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Does the Wool Industry Drown Sheeps? #AnimalRights

Does the Wool Industry Drown Sheeps?
Wool production is riddled with distressing practices. For instance, in countries like Australia (one of the major wool producers) mulesing, the carving of huge pieces of skin from sheep’s backs to…

"Can AI Slash Pollution? Fossil Fuel Industry Is Investing in Boosting Oil Production, Profits Instead"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #FossilFuels

Can AI Slash Pollution? Fossil Fuel Industry Is Investing in Boosting Oil Production, Profits Instead
DeSmog reveals that Big Oil says they’re using AI to produce more fossil fuels, while utilities are exploring how “AI agents” could take over key power grid functions.

China's Industry Ministry says Tim Cook pledged to boost Apple's investment in China during a visit, but offers few details, as the US and China clash on trade (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-industr…

Betting buzz: Chiefs' 22-game streak as home favorites coming to an end https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/40159558/betting-buzz-latest-sports-betting-odds-updates-changes-line-moves-industry-inte…

High-$Q$ superconducting resonators fabricated in an industry-scale semiconductor-fabrication facility
Nicolas Arlt, Karina Houska, Jochen Braum\"uller, Michael Kirsch, Gerhard Metzger-Br\"uckl, Wolfgang Raberg, Thomas Stangl, Stefan Filipp, Jash Banker, Florian Brandl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09577

High-$Q$ superconducting resonators fabricated in an industry-scale semiconductor-fabrication facility
Universal quantum computers promise to solve computational problems that are beyond the capabilities of known classical algorithms. To realize such quantum hardware on a superconducting material platform, a vast number of physical qubits has to be manufactured and integrated at high quality and uniformity on a chip. Anticipating the benefits of semiconductor industry processes in terms of process control, uniformity and repeatability, we set out to manufacture superconducting quantum circuits i…

An Information-Theoretic Framework for Credit Risk Modeling: Unifying Industry Practice with Statistical Theory for Fair and Interpretable Scorecards
Agus Sudjianto, Denis Burakov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09855

An Information-Theoretic Framework for Credit Risk Modeling: Unifying Industry Practice with Statistical Theory for Fair and Interpretable Scorecards
Credit risk modeling relies extensively on Weight of Evidence (WoE) and Information Value (IV) for feature engineering, and Population Stability Index (PSI) for drift monitoring, yet their theoretical foundations remain disconnected. We establish a unified information-theoretic framework revealing these industry-standard metrics as instances of classical information divergences. Specifically, we prove that IV exactly equals PSI (Jeffreys divergence) computed between good and bad credit outcomes…

"Inside the Plastics Industry Playbook: Delay, Deny, and Distract"
#Plastic #Plastics #Environment

Inside the Plastics Industry Playbook: Delay, Deny, and Distract
In an interview with e360, Saabira Chaudhuri, author of a new book on the history of the plastics industry, discusses how petrochemical companies worldwide have molded consumers to embrace convenience and disposability — no matter the environmental and public health costs.

Listening to CBC Radio Barrie this morning and they were interviewing the manager responsible for housing starts for the Town of Innisfil. The discussion was about missed targets for housing starts and what can be done to get back on track. You could tell that he was frustrated, but the reason for less homes being built was almost solely put on the downturn in the housing market. No one is buying, so private industry isn't building.
All levels of government are throwing money at the problem, with most of it incentivizing for-profit companies to put shovels in the ground. At some point, the Federal, Provincial, and Municipal governments have to realize that public housing, government leasehold development, co-operative housing, or subsidized family apartments must be considered to solve the housing shortage. Private industry will never have the same objectives of getting families into homes - without a calculation of significant profits first.
#CanPoli #AffordableHousing

China's response to Trump's tariffs: No grand statements, just stop buying American soy. Immediately and 100%.
https://newrepublic.com/article/201461/trump-tariffs-soybean-industry-china-reckoning

Trump’s Tariffs Should Force a Reckoning With America’s Soy Industry
The industry became the world’s second largest not because of human demand for soy, but to feed China’s pigs.

Adoption of Explainable Natural Language Processing: Perspectives from Industry and Academia on Practices and Challenges
Mahdi Dhaini, Tobias M\"uller, Roksoliana Rabets, Gjergji Kasneci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09786

Adoption of Explainable Natural Language Processing: Perspectives from Industry and Academia on Practices and Challenges
The field of explainable natural language processing (NLP) has grown rapidly in recent years. The growing opacity of complex models calls for transparency and explanations of their decisions, which is crucial to understand their reasoning and facilitate deployment, especially in high-stakes environments. Despite increasing attention given to explainable NLP, practitioners' perspectives regarding its practical adoption and effectiveness remain underexplored. This paper addresses this research ga…

Rapper Wyclef Jean, now chief creative officer for OpenWav, extols the startup's tools that let musicians sell tickets, connect directly with fans, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/11/the-music-industry-…

The music industry is broken: OpenWav's new app aims to change that | TechCrunch
OpenWav is building a direct-to-fan platform for music artists that lets them keep more of the profits.

