrew Howell, Joseph R. Farah, Giacomo Terreran, Estefania Padilla Gonzalez, M…

Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Detection of Carbon Monoxide in the Type II Supernova SN 2023ixf
Core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) may contribute a significant amount of dust in the early universe. Freshly formed coolant molecules (e.g., CO) and warm dust can be found in CCSNe as early as ~100 d after the explosion, allowing the study of their evolution with time series observations. In the Type II SN 2023ixf, we aim to investigate the temporal evolution of the temperature, velocity, and mass of CO and compare them with other CCSNe, exploring their implications for the dust formation in CCS…

AOC Warns of ICE 'Explosion' After 'Big Beautiful' Bill Passes (Emell Derra Adolphus/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-warns-ice-explosion-imminent-after-beautiful-bill/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250704/p69#a250704p69

LLMs on support of privacy and security of mobile apps: state of the art and research directions
Tran Thanh Lam Nguyen, Barbara Carminati, Elena Ferrari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11679

LLMs on support of privacy and security of mobile apps: state of the art and research directions
Modern life has witnessed the explosion of mobile devices. However, besides the valuable features that bring convenience to end users, security and privacy risks still threaten users of mobile apps. The increasing sophistication of these threats in recent years has underscored the need for more advanced and efficient detection approaches. In this chapter, we explore the application of Large Language Models (LLMs) to identify security risks and privacy violations and mitigate them for the mobile…

Explosion on tanker in Russian port sparks investigation: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/06/explosion-on-tanker-in-russian.html

Ermittlungskomitee: Explosion sorgt für Brückeneinsturz in Brjansk und Kursk
Der Einsturz zweier Brücken am Wochenende in russischen Regionen an der Grenze zur Ukraine ist nach Angaben des russischen Ermittlungskomitees auf Explosionen zurückzuführen.
In der südwestlichen Region Brjansk sei am späten Samstagabend "eine Straßenbrücke infolge einer Explosion" eingestürzt, teilte das Ermittlerkomitee mit. Am frühen Sonntagmorge…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Wadephul betont Waffenhilfe ++
Außenminister Wadephul betont, dass Deutschland der Ukraine weitreichende Militärhilfe leisten wird. Nach einem Angriff auf eine ukrainische Ausbildungseinheit mit zwölf Toten tritt der Kommandeur der ukrainischen Armee, Drapatij, zurück.

Cylindrical gravitational impulse wave
Jean Jules Defo, Victor Kamgang Kuetche
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10053 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Cylindrical gravitational impulse wave
The description of gravitational waves as explosion and implosion waves as predicted by Weber and Wheeler [{\it Rev. Mod. Phys. {\bf 29} 509 (1957)}] in Einstein and Rosen spacetime, has recently been confirmed following observations by the LIGO-VIRGO scientific team [{\it Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 116 } 061102 (2016)}] resulting from the collision of two massive black holes. In this dynamics, we explore a new possibility in the construction of gravitational waves like explosion and implosion waves…

Ukraine seems to have kicked one of the legs of russia’s nuclear triad pretty hard.
“Ukraine says it has hit more than 40 ‘enemy bombers’ in a drone attack deep inside Russia - which could cost the Russian air force $2bn. Last night, two bridges also collapsed in separate Russian regions - which authorities blamed on ‘explosions’.”

Ukraine war latest: More than 40 Russian bombers 'hit in drone attack'; video shows aftermath of deadly Russian bridge 'explosion'
Ukraine says it has hit more than 40 "enemy bombers" in a drone attack deep inside Russia - which could cost the Russian air force $2bn. Last night, two bridges also collapsed in separate Russian regions - which authorities blamed on "explosions". Follow the latest below.

Ukraine war latest: Kyiv behind new pipeline explosion in Siberia, drone strikes reported at Russian aircraft plant: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/ukraine-war-latest-kyiv-behind.html

One dead and woman left in critical condition after fireworks explode and light a whole city block on fire | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/fireworks-explosion-death-pacoima-los-angeles-b2782833.html

KI krempelt vieles um. Es ist so einfach, wie nie, Content zu produzieren. Gleichzeitig bekommen wir durch die Veränderungen bei Google & Co. (allen voran durch die AI Overviews) immer weniger Klicks auf unseren Content. Persönlichkeit wird zum wichtigsten Unterscheidungsmerkmal, meint Judith Peters #Bloggen #KI

Monatsrückblick Mai 2025: Die KI-Explosion
ChatGPT hat Anfang 2023 unser Leben überrollt. Aber erst jetzt, ca. 2,5 Jahre später, habe ich das Gefühl: KI ist...

