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Ukraine to receive Gripen fighters for the first time as it bolsters air defenses: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/30/ukraine-to-receive-gripen-fighters.html

🏭 Yeast cell factory converts methanol into L-lactate for biodegradable plastics
#biotech

Yeast cell factory converts methanol into L-lactate for biodegradable plastics
Methanol is an ideal feedstock for bio-manufacturing. Converting it into lactate, a monomer for biodegradable plastic, offers a promising strategy for addressing the challenge of white pollution. However, it remains difficult to engineer microbes to produce lactate from methanol due to methanol toxicity and strong competition between product synthesis and cell growth.

"In a first, a data center is using a big battery to get online faster"
#Batteries #Energy
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In a first, a data center is using a big battery to get online faster
Aligned Data Centers will pay to build a 31-megawatt battery, an early example of how AI developers can move fast if they’re willing to be flexible.

Factorizations of 3d Interval Partition Functions
Boan Zhao, Panos Betzios, Paul Luis Roehl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23902 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.239…

Factorizations of 3d Interval Partition Functions
We show that interval partition functions (transition amplitudes) of three- dimensional N = 2 theories admit factorizations into sums of products of hemisphere partition functions with additional normalization factors. We prove the factorization explic- itly for supersymmetric quantum electrodynamics and Chern-Simons-Yang-Mills theories. In the former case, we interpret the factorization geometrically in terms of the factorization of equivariant K-theory classes. In the latter case, we prove th…

Raiders vs. Chargers: 3 X-factors on defense for Week 13 https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/11/28/raiders-vs-chargers-3-x-factors-on-defense-for-week-13/87505119007/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Foster Sylvers:
🎵 Misdemeanor
#FosterSylvers
https://hkmsyr42.bandcamp.com/track/foster-sylvers-misdemeanor-keemix
https://open.spotify.com/track/0ApFfTbtX1775WkrzZSx4y

BALF: Budgeted Activation-Aware Low-Rank Factorization for Fine-Tuning-Free Model Compression
David Gonz\'alez Mart\'inez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25136 https://

BALF: Budgeted Activation-Aware Low-Rank Factorization for Fine-Tuning-Free Model Compression
Neural network compression techniques typically require expensive fine-tuning or search procedures, rendering them impractical on commodity hardware. Inspired by recent LLM compression research, we present a general activation-aware factorization framework that can be applied to a broad range of layers. Moreover, we introduce a scalable budgeted rank allocator that allows flexible control over compression targets (e.g., retaining 50% of parameters) with no overhead. Together, these components f…

Ex-Disney executive Sean Bailey launches B5 Studios, backed by RedBird, to use AI, video game engines, and other tech to produce content faster and more cheaply (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal)
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🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Foo Fighters:
🎵 Big Me
#NowPlaying #FooFighters
https://dbreezymusic.bandcamp.com/track/foo-fighters-big-me-drum-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/6pb5BBnIM5IM7R1cqag6rE

South Africans Were Promised Job, but Ended Up ‘Going to War’ for Russia - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/world/africa/south-africa-russia-ukraine-fighters-zuma.html