Tootfinder

RSF Press Freedom Index hits a 25-year low: over 50% of the world's countries fall into the "difficult" or "very serious" categories; Norway holds the top spot (Reporters Without Borders)
https://rsf.org/en/2026-rsf-index-press-freedom-25-year-low…

London-based Inherent, which aims to combine human scientific research with AI to produce innovations, emerges from stealth with $50M led by Index Ventures (Martin Coulter/Sifted)
https://sifted.eu/articles/inherent-ai-funding-round-index-matt-clifford/

Ex-DeepMind researchers raise $50m for AI science startup Inherent
London-based AI lab Inherent has recruited Entrepreneurs First cofounder and government AI tsar Matt Clifford as an adviser.

Linkdump 22/2026 – #fundstücke

There are frameworks like {golem} and {rhino} to make shiny development more robust, but I like the concept of {shinytest2} in providing a testing framework for pure shiny. https://rstudio.github.io/shinytest2/index.html

Some archived AI model responses to questions relating to vision for the blind, brain implants for restoring vision, visual-to-auditory sensory substitution (The vOICe) https://www.seeingwithsound.com/archive/index.html ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, Grok, Consensus, Perplexity, …

@… und hier sind die gesäuberten Files: https://cloud.nesg.es/index.php/s/CPfTnjWnZdDsR5k

#FurbNET wap home page is done! http://wap.furbnet.com/index.iva
if anyone has any WAP capable devices i'd love to see how it looks! :)

#FurbNET wap home page is done! http://wap.furbnet.com/index.iva
if anyone has any WAP capable devices i'd love to see how it looks! :)

Kim Hyeon's abstract for his DH2026 Opening Keynote - #DH2026…

School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship
https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/school-book-banning-escalat…

School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship
A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women

🔗 Document links make view('orders.index') and route('https://orders.show') clickable, and the same index backs go-to definition, which is enabled by default.
🔧 composer global require laravel/lsp
Requires PHP 8.2 , ships prebuilt binaries for macOS, Linux (arm64/x64) and Windows x64.

➡️ PyPI · The Python Package Index
#bookmarks

"Wie BookTok Hypes erzeugt: Parasoziale Beziehungen als Wirkmechanismus digitaler Literaturvermittlung" [BA-Arbeit von Lydia Kampschulte @ TH Köln]
https://publiscologne.th-koeln.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2824

OpenAI says its models, starting with GPT-5.1, "increasingly mentioned goblins, gremlins, and other creatures", leading to prompt instructions to mitigate it (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/where-the-goblins-came-from

The US and European stock markets might be numb to the enormity of the AI bubble at this point,
but in East Asia it’s a different story.
In South Korea, the AI bubble appears to be bursting
— at least partially
— with the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (Kopsi) plummeting by over 40 percent from its June highs
after the Korean chipmaker SK Hynix failed to impress investors
despite reporting a sixfold increase in quarterly earnings.
Across July 28 a…

South Korean Authorities Scrambling to Save Stock Market From AI Bubble
The Korean government is weighing measures to save the Korean Exchange as a massive financial panic spreads throughout the country.

Lots of exciting new research projects in the #exc Africa Multiple @… .
See the list here (including my project "Worldmaking on Two Wheels" on the history and memories of #cycling

“The day may not be far off when everyone will be walking around playing his or her own private radio station on a Walkman.”
From Steve Otfinoski’s Golden Age of Novelty Songs (2000)
Talking about #WeirdAl and the struggle to find universal songs to parody
Published exactly the year before the iPod was released — barely misaligned futurism
Right on the cusp of dramatic c…

The golden age of novelty songs / by Steven Otfinoski : Otfinoski, Steven : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-239), discography (p. 239-241), and index

@… via <http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/index.html>
Some Terrific Idea (1998-present)
Implementing a vendor sp…

OpenAI says using its Responses API harness with GPT-5.6 Sol tripled its ARC-AGI-3 score and used fewer tokens, after Sol with the official harness scored 7.8% (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/how-two-settings-tripled-our-arc-agi-3-scores

vutuv – #internetosbnopensourcesoftware

"Forschungsnahe Dienstleistungen: eine Untersuchung zur digitalen Sichtbarkeit und Vermittlung an Universitätsbibliotheken in NRW" [BA-Arbeit von Miriam Kallweit @ TH Köln]
https://publiscologne.th-koeln.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2761

from my link log —
Learn not to speak Esperanto.
http://jbr.me.uk/ranto/index.html
saved 2019-07-30 https://dotat.at/:/P3CNX.html

The IIIF Universal Viewer community is on fire - a new release a few days ago, and look at all those contributors! It's especially exciting to see new contributors
Release v4.3.0 · GitHub https://github.com/UniversalViewer/universalviewer/releases/tag/v4…

Release v4.3.0 · UniversalViewer/universalviewer
What's Changed Highlights of changes/additions: Outcomes from the Developer Experience sprint: New interactive configuration editor on the example index page Several external components reintegra...