Loglinear Hawkes processes
Tomasz R. Bielecki, Jacek Jakubowski, Matthias Kirchner, Mariusz Niew\k{e}g{\l}owski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11265 https://…

Loglinear Hawkes processes
This paper discusses a special class of nonlinear Hawkes processes, where the rate function is the exponential function. We call these processes loglinear Hawkes processes. In the main theorem, we give sufficient conditions for explosion and nonexplosion that cover a large class of practically relevant memory functions. We also investigate stability. In particular, we show that for nonpositive memory functions the loglinear Hawkes process is stable. The paper aims at providing a theoretical bas…

Efficient Fireworks Algorithm Equipped with an Explosion Mechanism based on Student's T-distribution
Cen Shipeng, Tan Ying
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08484

Efficient Fireworks Algorithm Equipped with an Explosion Mechanism based on Student's T-distribution
Many real-world problems can be transformed into optimization problems, which can be classified into convex and non-convex. Although convex problems are almost completely studied in theory, many related algorithms to many non-convex problems do not work well and we need more optimization techniques. As a swarm intelligence optimization algorithm, the Fireworks Algorithm(FWA) has been widely studied and applied to many real-world scenarios, even including large language model fine-tuning. But th…

Counter-Streaming Beams in Collisionless Pair Plasma Instability Systems I: Evolution and Parameterization of the Weibel Instability
Michael C. Sitarz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10888

Counter-Streaming Beams in Collisionless Pair Plasma Instability Systems I: Evolution and Parameterization of the Weibel Instability
Energetic astrophysical phenomena, such as $γ$-ray bursts and supernova explosion-driven shocks in collisionless plasmas, involve various plasma kinetic instabilities, such as the Weibel instability. In this paper, we explore the evolution of the Weibel instability using the spectral analysis and physical field evolution of particle-in-cell simulations. Effects of varying parameters of the initial counter-streaming beams are detailed in reference to the total evolutionary timeline of the insta…

Ukraine’s military said on Sunday it had attacked a Russian drone factory about 1099 kilometers from Ukraine
-- in the city of Yelabuga in Russia’s Tatarstan region.
The Ukrainian military general staff said the factory produced, tested, and launched drones at Ukraine,
in particular against energy and civil infrastructure.
Videos on social media showed an explosion said to be at the factory in Yelabuga, also known as Alabuga,
which builds Iranian-design…

Luminous, rapidly declining supernovae as stripped transitional objects in low metallicity environments: the case of SN 2022lxg
P. Charalampopoulos, R. Kotak, J. Sollerman, C. P. Guti\'errez, M. Pursiainen, T. L. Killestein, S. Schulze, P. J. Pessi, K. Maeda, T. Kangas, Y. -Z. Cai, C. Fremling, K. R. Hinds, T. Jegou du Laz, E. Kankare, M. M. Kasliwal, H. Kuncarayakti, P. Lundqvist, F. J. Masci, S. Mattila, D. A. Perley, A. Reguitti, T. M. Reynolds, M. Stritzinger, L. Tartaglia, J. …

Luminous, rapidly declining supernovae as stripped transitional objects in low metallicity environments: the case of SN 2022lxg
We present an analysis of the optical and near-infrared properties of SN 2022lxg, a bright ($\rm M_{g\, \mathrm{peak}}=-19.41$ mag) and rapidly evolving SN. It was discovered within a day of explosion, and rose to peak brightness in 10 d. Two distinct phases of circumstellar interaction are evident in the data. The first is marked by a steep blue continuum (T $>15,000$ K) with flash-ionisation features due to hydrogen and He II. The second, weaker phase is marked by a change in the colour evolu…

The most energetic transients - tidal disruptions of high-mass stars: #ExtremeNuclearTransients (ENTs) are the most energetic transients yet observed.

Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
AVON: The explosion in the planet's atmosphere would have provided the rest.
BLAKE: Yes, I hadn't thought of that.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/602 B7B5

Explosion reportedly kills former Russian proxy mayor in occupied Luhansk: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/03/explosion-reportedly-kills-former-russian.html

Could a Primordial Black Hole Explosion Explain the KM3NeT Event?
Lua F. T. Airoldi, Gustavo F. S. Alves, Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez, Gabriel M. Salla, Renata Zukanovich Funchal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24666

Could a Primordial Black Hole Explosion Explain the KM3NeT Event?
A black hole is expected to end its lifetime in a cataclysmic runaway burst of Hawking radiation, emitting all Standard Model particles with ultra-high energies. Thus, the explosion of a nearby primordial black hole (PBH) has been proposed as a possible explanation for the $\sim 220$ PeV neutrino-like event recently reported by the KM3NeT collaboration. Assuming a PBH origin, we find that the source would need to lie at a distance of approximately $4 \times 10^{-5}$ pc, i.e., within the Solar S…

Fine-Tuned Supernova or Failed Explosion? Decoding the Origins of the G3425 Binary
Zsolt Regaly, Viktoria Frohlich, Jozsef Vinko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20386

Fine-Tuned Supernova or Failed Explosion? Decoding the Origins of the G3425 Binary
A binary system (G3425) consisting of a massive unseen component and a red giant star on a nearly circular orbit was recently discovered. The formation of such a system is puzzling because orbital stability generally breaks down due to the large mass loss from the system caused by the SN explosion while forming the unseen component. Analytical solutions of the variable-mass two-body problem suggest that the explosion should have occurred when the component was close to its apocenter to explain …

Attention-Bayesian Hybrid Approach to Modular Multiple Particle Tracking
Piyush Mishra (I2M, FRESNEL, TCLS, AMU), Philippe Roudot (FRESNEL, TCLS, CNRS)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09441

