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Man Could Become First to Solo Row 2,000 Miles Around Great Britain–in Under 60 Days https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/man-could-become-first-to-solo-row-2000-miles-around-great-britain-in-just-60-days/

Man Could Become First to Solo Row 2,000 Miles Around Great Britain–in Just 60 days
A man is hoping to become the first person to row around Great Britain solo—covering 2,000 miles in just 60 days in his handmade boat.

Well, I made some crumpets. The results? They turned out well, but I can do better next time. I'll try other recipes and work on getting more holes.
➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/2025/06/07/crumpets-first-attempt/

Crumpets – First Attempt
More kitchen adventures...

First-round pick Matthew Golden willing to 'play anywhere on the field' to help Packers chase a Super Bowl

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/…

Check how your mix sounds through multiple popular headphone models with Kali Audio’s new HP-1 Multi-Reference Headphones
#MusicTech #MusicianTips

Check how your mix sounds through multiple popular headphone models with Kali Audio's new HP-1 Multi-Reference Headphones
Kali Audio has launched its first ever pair of over-ear headphones, the HP-1, which lets you switch between three voicings to check how your work will sound through the most popular headphones in use today.

Paramount CEO David Ellison outlines the new company's plans, including a reorganization into three business units: Studios, Direct-to-Consumer, and TV Media (Jill Goldsmith/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/08/david-ellison-first-look-new-paramount-1236…

David Ellison Offers First Look At Plans For New Paramount
David Ellison formally introduced himself to the industry and Wall Street as chairman CEO of the new Paramount in a letter posted as the deal closed.

I am going to walk away. I am going to walk into the ocean. I will live among the orcas and they will grow to respect me as their king. Then I will return for my revenge.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/03/meta-has-found-another…

Meta has found another way to keep you engaged: Chatbots that message you first | TechCrunch
Meta is experimenting with having customizable chatbots messaging users unprompted and follow up on past conversations.

"007 First Light": "Hitman"-Entwickler machen James Bond spielbar
Die Macher der "Hitman"-Spiele setzten James Bond als Action-Adventure um: "007 First Light" soll 2026 auf den Markt kommen.

The University of Pennsylvania’s Carey Law school has
💥paused a full-tuition scholarship program named for its first Black graduate
❌ and plans to close its office of “equal opportunity and engagement” this month.
The changes come as m Donald Trump’s administration pushes for an end to diversity, equity, and inclusion programs at universities nationwide.
⭐️The White House has threatened to pull federal funding from those that do not comply.
Penn Carey Law in 2021 …

Penn’s law school pauses scholarship honoring its first Black female graduate, plans to close equal opportunity office
Penn’s law school pauses scholarship honoring its first Black female graduate, plans to close equal opportunity office. Alumni expressed concern.

Contrary to popular opinion, Parsons isn't the first to request trade out of Dallas https://insidethestar.com/contrary-to-popular-opinion-parsons-isnt-the-first-to-request-trade-out-of-dallas

Taiwan reports first case of chikungunya virus from China outbreak | Health News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/8/taiwan-reports-first-case-of-chikungunya-virus-from-china-outbreak?traffic_source=rss

Natural disasters caused $135 bn in economic losses in first half of 2025: Swiss Re #nature

Natural disasters caused $135 bn in economic losses in first half of 2025: Swiss Re
Natural disasters caused $135 billion in economic losses globally in the first half of 2025, fueled by the Los Angeles wildfires, reinsurer Swiss Re said Wednesday.

Waymo introduces teen accounts in Phoenix, allowing teenagers aged 14-17 to use its Waymo One ridehailing service alone with parental approval (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/699580/waymo-teen-account-phoenix

Waymo introduces teen accounts for the first time in Phoenix
Waymo is introducing teen accounts for the first time in Phoenix. Kids as young as 14 can create an account that’s linked to their parent or guardian.

De trias energetica leidt niet alleen in Nederland tot tegenvallende resultaten... Tijd voor een nieuwe versie: fossiel (aardolie, aardgas en kolen) vervangen door electrificatie en warmte. Isoleren: tot het Pareto optimale niveau. Daar zou KGG/EZK met z'n economische achtergrond toch heel erg warm voor moeten lopen...

The "Fabric First" Trap: Decades Of Studies Show Electrification Wins Every Time - CleanTechnica
Over-insulating buildings through “fabric first” wastes money and delays decarbonization; electrification with moderate insulation gets much bigger results.

Did you know Australia exports 70% of its agricultural production, yet 3.4 million Australian suffered from food insecurity last year? # FoodSecurity # CSIRO
https://www.csiro.au/en/news/All/News/2025

First national stocktake of Australia's food system reveals hidden costs and big opportunities
A new report shines a light on the complex challenges and opportunities facing Australia's $800 billion food system.