Goldman Sachs agrees to acquire multi-stage investment firm Industry Ventures, which has $7B AUM, for $665M in cash and equity plus $300M tied to performance (Saeed Azhar/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/go…

I’m part of the upcoming p99 (virtual online free Oct 22-23) performance focused conference, and recorded an interview for it with Rachel Stevens @… of RedMonk. https://www.p99conf.io/…

P99 CONF Event 2025 – All Things Performance On-Demand
P99 CONF is a cross-industry virtual event for _engineers_ and by engineers, centered around low-latency, high-performance design.

corporate_directors: Global corporate directors (2016)
Bipartite network of directors and the companies on whose boards they sit, spanning 54 countries worldwide, constructed from data collected by the Financial Times (c. Sept. 2016). Person nodes are annotated with age and gender. Company nodes are annotated with their country, sector, industry, and number of employees.
This network has 356638 nodes and 377060 edges.
Tags: Economic, Governance, Unweighted, Metadata

After almost two centuries,
Baker & Taylor,
a nationwide library book distributor,
will reportedly shut down operations in January.
Baker & Taylor CEO Aman Kochar told employees Monday that following a recent failed acquisition deal with ReaderLink, the Charlotte-based company has no viable path forward, though he had hoped to find another solution

Baker & Taylor Prepares Plan to Shut Down
At a town hall yesterday, B&T owner and CEO Aman Kochar announced that following the termination of the ReaderLink acquisition deal, he does not see a path to keep the library wholesaler in business.

The question for Europe's car industry is not whether to reach "2035" a year earlier or later, or what the market will look like in a decade. The question should be: what will the car market look like in a fortnight?
Fresh comparison Thailand - EU from the #ICCT earlier figure from the #IEA

#Anthropic apparently claimed «it cost Google $34.5 million "to set up a 'Books Rights Registry' to identify owners for payouts under the proposed settlement" in one of the largest cases involving book authors prior to the AI avalanche of lawsuits».

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

Identifying Video Game Debugging Bottlenecks: An Industry Perspective
Carlos Pinto Gomez, Fabio Petrillo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08834 https://arxiv.org…

Identifying Video Game Debugging Bottlenecks: An Industry Perspective
Conventional debugging techniques used in traditional software are similarly used when debugging video games. However, the reality of video games require its own set of unique debugging techniques such as On-Screen Console, Debug Draws, Debug Camera, Cheats and In-Game Menus, and Data Scrubbing. In this article, we provide insights from a video game studio on how 20 seasoned industry game developers debug during the production of a game. Our experiments rely on the recordings of debugging sessi…

1. Data centres consume vast amounts of electricity, and industry which, in NSW, is still beholden to coal.
2. Data centres also consume significant quantities of water.
3. Carbon-neutral is an accounting trick, not an engineered greenhouse gas mitigation strategy.
4. Construction’s one of the most heavily polluting industries.
This whole thing is a greenwash.

Music writer, producer, and podcaster Dylan Tupper Rupert on envisioning alternatives https://thecreativeindependent.com…

Music writer, producer, and podcaster Dylan Tupper Rupert on envisioning alternatives – The Creative Independent
Music writer, producer, and podcaster Dylan Tupper Rupert discusses growing up in the Seattle arts scene, dealing with music industry hierarchy, and imagining the ideal conditions for creativity.

A mathematical model for pricing perishable goods for quick-commerce applications
Milon Bhattacharya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11360 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

A mathematical model for pricing perishable goods for quick-commerce applications
Quick commerce (q-commerce) is one of the fastest growing sectors in India. It provides informal employment to approximately 4,50,000 workers, and it is estimated to become a USD 200 Billion industry by 2026. A significant portion of this industry deals with perishable goods. (e.g. milk, dosa batter etc.) These are food items which are consumed relatively fresh by the consumers and therefore their order volume is high and repetitive even when the average basket size is relatively small. The fun…

What could possibly go wrong?
(Since he obviously knows more about everything than anyone.)
Harder question: How long will all these supposedly powerful execs and boards just go along?
For extra credit: how long will we?
nytimes.com - https://www.

I would be happy if the AI industry actually had to pay authors for their work in accumulating ideas and knowledge and expressing them via their copyrighted works (registered copyright or not.)
The AI industry is whining "we are so big, we need to violate the law, we need to steal the work of others without even the pretense of compensating them, oh woe are we, oh woe are we".
There is a gap in our laws of copyright. Copyright covers expression, patents cover ideas. B…

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

🤦 Legal weed clashes with child care. Why a cannabis tax cut could spell trouble for children
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-24/cannabis-tax-cut-losses-for-child-care-funding
🆓

Why a cannabis tax cut is sending some child-care advocates into panic
A cut to the cannabis tax would be a hit to the California child-care industry, which already faces funding uncertainties under the Trump administration.