Attention-Bayesian Hybrid Approach to Modular Multiple Particle Tracking
Tracking multiple particles in noisy and cluttered scenes remains challenging due to a combinatorial explosion of trajectory hypotheses, which scales super-exponentially with the number of particles and frames. The transformer architecture has shown a significant improvement in robustness against this high combinatorial load. However, its performance still falls short of the conventional Bayesian filtering approaches in scenarios presenting a reduced set of trajectory hypothesis. This suggests …

SpaceX kommt nicht an Starship-Trümmer heran
Nach der Explosion einer Starship-Rakete in Texas beklagt SpaceX Probleme bei der Bergung von Trümmern. Mexikos Präsidentin droht mit juristischen Konsequenzen.
https://…

#Explosion
Baywatch Nights 1x19 - Epilogue
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Baywatch

AOC wrote on BlueSky, a good summary of the Trump budget bill adopted in Congress.
"I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing."
#usa

Aber die Batterie... das Verbrennen von Öl, die Abhängigkeit von Öl und die daraus resultierende Klimakatastrophe verstärken sich gegenseitig.
Alles nur noch bekloppt.
https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/italien-…

Tankstellenexplosion in Rom: »Innerhalb von zehn Minuten war die Hölle los, weil alles in die Luft flog«
In Rom fängt eine Tankstelle Feuer. Einsatzkräfte evakuieren die Umgebung, als es zu einer gewaltigen Explosion kommt, mindestens 30 Menschen werden verletzt. Bilder der Feuerwehr zeigen das Ausmaß der Verwüstung.

Nationwide study finds that leaks in natural gas pipelines contribute to hazardous particulate air pollution https://phys.org/news/2025-06-nationwide-leaks-natural-gas-pipelines.html

Nationwide study finds that leaks in natural gas pipelines contribute to hazardous particulate air pollution
In March 2022, 14 residents of a four-story apartment building in Silver Spring, Maryland, were hospitalized when a gas leak from a cut pipeline caused a major explosion. Every year in the United States, there are hundreds of natural gas (or methane) pipeline leaks—caused by corrosion, equipment malfunctions, and construction activities. Methane leaks are not only dangerous; they contribute to air pollution and climate change.

'A powerful secondary explosion' — Ukrainian drones destroy Russian ammunition depot in Donetsk Oblast, SBU says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/03/a-powerful-secondary-explosion-ukrainian.html

Model Checking as Program Verification by Abstract Interpretation (Extended Version)
Paolo Baldan, Roberto Bruni, Francesco Ranzato, Diletta Rigo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05525 …

Model Checking as Program Verification by Abstract Interpretation (Extended Version)
Abstract interpretation offers a powerful toolset for static analysis, tackling precision, complexity and state-explosion issues. In the literature, state partitioning abstractions based on (bi)simulation and property-preserving state relations have been successfully applied to abstract model checking. Here, we pursue a different track in which model checking is seen as an instance of program verification. To this purpose, we introduce a suitable language-called MOKA (for MOdel checking as abst…

"Professor Cain uses various programming languages to explain these concepts: he starts with C (roughly from the second lecture to the 8th), then Assembly (lectures 9 to 11), C (lectures 12 to 18), Scheme (lectures 19 to 23), and Python (from 24 to 26). The last lecture (27) dives into some other functional programming languages like ML, Miranda, and even Haskell, as well as some advanced type design concepts, to round up your general programming knowledge."

Jerry Cain
The late 2000s were an interesting time for online education. The wider availability of faster and more reliable bandwidth led to an explosion of online video. This, in turn, led to the emergence of an ever-expanding number of providers of online learning services, and then to a wave of "Massive Open Online Courses" or MOOCs, many of which were offered by large universities and high schools all over the world. This month's Vidéothèque movie is a full playlist featuring one of the earliest (an…

Bon les boîtes privées ne font pas mieux que les boîtes publiques
Nouvel échec pour SpaceX après l’explosion d’une mégafusée Starship au Texas
https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/20

Nouvel échec pour SpaceX après l’explosion d’une mégafusée Starship au Texas
Le précédent accident date de moins d’un mois. Le 27 mai, la fusée Starship était parvenue à aller dans l’espace, mais son vaisseau, le Super Heavy booster, avait explosé avant sa redescente prévue sur Terre.

SBU nennt Details zur Attacke auf Krim-Brücke
Der Geheimdienst SBU hat weitere Details zur Explosion an der Krim-Brücke bekanntgegeben. 1.100 Kilogramm Sprengstoff seien heute früh unter Wasser an einem der Pfeiler der Brücke gezündet worden, teilte der Geheimdienst mit.
Als Beleg wurde ein Video veröffentlicht, das die Explosion zeigen soll. Zu sehen sind aufspritzendes Wasser und Rauch. Die Aufna…
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Krieg gegen die Ukraine: Kiew meldet Anschlag auf Krim-Brücke
Der ukrainische Geheimdienst SBU hat bestätigt, einen Anschlag auf die für Russland strategisch wichtige Krim-Bücke verübt zu haben. Die Straßen- und Eisenbahnverbindung wurde seit Beginn des Krieges bereits zwei Mal angegriffen.