HTML is Dead, Long Live HTML
Rethinking DOM from first principles
Cover Image: Browsers are in a very weird place. While WebAssembly has succeeded, even on the server, the client still feels largely the same as it did 10 years ago.
🌐 https://acko.net/blog/html-is-dead-long-live…

HTML is Dead, Long Live HTML
Rethinking DOM from first principles

"Think First, Verify Always": Training Humans to Face AI Risks
Yuksel Aydin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03714 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.03714

"Think First, Verify Always": Training Humans to Face AI Risks
Artificial intelligence enables unprecedented attacks on human cognition, yet cybersecurity remains predominantly device-centric. This paper introduces the "Think First, Verify Always" (TFVA) protocol, which repositions humans as 'Firewall Zero', the first line of defense against AI-enabled threats. The protocol is grounded in five operational principles: Awareness, Integrity, Judgment, Ethical Responsibility, and Transparency (AIJET). A randomized controlled trial (n=151) demonstrated that a m…

amazing! 🥺
this means that the 40mins monstrosity is performing (slightly) better than its predecessor in the first ~20h. When YouTuber brag about something being 1 of 10—this is what they mean.
please keep watching and liking—together we can break the algorithm 🥲
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiBIjouDGuI

Gene therapy can restore hearing in adults, first-of-its-kind trial shows https://www.sciencealert.com/gene-therapy-can-restore-hearing-in-adults-first-of-its-kind-trial-shows Surprisingly, younger was not always better in…

Gene Therapy Can Restore Hearing in Adults, First-of-Its-Kind Trial Shows
Up to three in every 1,000 newborns has hearing loss in one or both ears.

UK’s Rarest Breeding Birds Raise Chicks for First Time in Six Years https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/uks-rarest-breeding-birds-raise-chicks-for-first-time-in-six-years/

UK’s Rarest Breeding Birds Raise Chicks for First Time in Six Years
The successfully raised chicks are Montagu's harriers, England's rarest breeding bird, and the news was called an "incredible" accomplishment. 

My work cubicle is almost completely clear of all my personalizations. This September we move to a 'hotel' system. First come, first serve. Most of the time I am one of the first in, but not guaranteed.
Almost everything I personally bought and brought in to make my cubicle more comfortable and make it like my home office has been removed. I have only a couple of items left and then it will be a faceless and nameless desk, chair, keyboard, mouse and monitor.
Toolkit, …

"Major milestone for Polish energy as renewables generated more electricity than coal for first month"
#Poland #Renewables #Energy

Polish renewables generate more electricity than coal for first month
Although coal consumption has dropped, oil and gas use has risen and Poland remains the world's fourth highest emitting economy.

This week I have (a) enabled DNS security extensions (first documented in 1997 in RFC 2065) on a domain I control and (b) enabled IPv6 (first documented in 1995 in RFC 1883) on my home router, so I think it's time to break out "The Dream of the '90s" from Portlandia: https://youtu.be/TZt-pOc3moc…

If you're planning to go someplace, plan to go some other place first. That way when you're late getting ready you can say, "Oh, we're late. Let's just skip the first place," and you arrive at the place you really want to go to right on time.
#TINOPOTGS

The First Radio-Bright Off-Nuclear TDE 2024tvd Reveals the Fastest-Evolving Double-Peaked Radio Emission
Itai Sfaradi, Raffaella Margutti, Ryan Chornock, Kate D. Alexander, Brian D. Metzger, Paz Beniamini, Rodolfo Barniol Duran, Yuhan Yao, Assaf Horesh, Wael Farah, Edo Berger, Nayana A. J., Yvette Cendes, Tarraneh Eftekhari, Rob Fender, Noah Franz, Dave A. Green, Erica Hammerstein, Wenbin Lu, Eli Wiston, Yirmi Bernstein, Joe Bright, Collin T. Christy, Luigi F. Cruz, David R DeBoer, Wal…

The First Radio-Bright Off-Nuclear TDE 2024tvd Reveals the Fastest-Evolving Double-Peaked Radio Emission
We present the first multi-epoch broadband radio and millimeter monitoring of an off-nuclear TDE using the VLA, ALMA, ATA, AMI-LA, and the SMA. The off-nuclear TDE 2024tvd exhibits double-peaked radio light curves and the fastest evolving radio emission observed from a TDE to date. With respect to the optical discovery date, the first radio flare rises faster than $F_{\rm ν} \sim t^{9}$ at $Δt = 88-131$ days, and then decays as fast as $F_{\rm ν} \sim t^{-6}$. The emergence of a second radio…