Kühle-Orte-Karte der Stadt: https://geoportal.bochum.de/mapapps/resources/apps/221/index.html?lang=de
Edit: Da steht leider nicht viel drin, nicht sehr nützlich. Die ganze Ruhr-Uni als ein ("gekühlter") Ort? Ich denke nicht. Mein Gebäude hat 0 Klima und in meinem Büro war schon die ganze Woche über 30 Grad.

I wrote up my hackery on the pair of Snapdragon aarch64 laptops I bought (with broken displays) and getting Linux running on them:
https://www.treblig.org/daveG/dragon-and-soup/index.html

Under the Lurie administration, SFMTA is in the business of "identifying opportunities to add more parking." Transit First is dead. The climate plan is dead. https://www.sfmta.com/index.php/media/45055/download?inline

Overview sovereign cloud platforms.
https://reprint.forrester.com/reports/the-forrester-wave-tm-sovereign-cloud-platforms-q2-2026-f64f29c7/index.html

In einem Paralleluniversum mit minimal anderen Entscheidungen sieht Deutschland so aus:
- Recht auf Unterstützung für Homeoffice-Tage
- Ständige Erweiterung digitaler Zusammenarbeit (seit Corona)
- vorausschauende Städteplanung, u.a. Städte ab einer bestimmten Größe und Besucherdichte verpflichten, kühle Orte zu schaffen (Bsp.:

does anybody happen to know if the results of the #europeana Linked Data Task Force have been published somewhere?
This page here https://pro.europeana.eu/index.php/projec…

Yet another cool link from "The Index" by @…
How Diamonds are Made?
https://diamond.jaydip.me/read/?utm_sou…

OpenAI uttalelse: https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/
"with reduced cyber refusals for evaluation purposes"

"Trends in der #Wissenschaftskommunikation: Eine BERTopic basierte Analyse wissenschaftlicher Abstracts" [BA-Arbeit von Nik Strauch @ TH Köln]
https://publiscologne.th-koeln.de…

Heute vor 25 Jahren wurden Mitglieder der Volxtheaterkarawane, die davor an den Protesten in Genua teilgenommen hatten, verhaftet; unter den vielen Aufrufen, die sich für deren Enthaftung einsetzten, gab es auch einen der IG LektorInnen: https://www.ig-elf.at/index.php?id=58

Ruth Sindt und Arne Klemenz stellen #bibliocon26

Sky (which hijacks and redirects all port 53 traffic even if you don't enable parental controls) was returning SERVFAIL for all nhs.uk DNS lookups for some period on Tuesday.
(But I think this may have been the fault of one of Sky's third-party providers, since we saw an issue with an NHS lookup originating outside the UK.)

Sky Broadband Users Accidentally Blocked from UK NHS Website and App
Some customers of Sky Broadband reported that they were unable to access the main NHS website and app earlier in the week, seemingly after the internet provider

"Mapped: Inside Carbon Brief's Cosmos database of 1.8 million climate studies"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https://

Mapped: Inside Carbon Brief’s Cosmos database of 1.8 million climate studies
Explore the vast cosmos of academic literature and evidence that underpins humanity’s knowledge of climate change.

FURBNET PROGRESS: database system has been rewritten, it's now *way* faster! MIDI previews are generated and cached on demand, as well! give it a try! https://www.furbnet.com/index.iva

Wavefunction collapse is only one interpretation. Under some interpretations, graduate students also have souls.
#Comic

Hall of Maths Shame posts index
Oliver Knill (i) https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/116990848347700650

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CR. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CR/new
[1/1]:
- Double Index Calculus Algorithm: Faster Solving Discrete Logarithm Problem in Finite Prime Field
Wen Huang
…

now posted: complete transcripts for season 12 of the good ol' grateful deadcast, our extended hang at the 1975 "blues for allah" sessions, plus our episode with engineer dan healy. https://www.dead.net/deadcast-index

A new tool reveals which countries are truly ready to innovate in agrivoltaics—combining solar energy with agriculture.
The Agrivoltaic Innovation Index goes beyond counting research papers to measure actual innovation readiness. Surprising finding: African nations like Kenya and Senegal score high despite publishing less, thanks to focused projects solving urgent local needs.

