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Russia accuses Germany of seeking revenge and preparing for war #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/01/russia-accuses-germany-of-seeking.html

Vodafone agrees to acquire Skaylink, a German company specializing in managing cloud deployments on Microsoft Azure and AWS, for €175M from PE firm Waterland (Yamini Kalia/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/vodafone-buy-german-clo…

What happens when stakeholders along the #supply chain join forces to eliminate #genderbased violence? Find out how investigations by an NGO led to a unique labor impact story in my latest feature for Triple Pundit.

#WWE are coming back to Europe for another tour in the new year ahead of the #RoyalRumble
including:
* Monday Night RAW TV Taping on Monday 19th January from the SSE Arena in #Belfast

Mapping Toxic Comments Across Demographics: A Dataset from German Public Broadcasting
Jan Fillies, Michael Peter Hoffmann, Rebecca Reichel, Roman Salzwedel, Sven Bodemer, Adrian Paschke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21084

Mapping Toxic Comments Across Demographics: A Dataset from German Public Broadcasting
A lack of demographic context in existing toxic speech datasets limits our understanding of how different age groups communicate online. In collaboration with funk, a German public service content network, this research introduces the first large-scale German dataset annotated for toxicity and enriched with platform-provided age estimates. The dataset includes 3,024 human-annotated and 30,024 LLM-annotated anonymized comments from Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. To ensure relevance, comments we…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Christian Scott:
🎵 Gerrymandering Game
#ChristianScott
https://ropeadopeselect.bandcamp.com/track/gerrymandering-game
https://open.spotify.com/track/3CbEDUk50sn5ac0J0OWn46

I became disillusioned with generative AI in 1995.
"Wrote some c code that read in a text file, constructed a frequency table showing how often each letter came after each letter then randomly generated words using the frequency table to determine probabilities.
If you give it a german file, it comes up with german-like words. Feed it it's own source code, and it comes out with crap, unfortunately.. I was hoping it would write some new programs for me :)"

Comprehensive Signal Quality Evaluation of a Wearable Textile ECG Garment: A Sex-Balanced Study
Maximilian P. Oppelt, Tobias S. Zech, Sarah H. Lorenz, Laurenz Ottmann, Jan Steffan, Bjoern M. Eskofier, Nadine R. Lang-Richter, Norman Pfeiffer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21554

Comprehensive Signal Quality Evaluation of a Wearable Textile ECG Garment: A Sex-Balanced Study
We introduce a novel wearable textile-garment featuring an innovative electrode placement aimed at minimizing noise and motion artifacts, thereby enhancing signal fidelity in Electrocardiography (ECG) recordings. We present a comprehensive, sex-balanced evaluation involving 15 healthy males and 15 healthy female participants to ensure the device's suitability across anatomical and physiological variations. The assessment framework encompasses distinct evaluation approaches: quantitative signal …

In Norway, just as many new diesel and petrol cars were registered this year as on any given day in Germany before lunchtime.
#EV

UK, Germany to host next Ramstein-format meeting on Oct. 15 at NATO headquarters: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/02/uk-germany-to-host-next.html