QB Richardson to start Colts' preseason opener https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45909606/anthony-richardson-sr-start-colts-first-preseason-game

The Fathering Project Podcast
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Abstract computation over first-order structures. Part IIb: Moschovakis' operator and other non-determinisms
Christine Ga{\ss}ner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03827

Abstract computation over first-order structures. Part IIb: Moschovakis' operator and other non-determinisms
BSS RAMs were introduced to provide a mathematical framework for characterizing algorithms over first-order structures. Non-deterministic BSS RAMs help to model different non-deterministic approaches. Here, we deal with different types of binary non-determinisms and study the consequences of the decidability of the identity relation and the decidability of finite sets consisting of one or two constants. We compare the binary non-determinism resulting from a non-deterministic branching process, …

Social Media Reacts to the Raiders First Preseason Game https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-preseason-geno-smith-seattle-seahawks

Getting close to running my first @… service with #OTEL traces. Write the first PoC instrumentation for Bunny and #ReactPHP's

Gluon amplitudes in first quantization
Fiorenzo Bastianelli, Roberto Bonezzi, Olindo Corradini, Filippo Fecit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05486 https://arxi…

Gluon amplitudes in first quantization
We compute tree-level gluon amplitudes as worldline correlators of vertex operators in a bosonic spinning particle model. In this framework, the particle's position degrees of freedom are extended by complex bosonic variables that encode its spin. In the free theory, the model exhibits a first-class constraint algebra whose gauging ensures the unitarity of the quantum theory. This algebra is a contraction of the $sl(2,\mathbb{R})$ algebra, which is by itself a subalgebra of the Virasoro algebra…

Tavira, Portugal, Praia do Barril, 2006 by me
First official #naturist beach of Portugal.
I went down to Portugal in August the first time by car to visit my mom there after her husband died. Still nice memories.
#meermittwoch

First Fully Solar-Powered Train in Australia
- 30-kilowatt solar array on the train roof
- regenerative breaking system
- diesel engine for emergency backup
- 77 kilowatt-hour battery
- additional recharging option at the train stations
and they even have a lunch deal! #Bordbistro
Source:

What is it that makes some Germans love genocide so much? Any ideas? First the Holocaust and now Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people… It’s like they just can’t get enough of it.
#israel #germany #Holocaust

Sony Pictures reports Q1 revenue up 4% YoY to ~$2.26B, operating income up 76% YoY to $129M, and motion pictures unit revenue down 13% YoY to $742M (Abid Rahman/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bu…

Sony Pictures First Quarter Profit Up 76 Percent to $129 Million
The studio's releases in the period included '28 Years Later' and 'Karate Kid: Legends.

Another one of the disgruntled OG AI computer scientists was Karl Steinbuch, who made one of the first implementations of a neural network.
He was also an ardent Nazi and directly ordered war crimes in the Second World War.
After his research stalled he wrote many racist, misogynist and xenophobic articles for the rest of his life.
He won many awards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Steinbuch

Poland's Clean Energy Usage Overtakes Coal For First Time - Slashdot
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/07/07/1524200/polands-clean-energy-usage-overtakes-coal-for-first-time

OH: "first ever deployment of the sting grenade in a bedroom for recreational purposes"

A First Runtime Analysis of the PAES-25: An Enhanced Variant of the Pareto Archived Evolution Strategy
Andre Opris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03666 https:/…

A First Runtime Analysis of the PAES-25: An Enhanced Variant of the Pareto Archived Evolution Strategy
This paper presents a first mathematical runtime analysis of PAES-25, an enhanced version of the original Pareto Archived Evolution Strategy (PAES) coming from the study of telecommunication problems over two decades ago to understand the dynamics of local search of MOEAs on many-objective fitness landscapes. We derive tight expected runtime bounds of PAES-25 with one-bit mutation on $m$-LOTZ until the entire Pareto front is found: $Θ(n^3)$ iterations if $m=2$, $Θ(n^3 \log^2(n))$ iterations i…

Mean first-encounter times of simultaneous random walkers with resetting on networks
Daniel Rubio-G\'omez, Alejandro P. Riascos, Jos\'e L. Mateos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05313

Mean first-encounter times of simultaneous random walkers with resetting on networks
We investigate the dynamics of simultaneous random walkers with resetting on networks and derive exact analytical expressions for the mean first-encounter times of Markovian random walkers. Specifically, we consider two cases for the simultaneous dynamics of two random walkers on networks: when only one walker resets to the initial node, and when both walkers return to their initial positions. In both cases, the encounter times are expressed in terms of the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the t…