Incarcerated individual who traveled from #Seattle supplying hundreds of pounds of ammonum nitrate to help build bomb used to destroy #PalmSprings #abortion clinic found dead in federal custody in

Man charged in California fertility clinic bombing dies in custody
A Washington man charged with aiding the bomber of a fertility clinic in California has died after he was found unresponsive in federal custody. Daniel Park was arrested earlier this month after he was extradited from Poland, where he fled to four days after the attack. The 32-year-old Park was accused of supplying chemicals to Guy Edward Bartkus of California, the bomber, who died in the May 17 explosion. Prison officials say Park, of suburban Seattle, was found unresponsive in the Metropolita…

"While crop seed vaults are common around the world, nurseries for wild and native plants are rare, and many plant species quietly become extinct. This marks #Gurukula out as a Noah’s ark for endangered plant species."

🏦 Scam compounds labeled a 'living nightmare' as Cambodian government accused of turning a blind eye
... it looks like there is a Cambrian Explosion in all sorts of scams lately
https://therecord.media/cambodia-scam-compounds-amnesty-international-r…

Scam compounds labeled a 'living nightmare' as Cambodian government accused of turning a blind eye
Amnesty International said it identified dozens of scam compounds in Cambodia, calling the government's response to the nexus of cybercrime and human trafficking "grossly inadequate."

Um petroleiro chamado... Vilamoura?! 🤪
https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/114777787333496781

Aure Free Press :verified: (@Free_Press@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image A tanker that called at the Russian ports suffered an explosion while near Libya The Vilamoura, hauling 1 million barrels of oil, is being towed to Greece, where damage will be assessed upon arrival. The cause of the blast is unclear, but it caused water intake and the vessel's engine room is flooded. Four other vessels have suffered explosions this year, all had recently docked at Russian ports #AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
URGENT UPDATE: HUGE EXPLOSION DETONATION AMMO DEPOTS DONETSK Vlog 1093: War in #Ukraine
Just now: strike reported on the huge Russian #ammunition

Stavropol explosion kills Russian official who led attacks on Ukraine's Mariupol: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/stavropol-explosion-kills-russian-official.html

Heute vor 75 Jahren: Am 13. Juli 1950 stürzte ein #USAF B-50 Flugzeug auf einer Trainingsmission von der Biggs Air Force Base ab. Es führte eine nukleare Waffe ohne Kern mit sich. Die #Detonation der hochexplosiven Ladung verursachte keine nukleare Explosion.

EP 250108a/SN 2025kg - observations of the most nearby Broad-Line Type Ic #Supernova following an Einstein Probe Fast X-ray Transient / The kangaroo's first hop - the early fast cooling phase of EP250108a/SN 2025kg: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.08889 / https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.08886 -> Supernova’s ‘Trapped’ Jet Reveals Source of Fast X-ray Transient / International Gemini Observatory and SOAR Discover Surprising Link Between Fast X-ray Transients and the Explosive Death of Massive Stars: https://keckobservatory.org/fxt/ / https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2520/ - mysterious cosmic explosion is traced to a massive stellar explosion / a breakthrough in astronomy’s understanding of how stars larger than our Sun explode.

We in Game Workers Unite Ireland stand in solidarity with Animation Workers of Ireland, and the international trade union coalition happening to organise against the threat of AI in the animation industry, and we support their call to acton.
Join them Thursday 12 June at 14:00 at the Pâquier in Annecy!!
#Animation

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18042 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csPL_…

Charon: An Analysis Framework for Rust
With the explosion in popularity of the Rust programming language, a wealth of tools have recently been developed to analyze, verify, and test Rust programs. Alas, the Rust ecosystem remains relatively young, meaning that every one of these tools has had to re-implement difficult, time-consuming machinery to interface with the Rust compiler and its cargo build system, to hook into the Rust compiler's internal representation, and to expose an abstract syntax tree (AST) that is suitable for analy…

Wow. ~4% of Americans are injecting weight loss drugs.
#glp1

Just how many Americans are taking GLP-1s now
The data shows the explosion in use of the drugs for weight loss.

Do watch the video in the linked article. Apparently nobody was killed, so you can enjoy the explosion guilt-free.

AURA: Agentic Upskilling via Reinforced Abstractions
Alvin Zhu, Yusuke Tanaka, Dennis Hong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02507 https://a…

AURA: Agentic Upskilling via Reinforced Abstractions
We study the combinatorial explosion involved in translating high-level task prompts into deployable control policies for agile robots through multi-stage reinforcement learning. We introduce AURA (Agentic Upskilling via Reinforced Abstractions), a schema-centric curriculum RL framework that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) as autonomous designers of multi-stage curricula. AURA transforms user prompts into YAML workflows that encode full reward functions, domain randomization strategies, …

Berichte: Erneut heftige Luftangriffe auf Westen der Ukraine
Russland hat Medienberichten zufolge in der Nacht erneut Regionen im Westen der Ukraine angegriffen. Orte weit ab der Frontlinie seien mit Drohnen und Raketen attackiert worden, schrieb The Kyiv Independent. In den westlichen Städten Lwiw und Tscherniwzi seien Explosionen zu hören. Der öffentlich-rechtliche Sender Suspline habe eine Explosion in der Stadt Lutsk geme…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Strom- und Wasserausfall in besetzten Gebieten ++
Weite Teile der von russischen Truppen besetzten südukrainischen Region Saporischschja sind ohne Strom- und Wasserversorgung. Durch russische Angriffe sollen mindestens vier Menschen in der Ukraine getötet worden sein.