I just made an optician's appointment, which I've been putting off for a while. 😞
Making it 29 years in the software industry without glasses seems like a reasonable innings. (I was needing to use A11y "large text" settings on this desktop, which suggested it might be time...)

Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/citizen-lab-director-warns-cyber-industry-about-us-authoritarian-descent/

Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent | TechCrunch
Ron Deibert, the head of the prominent digital human rights groups Citizen Lab, sounds the alarm at the Black Hat security conference about the "dramatic descent into authoritarianism," but one that the cyber community can help to defend against.

Betting buzz: Patrick Mahomes new MVP fave after Week 6, Drake Maye's odds surge https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/40159558/betting-buzz-latest-sports-betting-odds-updates-changes-line-moves-indu…

Representations
Paul Brunet (UPEC UP12, LACL)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11419 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11419

Representations
The formal analysis of automated systems is an important and growing industry. This activity routinely requires new verification frameworks to be developed to tackle new programming features, or new considerations (bugs of interest). Often, one particular property can prove frustrating to establish: completeness of the logic with respect to the semantics. In this paper, we try and make such developments easier, with a particular attention on completeness. Towards that aim, we propose a formal (…

GANime: Generating Anime and Manga Character Drawings from Sketches with Deep Learning
Tai Vu, Robert Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09207 https://arxiv.o…

GANime: Generating Anime and Manga Character Drawings from Sketches with Deep Learning
The process of generating fully colorized drawings from sketches is a large, usually costly bottleneck in the manga and anime industry. In this study, we examine multiple models for image-to-image translation between anime characters and their sketches, including Neural Style Transfer, C-GAN, and CycleGAN. By assessing them qualitatively and quantitatively, we find that C-GAN is the most effective model that is able to produce high-quality and high-resolution images close to those created by hu…

A Certifiable Machine Learning-Based Pipeline to Predict Fatigue Life of Aircraft Structures
\'Angel Ladr\'on, Miguel S\'anchez-Dom\'inguez, Javier Rozal\'en, Fernando R. S\'anchez, Javier de Vicente, Lucas Lacasa, Eusebio Valero, Gonzalo Rubio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10227…

A Certifiable Machine Learning-Based Pipeline to Predict Fatigue Life of Aircraft Structures
Fatigue life prediction is essential in both the design and operational phases of any aircraft, and in this sense safety in the aerospace industry requires early detection of fatigue cracks to prevent in-flight failures. Robust and precise fatigue life predictors are thus essential to ensure safety. Traditional engineering methods, while reliable, are time consuming and involve complex workflows, including steps such as conducting several Finite Element Method (FEM) simulations, deriving the ex…

Investigation: Top Russian defense industry boss tries to lift sanctions, spills own secrets instead: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/07/investigation-top-russian-defense-industry.html

The @… meetup is now on YouTube!
As a community, we're committed to sharing knowledge and expertise in PHP development. Our channel will feature recordings of our meetup sessions, so you can learn from the best and stay up-to-date on the latest industry trends. Help us grow our community by sharing this post with your network and subscribing to our channe…

CaRoBio: 3D Cable Routing with a Bio-inspired Gripper Fingernail
Jiahui Zuo, Boyang Zhang, Fumin Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09558 https://arxiv.org/p…

CaRoBio: 3D Cable Routing with a Bio-inspired Gripper Fingernail
The manipulation of deformable linear flexures has a wide range of applications in industry, such as cable routing in automotive manufacturing and textile production. Cable routing, as a complex multi-stage robot manipulation scenario, is a challenging task for robot automation. Common parallel two-finger grippers have the risk of over-squeezing and over-tension when grasping and guiding cables. In this paper, a novel eagle-inspired fingernail is designed and mounted on the gripper fingers, whi…

Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent
Ron Deibert, the director of Citizen Lab, one of the most prominent organizations investigating government spyware abuses, is sounding the alarm to the cybersecurity community and asking them to step up and join the fight against authoritarianism.
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Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent | TechCrunch
Ron Deibert, the head of the prominent digital human rights groups Citizen Lab, sounds the alarm at the Black Hat security conference about the "dramatic descent into authoritarianism," but one that the cyber community can help to defend against.

The school shooting industry is worth billions -- and it keeps growing (Meg Anderson/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/08/nx-s1-5317647/school-shooting-industry
http://www.memeorandum.com/250909/p77#a250909p77

The announcement this week that Elon Musk’s SpaceX is purchasing
$17 billion in wireless spectrum
has sent jitters through an industry now eyeing the prospect of
Elon-style disruptions to a market
long dominated by Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile.
The new bandwidth is destined for use by SpaceX’s satellite service, Starlink.

Elon Musk eyes next target after cars, rockets and robots
The tech entrepreneur has upended one business after another. Now he may be going after our phone networks.