When I first started working on mobile apps, the iPhone didn’t exist yet. We were writing J2ME code for devices like the Motorola Razr. And wow did the UI on those things suck.
By “suck,” I mean byzantine navigation and confusing state drenched in useless, gratuitous graphical flair. I mean UI designed for eye-catching ads and splashy demos — not for making the thing clear or pleasant to use.
It was design centered on how people imagined the the device made them •look•, not on what •experience• it created for them.
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Semantic Frame Interpolation
Yijia Hong, Jiangning Zhang, Ran Yi, Yuji Wang, Weijian Cao, Xiaobin Hu, Zhucun Xue, Yabiao Wang, Chengjie Wang, Lizhuang Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05173

Semantic Frame Interpolation
Generating intermediate video content of varying lengths based on given first and last frames, along with text prompt information, offers significant research and application potential. However, traditional frame interpolation tasks primarily focus on scenarios with a small number of frames, no text control, and minimal differences between the first and last frames. Recent community developers have utilized large video models represented by Wan to endow frame-to-frame capabilities. However, the…

Variational first-principles approach to self-trapped polarons
Vasilii Vasilchenko, Matteo Giantomassi, Samuel Ponc\'e, Xavier Gonze
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05112

Variational first-principles approach to self-trapped polarons
The behavior of charge carriers in polar materials is governed by electron-phonon interactions, which affect their mobilities via phonon scattering and may localize carriers into self-induced deformation fields, forming self-trapped polarons. We present a first-principles study of self-trapped polaron formation in paradigmatic polar semiconductors and insulators using the variational polaron equations framework and self-consistent gradient optimization. Our method incorporates long-range correc…

Oklahoma is trying to out Texas, Texas.
Oklahoma requires ‘America First’ certification test for teachers fleeing blue states https://ground.news/article/oklahoma-requires-america-first-certification-test-for-teachers-fleeing-blue-states

Archivists Let You Now Read Some of the First Ever Reviews of Mario and Zelda https://www.404media.co/archivists-let-you-now-read-some-of-the-first-ever-reviews-of-mario-and-zelda/

First detection of circular polarization in 4.7 GHz excited OH masers
Derck P Smits, Paul Fallon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05450 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

First detection of circular polarization in 4.7 GHz excited OH masers
We report the first detection of circular polarization in 4.7 GHz excited OH masers in star-forming regions made using full Stokes measurements with the Green Bank 100m telescope. The Zeeman shift between the two circular components provides a measure of the magnetic field pervading these maser spots. Three different methods are used to determine the shift in velocity between the Right Circular Polarization and Left Circular Polarization components. We find fields with $B \sim 100$ mG using arc…

When Family Comes First – Hanging Out with Mom, Dad, Sis, and all https://muz4now.com/web-stories/when-family-comes-first-hanging-out-with-mom-dad-and-sis/…

When Family Comes First - Hanging Out with Mom, Dad, Sis, and all
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

So I've found my answer after maybe ~30 minutes of effort. First stop was the first search result on Startpage (https://millennialhawk.com/does-poop-have-calories/), which has some evidence of maybe-AI authorship but which is better than a lot of slop. It actually has real links & cites research, so I'll start by looking at the sources.
It claims near the top that poop contains 4.91 kcal per gram (note: 1 kcal = 1 Calorie = 1000 calories, which fact I could find/do trust despite the slop in that search). Now obviously, without a range or mention of an average, this isn't the whole picture, but maybe it's an average to start from? However, the citation link is to a study (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32235930/) which only included 27 people with impaired glucose tolerance and obesity. Might have the cited stat, but it's definitely not a broadly representative one if this is the source. The public abstract does not include the stat cited, and I don't want to pay for the article. I happen to be affiliated with a university library, so I could see if I have access that way, but it's a pain to do and not worth it for this study that I know is too specific. Also most people wouldn't have access that way.
Side note: this doing-the-research protect has the nice benefit of letting you see lots of cool stuff you wouldn't have otherwise. The abstract of this study is pretty cool and I learned a bit about gut microbiome changes from just reading the abstract.
My next move was to look among citations in this article to see if I could find something about calorie content of poop specifically. Luckily the article page had indicators for which citations were free to access. I ended up reading/skimming 2 more articles (a few more interesting facts about gut microbiomes were learned) before finding this article whose introduction has what I'm looking for: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3127503/
Here's the relevant paragraph:
"""
The alteration of the energy-balance equation, which is defined by the equilibrium of energy intake and energy expenditure (1–5), leads to weight gain. One less-extensively-studied component of the energy-balance equation is energy loss in stools and urine. Previous studies of healthy adults showed that ≈5% of ingested calories were lost in stools and urine (6). Individuals who consume high-fiber diets exhibit a higher fecal energy loss than individuals who consume low-fiber diets with an equivalent energy content (7, 8). Webb and Annis (9) studied stool energy loss in 4 lean and 4 obese individuals and showed a tendency to lower the fecal energy excretion in obese compared with lean study participants.
"""
And there's a good-enough answer if we do some math, along with links to more in-depth reading if we want them. A Mayo clinic calorie calculator suggests about 2250 Calories per day for me to maintain my weight, I think there's probably a lot of variation in that number, but 5% of that would be very roughly 100 Calories lost in poop per day, so maybe an extremely rough estimate for a range of humans might be 50-200 Calories per day. Interestingly, one of the AI slop pages I found asserted (without citation) 100-200 Calories per day, which kinda checks out. I had no way to trust that number though, and as we saw with the provenance of the 4.91 kcal/gram, it might not be good provenance.
To double-check, I visited this link from the paragraph above: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022316622169853?via=ihub
It's only a 6-person study, but just the abstract has numbers: ~250 kcal/day pooped on a low-fiber diet vs. ~400 kcal/day pooped on a high-fiber diet. That's with intakes of ~2100 and ~2350 kcal respectively, which is close to the number from which I estimated 100 kcal above, so maybe the first estimate from just the 5% number was a bit low.
Glad those numbers were in the abstract, since the full text is paywalled... It's possible this study was also done on some atypical patient group...
Just to come full circle, let's look at that 4.91 kcal/gram number again. A search suggests 14-16 ounces of poop per day is typical, with at least two sources around 14 ounces, or ~400 grams. (AI slop was strong here too, with one including a completely made up table of "studies" that was summarized as 100-200 grams/day). If we believe 400 grams/day of poop, then 4.91 kcal/gram would be almost 2000 kcal/day, which is very clearly ludicrous! So that number was likely some unrelated statistic regurgitated by the AI. I found that number in at least 3 of the slop pages I waded through in my initial search.