AOC:
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase.
It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play.
And people are disappearing.

Musk ist doch durch mit den USA. Einen Haufen Daten hat er rausgetragen, vielleicht sogar Schadsoftware installiert, um noch mehr rauszutragen. Und die zukünftigen NASA-Aufträge hat er sich gesichert, so dass er nicht aus eigener Tasche bezahlt, wenn seine Raketen mal wieder »ungeplant desintegrieren«, wie seine Sprechepresser eine Explosion nennen. Die Scheiße mit Musk hat erst angefangen. Ich sehe den schon als möglichen zukünftigen Präsidenten der USA… bei dem man Sehnsucht nach Trump kri…

Who in Congresses voted for this bad bill: https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll190.xml
Gotta make memes that help cement each one of them as destroyers of Medicaid, SNAP, the Affordable Care Act and the explosion of ice into the largest law enforcement agency in the country.

Imaging transient molecular configurations in UV-excited diiodomethane
Anbu Selvam Venkatachalam, Huynh Van Sa Lam, Surjendu Bhattacharyya, Balram Kaderiya, Enliang Wang, Yijue Ding, Loren Greenman, Artem Rudenko, Daniel Rolles
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07289

Imaging transient molecular configurations in UV-excited diiodomethane
Femtosecond structural dynamics of diiodomethane ($\mathrm{CH_2I_2}$) triggered by ultraviolet (UV) photoabsorption at 290 nm and 330 nm are studied using time-resolved coincident Coulomb explosion imaging driven by a near-infrared probe pulse. We map the dominant single-photon process, the cleavage of the carbon-iodine bond producing rotationally excited $\mathrm{CH_2I}$ radical, identify the contributions of the three-body ($\mathrm{CH_2} + \mathrm{I} + \mathrm{I}$) dissociation and molecular…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion:
🎵 Bellbottoms
#TheJonSpencerBluesExplosion
https://shoverecords.bandcamp.com/track/bellbottoms
https://open.spotify.com/track/6NJQpFNkDCMaRBogIi9sOI

SpaceX Starship Explodes During Test in Texas - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/us/spacex-rocket-explosion-texas.html

ℹ️ Beitrag im Liveblog gelöscht oder nicht zuordenbar, es folgt die alte Version:
Kreml bestreitet Schäden an Krim-Brücke
Der Kreml hat laut Nachrichtenagentur Reuters die ukrainischen Angriffe auf die Krim-Brücke bestätigt - aber lediglich von einer Explosion gesprochen, die keinen Schaden ausgelöst habe. "Es gab eine Explosion", sagte Kremlsprecher Dmitri Peskow demnach. "Es wurde nichts beschädig…
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Krieg gegen die Ukraine: Kiew meldet Anschlag auf Krim-Brücke
Der ukrainische Geheimdienst SBU hat bestätigt, einen Anschlag auf die für Russland strategisch wichtige Krim-Bücke verübt zu haben. Die Straßen- und Eisenbahnverbindung wurde seit Beginn des Krieges bereits zwei Mal angegriffen.

S-Leak: Leakage-Abuse Attack Against Efficient Conjunctive SSE via s-term Leakage
Yue Su, Meng Shen, Cong Zuo, Yuzhi Liu, Liehuang Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04077

S-Leak: Leakage-Abuse Attack Against Efficient Conjunctive SSE via s-term Leakage
Conjunctive Searchable Symmetric Encryption (CSSE) enables secure conjunctive searches over encrypted data. While leakage-abuse attacks (LAAs) against single-keyword SSE have been extensively studied, their extension to conjunctive queries faces a critical challenge: the combinatorial explosion of candidate keyword combinations, leading to enormous time and space overhead for attacks. In this paper, we reveal a fundamental vulnerability in state-of-the-art CSSE schemes: s-term leakage, where th…

A thermonuclear supernova interacting with hydrogen- and helium-deficient circumstellar material. SN 2020aeuh as a SN Ia-CSM-C/O?
K. Tsalapatas, J. Sollerman, R. Chiba, E. Kool, J. Johansson, S. Rosswog, S. Schulze, T. J. Moriya, I. Andreoni, T. G. Brink, T. X. Chen, S. Covarrubias, K. De, G. Dimitriadis, A. V. Filippenko, C. Fremling, A. Gangopadhyay, K. Maguire, G. Mo, Y. Sharma, N. Sravan, J. H. Terwel, Y. Yang