New metric assesses innovation readiness in agrivoltaics
A study from Türkiye has introduced the Agrivoltaic Innovation Index (AII), a composite scientometric tool designed to assess innovation readiness in agrivoltaics beyond traditional publication and citation metrics. The index evaluates research across four dimensions - conceptual, translational, network, and societal - and shows that high publication volume does not necessarily correspond to higher innovation readiness.

Well this just happened:
https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/

An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
An OpenAI model solved the 80-year-old unit distance problem, disproving a major conjecture in discrete geometry and marking a milestone in AI-driven mathematics.

Wer sich ein bisschen für #Musik auf dem #Commodore #C64 interessiert, mag sich vielleicht das Video ansehen, welches Linus in seinem Blog

Ukrainian drone strikes have pushed Russia’s fuel output down far enough to surface in Moscow’s own official statistics
—even after the Kremlin stopped publishing how much oil and fuel the country makes.
Rosstat’s April report still shows output of coke and oil products
—essentially what refineries produce
—down 9.2% from a year earlier
and 11.3% from March

Russia hid its oil data. The crash showed up anyway - Euromaidan Press
Moscow hid its oil output, but Rosstat's index still caught refining down 9.2%—the lone April drop—after Ukraine's drone strikes.

"KI-gestützte Chatbots in wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken im internationalen Vergleich – Entwicklung und Anwendung eines Kriterienkatalogs zur qualitativen Bewertung" [MA-Arbeit von Ronja Maria Diganta @ TH Köln]
https://publiscologne.th-koeln.de/frontdoor/index/i…

AI has changed what clients expect. The AI aesthetic has become a default visual reference point that many researchers now push towards. But we often create images for scientific journals. When clients ask us to chase the AI look, we explain that it is likely to work against them as it doesn’t match what journals want: clarity over spectacle. Sometimes they listen.

‘Good design takes mastery’: scientific illustrators sketch out AI’s future
Nature talks to five artists about their approaches to communicating science visually.

Now that I am (mostly) healed I need to dive back into printmaking. You know, I used to be envious of artists who created photorealistic images (as opposed to my simple stuff) but hey, no one will accuse me of using AI for these prints! 😆
http://photos.rasterweb.net/index.php?/category/3…

Es begann als Freizeitspielerei und es endet als Freizeitspielerei. Aber immerhin ist die tub.map (https://www.tub.tuhh.de/ext/tubmap/index.php) nun doch nochmal halbwegs aktualisiert.
Warum ich das gemacht habe, weiß ich aber eigentlich auch nicht. Irgendwie auch so ein Tick, immer …

Linkdump 26/2026 – #fundstücke

Our 3yo boy Chase really enjoys watch Danny Go. He finds his videos super funny. ❤️
https://www.instagram.com/p/DYpAyjIEepY/?img_index=1&igsh=anByZGxvdzFvenZ1

Bing-Index = Brave-Index = DuckDuckGo-Index. 🔍
Wer auf Bing indexiert ist, taucht automatisch auf Brave, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia und Yahoo auf. Ein Submit, fünf Engines. Und genau diese werden gerade massiv wichtiger: Copilot, ChatGPT Search und Perplexity ziehen ihre Web-Ergebnisse aus dem Bing-Index.
Wer Bing ignoriert, fehlt in halb LLM-Search.
Mehr:

Indexierung 2026: Bing & Brave genauso wichtig wie Google
Seit September 2025 ist Google-Only-Indexing keine Strategie mehr. Warum du jetzt in jeder Suchmaschine sichtbar sein musst – auch für LLMs.

We have added a section on @…’s Library Skills to our agent-based software engineering tutorial: https://agentic-software-engineerin…

mongolian dance
#dance

Enigma, which runs large-scale experiments exploring how humans interact with robots, emerges from stealth with a $70M seed led by Index Ventures and Ribbit (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/enigma-ra…

Enigma raises $70M to make controlling a robot as easy as adjusting the volume | TechCrunch
The massive seed round was led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Sarah Guo's Conviction Partners.