This year is the 20th year since my first Tuppenceworth.ie blog post recording when it was Flying Ant Day.
In 2005 it was on the 9th August.
This year, it is on the 8th July.
https://www.tuppenceworth.ie/blog/

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS - CINEMA'S FIRST EPICS IN FOCUS #acrel https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/07/04/call-for-book-chapters-cin…

This story of an ex-Googler is well worth reading. After some personal observations, @… asks interesting questions:
What is crypto mining if not a textbook Captain Planet villain scheme—to kill and raze and destroy for nothing but imaginary tokens proving that you did lots of killing and razing and …

On my gas supplier’s website, and I can only describe the stock photo choices as “couples finding out the answer to ‘does my husband’s penis still work?’”

Kid1 is preparing to DM his first ever D&D campaign (he'll run it starting in the fall). He's been constantly bouncing ideas off me for the past few weeks. He's come up with what's IMHO a setting that's fun and should work well, both in the prepped parts and on the fly: he's modelling the campaign on Gormenghast. I suspect some of his more bizarre ideas will fall away once play begins. Still, it's been great listening to him dream up a custom version of a part…

John Fothergill’s description of a headache he suffered in the winter of 1778 is thought to be the first anglophone account of a #migraine’s ocular disturbances.
He saw “a singular kind of glimmering in the sight; objects change their apparent position surrounded by luminous angles, like those of a fortification.
Giddiness comes on, headache, and sickness”.
Fothergill was detailing, wi…

Visualizing Migraines: The Attempts of Hubert Airy and Others to Depict Scintillating Scotomata
In a 1870 paper, Hubert Airy became the first to attempt to explicitly visualise the scintillating scotomata of his migraine.

OpenAI releases gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, its first open-weight models since GPT-2; the smaller model can run locally on a consumer device with 16GB of RAM (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-just-released-its-first-open-wei…

OpenAI Just Released Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2
The models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, represent a major shift for the AI company.

Top 25 NFL moments of first 25 years of the 2000s: From Aaron Rodgers' Hail Mary to Super Bowl helmet catch

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/ne…

5 Unheralded Las Vegas Raiders Players To Watch In First Preseason Game https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/5-players-to-watch-preseason-game/?adt_ei=[email]

Which 10 Non-QBs Would Most Likely Command Two First-Round Picks In A Trade? https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/which-non-qbs-would-most-likely-command-two-first-round-picks-trade

Caleb Williams won't play in Bears' first preseason game despite reports of inconsistent training camp

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/caleb-w…

Why’d they call it “agentic AI” when Russian roulette was right there?
(Ah, because Russian roulette doesn’t destroy our habitat, drink all our water, and doom our species. I get it now, my bad.) https://front-end.social/@ariel/114675226611700916

Ariel Salminen (@ariel@front-end.social)
Attached: 1 image “Cursor […] tried to delete some old files, didn’t work at the first time and it decided to end up deleting everything on my computer, including itself.” 😶‍🌫️ https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-yolo-deleted-everything-in-my-computer/103131

Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison visited CBS News early Thursday, expressing admiration for the news division and acknowledging recent stresses (Brian Stelter/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/media/paramount-skydance-cbs-news-david-ellison-merger

Inside the first day of Paramount’s new regime under David Ellison
Ellison spoke with CBS journalists on his first day, acknowledging the stresses of the past year and touting the importance of “fact-based journalism,” a person in attendance said.