A thermonuclear supernova interacting with hydrogen- and helium-deficient circumstellar material. SN 2020aeuh as a SN Ia-CSM-C/O?
Identifying the progenitors of thermonuclear supernovae (Type Ia supernovae; SNe Ia) remains a key objective in contemporary astronomy. The rare subclass of SNe Ia that interacts with circumstellar material (Type Ia-CSM) allows for studies of the progenitor's environment before explosion, and generally favours single-degenerate progenitor channels. The case of SN Ia-CSM PTF11kx clearly connected thermonuclear explosions with hydrogen-rich CSM-interacting events, and the more recent SN 2020eyj c…

UN analysis finds Russia responsible for 2022 Olenivka prison explosion killing Ukrainian POWs, ombudsman says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/un-analysis-finds-russia-responsible.html

AOC posted on Bluesky:
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion
- making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
h…

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday that her administration is investigating contamination from a #SpaceX facility near the Mexican border in South Texas, and planning its next course of action: https://www.krgv.com/news/mexico-probes-contamination-from-spacex-rocket-explosion-that-landed-in-its-territory. Possible SpaceX debris causing environmental concern on Mexican side of the border: https://www.krgv.com/videos/possible-spacex-debris-causing-environmental-concern-on-mexican-side-of-the-border/ (with video).

Series D, Episode 08 - Games
SOOLIN: Do you think they planned that explosion?
AVON: Not this time. This was just a happy accident. But now the Federation is aware of the potential of Feldon power systems. Orac?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/408/5 B7B5

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Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

Statistical Analysis of Early Spectra in Type II and IIb Supernovae
Maider Gonz\'alez-Ba\~nuelos, Claudia P. Guti\'errez, Llu\'is Galbany, Santiago Gonz\'alez-Gait\'an
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08731

Statistical Analysis of Early Spectra in Type II and IIb Supernovae
We present a comprehensive analysis of the early spectra of type II and type IIb supernovae (SNe) to explore their diversity and distinguishable characteristics. Using 866 publicly available spectra from 393 SNe, 407 from type IIb SNe (SNe IIb) and 459 from type II SNe (SNe II), we analysed H$α$ and He~I 5876 A at early phases ($<40$ days from the explosion) to identify possible differences between these two SN types. By comparing the pseudo-equivalent width (pEW) and full width at half maximu…

Ukraine's HUR destroys Russian command post in occupied Melitopol in joint operation with partisans: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/ukraines-hur-destroys-russian-command.html

Heute vor 63 Jahren: Am 9. Juli 1962 führte die USA den #Starfish Prime Test durch. Dieser größte #Nukleartest im Weltraum (1,4 Mt) wurde vom Johnston Atoll aus gestartet. Die Explosion ereignete sich in einer Höhe von 400 km über einem Punkt 31 km südwestlich des Atolls.

Both #stratosphere balloons launched today in Bochum, Germany, could be recovered quickly (one from a tree, the other from a field) and the storage cards are in good shape, with 50 GBytes of data including e.g. hi-res video of the explosion of one of the balloons. Stay tuned ...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
The Music Explosion:
🎵 I See the Light
#TheMusicExplosion
https://thefrenchpsychedelicsixtiesmusic.bandcamp.com/track/i-see-the-light-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/7v5ms39cZ4nRws7VAJsS3l

Neue Explosionen an Bahnstrecke in Russland
Wenige Tage nach zwei Anschlägen auf Zugstrecken mit Toten und Verletzten haben russische Behörden erneut eine Explosion an Schienen gemeldet. Kurz vor der Durchfahrt eines Zuges sei ein Sprengsatz in der Region Woronesch gezündet worden, teilte der Inlandsgeheimdienst FSB mit. Das Ermittlungskomitee hat nach eigenen Angaben ein Strafverfahren wegen Terrors eingeleitet.
Zuvor hatte…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Satellitenbilder zeigen Schäden an Flugzeugen ++
Nach dem ukrainischen Angriff vom Sonntag auf russische Militärstützpunkte sind auf Satellitenbildern Schäden an einigen Maschinen zu sehen. Im Norden der Ukraine sind bei Angriffen laut Behörden mindestens fünf Menschen getötet worden. Der Liveblog vom Donnerstag zum Nachlesen.

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Large Cold Dust Reservoir Revealed in Transitional SN Ib 2014C by James Webb Space Telescope Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy
Supernova (SN) 2014C is a rare transitional event that exploded as a hydrogen-poor, helium-rich Type Ib SN and subsequently interacted with a hydrogen-rich circumstellar medium (CSM) a few months post-explosion. This unique interacting object provides an opportunity to probe the mass-loss history of a stripped-envelope SN progenitor. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), we observed SN 2014C with the Mid-Infrared Instrument Medium Resolution Spectrometer at 3477 days post-explosion (rest…

Kreml: Krim-Brücke getroffen, aber nicht beschädigt
Der Kreml hat einen ukrainischen Angriff auf die Krim-Brücke bestätigt. Das Bauwerk sei dabei aber nicht zu Schaden gekommen, sagte Kremlsprecher Dmitri Peskow russischen Nachrichtenagenturen zufolge. "Eine Explosion gab es wirklich, aber nichts wurde beschädigt, die Brücke funktioniert." Generell warf Peskow der Ukraine A…
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Vassili Golod, ARD Kiew, zum ukrainischen Angriff auf die militärisch wichtige Krim-Brücke
Vassili Golod, ARD Kiew, zum ukrainischen Angriff auf die militärisch wichtige Krim-Brücke

Heute vor 66 Jahren: Am 6. Juli 1959 stürzte ein USAF C-124 in Barksdale AFB, #Louisiana, mit drei Mark 39 #Atombomben ab. Die Explosion blieb aus, aber ein Sprengkopf wurde zerstört, zwei weitere erlitten Hitzeschäden und Tritiumleckagen. Das Gebiet war geringfügig kontaminiert.

