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😷 Viruses hidden within fungi could be secret drivers of deadly lung infections
#medicine

Viruses hidden within fungi could be secret drivers of deadly lung infections
Researchers have discovered that a virus living inside the fungus Aspergillus fumigatus significantly boosts the fungus's ability to survive stress and cause severe infections in mammals. Removing the virus made the fungus weaker and less virulent, while antiviral treatments improved survival outcomes. This finding reveals a hidden factor driving the deadliness of fungal infections and opens the door to potential new treatments that target the virus rather than the fungus itself.

Billy Howton, Top Green Bay Packers Receiver in the ’50s, Dies at 95 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/sports/football/billy-howton-dead.html

Haitian Gang Leader 'Barbecue' Indicted for Conspiracy to Violate U.S. Sanctions (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/haitian-gang-leader-barbecue-indicted-conspiracy-violate-us-sanctions
http://www.memeorandum.com/250812/p143#a250812p143

Ancient DNA reveals 37,000 years of hidden human infections - Earth.com
https://www.earth.com/news/ancient-dna-reveals-37000-years-of-hidden-human-infections/

Since the Black Magic HDMI capture card seems to be the only card that reliably captures audio/video I grabbed an HDMI splitter. Works great, hasn't caught fire...two thumbs up so far.
#hdmi #linux #CaptureCard

Cowboys dangerously flirting with hidden Micah Parsons risk even if he stays https://fansided.com/nfl/cowboys-dangerously-flirting-hidden-micah-parsons-risk

What happens when bees can’t buzz right? Nature starts falling apart #nature

What happens when bees can’t buzz right? Nature starts falling apart
High heat and heavy metals dampen a bumblebee’s trademark buzz, threatening pollen release and colony chatter. Tiny sensors captured up-to-400-hertz tremors that falter under environmental stress, raising alarms for ecosystems and sparking ideas for pollination robots.

🪤 Trapping gut bacteria's hidden fuel improves blood sugar and liver health, study shows
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-gut-bacteria-hidden-fuel-blood.html

Trapping gut bacteria's hidden fuel improves blood sugar and liver health, study shows
A team of Canadian scientists has discovered a surprising new way to improve blood sugar levels and reduce liver damage: by trapping a little-known fuel made by gut bacteria before they wreak havoc on the body.

Signed Graph Learning with Hidden Nodes
Rong Ye, Xue-Qin Jiang, Hui Feng, Jian Wang, Runhe Qiu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09120 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.…

Signed Graph Learning with Hidden Nodes
Signed graphs, which are characterized by both positive and negative edge weights, have recently attracted significant attention in the field of graph signal processing (GSP). Existing works on signed graph learning typically assume that all graph nodes are available. However, in some specific applications, only a subset of nodes can be observed while the remaining nodes stay hidden. To address this challenge, we propose a novel method for identifying signed graph that accounts for hidden nodes…

"it feels silly to take what federal officers are doing in the city even a little bit seriously, because the fantasy of D.C. as some crime-addled hellhole is a deliberate invention. "
I Walked Through Trump’s D.C. Hellscape. It’s Now Clear What Exactly the Feds Are Doing Here.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/08/trumps-washington-dc-takeover-heres-what-the-feds-are-really-doing.htm