Link Prediction for Event Logs in the Process Industry
Anastasia Zhukova, Thomas Walton, Christian E. Matt, Bela Gipp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09096 https://

Link Prediction for Event Logs in the Process Industry
Knowledge management (KM) is vital in the process industry for optimizing operations, ensuring safety, and enabling continuous improvement through effective use of operational data and past insights. A key challenge in this domain is the fragmented nature of event logs in shift books, where related records, e.g., entries documenting issues related to equipment or processes and the corresponding solutions, may remain disconnected. This fragmentation hinders the recommendation of previous solutio…

"To date, research shows that only a small fraction — under 10 percent — of all the plastic ever produced has actually been recycled and only 1 percent has been recycled twice. "
#Ecocide

‘Maddening’ Proof Plastics Industry Knew Recycling Was False Solution in 1974, New Document Shows
Exclusive finding by DeSmog shows high-level industry awareness that recycling plastic ‘not feasible’ as companies face lawsuits over alleged public deception campaign.

Drone-Based Multispectral Imaging and Deep Learning for Timely Detection of Branched Broomrape in Tomato Farms
Mohammadreza Narimani, Alireza Pourreza, Ali Moghimi, Mohsen Mesgaran, Parastoo Farajpoor, Hamid Jafarbiglu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09972

Drone-Based Multispectral Imaging and Deep Learning for Timely Detection of Branched Broomrape in Tomato Farms
This study addresses the escalating threat of branched broomrape (Phelipanche ramosa) to California's tomato industry, which supplies over 90 percent of U.S. processing tomatoes. The parasite's largely underground life cycle makes early detection difficult, while conventional chemical controls are costly, environmentally harmful, and often ineffective. To address this, we combined drone-based multispectral imagery with Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) deep learning networks, using the Synthetic Mi…

A look at visual-effects studio Mofac, which is part of a wider rush in South Korea's film industry to integrate AI as it struggles with weak box office returns (Sohee Kim/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

I don’t get why people think when one industry does something unsafe (e.g. cars) of course sales moratoriums, investigations, fines and recalls are in order;—but if another industry does (deadly advice in “AI” summaries) it’s fine.

Diversified recommendations of cultural activities with personalized determinantal point processes
Carole Ibrahim, Hiba Bederina, Daniel Cuesta, Laurent Montier, Cyrille Delabre, Jill-J\^enn Vie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10392

Diversified recommendations of cultural activities with personalized determinantal point processes
While optimizing recommendation systems for user engagement is a well-established practice, effectively diversifying recommendations without negatively impacting core business metrics remains a significant industry challenge. In line with our initiative to broaden our audience's cultural practices, this study investigates using personalized Determinantal Point Processes (DPPs) to sample diverse and relevant recommendations. We rely on a well-known quality-diversity decomposition of the similari…

The Mind Movement Health Podcast
Kate, a Nutritionist and Movement Specialist with over 15yrs experience in the health and fitness industry...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/mind-movement-health/

Indonesia's film industry is embracing AI tools to produce Hollywood-style movies at a significantly lower cost; the average local film budget is about $602,500 (Linda Yulisman/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/indonesia-ai-movies/

Indonesia’s film industry embraces AI to make Hollywood-style movies for cheap
Generative AI video and text tools are transforming some of the labor-intensive parts of filmmaking, and are largely welcomed in Indonesia’s homegrown industry.

FCC’s data breach reporting rules for telecoms are upheld in appeals court https://therecord.media/fcc-data-breach-reporting-rule-held-up-appeals-court

Renationalisation of train operating companies will be complete in 2027 (Louise Haigh's legacy) but it's important to note that the profitable rolling stock leasing companies will remain private, continuing to leach money out of the system.
Most of Great Britain’s major rail operators are back in public hands – is it working? | Rail industry | The Guardian

DriftBench: Defining and Generating Data and Query Workload Drift for Benchmarking
Guanli Liu, Renata Borovica-Gajic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10858 https://

DriftBench: Defining and Generating Data and Query Workload Drift for Benchmarking
Data and workload drift are key to evaluating database components such as caching, cardinality estimation, indexing, and query optimization. Yet, existing benchmarks are static, offering little to no support for modeling drift. This limitation stems from the lack of clear definitions and tools for generating data and workload drift. Motivated by this gap, we propose a unified taxonomy for data and workload drift, grounded in observations from both academia and industry. Building on this foundat…

🔦 South Korea's loot box law shows strong results, but players still left in the dark
#korea

South Korea's loot box law shows strong results, but players still left in the dark
A new study in Acta Psychologica finds that South Korea's new law requiring mobile games to disclose loot box probabilities is more effective than industry self-regulation.