Magnetic Burial in Millisecond Magnetars and Late GRB Afterglow Signatures
Nissim Fraija, Cristian Giovanni Bernal, Antonio Galv\'an, Boris Betancourt-Kamenetskaia, Maria Giovanna Dainotti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09402

Magnetic Burial in Millisecond Magnetars and Late GRB Afterglow Signatures
Millisecond magnetars, one of the potential candidates for the central engine of Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), can experience significant magnetic field enhancement shortly after their formation. In some cases, this evolution is further influenced by the accretion of stellar debris, which modifies the dipole magnetic field strength. During a hypercritical accretion phase that lasts seconds or longer after the progenitor explosion, a thin crust may form, submerging the magnetic field (the so-called m…

Berichte über Explosion vor Zugunglück in Russland
In der russischen Region Brjansk an der Grenze zur Ukraine ist laut örtlichen Behörden ein Zug in Folge eines Brückeneinsturzes entgleist. Demnach gibt es Todesopfer. Der russische Telegram-Kanal Baza, der Russlands Sicherheitskräften nahe zu stehen scheint, meldet eine Sprengung der Brücke. Bislang gibt es keine Hinweise auf eine Verbindung zum rus…
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Zug entgleist nach Brückeneinsturz in Russland - mehrere Tote
Unweit der ukrainischen Grenze ist im westrussischen Gebiet Brjansk nach einem Brückeneinsturz ein Personenzug entgleist. Nach offiziellen Angaben gibt es sieben Todesopfer und viele Verletzte.

SN 2024bfu, SN 2025qe, and the early light curves of type Iax supernovae
M. R. Magee, T. L. Killestein, M. Pursiainen, B. Godson, D. Jarvis, C. Jim\'enez-Palau, J. D. Lyman, D. Steeghs, B. Warwick, J. P. Anderson, T. Butterley, T. -W. Chen, V. S. Dhillon, L. Galbany, S. Gonz\'alez-Gait\'an, M. Gromadzki, C. Inserra, L. Kelsey, A. Kumar, G. Leloudas, S. Mattila, T. E. M\"uller-Bravo, K. Noysena, G. Ramsay, S. Srivastav, R. Starling, R. W. Wilson, D. R. Young, K. Ackley,…

SN 2024bfu, SN 2025qe, and the early light curves of type Iax supernovae
Type Iax supernovae (SNe Iax) are perhaps the most numerous class of peculiar thermonuclear supernova and yet their sample size, particularly those observed shortly after explosion, remains relatively small. In this paper we present photometric and spectroscopic observations of two SNe Iax discovered shortly after explosion, SN 2024bfu and SN 2025qe. Both SNe were observed by multiple all-sky surveys, enabling tight constraints on the moment of first light and the shape of the early light curve…

Attributing the point symmetric structure of core-collapse supernova remnant N132D to the jittering jets explosion mechanism
Noam Soker (Technion, Israel)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00757

Attributing the point symmetric structure of core-collapse supernova remnant N132D to the jittering jets explosion mechanism
I identified a point-symmetric morphology in the core-collapse supernova (CCSN) remnant (CCSNR) N132D, composed of two symmetry axes: the short symmetry axis extending from the northwest ear and through the center of the iron-rich emission on the other side, and the second along the long dimension of N132D and coincides with the extension of the central oxygen-rich gas to the northeast. Namely, the point-symmetry of the outer zones of CCSNR N132D correlates with that of the oxygen-rich gas near…

Gouverneur: Brücke in Region Brjansk wurde gesprengt
Der Einsturz einer Brücke in der russischen Region Brjansk an der Grenze zur Ukraine ist nach Angaben des amtierenden Gouverneurs Alexander Bogomas auf eine Explosion zurückzuführen. "Die Brücke wurde gesprengt, während der Zug von Klimowo nach Moskau mit 388 Passagieren an Bord die Stelle passierte", zitiert die Nachrichtenagentur Interfax Bogomas aus einem Interview mit d…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Wadephul betont Waffenhilfe ++
Außenminister Wadephul betont, dass Deutschland der Ukraine weitreichende Militärhilfe leisten wird. Nach einem Angriff auf eine ukrainische Ausbildungseinheit mit zwölf Toten tritt der Kommandeur der ukrainischen Armee, Drapatij, zurück.