Non-Equilibrium Dynamics and First-Passage Properties of Stochastic Processes: From Brownian Motion to Active Particles
Mathis Gu\'eneau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04154 htt…

Non-Equilibrium Dynamics and First-Passage Properties of Stochastic Processes: From Brownian Motion to Active Particles
In this thesis, we develop analytical methods to study out-of-equilibrium stochastic processes driven by colored noise, i.e., noise with temporal correlations. These non-Markovian processes pose significant analytical challenges compared to processes driven by white noise, such as Brownian motion. A primary focus is on active particle systems, specifically the run-and-tumble particle subjected to an arbitrary force. We derive exact expressions for its mean first-passage time (MFPT) and exit pro…

Nitrogen-related short-range order in Fe-Ni-Cr austenitic stainless steels: first principles and cluster expansion study
Tianyu Su, Brian J. Blankenau, Namhoon Kim, Jessica A. Krogstad, Elif Ertekin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04580

Nitrogen-related short-range order in Fe-Ni-Cr austenitic stainless steels: first principles and cluster expansion study
Nitrogen (N) is a key alloying element that enhances the performance of Fe-Ni-Cr austenitic stainless steels, improving austenite stability, corrosion resistance, and yield strength. However, the role of N in modifying chemical ordering, particularly short-range order (SRO) and long-range order (LRO), is complex due to the multi-sublattice nature and magnetic interactions in these alloys. In this work, we combine first-principles calculations with the spin cluster expansion (spin CE) method to …

I made up my first "unhoused care package" and handed it to Emilio and Scott today, two guys I saw on the way to work.
I've seen Emilio before, gave him socks and water, but I wanted to up things a bit so they got socks, water, granola bars, candy, cookies, band-aids, and some cash in a large plastic bag.

LAP1-B is the First Observed System Consistent with Theoretical Predictions for Population III Stars
Eli Visbal, Ryan Hazlett, Greg L. Bryan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03842 htt…

LAP1-B is the First Observed System Consistent with Theoretical Predictions for Population III Stars
Recently, Nakajima et al. (2025) presented James Webb Space Telescope observations of the $z=6.6$ Population III (Pop III) candidate LAP1-B, which is gravitationally lensed by galaxy cluster MACS J0416. We argue that this is the first object to agree with three key theoretical predictions for Pop III stars: (1) formation in extremely low-metallicity halos with virial temperatures ranging from $T_{\rm vir}\sim 10^3-10^4~{\rm K}$, (2) a top-heavy initial mass function, and (3) formation of low-ma…

This year is the 20th year since my first Tuppenceworth.ie blog post recording when it was Flying Ant Day.
In 2005 it was on the 9th August.
This year, it is on the 8th July.
https://www.tuppenceworth.ie/blog/

Wanted to find out how many calories are in poop to make a nice fat-positive post on here, but after wading through 5 separate results from the top to the bottom of the first page of results, every single one of them showed signs of AI authorship, so none of the info was trustworthy (several contradicted each other or themselves). The one article that cited legit sources didn't include a straightforward answer to the question. Of course, I could dig past the first page, or look through the cited sources do some math myself, and that's not even that hard to do. But 10 years ago, a trustworthy answer would have been among the first 5 search results. When we say #AI is destroying the digital commons, this is what we mean.
Gonna go find some academic papers to answer this and report back.

"In coming weeks, proposed job cuts and restructures will be released for the Academic Portfolio, Research and Innovation Portfolio, the College of Science and Medicine, and the College of Arts and Social Sciences."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025…

Australian National University announces first round of job cuts as part of effort to turn around financial issues
As the Australian National University grapples with its dire financial position, the first of several rounds of job cuts has been announced as the institution seeks to save $250 million by the end of the year, including $100 million from salaries.

Jets to play Fields, starters in preseason opener https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45920863/jets-change-course-play-starters-first-preseason-game

while people are hand-wringing, I’m already window-shopping for my first yacht bought from my first check as a Professional AI Slop Unfucker.