Smart move from an european industry perspective but also with regard to being less dependent on the US. Even if they are slightly less capable, it is very important that we develop and build airdefense capability in Europe.
https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-ch

Denmark chooses Franco-Italian air defense system over US Patriots
Denmark has chosen the Franco-Italian SAMP/T air defense system over U.S. Patriots, in a massive win for Paris and a blow to Donald Trump. “The Danish Armed Forces are building a ground-based…

Superstars or Super-Villains? Productivity Spillovers and Firm Dynamics in Indonesia
Mohammad Zeqi Yasin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11139 https://arxiv.org…

Superstars or Super-Villains? Productivity Spillovers and Firm Dynamics in Indonesia
Do industrial "superstars" help others up or crowd them out? We examine the relationship between the spillovers of superstar firms (those with the top market share in their industry) and the productivity dynamics in Indonesia. Employing data on Indonesian manufacturing firms from 2001 to 2015, we find that superstar exposures in the market raise both the productivity level and the growth of non-superstar firms through horizontal (within a sector-province) and vertical (across sectors) channels.…

More than half of industries are already shedding workers,
a ‘telling’ sign that’s accompanied past recessions, top economist says
https://fortune.com/2025/08/10/recession-warning-economic-outlook-industry-job-losses-employment-…

More than half of industries are already shedding workers, a ‘telling’ sign that’s accompanied past recessions, top economist says
"Things could still turn around if the economic policies weighing on the economy soon lift. But that looks increasingly unlikely."

KG-MAS: Knowledge Graph-Enhanced Multi-Agent Infrastructure for coupling physical and digital robotic environments
Walid Abdela
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10325 https://

KG-MAS: Knowledge Graph-Enhanced Multi-Agent Infrastructure for coupling physical and digital robotic environments
The seamless integration of physical and digital environments in Cyber-Physical Systems(CPS), particularly within Industry 4.0, presents significant challenges stemming from system heterogeneity and complexity. Traditional approaches often rely on rigid, data-centric solutions like co-simulation frameworks or brittle point-to-point middleware bridges, which lack the semantic richness and flexibility required for intelligent, autonomous coordination. This report introduces the Knowledge Graph-En…

URLLC for 6G Enabled Industry 5.0: A Taxonomy of Architectures, Cross Layer Techniques, and Time Critical Applications
Abdikarim Mohamed Ibrahim, Rosdiadee Nordin, Yahya S. M. Khamayseh, Angela Amphawan, Muhammed Basheer Jasser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08080

URLLC for 6G Enabled Industry 5.0: A Taxonomy of Architectures, Cross Layer Techniques, and Time Critical Applications
The evolution from Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0 introduces stringent requirements for ultra reliable low latency communication (URLLC) to support human centric, intelligent, and resilient industrial systems. Sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks aim to meet these requirements through sub-millisecond end-to-end delays, microsecond level jitter, and near perfect reliability, enabled by advances such as terahertz (THz) communication, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), multi-access edge c…

Anthropic's Jack Clark argues that, while he is optimistic about AI's progress, the industry must do a better job of listening to people's concerns about it (Jack Clark/Import AI)
https://importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-431-technological-optimism…

Import AI 431: Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear
What do we do if AI progress keeps happening?

Paramount condemns a boycott of Israeli film companies after 4,000 people sign a Film Workers for Palestine pledge to not work with some Israeli film entities (Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/paramount-condemns-israeli-film-boycott-12365165…

Paramount Condemns Israeli Film Boycott After 3,900 Sign Pledge
Paramount released a statement condemning a boycott of the Israeli film industry after 3,900 industry names signed the pledge.

Cross-Domain Evaluation of Transformer-Based Vulnerability Detection on Open & Industry Data
Moritz Mock, Thomas Forrer, Barbara Russo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09313 https…

Cross-Domain Evaluation of Transformer-Based Vulnerability Detection on Open & Industry Data
Deep learning solutions for vulnerability detection proposed in academic research are not always accessible to developers, and their applicability in industrial settings is rarely addressed. Transferring such technologies from academia to industry presents challenges related to trustworthiness, legacy systems, limited digital literacy, and the gap between academic and industrial expertise. For deep learning in particular, performance and integration into existing workflows are additional concer…

corporate_directors: Global corporate directors (2016)
Bipartite network of directors and the companies on whose boards they sit, spanning 54 countries worldwide, constructed from data collected by the Financial Times (c. Sept. 2016). Person nodes are annotated with age and gender. Company nodes are annotated with their country, sector, industry, and number of employees.
This network has 356638 nodes and 377060 edges.
Tags: Economic, Governance, Unweighted, Metadata

Soil runoff from logged forests releases more reactive carbon, undermining climate mitigation efforts #environment

Soil runoff from logged forests releases more reactive carbon, undermining climate mitigation efforts
The global demand for wood-based products is constantly increasing, creating a challenge for the logging industry. In an attempt to keep up in a sustainable manner, the industry replaces logged areas with tree farms and nurseries to eventually replenish supplies. This use and regrowth of wood has also been thought to help maintain a carbon sink. While this may be true to some extent, a new study has found that an important source of carbon loss is often being left out of the equation.