Oil tanker damaged by blast weeks after visiting Russian ports, Bloomberg reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/06/30/oil-tanker-damaged-by-blast.html

Russland spricht von Terrorakt
Das russische Ermittlungskomitee stuft die Brückeneinstürze in Kursk und Brjansk mit Toten und Verletzten als Terrorakt ein. "Die angegebenen Vorfälle wurden als terroristischer Akt qualifiziert", sagte die Sprecherin des Ermittlungskomitees, Swetlana Petrenko demnach.
Bei dem Vorfall in der südwestlichen Region Brjansk entgleiste durch den Brückeneinsturz ein Persone…
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Russland wertet zerstörte Brücken als "Terrorakt"
Wer steckt hinter den zerstörten Brücken und Zugunglücken in Russland? Ermittler gehen von einer Explosion aus, Politiker in Moskau machen die Ukraine verantwortlich. Dort wird über eine andere Zugsprengung berichtet.

Inhomogeneous stellar mixing in the final hours before the Cassiopeia A supernova
Toshiki Sato, Kai Matsunaga, Hiroyuki Uchida, Satoru Katsuda, Koh Takahashi, Hideyuki Umeda, Tomoya Takiwaki, Ryo Sawada, Takashi Yoshida, Ko Nakamura, Yui Kuboike, Paul P. Plucinsky, John P. Hughes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07563

Inhomogeneous stellar mixing in the final hours before the Cassiopeia A supernova
Understanding stars and their evolution is a key goal of astronomical research and has long been a focus of human interest. In recent years, theorists have paid much attention to the final interior processes within massive stars, as they can be essential for revealing neutrino-driven supernova mechanisms and other potential transients of massive star collapse. However, it is challenging to observe directly the last hours of a massive star before explosion, since it is the supernova event that t…

Measuring the initial mass of 44Ti in SN 1987A through the 44Sc emission line
Roberta Giuffrida, Marco Miceli, Emanuele Greco, Salvatore Orlando, Masaomi Ono, Vincenzo Sapienza, Fabrizio Bocchino, Oleh Petruk, Barbara Olmi, Shigehiro Nagataki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06832

Measuring the initial mass of 44Ti in SN 1987A through the 44Sc emission line
Context. Deriving the mass and large-scale asymmetries of radioactive isotopes offers valuable insights into the complex phases of a supernova explosion. Important examples are $^{56}$Ni, with its decay products $^{56}$Co and $^{56}$Fe, and $^{44}$Ti, which are studied through their X-rays emission lines and provide a powerful diagnostic tool to probe the explosive nucleosynthesis processes in the inner layers of the exploding star. Aims. In this framework, SN 1987A provides a privileged labora…

Supernovae from stellar mergers and accretors of binary mass transfer: Implications for Type IIP, 1987A-like and interacting supernovae
F. R. N. Schneider, E. Laplace, Ph. Podsiadlowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06391

Supernovae from stellar mergers and accretors of binary mass transfer: Implications for Type IIP, 1987A-like and interacting supernovae
As most massive stars are born in binary and other multiple-star systems, many are expected to exchange mass with a companion star or merge with it during their lives. This means that most supernovae (SNe) are from such binary products. Here, we focus on hydrogen-rich Type II SNe from accretors of binary mass transfer and stellar mergers. We compute various SN properties such as the explosion energies, nickel yields, and neutron star (NS) kick velocities, but also consider NS masses. We find ti…

Kinematic Evidence for Bipolar Ejecta Flows in the Galactic SNR W49B
XRISM Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05455 https://arx…

Kinematic Evidence for Bipolar Ejecta Flows in the Galactic SNR W49B
W49B is a unique Galactic supernova remnant with centrally peaked, "bar"-like ejecta distribution, which was once considered evidence for a hypernova origin that resulted in a bipolar ejection of the stellar core. However, chemical abundance measurements contradict this interpretation. Closely connected to the morphology of the ejecta is its velocity distribution, which provides critical details for understanding the explosion mechanism. We report the first-ever observational constraint on the …

Asymmetric emissions of neutrinos in the cooling of rotating proto-neutron stars
Laura Barrio, Kotaro Fujisawa, Ryuichiro Akaho, Hiroki Nagakura, Shoichi Yamada
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04784

Asymmetric emissions of neutrinos in the cooling of rotating proto-neutron stars
We evaluate global asymmetry in the luminosities of neutrinos emitted from rapidly-rotating proto-neutron stars (PNS's). We build axisymmetric models of PNS's in mechanical equilibrium with rotation by adding prescribed angular momentum distributions by hand to non-rotational PNS models, which are extracted from a one-dimensional (spherically symmetric) PNS cooling calculation at different times: \(t=2, 6, 10, 20, 30\)s after a supernova explosion. We then conduct two-dimensional (spatially axi…

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Type Ia supernovae
Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) correspond to the thermonuclear explosion of a carbon-oxygen white dwarf (C-O WD) star in a binary system, triggered by the accretion of material from another star, or the merger/collision with a secondary WD. Their phenomenal luminosity -- several billion times that of the sun -- has motivated their use as cosmological distance indicators and led to the discovery of the accelerated expansion of the universe. SNe Ia are also the main producers of iron and hence play …