The text I have conveys the •meaning• of the diagram, and it’s better than nothing:
❝Three different trees showing possible interpretations of 1000 - 100 - 10 - 1. In the first tree, subtraction happens from left to right. In the second tree, it happens from right to left. In the third tree, we first compute 1000 minus 100, then 10 minus 1, then subtract those two results.❞
That’s probably the best I can do in the current format. But if there were a way to make convey more of the spatial sense, I’d do it!

Uzbek fintech and e-commerce company Uzum raised $65.5M led by Tencent and VR Capital at a ~$1.5B valuation, up from $1.16B in March 2024 after a $114M Series A (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/05/uzbekistans-first-unicorn-…

Uzbekistan's first unicorn, Uzum, leaps to a $1.5B valuation | TechCrunch
Uzbekistan's Uzum has raised $65.5 million in a new funding round co-led by China's Tencent and the New York- and London-based VR Capital, with participation from U.S.-based FinSight Capital.

Notes First or Music First? Which Leads to Better Performance? https://bulletproofmusician.com/notes-first-or-music-first-which-leads-to-better-performance/

Notes First or Music First? Which Leads to Better Performance?
A 2022 study provides an answer to the chicken and egg problem – should students work on the basics first before adding expression? Or should they aim to play with expression from the start?

Raiders linked to Micah Parsons trade with Cowboys involving multiple first-round picks https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-linked-micah-parsons-trade-…

Here are the 15 NFL teams that will be getting a new helmet or uniform in 2025: Saints and Commanders up first

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl…

Raiders linked to Micah Parsons trade with Cowboys involving multiple first-round picks https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-linked-micah-parsons-trade-…

First detection of Circular Polarization in radio continuum towards a Massive Protostar
A. G. Cheriyan, S. Vig, Nirupam Roy, Samir Mandal, C. Carrasco-Gonz\'alez, A. Rodr\'iguez-Kamenetzky, A. Pasetto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04913

First detection of Circular Polarization in radio continuum towards a Massive Protostar
Polarization measurements provide strong constraints on magnetic fields in star-forming systems. While magnetic field estimates of a few kiloGauss (kG) have been obtained near the surface of low-mass protostars, there are no analogous measurements in the immediate vicinity of the surface of massive protostars. We report the measurement of radio continuum circular polarization (CP) towards a massive protostar IRAS 18162-2048 for the first time wielding Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) obser…

Ted Cruz was sightseeing in Athens as first responders began launching search and rescue operations back home, The Daily Beast reports.
The senator reportedly landed in Greece on Thursday, July 3;
was spotted at the Parthenon on Saturday, July 5;
and is believed to have not caught a plane to San Antonio, Texas, until Sunday.
The Daily Beast’s report recalls the infamous February 2021 incident
in which the senator took a trip to Cancun, Mexico,
during a hi…

Ted Cruz Caught Vacationing as Texas Suffered Deadly Floods
“Twenty dead kids and you’re on vacation?” someone asked the Texas senator after spotting him abroad.

OpenAI says GPT-5 is its first "unified" AI model and combines the reasoning abilities of its o-series of models with the fast responses of its GPT series (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/07/openais-gpt-5-is-here/

OpenAI's GPT-5 is here | TechCrunch
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says GPT-5 is the "best model in the world," and aims to make ChatGPT more intuitive to use.

Evaluating the Accuracy of Reionization Prescriptions in Semi-analytic Models of the First Stars and Galaxies
Thomas Behling, Ryan Hazlett, Mihir Kulkarni, Eli Visbal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04808

Evaluating the Accuracy of Reionization Prescriptions in Semi-analytic Models of the First Stars and Galaxies
Semi-analytic models are a valuable tool to study the first stars and galaxies. Their numerical efficiency makes it possible to survey broad regions of astrophysical parameter space across large volumes and redshift ranges. Following reionization in these models is necessary since star formation is suppressed in ionized regions due to photoheating of the gas. Here we evaluate the accuracy of three semi-analytic reionization prescriptions (two previously developed and one new model) by comparing…

One Rookie to Watch in Raiders' First Preseason Game https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-donte-thornton-pete-carroll-geno-smith-seattle-seahawks

Simon Rosenberg:
We have elections in 2025 that we have to really focus on first.
We need to have as big victories as we possibly can in New Jersey, Virginia, and in New York City, and to make elections
—which are only four months away, by the way; it’s very soon
—feel like clear repudiations of this politics.
Trump is already really unpopular. He’s already seen his coalition unravel.
And they just passed the most unpopular big bill in modern history.

Transcript: Trump’s Use of Secret Police Takes “Shocking” Darker Turn
Trump’s bill gives him vast new law enforcement resources. Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg reflects on what the coming wave of militarized arrests will do to America—and how Democrats should fight it.