25 years ago #OTD I observed a long Total #SolarEclipse in #Zambia: lots of pictures in the albums https://www.geocities.ws/skyreports/zam2001/index.html = https://web.archive.org/web/20130529024154/http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~dfischer/skyreports/zam2001/ and a long story (in German) in https://www.geocities.ws/skyreports/zam2001/bericht.html = https://web.archive.org/web/20120527054554/http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~dfischer/skyreports/zam2001/bericht.html

@… i have more crusty URLs from my weird websites, check this one out: https://www.furbnet.com/index.iva?i=6&a=midi&id=1

from my link log —
MiniZinc high-level solver-independent constraint satisfaction and optimization modelling language.
https://www.minizinc.org/index.html
saved 2019-09-30

The 2026 Local Journalist Index shows a persistent shortage of local journalists; states with fewer local journalists face higher municipal borrowing costs (Rebuild Local News)
https://www.rebuildlocalnews.org/new-local-journalist-index-rev…

New Local Journalist Index Reveals 2026 Data on Local News Crisis
Rebuild Local News and Muck Rack report that 70% of counties are severely undercovered – employing below-average numbers of local journalist equivalents – and large number of counties have hardly any coverage of education and health.

Tagebau #Hambach: OVG weist #BUND-Klage gegen Enteignung ab

Der Verband kündigt weitere rechtliche Prüfung an
Gericht bestätigt Grundabtretungsbeschluss
BUND hinterfragt Enteignungszweck
Höchstrichterliche Überprüfung geboten

My Department has just published the most recent issue of its undergraduate journal. It's great! Included are student papers on women religious in 18th-century Montreal, trade and taxes in the English Commonwealth, Indigenous provisioning in the 18th-century fur trade, indentured labourers in Trinidad, gendered violence and women’s resistance in Postwar El Salvador along with a few other texts by faculty members.
Check it out!

Crypto trading app Fomo raised a $75M Series B led by Index at a $550M valuation, taking its total funding to ~$94M, and claims to add 3,500 new users per day (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/06/22/fomo-series-b-fundraise-index-venture…

Exclusive: Index Ventures, Union Square Ventures back trading app Fomo at $550 million valuation
The startup previously raised $17 million in a round led by Benchmark.

Bookmarked: TALL — Text Analysis for All · Interactive R‑Shiny application #Digital_Humanities TALL 1.0.0 — an interactive R‑Shiny…

Linkdump 30/2026 – #fundstücke

Analysis: the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index, which tracks 30 largest US-listed chipmakers, is up ~75% YTD and on track for its biggest annual gain since 1999 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/48cdf575-5509-4b50-a54d-1b767e41be47

A pictures says more than 1000 words. How much more can an audio representation of your data tell you? #rstats

sonify: Data Sonification - Turning Data into Sound
Sonification (or audification) is the process of representing data by sounds in the audible range. This package provides the R function sonify() that transforms univariate data, sampled at regular or irregular intervals, into a continuous sound with time-varying frequency. The ups and downs in frequency represent the ups and downs in the data. Sonify provides a substitute for R's plot function to simplify data analysis for the visually impaired.

from my link log —
MiniZinc high-level solver-independent constraint satisfaction and optimization modelling language.
https://www.minizinc.org/index.html
saved 2019-09-30

At market open, Korean chipmakers' stocks plunged, with Samsung Electronics dropping 9% , SK Hynix down 11% , and the Korea Composite Stock Price Index down 8% (Youkyung Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Linkdump 21/2026 – #fundstücke

GPT-5.6 Sol matches Mythos Preview on ExploitBench, adds Ultra mode with subagents for complex workflows, and max reasoning for deep problem-solving (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/previewing-gpt-5-6-sol/

Dangerous rip currents and breaking waves due to surf of 2 to 4 feet on south-facing beaches expected,
with 3 to 5 feet near Jalama.
Minor coastal flooding is also possible near times of high tide.
* WHERE...Santa Barbara County Southwestern Coast and Santa Barbara County Southeastern Coast.
* WHEN...Through late Thursday night

Local Journalist Index 2026: US states with a lower concentration of local journalists have higher rates of loneliness, even after considering rural populations (Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/06/states-with-less-lo…

Getting started with Shiny to make interactive web-apps with R: #rstats

Overview | Building Web Apps with R Shiny
This class will teach you the basics of Shiny app programming, giving you skills that will form the basis of almost any app you want to build. By the end of the class, you will have created a custom app that collects and saves data, allows users to dynamically visualize the data, and produces downloadable reports.