Hybrid Quantum-Classical Latent Diffusion Models for Medical Image Generation
K\"ubra Yeter-Aydeniz, Nora M. Bauer, Pranay Jain, Max Masnick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09903

Hybrid Quantum-Classical Latent Diffusion Models for Medical Image Generation
Generative learning models in medical research are crucial in developing training data for deep learning models and advancing diagnostic tools, but the problem of high-quality, diverse images is an open topic of research. Quantum-enhanced generative models have been proposed and tested in the literature but have been restricted to small problems below the scale of industry relevance. In this paper, we propose quantum-enhanced diffusion and variational autoencoder (VAE) models and test them on t…

Managed security services provider LevelBlue to acquire cybersecurity firm Cybereason, which raised $850M in total funding and undergone multiple restructurings (Greg Otto/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/cybereason-levelblue-acquistion/

LevelBlue to acquire Cybereason in latest cybersecurity industry consolidation
LevelBlue announced Tuesday it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Cybereason, a Boston-based cybersecurity firm specializing in extended detection and response platforms and digital forensics. 

Trump Has Made Himself Commander in Chief of the Chip Industry (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/technology/trump-chips-nvidia-intel.html?unlocked_article_code=1.d08.2Xmj.4heI0Wp-kVuY&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/250813/p27#a250813p27

Dozens of coal miners and their families are protesting the Trump administration outside the Labor Department building,
arguing it has failed to protect them from black lung disease,
an incurable illness caused by inhaling coal and silica dust.
They have been waiting months for the government to enforce federal limits on silica dust,
a carcinogen that has led to a recent spike in the disease.
But mining industry groups have sued to block the rule,
and the T…

Coal Miners With Black Lung Say They Are ‘Cast Aside to Die’ Under Trump
President Trump has been a cheerleader for coal miners. But these miners say his administration is failing to enforce limits on a lethal workplace hazard.

CarAT: Carbon Atom Tracing across Industrial Chemical Value Chains via Chemistry Language Models
Emma Pajak, David Walz, Olga Walz, Laura Marie Helleckes, Klaus Hellgardt, Antonio del Rio Chanona
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10216

CarAT: Carbon Atom Tracing across Industrial Chemical Value Chains via Chemistry Language Models
The chemical industry is increasingly prioritising sustainability, with a focus on reducing carbon footprints to achieve net zero. By 2026, the Together for Sustainability (TfS) consortium will require reporting of biogenic carbon content (BCC) in chemical products, posing a challenge as BCC depends on feedstocks, value chain configuration, and process-specific variables. While carbon-14 isotope analysis can measure BCC, it is impractical for continuous industrial monitoring. This work presents…

"New Zealand oceans warming 34% faster than global average, putting homes and industry at risk, report finds"
#NewZealand #Climate #ClimateChange

Fine-Grained Customized Fashion Design with Image-into-Prompt benchmark and dataset from LMM
Hui Li, Yi You, Qiqi Chen, Bingfeng Zhang, George Q. Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09324

Fine-Grained Customized Fashion Design with Image-into-Prompt benchmark and dataset from LMM
Generative AI evolves the execution of complex workflows in industry, where the large multimodal model empowers fashion design in the garment industry. Current generation AI models magically transform brainstorming into fancy designs easily, but the fine-grained customization still suffers from text uncertainty without professional background knowledge from end-users. Thus, we propose the Better Understanding Generation (BUG) workflow with LMM to automatically create and fine-grain customize th…

Nextdoor unveils a redesign and a partnership with 3,500 local news providers across the US, the UK, and Canada that will contribute material to the app (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/nextdoor-social-media-news-ai-c7e12d6…

Nextdoor is partnering with local news providers
The neighborhood social site Nextdoor is hoping for a revival by turning to local news providers. As part of a redesign of the social media site, Nextdoor is partnering with more than 3,500 local news outlets to use their material. Publishers are hoping more people seeing their work will help an industry that has suffered for more than two decades. Nextdoor wants more of its users, who they call “neighbors,” to view the site as essential and visit more often. Nextdoor also is beefing up its…

China's vision for its autonomous vehicle industry, backed by state support and infrastructure investment, is driving its lead in ADAS and robotaxi deployment (Yi-Ling Liu/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/china-ai-powered-self-driving-cars/

China’s vision for a driverless future is miles ahead of everyone else’s
Strong government backing and strict regulatory oversight of the Chinese autonomous vehicle industry contrasts sharply with the piecemeal laws and slower adoption in the U.S.

DiTTO-LLM: Framework for Discovering Topic-based Technology Opportunities via Large Language Model
Wonyoung Kim, Sujeong Seo, Juhyun Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09724 https:/…

DiTTO-LLM: Framework for Discovering Topic-based Technology Opportunities via Large Language Model
Technology opportunities are critical information that serve as a foundation for advancements in technology, industry, and innovation. This paper proposes a framework based on the temporal relationships between technologies to identify emerging technology opportunities. The proposed framework begins by extracting text from a patent dataset, followed by mapping text-based topics to discover inter-technology relationships. Technology opportunities are then identified by tracking changes in these …

Highly recommended reading. Europe's automotive industry was already in transition before electrification emerged, but it missed the boat when it arrived. However, it [industry & workforce] still has plenty of opportunities, particularly in the mass market.
https://www.