IBM unveils Power11 chips, its first major Power line update since 2020, available July 25, and says they can detect and respond to ransomware within a minute (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/ibm-rolls-out-ne…

Seahawks troll Raiders' Ashton Jeanty after big first half by ex Boise State teammate https://www.si.com/nfl/seahawks/seahawks-troll-raiders-ashton-jeanty-george-holani-big-half

Microsoft showcases a new fullscreen Xbox experience optimized for handhelds, coming first to the Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X and to other handhelds in 2026 (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/682011/microsof…

This is how Microsoft is combining Windows and Xbox for handheld PCs
Microsoft has worked with Asus to launch two new Xbox Ally devices. Both include improvements to Windows on handhelds with a full-screen Xbox experience.

Worst-to-first rankings: Which teams could skyrocket to the top of their divisions? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45391110/2025-nfl-season-worst-first-division-odds-predictions

Steam for Chromebooks will stop working in January 2026, after debuting in alpha in March 2022 ahead of the launch of the first Gaming Chromebooks (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/08/07/steam-chromebook-2026/

Google ending Steam for Chromebook support in 2026
After introducing in 2022, Steam for Chromebook will stop working in early 2026. At the time, it was a big effort...

Vikings WR Addison suspended for first 3 games https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45909344/vikings-wr-jordan-addison-suspended-3-games-nfl

Obvio, which uses AI-powered stop sign cameras to detect infractions, raised a $22M Series A led by Bain to expand beyond its first five cities in Maryland (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/04/obvios-stop-sign…

Obvio’s stop sign cameras use AI to root out unsafe drivers | TechCrunch
American streets are incredibly dangerous for pedestrians. A San Carlos, California-based startup called Obvio thinks it can change that by installing cameras at stop signs -- a solution the founders also say won’t create a panopticon. 

Kirk Cousins felt 'misled' when Falcons drafted Michael Penix Jr.: Knowing Atlanta's plan 'would've affected my decision' https://www.nfl.com/news/kirk-cousins-felt-misle…

In iOS 26 beta 3, Apple dials back the degree of translucency in many UI elements, following user complaints about Liquid Glass (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/ios-26-beta-3-dials-back-liquid-glass/

iOS 26 beta 3 dials back Liquid Glass | TechCrunch
The early version in the first developer beta of iOS 26 and the accompanying updates for Apple's other devices still left room for improvement in terms of usability, accessibility, and legibility.

Amazon plans to make OpenAI's new gpt-oss open-weight models available on Bedrock and SageMaker, the first time it has offered OpenAI's models to customers (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-05/am…

QB Richardson to start Colts' preseason opener https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45909606/anthony-richardson-sr-start-colts-first-preseason-game

Framework Desktop review: the $1,099 desktop is compact and easy to assemble with solid performance and power efficiency, but CPU, GPU, and RAM are soldered (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0

Review: Framework Desktop is a mash-up of a regular desktop PC and the Mac Studio
Size matters most for Framework’s first stab at a desktop workstation/gaming PC.

The Browser Company launches a $20-per-month Dia Pro subscription plan, providing unlimited access to the web browser's AI-powered chat and skills features (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/the-b…

The Browser Company launches a $20 monthly subscription for its AI-powered browser | TechCrunch
The Browser Company has its first paid plan in form of $20 per month Dia Pro.

CB Insights: VCs and private equity firms poured $3.1B to fund 144 deals in the LA area in Q1 2025, up from $2.7B in Q1 2024 and $1.4B in Q1 2023 (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-06-06/venture-capital-…

Venture capital investment rises in L.A., and not just for AI startups
Venture capital investors and private equity firms poured $3.1 billion to fund 144 deals in the L.A. area in the first quarter of this year, up 15% from a year ago.

An interview with Leah Belsky, OpenAI's VP of Education, as the startup competes with Google and others to offer premium AI tools to universities and students (Natasha Singer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/technol…

Inside OpenAI’s Plan to Embed ChatGPT Into College Students’ Lives
OpenAI, the firm that helped spark chatbot cheating, wants to embed A.I. in every facet of college. First up: 460,000 students at Cal State.

Treefera, which uses satellite imagery, drone imagery, and AI to provide real-time insights into supply chains, raised a $30M Series B led by Notion Capital (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/06/03/treefera-secure…

Treefera secures $20M Series B for AI-driven supply chain resilience solutions
Supply chain resilience startup Treeferachas secured $20 million in its Series B funding round, led by Notion Capital with participation from other investors.  In the face of growing economic uncertainty, a stringent regulatory landscape, and increasing environmental risk, Treefera’s platform utilises satellite imagery, drone imagery, and adaptive AI in order to provide real-time, tailored insights into supply chains.  This is especially significant within the first mile of supply chains,…