Öffentliches Lernen – #gedanken

from my link log —
Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail.
https://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic_park_computers/index.html
saved 2026-07-14

"Measure, Change, Measure: Assessing Changes to a Traditional Approval Plan" @ Library Resources & Technical Services
https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/8791
[DOI

S&P 500 already made big call on SpaceX stock.
Index investors need to know it
SpaceX was valued at $1.77 trillion valuation in the IPO,
but it remains a high-risk investment with a net loss in the latest quarter of $4.28 billion.
OpenAI and Anthropic are burning through cash at a significant rate and racking up losses while generating a substantial amount of revenue.
They can be expected to face the same scrutiny from the S&P 500 that SpaceX just did.

S&P 500 already made big call on SpaceX stock. Index investors need to know it — CNBC
The S&P 500 index, where trillions in retirement savings are invested, said no to the SpaceX IPO, the biggest in history. Here's what that means for portfolios.

GLM-5.2 is the leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, scoring 51, only behind Fable 5's 60, Opus 4.8's 56, and GPT-5.5's 55 (Artificial Analysis)
https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles

GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Benchmarks and Analysis of GLM-5.2

"Ebook Call Number Project: Automating Library of Congress Classification Numbers to Ebooks for Reporting" @ Library Resources & Technical Services
https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/8792
[DOI

OpenAI and Broadcom unveil Jalapeño, an LLM-optimized inference chip developed from design to manufacturing tape-out in nine months, aided by OpenAI's models (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/openai-broadcom-jalapeno-inference-chip

Linkdump 25/2026 – #fundstücke

from my link log —
Cost of enum-to-string: C 26 reflection vs the old ways.
https://vittorioromeo.com/index/blog/refl_enum_to_string.html
saved 2026-05-13

cost of enum-to-string: C++26 reflection vs the old ways
Article/tutorial on http://vittorioromeo.com

"“Unbury” the Book Chapter? An Investigation of Library and Information Science Book Chapters from Edited Collections in Scholarly Indexes | Swanson" @ Library Resources & Technical Services
https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/8790
[DOI…

Blogwochen 2026 – #blogwochen2026

"Not Just Monetary: Arts and Humanities Scholars’ Perspectives on the Costs of Open Access Publishing"
https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/27300

OpenAI says its models chained vulnerabilities across its research environment and Hugging Face's infrastructure to find solutions for the ExploitGym benchmark (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/

Linkdump 29/2026 – #fundstücke

OpenAI says an internal general-purpose reasoning model has disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a central problem in discrete geometry posed in 1946 (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/

Dienstliches Notebook neu ein Mac – #technik

Linkdump 20/2026 – #fundstücke

OpenAI paused internal access to an unreleased model that disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture after it repeatedly found ways to act outside its sandbox (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/safety-alignment-long-horizon-models

Kaffee kochen – #allgemein

Moment, which develops AI tools for automating fixed-income and equities trading tech, raised a $78M Series C led by Index Ventures, with a16z participating (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05…

NYC-based Taktile, which helps fintechs build automated decision-making workflows, raised a $110M Series C led by Goldman Sachs, and plans a São Paulo office (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/06/24/exclusive-taktile-goldman-sachs…

Exclusive: Taktile raises $110 million from Goldman Sachs, Tiger Global to automate high-stakes financial decisions 
Other participants in the Series C fundraise include Index Ventures and Y Combinator.

Linkdump 24/2026 – #fundstücke

South Korea's tech-heavy Kospi index falls 10%, dragged down by SK Hynix and Samsung; STMicro and ASML fall ~7%, and US tech stocks fall in pre-market trading (Chloe Taylor/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/23/tech-stocks-sell-off-mag7-samsung-sk-hynix.ht…

Tech rout intensifies as selloff grips global stocks
Global stocks sold off on Tuesday, led by deep losses for tech stocks following a losing session for the sector on Wall Street.

OpenAI details GPT-Red, an internal automated red-teaming model that helps it find and fix prompt injection vulnerabilities at scale before wider deployment (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/unlocking-self-improvement-gpt-red

SK Hynix passes Samsung to become South Korea's most valuable company, closing up 5.6% for a ~$1.4T market cap; South Korea's Kospi index is up 117% YTD (Kimberley Kao/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/…

China's CSI AI Index, which tracks AI supply chain companies, is up 28% YTD, while HK's Hang Seng Tech Index, which includes Alibaba and Tencent, is down 8% (William Sandlund/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/cba72e03-e47d-4d59-b59b-7dc4259b1265