Europe’s Car Industry in Transition: Stuck in Neutral or Shifting into Gear?
Europe’s automotive industry is entering a decisive decade but lacks a clear map for navigating it. While global competitors accelerate their shift toward electric vehicles, Europe’s strategic focus remains clouded by fragmented interests, path dependencies, and short-term pressures.

Expel Intel transforms industry noise into actionable defense, partners with renowned security researcher Marcus Hutchins to amplify capabilities
https://expel.com/resource/expel-accelerates-threat-intelligence-program-to-turn-signal-into-s…

Expel accelerates threat intelligence program to turn signal into shield | Expel
Expel Intel transforms industry noise into actionable defense, partners with renowned security researcher Marcus Hutchins to amplify capabilities

This is crazy, and not enough people are talking about this.
Dozens of leading scientists just reviewed a new Department of Energy climate report and found it riddled with errors and outright misrepresentations of climate science.
 
Why? Because the Trump administration hand-picked climate skeptics to write it in secret,
then used it as political cover to roll back protections against pollution from power plants, cars, trucks, and the oil industry.
 
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Generative AI for Software Project Management: Insights from a Review of Software Practitioner Literature
Lakshana Iruni Assalaarachchi, Zainab Masood, Rashina Hoda, John Grundy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10887

Generative AI for Software Project Management: Insights from a Review of Software Practitioner Literature
Software practitioners are discussing GenAI transformations in software project management openly and widely. To understand the state of affairs, we performed a grey literature review using 47 publicly available practitioner sources including blogs, articles, and industry reports. We found that software project managers primarily perceive GenAI as an "assistant", "copilot", or "friend" rather than as a "PM replacement", with support of GenAI in automating routine tasks, predictive analytics, co…

“Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.”
The thing is, there’s nothing to ruin.
They’re already not making any money and operating at a loss and investors want hundreds of billions, perhaps trillions in payback.
Also perhaps they should have thought of this before the criming.

Mental Health Resources for Musicians & Music Industry Professionals (World Mental Health Day 2025) https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2025/10/top-mental-health-resources-for-musicians-on-world-mental-health-day-2025.html

Anthropic launches Claude for Financial Services, aiming to help analysts conduct market research and handle due diligence, with data from FactSet and others (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

"Revealed: How the Meat Industry Uses Environmental Groups to Make Beef Seem Climate-Friendly"
#Food #Climate #ClimateChange

Revealed: How the Meat Industry Uses Environmental Groups to Make Beef Seem Climate-Friendly
Expert says non-profit partners provide a ‘fairy dust’ of legitimacy to beef industry.

Merz Backs Auto Industry's Push for Looser EU Rules on EV Shift (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-09/merz-backs-auto-industry-s-push-for-looser-eu-rules-on-ev-shift
http://www.memeorandum.com/250909/p11#a250909p11

People CEO Neil Vogel calls Google a "bad actor" for refusing to pay publishers for AI content and says Google Search drives 25%-30% of visits to People sites (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/09/11/media-in…

Google’s AI is the ‘worst’ for stealing content, says People CEO
But Google-owned YouTube could provide a model for media and AI to coexist and thrive, says internet industry pioneer Bill Gross.

Few-shot multi-token DreamBooth with LoRa for style-consistent character generation
Ruben Pascual, Mikel Sesma-Sara, Aranzazu Jurio, Daniel Paternain, Mikel Galar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09475

Few-shot multi-token DreamBooth with LoRa for style-consistent character generation
The audiovisual industry is undergoing a profound transformation as it is integrating AI developments not only to automate routine tasks but also to inspire new forms of art. This paper addresses the problem of producing a virtually unlimited number of novel characters that preserve the artistic style and shared visual traits of a small set of human-designed reference characters, thus broadening creative possibilities in animation, gaming, and related domains. Our solution builds upon DreamBoot…

AOL is discontinuing its dial-up internet service on September 30; it was launched in 1991 and reportedly had subscribers "in the low thousands" in 2021 (Stevie Bonifield/PC Gamer)
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/ao

AOL discontinues its dial-up internet, and we're just surprised they even offered it in 2025
Dial-up's days are numbered, after 34 years of service.

"‘Maddening’ Proof Plastics Industry Knew Recycling Was False Solution in 1974, New Document Shows"
#Plastic #Plastics #Recycling

‘Maddening’ Proof Plastics Industry Knew Recycling Was False Solution in 1974, New Document Shows
Exclusive finding by DeSmog shows high-level industry awareness that recycling plastic ‘not feasible’ as companies face lawsuits over alleged public deception campaign.

Two tech groups are backing Anthropic's appeal of a court ruling allowing a copyright class action, saying potential big settlements could chill AI investment (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

Amkor breaks ground on advanced chip packaging campus in Arizona, with production expected by early 2028; state officials say Amkor's investment could reach $7B (Luke James/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry

Amkor breaks ground on Arizona advanced packaging campus, plugging critical gap in US semiconductor supply chain — production expected in 2028, investment could extend to $7 billion with 3,000 jobs in tow
Amkor moves in next door to TSMC as CHIPS Act funding continues to turn the Phoenix metro area into a chips hub.

Indonesia's film industry is embracing AI tools to produce Hollywood-style movies at a significantly lower cost; the average local film budget is about $602,500 (Linda Yulisman/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/indonesia-ai-movies/

Indonesia’s film industry embraces AI to make Hollywood-style movies for cheap
Generative AI video and text tools are transforming some of the labor-intensive parts of filmmaking, and are largely welcomed in Indonesia’s homegrown industry.

Two tech groups are backing Anthropic's appeal of a court ruling allowing a copyright class action, saying potential big settlements could chill AI investment (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

"First Solar Furnace to Recycle Steel Can Melt Metal with Sunshine in 2 Hours"
#Recycling #Steel

First Solar Furnace to Recycle Steel Can Melt Metal with Sunshine in 2 Hours
The Swiss import most of the steel they use, including 15,800 metric tons for the watchmaking industry alone.

Apple unveils the A19 chip, with a 6-core CPU and 5-core GPU, the A19 Pro, with a 6-core CPU and 6-core GPU, the N1 networking chip, and the C1X modem (Tom's Hardware)
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry

Apple debuts A19 and A19 Pro processors for iPhone 17, iPhone Air, and iPhone 17 Pro
New phones, new chips, more cooling.

Comcast sues to invalidate a Washington state law that taxes online ad services, set to take effect in October; major ad industry groups also oppose the law (Wendy Davis/MediaPost)
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/408…

Comcast Sues Over Washington State Tax On Digital Ads
Comcast has sued to invalidate a new Washington state law that imposes a tax on online advertising services such as creating and placing digital ads, analyzing their performance and planning online campaigns.

SK Hynix and ASML say they assembled the industry's first Twinscan NXE:5200B High-NA EUV lithography system at SK's M16 fab, initially to test next-gen tech (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.tomshard…

ASML and SK hynix assemble industry-first 'commercial' High-NA EUV system at fab in South Korea
Initially for R&D use, until later this decade where it will transition to production

MrBeast, who earned an estimated $85M in 2025, says AI-generated videos could threaten creators' livelihoods, calling it "scary times" for the industry (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/mrbe

MrBeast says AI could threaten creators' livelihoods, calling it 'scary times' for the industry | TechCrunch
As Sora tops the App Store, MrBeast says AI could threaten creators' ability to make money.

Ukrainians are adapting critical yet fragile SpaceX equipment to withstand Russia's assault, spawning a cottage industry of backstreet workshops and technicians (Volodymyr Verbianyi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

Some ad industry executives express anger and disappointment at the US v. Google ruling, and say it will do little to alter Google's dominance of the ad market (Ronan Shields/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media-buying/angry

Angry and disappointed, if not surprised: The ad industry reacts to the Google search remedies ruling 
The industry reacts to the ruling that Google will not have to divest Android or Chrome in latest antitrust development

A profile of Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan, as the gaming hardware giant readies AI tools for game development and to help players sharpen their skills (John Kang/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkang/2025/09/…

This Singapore Gaming Billionaire Is Betting AI Will Upend The Entire Industry
Razer, founded and run by Min-Liang Tan for two decades, is prepping to release cutting-edge AI tools to help game developers produce games faster and cheaper and to coach players to sharpen their skills.

Spotify enters into a direct music publishing agreement with BMG, following deals in 2025 with UMG, Sony Music, Warner Chappell, and Kobalt (Ethan Millman/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-industry-news/s…

Spotify Signs Licensing Publishing Deal with BMG
"Working directly with Spotify helps us reinforce our mission to ensure songwriters are fairly represented and rewarded for their work," BMG CEO Thomas Coesfeld said.

Global premium smartphone sales rose 8% YoY in H1 2025, reaching the highest-ever mark for an H1; Apple grew 3% YoY, capturing 62% of the overall sales (Varun Mishra/Counterpoint Research)
https://www.counterpointresearch.com/en/in…

The German government scales back financial aid for its semiconductor industry, cutting €3B from its previously planned €15B chip subsidies to fund road repairs (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Despite hype and optimistic projections, the humanoid robot industry faces hurdles, from battery life and design to limited demand for large-scale deployments (Evan Ackerman/IEEE Spectrum)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/humanoid-robot-scaling

Humanoid Robots: The Scaling Challenge
​It takes more than building a humanoid robot to build a humanoid robot product.

InstaLILY, whose industry-specific AI agents called InstaWorkers integrate with legacy systems, raised $25M from Insight Partners (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/27/instalily-gets-25m-accelerate-industr…

InstaLILY gets $25M to accelerate industry automation with agentic AI teammates - SiliconANGLE
InstaLILY gets $25M to accelerate industry automation with agentic AI teammates - SiliconANGLE